Herzlich willkommen zum Nachmittagslot hier im Zelt. Wer von den anwesenden Hackern hat denn heute schon Koffein? Okay, welcome to this translation of this talk about caffeine. Vielleicht zwei Handvoll eigentlich alle. Wer hier in the audience has consumed any caffeine today? Basically everyone in the audience raised their hands. As caffeine is such an integral part of being in a hacker. I'm very happy to announce the next speaker who will talk about everything. You always wanted to know about caffeine or maybe didn't want to know. Hallo liebe Menschen. Hello and welcome. I'm glad you're here in this tent and not at the lake. I'm happy to be talking about caffeine today. And I'm interested in that and I'm consuming a lot of caffeine myself. So I was thinking this might be a very interesting topic, which is also interesting to a lot of you. So while I was preparing for this talk, I looked at my own caffeine consumption. And on the bottom you see the date and on the left side you see the amount of caffeine I was taking in. And right now, that might not mean a lot to you, but we can see later what this means actually. So here we are seeing what types of caffeine I was consuming. And I was consuming about 10 liters of caffeine and that's around 2,000 milligrams of caffeine. And my favorite drink was Miu Miu Marta Ginger. So, ich habe mit mir Flora Marta mitgebracht, was ich nicht in diesem Graf habe, aber ich kann es jetzt genießen.  Ihr seht es hier, es ist kalt und es ist nicht sehr kompliziert. In der originalen Form ist es eigentlich nicht sehr interessant. Und wenn ihr schaut, sieht es aus wie Powder Chugger. Und ich denke, dass alle von euch wissen, wie es so aussieht. Und der erste verabschiedete Kaffeein war eigentlich von Kaffeebeins.  Und er war recherchisch über das. Die Kaffeein, das ihr seht, ist eigentlich das selbe wie Kaffeein. Manchmal hat es sich differenziert, weil es die Stimulierung des Kaffeeins ist. Aber der offizielle Chemistische Name hier ist 1,3,7, primatische, 3,7, dihydro, 1,H, Pukin, 2,6, Dion. Ich weiß nicht, was das offizielle Name für Kaffeein ist.  Also, wenn ihr schaut, was es ist, was wir tun und was die Effekte sind, das weltweiligste Effekt ist, dass es uns von Zehne wächst. Und das ist das, was wir meistens für alle benutzen. Und also, die Lieseldose der Kaffeein ist 10 Gramm. Und das klingt wie viel. Und in der dailyen Konsumtion wird es nicht so gut. Also, schauen wir, was der Effekt der Kaffeein ist. Und wir trinken es alle, weil wir glücklich sind und energisiert sind. Wir starten unsere Tage so. Und der Haupteffekt der Kaffeein ist... Also, der Haupteffektive Method, wie es funktioniert, ist, es geht zu den Rezeptoren der Adenosin in deinem Kopf. Und es kann deine Blattpressur und dein Herzschluss erhöhen. Es kann es einfacher für dich zu breatheen. Und es kann dich mehr effektiv machen. Es kann deine Konsumtion erhöhen. Es kann deinen Level erhöhen. Also, schauen wir uns, wie es eigentlich funktioniert. In unserem Gehirn haben wir alle diese Synapsen. Die Synapsen sind basically, wie das Körper reguliert, was wir an jeder Stelle brauchen und wie es funktioniert.  Die Adenosin, die wir in unserem Gehirn haben, ist etwas, das von ATP, Adenosin Triphosphate, und wenn wir etwas benutzen, wir benutzen Energie in unserem Körper, was passiert ist, dass ATP in Adenosin geflogen ist, among andere. Und das kind of leads to me getting tired when I have a lot of Adenosin, like the cat here. The Adenosin makes sure that our body doesn't split out anymore, and it makes us tired. So, it's basically the opposite of caffeine. Okay? The caffeine basically goes to the transmitter, but instead of Adenosin, it doesn't do anything at this point. So, all of these things that happen when you're tired don't happen. So, instead we become more awake, we become more active, we become happy. And that also, the caffeine also works differently depending on how our body works. For older people caffeine works more, it goes to the proteins in your blood, and older people have less proteins, whereas someone who's smoking, they will eliminate the caffeine more quickly, because the enzymes that are eliminating the caffeine are higher concentrated in people who are smoking. And if you use contraception, hormonal contraception, or are pregnant, then it's completely the opposite. So, your elimination is smaller. It's also interesting that if you have ADHD, you might have a paradox effect of caffeine. So, and it was something that I found on the Internet, but I also found some research that would suggest this, because ADHD also works on the neurotransmitters, like Adrenaline. So, if we have something that makes sure, so if with ADHD you have something that leads to dopamine being more released, then this caffeine could also have a different effect. So, it's possible that it is, but we haven't really, there's not really a lot of evidence. So, if we consume too much caffeine, then we kind of get side effects. Now, when I take a matter, when I drink a matter, I might not be able to sleep. Now, if I actually drink too much, we can become nervous, we can not be able to sleep, we can sweat a lot, we can be kind of nervous, our heart rate quickens, and everything of that is like what happens when we're too awake. So, our body kind of feels we have too much energy, and this energy needs to go somewhere. So, maybe we even get panic attacks. Langfristig. Ein Entwicklung einer Toleranz. In der liest-series side effect, long-standing side effect, is actually that we get a tolerance. So, you get used to it, and your body will react if you don't give him the caffeine. So, let's talk about the mass of caffeine. So, what's much caffeine, what's little caffeine?  Du sollst nur 3 mg per 1 kg Kaffee-Buddy-Weg tun, weil Kaffee in der Zentral-Nervus-Systeme funktioniert, weil du nur 3 mg per 1 kg Kaffee-Buddy-Weg tun, per Tag eigentlich.  Und wenn du verabschiedest, sollst du ca. 1,5 kg Kaffee-Buddy-Weg tun, also höchstens. Also nicht so, dass das Kind keine Probleme hat. In general ist es ca. 200 mg per Tag, was ich denke, ist sehr viel.  Okay, Kaffee in der langen Zeit, wir werden neue Synapsen für Adenosine machen. Da ist unser Körper in Ordnung, so wird das Ganze Adenosine nicht abgebrochen.  Wenn wir viel schlafen wollen, müssen wir plötzlich mehr Kaffee trinken. Oder nicht mehr Kaffee trinken und dann warten für die Adenosine, um es zu erleben und zu schlafen. Also, was passiert, wenn wir keine Kaffee trinken, werden wir eigentlich zufrieden.   Unfortunately, wir werden nicht zufrieden und dann sehr fit wie dieses Kaffee. Wir haben einen Hormon in unserem Körper, Cortisol. Cortisol, in der Frühstück, hat eine Stunde, nachdem wir draußen sitzen. Da ist dieses Kaffee, und wir sind plötzlich weg. Wir können diese Situation nicht verbessern. Wenn wir das in den Montag machen, dann, in der Frühstück, unser Körper wird denken, ich muss das Cortisol nicht produzieren. Das führt zu unserem Körper, basically, uns zu erwarten, um Kaffee zu trinken. Also, bis nach einer Stunde nach, du musst nicht Kaffee trinken, bis zu einer Stunde nach, nachdem du getroffen bist. Hier, ich sage, zwischen 8 Uhr und 9 Uhr, und das assumes, dass du am 8 Uhr kommst. Wer heute, wer von euch, oder davor ausgeführt hat, heute oder am 8 Uhr oder früher? Oh, ganz viel, eigentlich. Ganz überraschend. Jedenfalls haben wir... Okay, anyway, zwischen 12 und 13, zwischen 12 und 1 pm, wir haben auch ein Cortisol-Pik, und zwischen 5.30 und 6.30 pm, also, wenn du Mathe mit dir hast, trink es jetzt. Also, angenommen, wir sind jetzt an dem Punkt, an dem wir... Angenommen, wir sind an dem Punkt, an dem wir keine länger Kaffee trinken wollen. Und dann sind wir in den Fondern der Mathe, und wir haben das, und vielleicht wollen wir es nehmen, aber vielleicht, wenn wir es nicht tun, sind wir eigentlich im Strahl, das ist das Minimum von 12 Stunden, und es kann bis zu 9 Tagen sein, bis zu 2 Tagen, und es führt zu Headaches, und wir sind traurig, wir verlieren Energie, wir sind müde, wir sind nicht so glücklich, als in diesem Punkt, vielleicht haben wir auch einen erhöhen Appetit, das ist, weil Kaffee uns energisiert, und es geht runter, wenn wir es stoppen, und man kann auch Trouble-Sleeping haben, und wir haben das Studie from 2003, which describes all the effects, which happened, if you stop taking caffeine, and there was also no nightmares, actually. And there is also this funny website on the internet, where you can check your dose for caffeine, which is from the official Bundeszentrum for the official German who is trying to tell us what is healthy for you and what is not, so I clicked around on this webpage, and you can select how much caffeine you are taking, and what's your age and your body weight, and the time span where you drank it, and whether you drank it all at once or throughout the day. And you can choose a couple of drinks here, for example black tea, green tea, coffee, espresso, chocolate, which you eat. So I clicked around there a bit, and I was like, what is happening here, what is calculating. And I got a lot of different results here, so I was kind of interested and I looked at the source code and found javascript. So that's kind of interesting, because it's kind of inconsistent, the code, also, because the numbers of how much caffeine is in there, there is sometimes the concentration per 100 Milliliters, Milligramm pro 100 Milliliters, which is Milligramm per 100 Milliliters, and in other cases it's per cup, which I find kind of weird, because a cup is a defined unit, so it's not really clear how much it actually is. Also, it doesn't include whether a person is above or under 18, so there is different variations as a calculation. I'm sorry, I didn't format the code here correctly, if you're very interested in it, you can look at the code yourself, and also there is a randomization of the responses. So, if you're on the edge, you can get a note saying attention or this is at the edge, so it's kind of funny, actually. Also, as this website is talking about, sometimes it can be too much caffeine, so let's talk about the desolate dose of caffeine, which is far away from 400mg, we were talking about earlier, which is 10g, 10 whole grams. So, the question here becomes, where is caffeine in the things we consume? So, if I look at this Floramate, that's around 100mg of caffeine, so that would be a lot of Floramate. So, I went to my headspace and looked at the fridge and I looked at the Martefridge and we have also drinks like beer because that's like a basic thing we also have and we also have drinks without caffeine and so I started looking at what kinds of drinks we have there and in our storage we have 137l of Martefridge and I was looking at how much caffeine is in the different types of Martefridge and it's 27.65g of caffeine and I also looked at the fridge which is 28l of Martefridge which concludes to 5.7g of caffeine so in total that's 165l of Martefridge and 33.43g of caffeine so that would be 55l of Martefridge for a lethal dose of caffeine that would be a lot to drink the body will shut this down not just because of the caffeine but for a lot of other reasons so getting an overdose of caffeine an accident is super difficult so another question is where else do we find caffeine because obviously we can drink Marta and we can do coffee but are there other stuff like foods we consume which include caffeine and I walked around by a flat and saw what I could find and I found chocolate where you might be surprised to find caffeine so here we have a list of stuff you might usually consume where you find caffeine so the thing I personally find most interesting is chocolate but to get to these numbers I can actually drink a lot of Marta I'm more happy to drink a Flora Marta than eat 5 milk chocolate even though that would also be nice coffee is kind of a special case it depends on how strong the coffee is last year at GPN which is another hacker event we had a coffee machine and we filled it up to the limit so it barely closed so that was maybe a bit more caffeine but in other cases if you put less coffee in your coffee so less coffee powder in your coffee then it might be a bit weaker but just looking at the laws there are also limits so there is this limit of 15 mg per 100 ml and there is this warning which is saying not for children but for pregnant people and this is because of the laws which are telling the producers to put this label on their products and a lot of companies actually put this label on drinks where they don't need to but they are doing it anyways and for energy drinks there is actually a different limit und for energy drinks it's a maximum of 32 mg per 100 ml and there is also special caffeine-nated products so food which would not include caffeine on its own or stuff which have additionally added caffeine for example this koa watch there is also jellies or especially caffeine-nated chocolate which has more caffeine than regular chocolate there is chewing gums there is caffeine tablets caffeine tablets actually I am actually studying chemistry one person there is eating caffeine tablets with red wine but especially with caffeine tablets actually go to your limits a little bit it's not quite lethal most of the time but it can become dangerous 80 mg 100 ml so a regular coffee is like 80 mg per 100 ml but some coffee beans are actually stronger in caffeine than just regular ones 85 ml where you can easily get to 58 mg per 100 ml but isn't a ton but it's getting more and there is this black insomnia coffee which is the strongest coffee I could find which is 311 mg per 100 ml and it was a bit confusing to find this out because a lot of the producers are saying this amount of caffeine per cup and as I just talked about earlier a cup is not the best unit of measurement because there are tiny cups and small cups so that can mean a lot of things if you put this measurements by cup and at some point I found out a cup is 177 ml which is from the US because they don't like metric measuring systems and another thing you might have heard about is caffeine against hair loss which is like hey, caffeine can help my body but can it also help my hair and can my hair grow stronger or better or faster or is there any kind of cool effect und there is actually studies on this which have a positive effect in the laboratory which is for a specific case for hair loss due to genetics and for people who have this special genetic case they make testosterone and caffeine and put the substance in there and so they put the hair in there for five days and I don't think most of us actually wash their hair five whole days in the UK there is a shampoo which has been limited to advertise they were advertising for this to reduce hair loss but they were limited to do this advertising because there is not really a scientific proof here and then I was also asking myself how much caffeine do we consume worldwide und I found a lot of stats about coffee so I specifically looked at these stats about coffee which I could find I found out in Finland people consume a lot of coffee and a lot of Scandinavian countries are doing quite well Germany is kind of in the middle here und this is 2017 sorry for 2017 but it's not the stats in Finland und in Sweden gibt es so eine Art von Kaffeepause also es ist auch in Finland there is this concept of Fika which is kind of a coffee break but it's not just a coffee break we know which is just like taking coffee also form a socializing so due to this Fika this is a reason why there is this high consume of coffee in the Scandinavian countries in Iceland it's apparently the national drink but I didn't really find stats on this and apparently coffee is not only known on our planet but also on the USS Voyager where the captain is flying to different kinds of planets to find more coffee and I was like yeah well coffee is alright but I myself don't consume a lot of coffee so I prefer mate and how is the consumption for mate worldwide mate the original substance is from South America but the iced tea we have here is originating in Germany which was known as Zektpronte which is produced by Brewerie Loscher and we could actually visit the mate brewery at the international club mate party and this brewery on their website is saying they export to 75 companies worldwide to Madagascar and China so maybe club mate is being exported worldwide and I think this is mostly specific for club mate I'm currently talking a lot about how much coffee and how can we measure this and it would be kind of cool to have some sort of fluid or something else that would allow us to find out how much caffeine is in there so like a lapmus test basically that would be amazing but unfortunately it's not that easy there is a murexit test which allows us to to find coffee basically but unfortunately we can also find other stuff like urea and it's usually it was found to find urea actually so if you look for if you use this test then you can actually find urea in your urine but unfortunately it's not very easy to actually carry it out because you need very specific chemicals and then it becomes violet once you find it and then we also don't know what is the limit for finding it so maybe we can't even find our caffeine so that would be an easy solution because caffeine is in there so the good answer is there is a possibility but it's not very easy there is a lab HPLC which is like a high power liquid chromatograph which which allows a lot of chemists to not have to work as much basically I have some stuff in there and then just easily just very basic sorry I haven't found a picture of a more more recent OS I've already stood in front of this device at university and I think I kind of just tried to forget what kind of OS there was because those devices are very expensive they just use whatever OS works with this software so basically what this does is it separates it separates stuff and there's an experiment that schools like to do so we use a filter paper and put a hole in there in kind of allow this paper to be separated into its this pen to be separated into its constituting elements and this is the same thing we do with this HPLC we have one matter and we modify it a little bit so in order to do that we use solutions and one of them is a calibrating solution and because for this calibrating solution we actually know the concentration of whatever active ingredient we want to test for and this is what we use for our internal standard so this internal standard is something that is similar to the stuff that we want to analyze which allows us to make sure that we don't make as many mistakes basically and if anything in this internal standard changes then we know that our actual stuff is also probably changing so if we use something that is similar to the caffeine then we have suddenly done this with this calibration solution wie genauso at which point we have this solution of whatever with caffeine and then this allows us to separate this solution into different smaller solutions and sometimes we can use different methods as well where molecules are split apart what is actually in these molecules and it's actually quite a complicated topic but the idea is we separate this into different molecules and then we are able to see what is in there okay so this was it I hope you've learned something about caffeine I'll upload these slides later so if you have any questions just ask them right now thank you for your attention okay vielen Dank soweit Lea thank you Lea we have about 13 minutes for questions and answers if you have questions just head up to the microphones there's one on the left and one on the right and we'll be able to answer your questions or Lea will be able to answer your questions there's no questions apparently okay wenn wir noch Zeit haben was ist eure Lieblingsmarte Sorte okay was ist euer Favorit was ist euer Favorit Marte mal ganz kurz also es gibt ja eigentlich 1-2 auf dem Kongress wer mag denn Flora Power lieber mal kurz Handtuch Hands are shown who prefers Club Marte das ist relativ gleich roughly unanimous maybe a little more Flora Power who prefers another kind of Marte Ich sehe schon. Wir müssen irgendwie an der Mate-Pluralität auf dem Chaos weitermachen. Wir haben noch eine Frage gefunden, bitte schön.   Natürlich kann es manchmal etwas länger dauern, aber es ist nur zwei Wochen.   Yes, the withdrawal symptoms are done, but the synapses are... What about the synapses that have? Meine Idee ist, also, diese Synapsen... Appear. Well, yeah, of course, someone else can say something, but maybe my idea is that these synapses are kind of appearing very quickly, so they might be able to disappear very quickly as well. Sieht nicht so aus, vielleicht... Okay, doesn't look like it. Maybe next Congress, they will follow up. Wie gesagt, ich bin nicht der weißte Letzter Schluss, wenn ihr irgendetwas findet, womit ihr mich über Koffein genau informieren könnt. Bitte her damit. Also, ihr könnt mir auch sehr gerne Nachrichten über Koffein schreiben, wenn ihr das möchtet. Like, I'm not the only expert here. If you have any more information about caffeine and you want to inform me about this, just send me a message. Thank you, Lea, for this talk.


The University of Southern Maine is helping Maine adults complete their college degrees with four new online programs that will be available for the fall semester. Tom talked with Amartal Perman, the Associate Program Director for Continuing Education about what the new service has to offer. Thank you for joining us Amartal. It's great to have you here. This is a new program that you're starting at USM to get people to complete their degree online. Can people do it completely online? What's the program all about? Why did it come about? Well, they can absolutely do everything fully online. The idea behind these programs is that it's part of USM's effort to really reach out to the adult learner across the state of Maine. There are a lot of people out there with some college experience, maybe an associate's, maybe just a credit here, a credit there, and these programs are designed for them. They're fully online. There's five of them. There's a bachelor completion program in business administration with general management. There's the applied technical leadership program. There's a liberal studies program, a communication program, and a leadership and organizational studies program, as well as a certificate program in gerontology. So the five bachelor completion programs and the one certificate program in gerontology again are fully online and really designed with the busy working adult in mind. Now can people who can take a course or two at USM but can't take all the courses they want at USM sort of do some courses on campus and some courses online? Well, we find at USM that our student population, they're definitely not the traditional students. So we have people who definitely do that. We have people who take just one class here or there, some are online, some are on site. These programs are designed to say, if you have a question, we'll support you from inquiry all the way through graduation. So they are designed for someone to complete fully online. But of course, some people will want to take a class here or there on site. Maybe some of their core requirements, maybe they've already started at USM as a non-degree student is what we call them, someone who hasn't fully committed to an actual program but has stuck their toe in the water a little bit and tried a class out. So these programs may appeal to that kind of person. Why do you choose the five areas that you chose, are those the ones that lend themselves easiest to this form of education or are you looking eventually to expand and just starting with those? Well, we're definitely going to expand. I think the idea here is that people should be able to have access to quality education. The online format is one way of doing that and we definitely are committed to making sure they're fully high quality online programs. So we work with the faculty, we partner with them in all the departments across the university making sure everyone knows what a quality online course looks like, making it consistent. And these particular courses were courses that we really felt were strong programs within the university. For example, the business administration program, it's the exact same faculty and the exact same curriculum that an on-site student can receive. So now people who want to come to that fully accredited excellent program on site can do it online and then receive the same experience. So they have the flexibility but the same traditional resources as a student might get. If somebody, obviously if it's online, person could be anywhere and take this education. Are you looking to attract people that maybe are out of state, haven't even been in Maine or perhaps people who are already at USM that are moving out of state want to continue their USM education? Well, the first thing here was really to be responsive to state need. There are a lot of people in Maine who need online programming because they just can't fit there, they can't stop their life to go back to school full time on site like a traditional student. So that's really where it came out of. But yes, USM definitely looks across the nation and internationally to make sure that we're keeping up with what the industry is really doing and where higher ed is going and online is a big part of that and so our programs, of course, are welcoming to people from outside the state but really are developed in partnership with local need. I know that when I went to USM for my master's degree and went to family at another job and all that sort of stuff, at that time of course there wasn't online anything but it would have been great to have something like this. Is there a profile of a particular type of person that you know that single parents or any other group that you are looking to hope to get on here that has been getting the USM education? Well, I think the profile is a complicated one just like yourself. Someone who works full time, has a family, maybe in transition with careers you never know and I think that speaks to a lot of people in Maine. Our average age for these programs and for sort of the adult learner within University of Southern Maine is 35 but people who have full time careers, busy family life, range from early 20s all the way up 50s, 60s so lots of people identify with these programs. Some of the programs, actually two of the programs are offered in seven week models so this way they can be even more flexible, take a seven week session and then take some time off again, do a piece meal instead of multiple courses within a 15 week session so that even applies to more people. And where can people go for more information? Well they can absolutely go to our website at usm.main.edu slash online. They can also call our student services representatives at 780-5900 and they'll help you from inquiry all the way through graduation. Thanks so much for joining us. It's a very interesting program. Wonderful. Thank you.


What's up navigation traders welcome to this week's video update today is Friday July 5th. Hope everybody had a safe and Happy 4th of July for those of us in the United States and For those of you outside the United States, I still hope you enjoyed your day off of trading This is the weekly video where we recap all of the week's trade alerts as well as an update on all the different positions So let's jump in and actually actually have completely just now realized Usually we start this off by if you're new to the navigation family We start off by going to the community and talking about who got caught being hot Meaning each week we recognize one member of the community for helping other traders and I got to be honest I completely dropped the ball on on a on a winner this week so With the community with the holiday week. It was a little bit quiet, which is maybe why I kind of forgot but We will resume that next week. How about this America? You got caught being hot this week for allowing us to trade the most liquid active Best markets in the world America you get the hot award this week. Congratulations All right, let's jump into the alerts and we'll pick that up next week starting with Monday July 1st Okay, so our first trade of the week was a closing adjusting trade in FXI We had an we had an iron condor on we closed out the put vertical side as Price had breached our upside break even there was very little value left in the put verticals Put vertical side. So we just closed that out. Here's FXI now Here's something interesting too is okay. We've got all this trade war stuff going on with China FXI is the Chinese large cap index It's basically like the Dow or the S&P of China and look at this the implied volatility the IV rank and IV percentile is zero So apparently there is just no fear no uncertainty around that whole trade Around the whole trade war as China is concerned but anyway Anyway getting to our specific position. Here's where price is currently We took off the put vertical side, which is over here price had come through and breached So we're just looking for some downside to get back into range there Now we are in the July options here which have 14 days to expiration So once we get down into expiration week That's when we'll really you know kind of force ourselves to either do something either close it out or Roll it to the next cycle to extend duration with zero implied volatility rank zero IV percentile We're definitely not going to add to this by selling some more premium around the current price So we're just in a kind of a wait-and-see game right now if we can get a little bit of a downside Action movement in FXI next week great We will potentially close this one out or look to roll It depends on where we're at with the rest of our portfolio at that point For you new members just to and just to kind of refresh the way that we manage our portfolio is We always like to keep a little bit of short delta a little bit of a short bias because the velocity of a market move to the downside Is greater than that of a upside movement. It's kind of like you take the Stairs up and take the elevator down and so we want to protect ourselves from the downside by carrying a little bit of Short delta and the way that we manage that is we beta weight our delta to SPY so we want to kind of change all the different apples and oranges and bananas and make them all into apples let's say excuse me and And and that way we can kind of get an idea of what our overall portfolio Directional bias is and so then we look at so we look at that that we beta weight those numbers to SPY and Then and then we measure that against our theta because that gives us an idea of you know, what kind of You know potential profits we have going on and so it helps us manage and we look at it as a ratio We and we want between one to one and five to one on a ratio of short delta Versus theta so right now we're at about three to one so we've got about six hundred of short delta and about $200 in theta going on If you're newer and you and you want to learn more about that just check out our blog There's some different posts how to trade options like a professional and how to manage your portfolio using delta Just search for those on the blog and you'll you'll get a better idea of what I'm talking about So that's where we're at right now. We're about three to one We like to be in between one to one and five to one so we're in good shape on our overall portfolio balance and And anyway, so that's that's the plan on f the X I Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in zB that is the bond futures And so the reason that this looks a little bit different than your typical typical equity is because on the trading platforms You can't roll futures in one transaction so essentially we bought back this one and then we reentered by selling this one and you're buying that back for 442 selling this one for 547 so that's a net credit on that roll and So what we are doing is we are just rolling this out from August with 24 days to expiration out to September with 52 Now keep in mind. I always post the days to expiration when we're trading options on futures Reason being is because for example toss calls this one September whereas tasty works calls it August So that's just the display name always pay attention to the days to expiration So that's so you'll know that's the cycle that we're actually trading Anyway, we got down to a point. There's very little Value left in the puts so we wanted to roll those up roll them up from 151 up to 154 and with 24 days to expiration We didn't want to stay in that same cycle, you know, once we get start getting down to around that 21 days to expiration We want to roll that out to the next expiration cycle or close it And in this case we wanted to keep that exposure and so we extended duration by rolling from 24 days out to 52 Rolled our puts up from 151 to 154 and and so that's where we're at in ZB So let's go to ZB On our platform here, and so that's what this looks like you see prices hanging out right here So hasn't really moved too much since our actually it moved up and then back But pretty close to where we put it on and so we're just looking for a little bit more downside in ZB to benefit that trade to get back to center and And then you can see that there's another one that zeroed out that we actually closed out today And that was a another short strangle that we had on we booked over 30% of max profit in that and just to Had only had that on for a couple weeks. And so now we're still just left with this one piece So if price, you know does continue higher In the next week and implied volatility is still nice and high We might add another kind of centered piece around the current price But right now we're just holding on to this and if we get a down move in bonds a Continuation to today's down move big down move today So if we could have a little bit of a continuation to the downside in bonds We will just go ahead and close this and book a really nice profit. So that's the plan there Next trade a closing adjusting trade in IYR, which is the real estate ETF We closed out one set of our iron condors booked over 30% of max profit on that piece of the trade And now we're still holding our other iron condor Which is right here so you can see a price is hanging out near the upper end of the range And so we need some downside to get back into center here If we take a look at the charts of IYR you can see implied volatility is decent I mean IV percentiles 42 IV ranks 33, you know Technically we like to kind of be above that 50 level to sell premium But if we're in the 40s because there's such low implied volatility everywhere I wouldn't mind potentially adding another piece to this kind of centered around the current price But we'll see where things are, you know, if we get a sharp move lower back in the center We'll just kind of hold and wait if we get a up move and And implied volatility is somewhat decent. We will look to add add to this piece These are this one's in August. So we've still got 42 days to expiration. So a ton of time so not looking to To roll out in duration on that one at this point Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in ZW. So we added an iron condor in ZW Which is wheat we did this out in in what toss displays is the September cycle with 51 days to expiration Targeting between 30 to 40% of max profit on that one. So let's take a look at ZW. We've got two different pieces on here Let's go to the alert that I just mentioned first Just so you know what I'm talking about Here it is. You can see price is still fairly centered right here So just playing the waiting game waiting for some theta to decay some time to pass on That and then the next piece of the trade Is another iron condor, which we have not adjusted yet You see prices hanging out in the lower end of the range We need a little bit of upside movement to to benefit that one So right now just holding steady with both of those pieces Next trade closing adjusting trade in SPY so we closed out the put vertical side of our iron condor and SPY Price breached our upper upper break even and there's very little little value left in that put vertical you can see we bought it back for just two cents and Then we're still holding another set of short call verticals that we had from another iron condor so we've got two sets of short call verticals now in SPY and So here is one of them and you can see you know, this is pretty far out of range here So next week and we've got several positions like this where you know price moved Significantly out of range So we're kind of holding to see if we can get a little bit of a pop back down to the downside Before we before we do anything but next week or as we get closer to expiration We've still got 14 days left in July so over the next, you know call it seven to ten days We will either be rolling or closing this one out depending on where we're at with our short delta exposure at that point If we don't need the short delta, we'll just close it if we do we might consider rolling And then here's the other one. It's just barely out of range So just need a slight movement back into range and we can close that one out and we'll end up booking a profit on that On that iron condor. So that's the plan with SPY Closing trade in McDonald's so we had a pre earnings long straddle Which you can learn more about those in our earnings course Booked around 20% profit on that trade. There was some chatter in the community We're actually down on this trade. I think it was earlier this week Then it made a nice movement implied volatility expanded And we booked a nice profit of 300 and I think it was 380 some dollars Which related to a 20 profit on the trade. There's some chatter in the community though about everybody needs to get out and buy some hamburgers and french fries make this thing work for us and Apparently we did that over the fourth of july because it it worked. So out of that one for a nice profit Next let me go to the chart real quick on McDonald's Just wanted to show you that as well Remember on these pre earnings long straddles We need to get a decent price move Which we got and then We put this on when McDonald's was just I mean Literally no movement for a while. So the consideration was a implied volatility was still decently low And you know a stock's not going to trade sideways forever at some point It's got to break out or break down and in this case we got to break up Uh a break out And at the same time we got this expansion and implied volatility And so that's what you'll see leading up to earnings a lot of times is this implied volatility continues to climb And so by uh buying the straddle we got the movement We needed as well as the expansion and implied volatility and so that's where why we were able to book a nice profit there Next trade rolling adjusting trade in the qqq So we rolled one of our sets of short call verticals from july with 14 days out to august with 42 And this was one of those just like i mentioned that was kind of well out of its range We wanted to keep that short delta exposure in our portfolio. So we just extended duration on that one And so here's what it looks like now So still just looking for some downside to benefit that and then we've got this other one that is um right here And you can see this one's closely, you know right in in range as well So just looking for some downside there. That's part of our short delta exposure in our overall portfolio And uh, so we'll see what happens there in qqq Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in nat gas. What a move in natty gas today So we bought back one of our strangles which was in um August with 21 days and we rolled it out to september with 53 days So just like i was talking about before once we get down to that 21 days to expiration when we're trading Uncovered options naked options like strangles and straddles Uh, that that's kind of our point to to make an adjustment or close or roll With defined risk. We'll let those go closer to expiration down to expiration week if needed Uh, but we just so we rolled this one out and then we just adjusted our call strike from 2.55 down to 2.5 And collected net credit on that roll And uh, and then we're still holding our other one with 21 days to expiration So I didn't want to roll both of them in one swoop And so we just rolled this one here so you can see prices hanging out right here So we still need a little bit more up movement in natty gas to benefit that Hopefully it is uh, kind of hit a bottom and it's going to start turning up because that would definitely benefit us And then here's the other one that's still back in the cycle 21 days to expiration See prices hanging out right here And if we can get a little bit more up movement there that would benefit that one as well In fact, we might consider if we get if we get a continued upside movement early next week We might consider just closing this one out Reducing our overall exposure in that gas and then just continue to manage this one As needed. Uh, we'll see we'll see where we are overall. We're still down Uh, I didn't check exactly. We're still down a couple shekels on the on the old natty gas trade. So Um, we'll see what happens, but big move today up 5% in our favor. So that was That was a uh, very welcome move in natty gas if we can get just a little bit higher that will definitely benefit us and uh And do good for our portfolio And then lastly Today we did a closing adjusting trade in zb So that's the one I already mentioned where we had a it was our other set of short strangles Booked over 30 of max profit on that piece of the trade and then we're still holding the the other one that I showed you So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of the other positions starting with oil forward slash cl We've got a short strangle on here. We've got some profit about 478 bucks gear take Looking for about 30 between 30 and 50 percent of max profit before we do this So if we go up a little bit more you get a little bit more implied volatility contraction Have the potential to book this one early next week, but we'll see what happens Uh, yes, another one that we're holding for that short delta exposure You can see this is well out of range here And so we're just looking to get some down movement Before we do anything there, but this is one that we've continued to roll for that short delta exposure In gold we've got two different pieces on here in gold. First of which is a full iron condor. You can see we've got a Prices right here. So we got a little bit of profit on that one And then we've got this other piece that was part of an iron condor We closed out the untested side that was over here So we're still we've still got the short call vertical just looking for price to move down a little bit In gold to get back into range on that piece I mentioned natty gas. I mentioned bonds. I mentioned wheat apple Apple made it has made a big strong move higher. So again, this is one we'll address in the next seven to 10 days as well And decide if we want to roll to keep the dream alive Or just close it out and take a loss, but you know, apple's just been super strong here You know, we put this on, you know, I had a huge down move It bounced we were looking for a potential continuation to the downside But that is not what happened and it just ripped higher So we'll we'll see over the next seven to 10 days. We'll decide what to do with that one And the exact same thing on john deere, uh, you know, big move down that it popped up We were looking for a potential rollover, but it just caught fire to the upside Now we're starting to get a little bit of relief the last week But if you know, we'll see what we need to do over the next week or so with de DIA the dow ETF We've got two different pieces here. We've got an iron condor or prices hanging out Up here in the upper side of our range. We haven't adjusted it yet. There's still a tiny bit of value left in the puts It's not very much. Uh, so we could have made this adjustment at this point But just going to give it over the weekend, you know, if we can get a sharp move lower We'll just close that out for a profit And then we've got a short call vertical here That was part of our other iron condor which had blown out that side So just seeing if we can get some downside back into range there and again Just like kind of the common theme with a lot of these we will address that As we get closer to expiration Into next week and and keep in mind the reason we haven't done anything with these yet We like to spread out our role. So we like to do it at different price points We don't like to do it all in one day because then we get no diversification as far as our The movement of price we like to spread that around Different price points in the market and let it move around as we do that So, you know, each day we might roll one or two and and just kind of gradually do it that way So that's the plan in all of these that are kind of outside the range Uh, I mentioned fxi goldman sacks This one again need need some downside to get back into range there You can see a chart of goldman sacks. They've got they do have earnings coming up on 716 So we would prefer to be out by then but uh, you know, we're not not scared to hold through earnings either So we'll just it just depends on where we're at with our portfolio prior to earnings But we will kind of give you an update on that before doing anything Intel we've got this uh short strangle adjusted strangle here We're pretty much at break even on the trade after adjustments and rolls So into next week if we if we're profitable, we'll probably just close it out Even if it's a fairly small profit You know that way we don't have to deal with earnings on that one But if we can just get a little bit more sideways movement for a couple days that would definitely be helpful Uh, it looks like implied volatility does want to start popping its hedge kind of increasing into that earnings announcement So that works against short premium like we've got on so if we can get out of this one with a profit early next week That is the plan IWM I think I mentioned that one Did I anyway we've got this iron condor. So just looking for a little bit of downside to get back into profit on that Uh, potentially would like to add to this one If we can get implied volatility a little bit higher, you know, it's got an ivy percentile of 21 ivy rank of 12 That's just it's pretty low to be adding new premium. So We're just going to hold off on that and then, you know, hopefully we can get a little bit of downside to benefit that piece If it continues higher, we'll close out that untested side and deal with it from there I mentioned IYR mentioned the Q's smh We've got two different pieces on here and smh one is this short strangle prices hanging out right here We've got some profit not quite enough to take off yet. And then we've got This one here, which is an adjusted strangle and just looking for a little bit of downside and some more theta to decay in that piece Both of these are already out in august Which have a 42 days to expiration. So a lot of time left on those I mentioned spy and then lastly xlk This is another one what we've been holding for that short delta exposure With the strong price of stocks has busted out of our our range there So again another one of these within the next seven to ten days that we'll be looking to either roll or close So that's it. Uh, the other thing I wanted to mention is, you know, we're right now We're using under $30,000 in capital for all of our positions, which is pretty pretty low And with implied volatility contracting and as closing closing out winners and closing out trades Uh, you know, that's just gonna happen when you go from a period that was a little bit higher ivy Down to a lower So we've definitely got some cash to add some new positions once we get the opportunities We might start getting a little bit more directional, you know playing some short positions and some long positions Uh, you know just to kind of stay active and add positions to take advantage of the different, you know Movements in the market, uh, as opposed to just selling straight premium with implied volatility as low as it is It's not something that we that we want to do too much And then the other thing I wanted to mention was, you know, we had our We had our newest strategy course on The uh, July 2nd there was some technical difficulties a little bit of lag time with the With the uh, what you're seeing on your screen and what I was, uh, saying and so we I ended up just Completely rerecording the entire thing the next day and I posted that so if you haven't had a chance Make sure you jump in there and watch it. It's all about Trading weekly options. It is gonna be phenomenal and starting next week We will start integrating that strategy into our alerts So look for that next week. Uh, in fact, let me just give you a quick sample of one trade that I've got on in my personal account This is a double calendar in spx And you can see, you know, this was one where we put this on on I think it was monday And you know double calendars calendar spreads benefit from implied volatility expansion well implied volatility just got crushed this week Uh, and so this trade, you know, theoretically should get crushed now the the p&l didn't suffer But what did happen is look at the look at the max profit at this point It's only like 300 bucks when I first put it on the max profit was a thousand dollars or closer to 1200 dollars Now you can see prices moved out of range of this break even but look i'm still profitable By over 150 dollars 161 bucks And so monday is the last trading day for the the expiration cycle that i'm in so a couple things one obviously if the market Blows up to the upside and opens monday morning. I'm going to lose money and take this off Um, which could very well happen Uh, or if the market goes down Uh, that's probably also going to make implied volatility go up So what you see now is a potential 300 some dollar max profit That could easily double or even potentially triple, you know, if implied volatility spikes So these calendar spreads are interesting I just point this out just to kind of for those of you who have never traded calendar spreads Especially these weekly ones they they are interesting animals and how they move and and and it's not it's not normal for and the market's closed right now while i'm recording this but It was like this before the market closed too, but the profit line right now is actually above The p&l at expiration and that can happen With uh with calendar spreads like that. So they're they're a little bit different than your Some of our other premium selling a you're buying these for a debit b You're benefiting from implied volatility expansion not contraction like the other premium selling strategies We use like iron condors and short strangles But so we'll see what happens Just looking for a downside down movement to benefit this one This is not an official trade in the alerts portfolio This is just done in another one of my accounts Because we have not been trading these in our alerts until we put out the actual strategy course So if you have time this weekend make sure you go through that And I look for an alert starting uh next week either monday or we might wait till tuesday On that just depending on what's going on. So That is the plan everybody. Have a great weekend. Look forward to a good week of trading next week. See you then


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A miner should always be thinking about Mining takes up a lot of power so you want You'd have to be very brave to try mining If you'll be going with NVIDIA, make sure you get done What's up internet? Uso ulit yung cryptocurrency So we've gotten a lot of requests in the shop for miners This video will talk about three kinds of miners Asic miner, dedicated desktop miner and on-the-side desktop mining My first piece of advice is don't build a miner I'll explain after the ad break What's up internet? 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For the 3000 series NVIDIA deliberately hobbled their cards for mining That's the LHR version They put a hard cap on the speed that the cards can do for mining So LHR cards suck for mining but are still fast for everything else NVIDIA has mentioned that the 3090 will always be non-LHR but for the other 3000 series cards it's becoming more and more difficult to find non-LHR So do check before buying Of course minors are smart guys and they've already come up with workarounds So we suggest if you're starting and you want NVIDIA cards just get non-LHR Once you've established your miner then that's a time maybe pick up an LHR card or two to play around with and to see how efficient the workarounds are So yun na yun that's a dedicated desktop miner Go cheap on the CPU RAM and storage Splurge on the PSU motherboard and especially GPUs The last is a part-time miner A lot of people who buy high-end rigs for gaming and editing think na why not try kaya natin yung mining Tutal high-end na rin rig ko I might as well try to earn some money from it And it's true high-end rigs are good candidates for sideline or part-time mining because they already have the most important part of the miner a very fast GPU Assuming non-LHR if it's an invidia card Mining does create a lot of heat So if you're building a PC to be also used as a part-time miner Get one of the large cases with good air flow We recommend the fractal design torrent or the fractal design meshify too because you really want a lot of air moving through your case That GPU is going to be pumping out a lot of heat when it's mining The cases I mentioned are quite large because they do have good air flow You'd have to be very brave to try mining on a typical ITX build Aside from the case and GPU most high-end rigs will already have a good PSU which is sufficient to run the GPU So even on that front you're already covered Warning though part-time mining can be very addicting At first you start out with oh, I'll just mine when I'm not at my computer Then the next thing is oh, I'll mine even at night The next thing 24-7 you're not using your computer for gaming for editing All it's doing is mining So it's a slippery slope It's very addictive especially when you start seeing the profits come in Since money is involved spending it making it A miner should always be thinking about one thing the bottom line What's the most cost-efficient way to build and run my miner? So for capex or capital expenditures that would be your hardware What's the cheapest hardware I need to get the best miner? Your OPEX or operating expenses would be your electricity What's the least amount of voltage I can feed into my cards and still get a very good hash rate or mining speed? A lot of the art of mining is in undervolting your cards So feeding them just the right amount of electricity so you don't waste your money on energy you don't need while still generating good hash rates Mining is an expensive pursuit so do think about it and crunch the numbers before you decide to jump Thanks for watching And thank you to our top fans na affordo namin to kupuwa na to and edyok lang Thank you to Liya Magnaya Ian Meru Richard Ongkinko ITX Addict John Ruben Ocha Christian Espinosa and Raphael James Thank you for supporting the channel


I recently saw a movie where the main cast said something quite strange about success but which I believe is true. He said, success is not a destination, success is a journey. This isn't a fresh revelation, it's a notable truth amongst the best of the best. From Jack Ma, Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk to Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and others, you can be sure that right on their journey towards success, they each had their personal practices that have encouraged their success. And no matter what you think, those personal practices are almost always the same if we would just learn them. In today's video, I will be sharing with you 5 success secrets of millineers. If you are new here, subscribe to our channel so you don't miss other interesting videos like this. 1. Do what you love. This is an age piece of advice, but still the best. Each day, I always can't wait to return to my work desk and I hardly always feel like leaving my work desk. The reason is simple, I love what I do. 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We bid you an afternoon and greetings and thank you for joining us for our commemoration of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and our wreath laying ceremony. To all of our distinguished guests, our Honorable Mayor and to our Honorable Councilman, Edward McDowell, Jr., to the brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha, to the brothers of the Omicron Iota Lambda chapter, to the President of that chapter, Brother Chris Sanders, we greet you not only in the name of Alpha, but we greet you in the name of the Almighty God. We are thankful that you have come here today to celebrate with us as we commemorate such a great American who had a dream, a dream that we all are the recipients of and we are thankful for that. And so on behalf of the Alpha Phi Lambda chapter, founded in 1935 by men who had a vision to serve our community, by men who thought that it would be necessary to have a chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha here in Columbia that will continue to great tradition that was started back in 1906 in Ithaca, New York, we greet you and we pray that you will enjoy this occasion and in the spirit of Dr. King as we stand here on this corner that we will be unified and solidarity for the greater good of all mankind and for the betterment of our society as a whole, unified together. Again, you are welcome and thank you again for coming. It's cold out here, so I will be brief. Welcome, brothers and guests, Mr. Mayor, Ms. Councilwoman Brussels, and Councilwoman McDowell, and we appreciate everybody for coming out. This is definitely a historic celebration. I do this every year in honor of our great brother, Dr. King. Notice, brothers, that this is just a start. We have plenty of more building blocks to go, so let's continue the legacy and build on that. Thank you. Oh, we will not have any MCs for the event, so follow your program accordingly. Protocol haven't been established, that does great. Father, on this special day that we celebrate the great witness of that child that was born and son that was given back on January the 15th, 1929. As we look to the King who wanted us to the King of Kings, we ask for your presence. We come to commemorate a life that's not just well-lived, but a life that didn't light, that challenged the best ideals of humanity to go forth. We, as the men of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Incorporated, thank you for the witness of our great brother who was, first of all, serving of all, and certainly through his witness transcended all. We pray, oh God, that this day of service and this act of tribute would challenge others throughout this land to do as Dr. King did, give answer to a world that has become a sad question. This is our prayer, oh God, and the name of the Christ that King preached and all the people of God said. Amen. It's never fair to make me follow the bishop, you know, the internationally known bishop. And thank you very much for those kind words, sir. And I'd like to welcome everybody here today on behalf of the city of Columbia, all of the council members who couldn't be here, send their greetings. Obviously, you've heard Reverend McDowell is here. Dr. Rodney Bussells has joined us. It's a great opportunity today to give tribute to Dr. King. And there was a quote that Dr. King said one time in a speech that has stuck with me forever and I think it applies today more than ever is, is that awareness is knowledge and knowledge leads to success. So as we go forward, let's be aware of our surroundings. Let's be aware of our people. Let's be aware of our community. Let's be aware of what we can do to improve it and let's take that knowledge and let's succeed together. I want to thank everybody for being here. This is a great day with the marker and being able to lay the reef. And we look forward to working all together and the remembrance of Dr. King. And Martin said, how long, not long, to our mayor, Mayor Rickerman, to my colleague, Dr. Hardady Brussels, to all of you who have gathered in this place, the President, and of course to all the members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity. We are grateful for your service. We are grateful that even on a cold and chilly day, you decided to come and keep this tradition. Thank you so very, very much. Again, Martin says, how long, not long, we are moving in a way that persons are being unified, not only fraternally, but unified in their faith and their understanding of what the dream really came through. The dream is still a dream, not a nightmare as some would proclaim, but a dream where men and women, boys and girls, are able to sense and feel the true meaning of brotherhood and sisterhood. So to this city, to our mayor, and to all who have gathered here. Thank you very, very much for your insightfulness and for making the dream continue. It is noteworthy that the brothers have selected a licensed field director to dedicate this wreath. They are in five points, and I have been given five minutes to make three points. First point, Luther King Jr. organized conference in 1957 to fight for the equality for people, to register blacks, so they could vote to oppose those who tried to suppress the right to vote, to combat the assault on democracy and to eradicate white supremacy. The organization was structured, it called for two members from each southern state. The board members representing the state of South Carolina were my grandfather, I. S. Levy, and the Reverend Matthew McCollum from Orangeburg, South Carolina. Second point, two years later an invitation from grandfather and the Reverend Matthew McCollum was extended to brother Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Columbia, South Carolina. He was scheduled to speak at the Columbia Township Auditorium on Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. on September 29. The purpose of the meeting was to fight for the equality for all people, to register blacks so they could vote, to oppose those who tried to suppress the right to vote, and to combat the assault on democracy and to eradicate white supremacy. In 1959, I was a student at C. A. Johnson High School in the 11th grade. When I arrived home that afternoon, there was brother Martin Luther King Jr. and my grandfather's funeral home along with his brother Martin Luther King Jr.'s top lieutenant, the Reverend Rabbi Affin-Affin. In those days, fellow homeowners lived in their businesses. We had an apartment on the second floor where I lived with my grandparents. I was in a tent at the Township Auditorium and heard brother Martin Luther King Jr. deliver a powerful speech. Brother Martin Luther King Jr. had lived. He would be 93 years old. He had to make an unwavering commitment to do exactly what brother Martin Luther King Jr. said years ago, and did just years ago. And that is to fight for the equality for all people, to register blacks to vote, to oppose those who are trying to suppress the right to vote, to combat the assault on democracy and to eradicate white supremacy. Just like brother Martin Luther King Jr. did, we must do also. As we are assembled here today on this cold, chilly day, the commitment and the desire to fight those who are determined to redefine democracy based on the big lie is lukewarm. The commitment to keep Pope alive is declining. Misinformation is pervasive. White supremacy is prevalent. And unfortunately, too many people of color are suffering from an illusion of inclusion. In spite of being jailed, being slandered, being stabbed, and being criticized on every side, brother Martin Luther King Jr. did not lose hope. He realized a voteless people is a hopeless people. In spite of the current violent attacks on our democracy, it is imperative that we do not lose hope. If brother Martin Luther King Jr. was here today, he would say to us the same thing he said in Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. The role is not altogether smooth. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions, but we must keep going. To all of you, in spite of the obstacles in our path, regardless of the darkness of our nights, there is a hope in our future. There is a star in our sky and that hope and that star is for all of us to keep going. God of praise and God of love, on your people pour your power. We thank your Lord for brother Martin Luther King Jr. We thank you for having sent him out of the way. We thank your Lord for how you've used him, how you've used him, O Lord, to bring in the kingdom of God.  And now, with the grace of all the work that saved you, Jesus Christ, the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, the grace ruled and abide with you. Now our hands fold that velvet book and the people of God say it. I'll be ready now in the true spirit of the church. Rule our hearts without our vows and control our lives so that we may become truly the service of all.


This is in honor of the fact that you are the first California governor to become President of the United States, and so I've declared this room from now on to be the President Ronald Reagan cabinet. Thank you very much. We're just very, very honored. Honored I am like that. That's very nice. That's very nice. We even have a friend, this was a gift that was given to me when I first came into office and we've had that here in the family's room as well. Is this the same cabinet meeting? Yes. With the original cast? These desks are the same ones that were here last year. We've changed the chairs, we've kind of changed the carpet a little bit. That's the same. Well, the President said the poles are dropping a little bit today, you're getting worried? I'll just wait for night for it. Go to win. You don't have a lot of time. I'm not going to break down and change your mind and tell us that you think you will. I'm going to change now. Well, as I said yesterday in Minnesota, it's a little like coming up to that last football game and realizing that you've had all four years and that's the last one you're going to play in. Mr. President, if you're re-elected, well, is there any difference to you knowing that you never have to worry about the realities of election politics again for the last four years? Will it make a difference in the way you handle the office? No, because I haven't let it make a difference in the way I've handled it up until now. I had a standard rule sitting around this table for eight years and the one in Washington. I've always felt that discussing the political ramifications of a measure as to whether it's good or bad for the people isn't the thing to do. We've discussed it purely on whether it's right or wrong. What would be your priorities in a second term? Well, this is peace, the reduction in the world of nuclear weapons. Another domestic scene to continue with the policies that have led to the growth we now have to make that an ongoing expansion so that we have a growing economy that will provide jobs for the people that need them. Are you going to make a move toward the Russians so that there can be some kind of arms talks? Well, now, Bill, I've always made the move toward it and I've always wondered why so many people ask me, what are you going to do about it? What are they going to do about it? Would you have anything special in mind if you're re-elected? Yes, we're going to pursue the fact that we submit four different proposals to them, four different areas of arms reduction, not control. And they were the ones who walked away from the table. We're going to do everything they can to see if they'll come back. Well, that's what I mean, sir, if you'll forgive me. I mean, what would you do to get them back? Do you have something in mind? Well, we won't try to buy them back by increasing offers and so forth. We'll try to convince them that it is to their advantage, as well as ours, to have a settlement with this particular issue. You mean you're going to stick with your proposals that are on the table? Well, we showed, we told them we're flexible on that when they objected to some things we immediately said, well, come back and tell us what it is you objected to. Let us discuss it. And they wouldn't take yes for an answer. Sir, do you think you'll concentrate on foreign policy in your second term as much as you've concentrated on domestic policy in your first term? Well, you have to concentrate on that. That's one of the prime responsibilities of the federal government. Maybe a little less attention to some things the federal government shouldn't have been doing in the first place. Do you have trouble with our nail? Whoever has trouble with it. If it isn't too presumptuous of me, Mr. President, I think if you invited the Russians to come to California, they would not refuse at all. They'd want to come here and they'd want to visit with you. Well, as I told a couple of other heads of state from Europe, too, they'd only discovered America from this side, the capital would be California. Do you like this room? Does it break back memories? Of course it does, yes. Great deal done here. But we've left a subject that has me the most honored and impressed this morning, and I'm deeply grateful for this. We're very honored that you're here. And from now on, anybody who comes into this room, whether they be visitors or legislators, anyone else, they will know that this is the President of all races, Captain Brown. Very proud. Thank you. John Wayne is going to preside. Yes? Thanks, Mike. Can you get it? Yes. Come here. Five. Now we have five. Three. Seven. 12, 19, and six. All right. Seizuously, I said, you know, if Walter Mondale wins on Tuesday, I'm going to go right out and look for a part-time job. The heavyweights and the judges are glad you came. And don't forget to get out and vote tomorrow. Ladies and gentlemen, Senator Pete Wilson. Of course, during these last four years, Democrats independently to our country depends upon warm nostalgia. Now that I'm here, where I have seen many things. First, you've got two fantastic congressmen from Disney. Send them back to Washington, too. Things before, when I was here, including the state. If you're an orange, they're not saying that anymore. It's going to take place in the United States. He rather condescendingly said to me, you're in the big leagues. I kind of thought, here it can count. Inflation, the quiet things, and record interest rates were stealing our future. Rebuild and be strong again to be prepared for peace. It was the second American Revolution, and it's only just begun. Secure the peace. And do you know something? That is not debatable. New jobs in 21 months, and gasoline prices went down 8 cents a gallon. The economy in absolute perfect condition. If we can persuade... He says he cares about the legislation time after time, which increases taxes on my own constituents. Doesn't that make you want to... He's no doubt proud of the fact that he voted as a United States Senator. You would have to read it, and then report to the space shuttle. And we've committed... We've committed America. You can find out there. I think it'll drive them up the wall. I enjoy saying it. And that is... Thank you very much. Governor DeBajan, Senator Wilson, distinguished members of the time since he was organizing bus stops. That goes... That goes... We will save our country. Four years ago, that's what we did. We made a great turn. Years ago, we began to navigate by certain fixed principles. Our North Star was freedom and common sense. Some people around in this campaign that have been suggesting that maybe we did something for some special group. Our tax cut was across the board, even Stephen, for everyone. Obviously, murderously inflationary. And that was just before we lowered inflation from more... And just after our tax cuts, he said the most that he could see was an anemic recovery. And that was 6 million new jobs in 21 months. Rising down 8 cents a gallon. Predict an absolute disaster. Ported legislation time after time, which increases taxes on my own constituents. Doesn't that make you just want to be one of his constituents? Senator, he voted 16 times to raise your taxes. $90 for every household in the United States. Every day is Independence Day the Fourth of July. I'm proud to say that during these last four years on another subject, not one square inch of territory sees a different world. One year ago, we liberated... I don't need them anymore. Don't get complacent. America's best days are yet to come. They've seen nothing yet.


And now, for your strong Europe spotlight. Soldiers got a great experience not only with multi-nation training during Noble Partner 17, but also with multi-element training with Bradley tanks and infantry. This is the first time I've gotten to use the Bradley fighting vehicle. So this is actually a great opportunity, at least for my platoon specifically, who has only known strikers. So to come out here and actually use the Bradley as well with the striker is a good training opportunity for us. The training was greatly appreciated by everyone involved. It's great. I absolutely love it. When you get to merge heavier, mechanized assets with infantry assets it's not that one, you know, is better than the other. They're both just force multipliers and all they do is compliment each other. From Vaziani, Georgia for US Army Europe Public Affairs I'm Army Sergeant Danny Debeheads.