Hey guys, it's Julia and welcome back to my channel. And for today's video, we're going to be talking about my top favorite books of 2019. This video is a bit late, but I'm filming in my dorm for the first time. So I hope you guys like it. I will make, I will improve the background over time and just kind of seeing what lighting works, what kind of day works best for filming for me too. And with the sounds as well, because I had my AC go, I'm not my AC going at the heat going, so I turned that off. The window is open, so you might hear like buses and stuff. But today I wanted to talk to you guys about some of my favorites. And in the year of 2019, I read 72 books, which is okay for me. It's not as much as other years, but I will still, I guess I'm still okay with it. The first book that I wanted to actually talk to you guys about was Never Again. This book deals with the topic of school shootings and it talks a lot about what it was like to be in the building during one. And then on a lot of the campaigning that went towards school shootings and some of the bigger school shootings that occurred in the US. This was just over well done. The writing was well done. The themes discussed are super important. If you're in the United States, I think this book is especially important for you to read, but anyone from around the world, of course. I just thought this was a very insightful book and I'm glad it exists. It's very short, so it won't take you long to get through if you decide to pick it up. Next up here I have I Wish You All The Best by Mason Deaver. We follow a non-binary main character after they have just gotten kicked out of their home. And it's about them at a new high school, meeting new friends and the new relationships that kind of go along with that. It also talks about what it means to be non-binary and what it means to use kind of they then pronouns or some other pronouns. So those topics were all discussed in that book. My only kind of con with it, there wasn't too many cons with it. Like I think it could have had a little bit more substance to it, but it's a very short book. And if you're looking for like a YA hard-hitting kind of story that offers some really just insightful perspectives, I would definitely check that out. This is probably my favorite of the year, but it's With the Fire on High by Elizabeth Acevedo. This book follows a woman who is really into the culinary arts. So she cooks and just loves it and I loved reading about her passion for cooking. It's just so beautiful to read about people's passions and books and things that they really, really enjoy. I just loved reading about her character and Elizabeth Acevedo has a certain type of writing style that is just very lyrical, easy to read, but just really nice and entertaining. And I just really, really enjoy her writing. So the Poet X was good, but With the Fire on High kicked things out of the water for me, I was really impressed by it. It's Your Wife is Perfect for if you like psychological thrillers, if you like stories about people going missing, if you're interested in reading just thrillers where people go missing, there's some domestic violence in this one and some domestic abuse, so just keep that in mind. But this one deals with a lot of hard topics, but it's also, I just love reading past and present and I think thrillers do that some of the best is going between past and present and the way they tell this story of this woman and her journey and her escape. But then also we follow a perspective of someone who's trying to find a different woman and then how these stories intertwine is just really, really cool to me. So I really liked seeing that. So those four books were some of my favorite novels of this year, now let's talk about some poetry. Hey, poetry, first I want to talk about Nocturnal. This one, I remember, it's been a bit since I've read these, so sorry if I have to refresh myself a little bit, but Nocturnal was really, really beautiful and I loved the actual physical copy of this book and I don't have any of them with me, but I love the physical copy of this book because it had this beautiful contrast of black and white and the illustrations were so well done and the poetry was amazing. Definitely if you're not super into poetry, I would definitely suggest Nocturnal. I think it's great if you're into modern stuff or if you want to get into modern poetry, I thought Nocturnal was so, so good. Next up I have Masquerade by Cyrus Parker and this one is, was a really good collection and I really love what this author has released. Cyrus Parker is such a great author and they have written Dropkick Romance, which I really liked Masquerade and then this other one recently shot Glass Confessionals that I read too and I really, really enjoyed. I really enjoyed Masquerade. It talks about, the author is non-binary so it does have some poems that talk about body dysphoria and then overall it talks about just a lot of anxiety, struggle, loss, love. That's modern poetry that's usually what the collection they're about is like love, loss, romance, breakups, life. That's a horrible synopsis, okay cool. Lastly for poetry I have the Mermaid's Voice Returns and this one, this was the final installment in the Princess Saves Herself or the Women Are Magic series by Amanda Lovelace. I'm trying to remember the series name. Just talks a lot about feminism and power and women empowerment but also talks about love and loss and growth. Again, ones that I really like. Out of the three I'd recommend Nocturnal the Most but I am so excited to see what else Cyrus Parker releases because so far I've loved everything by them. And lastly we're gonna be talking about graphic novels and manga so I'm super excited to talk about this stuff because surprisingly I did not expect of 72 things I read for most of my favorites to be graphic novels and manga. So first up we have Dream and the Sun which I really enjoyed. I'm caught up with that series so far. It's a really fluffy romance where a girl lives with a bunch of guys and her relationship with them and the lessons that she learns in high school and kind of her dynamic with her friends and then with romance involved kind of thing. It's not the best series like if you're looking for a manga series that's super like hard hitting and thought provoking, that's not the way to go with this one but if you're looking for something fun and enjoyable Dream and Sun is definitely that for you and also this author's other work, Orange is absolutely amazing too. The Tea Dragon Society, I love honestly my favorite graphic novel I think that I've read in such a long time. Like my top three things that I've mentioned today, the Tea Dragon Society is definitely my top three for my favorites. Things that I really love about the Tea Dragon Society include the artwork and also just the storyline with these little Tea Dragons, I absolutely love it and think is adorable and I love, I think it's really nice the diversity as well. There's some romances in these and they're just really nice and really enjoyable reads. If you're looking for something really wholesome if you're in a bad mood, this is perfect. The Tea Dragon Society is perfect, so is Dream and Sun and so is the next one I'm gonna talk about. That's gonna be Heartstopper. This blew me out of the water. I read this at my friend Kayla's house, Kayla from Literature Reads and she let me read the graphic novel and I absolutely adored it. It's been going around kind of everywhere but it's a male male romance graphic novel and it's really cute and wholesome. And the third one came out and I really want to get my own kind of physical copies of these books because I'm really excited about them but I really, really, really, I don't want to get my own copies of these but they're so, so good and the art style is great. I fell in love with the characters and the plot and the writing and overall it was probably one of my favorite reading experiences of last year was reading that graphic novel. So some honorable mentions that I wanted to mention with the graphic novels is Fence. Such a great one, it's the sports graphic novel.  So it's a fun one for sure. It's Teen Titans Raven. I love this one and it was after Raven loses her memory and kind of her finding herself and discovering herself again and just trying to figure out who she is again and I thought this was so, so nice. I actually went to a panel last year for Book Expo that had this little conference thing that I went to where they talked about Raven and I saw the author talk about it and there's just so many things that I really, really enjoyed about this graphic novel. I think this is really great, especially for people of the middle grade audience or like going into young adults. I think it's great for everyone of course but I think it's really, really great as like a coming of age story. I also just think that this book can really impact adolescents in a really great way just due to the messages that are portrayed in the story.  Also, Mooncakes. This was such a cool one too. It was a graphic novel about a witch is involved in a non-binary werewolf and it's really fun and cute and kind of quirky. Really nice graphic novel. Honestly, these ones were just more fun graphic novels in manga as opposed to super in-depth and analytical. And I think you can, I don't know, I'm trying to read things that too just bring me enjoyment because sometimes I found that I read things just so I could really critically review them which I do like doing but I also want to read just things that I really like to and talk about things in more of like a less formal setting. Like this is more of a chill video for me and that makes me less anxious than filming a sit-down video where I feel like everybody is gonna judge me for what I'm saying or for how I look.  So I just think videos like this are more relaxing and I think I would just love for you guys to be able to kind of chill with me and chat about books. And sometimes I will do more for more critical reviews or if I do a rare review I'm going to make it more structured but if not, I kind of just want to casually talk about some of the books this year and casually talk about the books that I've read with you guys and if you want more in-depth reviews either you can request kind of full video reviews that will cover everything in depth or ask for my thoughts, message me, do whatever you want. Like sometimes I might do more in-depth ones on good reads if I don't end up doing them here. I'm not sure but we're gonna figure it out you guys are all along for the journey with me but that is me talking about some of my favorite books of 2019. I hope you guys don't mind that I don't have them all with me but it's fine, we're going with it. So I apologize that I don't have them all with me but I'm hoping to do some more videos soon so yeah, thank you guys so so much for watching this video. 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Carlos Alcárez vs. Alexander Zverev is the final quarterfinal of the men's Australian Open for 2024. Both guys have had different roads to get to this stage. Zverev entered the tournament as the number 6 seed and will take on Coppa in the first round. And after dropping the first set, would fight back to win 4-6-6-3-7-6-6-3. In the second round he'd take on the qualified Klein and this was a battle. After dropping two of the first three sets, Zverev would fight back to win 7-5-3-6-4-6-7-6-7-6. In the third round he'd take on the youngster Mikkelsen who had just taken out Lehechka in the previous round. There was no problem for Zverev getting through in straights. 6-2-7-6-6-2. In the fourth round he'd take on Nori, the 19th seed, who had just beaten Kasparud in the previous round. And again, Zverev would be forced to play 5, winning it in a tie break in the end. 7-5-3-6-6-3-4-6-7-6 to advance to the quarterfinal. Alcárez entered the tournament as the number 2 seed and will play Gasgay in the first round. And after a close first set, Alcárez would run away with an X. 7-6-6-1-6-2. In the second round he'd take on Senago and after splitting the first two sets, Alcárez would be forced to fight to win 6-4-6-7-6-3-7-6. In the third round he'd take on Zheng, the wild card sensation from China. But unfortunately, Shang wasn't up to the task, with Alcárez getting through him easily. 6-1-6-1-1-1, love, retirement. And the fourth round he'd take on Ketれないch. Who had just saved match points against Tommy Paul in the previous round. There's no problem for Alcárez. Getting through it's knocked. 6-4-6-4-6-Love, to advance to the quarterfinal. These two have played 7 times before with Zverev actually leading the HeadDead, 4-3 however, Alcárez has won 2 of their last 3 matches, including the U.S. Open quarterfinals last year. But Zverev did win their last match up at theA giving finals, 3-setter in the group stage, so Zverev's gotta be feeling good about that one. If Zverev's going to win this, he needs to be very good on Serve. We know that that is the weakness and also the strength of Zverev.  If Elkroz is gonna win this one, he needs to keep that variety But also not be silly with it because he does sometimes just play a little bit random and try and throw out things that Maybe he shouldn't with some big forehands when maybe they're not there So he needs to play smart here because we know Zverev is capable of playing long matches We've seen that already this week. What a fun matchup and especially considering Zverev won their last match This is gonna be really really interesting, but I think Zverev won't get it done I think Elkroz will get it done in four sets, but I think it's gonna be Elkroz's day I think he's gonna get it done in four sets against Zverev I think it's gonna be early, maybe a bit close to early But then after that Elkroz will get the better of him and make the semis But let me know down in the comments below. Who do you think is gonna win?


Hydropower plays a key role in the transition towards a low-carbon power system, but its reliance on local weather conditions and climate variability means it must be supplemented by other sources of renewable energy, such as solar and wind power. Extreme climate conditions, such as hot dry compound events, can have a major impact on hydropower production, particularly in countries like Switzerland where hydropower provides the majority of electricity generation. Our research shows that run-of-river schemes with limited water storage capacity are most vulnerable to hot dry conditions, while those with larger reservoirs and glacial resources are better equipped to cope with these conditions. This suggests that hydropower should be integrated into a wider portfolio of renewables, including solar and wind, to ensure reliable and sustainable energy supply. This article was authored by Noelia Otero, Pascal Horton, Olivia Marcius, and others.


Traditionally, research in graph theory focuses its attention very much on studying graphs that are static, however almost all real world networks are dynamic in nature, and how they have evolved over time is a defining feature to their topology and overall makeup. As network theory is a very new subject, much of it is still focused on trying to explore the basics of static graphs, as the study of their dynamics results in the addition of a whole new set of parameters to our models that takes us into a new level of complexity, much of which remains unexplored and is the subject of active research. So let's start by talking about growing a random network to see what it looks like. When we say growing a network, we might mean adding more nodes to it, but also more interestingly adding links to it that increase the overall connectivity. In our random model, links were just placed between nodes at random with some given probability. Growing the network here just meant increasing this probability so as to have more links develop over time. One interesting thing we find when we do this is that there are thresholds and phase transitions during the network's development. By thresholds, we simply mean that by gradually increasing our link probability parameter, some property to the network suddenly appeared when we passed a critical value. For example, our first threshold is when the average degree goes above one over the total number of nodes in the network. At this threshold, we start to get our first connection. At degree one, that is when every node has on average one connection, the network starts to appear connected. We see giant components emerging within the network, that is one dominant cluster and we start to have cycles, which means there are feedback loops in the network. Another threshold occurs when nodes have an average degree of log n. At this point, everything starts to be connected, meaning there is typically a path to all other nodes in the network. So this is what we see in a random network, but as we know, most real world networks are not random, as they are subject to some resource constraints and they have preferential attachment, giving them clusters that we don't see in these random graphs. One way of thinking about how real world networks form is through the lens of percolation theory. Percolation theory looks at how something filters or percolates through something else, like a liquid filtering through some mesh structure in a material, or we might think about water running down the side of a hill. As it does, the water will find the path of least resistance, creating channels and furrows in the side of the hill. We can then see how this network formation is the product of the resource constraints that its environment placed upon it, but the constraints are unevenly distributed and the network's topology is then reflecting this, as the water follows the paths of least resistance to avoid the toughest material. In order to demonstrate the more general relevance of this, we'll take some other examples. If say we put on cheap flights from one city to another, then people will start using that transportation link because of financial constraints. Or because of the phenomena of homophily within social networks, we will get the same percolation dynamics where it will be easier for people to make links with people who are similar to themselves than with others, again creating a particular structure based on the social constraints within the system. So to incorporate this into our model, we would need to add in the attributes or properties of the nodes within the network, where they will form links depending upon these properties. So in a social network, these attributes might be age, gender or income, and people will be given preferential attachments. We would then create a probability for the likelihood that any node will connect with another of the same kind, compared to whether it will connect with a node of a different kind. The result of including these factors into our representation should be a much more realistic model where we see local clustering and some distant relations. Behind this relatively abstract model to network development is a much more complex set of questions about the local incentives of the nodes in the network. Another way of looking at network formation within this model is from the perspective of the nodes and the local rules they're operating under. To do this, we might use game theory that looks at the incentives of the individuals within the network and their payoffs for forming a connection or breaking one. Another key driver behind the formation of real world networks is the so-called network effect and Meklath's law, which states that the value of a network grows as a square of the number of nodes in the network. So this goes back to one of our earlier insights that whereas the number of nodes in a network may grow in a linear fashion, the number of edges may grow exponentially. The network effect arises when users derive value from the presence of other users, with the telephone being a classical example. The more people that join the network, the more valuable it is. Thus, there is a positive feedback loop where more people joining feeds back to make the network more valuable that in turn draws more people and so on. In this way, we can get the exponential growth that we've seen in the rise of many networked organizations like Twitter and Facebook. We might then note that the development of these networks is nonlinear, with distinct tipping points because it requires a critical mass of users for something like a computer operating system to have value. But once you've gone beyond this critical mass, it then becomes very valuable because you are now able to inter-operate with many other users. This is why free is sometimes a good marketing strategy for IT startups because it is all about getting this critical mass. Once you have it, then the network effect kicks in and it becomes a must-have. The dynamics of how real-world networks are formed, strengthened and eventually dissolved is complex and still a very open area of research where lots of basic questions remain unanswered. In this section, we've just touched upon some of the main features to this process to highlight the fact that although most of our models are static, real-world networks are anything but.


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You get the 10-year up 15 ticks, a half a point, $133.30, the 30-year up a point and a half at $164.15 and $Kingdala. $Kingdala is down $515 ticks trading out at $92.520. Euro, $117. Yenet, $109.60 on the British pound at $138 to $1.00 U.S. Dollar. Our phone number is<PHONE_NUMBER>. It was called, folks. I know it's going on in your world. In the world of the S&Ps, let's take a look at the money I have. We're going to have another high out here. We're going to have another, like, volume day out here. Bottom line is that you're going to get a higher price. The spies are up $0.44 right now. $0.45, $0.50. And bottom line, you get that 23 million shares traded out. Let's put this on a weekly sense. We're going to be finishing it weekly just to see what it looks like. Yeah, bottom line, you get lighter volume, but guess what? We're just sneaking away from these highs. NDX100. What do we have at the NDX100? Bottom line, yesterday, you rejected the lower price with light volume. Today, you're at a higher high with light volume. Tremendously light volume, by the way. 14 million shares are traded right now. The queues are up $0.81. Let's put this on a weekly. Let's see how that sets up. Okay, so you get a sideways move. On a weekly, it's going to be about the same volume as last week. Last week, we did $147 million. We're at 135 right now. That's light volume.  We all look at the gold contract. Gold contracts have been quite a move, man. This is pretty amazing. You get 136,000 contracts out here now. You're back inside the range. A few folks that went to candlestick charting. You're going to like this, man. Bottom line is that you have a monster hammer. Now, the way candlestick charting works, folks, is that the larger the hammer, the larger any of the signals, the more move that you can expect. And this is one monster candle. I haven't seen a candle like this in a long period of time. The low being 1677, the high 1781. That's what we get out here today. That says higher prices are coming at us. I suspect what we're going to be doing now is we're going to be going after 1922. So it's a big number, man. We're going to take a look at the silver contract. Silver finally caught a bit out here. Silver's up $0.54. We're trading at $23.66. Silver has a lot more work to do, man. Silver has no doubt a lot more work to do now. What does happen because silver is so volatile, it can get back inside this range pretty quick, meaning $25.85. That's still $2.20. So it is a big number. There's no doubt about that. We're going to take a look at the note and bond market. Now, this market here, man, just wants, it's pretty incredible what it's doing out here. So if we take a look at the 10-year note right now, the bottom line, you're up 16 ticks. Now, that's going to need more volume, but what it already did do is it came down to its breakout area, rejected lower price on tremendously lighter volume. Now we'll see what kind of volume we get on the top side. But this is saying once again it's going to go for its highs, which is the $135.14. Right now you're at $133.30. When we take a look at the aspect of the actual, whoops, one second, the yield on this baby, the yield on this baby is 1.29%. So bottom line is that we got some action there. Good old U.S. dollar. What do we have with the dollar out here? What we have with the dollar out here is this. Dollar is down big. You're down at 513 ticks. Now, your first level to keep your eye on is going to be where we went topside last week at 92.261. That being said, bottom line won't take much to get down to the lower end of this, which is 91.765. If we take a look at the euro, you're going to see everything is moving against the U.S. dollar this morning. We take a look at the euro. The euro went from 117 to 1805. We take a look at the British pound. British pound out here, 137 to 138 pound wasn't that much of a move. Yeah, I guess they rejected the little price. It wasn't a good move. The yen is moving in a monster way, folks. As the yen goes the lower price, that's stronger yen against the U.S. dollar. This yen move fast furious. In fact, let me just see if this was interday again. Yeah, see, this is always cool when this is interday, man. So what happens is this, this is when gold really starts moving. So the yen start getting stronger when our markets, well, half all before our market was opening up. So the bottom line is that what you have here is that as you're going into lower price, higher against the U.S. dollar, this yen no doubt can get a lot lower. I suspect the next move is going to bring us down to 108, and we'll see if we break 108, then you're going to be into the 107. You get a question out here that I'm always stressing volume, and light volume at highs is a very problem. Can you explain further why you're dismissing light volume at the moment? I'm not dismissing light volume up at these highs. What I have found, though, is this, okay? So picture this. You can, we have stayed, so this is a great question, by the way, okay? I'm always stressing volume, which I am. I do volume and price. What I do is very simple, folks, it really is, okay? Volume, price, Fibonacci sequence, the rest of it, when you're doing this for a while, you know them by heart. Whether it's a candlestick shotting, I mean, it's a bar shot, I know what they all look like. But this is a great question because I'm not dismissing it. What I'm saying is that you can stay here and go higher, and what happens is this. The first part of this, when we're doing lighter volume, the NDX100 kept doing ABC structures on the way up. So that gave me the heads up that they want higher price. Now what we've had is that, like yesterday, the day before, the diamonds turned around and did an ABC structure on the way up.  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At the end of the day, they accumulate the volume put inside them of the holdings and then you get the deal. So this is what we did, so check it out. This is good, man. Okay, so the first low that was generated out here on Tuesday was 28 million. We tested it. Yes, they were 21. That's a good scene, man. That's 25% lighter volume, bottom line. You broke the top side again today of 236. That's inside the XAU. If we take a look at the Gold Bugs Index, the HUI, the way this is set up, I suspect it's going to be the same thing because they like trading together, but let's make sure that we get it just in case because one's always stronger than the other. There's no doubt. Okay, so the Gold Bugs Index did 16 million and that was testing 23. Good scene, man. That's what, that's even better. That's 33% lighter. So bottom line, they both want to get going. We go take a look at the GDX out here, what we have with the GDX. The test yesterday was on 17 million shares. Now we do need buyers in the GDX. Right now you've got 11.5 million and want to see a lot more than that. Bottom line, we need a lot more than that. We have to test to the bottom, but you need some buyers in here. I don't care what it's a Friday afternoon or not. GDX at 32.83. 33.87 would be a big deal to get back inside. Now that's not really the higher range. The higher range when I look at it is actually 34.79, but at least it's a start out there. Inside of the NDX 100, we take a look at it, what you have the strength versus the weakness. The strength is eBay. That's up 6.6%. You get AMD up 3.7.  Taken away from it. Baidu is down 4.4. You get Pendouardu off 3.7. NetEase is off 2.8. Now if we go over to AMD and take a look at this, this is pretty cool, man, watching how this shakes out. So AMD, folks, this was the equity that did a one to two ABC structure in the way up. Anything more than a 1.618, most times the immediate change of trend. I'm going to show you this. It's pretty cool. So if we take a look at the first trend, that started on the 16th of June, you're going to see there was a $20 move approximately. It went from June 16th, you're at $78, by July 6th, you're at $95. So you've got an approximate $20 move. The second move is a $40 move. So it was a two to one ABC structure. We started out at 84. It goes straight up to 122. And then what does it do? Bang. Four days later, it's down to 104. Now, what you had out here today is that you're going to bounce. But here, let me show you something here. You're going to bounce because of this, because everyone wants to shot AMD now. You're at 7.3% on a shot AMD. Bottom line, what I expected was actually going to see an AMD. And this is important to really wrap your head around. It can get a little bit higher. It's going to try to, I think it's going to try to get to the 112-33. We made a 111-70 today, but I suspect it's going to come all the way back to the breakout area, which is 95. That's how it seems to be set up. And that'll be fine. At 95, it pulls back with light volume. It's going to be not a bad situation. Dow industrials. We take a look at the Dow industrials now. The Dow industrials broke topside. And we had divergence. And what the divergence is, is that you had the diamonds doing an ABC structure on the way up, whereas the industry itself did not have the volume for an ABC structure on the way up. That being said, right now, if we take a look at a weekly basis, what you're going to see here is that you're pulling away from the highs. The weekly close is 35091. Well, we're 500 points higher than that. When you do something like that, that's saying, hey man, you can pull up in a monster way. So we'll see how this baby shakes out, but that's what I expect you're actually going to see. Now, if we go over to the composite and we take a look at the composite, what you're going to see, this is the Nasdaq composite. We put this on a weekly, just laying at highs. You're laying at highs with light volume. But we've been up here now, one to, well, you can say we've been up here a month and a half. That's how this baby's laying out. Let's go to Al in Homo Sasa. Hey Al, what's going on, brother? Not much, Tom. Just trying to survive with the gold market. You've got to have, go ahead and bear it. You're going to have a stomach of steel, baby. Yeah, we've been in it for years. And this is what you look for. I got in at a certain point that I thought was a really good point, but I didn't think it would pull back this strong. But usually when it pulls back this hard, it usually jumps the creek. So just about what we might need to have silver break, $30 a month. So I got another question for you too. I like the equities in that because you know the, you're counting on the gold that's in the ground and that's what the base price and what they come out with profits. But my biggest concern is they're counting gold that they don't have. The numbers just don't really add up. I don't understand what you're saying Al. What? Tell me what you're saying about gold. What numbers don't add up? I'm just telling you the ounces don't add up. The gold and silver ounces that say that they have don't add up already pulled out of the ground then that they say they have that they're selling futures money. I don't understand who you're saying. Who is the ones that supposed to have it? Well, I'm saying my Fort Knox and stuff like that. They won't audit it and stuff like that. I don't think all the golds in Fort Knox that they're saying that they have or out there. I think a lot of futures have been sold on gold that they don't have. Okay, so futures have nothing to do with if in fact there's anything in Fort Knox. I suspect that they have what they have. But anyway, that's a whole different conversation. But futures have nothing to do with that. Okay, well, I like the gold equities because I know that at least they're counting on what's in the ground. So that puts value to the company. You want to look at Great Panther, right? Yeah. Okay, so the lowest $0.47, the highest $0.116, you're trading at $0.47 right now. You know, this needs, this hasn't been acting right, man, you know, at all. So I'd be really careful. Yeah, they had one of their minds go ahead and slough off that they had, and the reason was because they had a lot of rain. And their season is opposite from us, weather-wise. So they're going into the dry season compared to the wet season now. Yeah. Well, and it's like, it was like one out of their four or five minds that they had the problem with. Yeah. Oh, well, I mean, I'd just be careful, man. I mean, the bottom line is that... Well, I'm a long-term trader anyway. Yeah. So... Well, the next quarter is supposed to be a big quarter for them. They went from $64 million. They expect to do $81 million next quarter. So bottom line, if they commit with that, yeah, you will see that stock go higher. Technically, though, that thing can go lower before it can go higher. Have a great one, man. Have a safe one. Stay right there, folks. We'll come right back. We have the Dow Industries off one. Nasdaq is down two. S&P's are up four and a half. We'll come right back. Are you having fun trading the markets but having trouble finding like-minded individuals to discuss your trading and investment ideas with? Become an Apex creditor in the trading markets and join the Tiger's Den trading room only at tfnn.com. The Tiger's Den is an exclusive trading room where successful traders from around the world come to exchange trades and ideas. Join the den and surround yourself with the sharpest minds in the trading world. Subscribers to the Tiger's Den are also the first to have their questions answered live on air and can privately chat with our TFNN hosts live during their shows. 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Actually, I'm taking a look at the 30th, actually. The 30th had a wide-price spread of accelerated volume down the way down. Now it's trying to get back inside of that. Now it's trying to get back inside of that after the fact that yesterday you had a good volume day on the way up. The way I'd trade this, okay, is that you're going to basically fail to get any price going today. I don't wait until this thing gets down or buck 80. We're buck 85 right now. And the reason I'm saying that is this, is that what you have, the way that this thing did trade yesterday, the borrow of the downdraft, the reason I'm saying that you wait, is that you had a failure on price today, and then what would end up happening is it's going after, if it pulls back, we pull back into the lower end and if you get a contraction of volume at the lower end, then you get some real action, meaning on the top side. That's how this baby shakes out.  The reason they're a big deal, is when I'm getting into these equities, that is some monster that's getting into these equities when you have a move with conviction. That's how that basically shakes out. Let's go take a look at, Robin Hood, let's go look at Robin Hood. Let's see how this baby is shaking up. We've got a brave new world out here. So Robin Hood's up $3.14. And you know, the thing that's crazy, man, Robin Hood is a high volume high. It's going to be back to $85, man, and you're at $51 right now. So I don't have the shot positions on Robin Hood yet, but I suspect these shot positions will pop up. I forget whether it takes a week, two weeks, well, it'd be longer than that after they basically come out with their IPO. So they IPO'd at, where is issue information, $38, $38 and you're at $51 right now. Let's go take a look at SEGO for one of the Tigers. Okay, so this one here, no, I guess it's not SEGO. One second, SEG. SEGO, maybe. I'm not sure. Some of the higher volume equities out here today, so let's go to the higher volume equities. And we'll take a look at the higher volume equities. We have, let's see, Advanced Micro is up $3.97. You get AMC of $0.27. Apple, flat. You got Bank of America down $0.60. Pfizer's up a buck. Yeah, I'll share something with Pfizer, too. US Steel's up $0.79. Okay, let's go over to Pfizer right now. Let's go, so PFE. This is going to be important at the end of the month, folks. Okay? Pfizer is breaking out and has broken out of a 20-year basically chart. And if we take a look at this, what Pfizer, if you own Pfizer, you want Pfizer to basically at the end of the month close over $47.43. And if it doesn't, you got some serious talking to yourself to do. Because what happens is this, folks, when you have a major break like this, and it's a major break, it's a beauty. Okay? But if you actually close underneath it, then that sends it right back all the way to the other end of this, which is $29. Right now, it's in great shape. It wants higher price. Another equity that has been a-legged, actually, but is getting acceleration on the way up, finally, is Salesforce. You know, with Salesforce, right now it's up $3.37. For a market that has light volume, this has volume in it today. We have $5.1 million. You're going up to $5.1 million, so it's going to do a little more volume than the last swing high up here, which is on July 7th. That is telling me that, you know, there's a couple of articles out here today that there's going to be some deal with Apple, and that, you know, very well could be the truth. It's an analyst that's saying this, okay? So the bottom line is that, you know, what ends up happening is that the bottom line analysts, you know, have their own desires when they're following the stock to basically pump it higher. That being said, the bottom line $247.26, okay? $253, rather, $50. We hit $253.77. It hit that, and it's hitting it with more volume. Okay? So that's saying that it's going to break topside. And the weekly, last time it was up here the weekly was 20 million shares. We've done 20.1 million shares right now. That is saying that it wants to break topside. So I expect what you're going to see is that it's going to run up to $284. Right now you're $251. And if, in fact, you know, depending on what the deal is with Apple, you know, that's where it actually can push it. When you take a look at their numbers, they've got great numbers, man. They're going to do $6.2 billion this year. I know, there's quarter. Five years. They used to do 8.4 billion folks a year. Now they're doing 26 billion. Okay? So you're talking about a monster number and you're talking about most of what they take in basically goes right to the bottom line. So, you know, the bottom line is that with Salesforce, it was, it's almost like if you remember the, when Amazon wasn't moving. Yeah, and Salesforce coming out with their numbers on August 25th. And then once it does stop moving, it goes top side. Now if we go over to Apple and we take a look at Apple, you know, basically Apple is laying at its highs. Now Apple to me looks like it's going to break its highs. You know, we had monster volume out here yesterday. You're coming into its high. The high is $106 million. So let's do this on the weekly. It's still shot, but see it hasn't hit the high, man. So the high is $150. We hit $149.44. So if you're bull, you know, you want to wait until next week because next week if you get volume, this could go top side. Now, check this out. This is going to be amazing. If in fact next week we break the high on Apple and if it has volume, it's going to be a monster ABC up. $123. Well, not that big. That's a $25, $26.80. So you're talking about $167. That's how this baby is set up. So we'll see what the announcement is going to be if in fact there is going to be an announcement. But you can imagine, like when I read that article, there's an article on Bloomberg today, but it's from an analyst that follows CRM.  It's an announcement that, you know, Apple's going to push their product. There's going to be an announcement that if you have certain Apple products, you can use their software. You know, we'll find out what is, or is it all the Apple employees that are going to be using CRM? And if that's the case, man, that's going to be quite an account because Apple has 100,000 employees. You know, so you're talking big numbers here. That's the real bottom line. And, you know, like anything else, it seems that we go from a couple stocks each and every week that are keeping us at highs. They get replaced by another couple stocks the next week. And it is a small amount of stocks that are keeping the market high. That being said, when you actually do put them together, you know, you get 15 stocks that are keeping the market high. 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The Prospectus or Summary Prospectus should be read carefully before investing. An investment in the funds is subject to risk including the possible loss of principal. The funds are designed to be utilized only by sophisticated investors such as traders and active investors. Distributor, Four Side Fund Services, LLC. Welcome, O'Brien. Welcome back, folks, Dow. Dow investors up five, Nasdaq's down two, S&P's up five and a half. I guess today, folks, is Wayne Aetherholt. Wayne is the director of cultural fields at the city of St. Petersburg, Florida. And what gets him going, folks, and what gets him out of bed in the morning is that he likes to make St. Pete a better place each and every day. And I can tell you, you know, folks, I've been in St. Pete for 23 years now. I've been in Boston. I watched it happen in Boston, meaning that it takes a huge amount of work to get a city going. And what I've seen more than anything, it takes people like Wayne that have done a huge amount of work that you actually haven't seen in years, and then, all of a sudden, the whole thing pops. Wayne, welcome to TFNN. You got me? I do. That's a beautiful thing. Well, listen, man, first off, you've done a great job.  But guess what? When I grew up in Boston, it was the same way. So I saw people work on Boston for 30 years to make it better, and I know you've been working on to make St. Pete better for 35 years. So, first off, I want to say thank you because you've done an amazing job. And I know people think that it's okay to last five or six years, but this has taken 20, 25 years. So tell us exactly being in Boston, tell us exactly being the director of Culture of Fias what exactly you like to do every day and how you make the city better every day. Well, every day, trying to hook up people who can help advance that cause to get together with one another, whether it's an artist and an arts organization or two arts organizations or helping somebody help execute one of their ideas. It's continuing to push and push and push, whether it's from organizations or individuals and there's always, maybe organizations, but there's people and individuals behind those organizations are pushing the envelope and coming up with new ideas and again, you get an army of people who are trying to make St. Petersburg a better place and you end up with a better place and you help them become successful. It takes a city to make a city, right? You guys got the fire going but the bottom line it takes a city to make a city. It's nice that we've now got the city behind this effort about 35 years ago when I was an egg and a young guy at a museum the city was not nearly as cooperative or as interested in things as the current administration we've come a long, long way I can remember when you couldn't buy a ham sandwich downtown. It's amazing, right?  No doubt. So let's talk a little bit about folks in St. Petersburg, Florida if you happen to be an artist or you're creative, no matter where you're on the country come on down and visit us because I'm telling you man the creativity, the artist community down here is not only a great community but they do very well financially too because they have a backup like the cultural fears like Wayne, like the city like all these different neighborhoods that are in St. Pete it's really cool watching so I know that you just put together and this is really a cool little piece man because you have granite involved in it tell us about the sculpture that you just put together at the roundabout on Central Ave. So we do public art and there was a selection process that there was a committee that was involved and we fund public art in a number of different ways this was funded through a tax increment district for the edge district which is one of the in-town cultural districts that the city has we've got probably about seven or so of those various districts that are like an arts district that group got together and they meet and discuss what do they want to spend these tax dollars on and is it benches or a roundabout or whatever that might be this particular group wanted to have additional artwork put in so we formed a committee and the group got together identified some locations the roundabout was it a roundabout is a challenging place for any kind of artwork group of people from the neighborhood public arts commission myself got in we wrote a call to artists had a budget through the tax increment district and selected an artist who is really born and I believe I'm trying to remember now I believe he's from Long Island but his name and so this very large recycled granite piece it's round so it resembles a flower or the sun and you of course go around it and it changes as you drive around it it's really quite an amazing piece it does nod to the former industrial district that neighborhood really was and it also looks forward to the recycled granite and the sunshine city and all of that so it's a wonderful piece of artwork and you get down central avenue which is the main avenue in St. Petersburg and you can see the sunrise or set at certain times of the day right through this round sculpture it's really quite spectacular and it's one of many many pieces that we've had installed through the public support and volunteer committees and selections over the past seven or eight years you know what's so cool about this piece so picture this Wayne I was coming down there and our office folks is literally we're on third okay but we're going up and down central all the time I'm coming down the other day and I'm saying I thought that was the rain so that's cool to understand that I could see that it was different I said oh it must have rained on that portion of it so that is really cool man because that is looking different I can't wait to see how the sun comes of course you know we do financial talk we're always talking to public markets what I love what you've managed to do down here is that this is when you get you have private funds you get public funds that you put together and on the bigger aspect of it though you're giving people a lot of jobs man and you know and I've seen the difference in Boston would end up happening is that the artist it was the same type of deal when the city get going the artist really got it going unfortunately what end up happening is that just got priced out okay so that and so I know I've already seen the difference here the difference here is that that community is together enough and they can sustain themselves enough and I think a lot of it has to do with how many different larger things you've put together so that all of us really understand hey man this is a great quality of life you also it's a quality of life issue who wants to live in a city with no artists in creativity and we have it all around we've got over 600 murals in the city that we started a mural festival those have transformed entire neighborhoods and districts the public art helps transform that and you do get these great big blocks that are sat empty for many many years you can hear for many years I have to you see these big blocks that sat empty for many many years and suddenly there's five story apartment style buildings there with retail on the ground floor it's completely transformed to districts and I mean the artwork has changed that I do think that we're aware of the gentrification issues and we're working on that and making housing more affordable we don't want to lose the artist no we certainly don't well listen you've done an outstanding job man we really appreciate it I want to thank you for everyone in the city I want to thank you for the city I want to thank you for basically getting those artists up and going and making some good bread have a great one have a safe one I look forward to having you on again 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Yeah, it really depends on what happens No doubt about that Let's go to our man Eddie and Bokritan Eddie, what's going on brother? Hey, my brother, how are you? Do you think that the composite at least, or the Nasdaq is just biding time until NVIDIA's earnings on the 18th? It just feels like it's waiting for NVIDIA to report Is it going to break topside if the earnings are good? Or do we go down based on NVIDIA? Based on NVIDIA my take is that would be going low Fundamentally NVIDIA is going to take in a lot more money They're going to take in a half billion dollars more That's what they're saying But what you have here is that you had a great run 3 months ago, you were at 134 2 months ago, you're 206 You come down hard into this 176, and like today you're going up with light volume That's telling me that you've got a consolidation that's happening in here That's what it looks like Gotcha I've seen a lot of charts A lot of charts are below the 50-day average or the 200-day average And if the market's being held up by a certain amount of stocks a handful of stocks Does that mean when the market pulls back those other stocks are going to go lower or have they already done they're going down? That's a great question This is what happens The stocks that have really got smoked most of the time don't go a lot lower The ones that haven't got smoked that much that have been down, they'll go lower because they're weaker and the ones that are high will go lower But the ones that really got smoked they normally don't Listen, that happens in every sector too That's a great question, man because that takes It's really cool you asked that question I should have brought that up because over the course of years I've seen that a lot Have a great one, man, have a safe one One last request Can you go back to your old battle cry that the bull can run you over and the bear can claw your heart out I love that Always remember folks The bull can run you over the bear can claw your heart out and thank god there's always another trade Health happens in prosperity Have a great weekend, safe weekend Look forward to speaking right here on Monday morning Real


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In marketing, there is a common idea that you need to build the no-like trust factors with your audience. Basically, your audience needs to be aware of who you are. They've heard of you from somebody else, maybe, or they've seen your content.  So maybe you can build that through your articles or through the videos you make or through engaging with them one to one, and then they need to trust you enough, maybe by being recommended by somebody or seeing your background and how much experience you have or some other trust factors that would make them want to buy your services. Well, I have a similar but different framework to present to you in this video that may be even more useful for you. I call this your no-ready and trust factors. So I think that the audience that you're talking with need to not just be aware of who you are, but they need to know enough about the context of your services to understand the value of such a thing that you're selling and so that they could also imagine themselves buying that kind of thing. So for example, if you had a yoga studio in the rural south of the United States where maybe in a particular community where nobody does yoga and somebody there doesn't even know anybody who does yoga, the no factors are very difficult. Even though they might know who you are because you're in the community, they don't understand the context of what yoga is and why it's important, why it's valuable and helpful. And so a lot of education would need to be done in that kind of circumstance to get people to know that kind of no yoga enough to be interested enough to even consider buying it. Do you see what I mean? So if you can instead talk to an audience that already knows the context of your services. So for example, if you're selling life coaching and you're talking to an audience who has purchased psychotherapy before or they are in an urban community, maybe they're in such a culture where they maybe know somebody who's purchased psychotherapy, then that's much easier to educate them into what life coaching is, maybe similar to psychotherapy in certain ways and different than other ways. Do you see? So choose the audience that you're talking to, whenever you can, whether it's in a talk or in writing your articles or in knowing where to share your content. Okay, choose the audience that already has some context of the kind of thing that you provide. And if you're providing a very unique type of service or product, then you do need to do a lot more education of the general public so that they would then understand the value of your industry and your niche enough to consider buying it. So build the no factors in that kind of way through education. Okay, the second factor is the ready factors. Readiness is about timing.   They bought them themselves. They know that people who bought haircuts, they know the value of haircuts, but they just got a haircut. Okay, so no matter how much you try to hand them a coupon and try to interest them in coming to the salon, they're not ready for that. However, now, I know most of you are building an online presence. So if you can have your audience member follow you on social media or join your mailing list so that you can continue to keep in touch with them with helpful ideas, helpful tips, valuable suggestions that help their life in the way that you provide in your service, but in a more lighter and more casual way, then you are continually educating your audience on what your niche is and what the value of your type of service. And when they are ready, the timing of their life, when their life is ready, then they can then consider buying your services. So readiness can be built by having your audience join your mailing list or follow you on social media or keeping in touch with them in some way. That is more sustainable for you to keep in touch. Now, readiness also has to do with the timing of the year. So if you are selling some kind of life coaching service that's about changing people's life. The new year's the first quarter of the year is incredibly important in terms of readiness and timing because people are thinking of new year's resolutions. They're thinking of there's an energy for the new year that is inspiring them to want to change their life. So they're more ready to maybe hire a coach to do that kind of thing. Maybe you sell relationship coaching and then Valentine's Day would be an incredibly important time of year to prepare for for some kind of launch. So think about the readiness of the year as well as the readiness of the person's ideal reader and ideal client's life. In your content, you should also think about when you're writing an article or you're making a video, think about the persons that I'm talking to, what stage of their life are they're in right now where they might be ready for this type of content? What stage of readiness are they where they would find this content valuable? Or if you're selling your service in a piece of content, then you need to be talking to people who are ready to buy that content, not trying to convince somebody who isn't yet ready. Does that make sense? So think about the readiness stage when it comes to the content that you're creating and then the third piece of the framework is trust. So once they know about your niche and the value of the kind of thing that you provide and once they are ready in the stage of their life or in the time of the year that they have the energy to buy it, then they need to trust you enough to say, yes, you are the one that I'm going with. And there are lots of different kind of trust factors on your website. You may trust can be related to graphic design. If you have a website that is designed very poorly, unprofessionally, there the readiness, there are trust factors goes down immediately. But a website doesn't have to be amazingly designed. It simply needs to be clean, professional looking. And I do the kind of work all the time with my clients. So I guess I have a natural eye for that kind of thing, but talk to somebody who has a natural eye for graphic design or marketing to just give you a sense of that. You may need to hire a graphic designer or hire a coach to be able to give you a professional sense of it. But other trust factors include does your audience, your ideal client, do they care about some kind of educational pedigree? Maybe they don't. Maybe they don't care about your certification because they don't even know what that means to be a certified something, something. But maybe they do. Maybe they care about your PhD or they care about your years of experience or you've studied with a particular famous person that they would care about. Trust factors could also include the testimonials you include on your website and, of course, the content that you have through your website and through your other online presence that would build the trust with your audience so that they can really resonate with you and say, I feel like I can believe this person and work with that person. So think about these three factors of are you educating the public and you're educating your ideal audience enough to understand the value of your type of service and of your type of advice or wisdom? So the no factors, think in terms of that understanding, OK? The readiness factors is thinking in terms of timing and the readiness stage of the person that you're talking to or the audience that you're writing for or you're creating content for. And think about the ways that you are building trust with your audience through testimonials or through engaging with them so that they are ready. Oh, another thing about trust is the options of the offerings that you offer. So if you only offer an expensive thing, you are asking your audience to to go from just a little bit of trust to trusting you greatly in an instance, which is unrealistic. So if you can offer just a few offerings that maybe one is very affordable, one is medium and one is more expensive, then you allow people to trust you in the way that they feel ready. Does that make sense? So somebody might look at your offerings, maybe you have three offerings, an online workshop, a single session with you and a package of sessions with you. The online workshop may be really affordable. And they said, you know, I don't know this person well enough, but I can trust at least just that little bit to buy that cheap online workshop or that book or that video series or something like that. And then maybe after that, they're ready to trust you with a single session. And then after that, they're ready to trust you with a package. Although some people may be following your content for years and they already trust you enough or they got recommended to you by somebody that they really respect. And then they may be ready right away to trust you at the higher level. So you do need to have several options for people to choose from that would help to meet them where they're at, in other words. OK, so I hope that this is helpful. And until the next video, my name is George Cao, and I'm always open to your comments and your questions. Take care.


Once again with another video, check out bad news for Cody Rose, Rest in Peace, a WCW wrestler and John Cena announces WWE retirement plan and other wrestling related news by WrestleMania. The talk of the town obviously is The Rock being one of the board members now for TKO and also his involvement in WrestleMania this year. What he was talking about on first take the other day, talking about wrestling Roman Reigns at this year's WrestleMania and that puts a question mark on Cody Rose and what his plans will be at this year's WrestleMania. So I don't know it's going to be a very interesting situation to see how things play out but I don't know I just don't see him at this particular moment they're going with The Rock I just don't see him potentially finishing his story but we will see but we're going to see what WrestleMania has to say and what other news stories he was able to dig up. Appreciate all of us for you guys showing us. What is going on guys? It is WrestleMania here, backward some more news, join us now as we look at the wildest news stories and rumors you need to know including really bad news for Cody Rhodes, John Cena drops retirement bombshell, Michael Cole returning to Smackdown, a former WCW wrestler passes away, William Regal returns to NXT and much more. You should subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive lists. Also check out our new website, wrestlelima.com and now let's see the intro and get straight into our first story. Our first story looks at major shake ups for WrestleMania and bad news for Cody Rhodes. Atop of today's news is a report from Sports Illustrated that the WWE's plans for two top matches at WrestleMania 40 will be different than originally believed. Let's look at the rumored Mania lineup and how it impacts the American nightmare. Sports Illustrated's Justin Barassa reports that the Rock versus Roman Reigns is almost a lock, especially after the Rock joined TKR Holdings' board of directors. In addition, the WWE has a different opponent for Seth Rollins than CM Punk. After a month of speculation that CM Punk would challenge world heavyweight champions Seth Rollins at WrestleMania, a new plan is in place. Gunther is the favorite to win the Royal Rumble and then dethrone Rollins on the first night of WrestleMania. Barassa said that a world heavyweight championship win by Gunther would allow him to defend the title at the WWE's upcoming PLE in Berlin. If the Rock versus Roman happens at WrestleMania, it appears it will be a one-on-one match. Consequently, Cody Rhodes will not finish his story at WrestleMania 40. Barassa commented, where does this leave Cody Rhodes? Multiple sources close to WWE head of creative Paul Triple H Levesque have indicated that Rhodes will not headline this year's event, nor will he finish his story at WrestleMania. But there's still a new chapter to write with a marquee matchup to be had against CM Punk. Prior to this report, it was believed that Seth Rollins would defend the world heavyweight championship against CM Punk and that Gunther might wrestle Brock Lesnar. Cody's status for the showcase of the Immortals was still uncertain with some rumors stating that he might be inserted into the Rock versus Roman match, making it a triple threat. What do you guys think about these major changes? What do you guys think about Cody actually not finishing the story and possibly having another year of no title defenses by Reigns? If these are true, that's crazy. And let's talk about the Seth Rollins-Gunther thing that's very interesting. They could pull one of the biggest swerves in Royal Rumble history and actually have Gunther win it. Would I have a problem with it? No, I wouldn't. Only because Gunther deserves it. I would not have a problem with it. But the question is, what do you do with CM Punk? Elimination Chamber is right around the corner unless the Rock is in the Elimination Chamber match. What do you do there? And if the Rock is going to face Roman Reigns at this year's WrestleMania like we talked about before, yeah, I don't know, that's a tough one. That's a tough one for Cody because essentially his story would be done. And if it doesn't happen at this year's WrestleMania, it's not going to be the same to happen at another show. It's essentially over. Which means that most likely Roman Reigns will be the champion for the rest of this year. And for me, the match between Rock and Roman obviously will be a memorable one, but at the same time, we have to deal with the Rock, I mean Roman holding that championship because the Rock is not going to win it. So we're going to have to legitimately just deal with Roman holding that championship postage for a whole another year essentially. And if he doesn't lose it at WrestleMania, then they're going to have him beat the Hulk Hogan's record, which wouldn't happen until September of this year. So yes, we have to sacrifice another year for a great match. I'm sure it'll be a fantastic match between Rock and Roman, but we have to sacrifice a whole another year. That's I don't know, man. I really don't want that to be the outcome. I want them to have the match. I just don't want them to sacrifice Smackdown in a process. That's my only thing. John Cena drops two retirement bombshells. There's big news coming from John Cena as the WWE Goat recently revealed when he intends to retire and where he would like his last match to take place. John Cena has been dropping hints for some time that his retirement is on the horizon. During an interview with Entertainment Tonight, Cena went into detail about when he expects to retire and stressed his retirement is happening. That's not a maybe that time is going to come and it's going to come soon. The 16-time world champion Toll Turner, he wants to end things when he's still able to perform at a high level. I made a promise to the consumer early on to WWE fans because I know how tough it is to be a fan. You've got to come out of pocket and WWE has done a ton of content and it takes a lot to be a passionate fan and our fan base is passionate and global. I never wanted to go out there just for the sake of going out there. But John Cena has said in many other interviews and retiring with dignity seems like something he's committing to achieve. While some fans love to see their favorite stars compete, regardless of their in-ring ability, Cena seems to subscribe to the idea that wrestlers should be able to deliver as long as they wrestle. As for a retirement date, Cena didn't really name a date and time, but he knows what the expiration date is. I'm going to be 47 this year, I feel great. So inside I feel great, but I know what it takes to be a WWE performer night in night out and I don't want to ever go out there and do it to do it. I want to have passion, the same passion as a fan base and I want to give them exactly what they give me. The mouths on the speedometer say hey, that's got to be done before 50. A man who parlayed his Doctor of Thuganomics character into a main event career recently chatted with the BBC's The One Show about his love for the UK fans and where he wants to wrestle his final match. I go by the construct in the life of never trying to pick my opponents because that's way above my pay grade, but I've been an active advocate for London to host WrestleMania. A lot of people think I go out in the middle of the ring and I say that it's just for the local moment and we want to make this show happy. Fans in the UK, WWE fans, they're the best. Fans in London specifically will let you know how they feel. I don't think I'll be able to choose my opponent, but if I could choose a venue it'd be the 02 in London. Wow. What do you guys think of Cena's retirement plans? Is 50 a good age to retire? Let us know in the comments down below. Next up. Here's the crazy thing, if they're able to pull that off, I'm all for it. I don't know who would be his opponent. That would make sense, you know, preferably someone, you know, it could be just like maybe a newer guy, I don't know, that would be very interesting. And honestly, I would want John to go out on a win depending on who it is and the talent that he goes against. Honestly, actually, I just thought about it. CM Punk, CM Punk, I would go with CM Punk. I actually, I just got goosebumps about thinking about that. CM Punk, that makes sense. They have changed. Things have changed with John Cena and CM Punk over these past 10 years. CM Punk, if that's his last match, CM Punk, yeah, let me know what y'all think about that. I don't even have to say anything. The history speaks for itself, CM Punk. Is Raw getting rid of commercials? Well, that could be the case based off a new rock. Coming after the announcement that Netflix acquired the rights to air Raw. Does this mean that Netflix subscribers with a commercial free option get to watch uninterrupted matches or will the WWE come up with a contrived situation so matches don't air during commercials? CNBC media reporter Alex Sherman recently tweeted about the situation. A new detail from the Netflix Raw deal, for Netflix subs that don't get ads, the vast majority of y'all, Raw matches will be scripted around commercial breaks so you'll get some non-important match action, sustained headlocks instead of commercials. You won't get ads. Have this story pans out, should fans who pay the premium for commercial free content have a cause for celebration? Does this mean that fans will get to see more in-ring action? It's an enticing possibility but there could be an unpleasant alternative. Fans may not see a so pleasant blast from the past as WWE structures it shows some matches and before commercials. Fans will recall that the WWE's bizarre policy from a few years back, pre-pandemic, did not air matches during commercials. This led to matches being stopped and restarted so that fans watching at home didn't miss out on the matches. If Netflix airs Raw and carries matches into their entirety for commercial free subscribers, the streaming service has a powerful and sensitive to convince lower tier subscribers to choose the commercial free option. Netflix has until 2025 to work with the WWE to figure things out. If ever a company has proven the adage, necessity is the mother of invention, it's the WWE. Don't be surprised to see them handle a commercial free and commercial full show with its usual versatility. Next up, Michael Colerick. That's gonna be very interesting too because for those who don't know, a lot of times during the commercial breaks, unless they're doing picture in picture, a lot of times they're just doing rest holds. Nothing's really happening within the actual match itself unless they're doing picture in picture. It's gonna be very interesting to see Monday night Raw with essentially no commercials. So what are they going to be doing during the, you know, some people having commercials, some people don't. Are they going to be doing rest holds, rest locks, like what's going to happen there? It's gonna be very interesting to see how they break that up and make that work for a three hour show if they're going to continue to be a three hour show on Netflix as well. Here's the thing, I'm not a person that's happy about someone getting fired but I'm gonna be honest with you, Kevin Patrick, in just the job that he was given, I know they tried. Um, nah, it didn't work. Kevin Patrick was not the guy. The voice for wrestling, he just, it didn't work. It didn't work. And it's not even because of his accent, it was just more so how he was delivering lines to and it just, it didn't work. Like him on commentary just, you didn't feel much of nothing. So I understand why he was let go. You know, once again, I'm not here advocating someone getting fired, but it just, it didn't work. Maybe he can go back to being on a pre show. I think that would probably work better for him or whatnot. I don't, I don't even know about the backstage interviewing either. But maybe do pre show stuff. If they choose to keep them, I think he fits that role more. Uh, well, he fits that role better. But on commentary, he, no, it's, it's not good. No, it's, it's not so. NXT and the rim is a true. William Regal is back on his seat. How will he be sticking around for fans tuning into this week's NXT. So Ava Rain appointed as the black and gold brands general manager. Not to mention she being the youngest general manager ever in history. Yeah, 22 years of age. They also saw former NXT general manager, William Regal, wish Rain's luck and offer her any advice she wants about the job. Regal returned to WWE in 2023, after negotiating an early release with his deal from AEW. However, rumor has it his early release came with the condition that he could not appear on WWE television for a year. There was significant speculation that Regal returned due to Triple H's elevation to running the WWE's creative department. A Fightful Select recently reported that WWE had been discussing bringing Regal back. With Ava Rain serving as NXT general manager, could they ever crafty Regal workers way back in the position of power? There are other possibilities, including Regal managing talent. Whatever the case, the former King of the Ring brings much to the table, whether it's his ability to talk, call matches or guide talent behind the scenes. What do you guys think of Ava Rain officially becoming the NXT general manager? Let us know in the comments down below. It trickles down to his daughter being the youngest general manager in WWE history. The Rock is truly the head of the table. We've confirmed that now. I feel that's a good role for her right now and depending on what they have her doing and maybe just the stuff that they will have her say. It may transform into something else, more of a wrestling role, but we'll see how that plays out. But I think that's probably the best fit for her right now. And we'll see what they have her do and and how, you know, things will go from there. And it may translate to maybe her getting, you know, getting back in the ring or, you know, being a bigger prominent figure in NXT even more. So we'll see how that plays out. But yeah, man, that that's very, very interesting. The timing on that very interesting. Next up, a former WWE wrestler passes away. Now, we're starting to report the death of former WCW star Ice Train, aka Harold Hoag. Former WWE superstar Mark Merrow, who also worked in WCW during Ice Train's run, tweeted the news saying, I just heard the devastating news that our longtime friend and wrestling superstar Harold Hoag, aka Ice Train, passed away. I couldn't believe my eyes when I read this and immediately called DDP and he confirmed what we were seeing was in fact real. This really hits home and he was truly one of the good guys, only 56 years young. My heart goes out to his wife and kids and his numerous fans. Heartbroken, rest in peace, our amazing friend. Ice Train is best remembered for two campaigns in WCW, including his fire and ice tag team with Scott Norton. We send our condolences to Mr. Hoag's friends, fans and family. Definitely send our condolences to his family and friends, man. Once again, we say it all the time. I'm going to keep saying it. Enjoy your life while you can live every day like it's your last. And don't get hung up on the little things. Enjoy it. Because when your time is up, your time is up and that's it.  That's all you can do every single day. Make the best of it. Finally, the Rocks big score. Last but not least, the Rock is getting a huge payday for joining TKO Holdings Board of Directors as reported yesterday, Dwayne Johnson gets the rights to use his Rock intellectual property as partial compensation for joining the board. That's not all a CNN business is reporting. The company said in a regulatory filing Tuesday that it will pay Johnson $30 million in stock awards to promote the brand as part of his new deal. The awards will vest over the course of 2024 and 2025. With the rumors that the Rock will face Roman Reigns in a match at Mania, it looks like the Rock's wrestling routes are paying off more than ever. Yeah, you guys think about the Rock joining TKO? Let us know in the comments down. Yeah, man, I'm happy for him being able to own his name. You know, the Rock, you know, being able to get that is very important. Ownership, very important, y'all. So I'm happy for him. I hope once again, the situation may be they do a slow build. I think it would be perfect to do a slow build of them, Roman and the Rock. That's that's my personal opinion. I don't think a title needs to be had for them to have this match, because we clearly know who's really the head of the table right now. And it's the Rock legitimately. So I personally don't think it needs to happen right now. I think this needs to be some type of build. And I think the perfect build is having a dethrone Roman Reigns, because at this point he's going to be even more dangerous. You know, have Cody win or whatever the case may be and have Roman go away for a while. And he comes back and maybe he's trying to wreck shop or whatever. You can even build the story of him disrespecting his family even more because he doesn't have the championship and he blames them, you know, and that you can incorporate the Rock being involved there like now we're not about to do this. You can do something like that. Build towards next year's WrestleMania. We know that would be the main event. You can do something in that nature if you wanted to. But if they want to get this going now, then. Ain't nothing Cody can do at that point. So comment down below. Let me know, man. How do you feel about the potential rumors of Cody's story pretty much being closed and they're moving on from that? And the fact that we may not even get CM Punk versus Seth Rollins. We may get Seth Rollins versus Gunther for the World Heavyweight Championship. Let me know how you all feel about that. Let me know how you all feel about John Cena's retirement, his retirement plans and who do you all think he should face as his last match? Me, I personally think CM Punk will be a fantastic last match for John Cena. Y'all let me know how y'all feel about that, man. But I appreciate all the love and support you guys shown on the channel. Road to 158. I'm still young, speedy, YouTube wrestling champion of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking in with me. See y'all next one. Peace.


The third strategy is to create specific and detailed activities or prompts. Give the students specific questions to answer. Put the questions on the board or the screen. Tell the students how long they will have to discuss. You can also give them something to complete, like a grid, table, or graphic organizer. See the example here. Students can work in small groups or pairs to complete a graphic organizer, helping them to know what is expected and stay on task. The fourth strategy is to circle the room and check on students. When students are doing group work, you want to walk around. This shows them that you care about what they are doing and you are interested in their learning. That will help them stay on task. You can also encourage them to use English, answer any questions they have, and check to see how well they understand the material. Walking around allows you to judge how much more time is needed for students to complete a task. And finally, when you walk around, you can ensure the groups are working well together and that students are being polite and respectful in their communication and sharing. If you notice any problems, you can join a group as necessary and talk to them. Talk them through any misunderstandings. The fifth strategy is to correct students' English only when necessary. Students will often feel less self-conscious and nervous about their level of English if you allow them to speak and share ideas without correcting their English. Sometimes it is necessary to correct them. Usually, this is when meaning is not clear. If a student gives an answer that you think will not be understood by their classmates or that you don't understand, you will need to either restate the answer in a way that is clear and understandable, or you can ask the student to restate the answer. If you are concerned that the student cannot restate it clearly, it is usually best to just restate it yourself. Do not correct students' pronunciation or grammar as long as everyone can understand them. With time, students' English will improve. What they need is practice speaking and sharing ideas. We've discussed five strategies to facilitate student interaction and group work in your EMI course. I hope you found this video useful and can implement these in your own classes.