We try and help to make things that are unseen seen. We try and make things visible. And that's really important in biology because a lot of times you just don't know when you look in a microscope if molecularly what you think is going on is actually what's going on. And I think what we do is very important because we try and get closer and closer to the idea of molecular level imaging. For everything that we publish, we try many things that don't work. And that's what we should be doing always. So there's a fair amount of failure. And a lot of times we learn the most when things don't work. You sort of have to develop a thick skin because, frankly, most of the stuff we try doesn't work. Use physics to invent, design, and build new kinds of microscopes to see things that no one's ever seen before. So my boss, Hari, was giving a talk at my university and I saw the abstractivist talk. And I thought I knew some things about optics and I was pretty sure that what he said in his abstract was impossible. So I went to his talk to tell him that he was wrong. He was not wrong. I was very wrong. So at the end of the talk I asked him for a job. And that's how I ended up here. For about a hundred years there was a belief more or less that there was a hard limit for the sharpest image that an optical microscope could take. And then in the past decade or so there have been a number of breakthroughs that show, no, that's not really true. There were assumptions. One thing that we've invented recently is a microscope that provides double the resolution of a conventional microscope you can buy. And is also applicable in sort of relatively thick samples like embryos. This is sort of a new thing. Resolution doubling microscopes have existed before but they only are good for single cells. We also think about microscopes that are better at imaging specimens less invasively, so without damaging them. Every time you shine light on something you perturb it a little bit. And most microscopes out there today are sort of unsuitable for long term imaging of let's say embryos or other sensitive live biological specimens. So a good deal of what we think about is how to make microscopes better suited to that study. An example of a more biological problem we're genuinely interested in is how the nervous system wires inside living organisms. Inside a very simple organism like a worm. So if you want to ask the question like how do all the neurons come together to create a brain. One method for answering that question is to actually visualize it. But the data set for that problem doesn't exist yet because most microscopes that are available will fry the embryo in the course of imaging all of these different cells in time and in three dimensions. So one thing that we're doing in collaboration with groups at Yale and Sloan Kettering is we're providing microscopes that actually let you image samples for many hours. About 14 hours and noninvasively to see this brain develop inside an intact organism. What we kind of hope is that by studying the way that the nervous system forms inside the worm we'll discover general rules about how neurons seek out other neurons that would be applicable in higher order organisms like the fish, the fly or the human. The future of our work I think will be make a few general purpose tools. Try to genuinely pick a few of the workhorses of the field that everyone uses and make them slightly better. And then, and we've already started to do this to some degree, go looking for specific problems in biology, important problems that are resistant to existing techniques and design specific techniques to solve those exact problems. You know, I hope that the kind of work that we do, the sort of approaches we develop enable other people to go further than we can. And so, you know, the idea is that whatever simple rules we might discover in the worm, you know, almost certainly are not going to be sort of exactly the way things are in the human. But, you know, one can imagine sort of scaling these things up.


okay that took me like five minutes to figure out where I put it away all right I can still say good morning because it's 11 47 a.m. Wednesday January 13th I edited a couple of videos that I filmed yesterday for my two one for each Facebook group they're loading to YouTube unlisted right now and the links will be shared on Friday in the two groups if you want to see those videos and you want the links go join the the links are down below in in my link tree also in my link tree list list of links which is down below go check it out I have an email newsletter I've got an Etsy store I've got patreon all the things for the things in fact for patreon we have Friday zooms they do get recorded for the people who can come and then those videos are also unlisted so yeah today I am fixing my moleskin in one of the videos I showed this all of my journals end up looking like this but the moleskins tend to start breaking at the at the spine at the kind of right right in here so I'm going to actually cut the cover off I'm going to preserve the cover for the most part I'm going to just make the spine bigger and then tape it yeah tape it back on glue it back on I want to preserve the elastic and everything so I haven't really done this before but when documented life class was popular there's a lot of YouTubers who showed how to do this sorry I'm chatting with my friend Mike Deegan there's a lot of YouTubers who showed how to do this so I would say just do some searching on YouTube but I am going to show you kind of a little bit of how to do this right now and let's get that pointed down to the table I'll be right back okay the first thing you want to do is carefully cut the spine from the the book lock the pages which I've already done on the front I'm going to show you how to do that from the back now one thing I might not preserve is the pocket because I really don't use it for anything so I might take the pocket off I'm going to leave the first page and the last page attached because I'm going to use that to reattach the cover but I want to just cut through um hold on okay I want to just cut through where the back cover meets this page this little like right here so we're going to just very carefully put the reading glasses on so I can see what I'm doing because that's helpful and just very carefully pull everything apart keep your fingers out of the way once you get it started you should be able to run the exacto knife up against the old spine and cut the cover off without cutting any of the signatures there we go in the in the book like that so now I've got a loose book block which we're going to actually reinforce a little bit with some tape because this I I did a page right here in the very beginning and can you see it's a little holy so we're going to fix that first we're going to make the spine on this bigger and again I do think we're going to take this this pocket off because I don't okay okay so now I also want to preserve the bookmark I like the bookmark um but the spine is only like a quarter of an inch and it really needs to be at least an inch and a half because it's really just going to be way too small so how to do this how to do this so I think what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this and leave the bookmark attached towards one side or the other and then just increase the spine accordingly so I think I'm going to cut up the back cover and separate things and if you're doing something like this and you're hoping hope I'm not making a big mistake that's probably pretty normal okay so now no no no we need to add like at least an inch at least that much so what I want to do is I want to add a piece of chipboard I think um to this to make the spine so let me go get a piece I'll be right back right so the first thing I want to do is measure how big how long this is so line up the top of my cover with the top of the chipboard and cut this my quilting ruler which these quilting rulers if you're using if you're buying new tools for your art room and you don't have one of these these come in infinitely handy in the art room whether you're a sewer or not you can get them at Joanne's and Michael's use a coupon I've had this I have a few of these and I've had them a really long time now let's make sure it's the right size for our spine we're going to leave about a 16th of an inch gap or so between the spine and the covers we are going to cover it with bookbinding tape which is really really sticky this one here hopefully kind of straight we'll put this one over here I'm going to fold this up my tape is only so wide and it's probably not wide enough for this so we're going to do two things we're going to put more tape black tape on the outside but I'm also going to cover this inside with I have white tape towards the front might put like a little charm or something at the end at some point now we have to do work on this I said with this this first page is got some holes and actually when I just FYI when I made the cover so we have this because I might I might want to put something here so we're going to glue the back to where the pocket was and we're going to glue the front to this page so but I think that will be fine okay so but first we have to like do something to help this because it's like having issues all right we're going to use the white bookbinding tape this stuff is really really really sticky so if you're going to do bookbinding you can use anything I mean you can use lots of things but this stuff isn't in for this purpose and once you get it stuck on there it is not going anywhere so if you have a little money to invest and you like bookbinding you might want to invest in some tape special tape and tools bring it a trim pushing it down so now it's fixed no longer wholly pushing the little loose pieces of paper that were in here into the tape to get this in I think this is the hard part getting this in I think this is going to be the harder part I might want to take this off all right let's do this as far as I'm doing it and I'm thinking about it that's probably what you should do too so you just have one layer but if you have problems like I did with mine you're going to have to take this off anyway to put tape here to fix the problem with this first page and then go ahead and tape this on like I don't think there's any way to avoid that let's put some tape on this I don't think that spine's going anywhere now now we just need to get it back in the book block so then my question still becomes how to get it in the book block do I want to just tape it in do I want to glue it in I want to get it in or tape it in I could tape it in I could tape the whole thing in it's bookbinding tape that actually might be a good idea okay I think I'm going to do a combination of tape and glue I think that's what I feel confident in doing I've used some large binder clips to um clips that book block together so it stays where I want it to and I'm going to tape it in with white tape on the inside and then I'm going to go around with black tape on the outside I think and so that I take these off giving me a new spine it's not the prettiest thing on the planet but it will work hopefully I did it not upside down nope I did it upside down holy cow let's do that again shall we to be fair I'm not sure if I'm going to cut it out or not but I already did it upside down once so I just fixed it we've still got our bookmark so I can still go to the next page and mark mark that I might want to put a little charm or something at the bottom yeah that works now I do think I want to like not leave this like this I think I want to glue these and or cover this with something that's like pretty so let me get out the yes okay so I'm going to paste this to here and then I'm going to use some of these watercoloury prints from printing with my art foamies to put that here on the inside and sort of cover up some of what's going on there I don't I don't think I care too much about this side but I think I don't want to just put some of this here I might not even cover up the whole thing we'll see but let's first let's get the flap glued together push the glue now yes paste takes a long time to dry so you have time to manipulate it if you don't think get things on straight right away I still have my large clips here so I can now if you do this right put you're gonna need a clip that's big enough to hold the whole book but if you put it on here and then you angle it like it might help hold the book up so that it's up and it's out of the way and sturdy and you can get in here and do what you need to easily unless you do that and you bump it I'm going to put some more yes paste on this try not to get too thick of coating put the whole thing on there so you're going to do a better job at this of standing your book upright than I am going to push this into the glue again turn it around and use my craft knife to trim this piece of sea glass from a neighbor she brought it back from a trip she went on so that was perfect to put on pretty happy with the way this turned out so if you're having a journal that's starting to look more like this and you want it to look like this think about just disassembling it a bit and adding to the spine the spine part here won't look pretty unless I actually take the signatures apart and resew them that being said the way I've done this I could do that if I decide to do that at a later date because I didn't glue this part down so all I would have to do is cut it here and here and pull the text block out un-stitch it and re-stitch it and wider and take pages out I don't really want to do that right now um but we'll let that happen later we'll see how it goes so anyway there we go I wish they just made them like this to begin with maybe someday they'll get a clue and that's it for the minute it's a beautiful day out hopefully we can get some walking in I don't know but it is a gorgeous day outside and I don't think we have like two days with no rain so yay all right I'll be back


everyone, Shabare 1000 here. Today we're gonna be checking out this outdoor folding chair with the cooler. And I'll tell you about it here in just a second. Stay tuned. Okay guys, so this thing is supposed to support up to 250 pounds. It's 13 and a half inches by 11 inches by 23 inches. Okay, ideal for outdoor activities, foldable for every storage, or for easy storage, sorry. So, this came, I'll tell you how much it is, this came from the Goodwill. Now, if you guys don't know, most Goodwill stores now, they have a new section where all the stuff is new. Supposed to be cheap, but this was, let's see, camping outdoor equipment. So it's kind of like probably like a knock-off brand. There's a little bear up here in the corner, a little bear there. It was 20 bucks, 1999, so 20 bucks. So let's go ahead and open this up. Sorry about the noise in the background guys, but you know, I'm outside. I wanted to do it outside because this is an out-of-the-side deal. All right, so there's our chair, there's what we get. All right, let's go ahead and open this up. This thing is light. I don't know what the weight is on it. What is the weight? It doesn't say what the weight is. So yeah, it doesn't tell me how much it weighs, but anyway, so let's take this over here and let's set it up and let's set on it. Well, first, let's check out this cooler deal. Okay? Supposed to have this little cooler in it. This must be a cooler. Here's the zipper. Okay, so the zip's back here. Oh, it's a double zipper. All right, cool. And right there already. Look, look at that. Jesus, come on. Can't you buy anything that does, I know what do you expect for 20 bucks? Well, I expect the zipper to work like it says it's supposed to. And of course, they're both on this side. I can usually get these to, I just put them in manually. So let me do that. Let me get the zipper fixed. Wow, brand new stuff never opened. Hang on. Okay, I got it. You shouldn't have to do that. I don't care what it costs or how cheap or expensive it is. You shouldn't have to do that. So, there's the cooler. It is lined. Okay. All right, got a little handle here. So you put your stuff in, then you zip it up. Makes me wonder, is it gonna hold anything? I mean, this is just a preliminary review. You know, it's not the full review. I mean, it's a chair. So let's zip this up. Let's use both zippers so that don't happen again. It's kinda cool. So there's that. And you fold it up, just like that. It's got a little handy carry handle. It's very light. It's not as, it doesn't weigh as much as my camera. So let's go ahead and set this down over here. And let's set in it. Boy, it's tiny. Well, let's see. I'm 190, 189, 190. You know, I wouldn't try to recline on it, but, yeah, it's all right. It's not the most comfortable thing, but it's a little stool. You know, I mean, to a good backpacker, you know, some of it does backpacking a lot. They wouldn't even know it was on there. They could put it in their pack. It's small enough. Yeah, I mean, it's okay. Put your stuff in your cooler, fold that down. And you got your two handles here. But, I mean, yeah, that's okay. Really, just to sit, just to have a little stool to sit on, I think it'd be handy for me. I mean, like I said, this doesn't weigh as much as my camera, and I carry that camera around all the time. What I'm using here, it's two pounds. I know this is not two pounds. So, yeah, I think it's all right for 20 bucks. Do I think it's worth 20 bucks? No, I'd wait until they went on sale. You know, it's like in regular foldable chairs. I don't have one out here, but you know what I mean? Unfolding stuff, they got a carry bag. You can get those for 20 bucks. They're big. They don't have a cooler, but hell, you can get them on sale a lot of times for 10 and 15 bucks. I would wait until it went on sale, guys, because that zipper's got me worried. Put a couple beers, a couple sodas in there. You know, it might rip. I don't know. I'll have to let you know on that at a later date, but anyway, there it is. The camping folding chair with a cooler. It's more like a stool.  Yeah, it's all right. You know, I'll keep it. I think I could get some use out of it. Sure, as light as it is, I will add it, incorporate it in my pack somehow, and I think it'll be fine just to sit around. Like I said, you wouldn't want to sit by fire like this, you know, roast the wieners or having a couple beers with the guys, but if you're walking through the woods, especially if this is all you're carrying, you just want to take a little walk down the walking trail or whatever, which would be handy for that. Got you a couple drinks in here, carry it, and then you can just sit down and have a seat. Yeah, you know, I'm gonna rate it a three out of five stars and three being that it's, that I do like the camo. Don't like that zipper deal.  I've been doing that a lot lately. Sorry about that. So anyway, guys, thanks for watching. Shea Bearer the myth, the man, the legend. I'm gone for now. Folding chair. Yep. We'll see you in the next one. Bye-bye, guys. So I just noticed something, guys. Okay, if you have it like this to where you can carry it, and you got stuff in here, okay, you got your drinks and stuff in there, that's kind of going to be out like that. It's going to be hard to carry. Also, if you got drinks in there, you're going to have a hard time because you know, that's going to be full of stuff. You're going to have a hard time, yeah, flipping that out. So you have to squeeze your drinks to flip that up to use it. That don't make sense at all. A second thought, I'll give it two stars because the camo is awesome. It's got awesome camo, and that's pretty much it. Yeah, if you fill that up, I mean, you're going to have to carry it. I mean, I guess it's after you get somewhere, then you can put your drinks in it, but if I got a cooler with me, I'm not that lazy where I can't reach over and grab something out of the cooler that can be under here. It doesn't make sense, I don't know. Let me know your thoughts. What do you guys think of it?


Hi, everybody. Joe for Jasby's casebreaks.com. Happy Sunday. Coming at you with 2022 Panini Contenders Optic Football 10 box, half case. Pick your team number four. It's from a fresh case because it filled before number three. And big thanks to Andrew. Andrew was like, man, got impatient, was tired of waiting. Knocked this break out on a Sunday. Good luck to you. Good luck to everybody. Good luck. That's right, Justin. She might be a keeper, but you're the beekeeper. There's the contenders optic, half case from a fresh case. Right, so on this side, we've got 10 boxes right there, 10 boxes right here. So we're gonna roll the die. We're gonna go one, two, three for the left side, four, five, six for the right side, using this die. And it's two, one, two. This side we will say for pick your team three, which is sold out, but all we need to do is a filler. We just need to knock out that filler and give away their remaining teams. We're gonna go Boston Bruins scoring the goal to tie up the game, I think. There it is. Yep, they tied it two, two, beginning of the third period. All right, we're looking for two autographs per box, on average. Good luck, everybody. Graphs down there. All right, we got Kyle Hamilton blue. That's to 99. That's for Aaron and the Ravens. Optic illusion, say, called Barkley and Tyree Kill. All right, and your autos. Good luck. First one is gonna be Tyrian Davis Price. Rookie ticket on card autograph for Andrew and the Niners. And the next one is 30 out of 75, Brian Robinson Jr. Nice looking blue parallel there for Ryan Harold and the Commanders. Tyrian Davis Price, a LSE guy? Go Tigers, says Justin. All right, Terry McLauren, Damian Pierce to 175 for Houston. That's gonna be Steve Locke and Jamar Chase to 99. That'll be for Cincinnati. That's gonna go to Tom. Once again, Steve gets the Pierce. All right, and your autos. Jeremy Rucker, 37 out of 75. Rookie ticket autograph for the Jets. It'll be for Tyler O. 68 out of 75, Jameson Williams. You gotta know when to hold them. Know when to fold them. Know when to walk away. Know when to run. Andrew with the Lions. There's Brian Robinson Jr. Ah, Tyrian Davis Price is a bruiser. Became a true LSU favor when he ran for 253 against Florida. The Niners really used him that much? I feel like I've not seen his name too often. Well, the running that position's a little weird. You guys might have guided the league for years and then I'll just blow up for a season or two. You never know. Looks like we got some points there. So points will randomize, ooh, not a lot of points. It will randomize to one person in the break. Win or take all of the points if there's any more. There's still Packers, Aaron Rodgers, there's Mahomes, and there's Malik Willis, two out of 10. Unfortunately, Malik Willis' stock might be going down with the recent drafting of Will Levis, right? All right, the autograph is John Mechie III, 69 out of 75. I'm not sure what his status is gonna be going into this season. That's for Steve Locke in the Texans. Will he be healthy? Some battling some things. Leukemia, non-Hochkins, something. Forget some sort of cancer. Not the super scary, still, I mean, all cancer is scary, but not a treatable one, I wanna say, but still having to get work on that. Justin would like to see Malik as a backup if you were the Ravens. Yeah, I wonder if Malik Willis is now gonna be on the trade market, and if he does end up with, as a backup somewhere with potential starting status, that might re-boost his value in the hobby. 86 out of 99, Alvin Camero, and Kenneth Walker III. Alvin Camero going to the Saints. That would be for Ed P. The Saints get a QB too? We got Brian Cook, 18 out of 75. Rookie to get autographed for the Chiefs, Sam. I actually think the Saints got that, got another Fresno State quarterback, Derek Karst from Fresno State, and then they got, and then they got, what's McCall, they got the Jeff Hayner or something like that from Fresno State? Are these case hits? Seahawks, that goes to Andrew. The Legitness, nice, it's pretty cool. I dig it. All right, and the RPA is Jahan Dotson, Rookie Patch Autograph going to Ryan Harold and the Commanders. 20 out of 60 on that one. New case hits this year. Oh yeah, I see it right there. I dig it, that looks cool. It's Aaron Jones Atomic to 2020, or tops, Cracked Ice for the Packers. That'll be for Keith, Cooper Cup. We'll go to the Rams, that'll be for Michael. And behind Chris Olave is Jelani Woods for the Blue Horse Shoes. It's Anthony Richardson, right, for the Colts. Is he a week one starter? The Bruins score. Now they're up 3-2 on the Panthers, game seven. A lot of time left though, 15-50 left in the third period. Behind Olave is Drake London. London, London, London. That goes to Andrew and the Atlanta Falcons. What a goal. Halfway through this half case break. Second half is in the store, we just didn't do that filler. So let's knock that out ladies and gentlemen. We'll run the other half back. All right, there's DK Metcalfe Refractor, Joe Burrow lottery ticket, and Ezekiel Elliott. And we got Tyler Algier, 21 out of 99. Rookie ticket autograph for Andrew and the Falcons, the Dirty Birds, the ATL. I like that teal parallel, that really pops. And we got Jalen Tolbert, Dallas Cowboys. Ed P with Dallas. Nice little heartwarming story for the Dallas Cowboys over the draft weekend. I think one of their main scouts was drafted by the Cowboys. One of the scouts for the Cowboys got to put in the call for the pick, which was like a late round pick.  Which I thought was pretty cool. I think it was unexpected, he didn't know. Ezekiel Elliott, Tyquan Thornton, to 50.  That'll be for Andrew and the Bucs. Tyquan Thornton goes to Walter and the Patriots. And then we got Sam Williams, 72 out of 75. For the Dallas Cowboys, another one for Ed. And behind Valis-Jones Jr. is Garrett Wilson, 107 out of 149. Rookie ticket autograph for the Jets. That's gonna be for Tyler. Their offensive rookie of the year, and he's got Brett Farve throwing the ball to him now. That's gotta help. I mean, if he could win offensive rookie of the year with a subcar quarterback, subcar quarterbacking in total, but Justin's wondering if anybody from the NFC South will finish above 500. You gotta think the Saints, no? Saints definitely made an upgrade in the quarterback position. And they're in a weak, you know, they're in a weak division. So if they could beat up on their divisional opponents, I'm gonna, a couple other games here and there. It's probably good for above 500 for a nine-win season. There's Tyler Algier, 82 out of 99. And there's Max Crosby to 99. Raiders picking up a lot of defensive help in the draft. Max Crosby should get a little help as well, which is good. It'll be good for everybody. Andrew with my Raiders. Also has the Falcons as well. All right, beyond Brock Purdy is Fred Taylor, 32 out of 50. Old Jaguar legend, Fred Taylor, that will be for Ed P. And beyond Brock Purdy is Sam Howell. I mean, I've post-draft, I think Sam Howell's stock should either just be the same or actually go up a little bit. I don't think the commander's got a quarterback. There you go, Ryan Herald with the commanders, which makes it sound like they're gonna give him every chance to win the job outright and lead the team this season. And here's Brock Purdy for the Niners. That's gonna go to Andrew. Two boxes to go. Oliver, what's going on? My condolences to your Sacramento Kings. Did I say breakfast? Just making sure you were paying attention, Mike Tower. Just making sure you were paying attention. I meant Aaron Rodgers. Brett Favre, that would be kind of crazy. Brett Favre came out of retirement. Here's Mahomes to 99 or Garrett Wilson went back in time. Chiefs, that's for Sam and this Daniel Jones to 99 is for Andrew. Just making sure you're paying attention, Ryan. Or Mike, you can't even get your name right. There's Danny Gray, Niners, that'll be for Andrew. Now Oliver's gonna need a few days to let that game go. There's Romeo Dobbs, 56 out of 75. Rookie of the Year, contender. And that will be for the Packers for Keith. All right, last box. That's part of the settlement for his case, imagine. Although that's not this here. It's not the death sentence that it would have been in years past, Mike. Chats are looking pretty good. I'm looking forward to seeing some of the official win totals start to pop up for these NFL teams. Some official win totals as we get closer to the season. All right, we've got Tyler Algier, 11 out of 22. Cracked ice autograph for Andrew and the Falcons. And the final autograph coming up. It's gonna be Danny Gray for the Niners. Another one for Andrew. And there you go, ladies and gentlemen, that is the break. The next half in the store right now, we just need to do that filler. Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. And let's see who's gonna get the 900 points. So let's flip back to the main list, the list. Let's get everybody's names one through 32. New dice, new list. And person on top after 10, six and a four, 10 times, we'll get those 900 points, which is a pretty substantial amount of points. One, two, three, four, five, six, and a four, seven, eight, nine, and good luck. 10th and final time after 10. Yeah, Andrew definitely had the odds on his side. One of his last spot mojo spots helping him out. 900 points going your way, Andrew. And there you go, gang. I'm Joe for Jaspy'scasebreaks.com. I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye-bye.


Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sculptural processes originally used carving the removal of material and modeling the addition of material, as clay in stone, metal, ceramics, wood and other materials but, since modernism, there has been an almost complete freedom of materials and process. A wide variety of materials may be worked by removal such as carving, assembled by welding or modeling, or molded or cast. Sculpture in stone survives far better than works of art in perishable materials, and often represents the majority of the surviving works other than pottery from ancient cultures, though conversely traditions of sculpture in wood may have vanished almost entirely. However, most ancient sculpture was brightly painted, and this has been lost. Sculpture has been central in religious devotion in many cultures, and until recent centuries large sculptures, too expensive for private individuals to create, were usually an expression of religion or politics. Those cultures whose sculptures have survived in quantities include the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, India and China, as well as many in Central and South America and Africa. The western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith. The revival of classical models in the Renaissance produced famous sculptures such as Michelangelo's David. Modernist sculpture moved away from traditional processes and the emphasis on the depiction of the human body, with the making of constructed sculpture, and the presentation of found objects as finished artworks.


Okay, we are live. What's up, everybody? Drew here, thatanxietyguy.com, back again with Billy from AnxietyUnited.com.co.uk, whatever. How's it going, Bill? I'm good. It's good to be here again. Yep, yep. So we are up to, I guess, the third one in our little Anxiety 101 series. And we're going to be referencing an article that I wrote many years ago. We'll put a link in the video description, regardless of where you're watching, so you can follow along if you want. And this week we are up to what is a tiny little paragraph in my article, but it's probably a pretty key thing. And that is the idea that fear actually feeds this beast. Alright, so we're going to talk all about fear. Last week we talked about danger as it relates to fear, and today we're just going to really get into fear in the fear cycle. Is this an important section? It is an important section. It's a pretty important concept. I feel like we say that all the time, like every concept is important. But this is pretty key, I think. So, what are your thoughts on fear? Well, for me, fear. I've been doing a lot of thinking since we did the last episode. I'm thinking about the danger and the fear. And I mentioned something in the last video where I was thinking what comes first for me. Is it a sensation? Is it a thought? And then where does my state of anxiety stem from? But then I thought about the sensation. I would imagine that everybody gets the sensations that I experience. Like they'll get flutter in their heart, or I don't know, struggle for breath maybe at some point. But the problem stems from the response that I have in my mind when I get that sensation.  But I think when I'm in that mindset where I'm monitoring my sensations, that's when the problem starts. So it becomes fear. Then the cycle starts. Then 9 times out of 10, again, there'll be something else because of the response I've had. So maybe there's a release of adrenaline, more sensations, more perceived danger. The cycle. Yes, I would tend to agree with that. So we were kind of talking about that before we went live. It's not so much the sensation. And when we say that fear feeds the beast, it's your reaction to what you feel. And I think what you said is really, really important that everybody feels those things. So everybody feels hot or cold.    So when we say fear feeds the beast, this is where you start to make that cognitive switch or shift from not worrying so much about how fast your heart is going or if you're sweating or if your legs feel like jelly, but how you react to those things. And a self-talk and what starts to happen. And we should probably talk a little bit about, since fear, we're saying fear feeds the beast, we should probably talk about that cycle of fear or like Claire Weeks talks about second fear. I was thinking because for many people that initial, whatever it is that causes the anxiety in the first place, it's so different for many people. I think for me, one of the main triggers would be stress. And I don't know stress about what, just stress in general, but it can also be like nervous fatigue. It could just be, I don't know, Claire Weeks mentions a lot of things like after operations and stuff like that or stress as I say, or guilt or sorrow, all those things that can begin that initial cycle. Well, I think we all have our triggers, right? Everybody has different triggers, but regardless of what it is for you and stress is stress for me now, stress, sleep deprivation, more susceptible, right? But regardless of what the trigger is, it's once you've experienced that trigger and you have that reaction to it, how does the fear cycle actually start? There's always that first, and I think it starts with that first initial, like, oh my God, or oh crap, or here it is, or uh-oh. And then from there, we know how it can just start the cycle that starts to build. Well, that's it. You have that, whether it's a sensation that starts you off, or it's the first thing that you notice, maybe. But then it is, it is just purely a cycle. Once you're in that cycle and you've either had the thought or the sensation, and then you react to it, and then obviously that creates more anxiety, which then creates more sensations, which then creates more.  These sensations are harmless, and I think that's the part that so many people get wrapped up in. They have this and then they question, well, how can I be okay if I'm experiencing this sensation or this sensation? But if you have been diagnosed with anxiety and that's what's causing it, then you are in no danger. We're back there. Yes. And I think that's a pretty important point if you've been diagnosed with anxiety. And I think some people, they don't, you know, maybe they haven't sought that diagnosis, they haven't gotten it. But I always feel like even if you haven't been officially diagnosed with an anxiety disorder, after this happens 50 or 60 times to you, at what point? At what point is the rational part of your brain to begin to whole sway in some way? That says, well, this is obviously not heart attack number 65. Yeah. That's a very good point. Yeah. And you're right. So regardless of what the trigger is, and it's that initial flash. So I can relate a couple of days ago, I was out and it's funny, I had to put gas in my car, petrol. So I had to put gas in my car and I was pumping the gas. And suddenly I realized like I'm feeling a little depersonalized. I suddenly noticed that I was feeling that way. Yeah. And the best way that I can, I think relate that is if I would go back like to when you and I first met, that instantly takes hold, right? Yes. Yes. Now I start to focus on how I feel. Well, the gas pump doesn't seem real. I can't, I'm not sure that I'm really feeling the gas pump in my hand. And that looks weird and I don't feel like myself. And I begin to think about and really turn my focus inward on every sensation and every thought and start to have an inner dialogue with myself. So I think the fear cycle really starts when you react to that sensation. For me at that moment, it was that slightly derealized feeling. Yeah. And to me, I know success comes from me when I noticed it. And at this point, I can say, okay, I noticed it. Now let's just move on to something else. So I still have that thought that initial thought still comes. I just don't answer it. So I don't know. I think so talking about the fear cycle, the fear cycle really is fueled by to me having that inner dialogue with yourself. Yeah, I think I would agree with that. You have those negative thoughts and then when you start to answer them, that's what's carried away. And a lot of people will try and maybe they'll have the sensation and they'll just try and dismiss it. Whereas I think what you've just said is the perfect solution is don't just try and dismiss the fact that it's happening. Right, it's happening. Acknowledge it. Yeah, yeah, acknowledge it and just say to yourself, this is happening right now, but I'm in no real danger. This isn't anything more than a normal sensation or whatever. Or even if it's a flashing thought, it's that next stage. Just don't get caught up in this icon. Yeah, because once that thought pops into my head, I still have the thought and I'm just trying to really break it down. Like what actually happens in the situation. So it's scary. It's a little bit frightening. So it's like, oh, this is scary. Okay, I could acknowledge it as this is an unpleasant feeling. This is what's happening right now. But there's no more judgment attached to it as saying, hey, the sky is blue or it's raining. It just is. There's no good. There's no bad. There's no anything. And that's where you start. That's where you break the fear cycle. So the initial flash of fear might be there. But if you don't, I just keep talking about inner dialogue. If you stop, don't answer yourself. That's it. Don't add the what ifs. What if this happens now? What if that happens next? Or I think it's okay even to have that thought, you know, because it's hard to stop them. Like, well, I can still let that thought come into my head. I'm just not going to answer it. I'm not going to start to discuss it with myself. I'm just going to let the thought come in and go. Because I think what goes on in our heads is really what fuels the cycle. It just makes it worse and worse. Yeah. Maybe we should talk a little bit about, I'm not going to say it's irrational because in the end, there's always a little bit of rationality in the fear.  Is that ever been a thing for you? I don't really know, to be honest. I think maybe the panic attacks that I've had, that's probably the only times that it has when it's developed into a full blown panic. But what I notice with myself is like, if I speak to my wife or anybody like that, I'll always say I've had a bad day. But for me, I think the anxiety that I have with the fear response or anything, it only ever lasts for, I don't know, hour tops, I would say. I never touch wood, have a bad day where the whole day is just fueled with anxiety and it's fear after fear and sensation after sensation. If I break it down, I think that's why a lot of people tend to keep a journal so you can sort of break the day down into hours if you have to and recognize and realize that you don't have constant anxiety. It's not fear after fear. There are stages in the day where you can have a brief respite, even if it's only one good hour, and then try and focus on that maybe. I don't know. It's never been that. I mean, it's been that intense, but it's never been that constant sort of thing. And I think that makes sense if it actually does get into a full-blown panic attack because maybe you just went too far down that road with the thoughts. That makes sense. I mean, for me, I know that's what used to be for me. Yeah. Once you've had that panic attack, that kind of quashes the fear, then at the end of it, you get that brief moment of... Because you're all out of everything. Right. You're out of chemical. That's it. I think it's run its course.  It was just a panic attack. I'm fine. That magic moment of I'm fine, I guess. And I think if we recognize the fact that we're talking about here as a fear cycle, then that fear is really what's feeding this or fueling this. It's not the sensation of your body. It's not the annoying person in a cubicle next to you. Or it's not the fact that you're in a supermarket or in a shopping mall. That's it. The situation is irrelevant. It's irrelevant. It doesn't matter. It's how you react to that situation and the fear you create in your own head. And when you learn to acknowledge that, understand that, and stop the cycle from ever getting started to begin with, then that magic comes fast. Suddenly it happens instantly. And after a while, you'll even notice that it happens because you don't even get to that afraid part or that disturbing part. That's it. You don't need to feel better because you always feel okay. Is this acceptance? It all ties together. The response? A little bit. Accepting that, yes. And part of what I think to tie it into acceptance is, what's happening is happening. When I feel derealized, I just am. It's okay. So as opposed to saying, I need to find a way to make this go away. Or I need to find a way to get to safety. I need to find a way to stop my heavy breathing. I need to do something that's going to stop this from happening. Exactly. I don't need to do anything. And I think when you mentioned talking to your wife, and you may just describe to her, well, you had a bad day. But I think a lot of people, when we use those things, like as a safe person or safe to behavior, and we'll talk about those things down the road, but to illustrate the fact that it's the fear in your head that really fuels this when you have that distraction. Like if your wife walked in and you started a conversation with her, maybe you mentioned I'm not feeling so good right now, but if you get into a conversation with her, suddenly you suddenly don't feel so bad, I bet. Yeah, 100%. And that's the distraction.  It's because they got you out of that, whatever you did, snapping the rubber band or coloring book, whatever got you out of that fear cycle.  Which I suppose, at least being things that we would then consider safety behaviors. Yeah, we can talk about that down the road. We're going to talk about coping. Yeah, yeah. We're just saying which avoid not necessarily helpful. Right. They're not. I mean, they are helpful in so much as they can illustrate what's going on and point out things. But well, I think that might be next week. I'm not sure, but they're not necessarily helpful other than helping you recognize like, oh wait, as soon as I get out of my own head, things started to be better. Which is often the case. I don't think it's worth mentioning, even for people, we may be talking about full blown panic attacks, but even people who will say to me, well, I'm just anxious all the time. Every day, it's just from the time I have my, it's the time I go to bed. It's torturous anxiety all the time. I've said that myself before many a time. Right. And really, again, what's feeling that? You know, because. I think just when you're in the moment, you're so negative and wrapped up and caught up in it, that you just believe that it is that constant, when in reality it's not. Which is dangerous for us to say, because I think a lot of people will be, you have their feathers ruffled. It's like, we're not saying it's all in your head. Like it's real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's all in your head. Like it was all in my head. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You can watch videos that I've put on where I say, in fact, there is a video where I question, the only person that suffers with this constantly 24 seven. Sure. Well, the answer is I don't, I don't suffer with it 24 seven. Yeah. Constant. That's huge. That is huge. That's a huge realization. Yeah.  It's possible. It's possible your leg hurts all day long. Yeah, pain is not anxiety. Right. Pain neither is a racing heart. Neither is being in a supermarket or having to go to a wedding. That's not anxiety. You know, it's, it's what's going on here that actually generates the anxiety. So again, the bottom line here, fear feeds the beast and we have to learn to recognize that. And then when we learn to recognize that, then we can learn techniques for stopping that. Yes. And we'll get to that. I was just going to make one point about the fear cycle and that is sometimes like with the start of the anxiety and then the sensations, the after effects of the cycle. Right. Sort of when you do come out of it because I felt exhausted after it and that can then sometimes kick off it again because you'll start worrying about, I've got no energy. I'm tired all the time. Sure. And that's something that I've got caught up in quite a few times and then I'll, then I'll spike again and why am I feeling like this? And then I'll start feeling the other sensations and I'm back in the loop. I think recognizing that sometimes after you've been in the cycle, if you can glimpse out of it, then just expect that you will feel, you know, a bit fatigued after it. Yeah. That's true. And when the chemicals are kind of, you know, the adrenaline is doing what it's doing and then it dissipates and it's worth noting you can't have, and I know people will argue, people are going to get mad at this, but nobody has a 24 hour long panic attack. The human body is just simply not capable of getting adrenaline on a constant level for 24 hours straight. It doesn't happen. So you're going to have those ups and downs and I think sometimes what happens is we get exhausted afterwards, like you said, and for some people that exhausted feeling is a trigger. And for some people any change in state is a trigger. So when you go from here to here, it's a trigger. And then when you go from here way down here, it's another trigger. So those waves and again, it's though just accept that those changes in state are going to happen and don't let it get here. Don't start, you know, doing an episode on triggers. Well, probably somewhere in there we'll do an episode. They'll be just four hours. So many. Oh, there are so many. We ask people to like list your triggers. The list gets on fast. Super, you know. But so yeah, so that's what we're talking about here. It's just getting, I think, recognizing it first and foremost. And then we start to talk about how you can, how you can just sort of kind of get past the fear. Not fight it. Yeah, we're slowly getting further into, we've had to know real danger. Yeah. Now we're looking at recognizing what the fear is. Yes. Or recognizing fear. Yep. And then we'll move into. And not the sensations. And I think that goes into something that I've like kind of beat the drum about for a long time, which is not trying to address symptoms. Yes. And we're talking about some of that too. Yeah, yeah. The symptoms are an anxiety. A racing heart is an anxiety.  So symptoms seems to be the one key topic that I'll say that we obsess about. People want to know every inch of why they feel the way they do. You know, that's not healthy. I do it myself. Sure, sure. I used to do it. And I think it's pretty common when, you know, like, oh, well, I hate when I feel like this. So what can I do to make that go away? What can I do to slow my heart down?  Yeah, yeah. Right. So we'll feed it. We just said the field feeds it. So yeah, I think do we have anything else? We've been at it for about 18 minutes. No, but we still got a long way to go. We do have a long way to go. Let's see. Next episode. Let me look. We're going to talk about, OK, we're going to talk about coping techniques, which is coping techniques. Yeah, which is pretty big, learning breathing and that sort of stuff next week. So that's going to be helpful coping techniques. Yeah. And I think we're going to talk about coping techniques and avoidance and safety behaviors kind of dovetail a little bit, but we'll talk about learning the difference between them and what the positive ones are and what maybe they're not so positive ones are. Yeah. So stay tuned. We'll be back again. Yeah. This is good. So we'll close like we always do. Billy at AnxietyUnited.com or on just YouTube. YouTube.com slash Anxiety United. Yeah, YouTube. I made 4,000 subs. So thank you. Finally. How many? How many? 5,000. 5,000. All right. Not too shabby. Well, if you're watching on my channel, go subscribe to Billy's for sure. Yeah. Yeah. But if you have questions, you actually answered some comments, you know, so you lied. You said, don't ask me anything. I know. I saw you engaging people. Yeah, so I did.  I thought, let's do this. Any, of course, questions and comments are always welcome, whether it's on Billy's channel or my channel or I'm on Twitter and no one tweets at me. No one cares about Twitter, I think. They've changed the layout. A little bit. Facebook.com slash thatanxietyguide or just thatanxietyguide.com. Just send whatever comments and questions you have my way. Yes. We'll incorporate them. At some point, maybe we'll take a break from the article and actually do like a Q&A. Yeah, I was going to say, if anybody has any, because if we're doing coping skills next week. Sure. If you've got any specific coping skills or things that help you. Yeah. Throw them out there. Put them in the comments or on your Facebook or whatever and maybe we'll talk about that. We'll incorporate them. All right, man. Good job as always. That's it. Happy days. We'll see you guys next time. Yes. Good luck. Ta-da.


In the morning at Y254 channel you can find us across all our social media handles at Michelle Ashira you can find me on all my social in this particular session it's all about baking and cakes you know what they say about baking if it's a labour it's a labour of love and there's also the analogy that it's only therapeutic you know mentally, physically and all about that In the studio I am joined by Akulina Ndungu she is a baker and she runs her own bakery from home known as Laurent cakes yes Thank you very much for creating time to be with us Thank you How are you? I'm very fine You're looking good Thank you so much So starting us off Akulina where is this love of baking, where did it all start from? I think it has been in my genes all along In my grandmother she was a guitarist So since I was young I've had interest in cooking, trying out new recipes Alright so how did you learn how to bake now? Consider it that you had interest from way back in cooking and everything So when did you learn about baking? So when I was in high school I decided let me try out baking And when I did it was terrible I used to like get disappointed because of the rationing and all that Then I decided to do it professionally I tend to believe that one can bake, you can learn how to just put the right ingredients together And follow the recipe to the latter But how does one know how to keep different decoration and design And how do you keep up with the trends? My goodness you have to follow so many kick houses And then in decoration you have to be creative You have to come up with really good ideas It's all like Kitambo You get simple decorations, you just do flowers and all that You really have to go deep in it So how long have you been baking and how long has Laurence cakes been operating for? I've been baking for the last 4 years But Laurence I started it last year in November You know everyone has a story when it comes to starting their own business Some were once employed and decided to get into self-employment Someone was once just from school and decided to just get into self-employment What was the story before Laurence cakes, what were you doing? I was actually employed so for a whole year I was trained By one of the big kick houses in Nairobi And then after one year they decided to employ me I worked so hard at it I used to do most of the special cakes They are a bit different from these other cakes The diabetic, the carrot, the fruit cake And I got so good at it There are days I could do like a thousand cupcakes or even more It was hectic And I was like if I'm this good and I'm working for someone else Why not just employ myself and just start my own thing I felt like I'm not getting my worth So from that point when you've just seen your value And your worth at that particular time And how much you're bringing into the company So take me through your line of thoughts Now you've decided to start something of your own What was the first thing that you bought when it comes to a requirement In your line of job when it comes to baking? I bought a mixer but it was a hand mixer So it's not that good I would actually not advise anyone to get them hand mixers You'd rather even use a muiko or a spoon You just mix or a whisk A whisk is even much better You just use your hand and mix nicely If you can't get a nice mixer Because they don't mix everything nicely What other major things does one need when it comes to baking apart from the mixer?  Mostly from the wholesale places Or from the companies themselves Then they distribute So how did you raise your first capital to just put into the business How did you raise your capital? My goodness it wasn't easy So I started saving My salary was so little I didn't even get a chance to go out Have fun I will really sacrifice Yes Go home I just used the transport And maybe credit So the rest of the money I just saved it So I started saving like 5k per month Yeah Okay So did you have a business planner Like now he's the Lord in Cakes This is how we're going to operate Was there like a business plan? No What was your strategy? My strategy was getting clients first Because you know you can have everything you need for a bakery But then you don't have the clients So I started reaching out to my former classmates And my friends I'm baking You guys can order from me And since they knew I was working In a bakery In a cake house They were like We want to try your cakes Yeah And then I started baking I gave it a small twist Because I didn't want it tasting like What I was making before I wanted it to be special Something unique Yes So I gave it a small twist Yeah And they were okay You know like in every business That these guys Who like are so loyal They'll buy your cakes No matter the price No matter what And they bring more clients And then These other guys They want free cakes Oh yeah Especially friends Exactly And I'm like I'm setting a business And I really can't afford to do that right now So I kept the loyal ones And most of them have been bringing back Like other clients Other clients Referrals Yes What was the feeling Take me through the feeling When you got your first client It was so amazing I really did my best And I sold the cake What was the cake Which cake did you make for the client? A special vanilla Yeah So I tell the client Please give me a feedback And the feedback was positive That like this cake was really nice And the decoration too And I was so happy You know When you're a chef Or you're into cooking When you've cooked something nice It comes out perfectly The way you wanted it You feel like really nice Like you've made it Yeah So it was like the best feeling ever Alright And then after that She didn't even take long A week after that She's calling me Like I have another order for you I was so happy Okay You spoke about something Which is very important There's a level of fulfillment When you're a cook And just get You know positive response from your client Initially While you're still In schools And also learning the ropes In baking For the times that you felt frustrated Like When did my cake to be Quite the opposite Yes There's even a team I cried I put too much baking In cake Oh my goodness Which cake were you making? I tried rainbow I really cried Because it came out badly And then the taste was so awful Yeah Too so bad Alright So what are the flavors Do you make apart from You mentioned carrot cake What are the flavors That you make That's You know On show You know Clients just come In this particular You know I'm sure there are Particular flavors That your clients Always on demand Yeah This caramel Caramel is full of chocolate Mostly the ladies love that And then there's chocolate There's also zucchini And then fruit cake Mostly the elders They do the fruit cake Since it doesn't have too much sugar Yeah There's also my vanilla My special vanilla Yeah They also love it There's also marbol Yeah Mostly these are the cakes that sell Alright And Are they custom made In terms of A client has to tell you What they want prior Or do you just make them In the just scope of the shelves Yes They are custom made Yeah Mostly I get orders Like a day before And I cook them And bake them How they want it Plus the design Okay Does that mean like If I have a certain visual Even if I see a picture online I say like I want the same cake as this one And I just come to you At Lauren cakes And they say I want this particular cake Just exactly like this Does that mean like You can in a position To bring my You know In reality Yes Yes you can do that Okay So what determines Your prices for cakes What are the major things That determines that Mostly the flavors And then the size Then the decoration Yeah Because most of the time Like vanilla cake Can't be the same price With the fruit cake You see The fruit cake has Like a lot of ingredients Yeah And then when it comes to The decoration There's some decorations Which are really hectic And then they're detailed Yeah Mostly the baby showers Yeah All right Let's look at a couple of The cakes that you've made And you see Oh You guys back at home You ain't ready for this You ain't ready for this Let's see a couple of cakes That you baked For your clients prior So as we get to see that So All right You can take us through Each of these three cakes And define their names And the top behind the deco It's okay This was for a kid Okay Actually all of them Yeah It was a bati? Yes Bati, okay Yes They're all but the patties I did my bowl Orange for this one The other one was vanilla And then You have to like Bake two cakes So that you can raise it All right Yeah, because One cake reaches around here Yeah, so you have to raise it All right, okay Yeah And then Another question I have a burning question It's okay What if someone knows How to bake But they suck at You know like Decorating Like how do you come up With these images Are they edible Like the cartoons? Yes They're edible You have to actually mold them With fondant Oh, okay Yeah Fondant is the hard icing You know it All right I didn't know that Now I know Yeah, it's the hard icing So you have to use it to Yeah, to make the models Oh, okay Because you can't use Soft icing with that Okay Yeah, and for this This is a picture And this is rice paper So it's edible For the crown The crown is not edible All right You just have to buy it Okay Yeah So you should be Go so happy Yeah I want to take us through this Yeah, binten Mm-hmm This is also rice paper Okay Yeah And that is fondant too The flavor I think it was also Vanilla or orange Okay Yeah All right Kids really love that This was for a grown-up You can do it for What was the occasion? For a bridal shower Okay Yeah, and you can also do it for a birthday This is orange meal Mm-hmm It really is Okay It's one of my favorite Mm-hmm Yeah, you have to Bake it with oil And then the decoration too Also use oil All right So What's the flavor? Oreo Oreo Yes How long does it take to bake this particular cake? This one took around one hour Mm-hmm Yeah Then you let it cool Mm-hmm After it has cooled nicely You can decorate it It is also raised These are two cakes These are two cakes? Yes How many kgs? One One kg Yeah, you do like two halves Yeah For this particular cake How much will it go for? Ah, that is 2400 Mm-hmm Yeah, because you charge like two halves Okay Is there down payment that is required? Yes How many percentage? Half of it Then the rest you can pay later All right Yeah Okay, take us to this This is the only wedding I've ever done Okay Many more will come Yeah Because of the corona and everything Mm-hmm Yeah So this was a friend's wedding Okay Yeah, they called me and they were like We have a wedding tomorrow Please, please, please Please do something Okay And I'm like, it's okay I'll sort you out How You're able to work under pressure that is That's what I'm getting Yes So you're delivering photo For a wedding that is happening tomorrow Yeah You see, yeah, yeah I'm used to pressure Because the time I was working Like for the four years I've worked there They do like so many cakes And it was hectic You have to work under pressure And the cake has to come out perfectly Okay Yeah So for the wedding cake How many cages is that? 15 That was 15 cages Yes Because I've seen it straight It was Like 5kg below 5kg Then 3 Then 1 Okay, let's look at Tik Tok Yeah This cake Ah It was actually inspired by Tik Tok Then a friend of mine was like Can you do this for me? Because I really want a nice cake for my birthday Yeah I'm like, sure I'm so sure she loves Tik Tok Yeah, she does I love it Okay So what was the flavour of that cake That on Tik Tok? It was caramel Okay Real quick, let's go through the fashion I love this cake Okay, take me through that So it wasn't an order Okay I saw a cake online And I was like I want to try this out So you were challenging yourself Yes Yeah And it came out perfectly I was happy with what I did Yeah Okay Then I see the bride to be Yes So That was a bride doll Okay What was the flavour to that? And how many kg is that? That is marble to kg Yeah It's around 25 Okay Then you have the cupcakes Yes The rainbow cupcakes They're really nice So what does this entail in terms of The ingredients and the flavour? They have eggs And then They have this special kind of flour That makes the cupcakes It's not just the normal flour? No It's not the normal flour I usually use It's ready You just have to mix it with eggs Right And oil and water Yeah Then after mixing it That's when you do the rainbow You get your colours Yeah You just have a little colour by colour Alright So how early should one book you For a particular event or occasion? Mostly a day before But if you... That is the latest A day before But at times I I do have ready cakes Yeah So if you really need a cake You'll just have to take the flavour that I have But if you want a custom made cake A day before will do Okay So You're about to have a cake on set And Okulina is going to take us through The whole aspect of design The flavour It looks yummy Thank you Hamston So take us through this particular cake And Okay thank you very much Hamston Take us through this cake And the flavour How many kgs And yeah They go behind this This is a half kg The flavour I did Yeah And then The decoration The theme is wedding Yeah Mostly in weddings you can just do such kind of design Okay The flower is it edible? Yes very much edible Alright So do you offer classes when it comes to baking? Yes I can offer classes I've actually done one Mostly We've done online Because I can't let the guys come to my plane Absolutely Yeah Yeah But I've just done one So now But classes They're ready Alright so how can people find you on social media And just engage with them If they need classes in baking If they need to Order a cake Just take us through where we can find you on social media My IG cake handle is Laurent cakes You can find me there The Facebook one Is Laurent delicacy I just have this too Which is actually very crucial Especially Instagram So let's look at Just winding up right Have you ever been in a situation by your center clients A cake and they were like No this is not what I actually requested for And how do you handle that situation? Yes it has ever happened I was so frustrated So I baked a cake And it was at the party for a young kid Yes and the mother was not She was not satisfied with what I did How did you handle that situation? 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All right, everybody welcome. My name is Falstow from cyber trading welcome back We're doing a quick little broadcast here going on right at 10 o'clock when go about 30 minutes We're gonna do some live trading So everyone just stand by we're gonna stick around for a little bit We're gonna do some trading and we have our live training room So everyone here could just kind of enjoy and listen to a little bit what we're doing So if you have any comments chat feel free to just kind of go out there and share it. All right. Thanks everyone. All right, so Boyle just did what it did a little slingshot right here a nice little pop right there Josh Yeah, it ended up just leading to a nice little push right there. Just give me a quick sec and at the SQ SLQT we think that KPRT the KPRX is moving a lot. It built a higher low. I Was marking out a level on my chart this morning off of a 530 So I was looking for that to hold really well You know at some point today So if we could do it here then perfect But if not then you know what let me turn over to that trade right now while I'm at it Juggle a couple screens here so that 530 level is pretty important to watch I would keep a good eye on that at least especially for all this inside our live trading room You know, it's more of a level three or four stock in terms of volatility So, you know, it's not necessarily meant for a new trader joining us You know, if it breaks below that watch out, but that was a pretty big level here so far this morning You know I was just checking on level four on the SLQT kind of more or less just It looks like it's kind of hovering right at this resistance levels holding here pretty strong SQL is just taking a hell of a dive right now. It's had big support levels at 175 This thing just keeps getting halted and halted and halted I'll see any buyers out there until like 220 Which the SLQT? Yeah, that's you know, the SQL looks like it's gonna get halted on the downside now. Oh almost That was close. What do we got going on today? We have all this news that's going on right now Yeah, we had Powell speaking or I think a soon-to-be today, right? Yeah, you got Powell You have president talking tonight. You got the Super Bowl coming up So looking really forward. They're gonna teach everybody a little bit more how to trade going into the Super Bowl on Friday So make sure you everyone's here on Friday To listen in and then you hear on Monday See what happens fast to that KPRX trades making a really good push so far off that 530 I shouldn't say really good yet because it needs to really pop higher soon, but Student's job at least so far that 530 level, you know Josh. I tell you Hop on really quick on his CHGG That buyer showed up for a hundred thousand shares at 660.  There's one for 93,000 at 1645 another hundred thousand at 1660. Yeah, I'm putting up level four right now on my screen You could see that there Right at 1660 and also at 1645 just like you were saying Somebody wants that stock if this if this person right here bids it up from 1660 to let's say What's he moving in 15 cent intervals? See if he goes up to 75 cents boom, that's just like Three between the lines And that's pretty substantially big so see if it ends up getting that slingshot back over 17 Yeah, the hell of a Substantial he's been out there since 940 it looks funny. It looks like the same guy Right, but then there's someone else that showed up right now Because I love two orders out there not one my level forward data is a little jumbled up here It's not showing me as much as I should be seeing so I see the icebergs. They're there I see him at least from Tek-Lok onward But there's definitely more data that you have that I don't yeah That's right though the KPR X trades beginning to pull back That's where I was saying be careful, you know bounced at first did its job But if it's not gonna blast higher then for as much up as it is already, you know turns to the downside Freak below that swing train on boil by the way Boils test in the high Brian says check trades with AI. I didn't see that From a from from this past week Brian. I didn't see check up as much as the others at least Maybe there's a tiny affiliation with like the artificial intelligence or whatnot, right? Mm-hmm But you have that in background You don't want to fall in love with them The SOUN trade I was saying before you know just a moment ago prior to 10 o'clock at least You know 420 is a key level if it can't hold over that it's gonna tank So that's where you got to watch out that check trade starting to push back up a little bit I'll tell you the AI trade is making a nice little push back up Ryan Hopefully can break back over 27 cleanly here. I really like it I'm really good. I could feel this guy wants upgrade.  It's breaking back over 27 here Nice run back up looks like almost like a Fausto flag. It's like I kind of straight It's kind of stretched out a bit, right? It does. It's got to make that blast above resistance though break the highs I'm taking those factors. You know what? I'm removing SQL and the K the KPR exit that they're they're junk They haven't gone anywhere Until you can get suckered in Milton says bids on Chegg could be short covering potentially but for right now We treat those as as potential support levels that could squeeze the stock up If it doesn't squeeze the stock up in the time that we're looking at it That's where you got to say watch out You know, that's what we teach you in class there Milton That's what we'll teach everyone coming up this morning and traders talk as well I know that you and Grant and other students know that you're coming up But at least for all this collectively actually we're gonna be doing that on YouTube as well So, you know, if you have any questions, just make sure they send it actually right over to my email address I'll be jumping on YouTube coming up at 11 o'clock this morning actually technically the top of the hour now But Josh at c2tranny.com is my email address So any questions that anyone has students or attendees alike just in regards to what we're calling out shoot me a quick email And we'll be able to cover it coming up Chegg is not making that break over 17 yet at least and my SOUN again We were talking about this just you know for as much as it's testing support You know, I'd imagine for this to eventually break below it, right? You know, I did that earlier here. So it's not looking good again lower highs on that SOUN trade Certainly not running up as well as the AI did from just a few minutes ago Wow, you know what just a couple things kind of a cruise line It's pretty good Thanks a lot Lawrence. I appreciate the little confidence You know, it's a funny I actually you know booking a summer trip on on Royal Caribbean and Because usually we were trying to house down in Delaware, which you guys know I go away there On the beach. I think it's the first time I'm not gonna do it after so many years my uncle passed away A lot of you know who lives in Delaware my uncle owns like Grotto's pizza down there So we used to go down there because and stay at his place But now I'm we said went to a cruise this summer shopping around Royal Caribbean. I can't believe how much this ship is completely sold out and You know now to look at it look look you could look at Carnival had a really good move. I mean stock just remember it had a big resistance around 11 It just broke through 1250s been a really good swing on it Yeah, that AI trades now dumping off. So unfortunately that Fausto flags fail and it's going the other way my right here My S O you can't go it can't test that 2610 my S O you entry. It's tanking right now I don't feel good about these AI trades right now. It was looking good. Just a moment ago. I Like that boil that boils hovering here for a little while right now You know, I mean we we trade that stock so many times. I mean that thing took a huge huge hit Now that I think this trades inversely with the other natural gas ETF, right? I think cold. Yeah. Yeah, Cole was it KO KO was it? KOLD well D right Yeah, that's that's going down so that the other one should go up to the opposite Been a good morning though or again if you know how to map out your levels if you do what we preach in class You know, it may not be the most opportunistic morning But there's opportunity pretty much every morning in some in some regards. So, you know this morning on station Exactly this morning on Kano. It was a cheap stock and it moved up only a tiny little bit But we were calling it out at the time. It was right place right time Not not as much luck. It was more of a dud than anything actually long over today But it netted us what eat sense whatever on a cheap stock. Alright, it's cushion money It helps the morning out so where the bite-in stock I was talking about it's on it's just going down Which one? Biden BID you Remember this morning. Oh, yes. Yeah, I mean it's at the 8% but take it. Oh, it's filling the gap though It's a really nice gap fill there. Yeah, it's still get gap fill on down side The Lucy trade still holding strong here. You know, it's got a blast higher soon enough though It's just been choppy really since the market opened up as in tanks So if it's not going to make that big drop, hopefully there is room for another pop your soon Tell you I would Chang is holding Looking over here on the right looking at my market there. It looks like it's it's kind of holding there Really want to see this person bids it up They're telling bids it up. You got to hit it right away on the Lucy trade there that I'm watching I'm just looking at 360 is a key level If it can re-break that perhaps another time or two then we might get our high or high up to four No, we called our earlier to the SLQT. I took it off my watch list Yeah buyers show for 29,000 right around that buck 15 Right now the spy it really hasn't gone much of anywhere since the open it was trending down a lot more in pre-market It's starting to break a little bit lower right now. So, you know, you start to see something slowly drop off, but Not really too much movement overall since the open Coinbase took a hit, of course, you know, it was good in the morning Yeah, a couple of really nice pops in the morning looks like everything's starting to kind of like Flat right now wasn't as good as yesterday though. I guess all the news that's coming out today. Everyone's like holding off Lucky's moving. Yeah, I mean Lucy LUCY. Yeah, I was just saying that fouls to a second ago 360 is the key level. I'm watching there. It's on my chart. I have it up to at least on my screen the bar just showed up in SLQT It just broke the fit just broke daily high And on the Lucy trade really quickly just be careful now I don't know how recent it just popped up a 25 or 26 K iceberg just showed up at 370 Oh, it just popped up right now watch out there. It's got a blast that resistance there coming up On SLQT is testing an iceberg water right now 130. What a big pop biggest gainer on the on the New York Just ran 15 cents Lot of volume showed up. Oh, just out of nowhere. It looks like the Lucy trade to stop me outbreak even I was in from 350 and had a good entry at the time But when the second that iceberg popped up and like oh shoot, I know it's gonna likely come up here next You know may look to squeeze up eventually. It actually looks like that order may have pulled right now But that SLQT there's still holding and testing that 130 level That was been here just hovering here all day as it moved. It's going down. It breaks us 57 I don't have to get out. I mean, I don't know that I don't that many shares I don't do that much on it comes to a swing trade. Look QT. Looks, you know, let's say if it holds here It looks like it's look like it's making a little foul stuff like The last three bars it does it needs to still like just bring that iceberg there. Yep. He's still there at the 56,000 It breaks that then it could test 143. That's a neck 42. Is that the next resistance? Yeah 143. Yep took him out Almost he sold 20 Big green ball a lot of a lot of a lot of trades going off on time and sales Okay, so now it's probably just do it slouch probably do it's It's consolidation slingsh it's consolidation right here Stock that I was watching earlier, you know, just one of the AI ones the SOUN trade. I'm looking for support off of 380 May not be right now I'm just calling out the level because it's something I took the time to plait this morning. So I know it's pretty big It judges bringing up in your cyber group room. I says be careful of boil at some point it has to let off some steam Yeah, I mean for you. Did you think a good way putting at it? But um, I Mean listen we we trade that stock last year I mean we watch that thing go from like 30 to 140 back down to 38 all the way back to 120 I mean this thing does move by the way that The SLQT it kind of took all his shares out. So the guy's done at 130 Yeah, your next iceberg. I see there at 143 that you were saying before Yep for 60,000 everybody else in between got like 3,000 1,000 7,200 looks pretty good though. I mean, you know what it has a very nice trend. I mean, I love really like the movement I mean it's slow Not really what we were a fan of but you know this morning was where was it it was that? Wasn't on the watch list because really didn't move that much but was that what dollar? Oh three, but you know dollars Pick up some steam picking up some steam 136. I mean up 30 cents not bad thousand shares if you traded it Thousand-dollar investment the 30 cents 300 bucks 50,000-dollar salary. It's not terrible think that Josh from what I could see here. I don't know if you can see on your rim But looks like he added about 5,000 to that Offer at 43 cents. Yeah, I see that there. Yeah, you can see on level four Mm-hmm. All right, here comes Lucy. It's starting to break back over my 360 level very big buying level that we had here So it's kind of a moment of truth time here stock from yesterday the SO Un that had such a big run is getting crushed the more buying that we have off this 360 level on Lucy We should get it to push Trying to go up. Yep. I was just saying that Backing you up. It's on her screen there Rich is showing it up on her screen and I was just commenting on that 360 level there So it's off to a good start you're saying and it's just got a key pushing. It's a big level. I Love Lucy Too bad. She's just she's just passed away right not too long ago I am too sure on that. I know it's past your time You don't know you know you probably never knew you know who everyone here knows. I love Lucy She was an icon Very talented. I think those are really actors like you know back in the day Wow, this thing goes sudden. She's a volume spike. It just got on this thing. Just showed up someone's buying it up 360 baby. Yeah, it looks like we're just gonna hit $4 at 24,000 Good chance. I'll cover this coming up for all of us collectively in our workshop later this morning in about 40 minutes Our traders talk workshop Again for all of our students and members here We're gonna be doing that action YouTube as well for anyone there as well Just feel free to shoot me a quick email Josh at CT trading comm any questions or trades that you want to go over But I'm certain that we'll be talking about this Lucy trade here coming up. Why 360 really picking up some momentum here Why 360? We'll answer that question coming up. I way to add this SLQT also pop to it's like the train side by side It's gonna it looks like that's coming up. It's getting close to it's a 43 43 cents seller They are Thousand they really are kind of trading side-by-side. I didn't notice that till now. That's like a nice little correlation there Yep, we were talking about that in our audio broadcast yesterday at this time for all of us inside the live trading room Yeah, that Lucy's beautiful Love it. I love it. I love Lucy It only a 10 in a cyber group my excellent actress so far. He's so natural she was Now on the Lucy trip I'm sorry Go ahead. I was gonna say well on the Lucy trade. You got a couple of iceberg orders We got to worry about here at $4 and $4 and 20 cents So, you know, just that that'd be a good time to take the money and run at least off that 360 level Yeah, they're both moving up really nicely Qt's also really testing this it's getting there guy had a couple more shares. Wow things really start to pick up some volume right here Let's see if it gets close to this 43 cents You got two of them. You got two really nice ones. You got Lucy and you got the SL qt. Absolutely Or should I say absolutely? Haha I need to look at long-term chart here Okay, so this the SL qt's got big resistance levels right around 28 cents. It broke that obviously That'd be pretty cool. They could do that. There's a big resistance levels back on September 8th right around $1.62 and Sure enough, he's out there 30,000 share seller at 165 So not only could you do we teach you during a day trade you could learn it you could use it towards a swing trade The news out on Lucy it looks like they are launching Their audio eyewear line Do and I will very I'll tell you what though here's when they do that They now set three days ago because that stock is what we trade about three days ago That one thing ran from a dollar sixty to five dollars I think it was here's the interesting part because Benzinga Pro doesn't screw up that often for me Where it shows the company description like what the company does it lists the company description of Apple I'm like what so I'm wondering like did Apple like have a stake in this company or like what the hell's going on with that I don't know, but yeah moving. Yeah active. I wear a line. Oh Yeah, I'm and it's taking them out Come on. This is definitely you too. It's just like it's like right there It's like really like he's testing them right there It hit it took some shares took some four dollars. It took some orders out actually No, no almost almost almost got there. It's it's funny. It's like they know he's out there You know I mean and it's just hovers right just right below that 43 cents 42 cents actually was more yeah 43 Look at that Lucy just basically went to that five out four dollars and came right back down see that that's that's that's a very You know, that's that's very important to see how like, you know If you didn't get out right below that four Boom you just gave up about 20 cents. It's a lot SQT's getting there. No traded 9 million share when we sort early. What do you trade like 8800,000? Yeah, it was somewhere around there is less than a million and markets going nowhere Okay, it's coming up there it's getting there Send nasty shake on this loot on this Lucy Like a 25 cent shake out there Now it's trying to go back up a little bit Because it's a little day you think it's a slingshot so it's not there anymore though. You've done 12,000 I mean we talk about this every week and traders talk, so we'll do that coming up We just came off the phase one two and three classes altogether from January This is the point of the morning where if you have a small cushion and You're happy with it Then you have the chance to play and hold and do it responsibly obviously But you know you can never go broke taking a profit, right? So if you sell your full position now, you're gonna make a bigger profit then if it ends up just tanking and you selling Like all your position in five minutes, you know, it's kind of give and take so if you're content with your morning Then you have a little bit more flexibility We never need to be perfect on every trade as long as we're just happy at the end of the day, right? Mm-hmm quality of life AI is really tanking right now by the way Yeah, the SOUN trade broke back below my support level there. I took a really smooth coming out fast I took a small loss on the SOUN just now. I got stopped out on that last candle. So I was looking for the re-80 to hold It did until it didn't What's crazy? I'm just going through the big percentage the most active gainers on in New York And there's like stocks that I haven't seen like I mean we know wall we trade them all but like usually those are not the The ordinary stocks like snapchat AMC is the fifth biggest volume leader in New York that one's coming down hard. I mean obviously from yesterday AI Fourths snapchat is hi.  I want to stock forward stock What was the story? Was it like I said was a woman I was talking to the other day She wanted to take the class and she couldn't really do it She want you she want to get part of CTL get involved But on she just she was stuck in these positions and she was like we almost crying on the phone And she's like what do I do? I'm like I can't tell you what to do. You you the one I bought into I could just you know You can learn have an idea.  I mean like I mean I'm not broke. I can't tell you it's what we teach what to do But like honestly between you know, it's going lower. I mean like she broke through major support levels I'm like you like it or not. It's gonna test this 1240 and that was in and You know she was f1 and it's not like a lot You know, I mean, it's like a lot of shares I mean like it's not like it went down a lot But when you own a lot of it and like 50% of your or 60% of your account is all in like all in on this one trick You can't trade that way You got to be a little bit more diversified when you swing trade. That's what people ruin themselves Yeah, we were talking about that in the swing trading pro course actually yesterday in terms of just and it just popped up It wasn't like the main point of class, but it was just like position sizing and how you know for a day trade At least you really or for a swing trade at least you should look to Swing a fifth or maybe even less of what you would normally day trade, right? 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