It has been a significant amount of time since I've spent any time in Qtile and I think that it's about time that I Rectify that situation so over the next week I'm going to be using Qtile full-time on both this computer and the computer behind me And once I'm done with that week, I'll make a wrap-up video But what I wanted to do today was talk about some of my first impressions. I've spent Probably about 12 hours in Qtile now over the last day And I want to just talk about some of the things that I've experienced over that day kind of getting things things set up So let me show you what my Qtile looks like right now This is Qtile as I have set it up now The first thing I should say is that I have a confession. These are not my dot files. I borrowed them off from a person on Twitter I'm sorry. I forgot your name, but I will link to My dot files of these in the video description below and I Always almost always use someone else's dot files when I switch to a new window manager simply because I don't have to set Things up and I can kind of see how things are done. It's much easier for me to learn How to do something if I've seen someone else do it instead of me trying to go spelunking into the documentation Learning stuff for myself. It's just kind of the way that I've always done things when it comes to window managers It's how I learned y3. It's how I learned DWM. It's how I learned X monad you get the idea so this is my Qtile set up and The first thing that I had an impression of was the bar now I have used Qtile before and I've messed around with the bar before and my impression of the bar Previously was that the bar was kind of meh. It wasn't all that great. I Didn't really know all that much about it. I didn't really care for how it was set up the Documentation for the bar really isn't all that great unless you know Python and it's just it was always kind of a meh Kind of bar for me. I always preferred poly bar. However, I have to say With the way this bar is set up and now Understanding a little bit more Python than I did before the last time I use Qtile This bar is actually really good and there's a lot of stuff here So first of all, there's a lot of widgets that you can choose from they have a lot of built-in widgets And that's really nice But also has capabilities that poly bar doesn't it can be put vertically if you want it to have vertical You want to have a vertical bar you can have your tray your system tray wherever you want it Which is nice. It's not something you can do with poly bar at least not easily with the built-in widgets I should say that being said, of course, there are some Limitations that I've found a little bit vexing. So first actually using your own like bash script to make a widget Doesn't seem to be possible. There is a text box widget that says it can do scripts I haven't figured out how it can do because it doesn't really have an example of how it's done So I'm not sure if that will work for me or not But that's one area that I've had problems with it so far Also, there doesn't seem to be a way to exclude Widgets from one bar or the other now. I'm assuming that there actually is a way and I just don't know it yet I've asked a question on reddit. I'm waiting for some responses there to see if there's actually a way to do that There probably is and like I said, I just don't know it. I did some googling couldn't find it But basically what I want to do is make it so that the tray only appears on the main monitor And not on this one because you can only have one system tray It always crashes on the other the other bar. So I'm wanting to exclude that So overall, I really like this bar the setup for if I show you this The setup for it looks something like this and it's not a bad Set up if you understand python at all now my understanding of python is very minimal It is better than it used to be but it's still fairly minimal So I'm still kind of getting my head wrapped around all this But basically the way it works is you have each of these sections is a widget that appears on the bar So this thing right here is a widget this widget box here is a widget where all the workspaces are This part here's a widget and so on and so forth Right each of these parts is a widget and each of these sections corresponds with a widget Each widget has a section of options that you can choose Foreground background things like that that you can use to customize What the widget looks like what it displays and so on and so forth So getting your head wrapped around how all this works is fairly simple because it's just left to right Any widgets you put at the top are going to appear on the left and then just one right after another So it's actually nice and like I said before there are a ton of widgets that you can choose from All those are fairly well documented on the Qtile website. This is the Qtile documentation And like you can see here, there are a ton of widgets and all of them have options that you can use now One of the places where I find the documentation for Qtile to be a little bit lacking is that it doesn't actually have Examples now it shows you what it will look like and if you can Kind of suss out how This works you can kind of use this as an example in some places not in every one of them But in some of them and not even all of them have an example section So that's kind of a lacking place for me, especially if you don't know anything about Qtile Now I was told earlier today that Qtile Is not for people who don't understand at least a little bit of python So if you don't know a little bit of python, you're probably going to be in a rough spot Unless you're willing to absolutely learn as you go and that's kind of my position right now is I'm still learning as I go There's a lot of things here that I don't really know how to do So I'm kind of meandering my way through the documentation stumbling searching for examples. Like I said at the beginning I Learned better when I see somebody else do something. So I'm Looking for videos and I'm looking at other people's configuration files to see how they did it And then I can kind of emulate that and learn as I go along about why they've done the things the way they've done So that's the way I've been trying to do it. Honestly, I'm gonna say this out loud and I've probably talked about this before Qtile has fantastic documentation. It's one of the window managers that has the best documentation But after spending my day going through this I would say that it's very technical documentation It is definitely not for the brand new user Whereas if you go to something like the documentation for i3 while this does have technical sessions You can tell that it's written for someone who's doesn't really know any like programming language or whatever And you can understand that because i3 is configured in a non Difficult programming language. It's configured in a user friendly syntax Whereas qtile is configured in python So you can kind of understand why the differences in documentation exist I would say that I would prefer the more user friendly way of configuring a window manager as of right now I'm still kind of struggling with the python But I think I will be able to push through with my basic knowledge Now my biggest issue so far 12 hours in Is the way qtile manages workspaces So unlike i3 where when you set it up the proper way you can tell i3 where the workspaces are supposed to spawn So I have always in i3 workspaces one through nine on monitor one I have workspaces 10 through 19 on monitor two and there's never going to be a situation where monitor like 14 ends up on monitor one It just won't happen now It can happen if I wanted to use a key binding to switch them over But that'd be have to be something that I do manually by default the way I have it set up That's the way workspaces work on i3 and that's the way i'm used to working But in qtile the workspaces that you have are set So you have in in my case I have it set up for 12 workspaces And they can appear on either monitor depending on where you are focused So for example right now I have workspace three focused And I have workspace six on this monitor So if I actually change to workspace six, but the mouse is over here What's going to happen is instead of the mouse moving over there to that second monitor It's actually going to bring workspace six to this monitor. So now you can you know see what's on workspace six and workspace three, which is was here has been moved to this monitor. So they switched places and That is a really really weird workflow now I've seen it before obviously because I've used qtile before but one of the reasons why I never stuck with qtile Is because this workspace Management system is just not the way I prefer to do my workflow I like fixed workspaces where they're supposed to be having them move around onto different monitors is a little weird for me And it's definitely not something that I've found it easy to get used to And another thing that I've kind of had to pay pay attention to is because if I want to stay on A certain monitor. So for example, let's just say I wanted to go work on workspace six But I didn't want them to switch around Instead of moving to workspace six, I have to use the key binding to move focus to that monitor So in my case, it's going to be super Period, I think that may be default on qtile. I'm not sure But basically what that does is just moves the mouse and the focus of everything over to the other monitor And I've had to get used to that Over the last day. It's been a chore to just to put it frankly It's just not the way I prefer Workspaces to work I do however think that If I spend enough time here, I could get used to it whether or not I will ever come to enjoy this way of managing workspaces. I don't know We'll see at the end of the week But as of right now, I think that I can get used to it because I have gotten used to it Even just using it 12 hours But I don't know whether or not I will ever come to love it or not I know a lot of people prefer this way of managing workspaces me personally Not there yet One of the things that I haven't played around with yet is the different layouts that qtile comes with so qtile has many different Layouts available to it. So I don't even know the key binding to change them I so I just click the icon up there where it will Kind of do this kind of thing where I can have different layouts and stuff I'm again Not sure if I'll ever even play with that because I never changed the workspace Layout in i3 either. I just kind of use the default one With autotiling I suppose but yeah The layouts have been something that I have not messed around with And I don't even think that they're all enabled in this configuration file yet And finally the last thing that I want to talk about in terms of my first impressions is the way that qtile fails Now the thing about having to configure your window manager in a actual programming language Is that if you don't know the programming language very well and you don't know the syntax and the little nitpicks that it has You're going to make mistakes and my biggest mistake is remembering The comma like python is comma happy like every line that you have to In your configuration file every every line has to have a comma at the end of it for the most part There are some exceptions. There are some places where it works just fine without a comma So for whatever reason for example, this line right here doesn't have a comma. I don't know why That's from whoever did this configuration file. It's not mine But apparently works just fine because i'm getting no errors But if I were to delete a comma like say here the configuration file would fail And I'd be out of luck, right? So one of the things that I've noticed is that if you don't remember those little things You're going to have qtile not be able to read your whole configuration file. So The thing that I wanted to talk about was that when you do make a mistake Your configuration file doesn't load at all instead loads the default configuration file And you would think that that's not a bad thing, right? But I found That it's not actually all that useful. Yes, you can usually continue to edit in the Window that you're on. So let's just say you're still in the configuration file when you do a reset of qtile You can go back and try to find your mistake if the window is still open, but Sometimes new windows won't open because you're some of your key bindings just don't work Because you're using a different configuration file, but also it makes it a little bit more difficult to actually Get back into your configuration file once you've made the channels I've still haven't figured how how to do that yet So supposedly there's a key binding that will then restart qtile again And then I think maybe then it will take you back to your configuration file if the error has been corrected I haven't figured that out yet. So with i3 the best part about i3 I mean maybe not the best part but a really good part is that when you make an error in the configuration file i3 continues to run like it still uses your configuration file everything works just fine and dandy But it will also pop up an error. It will tell you hey This thing is wrong on this line and you need to go fix it xmonad does the same thing qtile I'm assuming that there's a log somewhere. I just haven't found it yet But it definitely doesn't pop up with a notification saying hey, here's some error You need to go fix it at least on my system. It doesn't do that So that's the graceful fit failing part isn't so graceful on qtile And it's a bigger problem Simply because I don't know a lot of python and i'm always making mistakes.  I know but it happens and you know It just it fails a lot and not having the ability to get back into My configuration file at least so far learning how to do that Has been an issue because it basically just had to at that point shut my computer off and come back on Like I haven't even figured out in the default configuration file how to quit qtile Although I think it's like super q super shift q some like that It doesn't actually work for me on fedora for whatever reason but that's not that's a fedora problem I'm that I have that same problem with in i3. It won't log out. I don't know what's going on there But anyways, those are the things that I've stumbled upon in my day first day with qtile overall my my impressions are That I like it now. I don't think that I like it more than i3. I don't know that I will ever like it more than i3 But it's fresh and that's kind of the reason why i'm doing this is I wanted to try something a little bit fresher something that I've not used in the past very much and kind of You know expand my horizons a little bit by using something different now Qtile does have a wayland session that comes when you install qtile I'm going to spend some time in that over this week probably not a lot of time because Wayland and me don't really get along all that well at least we didn't last time we talked We had a big fight. It didn't end well, you know So we'll see if wayland is better for me this time than it was the last time I tried it And I've never used the wayland session of qtile before so we'll see how that works. I'm not sure I really don't anything about it other than it's included. So that'll be an adventure too So I'm going to use qtile for at least a whole week And then I'll make another video where I kind of wrap things up give my final thoughts on how it goes So make sure you're subscribed for that You don't want to miss it If you have comments on qtile or any of this stuff Maybe you have some help that you could give me on the things that I mentioned You can leave those in the comment section below. I'd love to hear from you You can follow me on twitter at the linux cast you can follow me on mastodon or odyssey those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash the linux cast just like all these fine people Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon youtube you guys are all amazing people without you the challenges would not be anywhere Near close to where it is right now. So thank you for your support. I truly do appreciate it The words do not do it justice. So thank you so very much. 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Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States. Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, distinguished members of the Congress, honored guests and fellow citizens, this solemn occasion marks the 196th time that a President of the United States has reported on the State of the Union since George Washington first did so in 1790. That's a lot of reports, but there's no shortage of new things to say about the State of the Union. The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us. I would like to talk with you this evening about what we can do together, not as Republicans and Democrats, but as Americans, to make tomorrow's America happy and prosperous at home, strong and respected abroad, and at peace in the world. As we gather here tonight, the State of our Union is strong, but our economy is troubled. For too many of our fellow citizens, farmers, steel and auto workers, lumbermen, black teenagers, working mothers, this is a painful period. We must all do everything in our power to bring their ordeal to an end. It has fallen to us in our time to undo damage that was a long time in the making and to begin the hard but necessary task of building a better future for ourselves and our children. We have a long way to go, but thanks to the courage, patience and strength of our people, America is on the mend. Let me give you just one important reason why I believe this. It involves many members of this body. Just 10 days ago, after months of debate and deadlock, the bipartisan commission on Social Security accomplished the seemingly impossible. Social Security, as some of us had warned for so long, faced disaster. I myself have been talking about this problem for almost 30 years. As 1983 began, the system stood in the brink of bankruptcy, a double victim of our economic ills. First, a decade of rapid inflation drained its reserves as we tried to protect beneficiaries from the spiraling cost of living. Then the recession and the sudden end of inflation withered the expanding wage base and increasing revenues the system needs to support the 36 million Americans who depend on it. When the Speaker of the House, the Senate Majority Leader and I performed the bipartisan commission on Social Security, pundits and experts predicted that party divisions and conflicting interests would prevent the commission from agreeing on a plan to save Social Security. Well, sometimes, even here in Washington, the cynics are wrong. Through compromise and cooperation, the members of the commission overcame their differences and achieved a fair, workable plan. They proved that when it comes to the national welfare, Americans can still pull together for the common good. Tonight, I'm especially pleased to join with the Speaker and the Senate Majority Leader in urging the Congress to enact this plan by Easter. There are elements in it, of course, that none of us prefers. But taken together, it performs a package that all of us can support. It asks for some sacrifice by all the self-employed beneficiaries, workers, government employees, and the better off among the retired. But it imposes an undue burden on none. And in supporting it, we keep an important pledge to the American people. The integrity of the Social Security system will be preserved and no one's payments will be reduced. The commission's plan will do the job. Indeed, it must do the job. We owe it to today's older Americans and today's younger workers. So before we go any further, I ask you to join with me in saluting the members of the commission who are here tonight and Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker and Speaker Tip O'Neill for a job well done. My partisan spirit that guided you in this endeavor will inspire all of us as we face the challenges of the year ahead. Nearly half a century ago in this chamber, another American President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in his second State of the Union message urged America to look to the future to meet the challenge of change and the need for leadership that looks forward, not backward. Throughout the world, he said, change is the order of the day. In every nation, economic problems long in the making have brought crises to many kinds for which the masters of old practice and theory were unprepared. He also reminded us that the future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics. So let us in these next two years, men and women of both parties, every political shade concentrate on the long-range bipartisan responsibilities of government, not the short-range or short-term temptations of partisan politics. The problems we inherited were far worse than most inside and out of government had expected. The recession was deeper than most inside and out of government had predicted. Curing those problems has taken more time in a higher toll than any of us wanted. Unemployment is far too high. Projected federal spending, if government refuses to tighten its own belt, will also be far too high and could weaken and shorten the economic recovery now underway. This recovery will bring with it a revival of economic confidence and spending for consumer items and capital goods, the stimulus we need to restart our stalled economic engines. The American people have already stepped up their rate of saving, assuring that the funds needed to modernize our factories and improve our technology will once again flow to business and industry. The inflationary expectations that led to a 21.5% interest prime rate and soaring mortgage rates two years ago are now reduced by almost half. Leaders have started to realize that double-digit inflation is no longer a way of life. I misspoke there, I should have said lenders, so interest rates have tumbled, paving the way for recovery in vital industries like housing and autos. The early evidence of that recovery has started coming in. Housing starts for the fourth quarter of 1982 were up 45% from a year ago and housing permits, a sure indicator of future growth, were up a whopping 60%. We're witnessing an upsurge of productivity and impressive evidence that American industry will once again become competitive in markets at home and abroad, ensuring more jobs and better incomes for the nation's workforce. But our confidence must also be tempered by realism and patience. Quick fixes and artificial stimulants repeatedly applied over decades are what brought us the inflationary disorders that we've now paid such a heavy price to cure. The permanent recovery and employment, production and investment we seek won't come in a sharp, short spurt. It'll build carefully and steadily in the months and years ahead. In the meantime, the challenge of government is to identify the things that we can do now to ease the massive economic transition for the American people. The federal budget is both a symptom and a cause of our economic problems. Unless we reduce the dangerous growth rate in government spending, we could face the progress or prospect of sluggish economic growth into the indefinite future. Failure to cope with this problem now could mean as much as a trillion dollars more in national debt in the next four years alone. We would average $4,300 in additional debt for every man, woman, child and baby in our nation. To assure a sustained recovery, we must continue getting runaway spending under control to bring those deficits down. If we don't, the recovery will be too short. Unemployment will remain too high, and we will leave an unconscionable burden of national debt for our children. That we must not do. Let's be clear about where the deficit problem comes from. Contrary to the drumbeat we've been hearing for the last few months, the deficits we face are not rooted in defense spending. Taken as a percentage of the gross national product, our defense spending happens to be only about four-fifths of what it was in 1970. Nor is the deficit, as some would have it, rooted in tax cuts. Even with our tax cuts, taxes as a fraction of gross national product remain about the same as they were in 1970. The fact is, our deficits come from the uncontrolled growth of the budget for domestic spending. During the 1970s, the share of our national income devoted to this domestic spending increased by more than 60 percent, from ten cents out of every dollar produced by the American people to sixteen cents. In spite of all our economies and deficiencies, and without adding any new programs, basic necessary domestic spending provided for in this year's budget will grow to almost a trillion dollars over the next five years. The deficit problem is a clear and present danger to the basic health of our republic. We need a plan to overcome this danger, a plan based on these principles. It must be bipartisan. Conquering the deficits and putting the government's house in order will require the best efforts of all of us. It must be fair. Just as all will share in the benefits that will come from recovery, all would share fairly in the burden of transition. It must be prudent. The strength of our national defense must be restored so that we can pursue prosperity and peace and freedom while maintaining our commitment to the truly needy. And finally, it must be realistic. We can't rely on hope alone. With these guiding principles in mind, let me outline a four-part plan to increase economic growth and reduce deficits. First, in my budget message, I will recommend a federal spending freeze. I know there's a strong medicine, but so far we have only cut the rate of increase in federal spending. The government has continued to spend more money each year, though not as much more as it did in the past. Taken as a whole, the budget I'm producing or proposing for the next fiscal year will increase no more than the rate of inflation. In other words, the federal government will hold the line on real spending. That's far less than many American families have had to do in these difficult times. We'll request that the proposed six-month freeze in cost of living adjustments recommended by the Bipartisan Social Security Commission be applied to other government-related retirement programs. I will also propose a one-year freeze on a broad range of domestic spending programs and for federal, civilian, and military pay and pension programs. Let me say right here, I'm sorry with regard to the military and asking that of them because for so many years they have been so far behind and so low in reward for what the men and women in uniform are doing, but I'm sure they will understand that this must be across the board and fair. Second, I will ask the Congress to adopt specific measures to control the growth of the so-called uncontrollable spending programs. These are the automatic spending programs, such as food stamps, that cannot be simply frozen and that have grown by over 400% since 1970. They are the largest single cause of the built-in or structural deficit problem. Our standard here will be fairness, ensuring that the taxpayers' hard-earned dollars go only to the truly needy, that none of them are turned away, but that fraud and waste are stamped out and I'm sorry to say there's a lot of it out there. In the food stamp program alone last year, we identified almost 1.1 billion in overpayments. The taxpayers aren't the only victims of this kind of abuse. The truly needy suffer, as funds intended for them are taken not by the needy, but by the greedy. For everyone's sake, we must put an end to such waste and corruption. Third, I will adjust our program to restore America's defences by proposing $55 billion in defense savings over the next five years. These are savings recommended to me by the Secretary of Defense who has assured me they can be safely achieved and will not diminish our ability to negotiate arms reductions or endanger America's security. We will not gamble with our national survival. Fourth, because we must ensure reduction and eventual elimination of deficits over the next several years, I will propose a standby tax limited to no more than 1% of the gross national product to start in fiscal 1986. It would last no more than three years and it would start only if the Congress has first approved our spending freeze and budget control program and there are several other conditions also that must be met, all of them, in order for this program to be triggered. I must say that this is an insurance policy for the future, a remedy that will be at hand if needed, but only resorted to if absolutely necessary. In the meantime, we'll continue to study ways to simplify the tax code and make it more fair for all Americans. This is a goal that every American who's ever struggled with a tax form can understand. At the same time, however, I will oppose any efforts to undo the basic tax reforms that we've already enacted, including the 10% tax break coming to taxpayers this July and the tax indexing and the tax indexing which will protect all Americans from inflationary bracket creep in the years ahead. I realize that this four-part plan is easier to describe than it will be to enact, but the looming deficits that hang over us and over America's future must be reduced. The path I've outlined is fair, balanced, and realistic. If enacted, it will ensure a steady decline in deficits aiming toward a balanced budget by the end of the decade. It's the only path that will lead to a strong sustained recovery. Let us follow that path together. No domestic challenge is more crucial than providing stable, permanent jobs for all Americans who want to work. The recovery program will provide jobs for most, but others will need special help and training for new skills. Shortly I will submit to the Congress the Employment Act of 1983 designed to get at the special problems of the long-term unemployed as well as young people trying to enter the job market. I'll propose extending unemployment benefits, including special incentives to employers who hire the long-term unemployed, providing programs for displaced workers and helping federally-funded and state-administered unemployment insurance programs provide workers with training and relocation assistance. Finally, our proposal will include new incentives for summer youth employment to help young people get a start in the job market. We must offer both short-term help and long-term hope for our unemployed. I hope we can work together on this. I hope we can work together as we did last year in enacting the Landmark Job Training Partnership Act. Regulatory reform legislation, a responsible Clean Air Act and passage of enterprise zone legislation will also create new incentives for jobs and opportunity. One out of every five jobs in our country depends on trade. So I will propose a broader strategy in the field of international trade, one that increases the openness of our trading system and is fairer to America's farmers and workers in the world marketplace. We must have adequate export financing to sell American products overseas. I will ask for new negotiating authority to remove barriers and to get more of our products into foreign markets. We must strengthen the organization of our trade agencies and make changes in our domestic laws and international trade policy to promote free trade and the increased flow of American goods, services, and investments. Our trade position can also be improved by making our ports system more efficient. Better, more active harbors translate into stable jobs in our coal fields, railroads, trucking, industry, and ports. After two years of debate, it's time for us to get together and enact a port modernization bill. Education, training, and retraining are fundamental to our successes. Our research and development, productivity, labor, management, and government at all levels can and must participate in improving these tools of growth. Tax policy, regulatory practices, and government programs all need constant re-evaluation in terms of our competitiveness. Every American has a role and a stake in international trade. We Americans are still the technological leaders in most fields. We must keep that edge and to do so we need to begin renewing the basics, starting with our educational system. While we grew a complacent, others have acted. Japan, with a population only about half the size of ours, graduates from its universities more engineers than we do. If a child doesn't receive adequate math and science teaching by the age of sixteen, he or she has lost the chance to be a scientist or an engineer. We must join together parents, teachers, grassroots groups, organized labor, and the business community to revitalize American education by setting a standard of excellence. In 1983, we seek four major education goals. A quality education initiative to encourage a substantial upgrading of math and science instruction through block grants to the states. Establishment of education savings accounts that will give middle and lower-income families an incentive to save for their children's college education and, at the same time, encourage a real increase in savings for economic growth. Passage of tuition tax credits for parents who want to send their children to private or religiously-affiliated schools. A constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place. And eliminate once and for all all traces of unjust discrimination against women from the United States Code. We will not tolerate wage discrimination based on sex, and we intend to strengthen enforcement of child support laws to ensure that single parents, most of whom are women, do not suffer unfair financial hardship. We will also take action to remedy inequities in pensions. These initiatives will be joined by others to continue our efforts to promote equity for women. Also, in the area of fairness and equity, we will ask for extension of the Civil Rights Commission, which is due to expire this year. The commission is an important part of the ongoing struggle for justice in America, and we strongly support its reauthorization. Effective enforcement of our nation's fair housing laws is also essential to ensuring equal opportunity. In the year ahead, we will work to strengthen enforcement of fair housing laws for all Americans. The time has also come for major reform of our criminal justice statutes and acceleration of the drive against organized crime and drug trafficking. It's high time that we make our cities safe again. This administration hereby declares an all-out war on big-time organized crime and the drug racketeers who are poisoning our young people. We will also implement recommendations of our task force on victims of crime, which will report to me this week. American agriculture, the envy of the world, has become the victim of its own successes. With one farmer now producing enough food to feed himself and 77 other people, America is confronted with record surplus crops and commodity prices below the cost of production. We must strive through innovations like the payment-in-kind crop swap approach and an aggressive export policy to restore health and vitality to rural America. Meanwhile, I have instructed the Department of Agriculture to work individually with farmers with debt problems to help them through these tough times. Over the past year, our task force on private sector initiatives has successfully forged a working partnership involving leaders of business, labor, education, and government to address the training needs of American workers. Thanks to the task force, private sector initiatives are now underway in all 50 states of the Union and thousands of working people have been helped in making the shift from dead-end jobs and low-demand skills to the growth areas of high technology and the service economy. Additionally, a major effort will be focused on encouraging the expansion of private community childcare. The new advisory council on private sector initiatives will carry on and extend this vital work of encouraging private initiative in 1983. In the coming year, we will also act to improve the quality of life for Americans by curbing the skyrocketing cost of health care that is becoming an unbearable financial burden for so many. And we will submit legislation to provide catastrophic illness insurance coverage for older Americans. I will also shortly submit a comprehensive federalism proposal that will continue our efforts to restore to states and local governments their roles as dynamic laboratories of change in a creative society. During the next several weeks, I will send to the Congress a series of detailed proposals on these and other topics and look forward to working with you on the development of these initiatives. So far, now I have concentrated mainly on the problems posed by the future. But in almost every home and workplace in America, we are already witnessing reason for great hope. The first flowering of the man-made miracles of high technology, a field pioneered and still led by our country. To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying as the workings of the combustion engine must have been when that first Model T rattled down Main Street, USA. But as surely as America's pioneer spirit made us the industrial giant of the 20th century, the same pioneer spirit today is opening up in another vast front of opportunity, the frontier of high technology. In conquering the frontier, we cannot write off our traditional industries, but we must develop the skills and industries that will make us a pioneer of tomorrow. This administration is committed to keeping America the technological leader of the world now and into the 21st century. But let us turn briefly to the international arena. America's leadership in the world came to us because of our own strength and because of the values which guide us as a society. 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Hi everybody it's Sam at Mixed Up Craft thank you for watching my tutorial today. I'm going to be showing you how to make this mini album with four signatures which are made out of envelopes. So it's really really easy to do so don't be you know kind of alarmed it is very straightforward I break everything down as always but this has got a really nice feel to it. It fits four by six photos in and it will fit a lot of photos because I haven't done the photos yet I will do an updated video when I have done them but there was lots of room to be able to add more tuck spots and everything. So in each signature so here's one signature here within this you can have eight six by four photos but if you want to have a tuck spot here and then a picture mat or photo mat then you can have even more so it opens up and then it opens up again so you imagine once you've got all your photos but you could shrink them down you could have the little mini two by four or two by three and a half I think it is two and a quarter by three and three quarters similar like that you know the ones I mean the little kind of instant ones that you can do you could put them in there as well and you can see where I've stitched each signature and it's all nice and neat that one there folds like that and then the next one and so on so there's four of these each holding holding eight photos however you can very easily increase that so there's all of my signatures and then I've got another tuck spot in the back and it's got all these fun little cards here for journaling I've used dies from this set of the sassy crafting which I'll share with you in a moment and then if I just bring it up closer you've got all this fun stuff on the side I've got the cabochon there I've got a little wand they're not particularly halloween-y charms because I haven't really got any but I've got a padlock there and it's silver and I've got a black feather and then on here really love this so I've got this holographic spider happy halloween and then these are all cutouts and this skull and crossbones which I just used some Wincastella just to make it sparkle it's just really come together lovely so I'll just quickly show you the collection so this is sassy crafting's halloween collection so it's trial by trial paper pad you get the stickers with the dies okay so those will cut out all those pieces these are what I'm going to use inside the album so once I've added photos and I can do more of them there's some of the dies which you've seen spider I love even though I absolutely can't stand spiders but I just love how that's come I love that the center's cut away and then you've got a brilliant sticker book which is going to be used on my photos as well so many fun puns love it first bite you look you look fantastic you've got the padlock there actually trick or treat tags there's loads of fun things and then these cut apart okay and that's you can see some of them that I've used there and then the papers so yeah really fun to do this is going to hold halloween photos over the years I'm going to take a selection of my favorites and keep them in this little album because there are some fun ones and yeah I will show you those again in due course but for now let's get into the tutorial and let me show you how to make this okay so I've already done three of my signatures here now when we get to this point it's entirely up to you how you have them fold out so I've done my three holes here where I'll be sewing in the center but you can do it here and have these three fold in and that one like that so that is the front of that piece and then they open it and then it comes out that way for me I'm having them fold in like that so they're you know you open it and then they both come out either side so it was entirely up to you how you do it but I've already done the three there these are very strong now because I've used my cloud glue and obviously there's lots of layers now each of these signatures holds eight pages okay front and back so you do fit a lot on here and you also have a pocket here so if you've got any kind of tickets for something or just little bits that you want to kind of remember and keep then that's a really nice little pocket for them then there okay so to make one of these you need two c5 envelopes so if you're going to do exactly the same album size as me then you will need eight of these I got these ones here from Sainsbury's and you get 50 so I've got you know so many there and yeah they get used for the normal use and you know craft ideas as well so all you want to do is very very straightforward you're going to have one with the sticky side up these are already got their the gum on them self seal ones but don't worry if they're not because you can add glue to them and then this one you're going to pop inside very similar to the other envelope album I've done and just push it in and you basically want to line up the fold here with the fold on that one so you just want to overlap them perfectly now because mine have already got the gum I'm not going to add any glue but what I would say and this one is the one that is the pocket that I showed you so keep that one but if you just push down now if you do have self seal that will you know seal it up but if you don't then you want to run some glue underneath that flap okay then if you fold it over be careful not to push it too much because you don't want that to stick because we're going to cover it in a moment and then all you want to do is fold in each one to that center fold so fold that one in because you're working with this paper it's very very easy to again don't push down too much here just line it up and then push more to the left just to get that all in so now you can see there's my page so now each of these are about six and a half by four and a half because my mats are six and a quarter by four and a quarter so you need eight of these any color you want and then basically when I print my photos my six by four photos they will have a black frame because it's a Halloween themed album I just thought that looked quite good so eight pieces now of six and a quarter by four and a quarter and these will sit on each of these sections and you will have the same border now with this one with the pocket because my pocket slightly curves down when you add your glue try not to cover that so it sticks I mean if it closes it's and you're not bothered you don't need it then that's fine but you'll see there how that pocket now opens so I'm going to go and stick all of these down okay so that's that now already and everything folds in how I want it to so next you want to make your holes so depending on where you're doing it so if you do want to have it fold like that and then like that then this is this one here this crease is where you'll want to do your holes but like I said I'm doing mine in the center so I've got that pocket there so mine are going to go along this center crease here so I'm going to use my screw punch here so you get three sizes you get large medium and small I'm using the smallest and then you want to just do your first hole right in the center so if you want to use a ruler then you can do I have already done mine so I'm actually going to just because this is what I tell you to do next when you find whatever one you're starting with find the center point and then from the center point you find the center point from that section and then that section there so you'll have three holes like this all equally spaced apart once you've done then you then want to just sit it over the top of the next one like so and then with a pen just draw a little dot through there and then you can just use that as you guide least that way every single one will be perfectly lined up so you can see where mine are I'm just going to make sure I get them on the crease but in terms of their spacing they're they're perfect so just punch each one okay so do that on all of them now you may want more signatures then that's fine but the album I'm making will fit these four and you'll see how wide the spine is going to be and you should have all of your holes all on the spines there and they should all line up because that's what we're going to be doing all of our stitching okay so next you need to make your case so I have here some two mill chipboards it's nice and thick it's the one that I use from every crafts a pound so you want two pieces that measure four and three quarters by six and three quarters okay that's the front and back and then your spine is one inch by again six and three quarters okay now my paper here is from Sussie Crafts and it's this really I want this one here I've decided to go for these lips or fangs yeah lips with the fangs and the blood there so I thought that looks quite cool and this is seven and three quarters by 12 okay and then we need to stick all this in so first of all you want to line it all up and you want to we're going to stick the center down I did put double sided strong red tape on this but then I thought I think I'm going to use the Kalao just because again that dries nice and stiff but this shouldn't absorb too much because if it was a water-based glue this chipboard would just suck it up like a sponge whereas because this is a solvent based it should be a bit more resilient to that so you want to sit it so that it kind of sits all with an even kind of top and bottom and side with your front and back and then your spine needs to sit in the middle now I've worked it out that if you lift the spine up you've still got a bit of room there so you shouldn't get any cracking at all okay so what you want to do first of all is stick the spine down because if you get that in place then you can work back from those other two so I'm just going to take the backing off of this but I'm also just going to add let's just finish the last of this bottle just this will give me a little bit of wiggle room as well don't know if it's a little bit off but keep everything straight just going to flip that over just nice and pressure them make sure it's all nicely stuck down and then you want to do the same with these so let's do I'm going to use this new one now I don't know what else I should have used I've got the bookbinding glue which I keep forgetting to use so when you lay this down make sure it's in line with your spine and again you should have I've got there let me just tell you my gap so it is so this is two mil this is a five mil gap okay so I've got plenty of room for that spine to be able to for the sides to be able to fold up and there's still be a little bit of space if you're in inches it's just under quarter of an inch okay so again just flip that over just make sure that glue spreads out but yeah I've also got the Kalau bookbinding so maybe I'll use that one on the other side because that is obviously for the book so you won't get warping and and all that horrible stuff going on you want everything to stay nice and straight so actually now I'm not going to I'm going to keep it all the same because I don't want half not that it would fall apart but I'll use that another time I just got to keep remembering okay so I'm just going to stick the other side and again lay that one down so you've got the same gap you can just bring that up like see I've got plenty of room again there as well okay and then you want to start bringing up your side so I like to just bring my bone folder under and very carefully just push it up along there okay just start to work it in we're going to cut a few bits in a minute but just going to work that up okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the bookbinding glue for these edges here just so I can kind of see how that works now what you would usually do is cut across here and then fold it all in but because I always put metal corners on my albums I'm never too too worried about doing that so I just fold that up so you get like a a square I just kind of bring that there can you see where it folds over kind of like a square effect so I'm just going to run a little bit of glue a little bit she says let's just take some of that off so I'm just going to bring that over onto there and just let that all lose out it grabs very quickly that's one thing I will say and then I'm just going in with my bone folder very carefully while that cardstock is still soft it's quite easy to you know shape so I'm just shaping it into that square shape and that's how I like to do my corners when I'm adding the metal can you see and it's completely covered and then these will come up and you'll see how you get a really nice almost like a folded pillow kind of look and then that one will come over there as well okay so just do that on all of your corners okay and then you might have already done it but just bring up your sides okay and they should quite easily fold around you shouldn't get any cracking you get a really nice smooth side there and corners all right it's quite nice actually it's worked out perfectly that wasn't even although you're not going to see all this because a lot of it's going to be filled with dangles and stuff but look how perfectly aligned the um the lips are there that's uh quite random anyway so now you want to fold in all the sides so again I'm using my glue I'm just going to run it all down there some people like to reinforce with double sided tape on here as well but I'm not going to now I don't have too much to go over this so I'm just going to really kind of push it up there first so it grips to the side because like I said there it is a thick chipboard and then just keep moving it over with your bone folder and this does grip very quickly which is brilliant good it's nice to use you do notice a big difference I'm just going to push on the sides there so you get a really nice finish you'll see now how nice that's all folded around so just do that on all of your sides okay so that's now all covered and then just very carefully just once it's kind of dried a little bit just push in on there and it should all come around really nicely you honestly as long as you've got that gap that I said you won't get any cracking okay so that's the case they're done then for the inside so this is what I'm going to have because I do like this back colour and I thought it's going to work well with the black border from the pictures so this measures here I think it was seven oh no six and a half by let me get a bigger ruler here six and a half by ten and three quarters okay and that will sit perfectly inside there okay so again I'm going to cover everything here and then just sit that over the top and it should be a really tight fit so it's just literally should be revealing I'd say about one eighth of an inch on all of your sides and then I'm just going to go over it really spread out that glue okay and then again just very carefully find where you've got your fold and just try not to use any points just use a you know if you've got a quite a sharp bone folder you probably don't want to use that and if you get any buckling while it's still wet you can squash it down so you see now that starts to come up like so and then again with this side here I've still got time because I'm using liquid glue to move all of that and you get a really nice closure like so okay I haven't got any bucklings all nice and smooth you can really go in there and work it obviously try not to put anything sharp along there because you don't want it to cut through once that dries there we go you've got a perfect case and that is solid that is not falling apart I mean that's got well yeah very strong color in both book binding and the multi-purpose purpose solvent glue so yeah so that's where you need to be now with that piece okay so now working within this center pit section here which is one inch we need to do four kind of strips okay so the easiest way to do that is every quarter of an inch okay if you lift up one side and put your ruler in there like this and just mark at the quarter of an inch point then at the half an inch then at three quarters and then at one inch and that's your four sections and it should perfectly sit if you see now I've got one got one there one there one there one there ignore that one that's where I went wrong you got one two three four so like I said coming in from a quarter of an inch with that side up okay do the same at the bottom because then you can draw faint lines you just want to make sure they're evenly spaced so now if I show you the bottom that's a bit easier see I've got four then you can join up each of those lines okay so now I have four lines one two three four equally there because there's about a quarter of an inch there and there's a quarter of an inch here before they start okay then get one of these and fold it so that you've got them in like so or however it is you're having it folded yours maybe like that doesn't matter as long as you've got it open so you've got two pieces on each side pop it anywhere within that for the the minute it doesn't matter but anywhere on that's that center part and make sure you've got even top and bottom just mark your pencil in all three of the holes okay so now I can see where they are now that one is pretty much almost on that line but now I can just go over the others and just copy where they are on each of my lines cross you're not actually going to see these although you can you can rub it out I just want to make sure I get them on the line okay so now you can see we've got our holes on those lines so now every signature once we stitch it through will fit perfectly see the holes on the side of my signature line up perfectly with that and that one will go there and they will be equally spaced okay so that's the easiest way that I find to do it and then you want to punch through them now so now I'm going to really push this through quite hard because it's going through a thick chipboard I may need to have to help it along with my pokey tool as well but once your string goes through and I have all the dangles hanging off you're not really going to see it all so I'm going to go first of all okay that's actually worked and what I'm going to do just with the last piece it's gone right through the chipboard but then I'm just going to push it through my pokey tool and then I can just go on the reverse here and now that's gone right the way through so you want to do that now on all of those dots and then afterwards you can rub out all the pencil but you then should have three six nine twelve very evenly spaced holes on the outer part of your spine okay so I'm really pleased with that you can see they're all nicely even and spaced and everything so there I'm just going to rub out the pencil marks on this side okay then before we start stitching everything in because once we've stitched the pages in it's just down to decorating and the front cover and everything I've got my corners here so I'll share all the links to these these are nice little decorative ones I've got that kind of little strip there where it looks like it's detached I really like that so I've got four of those actually let me quickly give the measurements here because these are the one thing I always forget to add these ones are your 16 mil by it's near five whatever the one is because I think it's 16 by four but okay so pop them in so you've got the front on the front obviously and then make sure you squash them down there and you get a really nice finish on the front so I'm just going to do that with the other four okay so I've just gone and put one signature in because I just wanted to check I was stitching it right so I am using this thick pink twine this is just some bakers twine and if you want to have the string the kind of cut off loose pieces on the outside which I do because I am going to start hanging pieces off so I put that on while I was stitching it through and I'll show you on the next one so if you want to have dangles and stuff then have it so that you can have all these bits I want that I want it to look a bit messy if you don't want that then the first stitch you will do from the inside I'm going to do my first stitch from the outside so it's just entirely up to you so first of all you want to go in from the middle so I've already done my first one here so I'm going to start with this line now the next lot of holes we're finished with this one here so I'm going to go in that middle one there and then you want to line that up with the middle of this signature here okay and just pull that through make sure you hold off the edge because you don't want to lose that okay I'm keeping quite a bit there but you don't need that much then you want to go in top or bottom I don't really I mean there are proper ways of doing it but for me as long as I get it stuck down so now okay there's the edge the end from the other side here's through the middle I'm going to go through the top and then the top of that same strip okay again hold off my loose piece there and pull that so it's nice and torped you want to start getting everything lined up as I pull that torque now that is lining up where it needs to be nice and flush with the other one okay then ignore this piece here that's the piece where we started you then so here we are at the top okay there's that one there you want to go back in that middle one again okay you should come right through the middle if you have any of this overhanging I'm going to have to trim that a little bit with my scissors because it's just going to buckle all the time okay and there's my needle coming back up it's once we start pulling this piece that it will all start to really tighten okay so I've gone back in that centerpiece pull that nice and tight okay and then from inside here okay so that's that one we're now going to go in the bottom and that should just line up which it does with the bottom of that same track pull it up and then go back in now before I go back in I want to thread something through here so I'm going to do this I don't have anything particularly Halloweeny I've got this big tassel I'm going to add on I've got a black feather I've got this little kind of padlocks I'm going to pop that on there okay so it's just stuck now and hanging there and then you want to go back in the center again and come through there and now I've got another dangle on the side of my mini album okay then from the inside you want to go under the bottom all the tops entirely up to you I'm just going to do the bottom because it's just there so I've just gone underneath it okay and then go back in the top or the middle or anyone you want I'm going to do the top again and I'm probably going to have just a load of bows at the top so now you've got this loose piece and this piece so you can just cut it off okay and then I'm going to have something else going through here so I don't know if that's going to fit through the whole of this I don't think it is so I've got a cabochon here as well which I'm going to add some paper to at the end so there's the piece to stick over the top so I think I'm going to add this on it's a shame it isn't silver I could always change it at a later day I guess although I probably won't but I'm just going to thread that through and then again tie that off okay so once that's got that piece on there and now you will have two signatures in there like so and they're really tightly you know they're really tight and secure in there and nice and lined up and then this is going to start to become just all tatty and I'm going to have that that's a little kind of clip so I can just clip that black feather on anywhere there and then probably have this I might do a hole right at the top there actually and have a chain I just want loads of stuff on it because it's you know it would make it look a bit spooky so again get your next one what I'm going to do with this one before I stick it in is I am just going to trim this piece I've still got a border but there's there's enough room there for me to trim a little bit off otherwise it's just going to end up kind of all curling up anyway yeah just freeze up now you can see you can see your holes much better so it might be worth because you can you see there it's just started to squash it so I'm just going to trim that away okay again so I'm going from the outside and I'm now going in the middle of this one here okay and then you can see it comes up there and then you want to feed that into the center of that one there and then it's up to you whether you go top or bottom I'm just going to go top and then I'm going to go back in the center again keeping everything nice and taut and then go in the bottom now if you wanted to you could tie it off there so I might do this one a bit differently because otherwise you would go or actually no we can go in the middle again no I'm going to tie it off this way I'm going to tie it off so as long as you go in the middle up through the top in the middle and then out through the bottom or the other way around you're going to have you want to end up with your two loose ends but I think I'm going to have the bow at the bottom for this one a couple of heart ones that I've just put on the ends of each of those and then we'll just tie this off there's our third looking good and then you just want to do the same with the last one okay so there you have it so I've done all my signatures I've got this I love that piece hanging and also the cabochon I'm not happy about that color but once I add the pattern paper and then that over the top you're only going to see that that kind of frame so it should look better and you'll see that shortly once I've done it and I like the way it stays up like that so even when the you know the album's kind of in its upright position it doesn't drop down so I like that I've got that feather there I might reposition it so it's there because I might just move the bow up actually and that's a nice thing you can move this around because there's lots of bows and bits and pieces I'm also going to really unravel all these pieces so it's quite fluffy but that's the the front already to decorate and I'll show you what I'm going to use and then you open it up and you should have a really nice clean four signatures that will you know easily turn and then inside each one you have all your other photos so you can get a lot in this now I am going to add some little tuck spots I'm going to have tuck spots here might add some here because you get all of this here so I've got the stickers so I'm going to use lots of the stickers and they look great actually on the photos as well I've got the stamps there so I'm going to use lots of these sentiments around the the photos as well so some of the decorating I can't do until I've got it I'm going to die cut this I want to do it in silver because I've got the silver corners I think a real glittery silver spider on the front is going to look really cool and then these bits here are all your die cuts so these are all done for you so some of these would look good as a you know to actually create your tuck spot you know I could stick a few of them together something like something like that and then I could have actually a photo mat in there with you know pictures to go on each side so then you maximize it even more so I'm going to have a play around start putting this all together and decorating it because that's the fun part for me and then when I come back and talk you through it all and any other measurements there might be and yeah then I'll be done but I've really so far so good it's a lovely nice chunky little album okay so I've done as much as I can without having the photos in because there's more that I want to do on top of the photos so I'll just bring it up a bit closer so I've gone and frayed all of the ends I've added this was actually one of the stickers which fitted the cubichon perfectly so it's that moon one there so I've stuck that one in there and then just added some of the kalal clear glue over the top and that's now dry you've seen that I did add the leaf as well just for a bit more texture and then on the front here I've got some feathers and then some of this there is a name for it I always forget is this stuff here I picked up from the charity shop and there's absolutely tons of it on there but it's nice just in the background you just kind of roll it up and I've used the spider which is one of the dies so this one here and the skull and crossbones which is this one here and then these are all the cutouts from this pack here so I've got lots more for inside and the spider yes at that the happy Halloween is also one of the stickers so you get two of each there's one along the bottom there and I just put it on some of that holographic cardstock I just think that looks really really cool you've seen all the edges and then inside I've done a tuck spot here so this one measures two inches by four and a half and then I just put a layer on top if you want I've used another sticker use another cutter part and then these are on one of the paper sheets so you get this is your 12 by 12 paper pack and one of them oh it's a double-sided you get one sheet of each and this was double-sided so I've cut it already down but you get all these pieces here so these are great for journaling and I might put little photos on them as well so for the minute I've put them in here I love all the things that if you've got it haunt it stay spooky love at first bite creep it real trick-or-treat brilliant I've got a really fun photo of me dressed as a zombie nurse so I will do an updated video I've had promised I have got my other mini albums to show with the photos in as well and then that's all the pages okay and then at the back I've done the same tuck spot again and then with some of them rather than cutting them all down I've kept them so they're like a little book and again I've used the bat which is this one here now I will use these and the stamps because these sentiments and things like that are going to look good on the photos so they will get used for that along with all these cutouts that I've got left and the stickers because that sticker book is going to be brilliant for these pop that one back in there just sticking out the top and I've also put the sticker there you can do something on the back as well but there the sticker book there's so much in there and you've got strips as well which are just going to look really nice around the photos you've got the snake you've got tiny little bats and stuff they're really going to bring it all together so I'm looking forward to using that this is you know I'm probably will end up using all of that there this is all my stuff that obviously I can keep forever but this here will all get used within this mini album and I love it it's got a real nice feel to it it's nice and chunky but it's still got you know it still goes in enough there so once all the photos are in it probably going to come out to about there I would have thought so it's going to be a nice chunky piece and I could still add a clasp or something on there if I wanted to but I'm really pleased with it I hope you've enjoyed the tutorial I hope I've you know simplified that signature and the stitching and everything as best as I can and yeah I hope you enjoy making your own one so thanks for 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Good morning, Cybertraders. Welcome back on this Monday. Hopefully everyone had a great weekend. It is a brand new month of May. Looking forward to it. Good to see you all. Good morning, good morning everybody. Good to see you all in the Cybertrade University Room and everyone here on Facebook and YouTube Live. Good to see you all. Let me tell you, a lot of action going on this morning. A lot of stocks. Big, big week of earnings. We're gonna have a ton of earnings. You can see my watch list is pretty green today. But, you know, there's still a lot of like, stocks are backing off being up so high though. They've been up a hell of a lot more than they were this morning. But Mark was doing pretty well up about 170 points. Looks like we've been around the same. We start trading, which a lot of you know in the trading room, we usually start right around, oh, about was that like a 730, 745.  This is one of the stocks that we were trading last week. I mean, this stock was a new company, $6 stock. It was even all the way down to April's at $3. Look at the thing. It almost broke 90. This stock really reminds me of, was it, which one is it? The other one that we had that did, almost pretty much the same thing, which kind of gets me a little nervous. The, shoot, I drew a blank on top of my head. The NTRX, I think it was if I'm almost positive. But oh no, Nikola, that's what it was. Nikola was like this one. Remember Nikola did the same thing? If you guys could see it right here. That stock when it literally just ran. And we had it, we had it right around like 30 and it ran to like almost 100, but it came right back down. So, game stop, not as much, Tina. This one was a little bit more of what we traded last year that did that same type of move.  We're gonna check them out a little bit. A couple of, obviously some big news on certain stocks that obviously are reacting to some good news also. We're gonna check them out. But before we do that, let's just talk about what we traded last week because a lot of those stocks that we traded last week are spilling into this morning. So, I'm gonna change my intraday chart to a two-day chart.  This is what we did on Friday. So, we had the stock A-H-T. This stock had a great move ramp from $2 all the way up to about $3. Very cheap stock, which I wanna point out something very important about this stock. A lot of people feel like they can't get into, you know, into the stock market because the stocks are too expensive or they're, you know, and then it's why they get into options or they do forex trading. Listen, at the end of the day, you're here to make money. And it's all about who really trained you and how did you find these stocks? So, you tell them you couldn't afford a $2 stock? You know what I mean? People pay that for an option call, okay? Only thing is, it's 10 times harder than just to trade the stock. Not that to knock options. You could do very well with options, but you gotta know what stock's moving before you know what's option to trade. And sometimes you might not need to do that. So anyway, A-H-T moved really nicely. That stock is going back on the watch list again this morning. Another stock that was a big mover and then all of a sudden news came out on it. What was the news? Oh, the results were down this year over, you know, their earnings came out, that's right. So earnings came out and this stock at eight o'clock, it didn't work out too well for VXRT. So that's why the stock was backing off. So, you know what? That stock was great on Friday, but look what happens when you wake up this morning where it comes down a lot as much as it did. It actually went all the way back to where it started on Friday, you know, at the lows of Friday. And I was, do I have it up here? Yeah. So I was looking at level four and as I was looking at it, I bring it over here so you guys can see it. I'm on level four right now and there are a couple of buyers here, but I didn't really see anybody. I mean, there's some people who's a 42,000 share buyer right now that's bidding it up for about eight, six, nine, 80, got a couple of 14,000, it's got a big seller here. So I'm not really sold on it right there. You can see a better view of it. There it is right there as that big buyer. Looks like he came out. He ran it up for about, I don't know, about 20 cents. It's coming back down. I see a lot of reds. I'm seeing like a lot of orders. I'm not really a fan of it this morning, but I'm gonna put this on my B list, not on my A list. Another stock also that's doing great. And because of, what was that news on it? Trading hire at the company now, studies show, co-vaccine potentially affecting against three key varieties of SARS, okay? So this stock obviously came out with some great news. We've been trading this stock for the last couple of days and I don't know, it was kind of weird that I think the CEO put a chat on a tweet on this, something like that. And that made the stock go from $5 to $12 and it backed off. So I don't know if there's a little conflict of interest there or something, but anyway, stock obviously, when you see something that has news like it has today, but it was on a big move already, I don't know, it's kind of a little shady if you know what I mean. But anyway, that stock is obviously moving pretty well. And we're gonna watch that one because we all know vaccines are big businesses. And if you didn't learn that from COVID, now you know why we love a lot of stocks trade on the NASDAQ that are pharmaceutical stocks. But we all know one valuable lesson. When a company doesn't get FDA approval or they lose one of their trials, these stocks get crushed and they do not come back. It's not like earnings. So we all know that these things do not work out pretty well. So we can keep an eye on it though, but stock's obviously doing really nice. We've done really well with it. It's got a couple of shakes.  Maybe you should take very good notes on it so you know how you did on it, okay? Next stock that did pretty well and it's gonna spill into that today is the BTX. BTX, I mean, this thing just went from $30 all the way to 80 on Friday. Seriously, when was the last time you ever seen a stock do that? Well, I hate to say it, you know? But if you go back and look at our Twitter, if you go back and look at our Facebooks and students, I don't need to convince you that. We get like what, one a week maybe like this, maybe? You know, maybe two, minimum two a month. But we get these stocks to go up 30.  Listen, they're there every day. You just don't know where to look. And how do we know where we look? Well, if you're in the room, if you're in the room, you know how we look. And if you're watching on YouTube and Facebook, just do a trial, get in the room. You'll see, we'll teach you how to do it. Because it's all about making money and it doesn't matter what you trade, what the company does, or it's all about, at the end of the day, I have no allegiance to the stock. If it goes back down to 30 or back down to $2, doesn't matter to me. It's what you made for the day. And we did really well on this stock on Friday. Now, this morning, I'm not putting it on my A-list. It's probably gonna go on my C-list because you could see it went to 90, already dropped down to 60. The stock is a category five. Very volatile. You can't trade too many shares of it. Okay, listen, if you just trade 100 shares of it, it was a $3,000 investment. I mean, the thing goes to four went to 40.  You have to make 10,000, you know what I mean? So, but stock is pretty volatile. Once you get into it, you're talking about almost a dollar to $3 spread at some point. Like you need to look at it right now. It doesn't look bad right now. It looks like about a $0.50 spread. But this stock, very difficult to get in and out of it. And you can see just by level two standards, the tier size is very small. So, you know, right away, if the New York stock could change, the Philadelphia, the NASDAQ, the brokerage firms, if they're trading hundreds, why should you go trade more? Always think of that. All right, let's go through the stocks that we got also gonna watch. The stock, I know a lot of you saw this early this morning. It made a nice little pop round 8.15 this morning, ripped from 7.50 up to 9.50. She's kind of holding here pretty strong. I was over here looking at level four a little bit. And we're dealing, we got a big buyer right here. I'm gonna show you him right now. We got this 50,000 share buyer that came in right around 7.50. And he's still there, okay? When he popped up, the stock ran over to 9.50. It's dealing with the seller right here. Now you can see for about 10,000, 6,000. You got about almost 17,000 shares just holding it. But there's a lot of greens going on. You could see that. So it looks like it just took this guy out here for about 7,000. It's gonna be testing this 10,000. So it still looks pretty strong.  But you could see that there are resistance levels right around nine. And when you're looking at the level four, it's not really nine. It's more around that 8.92, 94 price range, okay? So that one also looks pretty good. We already know about OCGN. That one's going back on the watch list. A couple of big buyers out here. Stock trade's a lot of volume. I mean, you got about close to about 100,000 sitting right now between 4.42 and 4.50, 14.50, excuse me. So we gotta take those orders out. And you could see here, let me just change it to on the intraday chart. You could see that basically that's way of resistance levels. Remember, we always taught you. And like I said, if you never heard us before, you say this all the time. Cyber trade university does not teach support and resistance levels, okay? Support and resistance levels do not exist unless that buyer and seller's out there. And remember, that's a lot of problem that people out there trading. And I just want to reiterate that again, because we knew here to see to you, hopefully you're starting to realize that, is that everyone's always focusing on the past. To get about focusing on the past, you gotta focus on the future. And the future are the orders that are out there. As much you think that there's something in the past, is not indicative of the future, okay? The only way it is, is if those orders exist. If they're out there, if they're not out there, it's gonna break it. Another stock I want to put on the watch list, but I don't know, I mean, I'm gonna take this off. Buying is okay, it's about 100,000, GILT. I was looking over here this, I mean, I'm not really getting that many, it's not a really pretty chart honestly, as in orders go on level four. But you gotta, I mean, a 3,000 share seller, come on, at $11, scratch that then, I'm gonna take that one out of my watch list. Okay, we got the SO&N trade in here also, that's moving pretty nicely. A lot of orders just got filled just now, you can see it right here. But it's a cheap stock, you know, level one stock. It's got a nice spread, it's not up a lot. It's about almost 2 million shares trade in pre-market. It's okay, nice resistance levels around 260. The stock obviously was a, you can just move this back over here so you can see it. So, I mean, it was a really nice stock on Friday. I actually did really well on the stock and, you know, there's a stock that was trading. You could trade several thousand shares of it, you know? And as long as you know you can get out of it, which you could see it, the orders do exist out there. But it had a couple of shakes, just be very, very careful of trading it. I'm always, always want you guys to be very careful. And the A-H-T, I'm gonna throw that one, like I said, that was, there's a really big, big, big, big iceberg order right now that is holding pretty strong at 317 right now. Big guy, got almost 115,000 shares right there. You can see him. So he's kind of holding up the fort right there. That's what you call a resistance levels. So, until we get past that, which is not that far away. I mean, you're only about a six cents away. Kind of explains when you look at the chart, you know, that's why the stock tested it at eight o'clock this morning and came right back down.  So that's how you trade.  So anyway, anything I missed, cyber traders, anything that that's also missing that we did not call out, I think we pretty much, shockingly, it's pretty big list for a Monday. And usually I would say half this is probably decent. And we all know there's a whole bunch of them gonna show up right when the market opens up. So, and that's what we're gonna find out. But that pretty much, I think that pretty much does it. All right, so if you're new here to Cybertrade University, if you're a new trial member, you're starting today in the trading room, we just wanna always remind you, please do not buy anything that we trade, okay? You're only here to see if other people make money doing it. Don't count my money. Don't look what we do. We don't tell you what to buy and sell. First of all, if anyone does that, that's illegal, that's just gonna be shut down. I know everybody wants to hear that. That's why we don't call it a hot list. We call it a watch list. You're only there here to watch. So if you're new here to Cybertrade University, you're here to watch and see if other people make money. If you're watching us on YouTube or watching this recording, just like us, friend us, and just be here every Monday, you know what, and maybe every morning at 9 a.m. and if you wanna do a trial, $9 with the worst thing can happen, at the end of the week we'll give you money back. We just want you to see if it's for you or not. That's the biggest issue everyone has to learn. But if you're new here, the trial members that are doing their trials, you're starting on Monday, remember you got up till Friday, make sure you talk to Education Advisor, make sure you signed up for our Tuesday event that we do, and just sit back and enjoy the show, all right? Good luck everyone, happy training. Cybertraders, we'll see you at 9.30, we'll start live commentary once the market opens up, all right, be safe, and let's make some money this morning, all right? So have a good week, it's a new month, let's start fresh.