Hi, I'm Justin from Alberta, Canada, and you're watching Trucker Josh's Vlogs on YouTube. All of you, thanks for tuning in to another video today and coming to hang out with me, so I'm not all by myself. I don't have diesel with me now, so it gets kind of lonely. It's just me and my cleaning products, and they're kind of hard on me.  Even my hands. Actually, my hands smell really nice. The hand sanitizer that I have now, that I found, it's made by a company I don't think that makes regular hand sanitizer.  They started making hand sanitizer, and I got myself a bottle, lucky me, and it smells like flowers. My hands smell like flowers, but they're clean and germ-free. So We're out here in Alexandria, Minnesota right now on our way home. We have that load on our back LTL freight. I got one load going into Winnipeg, and I got one load going into Steinback. We're going to Steinback first tomorrow morning, and then going to Winnipeg, and then I made myself available to keep going right away. And he let it slip. The Lord God let it slip that, hey, maybe maybe there might be some Jackson, Tennessee involved. I hope so, but that was just a rumor, and that was not confirmed. But it got me excited and hopeful, so I'll take all the hope I can get in these days. Again, thanks for joining me, wherever you are, whoever you are. Leave me a comment down below. Let me know how you liked the video. Let me know if I did something wrong. Let me know if you agree with me. I'm just an average guy doing my job, so Let's get on with the day. Let's get truckin'. Morning, I wipe down my dash and all the surfaces that I touch, right? And I disinfect it, or I do it in the evening, you know, once a day at least. It's probably best just to do it in the evening, but whatever. I do it in the morning and sometimes I forget to roll down the windows, like my wife tells me to when I'm cleaning stuff. And the cleaning product is kind of hard on the lungs, so it makes me cough. I got something, so I start cleaning more, which makes me cough more. And then I realize, oh, let's open the windows, get some fresh air. The world we live in, right? Let's get back onto the freeway here. We've got a few hours yet to get back to the border. Probably going to stop at Grand Fork, some thinkin', or Fargo. Somewhere along there for a coffee, but other than that. 100 meters. Turn left on. See R45 and then take the freeway entrance into 120 meters. I don't think I'm going to have time to go home, unfortunately, but I want to keep moving. I want to keep these wheels turning. Like I was telling you, I was yesterday or this morning. In these times that we're in, I want to, I'll take whatever I can get. I will just give me a load to pull. I'll pull it. Just want to keep moving. There's one thing that's nice about not having diesel with me. No dog hair. Very nice. Look at this. Look, I don't even have to put a sheet or anything on top of here. It's dirty laundry. It should actually be at the foot of my bed. That's where that's supposed to be. This is supposed to be hung up on the hanger, but it is not. I don't know why. I don't know why I got borats of voice stuck in my head. So what I'm going to do is left-handed. One-handed, left-handed. Oh no way. Your boy's got skills. Hang you up there. Got my belt here. Got this here. All so nice and neat. I still miss diesel. Diesel's worth all the hair and the mess. Though it's all going to brit. Because one day, I mean diesel's turning into an old man.  But one day, when I'm ready for a new companion on the road, long in the future, I haven't really put much thought into it yet because I don't want to. But one day, you know, maybe we'll go with a little bit of a smaller dog. I was thinking going bigger. I want a Leenberger, a big dog, but they shed a lot. Just thinking maybe I should get like a small dog. I want them to be like a little, I don't want to say feisty. I don't want a yapper. No chihuahuas, no yappy yappers. But is there any small dogs that are actually not yappers that look kind of like tough? I'm a little tough little guy. I don't want a sissy little dog. I want a good little manly dog, but I don't know, miniature pincher, but they're barky I hear. I don't like yappy dogs. I'd do some research. I got a long time yet. Diesel's going to live for years and years yet. So I don't know. I might go with a small dog. They're a little easier to easier in a truck. But we'll see. We managed with diesel. Just fine. Can't wait to get them back in here. Maybe the next trip, you know, maybe sooner than we thought. Oh, we grabbed fuel earlier today in Alexandria. So now I just need fuel for myself. I didn't grab coffee there. So we're going to grab a coffee here. We're in Grand Forks, North Dakota. This is the last Flying J before we hit Canada. Just got to rub to our yard, pick up some paperwork, and then I'm going to go down to probably St. Agath and stay at the Flying J there. So I can have a shower. Thread the needle here. Nice and easy. Watch for people. Watch for people. Apparently they're still dealing with a little bit of flooding out here. It does this so often. It's hard to sell your warnings here that there may be water on the road. Here comes pretty close right by this. I'm driving over a bridge right here because the off-ramp is covered in water. I'm still pretty surprised that they built this main highway so close to the river that always floods. It's the same thing in Manitoba up north, straight from here. Like this is the I-29 north. Turns into Highway 75 once we get to Canada. And it floods every year. Every year. And the road is always in bad shape because the water goes over the road and then it ruins the road and got to redo it again and again and again. I think that they would be so expensive for rebuilding now but here we are right? Expensive freeway going right up to the Canadian border and then an expensive highway. It's a lot of investment just to throw out the window to build a new one a few miles that way. I mean if anything maybe one day they'll just build it up higher yet? Just so that because that side over that side is almost underwater. I can understand if they would just build it up higher maybe. Every time you redo the road just build it up like six inches higher and higher and higher. Eventually I guess you'd have to redo all the bridges though. That's the problem. That is what it is. Anybody got a boat? Anyone want to go fishing? Back into Canada and they greeted us with an open scale. Rude. Yeah we'll turn around. I'm getting out of here. They gave me the green light. It's still rude. Can we get back? I got to go to a yard. Stop sign or not? Yeah first I got to stop here. That's new. New stop signs. Okay. We got to go and grab some paperwork deliveries and then it looks like I'm hooking up or I'm bloating. I'm loading tomorrow in Winnipeg. It's taking me to Southern Illinois. The plan taking me to Ontario again and then from Ontario back to Alberta. Surround for 13 kilometers. It's more than a week. Probably my next two weeks. So next morning we're just letting the truck warm up. Just started her up. Oh we'll stretch ourselves out. I gotta go inside. I'm not good at retrieving. Well I checked the oil before I started the engine but you know what I mean. Today's the day. Tomorrow's vlog is the day when we go and deliver all this stuff. First we're delivering that last piece back there. And then all of this stuff up here in Winnipeg. So that last piece is going to Steinback and all this stuff's going to Winnipeg. Had a really good night. I'm feeling good. Got the dry axle and my next load is going to be taking me back to Ontario for some of that heavy steel I think. So I hope you enjoyed the video today. Tomorrow's another day. I hope to see you here tomorrow.


The Allies liberate the German-held island of Elba off the coast of Italy. A heavy bombardment of shore installations precedes the attack. A smoke screen covers the landing. British commandos, French Senegalese and Goumiers swarm ashore amid German gunfire. It is a fairly quick landing for some, but others have trouble as the uneven shore bottom makes footing uncertain. Army mules show that they don't like being amphibious. Groups push inland to wipe out enemy strongholds on this important island. In less than 24 hours, the entire western half of Elba is in Allied hands, and 1,800 prisoners are captured. At Elba, seen of Napoleon's first exile, the Germans meet another defeat. At his secret mountain headquarters somewhere in Yugoslavia is the leader of the embattled Yugoslav Army of Liberation, Marshal Tito. Tito is shown here with the first Allied war correspondence to reach his headquarters. The town of Dravar, which has changed hands six times in bitter fighting between partisans and the enemy. Now, fighting Yugoslavs go about their business behind the German lines. Women salvage silk from Allied parachutes used to drop supplies for partisan troops. It will be used as bandages for their army. Many of Tito's fighters were students before the German invasion. Young Montenegrens, among them a 21-year-old girl hero who left school to join the partisans. Women fight side by side with the men, marching against the enemy wherever found, a highly disciplined force training in Italy under their own officers. Soldiers like this have given a good account of themselves before the enemy and have caused the Germans to divert large forces in order to oppose them. As United Nations armies close in on Nazi Germany, they owe much to a small but gallant people and their valiant leader, Marshal Tito. U.S. Army Chief of Staff visits with General Mark Clark at an advance headquarters in Italy. Upon General Alphonse Joins of the French Army, he confers the Distinguished Service Medal. Here, just a few days after his tour of the Normandy beachhead, Marshal meets officers of the Fifth Army sweeping northward in an advance that is averaged as high as 25 miles a day. General Marshal sees for himself the progress of Allied arms in this important theater of war. Task Force 58, part of the U.S. Fifth Fleet and the most powerful destructive unit in the history of sea warfare, guards marine and army troops en route to Saipan in the Marianas. By passing Kruk and many other enemy islands, this armada drives to within 1,500 miles of Tokyo in one of the most daring operations of the war. These mighty vessels under the command of Admiral Raymond Spruance are part of the sea air forces which have shot down 750 Jap planes, blasted 100 ships in recent battles. A four-day combined bombardment pours thousands of tons of explosives into Saipan, flatters into landing barges, go the Marines. Onshore at Angingan Point, on Saipan's southwest corner, infantry and tanks strike simultaneously, up the length of the island and straight across its southern tip. Deep inland, artillery pounds a ridge above Point Naffutang. Hundreds of them move steadily in. Beyond this ridge is Magician Bay, the capture of which isolated Jap defenders of southern Saipan. The biggest prize of the initial fighting is Asleto Airfield, exactly 1,465 miles from the capital of Japan. Here Jap installations are in ruins. This trip is put to our own use. A carrier-based Hellcat lands. Facilities are heavy. With cool and tireless efficiency, medical men labor to save every possible life. Japanese women and children receive kindly care. Outside a prisoner of war depot, they are assembled for transport to safety. Supplies pour ashore at a rate of 10,000 tons a day, as the advance continues on to Garapan, principal settlement of Saipan.


Okay, very good morning Monday 24th of May. Hope you had a fantastic weekend and welcome to the briefing for the look ahead for this week And before I begin just remember to check out amplify live comm especially if you're watching this on our YouTube channel Don't forget to hit that like and subscribe button But on amplify live check it out because you know the thing that's really cool Now about what we've tried to design is all of the trade a hub content that we have There is now in fact a free option where you can just join our community in a private discord room get access to some of the content And then some other stuff you can check out if you so wanted to from there forward but look, let's get straight into it and talk about what's going on this morning and Relatively quiet and not a great deal of weekend major news flow for me to speak of Most of that was drawn towards what looked like a potential another sell-off in Bitcoin However, that in itself has stabilized now and in the futures. We're trading around 35 and a half thousand there but as far as sentiment is for multi-asset this morning relatively Neutral the equity index futures are slightly positive. That's up 41 Nasdaq 26 the S&P 12 golds trading up again about seven bucks FX markets very quiet basically flat the US 10 year up marginally around three and a half ticks and crude oil staging a bit of a an uptick and recovery Trading back to sixty four dollars after that sell-off that was seen in the second half of last week What I'm trying to do in this briefing then is I'm going to try and pick out some of the news for you to be aware of And then we'll look at the corresponding chart a little bit bigger from a technical perspective on the screen and Talk through some levels for the week ahead. So first things first. Let's talk about Bitcoin. So Volatility puts weekend traders on stomach churning ride. I think this is a little bit Sensationalized by Bloomberg, but nonetheless, we did see the largest digital token slump as much as 13 percent on Sunday And as per usual no real reason for the sell-off Well, I say that jokingly They obviously were a few catalysts that created the slump last week But nothing really to pin it on over the weekend. Just still a little bit of apprehension I guess about whether or not this route currently in Bitcoin is done yet or not We have looked at this peers and I talked about this in the the market watch podcast on Friday About the kind of historic way of which Bitcoin tends to go through these phases of high periods of volatility typically defined by large Sell-offs and then consolidation periods And just having a look at a few things then here where we where we stand at the moment So this was that Sunday sell-off that we had in a bit of Perspective, I guess in terms of some of the recent price action that we've had So it definitely has grinded lower from where we were trading which was basically up at around a 41,000 nearly 42,000 level to where we are at the moment on the daily chart then a couple of things we're still monitoring really Going forward and I'm just gonna pinch this chart a little bit Down here was the the bottom of the sell-off that we had on the 19th Of course, which was seen at around 30,000 level. That's still a big one to keep an eye on You know if we go all the way back to October 2020 on this rising trend line pretty much coincides with the 200 DMA and Then also that kind of psychological 30,000 level so I still key to watch on the downside Again downside beyond that point any breakdown of price 27,000 that double bottom that we had back in the beginning Jan late Jan of 2021 below there then looking right the way down to 22 and a half kind of thousand which was The pre-Christmas kind of high before we broke out a little bit higher post Christmas trade And then Then just further down if we were to get there I'm kind of more around 20,000 so Yeah, there'll be the key levels to watch on the downside. I'm talking the downside more But just talking the other side any further recovery here really I think you've got to get back above 40,000 to really see More of an ongoing recovery that will remain fairly significant obstacle in the upside now technically over the next Week price action, but overall does feel like there's still a little bit of volatility in it and the crypto space at the moment Just given the type of movement that we saw on Sunday So I think it is something that people will be looking at quite closely This week bit of talk over the weekend about the impact this could or might is having on other asset classes I don't really see that myself I think you'd need to see Even if you saw something really spectacular like Bitcoin this week drops to 20,000 so basically halves again in value I don't necessarily think that that will be anything more than perhaps a Fleeting moment of a few hours where it might impact other assets. I really don't think it's that bigger deal as far as the other Markets of concern to be to be quite honest But moving on let's have a look at another thing So the other product of course that comes in step with this that a lot of people look at it's gold And gold holds near four month high and it bullish investor sentiment and basically what they're saying here is that That data that we get on a weekly basis talking about hedge fund positioning So hedge fund managers have increased their net loan position in to the highest in 16 weeks in gold according to data That came out at the end of last week Boolean backed exchange trader funds have seen inflows in May Following three straight months of sales So it's flipped for the first time in a few months there to being more tilted to the buy side Just having a good gold this morning. I mean, it's it's pretty much within a near-term range that has been trading here Which has really been defined by Just flip over to my charts 1870 and a half on the low and then roughly around 1890-91 on the high I was just having a look at this this area here price getting a little bit squeezed So just seeing a bit of a rundown after that pickup that we've had with pivot providing a bit of support For the move higher in the Asia pack session So I don't there's nothing too much behind this latest little dip other than just a bit of a break out of that price action We've had all late So near-term if we're looking at gold in the intro day Probably the pivot would be an area to see how it responds it around that at that point in time however down at BS1 with that double bottom from Really last week on Friday would be an area to keep an eye on on a daily chart Yeah, really nice moves we've seen of late and certainly going back to the last three weeks or so You can see the bullish sentiment really coming to fruition here after we've seen quite a big break out back at the beginning of May And it's just continued its way up next target upside and certainly could come into play this week would be more psychological and technical I'd say is 1900 and then 1918 would start to bring in those highs that were seen back at towards the beginning of the year the bigger than overall target would be recovery backs up to 1966 which then brings in those areas between the high on the 9th of November and actually Yeah, 9th of November this would have been around when some of that Pfizer news was actually coming out at that time This was actually the response to the Pfizer first vaccine coming or looking like it was being successful and approved to come to market And that was the consequence slut off that we saw on goal on the back of the first kind of meaningful development on the vaccination side So that's where we'd put us back up to and that was we tested up at around the beginning of the year in January, so Yeah, it would be I guess To continue that move in this week. It is possible I'd say it's a bit of a big ass to get up there perhaps this week Given the size and scope of the run that we've had to see that type of really consistent green price action all the way up Would be I'd say unusual without at least a period of consolidation At some point and whether we'll see that here at around 1900 just capping a little bit for the upside until the next meaningful kind of move comes or Development in in a news perspective So pretty bullish still for for good for gold overall Then let's talk about oil. So oil reclaiming the $64 hammer in front of the futures Couple of things to update you on from an Iranian Perspective as one of the main things people are looking at and attributing some of the sell-off that we had last week, too So talks between Iran and world powers are going to continue in Vienna this week as both sides tried to resolve It's just some remaining differences in order to get back to that nuclear pact Iran's Parliament did say on Sunday though that a three-month monitoring deal between Tehran and the UN nuclear watchdog has Expired and the access to images from inside some of their sites would cease On the back of that a secretary of state Blinken the US responded and said there was no sign yet that Iran is willing to comply With its nuclear commitments needed to lift Sanctions and as such then we have seen a little bit of a pull off those Lows that were seen around 61 65 67 in futures again the second half of Really long most of last week really was Considerable downside pressure and we've retraced just coming up to approximate 50% of that move At the current price and we just reclaims and said to $64 handle So One of the things here timing-wise with with oil and with this focus on Iran and so on As well as OPEC a meeting of the OPEC plus joint technical committee, which was to have taken place Tomorrow to assess the state of global supply and demand has been moved to the end of the month on the 31st According to a person for the matter and then OPEC's kind of alliance planned next Ministerial meeting is going to take place then as it always does the day after on the first of June sort of scheduled Yeah, but at the moment As you know further developments on the vaccine. There's quite a few vaccine type news coming out at the weekend talking about the effectiveness of the double dosage against the Indian variant things of that nature Covid case rates continue to to decrease in the US Granted of outside of a few hotspot areas and so therefore Demand I think is still in my point of view I think going to be picking up enough to counteract any type of Iranian crude coming back on the market If these sanctions are to be lifted and a new deal is to be struck between world powers in Iran Irrespective of that, you know deal is not done until The bottom line has been signed and there's still some way to go there So at the moment a bit of a balance in oil being being observed a few other headlines to have a look at So just quickly on the news perspective The White House said on Friday. They're pet. They're going to pair down its infrastructure bill to 1.7 trillion From two and a quarter trillion with cuts to investments in broadband and roads and bridges But republicans dismissed the changes as insufficient for a deal How important is this? Again, it feels like it should be important because the fact the market was definitely looking To stimulus to kind of guide the ship as whether or not Equities continue to move on up at the moment. I don't see any deal Coming imminently. I think they're too far apart at this point in time And the fact that the markets are not selling off I think tells you the fact that they're not assigning Too much then priority to that being a necessity to get done in order to keep Let's say sentiment stable or equities at these current levels. So Something to monitor. I think rather than get too spooked by And as I said, I don't think that they're going to make any particular progress this week If we're looking at it in the short term The other thing then UK England's lockdown Senior UK ministers said they're increasingly confident that the june 21st easing of all lockdown restrictions in England will go ahead As planned as research suggested that COVID-19 vaccines were effective against a new strain i.e. the Indian Variance, let's have a look at the currency markets and have a look at cable so cable near term This is looking at the last Two and a bit weeks of price action Got a nice trend line going back to the 13th, which was supported on the 20th and also In the overnight Asia pack session so anyone any Night owls if you like would have been a nice long opportunity there The market responding well to that that trend line and just coming up to them What would have been a nice logical target? Which was the peak of the price action that was seen going back to Friday night's action in the futures market? so 41 56 we traded at the moment any further move beyond this point today Or continuation of this trend Really looking at the higher bound levels at 142 and beyond to to become more interesting on the daily chart for the week Obviously last week we kind of had to run up As we were kind of anticipating at the beginning of that week. We were looking at you know major data The further reopening of the economy And so as such we did run up, but we've saw some profit taking at around those year to date highs So that's still a key level 142 45 to have a look at on the upside as we go through the week If we break the trend line and we start to see some downside pressure Then again, I'd look down at 141 handle I think that's a nice level because it encapsulates that area of price support that we've seen through Period of kind of mid to second half of last week and then lower down you got the s2 the 140 77 80 area which also starts to encapsulate some of the price action here as well So some nice support points if we get the break or targets subsequently for a short if that was too materialized But at the moment Looks to be fairly supported at the present point in time As far as the euro is concerned I guess on the daily chart Last week we saw a test up at around that high that we printed back on the 25th of feb I still think that's the really the key level to watch at this point in time And so once again looking at monitoring and tracking the dollar performance We did see a bit of a move up, of course on friday But general direction has been lower because if that trend Continues of dollar weakness Then we'd be keeping an eye on those upside levels both respectively in cable and uro dollars We've just discussed on the slightly higher time frames Elsewhere a quick run through the other Charts, but just before I conclude on the euro There were some comments that had a vice president to gwindos at the weekend Who gave the latest kind of insight I guess in in toward the ecb's thinking He said that recent data has been much more positive and that ecb monetary policy decision in june will be based on data But also noted that policy must remain accommodative. So again, it's kind of Reiterating the stance but being a little bit more upbeat. I guess on current economic conditions Final charts to have a look at I guess our equity and then we can have a run through the calendar main things to have a look out for This was just a look at t-notes and I wanted to have a look at t-notes because What we have seen is it's kind of the market Market participants are in a kind of in a hawkish mindset to a degree of They definitely attribute more risk to say inflation Than what we've seen to adhering to Fed guidance in the respect that the Fed are kind of holding the line and remaining cognitive and every time we get a kind of a hawkish Surprise or a hawkish element development as we did with the cpi yields pop you'll So the prices of t-notes drops and then we recover fmc hawkish surprise drops We recover So for me, there's a pretty consistent theme here an actuality. I think you the the tenure if you Take out the volatility in this trading range that we are kind of looking at here It's pretty quiet comparative to other markets And as long as we don't really see a change in nominal the yields, then I don't really think That really this is too much of a thing to get too obsessed by This whole idea about inflation being a real consideration or or headache for the market to digest I think that that has passed to a certain degree But just looking here and some of the upside on the intro day are one with this trend line over the last two weeks I'd be keeping an eye on And so at this present point in time probably looking at the s1 here and That prior low that was seen on friday So this area and the trend line to dictate the upper and lower bound of what could be just the trading range For the rest of the session today because the calendar is particularly quiet And then for the equity side of things going to look at both the s&p and the nasdaq really more on the daily And the reason for that is just to keep an eye on a few longer term levels I mean whether nasdaq trades at the moment Doesn't look particularly appealing on on this time frame But the point being is that there's still a very important trend line that's in play At the moment and that goes back to the summer of last year We've had that more firm retest back in march and then more recently here just in the last two weeks So price is still quite a way off that at the moment But that's still obviously within the weak context would be really important to watch And as long as we remain above here, I still think the market remains kind of supported on any dips And then likewise for the s&p. It's a pretty similar kind of picture in that respect So if we just look on here Again, the market responded very nicely on a trend line. This one's slightly Not as Dated in the kind of length of the trend line, but this goes back to kind of late october Of 2020 the retest again around that march dip that we saw in in us equities And and the markets responded quite nicely thereafter. So if the s&p here, I think Upside we're trading at 41 64 at the moment. We had a failed attempt to try and break that top end Which is zoom in here this area here We failed to break above that on on friday albeit a brief test and so upside that will be quite key If we did start to see that move transpire then you might see a break Move up to 4200 pullback and then people will be looking to target the balls back up to the the all-time high levels again Okay Let's have a quick look at the calendar then. Uh, what's For today today is really quiet. There's actually nothing going on from an economic data point of view of interest In fact, and so speaker wise there's a few to be aware of And brainard speaks at a crypto conference. So what's this crypto conference? Consensus by coin desk is what this crypto conference is called now I wouldn't normally be talking about the crypto conference But the reason why I am is because there's some pretty interesting speakers Feds brainard is one of the more senior members of the fmc You've got lauren summers ray dalio and kathy wood are all going to be giving keynote speeches Um, I will share the full kind of agenda day by day as we go through But as you can see then We do have feds brainard speaking at that event a bit later on this afternoon at 2 p.m bank of england governor bailey Cunliffe saunders they appeared for the treasury select committee talking about monetary policy This is normally a bit of a non-event. It's more about them just reporting back to the treasury of their Decisions and their their policy as it stands at the moment unlikely to yield anything new or surprising But so you're aware it's a 330 feds mester bostic and george will speaking today bostic a voter right now Speaking on the public response to the covet pandemic at 5 p.m Otherwise, let's just have a quick look at the week Um, so just moving over to Tuesday. You do get the german iphone business climate indicator And it's expected to hit its highest level since may of 2019 while the gfk Survey out of germany on thursday. So in terms of your two german releases It's forecast to reach a seven month high according to economists polled by reuters So look at the good data in that respect on a confidence perspective and that comes as See covet cases become more under control and we go through this period of Trying to reopen in the german economy and an optimism lifting on the back of that So looking out for some stronger numbers there. So again If you're thinking about a euro on those higher time frame charts Do we see the dollar revert back to that weakening trend? Amid as well some more optimistic signs emerging from some of these key European countries like Germany and their data and that could help that then retest up at that level In the euro, which will be quite key Um, if we go further then we do have on wednesday Excuse me thursday, I should say you get the us gdp figure Could potentially be revised higher on the back of stronger consumer spending after upper revisions for march So those figures will be coming out on thursday and then on friday I guess a little bit more busy you get a eu economic sentiment data like to confirm continued optimism among businesses And consumers as reopening is getting underway and vaccination rollout programs continue to pick up speed you do also get the Personal income levels the april core pc price index in the u.s. And chicago pmi the michigan number is the final reading which we'll get on friday Final thing to be aware of haven't heard of any specific date or more information as yet But there was some talk last week that top trade officials in the u.s. And china Are poised to hold their first meeting to review the phase one of the trade agreement that was signed under president trump the meeting Could occur at the end of the month with a potential in person meeting of the two heads of state biden and she in the summer So just keeping an eye out for any more specifics on that subject. All right, that is it. So hopefully that's a Thorough enough rundown to get you up to speed Again, check out amplify live.com for the guys already in the community I'll start updating the technical analysis section as well with annotated charts so Good luck for today and enjoy the rest of the week. Take care


Hello and welcome to little garden on the prairies in this video We're going to talk about container gardening and how anybody can be a gardener No matter what size of containers or what size of garden you want to grow you can start with some herbs some lettuces Or go big and grow potatoes All you need is some kind of a container whether it's some flower pots some Rubbermaid tubs any kind of container you can grow anything in these 30 gallon tubs Here I have potatoes started now and These containers here are from fruit trees that are in small bushes that I have purchased from the greenhouse over the years And these containers are great for planting. I'm going to be using these for squash So if you are going to be using plastic make sure that you check the Symbol on the container and look for these three green numbers to make sure you're using this food safe type plastic Another option you could go is to purchase grow bags. I have a lot of these also in my garden that work great These are five gallon size grow bags that I purchased from Amazon. I'll leave you a link in the description below They're great for bush tomatoes And I have some onions started in this ten gallon bag here And I've also planted all my pea crop in grow bags So I have a variety of peas growing here. You can just stick a tomato cage in there for the peas to crawl up do a little mulching and It's easy to grow peas just like this and the great thing about these grow bags if they have handles So you can move them around if you're on a patio or a deck or a small space You can kind of move them around where you have room for them And even something as small as a an old flower pot works to plant radishes And this is what I have going here right now I use two pots and every three weeks I start another batch of radishes The dollar store has lots of great cheap plastic pots This is a stackable one that I purchased from dollar round of this spring Or if you want to invest a little more money You can pick up one of these towers here that I purchased to put herbs and lettuces in So when you're container gardening you got to make sure that you always have good drainage no matter what size of Pot or plastic tub that you are using I'm just getting my redneck raised bed garden ready and using these large 30 gallon tubs Which take up a lot of dirt So I have been filling them with recycled material that I kind of saved over the Winter time all sorts of cereal boxes containers from milk Any scraps of wood? Tree branches small logs will also work as a good filler for large containers like this even if you have some Soil or you know partially finished compost dirt they make a good filler at the bottom of your containers Then once I've got them Partially filled. I am actually adding some good compost soil now to these containers and getting them ready for planting And if you want to make your own soil, it's very easy I usually use three parts in my soil and that would be compost some peat moss or Coconut core and some pyrrolite So this batch I'm making here is just for a small container. So I have some sifted compost I'm adding a little bit of organic fertilizer just a regular 4-4-4 blend and some pyrrolite and that's all you need for small containers If you don't want to Make your own soil. I recommend that you buy a good potting soil that Is got lots of good nutrients good drainage and all the right materials that you need for container gardening? Never use garden soil or anything too heavy in containers because it will be just too Compacted it won't have all the nutrients that container gardens need So that is something to make sure you keep in mind when you are getting your pot set up for your containers One thing to remember is that containers dry out a lot quicker than a regular garden bed or raised garden bed So you want to make sure that you are watering it regularly regularly and do not let the pots or containers dry out So before planting up some of my root crops here. I am just giving my 30 gallon tubs here a good watering and I'm going to show you how to plant up some carrots So these next three containers are going to be where I'm going to be planting my carrots So I have three varieties here that I picked up from West Coast seed I have a colorful blend here Called the rainbow blend the Neptune and The Nante Corlis so you will see in the description below that I have a link to the West Coast seeds website I am an affiliate of this company because I love their seeds and if you make any purchases from that link below You will help me by earning me a small commission for the channel So be sure to check them out. I Also like that West Coast has made their packaging Compostable so once these are done and seeds are all gone. You can just shred this up and throw it right into your compost bin So something that I learned when I became my very own gardener was that carrots are actually quite tricky to get growing I always thought that they were just like other seeds. You just throw them in the ground and They germinate within seven to ten days and away they go but carrots are quite finicky when it comes to germination They take a lot longer than you think it can be up to 21 days Before you see germination and you need to keep the soil nice and moist and I keep it mulched as well Just to help retain that moisture. So as long as you follow those steps be patient. Don't let that dry out You should see germination in about three weeks So again, I use my seeding square here to space out my holes Carrots you can plant if you want to have them properly spaced out in a square foot. You use the red which is 16 per square foot So with carrots, you know, you can always thin them out after two thick I if they fly out of my hands and land all over the place here while I'm trying to space them out that's okay, I just work them in and you can pick them when they're babies and Use the greens I'll be mulching everything here once I'm done. You can also use shredded leaves works really good Some shredded hardwood just very light can also make a good mulch on here Some people have even if you see in different videos Some people actually use a board to cover their rows if they're planting in rows just to keep it dark and moist Until you see germination. So there are different ways you can do it But with me today, I'm going to use straw to mulch these So growing up as a kid most of the vegetables the root vegetables that we ate They were all cooked, you know, just in the boiling method, which was never too appealing to me I didn't like boiled carrots boiled beets boiled turnips Any of those so now that I've you know learned the beauty of roasting vegetables All of these vegetables can be roasted. I just find that they are so much more flavorful. So that's Kind of broaden my horizon on root vegetables. I enjoy them I enjoy chopping them up cold into salads as well And also the greens that come from pretty much any of these the beets the carrots The turnips you can harvest those tops when they're nice and young and put them in your salad or stir-fry So so I've learned a lot about root crops now and really embracing them and enjoying growing them and Hopefully eating them this fall. So like the beets the turnips in a square foot should be about nine I want to grow them thicker and just thin out the baby ones to begin with and then leave some to grow a little bit bigger That's definitely Optional as well Like I said, anybody can be a gardener whether you just are growing a few herbs on your patio You want to try something like lettuces strawberries Or if you want to go big and do potatoes and corn Anything can grow in a container pretty much So don't be afraid to give it a try if you've never grown any of your own food It's a wonderful hobby All you need to do is find us some containers some good soil and Head off to the garden center pick out a few plants and start growing So I'll be doing a lot more videos on my container gardening here over the next few weeks So if you haven't already done so, please hit the subscribe button and click on the notification bell So you don't miss out on any more of my videos. Thanks for watching


Hi, everyone, Joe for Jasper's casebreaks.com coming at you with 2021 Panini Spectra Baseball. This is my first look at it. I think ever since Chronicles came out, we've always talked about how awesome Spectra, a full release of Spectra Baseball would be, and we got it. Just dropped last Friday or last Wednesday, I think, but this is my first live look at it. Four box. Pick your team number four. Big thanks everybody here for getting in on the action. There's Justin Humphrey with Last Spot Mojo. A lot of teams ended up as a random number block, and we did those randomizers in separate videos. Here's the Angels one, so you get a block of numbers for those teams and pick your team four, and here is the White Sox one, a lot of teams in that one. All right, and here we go. Four autographs and four memorabilia cards per box. On average, we got Cubs Anthony Rizzo on the cover. Good luck everybody. I know. I'm glad the Raiders didn't get shut out, and they made a game of it, but yeah, it turned out to be a pretty good game. We're going to lead off with Austin Meadows, 74 out of 75. That's for Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay for Eric. Eric J. We've got Epic Legends, three out of 50, Albert Pujols. That's part of the Angels number block, and that's Angels three. That'll be for Carlos. Now, ooh, nice Cabrine Hayes right out of the gate. That's for Chad and the Pirates. Nice. It's a great relic in there, too. 36 out of 199, and back here is Rookie Aura, J. Croneworth, 26 out of 75, Eric J. Padres. We've got Luis Petino, 19 out of 30 for the Raids, Eric, Kyle Lewis, Seattle, Patrick, and your relics. We've got Caleb Ferguson, Max Impact Relic for the Dodgers. Dodgers are a number block team, and that is not numbered. That's part of the Dodgers number block, and that'll be a randomizer to one person in that break. We've got Isaac Perettis, relic. That's 88 out of 99, TJ with the Tigers, Rookie Aura, Kieber Ruiz, 32 out of 45 for the Dodgers. Dodgers edition here. There's Arozirania, 42 out of 50 for Eric and the Raids, 45 out of 50, Michael Taylor, big monumental relic for Patrick and the Royals. Yeah, Patrick with the Royals, and we've got Adalton Varshow, Jersey and Autograph. It's a great-looking car there. Michael picked up the Diamondbacks straight up, 33 out of 99. We've got the die cut here, Hirokazu, Sawamura, 7 out of 35, Michael with the Red Sox, Luis Robert, 27 out of 40, White Sox, White Sox 7 is going to be for Austin, or check that Aaron. Fireworks fabric, Dan Vogelbach, Mariners, Patrick K, 71 out of 75, and that'll be for once again Patrick and the Mariners. Then we've got Andy Young, that's a nice patch there too, Michael with the Snakes, 3 out of 49. Remember we marked those four, so we know that these were all from the same case. Racing, there's a really cool super short print car, Deep Space and Solar Eclipse. I think the Solar Eclipse is the picture we're using for the product, it's a Tease Junior, that would be pretty cool to see. There's Kohe Arihara, Rookie Aura for the Rangers, it's for Patrick, Nolan Aronato, Cardinals, that's going to be for the number block, Cardinals 7, St. Louis 7, that's going to be for Aaron. Dustin May, 16 out of 75, Game Day Spectacle, yeah, piece of his jersey for the Dodgers. That's Dodgers 6, that'll be for Aaron. And we've got Nick Madrigal, jersey and autograph, nice one for the White Sox, number block team, 24 out of 99, Chicago 4, White Sox 4, Aaron, Andy Young, Card, 5 out of 8, that's for Michael, it's a cool looking, is this the Deep Space insert? Short print? No, maybe not, still looks cool, there's Bryce Harper, 3 out of 5 on that Bryce Harper, Philly's 3, Philly's are a number block team, so that's part of the White Sox group, Philly's 3 is Aaron McCluskey, Aaron, all aboard the Big Head Express, whoo-hoo. Next up, two-color triple relic, Dane Dunning, 52 out of 75, Rangers, Patrick and then we've got Monty Harrison, jersey and on-card autograph, that's a good looking auto, good penmanship there for the fish, Patrick Davis has the Marlins, 173 out of 2 at 99, Andrew Vaughn to 75, 71 out of 75, Light Sox 1, Jeremy, Cody Ballinger, not numbered, that's part of the, you know what, we're gonna randomize the non-numbered cards as one lot, so that's part of that max impact group, two Dodgers, not numbered, 7 out of 75, triple relic, piece of the lumber in there too, Jami-Jones, O's, Orioles are a number block team, 7 out of 75, Baltimore 7 is gonna be for Jeremy, more Baltimore, there's Keegan-Agan, jersey and autograph, let's see what the number is here, that is 63 out of 99, so Baltimore 3, going to Carlos, got Shane McClanahan, 6 out of 40 for Eric and the Reyes, and Jacob DeGrom-Dyka, 10 out of 45 for the Metz, Metz 0, part of this number block, yeah, big boys 007, Metz 0, your hits, Ryan Mountcastle, 37 out of 75, max impact relic, Baltimore 7, it's gonna be for Jeremy, there you go, there's Sean Jaspy, congrats man, although I thought your comments about Eason Stick were gonna make you eat your words, that jinx almost happened because of your big mouth, fireworks fabric, they heard, quad relic and autograph, 6 out of 10, Oakland's number block team, Oakland 6 is gonna be for Aaron, all right, halfway through this half case break, all right Joe Adele, not numbered, so I'll be part of that non-numbered group, Kettle Martay for Michael and the Diamondbacks, 8 out of 10, and we've got a game day spectacle, Charlie Blackman, nice patch there, 5 out of 8, Rockies, Rockies is a number block, Rockies 8 is gonna be Jeremy, there you go Jeremy, not bad, good-looking card there, ooh, Heskin Kirkstad, prospect, 14 out of 99, Jersey and Otto, nice, Oriole Baltimore 4 is gonna be for Aaron, I got Daniel Lynch for Kansas City, 61 out of 75, Patrick Davis, Gila Raiders giving you a slight heart attack when all they need to do is hold herb to under 30 points, did it happen? There's Randy Arrozorania, 12 out of 35, yes that was Rockies 5, yeah Colorado 5 was Jeremy, there's Arrozorania, die cut for the Rays, that's gonna be for Eric J, got Sandy Kofax, Epic Legends 9 out of 20, piece of his jersey, that's pretty cool, Dodgers 9 will be for Travis, and we've got an Alex Kirloff, that's a nice patch, it's scope pattern in the background, three color patch, autograph on card, Minnesota, Tim picked up the twins straight up, 5 out of 25, nice low number on that one, I know Herbert does have a baby face doesn't he, redemption on the bottom, we got a Trevor Larnock, 21 out of 50 for Minnesota, Tim with the twins, Patrick with the Royals gets the Andrew Benentendi, 6 out of 75, and then we've got fireworks fabric, Randall Gritchick, Toronto is a number block team, and that's one out of 15, Toronto number one, part of that White Sox group is Jeremy, then we've got a Clark Schmidt jersey and autograph, Yankees part of the Angels group, the other number block group, 143 out of 199, so Yankees 3 that'll be for Carlos, Christian Pache, Rookie Aura, Atlanta, that's part of the Angels number block group, not numbered, so it'll be part of that lot, Peter Lanzo, Metz 15 out of 50, Metz 5 is going to be for Jeremy, 7 out of 15, Aaron Saval, nice monumental patch there, three color patch, Cleveland, this is for you, 7 out of 15, Cleveland 7 is going to be for Aaron, and the redemption, Spectro Rookie Jersey autographs, it's going to be B, Bob, Bo, Bry, Brian, Brandon, Braylon, Braylon Marquez, for the Cubs, Jonathan with the Cubs, more top-loader before I continue with the final box. They had the recipe, they know what they need to do, it's not all about chest and over, and the toys on the outside, this is a complete football team, it was weak long they had the Raiders in that wild game against the Ravens, and they thought they were about to see the data see a different identity, this is their first loss, they did battle back, they did battle in the second half, basically the corner into the scene, what do you sense about this Raider identity and who they all depend on, it's a sensation that hopes to be good and that's what I expect to be good right now. All right, next one, good luck, final box, next couple packs, Alec Minoa, 30 out of 75, Toronto 0, that'll be for big boys 007, Hugh Darvish, three out of five, Eric J with the Padres, nice, Eric, all aboard the Big Hit Express, whoo-hoo, and your hit, we got Robert Stevenson, 24 out of 25, Game Day Spectacle, this old, I forgot that he went to the Rockies, this old Reds patch, there but this is for the Rockies, part of the Rockies number block group, Rockies 4, Colorado 4 is for Aaron, and then we got Adonis Medina, 21 out of 49 for Philadelphia, nice hyper parallel back there, really like the spectra design, so sharp. Philly is a number block team, part of the White Sox group, so Philadelphia 1 and it'll be for Jeremy, Nate Pearson, 31 out of 40, Toronto 1 will be for Jeremy, Lorenzo Kane, 1 out of 30, Milwaukee for Brian Kay, and your hits, Kirby Puckett, 3 out of 15, nice epic legends, really for the twins, and that's for Tim, Tim bought the twins straight up, RIP, nice low number too, 3 out of 15, and we got Ryan O'Weathers, Padres, Eric Jay, picked up the Friars straight up, 194 out of 199. All right, last two packs of the break, thanks everyone for getting in, we've got a redemption on the bottom, got Nick Madrigal, 12 out of 20, White Sox 2, it's going to be for Travis, Jose Altuve, not numbered, Houston, part of the Chicago number block group, and that'll be randomized to one person in the break in that group, Bobby Dalbeck, Rising Rookie Duel Relic, Michael picked up the Red Sox straight up, 23 out of 25, nice Rising Rookie Duel Relic, Astrological Signs, 7 out of 10, Dylan Cease, that's pretty cool, nice patch too, nice autograph, Dylan Cease, White Sox are a number block team, and that is White Sox 7, which will go to Aaron McCluskey, White Sox 7. Last one here, we've got Nate Pearson, Toronto, not numbered, so that'll go with that Altuve as one lot, Walker Bueller, 29 out of 75, Dodgers 9, that's going to go at the other list, that'll be for Travis, High Voltage, Daniel Robertson 15 out of 25, two color patch, that's a cool window there for the patch, like that, that goes to Tampa Bay, Eric J, Tampa Bay, and the Redemption, we've got a Spectra Rookie Jersey autographs, card 127, that is SA, Sam, Sammy, Sam Huff, Rangers, and that's for Patrick Davis, right, Sam Huff's a Ranger, yeah, he's a Ranger, catcher for the Rangers, all right, and that is that, ladies and gentlemen, let's do a couple quick randomizers here for this break, I appreciate everybody getting in to the Spectra, looks pretty sharp, thanks everybody, so let's flip back to, let's flip back to ram.org, so let's grab the Angels Group first, so that had a couple base cards, and the main hit was the Caleb Ferguson Max Impact Relic, so this is for the Angels Group, we'll put their names in here, and then let's grab the other group right here as well, all right, so let's roll it, randomize both lists, eight times, five out of three, name on top gets it after eight, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and eight, this is for the Angels Group, and that's for Mark, last spot Mojo strikes again, so you'll get the, here I'll just show you, you'll get these, a few of these non-numbered cards, and then you have the Relic, the Max Impact Caleb Ferguson, which was not numbered, and any other non-numbered cards that I may have missed, all right, so that's for you Mark, five out of three, eight times for the other list, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, and there's last spot Mojo again, Jeremy Ricker, so Jeremy, not as many cards in this one, just two, but you'll get these two non-numbered cards, thanks everyone, I'm Joe for jaspyscasebreaks.com, thanks for watching, thanks for breaking with us, I'll see you next time for the next baseball break, bye-bye.


Ian Rappport is reporting live from the league meetings that playing rule number proposal number one was amended both teams are now guaranteed a possession in overtime but it's now post-season only it was approved per source and the Eagles in the Colts proposal has passed and it's permanent both teams guaranteed a possession in overtime post-season only okay now it's both teams are guaranteed a possession Darius Butler who played defense in the NFL do you not enjoy this at all I heard you groan immediately upon reading that D-butt you know as a as a competitor as athlete like you said as a defensive player you know you think you know get a stop get the ball back and give it back to your offense you got score you saw the bangles doing in the playoffs you would like to see Josh Allen get another possession all these other great quarterbacks that are in the league right right now I think is the probably the most talented we've seen a quarterback opposition it's probably 10 like legit legit dude so um I mean yeah the NFL you know they're gonna do the decisions that make the most sense when it comes to money and I think as a fan uh it's a good move