yn ddiddordeb bod sefydluriau sydd gyrchbyn teud hynny yn gestion gyda gynnig o'r rhaid tryddymym yn tanthog. Gwaith. Kezia Dugdale. Thank you, Presiding Officer. This is my first opportunity in this chamber to pay tribute to Tom McCabe, who made such a contribution to this Parliament and to Scotland. I know I speak for the whole chamber when I say that he will be sorely missed by members from all parties. Can I ask the First Minister what engagement she has planned for the rest of the day? Cake is a member to be elected to this Parliament in 1999, and he was a distinguished member of this Parliament and a distinguished minister. However, above all else, I think that Tom McCabe was a fantastic human being. I know that he will be missed across the chamber, not least by his colleagues in the Labour Party, but particularly by his family, and our thoughts and condolences are with him at this time. He's the only member to be elected on behalf of the Parliament a gwneud hynny o'w mynd i disfyniadau i ymwneud o gyd... Rwy'n credu, gallwn dweud i gwaelwch o讵r y newid o'r proveoedd y Llyfrgelliaid forgot. Ieid y cychwyn cynyddiant, Edinburgh Evening News, diodell y SNP'siosатиol yng Nghymru Cymru, Niall Hay, fel y clywbeth yw y tro cychwyn cyffredigfaith yng nghyrch am Llyfrgelliaid, fe wneud i gyd yr unrhyw i cynnwys mikr, ac yn fwy oedd Mr Hay bod pawn ni yn gwybod. Will the First Minister sack Neil Haye as the SNP's candidate? First Minister? Firstly, Kezia Dugdale is right. I condemn the language used and I condemn the comments made as I always do when anybody steps out of line on Twitter, on Facebook or in any medium. Neil Haye has rightly apologised. Given that we face an election two weeks today, it's now up to the voters to decide, but I wonder if Kezia Dugdale would agree with me that it is important that all of us condemn intemporate statements on Twitter, regardless of where they come from. On 4 April, a senior Labour activist described the SNP as fascist scum. Will Kezia Dugdale, just for completeness, tell us what action Labour took against that activist? Kezia Dugdale, if the First Minister had told me who that was, I'd be delighted to have responded to that. No, no, hang on a second. She hasn't spelled out exactly who it is. I take it very seriously and I will talk to her after today's First Minister's questions because it would be hypocritical of me not to react to what she's saying and I will do that with due consideration. I hope she'll take that into account. Can I say, Presiding Officer, that the condemnation from the First Minister is welcome but it does not go far enough. This is a man who is categorically challenging the right of pensioners to vote. I'm afraid he is. When you look at the detail of his tweets, I would encourage the SNP backbenchers just to take a minute and look at what he said. He is challenging the right of pensioners to vote in the general election. In recent weeks, the First Minister has had to apologise to victims of online abuse from her supporters. She's had to apologise to James Cook of the BBC to ffaisel Islam of Sky News and to a young TV debate audience member who happened to say that she liked what the Labour Party had to say. Rather than simply empathising with the victims, she needs to show some leadership and take on the perpetrators. That starts with the sacking of Neil Haye. It's clear that the First Minister has a problem with words. Her candidate in Edinburgh calls more than half the population in Scotland's traitors. The last time we did First Minister's questions, Nicola Sturgeon could not even bring herself to utter the words, full fiscal autonomy. I know that the First Minister does not agree with the assessment of the IFS and, earlier this week, described it as academic, so can she confirm when the SNP will publish their own costings of full fiscal autonomy for Scotland? The First Minister bear with me while I try to work my way through this dire tribe of utter nonsense from the Labour Party. I find myself wondering, two weeks out from polling day, if we're ever going to get to a stage in this campaign where Labour tries to give the Scottish public a single positive reason for voting Labour. Is it ever going? Is it ever going to move on from SNP bad? Perhaps Labour should reflect on the fact that it's that kind of conduct and behaviour that is leaving them languishing in the opinion polls right now. As Kezia Dugdale quite well outlined in the first part of her rather complex question there, I lead by example when it comes to calling out behaviour that I consider to be unacceptable. I will always do that, regardless of who that unacceptable behaviour comes from. In the case of Neil Hay, I am doing it today, he is apologised and the voters get the chance to cast their verdict two weeks today. In direct response to Kezia Dugdale, the senior Labour activist that I was referring to is Ian Smart. He appears regularly on the television for Labour, putting across the Labour case.  That was in the fourth of April, it's not the first time he's used remarks like that. Again, I would invite Kezia Dugdale before she comes to me lecturing me on what she expects me to do about SNP members. Can I just politely suggest to her that she puts her own house in order first? In her point about full fiscal autonomy—there you go, I've said it—Scotland's fiscal position when we become fiscally autonomous will depend on a number of things. It will depend on our economic performance between now and then. It will depend on the detail of a fiscal framework that will be agreed to determine Scotland's contributions to continued reserved responsibilities. It will depend on the treatment of taxis that under a devolved settlement can't be devolved, such as that in excise duties. However, as I go round this country right now talking to voters, that's not what they're asking me about. They're asking what's going to happen now, this year and next year and the year after. I'm able to tell them that I want real-term spending increases in every year of the next Parliament. What we have Labour boasting about is that they're going to have cuts. Perhaps Kezia Dugdale will take the opportunity to tell us today how many cuts, how many billions and where is the act going to fall under Labour? Kezia Dugdale? Mr Dugdale? The difference is that Neil Haye passed the SNP's vetting procedure. Neil Haye is on the ballot paper. I take the remarks that the First Minister has said about the conduct and behaviour of SNP activists. On the issue of full fiscal autonomy, it's quite clear that the First Minister didn't like the question, but she owes the people of Scotland an honest answer. We know that the SNP's plans to cut Scotland off from UK-wide taxes would mean an end to the UK state pension for Scotland. Here's the thing. On page 5 of the SNP's manifesto, they claim to back UK-wide taxes, such as the mansion tax, yet on page 11 of the same manifesto they support ending UK-wide taxes. It beggars belief, so we know that the SNP's plans for full fiscal autonomy would mean massive asymmetry, but we know that the plan for UK-wide spending would mean the same. This morning, the impartial experts at the IFS said that the SNP will impose austerity for longer than any other party, and that, under the SNP, the block grant for Scotland will be cut. Can the First Minister tell us why she wants to keep austerity going? It's actually quite difficult, and I mean this genuinely. It's quite difficult to take Labour or Kezia Dugdale seriously. When they come to this chamber and the utter phrases like the SNP want to end the state pension, that's not just insulting the SNP. That is insulting the intelligence of every person across this country. If anybody wants a reason just crystallised in a nutshell of why Scottish Labour is dying before our very eyes, then there is that reason. I will continue to campaign in this election on a clear, consistent position. I don't want to see cuts over the next Parliament. I want to see—and it's quoted in the summary of the IFS report published this morning—increases in real terms in spending in each and every year. That's my position. Since this Parliament last met, we've had Labour trying to pretend they didn't want cuts in Scotland to be slapped down by their bosses from Westminster saying, no, there will be cuts. Does Kezia Dugdale want to take this opportunity to come clean?  Those are the questions that we're still waiting on an answer to. The First Minister very swiftly passed over this morning's news from the IFS, because it's very serious news indeed for the SNP. It says that the SNP is offering to spend less than Labour and that it wants austerity to last longer than any other party. That is what it says. It needs to read the detail of the report. There's a truth, First Minister. You can dismiss some of the experts some of the time. You can't dismiss all of the experts all of the time. The IFS says that the SNP's rhetoric doesn't match the reality of their plans for continued austerity. The truth is that whatever the First Minister is calling it, full fiscal autonomy is a bad deal for Scotland. It isn't autonomous, it isn't responsible, and, after this morning, we know that it simply isn't credible. The SNP can change the name of their policy, but they can't change the facts. Does the First Minister still think that billions of pounds of cuts of Scotland to schools, Scotland to Scotland to schools and hospitals really is just academic? A total and utter ramble that it was. First, I have said repeatedly, and I'll say it again today. I do want to take longer to eliminate the deficit than other parties, because I want to see us have the ability to invest more in our economy, in our public services and in lifting people out of poverty. That is a clear difference between my party and the other parties represented in this chamber. On the IFS report that was published this morning, it's full of assumptions and speculations. Let me give you three points in which it gets the SNP plans wrong. Firstly, it doesn't credit for any increases in revenue from the tax rises that we are proposing. Secondly, it gives no credit for the revenue that we would increase from cracking down in tax avoidance. Ironically, the report credits the SNP for being the only party not to simply make up figures on tax avoidance, but then, unfortunately, credits the other parties with the made-up figures. However, the fundamental mis-assumption at the heart of the IFS report this morning is this one. It assumes that the SNP would cut borrowing by 2019-20 to 1.4 per cent of GDP. That is not our plan. Our plan is for borrowing in that year to be 1.6 per cent of GDP. Those are what I would describe as mis-assumptions in the IFS report. However, at the heart of the IFS report, in fact, in its summary on one of the very first pages, is this statement. The SNP would increase total spending in real terms in each year. That is our position. We know from Labour, we know it from Ed Miliband, we know it from Ed Balls, we now even know it from Jim Murphy. Labour would impose additional cuts, so that's the choice that people in Scotland have to make. They can have spending increases with the SNP or cuts with Labour, and the polls are beginning to suggest which one they prefer. Presiding Officer, I would like to add the condolences of myself and my party to the McCabe family. I knew Tom McCabe from the other side of the fence and interviewed him as a journalist. He always struck me as a very strong Labour man but fair in his dealings with everyone, and he was the very best of parliamentarians, and he will be missed. I would also like to ask the First Minister when she will next meet the Prime Minister. On Tuesday, the Scottish Government finally U-turned on its misguided plan to scrap corroboration. It brought to a close one of the most shameful episodes in this Parliament's history. When legitimate concerns were raised last year, the former Justice Secretary dismissed them as being part of a unionist conspiracy and accused opponents of, in his own words, selling out the victims of crime. Today, Lord McCluskey, who is the former Solicitor General, writes that concerns within the SNP's own ranks were silenced for fear that it would upset the independence referendum campaign. Lord McCluskey adds, and I quote, "...the way in which the SNP Government handled this whole matter rings alarm bells for anyone concerned with the democracy in Scotland." I agree. Does the First Minister... First Minister... No, I don't. I would say to Ruth Davidson, I'm not sure if she's ever tried to silence Christine Graham, but I can tell you. In my experience it's simply not possible, but Ruth Davidson raises an issue that I think is very important. I think that it deserves to be treated seriously and substantively. The SNP Government put forward the proposal to abolish the general requirement for corroboration for a very, very good reason, because we and I suspect that this objective is shared across this chamber. We want to see more people who commit crimes that are committed in private, crimes such as sexual assault and rape, brought to trial and then, if guilty, brought to justice. That's the motivation here and it's a good sound motivation that I think everybody would agree with. The former justice secretary then listened to the concerns that were being raised, which was why he asked Lord Bonomy to carry out the work that Lord Bonomy has now carried out. Lord Bonomy produced his report on Tuesday. I want to take the opportunity to thank Lord Bonomy and his team for the work that they have done, but they have recommended a range of changes to the justice system that they think should go ahead if corroboration is to be abolished. The current justice secretary has rightly and properly decided that we need to take a pause and consider those reforms, such as the substantive nature of them and such as the way they would change the justice system in the round and in a holistic way. I take the view that the SNP Government has handled that appropriately and correctly, but we can evidence, because of the position that we are now in, that concerns that have been raised have not been swept aside. On the contrary, they have been listened to and acted upon. Now this Government and indeed this Parliament has the time to look at those issues in the round. I think that that's a good outcome and I think that people across the chamber should welcome it. Those raising concerns had sound motivations too and they were publicly tradduced in this chamber by an SNP Minister. The First Minister's problem is that this isn't an isolated case. There is a pattern here of a majority SNP Government steamrolling through its plans without any heed for rational or reasoned argument. It's not just on corroboration, it's not just on offensive behaviour at football. Worst of all, it is named person legislation imposing upon every single child and young person a state-appointed guardian, stripping resource from those who need it most and interfering in family life for everyone. This First Minister has already delivered a U-turn on her predecessor's plans on corporation tax. She's U-turned on a new woman's super-prison. She's now done the right thing and U-turned on corroboration. Families are asking her on named person, will she do the right thing and U-turn on this too? I think that Ruth Davidson has just demonstrated there why some people out there in the general public become so cynical about politics and politicians. When a Government presses on with a plan, it's described as steam rolling. When we take the chance to listen and reflect and admit that we might not have got everything right, it's described as a U-turn. Actually, what we've done is the responsible and sensible thing. Ruth Davidson's characterisation of the SNP Government's approach to the issue of corroboration is simply not borne out by the facts. If we had been determined to push ahead, regardless of the concerns that had been raised, the abolition of corroboration would have been done by now. It would already have been law. The fact that it's not proves the fact that we have taken the time, firstly under Kenny MacAskill, to set up the Bonimi review and, now under Michael Matheson, to act responsibly on that Bonimi review. On the named person, Ruth Davidson cannot go on describing things that are democratically passed by a majority of this Parliament just because she doesn't agree with them. It's somehow against the democratic wishes of the country. The named person legislation is about making sure that we are doing everything in our power to protect vulnerable children. I stand by that legislation, I will continue to stand by it and I will continue to make sure that I lead a Government that does everything in its power to make sure that the most vulnerable children in our society have the protection that they deserve. The First Minister will be aware that around 90 jobs are threatened at the DBE, Upper El, Pletex factory in Port Glasgow. The company has been based there for many decades and, last week, the workforce was told about its potential future. What action can the Scottish Government take to try to save the jobs and assist the workforce in Port Glasgow? Can the First Minister assure me that representatives of the Scottish Government, his agencies and the PACE team will be in hand to assist those affected? I thank the Stuart McMillan for his question. I am very concerned to learn of potential redundancies at the DBE Upper El factory in Port Glasgow. I know that this will be an incredibly anxious time for the company's employees and for their families, and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time. I give the assurance to the chamber that Scottish Enterprise is already engaging with the company and exploring all possible avenues for support. PACE support has been offered to the company for any employers who might be affected by redundancy, and that support will continue to be available. I assure Stuart McMillan that the Government and its agencies will do everything that we can to provide the support that is needed both to the company and to any employee who might be affected by a redundancy situation. Thank you, Presiding Officer, to ask the First Minister for what reason unemployment has increased in Scotland. Unemployment is down by 14,000 over the past year, and it is now 70,000 below its recession peak in 2010. It is up over the last quarter, in part because more people are moving into the labour market, who previously were not looking for work. Labour market participation, those who are in work or actively seeking work, has now reached an all-time high at just under £3 million. That increase comes as last week's GDP figures confirm that the Scottish economy continues to grow. As demand grows and more people understand that there are job opportunities to be had, they then enter the labour market. I am not sure that the answer does fully respond to the question. The UK as a whole saw a significant decrease in both economic inactivity and unemployment, while Scotland saw a decrease in economic inactivity but an increase in unemployment. What is the First Minister's explanation for the difference? First, my answer directly addressed the question. The question was for what reason has unemployment increased in Scotland, and I gave the direct answer to that. Our employment rate of course is higher than the UK's employment rate. Our inactivity rate is lower, so we are performing well when it comes to employment, but what the recent increase in unemployment says is that there are more people coming into the labour market. That means that we have got to continue to work with our partners and with our agencies to make sure that we are helping those people into work. We will continue to do that, but the overall trends in the Scottish economy are positive, and we should not try to suggest otherwise. As more people see that there are opportunities in the economy, more people will come into the labour market looking for work, and we will continue our efforts to support them as best as possible. Of course, as well as the work that the finance secretary does there, we now have the Cabinet Secretary for Fair Work absolutely demonstrating the determination of this Government to support people into employment, but also, once they are in employment, making sure that they get paid decent wages and have fair work, we will continue to focus very hard indeed on that. I wonder if the First Minister would agree that the austerity agenda proposed by Mr Brown's party and signed up to you by the Labour Party would have a negative impact on the economy and would hinder efforts to try to get more people into work in Scotland. The First Minister Well, in a sense, we do not have to look to the future to know that. We know that from the experience of the past five years, economic experts—economy, there was one from Oxford University quoted yesterday saying that austerity over the past five years has held back economic growth. That is a fact borne out by the views of economic experts right across the country. So my argument is very simple. If we have fiscally responsible spending increases instead of cuts over the life of the next Parliament, we can invest—not just in protecting our public services and in lifting people out of poverty—we can invest in the kind of things that get our economy growing faster, and that has got to be good for everybody across the country. To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to investigate current and historic child sexual exploitation. Child sexual exploitation is an abhorrent crime and has a devastating impact on its victims and their families. All children and young people have the right to be cared for and protected from harm and to grow up in a safe environment.  It sets out a range of actions for the Government and its partners, including the establishment of Police Scotland's National Child Abuse Investigation Unit, which was launched this week. The unit is going to provide specialist support to complex and serious child abuse investigations, including cases of child sexual exploitation. That diverse range of work, which we are undertaking in collaboration with partners across the country, will help to ensure that incidences of child sexual exploitation are identified and acted on and that perpetrators are brought to justice. Can I thank the First Minister for that answer? The First Minister will know that for victims to be believed and to have trust in the system is paramount. Can the First Minister reassure the victim groups and the individuals that I have worked with that the police and the support services stand ready to ensure that the victims receive the correct support to secure the justice that they so badly desire? I can give that assurance. The safety and protection of children is essential, enabling them to reach their potential. We are absolutely committed to doing whatever we need to do to ensure that that happens for all of our children. The Government continues to work in partnership with Police Scotland and with the Crown Prosecution Service to do all that we can to give those who have been exploited, abused or harmed trust in the system so that they can come forward to tell what has happened to them, knowing that they are going to be listened to, and with the confidence that, where there has been criminal activity, it will then be investigated and prosecuted appropriately. That is why we have supported the establishment of the National Child Abuse Investigation Unit. I glance at some of the appalling stories that appear in our newspapers of sex offences committed against children that demonstrate the need for that specialist unit, but it also shows that our approach in supporting a national sex crimes unit in the Crown Office is also working, because that makes a difference in successfully prosecuting those heinous crimes and working to keep our children safer. We will continue to do everything that we can to ensure the safety of our children, which must be one of the most important responsibilities, not just of any Government but of any society. Iain Gray Presiding Officer, yesterday evening, the Cabinet Secretary for Education wrote to members to tell us that the announcement of the chair panel and the remit of the public inquiry into historic child abuse will be delayed until next month. We all want to get this right, but the First Minister must understand that this delay will damage the fragile trust survivors have in the process. Can she give us a guaranteed date for the announcement to help allay the concerns of those survivors? The First Minister Can I say this to Iain Gray? I hope that he takes it as a genuine request to him for his co-operation here, because I think that if we all work together across the political boundaries in this chamber, we can make sure that our efforts to get this right do not damage the trust of those who have the biggest interest in this inquiry. Angela Constance, as Iain Gray said, wrote to members last night to say that there will be a slight delay in the announcement of the terms and the chair of the inquiry. The only reason for that is that we are determined to get this right, because it is so important to the victims of abuse that we do get it right, and they get the opportunity to have their experiences recounted and recorded and to have the sense that they have the justice that they are looking for. It is a plea to everybody across the chamber to hold this Government to account by all means, but let us not divide on this issue. Let us make sure that we work together to ensure that this is a process that builds trust and confidence and does not help to undermine it. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to recent reports that police officers are manipulating the recording of crime statistics by using their discretionary powers to prevent reported incidents being recorded as crimes. Recorded crime in Scotland is subject to independent, rigorous and transparent inspection and regulation involving scrutiny by the national crime registrar, the Scottish Police Authority and Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland. In November 2014, Her Majesty's Inspectorate published its largest independent audit to date of police incident and crime recording decisions, and that audit found that Police Scotland's own auditing of crime recording is good. Aileen Murray? Her response, but unfortunately the Scottish people do not seem to have confidence in police Scotland's crime statistics. A recent survey by the Scottish Police Authority reports that three quarters do not believe the Scottish Government's assertion that crime in Scotland is falling. In light of the reports in the press at the weekend, will the First Minister ask God at Scotland to undertake an investigation into the accuracy of recorded crime statistics as a matter of urgency, so that victims of crime can be confident that the crimes they report are not being downgraded to meet crime statistics targets? Is this another mcaskall mess that his successor will be forced to try to rectify? I took time in my original answer to set out the inspection and regulation that recorded crime is already subject to in Scotland. I thought that that would have been an assuring answer for the member, but clearly not. Anyway, let me have another go. People contact the police for a variety of reasons, which generally result in an incident being created on the command and control incident management system. Many incidents, such as assisting the public or crime prevention activity, are recorded, but they do not result in a crime report being raised. That long-standing practice is routine, it is legitimate and completely in line with other police forces. Interestingly, the audit that I referred to earlier on, part of that audit, looked at non-crime-related incidents, those incidents that are reported to the police but never result in a crime report. The audit found that the vast majority, 87 per cent to be precise, of the more than 1,200 such incidents that they sampled had been classified correctly, and only a minority, 6 per cent of the incidents that had not been classified correctly related to a crime clearly being committed, but no crime report being traced. I would have thought that the views of Her Majesty's inspectorate, where in that audit they described the recording of crime and incident decisions as good. I would have thought that that should have been sufficient for the member, but we will continue to make sure that those things are robustly scrutinised because the general public—this is where I agree—have a right to know that and have confidence in the system. To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the figures from the Trussell Trust, suggesting that a number of people in the UK relying on food banks is expected to pass £1 million. The number of people who experience food poverty is increasing, and that is utterly unacceptable in a country as prosperous as ours is. The Trussell Trust figures continue to show that the most common reasons for people using food banks are benefit changes, delays and low income. The UK Government must take the responsibility for the impact of its welfare reform or welfare cuts, as I prefer to call it, programme. We are investing almost £300 million, including £1 million over the next two years, to combat food poverty to help those most affected by those changes. However, if we want to see a reduction in those being forced to rely on food banks, then we need a party that will seek to reverse the undoing of our social security system, not continue to rip it apart, and that is what my party wants to do. Does the First Minister agree that, with mounting evidence from the third sector and indeed from front-line professionals, that the austerity policies of the UK coalition Government have had a devastating and appalling effect on the most vulnerable in our society, and that the way to achieve a progressive alternative is to vote SNP on the 7th of May? The austerity agenda order. The Labour benches seem to be getting quite excited there at the prospect of voting SNP or May the 7th. Maybe there's more doing it. Maybe there's more going to do it than even we expected. The austerity agenda that the coalition parties have presided over and want to continue and the cuts that Labour clearly want to continue will drive more and more people to food banks, and we know that if the Tories get the worst of welfare cuts, they are still to come. I do want to see an alternative to that. I do not believe that it is right that we continue to see some of the most vulnerable people in our society driven into poverty. That's why I want a reversal to the cuts, modest spending increases, and why this Government will continue also to prioritise getting more and more people on to the living wage. We'll keep doing that, and we'll keep standing up against the cuts that would make this matter worse. Thank you for that answer, First Minister's questions. We are now moved to members' business. Members who are leaving the chamber should do so quickly and quietly.


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All right. Good morning, Sabra traders. Welcome on back here to close out our week here this Friday, October 14th Great to see Michael and Leda and Grant and all of us inside the live trading room Great to see all this back on social media Facebook live and YouTube. Let's get things started folks We have this lace trade pushing back up for what like the third fourth straight row Day in a row here. This stock ended up making a nice pop prior to eight o'clock and then just recently Unfortunately it tried to make that squeeze and break that pop over five dollars But it fell flat ended up breaking above it But ended up just really getting weak no real pop and reaction that you would want to see off that level Not ruling it out, but as far as a pre-market trade if it's not gonna break higher There's only one other way the stock is going to go at the time So, you know, hey this stock lace we ended up doing really well on back from yesterday back from Tuesday from Wednesday of last week So just to show this at least from yesterday what what we caught in pre-market early this yesterday morning off of 320 popped early prior to seven o'clock Then ended up making a nice move after the market had opened up broke over four bucks again ran up 50 plus cents north So great trade at the time again, though What goes up eventually comes back down if it's not gonna look to break any higher It's gonna break lower so it ended up breaking below support Thankfully it ended up moving back up for like a mid-afternoon play. That was nice to have but then even now this morning Albeit, it's making the lower highs. It's still pretty strong. It's up 19 plus percent You know what? You got a little time here. I don't mind just checking Benzinga pro just out of curiosity for any news It doesn't influence my decision-making honestly, but just out of curiosity. So Leaser photonics news came out It looks like shares trading higher after the company announced that it is implementing an aggressive hiring campaign Due to sizable increase in the leads and inquiries. All right. Well, that's the news that came out at 822 this morning Actually first headline a 704 but nonetheless nice reaction early on for the lace trade. Hopefully this keeps pushing It's a new IPO. So as much as we've been following the stock really the majority of this week Well, it only came out like a week before that maybe a week before that So, you know all-time high is at 550. It's getting pretty close there folks So, you know once this could pop 550 there is no historical resistance to work with there So yeah, definitely for right now. We'll put the lace trade at least on our watch list All right, so I'll tell you market obviously is pushing up from yesterday No need to really recap what we all ended up seeing yesterday right coming off the CPI report You know everything ended up bouncing back up everything ended up popping back up It was a beautiful day. So, you know a lot of these name brand companies and stocks that we had on our list I mean, hey, you know, we were just following the market So yesterday morning the chip stocks were down big like NVIDIA and AMD and you know that ETF SOXL All moved up heading into the late morning early afternoon really good runs on all of them Neo Affirm any of these sideless stocks that we tend to trade, you know on and off They all ended up moving up yesterday. So let's go from top to bottom I'm sure that we could run into a couple of them here as we go through But let's see what we could add here to our main morning watch list as the lease begins to Sneak back up to five All right, so I am already this stock also we ended up trading yesterday But it was really brief like one of us had called it out and at the time It was kind of like low volume, but we ended up trading it for a little bit ended up making a much better push This morning in pre-market ended up pushing up really well from like three upwards to like three fifty ended up breaking that going into the Eight o'clock move right here pushing up to four So, you know, I am a really nice run from yesterday I thought it was off lower volume at the time But definitely trading good volume here this morning looking flat here going into the open So perhaps we'll shake down first Retest that 350 to be support and then we'll see what could happen out of this trade So yeah, looks great for right now. I am already we'll put this on our list here At the I am already we had the ATX I also in pre-market early this morning And this is still pushing stock that we ended up trading really for the last like you know A couple of weeks on and off we ended up catching this run up But then eventually it came back down and then on top of that I think news came out of like a common stock offering or direct offering of shares that ended up diluting the price the stock for quite a Bit so now it's made a pretty strong push But what I want to show here is I made a call out inside the trading room earlier I hope that everyone saw it and then took advantage of this as it's pushing You know, hey, I said ATX I has a gap to fill and I was referring to the daily chart there If we could break over the price 307 I wrote that at 845 Eastern time this morning Looks like John just got out at 327 so he ended up taking profits from earlier You know, hey, this stock has a big gap to fill You can see a drop down here gap down from the sixth into the seventh Thursday into Friday last week You know, I think that's where we ended up seeing the direct offering of shares news announcement Well at the high here this day was 307 so once it could break that which it did earlier Much better run that we're getting so ATX I we're gonna put this back on our list Hopefully it continues, you know for as much as this ended up running up here in pre-market I would like to think it's gonna pull back find some support after and then we'll see What could happen nice push up to 340 here getting close to 350 All right, let's see what else we have here folks the NT and X trade This was like more spotty throughout pre-market. Maybe this could be earnings related I'll just double check this stock. We have called out off of news or you know off a big move in the past I remember so NT and X shares trading higher not earnings After they're trading higher following a Wall Street Journal report indicating the company is exploring A sale after receiving takeover interest by the rumor sell the news right so it's possible to see this You know continue to push up later on this morning or shortly thereafter and I don't mind putting this on our watch list right now Probably be near the middle or bottom by the end of it. I like the first three a lot more so far and Perhaps this one as well TT. Oh, oh, you know pulled back a little bit after the eight o'clock move But you know if you could re break back over three hold above that price Well, you know that could be a nice second wind type of move here for this trade. So T2 TT. Oh, oh, we'll put on our list We're familiar with this one also All right now We're kind of dipping into the cheapies here like 40 cent stock 12 cent stocks skip overall of that And then we're dipping into under 5% pretty much from that point, right?  That's down big like percentage wise. I remember yesterday. We had a stock like RLMD. That was down 85 90% led to a nice pre-market dead cap balance to that point. There's nothing like that here on the loser side this morning You know wouldn't have expected name brand to be on the loser side here unless if it's earnings But we'll check out the IMUX perhaps IMUX was a huge runner from yesterday back from Wednesday of this week as well I was surprised to see how well it ended up trending up heading into the mid to late morning here topped off right off big level 1015 I know that Fausto is gonna look to go over this example actually in his Introductory webinar later on this morning. So for all of us on YouTube Facebook live Just make sure you go right to our website register for our Introductory today trading webinar event later on this morning Fausto does that every week He's gonna go over this IMUX example here and seeing how a big iceberg order was pinning this down under 1015 up until well it ended up holding here off support pushing up and as soon as it broke back over 1015 ended up leading to a really strong continued move up now at that point though it ended up topping off right Directly off of a historical level that Robert and I caught together on a coaching call right from the weekly chart here This 1165 1170 ish was a really strong support I'm sure that there could be a little historical resistance perhaps above 12 here But otherwise we were focused on 1166 the line that you just saw right there Well it ended up topping off there right led to it actually a great top on the intraday and a great reversal for a short Put that line back to 66 there Now hey heading into the market open this stock is very tradable not really showing great direction here at least But it's down over 5% it's shortable again on my platform Which is nice so perhaps we could take advantage of this like we did from yesterday and the drop-off that we got off the highs But yeah heading into the open the IMUX will keep on our radar here Not everything's up Not everything's up Plug actually like my arch nemesis lately ended up dropping off quite a bit here And we'll take a look at the news. So this is earnings related. I believe plug sees fiscal year 22 revenue Just compared to the estimates. I guess not as good says the revenue impact reflects some larger projects that are potentially being completed in 2023 instead of 2022 due to the timing and broader supply chain issues So that that report just came out at 9 o'clock 9 0 1 Eastern big drop off right away on plug I'm sure F cell will go with it in sympathy, but this is like watching paint dry So I have no interest in in F cell plug is extremely tradable Not just in terms of the pace and the move, you know You can get more sense per share likely on a trade for this stock, but it's just as liquid You know this stock trades really good volume on a day-to-day Penny spread at that and we'll have a very filled in order book when the market does open So keep that in mind for plug I don't have my book map my level for open for this trade But you could even see here the volume increased as it ended up breaking under 18. So I would assume and this actually confirms that 18 is a big level looking at the volume bar histogram here for my trade station matrix This is my level 3 program right here. All right So there's one, you know name brand company a stock that we at least are really familiar with inside our live trading room But that's just about it not a whole lot left on the loser side dipped under 5% rather fast Let's take a look at stocks like neo neo's up, you know near two and a half percent just a beautiful move up though right now You know, I'll be likely following that here heading into the open personally But let's see like what looks best from all these sideless stocks, you know, it seems like the Chinese EV companies are Moving well in tandem. So Lee and ex-pev and whatnot So the cruise lines move up pretty nicely earlier this morning CCL trades a ton of volume day-to-day like one of the most heavily traded stocks early in the morning throughout pre-market and Of course throughout the entire day, but yeah, I mean, hey CCL is making the same type of gradual move up as neo Oh, that's right Chuck. All right Well, maybe I could look for this on the swing side coming up later into the morning or even into the afternoon But Mara is pushing back up again very similar to the others that we ended up just looking at We're gonna go over the swing trading course coming up folks later on this morning We'll reiterate all the details to you folks as far as what's ahead one week from today Our swing trading program our course is gonna be launching next Friday live classes We'll begin next Friday at 12 p.m. Eastern time and I'd mentioned to us inside the live trading room yesterday And I mean for all of us on social media even from last week I took a couple of swings on Mara did well on the first and the second I ended up taking a small loss Thankfully I got out in time before and the crap storm ended up really coming down hard. Yes last week But with that, you know, I'm interested in Mara So perhaps later this morning or even heading into the early afternoon Should we see a retracement small retracement on the SMP then perhaps I can gear myself up for a swing entry All right, but we'll tell you more about that at least heading into the market open All right, there's the link for all of us in social media Facebook live YouTube That's gonna be in our YouTube comments section right there for all of us live right now If you're interested in joining us at 11 o'clock Eastern time for our live trading crash course Nasdaq book viewer I believe it's active trading using the Nasdaq book viewers the title But feel more than free to click on that link to register any questions that you folks have feel more than free to send over through email As well always like to post my email here at the end of these streams Josh at C2 trading calm Checking out Benzinga pro here lastly folks before we wrap up, you know All the sideless stocks that we normally trade they look good neo Mara Airlines cruise lines. I'm not gonna put any one in particular on the list for that reason I'm gonna have 40 stocks on the list fight do that So, you know, they all look good Mara neo the airlines So if you personally do well on a stock that's trending up that has great liquidity and pre-market Then I'm sure you're gonna be more inclined to follow it, right? But otherwise we have a we have a really good list on top though between the least the IMRA and a few others You know otherwise All right for all of a sudden social media Facebook live YouTube I believe the Faust we will be back for you folks come Monday morning next week just to do the morning meetings again It was nice to tag in for him But I know that he's itching and looking forward to getting back to doing his normal You know meetings with you folks here in the morning, but for all of us inside the live trading room He'll be joining us back at the opening bell So he'll be right with us here at 9 30 coming up So for Michael Brian Simon Chuck Grant and all this year live. I look forward to talking to you folks pretty soon Take care. I'm a cyber group member today Just click the link below and receive all these amazing products and a world of knowledge for just $9 Do it today


Totally desexualized, though. It just makes children think about men's penises. John Penis Man is a Danish animated children's television series about a man and his very long penis. It premiered on January 3rd, 2021. So, very recent hot topic. Here's the premise.  Nothing strange about that.  John uses his prehensile penis, which stretches through his clothes as a tool, such as to tame lions or to fly about like a helicopter. But it is also often acts independently of John. Getting him into a lot of trouble. We can all relate. Development and broadcast. The series is aimed at four to eight year olds. Just so you see this, right? It's not like this series is for adults. John Penis Man is four to eight year olds and was developed by Danish public broadcaster DR. In association with the Sex Education Association and Sex Sam Fund. I'm sure if we would look further into this, we would end up in some sort of occult organization yet again. It premiered in January 2021 on DR's children's channel DR Ramazjan. The first season, consisting of 13 five minute episodes, was made available on the internet on 2nd January 2021. Let's see about the reception. I am reading this for the first time by the way. John Dillerman was popular in Denmark upon release with 250,000 children viewing the first episode in five days and it went viral. The series has found fans among Danish TV personalities and children. According to a DR executive, children were making snowmen, drawings, dolls and songs about John Dillerman.  Oh, you think? Or as making light of the Me Too movement against sexual violence against women. You really made it about the Me Too movement.  It's a children's show. This should be only about pedophiles. Nothing else. The DR executive says that the series was part of DR's ambition to make children's content that dares to tackle embarrassing, difficult, quirky and funny topics. Sure, or to super sexualize, hypersexualize kids. You don't think, no? That it was about being true to oneself and one flaws and that it acknowledged children curiosity about the human bodies.  An eight year old kid. He said that the series was desexualized as it can possibly get.  It's absolutely desexualized and that it was developed together with a child psychologist and other professionals who reviewed the scripts to ensure that children wouldn't misinterpret what they saw. No, how could you misinterpret that by a middle-aged man with a long dick? That's no. There is no room for misinterpretation. That's totally normal. That's totally okay. It's not pedophilia at all. Right? Of course, it wouldn't be Bobby's perspective if we wouldn't have the trailer or the intro rather. Turkish looking fellow, I think.  It's totally desexualized though. It just makes children think about man's penises, but it's desexualized. Yeah. What is that? Let me just check this. So he's carrying rubbish.  And this has to be this way. When I was a kid, there was this cartoon called Masupilami. I don't know if anybody watched it. It was this yellow animal and he had a long tail, right? And he could do a lot of things with it. Long tail. It was pretty cool, but it was an animal with a long tail, a Masupilami.  And he uses a helicopter. He jumps on it. And there are children, as you can see, very happy waiting for a gentleman's cock. I don't know about the spiral here. Anybody? No? Could be, of course, just again, a crazy conspiracy of mine. It has nothing to do with reality. Of course, no. It's completely normal. Everything is normal. Again, Trump is gone and everything is normal.  And it's okay. That's totally all right. Again, those are pedophile grooming symbols. Those are used by pedophiles. And we find them throughout media. We find them on products. We find them on toys, even. Very disgusting. And they use the spiral as well as a pedophile sign. Parents are warning over innocent looking symbols. This is to groom children. This is what they use to recognize each other as well as pedophiles. Those are pedophile symbols. And now, coincidentally, or coincidentally, completely coincidentally, with the same colors, red and white, that the penis is displayed in, or this character, John Dillamond, the spiral in the background as well. Interesting. By the way, the spiral, or rather this ice cream truck that you can see here. Again, the heart itself is already a pedophile symbol as well. As far as I know, this one stands for pedophiles that are after young girls and this one after young boys. And it seems, if you ask me, that they combined it both into one symbol. And for people don't know, I don't know how it is in the States, but in Europe, I've seen this symbol on ice cream. On ice cream, they use this exact symbol. I've seen it throughout many countries in Europe and even in Thailand. So there you have it. It's an ice cream van. And they use this symbol. But again, it's just coincidence, blah, blah. Just crazy conspiracy theories.  It's all normal. He gets annoyed because the bad, bad lion is attacking the children.  Who is the lion? John Dillerman. Shooter, the old grandma and always back again. That is the intro. That is the intro to John Dillerman.


Not a car salesman, not a car salesman, but an advisor, an investor. And somebody that they can say, you know what, that really makes sense. Andy, well said, you know what, we'll take it. All right guys, so I'm gonna give you the objection, how to overcome, I saw it cheaper somewhere else. Now listen, time out, do me a favor, all right? Stop what you're doing.  I wanna explain this to you. If you merely watch this video, you will get crushed when you turn it off and you go back out on the line. There's no way physically possible that you can watch this video and get this down without writing it down. So, if you're raising your hand right now and you're saying Andy, I wanna know how to overcome the objection, I saw it cheaper somewhere else.  By the way, how I learn, and I say I have a learning disability because I don't know why I can't see something visually, I have to write it down over and over and over again.  Write it down, because if you don't, every word advances this cell forward or takes it backwards. And this is such a crucial objection that we overcome here. I actually took and wrote it down on the whiteboard for you so that you could write it down word for word and not say, oh, I get kinda how he's saying it, let me go try it. No, you take one sentence out of this close, it ruins the whole deal. And by the way, when you have it memorized, you can use it however you want. You can weave in and out of it as you're working your deal. But if you don't become a one percenter and write it down, by default, you'll automatically become the other 99% that aren't growing and aren't making more money.  And by the way, maybe you use 70 or 80% of this and then tie in your own word tracks with it. That's fine. You don't have to be a second rated version of me. Be a first rated version of yourself. But write it down, say it over and over and then you can decide what you wanna take out of it, what you wanna keep in it and then make it in your own. My job is to train and create the most highest sales people in the world. So here we go. So overcome the objection. I saw it cheaper somewhere else. I say, wow, Mr. and Mrs. Customer, I can see that you've really done your homework here. Nobody could, watch this word, accuse you of being impulsive. I cannot speak for the other vehicles found on the other lots in other towns. I can only represent the vehicles that I have in my inventory right now. You're probably not looking for cheap, are you? Watch this. This is where it ties it in. Most people aren't. Look at this. See these key words? You're probably looking for value and value for the price and that's exactly what you found here. And then I'll go into the close.  Customer says, hey, we saw one of these cheaper down the road. I say, wow, Mr. and Mrs. Customer, I can see that you've probably done your homework here, right? That's awesome. You need to say that, okay? That lets them know like, man, it sounds like you've done a lot of research. But guess what? I use the word homework. It's a good word. People don't use homework during negotiating. It's a very calm word that they haven't heard. It's very sly. It flies under the radar. Wow, I can see that you've really done your homework here. Nobody could accuse you of being impulsive. I cannot speak for the other vehicles found on the other lots in other towns. I can only represent the car that I have here with me right now, okay? You're not looking for cheap, are you? Most people aren't. I tie in a social proof close with it. And then I say, you're probably looking for value for the price. And that's exactly what you found.  When it comes to the safety of your family and picking out the right vehicle, I know that we wouldn't shortcut our family for 1,000, 1,500, or even $2,500. So I can't tell you why the other cars on the other lots are less money. I can only tell you what I have here and I have right now. And I can tell you that this car is definitely worth the value that you have found and that the price, it may be a little higher. And sometimes great value works that way. The prices that are the lowest aren't usually the highest in business. So if we're high in all the critical areas that are important to you and your family and we're the best in price, isn't that how a great business works?  Not a car salesman, not a car salesman, but an advisor, an investor. And somebody that they can say, you know what, that really makes sense. Andy, well said, you know what, we'll take it. Close your deal. And now for the first time in your life, you realize that's what word tracks are. When Andy keeps talking about becoming a master closer, I tell you, there's four types of sales people and I'm not gonna get off on it here, but there's salesmen, okay, or my bad, whoa, there's order takers and tour guides, okay. You know who they are. They hand out business cards and walk people around a lot. They're sales people, they know the product knowledge well, they know how to write up a deal, but they can't close the screen door, okay. Then you have sales, you have closers. Closers are people that can close a deal, but they negotiate down every single time, okay. They don't close for all the money. Then you have master closers. Master closers are people that can close anybody, anytime, any place, not only closing, but closing for all the money. They're literally like Alcatraz, nobody can escape. This is my dream sales person that I work on and give my life to to build. So I can literally change the history of how sales people are seen in the world. And I wanna share this with you. I have hundreds of war trucks just like this one. Learn your first one today. Take this video and pause it and write this down all the way.  And when someone says I saw it cheap or someone else, you come out of the gate, you're positive, you don't change your state and you close the deal. Hey guys, I just wanted to tell you thank you for watching the full video. I started when I was 18 training just like you. No matter where you're at in life, I wanna tell you this, being committed is all that it takes. I put up free training content on YouTube every single day to make sure that I can take you to the next level of life. I have over 500 free videos. Please make sure that you like the video. Shoot me a comment below and shoot me a text message. I'd love to get to know you, okay? If I haven't met you yet,<PHONE_NUMBER>, take a second guys, shoot me a text message, you're important to me.  We're gonna go all the way to the top together. 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Oguni youths have shut down the Alema O'Nea area of East West Road over the alleged failure of the federal government to mobilise contractors to fix it. They complained that the road had remained deplorable for years, while the Allato Bridge, which serves as the only route to O'Nea oil and gas-free zone, pot-hack-up refinery, and other multinational companies, was collapsing. The youths had earlier given the federal government a 14-day ultimatum to mobilise contractors to the site, or face a shutdown of the nation's oil and gas activities. Brandishing placards, the use under the aegis of Oguni Youth Federation, took to the streets before 7 a.m. barricaded the Aleto Junction and Pot-hack-up Refinery Junction. While joining us to discuss this is Celestin Alcobarri. He is the national coordinator of Oguni Solidarity Forum. Thank you very much, Mr. Celestin, for joining us. Thank you for having me.  So, I know that stretch because I have lived in Pot-hack-up for years and I have known of cases of robberies, even early hours of the morning when people are trying to ply that road. It's been bad for years, but I'm wondering why it has taken this long for the people in those areas to appeal to the senses of the federal government and of course the Ministry of Works. We know that every year, every budget cycle, monies are allocated for these federal roads to be fixed or to be reconstructed. What has your organization been doing to follow up the progress reports coming from the Ministry of Works? Why has it taken so long to get any explanation whatsoever? Well, I need to correct the impression. The protest is being carried out under the auspices of Oguni People's Assembly, OPA. So, OPA, Oguni People's Assembly is an umbrella body, a coalition of every other organizations within Oguni, including the organizations that are in need. Yeah, that's taken this long for us to react because the government constantly tells us that the contract for that road has been awarded and actually the contractor is doing that 15 kilometer stretch, the arrow CC. They have a plant in Oguni. So, you have to give them a chance, you know. And so, we have got them pushed to the wall. We are tired of waiting. And the road has become so bad, terribly bad that a journey of 25 minutes from Potakata to Oguni now takes people 24 hours, 48 hours from 24 to 48 hours, especially at the trucks, any of the trucks fall on the road because of the bad sports. So, it's been terribly bad, terribly bad.  So, that's why we decided that you can see the bridge, tankers and trucks fall into this bridge from time to time. And these tankers are not owned by Oguni people. They are owned by other Nigerians that convey petroleum products from the refineries or trucks that are carrying heavy metals from the seaports or the petrochemical plants. And these are all federal government investments. This same road leads to Aqaibom and Cross River. So, all the trucks from Aqaibom and Cross River also pass here. And so, we've been pushed to the wall. The river has got into our neck and we can no longer breathe. And that's why we are acting now. I'm curious because now that your people are on that road, and don't get me wrong, protests are okay, but you have barricaded that road, meaning that it's difficult for people to go to work, people who are going to walk in a limit petrochemical, the refinery, people cannot go, people who are traveling cannot ply that road. Yes, we know it's a difficult journey. But of course, economic activities also have been halted on that stretch, meaning that the government is not necessarily affected by this, but it's your people, the people in river states that are really adversely affected by this move of yours. So, how do you get the government attention if it's the people themselves that are feeling the heat? Well, that's really very unfortunate. But that is a price you have to pay for every good thing. You know, that road is for all of us. Since government has refused to do anything about it, we have decided to shut down economic activities within that region. And unfortunately, a lot of people have to pay the price. But I can tell you that just like food, when it is being cooked, you can see, you know, the conflict between the fire and the food and everything. But when it is done, people enjoy the meal. So I think that's exactly what is happening. When they fix this road, all of us will enjoy it. We'll forget the pains. But it is better to suffer a little discomfort, you know, to fix these things once and for all. How many memos or how many petitions have been sent to the members that are representing the part of river states on the national assembly? How many have you sent? How many times have you picketed the federal ministry of works to deal with this issue? Like I said at the beginning, monies are devoted to the refurbishing or the fixing of these federal stretches. I mean, if we start to open the books on the East West Road and the federal highways that are yet to be fixed, but monies are still, you know, given out every budget cycle, we probably would not end this show. But in your case, because this one concerns you and concerns your businesses and your economic activities, how much pressure have you put on the federal government? Because it's not enough to do a protest on that axis and block the road. How much information has been going back and forth between your people and the federal ministry of works and members that are representing your constituency on the floor of the national assembly? Well, let's let's let's put the record straight. All the roads that falls under section one to four from Warren to Calabar, section one to four on the East West Road, they are under the Ministry of National Data, not the Ministry of Works. Okay. But graciously, Mr. President, in September 2018, after the visit of some of the Goni leaders from Mr. President, graciously, Mr. President, gave this route to transfer the route from the Ministry of National Data to PTRDF. That is Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund. They are the people funding the Kano Abuja Road. Normally, it was 155 billion, now over 900 billion. They are the people funding the Lagos Abaddon Road, 600 billion. They are the people funding the Second Niger Bridge. It was 200 billion, now over 400 billion because of the access route. So, Mr. President, graciously, transfer this route to PTRDF. Now, the Minister for Niger Data goes with Acrabio. When they are asked PTRDF to transfer the money meant for the road, so it's, and PTRDF knows we pay money to contractor directly. That is why people are working in their minds under us. So Acrabio, we do the roads. That's the problem we have. But we are saying that Prote Miameji is borrowing money to build a way across the country. Build money that they are borrowing will be paid with oil from the Niger data. For Shula, you're building about 800 roads. The money he's using will be taken from Niger data. So, I have come because Acrabio cannot get money from anywhere to build these roads. And why take it from PTRDF in the first place? Because all the roads under PTRDF, they meet every fortnight with Mr. President being represented by the chief of staff. So, they meet from 9 o'clock in the morning to 5 p.m. in the night. Every month, they meet to reassess and look, evaluate what's happening. And that's why work is going on there night on these roads that I tell you. And that was what, you know, Mr. President, ambition for the Niger data roads. And that's what would have happened. But he took the roads back. And that's why we are protesting, asking that the roads be sent back to PTRDF. Because we are tired of waiting. You say you are looking for money, you are looking for money. When there are costs of money, where this road, what to be fixed? And you took it from there. So, that's what, but from our interaction with them recently, we observed that it's like, God, we are trying to change the contractor. That is not our business. You can bring any contractor you want or you have. But we want our road to be fixed. So, that's just the thing. And you have said that you have had interactions with them. You gave an ultimatum. That ultimatum seems to have expired.  Do you think that Senator Goswyl Okwabi will bulge anytime soon? Is he going to find the money that he's looking for anytime soon? I mean, I'm wondering where he's going to find money. But if you have said that there was money allocated and he went to get it, the onus is on him to get the money back from wherever he took it and, you know, to fix your road. But do you see him doing that anytime soon? And don't forget that these protests that you are protesting is at the expense of your people and the economic activities. And don't forget the cost of living in Nigeria is rising high and everybody's trying to survive. So where does this all end? Well, incidentally, Chief Goswyl Okwabio is a protocol boy. He's from Okwabiom. He's an anti-debtant. These people pass through that road to protocol and to everywhere. So, he has written for a meeting with us. But he couldn't come. The pump said, and I discussed with our leadership, but we insisted that he should come. And I expect that he will come. But if he doesn't come, our people have decided to remain on that road. Don't forget that as long as that road is stopped down, no activity will go on in the two refineries, the petrochemical plant, the fertilizer plant, the two sepots, the oil and gas free zone, and several other economic activities in the area. And I can tell you that this road, contributes trillions of naira on the daily basis into the coffers of Nigerians and the government. The border upon the road that has been built, we empty onto this road. So that's why we are asking that this road should be fixed. If it is for the benefit of not only the Ghana people, but also the people of Persia, Kyrgyzstan people of Persia, and the people of Persia, all of them of Persia. Okay. Is the government of Governor Newsom Wike strongly behind you? Are they in support of this protest? Because the governor is known as Mr. Projects. He's been developing a lot of roads in the States. Has he said anything about this protest? And what's his position in closing? Well, I'm not to hate anything from him, but I know that when he took over power as governor of River State, I hate that the companies in this region contributed money. So give to him to fix the road. And we were thinking that it would fix the road. But we are where we are. I know the temporary measure we are carrying out. Some of the people, the road was fixed in some bad spots. But it was not up to three months and we got back to where we used to be. And so this time we need a permanent solution. So he means that whoever the government asked to patch the roads did a showdy job because you're saying that in three months everything collapsed all over again? No, I mean, I would say that it did a showdy job. If you know the volume of traffic on that road, do you know how many trucks, you know, that convey heavy metals from the two sepals to neighboring Amo, Abia or the Eastern States? So, but the construction person should have known that that's a heavy traffic. I mean, every construction person, whoever's constructing a road would know that this is a heavy duty road. This is a highway that has trucks because there are refineries on that stretch. They should know when they're patching up or they're trying to fix the road partially. They should know what they're doing. But again, I say maybe he did a showdy job and that's why in three months the road has gone back to worse. Well, I can't defend the contractor, but it's different between rehabilitation and reconstruction of the road. I think if they are constructing this road now, it would be quite different from mere patching for people to, for not filling the portals for people to pass. So, I think we are asking that, and I mean, we shouldn't even beg government to fill this road because it is, it is, it is, it is the trucks and the attack cars that use the road, even more than the... And you pay taxes, don't you? Even more than our neighbors. What? And you pay your taxes, so your taxes are supposed to fix the roads? Of course, we do, we do, we do. So, but this one, graciously, Mr. President, transfer this road to PRDF. So, our brother Attabio, to take this road back to PRDF, we want to see contractors on site. All right. We want to end this madness once and for all. Okay. This approach must leave. Well, Celestina Poveri is of the Ogoni Solidarity Forum. Thank you very much for speaking with us. We appreciate it. We'll keep our eyes on what's happening on that stretch. And of course, you keep us informed on the recent developments as the days go by. Thank you very much for speaking with us. Thank you. Thank you all for being part of the conversation. It's been a very interesting one. I am Mary-Anna Connell. I will see you tomorrow on Plus Politics. Have a good evening.


It's official one punch man is my favorite anime of all time before we get started I have one thing to say my discord server. It's finally live right now.    Oh my god. I gotta put myself into the show, okay? Come on. Come on crazy shit I love how we're picking up from the last episode literally So polite this gorilla Bro if I ever saw a gorilla, this is the last voice I I'd hear him using Thank you misunderstood him.  Why is he bald? Oh The gorilla has a nosebleed give him a tissue Who's who's walking up to them? Oh, thank God.  Oh god, I can't imagine what's coming I'm staying man is coming.   I'm gonna do that next time I go up to somebody's house Come outside Of course They have an a-story building, but there's nothing in those eight stories.  This is a normal-looking villain.   I expect this something crazy. This is normal to me. This guy just looks completely normal I've seen way worse. Come on one punch man. I expect worse from you I Am carnage Kabutops I feel it down with the sickness is coming on Holy shit, man. This is tough. Look at his face Oh Every episode is crazy Did they have a battlefield for them This is where we taught the guy he said must I say how amazing the action is in a show I Don't care what anybody says bro. Nothing touches the action in the show.  This is where the real action is.   I would have been surprised Don't just stand there use your head Where's ball second when we need him? Imagine the blowjobs this guy gives.   Look at that.        Oh my Okay, I feel like Satama now.  I don't do like day. No, no way legs of a pussies All right, I got that down Just a banana in the morning.  I have the easy on Especially in the summer the entire day and I No way, that's not training the mind Literally that that'll make me become a terrorist. I can do everything else, but this is these things. Yeah, I'll kill myself easily What's the harm of taking my life Yeah Okay, okay. Okay. See that's where you got me, bro. This is why you don't do squats This is why you skip leg day because you're gonna end up bald, bro He fought he fought starfish man Why did you just give up your sneakers to everybody? You're giving human beings way too much credit, man Hey, I love how he's literally fighting Like the final boss in this building and they're just having a conversation about how he came to be how he developed his powers I Asked everybody how do you describe this this show? This is literally deep that they're the scene to describe the show. I don't know how else to put it I love it. That's the greatest anime origin story I've ever heard in my life I just realized he's supposed to be like a scorpion.  Holy anybody that says this show is a meme your life is a meme, okay? Use your one punch already. Oh god, he lost his eyes. I told you what happened when an anime character loses his eyes I definitely need church This show is proof All right, y'all tell me in the comments that there's an after-credits scene.  I thought he was gonna show up I don't know with this anime anymore guys.  I'll appear in the show I'll show up anyways guys like I said in the beginning in my intro The discord is now open join the links in the description and in the comment section So go ahead join.  Okay. I love you guys. Goodbye


Hi, I'm Kelly Cooper, I'm the research agronomist at the Oaks Irrigation Research Site, right here where we're at in near Oaks North Dakota and standing next to me is my old buddy and pal, Joe Brecker. Joe Farms, well tell them where you farm at Joe. I farm 30 miles straight east of here. Straight east, 20 miles straight east of my place. We kind of grew up together. Well we did grow up together. Went to high school, went to college and then eventually Joe got me into conservation work, which is a long story. It is. But to get to the point, get to our subject today of 60 inch corn or more specifically wide roll corn. Wide roll corn, right? Yeah, yeah, so we're just remembering in February of 2019, phone rings, I pick it up, it's Joe and he says, I got a crazy idea for you Kelly. I said, what's that, 60 inch corn and well 60 inch high, no, 60 inch wide corn rows. And that everything has gone to narrower corn rows over the period of time and we talked a little bit about it. I think it was, where did it come from? I was at a university cap grant meeting that Marisol Birdie had put together and a gentleman from Iowa who was working with the professional farmers of Iowa doing some work on wide space corn and he was telling me some of the things he was seeing and the thing that caught my ear was the biomass that they were able to grow between the wide rows of corn and not affect significantly affect the corn yield or at all affect the corn yield. So that was like because we had been trying with Abby Wick, Dr. Abby Wick, we'd been trying interplanting our corn with cover crops in 30 inch rows and with modest, well actually less than modest success and the corn, the competition from the corn was actually out competing the cover crops. So it's kind of like, okay, it's working, not really working, where do we go from here? And when that gentleman told me that the cover crop stayed alive, not only stayed alive but actually was a significant portion of the biomass in the field, that was like light bulb you know time and I had to try it on my farm and now I got you going on it. Yeah, after that phone call I had to sit there, I still thought it was crazy idea but I got to thinking about our plot equipment and I realized we could actually do this, it would be in a small scale so anyway in 2019 we did a couple three plots, just kind of demonstration and of course from a conservation point of view this is just wonderful that you can get this cover crop in the floor of your corn crop and it does all those wonderful conservation things like it keeps the soil in place, stops soil erosion, it adds diversity which we all like that, a diversity of plants. Now there is a challenge with weed control right Joe? Absolutely and that's the part that I'm still going through on my own farm, I'm looking at it day to day, I'm seeing some really interesting things though, is that as long as there is cover crop there the weed component doesn't seem to be any different there than it really is in narrow row corn or standard row corn. If there's not a cover crop to compete with it then that's when you can have significant weed issues that are quite robust. Yeah and what I found here without going into great details on herbicides apparently if you give the herbicide a couple of weeks you can plant a lot of these cover crops in and not have any really big effect on the cover crop. In fact last year we were amazed at how vigorous especially the buckwheat, the tame buckwheat, I mean we had buckwheat four to five feet tall in our corn with a lot of pollinators and it and we ended up with about a five percent yield hit so there was a slight yield hit but but it wasn't because of the cover crop. No no we had cover crop and no cover crop and they yielded they yielded the same and we had 30 inch corn and we had 60 inch corn same variety planted the same day now this wasn't replicated it was more demonstration we had very similar yields a little bit less on the 60 inch corn so we're we're quite encouraged so this year we uh we did actually two full replicated studies here at the Oaks research site one is looking at 30 inch versus 60 inch north south planted versus east west. Now this is you know when you're dealing with these wide roll corn the sun is going to hit the north south and the east west a little bit differently different times of the day for sure yep so that may change the cover crop that you have um it may change the variety of the corn that you're looking at they talk about corn that's more upright leaves versus wider leaves so there's a lot of little nuances I think that at the research site that we can tease out but now Joe tell them a little bit about your planter Joe got so excited he built his own planter this spring. So so based on the single row 60 and the work that we were able to look at whether we're searching twitter for people that had had limited experience with it or not but there appeared to be uh if you put more rows even wide but so I went with I decided to try pair row 60 inch so I could not find a toolbar uh that I could just buy off the market and put my row units at various widths because I wanted to try from eight inch down to single row and uh so I ended up this winter working with a local weld shop and we put together our own toolbar and it worked out great so I bought uh precision row units to put on this toolbar and uh had a great planting season and the first field I planted I I have passes throughout the field that are eight inch pair row eight inch 60 right or centered on eight inch uh sorry centered on 60 inch spacing but the pair rows are eight inches apart then I went to six inch four inch two inch and single row like you have behind us here yeah there's four comparison purposes and the the entire purpose of it is so that I can decide which one to kind of settle in on do I is eight row higher eight inch pair row higher yielding than four inch pair row how do they harvest how how does the when you start spacing the rows back out there is a difference on the shading for the cover crop um now I as long as the cover crop survives I am not quite as concerned about how much biomass I produce I just want it to be a a even growth and uh have it be so that my overwintering species like for example in my mix this year I have rye and alfalfa I want them to establish survive the winter and come up next spring uh and in the in the 30 inch corn where we had interceded years previous several years previous uh the corn in a lot of cases actually reduced the sand I mean almost to zero at at times so uh I really want there to be just enough light in that canopy to get the cover crops to establish grow and survive if if they're overwintering species I I think that there's if you are somebody that was looking to maximize the uh cover crop biomass that you were planting in there then you might want to you know play with those row widths right right and maybe corn types and leaf types and all that because Joe used to have cattle but you don't anymore but there's a lot of livestock people that are very interested in this system because of the aftermath grazing potential where you could really enhance not only the quality of feed but the duration of the time and and you can you can play around again with this this gives an opportunity for spring calving you could have the cover crop over winter you've got a nice place to turn your cows out to calf um we last year with our first 60 inch corn experiment we planted a 82 day corn June 3rd and June 6th now remember this was last year when about half the corn in North Dakota in areas didn't even get harvested and our 82 day corn did mature so it you know it's a one year a one time thing but it just shows you could grow corn early day corn in Southern North Dakota where we're at and you can mature the corn but you could still utilize some of these cover crop opportunities so uh so one of the things we were talking about uh was the weed control aspect of it and and that you know that is paramount I see when I when I talk to producers about widening those rows out one of their first questions is yeah but what about weed control and and certainly we you have to go through a series of experimental phases through this to discover uh what what you're going to settle in on but I agree with you what you comment you said that there there there are opportunities to pick the cover crops and still use uh residual herbicides that will give you uh longer into the season I I venture to say there probably isn't anything that's full season weed control without canopy right correct but if you can get long enough season weed control to get your cover crops to help with that canopy then it looks like really weed control is is attainable in these wide space corn yes but it's going to take some practice yes it is practice and and experimentation right right so um so we ended up I say we've got two replicated studies here at Oaks and one is the one I mentioned with the north south uh population another one is a variety trial that's dry land we planted it just like our 30 inch trial but it's in 60 inch and then we've got six demos uh one is a 30 inch 60 inch strip till now that's another dimension into this I think Joe you're all no till with your planter right right and some people like a little tillage some people like strip till so we had a strip till machine that we could utilize and we took every other row unit off so we could do 60 inch strips but Kelly and we we can come back to this I am strip tilling but with plants yes yes yeah well we'll come back to them we'll come back to that because that's that's really unique and with fertilizer yeah um but we've got a paired row single single row sixties paired row sixties with two different varieties we have a uh a cover crop demo that right behind us here we've only got like three different cover crops uh but we're looking at that and then we we did have some 60 inch corn last year so we stripped tilled through that and kept going through some conventional corn so we want to see if there's a difference where you have that wide row corn if the next year corn actually does a little bit better than where it's going into the corn residue and then uh kind of a fun one I've got a a weed patch now we're not talking about how weeds can be a problem well I had an area that was full of dandelions it was basically sod so we went in with 60 inch corn on that and because this corn is so wide I can drive a four wheeler between it so it gives me the opportunity to use several different herbicides through the season quite easily that you couldn't use or wouldn't use as easily in a narrow row right so so we'll see how uh how that turns out but but yeah tell us about your uh so um our history Kelly and my history really uh after in our adult life uh uh got uh got really interesting when we started a group of farmers started a research farm at Foreman North Dakota called CCSP and Kelly was the manager of our uh research farm at Foreman and one of the things that came by trial and error basically was using cover crops planted after cereal grain harvest uh and planting them in rows intended to be planted back on the next year and that system became known as by us but as biostriptile so it was actually a process that Kelly working at CCSP came up with and then I was so intrigued by it because I really I'd done strip till since the late 80s early 90s with tillage I uh I saw the benefits of the of it but I also saw saw the downside at times like you know if you have any slopes and you have some heavy rains you can get washing down that furrow down that tillage row a lot of erosion sometimes you know if you don't get your tillage done in the fall and you're forced to do it in the springtime you you don't always have ideal conditions but yet you're kind of forced to because that's your system so uh when when when Kelly came across this this uh use of cover crops in line with next year's corn it just all of a sudden again it's one of those kind of light ball moments uh we need to do some work with this so I took that concept to my farm and I've been experimenting with different plants in a row to follow my corn back with and one of the things that we started out we had radish as where the corn followed uh and had the peas in between because we had discovered already that peas can be difficult the next spring because of their vineiness and stringiness and planning them in between the rows they were less trouble but I I have since switched to a fava bean and what I found with fava bean is when they die they have a chocolate brown residue and no vineiness whatsoever like peas they just die and fall apart on the ground uh very dark in color and it influences the temperature in that band that you're planting your corn at absolutely so uh so that's what I'm I've been doing the last two or three years and it really does seem to work and I love it it's it's my strip till version of bio strip till and I I get not only the benefit of the warming of the ground from it but uh I can still stay true no till yeah and then cut that erosion and cut that erosion don't have that risk right involved in it so it's awesome so far got how many trials do you have in your own farm with your new planter you've got so so what I'm testing this year is the one field is just testing the width of the pair rows down to single row um I have a field that I have a 30 inch planter uh a cousin that came in with their 30 inch planter so I have replicated comparisons of 30 inch versus pair row 60 um I did another field on my farm where I actually moved over 30 inches with the same planter reduced the population in half and I have pair row 30 versus pair row 60 at the same population same variety you know everything's the same uh and then I have two neighbors that left me places in their 20 inch plantings to come in with my twin row 60 so lots of comparisons yeah lots of things to look at Joe do you have any idea how many farmers are trying wide real corn across North Dakota um no but I can think off the top of my head of of at least probably a dozen that are doing some level of experimentation with wide real corn and there may be many more than that yeah I've been surprised uh last winter this thing really kind of took off I was surprised at the interest I think I had more interest in this project than any other project I've ever ever done in the conservation or out the field trials a lot of phone calls a lot of twitter followers it just and it's people it's livestock people it's conservation people some are just curious but I I think between what we're doing at the research site here what Joe was doing I know eddy county has uh has a research project I I think this winter will be very interesting that we'll have a lot of data to share I think we'll have a lot of stories um I believe we will so uh and and abby I believe is going to have something at the dirt uh conference yeah so hopefully she's able to have the dirt conference yeah yeah or it may be virtual or maybe it's virtual she's she's still in that planning process so so anyway we're hopeful we're hopeful we can learn something and uh we can increase conservation diversity and uh hopefully help the livestock guys too and at the end of the day Kelly it's really all about soil health that's right that's right it's more plants uh remember that goal we talked about about what 15 years ago now live root 360 days a year yep and we can get there with this system that this is one of the components that we were missing before exactly all right well thanks Joe


What's good YouTube, this your boy Chihuahua back with y'all again with another art tutorial man. If you're new to the channel go ahead and hit that like button, comment, subscribe, make sure you click, post notifications so you will be notified anytime your boy drops on heat. In today's video I will be showing you guys like always how to make a cartoon head. So without further ado let's go right into the video. First thing you want to do you want to find a picture you trying to use and you just want to drag and drop it right into Adobe Illustrator. Right after you do that you want to get the picture the right size you need it. There we go, just make it down some. All you got to do is hold shift and grab the corner of it, okay that's a pretty good size. Now what you want to do? You want to drop the opacity down while you got the picture selected, it's good to know who you can see it and after you do that you want to lock that layer, create a new layer right above it, then if you're using a digital tablet you'll be able to set the pen pressure for your brush. So you want to come right here to new brush, hit okay, go to pressure, change these two bottom numbers to three, hit okay, and now what you want to do is just get a feel for your brush and that's the brush you see me use on every video.  So delete all these little lines, we're going to zoom in on our picture and for some reason I always start with the nostril on the nose every time I draw, go ahead draw the nose and I'm going to take these grapes out the picture, I'm going to draw his face so I'm pretty sure this line will come right up like this, then close this ear off, we got to improvise, zoom in close as you can, anytime you want to make some good clean line work you just zoom in close to the picture so you'll be able to see all the finer details on the lips, I don't really see it that good but I'm going to improvise, that's pretty much getting a basic layout of the face before we start adding the finer detail, nice little drip, my brush a little bigger, what we about to do, you need to go to your pencil tool, move this color black to the top so it'll work as a field tool and now let's do the background of the drip so they have a 3D effect, let's finish coloring in all the other black areas, now what we about to do, we about to go back to our brush tool, we about to add some finer details with the brush and sometimes what I like to do to buy time, I like to try to select some of these hairs, hold off and just drag and drop them, you know what I'm saying, just to get a nice little feeling with them, so that'll buy you a little time but still go back on top of it, just to help it out a little bit, now that we finished with the line work, what you want to do is you want to highlight everything, go to object, expand the pinch, click merge on your pathfinder, create a copy of the line work, make sure you got the second copy highlighted, I'm going to come over here, find you a nice base color to start out with, hit ok, go to your rectangle tool, drag that color over the entire picture, right click it, go to arrange, and send to back, you want to highlight it again, hit merge on your pathfinder, so the color can become one with your line work, now you want to right click, isolate select group, and we can delete this outer color, and we can change the colors that's closed off, so let's change this duerad color to purple, purple as well, hold shift to select more than one area at a time, drop a tool, change the colors, hold shift, change the color of his lips, now wait, we almost finished with the base color, let me change this iran, I'm finished with the base color, what I'm going to do, I'm going to tweak it a little bit, I'm going to highlight everything, go to edit, edit colors, and we're going to adjust color balance, tweak it just a tad, nice little color to start with, so now what I'm going to do is, we're going to make a copy of our color layer, lock that top, I mean lock the bottom copy, hit this drop down menu, and we're going to lock all our black lines, so we're going to keep the top two layers unlocked, and now what we're going to do, we're going to delete this skin tone out of that layer, let's click on to it, right click it, isolate select group, and we're going to delete the skin tone off of that layer, now that we've deleted the skin tone off that layer, what we're going to do, create us a layer in between, and now we're going to create our shadows, so I'm going to sample the skin tone and find me a dark shadow, I'm just looking at my original picture, I'm just following while I see all the shadows, and there you have it you guys, how to make a cartoon head, if you're new to the channel hit that like button, come and subscribe, make sure you stay tuned, more heat coming soon, I'm at your thing.


I think medium-sized businesses do face a number of challenges. First and foremost, many of them are stuck in a place where the ability to actually grow is constrained by a number of factors. Part of it, frankly, is their own ambition. There are a number of medium-sized businesses that don't really have the ambition to grow any further. It could be for all sorts of reasons. They are satisfied with their lot. They're making plenty of money. They're family-owned. They're stable. That's okay, but it does mean that one of the challenges if they want to grow, the ambition level has got to be there. The second is really around capabilities. There are a lot of capabilities required to grow a medium-sized business. And the capabilities made a small business a medium-sized business aren't the same as those required to make a medium-sized business a large business. An example, the ability to raise finance. I'm sure we can talk a lot about the lack of financing availability, but part of the story is also the ability to create together a compelling business case and use that business case to attract investors. We're going to put in fairly large sums of money in order to progress the business from a medium-sized to a large-sized. Quite often, those capabilities aren't there. In fact, one of the findings from our report was if we could improve the capability of medium-sized businesses to the levels seen in other countries, that in and of itself could raise their growth rate from, let's say, 5% on average today to somewhere around 6.8%. So we see lack of ambition or the need for ambition and the need for management capabilities as two fundamental challenges that confront medium-sized businesses of the UK.