All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome on back here this Monday afternoon, July 26th, shortly after 2.30pm Eastern time. As always, welcome on back right here for this afternoon meeting. Great to see all of our cyber traders live inside the trading room, including Tony, Kathleen, Michael, Tony. I saw you just pick up a few cents on the AMC trade just now. I got to give a shout out to Martha. Martha, see live inside cyber group, probably about four minutes before we press start here. We're closing out a trade just now on this stock that's on the screen, the BTBT trade. She got almost, I think just about, do some quick math, but almost $2.50 per share. She was in right from 5.71, and we'll talk about this trade to begin. But most I say, Martha, congratulations, alongside all of our traders that ended up catching a piece of the action here on this BTBT trade to begin. Now, really quickly, for all of us here live, what's the news on this stock? Is there any company-specific news on this one? Why is this moving up so much? Brian says, Amazon. This isn't the Amazon ticker, Brian. Now, I say that because, well, there's no company-specific news. What's the stock moving up? What's the news on this stock? There's no specific news related to BTBT, Bit Digital, Inc. However, if you've been following crypto, even if you haven't been following crypto, you should know that Bitcoin's been pushing up and up all throughout the day, more so from pre-market and across the overnight hours. But with that, that's where we ended up seeing BTBT pump. We saw Riot pump with it. I'm currently long on Riot right from 34. I took 500 shares out before we pressed start. I'm still holding on to the other 500. Canon not moving up as sharply right now. Ended up making a nice pop after the open at least. If Riot's making a move up at the highs, you would like to think Mara's making a similar type of play right now, too. What else did we have? I don't know. Check out some of the other maybe NFT-related stocks, perhaps like BBIG from last week. Looks like this ended up making a nice pop after the open. They all ended up moving. All right, well, then let's re-ask the question. Why did Bitcoin go up? Is it just volatility? People starting to buy again? That leads us to Amazon. So, you knew I'd get to this at some point if you've been following me here in this afternoon meeting every Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I'll talk about Bitcoin. I started off by asking about company-specific news on BTBT. A quick little lesson it goes to show just because there isn't specific news on the company. That doesn't mean that the stock can't provide for a great trade, and that's what this ended up providing for us. But the news that came out, I ended up seeing this actually on Sunday morning, and I didn't really buy too much into it. I really didn't think that it was too legitimate, too official. Once Amazon makes it official, once they say it in a press release, then I'll buy it officially, buy the hype at least. But the headline that came out, Citi AM reported that Amazon is looking to accept Bitcoin payments by the end of the year. That's great hype. That's great interest. If that's true, phenomenal. But just simply put that little headline sparked this big rally in Bitcoin as the shorts covered massively, and we ended up seeing more people buy. And with that, we ended up seeing the Bitcoin mining and blockchain related affiliated stocks make a nice push early in the morning. So with that, what I'll do really quickly here is just talk about some of the big ones, like we were just saying, like Riot, and I'm still in it, just ended up shaking down a tiny bit. You know what, I may look to just get out right here. It looks like a bit of a top has been building here. I have a stop set to take me out, break even on the second half anyway. You know what I'll hold on anyway, I was calling this out from earlier today, saying how good of a setup Riot was off the 34 level. It was a little choppy at first, but with Bitcoin popping, breaking higher, going into the early parts of the afternoon, for me, it was only a matter of time for this to make its bigger move up. But hopefully there's a lot more left to it. Oftentimes with these Bitcoin affiliated or blockchain affiliated stocks, they often, I hate to say it, often don't make that big successful second squeeze going into the market close. Oftentimes when we see a stock at or near the highs of the day, we get really giddy about it. We say, wow, the stock really has a better chance of making an even cleaner push going into the final hours worth of trading. For these Bitcoin related stocks, we've rarely seen that happen, if ever at all. So you know what, I took a bit of a haircut on my profit on the second half. My shares, I'm just gonna get out. I got out right on the bid at 34.21 on the second half of my Riot position. For right now, I'll put it on our list, at least the Riot stock. If you prefer Mara over Riot, no problem with that. At least between Riot and then BTBT, we'll put both on our watch list for the afternoon. Doesn't mean that they're guaranteed to pop up, right? We'll keep them in mind still. If they end up continuing to dump off, then perhaps there'll be better shorts as BTBT is actually easy to borrow. And I believe Riot is as well. Happy I got out actually where I did. All right, let me, you know what I'll do. I'll break out the Bitcoin chart just at the end of it all. What we'll do really quickly is just go right from top to bottom otherwise.  I always like to save the Bitcoin chart for the very end, but obviously that's the reason why we're seeing a lot of these on the gainers list to begin. So I'll come back to that at the end, folks. For right now, we'll keep it going though the time trade I'm in right now, I'm in right from 167 where it's being traded at currently. I have a stop set to take me out at 162. I believe 161 is my limit price. But for right now, I mean, hey, just because I'm in it doesn't mean I'm going to put this on our list. It's a level one stock, so it's at least low risk in that regard. But the stock ended up making a nice pop in pre-market, ended up taking a damn long time to make this run that we ended up catching going into the late morning early onset to the afternoon. Now the news on this stock, I do like. I mean, that's the reason why I'm still interested in this trade. The fact that it's still kind of building support and great liquidity type spread, it's cheap, all of that I love. But, you know, Fausto jokes about this every now and then because we'll see a stock run up and up and up all throughout the day.  Well, that's what this company did. I mean, it's to say that time granted or they were granted a US patent claims covering the use of their drug delivery method to treat cancer. That's the headline that came out. I'm sure there's a couple of other more detailed snippets to it. Looks like meta-balomic technology platform that patent involves a targeted delivery of therapeutics to cancer cells. That's all I got there. But, you know, hey, for right now, we'll see if this can make a second pop or perhaps even third pop into the afternoon. I'll come back to this at the very end. We'll go and we'll continue going from top to bottom. We'll come back to this time trade at the end. If it ends up hitting 162, then I'll be stopped out of my trade here. Ah, this NCTY making a nice run so far. Now, this was a stock that we ended up catching more so in the beginning of this year. If you folks that were in the trading room at the time recall, we ended up trading this stock going back into January, February, March, just sporadically as it pumped up from like 10, 11 bucks where it's at now, all the way up towards over 70. I mean, we catch that type of trade every now and then probably, probably a couple times a month, really. But this stock in particular, we ended up catching itself back in January. The news out on this stock, there's no news. It says that just trading higher, not seeing any company-specific news to justify the price action in this stock. And just like I said before, we don't need to have company-specific news in order to trade a stock. And if you ended up sitting on your hands for that reason alone on this trade, you ended up missing a massive opportunity. So for right now, it's at the highs still, near the highs, liquidity a little thin and big spread, so be careful of that. But put this on our list for right now. The NXTD trade, I was pretty excited to put on our list. Now at this point, though, I don't really think that we're going to. I mean, ended up making a nice pop going into like 1.32 o'clock Eastern time. Popped from like 90 cents, 85 cents. Popped like 50 cents higher. Moved up to a high of the day of like 1.39, 1.40. And then ended up dumping back down, hasn't even tested one support yet. So I feel like this is only going to continue to drop. I mean, good stock in terms of level three, but just for right now, I'd want to see a little bit more out of this trade. All right, so BT, BT. Michael says it just popped higher right now. Are you kidding me? Wow, look at this go. Sheesh, the BT, BT trade. I mean, I said, we're going to keep this on our list in hopes of this type of move, but damn, I guess it came much sooner than expected. And with that, maybe we'll check out the other Bitcoin related stocks. Here's one that kind of came out recently in the last few months as an IPO, or maybe even at this point, maybe the last six months back from the beginning of this year. We haven't traded this one too frequently, but today it was on the Ganners list and near the top. So we had our interest in this stock. The BT, BT took our focus though, but this bit F trade, bit farms, another mining related stock, but you know what, it's trying to push up or at least hold support, make a higher low and hopefully pop up higher going into the afternoon. So I'll come back to it at the end. I'll keep this on the side list with the time trade. All right, here's the leader of all the Bitcoin stocks, way too expensive for us to day trade, micro strategy and micro and micro sailor. I've been talking about them since practically like August, September of last year, and they were big into Bitcoin well before that time. It's just, you know, see the stock make the exact type of move here that Ryde and Mara did, dump back down. I wanna keep your eye on this, maybe it's a swing trade of some sort. And with that, perhaps, and yep, Ryde pushing back up a little bit. That's fine, I'll get back in on this trade later if it gives me the opportunity to, definitely keep it on our list for right now. Hut HUT, I've never seen this ticker before. I guess I know why, it's another mining stock. I'm not too familiar with this one in particular, but I could tell it's a mining stock, just says it in the name, Hut H mining corp, ended up making practically the same type of run up as BitF and BTBT and so forth. But yeah, for right now it's still holding strong, good liquidity on the book, on the web towards major resistance, I would assume off a five. I'll write this on the side. I'll come back to this at the end too. I do like this one the most out of the three we have, kind of on the proverbial side list. Oh, I forgot about this one, GRNQ. We ended up trading this stock. I'll be honest, I can't give you the date because the daily chart's so wacky here. I'd probably say it would be right here on this day where it closed the same price as it's open. It pumped up from 215 to 225, unfortunately, dumped back down. Here also on this day, made a similar type of pump and dump type of move. This stock has been affiliated with Bitcoin as well, but it ended up making that pop and dump off right away after I'm not too keen on that. SOS, another one. So this one looking a little bit more interesting, still pushing up pretty nicely up to three. We ended up trading this stock back on Friday last week. Did all right on it. So I'll put this on our main list, the SOS trade, good level one stock IMV. This was from the morning. This ended up dumping off pretty quickly. I think there's another one that will catch coming up pretty soon. I don't even know if it's up enough. The DYNT trade, I'm actually in on this trade right now from 126. I got in earlier, hopeful for a bounce up, had an iceberg there. So when I broke under and over from around 124, 125 level, I ended up jumping in, but it's done jack since. So I'm gonna hang on to this trade. If it hits 125, I'll likely just jump ship and get out. I don't know, this one I'm not too keen on. And the IMV, I mean, both of these looked so good in pre-market, at least in terms of their activity, that we would hope to see a bit of a bounce going into the late morning, the early parts of the afternoon. This one ended up making a bit of a bounce from two bucks, but that DYNT barely did anything and back down to the lows right now. So I'll be honest, it's not looking good for either of them. All right, so keep it going. Express here, EXPR, meme stock, Reddit stock, however you may like to phrase it. Express popped after the market opened up. More so though, ended up making this big spike going into two o'clock in the afternoon. Ended up popping seemingly from the high the day off 509.510, topped off practically under 550, 549, the HOD. Check out AMC really quick. This thing's so choppy today. Ended up doing all right on it from the 38 level earlier today, but afterwards it was a mess. Trading the 50 cent levels and whole numbers pretty nicely as it's kind of holding under 40 for the meantime. Neither of these, I don't know. Neither of these, I'm not really too keen on putting on our main list just yet. I mean, Express, not bad spread. Good order book, we'll see what else we got. I mean, in terms of activity, this TCAT trade looks a hell of a lot better right now at least, so this is another, not to say Bitcoin related stock, more of the digital art, the NFTs and all that that came out earlier this year too. YVR I think was another one. Was it YVR or YGR? YVR, that one's not doing anything right now, but the TCAT trade is, that one I do like maybe OCG, that was another one that was kind of in the same business as TCAT. Up six and a half percent, but not as much activity right now compared to this. So TCAT will make the cut. Got Mitch on YouTube asking about the SOS trade. Joining a bit late, I ended up going over that SOS trade just a bit earlier, but as we keep going, we're going to find some other Bitcoin related stocks and this EBON one is another one that we ended up trading more so going back into February and March of this year. It's up to 250 right now, the HOD now. So I'm going to kind of group all of these Bitcoin stocks together. We'll kind of keep them on the side. The two that we have on the main list are maybe three, BTBT, Riot and the SOS trade. All three of those made the actual cut. We'll come back to all these other Bitcoin stocks at the end and kind of cherry pick which ones look the best. Canon we're more familiar with. Maybe I'll put this on our main list with Riot and SOS and BTBT. So it's also at the highs, looking pretty choppy of late, but trying to make the pop right now. All right, so we'll kind of just skim through right now, folks, just some other familiar names across the last few trading days, like the AHPI stock, SPRT, which did pretty nice for us at least going into the market open. Ended up dumping off right away after from that point. The Mattel trade, wow, look at this at the high of the day right now, pretty surprising. I didn't see this stock until right this very second. So I don't know if this is earnings based or any other news related, but let's see. Yeah, it looks like Mattel shares trading higher in sympathy with Pierre Hasbro, which reported better than expected quarter two results. I think Hasbro is more expensive, if I'm not mistaken. HAS is the ticker. Yeah. Now pass on it for right now. That Mattel trade looks like it had a decent showing though today. And Coinbase a little too expensive for us as a day trade. Man, this BTU has been on a huge roll. And I've been saying that across the last like two and a half weeks now at this point, the stock ended up making a huge run for us going back into the end of June or early July.   All right, keep it going. See any other familiar names here? We'll just check them out pretty quick. Then we'll hop over to the loser's side. I don't really see as much familiar names on the losers. Perhaps sans the education stocks. This FTFT, if I'm not mistaken, is also affiliated to Bitcoin mining. It's at the HOD right now. High the day, yeah, high the day right now. Had a lot of pre-market activity here, this is. All right, we'll add it to the side. We'll come back to all these other Bitcoin stocks at the end. All right, so let's hop over to loser's list here, see what we got on this side of the field and check out the ones that are easy to borrow, but perhaps are down big like this DAO stock. You know, liquidity kind of thin on the book. It's kind of flat. It's near the lows, which I like and also shortable, but we'll see what else we can get here. The EDU trade, it was pretty choppy from Friday before it ended up actually making a nice pop and run going into the very last few minutes of the day. I know the Fausto talked about that this morning during the morning meeting. Right now, though, this stock's so choppy. It's just too flat. Not really much of an interest for us right now. Got you, C-O-E, same thing. TAL, you can say maybe if it could break support here. Could be a potential short, but don't really feel a need to put any of those on our main list for the meantime, folks. And really otherwise, I see a bunch of other stocks that are easy to borrow, but more so ETFs that are just stocks that trade very low volume on a day-to-day basis. Check out this GDS, maybe. All right, I'm gonna grab Bitcoin chart at the end, folks. Don't worry about that, but let me know if there's anything else that you see that's up or down more than 5%. Canon put on our main list. It has been, that one's on our list for right now. You hide the day on the Canon stock. Just got that from Benzinga Pro. SOS just broke three, Norman says here. Yeah, that one's on our list still. That one looks pretty strong for right now. James asking about the time trade. Yeah, I talked about the time trade just before. It hasn't done much since I ended up just jumping in and out fast, but if it ends up beginning to push back up, I'll try and re-enter this trade. Right now, we'll keep it on the side because it's had a really tough time making a clean break over that 167 level. That's the opening bell print from this morning. If it breaks that, then I'll say it's a better trade, but if it doesn't, pass. All right, we'll check out YouTube and Facebook Live here. Got one of us joining today asking about the ITRM stock. Holy smokes, what happened to this thing? Wow, I certainly skipped over this as I went from the top of the losers list down. Can't short it, so that's the first thing. But secondly, I mean, hey, it's down enough to where maybe earlier we could've hoped for a dead cap bounce, some sort of short covering opportunity where this makes a temporary spike really quick. I'm just keen on looking for the news here. What's the news on this ITRM? I'm 44%. We've traded the stock in the past too. That's why I'm saying like, what's up with this? Looks like they ended up receiving a complete response letter from the FDA for one of their drugs, and it looks like the FDA requests at least one additional trial. That wasn't really too well received by investors, looks like, ended up making a huge drop-off early in pre-market. It looks like it made a small little squeak up here, but this thing's garbage right now. All right, Bonnie, I'm gonna write all of the earnings for tonight as soon as I'm done with this meeting. Just leave me to that. I got the whole list from Benzinga Pro, so don't worry, I'll just take care of that just once we finish up this meeting, that's all. All right, but otherwise, folks, let me know if there's anything else as you let me know, or perhaps not let me know either way. I'll drag up Bitcoin chart here because I wanna go over this really quickly. Very happy to be wrong, because I told you here, this vertical line back from Friday last week, I thought that we would see this begin to pull back a little bit more towards the 100 and 200 EMAs, consolidate, and then perhaps pop and break out. I'd love to be wrong here. Probably maybe a couple hours after we finished up the market day, Bitcoin just continued to pop, re-broke over the 500 and finally ended up making the run that we were hoping for back here. This was the last real instance where this ended up making a run-up to and test of the 500 EMA on the hourly chart. So I wanted to show that to begin because I'm gonna switch over to the six hour here because when this ended up failing to pop the 500 on the hourly, I told you it was gonna come back down and drop off hard. And my hope at that point in time, right here it was, to see it make a closer run-up to the 500 EMA on the six hour chart, that was my whole thought process. And when it ended up failing to do that and came back down, I said, all right, well, we're probably gonna see this accumulate a little bit more, but look at this now, it's finally popping up towards the 500 EMA. This is the six hour chart. I like to use the hourly, the six hour charts, the daily, and then the weekly and the monthly too, but I'm not as focused on a shorter term chart when we're more focused on kind of a buy and hold type deal with Bitcoin in particular. But it's to say from this point, I mean, I'm expecting this to drop off, pull back, retrace, and then eventually shoot up much higher over time. But if that Amazon news is legitimate, if it becomes official, then I don't think we're gonna see too many big pullbacks from this point forward before these real big explosions, that's all. All right, Franny, asking here in the trading room, Josh, are we going to invest in hood? You are responsible for your own trading decisions. I want you to know that, Franny. And I say that to anybody else. Now, hood, I don't know what the ticker is. H-O-O-D, I mean good. I don't know what H-O-O-D is. Oh, it's an IPO. I don't know. IPOs, we don't really trade too frequent unless if it has a really high float or just trades a lot of volume coming off its first day, a couple of those like Wish, DD, Palantir from last year, those were all IPOs that traded a hell of a lot of volume right out the gate, and we knew that we'd be more interested in those stocks. Over time. So if it doesn't really have, what do I say? If it doesn't really have a good, a high valuation, and if it's like, let's say if it has a high valuation and the IPO price is relatively cheap, I'll be pretty interested. Otherwise, I got to see a lot out of the stock for it to gain my trust. I don't really look to trade IPOs too frequent. You know, didn't really trade Coinbase too much when it came out, right? All right, what about KRUS from YouTube right now as well? This is where I will tell you alongside any one of us on YouTube, please join us in our trading room, because if you're looking to trade a ticker like this KRUS trade, you're not going to be able to follow any real volume at all. And then otherwise, if you're trying to follow volume and use our strategy on a stock like this, you're not going to go too far. So please, for any one of us on social media, if you've yet to join us inside our trading room, that is feel free to do so. Come right to our trading room by going right to the link on the banner below on the stream just to get yourself started. But yeah, this KRUS, this thing is garbage. This thing is really bad. All right, so let's cherry pick the ones I put on the side list, right? The time trade, looking like it's holding under 167. So I'm going to pass on that for right now. Bitfarms, this was one that we kind of kept on the side list, seeing if it could pop up higher going into the end of the meeting. It has yet to do so. And for right now, we'll keep it on the side. If it does pop, then we'll call it out. HUT, same thing. EBON, probably, same thing. And FTFT. So it's popping up a little bit more from the last time I looked at it. I was looking at this when it was at like what, 267, 268, and popped up a little bit here. I'll slip this on at the end, this FTFT trade. All right, Michael, nice catch on BTBT. He ended up going short. So just like I say all the time, folks, if a stock fails to break higher, if it is shortable, at least, if it ends up breaking support, it could be worth the opportunity on the way down. Michael ended up picking up 31 cents on his short trade just here. Nice catch. And hey, I'll tell you what, for all of us in social media, Facebook, live, YouTube, we're gonna call it right now. I know that we have class ahead, the phase three stock course, Fausto's advanced live trading class coming up right in about the next 10 or so minutes. So for all of us inside Cybergroup that have access to that class, make sure that you folks click the link that Rich just posted in the chat board for you to get inside the class. Make sure that you're good to go for Fausto for 305 Eastern Time. Otherwise, you'll be sticking with me going into the market close here, right? So I'll be back on the mic right around 330. Rich will be on pretty shortly himself and we'll go from there folks, all right? I'll talk to you all soon.


The Drop Shipper's Guide to Sourcing from AliExpress. Video two of two. Hey guys, JR Fisher here and I'm continuing on the training. Now keep in mind this is video two of two. If you haven't watched video one, you could go ahead and go through and watch this video but I would highly suggest you going back to video one and there's gonna be a link below in the description where you can go there and do that. We're talking about sourcing from AliExpress in this video and like I said, this is a two-part series so you wanna get all of that information. If you haven't done so so far and you're brand new here, make sure you subscribe. Hit that subscribe button down there. Don't forget to ring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video. At the end of this video, you're gonna know everything you need to source products from AliExpress. So let's jump right into it. Now the first thing I'm gonna tell you is we're uploading our products. Now we got to that stage. We're using something like Oberlo and we're uploading all that information from AliExpress and you could do that with multiple products all at once. Here's what I see as a problem and I mentioned it in the other video, people don't change the description. They get lazy. They think, well, I'm gonna upload 50 products and it's gonna take me X number of hours. Why should I go in and mess with all those descriptions when I could just upload another 50 products? It's really not the volume of products you have. It's the quality of the products you have. Now the quality of the products is gonna be determined if they haven't bought it yet by your description. And if you don't change that description, I understand that description was probably written by somebody whose English is not their first language. It's not gonna sound right. It's not gonna sound good. If you're not good at writing those descriptions by all means hire somebody to do it but those descriptions are so, so important. And the more detailed they can be, the better. People never say I didn't buy that product because it had too much information about it but they often will say I didn't buy that product because there was a lot of questions left unanswered when I went and looked at their product description page. So I would say rewrite that and do that the best you possibly can. It's better to have three products uploaded with great descriptions than to have 30 in there and you just use the information from AliExpress. The next thing I see which is a mistake is people don't let people know about the shipping times. Shipping times are longer at AliExpress. Okay, there's gotta be some downside to using a site where you don't have to buy any products you can integrate and you can sell instantly from, right? And that downside is shipping times. You may think if I don't tell them shipping times then they'll probably buy but if I do tell them shipping times they may not buy and I'll miss a sale. The problem with that type of reasoning is that if you don't tell them shipping times and they're long and let's say it's 20 days or 30 days or whatever it is and after 10 days they get frustrated they could just go to PayPal and say I wanna refund, I haven't got this product. They can just go to their credit card company and say I wanna charge back this merchant because I haven't got my product. You end up with charge backs, you end up with refunds and at that point if they've already shipped their product out, you're stuck with a product that's gonna go to them and you don't have any money for it. So that's a bad thing to do. If you let them know upfront there are long shipping times let them know it's a high demand product they can make the decision. Do they wanna wait or not? And also you have that in writing you have that on your sales page so you could show PayPal you could show the credit card company hey I told them it was gonna be 25 days I told them it was gonna be 31 days and they ordered.  Next thing I'm gonna tell you is use an order tracking app. This will make it so much easier. Let's go over and check one of those out right now. This particular one is called Tracktor. It's an app on the Shopify app store. It can enable real time order tracking and status lookup for your online store. This is really, really important guys. That way people can go in there and they can figure out how long it's gonna be for they actually get their product. The next thing I'm gonna tell you is offer free shipping. Free shipping is huge. They say that the number one reason somebody abandoned the card on any webpage is because of high shipping costs. If you always offer free shipping, guess what? You never have high shipping costs cause you never have shipping at all. So you don't have to worry about that. Now I just recently did a promo and that promo I gave free shipping and I gave a great deal. So I'll see how that works out. I don't normally do free shipping but my products are a little bit different from AliExpress type products cause we sell survival foods. They're pretty heavy and shipping can be very expensive. However, I am offering free shipping to that group of people so I can increase those sales. Next thing you wanna do is price your products properly and properly means you need to make at least 50 to 60% profit. If you're not making 50 to 60% profit you probably won't be profitable. Because of your marketing cost and everything else you're shipping you need to have that cushion of 50 to 60%. And like I said, you wanna use a tool like a burlow to upload your products. It makes it a whole lot easier. I'll show you a screenshot of it right here. You can also download the Oberlo Chrome plugin to add products so you can see on AliExpress to your store. This helps you automate importing new products. As you look for items, your customer will love this. The Oberlo app does the work for you. You just need to browse and click. It's really that simple. Now once you've had your products uploaded to your site basically it's as simple as going to AliExpress, placing the order and giving the order information to AliExpress they can send it out to your customer. It's that easy. If you're using Oberlo you don't need to keep a spreadsheet or anything like that. Now if you're doing it manually of course you'd wanna keep track of all the orders and how much they paid, what your cost was, the link and everything. But if you use Oberlo it will keep track of it for you. I highly suggest that you do that. Here's an example right here. This is how it works. It's really as simple as having the Oberlo app installed in your Shopify store. Checking your orders in Oberlo and then clicking order product next to each pending order as you see right here. From there Oberlo does the rest. It will buy the product from AliExpress for you and insert your customers details. Oberlo will even let you know when a supplier on AliExpress has changed their price or run out of stock and suggest other drop shipping suppliers. Now I'll tell you it's a really good idea if you're selling from your Shopify store and you're buying from AliExpress let the manufacturer distributor know that you're actually drop shipping this product. That way they don't put any inserts, any information in the package that would take your customer away from you or that would let them know that you actually use that drop chip. Now I'm gonna tell you something that may be not true right now but it may be by the time you're watching this video. For years we had ePacket and it went away and I can't tell you when you're watching this video if it's gonna be available or not but if ePacket is available pick ePacket. It will be the cheapest, safest way to send your package. There is a period of time when ePacket is gone. I think it'll come back but at the time I'm doing this video ePacket is no longer available but if it is available when you're watching this video please use ePacket, it's just cheaper and faster. Now once your item has shipped you will receive an email from the manufacturer or distributor with all your tracking information. What you wanna do is go over to your Shopify store and enter that information in so that your customer has that tracking information. You don't have to worry about telling them about it they'll automatically see it in their order when they log in. Now the cool thing is like I told you if you're using Oberlo it will automatically put all that information in the order for you and you won't have to do it and that's what I would suggest you really did. It's a whole lot easier. Now how do you handle refunds? Because they will happen no matter what and there's two reasons for refund. Either they didn't receive the product or it was damaged or they didn't like the product. It wasn't what they expected it to be. Now AliExpress will not allow you to return products. I mean it would be crazy it would be so expensive to send something back to China especially an expensive item. So if it's a situation where they did not receive the product you can use AliExpress buyer protection and let them know that this person did not receive the product and they'll probably refund your money. If it's because they didn't like the product something along those lines it's probably your fault and it's your fault because they didn't get their expectations met. What is your marketing saying to these people for this particular product? So even though you don't want to hear that I would say you would want to re-examine your marketing efforts and see what you told the customer see what you offered or else it's gonna probably happen more and more often. We have virtually no refunds. I mean this is such a rarity. We just never see it. The only time we really have a refund is if a product is damaged. And then of course we have insurance for that so that's not a big deal. Now once you've identified a few products that are selling you're off and running but you want to expand you do not want to run your business with just having a few products you want to get more products and how do you find more products? You can find similar products in that niche that's a very important thing to think about. You want to have products that are very similar to what you sold. So let's say you're selling fishing rods. The next thing you may want to look at is life vest or you may want to look at fishing hats or whatever it is that's gonna compliment that other product. The other thing you want to take note of is the seller. If they're happy with products that are coming from a particular seller go back to that seller and see what other products they have that may fit within that niche because you've already got a proven seller that you know will fulfill the orders and customers will be happy with it. So you're gonna want to use them again. Now the cool thing I like about Aliexpress is they got a hundred million products, okay? So there's always another product you can sell in Aliexpress. There's so much data in there now. Aliexpress has been around a long time and I know years ago when they first showed up on the scene there was a lot of problems there was a lot of bad sellers on there but Aliexpress was smart. They started getting a rating system they started looking at their sellers and those who weren't performing they either kicked them off the side or they got low ratings and nobody buys from them. So nowadays you can pretty much rest assured the products that you buy on Aliexpress provided you do it correctly provided that you tell your customer all the things that they need to know and you're very accurate about your descriptions you're not gonna have a problem. The only problem you're gonna have is time and as long as you let your customers know that it's gonna take time for that product to get there there is gonna be a long delay in time then you won't have an issue. Some of you out there will say well I won't be able to compete with Amazon because they ship overnight or they ship the same day and I can't compete with that. Then don't sell that same product. Okay, don't do that. My suggestion to you is to find unique products products that are not on Amazon. There's so many products on Aliexpress. As a matter of fact, new trends start on Aliexpress and you can look at trending products on there and see what's starting out. You could try some of those in the store and the cool thing is since it's so easy to integrate products with Oberlo in your store, let's say Shopify you can test out a lot of products you can test out 50 or 100, a thousand different products and surely if you test out a hundred products some of them are gonna be good some of them are gonna work out. Once you figure out the ones that work out you can try to up your price you can try to lower your price. 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Welcome to module 13 of point set topology course. We shall now introduce a number of notions. They all arise in the study of metric spaces as well, but they are useful also in the abstract topological setup and most of the time we will have our examples from metric spaces. Throughout this section, X is a topological space, so I may not, every time mention it, for example this X will not be used for any other thing in this section, in this lecture. The topology comes from a metric, then I will specially mention that X d is a metric space. Take a point X in X and a subset. We say A is an open neighborhood, quite often lazily we will write it as O n B d. So A is an open neighborhood of X in X. If first of all X must be inside A and A must be open, that is why it is O. O n B d means open, neighborhood means that X is inside A first of all. In general, A is called neighborhood without that O. If X is inside A of course, that is part of there. But you have an open subset V such that X is inside V contained inside A. Of course, this containment notation is equality allowed here. So there is again a lazy notation. But it may happen that quite often that V is smaller than A and A itself is not open. Even then we call it a neighborhood. Then we do not call it open neighborhood. That is all, that is the difference. A point, let us now define interior of A. So interior of A is called union of all open sets contained in A. So it is denoted by interior of A or A on the top. But I will have to read it as interior of A only. So this just means that if I take a point X inside interior of A, that is already a point of A and there is a neighborhood, open neighborhood because all open sets are there. It is union of open sets. It belongs to one of the open sets contained inside A. And therefore, therefore what? It is union of all open sets contained in A. So interior of A itself is open. Not only that, obviously it will be union of all those sets. It will be the largest open set contained inside A. That is another term, largest open set contained inside A. So to begin with A itself may not be open. So that is why interior of A is defined. That is a subset of A that is open. But if A itself is open, obviously then being the largest open set contained inside A, interior of A will be equal to A. Of course, Conor is also true right. If interior of A equal to A, then A is open because just now I proved that interior of A is open. So we will meet these things again and again. So it is better to by heart them. So it does not matter if I repeat once or twice. Let X belong to X. It is said to be a closure point of A now. So everything is happening in the head X. If every neighborhood of X intersects A. So here I have put every open neighborhood of X intersects A. If every open neighborhood of X intersects, then every neighborhood intersects. If every neighborhood intersects, open neighborhoods being neighborhoods, they will also intersect. So these two are equivalent. We can take whichever one we like, every open neighborhood of x intersects a fine. The set of all closure points see when you take the closure points we are no longer inside any point of x you can this verifies this condition it will be inside which will you call the closure point. Look at all the closure points we will have a notation for that it is denoted by a bar on the top is a very popular notation but some people may not use that one they may use closure a and then some other people may use a suffix c but I will never use that notation ok. CLA I may use for closure a bar also I may use but a you know suffix top at the top a raised to c that small c that I will never use because many people use that for the complementation. So, that is a very confusing notation. So, I will not use that one. So, this descriptive notation CL of a is very easy to remember it is closure of a. Now, another concept the boundary of a is nothing but all the closure points of a a bar it throw away the interior. Interior is already a subset of a. A bar is larger than a perhaps or may be equal to I do not know but interior of a bar interior of a definitely is contained inside a bar ok. So, you throw it throw that away what you get is boundary of a. A point x is called a limit point of a if for every open neighborhood u of x u minus x intersection a is nonempty. In the definition of closure point we did not have this u minus x u intersection a is nonempty was a condition. So, u minus x intersection a is nonempty is a stronger condition ok. If u minus x intersection a is nonempty u intersection a is also nonempty for every a for every u. Therefore, a limit point will be automatically a closure point but not vice versa always ok. A limit point is a closure point that is another notion here that is called accumulation point of a ok. Sorry another notion another name. So, there is another name accumulation point is also used by some people. The set of all limit points of a let us have a notation for that L a. So, in geometry this L will be denoting length and so on. So, do not confuse it for any length here this is the limit points of a. But then there is another notation here these are not very standard different people use different notation, but not too many. So, 50 percent of we may be using this and that and so on. So, its name is derived set of a some people use this a prime for this notation L a. What is L a set of limit points what is limit point every neighborhood of x has the property u minus x intersection a is nonempty. Let us have a couple of definitions here because all of them are related to these open sets right all of them are interdependent. So, it is better to study all of them together. So, let us have some more definitions. A subset a of x is called a closed subset this I am repeating I have already told you what is closed subset if x minus a is open in x yes the complement ok. We shall use the notation this a c for the complement if there is no confusion ok. Usually this is a much notation you can take complements of a in different subsets containing it right instead of x. So, then for all of them if you use a c then it will be complicated whereas, this will be b minus suppose a is contained inside b b minus a makes sense. In fact, b minus a makes sense even if a is not contained inside b all that you have to do is throw away all the points of a if they are already not there then you do not have to throw them. If they are there means what you take intersection a intersection b then throw away a intersection b from b that is b minus a that notation is a set theoretic notation I am not introducing that I am just recalling that. So, a set a subset of x is dense in x if the closure is the whole space. So, every point of x is a closure point in that case a is called a dense set exactly opposite something very strong stronger than just negation of this one of course these are not this is not negation it is not dense is not the same thing as another one I am going to define no inheritance no inheritance is very stronger if a is we say a is no inheritance if interior of the closure of a is empty set that is first you take closure a bar and then put a circle there that is interior. Interior of the closure is empty the closure of a you have take and then look at the interior interior is empty means what take a set a interior is empty means what no non-empty open set is contained inside a because interior a is a union of all of them. So, that is the no inheritance a subset a of x is said to be isolated set if for each a inside a we have an open neighborhood of a such that if you take u intersection a it is just singleton a see u is a neighborhood of u is a neighborhood of a and a is already inside a so u intersection a contains a it should not have any other element it is singleton a if you can find for each a if you can find such a open set u then the set a is called isolated in x okay this is like each point is isolated it is only one point in that neighborhood that is meaning of isolated if each of them is a whole set is isolated a subset which is isolated and closed also that will be called as discrete subset this is just a terminology some people may not put this closeness and say isolated is same thing as discrete or some people may interchange them also okay wherever I have called isolated them you call discrete wherever I have called discrete they may say isolated this can happen in you know in some by with some authors but this is my definition I am going to state okay one general remark is all these terminologies occur right before the topology as such the definition of topology that we have introduced was adopted okay in the works of Weistra's but the ideas the terminologies took some time of course and then there were different terminologies by different authors so that is why even today there are slightly different terminologies by different authors but many things have come to the central theme many things have you know come and other things have fallen out only few things have survived okay so many of these notions were there some people were using different terms and each time you know Weistra's was not using any of any of these terms but you every time you will explain the whole condition so it was taking a very tortuous thing you know reading those papers etc is very difficult so let me first give you the simplest example discrete in discrete are two simple the next simple example is the sierpinski space that we have produced right sierpinski space consists of just two elements and three open sets what are the open sets open set empty set and x must be there so you put one of the things namely either singleton 0 or singleton 1 so put singleton 0 okay check that singleton 0 is dense in x this is what I have said but I am I am not sure of myself so I have to check so what is the meaning of this tell me there is only one other point right namely 1 I am not sure that that 1 is in the closure of this 0 so what does that mean I must take an open set containing 1 but by this definition x is the only set which contains one which contains 0 also therefore that open set intersects this one that is a condition to be in the closure therefore 0 closure will contain 1 also of course it contains 0 therefore it is a whole of x is that easy to verify that singleton 0 closure is this whole space that is the meaning of it dense okay now you can do more generally whatever I have introduced namely take any sierpinski point in a typical space you remember what is sierpinski point sierpinski point was the point where in the only open set containing that point is the whole space therefore it will be inside the closure of every other point take y to be any other point x will be inside the closure of that point okay this does not mean that y bar is the whole of x of course singleton x the sierpinski point would be there okay so that is similar to this but when I say more generally I am not concluding this one namely the closure of y is the whole space closure of y contains x okay now let us come to I as I told you for examples are from R2 or R3 and so on so let me take in between let us take a subspace of R2 all right so I am taking open interval 0 sorry closed interval 0 1 open half open interval cross the same thing closed closed 1 1 0 is closed 1 is open okay so namely all x y such that 0 is less than or x y less than 1 both x and y less than 1 and bigger than equal to 0 here equality here strictly inequality okay but what is the topology now I am taking it is the usual Euclidean topology on R2 so that is a metric topology also right to try to work out the whatever we want to do without the concept of the metric we have defined the topology what is an open set etc we use just use try to use them that's all note that this a is not an open set in R2 why to say them thing is not open you have to produce one element such that no neighborhood of that element is contained inside the given set right for example I can take 0 chroma 0 that's a point of a every neighborhood of 0 comma 0 first of all will contain an open ball of some positive radius no open ball of positive radius will be contained in this is just for the quadrant part right inside inside R cross R this thing is just contained inside the first quadrant right right so this set is not open in R okay you can do the same thing with all the points on the x part x axis part or y axis part okay if y is 0 or x is 0 those points are not in the interior therefore the interior does not contain those two sides you have to throw away those sides x positive y positive take all those points are in the interior why because as soon as x is positive y is positive okay so you can take the minimum of them and then take a radius take a ball around that point x comma y of that radius that will not intersect the x axis and y axis part where it will be contained inside complete contain inside okay so you want to go you don't want to go out of one also so you should also take care of that all right so this is actually an open set because it's a interior okay it's a largest open set contained inside A okay let me let me show you the picture here so in this picture I have taken 0 1 cross 0 1 that is why I have put these two dot dot dot here okay what does it mean 1 cross i is not contained in the set similarly this one i cross 1 is not contained inside that set okay everything is here but these strong lines here full lines they are contained inside that is a set if you take a just now I explained that to take a point 0 0 here then any neighborhood of that will contain a ball around that right so it won't be contained inside once I am inside here I can just look at the distance is various distances to the boundary take the minimum of all of them then that ball will be that this could be contained inside it's open this therefore every point other than these solid lines here they are inside what inside the interior therefore the interior is precisely go to that one that's what okay next thing is check that 2 2 is not a closure point of A this is just right 2 2 is somewhere far away here okay that will not be in the closure of A why I am telling that of course points of this interior here they are in the closure even this boundary dot dot dot line will be also in the closure why because if I take a neighborhood of this point some ball like this this half the ball will lie inside here like this here also so this entire dot dot dot dot dot dot dot here that will be in the closure but if I take some far away point okay far away means what anything which is not in this not in this I cross I 0 1 cross 0 1 both closed so one moment here is here you can choose its distance from there to here take the minimum least of them that open side will be not intersect this one at all one open side does not intersect this one means it is not in the closure okay so closure is precisely equal to 0 1 class okay next let us look at the boundary of A the boundary of A was defined by defined as A bar minus A interior we have computed both A bar and A interior therefore what is boundary of A all those points here lying on these sides the four sides here so this can be defined as this y equal to 0 this is x equal to 0 this is x equal to 1 that is equal to y equal to 1 so all these four conditions can be put in one single condition x y into 1 minus x into 1 minus y equal to 0 if this four product is 0 one of them must be 0 one of them is 0 this is 0 y is 0 or 1 minus x is 0 is x is 1 1 minus y is 0 which consists of four sides of square okay so why this example I want to give you tell you is that this concerns with the layman's idea of a boundary of a piece of land so here the piece of land was a square and the sides of the square are the boundary points so that is the kind of word boundary you must have already used in your standard okay boundary of a triangle is a ferry the length is a perimeter right the boundary is the the geometric object there it is the empty triangle when you say triangle you may be taking all the points inside also right so that is what it is if take a think of this an area of a triangle then the perimeter perimeter is what total length of the boundary okay so that is the same thing here also for nice things but now we have defined it for arbitrary surfaces so you should have some properties which are inherent in this pictures and so on but some other properties which may be strange which are not depicted by the pictures so you have to be careful because finally it is just the logic here of sets nothing more topology is always that strange it produces so many ideas so many you know visual things are reflected there and so many strange idea that is that is the power of set theory okay let us make a few more points here one by one in this case I have computed a bar okay we computed interior of a we computed the boundary of a also one more thing I want to say what is the limit points of k the LA here LA will be equal to the entire of k bar it is not always true of course if that is the case then there is no need to define LA so let us verify that so why that is true what is the meaning of LA take any point you must produce a neighborhood such that from the neighborhood even if you throw away that point it should intersect the set and that is very clear inside here it is clear even at this point this point if you throw away that point but you keep the keep the days half the disk will be inside this one so it will intersect right so it is very easy to see that every point in the closure is a limit point here for this set okay that is every point in the closure is a limit point or an accumulation point another world larger world second thing is if you look at the boundary of a that is no air dense in R2 see I start with the set a namely this time boundary of a that is my set when it is no air dense its interior must be empty okay not that you must take the closure first and then take the interior but here I don't have to take the closure because boundary of a closure is the same thing as boundary of air okay so if you take this set and look at its interior I want to say that the interior is empty there is no point which is in the interior what does that mean that's very easy to verify okay take a point on the boundary this boundary okay take a point here here now I must produce an open set that means must produce an open ball at least open ball contained inside that line no open ball will be contained in the in the boundary of the square it will flow inside or outside in fact both sides that's the beauty to take any point here take a ball here it will intersect both the inside part A I said complement of A right so that is the characteristic of boundary of A we'll come to that one later on right now it has no interior no open ball around that is contained in here so if no open set is contained in here how to prove no open ball is contained in here that is enough because if there is one open set non-empty and there will be a ball also open ball so it's in no open ball is contained here it's very clear right therefore this boundary of the square is no air dense similarly if you take a triangle the boundary of the triangle will be no air dense all right if you take the open part zero one cross zero one that's a subset of A that is dense in A bar okay now I am not taking dense inside X okay I am just saying dense inside A bar therefore I am thinking of this A bar itself as a space all that I have to do is what I have to do take any point of A bar show that it is in the closure of this one zero one cross zero one that means take any point take a neighborhood it should intersect it and that is precisely what we have been showing all the time these two lines are not necessary okay when you take the closure it they will automatically come so take a point here okay in A bar anywhere here here here if you take a neighborhood if you take an open ball it will intersect the interior right so these two lines these two these and along with this line also finally these four the four lines are in the closure of this zero one cross zero one so much easier to see that if you take the inside R if you take open interval zero one both zero and one are in the closure and when you take them you write a closed interval okay so that's easy to see I have taken middle thing so that that will be also explained and something more r3 r4 etc also it's possible that's why I'm taking now we come to little more little more serious examples look at the set of all rational numbers inside R let us check these points one by one this rational number set is neither open nor closed why why it is not open if it were open for each point you must get a interval okay because an open ball is nothing but an inter open interval an open interval must contain inside q but you know that rational numbers do not contain any interval any open interval okay of course if you want to take empty set it is there but we are interested in non-empty nor it is closed the same thing as saying that compliment of q inside R is not open the same reason all the rational number or take throw away them what you get all irrational number they also don't contain any non-empty open interval okay so neither q nor its compliment is open however if you look at the closure of R closure of c closure of q that is over of R okay so every point in R is a limit point of rational number take any point take an interval there will be always some rational number that's all i'm using here okay every open interval non-empty open interval will intersect q therefore q bar is the whole of R but in terms of our terminology this just means that q is dense in R okay let us look at the limit points of q that is also over of R just now it said that one take a any point take a neighborhood it can open interval throw away that point even then there will be many rational numbers there okay therefore every point is a limit point not only just q everywhere take any point R irrational irrational and so on okay take an interval around that point throw away that point still you will have two open intervals there right so they will intersect q so the next one is if f is a closed subset of R we take a closed subset of R okay q is not closed neither component of q is closed by that now take a closed subset of R and suppose it is contained in a q like you know you can just take a single point which is rational or one two three four five six all the integer there are lots of closed subsets inside q you take any closed subset inside q or the same thing you can do in irrational numbers also pi you know 2 pi 3 pi any anything like that okay so take a closed subset of q or R minus q then that set is no air dense so I am giving examples of every concept here at least one example to begin with that is no air dense no air dense means what if f is already closed so I don't have to take the closure okay first of all and then what I have to take then you have to take the interior so interior means what f should contain some open set right but f is contained inside contained inside q so q doesn't contain any open set open interval therefore f doesn't contain same thing is f is contained inside the whole of R minus q irrational number irrational numbers also don't contain any of the set so it is a consequence of these observations the last one namely every closed subset of q or R minus q is no air dense okay note that union of finitely many closed sets is a closed set also intersection of any family of closed sets is a closed set these are two axioms dual to au and fi right fi says what finite intersection of open sets is open so you take demorgan law finite union of closed sets is closed so that's demorgan law so what it amounts to saying that the t axiom au axiom fi axiom could have been replaced by three other axioms which you may call t prime au prime and fi primes which are in terms of closed sets okay so our definition of our foundation definition namely topology definition of topology could have been in terms of closed sets and then we would have defined open sets as complements of closed sets that would be exactly parallel to whatever we have done so there is no no surprise no no change at all in theory okay inside a metric space every singleton is a closed set why because the complement is open take any point other than the given point so let us say given point is x naught take any the other point then the distance between that y and x is positive so it is epsilon or so delta whatever to take delta by two and take the ball around y which is of diameter which is of length which is of radius delta by two that will not intersect x that will not contain x right that means show that the complement of a single point is open therefore the single point is closed okay every finite subset for a metric space is actually discrete this is the whatever I just proved actually proves this one because I have taken finite set what you can do is look at all the various distances between xi and yi xi's belong into the set okay it will be finitely many they are all positive so you take the minimum okay now you take a ball around that each of these points with that radius playing minimum that will not contain any other point at any point you can do that therefore it will become an isolated set but for being a finite it's also closed it's also closed so it is discrete set however if you take infinite sets they may not be closed they may not be discrete okay so let us we have examples very large set like a cross we have taken what a that a is definitely not an isolated set neither it's discrete okay so that is very easy to see but even more complicated sets can be may violate this condition so here is a very simple example we just violate being finite namely look at all one one by two one by three one by four and so on okay inverse of the positive integers there is an infinite set okay this is an isolated set because you take any say one by m then I have to take something between one by m plus one and one by m minus one take the open interval between these two that will contain one by m and it will not contain any other things right therefore it's an isolated set however it is not a closer set that's very easy to see that because zero is in the closure of this set look at zero take any interval around zero it will have these some one by n's after some large and if any summation large all the one by n's will be there so in any case every open interval around zero will intersect this set so zero is a limit point zero is in the closure therefore if you have an extra point which is not in a and it's in the closure a cannot be closed okay all right more interesting examples will be seen namely like cantor sets cantor set is uncountable set it is no inheritance not like a cross a not like zero one cross zero one okay yet you know it is uncountable yet it is no inheritance there are many interesting properties of the cantor set we will discuss that when it comes to but right now we want to study the closer sets integer etc more appropriately so let us stop here today


Jesus is the light that came and brought hope he brought purpose he's the light that pushes back the darkness amen church and today Jesus is that light I want to read to you John 812 it says then Jesus spoke out again I am the light of the world the one who follows me will never walk in darkness but will have the light of life first John 1 5 says now this is the gospel message that we have heard from him and announced to you God is light and in him there is no darkness at all come on shirts that's something to be happy about this evening Jesus pushes back the darkness the gospel is the good news and that good news is that God is the light that pushes back the darkness amen amen as you're holding that candle in your hand understand that candle while it might be a small little flame a small little light the very nature of light causes darkness to cower causes darkness to flee the very nature of these lights shining on me right now are causing this stage to be lit up everywhere that light is darkness can't be did you hear me everywhere light is darkness can't be during the celebration I want to I want to remind us the power that Jesus has over darkness and some of the darkness that Jesus has power over is the darkness of depression you know Christmas is one of those times of year where many people are actually statistically the most oppressed they're most reminded of the money they don't have the family they that they're in disarray with they're oftentimes reminded of all the materialistic things they wish they had and looking at their brother and their friends and saying man what's my wife what's my life worth you know 50 million Americans today are struggling with depression the world we live in today is full of heaviness and everywhere you look people are trying to medicate their pain they're trying to meditate through their pain they're trying to find some form of spirituality that's gonna help push back the darkness that's in their heart and in their mind going through the season of darkness and depression and feeling such heaviness and it's so common to happen maybe you're here today and you're feeling like honestly I'm kind of kind of fighting through darkness in my mind darkness in my life I want to let you know that Jesus is the light that can push back that darkness Jesus is the light who will remove and eradicate depression from your life you know what's amazing is that you know people they oftentimes will go to alcohol or drugs or some form of spirituality to try and numb the pain like I said to medicate or to meditate into a different place but when you drink alcohol or when you partake in drugs that only numbs the situation it only makes it numb for a moment but the moment that that substance is gone the depression is back the depression is there again the moment someone who tries to find enlightenment through spirituality and trying to discover themselves they're limited in their ability to deal with what happens around them you know spirituality is like a moon the thing about the moon is it's a counterfeit to the real light all it can do is reflect the Sun it's only a faint image of what the real source is well you might be here today and you might feel like Jesus is just that other spirituality that little bit of light that I need but Jesus is more than just your moonlight he is the Son of God and he is the source of light and he removes all darkness he doesn't just come in and light your pathway but he comes in and he brings complete light where there is darkness darkness cannot stand where Jesus is at you know darkness can't dispel darkness and you know the thing about the moon you only can see the moon when it's dark but when the Sun is out you don't see the dark you don't see the moon all you see is light Jesus is the light of the world he is the source what makes Jesus different than all of the other remedies is that he actually eradicates darkness I want to read to you Isaiah 53 for surely he has borne our griefs and he carried our sorrows yet we esteemed him stricken smitten by God and afflicted Jesus dispels the light of depression and Jesus is the cure not just the medication he is the cure he is the source he says in Matthew 11 28 come to me who are all weary and burdened and I will give you rest Jesus has power over depression and I want to tell you that Jesus not only has power over depression but he has power over despair now some people who are in our season of depression or going through the season and feeling like man well I know another way that life can be dealt with is if I just remove mine they think that if I just remove my my life from this world I won't have to worry about depression but let me tell you something that's more sad and heavy and more depressing than depression and that's eternal despair you see leaving this world doesn't fix the issue of darkness leaving this world has really very little effect if not only makes things worse when it comes to the area of darkness if you think that if you just take your life it will solve the problem it won't Jesus doesn't just come to remove depression but he comes to remove despair eternal despair and particularly with the hope of salvation despair literally means the absence of hope or hope that is completely lost you see each one of us without Jesus in our life we're in despair not only you might be depressed but even if you're not depressed without Jesus you're in despair you have no hope there is an absence of any any glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel because even if you leave this life without Jesus despair is waiting at your door some people think that if they're good enough person that they will be able to bargain with God about whether or not they can make it into heaven and some think that all paths lead to heaven and others they've developed their own standard of truth and their own law of morality I want to read to you Romans 3 23 it says for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and Hebrews 7 19 says this for the law made nothing perfect on the other hand a better hope is introduced there which we draw near to God a better hope is introduced the light that we celebrate today is the better hope that was introduced to you and I to have a relationship with Jesus Hebrews 7 22 accordingly Jesus has become that guarantee of a better covenant because of Jesus you and I have hope for eternity there's not only light in the day that we live but there's light in the eternity that will spend with the rest of our life amen amen and the third thing that I want to remind you that Jesus has power over is the darkness of death John 1 verse 4 through 5 says in him was life and the life was the light of mankind and the light shines on in the darkness but darkness has not mastered it when you walk in Jesus you're walking in the light of life you see Jesus doesn't come like I said he's the son he's the source he doesn't just come and get rid of the darkness he replaces it with the light of life where there is light darkness can't be and the light that's there replaces any any space where there was darkness you see when you when you receive Jesus into your life he doesn't just bring he doesn't just remove darkness and despair he gives you life and more abundantly John 10 10 says the thief comes to still and kill and destroy and it says I have come so they may have life and have it abundantly Acts 2 24 but God raised him up having released him from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be held in its power Jesus expels the power of darkness of death it's impossible for death to have a hold on each one of us who are here today you might be wondering you might be here today and and feel that you know what I'm I'm I really don't know if there's any reason or rhyme why I'm here I came here because a family member brought me I came here because this is what you do on Christmas Eve it's the tradition that we have but I want to tell you that the reason why you're here is because Jesus he came in the form of man he came humbly on the cross he came as a small child to die on a cross and he came to give life to you and I he is the light of the world he's the glimmer of hope and for those of us who are in this room today who carry that light understand that light that each of us carry is causing every single one of your candles is like a representation of the light of Christ being lit all throughout the room and the more that these candles get lit the more that his light pushes back the darkness in this world amen


Linux is my IDE, and Vim is my text editor. So I wanted to give a little tour of a minimal IDE or operating system with minimal software. You'll see that there's not much here, but I think that it has everything that's needed to do work as a data scientist. So let's log in. So this is the desktop environment. This is DWM. I don't have a wallpaper. The reason I don't have a wallpaper here is that I don't really need one. I've been in the RISING world before. When you get a wallpaper, at least for me, I had to worry about the theme of everything else. That means making sure that my terminal had the same theme as my wallpaper. And there are applications to do that, things like PyWall, but that's just one more thing to have to think about. The purpose of this build is just to get things done. This is the simple terminal. If you go to the subreddit Unix porn, you'll see people with terminals that are transparent or have a shadowing from their compositor. No transparency is needed here because there's no wallpaper to look at. This is just a terminal. It executes commands, which is all I need my terminal to do. So far, this build looks minimal. The one thing that does have quite a bit of configuration is my NeoVim configuration. So this is pretty similar to the NeoVim I've shown before in previous videos, but most of my time is really spent editing text. So making sure that my text editing is as comfortable as possible is something that means a lot. Because I put a lot of effort into editing text, I put a lot of effort into making sure that that text editing process is smooth. Something else you'll notice is that the font is a nice looking font. It's source code pro. Other than my NeoVim theme, the font is the only aesthetic manipulation I've done to this IDE. So the operating system is Debian. I've used quite a few Linux distributions. I don't really think that getting the Linux distribution right is a big deal. It just so happened that I settled on Debian. A couple things that Debian does have going for it, thinking about data science, is that there's a strong Debian slash R community. And so I can be pretty confident that the R packages from the Debian repositories are going to be stable. Another thing I like about Debian is that it's popular. So there's a large community behind Debian. Lots of times it's pretty easy to find answers to questions I have. Also for new software, there's usually a way to get that software with apt-get. Another application that this IDE has is a browser. So Firefox could be launched with the menu. It's launched over on Workspace 9. I tend to work with my windows stacked. Even though it opened up on Workspace 9, I tend to have everything in one workspace and stacked on one workspace. So I just kind of scroll through the different windows I have open. And recently I've also been hiding my DWM bar on the top. I didn't add that in the configuration. You can add on your configuration whether you want the bar on the top or the bottom, whether you want it hidden or not. There's also patches to add. Some padding around the bar. But again, most of my time is spent just editing text. And I'm not too worried about bouncing around to different workspaces. You'll notice I don't have a system tray to see what's happening with my audio or network configuration or my battery life. I usually use applications in the terminal to tell me that when I want to know that. Lots of times, I just hide that bar. Alt B to hide the bar. So this is usually what I've got open. I've got a terminal and I've got a browser open. Usually when I'm working, I'll be working in Tmux. So I'll have multiple Tmux sessions opened. Maybe I'll have Envim open in one Tmux window. And the shell open. What do I have installed here? The shell opened in another terminal. I guess I don't normally have top running. Sometimes I'll have VisiData. I'm going to pull some data just to show what VisiData looks like. So this is VisiData. So if I'm working on some data manipulation, maybe I'll just have the data open in VisiData. And I'll be working on some kind of script. I also have this setup to work well with Python editing. This is something I've showed off a little bit more in other videos. I've also got this setup with R, specifically Envimar. And so this can run R. Now that I've given a little tour of this, I'm going to close this. This is all open in VirtualBox. And I'm going to show you how to install this in a VirtualBox. So you can play around with this and get comfortable before maybe you install it on your main desktop machine. Before I actually show the installed Debian, I wanted to talk about what is happening here. So once Debian is installed, I'll download this DWM setup script and just run the commands in this script. It's a little less than 100 lines. But I thought it'd be useful to just go over what's in here so it's not mysterious what's happening. The first thing is just to do an apt-get update and upgrade. All of this here is X things. When you launch X server, you use a command start X. And so there's lots of things that you need to get a window manager running. This line is just a number of utilities I tend to use. Curl, Neovin, Make, Tmux, Git, Pip, NeoFetch, and Stow. And feel free to add more utilities and edit this as much as you'd like. This is really pretty basic if you feel like you want to add more. Feel free to add more. This is just something that I've been very comfortable with. This chunk here is an R chunk. It seems like a lot. And there's a little bit of extra work that I did here to make sure that the most recent version of R is installed. So this is going to be R4. And the way that packages work in Debian, at least the way I understand it, is that your version number is glued to the latest Debian release. So if we're in Buster right now, the Debian version Buster, then you have to be using the R release that was available in that Buster release. And so that's an older version of R, like 3-point, something I can't remember which version it is. I like to have the latest version of R, or at least a more recent version of R. And so the work done here is to make sure that the back ports are set up so that you can use the most recent version of R. This single line is to install Open Blast. Open Blast makes the linear algebra operations go really fast. This chunk is to make a directory for Envim and then to pull my Envim configuration, my nit.vim. This is the one aesthetic thing I do to the IDE. I pull a font and install it. So this is a source code pro. These three sections are the three suckless pieces of software I use, ST for the terminal, DWM for the window manager, and D-Menu for the application launcher. Normally, all you would have to do is clone CD into the directory you just cloned and then do a pseudo-make install. But I wanted to also make sure that the font was consistent between my terminal, DWM, and D-Menu. And so what's happening here with SED is that I'm inserting a line that sets the font, and then here I'm deleting the old line, the line that had the other font. It's a monospace font by default. It's just called monospace. Same idea with DWM. The idea here is I inserted the font in the two places it needed to be set for fonts and D-Menu font, and then deleted line 8 and line 8 again, which had the two lines that were the old font. And then I did a pseudo-make install. For D-Menu, same idea. Insert source code pro and delete the line that had the old font. And then pseudo-make install. Vimplug is necessary to get N-Vim working with its plugins. So this command here is simply to download Vimplug. These are all the pip-installed packages that make Python text editing smooth. Jedi is for auto-completion. Flake 8 is for linting. iSort is to sort the libraries that you're importing. PyEnvim is Python. Envim integration. And black is... I don't know what it's called technically. But I run AL-Lint fix, and it fixes my Python. Maybe it's a fixer. I can use the AL plugin to AL-Fix my Python script, and it cleans up the formatting. Stowe, I'm not going to get into what Stowe does, but the only thing I stowe is Envim, and that's going to be in the .files directory. Because we're using x, there needs to be an x-session file. So all that's happening here is I'm adding three lines. The standard shell, she-bang-bin-sh, x-term, and execute-dwm. That's all that needs to be in the x-session file. And then finally, I install a browser. There's some instructions here. I know it's a little bit of a taboo to have comments in a script, but if this is something that is unfamiliar, I think it's useful just to have some helpful instructions here. You have to run start-x to get wm-opened, alt-shift-enter to get st-open, alt-shift-c to close a window in st- well, any window, and alt-p to get dmenu running. So if you wanted to launch Firefox, you would just run alt-p and then start typing Firefox, and you'll see it on your top bar. And finally, you'll have to run plug install on your init.vm file. So I'm going to go through all of this right now, starting with installing Debian. So you can get Debian from debion.org, and just click the download link, and you'll see this ISO. I've already got this downloaded, so I'm not going to re-download it, but you just hit OK, and that's going to be the ISO that you use to feed VirtualBox, or if you're installing it on your desktop, this is what you flash the USB with. Really easy. So in VirtualBox, I'm just clicking new. I'm going to name this debxvzf, and the type is Linux. The version is a Debian 64-bit memory. I usually like having at 8 gigabytes. I'll just make this around 100, and then click start. This is the ISO that's downloaded from the Debian page. You can just click on add, and you'll find it in your downloads. But since it's already selected here, I don't really need to do that. I'll just select the ISO here, and start. As far as the Debian install goes, I'm just going to fast forward this. Lots of this is really just waiting for installs to happen. So I'm just going to take off the audio and start installing Debian. If there's anything that's not standard, I'll hop in and talk about that. But I'm just going to run through the Debian install and speed up the video. So this is where I diverge from the standard Debian install. I don't install the desktop environment, and I don't install a print server. All I have checked on this whole list is standard system utilities. So now Debian's installed. I'm just going to log in. And now I'm going to download the DWM setup script. Out of the box, virtual box doesn't have any kind of ability to do copy and paste. That's something I'll show how to set up after this. So as a convenience, there is a tiny URL here that links to the raw code here. This just makes it so you don't have to type as much. So the script was downloaded. I'm going to rename this. Now I just need to make it executable. And at this point, the script can be run. As this runs, you'll notice that a few prompts come up. Just click enter through those prompts. Except for this one. This is asking for your password. All right, the install is done. All you have to do is type star x. And here it is. One thing you'll notice though in virtual box is the screen never goes above this size. Which is pretty annoying. But before we fix that, I wanted to go ahead and install some nvim plugins. And then we'll fix that issue. One thing you'll see when I first get into this text is there's going to be some warnings that come up. All those warnings have to do with the fact that none of the plugins have been installed for nvim. So you'll see you can't find the color scheme one. That's just because we haven't run plug install to install that yet. And there's a few other things that will come up. Just hit enter through those. So here, just hit colon, plug install. And you can tab complete. All right, that's ready to go. colon wq to quit. I actually do wqa to close everything. Now when we type nvim, everything is working fine. And we can look at our nvim configuration and everything looks great. So now let's fix this dimension issue with virtual box. The hope is that you'll install this on virtual box and play around with it, get used to it. And once you're comfortable, you can install on your own desktop. So I'm thinking that you'll be working with this for a little bit of time on virtual box. So it'd be best to be as comfortable as possible and not have to deal with this squished display. So I have this just vboxguest.sh. With this script, you do have to go to devices and click on insert guest additions. And once that's done, then you download this and run it. So I just downloaded this script and renamed it vbox.sh. Now it's ready to run. One thing to note is that this has a shutdown command at the end of this. The virtual box needs to be shut down for this installation to work properly. And again, just click enter through the prompts. So this should be ready to go. Let's give it a shot. You just need to go to view and full screen mode. So everything will still look squished until we log in to DWN. Initially it might look squished still, and then it will blow up to the full screen. So now we have a full screen. And you can get working and figure out what works for you. I'll repeat what I said at the beginning. Linux is my IDE. And Vim is my text editor. With this setup, even though this is technically a Linux distro, and we've got a window manager and things like that, the idea here is that with Linux as your IDE, you have the world's most powerful IDE. And this has worked well for me as a data scientist. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to Reader Syndicate 3.0, the next evolution of the look into counterculture that is Canada. My name is Matthew, owner of Riot Seeds, and this started as a one-man mission for strain history and breeding science. Over time, it's evolved into something bigger, better, and more of a team effort. We will be joined by members of the Cannaluminati and other friends throughout the seasons to hear their takes on grow techniques, breeding science, strain history, and more. Our mission is to combat the narrative that corporate cannabis and seed posters are obfuscating for their own financial benefit. Welcome to the Underground. We are The Syndicate. What's up everyone? We finally hit 10,000 subscribers, which is massive for a niche nerdy topic like this. It wasn't really thought possible by anyone, let alone me. With that said, we want to do a contest for everyone, and it also kind of coincides with our Instagram page being totally knocked down. So we decided we would do like one for Instagram and one separately for the Patreon people, and that won't be a little bit bigger because it's a paid membership. First, for Instagram, make sure you go follow breeders.syndicate.podcast on Instagram.  But we have to play that game and we like to get the word out. So please go follow us there to be eligible for this contest. We're going to give away a free pack from me, a free pack from Goat Farm, and a free pack from H&L for that contest. I think we're going to end the contest, let me see, on the 23rd of next week. So that means the winner will be announced on March 1st show at the beginning. So be sure if you win, not to use your real name because I'm going to announce it on the show and stuff. And that'll be fun, but I don't want to like dox anyone either. So we have that for the Instagram people, but you have to be following. You have to be following the page or you won't be eligible. 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And we've always said, like, if anything changes, if anything comes to light, we will update it and we will make the information correct. That's correct as we can. That happened. And I'm first and foremost to push for that just because I'm anal about that kind of stuff. So we go into breeding deeper in a very popular subject. So yeah, with that said, go join the contest. It's free. You don't have to do anything for the Instagram one. Be a part of the Patreon. It's a bigger package, bigger contest. So $5 gets you there. Cheers. Want to sit at the table with a syndicate? Check out our Patreon and our link tree or description below. Our merch site is officially live. We have all sorts of shirts, hoodies and goodies to sort you out and shipping is super fast. And most importantly, the quality is top notch. I've been saving old designs for years for this purpose, so please check it out syndicategear.com. 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