Well, hello there. I'm Sandy Allnacht. Long live snail mail. I am going to be doing some distress in watercolor today Today I'm introducing Concord & 9th and Evelyn T because I wanted to use both of their stamp sets on my card I've got all these great mailboxes and I wanted to make it interactive and make the mailbox open I want to add a post to it and then add flowers down beneath it And that's where Evelyn T is going to come in because I'm going to add those to make a garden where the mailbox is going to be sitting And I'm going to be using some techniques you've seen with other stamp lines here on my channel So I will get to that as we go and I'm putting some ink onto the The background stamp so there's two pieces of this mailbox and you can treat them in different ways But I'm treating that one as the the inside of the mailbox and then I'm going to Stamp on a different piece to create the door that opens. There's going to be a little snail inside little guy and I'm stamping the other portions of it separately the flag and the face of it to create the The kind of pole that this is sitting on I'm using these little lines I'm not sure what the lines are for But I'm mask. I'm asked off one side of it the right hand side and then line the left side of those stripes on the left side of where the pole would be and I'm using distress inks so I can just add water to it and it's going to soften the ink Now distress ink is not watercolor just so you know that so I'm not going to get the same kinds of textures and things that I'm going to get if I use regular watercolor And I'm not going to get the same movement that I get with regular watercolor and There's a whole lot of different reasons why you might want to use one or the other and for this I just thought it would be fun to try it and play around with these colors and See what I could create out of using just distress inks instead of watercolors You could also just use your watercolor or your your distress inks to stamp with and use watercolor to do the painting portion But this technique you may have seen me do quite a bit with the art impressions stamps because art impressions Does a lot with they have little flowers and things and you stamp them with water-based inks and Water-based markers and then you can turn them into watercolor in this same kind of a way So I'm going to get the inside of this mailbox all Painted up and I'm doing that by just using the distress ink on a quote-unquote palette I'm just putting some onto the block you can put it on to anything Plasticy that you want so that you have a full puddle of ink that you can pick up with the brush I'm going to add some flowers here, and I masked off the Pose by just using a little sticky note nothing fancy at all and then I'll add some flowers now With this technique that I've shown in if you're interested in more of this go look for my art impressions watercolor Playlist because I do this a ton in those these are just larger flowers art impressions has little tiny ones So these are big ones, but then the principle is very much the same if you like that kind of a technique Then you're just going to apply it in a sort of bigger way here on a card like this And you can just paint in the little flowers and put water just in the blossoms or you can just take your brush and really make big swooshy moves and create more of fuzzy flowers in the distance so you get some depth in your flower arrangement here underneath of your mailbox by Putting down the first layer and letting it be soft and washing and then stamp over top of it And if you stamp over top while it's wet, you'll end up with softer edges and Here I'm painting over top of it with more distressing While it's wet and I'm getting really soft edges on these flowers as the paper dries I can get harder edges and sharper lines So it really depends on what kind of line you're looking for at what point and I love mixing all of it Mixing all the different types of techniques together when making a little garden like this Because if you look at a garden, not every flower is going to be in focus to your eye You're going to be looking at the ones that are most likely right in front and those are going to have the Sharpest edges the ones in the distance in the background If you think about your your phone if you have an iPhone There's a portrait mode and the portrait mode fuzz is out everything in the distance and that's basically what this is doing So I'm stamping while this area is still wet and I get really soft stamp lines and As it starts to dry Watch how some portions of it are going to have harder edges and the ink is going to get darker To stamp around that post I can again use a sticky note Just put it right there along the edge so that I can create a dark edge with some of these really detailed little Flowers that stops right at the edge of The post and it starts to make it look like those are behind the post We can make some flowers then cascade in front of it. There's innumerable ways you can do this I'm keeping all my flowers kind of in the lower right hand section of the card just To not make it such a cacophony. I tried this one earlier. I was practicing with it And I just had too many flowers. I needed some white space for the eye to rest So when I finally started doing this one I made sure I left that upper left section at the top and really just light and bright and put more of the rich color down here at the bottom and You can see I've got darker colors So these are starting to pull forward and the colors that I had painted earlier that were really soft recede to the background and you can end up building up a beautiful garden this way And I decided I wanted a little bit of that Reddish color and not a ton of it because I was trying to keep most of my colors that I pulled out in that really soft cool blues, cool purples, cool greens Kind of a look with just that little pop of Something hot right in the middle of it to pull attention to the flag and then to the little little guy inside the mailbox So now I've got a scrap and I am stamping what I see is the front of the mailbox And I put a couple different colors on it You can just tap on different colors onto the stamp and when you start watercoloring then you end up with a little bit of Both colors in there. It'll make it look like it's a little rustier a little older and again, you can paint around all those little letters so that the letters are mainly white and then use some Some more ink on your quote-unquote palette on your block To start painting in more color so you can have something a little bit richer You can decide how much you want intensity or do you want to leave it just sort of a grayish Type of a box now. I'm gonna be making this mailbox Look like it opens. So I'm gonna be trimming it out. So I realized I didn't have to stay in the lines I could have just Slopped it around and that sort of thing. So I'm gonna just do a real quick trim around it It's a really easy shape to do some hand trimming little detail scissors love these little guys and Then I could just put some adhesive on the bottom. I'm using just some Some B creative tape I did do a little extra painting on the inside that did not get captured there on the inside of the The mailbox because I wanted a more intense blue so Now we've got that ready to roll and I'm gonna Add this on now. I put it onto the card base Adding my sentiment to it. I decided to do two colors So I have one stamping that I did with the lighter color and then add a little extra ink to stamp these snail mail And having the misty in there really helped to line that up so now I've got my Little card that opens up and the snail says hello inside Very sweet little type of interactive card with just one little bit of motion All the supplies are listed in the WD down below if you liked this video Click the like button hop over to the blog if you want to pin something and I will see you guys in the next video Thanks. Bye. Bye


Today we're taking another look at the history of Voltron with the Voltron Force pilots and this time we're talking about Hunk This is the story of the super force of space explorers Specially trained and sent by the Alliance to bring back Defender of the universe Hey guys, welcome back to Comic-Con TV where all geek culture collides and if you're new to the channel Don't forget to hit that subscribe button so you don't miss out on future videos today We're taking another look at the history of Voltron with the origin and history of the Voltron Force pilot known as Hunk For the purpose of this video We're going to focus on the history of the pilot of the yellow line in Voltron defender of the universe Voltron the third dimension Voltron Force and Voltron legendary defender as well as comics devils do Publishing revealed Hunk's full name as Tiyoshi Garrett and is based on Sadao Tiyoshi from Beast King go line Hunk is the muscle of the team and oftentimes an Advocate for bringing the war to planet doom unlike Pidge Hunk doesn't have the same uniform color as his lion Hunk pilots the yellow line But in Defender of the universe he wears an orange uniform in the Nicktoons Voltron Force animated series Hunk is the tech sergeant in galaxy garrison and his volt com weapon is the claw hammer He now wears a yellow uniform in this series Which matches his lion's color in the legendary defender series Hunk is the friendliest and kindest of the team and often the voice of restraint and caution Which is the complete opposite of his characteristic in Defender of the universe It's also revealed that hunk is quite the chef in the series legendary defender also reveals He has a fear of heights that he had to overcome when he became the pilot of the yellow line throughout this series He is considered the team engineer and heavy ordinance specialist the paladin's handbook Official guidebook of the series reveals that hunk is 17 and of Samoan nationality when he gets stressed He bakes to help clear his mind also revealed in the handbook is that he was born on January 13th in Beast King go line the pilot of the yellow line is Shiochi Sato and his nicknamed hothead Shiochi is the strong man of the group. He pilots the yellow line and wears an orange uniform He is roughly 22 to 24 years old He may look tough and mean but he has a soft heart especially when it comes to children He is never late for a meal though his friends tease him about his appetite. Shiochi is very muscular Sado is a Japanese word for copper voiced by Lenny wine rib in the 80s series Kevin Michael Richardson in the 90s series and Tai Olson in the 2011 series Hunk is a strong man of the group piloting the yellow line that forms Voltron's left leg He is shown wearing an orange uniform in the original series and a metallic yellow uniform in Voltron the third dimension in the Devil's do comics series He is a Japanese-American man named Shiochi hunk Garrett with a masters in engineering the comic book version of hunk depicts him as 24 and born to an American father and Japanese mother his nickname hunk comes from his four brothers of whom He's ironically the smallest despite his own great size While his brothers saw activities take advantage of their physical prowess such as football and sumo hunk found a knack for all Things mechanical he was not very social and would spend most of his time tinkering in garage workshops later He put himself through college on the GI Bill and after gaining a masters in engineering He discovered the equipment that fascinated him most was military in nature However, he remained rather anti social establishing himself as someone who it was Unwise to harass until he was approached by Colonel Hawkes to join a team of Outcasts to search for the legendary robot Voltron on the distant planet of Eris in the Voltron Force Animated series hunk helps the young cadets build their own version of Voltron out of scraps found in the junkyard And they name it awesome Tron It's also revealed in Voltron Defender of the universe that hunk is good friends with Rocky who pilots the v-15 of the air team of Vehicle Voltron and the two were sparring partners while attending the Academy together though in later Voltron series Hunk and Pige are considered close friends in the original Voltron defender of the universe They're pretty much considered best friends with that same dynamic slightly carrying over to legendary defender in which hunk Pige and Lance were all three a close knit group the three character dynamic is also seen in Voltron Force where they're all three instructors at the Academy during the first couple episodes of the series But not quite as close that's it for this episode of Voltron Origins guys As we took an in-depth look at the character of hunk from each incarnation of Voltron and Beast King goal line I hope you enjoyed and if you liked this video, make sure you give it a thumbs up Leave a comment below and if you feel so inclined be sure to subscribe for more Voltron Origins as well as all things geek culture I'm Shannon for Comic NTV. Take care Once more This is the story of the super force of space explorers Especially trained and sent by the Alliance to bring back Voltron defender of the universe


gender business. The next item of business today is a statement by Derek Mackay on provisional outturn 2017-18. The cabinet secretary will take questions after his statements, so for those members who wish to ask a question, I encourage you to press your request to speak button as soon as possible, and I call on the cabinet secretary. I welcome the opportunity to update the Parliament on the provisional budget outturn for the 2017-18 financial year. The provisional figures that I'm announcing today are set against a backdrop of unprecedented change in Scotland's fiscal landscape. Scotland Acts in the Frisco framework have fundamentally changed the sources of funding that underpin our spending and introduced significant new devolved financial powers. One example of those changes in the new Scotland reserve arrangements brought in by the Scotland Act 2016, which is to replace the previous budget exchange mechanism and cash reserve facilities. The new reserve supports the Scottish Government in smoothing all types of spending across financial years, assisting with the management of tax volatility and determining the timing of expenditure. The Scotland Act 2016 also increased our borrowing limits to £450 million a year and have made full use of the facility in 2017-18. Looking forward, the Scottish Government's first medium-term financial strategy was published on 31 May. The MTFS explains the fiscal framework in the funding arrangements that the Scottish Government now operates within, outlines our approach to financial management and fiscal rules, sets out a range of possible funding scenarios for the Scottish budget over the next five years, and details our key policy priorities and approach to supporting Scotland's economy. The medium-term financial strategy does not provide detailed budget allocations at this stage, and that will form part of the annual budget process. However, I have set out in the strategy a responsible approach to financial planning and fiscal rules that will allow us to invest in the economy and protect essential public services. Alongside the MTFS publication, the Scottish Fiscal Commission published an updated set of economic and fiscal forecasts that were used to underpin the modelling in the MTFS. Those forecasts show little change from those published by the SFC in February 2018 and are part of the budget bill process. However, they show a downgrading of their income tax forecasts across the period that the MTFS covers. The new national performance framework has been launched, setting out our vision for a more successful and inclusive Scotland. The framework was developed following consultation with the public, trade unions, business organisations, local government and civic and volokary sector organisations, which include 11 key outcomes that we want to achieve for Scotland. I will now turn to the 2017-18 provisional outturn. Under the current devolution settlement, the Scottish Parliament is not permitted to overspend its budget. As a consequence, we have consistently adopted a position of controlling public expenditure to ensure that we live within the budget control limits that apply. I can report that the provisional expenditure outturn for 2017-18 is £30.9 billion against a fiscal budget of £31.4 billion, resulting in an overall cash variance of £453 million. Of that variance, £358 million relates to the fiscal resource expenditure and £84 million to fiscal capital. The remaining £11 million relates to financial transactions funding, which has ring-fence to meet the costs of loans or equity investment to private entities outside the public sector. I have already notified Parliament of my plans to generate underspends of £235 million to carry forward to 2018-19 as part of the budget that was approved by Parliament earlier this year. The total variance also includes £100 million, allocated to the Scottish Government by HM Treasury, one year earlier than expected. That relates to the new social security agency's set-up costs and is carried forward to 2018-19 in full through the Scotland Reserve. Taken together, those items, which were already committed in 2018-19 spending plans, account for £335 million of the overall £453 million cash variance. According to devolved taxes and plays to inform Parliament that, for the second year running, income has increased. Total provisional income from land and boundary transaction tax and Scottish landfill tax is £706 million, £50 million above the initial budget forecast and an increase of £73 million or 12 per cent year-on-year. The £50 million surplus income from devolved taxes again forms part of the overall £453 million variance and will be added to and set aside in the Scotland Reserve. I am also taking a prudent approach to ensuring that when the Government provides guarantees that annual fees are set aside in the Scotland Reserve as a contingency measure against calls being made on them. In 2017-18, the total was £2 million. After taking into account the social security funding, the plans carry forward for the 2018-19 budget, surplus tax receipts and fees for guarantees. There is then a remaining underspend of £66 million not yet committed to expenditure. That modest sum represents just 0.2 per cent of the overall fiscal budget and will also be carried through the Scotland Reserve and will be available to support management of future budget volatility, a key feature of the new world that we live in and with the devolution of the powers set out in the Scotland Acts. Finally, and in addition to the above, there is a provisional non-cash underspend of £123 million. The non-cash budget is used for technical accounting adjustments such as depreciation and apparements that cannot be used to fund public services. That, of course, represents no loss of spending power to the Government. Moving on now to Scotland's economic outlook, the potential economic impact of Brexit will be a factor both in the tax revenues that are likely to be raised in Scotland and in future spending decisions. Unfertynties surrounding what the final Brexit deal will look like in areas such as future access to EU funding programmes specifically are hampering economic growth and further investment in Scotland. The Scottish Fiscal Commission is clear that Brexit will have a negative impact on the Scottish economy, reducing productivity, trade and migration. According to all independent forecasters, Brexit uncertainty is the key factor affecting economic growth forecasts. The pace of growth over the next five years is expected to be below historic trend, with GDP growth between 0.7 per cent and 1.4 per cent in 2018, although that is expected to increase in 2019. However, Scotland leads the way on many key economic indicators such as the fastest productivity growth in the UK, more informed direct investment in the rest of the UK outside London, growth in research and development spending and growth in international exports. Scotland also has the highest proportion of employees getting paid at least the living wage and outperforms the rest of the UK on female and youth employment. There is also good news regarding future tax revenues, with the Scottish Fiscal Commission forecasting that land and build and transaction tax revenues will be £26 million higher in 2018-19 at £614 million and will increase over the life of the medium-term financial strategy. The Scottish Landfill Tax is forecast to rise next year by £8 million, but will fall over the next five years due to our commitment to move waste from going to landfill to being incinerated. Despite the challenging economic environment, we have infrastructure investment plans for 2018-19 of over £4 billion, supporting 22,000 jobs directly and up to 40,000 in total. An ambitious programme of £20 billion over the lifetime of this Parliament. We will use the funding to invest in key infrastructure projects, such as £1 billion on city region deals across the country, £340 million of initial capitalisation for the Scottish National Investment Bank, bringing superfast broadband to every home and business by 2021 and a 70 per cent increase in research and development investment. The annual Scottish Government consolidated accounts in a statement of total outturn for the financial year 2017-18 against the final budget for the Scottish Administration as a whole will be provided to the Scottish Parliament later this year. All the figures that I am reporting to you today remain provisional as they are subject to change pending completion of the 2017-18 audit. In conclusion, the 2017-18 provisional outturn results show that, once again, this Government has prudently and competently managed Scotland's finances. The prudent management of our 2017 budget and the new financial powers have been delivered against the backdrop of uncertainty around the UK's exit from the EU, and the UK Government's continued austerity measures. I commend those figures to Parliament. I thank the cabinet secretary for advance sight of his statement. Today's statement discloses an overall underspend of £453 million. The finance secretary is anxious to stress what an insignificant sum this is, but it is worth noting that it is higher than the total cost of setting up a new independent state according to his own party's growth commission report. Today, the Office of National Statistics advised that the UK deficit for 2017-18 was just 1.9 per cent of GDP, the lowest level since 2001 to 2002, and testament to the success of the UK Government's fiscal policy, one that has been opposed at every turn by the SNP, who said that it would never work. They have been proved wrong. Moreover, the record at the UK level stands in stark contrast to the situation in Scotland, where the Fiscal Commission has downgraded its forecast of tax revenues by £1.7 billion over the next four years and by nearly £400 million in the current financial year. Unless the situation improves, that will leave a black hole in the current year's budget, which will require to be filled in the financial year 2021-22. In that context, the finance secretary's decision to transfer £66 billion to the Scotland Reserve against that contingency is a prudent one, but comes nowhere near filling the gap forecast by the Fiscal Commission. What additional steps will he take to ensure that his successor in office in three years' time does not have to carry the can for this Government's failings? Does he accept that, if the economy grew at even the same rate as the rest of the United Kingdom, there would be hundreds of millions of pounds extra to spend this year instead of having to divert resources to fill up reserves as he is having to do? I thank Murdo Fraser for his vote of confidence that he will at least get through the next three years and the next three budgets to continue in office. I welcome that vote of confidence, which is about the nicest thing that Murdo Fraser has ever said about me. In relation to the specific questions and all seriousness, we will approach the Fiscal Commission forecast. It will have more data and revisit the forecast as we approach the next big fiscal event, which is the Scottish budget following the UK budget. It is right to be prudent with our resources. It is the right thing to do to invest in our reserves. That said, there are limitations around the use of reserves as well, but I think that considering the volatility that we all now understand and the constraints within the fiscal framework, there is the right thing to do to ensure that we have reserves to draw upon in the event of forecast errors or any negative effects. Of course, Murdo Fraser also touches on efforts to stimulate the economy and my budget for this year, which is what I have tried to do. There is investment in the economy such as the 64 per cent uplift in the economy brief and a range of interactions to try and stimulate economic growth. All forecasts and all economists are pointing to Brexit, and Brexit uncertainty is the main challenge to the UK economy and Scotland's economy as well. Of course, the UK Government could remedy that by giving us greater certainty on the Brexit question, and our respective positions are well rehearsed in that regard. As to what further measures I will take, prudent financial planning, ensuring that we have the necessary resources and considering what other levers we might require in the future, such as the borrowing powers if required if there is such a requirement through the fiscal framework in forecast error. OBR will revisit the forecast, so will SFC, based on the latest data and information, and that should put us in a stronger, more informed position as we approach the next budget. In relation to the overall underspend, in going through the budget process, I was clear on what that underspend would be. There are some matters that came later in the financial year, such as some Barnett consequentials, and then there are other elements of that budget spend that is prudent, such as the request by HM Treasury to take £100 million for social security implementation early in the financial year, but not spend it until it is required, which would not be the last financial year, but that is in future financial years. I have taken on my decisions in a prudent and balanced way, and I will continue to do so. James Kelly is being followed by Patrick Harvie. Thank you, Presiding Officer, and I thank the Cabinet Secretary for Advanced Sight and Sight. The figures that are announced today in the out-turn statement of a £453 million underspend are nothing short of a scandal. The out-turn statement represents a gross mismanagement of the budget by Derek Mackay. Mr Mackay is your job to spend Scotland's budget to support local communities, not to hoard the money in the St Andrew's House bank account. It is totally unacceptable that, while yards from this Parliament, homeless people are sleeping in doorways, nearly £500 million available cash lies dormant in the SNP Government slush hunt fund. I ask the Cabinet Secretary if he will apologise to the 30 local communities that have had their libraries closed this year, to the many patients abandoned on waiting lists, waiting hospital treatment, and to the thousands of local government workers who have lost their jobs. A few key points, but I appreciate James Kelly's attempt to put some colour into the out-turn report. Unfortunately for Mr Kelly, it is true to say that in terms of the underspend, every penny that has been carried forward into the next financial year is not lost to Scotland. That was not the case with previous Labour administrations. I would like to ask the treasurer to hand money back to the treasurer. I am not handing money back to the treasurer. This is prudent management of our finances. I think that the examples that were raised by Mr Kelly were poor choices in terms of homelessness. There is no underspend in homelessness budget in terms of local government. Local government got an enhanced settlement, yes, in part, because of the negotiations that other parties very constructively engaged in, the Greens specifically, so local government got an improved settlement, and the NHS also got an uplift in their settlement, taking it to record amounts. Within all of that, I have been very clear in terms of the managed underspend, but within that as well, I am surprised that even James Kelly did not welcome the fact that we have collected more in tax than we were forecast to do, and what that meant is that we can apply that to the Scotland reserve as well. All of that, of course, represents a very strong budget that I got approval for from the Parliament in sharp contrast to the incaherent incompetent Labour proposition that you could barely call a budget that unraveled before even Mr Kelly got his feet. 11 more questions for this statement. Patrick Harvie to be followed by Willie Rennie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Given the way that the fiscal framework operates and in particular the tax reconciliation process, I think that we need to stop viewing this annual outturn statement as a standalone snapshot of one year in isolation, but it is more about how the picture looks in the context of the years ahead. Given that, and the cabinet secretary's emphasis on tax policy generating more revenue than it had been predicted to, we are increasingly, as more use is made of devolved tax policy, we are going to have to make sure that we are identifying and mitigating the risk of tax avoidance if we are going to ensure that future annual outturn statements show tax policy generating the revenue that is needed for public services. What action is the Government taking to do that, to identify the risks of tax avoidance and take action to prevent it? Of course, in relation to those devolved taxes, we require Revenue Scotland to do that, and we work closely with Revenue Scotland to do that. It has particular policies and enforcement action around that, and it has been very proactive in relation to the landlord's action tax and the landfill tax. For income tax, we rely upon HMRC, something that we have discussed at the committee, and we have a service-level agreement there as well, but we have a general avoidance rule as well, and something that I want to see rolled out to non-domestic rates as well, so bringing forward proposals in that regard also. So I absolutely agree with the spirit of what Patrick Harvie has said, and we have plans in place to continue to do that, but we do rely on HMRC. Interestingly, of course, SFC's most recent analysis of its understanding of tax behaviours is that they were pretty accurate in terms of their understanding of tax behaviours. I think that we have to look very closely at the advice on tax behaviours when setting tax policy, but enforcement and compliance is absolutely critical. Willie Rennie to be followed by Kate Forbes. The fiscal commission's £1.7 billion downgrade must be causing the finance secretary some sleepless nights, which is probably why he mentioned the reserve five times in his statement, without telling us how much is in the reserve. The Parliament will want to make a judgment as to whether purposely holding back £235 million is a wise judgment, so can the finance secretary tell us how much is in the reserve? £192 million unallocated. Thank you very much. Kate Forbes to be followed by Adam Tomkins. I can say with greater confidence today that I am the PLO to the cabinet secretary. There has been much fanfare from the Tories about the £2 billion increase to the Scottish budget. Can I ask the cabinet secretary if he has added any confirmation from the Treasury that this is a net increase funding or might it be offset by cuts elsewhere? This is further to the question at First Minister's questions on seeing the announcements. I have sought the figures from Treasury. I have got some indication of consequentials numbers in relation to NHS spending, but anyone who understands the fiscal framework will also understand how the money is raised as a key factor. Therefore, I need to understand how that money is raised, because if it is through income tax that relates to us, then it may not be the £2 billion that is announced. Therefore, I have sought more information from the Treasury, so I have not yet got a commitment that is indeed £2 billion net for the national health service for Scotland, but I am continuing to pursue the matter. Adam Tomkins, followed by Stuart Willing. The cabinet secretary does as if Brexit is the biggest single drag on economic growth in Scotland. Brexit is, of course, happening to the whole of the UK, not just to Scotland. Why is the Scottish economy continuing to underperform the UK as a whole? Just today, this Parliament's Economy Committee said in its new report that, in the Scottish National Party Scotland, levels of GDP growth are marginal, productivity is low and wages are stagnant. How much of that is the cabinet secretary going to accept responsibility for? The UK Government does not get to walk away from responsibility for macroeconomic policy. It has conceded the point recently and, after the concession, it would be nice to see some actions on their part as well. I have outlined a range of actions in the medium-term financial strategy and in the Government's economic policies of what we want to do to stimulate the economy. The key matter is not just my opinion. Fraser of Allander Institute, Scottish Fiscal Commission and many others—indeed, all others—have said that Brexit is a huge issue. In terms of the point about disproportionate impact on subdued growth in Scotland, it was the oil and gas downturn that, in large measure, is responsible for some of that around productivity and GDP take. The forward look on productivity relates to working-age population and participation. The critical issue in that is ensuring that we have the appropriate numbers of people of working age to be able to contribute by way of output and taxation. That is why migration is so important. There are many factors on which the UK Government can engage, which the Scottish Government is responsible for. There are a range of factors as to why the UK and Scotland need to do more around productivity, and we are only seeking the powers to do so. However, I am looking forward to further economic forecasts that I think will show a more optimistic picture in relation to the economy, as the FAEI has already done just this week. Stuart McMillan, to be followed by Ian Gray. Thank you, Presiding Officer. Can the cabinet secretary outline what measures the Scottish Government is taking to provide certainty for our vital public services during the turbulent and uncertain times ahead as a result of leaving the European Union? We are doing a lot of work in terms of preparation. Clearly, the Scottish Government has a strong position in staying within the single market and the customs union. We are obviously working our preparedness in relation to that. For me, providing stability, stimulus and sustainability for our public services all go hand in hand to ensure that people can expect the best possible services and what has been and will continue to be a turbulent time until the UK Government gets its act together in relation to Brexit. Ian Gray, to be followed by John Mason. Independent analysis this week shows that, in real terms, the Scottish National Party's spending on education has fallen by 7.5 per cent since 2010, even when pupil equity funding is included, which is, of course, supposed to be additional to core provision. How can the cabinet secretary justify hoarding and underspend on that scale when our schools are struggling for resources right now and our teachers are so demoralised by pay erosion that they are considering strike action? I tried to explain within the figures how, in terms of the figure that I have outlined, some of it was planned underspend and some of it was increased in tax revenues. Some of it was around other matters such as transfers between capital and resource. Within all that, we have approved budgets that have allocated more to local government, more specifically to education. The most recent figures that I have seen have shown that education budgets are up because of the budgets that I have delivered within the Scottish Government, all of which are opposed by the Labour Party and including the £3.5 billion commitment around tackling the attainment gap, which is opposed by Ian Gray and his colleagues within the Labour Party. We are delivering competent, balanced and responsible budgets that will stimulate our economy and protect our valued public services. John Mason, to be followed by Dean Lockhart. Mr Kelly and Mr Gray seem to be misunderstanding what underspend means. Can the cabinet secretary clarify, especially for that £100 million, is that something that he is free to spend on anything that he wants, or is that very much tied down and effectively ring-fenced by the Treasury? The agreement, specifically for the £100 million, is that the Labour Party is now asking for me to spend on other things. It will be interesting to see how we equip a social security agency if the Labour Party wants me to spend on anything but a social security agency. I thought earlier at First Minister's questions that I heard Labour members asking about social security payments, so we need the infrastructure to be able to make the payments as well. Specificly on that £100 million, Treasury gave the Scottish Government the money early. We carry it over to spend it in the year that it is required to establish the agency that is prudent, responsible and within the agreement that I have with Treasury. Yes, it adds to the underspend number, but it very clearly expresses what that purpose was for. Dean Lockhart, to be followed by Ivan McKee. Thank you very much. The report that was published earlier today by the economy committee, which looked at the Scottish economy over a six-month inquiry period, concluded that economic growth in Scotland is trailing behind the rest of the UK and historic growth trends in Scotland and has done so for a decade well before Brexit and well before the drop in oil prices. Will the finance secretary follow the central recommendation of the economy committee and revise his economic strategy as a matter of urgency? I am sure that Dean Lockhart and the fair man that he is will give me time to read the report and then reflect upon it. I have not read it yet, but I will actually read it and I will then consider its cross-party findings, I would imagine. Of course, I will have a look at it and then reflect on our economic policy. I think that we are making a range of economic interventions to support and stimulate economic growth, unfortunately most of which were opposed by the Conservative party at the last Scottish budget. When I asked the Conservatives which strategy would you like me to change in the past, Mr Lockhart said that it would remove inclusive growth. That is a recommendation that I suspect is not in the committee report and not a change that I will be making. Of course, I will look at the report, I will read it and reflect upon it and I will take forward that which I think can assist our financial and economic strategy. Ivan McKeege, before by Neil Bibby. Thank you. Just to help the Labour Party to understand this, can the cabinet secretary confirm that no money is lost through the Scottish budget as a result of any underspend? Unlike years when the Labour Party was in office and handed money back to the treasury, I can again confirm that not a single penny is lost to the Scottish Exchequer, the Scottish Finance Minister, the Scottish budget as a consequence of the actions that I have taken. Today, when the SNP are in power, we have learned that the Derek Mackay has underspent the Scottish budget for 2017 by close to half a billion pounds, a staggering figure. We often hear from SNP ministers taking pride in having balanced the book, but the reality is here that we have an SNP government who are mismanaging public finances and underfunding public services. Mr Mackay said earlier that the NHS and local services are getting enough cash, but he is well aware of the fact that a lack of resources is having on hospitals such as the RH and councils such as Renfusure, which are having to roll out parking charges and cut grey bin collections due to a lack of funding. How can Mr Mackay justify the major underspend when services are being underfunded? What lessons will Mr Mackay learn to manage our finances properly so that our services get the resources that they need when they need them? I take what he says with a pinch of salt. The underspend is a fraction of the overall fiscal resource, and by law I cannot overspend, so we have to manage our resources very carefully. Not a penny is lost to Scotland. Over the course of the budget negotiations, we discussed how the underspend would be spent in the current financial year, and, in addition to all that, the budget that the Labour Party voted against, that this Government voted for, meant more money for local government, more money for the health service, and it also included lifting the pay cap and many other interventions. In relation to local government services, of course, Renfusure Council under SNP leadership is delivering new and improved services, and I am sure that Neil Bibby will reflect on his negative scaremongering once again. Can the cabinet secretary outline what measures the Scottish Government has taken to support economic growth and to weather the economic disaster of being dragged out of the European Union? I think that the Scottish Government has been able to express and had some considerable vindication from the UK Government on the impact that Brexit will have on Scotland's economy, but the actions that we are taking include the most comprehensive package of business rates relief anywhere in the United Kingdom, a 64 per cent increase in the economy portfolio, a 70 per cent increase in investment in business research, a new national manufacturing institute for Scotland, capitalisation of the national investment bank, £4 billion in infrastructure as well, and just some of the examples of how this Government is investing in our economy to grow our economy in an inclusive way. Thank you very much, cabinet secretary, and members. That concludes our statement on the provisional outturn. We will move on to the next item, which is a debate in the name of Angela Constance on world refugee day. We will just take a few seconds for the minister and members to change scenes.


Hello and welcome to this presentation of the STM32 Serial Audio Interface, or SAI. It covers all the features of this interface which is widely used to connect external audio devices. The SAI integrated inside STM32 products provides an interface allowing the microcontroller to communicate with external audio devices such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, or audio processors. This interface is fully configurable and supports most audio standards, allowing easy connection to existing audio devices. Thanks to internal synchronization features, the amount of IO pins is reduced to its minimum. The SAI can be programmed in four different modes. Free protocol mode allows the SAI to support standards such as I2S, PCM, TDM, etc. Thanks to its flexibility, it is possible to customize the serial interface if needed. SPDIF protocol mode allows the SAI to transmit audio samples using the IEC 6958 standard. PDM interface mode allows the SAI to connect up to eight digital microphones for beamforming or simple speech capture applications, or AC97 protocol. The SAI supports all the usual audio sampling rates, according to the crystal frequency used for the application. In addition, the SAI supports the master and slave modes in half-duplex or full-duplex communication. It is also possible to synchronize several SAI interfaces together. The SAI also provides a FIFO buffer of eight samples and up to two interrupts and DMA interfaces. The SAI is composed of two independent sub-blocks, sub-block A and B. Each sub-block has its own APB interface, clock generator, FIFO buffer, DMA interface, and interrupt interface. Each sub-block can be configured in receiver or transmitter mode and in master or slave mode with its own protocol. Internal and external synchronization allows two sub-blocks to be synchronized or two SAI interfaces to be synchronized. Each sub-block can handle up to four IOs. For each sub-block, FS is the frame synchronization, SCK is the bit clock, SD is the serial data, and MCLK is the master clock. In addition, a PDM interface allows the connection of up to eight digital microphones. The STM32H7 embeds four SAIs. Each SAI can receive a kernel clock, or SAICKX, from DIVQ output of PLL1, from DIVP output of PLL2 or PLL3, from HSI, CSI, or HSE oscillators, or from an input pad, I2S, CKIN. The kernel clock is used by the SAI in order to generate the timing of the serial audio interface when configured in master mode. Note that SAI4 has two independent multiplexers for the kernel clock selection because it is the only one located in the D3 domain. It is possible to support 48 kHz and 44.1 kHz audio streams in parallel. The PLL's embedded in the STM32H7 can work in fractional mode, making the generation of audio frequencies very flexible. The internal synchronization bus allows the synchronization of several SAI together if needed in order to support multi-lane devices. The free protocol mode makes it possible to emulate most of the common audio standard interfaces thanks to the flexibility of changing the behavior of several parameters, such as data justification, data size and position, frame size, frame period, frame polarity, sampling edge for the clock and number of slot. The following example shows some of the possibilities of the interface for the I2S-like protocols. In an I2S-like protocol, each edge of the frame synchronization or FS is used to align the slot positions. The frame length, the duty cycle and polarity can be adjusted. The clock data strobe edge can be selected as well. The position of the slots with respect to the frame edges can be selected. The size of the slots can also be adjusted. There must be an even number of slots per frame in I2S-like protocols. The following example shows some of the possibilities of the interface for the TDM-like protocols. In a TDM-like protocol, only one edge of the frame synchronization, rising or falling, is used to align the slots position. The frame length, the duty cycle and polarity can be adjusted. The clock data strobe edge can be selected. The position of the slots with respect to the frame active edge can be selected. The size of the slots can also be adjusted and the amount of slots per frame up to 16. The SAI is able to handle up to 16 slots and each slot can be individually activated or not. The inactive slots can be set in high Z. The slot size is always bigger than or equal to the data size. The SAI allows control of the position of the data inside each slot and to set the unused parts of the slots to high Z if needed. This function can be helpful when the data line is shared between several devices. In master mode, the SAI can generate the master clock or MCLK depending on the audio system configuration. This master clock provides a reference clock to the external audio codecs. In master mode, the SAI generates the frame synchronization signal or FS and the bit clock or SCK. The data line SD can be either input or output. In slave mode, the MCLK signal is not used. In slave mode, the SAI receives the frame synchronization signal or FS and the bit clock or SCK from another device, external or internal. The data line SD can be either input or output. In master mode, it is up to the SAI to generate the appropriate timings to provide the correct sampling rate. In slave mode, the sampling rate is provided by the external audio device. The clock generator is needed for master mode communications. It is used to adjust the sampling rate of the serial audio interface. The clock generator provides the root frequency for the MCLK, SCK and the FS. When the master clock or MCLK is generated, the frame length must be a power of 2. The ratio between the FS frequency and the MCLK frequency is set to 256 or 512 according to the OSR bit. The clock SAICK is provided by the STM32H7's RCC block. When the MCLK is not generated, the frame length can take any value from 8 to 256. In this case, the frequency of the SCK bit clock is directly given by the clock received on the SAICK input divided by the MCK div value. The internal synchronization can be used for communications needing two data lanes, such as full duplex I²S. The external synchronization can be used for communications needing more than two data lines, up to four, for example when interfacing HDMI ICs. All the sub-blocks synchronized together must use the same protocol characteristics. In order to reduce the data size, it is possible to insert in the data pass an A-Law or Micro-Law compander. Note that A-Law and Micro-Law are not lossless compressors. Compending modes are generally used in telephony. The small values are amplified and the big values are attenuated. The SNR tends to be identical for strong and for weak signals. The SAI also provides a mute function. In transmit mode, the user can choose to send zeros on muted slots or the previous transmitted value. The previous transmitted value is limited to configurations having one or two slots per frame. Note that in transmit mode, the TX-FEFO pointer is still incremented, meaning that the data which was present in the FIFO and for which the mute mode is requested is discarded. The receive mute mode can be helpful to detect an amount of consecutive slots having all data reset to zero. The anticipated or late frame error detection function increases the interface's reliability by detecting unexpected frame synchronization misalignment. A status flag is set and an interrupt can be generated as well. The application software will then have to restart the SAI interface. The SAI guarantees the data alignment even if an underrun or an overrun occurs. The SAI supports the Audio IEC 60958 standard in transmit mode when configured for the SPDIF protocol. The SAI generates the preambles and the parity bit according to the transmitted data. The software has to handle the CS, U and V bits. In the IEC 60958 specifications, the block structure is used to decode the channel status or CS and user information or U. Each block contains 192 frames. Each frame contains two subframes. The SAI automatically generates the B, M and W preambles. Preamble B detects the start of a new block and the start of a channel A. Preamble M detects the start of a channel A when it is not a block boundary. And Preamble W detects the start of a channel B. Each subframe contains 32 bits divided into three fields. A synchronization preamble allows the detection of the block and subframe boundaries. A payload of 24 bits and status bits V, U, CS and P. The FSAICK frequency must be adjusted in order to generate the proper audio sample rate or FS. The data inside the transmit FIFA must be aligned as shown in this slide. The MSB of the data must always be at position 23. The PDM interface remaps the bit stream received from the digital microphones into TDM frames. The PDM interface waits for the reception of 8 bits from each microphone before sending a new TDM frame. In addition, the PDM interface offers an 8-bit delay line for each microphone stream. These delay lines are working with the resolution of the bit stream clock provided to the microphones. It enables beamforming applications and removes constraints on microphone placements. When the PDM interface is enabled, the serial interface of the subblock A cannot be used to connect an external device. This serial interface is connected internally to the PDM interface, and the subblock A must be configured in TDM mode as an RX master. The figure shows an example of connection of four digital microphones. Note that each data line D1, D2, D3 or D4 can be connected to one or two digital microphones. The subblock B is still available for other applications, and can be used to connect an external device using TDM, PCM, I2S or any other supported protocol. With this PDM interface, the bit clock frequency has to be adjusted according to the sampling frequency and the number of microphones. The frame length is also adjusted according to the number of connected microphones. The SAI is able to work as an AC-97 link controller. When this protocol is used, the frame length, the slot number and slot length are set by the hardware. Several events can be enabled in order to generate interrupts. The WCKCFG event can be used in order to inform the user that the frame length of the SAI has been improperly programmed. This feature only makes sense in master mode. The following table shows an overview of the SAI activity for the various possible power modes. The SAI is active in run and sleep modes, frozen in stop mode or powered down in standby mode. The SAI needs the bus interface clock or APB clock and the kernel clock or SAICKX to work properly. For a full duplex master mode, two data lines are needed, so two subblocks need to be used. The master subblock A provides the synchronization to the slave subblock B, using the internal synchronization feature or IO line management. Note that in this example, the subblock B only uses the SDB. The amount of IOs is reduced to its minimum thanks to the internal synchronization. This is another kind of full duplex mode, using the TDM protocol. Slot 1 is inactive or not used for subblock A. Slots 2 and 3 are inactive for subblock B. For both subblocks, the frame structure has four slots. Subblock A will generate three samples per frame. Subblock B will receive two samples per frame. This example shows the most important SAI settings in order to capture the samples provided by four digital microphones. In typical applications, the microphones receive a bit stream clock frequency 64 times higher than the wanted audio rate. If the application needs to handle a 16 kHz audio stream, then the bit stream clock provided to the digital microphones must be 16 kHz multiplied by 64, which corresponds to a clock frequency of 1.024 MHz. As there are four data streams, the bit clock SCK-A must be four times higher than the bit stream clock provided to the microphones, which results in a bit clock frequency of 4.096 MHz. Using this configuration, the SAIA writes into its RX-FEFO and 8-bit data every time a slot is received. In order to reconstruct the 16 kHz audio signal, the software has to perform a low-pass filtering of each microphone stream followed by a decimation by 64.


He's awesome. And he's a Lions fan. What a holy wolfie. Hey, make sure you're playing me, bro. Go get him. Pressure, ladies and gentlemen, where we came from. We almost ended Wheel of Mutt one month ago. But I got how many tens of millions of dollars do you fuckers make? So we decided to revamp. And a week one, we took on the Tennessee Titans. And a narrow victory, but a victory nonetheless. We take them 22 to 15. After that, another close one possession ball game, but we take the dove 21 to 17. In week three, we played the Eagles, and they had our number losing 16 to 25 in a tough match. Week four, I got one of the quickest range quits of my life, which led us to a resounding W, 38 to 10. That is how you respond to adversity. Nobody could stop us, except the chimpanzees deep in the depths of the jungle of the Amazon. As every single orangutan and electronic arts banded together to smash the one aluminum server they have running this game, which led to two, not one, but two disconnects in some close games. And the game after that against the Steelers, I'm winning 16 to seven. And the final orangutan had had it and turned the servers off once again. So that put us in a difficult scenario. Four and three, one more loss and we're booted. We needed three wins to take us all the way to the playoffs. So what did we do? We got a one possession dump against the Chiefs and against Cowchuck.  And finally that left us at six and three where we took on the Lions, our own home team with a dominating 20 to 11 victory propelling us into the playoffs. Next up in the wild card, we had an easy a rage quit in the wild card playoff game. The visual was also a resounding dub. We played a good player, but on the goal line, we were unstoppable. He would march all the way down and get stonewall, which led us to the conference championship. We are steamrolling the playoffs, but none of it matters. It's just another season if we don't get the Super Bowl and the Super Bowl is today. Ladies and gentlemen, episode number 78, is that what we've landed on 79? I want to thank each and every one of you. Some of you may have watched every single episode this season of Wheel of Mutton. Some of you may be new. Some of you may skip around, but holy shit, 78 or 79, God tier episodes of the best maddened content you can find. And I have nobody to thank except for the boys, each and every one of you. I love you so much.  Clutch up our fifth possibly sixth Super Bowl ring. And without a doubt, I don't know how many rings we have right now, but this, if I win, will be the most rings I've ever had in a Wheel of Mutton. We will get our fifth Super Bowl ring and this will go down as the best season of Wheel of Mutton ever.  Booper bump! The prestige wide receiver. He's incredibly physical. Such a beast. And two tall Jones for the stupidest, most broken cards that's ever come into Madden. And now because of it, he has a golden ticket wide receiver and corner. Najee Harris, actually unstoppable. Ever since we got him, he has virtually carried the team. Josh Allen has been spectacular, rarely misses throws, identifier, gunslinger, hot route master. Larry Zonka, the Zonklers. Where can we be without him? 93 overall, but he blocks like a beast. DK Metcalf also a prestige. His prestige ended up being amazing only because of the DK Metcalf corner who was very clutch in the secondary for us, but his wide receiver, other than when the most feared card came out, hasn't been very useful. There is a golden ticket, and as you guys know, it hasn't come out yet and I got to get you the Super Bowl. So 98 overall team of the year, Darren Waller, gold 99, Darren Dyrdorf, Robert Hunt, Jason Kelsey, Zion Johnson and Anthony Munoz. Two incredible offensive linemen on either side of the tackles. And Robert Hunt has a free post-up ability and Zion Johnson's got it as well. So I feel good all across the board there. Defensively so many monsters who've made so many big plays for us. William Perry, we pulled in a pack. And guess who else we pulled in a pack? Golden ticket, CJ Gardner Johnson. Some of my best wheel of mutt pack luck ever. Got the gold 99 power-up player, Anthony Barr. Worked our asses off to earn him. Play Matthews, a spectacular linebacker while we upgraded Anthony Barr. Devin White, gold 99, Lawrence Taylor. How are you going to mess it up on that? Gold 99, Sean Taylor, an amazing prestige. Gold 99, Jaylin Ramsey, an amazing prestige. I think my prestige is we're so on point this year. Julio Jones at corner three, Aaron Donald, Vince Wilfork, Ed Tutile Jones, and 98, Corner, Randy Moss. Devin White's next-gen stats. He has 71 TFLs, 20 sacks, 49 interceptions, 1,374 interception return yards, 19 forest fumbles. Those are pretty much all at the start of the season when he was coughing up the fumbles like crazy. 14 recovered, three safeties, 12 interception touchdowns, four fumble touchdowns.  Stats on Jaylin Ramsey, 83 interceptions, three sacks, 13 TFLs. Very cool. He also has 14 forest fumbles from Jaylin Ramsey. That is a big hitting corner. Very impressive for him.  All right, boys, without further ado, let's get our wheelspin in. Let's embark on the Super Bowl and get a fat W. Let's go. All right, our first wheelspin. We're gonna need something really good to upgrade this team, but we kind of knew that going in. Our first wheelspin, just like the CJ Gardner Johnson one, I have a shot at getting a golden ticket. 10 re-rolls. Now, this one's actually like the way that this spin was engineered was that I would go into training and I would do a re-roll like, you know, an Easter 90 plus re-roll or any of those re-rolls. Unfortunately, those no longer exist in the store, but the training variety pack does.  There's a chance I had a golden ticket just like there was a chance I had a golden ticket before. I get to take one player out of these 10 training variety packs to add to my team. If I get nothing usable in the 10, I get nothing usable in the 10.      We don't care. I get paying for like a gold 99 good player, coins or whatever, but way much should work. Is as soon as you load up the game, you have access to choose any single jersey that you want, classic, old school, doesn't matter for your team. But yeah, in these training variety packs, you can pull those jerseys. I'm glad they're at least in the game. I'm glad they didn't neglect it the whole year. Looks like there's a lot of ultimate legends in these though, that's our sixth pack right there. Sam Mike Will, you know what's actually nice about these I'm realizing? I don't have any good strategy cards. I rip a lot of these. I could really get good strategy cards. I get a lot of L's. This is pack number eight, William Perry, also an L. Listen, I think I used all my luck on the CJ Gardner Johnson. Wait, wait, this is my 10th pack right here?  All right, boys, it's the Super Bowl, our second and final wheel spin of Madden 22. It's gotta be something cracked if it's the final wheel spin of Madden 22. 97 to 99 positions. Wait a minute, it's not cracked yet. And so I could get a gold 99, I could get a golden ticket. But it's gotta be a good position.  Wide receiver? Wide receiver. Do I go get a golden ticket at Two Tall Jones? Michael Parsons was tweeting about this. It's been a long time since there's been a wide receiver this broken. 329,350 coins for a golden ticket at Two Tall Jones. That is what you need to walk into the Super Bowl with. We have a 97 Two Tall on defense and now a gold 99 on offense. So Cooper Cup now is wide receiving over three and slot which I like better. And then up here at Two Tall Jones, 95. Let's just take a look at this golden ticket. Six foot nine, 96 speed, 97 jump, 99 catch, 98 catching traffic, 99 spectacular catch, 92 short, 99 mid, 99 deep. All right, boys, the moment of truth has come. Now normally I'd spin the challenge wheel here. I have a different idea that I've actually been concocting. There's gonna be no challenge wheel here. And I don't wanna foreshadow anything but after the Super Bowl, there may still be a grand finale. But for now, we're not worried about that. For now, we're worried about the one game that stands between us and the perfect end to a season. I almost didn't even make it here but here we are in the biggest game. One loss remaining. It's time gentlemen. Super Bowl, Steelers man. All right, he's definitely a Steelers fan. The Super Bowl is MMG squad in my classic Jordan Unis against the Steelers in their alternates. The coin toss is, I think we just won the toss. All right, he's got mad at machine's Tyree kill which makes all his wide receivers tight ends and maybe quarterback better. I'm gonna go two tall Jones underneath. Let's get to the quarterback. What's he gonna throw? That's a pebble. He groaning me on the first play. Unlucky start to the Super Bowl, it doesn't matter.   It's mine if you do. I'm under us. Second and 10. Okay, throws underneath. Good spin, another good spin. God damn, and he's got Najee just like me. Why are you chewing clock?    This is an absolute clamp right now.  You're there from Najee and he's in no huddle.  Let's go boys. Working buddy, let's go. First and 10, Super Bowl 56. Let's get the ball in Najee's hands. That's my boy. That's my boy. Beauty, oh, beautiful truck, Najee. Beauty, beauty. Look at this, man. Actually pretty good strafe right there. That would have been a touchdown. Keep going, Najee. Good block, Zonka.  Four rushes, 51 yards. You think I'm switching up? You out of your mind?  I think I'm gonna roll out left side. Go Josh. Let's go. Josh Allen is in. That's the first touchdown in the Super Bowl. Goes rushing to Josh Allen. Najee averaging, he's averaging 12 a carry. Six rushes, 72. I'm in, man, this is bad. We just gotta do it right here, boys. Uh-oh. Did I just get torched by Tyreek? I did. I'm actually okay with this.  The worst case scenario was he chews clock and scores a touchdown, or he chews clock and kicks a field goal. In this scenario, are you serious? Can I call time out here? I can't even call time out. I think I just have to take the L. Okay, we're good. In this scenario, I can chew the clock and score, then get ball half.  Get ran over. Beautiful blocks. Wait, I'm gonna just go touchdown. I knew he'd strafe. All right, I finally figured out how to beat his strafe.  Stretching right. No, he knew. Oh, I got freight train. Najee went back to back in the playoffs X-Factor activated. I think he guessed to the side, I'm heavy. He did, touchdown. Come here. I'm at a 23 and three time outs. He can easily get down the field. I need to stop thinking so hard.  You can't do it twice. You can't do it twice. You got the first one, buddy. This game's over. Let's keep freight train up. Keep it up. He didn't leave.  Let's lurk the tight end here. He wants to throw a tight end. Actually, no, he wants to throw a deep. He wants to throw a Tyreek. I'm following it.  This game's over. First thing goal, Najee still lit up. How could I not run the ball? Oh, he run commits. No run commit? Yes, sir. Freight train? Hmm. His two tall Jones got back to me there. Three possession game no matter what. He can score two touchdowns and get both two points. He'll have 23 points. I can't tell if he's just tilted or what he's trying to do here.  Dude, on his opening drive, he was like playing really well. He had really good plays and then he got held on the final play on that fourth down and now he's just too pissed off to play. You know, and I think I'm actually realizing an unsung hero, which is Golden Ticket wide receiver at two tall Jones is an incredible blocking wide receiver because he's gigantic. I haven't really like considered it yet, but he is. Oh, geez. Oh, geez, man. But. I can get retackled and have to do anything.  Third and nine. Go with the handoff. Oh, he's in there. Oh! No TFLs today, baby. Dude, this guy literally has no idea how I play offense. He has no idea what plays I run because I haven't ran any of them. I've ran run plays and that's it. I have wallers there. Oh my God, he's so open. I'm lagging. Still got it. That was the nail in the coffin. Oh, Josh Allen can probably just run this in. He can. Another one for Josh Allen. Sorry, Najee. But Josh Allen also has two rushing touchdowns. It's quit the Super Bowl.   Let's go, boys. We closed it out. We didn't just close it out.  Oh my God. Sorry that Ed Tuttal Jones couldn't do anything but it was the Najee Harris show.  Let's give a round of applause to all of the players that made this possible.  Ed Tuttal Jones, Booper Bub, Najee, Zonklers, Josh Allen, DK Metcalf, Baron Waller, Dan Dierdorf, Robert Hunt, Jason Kelsie, Zion Johnson, Anthony Munoz. I think I have to go get a Najee Harris sign jersey now. I gotta go get a Najee Harris jersey and put it up on the wall so we can remember what he did for us here. There weren't a lot of players that were impactful for us this year. Jaylen Hertz, who could forget about Jaylen Hertz season? I've got his jersey. James Robinson, our first ever power-up player, the brand new idea we had this year. Saquon Barkley, Darren Waller, Zonklers. How could you forget about Zonklers, dude? Bless season, boys. I just want to say, ladies and gentlemen, I love you guys so much. Thank you for watching.  There will be a grand finale. So this may be the end of Madden 22 Wheel of Mut, as you know it, but I have one more video. And trust me, you're going to want to see it. It's going to be titled The Wheel of Mut, Madden 22 Grand Finale. And don't be shocked if that video is about an hour long. I love you boys. Thanks for watching as always. And I'll see you in the next video. Peace.


everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Arma with the Stock Swoosh, and today I wanted to talk to you about taking chances and taking risk. There's something called calculated risk where you assess all the things that you have ahead of you and then the payout or the reward that's associated. If you accomplish whatever your goal is, whatever it happens to be, for example, say it's trading, you wanna be a professional trader, you wanna do this for a living, you said it all up, you say it's gonna cost me this much for a class, it's gonna take this much time, is it really worth it? You have to assess, again, the risk to reward that's associated with it and the payout. If you wanna get ahead in life, you have to be willing to take chances and you have to be willing to take risk. And I think a lot of people, when they decide that they wanna trade and they decide they wanna do this, they just simply don't understand what's involved. They don't understand really the cost that it's going to take them to learn how to trade. They don't understand the time that may involve them to learn how to trade properly. They don't understand that and therefore, consequently, they become disappointed if they don't make all this money that they want really quickly, really fast without any investment of their time or money. I think if you are realistic and have a full understanding of what it really takes to be successful, the trading really, the payoff is definitely, definitely worth it. And I think when you look at what you want and you say, how badly do I want this thing? And what am I willing to do to get there?  The payout is worth the time. The payout is worth the money. The payout is worth the risk because once you learn how to trade, it's just so easy when you know what to do. But when you don't know what to do, it's hard. So learning how to do it is very, very, very important. If you have questions, you can email me at Melissa at thestockswitch.com. I teach a class on my system as method once a month only two more classes before the end of 2020. Stay safe everyone. And again, email me on the list at thestockswitch.com for more information.


Welcome to The Commentaries, a podcast series from Tan in which you'll learn how to read and understand history's greatest Catholic works from today's greatest Catholic scholars. In every series of The Commentaries, your expert host will be your personal guide to not just read the book, but to live the book, shining the light of its eternal truths into our modern darkness. TanCommentaries.com to get your copy of the book and to subscribe for access to all the great reading plans, new episodes, bonus content, and exclusive deals for listeners of The Commentaries. Welcome back. This is day 18 of The Commentaries series on St. Teresa Vavilas Interior Castle. I'm Father Timothy Reed from Charlotte, North Carolina. Today, we come to the final chapters of the Interior Castle by examining chapters 3 and 4 of the Seventh Mansions. So this is the time of spiritual marriage between our Lord and the soul that has journeyed this far. There is true union here. Souls in the Seventh Mansion have hit the summit of the spiritual life and yet, as we learned last time, despite these lofty mystical heights, souls in the Seventh Mansions are more down to earth, more concerned with everything pertaining to the service of God. And the soul is even more attentive to not offending God in any way. So with that said, let's jump into chapter 3. Now here, once again, St. Teresa is at pains to express how the soul, spiritually married to our Lord, now lives a new life, a life of complete union with Christ. As St. Paul said to the Galatians, it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me. Now as for the effects or fruits of this prayer of spiritual marriage, Teresa lists them as forgetfulness of self, a willingness to suffer, interior joy and time of persecution and love for persecutors, desire to serve God, detachment from all things, and no fear of the devil's interventions. In forgetting itself, the soul now works solely for God's honor and glory. It doesn't neglect its exterior duties, but it sees that it can really accomplish nothing on its own. As for suffering, the soul isn't disturbed by it. If God desires the soul to suffer, it willingly does so. If not, then the soul does not worry about not suffering as it did before. Now interestingly, as St. Teresa was writing these very pages, she was enduring terrible sufferings exteriorly, specifically the wrongful arrest and imprisonment of her dear friend and confidant, St. John of the Cross, which happened in December of 1577. And yet despite the anxiety she feels for St. John of the Cross, she remains tranquil. Teresa explains if others persecute souls at this stage, these souls accept it and willingly forgive them, even having compassion for their persecutors and recommending them to God. Now again, we have to ask ourselves, how do we feel about those who hurt us or persecute us? Are we quick to forgive? Are we so quick to work actively for their good as souls in the Seventh Mansions are? In reading about the effects of spiritual marriage, especially as regards those whom we might consider our enemies, we are shown where the bar of virtue really is. When our Lord says in His Sermon on the Mount, to be perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect, this is what He wants from us. So as we study these Seventh Mansions, we can see the summit of virtue and holiness to which we are called. We see what perfection in this life looks like. Now very interestingly, St. Teresa notes that there is some amount of competition between the desire to die and be with God on the one hand. And the willingness to live and serve and glorify God here on earth. She writes in paragraph five, Not only have they ceased to long for death, but they wish for a long life and most heavy crosses if such would bring ever so little honor to our Lord. Thus if they knew for certain that immediately on quitting their bodies, their souls would enjoy God, it would make no difference to them. Nor do they think of the glory enjoyed by the saints and long to share it. Such souls hold that their glory consists in helping in any way, him who was crucified, especially as they see how men offend against him and how few detached from all else care for his honor alone. So rather than the urgent longing to die and be with God that souls in the sixth mansions experience, here St. Teresa sounds like St. Paul as he wrote to the Philippians, and this is from the first chapter of that letter. St. Paul wrote, My eager expectation and hope is that I shall not be put to shame in any way, but that with all boldness now as always Christ will be magnified in my body, whether by life or by death, for to me life is Christ and death is gain. If I go on living in the flesh, that means fruitful labor from me, and I do not know which I shall choose. I am caught between the two, I long to depart this life and be with Christ for that is far better, yet that I remain in the flesh is more necessary for your benefit. The point here is that these souls are also detached from everything, and no longer seek consolations to life because they have God within themselves, and their only desire is to be occupied with something that benefits a soul. Teresa says, The soul in the seventh mansion feels neither aridity nor any interior troubles, but only a constant tender recollection of our Lord whom she wishes to praise unceasingly. Moreover, the soul has no fear of the devil's counterfeits. There is just simply this abiding union with our Lord, and the soul desires only to surrender itself to God. The soul is almost always calm and there is no dryness. When she says in paragraphs 8 and 9, Nothing is here perceived by the senses or faculties, but his majesty reveals himself to the Spirit, which he takes to be with himself in a place, where I doubt not the devil dares not enter, nor would our Lord ever permit him. All the graces here divinely bestowed on the soul come, as I said, through no action of its own, except its total abandonment of itself to God. St. Teresa then continues, It is thus, with this temple of God, this mansion of his where he and the soul rejoicing each other alone in profound silence, the mind need not act nor search for anything, as the Lord who created it wishes it to be at rest, and only to watch through a little chink what passes within. Though at times it cannot see this, yet such intervals are very short. I believe because the powers are not here lost, but only ceased to work, being as it were dazed with astonishment. Despite this astonishment that she describes here, ecstasies, like we read about in the six mansions, they rarely occur here, and the things that used to send the soul into rapture no longer do so, and so our saint opines that this may be either because the Spirit has at last found repose, or that it has seen such wonders in this mansion that nothing can frighten it, or perhaps because it no longer feels solitary since it rejoices in such company. In short sisters, I cannot tell the reason, but as soon as God shows the soul what this mansion contains, bringing it to dwell within the precincts, the infirmity, formerly so troublesome to the mind and impossible to get over, disappears at once. Now of course, Saint Teresa is quick to point out that all the grace is granted here can be lost if the soul withdraws from God by failing to keep the commandments. So even here, even here, in spiritual marriage, we can backslide. Yet she says in paragraph 13 that souls have an increased awareness of their sins and a fear of their weaknesses, but they have supreme confidence in God's mercy. And so the overriding sense that the soul enjoys here is peace, true peace, and it's beautiful. Now let's move into chapter four. Saint Teresa makes mention of the fact that sometimes for the sake of a soul's humility, and to help it grow in gratitude for the gifts it has received, the Lord allows a soul in the seventh mansion to suffer disturbances. So in other words, the effects of spiritual marriage aren't always present, though they usually are. But souls at this point are strong and are capable of enduring any disturbances with great determination not to deviate from God's will. But they are not free from imperfections and venial sins, and yet the sins of people in the seventh mansions are not deliberate. Although these souls do not commit mortal sins, they still could do so, and they know it. And in their great desire not to offend God, they may have some fear of unknown sins, sins that they don't recognize within themselves, and they are greatly pained by the sins of others. So Teresa says that our greatest security can be found in begging God, never to offend him. Now as for why our Lord grants these favors to souls here in the seventh mansions, Teresa says that he does it to strengthen a soul so that it might be able to imitate Christ in his sufferings. Now Teresa knows that those who are closest to Christ suffer the most. Now think about our blessed lady. No one suffered more than she did outside of her son. And Teresa explains that the willingness to suffer gives evidence that a soul's visions and contemplation are indeed from God. Ultimately though, and this is important, St. Teresa says, this is the end and aim of prayer, my daughters. This is the reason of the spiritual marriage whose children are always good works. Works are the unmistakable sign which shows these favors come from God. And so when you sum it all up, the reason why God leads a soul into these great precincts of the seventh mansions is so that they can do charitable works. And so Teresa tells us that we have to pursue the virtues because without them we are spiritual dwarfs. St. Teresa encourages her daughters to ensure that they also act on their resolutions so our actions should conform to what we say in prayer. And she continues in paragraph 12, Do you know what it is to be truly spiritual? It is for men to make themselves the slaves of God branded with his mark, which is the cross. Since they have given him their freedom, he can sell them as slaves to the whole world as he was. Humble slaves of God, not slaves to our passions. That's what we must learn to be. You see at this point prayer is not to be done now just for one's enjoyment but rather to have strength to serve. And St. Teresa uses this great analogy of St. Martha and Mary noting that both prayer and service are essential. In closing, Teresa states that we do not build towers without a foundation, for our Lord does not care so much for the importance of our works as for the love with which they are done. When we do all we can his majesty will enable us to do more every day. Isn't that beautiful? He doesn't care so much for the importance of our works but the love with which they are done. And so my friends what we need to do is practice humility, mortification, service and charity along with loving our Lord. This will please God and in kindle the fire of love in the souls of others. Now that brings us to the end of the seventh mansions.  But we're not quite done yet. St. Teresa wrote a brief epilogue and we'll discuss that next time. And in next talk in the talk after we'll also do a little bit of review of all the ground we've covered in our tour of the interior castle. But that is the end of our podcast for day 18 in our study of the interior castle. Thank you so much for listening and for joining me on this journey to grow deeper in your spiritual life. Until next time let's pray together St. Teresa's prayer. Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. All things are passing away. God never changes. Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing. God alone suffices. Amen. May God bless you and may St. Teresa intercede for you. This has been an episode of The Commentaries, a podcast brought to you by Tan. To follow the show study more of the greatest Catholic classics and to support the commentaries and other great free content from Tan visit tancommentaries.com to subscribe and use coupon code COM25 to get 25% off your next order including the interior castle and countless more spiritual works to deepen your interior life and to guide you to heaven.