Bonnie! Especially when I'm so tired. It's done! Bonnie, it's your PC. Espen! What? Guys, we are going to build a Starforge PC today, actually. That's why Arielle is here. He's going to help us build a Starforge creator. Man, I love all you guys. You guys always say we. Yeah, true. We, we, we, we are going to build one. Yeah, we. We are going to build a Starforge creator PC. Oh, look. It's right over there. Starforge systems. We're going to build a Starforge PC today. It's for Bonnie, actually. I think Bonnie's going to be joining us in a little bit. Arielle is joining us. We have all the parts. We have everything ready. I'm going to get the case. We're actually doing a different case because we don't offer white cases for Starforge. If we're going to do a PC build, maybe we should just do it on my stream because I didn't want people watching it being like, oh, this is like a Starforge offers white and they can't find it. If we do it on my stream, the people will know, like, okay, well, like, I bought my own case. Then we, we built the rest of it with a creative PC. So. That's appropriate. It's for Bonnie, man. White case. Yeah, that'll be good. Chad, be nice to Arielle. It's okay, Chad. You can say whatever you want. I'm too blind to read you anyways. Actually, I'm from all over, man. I'm really born in the high. There he is. Hey. Hey. Arielle is like the build master. So he's like a ninja at building PCs and just table management, everything, the whole nine yards. So I'm at the point now where I'm like, why should I spend 10 hours building a PC when Arielle can build it better in 45 minutes? Yeah. Yeah. So. I mean, the logic stands. I like it. Let's just have Arielle come do it. I'll build it too. Until we get the cable management. Once we get the cable management, it's a wrap. I don't want to touch cables. So Chad, what do you guys think? Is my new cable management good? And it's great because anytime, anytime I want to just play a different console, I can just, I want to play an Xbox. You know? And I can just play an Xbox. So it's kind of sick. I got to get my PS5 in the system still, but you know, it's brand new. So it's not ready yet. Yeah, it's fine. You can have it. You can have it. I do think the room looks a lot nicer. I'm joking aside. I have a, I throw all the cables there. What we're doing is throwing the camera on the camera. Safe. It's fine Chad. This is the softest carpet you can get. It's good. What we're doing is we're knocking over everything. Guys, StarForgeSystems.com. Eximation Point StarForge has the link. It's the new PC company we started this month. We're super, super hyped about it. It's actually going incredibly well. Mostly thanks to REL and all the awesome people that we have. We're actually running the company. We have a StarForge PC right downstairs in the guest room. That's the guest room PC that Bonnie's been using to play WoW. I want another PC up here so I can build like a triple PC setup. I don't want to put it in the shelves. Oh, so you want the PCs in the shelves? Yeah, I want to put one PC in the shelves and then I'll run the cables behind. So I have like a triple PC setup. And then I'll just go wireless keyboard and mouse. I can have somebody like set up here and they could like land with me or something. I think that'd be badass. Let me do it. Let's actually get started. Alright. The motherboard. So what motherboard do we use? Z690? The Mag Z690 Tomahawk. Wi-Fi DDR4. The Texas voice. So you already put the processor in? Yeah. 1200K. And then do you want to go RAM next? Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Chat right here. People with 32 gigs. 3600. Yeah. Okay. So we have one here. They do like the alternating buses for the RAM. Well, I know the purpose of it is because they're channeled out. So these two are together and these two are together. Okay. Yeah. And also you want to go 2 and 4 because I think they, I forgot about the channeled little channel but it has better performance than 1 and 2. Oh yeah. I remember you, yeah. That's right. I remember you telling me that. That a lot of people just do 1 and 3 naturally. Yeah. But 2 and 4 is like the play. Obviously people don't know anything. They might do 1 and 2. Yeah. True. So this one, I don't know if you've done this before but you remember how you used to have to grab a 10.2. Oh yeah. So now in the new boards they actually changed it up. Oh what? Yeah. So put it right here. I'll show you. I love it now. Like for builders this is like amazing. You got a hair tie. Okay. So I always have one handy. Yeah, true. Push it in and then I'll just slide it. Yeah. It'll like snap in a bit. Yeah. I think I just, I think I didn't push it hard enough. You know what I should do? I should do a sub gold and dread my hair.  But I feel like if I wanted to undread it it'd be a nightmare. Oh well. It's done? Oh what? So look right here. You see right here? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What? So when you, look at that. Look at how easy that is now. That's sick. So normally you just, it'll just snap in there. Yeah. I'm just checking the size to make sure it's. Yeah. See it was the same size. Yeah. That looks so good. Yo. Yo. Bonnie's here. Hey. Yo. What's up? Yeah. We're putting this in there. Yeah. Star Wars panel. Oh. Can I hear you? Okay. Well. Problem solved. Problem solved. Of course. That's what I do now. Bonnie is excited. Yeah. The joys of getting a new PC. All right. Here we go. Excited. Definitely not Bonnie. Definitely not Bonnie. Bonnie has nothing to do with Star Wars. Do not worry. I'm trying to restrain myself. The other way. There you go. Let me just turn the power down a little bit before. Oh yeah. There you go. I just keep going. I'm faster than you. Yeah. What? Nothing. Yeah. Nothing. You're doing great. You're doing great. I feel so pressured. Wait. What do you mean? I feel pressured. I'm just watching. I'm just going with that camera. I got it. So great. Do you think that we can actually use this light? Yeah. And we should spray paint it black. These are black. I think that. What do you mean? And probably it makes it faster. No. It's. This isn't loud. It's not like a road. Like you go stealth mode. It's the same. It's just how it looks. Really? Yes. Because red and black is like the fast. It's like the fast. Can you go tomorrow?  I know people that will refuse to watch a DC movie. Because they like Marvel. And I'm just like, okay. People get weird in territorial. But can you do that stuff? Because there's a lot of things I like to see. But the MCU. The DC EU. The MCU is definitely way more art. Of course. 100%. Nobody's done that. My thing is as long as it's not EU.  That's right, brother. That's right, brother. Just keep 100% American. All right, American Made. I want my American Made comics. You know what I was just telling my friend about? I think it's hilarious. Did you see the new Black Idol trailer? It just came out a couple days ago. It looks really good. Really? The only thing I'm saying is I'm gonna be pissed if he loses at all in the movie.  If like, this discovery just about, you know, WB and HBO and all that stuff. And then like, they watched the Flash movie. It made some adjustments. Like, all right, we got a banger now. And then Ezra just comes in and nukes the whole thing. That's what I'm scared of.  And they're like, yo, can we even release this anymore? Please no. Please no, man. That's one of my takes on like the whole The Dark Knight series where I love the third great. I just, I didn't really enjoy Christian Bale's Bruce Wayne. Oh, really? Yeah, I feel like... Why not? I don't know. Like, do you remember like in the scene where you listen to like the hotel he's trying to show off and he's like jumps into like the pool with the two models and all that stuff? Yeah. Like, the Bruce Wayne we knew was like more, I don't know, it was a little more regal. Yeah, he was a little more regal about it. Like, yeah, he would like it with girls a lot, but it would be like, he's the guy in the bag. They don't want to talk to anybody. He's just coming in to do his speech. Yeah, that's true. He has that little smirk and that view that chip on his shoulder and he just leaves. At the same time? No, he is, for sure. But I'm saying he's like real like low key about it. Yeah, it's interesting. He wasn't like jumping into a bull. I think every single girl has been with Bruce Wayne. Probably. I believe that. Wait, what? The bad guys? Oh, yeah. Especially the bad guys. But they're bad guys. They love him. Catwoman. And they're bad, too. Really? Every single one of them. Poison Ivy has even, Poison Ivy has been with everyone. Poison Ivy has been with friends. Oh, Poison Ivy has been with friends. Oh my God. Poison Ivy? I've got it. Yeah, there it is. So that's what the inside pretty much is going to look like. I mean, it's not, like I said, chat. This is not the, this is not the same case that a Star Forge creator PC would be. The creator is the biggest version that we have right now. So, and Bonnie, a picture of Bonnie's face does not come with the PC, but that's going to have a little Star Forge logo on it. There's the heat sink, the processor, you got all the fans, the RAM. You got the M.2 in there. In this PC specifically, we're using a 900KF processor, which does not have integrated graphics. Will you need integrated graphics? Probably not, because you're going to have a big, girthy video card in there. It'll be a 1200K as opposed to a 1200KF. Look at the back chat. Look at the cable management. This is what I'm talking about, dude. This is why I don't want to build my own PCs anymore, because I can't do this. I do not have the patience. The first part, that's easy. That's fine. But the meat of how long the sticks actually build the PCs, it's all the cable management and making sure it looks nice and getting everything in the back. Getting your airflow right. The airflow is something that a lot of times people don't realize how important airflow is whenever they're building PCs. I'm literally exhibit A. I cray everything in there. Airflow is terrible. Why is my computer slow? It's because it's overheating. I'm making things just run with you hot. So airflow and having like...  They're for the first hour, my computer runs fine. Yes.  I just have that problem all the time. And it's like airflow, or like I'd have the fans in wrong. Something so simple is so easily fixed. What's the airflow like? Do you exhaust out the bottom and pull from the front and top? Do you guys plan on using different memory manufacturers in the future? For the airflow, we do intake from the bottom, exhaust from the top. Remember guys, also the GPU is going to be pushing the heat up and also heat rises so you want the airflow all the way up and out. If you did it the opposite, you would just push the heat down and make it come right back up. When it comes to like manufacturers of like different parts or whatever. We're always paying attention guys. We have our finger on the heartbeat, we know like what's next, what's good, you know what I mean. If the memory is something that has a better value and has more performance, we definitely will make the change. Yeah, it's looking good so far, Chad. We're almost done. How much more do we have left in this build? These two cables and the power supply, that's it. There we go. Bonnie, do you want to do the honors of turning it on for the first time? Yeah.   You want to pull in air from the bottom? Ariel was just talking about this. You want to have air pull in from the bottom, goes up, heat rises from the video card and everything else all the way through and it more easily pushes the air out because the heat's going up and then this shoots it out of the top. Now it's Emmy. Wait, Emmy has blue hair. That's crazy. It's the only pen I could find. Wait, that's why you wanted a pen? Yeah, so I just started my step into Emmy. Chad, that actually, that cup is, it's Mitch's. Yeah, Mitch, this is Mitch's cup from earlier. I already know what that makes. I was like, that cup looks weird all the way around here. Gross, dude. It's a joke. He would have a serious problem. Yeah, you not know Mitch? He's the dumb. He's the hydrant. You're the worst. I know. It took me like five minutes to process that. That's the worst part. All right, thanks again, Ethan, for coming today. Thank you so much. This is sick. For sure, man. Thanks for having me. Chad, REL builds on the OTC network channel. Will you have an option for nine fashions on the Creative PC? Monday through Friday. Monday through Friday, usually at like seven o'clock central time. REL is building some of our Star Forge PCs on that channel. So you guys can go over there, you guys can hang out when there's not low-fi playing. We actually have some ideas for like some other things we want to do with OTC network channel. But doing some Star Forge stuff on there has definitely been a bueno. It's been very good. Damn, look at that. Look at how nice that looks. Dude, you guys are the first streamers to ever make a PC company. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. I'm done, by the way. You're done? Oh, buddy. Especially when I'm tired. It's done. It's done. It's done. All right, so. Chad, it's time. Hold on. We're going to plug it in. We're going to plug it in. Let's plug it into there. In the back. All right, Bonnie. Do the eyes. When you flip the switch, it's like, there you go. There you go. Nice. There it is. So beautiful now. Dude, the white looks so pretty. Oh, yeah, look at that. Dang, isn't that sick? Bonnie, what do you think?  Bonnie, it's your PC. That's fun. What? Yeah, no problem. Well, congrats. Anytime. That's so nice, dude. It is. Bonnie's doing the honors. This is a PC for Bonnie. But yeah, StarForgeSystems.com. It's a big purchase. So, like, don't go buy a PC that you don't need, right? Make sure it's something you need when you're ready to see, like, hey, I want to get a new PC, whatever, if you guys want to check out the pre-builds. StarForgeSystems.com. We've been working really hard on getting the business up and running, and the guys are doing a phenomenal job.  It feels like it's been seven, eight months, right? Yeah. It's been, I think, like five? Yeah, I don't know how long it's been. It's been, like, half a year. It's been close to five, yeah. Close to six. Close to six, but over five, yeah. So, yeah, close to about six months. So, yeah. Chad, it's been a really, really awesome journey here. Yeah, it looks really good. Yeah, Chad, can we get a hard sit and chat for Arielle for taking time out of his day, extra time to come build on my stream, because he has to build Monday through Friday, normally, but he came on the weekend to come build for us. Let me out the warehouse for a day.  Yeah, go watch Arielle on the OTK Network channel seven o'clock Monday through Friday. So, seven o'clock central time, he does. He does the builds, yeah. You guys are so cool. Guys, if you guys like this video, make sure to subscribe to the channel, hit the bell, like the video, leave a comment, check out StarForgeSystems.com. There is a link in my description below. If you guys click that link and you guys want to check out the website, that'll be huge. I'll put it in the comments too, just so people can find it more easily. We built a StarForge PC for Bonnie. Bonnie is very happy and excited. Yay, hypers. Check it out. Buying a PC is a huge deal. It's not something you can just go and just up and buy without any research. Do your research. We're working hard. We're always trying to be on the cutting edge. We have Arielle here who's like the build master. I know the holidays coming up and everything. If you want to start looking at getting a new PC, now's the time. So, thank you guys for watching. Make sure to subscribe. And then check out OTK Network on Twitch. My channel, SPAN TV on Twitch. So, check out StarForge on YouTube. There's all kinds of benchmark videos, all kinds of stuff on there. Have a great time. So, stream's ending. Stream's not ending for the YouTube videos. So, thanks for watching. We'll see you guys next time.


Hello friends and welcome back to another max raid event update video My name is Lee also known as Osiris and today marks the change of another Max raid event in the wild area and Pokemon sword and shield So we'll be covering that quickly in today's episode because the previous one ended last night Which included Pokemon like Dragon Pult, Whimsicott, Rotomarsh, Wartom, Heat, Taranaton, Exkidrill Now they've all gone They finished and the G max Pokemon are returning but only one But it is a special one It is something that we probably Needed for a long time and it's gonna be exciting to catch it because it is all centered around Pikachu So G max Pikachu will now be available from today, which is the 12th until the 18th, which is next Monday So you've got a small window to catch these Pokemon, but a very exciting event nonetheless So we'll start off by going over to our trusted source at Sarabee the link will be down in the description as always And we'll have a look what we can get for the three star Well one two three and four and five star Pokemon So if you're in the early stages of your playthrough You'll obviously have access to getting the one star Pikachu's and the two star Pikachu's and The three star Pikachu's would be a bit four if you're a bit further along in your game If you finish the majority of you guys and but all the items pretty much stay the same the numbers just multiplies You get through the the to the the biggest star Pokemon No special items unfortunately just getting the the berries Gold nuggets, which is always good for money. And then the the Dynamics candies and the the XL Level candies, that's all we're getting here. Nothing special But as you can see there is no other alternative Pokemon other than Pikachu But there is some quite interesting things here. It does have access to surf which is really really cool So you can see here the five star Pikachu's Have access to surf so that's the ones you probably wanted to go for and the other big news is Prior to this event if you wanted to use Gigantamax Pikachu G Then it would only have its static ability it wouldn't have access to lightning rod But now with this event you can now catch Pikachu's G max Pikachu's with that lightning rod ability making it even more viable in the competitive scene So it's gonna be really interesting to see how it plays out and what happens with it And what impact it can make it had a very small impact at the very start of the the season Especially in VGC we saw that really cool team where Pikachu won a big online event And then kind of did nothing after that But I think with support with surf and obviously the lightning rod ability it does make it a bit more viable And gives it a little bit of an edge going into the the the competitive scene here. So Like I say, there's not really too much to cover here Just the moves faint surf light screen thunder are what you're gonna get on the five star Again, the items aren't really anything to write home about Nothing special there nothing like a light ball or anything which would have been really nice But I mean we can't have everything and both sword and shield Editions of the game are exactly the same. So like I said at the very start of the video This event will run from May 12th, which is today to the 18th of May, which is next Monday So you've not got the biggest window to catch these Pokemon Just make sure that you do grab yourself one or two while you can right? We'll hop back over into the game and we will cover how We Do this so as you can see right now I have a an event Raid den active you can see that is part of the the previous The older events that are running. So we've got an Exkidrill here Which has gotten a right to be in Drappled grove, but it is one of the event beams now what you can do is Just hit your Well, you can either connect online or the easier way. I always find this hit your home menu Go to mystery gift and Then click on get wild area news and that will update and It should update then at the same time. So the Exkidrill event will now change to the new event This is a nice way if you've got an event den active And you know the the dens are gonna update very soon Just keep it and then when you they do update just go in do this process and Then once you go back into the den it should change there we go to a five-star Pikachu So we'll just hop straight into it And I'm hoping I really am hoping that this is the inability lightning rod Pikachu Because I'm assuming if you can get the the normal abilities Well, I'm assuming if you can get the hidden abilities that you'll be able to get the normal abilities as well So it's not gonna be lightning rod every time. I don't know though. That might not be the case They might all be lightning rod, but we will catch this Pikachu and we will soon find out I've also got level a hundred Exkidrill they've traded across from my previous games So this is gonna make it a little bit easier to get Although a G max move is super annoying So you're gonna have to contend with paralysis and even being a ground type because of the Secretary effects of its G max move it will be able to paralyze us even though we're not affected by its actual electric type attacks So get this max quake off is five star. Let's see how easy these are to take down Not as easy as in real life, you know There's no way Pikachu really takes a max quake straight up in VG but in the the world of a den Dynamics then it will take it. I kind of like this event. It's cool. It wasn't something I was expecting Then we forget about the surf as well, which is cool and Because what Pikachu can now do if you think about it is in competitive Sense of things is actually set the rain or a Water type attacker that's sitting next to it that would be otherwise threatened by electric type attacks Especially with the lightning rod just pulling them another tax Set the the max guys are away set the rain up and then your water type Especially if it's got swift swim or something. It's quite a nice little combination that you can you can pull with Pikachu so have a Pikachu party and Definitely grab one of these pictures. Well, you can serve Pikachu was like a like one of the original Pikachu events. I think it was in Pokemon Stadium Where you completely the game on the n64 and your gift was a surfing Pikachu, which was really cool And I think they've done subsequent events since then with surfing Pikachu So it's always been something that we've had as an event and but really nice to have it now in sword and shield Hopefully this isn't going to take too much longer to get But the other interesting thing about this then is it's only running for six days So it would suggest that in six days time on Tuesday next week we are gonna have a another installment of G max Pokemon or just another G max Pokemon to get for the remainder of May now whether that is Meowth or Eevee which are the other two Pokemon that were kind of exclusive Pokemon to the launch of sword and shield would be another thing and I'm kind of hoping not because I mean the Eevee will be fine right because then you can you can evolve the Eevee and into what I'd be want and make use of it that way but G max Eevee I haven't actually got it so it'd be kind of nice for my collection But otherwise I'm really tempted to go for the dive ball, but I don't want it to escape I want to check this thing out. So we'll just repeat ball list this time This will give us the best chance to catch this because we've we've already got a Pikachu and our complete decks so Hopefully it doesn't escape. I don't know what the catch rates are like, but I would imagine they're exactly the same as most other dens and And there we go, we actually get the Pikachu so I'm probably gonna make a point of getting one in a dive ball Or trying to get a hidden ability one in a dive ball This could have been the one but never mind. Anyway, so there we go. Let's have a look at the items that we've got we've got the large candy Excel candy Dynamics candy citrus berry helps the rare bone nugget and then the TRs wild charge Thunderbolt and Thunder. It's always nice Thunderbolt always a TR that I'm running lawn So if we can stockpile laws for a little while, it'd be quite good And then we can have a quick and add to this Pikachu so has it got a little lightning rod. It has it's got the lightning rod awesome Okay, well that that is great So and there you can see it has got the surf ball tackle Lights green and then that and remember this was a five-star one. So we were pretty fortunate in that respect Let's have a look at its IV spread and not bad. Not bad. Just that defense stat that isn't best But we can't have everything can we so and That wraps about That wraps up about everything that I wanted to cover in this video my friends remember that it is running from today till next Monday Which is the 18th go have fun grab yourself some g-merks Pikachu get that lightning rod and surf Pikachu while you can and Enjoy the event because it's going to be a lot of fun I think Thanks so much for tuning in if you've enjoyed it do drop a like on the video do subscribe to the channel for more of this content I cover all of the the then updates when they do drop we do other guides and Vg competitive content as well So if you're into Pokemon and love all that sort of thing We've got plenty of that coming out and so thanks again for tuning in take care of yourselves my friends And I will see you all for the next one so until then take care and bye. Bye


My mother, Minister of Education, Professor Maman Tahiru, during the project inspection tour of Vocational Training Centre at GMMC Yola at Amman State, said such development will secure the future of the youth and to enable them to securitise their future by having sustainable incomes and life skills even if they did not further their education. This particular project is a vocational school. A vocational school means it's not a regular theater-based secondary school. It's a school meant to provide the students at this level throughout the period of stay here with skills beyond literacy and numeracy.  But again, if they wish to acquire more, they can go to Polytechnics and other techniques around and even the university too, you know, going into some of the professional disciplines. But by and large, the idea is the policy of this government now is to provide our students graduates with quality education that integrates knowledge and skills together. For most of you ask of the quality and you are here, you can see it by yourself. You can see the quality of the work. And as I told you earlier, the project now is just five weeks old. We took over the site on the 24th of November 2023 and then we mobilized one site on the 26th of November 2023. So if you look at the small mathematics, we are just working on the five weeks now. And you can see the level of the work. Hello, hope you enjoyed the news. Please do subscribe to our YouTube channel and don't forget to hit the notification button so you get notified about fresh news updates.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the morning markets kickoff with your host Tommy O'Brien. Good morning everybody, I'm Tommy O'Brien, coming to you live from TFNN. We kickoff Tuesday morning and we get some red action across the board right now. Some weak Chinese stat out there. We got markets in negative territory challenging. The lows of the close of last Friday had to recalibrate things. We trade higher yesterday, quite the sell off on Friday of course, down to lows just below 4500 and we just tested that area. You have a lower Friday at 44.93 and the S&Ps and we just got down to 44.95, so we're just above that level. But boy, you look at the action from last night, right? It's a one-way trip to the tune of about 1%, the S&Ps we've caught a little bit of a bid. You're talking about trading down about 45 points on an index trading at about 4500, S&Ps off 8.10% right now. You get the NASDAQ off 8.10% as well. NASDAQ, a little bit of a different story yesterday in terms of the price action, you had the Dow leading the way. NASDAQ just caught below the lows of yesterday and the lows of Friday, we're right at those levels right now. You get the Dow, as I mentioned, a little bit of a different story. Dow, not quite down at those levels, but you're within about 100 points right now and you're talking about, well, 160 I guess, but you're talking about an index that just traded down 300 plus points from the close of last night. They were down 272 in the Dow and the Russell leading the way off 1.3%. Banks getting fine today. You get some banks getting downgraded as well, putting some pressure to the downside on the Russell. The Russell talk about a laggard, right? Trading right now down 25 points off 1.25%. Crude, continue in the pullback, still above 80 bucks, but we just tested and got a 79 handle in the last hour. We're trading at 80.61. We got some China weakness out there that's going to put some demand weakness potentially in the crude market. Gold off $10, challenging that spike low of Friday on the jobs number. Gold trading at $19.59.90 right now, you're down by $10 on the session. We take a look at that daily on gold, well off of where it was of 2012, just about a couple of weeks ago, but kind of in no man's land, right? 1960. We've been higher. We've been lower. Gold, continue into trade with a little bit of weakness this morning. You got to jump over to the dollar when you see that type of action. We have dollar strength going on right now, 102.65. We see the acceleration from the close yesterday, actually above where we were on Friday now on the dollar index, and we got to jump to yields. We're getting higher price and lower yield today. Interesting when you look at, right? So we just did the dollar, we are getting higher price and we are getting lower yield. We're up by 12 ticks. You're above where you were on Friday, but at the same time, we are basically just back to where we were on that jobs number. And so we've continued to climb, even though we have higher price and lower yield, we have dollar strength, which is an interesting divergence from some of the relationships that we've been seeing play out in this market. But boy, we got a lot going on. We'll jump over to the VIX as we wrap up our jump around to different markets this morning with the VIX trading above 17 against 1703. So much for the days of 12, right? So much for the days of 14. We sat there for about two months, all of June, all of July, maybe everybody going back to school in August, in Florida at least, getting people back in the market. I kid, I mean, we get some economic data here. We get some earnings data. We get CPI data, about 48 hours from right now on Thursday morning. That will play into things as well. But let's jump over to some China data to kick things off. So we got a couple of articles here. We actually got three articles up. Don't we? Yeah. We'll start off with this one. China plunges more than forecast. Exports drop 14.5% year-over-year in July. The worst decline since COVID hit. Remember, February 2020, COVID was hitting China ahead of us, right? March is really where we started to accelerate. The end of February is where we started to decelerate. China was dealing with that coming into even December, January, February in that as it began. Imports fall 12.4% much deeper than economists expected. That's the article we have up here for exports and imports from the journal. Same headline, same information, different headline, Chinese exports fall at the steepest pace since February 2020. That's the point they choose on their headline. A slide in outbound shipments reflects fraying trade ties with the Western world, even as exports to Russia boom. So really weak numbers here coming from China. And check out the trend. Exports fall again in July. Imports drop more than expected. You have exports in black. You have imports in red. And you talk about some year-over-year deceleration, man. Now, this doesn't go back that far. Okay. You're not even getting back prior to COVID. But yeah, we're at some negative numbers across the board here. Year-over-year decelerating. Economic recovery this year was expected to be buoyed by strong domestic demand. But they have some issues going on. So that one's shaking China a little bit. You've got the hang saying down 1.8% right now, Shanghai down a quarter percent, Nikke barely in the positive right now. If you jump over to Europe, you get the DAX right now down one and a quarter percent. You get the FTSE down about six-tenths percent, KAKAROL down a full percent as well. We jumped to bonds. That 10-year yield was sitting right at 4% right now. So we've had a little bit of volatility, right? We're right back to where we were basically coming into August. We got that spike low, but we're still sitting at 4%, 4.02% almost actually on the 10-year as we're up 10 ticks on the session right now. All right. Jumping around to what else we have going on. Going to be an interesting open to see how we trade with this Chinese data. The Chinese central bank on Tuesday set the WAN fixing at the weakest level in almost a month, a move that signaled some tolerance of softness in the currency and which triggered WAN sell-offs in the foreign exchange markets, allowing some fluctuation in the WAN's values should benefit the economy. They're trying over there, man, but they got demand woes as they put it. South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, South Africa, and Canada dropped by double-digit rates for China's falling demand. That indicates subdued appetite for electronic products and minerals. Imports from the US fell more than 11%. Well, those from the EU were down 3%. Really weak numbers, man, across the board. I mentioned the banks, US bank shares drop after Moody's, cut ratings, warrants on risks, rating company downgrades 10 lenders, setting dimmer outlook, US bank corp, BNY Mellon among six firms, facing potential cuts. There's your cuts when you look at the numbers there, pinnacle financial downgrades. No huge notable names. When you get into the review for downgrades, that's where you get some companies that we really know. Truist is a big one. I see them everywhere. State Street, Northern Trust, US bank corp, Bank of New York Mellon. A lot more notable names in the review segue. Maybe that's like a heads up so they don't shock the market when they come with the downgrade for them. Decline for firms that have their ratings cut, 3%, 1%, 2%, 2%. Moody's adopted a negative outlook for 11 lenders, PNC, Capital One Financial, citizens. Listen, the pressure is going to be on these banks for a while, man. So you're seeing this way on the Russell, which is why the Russell's getting hurt more than the other indices today. You've got the Russell right now down 1.25%, S&Ps, 3.25%, NASDAQ, 3.25%, and Dow actually identical. They're all down about 7.10%. Meanwhile, you've got the Russell off about 1.3%. Yeah, there's PNC. So check it out. PNC, $6 gets shaved. They're going right back to $126 on the open. Yeah, be careful in these regional banks. What's the one? Is it KBB? KBX? What's the regional bank? Yeah, be careful in those regional banks, man. And the silver lining there, though, is that as consumers, those CD rates are going to stay decent. I don't know where they're going to be. The Fed is going to determine that to some degree, man, but they are going to be fighting for capital for some time. And they're going to have to be paying some yield for that. Stay tuned, folks. We're coming back. Lots to talk about. We'll be back in three minutes. Don't go away. 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There's no cash or added costs when you join our community of traders. Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Welcome back, folks. We've got the S&P's claw and back some of those losses down by 29 points now. That's about 2.3% NASDAQ down pretty similar, 2.3 Dow off 2.3. You have the Dow, NASDAQ and S&P trading right in confluence with each other in terms of step-by-step percentage-wise, not usually the case in the Russell taking it hard and that having to do with banks this morning and they're getting kind of a double dose. So you've got Moody's, right? We just went over this one. Moody's cuts the ratings of 10 companies. They review for downgrade on 6 and they have negative outlooks on many that follow there. So those banks are trading lower. That's the main reason we'll say why the banks are getting hit this morning. But another story out there that would be getting more pressed if it wasn't for everything going on. And we're talking about pennies for what these banks have to pay, folks. But Wall Street is going to pay hundreds of millions more in WhatsApp cases, basically because folks, banks are highly regulated, okay? They're going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, say the probe discovered, off-channel communication. Shocking, right? Yeah, basically they're communicating using apps like WhatsApp, Signal, not saving those communications and discussing business. The biggest finds out there, Wells Fargo, usually at the top of the find list. I kid a little bit, but not really, right? Wells Fargo, 125 million, BMP, 35 million, like I say, you know, pennies on what these companies do. They're similar violations by their derivative brokerage units. In all the CFTC announced penalties of 260 million, while the SEC said the firms had agreed to pay 289 million, cracking down on firms, skirting regulatory scrutiny by using services such as WhatsApp or personal email addresses for work-related communications. So they're not telling people not to discuss things or communicate outside of the communications that they store. But they were discussing work-related issues outside of where the regulators can see those communications. And when you're in that industry, folks, that's not allowed. It's not even legal. It's a way to put it. Regulators have said the filing that failing to properly archive messages can make it harder to investigate what we're on doing. You think the people who are using those apps know that? Pretty remarkable what you could probably get away with these days in terms of communication not being saved. Even more remarkable to think what you could get away with before everything got saved on the phones. How often is it, right, that there's a text out there or something? Okay, so that story out there, not a huge one, but out there nonetheless. Yeah, let's talk about this story. Interesting one out here from Bloomberg talking about cars, right? I've talked about myself. I have a small coupe right now and thinking of getting a bigger vehicle. And cars in America, they've been getting bigger and they just keep getting bigger. The average new vehicle in the US has gained 175 pounds in just the past three years. Some of this because of EVs coming online, those batteries are heavy of course, but the trend is to higher weight. This chart puts it out. From the 80s, you start, okay, American cars have a quote unquote weight problem. You have cars in green here on the bottom, okay? The average weight in 2022, you're talking about about 3,700 pounds.  The wave of vehicle bloat began in the 1980s thanks in part to new safety regulations, air bags, crash test ratings and more robust structures packed on vehicle pounds while better construction and stronger materials reduced engineers need to worry about weight, efficiency became less of a priority. Well, guess what? You have SUVs coming in there, of course, that matters, but you know what else matters in there is your emissions, okay? Everything came a push for better fuel economy and emissions, a process that packed on more pounds and culminated in some of the heaviest vehicles yet, battery-powered ones, EV batteries add 1,000 to 1,500 pounds for a long-range sedan, okay?  Now it's interesting when you look at the weight these companies have added. This goes company by company, Kia started at the smallest and they're actually still the smallest, right? In terms of weight, small vehicles, Honda, Hyundai, Honda, Hyundai, Mazda up there, you got Stellantis at the top, Ford, I guess some big vehicles, right? That big Explorer maybe, Ford making a lot of SUVs. Now what's interesting as well, fuel efficiency. Now what's crazy here is that this is only from 2000 to 2022, okay? But sometimes time flies and it's important to see these changes that have taken place, man. I mean, you're talking about a fleet of vehicles that was usually getting between 18 and 24, right? And now what are we pushing? We're pushing 22 to maybe 28 or 30 miles per gallon and you see some of the huge improvements, some of those companies, the smaller weight companies, most of all have made. Hyundai, Kia, Honda, the same three when you talk about the weight at the top there, but nonetheless radical changes, but that was interesting, man. Cars are getting bigger, shouldn't be surprising there and I think that's just going to keep happening, man. People like big cars. Cars have a nice little fun little car, which is kind of what I have. But then you got a family, you got things to do and as efficiency takes off, I imagine that will be something that plays out as well. Yeah, I mean, we could talk China as well. This one out here from the New York Times talking about China's college graduates. They're struggling, man. It's just interesting. This is a Times article. More big picture here, right? But I was reading this this morning as well. Don't be so picky about a job. China's college graduates are told under pressure from Beijing, Chinese schools have been told to do more to secure jobs for students who are facing bleak prospects. So just keep China on your radar, man. You can check that one out at the Times if you want a little bit of a longer read. But yeah, basically, not exactly emblematic of a very strong economy out there. You must not aim too high or be picky about work, said one college president to more than 9,000 graduates in June. The opportunities are fleeting. Imagine if we had college presidents talking like that to people graduating last year. Not exactly China thinking this, but yeah, to say the least. All right, let's jump around and see what we got on some of these fang stocks as we kick off the day with negative action. You got Amazon shares. We had a run last week on their numbers this morning. We're going to drop a bit to 140.73, just the middle of the acceleration they had yesterday. We jump over to the big dog, Apple. Yeah, keep your eye on Apple, man. Apple has led this market higher and they could lead this market lower in a heartbeat, man. We are $20 off aware this thing spiked at a high. Apple just gave off $320 billion in market cap. It's remarkable that one company can shave a third of a trillion dollars of market capital wealth off people's balance sheets in the span of about two weeks and nobody's even really talking about it. Well, it's been a heck of a run, man. You want to see something? It's we wrap it up and we come into the opening bell in four and a half minutes from right now, folks. You're still $8 away from a 382, man. And look at this. Yeah, it's coming right back into this area. So we are now back to the highs of last March, the highs of August, which is a high of $176.15, and actually the recent all-time highs of a price point of about $182.94. So you're through that area. But boy, you want a little linear regression. OK, you want to pick an area that has support. Well, what? You're in $170 to $180, man. $170 to $180 is your area of support. $170 is the 382. That's going to be an important area for Apple. You got $8 that area, but keep your eye on Apple shares, man. You get down to $170 because you break below that, right? Number one, you've broken through the 382. And number two, you break below that. And you're now in this huge area that got us to $130 in a heartbeat. Look how many times we did this. Absolutely remarkable, the volatility Apple has had. Hindsight 2020, man. But don't think we can't do it again, folks. We did $170 to $130. Then we got to $176. Yeah, we did $180 to $130. Then $176 to almost $130. Then $155 to $129. And now we're going to $198. Interesting action. Stay tuned, folks. We're coming back for an interesting open. Don't go away. I'll be back in three minutes. Building wealth trading in the stock market seems impossible to most people. They think it's too volatile and risky. Most people aren't going to take the time to educate themselves on how to do it right. But you're not most people, are you?  All TFNN subscriptions, books, software, and courses are available at tfnn.com. And I'm even going to tell you how to get them for less. Use TFNN's Tiger Dollars, and you'll get up to a 20% bonus on your purchase. And once you apply them to your account, Tiger Dollars are automatically used for all future or recurring charges. 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Let's check out how some of the big banks are doing. Wells Fargo off 2.3%. They're paying nine figures, nine figures, and it's pennies on the dollar, right? That says something, but it is. Wells Fargo off 2.3% right now. We jump around to some of the bigger banks, even Bank of America off 2%. Anytime you got like 10 banks getting downgraded, right? You saw what was going on there in Moody's. JP Morgan off 1.5% right now. Wells City off by 2%, let alone some of the other banks that took it harder, PNC, off by 3.5% right now. What was it? All right. Yeah, banks taking it on the chin this morning and you got the Russell right now, continuing to trade lower. They're dropping on the open with the Russell off 1.6%. We jump over to the VIX this morning, Volatility Index, 1684. And yeah, yeah, it's interesting. All right, we won't get in. They're talking about the United Auto Workers and the Den. And yeah, why not? Let's pull it over. So this is the article even, right? I mean, it's one of 32 hour work week double digit wage increases. So that's the line that started it, S1. So I'm sure you're reading either this story or a story of it or a story that that came off of it, right? And here's what I'll say. Okay, question everything folks, okay? And that's, you know, this of course becomes political and Duncan Steve, you said it well. Man, unions are great in many situations, but not everyone well said, man. The truth always lies like somewhere in between of everything folks, politics used to be the art of compromise because nobody's going to agree on everything and that has kind of gone to the wayside. And I think a lot of people would agree on compromise to some degree. And I find myself even looking at this, right? So you got a huge deal going on between the United Auto Workers and the big three automakers, man. And you just saw that huge deal that got done with UPS, right? UPS workers, drivers making I think near about $50 an hour, good for them, okay? The problem in my opinion is that we have a 3.5% unemployment rate right now, right? But unfortunately many jobs don't provide a livable wage to raise a family for even though the companies they're working for are achieving record profits. And who said we have to work a 40 hour work week? And that's where it caught my eye, okay? And there's nothing that goes into this in terms of worth at work ethic. And I forget where it is and whoever said it says it, there was the word lazy in the den, right? Talking about lazy. And I can't find it, but it was in there and it's a common perception, okay? And here's where I'm going to push back a little bit.  Who says that we should work 40 hour work weeks? Why is that the deal? Why do we work five out of seven days? Why don't we work four out of seven? Why, why don't, if five out of seven is so important, why don't we work in six out of seven and resting on Sunday? These are common misperceptions that we take for granted and you should question that because why? Who decided Monday through Friday was like the grunt job, okay, as in you're there, you're five days a week, we've seen the shifter in COVID. And I totally agree. Majority work more than 40 hours and here's the deal, man, okay? You should be working all the time. As in, you know, you shouldn't be working all the time, but I say there's not really retirement. You should work at what you enjoy, hopefully. And even if let's say you work a hard job for 20 years, you make enough to retire, then what do you can do?  But still be active in doing something and maybe you can turn that something into some type of getting paid for the value you're providing or something like that, okay?  How much are they making with these people that they're doing, right? Well, I don't even know. Maybe somebody can help me. I'm cherry picking stats here, but I saw one stat that said between GM Ford and Stellantis made a combined profits of $22.5 billion dollars over the first six months of this year. Why would your workers be lazy if they don't wanna work 40 hours a week when the companies are making $22.5 billion dollars in six months, okay? So we're seeing a shift here in when you have workers, you have companies, you have profits, but just think about the fact that you don't have to accept the norms of what we all seem to accept because who says the five day work week is like the necessity and if you wanna work four, you're lazy and if you wanna work six, you're an OCD mental crazy case that doesn't relax enough, right? Where did that come from? So think about that because this is gonna be a heck of a negotiation. You're already seeing a play out. You're seeing a play out in the press and you're seeing a play out with people's perspectives and of course politics comes into it which makes it even harder. But remember that these big three made $22.5 billion dollars in profits in six months, okay? Now they're gonna be spending a lot of capital, develop electric vehicles, et cetera. But I say, why can't we have a four day work week? Why can't companies that are making $22.5 billion dollars support it? I don't know if they can, but it's certainly not lazy and they definitely deserve the recognition because the companies seem to be doing just fine, man. Okay, this one's gonna be a tough one for these companies when this plays out, man. Yeah, you got members demands over there and this follows that UPS deal. It's gonna give these workers, man, some strong teeth to dig into their position. And yeah, this one brings it up as well. Look it, there it is. I didn't even get through the article. $20.7 billion they cite. So I had $22.5 in the first half of this year. Yeah, so it would take 16 years for somebody who gets hired at their battery plant in Ohio to make as much as the CEO makes in a week. It's not how it used to be, man. And everybody likes to get up in arms about people needing assistance, too much government aid. Where is all the uproar? And I'm deviating here as the market trails off a bit. Okay, but these things are gonna play out. We're gonna see them. Where is all the uproar that we allow these companies to privatize these profits? And then when it comes time to actually supporting the employees that they're paying to facilitate these profits, that responsibility is shifted off to the government. That is what is happening. It happens with Walmart. Yeah, for what it's worth, $22.5 billion. They made it six months, folks. Keep that in mind when you see those workers saying, hey, maybe we don't have to work so hard 40 hours a week. Why can't it be 32, man? Why can't it? Yeah, everyone's gonna talk about what? Oh, productivity will drop, okay? They said the same exact thing from working from home, folks, right? Same exact thing, working from home. Remember that. That's a lesson, right? They gotta be in the office. CEO still want it. And in some positions, man, it makes sense. In some companies, it makes sense. I get it. In private companies, you're allowed to do what you wanna do. But just remember what happened when everybody went home and still worked. Companies were able to succeed even more so than prior sometimes. Stay tuned, folks. We'll come back. Talk to you later. You might think that if you want to be successful trading in the stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. After all, it's impossible to predict the future, right? Like any endeavor in life, before you decide it's impossible, get some advice from the experts. You might find that it's not so impossible after all. 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I saw the NBA All-Star Game, my senior year at Villanova when I was working for a nice distributorship for good old Budweiser in Philadelphia. I got to go to the All-Star Game for free. Last All-Star Game that Michael Jordan never played in. I think that's the only time I got to see him play. I digress, right? Haven't been back in a while. Good old Philly, always like Boston more, but I'm a little biased. Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president, Patrick Harker, said the US central bank may be able to cease interest rate increases, barring any surprises in the economy, though rates would need to stay at their current elevated levels for some time. Absent any alarming new data between now and mid-September, I believe we may be at a point where we can be patient and hold rates steady and let the monetary policy actions we have taken do their work. Those are remarks he said today, prepared for an event organized by the Philadelphia Business Journal. Should we be at that point where we can hold steady? We will need to be there for a while. He is a voter on this year's monetary policy, FOMC committee. I do not foresee any likely circumstance for an immediate easing of the policy rate. That can change quickly, okay? Just as quickly as it can change to where we don't need to hike. I mean, for some context here, you don't have to go back more than five months to March 7th on this chart, folks. Do you see that on the candlestick chart? We're referencing candlesticks because we're gonna talk about our man, Teddy Kegstad next. We talked to him Wednesdays at 40 past the hour, but he's got a webinar coming up in six days talking candles. You see that candle on March 7th? Let me zoom in on it. There's your candle on March 7th. You know what that was? That was Chairman Powell in front of Congress, okay? It was a two-day testimony. March 7th was the first day when he surprised the market and they were talking about something to the degree of we're gonna have to be higher for longer than people are anticipating, right? Market sells off a good 50, 60 points. He basically said the same thing the next day. Maybe tried to claw it back a little bit. Market wasn't buying it. We stayed at 4,000. The banking crisis began the next day and we traded from 4,000 down to 3850. The Monday of March 13th is when we clawed it back.  It sticks out like a sore thumb. I was looking for a better term, but why not? We'll go for it. Sticks out like a sore thumb because it only took a couple of days, folks. And then what happened? Everything changed, okay? We still got our hikes. That might have been in there. But everything changed that quickly over the period of just a few months from this market thinking that we might go much higher and what happened? Yeah, we went twice, okay? But now it looks like we're stuck and it's only a period of four or five months that that can change. Now I bring that up because four to five months from right now is the beginning of the year and think that the verbiage we're hearing right now is talking about setting the stage from pausing to where they would have to be if they need to cut. But that same thing was going on four months ago from when they were hiking to where they'd pause, right? So now we're already seeing a voting member of the FOMC. I'm just bringing it to your attention. I don't know how they're gonna do it. I don't know where cuts are gonna come from because inflation may still be a problem, okay? He said in there, if we don't get any outliers or scary data before September, we still get a lot of data. We get all of August data, let alone the numbers that we still have coming out as well, but just realize, even though they're saying we're gonna have to be, stay there for a very long time, that can start to change if the data changes, which is what we've seen take place as well. All right, we take that, we jump around, check it out on the front page of TFNN folks six days from right now. Our man Teddy Kegstad, we'll be talking to him tomorrow. He's doing a webinar, 60 minutes, Japanese candlestick patterns, stock and options strategies. He's gonna show you how to use the candlestick patterns that he's gonna talk about, use them in trades, what they do, learn how to apply those patterns to stock and options strategies in today's volatile trading environment. 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Eli Lilly raised their outlook after strong sales of a rival drug, so this obesity drug is not made by Eli Lilly, it is made by Novo Nordus, okay? It's their blockbuster obesity drug, wegovi, reduced the risk of heart attack and strokes, the highly anticipated study, booing, booing, booing, booing, booing, jeez, I'm nailing that one, booing, booing, booing, I got there, my lips were stuck there, booing, booing, that's a tough one, shares of the Danish drug maker and the US maker of Eli Lilly, so we'll jump over to Lilly and then we'll take a look at this, because I was reading this article earlier, there's your Popman, up 16.5%. Now, what this has to do with, okay, this thing's been on quite a run, so be careful here, there is a lot of optimism for like a holy grail obesity drug being priced into this equity right now, okay? We have, yeah, so Novo Nordisk is at 413 billion, they're talking about that one, I believe, right? Not Eli Lilly, yeah, Eli Lilly's at 500 billion, man, market cap, look at these companies. Novo Nordisk is the second highest company in Europe just behind LVMH, right? Now, Lilly is up after the company raised the outlook on the back of stronger than expected sales, their Diabetes drug, but the Wagovii trial results could fuel already frenzied demand for such drugs and broaden access for more patients. This is the key that's hit Lilly, I think, this morning, okay? Obesity has long been linked to cardiovascular problems, okay, this study, though, that just came out for the Novo Nordisk drug, Wagovii, was designed to show for sure whether peeling away pounds with a shot could also have a meaningful impact on heart disease. It seems like that's an easy one, okay? And it seems like, of course, it makes sense that if you lose weight, that your chances of a heart attack will decrease, maybe you have less buildup of plaque and fat or whatever it is, but the results make Wagovii the first drug to combine effective weight loss with reduced heart disease risk, so they could all, not they could all, right? They have shown the weight loss and now they've shown that the weight loss leads to the benefits that they've long claimed and it makes sense, but they have to prove it in a scientific test, right? They have to have that done and show the actual results. So what that leads to now is reimbursement because healthcare companies don't care if you lose weight if it does nothing, right? If it's just a drug that somehow reduced the weight but the effects on your health weren't there, different story, well, now what's gonna happen, they're gonna be able to go to the insurance companies and have a better argument. 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You catch a bounce off 44.90, we're trading in 44.95 right now. NASDAQ 100 dives down to 15,274. So we're off by nine tenths percent in the S&Ps. NASDAQ 100 off by 193. The Dow off a percent right now. NASDAQ off one and a quarter on the Russell off 1.5. So watch out today folks. And yeah, Eli Lilly, not so much man. You're up by 16% it catches a bid to 525. We were talking about Wigowi. Obesity drug cuts risk of heart attacks and strokes by 20%. So a couple of points I wanna get to before we jump through the end of the program here. We got our man Basil Chapman coming up next folks. We got live programming today. We'll talk to our man, Teddy Kegstad tomorrow. Don't forget about Teddy's candlestick webinar coming up six days from now on Monday. And please don't wait until the last second because that is coming up on Monday and candlesticks. Nothing like it. Well, they were only looking for 15%. That was basically what the market was expecting or hoping should say. Sales of Wigowi may reach $14 billion, one analyst wrote. And yeah, it could make sense right now. Common side effects, nausea, vomiting, and uncontrollable diarrhea. Not what you wanna hear, but people are still the holy grail of weight loss. It'd be interesting to see how this plays out. I'm a bit skeptical, all right? But I don't know anything, all right? If that's what the data shows, man. Obesity is a tough one. The tough one that I can't wrap my head around there, right? When you're talking about, I mean, we have a, listen, and I can lose 15, 20 pounds, man, but we have a diet and activity problem, okay, in America, especially, and it's very difficult to imagine there is some holy grail. When you're talking about people who are severely obese, maybe they need a Kickstarter, maybe they need something, but this is gonna be a drug that many people wanna take and it's very difficult to understand how it's gonna solve everyone's problem when most of us basically eat when we're not hungry, myself included, and aren't active enough. So keep that in mind when these holy grails pop up. It's very tough for me to imagine how the holy grail exists when basically, you just gotta be active and you gotta try and eat a little healthy. Have some splurges, but whatever it be. Folks, thanks for tuning in. Stay tuned for Basil. It's an interesting market with challenge in the lows of Friday, right now as we speak. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow, folks. Stay tuned.


Great, and we are live at the MIT Media Lab. I'm Dazza Greenwood, scientist here, and the chair for the MIT Legal Forum that is kicking off on October 30th and 31st here at the Media Lab. And I thought we'd take this opportunity to meet one of the keynote speakers and a person leading a workshop, a friend and a colleague, Michael Casey, just to give you a sense of some of the people that are involved and a little bit of a preview of some of the topics that we'll be addressing. So, Michael, welcome. Thanks, Dazza. I am thrilled, looking forward to it. Michael Casey is the name. I'm a senior advisor here at the Digital Currency Initiative, part of the MIT Media Lab, as you know. I am looking forward to delving deep into the many conundrums, legal conundrums, conundra, right? We have more than one, that's for sure. Definitely. That are going to arise through the integration of blockchain technology into the global economy, questions around jurisdictional questions and strange issues about possession and property, who owns your keys at whatever time. I'm also looking forward to showcasing some work we're doing around distributed microgrids and the role that the blockchain can play in the trading of energy amongst what we're calling an energy democracy setting and what some of the core challenges are in terms of defining the rights and access structure to that particular model. I'm looking forward to it. It's going to be great. So for people that don't know what any of that meant necessarily, but they might be interested in going to the session, by the microgrid, I think you're referring to this very cool project that you've been pursuing through the Digital Currency Initiative that's looking at what new, almost ownership and distribution models of solar grids. Is that what that is? Absolutely. So the real issue here is, how do we bring true trading capacity to a group? How do we bring markets and therefore market signaling to the efficient use of energy if you have everybody both acting as a consumer and a producer of energy, the whole prosumer idea? Right now you have a relationship rather two-dimensional with the public utility and they set the price and they set the terms. And it's much more of an inefficient model because everybody just produces for their own needs. But if we think about how we could structure a community, whereby I can sell my power to anybody or buy it from anybody, and I can also program my devices within the home to respond to these market signals, we think you can extract an enormous amount of more efficiency from that system. So effectively everybody becomes a part of the grid, a producer and a user. And that's what we mean by energy democracy. We think in that system we can effectively create a much more viable, sustainable, and fair economic model for energy. And that's because in this peer-to-peer environment where everybody is trading back and forth with each other, you can't really put a trusted entity in the middle of it. Who owns the data? Who controls it? You can't put a public utility between me and my neighbor. So how am I going to trust that my neighbor's meter is accurate, for example? Well, we need these sorts of decentralized trust structures to let that happen. And we think the blockchain's a fairly good way to at least start thinking about that. Right. And so one great thing about being in MIT is we can build, we can engineer, we can test, we can learn, and share. And so we will learn. Well, in this case, we do hope, in fact, we are almost certainly going to set up a little test environment down in the US Virgin Islands because we've just had these horrible hurricanes going there, obliterating the grid across all these islands. There are people that need power now. We think it's not such a good idea to go down there and build the old fossil fuel-centralized dinosaur systems that they've been working on. It's a lot better to head down there, take advantage of this moment, and build that better. Building that better, we think, is an opportunity to really try out these new cutting-edge ways of designing an energy economy. You're here. So if you are interested in energy, which is one of the rudiments we have, we've got bankruptcy, immigration, sale of goods, like Article 2 from commercial code. We've got mass torts, like class actions, and energy. So if you're interested in energy as a scenario and you understand something about the current energy markets and law and regulation, and want to look at when you just add blockchain, what's possible and what are the legal implications? Mixtur, maybe let it bake at a tropical or a Caribbean sort of sub-tropical atmosphere for a little while, what's possible, you can help pre-think that. And Michael's workshop will also include the indomitable Dan Harper of Context Labs, who's been a great friend of the Media Lab and of future law research. It will help us look at how you can have verifiable data on the blockchain, which is a big part of some of the utility and the meter in you're talking about, and also the people from C4coin will come and help us look at different next-generation ways to encapsulate the unit of value that is a jewel or a BT, or whatever you're looking at the generation of the energy and how that plays out through the system and maybe secondary markets. Good stuff. So don't miss it. Thanks for being such a great supporter of the legal stuff, Michael, and looking forward to it, Daza. Can't wait. Till then. Bye-bye.


Okay so today we're going to quickly talk about torches because that's a big part of being a professional epoxy resin user for your project. So this has been the big seller. It's the butane torch. It fills up. You can pick up the butane. It's a bit harder to find. The butane, you fill it up like this. We just put this live on the site. Now it's a propane head. These propane tanks are cheaper, easier to find. You can find them all over the place and they're just freaking awesome. These are the ones I started with propane. I love it. Look at that. I want to push a button. Pull the string.


That's where we've been reading more. No, that's a good point. No, that's a good point. We're all right. Sir? Yeah. How do you do? My American spy. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. What'd you come in for? My American spy. My American spy. My American spy. What'd you come in? Good morning, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. We visited this market. So what do you see? One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. One move. My son, Jeremy. Hello, Mr. President, my pleasure. Hello, Mr. President. See you. See you. My sister, my sister. Sorry, let's see if you can take it easy. If you're being a senator, Dr. Payton will be your right. And it gives me a great pleasure to award you the presidential citizenship. Now read the citation. Dr. David Patton has dedicated his life to one of God's chief gifts, the gift of debt. During his long career, Dr. Payton has been responsible for countless advances in ophthalmological medicine, but perhaps his crowning achievement was the founding of Orbus, an organization that operates an aircraft to demonstrate advanced ophthalmologic techniques to doctors and nurses around the world. The aircraft has served as classroom and operating room alike from China to Botswana to Jordan. In his dedication to his profession and his keen devotion to the service of mankind, Dr. Payton has made his nation proud. This is very pleased to be able to do this for many years. Here I am standing with only one contact answer. Help is here. Sometimes go. Yes. And I can get by with one NFC age that when you correct me for 2020 with these, then I've got arms long enough to read. I found that it works with no distortion. I can look over there and see 2020, but I can look down here at the printing and this eye takes over. That's a marvelous technology. Well, we're so honored. My friend from Tunisia, Dr. Chabelsi, who's operated in the aircraft, has come all the way from Tunisia today. I'm so afraid that you are going to say, well, I have to put it off because he's flown in for such a long trip. Dr. Grayley's come from Queens in Brooklyn. He's my boss. Well, we're very honored and pleased to have you here. And where is dear Diane? There she is. And in there. Yes. Look, sweetheart. Souvenir's here. Oh, my gosh. Thank you, thank you. Here's the pants for the ladies. Oh, how pretty you are. Now, wait a minute. Can I have some of you? The gentlemen. Thank you, Mr. President. Thanks. Thank you very much, Mr. President. It's like Christmas. It's like Santa Claus. It really is, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Oh, my great pleasure. Thank you, sir. Oh.  Thank you so much. Very pleased, now. It's a wonderful thing that you're doing. Thank you. Incidentally, I just made a call the other day to Captain John. Captain John, huh? He's captain to the United States pilot and that Kuwaiti vessel was sent to the city. Oh, yeah. He's back now. He's in Florida busy. And they don't know what they think. Maybe they can restore some vision to his left eye. Oh, that's very nice. Make sure this moves. Yeah. It's so tragic. It's an awful thing when you get an eye injury. Those of us in ophthalmology know that very well. And recently, I was called about 12 people having buckshot in the eye from the civil unrest in Panama, all with the same kind of injuries. And a little bird shop is used to hold the crowds back. Well, you've given us new strengths to go on and to pursue other kinds of projects of this nature. Well, good. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much. Just, you know, the doctors have said that from the first day that we had her recovery was ahead of the schedule. And I think the day after the operation, I was walking her up and down the hospital corridor. That's why that's great. Would you give her my very best regards and all the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanity says there will be two. All right. All right. The other girl, of course, is much harder to get. I know. She had a relationship with her mother that was something beautiful to be holding. Yeah. If I talk to Artie and Harriet, you can go and talk to the team that gets to say that. Absolutely. Yeah. How are they experiencing this energy? I found that it was important. Oh, really? Oh. Oh. It's lovely. Mr. President, Frank Carlucci is a classmate of George's in mind. So we feel that the class of 52 at Princeton has had a very good day. Thanks to you. Glad he's here. Thank you. As a matter of fact, Jim Baker is another classmate. We wonder if you haven't given us extra special recognition. Thank you so much. All right. Thank you. Princeton, you said. Yeah. It was you, brother. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you again, Mr. President. Sure. Thank you, Mr. President. Nancy, how about George Arthur? Say it's not. Nancy Goff Cheney. Yes. This is Mrs. Samuel Blank. Hi. Hello, baby. This is Wiley Buchanan. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. President, we have a small presentation as soon as we get together. What is this? All working on hopeless. You know, seven years ago, we became established. Not in White House. We established an organization. And so those of us who are here are the founders of this organization. We all have PINs. These are the more economical PINs. We've traded up here for a computer penalty, President. So this AG, which is Alzheimer's disease, is a symbol. And I know that you're not going to wear it to state occasions, but I hope that you realize that it's a symbol of feelings for you and what you've done for us and public awareness. And not only that, you're gracious to us in acknowledging that this organization had to be in being to do the work that we're doing. Opening it up there. State dinner. Great. Thanks, folks. Great to see you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Remember the first time we were to get around here. And so now we have a big scroll that goes with it, but they very stopped it. But remember the first time we were in here, we had a clock out in security. They looked at it to see what was going on with this clock. And when I presented it to you, I said, Mr. President, we had this problem out there. The clock, and you looked at me. There are no more straight men left, but with a very straight, bright part there, you said, why not? It's been ticking, hasn't it? Well, now I have a few. Whoops. I think I'd better start giving them away. You've been here before, but I don't see you, but I want to. Thank you. So many of you obviously have one of them. That's great. See them? Man, too. So you won't think I'm a feminist. He rinks. Thank you. Yeah, I was glad to see you. Thank you very much. Well, I think you're paying us back in spades. We're in need of it for what you're doing. I put red disease. I do something about it. Now that I'm getting into the bracket, we're... I need to worry more. Well, we're all subject to it, unfortunately. And as you know, as you've even repeated, it is the most costly disease we have in this nation. Yes. And, of course, costly in many ways, emotionally as well as financially. Yes. But your administration has done a lot towards putting more money into research. It certainly has. My job's under pressure. It's been helpful. But I think the whole administration, this has been a nonpartisan approach, I must say, that we've got a very good press in Washington. That's because of your leadership. Well, sometimes I can be the kiss of death. We're not talking about just Judge Borch or anything. This weekend, we're having a Dallas Gala, Rita Hayward's Gala. And of course, you're the honorary patron. Yes, that's right. You're so happy that it's going to be a very successful event. Well, indeed. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, Mr. President. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, have a good one. Oh, Fred, nice to see you. Hello, Mr. President. It's a pleasure. It's a pleasure to see you. It's so great of you to come to you. Well, I'm pleased to see you. Thank you so much for all you did for Ralph. He appreciates it, and so does Mary. I get more contact than her because he doesn't write. I might tell him that he doesn't write, but she calls him all the time, and he gets... You played a very important role in that. I remember that. I remember when he and Betty came and spent a week with you in Hollywood one time. Yes. When you were having a sorrowful time. That's nice. And yes, so they were very nice, good people to us. But in an earlier day when I was in school, he was a great influence for us. I know that. Well, we'd like to thank you for all the good work you've done. Thank you. I'm sure you really know two loyal supporters. Just one second. Thank you so much. You know, this is a marvelous trip, and this is certainly a grand finale, a real culmination. It certainly is. And I'm glad you're feeling better. I'm so pleased for our beautiful Nancy. She's back, and I hope she doesn't have so much sorrow for the next little ball. She's really gotten hit last night. Yeah, that was a blow, because she... They were very close. Great relationship. She's just such a darling. I'm so proud of her, and I put her as well as you and my peers. Every day. Well, thanks again, Mr. President. Every day. Thank you. Thank you. May I have a hug? Thank you. Thank you so much. And keep on doing what you're doing. You're doing the right thing. I'm really for you. Thank you. You're welcome. Goodbye.


Oh my god the boat. Is it leaving? Or is it arriving?  Wait I guess it's arriving boys. Dude, I'm blessed tonight.  We just ported to an alternate universe where it's arriving boys.  What?  It's literally the borealis from portal 2. What is happening? Dude this boat is fucked. I think I better get off this boat.      What the?   I'm gonna do this. Dude other people fell in the water too.   Yes. I can't get in it. No IDC dude. Wait, maybe it's good. Maybe it's good I think we're good. I think we're good. Yes, dude. We did it But this boat hella trippy man.  Oh my days now. I'm stuck in the ocean. I thought we made it Oh, I got a loading screen. I swear.  Okay, we're swimming back.  It's too hard Fucking this is the top secret boat boss of BT or what man? I'm struggling mate Oh, we got half done in two minutes.  I thought yes, I've done it What if it's like him like if I'm levitating will I get on it or should I go and like Wait, let me see this away.   No, dude No Yes, yes, I'm on Dude, I feel like what I feel like I'm the only person that this is happening to Like no one else seems Like shook as fuck. I feel like this is the actual leave No, not yet, but maybe This guy is targeting this mob, right? So when this guy stops targeting this mob, then we're for real not here anymore Oh, okay.  I've never seen anything like that in my life Give me some iron forge


Mountains in Asia play an important role in providing water for downstream regions, particularly those that are arid and where water demand is high. However, direct observation of mountain precipitation is limited due to its remote location and low resolution of satellite data. This study used glacial mass balance measurements to estimate the amount of precipitation needed to maintain the observed mass balance of large glaciers in the upper Indus basin. The results showed that the amount of precipitation needed was much greater than what was estimated from grid precipitation data or observed at lower altitudes. Additionally, this study found that extreme precipitation events were necessary to close the water balance, which could have implications for climate change impact studies, hydropower plant designs, and irrigation reservoirs. This article was authored by WWM Brazil, and Wanderz, AF Lutz, and others.


Go slow, alright, and watch that left side. Move up and we'll watch the right, alright? Tom, pass us to the other side.


Merry Christmas, Canada. Tis the season to gather with friends and family, to share moments and meals with loved ones, and to give thanks for the blessings in our lives. For Christians, it's also a time to celebrate the birth of Christ and the values he embodied. Values like compassion, kindness, and hope. And while the story of Christ is being celebrated by Christians tonight, these values are universal. The holiday season is an opportunity for us all to bring comfort, joy, and light to those who need it most. So let's love our neighbors as we love ourselves and find strength in our differences. Let's give back and extend a helping hand to those who've fallen on hard times and let's share the warmth of the season with those who are spending the holidays alone this year. That's not just the true spirit of Christmas. It's also the true spirit of Canada. My friends, whether you're continuing family traditions passed on from one generation to the next or embarking on new ones, whether you're hosting a big family gathering or celebrating with a few close friends, I hope your holidays are filled with good cheer, great company, and hope for the year ahead. And to our brave service women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces, to the first responders who work round the clock to keep us safe and to the volunteers who give up their time to make someone else's Christmas merry and bright. Thank you. You embody the eternal message and timeless truth that it is more blessed to give than to receive. Once again, from my family to yours, Merry Christmas. Let's carry the spirit of the holidays into the new year and let's find new ways to make our communities, our country, and our world a brighter place for everyone in 2024.


United States Army Auxiliary Corps, a volunteer organization recruited to relieve men for combat duty, now become a part of the regular army. Before their commander, Colonel Hobby, they take the oath of allegiance as regular soldiers. Serving in hundreds of jobs, such as chauffeurs and cooks, telephone operators and typists, they're relieving thousands of men for service at the front. And here's the first contingent to arrive in England, the largest unit of women ever sent overseas. Training centers, man airports and control stations. And like all women, their first thought is to make themselves at home. Leave in a new land is a great adventure. They tour the beautiful English countryside. And at an historic manor house, they're introduced to a famous English custom, afternoon tea. British hospitality for America's service women overseas. Hollywood studios and army of skilled technicians produce hundreds of motion pictures every year. Today, the great studios work not only to supply entertainment to people at home, but have dedicated their resources to the armed forces wherever they serve. Army units assigned to making training films and to photograph action at the front learn camera technique from studio experts. In laboratories and cutting rooms, men in uniform are preparing their own productions. They study training films made by the industry and films made by their own signal corps. Whether it's how to put on a gas mask or how to handle a gun, everything is covered in army motion pictures. The latest feature pictures made for theaters are reduced to 16 millimeter size for showings at army camps at home and overseas. Every week, army planes transport 150 features, some 200 newsreels and short subjects to fighting forces around the world. In recreation centers, stars such as Ann Miller and Linda Darnell, John Garfield and Betty Davis are helping entertain service men. Lovely Greer Garson, little Judy Garland, beautiful Hedy Lamar, popular Betty Grable. At home and abroad, people of the motion picture industry are trying to do their bit for fighting men of the United Nations at the famous fish hatchery of San Jovita, Quebec. Game wardens sort and grade hundreds of thousands of young trout to replenish mountain streams and lakes. Planes are used to reach remote bodies of water. Taking the fish aloft, they restock the lakes, dropping the trout from the air. First customers, French Canadian soldiers home on leave. This is any soldier's idea of a well-earned vacation from the war, a pound trout on that line, and they land him like veteran fishermen. A real meal this, right out of the water, a Filipino infantry in the United States Army receives the one weapon they know best, the Philippine Bolo knife. Used in cutting through jungles, the Bolo is equally effective in hand-to-hand combat. Filipinos, young and old, have a long and outstanding score to settle with the Japanese invaders of their native land. Today, armed with native weapons augmenting their modern equipment, they are eager to meet the enemy. 1,000 miles from the sea, learn the technique of flying with the fleet. In battle formation, they take off for their floating base of operations on one of America's great lakes. Biggest side-wheel passenger steamer, she's now the training carrier Wolverine. Student pilots land and take off from her 550-feet flight deck under conditions identical to those at sea. An inland carrier training 10,000 new Navy fighter pilots a year. Lieutenant General Patton, commanding the American 7th Army in Sicily, leaves headquarters in an armored car as United Nations forces continue to sweep northward in their drive to occupy the entire Italian island. Deuxiastic Sicilians welcome the yanks with open arms, scenes that are repeated in town after town as the Americans press on to Palermo, thoroughly surrender their weapons to the Allied authorities. Local officials are enlisted to assist in the distribution of much-needed food and medical supplies. Nerve center and capital of the island is surrendered by the Italian commander who rides with American general keys into the city. Blasted by Allied bombers is blocked to all axis shipping. The occupation of Palermo by United States forces, a dramatic and historic moment for the people of Sicily. General Patton is greeted by members of the clergy as his Victoria 7th Army moves in. For thousands of war weary Sicilians, the coming of United Nations forces means freedom from fascism. For youngsters riding aboard the Army's famous jeep, it's the dawn of a new day.