Hello everybody and welcome back to our favorite little creatures in the dark. The eyes of the undergrowth! And today we're checking out a new and I assume a limited time game for the Lunar New Year. As you can see we've got the little Chinese lantern here. So if we click this Lunar New Year seasonal level. Uh, you know we'll do medium because we're not going to do hard because I'll lose. Kind of interesting to see what ants have to do with the new year, it's not even any of the animals right? Only three days is the new year. In the depths of the jungle, the ants are preparing for a great celebration. Okay, famous hotpot! Right, interesting so we need to get spices for the hotpot. Uh, wow, okay. I love it, they put into loads of detail for this, wow that's kind of crazy. We are now in China apparently. So we've got to get, what is this going on? Why do we have this whole maze? So collect all the hotpot ingredients. Szechuan peppercorns, fennel seeds, dried trilly flakes, star anise and cinnamon stick? A festive firecracker? Wait, what do we do with that? I don't know where the firecracker went. Oh, he's just got it! Oh, so it's just a worker that has a firecracker, cool. Good host of firehounds should take some time out of their busy schedules to retrieve them. Right, so in order for me to get that, I need to go around all this way. Oh, these ants that I need, oh, these are friends, okay. No, they died, okay, never mind. Okay, you guys aren't, no, don't stop. What's this, oh my god, every which way I go has like some sort of danger? Can I not just like pick scraps up somewhere? This can't be dangerous, surely not. Yeah, we're dead. All right, so we can't dig that out, we can't dig any of this out. Okay, you know what, this guy's got like a firecracker.  It's kind of what I'm hoping is going to happen here.   Oh, that is brilliant. Firecrackers turn out to be quite useful, yes they are. Where's my little suicide bombers then?  Right, okay, they're all here, yes, there's loads of them. Right, these are big boys, so we're going to need to, yeah, go, go, go!  Predators aren't losing the nest, don't worry, they're dead. Perhaps the ants could use this to their advantage. Wait, the nest wall's unstable? Wait, what's unstable? I have no idea. I'm saying purple, but I think purple must be the firecrackers. The workers, we can't make any soldiers, that's interesting. Okay, we need that hotpot, we need it to be great. Okay, so we've got a couple of explosions to do. Where, I mean, I used maybe a bit too many firecrackers there, I think we only needed one. So, without a mind, yeah, you grab that one, aha, you stay here. And what we're going to do is hopefully, hopefully...  Just kill them all.  Oh god, no, oh no. No, I died again, no. Well, we've got this squad, they've got two firecrackers, and we can get into here. I don't know exactly what these things are. This is really big, really big, really bad, I think. Oh no, hold on, no, it's not so bad, I don't think actually. I think, wait, they grabbed them all? Oh my god, sake. I didn't want them all lit off. One, two, three, four, five firecrackers, yes. Gorgeous. So now we can blow some stuff up, yes. I kind of want to blow this thing up, I don't even know what this is, but I want to blow that up. There we go, there we go. Go, go, go, go, go. All of you, not all of you. Okay, maybe all of you. Oh, that was terrible. Okay, so we're going to restart because we'll run away by the time they explode. I love this. Oh, there's a thing to not pick up the firecrackers. Oh, okay, maybe we should have done that. Yo, sweet. Okay, so we're going to have this nest, never collect them. Okay, that's great. And then we'll have the three collect this, and they don't collect any food. I guess they can fight, I suppose. I think that's what sets them off. Okay, so that's two firecrackers. I think that's probably enough to kill these guys. So if we dig down here, and risk in the biscuit, I feel like two firecrackers is enough. We're about to find out. Here we go, here we go. Get ready for death! No! Okay, so the tactic is that I just get multiple little squads of ants and then I can just like send them in as when I need them. Okay, we got one. We got one. That's all I needed. I just needed the one. Yes! Okay, now we will make strides towards this area. Okay, we got this. We're working it out. We're working it out. Here we go. Get ready. Get ready. And here he goes! All right, great. I've got three squads that I can independently control. So I'm gonna have this third squad dig out this one and they can have that load of firecrackers. Um, and then we've got this squad here. They can have that. Cause there's only... Oh no, no, hold on. We'll put those in there. We'll put you back in here. Cause there's only two in this one so they can have those two. There you go. Yes! Great! Okay, so we've got a lot. Um, what's the next... I mean this is really the next one I really want to dig to. I'm gonna dig straight down. And here is where it can get interesting. We'll have backup team in the outside. Or at least... Well, he's got one firecracker at the back. That's fine. Actually, tell you what. No, he can go in. Backup team can have the three up there because it gets hairy. Eh! Hey, bless me. Right. Look at him go. There's only one of them. That's fine. He will do great. At least they'll be hit once. They're gonna completely complode with the next lot I'm gonna send in though. Here we go. So send him in. That's great. And he goes... Boom! And then now... Yep. Here we go. Yes! No! He blew up the... Oh, he's good. He's good. Woo! That was close. Right. Right, you can be the food collectors. You can get all of that stuff. Ho, ho, ho! Right. We need the foods. That was a brilliant victory. Okay, so squad two. Squad one. You're now going to pick up... Oh, we already have one. Yeah, we already have one. Okay, so squad one actually already has a firecracker. That's fine. Squad two then. We'll go for the... Okay. I don't know who that is. I don't know who's picked that one up. Squad two. Squad one. And squad three. And then we'll know who's picked up what. Okay. So squad two's got one. Squad one? I'm so confused. Squad one, go over there. Squad one's got two. Okay. Right, squad one's got two. And squad two's got one. Good, good, good, good, good. Good to know. Squad one and two then. You're going to go over here. One of you is just going to pick up another cracker, and then we're going to go over here, destroy that, and then finally we'll go over here and get the biggest exclamation mark because I'm, I'm assuming we're going to need a lot of explosions. There you go. Yes. Right. Okay. Squad two, hold back. Squad one, you will go in and deliver the first payload. Squad two, stay outside. Stand by. Stand by. I don't know what this thing is. Maybe it's a big... Oh, it's whiff spiders. Oh God. Yeah.  There we go. Okay. Maybe we didn't need three explosions, right? Oh yes. Okay. So there we go. We're picking up some of those. That's good. There's still three more so we can send blue team in to get some. Team two have just one so far. And then, I don't know how big this thing is. It could be, could be pretty dangerous. Spoon stores are full. Oh, oh, oh. Oh, they're not going to be much longer. Not after they get all upgraded. Yes. Good. Good. Good. Okay. Okay. All right. So we do have like twenty-twenty of that. I don't need to worry about that. We've got, you know, two, you have one in. So, you know what? Going for it. Number one, be on standby. And number three, be on standby down here. Number two, you need to go in. You need to go in number two. Oh, there we go. There we go. Yes. If anyone comes through. Yes. Yes. That's it. Just the last one. Oh, oh my God. It actually worked. That was amazing. I don't know how many we lost that. We still got like one, two, three, four firecrackers. Oh, that's brilliant. Okay. And then now we've got a whole unit of them. Everybody get as many firecrackers as you can hold. Yes. Oh, that's brilliant. I think we definitely lost some. They've all got firecrackers. Now I need to be really careful about how I use these. Right. Any duties, they just come over here. Right. Let's clean up. Clean this place up. Oh, we can get star anise now too. Woohoo. I need a collection crew, actually. So this will be the collection crew. We're going to have a bunch of ants in here. And these guys's job will just be to collect resources, not to hold any firecrackers. Don't pick up firecrackers. Don't attack. Just collect food. You guys just don't eat. Yep. Don't eat. And you only collect. Yes. So you're basically the same. The nest group and four will be the same. So if I need to gather any foods, I can just place a waypoint here for those guys. Then go grab them. Also, there's one firecracker left. Okay. So we do have a couple of firecrackers here and there. Every now and again. Also got these things. The quest. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine. Oh, brilliant. Okay. So I need 10 of them and there's only nine here. Great. I don't know what this is. Can't dig to it. We're going to have to go round. By going round. Oh my God. There's so many. Some key spices that the Queen needs for the hotpot have been found. The ants should gather them quickly. I'm hoping to. See, what you do is you you cook your rice and you put a star anise in with a knob of butter. And it's gorgeous. There you go. Plop it in. It's changing. Can I save this at all? No. Oh, no. I don't want to mess it up though. What's supposed to be the easy way? Is it this way? This supposed to be easy? You go down here. Take on all this.  I don't know. Right. Okay. Okay. So. Really? We need to get to this. So we're going to take on all these. Dig this way. Yeah. So we need to go through here. Okay. Okay. Oh, where are all the star anise? Oh, fantastic. I still can only get workers though. Hatching is free. Oh, sweet. I mean, I don't really have any ants, but all right. Sure. All right. I have a dig around. Yes. Look at them go. I mean, there's one big thing in here. We'll have number three on standby just in case. Just in case things get truly hairy.  Just in case things do go bad. That's it. That's it. Okay. One more. Come on. One more. There it is. There's the big thing. Okay. Here we go. Here we go. Boom. Okay. Yes. I thought it was going to get hairy. Number three. Move in. Oh God. Okay. Okay. Number two. Wherever you are. Number two. I've also got this thing as well. Oh God. Number two. Where are you? Number two. Number two. Oh God. There they are. Oh God. They're going to kill all my ants. There we go. There we go. There we go. Yes. Okay. Right. We need to dig this out. Number two. Number two. Get in here. We've got that guy. We've got that guy. Probably only one firecracker would we need to take him on. I suppose. Number two. Number two. Yes. Go number two. Go number two. And then off you go. Only one of you. That's all we need. Just one firecracker. Go. Number two. Go. Look at him. What a legend. Sacrificing himself for the greater good. Woo. Brilliant. Okay. Off you go. Right. So we got through a little bit and we've also got a whole plethora of firecrackers here.  I love how they bypass the food and just want the firecrackers instead. All right. All right. All right. Go on. You go. Go collect the food that's there. Right. So we're getting somewhere. We still just need these cinnamon sticks. In order to get those we need to, we need to dig through this way. Right. Number one on standby. Number two on super standby. And number three will be the one going through the hole. This be dangerous. Like just, just try your best. Oh, number three is only got one firecracker. Oh dear. Go on number three. You need to get through. Yes. There we go. That's it. Just dig through the bottom. That's all we need. Whatever this is, and it's going to be bad, I feel. With that being said. Okay. Number two, go here. Number one, go here. Slowly move through. Is there any other firecrackers that we can get anywhere? Technically, there's one here, I suppose. You guys can dig that out. Is there any other firecrackers? So it's all purple. So we've got a firecracker there. We've got a firecracker there. And we've got one. Okay. So we do have a few firecrackers dotted about. I don't know if they're respawning or not, but maybe they are. I'm hoping they are. Okay. So the first, the first of many. Here we go. Okay. Number two is the backup. Here we go. Here we go. Blow it up, whatever it is. Oh, it's still not broken. It will now though. Oh God, it's not. Oh God, it's not. What is it? What is it? Oh God, it will now. Oh no. Okay, I'm already... Oh my God. They blow up and he didn't even take any of them with him. Go. Go my dudes. All right. Number one. Right. Number two, you need to go grab some of this. Number three. The closest one is probably this. Go, go, go, go. Because we're not going to be able to contain this out, this breach. You're going to go here.  Have you grabbed it? Have you grabbed it? He's almost got it. Number three's almost got it. Number three. Where's number three? Okay, number two has almost got theirs. Yes, there we go. Number three. Number three's in. Number two's got one. Number three. Okay, number one. Number one, go grab that one. Number three's got one. Number three's coming. Right, yep, yep. They're slowly making their way. They're slowly making their way. This could be death. Oh no. We'll see. Number two.   But these guys, oh my god, they're deadly. They- these guys are very deadly. Yep, okay, we're gonna pop this guy.  And it's gonna have to be this one. Uh, we're running low on food now, we can't block them off. Um, is there any other explosives? Any? Any? Oh my god, uh, uh, yes, yes, um, okay. Oh god, they're dying. They- they are- Okay, number three, go, go, go. Go, go, go, you're gonna have to pick up that. Yes. Yes! Come on! Grab it! Okay, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, go. Here we go, here we go. They're only workers! They're only workers! It's fine, it's fine. Number four.   Oh, number four? Attack. Oh god. Oh god. Someone pick it up, someone pick it up. One of yous, go for it. Go get the firecracker. It's right there. Oh god, we're not making this. I don't know where we're gonna be able to get more firecrackers from. I haven't released anything. There's too many. Did the firecracker- there it is. Whoa, whoa, whoa! Oh, you're not even near. Why were you no one- oh god. Okay, okay. Um, there's really- There's no hope. This is so hard, like- The fact that you can't really control them makes this almost impossible. Well, attack at least, you know. Oh, maybe that's why we're not doing any good. We're not even attacking them. That's bad. I mean, I killed a lot of them. It's just- what are we supposed to do? Okay, we're just gonna reassure you. We definitely lost that one. I mean, I assume we want to go this way? Because this is to the mystery? And that's the only thing that's there? Oh, did we do it? What do we get? What are those? Those termites? Okay, so what do these guys do?  Look at them go. They've got huge heads. Three big-headed ant-tiles remaining. Oh! Now that they're strength-backed, they will repay your kindness. Whoa. Or do I get four free-tiles? Okay, they cost a hundred. Okay, so that was the good tunnel, I assume. Because the others don't lead anywhere. Right. So that means that these must also be friendlies. Okay, okay, group two or group three.  Yes! Woohoo! Are you still alive? Okay, I'm not out of firecrackers, but- oh no, number two is over there. But I kind of want to see these things. Yeah, these ones.  I don't know what- are you headbutting? Oh, you ram!  Come on, in you get- yep, yep, yep. Just all blow up here. Okay, you didn't do too much. That's fine though, that's fine. Number two can come in now. Okay, he's too quick. Oh well, his friend's dead. Right, okay. Number three, you've got at least- Oh, you've got three! Brilliant! Oh, this is not so good. Rammers. I don't even know where I put the rammers. There they come. Brilliant! Oh, it's so nice to actually have something that can fight back. Alright then, everybody, another restock. Because we now- oh, we can- so we can use the firecrackers to break through walls. That's interesting. I kind of- I want two here. I want three here as well. Just because if I can- if I can just blow through this bit here, I'm good. Like, it's smooth sailing all the way. I don't know what this is. Oh, it's just millipedes. Yep, he's gonna blow. The blowing commences. Yes! We did it! We broke through! Okay, so now, we can pretty much just go all the way and get our friends. Wait, we're on a timer? No, we're not. This is progression. That's what's happening. Ah! So what we could have done is like, when pass them, picked up the bombs and then instantly exploded and got through.  Yes! Ah, look at them go! Mmm, put that in some mulled wine. It'll be beautiful. Or a hot pot. You know, that too. Food is worth double! Alright, so what we got here? We got trap jaws? Trap jaws. They're not the best kind of vans, but I guess they'll do. Right, so apparently food is worth double now.  Yes! So we've got trap jaws here now. We're gonna have a full party! Right, so let's dig out the trap jaws. I don't think we're gonna get too many of these ones, because they are expensive. 140 each? Okay, so I don't have the star anise anymore. They, it was here? I remember the star anise being here. Oh, so they switch them around all the time. Oh, that's kinda cool. Oh, the green venomous spiders. Okay, so I wanna get the star anise. Apparently I need to go through a whole tunnel in order to get to get that. The journey of a thousand miles. Is that what this is? They're calling out their journey of a thousand miles. How about this one then? This one doesn't seem so bad. I've never had these things before. I want all of them. More! They're so good. Look at them go. They just tear apart everything. They're what they are. They'll tear my heads. Oh, God. Oh, God, they're coming. They're coming. They're coming. They're coming. I know what they're doing. Okay, yeah. Let's go, let's go, let's go. We can take them on. We can take them on. We got loads of ram heads. Oh, my God. We can stun them. Not bad. Not bad. You know, not bad at all. You all died. Did they trip over? I think they do. They trip over their giant heads. That's interesting. Time until dinner. Oh, my God. I didn't realize there was a timer. Okay, so I've got to be quick now. Right. Did not know I had a timer. There's gonna be a lot of things in here, but we need to explode it. Ah! Yes! Boom! Okay, now to slowly kill... Oh, set my hand over there. Okay, right. I think we need to surround them. So we're gonna have to retreat for a second, but literally just for a second. All right, all right, all right. You guys aren't collecting food. We're here for one thing, and that's to collect that. Actually, you know what? You guys can collect food, I suppose. You can go here. You can collect food. These guys don't have that on the menu. I don't like these. For the fire ants? I don't think it's worth it. Collect all the hot pot ingredients, and that's pretty much it. Whether people come to the hot pot, we've already got some. It's fine. And let's do extra damage. Oh, heck yeah. Here comes the army. Extra damages! Oh, this is brilliant. Oh, wow. We just killed them. Everyone get up here, and then when you get up here, we grab the ingredients, and then we just need two more. Everyone needs to get up here, because if they don't, they're gonna collect from this pile of dead bodies. If we're not careful. Time is not on our side. I was lucky that I got that damage boost while I took this on, because I think, apart from that, maybe these? I don't know which one's gonna be the hardest, really. Okay, okay, okay. We got a lot, we got a lot. Okay, okay, okay, okay. Next one, next one. I don't know what this is. Oh my god, that's the journey of a thousand miles. Ants are very fast. Oh, that's brilliant, yes! I mean, I'm assuming do you need leaf cutters to break that out?  Okay, that seems to be the easiest one. It's literally just break through this fence. We could just put like four separate ones, and then have them go for it. Oh, look at the speed, they're blurry. So we'll put those guys onto here, just to see what they got. Okay, so this would be the next mission. It's just, it's the front. My worry is that it's gonna take ages to get back to. I mean, there's only 10. One, two, three, four, five. Okay, there's just one more. We can go back. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Everyone who's in here, turn back around. Oh god, yep. No, we're not gonna be able to do it. Like this is ridiculous. Some of them have just cleared the halfway point there. The first one got out. Yeah, look at you go, you did it. You cleared the crystal maze. Okay, and there's a lot of deadly stuff here now. Like, it's just gotten worse the longer this has went on. My god. Well, I did it right. Like, I got the speed power up at the right time. Yeah, it's kind of a bit tricky.  And the ants would have to go to bed. I agree. We've got some. Some of the, some of the hot point wasn't all empty. There was like a cinnamon stick in there and something else. I'm gonna leave it here guys. But good luck doing this one. I think if I was thinking about another shot I probably would be able to do it. But dude, I do not have time to spend like another like two or three hours on it. I'm just like a single level. But it's loads of fun. If you try this video and leave a like until next time, I'll see you cuties later. Oh, buh-bye.


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So make sure that you go down, hit the subscribe button, hit the thumbs up button that helps out this channel more than that you could even imagine. If you want to help out just a little bit more and you already subscribe, hit that notification bill so you don't miss out on any future videos. Let's turn that 65% to around 60% of you guys. All right. So right now we're on NEO before I show you guys exactly how I find stocks that have high in volatility. Let me show you guys why we want to find those stocks. So the first thing that we want to do, we want to go to a company, look out for the last month, see what their lowest point is $20.46. Then we want to scroll down and make sure that they don't have any earnings reports coming up right now. And their theirs is on 311. So that is another week from now. So it's not this current week. So now that we see what their lowest price was over the last month and seeing that the earnings report is not coming up, let me show you guys how to look at the implied volatility before I show you guys how I find these stocks. So right now you'll probably start off with a say buy call, but we're doing the first leg of the strategy. All we're going to do for this entire strategy is sale options. Really going to sell a call or we're going to sell a put. So right now we're selling a put. Well, we have $4,000 on account and NEO is around $20. NEO is an electric car company over in China. So we've seen that the lowest price point was $20 and 40 cents. We want to scroll all the way down to a chance of profit of around 80 of around 80 percent or look for certain deltas. Right. So I'm going to talk about the deltas more inside the discord. But right now we can look at the chance of profit. The chance of profit right here for the 1850 strike is 81 percent. So there created us 32 cents per share times 100 shares. So that created us $32 to our account from doing this one. So right now the applied volatility on this strike price right here is where it says IV is 126 percent. So I have a high implied volatility this week, which is amazing. But just to be safe, guys, just to be safe, let's go to the chance of profit 84 percent. That's us saying that if NEO pulls all the way back to $18, we'll buy 100 shares at $18. If it stays above $18, then we just get to keep our $1800 and we get to keep the premium of $25 right here and apply volatility on this one. It's a hundred and thirty one. So that's even better. So we scroll down. It's going to give it. It's going to credit us $25. Right. It's going to cost us 1800. So we started off with $4,000. Right. So let's say we bought two and then they'll give us $50. So let's see what percentage that is 25 and 18. So $25 divided by 1800. That is 1.3 percent. So the $25 that we will receive from doing this cash secure put on NEO for this week will generate us 1.38 percent. Guys, that is amazing. And that's just in one week. And we can find stocks like this all the time. So if we do this every single week for an entire year, multiply that by 52. It's not going to be that hard to find. That is a 72 percent profit in just a single year. Now, during the challenge, I'm not going to be as risky sometimes as going to be better. Percentage sometimes is going to be worse percentage. But a good percentage would be 0.8 percent. So 0.008 percent times 52. That's going to be 41 percent. So we're going to look to grow our account by 41 to 60 percent in a given year. So give or take will make a profit of around 50 percent every single year. So let me pull up a compound interest calculator and then I'm going to show you guys how I find these stocks that have very high implied volatility. All right. Here we are on a compound interest calculator. Let's say we started off with just $4,000. Here we are $4,000 and we're not investing any more money at all. We're just going to stay at zero dollars. So now let's say lifetime that we're going to do five or six years. And then I estimate return. Remember, I mean, just like the NIO one where we can make 72 percent a year is not going to always be that great. But we're looking for around 1 percent every single week. So let's type in 52 enter or don't let us type in 52. So let's just keep with 50 percent. We make 50 percent every single year. So there we go. After five years, we will have turned $4,000 into $30,000. And let me show you guys the power of compound interest. After year five, we have $30,000. After year 10, there we go. We will have $230,000 in just 10 years, starting off with $4,000. Once again, here go to power of compound interest. Let's go from 10 years to 15 years. So in just 15 years, you can have $1.7 million. And let's go to 20 years. If you start at age 20, now you're 40. You'll have $13 million inside of your trading account. $13 million. And if you was just to take that and go just a couple more years out for the average investor, 30 years, you'll have over three fourths of a billion dollars worth inside your trading account just from compound interest and from us running the real strategy inside the stock market. Are you going to always win? No, you're not going to always win. You are going to have your up and downs. But as long as you're having more ups, as long as you're winning more than you're losing and calculating your percentage will and taking your calculated risk, then I think that in 30 years you could have around four hundred, five hundred million dollars if you are doing it consistently every single week. And just in the stock market is still a thing in 30 years. Who knows? It could the world could be ran by cryptocurrency. So this is an amazing opportunity, guys, if you want to keep up with my steps. Now, here's how I find stocks with high implied volatility. Here we are on the option visualizer. This is the parameters that I set up the strike price anywhere from $10 to $50 because we only started off for $4,000. So we used to do NEO, NEO was $20. We just put in two option calls for NEO and we'll end up getting $50 other than 25. So we're starting off with $4,000. The expiration period, you want to make it weekly distance from strike price zero to 20 percent implied volatility, anything over 100 to 500 percent. So right now we want to look for stocks that have a high implied volatility. And right now we're on the first leg of the real strategy, which is cash secure put. So we're only looking for puts. Then you want to sort it by market capitalization. This will put the top companies with the highest market caps at the top compared to penny stocks that's going to have high implied volatility at the bottom. We're going to hit execute Curry and then let's roll down. So here we are. This is how new NEO had a high implied volatility of over 100 percent. And I have a pretty good market cap. Another company that would be interested in will be Rocket RKT. This is another company that I would do with strategy on. Another one is plug. Even though I do think plug is having that earnings coming up. Billy will be another one. I would run the real strategy on AFRM will be another one. I run the real strategy on AMC have their earnings this week. And then gap, they also have that earnings week this week. But gap is at a price right now is that I do not mind buying 100 shares of gap at $10 or $12. So even though gap has probably one of the highest implied volatility of all these other companies, even though the chance of profit will be a little less, I would not mind going into the second leg of gap just because of the price that they add and that it is on a downtrend. And we could be buying a dip on gap. So just remember inside the discord, I'm going to walk you guys through a step by step and exactly what company I'm going to run. I might not even pick me or I might pick a different company after I go through and do the technical analysis on these companies. That's when I will post the final stock inside of the discourse. If you guys want to do it yourself, so go to option visualizer. You can run the numbers yourself. You're using any compound interest calculator. So if you guys want to keep up with me, remember that link is going to be down in the comment section. And there we go, dreamers. I'm very excited to get this challenge started. Hopefully it all goes well. I'm hoping the first week that I run this strategy that we do not have to execute our secure puts and that we go on to the second step. So you guys will know if I'm on the second step because if I put out a video next week during the second step of the strategy, then you know that it has to execute. And then we'll just keep it rolling, keep the whole thing going. But for now, I'm going to continue to do it on companies that I've been doing it on for a while and going to post those inside the discourse. So right now we're going to start with $4,000. Anybody that want to be a part of the challenge, that link is down in the comment section. But don't forget to pick up your three free stocks for Webull. It's free money, guys. I will not be telling you about it if it wasn't a free opportunity. But other than that, I'm Zeep. Bring you to Dream Grand Show and I'm out. Peace.


The Kraft Foods Company presents Harold Perry as the Great Gelder Sleeve. The Great Gelder Sleeve is brought to you by the Kraft Foods Company makers of Parquet Margarine. Millions of women all over America serve Parquet because it tastes so good. Why, Parquet tastes like it should cost twice as much. Do market, do market, do get some Parquet. Home again, home again, try it some day. You like it, you love it like millions who say their favorite Margarine needs. Parquet Margarine made by Kraft. Well, it's early evening in Summerfield and we find the Great Gelder Sleeve tiptoeing up his porch steps with a twinkle in his eye and Christmas packages in his pockets. Hope I can sneak in the house and hide these presents without the little family catching me. So far, so good. Birdie out in the kitchen, I guess. I think I can sneak by to the stairs without her seeing me. No, Birdie, just some Christmas presents. I want to hide them.  Yes, Birdie. Nothing, Marjorie. Apparently I am, Leroy. Left to dinner. Why does everybody want to catch Santa Claus? Maybe you seem to enjoy romping down here on the floor. But, baby, we better get up. It's almost your bedtime. But, baby, I have to hide those presents from the kids. That may be, but I've been down here long enough. Oh, but you look so comfy flat on your back. Put it up on your knees again.  All right, it's one way to settle my dinner. Next time I get to slide down. Leroy, I don't want to settle it that bad. You're too big. Well, here we go, baby. Are you ready? The slide for life. One for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go. That'll have to do for now.  Hop down on the floor now. Hey, wait a minute.  Look how fast you can crawl on feet. Yeah, I guess we have Birdie take over now, huh? Birdie! Birdie! You coming, Miss Gil, please? Yes, Birdie. Better take the baby up to her crib. She's too active for me. Yes, but she's all over the house these days. She certainly is. Come to Birdie now. Well, I have things to do. Going over to Miss Fairchild, Tunky? No, I don't think I'll go over to Atlas tonight. Judge is coming over to play checkers a little later. Well, I have to go upstairs now. What for? Are you going to take a nap? No, I thought I'd check the house. Check the house? Check the house. What for? Well, I have to see if all the windows are closed. See if the house is secure for the night. I do that every once in a while. You're cute. What? You're so transparent at Christmas time, but so nice. Go ahead and check the house. No, Marjorie, don't try to make anything out of this. It's just routine. Yeah, it's a routine he goes through every year about this time. No, Leroy.  We'll find him anyway. We always do. You won't find him this time unless you've got radar. There's a dressing table behind those ruffles. I'll bring off this one already. Well, I'll have to re-wrap them before Christmas anyway. Well, there's an idea. I'll ask Adeline to come over tomorrow night after the children are in bed and we'll sit close to the fire and wrap Christmas presents. Nothing like a woman's touch when it comes to wrapping presents. What's that noise? Sounds like somebody outside the door. What are you doing peeking through the keyhole? I wasn't peeking, just trying to... Well, he's wise to that spot.  You're sly, gellishly. And all this junk in Leroy's closet. And nobody saw me except Leroy's turtle. Now remember, Elmer, keep this under your shell. Yeah, I guess he will. He winked at me. I can just sneak out of here now. Marjorie, what are you doing standing out here in the hall? Me? I just came upstairs to get a book. Yes, yes, now I'll have to hide them all over again. I'll never find them here in the baby's room. What's that? Somebody outside the door again? Who could that be? Oh, for goodness sake! May I help you wrap Christmas presents? Well, Adeline, we only have two to wrap, but we can make the job last all night. Oh, you. I missed you last night. I'd rather expect you to come over to my house. Well, I would have dropped in, but Judge Hooker came over to play checkers and I thought he'd never go home. I waited 20 minutes for the old goat to figure out a move, then I discovered he'd fall asleep. When you're around, Crockmorton, I never fall asleep. Sit down next to the fire Adeline. I'll go upstairs and get the presents. Oh, wait a minute, lover boy. Haven't you forgotten something? Hmm? Well, we're engaged and I've been here five minutes and you haven't even kissed me hello. Well, I guess I had Christmas on my mind. Then just pretend I'm Santa Claus.  I'll have a little present for you. All right. My eyes are closed. I wonder what it'll be. The heck with going up after the presents, I want to stay down here with Santa Claus.  I want to see what you've got for the children. All right. Of course, I haven't bought everything yet, Adeline, and a little silver cowboy belt buckle for a little slop along Cassidy. That's Leroy. Wonderful. And I got a beautiful charm bracelet for Marjorie. Oh, I just love charm bracelets. Go get it, Crockmorton. Be right back. While you're resting, toss another log on the fire. Another log on the fire. The bracelet right here in the toe of this old pair of tennis shoes. Great place to hide things. Nobody goes near an old pair of tennis shoes. Wait a minute. It's gone. And the belt buckle is gone, too. How do the kids find that stuff in here? I'll bet Leroy does have radar. I'll find them in the morning. Let them have their fun. It's the holiday season. What the heck? Oh, where are the presents, Crockmorton? Somebody thinks they're playing a little joke in their old Uncle Adeline. I hid them from the kids, and now they've hidden them from me. That's too bad. Yeah, it happens every year. Well, I guess we won't get the wrap packages tonight, Adeline. Well, then what will we do? Well, it's only 9.30. Let's throw another log on the fire. I've searched this whole house. Where did the kids hide those presents last night? I wonder who that is so early in the morning. I'll get it, Bertie. I'm right here. Judge. Morning, Gilday. How about a game of checkers? Checkers? At this hour? Only kidding, Gilday. I just dropped by from a briefcase. I left it here on the hall table the other night. Oh, yeah. Here it is. You care for a cup of coffee, horse? No, thank you. I have to get to Cork. So I'll be brief, since I just came from a briefcase. Judge, so early in the morning. See you later, Gilday. Sorry to bother you, but my rebuttal is in the briefcase. Well, an old goat shouldn't be without his rebuttal. Goodbye, Judge. Certainly a spry early in the morning. No wonder he falls asleep so early at night. Hi, Aunt. Good morning, Auntie. Good morning. Well, children, congratulations. What are you talking about, Uncle Moore? You know very well what I'm talking about. Let's have the presents. Presents? Now, children, don't you think you've carried this little joke far enough? Morning, Mr. Gilday. Here's your coffee. Good morning, Bertie. Thank you. Bertie, you seem to be in cahoots with the children the other night. Perhaps you can tell me where the presents are. Me? I don't know where you hear them. Well, they aren't there, and somebody in this house knows where they went. Cross my heart, I don't. Leroy? Cross my heart. Leroy doesn't no longer funny. Whoever took the presents has worked at great inconvenience. Not only upon me, but upon Miss Fairchild. She came over here last evening to help wrap the presents. We couldn't find them. Consequently, our whole evening was wasted. Ah! Leroy! If you kids didn't take them, who did? Maybe this wasn't an inside job, Mr. Gilday. What's this, Bertie? I got a feeling we've been barely right. Now, Bertie, let's not let our imaginations run away with us. No, sir, but I know what I do. I call the police. Let's not get excited, Bertie. Wouldn't hurt to call the police. A lot of burglarizing has been going on around Christmas. Just last week, they ran back to the house where Lily B. works from top to bottom with a gun in fact. So you know what I do, Mr. Gilday? Yes, Bertie. That's right, I call the police. We've been burglarizing. Burglarized?  I'll get this, everybody. I'll give whoever hit the presents exactly five minutes to put them back. Well, none of us took them. Get going now. Five minutes by my watch. What do you mean, Runky? My watch is gone. It is? You know what I do, Mr. Gilday? You're right, Bertie. Call the police. We've been burglarized. Most women are pretty careful about the things they buy for the family table. But when they do find something extra good, well, there's no changing them. 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What would you do if you hit two Christmas presents and they mysteriously disappeared? And then you're watch banished. That's right, call the police. Or if you were the Great Gilder Sleeve, you'd go direct to the Chief himself. Those are the facts, Chief. What do you propose to do about it? Were you sure you didn't forget where you put them? I did not forget. Somebody stole them. Well, it's just hard for me to believe that any criminal that steal children's Christmas presents, he'd have to be a very ill-mannered person. I don't expect him to be a secretary of the YMCA. Or it couldn't be old Mr. Mooney. Chief, I'm not accusing Mooney. I'm not accusing anybody. All I know is that Summerfield is full of brigglers. No, Commissioner, is that a nice thing to say? And I demand that you send somebody out to investigate. But, Commissioner, I can't spare a man during the holiday. Why not? We're operating on a staggered schedule the way it is. Then ask the mayor for more cops.  What? But I'll tell the boys to be on the lookout for... Yeah, I know. On the lookout for a bargain. I'll handle this myself. Do you want to thank the others for you? What can your friendly neighborhood druggist do for you today? Peavey, I've been burglarized. How's that? My house has been ransacked from top to bottom. I declare anything taken? Marjorie's charm bracelet, Leroy's silver belt buckle, and sometime last night, or this morning, my watch was taken. Your watch? Yes.  Oh, yeah. I'm sick about losing that watch, but it lasted me a lifetime. No, no, I wouldn't say that. What? I imagine you put the police on the trail, Mr. Gillifilm. The police, Chief Gates and his keystone cops couldn't trail a circus through a swamp. Looks like I'll have to be my own detective. You don't say. Have you seen any suspicious characters in your neighborhood? No, but somebody's been around with sticky fingers. Well, perhaps there's a kleptomaniac among your acquaintances. Kleptomaniac? I hadn't thought of that. They drift into the pharmacy here every once in a while. They do? Well, how do you spot them, Peavey? Well, most of them carry something to put the loot in. You know, an empty shoebox is a popular item. Huh? So if I suspect them of shoplifting, I always ask to see their new pair of shoes. Pretty sly, Peavey. Of course, a merchant has to be very careful whom he accuses. Now, Judge Hooker was in today and he picked up a box of aspirin and walked out without paying for it. But you'd hardly call the judge, he kleptomaniac. Of course not. Then, on the other hand, you can't tell who they are. Your best friend might turn out to be one. Is that so, Peavey? Hooker is my best friend. Yes, sir. A friend of mine used to come into the store every evening to help me lock up. And I began to suspect the pharmacy had a pack rat. Till one evening, I put on my friend's overcoat by mistake. There was more merchandise in his pockets than there was in the store. Fine friends. Hooker was over the morning I missed my watch and his briefcase was pretty heavy. But what would he do with a charm bracelet? What did you say, Mr. Guilner's name? Huh? I mean, just thinking out loud, Peavey. Be silly to suspect somebody of taking things they don't even need, wouldn't it? Oh, no, Mr. Guilner's name. That's a kleptocharacteristic. It is. Poor judge. Once they get to disease, they just can't help themselves. Guess not. Well, so long, Peavey. And here's a dime. What's that for? For Judge Hooker's aspirin. My dear old friend, Judge Hooker. Well, I won't prosecute. All I want to do is recover the goods. I'll try to be tactful with him for once. Perhaps I can get the old fellow back on the spate and narrow. Hello, Judge. All right, to come in. Hello, Guilde. Have a chair. I'll be with you as soon as I sign these letters. No hurry, Judge. Look at that sweet old man in there at his desk. The picture of dignity and respectability. Who would ever think that life is an enigma? I'm nearly through, Guilde. You sure are, brother. Take your time, Horace. Poor old fellow's been working too hard. He probably doesn't even know what his trouble is. Now then, Guilde, what can I do for you? Judge, sit down. Sit down? Judge, I think at some time or other, everyone needs a little sound advice. I agree. Fine. So, Horace, I'd like to have a heart-to-heart talk with you. Oh, what about? Well, Horace, promise that whatever I say, you won't hold it against me. Because it's something only a best friend would tell you. What are you getting at, Guilde? Judge, old friend, perhaps nobody has ever talked to you about. Pleptomania? Pleptomania? Oh, yes. I've always considered it a most fascinating subject. So I got it. As a magistrate, I make quite an exhaustive study of pleptomania. In fact, I often wish I had a little of that in me. A little of it? Yes, instead of picking up things, I'm always leaving them someplace. Say, that's right. Yeah, my rubbers, my umbrella, my briefcase. Say, that reminds me, I forgot to pay PV for a box of aspirin today. But here I am rattling on about myself, and you came to me with a problem. Now, tell me, old friend, how long have you been troubled with this insatiable urge to pick up things? Let me out of here. Maybe the chief was right. Maybe I did mislate the presence. I'm not infallible. Well, sure, they'll show up.  Marjorie, what's all the excitement? Guess what happened? Don't tell me I know you found the presence. No, my earrings are gone. Your earrings? Uh-huh, and I had them just this morning. I was right all the time. There is a burglar around. What are we going to do? Let me get at that telephone. Chief Gates and his force are going to get on a job if they never get their Christmas shopping done. No, Leroy. Just leave that to me, and Chief Gates. He should be along any minute now. What makes you think the burglar will come back again, Uncle? He struck three times, so he'll strike again. There's nothing to be afraid of, you understand? That's all right for you to say. You got a shotgun. Just to scare him with, Bertie, I'm out of shells. Well, I'm taking the frying pan to bed with me. I can hear loud bong each time I come in the window. Now, Bertie, there's nothing to be afraid of. Yeah, it must be the chief now. Don't anybody get excited now. Well, good evening, Commissioner. Chief, it's about time you got here. Come on in. Hello, coach. No, no, no. Don't anybody get excited. The police have taken over. I've got a dragnet around the house. No, you're on the ball. Who do you want us to do? Chief. Well, you might put that shotgun away, Commissioner. Chief. And the rest of the family should act perfectly normal.  You hear that, children? All right, Uncle. Oh, you get out of the covers. Oh, what about the baby up there? Want me to take him in my room? No, no, no. Don't disturb the little tyke. And don't worry. I'm inside, and my men are outside.  Now, Commissioner, if we expect to catch the burglar, we'll have to set a little trap. Trap? Anything you say, Chief. Well, first, we'll turn out all the lights. Turn out the lights? Oh, yes. Then we'll sit here in the living room, back to back. Back to back? So we can see both entrances. What time is it, Chief? Well, look, I can see the dial. Nothing exciting has happened since Birdie's frying pan fell out a bit. You know, everything must be all right outside, or we'd have heard from the dragnet. How many men do you have out there, Chief? Two. Officer Haney and my father-in-law. Your father-in-law? Sworing in to give him a little Christmas money. Oh, my goodness.  Did you hear that noise? No. I can't say that I did. It must be imagining things. You know, Chief, you keep listening for noises long enough, and pretty soon you think you hear them. I did hear it that time. So did I. Sounded like it came from upstairs. Why don't we take a look? You go first, Chief, if you want to. Coming from the baby's room. One side, Chief, let me out. After me, Commissioner. Hurry up, Chief. I've got the lights. Hands up. What do you know? It's the baby rattling her crib. Baby, were you making all that noise? Baby, don't cry. We didn't mean to frighten you, little Tom. Well, wait a minute. I know how to stop that, Chief. She loves to get out on the floor with me. Yeah, baby. Show the Chief how you can crawl. Come to Chiefy, baby. Hey, baby, come back with my tie clasp. She's always grabbing baby. Look, oh, she's throwing it in the waste paper basket. Yeah, get it for me, will you, Chief? All right. Well, is this where you keep the family jewels, Commissioner? Jewels? What do you mean? Oh, one pair of earrings, belt buckle, charm bracelet. What? Commissioner, I think we've rounded up the burglar. Baby, are you the burglar?  Chief, is my watch in there? Is this it? No crystal in one hand, Missy? Oh, baby. 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Davis, Mr. Gunnels. The Enzer Kenan House was built in 1868 by Dr. Joshua Fulton Enzer, a major in the Union Army during the Civil War, who was sent to Columbia to treat wounded Union soldiers. The house was purchased in the 40s and later restored by the Kenan Oil Company. Of course, this house, and many of you who are, I don't know, several historic preservationists here recognize the name. Enzer has a connection to the Bull Street district. It was obviously, he was also the second, Dr. Enzer was the second medical superintendent of the state of Salem on that campus. This city long before I was here, many of you have been in Columbia for several decades, about a half a century ago, a little longer than that, began to finally recognize its commitment to historic preservation. Recognizing the importance of preserving our past, some of the painful images of our past, but certainly those historic structures that create a sense of place in neighborhoods. And if you have the wonderful opportunity to adaptively reuse those structures and put them into the public realm, into the public domain, so that it helps build and sustain and edify communities, is a wonderful opportunity. Some of our community leaders, when I walked up, told me that every time Mr. Davis walks into their meeting, they want to know what's up with the Kenan House, what's going on with the Kenan House. And just as we see the redevelopment of Hyatt Park and Greenview Park and Irlewood Park and even as far south in the district as World Inch Park, Sam has been so amazingly committed and dedicated to making sure that all these public spaces in District 1 were not only preserved, but restored and given new life for a new generation. And we're seeing that come to life today here at the Enzer Kenan House. Before I take my seat, I just want to say thank you so much to our incredible staff at Parks and Rec, of course Henry Simons and Randy Davis and just their entire team. They do an amazing job, particularly over the last year, where things have been so difficult as we managed through the greatest pandemic we've seen in over a century. So Randy and Henry and the whole team, thank you so much. I'm going to step aside, and I always have to get a passport or a visa that come in the District 1 anyway. Sam requires that. So I'm going to go ahead and step aside and give the microphone to my friend, the incredible councilman of District 1, Sam Davis. Slightly taller. Good morning. There's a saying out here, a lot of the historians and people who have planted roots years ago. And that is, today is a good day. It's about time and we won't forget you. The reason this is a good day is because I had the opportunity to kind of do a little sneak walk through with staff about a month or so ago. Very impressed with the intricacies of the craftspeople, the workers, the folks who advised, I think, staff on, I think, what things should look like if you can't get it back to its original style and shape. And having a background in blacksmithing, through Philip Simmons and Charleston, I was impressed by the fact that those windows, take a look at them when you go in there. Those windows were sent to Charleston for refurbishing, not first, not secondhand, not a hit and a miss. The delicacies of this building, what it meant, what it does mean to this community and its history were all taken into consideration to make this day possible. And I want to congratulate not just the people who live in this neighborhood, who are very, very close and in love with this building. But everybody in North Columbia, the historians who keep this city on the map and function as a magnet for folks to come here and the citizens in general. This is an example of commitment, of pride, a feeling of worth that the things we do, the things we enjoy, add value to everybody's life, whether they live here or not. And so I thank the staff on behalf of the city and thank the historians that worked with them. And names we probably won't hear that made a commitment to do the right thing. The bottom line in doing the right thing in this location was to take it back as far as we can, to its original, its original shape, style, looks, and meaning. And so congratulations to everybody that made this day possible. The city thanks you. I thank you. And the visitors will thank you for making it possible for them to walk up those steps. Thank you. Again, I want to recognize Assistant City Manager Henry Simons. Maybe just before Henry speaks, I want to ask our Chairman of Richland County Council, Paul Livingston, to come and say a word in this age in which in the governmental, intersectoral, regional thought is necessary to advance all of our common goals. There's no better partner at the county. I dare say city-county relationship than we could find in Paul Livingston. So Paul. Good morning. What a good, what a good day for historic Columbia, historic Richland County, and particularly this community. You know, I can recall years back when their conversation about the Keaton House and whether or not Richland County government can play a role. And I remember when we did, and as I said, it's been some years ago. As a matter of fact, present here this morning is the former chair of the commission, the current chair of that commission is Kowsky, who was the chair at that particular time. Even our former staff members here at that particular time. So what I'm telling you is, again, you to think about is it's been a while coming. So we're happy to be here. And I want to thank all those persons with our Conservation Commission of Richland County and also the staff for the collaborative effort here in making sure this happened. As the mayor said, we are committed to collaboration. We're committed to working together to make things happen in our county. And Richland County, we always have to remind folks, the city of Columbia is located in Richland County. It is our heart. We must make sure we're successful if we're going to be successful as a county. So again, I just want to say thank everybody for the efforts, the collaboration, the hard work for the community, the patients. I know it took a little patience. I know you weren't sure we ever get here to this point. But we're here and we won't stop here. We continue to do what we need to do to continue to improve our community and make sure we continue to improve all of our historic sites and locations throughout our community. So thank you so very much and keep on pushing us to make us do what you think we ought to do for you and what's in the best interest of our community. Thank you so much, Chairman Livingston, for your remarks and comments. Good morning again to everyone. My name is Henry Simons. I am the Assistant City Manager of Operations for the City of Columbia. And yes, today is a good day. Thank you so much for your presence today. Thank you to our Mayor, Steve Benjamin, for his leadership and continual support. Councilman Sam Davis, of course, who represents District One. Thank you so much for your remarks and comments. We appreciate you very much. Of course, I want to acknowledge our City Manager in her absence, Teresa Wilson, for her continued leadership and guidance and support for the Parks and Recreation Department. With such historical significance, it is essential that we maintain the very essence of the building behind us. So with this project, we have been able to totally restore the windows of this facility as Councilman Davis spoke of earlier. The ways of wood, completed the work, restoring the windows. And Amy Moore, our principal preservation planner for the City of Columbia, ensured that the restoration met the appropriate historical standards. Thank you so much, Amy, for your support. Because of the historic value and design of these windows themselves, as Councilman Davis, so eloquent we spoke earlier, yes, we did have to send these windows to Charleston because of the design of them. We're grateful for the work that was done by the Ways of Wood organization. This portion of the project was supported by a grant that we received from the Risen County Conservation Commission. We're grateful for their support. The grant was $29,403. Thank you so much for your support. And in addition to that, we were matched with over $13,000 of funding from the City of Columbia as well with a total of almost $50,000 for the portion of this project. In addition to this, over the last few years, we have replaced the roof. All interior rooms have been painted. We have a newly renovated kitchen that you will be extremely proud of. We were the removal of a bestos that was in the building. Historical life fixtures have been replaced. We have revitalized the vestibule area to include tile work, enhanced landscaping and a newly installed fencing in front of the property. A new elevator has been installed at the rear of the actual facility. Of course, improvement to the front porch and the rear awnings of the facility as well. A lot of work has gone into this project. We will continue working on the exterior of the building in the next few months. We also recently received a grant from the Risen County Conservation Commission in the amount of $15,000 with a match from the city that totals to $18,000. So we're continuing to do the work to improve this amenity behind us. We are very proud of what we have accomplished during the restoration process. In Sir Keenan House, this amenity within the city has created memories for many in our communities. We are grateful to be in a position to open this historical facility to the community once again. I want to take a quick moment to acknowledge a few people. Of course, as I referenced in my comments earlier, Principal Planner Historic Preservation and Development Services for the City of Columbia, Amy Moore. Thank you, Amy. Of course, thank you so much to the Risen County Conservation Commission for their generous support. Galise Pearson, excuse me, and John Grego of the commission. Thank you so much for your support. Quentin Epps, Risen County Community Planning and Development Services. And all of our contractors that work on this project in particular. I know there are several contractors that are present with us today. And I won't get into naming names, but if you just raise your hand and let the community acknowledge your work on this project. Several of our contractors are here. Thank you so much for your amazing work. Thank you, as the mayor referenced to our city parks and recreation leadership team, led by Randy Davis, our director. Also want to acknowledge Mr. Chris Campbell, our project specialist. He was the man in charge of shepherding this project. He did some amazing work coordinating with all of our contractors. So thank you so much, Chris, for your support and leadership. Todd Martin, Todd Martin, our project manager and all the work that he has done on this project as well. Jacqueline Williams, our program coordinator. All the flowers and the plants you see around this facility. Jacqueline, raise your hand, where are you? I think she's still here. Thank you so much for your work on this and all of our staff. There's several of our staff members with us today. Todd Martin, I think I referenced earlier. Tom Beasley back there. Thank you all so much, Kara Rich and others who are present today. Ebony Kelly, who is my office manager that keeps the train moving. Thank you so much, Ebony, for your work. So we're grateful for all the work that has been done here at this home. And we're ready for the community to enjoy this amenity once again. So now this time we'll have the president of Seminary Ridge, the neighborhood association, Dylan Gunnels, to provide some remarks. Dylan, thank you all so much. Good morning, my name is Dylan Gunnels. I'm the president of Seminary Ridge Neighborhood Association. I'm happy to be here. I must admit I've been asked by some folks if I'm feeling any FOMO about not running in this year's municipal election. And I've said no because between that and the fact that I now have a job that lets me wear whatever I want, I get to wear whatever I want. But usually the podium at 5-5 covers the bottom half. So I do apologize for the shorts today, but I am excited to be here either way. I moved into this neighborhood at the end of 2016 and I remember walking my dogs and wondering, what is this abandoned mansion? And I'm so excited to be here today to not be recognizing it as an abandoned mansion but a key and crucial part of our neighborhood and as a part of the city. I must admit that this location was on our agenda quite often at our neighborhood association meetings. This was a topic of conversation for many within the neighborhood, just wanting to know when we would get to this day. So I want to say thank you again to Councilman Davis for always working with us through that and getting us to this point. We find ourselves at this time in our history and this year particularly very excited where we are as a neighborhood. We're seeing so many new folks move in. We're seeing properties being renovated, houses being updated. We're seeing folks coming back together as we hopefully fingers crossed, continue to come out of this pandemic. We're seeing a community really coming together in this particular sector and what we're most excited about is not only the diversity of those that are here, but the diversity of those that are coming and the diversity of those that have been here for a long time. And so what this house represents to me is not only an opportunity for us to gather, an opportunity for us to enjoy the fruits of the labor of a piece of property that represents so much history, but also represents a future that we can drive towards together. And so our hope at Seminary Ridge is that we represent as a neighborhood more of what Columbia is becoming as well. The excitement of what's happening and where we're headed in the future, but also as we continue to honor our history, learn from our history, and trek forward to that future together based on what we've learned and how we've grown. And so we're just again extremely excited that this is here, extremely excited that we can begin to utilize it again. And we hope that Seminary Ridge can be a neighborhood association that really lays the trajectory and foundation for the future of our city together. So thank you so much for being here and for having me. I think the closer I get to December 31st, I'm going to start wearing shorts too and see how you guys like that. See how it goes. For some of you who don't have teenagers at home, Dylan used the term FOMO. It's fear of missing out just in case you didn't know what that meant. I didn't know it until my 14 year old told me what FOMO meant. Then we have various members of candidates running for city council. I think once you're successful, if you're successful, you'll probably have the experience like Sam will have at his very next Seminary Ridge meeting. He'll walk in and he'll look for some kudos and enter Keenan House and he'll be challenged with what have you done for me lately. Let's get to the next project, Sam. So but that's the nature of what we do. A great city is a collection of great neighborhoods of pulling together, incredibly diverse, sometimes disparate enterprises and pulling them all together and creating this wonderful, wonderful culture, cultural base for each and every one of us to thrive. So Dylan and to all of the neighborhood association leaders who are here, who make our jobs possible, give us the opportunity to serve you. I want to say thank you and this former municipality of Eau Claire, which still shows incredible streets of independence long after joining the city of Columbia. Thank you for your continued leadership. If we can gather and cut this ribbon, take some photos and I'll go check out the building together. Let's do it.


Welcome to George H. Smith's Excursions into Libertarian Thought, a production of Libertarianism.org and the Cato Institute, narrated by James Foster. Thomas Jefferson on Public Education, Part 1 In November 1776, while a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, Thomas Jefferson was selected to head a committee charged with the task of devising the laws of Virginia subject to approval by the General Assembly. Although Americans were now at war with Britain, Jefferson believed it vital that Virginia's legal code be changed in accordance with Republican principles, and he devoted much of the next two years to this task. Among Jefferson's draft for new legislation was the celebrated Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, but there was another piece of legislation that Jefferson was viewed as even more important, a bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge. In notes on the State of Virginia written in 1781, Jefferson summarized his educational plan as follows. This bill proposes to lay off every county into small districts of five or six miles square called hundreds, and in each of them to establish a school for teaching, reading, writing, and arithmetic. A tutor to be supported by the hundred and every person in it entitled to send their children three years' gratis and as much longer as they please paying for it. These schools to be under a visitor, that is, superintendent, who is annually to choose the boy of best genius in the school of those whose parents are too poor to give them further education and to send him forward to one of the grammar schools, high schools, in effect, of which twenty are proposed to be erected in different parts of Virginia for teaching Greek, Latin, geography, and the higher branches of numerical arithmetic. Of the boys thus sent in any one year, trial is to be made at the grammar schools one or two years and the best genius of the whole selected and continued six years and the residue dismissed. By this means twenty of the best geniuses will be raked from the rubbish annually and be instructed at the public expense so far as the grammar schools go. The next stage of this filtering process, Jefferson goes on to explain, occurs when half the students supported at public expense in grammar schools are dismissed after six years, perhaps to become teachers themselves. The remaining students then receive scholarships to study for three years at the College of William and Mary. For various reasons, Jefferson later became disillusioned with his alma mater and substituted the University of Virginia, which he founded in 1819 instead. Jefferson's bill never passed the Virginia assembly and it was not until 1796 that the assembly instituted a more modest scheme of public education. Jefferson never gave up, however. In his later years after retiring from public life he continued to advocate his plan with some minor modifications. Many historians have praised Jefferson for his efforts on behalf of public education while portraying him as a forerunner of the common school movement that began to take off during the late 1830s under the leadership of Horace Mann in Massachusetts. Some historians have also linked Jefferson to other American advocates of state schooling in the late 18th century such as Benjamin Rush, Noah Webster, Samuel Knox, Robert Corum, and Samuel Harrison Smith. These are dubious associations for reasons I cannot fully explain here. I will discuss other American advocates of state education in later essays. For now, suffice it to say that some commentators have distorted Jefferson's ideas about education by representing them as an embryonic version of later plans for a universal system of education that is free and compulsory. There is no doubt that Jefferson shared the prevailing view of Enlightenment intellectuals that a general diffusion of knowledge is essential to a free society. As he wrote in 1816, if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization it expects what never was and never will be. Similarly, in a letter to George Washington, 1786, Jefferson said, It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect and on a general plan. In an oft-quoted letter to John Adams, 1813, Jefferson expressed hope that public schools would become the keystone in the arch of our government. Such statements may appear to be nothing more than Enlightenment truisms but it is important to understand how Jefferson's views on public schooling differed from the standard Enlightenment call for a uniform system of state education that would produce Republican machines to use the disturbing phrase of Benjamin Rush. Jefferson's plan as indicated in the passage quoted above from notes on the state of Virginia called for a highly decentralized system in which small wards, districts of five or six miles square would establish and control their own schools. Jefferson feared centralized authority so he did not want even a state government to take this business of elementary education into its own hands. In his plan for elementary schools, 1817, Jefferson warned that if a governor and state officials were to control the district schools, they would be badly managed, depraved by abuses and would soon exhaust the available funds. The key to local school districts, according to Jefferson, is that they give parents direct and ultimate control over how their children are educated. To suppose that schools will be better managed by any authority of the government than by the parents within each ward is a belief against all experience. A government can no more manage schools than it can manage our farms, our mills, and merchants' stores. Elementary education should be the concern of local communities under the supervision of parents. It should not be controlled by the federal or state governments. Extreme decentralization was thus the centerpiece of Jefferson's plan for public schools and he warned of the potential consequences should this feature be ignored. What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and powers into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France or the aristocrats of a Venetian Senate. For Jefferson, the distribution of power among federal, state, county, and local agencies was indispensable to America's system of fundamental balances and checks for the government. When a person is empowered to control his own destiny at the local level, he feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election one day in the year, but every day. Such a person will defend his liberty. He will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be rested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte. Jefferson's intense opposition to centralization was illustrated in an ill-fated plan for public schools sponsored by Charles Mercer in the Virginia Assembly. In 1817, Mercer's plan passed in Virginia's lower house, but it was defeated in the Senate. The decisive vote against Mercer was cast by Jefferson's protégé, Joseph Cabell, a man who had labored in behalf of Jefferson's educational proposals. Why did Cabell acting in accordance with Jefferson's desires oppose Mercer's plan? Part of the reason lay in Mercer's desire to grant considerable power to a state board of education. This was anathema to Jefferson who, as one historian put it, expressed both fear and scorn when contemplating a centralized state authority in education.  By 1820, however, Jefferson had changed his mind. Only pauper children should receive free schooling. Those parents able to pay tuition should be required to do so. Jefferson believed that the fees of parents who could afford to pay would cover much of the cost of educating pauper children. The remaining expenses would be minimal. To a county this addition would be of about one-fifth of the taxes we now pay to the state, or about one-fifth of one percent. Jefferson's early proposal used the word shall when discussing the construction of schools in each district, but later, in 1816, Jefferson proposed that local voters should decide the matter themselves.  If they vote the proposal down, let them remain without one. Jefferson's attitude toward compulsory attendance laws, a cornerstone of modern public education, is worth noting. Some historians have maintained that Jefferson, in his early proposals, implicitly favored compulsory attendance for three years of elementary education. But Jefferson never said this, and it cannot legitimately be inferred from his words. In 1817, Jefferson made his one and only pronouncement on compulsory attendance laws. He opposed them while noting the delicate and complex issues involved. A question of some doubt might be raised as to the rights and duties of society towards its members, infant and adult. Is it a right or a duty in society to take care of their infant members in opposition to the will of the parent? How far does this right and duty extend to guard the life of the infant, his property, his instruction, his morals? Jefferson answered his own question thusly. It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible transportation and education of the infant against the will of the father. Instead of compulsory attendance laws, Jefferson recommended another incentive. The right to vote should not be granted to people who cannot demonstrate basic literacy skills. If we do not force instruction, let us at least strengthen the motives to receive it when offered.  In 1814, he praised a new Spanish constitution because it withheld voting rights from every citizen who could not read or write. This provision would give Spain an enlightened people and an energetic public opinion which will control and enchain the aristocratic spirit of the government. A few years later, Jefferson called for the disenfranchisement of Americans who cannot read readily in some tongue, native or acquired. Thank you for listening to Excursions. 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Wiki. Build knowledge together.  You can add information to it because this is a Wiki which is a collaboratively created and edited document. Moodle has a Wiki too which you could set up for your students, for example to do a group project doing some research or to write a combined essay. To add a Wiki we go to our course page and we turn the editing on either by clicking the button top right or by scrolling down to the administration block and clicking the link turn editing on. Then in the section where we want our Wiki we click add an activity or resource. This brings up the activity chooser. Scrolling down we'll see Wiki in the activity list and if we click once we get some information giving useful teaching ideas about a Wiki and then we can click the add button at the bottom to add it. The name is important because it's what the students will see on the page to access it and then you can give a description of what you want them to do with the Wiki and if you tick the box display description on the course page they'll see the description there. Normally a Wiki would be group work collaborative but you can have an individual Wiki by changing the drop down menu here and each student would have their own copy for instance as a personal notebook. But we're going to keep it as collaborative however so the next thing to do is to choose the first page name and this must be carefully chosen because it cannot then be altered. There are other settings but for now we just go to save and display and get our Wiki started. You see now that we need to press a button to create this page. If you don't understand any of the other formats leave it as default it's absolutely fine and we now have our first page of the Wiki. To set up links to make up the pages you put double square brackets around the name you want to give the page. So here are a couple of examples and this is how your learners would also make new pages on the Wiki. When we scroll down and save it we see that we have links these aren't yet pages until we actually click on them and create those pages in the same way that we made the first page. So if we click on the reading link we then prompted to create that page and we can start adding information to it. This is how your students would then add text and information to a new page. Now if we scroll down and save that page we can take a look at some of the other links in a Wiki. If we look at the tabs at the top map takes us to the pages which have been created and we can access them from there currently we only have two pages. History is a useful way of the other learners and the teacher seeing who has changed what on the Wiki and in case of any problems that's a handy place to go to and to revert changes. And comments enables you to see and add comments to the Wiki.


The garden lobby is the main thoroughfare through the business areas of the Scottish Parliament. It has seating for informal meetings and if you look through the window wall you might just catch a glimpse of the garden for which the lobby is named. Above there are unusual windows and light streams into the lobby through them. The lead architect envisaged the building as a green leaf tree branch and perhaps these are the canopy of leaves. Cut out in the metal above is a decorative map of Scotland and behind it there are vents that allow air to filter into the building naturally and this forms part of the Parliament's natural ventilation system. The north wall of the garden lobby is the rear wall of the 17th century Queensbury House and is the oldest part of the Parliament campus. Many teams have their desks here and they provide information to the MSPs and their staff. The garden lobby stairs lead to the debating chamber and often feature in television news reports as the backdrop of interviews with journalists within the building.