Some people are saying, this is the best Air Jordan one of the year, but it's a women's drop. Are we actually even gonna be able to get these in bigger men's sizes? So in today's video, we're gonna be going over the satin-bred Air Jordan one set to release in a couple of weeks, and I cannot wait to break down this shoe. And oh yeah, if you didn't know by now, my name is DJ, and this is the DNA show. So everybody knows the banned Air Jordan ones back from 1985, they use that for the commercial, even though it's the airship, I get to understand all those different parts, but at the end of the day, the bred Air Jordan one has been iconic. We have seen multiple colorways and iterations over the years, and we saw the satin-breds actually release a few years back, but it was a men's release, and it was a very limited amount, and now currently we have a women's release coming out hitting the streets, and I cannot wait to show you guys these. So let's go ahead and take it to the studio so you guys can see all the details. So starting with the box right here, you got your classic OG style Air Jordan one box, but it was a twist. Now we know on the women's releases, they've done this in the past, they do the red with the black compared to the black with the red. So you got that right here on the lift-off lid, and then on the size tag it reads, women's Air Jordan one retro high OG black university red white, and man I'm hoping they come out with these in my size, we'll get into that a little bit later. Now lifted off the lid of the box right here, you have a little tote bag that comes along with them.  You got the two straps right here, and then peeling back the paper you got the shoe.  So initial first impressions when I saw these, I just knew for a fact I had to have these in my life. This is an amazing sneaker because it's a classic, it's a bread one, and it's hard to mess up when it comes to something like this. Now I know typically we see leather on the upper, but with this satin on the upper, to see this come out again with a wider release and giving people a chance, I'm excited for this shoe, and again, I really hope they make these in my size. So you know how we do it on this channel, we're gonna start with the bottom of the shoe and work our way up, and go over all the styles, cuts, and materials, and all the little intricate details of the shoe, and we're gonna be comparing them to the previous retro, the Royal Air Jordan one with the satin colorway, and show you guys the differences between the cut and how the shoes are made. So looking at the bottom right here, you got your classic Air Jordan one bottom, all red right here, and going up to the midsole, all white with the white stitch, and then to the upper. We have this thing loaded with satin and embroidery all throughout.  So now when it comes to some of the details on this shoe, you have a thicker embroidery here right here around the swoosh going on the red satin area, and then instead of a stamp or an embossment, like we typically see when it comes to the wings logo on the Jordan ones, you actually have the Air Jordan wings logo and black stitch right here on the side of the foot on both shoes, giving you that nice premium element to the shoe as well. Another dope aspect to this sneaker that I really, really like, I can't tell if it's metal or plastic, on the inside of the foot, it looks like it's metal right here. Yeah, so you have a black, and it's like kind of a matte black finish right here, metal right here on all the eye holes going along the side of the foot. So that's definitely gonna be a nicer premium look, and that's actually more similar to the previous retro that we saw in the past as well. Now the tongue comes with a black satin material, and a black patch with the red Nike air on the top of that. And then going to the sock liner right here, you have satin all throughout as well. It looks like the same material, but kind of a little bit different. Like it's a little bit more fine right here on the inside when it comes to the sock liner, compared to the outside of the shoe. Now these come standard with a pair of all black laces and an additional pair of red laces right here. And there's silver tips with the Jumpmans right here on the black laces. And let's see what comes on the red laces. Yeah, it's the same thing right here. Silver tip with the Jumpman on the red laces. They got the move to zero packaging. And then on the end sole right here, you have all red with the black Nike air. So overall, just looking at the shoe, you can tell everything's pretty straightforward. I think some of the things that people are worried about is the stains and then also the creasing. I have the Lele May Air Jordan Ones, and I did get them a little bit dirty on the toe, and I was scared because it was that silver toe. And I was like, I don't know what's gonna happen, but I was able to clean it, and you gotta be gentle as well because of the materials when you try to clean it. So I can understand why people may be shying away from this sneaker, but at the same time, it's still a really dope shoe. But one thing that I'm also kind of lary about is how it looks on foot, because the way the toe is shaped on this shoe is a lot different compared to the previous retro that we saw in the past. So let's go ahead and put them side by side so you guys can see what I'm talking about. So if you look at these two shoes side by side, you can tell on the royal pair, the black area around the front end of the toe, it's a lot lower cut, and it's not as I would say rounded on the front end, and it doesn't feel like it's as bulky around the toe area of the shoe. Now when you look at this pair on the bread colorway, you can tell there's definitely a difference on how high the cut is on the black material, and it kind of gives it a little bit bulkier of a feel. I've seen some on foot shots on the internet, and it does look kind of weird at a certain angle depending on how you shoot the shoe. So maybe for that reason, it might cause people not to like it when they put the shoe on and they see that toe down look, but again, it might vary depending on the foot shape and what size shoe you are, and so many other variables as well. Now looking at the rest of the shoe, you got that similar vibe when it comes to the wings logo, all black stitch right here, same thing over there. The swooshes, very, very similar as well. And then when you put these two shoes side by side, you can see they definitely do look really similar. When it comes to the overall design and configuration of these two shoes, sometimes when they do like a previous release that's more limited and they bring it back later, they decide to switch things up a lot. But for the most part, these do look really, really similar for the overall grand scheme of things.  Now these ones have more of a premium install on them with that leather. This is a sample version as well, so I don't remember what the actual other version was and then it has the stitching on the inside. But either way, it's a good example just to show you guys how these are also very similar to the previous releases, but in a women's colorway. Now one thing that I think is a little bit different as well is if you look at the sock liner in the ankle area, the padding, it's just a lot thicker around the ankle area on the new release that said to come out. And you got more of a slim fit around the collar in the ankle area right here on the previous release from the past. So overall, at the end of the day, I definitely think this sneaker is a cop and shout out to Untied for letting me use these to give you guys a review. If you guys haven't seen the previous video I uploaded a couple of days ago, we went through and found a bunch of different sneakers that they just got in the store and they had a bunch of crazy grills and I lowkey picked up a couple of shoes from there so stay tuned for that video as well. But either way, I think this is definitely a cop and I'm excited to try to get these from my collection if they make them in extended sizes. Please let me know down below in the comment section. But for you guys, I wanna see what you guys think. So if you haven't already, make sure you follow me on IG. You can participate in the polls and see all the results here. Ask some people a simple question. Is this shoe fire or is this shoe trash? And this is what they say. 75% of the people chose fire and 25% of the people chose trash and it completely makes sense to me. It's a bread colorway. Again, it's really hard to lose when it comes to something like this and I can understand why people may shy away from it because of the materials, how it's hard to clean or it might snag and you don't wanna mess it up or it may not come in your size because it's a women's release. You name it, there's a lot of different reasons why people love and don't love the shoe but I can understand why the majority of the people definitely like this sneaker. So I'm definitely interested to hear what you guys think down below as well. So drop a comment and let me know. And if you guys wanna see any other reviews in the future, make sure you guys subscribe to this channel. I got plenty more stuff to come. All right y'all, I'm out. I will never let you down. 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Hello and welcome to Newsclick. Today we have with us Prof. Jyothi Ghosh to discuss the food crisis and the food prices that have been going up again. Jyothi, the food prices seem to be rising again. 2011 prices have been consistently high. What is the impact that it is having in terms of the global poor, in terms of the third world countries and generally the impact on the people who can least afford the rising price of food? Well, it's actually a horrifying impact because what has been happening in the last say four years when prices have been very volatile, in periods of globally rising prices, there is an almost direct transmission of this rising price to food prices in the developing world. And in periods of falling prices, you don't find that downward movement. It's the first time that we are seeing in the last decades that the number of people hungry really have gone up by a huge number. It's almost 25% increase. Well, this is in fact just what we're estimating. We still don't have the hard data to know what has happened to consumption patterns. But it is quite evident that there is going to be, I imagine, a very, very significant impact on nutrition. And when we get the actual data in terms of both the nutrition, you know, how much people are eating in terms of calories and the outcome indicators, I think things are going to be much worse than people imagine. If you look at the consumption baskets, then about, say, 10% to 12% of the basket of goods in an advanced country goes for food. But here it can be as high as anything between 50% to 70%. So actually the effect would be much, would really be far higher here. For the poorest, it will be between 50%. There is the bottom two deciles or three deciles. It will be between 50% to 70%. And even, well, let's say for the next group, which is everybody below the top 20%, it will be between 40% and 50%, which is huge. And what we have found even little later that we have from the latest national sample survey for India is that there is a significant increase in the unit value of what people are spending for essentials, wheat, rice, dal, sugar, all these essential items. If we look at the price rise that has taken place, there are three arguments that are given. One, of course, is the imbalance between the demand and the supply, arguing that Indians and the Chinese are eating too much. No, that's ridiculous because, in fact, if you look at it globally, Chinese and Indians are eating less. The consumption of most of the basic food items for which the price has zoomed up, like wheat and rice, has actually fallen. The aggregate consumption has fallen in China and India. But more generally, if you look at global demand and supply, there is really no relationship between the increase in food prices and the behavior of demand and supply. Broadly, they have been more or less in sync. Global demand increases by maybe 4% or 5%. Global supply increases by 5% or 6%. So there should be no major change in price if you're looking in terms of the FAO data on supply and utilization. So what explains this kind of volatility in the market and also almost tripling of the prices over the last four or five years? Yes. Well, you know, what we found is that prices doubled or tripled between January 2007 and mid-2008. Then they fell again to almost the same level of January 2007. Then they've been rising again. We have now had 13 months of very, very high prices. Very prolonged period. It's a plateau where we have crossed the earlier peak of June 2008. And this, as I said, is having this huge impact globally across the world. But it's not related to real demand and supply. There's one supply factor which is important, which is the diversion to biofuels. Subsidies on biofuels in the United States and in the European Union have meant something like one-third of May's output and half of May's imports for the European Union. And about 40% of May's output in the U.S. is diverted to biofuel protection. But... Couple of the oil prices, two in some sense, the food prices, through the biofuel protection. That's part of the reason. But the other thing, of course, oil prices directly affect food prices because oil enters directly into cultivation because it's the energy, the input cost, the transport of food. So when oil prices go up, food prices will also go up. It enters directly. But both oil and fuel, food, are actually affected by another third factor which has really been, in a sense, the dominant reason for the price increase. That is the financial activity in global commodity markets. Can you explain a little bit because all of us thought that speculation is something that is inherent in the commodity trading. So what's new in this? No, what's very new is that we now have in the commodities market the activity of financial speculators who have no interest whatsoever in the physical commodity. Earlier in commodity markets, yes, of course there was speculation. But globally, in fact, in the international commodity markets, that speculation was confined to those who have an interest in the physical holding of the commodity. So large grain traders and people like that, agencies like that would be involved in that. They are not a large part of the futures market in the global trade was really because of hedging because you will either be needing, let's say you are McDonald's, you need lots of potato chips. So you hedge for potatoes six months from now.  So you hedge for your purchases six months from now. What we found now especially after 2006 is the very active involvement of financial companies that have absolutely no interest in the physical holding of the commodities. This was enabled by financial regulation in the US which began in 2000, the Commodity Futures Modernization Act. It brought in the possibility of purely financial players entering commodity markets through a lot of, I won't go into the details, but there were various measures that allowed them to enter. Now when the housing market was active, there was less incentive to get in to all these other new things. But when the housing market started slowing down, they are looking for other avenues, they enter commodities. And that pushes up the price, that makes commodities even more attractive. So more and more people enter. From about 2000 you find that there's a big increase in what is called the counter activities. These over the counter activities double tripled and they really track the futures price which then starts leading the spot price in all these major things. Normally a purely hedging market would be characterized by what is called backwardation. The future price is lower than the spot price. Increasingly we have found during that period of price spike up to June 2008 and now that we have contango. The futures price is higher than the spot price. It's driving up the spot price. And that's because in a sense there's an expectation of future price increase and there's a speculative activity which is driving up the futures market. The argument that is also given, it's the index traders rather than the original grain traders or the grain speculators who really in some sense oil the futures market. But the index traders only buy long and therefore there's only an upward pressure on the market that is created by the index traders. And this is one of the reasons that you have what you call the contango. That's right and well as index traders are part of what I've said the purely financial involvement in the market which is not interested in the physical holding of the commodity. Now the world is more complicated today than it was say three years ago when index traders I could say yes you know they've dominated and they are the reason. Because increasingly as financial players have become aware that some regulation is on its way. You know the U.S. Financial Reform Bill Dodd-Frank has got some measures in to control this kind of activity. It's stopping OTC trading. The EU regulation is also planning to stop over the counter trading and various other measures. So now in fact they are moving into other kinds of ways so that increasingly the kind of financial involvement is changing. So it's not a very clear picture it's not anymore just index traders that are driving it up. Now you have a range of others who even have the grain companies doing financial trading because there's a lot of profit to be made in it. So why not? So Glencore and Cargill are doing financial activity even though they are really commodity traders. Are we seeing in some sense a replay of the housing market that more and more complex instruments being created which effectively push up the cost of the, pushed up the cost of the housing market and now pushing up the commodity prices? Yes, yes but it's worse because this has a direct bearing on people's lives across the world. The housing market just affected houses in the United States and households in the United States. Here you're talking about the price of essentials. I mean food and fuel enter into everything and so what you're talking about is an artificial raising of prices of essential commodities that then get transmitted globally across the world and affect the poorest people. You've argued in one of your pieces that while the prices rise, the domestic price rises but when it falls it doesn't fall which is what you said a little while back. The other issue that comes up is can the countries themselves that they can do something about the domestic prices of countries like India? Absolutely. You see in fact that's what is so interesting is that there isn't one pattern across the world. There are some countries that have managed it much better than others. In China for example, yes there has been food inflation. Pork is the big one but I'm leaving that out for the time being but it is still lower than the other inflation. So in China the inflationary forces are slightly different. It's not led by food inflation. In India it's very clear food inflation has dominated and we have been much less able to prevent that global impact hitting us. There's no reason why that should happen because we are in a position to be able to control domestic food prices. We are in a position where we need not import unless absolutely required, where we can go in for measures that somehow protect both domestic farmers and producers and consumers from the global price. So we should be able to have less of an impact of the price increase. Unfortunately our government seems to have decided that we should be affected by the global forces. We should allow the global forces to impact us. I was reading in the paper today that one of our economic advisers has said that we cannot afford to let global fuel prices and food prices go up and not impact the Indian price. The Indian price has to be affected. My comment when I hear things like this is that if all these global prices have to be reflected in Indian prices, what about the price of labour? Wages. Wages. Which of course is supposed to be different from global prices. Which is very different. Very different. From the global price. Also an interest in becoming food secure. So investments in action production of food domestically. Yes. But you know again it's not that nothing can be done in situations like this. Malawi is a classic example. Malawi was another one of those typical African countries that was a basket case. It was always in trouble always getting into famines having to import food etc. Under world bank pressure IMF and world bank it actually got rid of its strategic grain reserve. What we would call our food stocks. It got rid of it because they said what's the need you'll just import when you need it and export the rest. All of that nonsense. So it got rid of it. The next year it had a massive famine. Huge devastation, lot of you know suffering massive increase in prices, hunger, deaths etc. The world bank IMF and everybody told them oh it's because of a failure of governance. The usual thing it's because of corruption and crony whatever and it's all your fault. Thereafter the Malawi regime which is not a great regime in many respects but they took a conscious policy to forget the world bank advice. To give subsidies on inputs on fertilizer etc. to their farmers. And to somehow raise small holder agriculture. Now they were extremely successful once they actually decided to forget the world bank advice. They became the most rapidly increasing agricultural production in the region. During the last period of food price increase they were exporting to their neighbouring countries and they were managed to sustain very low domestic price increase for their own consumers. Thank you. That has been very interesting as we look at the global markets.


Come on, JB. Did it rain?   That's me. Here's, good morning, good morning. I forgot to vlog some yesterday, y'all, so let me clean up this apartment. The good thing is that, good job, girl. I ain't speaking English. The good thing about living in a small space is that it can take me about an hour to clean everything. So, get up. Let me tell you something. I mixed some, we do edibles. With some liquor. No, ma'am, wine is okay, but not hard liquor. I thought I was dying, girl. I thought, I literally thought I was dying. And I was being really nice to my husband, so I was acting abnormal. You get boo-boo with his glasses on. You get boo-boo with twins for life. Me too, you momma's babies. You want this? No, I'm good, I'm good. Want to check the mail? He's excited, he got a $21 shell. We are on our way. We are the only people, as you can see. Maybe you can't see. It is raining here right now, and I don't know why we're doing this, but we're gonna go out and run a couple of errands. I have a couple of coat clothes. I'm gonna take back to the children's place. I'm gonna stop by. Mm, I'm not gonna do that. I was gonna stop by the candy store, but look at those arms. See, I definitely don't know chocolate.  Yeah, so what do you think you're making? Oh, Majora's mask, yeah. He put me to work. Is he still here? Oh, no, he's gone. He went to the house. Somebody else is coming to the house to fix something. So look you guys, with the remote. I need to do a little bit of cleaning before I go run some errands myself. Child, selling no house is no joke. So let me back up. These people who we sold the house to, or we're selling their house to, they did the inspection, right? The inspector came out and did the inspection. I'm like, hell, maybe I didn't even be an inspector. I could figure out what the hell's wrong with people's houses, but it's very thorough. So it's not the inspector's fault when people go back and forth like this. The buyers came back and was like, yeah, we need everything fixed, or take down 20,000. Take the house down by 20 grand. Do what? That agent called me first. And I was very, I listened to her and I was like, mm-hmm. And she was, you know, I'm a real estate agent girl. She's from California, so she's very real with it. She's like, she said they are very, they're nitpicking on everything just to let you know. And some of this stuff, like they even had on the report how much it would cost to get things fixed. The light bulb on the microwave, $52. Get a new dishwasher, $900. Door knobs, get the door thing. Like cosmetic stuff is totally different from things that are really broken and need to be fixed. And we have, even though we've been in the house for 10 plus years, we have been really well about taking care of the house. Hell, even when the cleaner came over, she was like, when did y'all get this house painting? I said about two years ago. She said, you keep your walls really clean. I'm like, thank you. Thank you. Y'all, that cleaner, I'm telling you, I didn't really speak to y'all about that. She walked in, when she walked into the house, again, to clean the house, to put it up for walkthrough. She was looking around like, hmm, does your real estate agent think you need to clean like this? I said, no, my husband does. No one but my husband thinks we need to do all this. She's like, yeah, because this is pretty clean. I mean, I understand that, hold on y'all, what's going on? Manhunt, manhunt intensifies for what? Florida, who's in Florida? Laundry wheel, is that that guy that killed Gabby? Is that what this is about? Anyway, that's just sad y'all. The cleaners were like, let me show you some pictures of what we just love. And I was horrified when they show me, her and the other cleaner were laughing at me. I was like, girl, just burn this down. They were showing me these pictures before and after pictures. And she actually gave me some great tips on cleaning, which, yeah. Anyway y'all, anyway, anyway. Today, dropped off J.B. already, walked in, my husband's like, I gotta go to the house. This person's coming, this person's going, blah, blah, blah. So, we agreed to fix five things on the report. Y'all like my nails? We'll get into that in a minute. We agreed to fix five things on the report, which we're trying to do everything this week. And I'm done, girl, I am over it. Good morning, good morning, good morning, you guys. It's Friday, it's Friday, and I'm ready to swing. So, you guys, it is now October, mid-October.  Hey, go brush your teeth. Go brush your teeth, you can look at them later on. Brush your teeth. We're gonna be late, we're gonna, it's late, it's after eight now. Child, give me these kids ready to eat. J.B. doesn't even have to be at school tonight, and he's still be slow. Anyway, it's Friday, we are in October, mid-October. Actually, I think it's October 15th, actually, yeah. Hey, stop that, J.B. Y'all, we were supposed to have closed on the house yesterday. Honestly, the buyer was supposed to close, but they're having some issues. So, we did everything we were supposed to do, we're done. Now, the ball is in their hand. So, the closing date for them has been pushed to the 21st, 22nd. When that's said and done, and we get our money, we can proceed with looking at houses in Texas. It is what it is, it's a process. So, besides that, I am going to be going to the gym this morning, really trying to. I have three days off next week. J.B.'s fall break is next week, so we do have some things planned. Even though this particular vlog will be ending on this day, I will be filming a new vlog next week. It's just really hard for me to, you're done, baby. It's really hard for me to do vlogs in general, because I'm all over the place. Go put on your shoes so we can go. Remember what you said you would do? Okay, but we'll talk to them and tell them about the new friends you made. So. Can they see you? No, no, they don't see you. They don't come out that dang on we. Tell them about your friends. Oh yeah, here's my V-games. This is the camera. This is where I found this little thing, right? Baby. Right. Tell them about, so. Tell them about the friends you made, okay? I made some friends that are not tearing, and. Baby. No, not landing. Not once. Jeez. Sorry, baby. And. I made new friends. Their name is Aiden.


Born on Sunday, 21st September 1947, in Portland, United States, the young boy grew up to love writing. He wanted to be a successful writer, but that wouldn't come very easily. Stephen Edward King wrote his first short story, but nobody read it. The second short story was rejected, and the third followed. One night, Edward started another work. It is a story about a young girl he called Carrietta. He wrote the story in the middle of the night, and when he woke up in the morning, he thought that the story wasn't good enough. After all, this is a man who had written three books without any success. Stephen King trashed the short story he had just written and went out to his day job, but his wife, Tabitha, had a better idea. She believes there is no harm in trying, and she convinced her husband to complete the story of Carrietta and get it published. By January 1973, King submitted his story to the publisher, and a different thing happened. Now, he was accepted, and his first successful work was published. From that point, Stephen King goes on to become one of the most successful writers the world has ever seen. Now, let's think about this. What if Stephen King had successfully trashed that story that made him famous, or he had stopped writing after a few failures? Well, maybe we would never have heard from him. Now, pay attention to this. Every creative entrepreneur knows they do not know the market, so they continue trying to offer the market the best they think they could offer until the market accepts one of their products. Yes, as entrepreneurs, we study human psychology, marketing, sales, and human relationship. We study to know about the human nature, so we can exploit the opportunities such knowledge gives us. Even with all our curiosity, we still don't know the market as much as we usually think we do, because you cannot know what the market would accept or reject. Your best bet is to keep on planting your seeds of creativity. Persistence had died. In my humble opinion, I think Mr. Persistence has died for most people in this generation. Everywhere I look, I see people who want to become successful by tomorrow morning. Where I look, I see people who pursue different shiny objects, hoping they could get rich by some chance or luck. Truly, creative people don't do or expect that. If you're an entrepreneur, a writer, a musician, or even a scientist, you must be wise enough to know that your first few works or products are not likely to be accepted by the market, for whatever reasons. Because of this understanding, you wouldn't just write a book and expect that a single book make you a million dollars. You wouldn't just release a musical album and expect that single album to make you the most famous musician in the world. As an entrepreneur, you won't create a product or two and expect those will make you rich. Don't get me wrong, it does happen sometimes that people's first work become successful, but such cases are very rare. What is common is the story of someone who has been in a particular industry before, experienced some failures and then moved to another industry, then have great successes in that new industry. This happened to me with my first book. Before I wrote my first book, I had been in the business world for about five years. With my failures and experience in the business world, writing a book about entrepreneurship made my first book succeed more than I ever imagined. Sleeping With Your Sword The reason why I made this video is to inspire you as a creative individual to keep your sword always by your side, because you don't know when the enemy may strike.      If you cannot do what you do every day of your life, if you cannot sleep on it and wake up on it, if you cannot offer your new product, new book or new art to the market, why do you think you deserve success? But why is it that hard? The problem most people have is that they wonder why it is so hard to be successful as an entrepreneur or as a creative individual. I have some ideas and I'll share them with you. You see, being creative means that you're walking against the crowd. It simply means you're trying to do what no one has ever done. It simply means that you're trying to be who most people will never be. Expecting this journey to be easy is one of the biggest mistakes you can ever make. I think I'm so lucky because when I started as an entrepreneur, I never expected any significant success in the first decade. Yes, I was young and that was an advantage but regardless of how old you are, you have to understand that the market doesn't care. One other thing I need you to understand is that most of the creative work simply means that you will be required to do something very new and accepted. To be successful in business, for example, you have to do something new. To be successful as a writer, you have to write something new or reform a new perspective.  To be successful in any creative field, you have to try something new and that's where the problem is. There's a problem with something new because if it's new, nobody knows what the market will think about it. Let me give you some examples. You and I know what the market thinks about a good lawyer. We all know what the market thinks about a good accountant, doctor or engineer. We know that if you're a good accountant, some company might pay you well. If you're a good doctor or lawyer, you'll be paid well. These fields are predictable because they do not involve breaking the rules or creating a new or strange thing. But when you talk about inventions or creations of an idea, products or businesses, you have to break some rules and risk. Creating something new and the market may just reject you for whatever reason. An example of this is Dean Kamen's Segway. Before Segway was launched in the year 2001, Kamen had been able to raise billions of dollars. The idea was so great that even the smartest people in the world, people like Steve's job, even fell for it. And that's why the creative work is hard. You simply cannot tell what the market will accept or reject. So what is the message of this video? Very simple. Keep on creating. Keep on writing. Keep on researching. Keep on making your art. No matter what area of creative endeavor you find yourself, remember the story of Stephen King. The work he thought could never be accepted by the market was the one the market accepted. You simply cannot tell what the market will accept, do your best to study the market and to give it your best work. But when the market rejects you, know that it has always been like that. Keep on creating because your next work might just be what will announce you to the world. Thank you very much.


What's going on guys, welcome to another video Today, you know, I have a few things I want to talk about That I hope I help you guys out and I just Totally agree with what I'm about to talk about. I think it's very important You know, some people might not like what I want to say some people may love what I'm gonna say And it may help people and it may help change their lives and that's my biggest goal is to help people and I'm just going off of my experience and I'm what I've been going through and What I'm gonna start so what I want to talk about today is Surrounding yourself with the positive thinking about the positive and You know Just just the surrounding of where you're at You know, there's a lot of people out there, you know, they're like I want to start a YouTube channel and this isn't just fishing related.  Well, what I've found out in the past few months has really changed my life to the better Has really improved my life and I can't be more thankful and what I want to do is I want to tell you guys my experience and Hopefully better you guys's life even if your life's phenomenal right now I know it can better it even more if you guys aren't using these factors and About surrounding yourself With what you love and say you're one to create a business, you know, all these people, you know They want to stay motivated. They want to do all these things. They want to be confident I want to say I'm motivated but they're surrounding their self with not not only like the best people but just around around the right environment and You know, your mind needs to be on the go on the right things need to be motivated and you need to know that you can do it and Being around, you know, the right people The right environment the right surroundings is such a big key and You know, I can talk about this for hours, but I'm gonna try to simplify this as easy as I can and Just try to get your mind into a set try to get a mindset to where, you know, you're focused on your main goal and No matter what it takes that main goal that you're going to achieve you got to put your mind to it You're gonna work your hardest. You're gonna work your butt off to achieve that goal But you're not gonna worry about what's surrounding you You know, I sit down a lot and you know, I have a lot of a lot of friends and everything But recently I've really been, you know I'm not saying this is the best way, but I have been trapping myself by myself in my room thinking about Ideas typing notes writing pages. I have a stack of papers over there with notes notes on life notes on what I'm gonna be doing notes I'm gonna what I'm gonna be achieving. I'm setting myself down and Just thinking about all of that and just not surrounding myself with negativity surrounding myself with positivity Positivities what's gonna get you further negativity is gonna bring you down.  I didn't care No, people didn't think it was where they actually thought it was pretty cool But the people think it's weird at what you're doing who cares But what does that matter what they think if you know what you're doing was right in your heart You know chasing your dreams and you're grinding every single day. That's all that matters It's all that matters.   Don't think on the negative Surround yourself with the environment where you're positive if you Just sit down. I want you guys to think about this Everyone who's wanting to start up small business everyone who's wanting to achieve their dreams Whether it's you know being a professional baseball player or you know being a professional bass fisherman or you know Doing good in tournaments or getting in the gym every day and start grinding Sit yourself down and think of your goal and don't have anyone around you unless they're gonna be positive on your life And think about what you're doing And I promise you if you have the right mindset about it and you have the strong Strong heart about it that it will happen And but it's all about around the positivity around you You know my family supported me a lot and I can't be more thankful for that. They've supported me so much You know, they're always by my side Watching my videos and stuff like that. They're always by my side, you know Supporting me watching me fish tournaments and you know, that means the world. There's nothing beats that you know, uh when you when you have people being negative upon you and It's just not the right thing to do, you know Surround yourself with the people who love what you're doing the people who want to see you do better Not people who want to see you fail.  I'm not doing it.  I can't stress over enough because of how much has helped me in the past couple of months Then I want every single one of you guys watching this to listen what I'm saying and I want it to help you guys in the future I I just want I want you guys to get the right mindset And I want you guys to pursue and I want to see you guys chase your dreams And I want to see you guys succeed succeeds the biggest part, but you will have failure with your success but Biggest thing is when you have that success and you will have that success if you surround yourself with the positive If you think about the positive and you have the right mindset about everything you will succeed It's gonna take time. You're gonna have to be patient, but it's going to come It's going to come Each and every one of you guys watching this you all have potential everything It don't matter where he came from you all have potential It does not matter Think about What you have and what like you don't have right now think about what you have and just go chase your dreams Use that to your advantage think about this, you know, there's people out there that you know I just want to see everyone Succeed and that and that's my main thing I want to see people succeed because I care so much and it's not all about me You know, I mean maybe You know it's good and just if I if oh I could put myself first and you know, I win But it's not about just me winning. It's about other people winning. I want to help you guys And I just figured out so much in these past couple months like If I could tell you guys How confident and how much motivation I have Inside of me It's ridiculous.  I don't worry about the negative. I think about the positive If there's something bad going on if I'm finishing the tournament, there's 30 minutes left. Who cares? Who cares if I had zero fish in the live? Well, I'm thinking about the positive I'm thinking about those 30 minutes that I have left that can potentially win the tournament Jordan leaf for instance, I fished the bassmaster classic at his second day He didn't have any fish before 12 o'clock or one o'clock whatever it was and he went in with four fish that way Had a big bag. I can't remember the exact weight But you got to think about the positive. You have to surround yourself with the positive Don't surround yourself with the negative.  No one can stop you. No one can stop you No one can stop you.  I promise you Just trap yourself get yourself in the right mindset. Keep grinding. Don't ever stop I have so many goals on my line. I have so many ideas on my mind that no one can stop No one can stop me No one I don't care who it is I don't care if I don't care if the president comes up to me that they can't stop me But guys, thank you guys so much for watching I'm gonna be making a lot more motivational videos because I want to see you guys win I want to see you guys achieve your dreams I want to see you guys succeed with succeed you have failure You have to have failure to succeed and I want to see you guys succeed I want you guys to get motivated. I want you guys to take in everything I'm saying I want you guys to watch this video again tomorrow And think about everything I said because I want I want to see you guys succeed I want to see you guys come to me and say noa you inspire me. No way you helped me Noa you motivate me. That's what I want to hear. It's not about anything else. It's about me helping you guys But I love you guys so much. Leave a comment below I want to know your feedback on this video. Please hit the like button.  Thank you guys so much. I'll catch you guys thursday at the next video


Good Friday morning, everyone. We are on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Jim Kramer to talk about the markets and Jim I know you just spoke to Mick Mulvaney on CNBC That was that was fun. I mean he called him didn't he really expect him I was hoping that that Anthony Scaramucci would call it, but you can't have everything You know a kill world is not perfect. I think that they're going to go down the wrong path First David was right. They need a budget resolution. That's what they should focus on first Second because the a house took away the border tax The house is not going to let anything occur that actually costs the tax payer money It's gonna have to be revenue neutral if it's gonna have to be revenue neutral and they can't be done You can't do it, which is why I suggested to Mick that what let's just get repatriation one with the exception of president I think I speak to more CEOs because that's my job I just speak to CEOs and I speak to Hundreds of CEOs and many are anxious to get that money from abroad, which is just sitting there doing nothing Yes, some of it will be used to buy back stock But a lot of it will be used to be able to expand because we actually have genuine Expansion issues here in the country that demand needs to be met So I think that they're going down the wrong path again Anything comprehensive cannot be done without Democrats and Republicans and they don't have either if they try to bust the budget Well one CEO you just spoke to with Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson. Yeah now Kevin we own this fraction alerts It's back to our basis. We did sell some at 64 And so we had thought that maybe we would buy that back We said it we buy it back if it really got hit, but frankly There was enough uncertainty in my interview with him to not embolden me to buy back stock But buy back what we sold and the reason for that as we say in our many comprehensive notes on it Is because they probably have to guide down next quarter Because remember next quarter and he actually Kevin said this they're trying to figure out what they're going to save for next year right now If you think they're going to guide down fiscal 2018 then this stock can probably go to 50 That's disconcerting the stock has done nothing in two years. It's been a coreholding of mine since Howard came back I don't want to draw the conclusion because Howard's not there because he is there executive chairman that therefore the stock is become a third rail of consumer packaged goods and of Qsr, but right now there's enough uncertainty that I find it Not inspiring and not inspiring doesn't make me want to reach for the stock. What did you make of Western Digital's quarter? Well Western Digital we have a very comprehensive note out to Individed to all of our people and I just prefer that they read that note totally all right now Amazon had a miss But Jim as you said right here the other day, this is a world domination story not an earning story yet No Amazon there are two components to Amazon There's the retail and I think a lot of people were surprised that retail didn't do better Given the fact that there was for in an earning space is given the fact there was Amazon Prime But instead they plowed back the money They're very opaque in the conference call and then there's wonders about whether there's margin pressure at Amazon Web Services as Azure from Microsoft and the cloud business from alphabet speed up I think there's still so much demand going the cloud that there may not be margin pressure But I'm certainly watching it. Does this make me not want to buy Amazon? No It just makes me want to be more price sensitive to me also at earnings from Chevron and Exxon mobile Chevron had a very good quarter and it shows you how much money you can make Chevron by the way had this is the fruits of the labor of What they did after Macondo remember they drilled once it was that you got the free once you got to go ahead for Macondo They drilled and they've hit pay dirt and those those wells are producing at a very good price Exxon I think Exxon is still trying to figure out there They're not going to be Royal Dutch saying longer for lower forever But Exxon was a bit of a disappointment simply because as oil comes down Exxon has been so good at handling that Chevron Was the star in this case? All right, and what about American Airlines this quarter American Airlines was a good quarter But the airlines are in cell mode And I think that you've got to wait till the selling to be done as people feel that the airline group has become once again Murderous to each other spirit yesterday was very bad. We have Southwest similar to what I said about Starbucks We sold some Southwest higher and we will buy that back when it comes in Southwest didn't make its quarter because of some very bad oil hedges that are that are coming off Gary Kelly came on and I interviewed him yesterday on Squawk in the street and again I mean somewhat like Kevin Johnson. It was not as inspiring as I would like Kevin Johnson being the CEO of Starbucks But I do feel that Southwest represents value and I like it when we sell some at 64 to be able to buy some back Perhaps you know sell some of the 60s buy some back in the 50s, but again price sensitivity is not a mistake here All right, what about Merck's quarter? Rook was good Merck is benefiting from key Truda, which has been clear winner over Bristol Myers We prefer Louie because Louie has I think a better product portfolio. I know Louie people were stunned by their arthritis failure It was not a true failure. I think they'll be back. They are a consistent company great balance sheet They did boost their forecast Louie is preferable to burn and Jim Tesla Model 3 deliveries start today Yeah, I mean test is a cold stock. I've said that many times to you Scott You can always talk about Tesla and I'm always gonna say it's a cold stuff. Absolutely. All right, Jim Cramer Thank you so much as always have a great weekend for more information on the stocks in Jim's portfolio Please head to action alerts plus com