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I had to get out the door in like six minutes, no joke. Just got dressed, just finished my hair. I did like one of those cute little clips that I got at the pop-up event that I showed in like the last vlog or the one before that. I'm getting ready to meet up with a friend from Instagram today. She happens to be in town and she asked me if I wanted to get lunch and I was like, heck yeah. Or I guess brunch or something like that. So we're gonna head into Los Feliz and do that today. We're going to one of my favorite restaurants. It's called Home. Oh my God, my makeup, I can't. I don't like to self-tan my face because it breaks me out. So I literally like leave my face alone. When I fake tan my body and it always just looks so funny. Hold please, we need to blend. Not gonna lie, I just completely forgot I was vlogging. So yeah, that's what is on the plan for this morning. It was a long weekend, this past weekend. Today is Tuesday, so like honestly, just trying my best to ease back into things and continuously try to practice that whole like work-life balance thing. I'm trying not to let myself feel stressed about the fact that I just feel really behind in everything since moving here. Think I've talked about that and it's just part of like moving somewhere new and attempting to get settled and seeing friends and all that kind of stuff. But I just feel like I can't catch up. So today might be really nice to just sort of like relax, watch from Love Island, like cook some nice dinner. So we'll see what we get up to for the rest of the day.  All right, it's a little while later now. I just got back from brunch with Emily. It was so much fun. We actually ended up hanging out for like over three hours. It was so much fun. We like walked around, we went into like a crossroads which is like a kind of resale clothing shop like Play-Doh's Closet, Buffalo Exchange, et cetera. So that was really fun and it was so nice to meet her. I need to get around the bus, hold on. So now I'm headed home. I think I'm gonna do a little bit more work but actually I just passed a H Mart. They have like, I think three or four H Marts here in Koreatown, that's like the area of town that I'm in right now, I'm passing through. And it reminded me that I bought this book called Crying an H Mart and it had amazing reviews. Like so many people have said that it's an incredible book. And so when I passed by the H Mart, it reminded me that I bought it and I'm really excited to check it out. So we'll have to report back on that. We'll see what we get up to for the rest of the day. I think I'm gonna do a little bit more work. I was gonna swing by one of my friend's houses and do a little bit of like walking, like do a little walk and chat.  So we'll check in in a bit. Oh, there's another H Mart. I'm happy. These two are absolutely obsessed with this room in the afternoon. It's so bright and sunny in here and you can find them in here all afternoon long. It's so cute. They like love the living room in the morning because of the morning light and then they love this room in the afternoon. So precious. Good morning. It is a couple of days later. It's actually Thursday now and I just like always no matter what, if I'm social for more than like an hour at any given time, I truly need like a full day in between social plans to like decompress. I am just such an introvert, but we're back. It is Thursday. I'm actually getting ready to meet up with my friend Cara. We're gonna go for a hike today. It's the same hike that I did in my vlogs when we visited back in April. It's called Cold Water Canyon. No, Franklin Canyon, I think. And it's a really nice little hike and it's not too, too hot today. So hopefully it'll be awesome. And I'm excited to like get moving. I just haven't been able to fully get into a movement routine yet. Since I've been back here, I'm gonna talk about it in a main channel video, but I'm excited. So that's the plan. I did look a cute little braid today and she had his dentist appointment like literally down the street from my house. So she's gonna pick me up in a few minutes and we're gonna go hiking. And I just need some fresh air and some movement today. So let's frickin' do it. Before I go, I totally forgot to show updates on the bathroom. So we did set up the bathroom besides art. So here is, okay, looks like a little dirty because we've used it for the last week and a half, but here is the two bath mats we went with. These are both from Urban Outfitters. I'll link them down below. Don't love shopping Urban Outfitters, but they really went with the vibe. And then we have our towels. Again, they're used so, you know, bear with, but they're so, so cute. The checkers together, it's just like so funky. I love it.  They look so cute over here. We put up a little bath tray down in our bath, but yeah, we definitely need some kind of art on the walls in here. So we'll work on that, but like, look at it. Such a cute little funky bathroom. I love it. It needed some color. It was like a little dull.  These used to be over our bed at like our last several places. So I think it looks really, really cute. We're definitely gonna have to figure out we had to wash our duvet because Mu got butt juice on.  We might end up getting like a bigger rug for this area because Layla has been like slipping and sliding on these floors lately. So we'll see about that. But I mean, it looks okay in here. There's nothing else to update in the living room. My filming room is done though. Have I even shown that? Wait, again, I don't know why I feel the need to keep prefacing this, but like work in progress. Okay, here we go. So when you walk in, this is kind of like my filming background, sort of, kind of. I need to hang this plant up somewhere. I'm like thinking either here in this corner or maybe this corner, the lights aren't on right now. It's like kind of a weird time. We have like my chair set up right here. Yeah, this does not go here. This is more accurate to what it's gonna look like. So we have this, we have the plant hanging up in the window. Definitely want to get some like more tapestries and like fill up the walls a lot more. I like to the vibe of my last filming area. I do have a clothing rack here. This is truly, what's the word I'm looking for? Like functional. Like I actually need the extra storage for clothes. So there's that. Got some shoes down here. Have the orange couch, of course. I'm still not a hundred percent sure what I want to do with this, but we'll see about that. I have my shoe storage over here with some art. There's my Out of the Box with Layla and Mo. That's from my friend Deena Jones. I have some packages that are waiting to be open for videos. I have my mirror right here. I have my plant. And then like some other random things in this corner. And then those double doors close when I film. And it's just so cute. I love how I started and I was like, let's go hiking. And then it turned into like a five minute rant about my apartment, but I just wanted to show updates, you know? Okay, now let's actually go hiking and continue with our day. I need some movement, so let's do it. I'm home from the hike. I have since showered, scrubbed myself. I washed my face, put on some more moisturizer, and I did get a little bit of a sunburn. It's fine. It'll be fine in like a day, but whoops. So what I think I'm gonna do is go get my nails done. I haven't gotten my nails done since like a couple weeks before we left. Like that was my water bottle. Couple weeks before we left to move here and it's just time. I just want to pamper myself so that's what we're gonna do. So that is what's next on the list of self-care day today. Good evening. It's a while later. Don't mind my hair. I don't know what's happening.  We're meal prepping. Yeah, we're meal prepping tonight. We actually were planning on making some dinner.  Like I want a burger. I'm on my period. I just like really want to like cash in my period meal.  We hung it there because we wanted to see what it would look like and we don't like it but we haven't taken it down. But so we ended up just making the spaghetti like we were already making it and we're just like meal prepping it for lunch tomorrow so it's fine. But we ordered shake shack. That's basically what I'm getting at. And we're gonna sit on the couch and do our nightly routine since we moved to LA every single night. We will sit on this couch and watch Love Island and it's fantastic. However, oh this lighting, perfect. I need some input or some advice or some tips or whatever. Because basically, oh yeah, it does a little, thank you. Basically, thank you very much, lighting person. We're watching it on Hulu which is like two weeks behind and it's driving me mad because I'm seeing spoilers every single day and I'm seeing all the people that I follow who live in the UK talking about Love Island, all the people here. And what I'm confused about is how are you, if you live in the US, please help me answer this. How are you watching Love Island on your TV? Because we have a VPN. That's how we watched it in past years. But then when we try to air play it to our TV or screen mirror or whatever, it doesn't work. And I looked it up and on ITV's website it says that it doesn't support air playing or screen mirroring. But I see people that I follow watching Love Island on their TV and like it has captions and everything. So I'm really confused and I've heard some people say try it from your phone. I did that, it didn't work. So I'm just very, I'm perplexed. Like so if you watch Love Island, if you live in the US and you watch Love Island like in real time with the VPN from your device, how do you play it to your TV? Cause I even watched this one girl on Instagram. She was like, I just air play it to my TV. I was like, mine does not do that. It plays a black screen. So anyways, we're gonna watch a two weeks old episode of Love Island. I really need to know though how to fix it and how to watch it currently because it's driving me mad. I need to know what's happening. We're in Casa more week and we've missed the whole thing. Help us out in the comments. I might even post a thing on Instagram cause I'm desperate. I'm like how, I almost reached out to someone that I follow on Instagram that I don't even know. And wanted to be like, hey, how did you do that? But I decided not to. So please let us know, but we're gonna put that on and then eat our Shake Shack for dinner. I'm obviously gonna show you and we're just gonna live our absolute best lives. We were gonna go to the beach tonight and it's a little, it's getting late. We're tired. It'll be another day. I'm entering the room. I'm the bombshell. A new bombshell enters the villa. Oh, I'm so excited. Our Shake Shack has arrived. I just got a cheeseburger with bacon and pickle. He got like a double cheeseburger. We got some fries. We got some shakes. And this is my dream night. It's a little while later. I don't know what's going on with my hair. Okay, we're just gonna ignore it. But I just was sitting there telling Drew on the couch like the back of my neck feels hot. Like I feel heat radiating off of the back of my neck. Oh, I messed up. Um, yeah, so. Oh, I messed up. Oh no. Oh, this is bad. Okay, oops. I will definitely put on some aloe before I go to bed. Damn it. Sunburn is like really not good for your skin and I really try not to burn, but to be fair, kind of like my first time out in the sun yet this summer. So it's like, it's kind of bound to happen at least once, but damn. Anyway, some of you are like, Carrie, I love your at home vlogs. Like you should vlog more at home. First of all, this is usually what I look like. Like, what? Which, nothing wrong with that. I look amazing. I am amazing. But then also, oh hello, it's pitch black. We're just about to play Mario Kart and like we watch Love Island, we eat food and then we like play Mario Kart, Mario Party. We watch TikToks together. All the things, I need to close all the blinds now cause it's getting dark. But yeah, it's kind of boring stuff. So that's sort of what I don't often show it cause it's kind of the same routine every night. Not boring to me, but like maybe boring to watch, you know? Anyways, I need to go nurse my sunburn wounds. You can only see it on the camera. No, you can see it in person. Thank you. I didn't like push on it and it's like. This whole time he's putting Aloe on me, he was like, you are not allowed to go in the sun anymore without sunscreen. He was like scolding me. Oh, okay. Aloe was on, no worries, but I do feel like I am a portable heater on my back. Ah, it happens to the best of us, but damn, definitely need to be more careful next time. In my defense, the hike that I went on today was a place that I've been to before. I think I mentioned this, but I went on like a different trail and this was a completely different one than I went on last time. The one I went on last time was totally covered. You were barely in the sun at all. It was mostly shade and you were walking through like trees and brushes and stuff. And it was totally covered. The one that I went on today was a totally different trail. So I had no idea. You should take like some type of rubber and try them all before bed to help with any swallowing that might happen. Yeah, yeah. This trail that I went on today, you were in the sun the entire time and we were out there for like an hour and a half and I do have like pretty fair skin. So, okay, it's not painful. It's just hot, but I'll survive. That's definitely an appeal though and that's gonna be annoying. Cary jerky. I'm now Cary jerky. Circa 2020. Drew and I had a really bad sunburn in 2020. We decided to like go to a socially distanced beach outing and we both got so fried and my legs were peeling so, so badly. We both definitely got sun poisoning that day. Like it was awful.  So anyway, okay. I'm mad at myself. Bye. At least my nails are cute. Is that your food? Is that your food?   Oh yes, slip and slide. That's gonna do it for me for this vlog today. We got our rain machine on. It's got a nice little thunderstorm going. We have the skylight on. We're gonna get nice and cozy and cuddle up in bed and maybe watch like a Disney movie or something. But thank you so much for being here today or I guess the last couple of days and hanging out with me and I will see you very soon. Bye.


but I look something up. So if that's an opportunity, we'd like to talk through that, but if not, then they'll get removed. And I think in large part, we'd just like to go through all of those questions and I think we can spare your time and just come back and say, hey, public works and staff and us are all in agreement, here's the... Madam Chair, I have a quick question. Sure. The scored concrete square, do we have, or do you know of examples in Vermont or other New England climbs only? Because over the years, you see people trying to do different colored pavers and they're looking great when they come in. Same like with bike lane markings with a bright green and then give it a year and cars and stuff and next thing you know, it's an eyesore or something. So, absolutely, Carolyn might know if she's still on, but I can say that a lot of the... I am still on if you want me to respond to that. Carolyn, let me just swear it's Dawn. Let me just swear you in. Yes. Raise your right hand. Do you solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth under penalty of perjury? I do. Thanks, Carolyn. Go ahead. So, the integral color concrete is the, just so we understand the color piece of it, it's part of the actual concrete mixture. So it's not something that's painted on or added on or a different layer. It's an integral part of the concrete mix. So that's not going to change. I believe there's some similar items at the Davis Center that get driven on all the time. Our office doesn't have a concern with it, but we can certainly look into it more and come up with some more examples if you'd like to see some. Yeah, the... Photos or other, I don't know what the specs say. Well, a really great reference for what this integral color concrete looks like is the new City Hall Park in Burlington. So if you walk around that park and look at the sidewalk, you'll notice sections of dark gray and light gray that sort of give it this really nice feel. And that's a similar sort of feeling as to what we're proposing here. Good to know. Yeah, and is there examples of the scoring too? Because that's a potential, what's the word, impact point for a plow? And, you know, it'll look clean when it goes in and we'll start to spoil where the scoring is. That's a great question. I don't know if there's any examples of that. I mean, the scoring is the same kind of scoring that you have in a sidewalk. That's a good question. It's not the sidewalk I'm worried about. It's the middle of the intersection and stuff.  That's all. I have just curiosity, I'm kind of hoping because it's sort of interesting to me that when you say integral colored blocks, you're talking about something a little more adventurous than shades of gray. I think it is literally shades of gray. No, we're trying to keep it pretty subtle. I think they actually are literally talking about shades of gray. Yeah, we are. I knew the response. It's actually shades of gray, the integral color. Not Barbie pink. But accented with brick, red brick. Is there any concerns? I used to live in like downtown Portland, Maine. And so the brick gets very slippery in the winter versus just having like concrete where you've got a little bit more grippiness to it itself. So is there any concerns with that at the crosswalks? Aesthetically, I think it's great. I just, I know I've slipped a few times. We can certainly, we can ask Justin about that. We had met with the Department of Public Works about these materials before we proposed them because we didn't want to spend the time on the design, you know, prior to that. And he hadn't voiced any of those concerns, but we can definitely ask him when we sit down and go through these comments and make sure that we address that. Did you have an opportunity to review this specific plan with bike and ped? Yes. Okay, good, thanks. Okay, let's move on. Number 22, staff recommends the board require the applicant to address the joint comments of the director of public works and planning and zoning staff prior to closing the hearing. Absolutely. We've just done that. That's what we were saying we would do, yep. 23, staff recommends the board include a condition requiring that no more than one parking space may be reserved per unit. Can you accept that? I was looking for some clarification on that one. It's rare that we would only have potentially two spaces per unit not everybody, if there was, you know, everybody that wanted one had already been used up and there was extras and somebody had two. So I was just curious of the genesis of that. Yeah, so if you read above, you can see that our parking minimums are computed based on there being no more than one parking space reserved per dwelling unit. So if you want to reserve more than two, you actually have to provide more parking or more than one, you have to provide more parking overall. So if two bedrooms say two roommates move in and they have two cars, they- Only one of them can be reserved. So they can use two parking spaces. It's just you can't say unit 33 has parking space. Okay. 33A and 33B or whatever. Okay. I think that's, okay, it's pretty rare that we'd have two per, it's only the parking garage that they're reserved anyway, the public, the spaces that above are all first come first serve. So I think that works. How many two bedroom units you're gonna have? Well, for a building, it's a 24 total.  No, it's two is ones in studios. Two bedrooms, one bedrooms in studios, no three bedrooms. No three bedrooms. Okay. 24 refers to the paragraph above and we're back to architectural style again. And I was having a tough time understanding this, Marla. Could you clarify the non-red paragraph or the paragraph above item 24 please? Yeah, this was just more exposition on what we've already discussed because it comes up in multiple places in the regulations. Okay. So talking about reduced setbacks, strong street presence, buffering and screening, not being a major element of their design. Therefore, they really need to have common materials and architectural characteristics but we've already discussed that. All right, let's move on then to 25. Staff recommends the board review the below discussion as background for review of the criterion pertaining to the architectural design of inclusionary units. Have we kind of covered this one already? So this is the more, sorry, this is the more thorough excerpt of what Delilah showed from the preliminary plot decision. So yes, we have covered this. Okay. And then we get into specific findings on lots 10 and 11. 26, staff recommends the board as the applicant how the provided design accomplishes this objectives since the area between the property line and the building is proposed to be maintained as a lawn and that's regarding lot 10. Right. So my understanding of this criteria before was that what we've done to improve the prior design is we've pulled the building away from the property line a little more. It is lawn with a lot of plantings along the edge of the driveway up to lot 10. That's primarily the difference from what you saw at preliminary plot plus in terms of a transition area, it's clabbered siding with some of the same colors you see in the single family homes rather than the more brick and window look that was in the prior sketch plan design. So that's how the transition is made from the single family homes into this building. Okay. Any questions for, did you just raise your hand, Quinn? No, okay, thanks. All right, 27, staff recommends the board require the applicant to provide a curb break in the O'Brien Farm Road driveway for lot 11 of minimum width to allow for a maintenance vehicle. Is that possible? I think so. I haven't, that's when we'll have to talk to the civil engineers about it. I don't think that I don't see any issues with that though. I think that we can work that out. Thank you. Scott online, Scott, do you have any issues with that? Yeah. Now there's no issues with that. Okay. 28, at preliminary plat, access to solid waste disposal, yadda yadda. The board required the applicant to improve pedestrian access to the solid waste disposal area at the next stage of review. This has not been addressed for lots 11 and 10, access to solid waste areas still via either the garage doors, which do not include dedicated pedestrian facilities or via a full set of stairs accessed from the sidewalk adjacent to the parking lot. The architectural plans show some unused space next to the garage door, which could potentially be used as a person door. Staff recommends the board require the applicant to address this deficiency. What is a person door? Door for normal door. Normal door as opposed to a garage door. Oh, I see. Did you refer that earlier? A man door. I slipped up. I got it. I got it. Thank you. All right. That might have been me. My apologies. So what do you think about that? We do have, so there is a person door now on the architectural, if you go to, I believe it's a 2.1. There is a person door shown on that plan now next to the coming out of the garage on each building. So it's a 2.1 on each of the architectural plans. So they would, what's that? I don't think I'd do actually. It's a stage for one. We're down a little bit. I think it might just be down a little bit. There you go. Right there. There we go. So that person door up a bit from where you're, right there, that's the person door next to the garage door that you can walk out to access the trash facility from the garage level. So can you think up your plans to clarify that? And we'll go back to this when we see you again. Okay. So you're saying the civil plans, you're not seeing that same, the door on the civil. Is that the question? Yeah. There's no walkway shown, which is, yep, we will add the, we'll add that walkway and doors so that you exit that person door, go straight to the trash facilities on each of lot 10 and 11. And we'll make that adjustment on the civil plans to reflect this door here. So we'll revisit this once the plans are think up to show it. Yeah. I think the short answer is it is the case that there's a door just outside the elevator that goes to the garbage. We just need to get it clarified and get it on all the plans. Okay. Thank you. I am going to suggest that we call it a night. We've covered a lot of ground. You know, you're coming back. So I guess we, we don't close this, we conclude it for the evening. And do we need to vote on that? No, you should just determine when we should see them again. The question I am not totally prepared for. Okay. We'll give you a minute to think. Do you guys need any special extra time that you want the earliest possible next meeting? The earliest possible would be great. Is someone supposed to jump up and sit down? So unfortunately we have a project of this scale on the next two agendas. So that means we're looking at the first January meeting. I have room in the second December for a small thing, but I don't have room in the second December for a big thing like this. So we're looking at the first January meeting. Would there be room for just the remaining comments of this or if we weren't looking at the new? I mean, we're looking at the new architecturals at that point. Well, that's what I mean. Like there's still 15 comments. Like if we were to use that meeting to go through the last 10 or 15 comments and then the January meeting to go through the new submissions, if that makes any sense. Just throwing that out there. Thanks for me. And then I'm putting off a couple other small, yeah, I don't know that we really have the room. Cause I don't have, I think the sense, I'm sorry for interrupting. I was just gonna say, I think the sense of urgency, particularly on Tom's part is the application period for the funding sources. Correct. I know that that's not the board's primary concern, but we are in the middle of funding applications that have soon coming deadlines. And one of the criteria they look at is readiness to proceed. So if we are able to show that by February one of this year, we are highly ready to proceed, which means having local permits. We will have a much higher chance of getting the 9% allocations, which come out once a year. So if we don't get this round, we'd wait 12 months to be able to go again. So we want to give you everything we can to have that goal in mind. Well, contrary to what you believe after tonight, we're not here to make your life difficult. So we're trying to figure out, we'd like to accommodate you as much as possible. Can we meet that request? That seems like... I think the strategizers are trying to figure that out. Bear with us. Oh, did you? Yeah. Is your vanity showing? Well, you see me on the TV and I'm like, oh, if I sit like this, it'll look better. I think that what I can do is I can put you on the first January hearing and give you most of the night because the other two big projects that are in the Hopper, I will tell them, thank you, we'll see you again in two meetings. But I just don't think it makes sense in terms of workload for us and also for the board to put you on the second December meeting. So to remind myself, because the beginning of the year is all kinds of screwy. You might not even be reached if you were put on the second December meeting. It might not. You might not get that far, as what you're saying. You might not even get that far that night to get to your item number on the agenda. So upcoming application dates will be meeting on January 4th, which I believe is a Wednesday. Nope, it's Tuesday. We'll be meeting on January 4th, Tuesday. So that's the earliest I can really do it. I'm sorry.  I'm grateful you got in before the flood. They're probably not. Well, otherwise they'd be jammed up in this backlog, but it's everybody else. Well, we'll do everything we can to... Yeah, and we'll continue talking and have everything as clean as we can by then. Who's who's? Okay, so we get to move in second to continue to January 4th, please. I think let's take Frank's question first. Well, I was just going to ask them who because I don't know how it's constructed now. Who is now, I forget what they call it, the executive committee. Who is the, who is, who comprises the committee that awards the 9% credits? So that is the VHFA, I think it's the Board of Commissioners. I think that's what they're referring to. Well, there is a Board of Commissioners. They are also the tax credit committee. I believe that it's those folks that are, I mean, I know the individuals who have the votes on that committee, what their actual title is, whether it's the, I think it's the Board of Commissioners and not the joint tax credit committee that actually does the allocating. I think that's the correct. So don't forget your glasses. Who would we, could we, would somebody please move that we resume, continue, continue, thank you. This hearing on January 4th. Motion is. Pardon? Motion is. Thank you. Second? Second. All right. Any discussion? All in favor of continuing this to January 4th, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Thanks so much guys. I really appreciate the time. Thank you. Thank you. Minutes and other business. Sorry. Is there any other business? Okay. Minutes. Well, we don't have to do them. Yeah. Let's put those off. Okay. Yeah. It's late. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Thank you guys. Nice seeing everybody. Thank you. This conference is no longer being recorded. Thank you. Thanks.


Depressing news. Chile. Chile, which has one of the freest economies in the world, a top 20 economy, sometimes a top 10 economy in terms of freedom. Chile, who has gone since the early 1980s till today, over the last 40 years, from the poorest country in Latin America on a GDP per capita basis to the wealthiest country in Latin America on a GDP per capita basis, just elected a real socialist, a pretty radical socialist, as president. Now, this is in spite of the fact that in the midterm, in the two months ago, in the elections for the parliament, the center right did very well. So it's going to be interesting, like the inner play now. But in a battle between Gabriel Borek, who's young, 35 years old, very cool, I hear, very socialist, in an alliance with the Chilean Communist Party, committed to rolling back almost all the reforms that made Chile wealthy, that made Chile successful. Committed, committed, to rolling back one of the great achievements in economics in political economy in the last 40 years, which is the privatization of Social Security in Chile. Chile has a private Social Security scheme. And he is now committed to rolling back, to eliminating that, to putting it back into the hands of government, which is, it's hard to express the extent to which that is tragic, horrific, disturbing, disgusting. So the private pension system, which was privatized by the brother of the current president of Chile decades ago, the new president is committed to doing away with that. And the Chilean people have voted for this. Now, part of the problem is, part of the problem is that the person he ran against in the election was a white, right-wing religious nationalist, narrow-minded conservative, rightist who actually on several occasions has expressed longing for the dictatorship of Pinochet. So you have two candidates, a right-wing nut who, Catholic, very religious, reestablish a lot of the restrictions in individual liberty, who admires Pinochet, a brutal dictator, who happened to have the right economic policies almost by chance, or a leftist, Marxist, young, cool hip who's promised to be moderate, but is going to undo all the stuff that led to Chile's prosperity. Who do you vote for? In this case, I probably would have voted for the religious nut if I was in Chile. But this is the possibility of left versus right. Suicide by collectivism on the left or suicide by collectivism on the right. Choose your poison. Choose how you want to die. This is why we have to fight collectivism of left and of right. This is why our only hope globally is to resurrect a classical liberal or free market right. And if we don't, then we'll be left in situations where we have to choose between crazy collectivists of the right or crazy collectivists of the left. And sometimes we'll choose the crazy collectivists of the left and we'll die that way. And sometimes we'll choose the crazy collectivists of the right and we'll die that way. But we are positioning ourselves to where all our choices are evil. And when you, I'm talking to you who know who I'm talking about, when you support the crazies of the right, when you rally around the crazies of the right, the collectivists of the right, you are responsible for these crazy nutty choices.  But it's because he's so popular among Republicans. Nobody did it. Nobody would have won. And thus was stuck with Joe Biden. And of course, here I'm talking about the midterms again, the 2024 election, they better be somebody better than Trump on the ballot. And again, otherwise you're stuck with choices like Chile. And what happens is what we're getting today is the left becomes more left. The right becomes more right in a collectivist sense. And you're stuck with two bad options. And that's what we got in Chile. Since it's really bad news in Chile, I visited Chile for the first time in, when was it in 2019 before COVID. I was looking forward to going back, I was planning to go back in 2020. It is a wonderful country, beautiful country. And it's a country that has done phenomenally well under somewhat free market policies. But it is an example of, if you don't defeat Catholicism, if you don't defeat religion, if you don't defeat altruism, it's really hard to hold on to freedom and capitalism. Fundamentally, religion is antagonistic to freedom, antagonistic to capitalism. And you see it in Latin America, they take two steps towards free markets, and then their religiosity kicks in and they back off towards the socialism, which was much more consistent with their religion. And you see it everywhere. And Latin America is a truly sad place as a consequence. I think I've told you this. Argentina in 1914 was as rich as America. 1914. I mean, America was pretty rich on a capital GDP. Maybe the richest on the wall. And Argentina was just below. And since then, Argentina today has, I don't know, 20%, 15% of the GDP per capita of the United States. Bad policies. Bad governance has horrific consequences. As we know, when we see Venezuela and yet a number of Latin American companies from Ecuador to Chile are trying to become the next Venezuela, become the next Venezuela. Thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show. If you'd like to support the show, we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me. You get value from listening, you get value from watching, show your appreciation. You can do that by going to iranbookshow.com slash support, by going to Patreon, subscribe star, locals, and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those, any one of those channels. 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We continue today with workbook lesson 259. Let me remember that there is no sin. Sin is the only thought that makes the goal of God seem unattainable. What else could blind us to the obvious and make the strange and distorted seem more clear? What else but sin and genders are attacks? What else but sin could be the source of guilt? Demanding punishment and suffering? And what but sin could be the source of fear, obscuring God's creation, giving love the attributes of fear and attack? Father, I would not be insane today. I would not be afraid of love nor seek for refuge in its opposite. For love can have no opposite.  Amen.


Welcome to another edition of Titans Takes, presented by Kroger. I'm Mike Keith. What a win last Sunday over the Atlanta Falcons. Now let's take a look at one of the best moments from the game. On second and four, Playfake, Ritter D. Thromp looking under pressure. Sack! Jeffrey Simmons! Titans and Oilers alumni were in town last weekend for what we like to call our homecoming celebration. Of course, Halloween has just come and gone and our players love to talk about it. This teammate would die at first. He's scared of me. One of the old linemen. Yeah, Nick Wynne. Nick Wynne, because he's going to fall first. Nick Wynne. I'm going to say Nick.  Okay, Nick. He can't get me! That's this edition of Titans Takes, presented by Kroger. We're on our way to Pittsburgh for Thursday night football. See you there. Tighten up.


Okay, very good morning guys Anthony here, and it's Wednesday the 15th of April Just before I begin just wanted to say thank you to everyone who was leaving some comments some amazing engagement on yesterday's videos So really appreciate that, you know, I'd love to grow this community that we've got online So if you are watching this remember to like and subscribe to the Amphi trading YouTube channel This was yesterday's video and a couple of things here just to reiterate for one as soon as I upload the video I do actually kind of bookmark So here if you just click on the video description you can see I've got here you can literally click on those Chaptored kind of numbers and it will jump you straight to specific topics that I talk about because obviously I'm I'm giving you your kind of fundamental run-through of the morning And depending on what asset class that you trade for example You might want to just skip to certain parts like yesterday a lot of the emphasis on earnings, of course And so you could just jump to that specific section So just pointing that out if that's of use to you as you go through these videos in future And as I said some of the comments yesterday, you know, so Kassala Pratek Hassan You know, I tried to reply to everyone and so it's great to kind of answer people's questions Just generally, you know part of the reason for this channel is to you know Not for me to just go over the news and give my opinion But also to try and help in the best way that I can so absolutely happy to do so That being said then let's get back into the markets and talk about what's been going on and let me just give you an overview first of the overall general sentiment for the morning and Equity index futures just off a little bit But it does follow a generally higher close that we had on Wall Street last night the major three indices Finishing in positive territory. So this is what it looked like the S&P the down and that's that composite You can see here on the far right with the with the rectangle all finishing in pretty decent positive territory to doubt about 560 points or so Stocks rallying as per the title with earnings in focus, but moving higher At the start of the month certain earning season of course and and how does earning season really kick off? well, the big banks come out and We can see that here on on the other kind of heat map if you look down in the bottom left-hand corner JP finished the day down about two and three-quarter percent Well as far go down about four and then later on today We're going to get the lights of city Bank of America and Goldman's All coming out before the opening bell. So I'll be covering a little bit more detail on those via my Twitter account There's my handle if you want to stay on top of those In real time But you know with earning season, you know overall despite those negative closes for some of the big banks We did finish higher and obviously a lot of the focus on the discussions yesterday about The general plateauing if not regression of some of the areas of new development of coronavirus cases So despite deaths still rising the markets kind of forward-looking and looking at trajectory now of some of those other European or main global hotspots that have started to hit that plateau and the next Natural area from there following the Chinese example would be a decline going forward And so a little bit positive kind of cautious optimism taking out of that And as I said before with earning season, I do think it's going to be pretty horrific But how much of that is a surprise? I don't think a great deal I guess still to be kind of facted in though when we see these to kind of empirical evidence come in about how truly bad it is But obviously a lot of this is going to be in the next quarter when it's going to be really dented going forward given nature of the The kind of slow move of loosening the the quarantine measures that have been adopted kind of globally It's going to result in a very severe immediate impact and a very slow gradual recovery of the economy One thing that a common question that I got quite a lot a lot of yesterday Was talking about this idea about the equity market and have I become now more bullish? And yeah, I mean it's it's been a it's been a tricky one to call because you know we could go or so We were talking about the potential third phase of what we'd call It's kind of a bear market rally. So if you remember looking at the case studies of 2008 to 2020 This idea notion that you go through these various phases, but seeing quite strong rally is just a natural part the general Trend lower and will we see that but we haven't so far And there's a bit of debate. I was doing a bit of reading last night What various hedge fund managers are saying what various kind of sell sign institutions are saying and it is a bit of a mixed bag at the moment Some people Calling like we were talking about yesterday You know GS have dropped that kind of call about markets pushing back down breaking that previous late March low Before then the meaningful rebound they've now scrapped that but a couple of hedge fund managers still kind of talking about the worst still to come and so on and You know a few things to take out of that first of all just looking at this S&P chart from a technical perspective just move it so you can see everything a bit more clearly and What we have here are You know the level we got to yesterday as we were creeping it back up higher. I think it's particularly interesting You can see here. You got the 50-day moving average coming quite close into play You've got that previous low point that we had in the late February sell-off before then it It really got quite heavy and towards when the the pandemic at the time was starting to pick up pace more globally At the beginning of March That's coming into close proximity to where we are at the moment it comes into the futures I'm looking at here in the S&P at 2855 and you'll see that that was also quite a key area as well on Around the 200-day moving average, but also the low that we had in October of 2019 so very interesting test as we come up towards these levels as we've continued to just bump higher Obviously not just about the cautious optimism on the trajectory of the coronavirus developments globally, but also Just the the firepower that the Fed have thrown at this Particularly a lot of people looking at that move yet last week that we had of the 2.3 odd, you know kind Trillion-dollar commitment if you like to to really supporting smaller businesses, which is quite pivotal for them the kind of the overall Driving force behind, you know employment in a country like America for sure And whether or not that's going to be the tipping point that kind of eliminates a lot of that downside risks You know the whole point here is it's a bit of a mixed there's mixed opinions And what does that mean then well? I thought what was quite interesting yesterday? If I switch over my screens was this and this is the Bank of America kind of hedge fund managers survey Now this is something that they do on a rolling basis kind of month-to-month and why do investors look at it? Well market participants like to have a bit of a feel for what's the general sentiment? How a portfolio managers positioning positioning themselves in the current economic climate? That's a particular interest at the moment where this real money is going when there is a lot of indecision It can be quite telling then of what you know the bigger powers that be you know with the real insight and experience in markets How are they how are they setting up for the for the future and? Or even investing their their clients money and what was quite interesting here was the fact that? Cash is actually king at the moment now. It's not a new concept. We have seen money market funds as well I've seen similar type of movement, but what you can see here is Bank of America's Survey showed extreme investor pessimism as cash levels jumped to five point nine percent Which equals the highest level since the 9-11 terrorist attacks of course back in? 2001 so fund managers generally shunning risk with equity allocations. They're lowest now since 2009 52% of those poll would expect there to be a U shaped or One where economic indicators gradually rise back over time compared to just 15% looking for more rapid kind of v-shaped recovery So and I find that latter part particularly surprising I think as This situation has become more evident and more real Investors again from that initial Interpretation at the beginning of this pandemic obviously the big shake out in markets was a lot of this repositioning of the idea About this more graduated recovery over time It's going to be a much more deeper severe initial impact and so therefore the past back to normality is going to be that much more protracted But yeah interesting just to see them that cash positions now They're higher since basically if you go here all the way back to 2001 when obviously it dropped on the back of the 9-11 attacks so yeah Opportunities I feel over that kind of more medium-long-term horizon are definitely coming in the market I'd say Probably the one thing that I'm particularly interested in at the moment personally is still oil prices rather than Probably equities second to that But for me with equities at the moment I'm a little bit Standoffish in a similar vein to kind of the accumulation of a cash position I'd rather just build my ammo and keep it and let the market decide what it wants to do first But with oil I am more interested because this is what the bigger picture looks like for crude oil at the moment and It's got a couple of annotations here But let's just focus on the actual price on the charts and you know yesterday We go all the way back down to that really super key area Which was down at late March early April lows We briefly momentarily printed an 18-year low Of course when we saw a move below The $20 handle with a bit more force we got to 1927 But remember this is the OPEC deal we were trading upper when there was circulating talk midweek This kind of time last week. We were trading at one point up at around 28 36 We're now trading down this morning at basically 20 bucks So we're we're about nearly 30% of that move in just a period of days And of course this is all coming as I've kind of been you know saying on Twitter and in these briefings I just think that the OPEC, you know They were almost doomed to fail in a way because expectations were so exceedingly high And I think that whatever they were going to achieve in a coordinated kind of struggle Was never going to be enough to offset the Significant demand shock that we're going to see on the back of this this global pandemic. So for me I'm still quite bearish royal at the moment and what I'm I'm generally looking for and this is I guess from a more No more long-term sense is I want to see a break of that level And I think I think it's going to come at some point whether that's today or not But obviously today is going to be quite key. We're not that far off about 40 cents from the low from yesterday I think a retest here. You're probably going to see the pullbacks get more shallow, and I think we will have a Break on the cards all things remain equal as they are the variables Fundamentally and play at the moment and if we get that well Then you know what the chart looks like from an oil perspective when you start looking on a much longer time frame or look We get back to that 9-eleven Not just in the cash positions for portfolio managers, but in the oil market a significant break from where we are at The moment decidedly short-lived from OPEC although I must stress OPEC can change its mind very quickly and all to a deal And they will should the price start to dramatically drop again at the moment You know then they can't afford to make too many signals too quickly Otherwise the market will start to become very a lack of response to what they're saying So it needs to be quite timed with their measures So I think that gives a little bit of room for a potential break here Particularly if equity start to fade a little bit if You know yesterday was kind of exiting out earnings, but let's say earnings start coming in There is a progressive theme where they're particularly bad in a sense then and we get coupled with retail sales today being Really bad record levels on a low jobless claims comes in and they're spectacularly high again You know these kind of catalysts might help to just break through those levels And I do think we get a run down then to kind of the 16 handle And then it starts to get quite interesting down here for what I think is potential for a for a more longer term entry for a long Now how would I play that out? Well? Just given the job that I do and other commitments that I have you know It's very rare that I'd be I'll let the traders do a lot of the intraday trading But for me certainly I'd have a portfolio of some long-only positions and I think you know Someone like Exxon raising a substantial amount of funding to offset then any potential risks that are forthcoming the fact that they're pretty Healthy given the size Perhaps that could be a good exposure in a cash position to just get into a company like that if price levels become particularly depressed and a historical basis down at this $16 handle And imagine if we got down to the up the the kind of late 90s post oh OPEC crisis lows down at 10 bucks You've got to think that that's a good point to get in Then to just ride the move back up over the next 12 18 24 months when I absolutely would foresee oil coming back up to you know the 40 50 60 dollar levels So yeah, just something to be aware of there in oil I mean from an intraday trading perspective Absolutely, I'd be keeping a very close on it anyway in the short term from it from a trades potential You know the the retest just seeing how the market behaves and around this eight 1985 in the futures any break of that perhaps a break an ability to get back in on the pullback to then follow The move back down targeting that previous 30th low And then kind of managing scaling into position to just see it You know play out further to the to the downside You know once the market if it does break this era of consolidation that we had at these You know kind of two decade lows, you know the market as you've seen the crude can move very quickly And as I said, I don't anticipate that that the OPEC will have the ability to counteract that run Immediately the the kind of natural progression of these things as the market might break if it does then you'll get quite an aggressive Move of multiple dollars then OPEC will start verbally saying things before then the action comes later But from an intraday opportunity, you know There can obviously be some some decent three four five dollar moves in the market and the blink of an eye Would not be uncommon. So now it's definitely on my radar at the moment and I'm watching that today Just cycling through a few of the other headlines then To wrap things up Trump halts us payments to the World Health Organization. I'm sure you've probably read this last night citing reliance on China You know, this is just the art of Kind of a distraction passing of accountability. You know, this is kind of what Trump is the master of Whether or not this actually comes to fruition Perhaps not I mean, I think the point is here's Trump says these things as he's trying to manage Responsibility of the economic impending fallout that's going to happen and if he can pass that over to one blaming China for Allowing this virus to spread and lying about their numbers and then for the who for being Too lenient on relying on China's own statistical data and not doing their due diligence Then all the better that he can say well, it wasn't my fault the economy with booming before the who and China Made that mistake. So this is all political in my mind I don't really think that this is a market moving thing. Obviously the United States being the size of the economy that they are They are a big proportionate member of funding for the World Health Organization But this isn't a new thing Trump from the very beginning of his presidency has always been very much of the idea of Pulling out of funding for this type of thing because obviously from a Kind of more populist policies if you like He's more about bang for your buck And if you think about the kind of insurance policy of trying to identify a pandemic very early Pandemic generally is something that happens or comes around every couple of decades And so he'd rather put his funding into, you know, kind of more Immediate fiscal payoffs so that he can get more political kind of wins on the back of that and secure himself second term So this type of conversation isn't new for Trump But obviously timing is quite key in the context of what's happening at the moment Talking of Trump He has said that they're close to a plan to reopen the economy possibly in part before the 1st of May again I think this is a little bit of kind of political management of public perception You know May 1st does seem quite early as we've seen Communicated from the depth or deputy medical advisor in the UK Over the weekend generally the performance of how this virus has performed so far is we hit the kind of peak But then we see a period of two to three weeks of plateauing Before then we start to see the numbers dip as what we're seeing in lights of Spain and Italy now at the moment The UK very much at that kind of peak area the US the kind of same So timings wise might work out, but I still think he's being a little bit optimistic here with the timings remember France which are kind of way ahead of America at this point They they've tabled the 11th of May. It's looking likely yet to be confirmed that Britain will be the 7th of May Italy the 3rd of May so for the for the US to be and that this is the number one kind of hot spot at the moment The first I think again It's all kind of political management from a public's point of view from the president A few other things to be aware of overnight in Asia The Yuan did dip a little bit China's central bank injected what would be in dollar value equivalent about 14 billion dollars Via a one-day medium term lending facility They cut the rate to 2.95 percent from 3.15 percent the cuts in interest rate though Pretty much widely expected it follows a reduction of the People's Bank of China lowering their seven-day Reverse repurchase rate back in March So these are just all measures kind of similar to what we've seen in this other central banks With their objective to just maintain liquidity into the economy at this point in time So not not real market mover, but just like to just bring and draw to your attention One other thing I thought was quite interesting was the pound and let me just have a quick look at this now What I'm about to talk about And and this Bloomberg articles referencing standard bank, but I'm going to You know just make it clear at the moment on the intraday the pound is pulling back So so what I'm going to talk about is more kind of medium longer term perspective But obviously the pound has seen you know really nice move Consecutively over a number of sessions a little bit of a pullback here Perhaps warranted the dollars just strengthening a touch this morning So euro dollars also a little bit lower Dixie's up about a quarter of 1% just coming down here to a relatively interesting level In the in the sterling future, but on a weekly chart obviously, you know if we start looking at The performance of the pound if you remember When me and Sam actually one of the last times I think Sam and I were in the office But it was when the pound was getting absolutely battered at the time We got down to the lowest level since kind of the mid-80s But the bounce since then has been pretty spectacular and actually we've got a we've got a Above some quite key levels. You can see that 50% retracement from the October to that Jan multi-decade low The market was finding a bit of a tough time getting above around 124 80 what I'm looking at here in the cable future You can see that 50% fib been rejected a couple times That was also the Theresa May surviving the no confidence vote low that we had During 2018 but now we've got above that we've continued to push up higher Next key levels here. You've got the 618 fib Which would also be the low from the from late February and that also starts to bring in some of the price points here. You can see through 2017 Well, if I just actually put a line on that fib level you can see here if I just put the lips on sterling that Next level kind of see around. Let's just mark them up here You can see how the market ratted here and here and here failed breaks You can see the extensions on the wick but man that fading to close below that same level And so yeah, the next big test kind of comes not that far above Maybe about another 150 pips or so above the current price because I'm looking at a weekly candlesticks here but the interesting thing here is that Couple of people kind of sharing the view that although intro day, obviously it's coming off a little bit in a more longer term perspective The pound may turn into unlikely winner from Europe's virus troubles now What they're talking about here is the pandemic means that the the deadline for a trade deal this year Remember there's this when I say trade deal. There is this thing that everyone's obviously completely Compartmentalized in the back of their head. It's so far away from the front page. There's still this thing called Brexit That everyone was obviously dealing with the crisis at hand at the moment and parked that but it's still there And one of the things that we've been talking about on the briefing for a while is about, you know, Brexit is going to be delayed You know this idea about delivering Brexit or at least in its first form in the framework agreement by the end of the year You know, that's that's been and gone left town a long time ago And what that means then is that one of the big risks about would they or not get this over the line? And obviously come June we'll get a better idea about the requesting of an extension of these timelines because that's when they have to Submit the UK and Europe have these discussions about going beyond into 21 But that does remove a kind of tail risk if you like there was a still chance of a no-deal Brexit on the table, of course So a little bit more favorable terms perhaps for the UK and I know that sounds pretty bizarre given the economic Situation and impending downturn we're about to experience But the removal of that is quite a positive in a sense of the prospects for the pound particularly against the European situation at the moment where they've obviously been struggling, you know I guess one of the difficulties with the Eurozone is that it's a collection of many different countries and all have difference, you know wants and aspirations and fiscal situations for what they want to achieve and we've seen that with this idea about kind of joint bond issuance these Euro bonds Italy France maybe somewhat coordinated by Germany and Netherlands for example very anti that idea and it's this inability to compromise like what we saw last week when they really struggled to Put together a coordinated action or a deal to counteract the virus This is even with us facing a global health pandemic and an economic collapse in you know big countries like Germany They still can't make they still find it particularly difficult. So, you know Does Europe now have the ability to really talk a strong game against the UK when it comes to Brexit? Probably not so all of these things kind of play quite favorably and I do under I do kind of agree here with what Standard Bank are saying and they're saying sterling will strengthen to basically 80. Well, let me I think they've got a chart here So standard bank got a forecast here and we're looking at euro pound here. So euro sterling rather than cable and They say sterling will strengthen to 80 pence per euro a level not reached since 2016 vote to leave the EU and possibly beyond And yeah for the moment. I don't I wouldn't say I Disagree with that kind of overalls directional bias the target. I'll leave to you But yeah, just thought I'd point that out from a currency point of view Calendar, what have we got for today? Well, it is going to be quite an interesting day Actually, there's quite a few things to keep your eye on Quite quiet in terms of scheduled major economic data coming out for this morning You do have the IEA oil market report probably worth keeping on just given The proximity of oil to some key levels But it's this afternoon that I'm particularly interested in and that's because you got US retail sales now One thing I just want to draw your attention to let me just make this bit bigger So retail sales month-to-month in America last time came in at minus zero point five percent the expectation today It's for minus eight percent but check this out the range on the street If you're looking at that distribution Which is always quite critical when you're trying to anticipate the type of impact that data can have on on market prices and the Intra-day environment your your normal distribution if you like you've got a median estimate of minus eight You've got a high of minus zero point nine. You've got a low estimate of minus twenty four percent So there's one bank on the street that's going for minus Twenty-four percent month-to-month US retail sales number I mean definitely it's going to suffer a record drop in March Mandatory kind of closes for businesses nationwide across America in attempt to control the virus There's been mass layoffs that we know of that's going to dent people's confidence You know that's going to be a real lack of people spending in generally so to this is a bit of context This is looking at the month-to-month retail sales performance in America going back to The last 30 years and as you can see here even in the depths of the financial crisis the number You know seeing numbers of minus four minus five percent Was about as bad as it got today We could see something in double digits if not even you know up to the 24 percent number Just to give you a bit of a flavor the French retail sales number For the the March from February period was minus 24 percent as well So this is going to be a pretty scary reading at the moment and of course this comes after I saw some charts yesterday The general median consensus for the jobless claims not today But tomorrow is to be at see another five point five million that's going to take Basically the cumulative level to what would be the same of literally What was the stat that I saw the push would take the four week total to 22 or above 22 million over a one month period That's roughly one in eight of the entire workforce of the United States of America So, you know so key of course, I mean consumer spending Accounts for more than two-thirds of us economic activity So again how severe this number that comes out retail sales sales sales is going to be later It's going to be you know, particularly Important for kind of just a general sentiment to how the day probably plays out You've also got industrial production cap utilization from the US and a HB housing market index got Bank of Canada rate decision not expecting any rates here They're at the lower bound But obviously any accompanying commentary to keep an eye on and then you've got the crude oil infantry numbers coming later on this this afternoon Earnings wise as I said more banks to come city GS probably the main ones to look out for On that point here are the kind of timings so in kind of chronological order talking about UK time You've got Bank of America. Well, you've got United Health coming up just ahead of 11 a.m. Bank of America 1145 U.S. Bank Corp same time GS at 12 25 city group last at one I will share these Kind of endless estimates with you guys a bit later on, but that is it any questions at all. Just let me know Hopefully that was useful As I said, please like and subscribe to the channel if you don't already do so I do know there's a portion of people that watch the answer scribe So I really appreciate it if you help support the channel Had some great comments last week as well about people in in Zurich in Australia in Malaysia All over the world that watch this it's quite amazing to think that I'm actually sat here Obviously in my spare room at the moment But it's definitely nice to know that there's people all over the world watching and as I said There's any questions any help that I can give you on the fundamental side of things and just let me know All right guys. Have a good day and take care


At 13 and 6, with three weeks left in the regular season, Aiken Girls Basketball is happy with its progress so far and confident looking forward. For more on what has made the goblers click this season, here's Clayton Castle. Don't look now, but the girls basketball team representing the Aiken High School goblers are coming down the final stretch of the season with an impressive 13 and 6 record thanks to two separate winning streaks of 7 and 5 games. We're feeling pretty confident, actually. We've been doing a great, great this season, kind of have our ups and downs in between our little streaks that we have. A few of those six losses were close losses and the team uses those games to learn and grow before the next game. Every loss that we've had has been a hard fought game, good competition and hopefully it's building towards more victories down the road. Last night's 69-33 win over Mora marked the seventh time this season that the goblers held opponents to less than 35 points. That's a testament to the strong focus the team puts on defense. We have super tenacious defense. We work on our defense probably every practice. Do this shell drill where we do five on five and just work about our help side defense. On any given night, any of the girls can contribute and become a leading scorer. This season alone five different girls have had the highest score title in a game. On our team, there's not just one designated shooter. We have a lot of people who can score and drive and just take it to the rim. We make a good play and so it makes it hard for other teams to guard us. But as the players and coaches say, it's all about team chemistry and improving both on and off the court. I think our team chemistry is a strength. Coach always talks to us about being a family and families have their ups and downs and we always seem to work through our problems on and off the court. The goblers next take on Moose Lake Willow River next Monday night on the road. Reporting in Aiken Clayton Castle, Lakeland News. Thanks Clayton. As he said, a little time off for the goblers. We'll be back at it on Monday against Moose Lake Willow River. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.


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Ah, like thieves do. Oh, God.  I'm doomed. Oh, this is neat. That's neat. That's pretty neat. Alright, Persona. You'd like to show off. And I appreciate that. Something tells me you're used to things that suck. Ha! Sorry. Oh, no. It sends fortress. Okay. Alright. Alright. Okay. That's a little rough. Losers. Panther's not even in here because she's dead. In fact, Morgana, there is a way to tell them apart. By the magic of the L1 button. It's that guy. Run, run, run, run, run, run. Oh, I'm spotted.  Luckily, shadows don't know how to use doors. The majestic tower penetrating the sky represents the admirable King Kamoshi's most sacred palace. It is nowhere for children like yourselves. Prepare for your punishment. What kind of selfish reasoning is that? The only one who needs to be punished is... Oh! No! Torn King of Desire. What? Shoot the dick! Ha ha.   Ah, it's resisted to curse. No!  Oh my God. That was a stiff fight. I'm so dumb. You and me both on. Oh, is this it? Oh, this is it. I think I want to go home first. We still got plenty of time. Plenty of time. The school store is always out of yaki... yah... soup. Let's go hang out with Ryuji. Not... not... not... Jim Frank! I'm glad you are here with me. Thanks, man. You're welcome. Yeah! Either way, I won't ask you to work for free. If you agree to help me, then... Oh, job? I'll teach you how to make the perfect cup of coffee. Oh, perfect. You kids are lucky to receive... eh... la la la... the kamosiga. Kamosiga. He's so great.  And to ignore, to understand, the kamosiga is a two-spag-sex little pet. Wow, you must be really smart to be able to answer a question like that. Okay, they're just patronizing me now. It's like the game devs are going very good. Doctor, please. I have a fever. I'm going to have to lay on your lap. That medicine, huh? Oh, what if I work for it? What, like a part-time help? Do you consider yourself someone with a good amount of stamina? I have conflicting feelings about where I hope, but obviously don't think this is actually going. I admit, I've been looking for a young person around your age to help me out. Are you up for it? Uh... What would I be doing? Do you want to do it or not? Oh, God. Don't mess with me with that phrasing. Okay, then. You'll be participating in clinical trials for my medicine. Damn it. Well, go on.  Uh, well, bottoms up. I can't believe you actually drank it. You just told me to drink it.  Freedom. Hey, Nanako. Everyone's the killer. He's in the bath house. We'll improve your charm. Charisma up the wazoo. Seems like you've really refreshed yourself. I think you're even more handsome now. Thanks. Oh, no. Oh, you look so scared. Like the word literally, the real meaning is When people say something is kaka-flaka-flame, I usually mean the culprit did it knowing it was wrong. Akuna Matata. When someone takes the action believing that it's right. Kaka-kara cake was originally a term that referred to a crime driven by moral or political conviction. And now I know the meaning of Constantinople. Oh, then, since you're going to be working in my store, I'll need to hammer home the basics. You know what I'm talking about, right? Hitting on girls. Can you tell me the key to that wonderful flavor, So-Chan? I'd love to make it home someday. Haha. Sorry. That's a trade secret.  I feel like my kindness has improved. Yes. Yes! Growing as a human being. Can we go to the palace today? I really want to make lockpicks. All right, fine. You know, if you wanted to take me somewhere, I'll go with you. It's no fun going home when only my annoying mom and dad are there. Did this persona just ask to come home with me? I have conflicting feelings about this. Ouch. Okay.  All right, this is it. Finally, after so many days of taking breaks and stuff.  And here I was thinking that this would be the boss fight. I prepared... I even... I wasted that medicine, Ryuji. Wait, I want to make lockpicks. I want to go to my room to make lockpicks. Why?  Ugh. Guess I'll start by showering every day. Have you not? Why? Why? I could just date my succubus persona. Ah, because it's a representation of his position and power. Or something like that. All you do is bark orders. More like meow orders. Am I right? Sorry, Ryuji. Crapow!  OHHHHHH! Final blow! On go! The flavor profile is bland. You should practice more to bring out the roast's full potential. I don't know what any of those words mean. I'll leave it to your discretion as well, Lady On. All right, Morgana. Make sure your fedora is not on too tight. Ohhhh, foreshadowing. Munehiwa le... Dave, yes? There are some matters we'd like to discuss with you today. I won't let you get away with that easily. Show us what's in the bag. I don't feel like it. Uh, safe ship home, kid. I like this guy. Come on, let's open it up. No, no, don't! Oh, is that a real gun? Yep. He's had a great idea. We should totally buy this gun from him later. Uh... What? What? No! I don't want to carry a real gun around! Quick! Scarf down all the food that you can! Eat! Eat your fools!  What? You could make a game out of that. Okay, that's a good pun. Well, should we decide on a name for our group? Your team name may be seen by others when using network services. You'd be cautious not to enter any personal information. For the more, please do not enter a name that could be considered offensive. So this will be our team name. It's got to be something memorable. Something we'll be proud of. Whatever I choose, everyone's going to know us by that from now on. That's why I choose... The Butt Plug Club. Oh, that was the longest tutorial ever! Now I can start playing the game. No, and those of you who stuck around to watch these, thank you so much. I'm very grateful. This series was a lot of fun to make. And as a way of saying thanks, here's one last surprise.


Mitchell Moss, men's wear musings. Good to see you, looking great as always. Appreciate it, thank you likewise. Now one question for you, what is the most important rule of men's style? Most important rule of men's style, I would say, is fit, but that's closely tied to silhouette because it's a well-fitting jacket, a well-fitting pair of pants. If you're going for a slim or even a traditional fit, you don't want it to be too baggy. But sometimes you want a little more drape in the chest or something like that. But a jacket that's too big is still too big. So fit is key within the confines of the silhouette that you're trying to go for. Great, thank you.


My name is Fanos McConan. I'm from the IPMS Project working on the Ethiopian Agriculture Portal. So the Ethiopian Agriculture Portal is a web-based gateway to agricultural information that is relevant to Ethiopian agriculture. It's developed to make access to agricultural information, including research outputs, good practices, best technologies, and others easily accessible to relevant audiences. And the target audiences of this portal are anyone who is interested and anyone who is in need of agricultural information, including experts, students, policymakers, researchers, people from NGOs, donors, and the private sectors. The resources that are available on this portal include various information from national and international sources that focus on Ethiopian agriculture, links to websites and information on research projects and development partners, and also other documents that have limited access or limited circulation. For example, those documents which are only available on hard copies are scanned and uploaded on the portal. And this portal is hosted at the Ministry of Agriculture. It's operated and maintained by the ICT Department of the Ministry, and it's designed in such a way that it can be easily maintained by staff of the Ministry of Agriculture.


I'm grateful to be here. When I first found out I would have the opportunity to speak to you today, I felt very excited, but at the same time, very humbled. I spent a lot of time thinking about what I could share, and I hope the Spirit speaks to you directly through my message. In the Book of Mormon, Lehi gives a blessing to each of his sons before he passes away that helps them to see their strengths and internal potential. I am the youngest of eight children, and this past year, I've been the only child at home for the first time. Not having my siblings close by or always having someone to talk to has been hard for me. There have been nights when I felt very lonely. I'm grateful for my parents who have tried their best to help me. An example of this is when my dad offered to give me a priesthood blessing of comfort during particularly challenging time. After his blessing, things didn't change right away, but I was able to feel peace and love from my family father and from my dad. I feel blessed to have a worthy father who can provide priesthood blessings whenever I need them and who helps me to see my strengths and internal potential just as Lehi did when he blessed his children. Regardless of your circumstances, you can always have access to priesthood blessings through family members, friends, ministering brothers, priesthood leaders, and a heavenly father that will never fail you. You can receive the blessings of the priesthood. Elder Neal L. Anderson said, the blessings of the priesthood are infinitely greater than the one who's asked to administer the gift. As we are worthy, the ordinance of the priesthood enrich our lives. Don't hesitate to ask for a blessing when you need extra guidance. It is in our difficult moments that we need the spirit to help us the most. No one is perfect, and we all experience hardships. Some of us might suffer with anxiety, depression, addiction, or it's feelings that we are not enough. Priesthood blessings can help us overcome these challenges and receive peace as we move forward into the future. I hope that we strive to live worthy of receiving these blessings. Another way the priesthood blesses us is through patriarchal blessings. I have learned to turn to my patriarchal blessing whenever I feel sad or lonely. My blessing helps me to see my potential and the specific plan God has for me. It comforts me and helps me to see beyond my earthly perspective. It reminds me of my gifts and of the blessings I will receive if I live worthy. It also helps me to remember and feel at peace that God will provide answers and open doors for me at exactly the right moment when I need it most. Patriarchal blessings help us to return to live with our Heavenly Father. I know patriarchal blessings come from God and can help us turn our weaknesses into strengths. It isn't a message from a fortune teller. These blessings tell us what we need to hear. They're like a lia hona for each one of us. When we put God first and have faith in him, he will lead us through our own wilderness. Just like God blessed Joseph Smith with the priesthood so that the blessings of the gospel could be restored, we can receive the blessings of the gospel in our lives through the priesthood. Each week, we are given the privilege and opportunity of taking the sacrament. Through this priesthood ordinance, we have the spirit to always be with us, which can cleanse and purify us. If we feel the need to eliminate something from our lives, reach out to a trusted leader who can help you get on the right path. Your leaders can help you to access the full power of the tomet of Jesus Christ. Thanks to the priesthood, we can also receive the blessings of the ordinance of the temple. Ever since I've been able to enter the temple, I've made it a goal and priority to attend regularly. By taking the time and making the sacrifices necessary to be closer to my Heavenly Father in His holy house, I've been blessed with receiving revelation and promptings that have really helped me throughout my life. Through the priesthood, we can be lifted. The priesthood brings light into our world, while the Robert D. Hells said, without the power of the priesthood, the whole earth would be utterly wasted. There'd be no light, no hope, only darkness. God is cheering for us. He wants us to return to Him. He knows us personally. He knows you. He loves us. He's always aware of us and blesses us even when we feel we don't deserve it. He knows what we need and when we need it. Ask and it shall be given you. Seek and ye shall find. Knock and it shall be open unto you. For everyone that asketh, receiveeth, and he that seeketh, findeth, and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened. If you don't already have a testimony about the priesthood, I encourage you to pray and to know for yourself of its power. Then read the scriptures to hear God's words. I know that if we make an effort to experience the power of God's priesthood in our lives, we will be blessed. In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.


Hey there, Psych2GoFam! Before we begin, we want to thank you for your support on our channel. Our aim is to make psychology and mental health information engaging and accessible to you, and we hope you learn new things from our content. So thanks again, let's begin. Attractiveness is defined as certain qualities or features that make a person more desirable and alluring to others. It can significantly influence people's attitudes, and it's one of the most common reasons people become interested in psychology. What is it exactly that makes someone so attractive? Which of these traits do we look for in a friend or partner? According to psychology, here are eight of the most common things that make a person attractive. Studies have shown that confidence is the most attractive quality a person can have. When someone is confident, you're less likely to second-guess yourself, and you know and believe in your value. People notice when someone is confident in who they are and what they believe in, and although it's common to imagine someone who is confident as outgoing and charismatic, confidence can also be quiet. Knowing your worth, believing in your strengths, and taking pride in who you are is what makes you confident, regardless of if you're outgoing or not. Availability is an important factor in how much we find someone attractive. Despite the common belief that we need to act distant, or aloof to make people we like interested in us, the opposite is actually true. When we're developing new relationships, it's important to find someone who can physically and emotionally be there for us. And the more responsive, attentive, and reliable someone is, the more we will come to value our relationship with them. 3. Uniqueness Although there are 7 billion people in the world, each of us is unique in our own ways. No one looks, talks, acts, thinks, or feels in exactly the same way, and that's what makes us so amazing. But some people prefer to hide their uniqueness to fit in. When we learn to embrace what makes us special, whether it's our looks, experiences, ideas, or little quirks, we open ourselves up to the possibility of meeting new, engaging, and like-minded people. 4. Kindness Kindness is a quality that lots of people want in a friend or romantic partner. In a study done by Baskerville and colleagues in the year 2000, they found that people tend to like people who showed more kindness, sympathy, and compassion than those who showed lesser levels of kindness. At the end of the day, we all want to be with someone who treats us as well as we would like to be treated. 5. Intelligence Intelligence is attractive because it often leads to stimulating conversations, deep insights, and a new way to look at the world. A recent study in 2018 by psychologists Gignac and others found that for most participants, there is a particular IQ score that maximizes an individual's attractiveness, but any higher would make them seem less desirable. In other words, people are attracted to those they perceive as more intelligent than them, but not so much that they become too intimidating or out of reach to talk to. 6. Passion Next is passion, the enthusiasm and desire to achieve a certain goal. People who are passionate tend to be driven, determined, and self-motivated, but more importantly, they have things that matter a lot to them and that they care about significantly. They have an interest in big dreams that appeal to the optimist in all of us, which can inspire us to push ourselves to be better as well. 7. A sense of humor Research has shown that we tend to be more attracted to the people who make us laugh, possibly because it shows cleverness, wit, and creativity. So, it should come as no surprise that having a good sense of humor ranks high on the list of characters people look for in an ideal friend or partner. In heterosexual relationships, women in particular gravitate towards men they find funny, while men favor women who are playful and good-humored. 8. Their demeanor Last but not least is our demeanor. While it's no secret that a person's looks have a lot to do with how attractive we find them, there's a lot more to it than someone's physical traits. Psychologists have found that it takes us only 30 seconds to decide whether we find someone attractive and our demeanor can make or break someone's impression of us. The way we dress, act, and carry ourselves also plays a part in how people perceive us. When meeting new people, it can be helpful to take note of these things as they can make a world of a difference. While it's common for us to base attractiveness off a person's physical traits, attractiveness can actually be more complex than that. And though we all have different ideas of what makes someone more or less attractive, these are some of the most common and widely agreed upon traits. So, do you agree with the things we've mentioned in this video? Do you also find these traits and qualities attractive? Leave us a comment down below. If you enjoyed this video, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel. For similar topics, you can watch more in our videos, seven psychological things that can make us less attractive.


So yesterday, midday UK time-ish, New World or Amazon, disabled all forms of transferring. Basically, you couldn't trade with anybody. You couldn't buy or sell anything at the trade and outpost. You couldn't withdraw or put into the treasuries. Basically, all forms of trading had been disabled due to an actual broken duplication glitch on exploit. An exploit that was believed to have been a game for many, many weeks and a lot of people have taken advantage of it. Well, today, guys, Amazon games are holding down time to re-enable all forms of wealth transfers, including player-to-player trading. Today, we get into it all. How's it going, guys? My name is DPJ and if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps out and if you'd like to see more, be sure to subscribe. So, yes, like I said yesterday, all forms of wealth trading had been disabled by Amazon due to an exploit which allowed people to duplicate items, mainly gold. And like I said, this is an exploit believed to be in the game for quite a long while now, but a lot of people have been sweeping it under the rug, trying to hide it. But it got out. Amazon found out about it, which is actually an exploit that happened within the base of the game, which they fixed for the release of the game, which supposedly was reintroduced with a patch. So, yes, disabling all forms of wealth transfer, so they could work on a fix is what they did. And that have just released a statement stating the following. Greetings adventurers. We'll be holding down time tonight to re-enable all forms of wealth transfers, including player-to-player trading and a trading pulse across all regions. Due to the importance of wealth transfers and their impact on the experience in game, we wanted to prototype re-enabling these mechanics as soon as possible. In our notice addressing disabling wealth transfers, we mentioned a make good to ensure that there was no lasting impact due to this change. This make good will culminate future updates, so please stay tuned. Down time is slated to last approximately 3 hours. 180 minutes. Please take a look at the table below for the down time. You can see that on screen now.  But people across the world, this will impact more. But I'm just glad they've got this thing sorted. Hopefully, this exploit has been taken out of the game because it was a major one. And from what I read, like I said, this exploit had been pushed or swept under the rug for quite a while now and many, many people abuse this. To a point I have a look at this image I found on screen now. This is someone's inventory. That's how bad things got. I mean, yes, check this out. I know Amazon did say they were going to punish players who use this exploit, but as I mentioned when I covered this news in a video yesterday, I don't know how they're going to do that because how is said person going to know that the person they're trading with, the person they're receiving gold off, is juiced gold. If they're buying something that has been crafted or created using juiced items or gold from a trading post, how does said person buying that thing from that trading post know that the item that they're buying is the result of someone using an exploit? And how will Amazon even punish said player? Will they punish said player? Will they remove said item someone's brought? I mean, it just doesn't make sense to me. I believe what they said with this punishment was just to scare people into not using the exploits. I mean, the major culprits who exploited this will probably get banned, but I'm saying the people down below the smaller folks who didn't even have a clue that an exploit was going down who somehow might have benefitted from this. I believe you ain't even going to get a slap on the wrist. I believe you're just going to be good to go. But we will see, we will see people. So yes, the latest news surrounding New World. So yes, they are re-enabling wealth transfers.  But guys, if you enjoyed the video, leaving a like really helps. And if you want to step to date with all things New World, be sure to subscribe. And hopefully, guys, I will see you on that next one.


why the Narcissist has to hurt you. There is something within the Narcissist that hurts so much that they have to hurt you. They may have developed a false self which is meant to be powerful and attractive, worthy of admiration and praise, but their true inner self, which they have disowned, is constantly coming to the surface and reminding them of their true feelings of them not being enough. The Narcissist has a very weak ego which has been overtaken by their super ego. This sadistic super ego is constantly judging them, making negative evaluations and criticisms. These cruel repeated comments echo throughout the Narcissist's mind, criticising them for failing to achieve unattainable ideals and goals. So while the Narcissist has created a false self that is meant to have an exaggerated sense of abilities and importance, the Narcissist's super ego is constantly reminding them and criticising them for failing to achieve these unattainable ideals and goals. This is what creates the Narcissist's obsessive need for Narcissist supply. They expect and may even demand for you to validate their false self and their illusions. Often to a unrealistic or impossible standard, they have to feel as though they are entitled over everyone else. They have to feel as though they are significant, important, powerful, attractive, worthy of admiration and praise. They expect you to always be focusing on them and fulfilling their needs, often to a point where you will begin to neglect your own needs. You may end up giving up your energy and resources, which are meant to replenish you. To them, this can drain you to the point where you have difficulty performing. You have difficulty accomplishing or fulfilling an action, task or function for the Narcissist. The Narcissist cannot acknowledge or consider that they have drained you of your energy and resources and that is why you have difficulty performing. That would suggest that there is a fault or deficiency within them. Without constant attention and having their needs fulfilled, they don't feel significant, important, powerful or attractive. They begin to feel worthless and insignificant. They cannot acknowledge or accept these internal negative evaluations and criticisms. That is too painful for them to deal with. Instead, they have developed a coping mechanism or a defence mechanism against these feelings of worthlessness and insignificance, where they will project them outwards onto you. Now you are the one who is worthless.    In the narcissist mind, you have attacked them. They don't take responsibility for their emotional wounds. They don't respond to the best of their ability to deal with them. Instead, they shift the blame onto you and assume that you are responsible for how they feel regardless of whether you have done anything to them or not.  You are a tool which they use to self-medicate to save them from their inner destruction. If you cannot do this, then the narcissist inner wounds are your fault. You deserve to be punished and the narcissist will express their full anger and frustration of the trauma that they are currently experiencing. Sharing their anger and frustration with you does provide them with some temporary relief. It regulates their emotions and boosts their self-esteem but nothing is ever resolved internally which is why they endlessly experience the same trauma and behaviour. It is also an attempt for them to train you to do something in a controlled and habitual way that serves them. It's where they are trying to groom you. They will train you for a particular purpose or activity which will benefit or favour them. Punishing you also makes them feel as though they are something significant or important to you. It makes them feel powerful and superior. When they see you expressing feelings of pain and distress it regulates their emotions and makes them feel above you. In their minds, if you are experiencing those emotions that means that you are the one with the problem. You are the inadequate one. The narcissist targeted you because they believed that you were a great narcissistic supply.  They felt convinced that you were going to save them that you were going to give them the self-medication that they need. They created this fantasy world and idealised you. Once they witnessed a flaw or imperfection a fault or mistake the fantasy begins to wear off. A normal healthy relationship is one where two people should co-operate and work together. But the narcissist expects you to serve them and fulfil their needs without any reciprocation. Once the narcissist realises that you cannot meet their impossible expectations they begin hating you for not being the self-medication object that they expected you to be. They allocated this duty or purpose for you. They expected you to withstand the wear, pressure or damage. And when time revealed that you were not the long-lasting indestructible self-medication object that they expected you to be they begin to hate and resent you. They begin to feel bitterness and may even hold a grudge against you because in their minds you were meant to save them from themselves. You were meant to save them from their own inner destruction. Of course this is impossible for anyone to do. We have to take responsibility for our own emotional wounds if we wish to heal them.   Someone who is going to be more susceptible to their manipulation to do the same thing all over again. They never loved you. They never cared about you and that's why it was so easy for them to move on because all they ever cared about was narcissistic supply. Thank you for watching and I'll talk to you soon.