Today we're in Isaiah 43. I'm going to share a few things with you, but it's going to lead to a teaching on baptism but beginning at verse 18, reading to verse 19, Isaiah 43. I want to share a little bit with you out of these two verses. The Lord says in Isaiah 43, 18, do not remember the former things, nor consider the things of old. Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth, shall you not know it, I will even make a road in the wilderness and rivers in the desert. If there's any promise in scripture that stands out, it's God's constant promise to do a new thing. And here in Isaiah 43, God is revealing something of himself to the people of Israel. What I have done in the past will be eclipsed by what I'm about to do and will yet do in the future. He's saying I am the God who delivers and I'm the God who does the new thing. He's the one who delivers.  He does a new thing. God is great at doing new things. Thirty-four years ago today, we began our work in the inland empire. I was an assistant pastor of another fellowship. I was asked to resign my position. Instead of remaining, I knew that it was time to leave and to begin a new work. And so this scripture was our very first Sunday message. We were seated in a home in the city of Ontario. It was a home that was owned by somebody but rented by my sister-in-law, Patty. And Patty knew that I was going to resign. She was aware that I had resigned and she was wondering what I was going to do and what church I was going to go to. And I told her that her sister Marie and I didn't know yet what church to go to. So I said I'm going to be looking for a church to go to. And she said, well, until you find that church, would you teach me? Would you give me Bible studies? You see, Patty would go to church services on occasion with Marie and me. And they normally weren't church services. We would take her to outreaches. And there was more than one time that an invitation was given and we saw Patty go forward. But it never really was something she sincerely was doing. She would admit now at that time she thought it was just the thing she was supposed to do. And so I had seen Patty go up forward maybe once or twice before. I had seen this and all and she wasn't saved. And at a certain point in her life as a young adult she decided to move out of the house and Marie and I opened up our doors to her to come and live with us for a while until she found a place to live. And she stayed with us for a few months and all. And then she rented an apartment. She was gone and all. And while she was at my house, she never came to a single Bible study that we did. She never was part of anything that we were doing. We used to have home studies and Patty was living in the house, but Patty would never come to any of the Bible studies. She would always be gone that night that we're having a study. And so we were having an outreach and we had Odin Fong come and do some music. And I trained several follow up ministers because it was an outreach. We wanted to reach the community that we were in. And it was interesting because I trained more counselors than people who showed up.  And I went out there to a very, very small group of people, gave a Bible study, gave an invitation. Nobody came forward. And so I went into the back and I was feeling, well, you know, Lord, we did what we were supposed to do. When Patty comes walking into the back and her roommate, Felicia, and she walks up to me, Patty walks up and says to me, you know, you gave an invitation. Nobody came forward. I said, I noticed. She said, I feel sorry for you. I probably ought to get saved. And so Patty actually gave her heart to the Lord in the back. I prayed with her and she gave her heart to the Lord and kept an eye on her from that point on to make sure she walked with the Lord. So she's been with us from day one. And the church began in her house because she asked me, would you teach me the Word of God? Would you spend time teaching me the Bible? You know, churches are built not on multitudes, they're built on individuals.  You go out to minister the Word of God to the person who's hungry. And Patty happened to be hungry. And so we began our work there in her house because when we left and I resigned my position and all, when we left Patty said, where are you going to be on Sunday? I said, I don't really know. We haven't found a church. Will you teach me? And I said, of course. So we've been teaching Patty for 34 years and she still hasn't learned anything, but we're doing the best that we can with her. She's a hard case. So there we are. We're at the house and we have a group of people seated around about 25 or so adults, about somewhere around 10 children. And the very first Bible study that I gave was Isaiah 43, 18 and 19. First Bible study to this church. Behold, I will do a new thing. And God is in the business of doing new things. We've watched the Lord over the years as he's fulfilled this Word to us. He has slowly but surely produced a new work in our midst. The first 11 years were in the city of Ontario. The last 23 years have been here in the city of Chino. I was mentioning today that I originally came into this area in 1974 where I taught a Bible study in Ontario. We eventually moved that study to Montclair. And I finally let go of that study in 1975. But in 1977, we came back and began ministry and in the Calvary until planting this fellowship. And when we started this work, we laid what we would call a sure foundation. Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone that the entire work would be built on. And that sure foundation was something that we used in terms of Jesus as that foundation to develop a philosophy of ministry and that's what those four pillars are that we have. We were going to teach the Word of God. We're going to worship God. We're going to fellowship with God's people and we're going to take His Word out and we're going to witness. And that would all be done in order to emphasize Jesus Christ and our love and our service to Him even as Paul said in Philippians 121, for me to live is Christ and to die is gain. I got saved during a time in America's religious history that was called the Jesus movement. The Jesus movement was and remains an evangelistic movement. I got saved and I began to witness. I witnessed to my family. I witnessed to my friends and I still witness the Word of God because the world has to hear good news. The world needs to hear that there is a God who loves them and there is a God who sent his son Jesus Christ to save the lost. And the church is intended to take this message throughout the world. We have been called by God to share this message of salvation with everybody in the name of Jesus Christ. In Matthew 28, 19, and 20, Jesus said it like this. He said go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I've commanded you, lawing with you always, even to the end of the age. Go out and make disciples. Go and make disciples, he said, of all the nations. You see, in the Jewish religion, the temple became the central place of worship. The Jews would gather in Jerusalem to worship God in the temple. But after the resurrection, the temple now goes out to the people, not just to the Jews, and we have a mission, and the mission is to make disciples, and we do that by declaring and teaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. Now some would ask, are we to push our beliefs on other people? Should we not leave them alone? Are not their own beliefs sufficient for them to gain access to heaven? They say, what about sincere Muslims and Buddhists? What about the Hindus and the Jews, the nature worshipers, and all the rest? Is this not sufficient for them to gain entrance into heaven? Jesus would say no. He would say, no, you need to hear the gospel.  He who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him. So Jesus says, go therefore and make disciples of all the nations. The commission of the church is to go, and as we go we make disciples, and we make disciples of all the nations. Now as the church goes out and does the work of missions in evangelism, there is fruit that results. So Jesus makes it very clear that alongside of teaching, there is something else that takes place, and that is baptizing.  In Mark 16, verse 16, it says, he who believes and is baptized will be saved. So we're not baptized in order to join any church group or any denomination, nor are we baptized in order to be saved, because baptism is not necessary for salvation. In 1 Corinthians 117, Paul said, Christ did not send me to baptize, but to preach the gospel, not with wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made of no effect. In 1 Peter 321, the apostle Peter said, this water symbolizes baptism that now saves you also, not the removal of dirt from the body, but the pledge of a good conscience toward God. It saves you by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. And so baptism is an emblem, it's a symbol, it's an outward demonstration of an inward work. When you come to be water baptized, it's not so that you can be saved. You are water baptized because you have been saved. So the washing of the flesh by water is not what saves you. It is a washing of regeneration. It is the renewing of the Holy Spirit. It's being washed by the blood of Jesus Christ that saves you.   It's a symbol that you have been saved. It's a representation of the fact that God has washed and cleansed you. The Bible tells us if we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ's Son cleanses us from all sin. So it's the blood of Christ that cleanses you.  It represents our new life in the Lord. It represents our taking on our newness in Jesus Christ. The word baptized is the Greek word baptizo. It means to dip or immerse, to plunge under. It was a word, baptizo was a word that was used in reference to the dying of cloth. And so baptism is a visible demonstration of salvation and an identification with the Lord Jesus Christ. And the message of salvation is to be declared by those who have experienced salvation. It is shared by those who've come to faith in God through Jesus Christ and it's a message intended to produce what the Bible calls disciples. Now who is to be baptized? A disciple. Jesus said go out and make disciples. A disciple is a person who is a lifelong follower of a teacher. In the New Testament, when you study your New Testament, you'll see there were certain things that identified a person as someone's disciple. The disciple would decide to follow a particular teacher. The disciple would memorize the words of that teacher. The disciple would learn his way of ministry. A disciple would imitate that teacher's life and character. And then when that disciple was fully mature, that disciple would raise up disciples to continue the chain. That's what Jesus is referring to in Matthew 10.25 when he says it's enough for a disciple that he'd be like his teacher and a servant like his master. And so that's what it means when you become a disciple. A person becomes a Christian because they've repented. A Christian because they receive Christ as Lord and Savior. A Christian because they've chosen to pursue him forever. Jesus in Luke 9.23 said, if anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself. Take up his cross daily and follow me. So the outer emblem of regeneration is water baptism. Water baptism is immersion in water. It symbolizes our death and our resurrection in Jesus Christ. We are saved by the grace of God through faith and baptism represents our knowledge of this. When you go into the water, those of you who are being water baptized today, when you go into the water, you are visibly identifying yourself as a follower of Jesus. Again, we're not baptized to join any particular local church. We are baptized because we're identifying with the Lord Jesus Christ. And I want to develop that a little bit further by taking you to Romans chapter 6. Would you open your Bibles there? Romans chapter 6 because that passage, the passage I want to look at is going to speak concerning baptism and this is going to be your basic instruction for those of you who are being water baptized today in Romans chapter 6 verses 3 and 4. Paul asks a question in Romans chapter 6 verses 3 and 4. Do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? And therefore we were buried with him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. You're going to go into a pool in just a moment, those of you who are being water baptized. Now some of you perhaps aren't able to go into the pool. There are some who physically can't climb up that ladder. There are others who may have a particular physical condition at this moment that makes it something you can't do. You can't get in the water right now. For those of you who can't enter into the water but want to be water baptized, what I'll encourage you to do is just let one of the guys know we're going to have some ushers who are going to be around the pool. Just let them know you can't climb up, you can't go in the water. What they'll do is they'll bring you to the side to one of us and I'll just take a scoop of water or whomever and we'll pray with you on the side and we'll just drop the water on top of you. You can be baptized that way. The rest of you who can enter into the pool, you'll stand in line, you'll get up, you'll walk in. There's going to be several guys with me in the pool, all of them who serve in one capacity or another here in the ministry.  I am going to let go. We were in Israel and one of the ladies on our tour had sprained her ankle and but she wanted to be water baptized and this particular area that we have water baptisms, it's called yard in it, it's real slippery. There's a lot of moss on the rocks and so you really have to plant yourself when you're there because you slip very easily and she walks up to me and she actually hobbles up. She was the first person and she says to me I want to be water baptized and it was not her ankle, it was her knee. I said your knee is injured, you can't go down. I said let me just take a scoop of water and just oh no Pastor David, I want to be baptized like Jesus was. I said you know water's water and you know you're standing in it and I'll just oh no no I want to be water baptized, I want to go in the water.  I said just go down.  Okay pastor I will so I'm holding on to her. I say I baptize you in the name of the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit.  When she pulls me she was a good sized gal. When she pulls me she pulls me I try to plant my feet so that I don't go down and I pop my right hamstring.  Pop my hamstring and so you know I oh I hurt and so one of the fellas Bob was standing next to me and I turned to him and I said I just popped my hamstring you're going to have to pull him out of the water I'll let him go down you pull him out and so that's what we did we baptized 44 people she was the first one and so one after another I'd say I baptized you so I'm gonna let you go I'm not gonna hold on to you I'm gonna let you go and you'll just slip on in and slip on out and so that is a symbol what is a symbol of is death burial and resurrection death and burial when you go down break in the surface of the water death and burial everybody knows everybody who's lived for a while gone to a funeral everybody knows that when somebody that you love very much has passed on to be with the Lord there's a sense of denial that some can deal with it it's like it's untrue this didn't happen this isn't real but I've discovered over the years that one of the things that has helped helped me to deal with the reality of somebody going on to be with the Lord has been when they have been lowered into the grave and when the dirt has been pushed over that casket there's something about seeing the dirt falling on the casket and them tamping it down that makes you realize it's final it's over it's just it's something that is just so so primal so basic to us it's just the dirt's covered that person is in glory and well when you go into the water death and burial but when you come out of that water resurrection newness of life it's one of heaven's dramas it's a presentation of the fact that in Jesus Christ I have been crucified and I'm buried but I'm alive in him and so when you go into that water and you go under that water it's a symbol of death and burial but when you come back out of that water it's a symbol of resurrection and the newness of life that you have in him and now that you have newness of life you begin to walk in the newness of life you see verse 4 tells us that Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the father when it speaks of the glory that refers to the exercising of his power through resurrection that resulted in glory to god and we now walk in newness of life because the same power that raised Jesus from the dead resides in you the same power that raised Jesus from the dead is within you in Ephesians 1 19 and 20 the exceeding greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in heavenly places the same spirit who raised Jesus resides in us and so we have newness of life you go into that water death and burial you come out resurrection and as you step out of that pool you walk in the Lord Jesus Christ and we're united together in the likeness of his death and certainly are also in the likeness of his resurrection so for us for many of us this is going to be a starting point a benchmark a spiritual experience it's intended to represent the cleansing we receive through faith in Jesus Christ and we're united with him I got saved in December of 1970 I went into the military in March of 71 I was stationed at Fort Ord I made an acquaintance with the chaplain his name was Chaplain Clark I told him I'm born again but I haven't been water baptized and I asked if he would allow me or if he would baptize me and he took me to a little church there in the fort and two friends of mine that I'd been witnessing to came with me and Chaplain Clark put me in the water I dropped down into that water and he was sharing with me you are dead and buried but now as I came out now you're alive the resurrection of Jesus Christ guarantees our own resurrection the power of the Holy Spirit who raised Jesus from the dead dwells within us and so it's more than simply a dramatic symbolism it's a spiritual reality that we are totally identifying with the Lord as we go in and as we come out there are some who who will smile when they come out of the water there are others who sometimes will cry it's just such a significant moment for them you see it's one of those times in your life that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are being a hundred percent obedient to the Lord it's one of those moments when you get into that pool and you go under that water and you come back out it's one of those times in your spiritual life that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are obeying God right now because Jesus said that we are to believe and we are baptized and so again what we're going to do is we're going to go out in a moment you'll stand in line we'll invite you into the pool it's probably warm hope it is you'll go to the first person available if you want to go with your husband or your wife your family more than welcome to do that we baptize whole families together it's very special just make sure that when you get in that water that you know what you're doing you're identifying with Jesus Christ you're a new creation in the Lord the water is not saving you it's not washing your sins away the blood of Christ did that you're identifying with him you're going into the water death burial you're coming out of the water resurrection and now you walk in newness of life and it's just a great and a wonderful thing and it's such a blessing that we're able to do that tonight


I bring you the very warm greetings of President Mohammad Buhari, who has also asked me to congratulate the governor and the people of Nassau State for hosting this 26th edition of the MSME clinics, the National MSME clinics, and the first for the year 2020. I'd like to thank His Excellency the Governor, Governor Abdulai Suli, and the entire government and people of Nassau State for the very warm welcome and the hospitality extended to me and to my delegations since we arrived here. I'd also like to thank His Royal Highness, the Emmy of Lafayette, who had hosted us very warmly earlier, and I'm now the proud recipient of the Royal Horse, which I intend to take with me all the way back to Abuja. Your Excellency, it is my sincere and fervent wish that your clarity of vision and demonstrated passion for business and for the progress of this state will enable Nassau State to become truly the economic powerhouse of your dreams. Last October, you and I and the Under Minister of State Science and Technology visited a farm in Nassau State, which grew from three hectares with one and a half million naira in 2017, but now occupies 3,000 hectares and is worth one billion naira and employing over 300 people. What that tells us is that great things are happening here in Nassau State and that with the support and partnerships that you're creating, greater things will happen. Our expectation is that this 26th edition of the National MSME Clinics, holding here in the state, will provide the further impetus that will give this whole process of creating a business-friendly environment that will grow the state, all of what it needs to actually come to fruition. From what I've seen from the creative and passionate small businesses that are participating in this clinic, I'm confident that the economic transformation of Nassau State is well underway. I want to emphasize that it is important for small businesses to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the MSME Clinics. Just as the MSME Clinics provide an opportunity for the federal government's regulatory agencies to inform small businesses about their requirements as well as business procedures, MSMEs are also expected to bring up their own challenges and their problems for possible solutions at this clinic. This is why it is described as a clinic. It's the same as a patient going to a hospital complaining about whatever their problems are and expecting a solution. It is through this kind of symbiotic relationship that we'll be fulfilling the key purposes of organizing these MSME Clinics across Nigeria. I'll also urge the Nassau State government, in fact the governor has said as much, to build on the achievements of this clinic by considering one, the creation of a one-stop regulatory shop for MSMEs in a suitable location in Nassau State. Now this is an office that would house NAFDAQ, SON, the Corporate Affairs Commission and other regulators bringing them close to the MSMEs in the state. All that you will be required to do is to provide the facility and the regulatory agencies will provide the rest. Second, the organization of state versions of the MSME Clinics in various local governments of the state. This will help the state's regulatory agencies also to key into the spirit and letter of the MSME Clinics. Already I see that the Nassau State government has incubation centers for growing business initiatives. This is excellent indeed and it will work very well with some of the initiatives of the MSME Clinics. On our part at the federal level we are also keen on establishing shared facilities, shared facilities and this willingness we've established about two so far and we intend to establish them across the country wherever we find a willing state. The purpose of these shared facilities is to provide MSMEs with world-class business equipment in various commercial clusters. Also for example, a shoe manufacturing cluster. We will provide equipment that would ordinarily have been too expensive for an individual shoe manufacturer to buy for his own business. We will buy the equipment so that many of the shoemakers or the shoe manufacturers will be able to use that same facility because each of them of course or the individuals will not be able to provide their own. With such an arrangement in place MSMEs have spared the financial burden of having to buy their own equipment especially the expensive equipment in order to be able to do business. Where possible such shared facilities will be run on an economically sustainable basis and we would expect that we will be able to pre-certify all of those shared facilities so that the regulatory agencies that the small businesses need to go to wouldn't have to bother about that because we would have pre-certified them ahead of setting up the shared facilities. The inspiration for the establishment of shared facilities arose from interactions with the MSMEs during past national editions of the MSME clinics. Apart from the challenges that they face from regulatory agencies another recurring problem is that small businesses across the country are not able to access production and operating equipment and this is where we thought it would be important to set up some of these shared facilities for their benefit. Let me say also that the federal government is aware of the various regulatory challenges facing small businesses and in some cases even the harassment and extortion by government functionaries at different levels will be working within the ambit of the National Economic Council to address some of these issues and we've been addressing some of these we've actually raised some of these issues at the National Economic Council. For meanwhile I can give the example of how several agencies like the Corporate Affairs Commission and the Bank of Industry have taken the opportunity of the clinics to improve their offerings to small businesses. We're also working assiduously with the leadership of NAFDAQ, SON and CAC to see that MSMEs get faster, cheaper and more efficient services from those agencies. The era of the expensive and time-consuming NAFDAQ certification will soon be over. I'm sure that you're also well aware of the federal government's fresh initiatives at creating a more favorable environment for small businesses. The first is in the gradual reduction in interest rates through some of the modifications that we are seeing that the CBN has done on restrictions to access to Treasury bills and the modifications to the open market operations of the CBN which has brought fixed income yields down to between 5% and 6%. That has helped greatly in reducing interest rates for commercial loans. So we expect to see that interest rates for commercial loans will grow down gradually and very soon we might even be able to get sub 10 by being able to get single digit interest rates for commercial loans. The second are the new incentives under the Finance Act. The Act, that's the Finance Act which as you know the President just signed into law exempts small companies with a turnover of 25 million a year. Any company that has a turnover of less than 25 million a year is now exempted from paying income tax, company's income tax. So any company, the small companies, all of the small companies do not have to pay cooperation tax because their turnover is less than 25 million. Companies that have a turnover of between 25 million and 100 million a year will now pay company's income tax at a lower rate of 20%. That is almost 10% off what the rate is to be. Another business friendly provision which is in the Finance Act is a guarantee of tax credits to companies for early filing of their tax returns.  Larger companies get 1% discount on their tax or tax credit. Perhaps the most publicized aspect of the Finance Act is the new VAT rate, the value-added tax rate, which has gone up from 5% to 7.5%. Many people have said, oh, this is a higher tax burden on the consumer, and of course it has implications for those who are trading as well. But we must remember that this is still one of the lowest. In fact, it is the lowest VAT rate in the whole of Africa. Although it is true, for instance, that Ghana has reduced its VAT rate. Ghana's VAT was 15%. They reduced it to 12.5%. Ours is 7.5%. It's also important to mention that companies, again the small companies, MSMEs, with a turnover of less than 25 million, do not have to register for VAT. In other words, their businesses are not compatible. They don't have to register for VAT. So that way, it is possible that the government has worked out a way of not creating any extra burden for small and medium-sized companies. In addition to that, in order to reduce the impact of the VAT increase on consumers, several basic items, such as food, drugs, and educational items, are exempted from VAT. So there is no payment of VAT on food, on drugs, and on educational items. And then there is another upside to the increase in VAT. And this is that additional revenue will now go to the states from VAT. So the states now will be able to earn additional revenue. Now that revenue is so important for the states so that they can do, among other things, at least begin to pay the new minimum wage. This way, it will improve consumer spending as well, and it works very well for everyone. So I think that despite the increase in VAT, there are so many inbuilt advantages for small businesses. Now I believe that small businesses can take advantage of the new provisions of finance that in order to make their businesses even grow better. In closing, I wish to congratulate again the Nassarau State Government for organizing such a successful MSME clinic and also to commend all the participating MSMEs for making use of the opportunities given to them by this clinic. I urge all of the MSMEs that are present to ensure that they present themselves during the this year's third national MSME awards. This year's national MSME awards, I want you, urge you to participate in it, present your products for the award. The prizes this year are bigger and better than last year. Of course, the competition for such rewards will also be cleaner. The intention this year is to have an MSME week with several activities climaxing the MSME awards. The President is determined to create a Nigeria in which small business owners are nurtured and encouraged to thrive and prosper. Our first responsibility as regulatory agencies of the government is to support their group or enable them as best as possible. So I'd like to thank the Governor again and all of you for this very successful outing and to look forward to hearing about the success stories that emerge from this activity. At this point, I also have a very pleasurable duty to perform, which is to inaugurate the Nassarau State Enabling Business Environment Council. As you know, Mr. President, President Muhammad Buhari had established the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council to do all that would be necessary to ensure that businesses have the best environment to flourish and to prosper. I'm privileged to chair Pebeck, which is the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council, and we have Dr. Jumuake Oduwale here, who is a special advisor to the President and who is also the Secretary of Pebeck. But the work of creating an enabling business environment cannot be done without the states. The states do the very best when they also set up their own enabling business environment council. And this is what Governor Abdulai Suley has done. He has also set up the Nassarau State Enabling Business Environment Council, and he has taken it upon himself to chair that council so that the council works in synergy and in collaboration with the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council. So it's my very special pleasure, first, to invite the Governor to join the Nassarau State Enabling Business Environment Council for the formal inauguration. So I will formally inaugurate this Nassarau State Enabling Business Environment Council led by His Excellency, the Governor of Nassarau State, engineer Abdulai Suley, I inaugurate the council for the benefit of the people of Nassarau State and to the glory of God. God bless you. Thank you very much.


Good morning, Cyber Traders, welcome back. On the first day of Tuesday for the first time this year, the 7th of January, how's everybody doing? Good to see you all, good morning, good morning. All right, good to see you all excited, Cyber Traders. Looks like everyone is now starting to make it back to work. All right. Just last night, I just booked my trip for February, guys, so looking forward to it. I didn't take off for Christmas, but, you know, did a lot work here, but that's okay, you know what I mean? That's the beauty about it. I was actually pretty happy I didn't because we had some great, great moves in the market, which was awesome, but we're gonna get ready to start looking at some stocks and making some really nice moves. We had some, you know, we had some really good pre-market stocks that had some really nice moves and we'll start off with the APOP. Like I told you, I was in the room, I usually start around 7.45.  So we did pretty well on this one and then she started backing off. You know what? And hopefully everybody learned a little bit about this stock. You know, we do some coaching in pre-market now and you can see the stock was breaking lower lows once it hit that high above eight bucks. But everyone, if you were here, when you logged in at, you know, I just caught it right at the, right when it made its pop right there, right above around 6.50, but right around here. And then a good thing we just got in and then sure enough, I ran away eight.  I thought it was going to keep going, but I got a little nervous. I went a little too fast too much, but then it kind of died out. And good thing we got out because you could see how the stock broke lower lows. But anyway, that stock looks really, really interesting. It's on our watch list and we'll talk a little bit more about them. I got probably about like six or seven of them already in pre-market. But before we do that, let's talk about what happened yesterday. All right, so we had a couple of decent stocks that did make some moves. So I want to start off with the SDC trade. Let me fix my chart right here. So this one had a really, really nice pop. It's been on a little bit of a move, but as you could see, the trend kept going lower and lower. It wasn't a great move, but it was a good short, you know? It was just to me personally, it was just a little slow. That's the only thing, I was a little slow on it. So that was the only thing that bothered me about it. RADA was another one that moved really, really nice. That one, you could see it right there. Nice little push. I had a couple of little nasty shakes here and there, but other than that, she was okay. I kind of thought she was all right. I kind of liked it a little bit, but you could see how the stock went from 560 all the way up until around 620, but the big move was going right into the close. I mean, this thing just literally went from 620 up to $7, like that in the blink of an eye. And the rule is, hold to the close. Doesn't work all the time, but in this case, having that nice little pop right there, that was pretty cool. Kind of really was one of the best trades of the day. And I don't know what's going on with this CEI, but this thing is just, it's got some nasty shakes, but then she pops, you know? It's like, I don't know. Shockingly, it's more of a swing trade more than anything, this stock, you guys remember it, this thing was so expensive. You could see it was at 100 to 460, it got destroyed, but it's hard. Honestly, it's a little bit hard to day trade the stock. It's got 10 cents swings. It's got a major resistance levels at three. I made good money on it, and then I lost a lot of it. Actually, on this trade, I was up three quarters of a point and then it dropped a buck on me, which is kind of unusual. Good thing I got out of it. I was able to salvage a little bit, but it just went down so fast in pre-market. But you know what? She's all over the place. I would kind of be a little cautious trading the CEI. So be very careful of that. And then obviously the ride aid guys, the ride aid, listen, great short right there. That was one of our great, great winners. To me, this is how you know it's a short squeeze when it goes from eight to about 25 and that would back down to 13. So there's another one that actually did really well too. Now regarding about this morning, listen, I just wanna hop over here and talk about the biggest mover of the morning, the APOP. And I just wanna point out something very, very unique about this stock. Now this stock had a major, major resistance levels at $6. How do I know that? You gotta look at the level four, okay? And when I bring it up over here, you could see that right here, there was a 70,000 share seller out there. He's been out there for about a little while. He really packed in the orders right here. Once that guy got executed, canceled of most of his orders, things just ran from six and look where it is now to 660. And we're talking about less than five minutes. So if you're here and using the level four guys, that was your little telltale window on the APOP. I don't know why it's not updating on my screen. But on the level four, I mean, there you go. Listen, you could do all the analytics you want. When the money's the money, just follow the money and that kind of leads the way for you. So that was pretty awesome. APLS, another one to bring it up. So this thing gapped up really big and you could see it ran from like 32, 31 all the way to 50. She's starting to trend down right now. I was looking on orders out there. I don't know, it doesn't really, it looks like people starting to take some profits right there. But I don't know, I would probably stay away from it. One of them that I really liked was the ADXS trade. That one's moving very inexpensive stock. It is a penny stock. And how we know that is because of the tens of a penny right there. But this one's been pretty nice. It was $0.60, went to $1.20. It's got a nice little push right there and it's pretty much testing up here. But it's got resistance levels at $0.660, so we'll keep an eye on that one. That was not terrible. TYME, another one right there taking a little bit of a, had a little bit of a gap up. One thing I like about this stock, she started with a little bit of a Thalstow flag. You guys could notice it right there. So if she does break out this $0.96, $0.97, she's gonna stock, listen, was that $2.80 this morning?   But anyway, she started with a little Thalstow flag right there, which looks awesome. So I kind of like that one right there. What else did I find this morning? Oh, we got about four more. TRIL, this one looks really nice. Very cheap, very inexpensive, nice little spread. Everybody can afford to trade it. I think everyone, everybody can see that this one looks pretty good right here. APA, another one I found this morning. This is actually the one I kept talking about in the morning in the cyber group room I like. It keeps breaking, it just kind of broke a higher high. These are the two that actually I was big more fans of. I was more a fan of the APOP and this one, the APA. This one obviously looks pretty damn strong guys. So look at that.  Not a lot of us can afford to trade it because listen, when you deal more expensive stocks, you deal more experienced traders. So just got to be a little cautious about trading this one. But she does look pretty damn strong. I was looking at the orders out there on level four. There is a seller that has been out there since about, I don't know, 8.30 this morning. He looked like he added to his position right around $30.30. It looks like she's trying to test it on the level four I'm seeing. Let's see if he gets taken out right there, but it doesn't look like it's gonna be doing it. He looks like it just hit it and came right back down. Remember, follow the money. CANF, another one right there, nice little cheap stock right there moving. That stock CANF is not bad. Nice little move, nice little pop right there. It has a decent spread. And I'm throwing the CEI back on that watch list. But just be careful. You gotta look at the, this stock's got some nasty spread. Just be very careful of that, all right? So listen, it's Tuesday, it's hump day, market's up a little bit. Well, actually it's not back down again. It's really not going too much down 22, 24 points right now. So I know we had this whole swore scare thing and all that stuff. Listen, just remember, just sit in cash. As long as you're in cash, you'll be fine. Just find the stocks that are moving and just focus on making your days pay and just like what you're trained what to do. And then one thing I do want to make a point to bring up to everyone. If you're trading today's markets and you're not really in your day trading, try not to focus on the 20 cents, the 50 cent moves. If you're not consistent, take a break. Go for five, 10 cents. You won't gotta go for the big home runs, right?  You don't wanna be lucky. You make your own luck, okay? This is all about skill. Skill is you go out there, you make your days pay and that's it. Just really quick on the APA, you wanna bring that back up. I told you there's that big seller at $30.30 and looks like now it's just backed off to $29.80. So you can see that big seller's really holding it tight right there. It's gotta break through that big seller if it's gonna go any higher. But you can see it is the fifth biggest percentage gainer. Lot of volume, 1.5 million shares already traded. All right guys, good luck everyone. Happy trading. And don't forget today is a very busy day. We have, you have traders talk that we're gonna be doing at 11 o'clock with Josh and then I'm gonna be doing a multi-speaker event today on Festival of Traders. Hopefully everybody gets a chance to join us. The market's gonna, you know, that's a good time to do it right after the market closes. And then I'm also gonna be doing another event on Thursday with the Investors Expo. All right, so a lot of great speakers on all these events.  It's always getting, it is always very important to get to know a little bit about all the different markets. So you get to appreciate it and it's okay to try a little bit of everyone's, you know, but I just like day trading cause I like to sleep at night, like I always say. All right, guys, good luck everyone. Happy trading. We'll see you back. We'll start commentating in about another, like I said, when the market opens up in 15 minutes and then we'll see you, we'll be doing another broadcast at 11 o'clock for Traders Talk. Good luck, everyone. Happy trading.


Hey stampers, welcome to another week of Watch It Weekly Wednesday. I'm Aubrey, part of the Stampin' Jill creative team, and today I'm excited to share with you a suite that's in the new annual catalog. It's called Bloom Where You're Planted. This is what it looks like. It's on page 80 and 81 of your annual catalog, and it is so cute. I love this suite. I love how trending it is, I love the colors of it, and the paper is to die for. So I want to show you just a few of the products in this suite and some cards that I've made using them, and just give you some of the details of it. So the stamp set in the suite is called Plentiful Plants. This is what it looks like. Super cute. It's a distinctive stamp set, so it has a lot of depth to it, and it's super cute. I love the sayings in here, and there's lots of them. So you have a lot of different options. So cute. It is a photopolymer stamp set, which is always really nice, so you can see right through it. And then coordinating with that is the Perfect Plant Dies, and this is what that looks like.  One of my favorites, so cute. So much fun. And in my opinion, something you have to get on top of the stamp set. So cute. And then there's the macrame embossing folder. Love this. It gives such a cute dimension to the cards. And then the designer series paper. This is the bloom where you're planted designer series paper. It is so cute. You can see on one side it has kind of the greenery, the cute pots that the succulents can go into. So so cute. And then on the other side is more just like background type fills, but so cute. I love the natural colors of this side and then the greenery of this side. So much fun. But one of my favorite features of this suite and especially this paper is the fact that you can use the dies and you can cut the paper out with the dies. So some of these different designer series papers have just the pots like this or just the plants like this. And some of the dies coordinate right with that. So let me just show you here. We have these three plants that coordinate with our dies and these three pots that coordinate with our dies. But then you also have these two stamped images that can coordinate as well as stamped images for these two. They're all great. And then you have some more detailed dies.  So there's a lot of different options, a lot of different ways to use all of this paper and this set. You can cut the paper out, the plants and the pots. You can stamp them and cut them out. There's all sorts of ways to do it and they're so cute. So I wanted to show you some of the cards I came up with using this suite and the different ways to use the products in it. So on this card you can see I kind of made a little ledge here and then I used the paper, the designer series paper and cut my plants and my pots out of that. Super cute. And I did thank you and then on the inside you were there and I'm very grateful. I loved that saying. So cute. And then on this one I just stamped all of the images rather than cutting it out of the designer series paper. Super cute too. So I just stamped all these and then stamped a little saying and cut them out with the dies and super cute card. Okay. And then this one I used the embossing folder here. You can see in the back that macrame embossing folder. And then I love this hanging macrame. So cute. Love you. Love it. I have had so much fun playing with this product. Succulents are so in right now and plants in general are so in. And what fun to put it on a card to send to someone you love. So if you're interested in purchasing any of this product make sure to visit us at stampinjill.com and we'll see you next week for another Watch It Weekly Wednesday.


And this one's a simple song. There's no actions involved and it's mini mini bir kuş And I'll just sing it the first time and then we'll go through the translation. So it goes Basically that's how it goes. We'll do that. I'll say it and then you guys can repeat after me. Again, it doesn't translate very well, but you have the English translation there. So, mini mini bir kuş dönmüştü, mini mini bir kuş dönmüştü Pencereme konmuştü, pencereme konmuştü Aldım onu içeriye Çık çık çık çık içsin diye Pöpöre erken canlandı Ellerim bak boş kaldı There you go. Perfect. The c in Turkish is like a j and that's the sound the bird makes. And the pöpöre is just I guess the sound that the bird makes. And with that squiggly line under the s, that makes it an sh sound. So just keep that in mind. An es. The name of the letter is es. The i without the dot, is that a ı? That's right. And the c with a squiggle just like the s is kind of like a ch and that's a ce. So içeriye in that word there. And if it has two dots on the top? If it has two dots it's like an ı, ıtsın, ıtsın and the yu is like a ı. It's very guttural. There's a lot of ı and ı and ı and yeah, that sort of thing. So it's not the easiest accent but you can give it a try.


I'm not so sure about being happy, being the last speaker on the Friday when everybody wants to get out and play, but I'm going to try to give you some ideas that may challenge your familiar way of thinking, and that's always a fun thing to do in my opinion. Well, I've spent my whole life lobbing grenades at PsychoBabble. That's been my business as a psychological scientist. You know, these are the pop-psych ideas that, so these are the ideas, you know, that exist in our culture without any visible means of empirical support, right? So for example, my first book on anger so many years ago, you know, I politely pointed out what was wrong with the Freudian notions of catharsis and how good it was for you to always let it out of your system and so forth. And I found that many people in response wrote to me wishing that I had a pleasant sexual experience by myself. Love in this culture of expressing your anger is so great that not only when I finished debunking it, it got rebunked and then I had to derebunk it. I'm telling you, you cannot dislodge this idea. And we see the result of my efforts, which has been the rise of civility and manners in America. Well, skeptics have long persisted in the quest to replace PsychoBabble with good psychological science and critical thinking. And although this isn't easy, at least with PsychoBabble, we know it when we see it. Its assumptions are right out there in testable form.  Somebody says, I can retrieve a memory of yours from the womb or from the 14th century. These are ideas that we can test. Today though, we face a greater challenge because in this era of the medical, pharmaceutical, industrial complex where PsychoBabble goes, can Biobunk be far behind? Pseudoneuroscience, term I use, has the same hallmarks as its psycho sibling. Sloppy research driven by poor to non-existent theory. Data often massaged until it comes out right that is suitable for publication. The results leading to reductionist and oversimplified conclusions all dressed up in sciency language and reliance on expensive technology. I am really pleased to be speaking after Stuart Farstein and Bruce Hood because they are exactly the best examples of what I am not talking about. That is science at its best. But nowadays, journalists get so excited with any study that has a brain in it that they tend to report its findings uncritically to an equally uncritical but eager public. How in the world are lay people supposed to evaluate a news item about yet another FMRI study showing yet another area of the brain that lights up when we think of Hot Fudge Sundays or read a poem or poem by Jane Austen versus a poem by Yates?  How do I know what my brain is doing when it's thinking about a Hot Fudge Sunday? How do I know what your brain is doing? How do we as skeptics foster the public understanding of the difference between good science and pseudo science in the realm of neuroscience? Neuron is a neuron, isn't it? Well, no. So to begin, let me just clear my throat and tell you that I am as dazzled as the next person by the biomedical and neuroscientific discoveries that we hear about every week. They're fantastic. The human genome has been mapped. Who is not amazed by seeing the brain in action thanks to dazzling new technologies? Who is not excited by findings of the brain's plasticity? Yes, thank you, thank you. How about discoveries of neurogenesis by the creation of a connectome, a map of neural connections in the brain? Yet, some curmudgeonly caution is called for and reluctantly, I step up to the challenge. When I was in graduate school, back in the Paleolithic era, it was the heyday of behaviorism and B.F. Skinner. And so the operative word you had to use to indicate that you were doing science was to add the word behavior to everything. So you didn't eat or sleep or walk or talk. You engaged in eating behavior, sleeping behavior, walking behavior, and verbal behavior. In their forthcoming book, Brain Washed, Sally Satel and Scott Lilienfeld list some of the many new areas of research that now have the word neuro-attached. This is to indicate today that you're doing science, you've got to throw a neuro in there. So here we have neuro-law, neuro-economics, neuro-philosophy, I love neuro-ethics there at the bottom. Anything you're currently doing, throw a neuro in there and people will really be impressed. Now it is no wonder that they'll be impressed because we now know from research that people regard evidence from brain images as being more real than other kinds of psychological information. A few years ago, bio-ethicist Eric Racine and his colleagues at Stanford used the term neuro-realism to describe this phenomenon. They reviewed over 1200 articles in the press and they identified many examples of neuro-realism in the way these studies are described.  They provide visual proof of some phenomenon. Satel and Lilienfeld had some wonderful examples of these hyperventilating headlines such as placebo effect shown as real brain reaction. I guess we didn't know the placebo effect was real until we had a brain. Here's one, anorexia, visible with brain scans. Brain imaging shows the joy of giving. And you thought you knew about the joy of giving because it feels good to give.  No wonder the CIA and big business are interested. No wonder. So in their paper, the seductive appeal of neuroscience explanations, Dina Weisberg and her colleagues asked experts and non-experts to evaluate explanations of empathy or its failure during negotiations. Sometimes the explanation was smart and plausible and sometimes it was poor and illogical. Now sometimes the explanation was just a straight explanation without neuroscience. The researchers claimed this happens because people have trouble switching their point of view and so forth, okay. Then sometimes they added neuroscience. All they did was throw in the words in blue, brain scans indicate and frontal lobe brain circuitry known to be involved in self-knowledge, whatever that means. And here's what they found. The non-experts thought that explanations with the logically irrelevant neuroscience information were more satisfying than explanations without them. And they had a particularly striking effect on non-experts judgments of bad explanations. So this is what we're up against. Non-experts especially love bad explanations from neuroscience.  You can just throw in an image of brain activity and that will be enough to make a study's conclusion seem more scientific. I love this study. People read some nonsense such as the passage explaining that because watching television and doing math problems both cause activation in the temporal lobe, watching television will improve math ability. People who read a version of this passage accompanied by fMRI images thought it had much better scientific reasoning than those who read a version with no images or even a version with a bar graph. This is why I don't go anywhere anymore without my brain. I want people to know I'm doing science. But I am not alone. You can see in this era of neuro-realism that anyone doing anything vaguely clinical feels obliged to throw a brain in there. Coaching with compassion lights up mentee brains. I don't know what that blob is and I don't know what is supposed to be lit up. We just throw that little colorful thing in there and that will show that our method of coaching is really scientific. Or this one, a workshop for practitioners. It's an exciting time to be a clinician because neuroscience is offering dramatic insights into human development. We've known all along about the importance of love and attachments but now we have the brain to prove it. Is not the only hot word in psychology these days. Another is narrative. In psychology people speak of narrative theory, narrative therapy, narrative identity. I was glad Bruce was talking about the self because that's a big impulse here. How do we talk about ourselves? What is the influence on us of the stories we tell about our lives of how we explain behavior? And so I want to tell you a story about neuroscience and how the narratives, the stories we tell about neuroscience affect us as individuals and as society. Our story begins in 1980 with the election of Ronald Reagan and a decade that began the rapid rise of biomedical technologies. The deregulation of the pharmaceutical industry and the crumbling of the once impenetrable firewall between research and industry. To understand the scope of this transformation you have only to know what Jonas Salk said when in 1955 he was asked why he didn't patent the polio vaccine. He said, can you patent the sun? A vaccine, he said, was for the public good. And in his time, scientists thought it was unseemly distasteful to be doing research for personal profit. Doesn't that seem quaint? Today our society has moved to the notion that not patenting the sun, if you could, is crazy. So the rising biomedical industrial complex produced three major scientific and commercial developments. Pharmaceuticals, psychopharmaceuticals, genetic testing in the genome, and imaging the brain. Each of these areas of research appeared with great fanfare and exhilarated promises in the media also from some scientists. Listen to Prozac, it means the end to depression. Hey, a study has found the gene for depression. Wait, here's one for schizophrenia. Wait, here's a marker for homosexuality. And wait, we think we found the gene for worrying. Don't worry about that one. Now we're hearing that the genome, that magic thing is gonna give us personalized medicine one day. Your particular genetic pattern will determine the treatment you need for some disease or for some unwanted trait. Well, and the brain, oh my god. If we can screen, we can intervene. Imaging the brain will give us techniques that will make us smarter, work faster, and keep those memories sharp. Soon, please. Okay, that's the tone, isn't it? That we read about all the time in the media this kind of breathless, excited, look what's coming down the pike. Well, history being the best predictor of the future, we do well to note why these excited promises have all proved to be exaggerated, the science becoming more complicated, even as the marketing and reporting became more simplistic. Scientists have moved from the hope of finding the gene to speaking of multiple genes, to looking for gene environment interactions, to doing genome-wide association studies to epigenetics a fabulously interesting new area of research in which we've learned that stable changes in the expression of a particular gene can occur without changes in DNA. This is amazing, but just recently in science, two studies reported that most diseases are caused by rare mutations, thus making them very costly to identify rather than by common mutations which would allow an easy person prediction for an illness. And scientists now are urging caution and skepticism about the pop epigenetic stories in the news. Epidemiologist George Davies Smith has argued that the hope for personalized medicine overlooks the powerful role of randomness and chance in human disease. He called epigenetic explanations the currently fashionable response to any question to which you do not know the answer. This line, of course, went viral immediately. But we're Americans, what are you telling me about randomness and chance? I wanna know, I wanna predict. And, of course, as we have learned, we need to tolerate uncertainty. Oversimplification remains in the way so much of our science is reported. As in the example of this wonderfully scientifically illiterate judge who decided that this guy had to go to prison because he was watching pornography and there is as of yet undiscovered gene for child pornography watching. It's a yet undiscovered gene, but we know it will be there. It's a gene you were born with, it's not a gene you can get rid of. This guy needs to go back to school. To illustrate the problems of pseudoscience in neuroscience, I want to digress a moment to give you an instructive lesson from what happened with the pharmaceutical industry. It may seem a digression, but trust me, I'm gonna come back to my main theme.  And so pharmaceutical companies began a series of commercial procedures to get their products to market fast, especially blockbuster drugs. Blockbuster drugs have a definition. They sell $1 billion a year in profit. So the pharmaceutical companies began to sponsor or conduct their own research to determine when, whether, and where that research would be reported. They embargoed research with negative results. They bypassed peer review by going directly to the public and they manipulated data to create an impression that a drug was more successful than it really was. Here's an example. Eric Turner and his colleagues in the New England Journal of Medicine went to the FDA and asked for all studies that had been done on 12 antidepressant agents involving more than 12,000 patients. The FDA had reviewed 74 registered studies. And this is what we see. These are the studies that were published in professional journals. As you can see, almost all of them reported positive results of the effectiveness of a new antidepressant. Those are the 12 antidepressants along the side there for benefits compared to older antidepressants or other antidepressants. But the researchers had all the data that the FDA had, including the studies that had not been published. And that's what they found this time. These were the unpublished studies. In this situation, actually one of the studies that had shown a positive result, number 49, actually was a negative result. For the public, for mental health professionals, for scientific researchers alike, the rise of Big Pharma had a tremendously important consequence. The virtual abandonment of non-biological explanations of people's problems and of non-medical interventions. With so much money going to medication, that's where the research went. Follow the money. People don't wake up one day and say, I think I will study antidepressants instead of psychotherapy. No, you go where the money is. So consider, for example, the effort to find a female viagra. Which is definitely a billion dollar market. Here's the head of one company saying, listen, boy, guys, we can make a fortune here. And besides, if there's viagra for men, there certainly should be a viagra for women. It's only fair, after all. We don't want to be accused of sexism or anything like that, right? So there began a search for female viagra. And this is what it looks like.  And as you can see, most of them were not approved. Many of them had harmful side effects. Many of them were risky, such as testosterone for women. And this is the picture of it. And the reason, the reason that people have, in this pursuit of the female viagra, people have not stopped to say, maybe our basic assumption was wrong.  The president of BioSante said when the trial for LibiGel failed yet again, the damned placebo effect was just too high. Any sex therapist could have told him is that most people do not have a sex problem just sitting by themselves on a sofa. The problem only begins when another person enters the room. The lessons we've learned from the promises, the failures, and the corruption of scientific research by the pharmaceutical industry provide some guidelines, I think, for detecting signs of pseudo-neuroscience as we read about brain imaging studies. We need to examine them for their basic assumptions are the assumptions right? And we need to consider the way in which data might be manipulated or distorted to get published results. So the first sign of pseudo-neuroscience is what I call technomyopia. This is an excessive dependence on technology that leads to conceptual blindness. There was a wonderful example of this. This is called the technology knows more than I do phenomenon. I remember in Germany when GPS first came out years ago, a BMW driver drove his car into a river because his GPS told him the ferry would be there. He completely ignored the hundred people on the shore screaming at him to stop. But my car says the ferry will be there. There you go. So to continue with an example from sexology, the assumption is that if you merely interview people about their sexual behavior, you're not doing science. But if you wire them up to a machine and measure something, that's science.  There is the nocturnal penile to messence monitoring, that's the ridgiscan, selective penile angiography, penile sacral nerve conduction velocity testing, cavernosometry, cavernosography, corpus cavernosum electromyography, and the Doppler color ultrasound monitor for pharmacopenile duplex ultrasonography. Tried saying that in front of the mirror, but I still make mistakes. Forgive me, these are not cockamamie methods. Listen, you write about sex, everything you say is a double entendre. The use of these technologies has informed researchers that sometimes the brain and the genitals are not entirely in communication. I think scientists must be the only people on the planet who didn't know this.  Now I have to tell you something, despite all of this technology, no one can agree on what the gold standard is. How erect does an erection have to be? Will the real erection please stand up? And what's real, by the way, it turns out a man's judgment of what the problem is often does not agree with his partner's judgment of what the problem is. Isn't that a problem? Isn't that something technology can't answer? In House of Cards, Robin Dawes' wonderful critique of psychotherapy, Dawes was a brilliant clinical scientist, and he told a story of his early clinical training when he had to administer the Rorschach to a very depressed patient. The Rorschach is, by the way, the, I mean, it is one of the most unscientific of instruments, you cannot drive a stake through its heart though, people have been trying energetically for decades. So the man replied to the first ink blot, it looks like a bat that has been squashed on the pavement under the hill of a giant's boot. Wow, said Dawes, this guy's depressed. Dawes was so thrilled by the success of the test that it took him a while to realize that the Rorschach had told him nothing that he didn't already know. So in this spirit, we need to ask, what did this FMRI study teach me that I didn't already know? Here's one, a Stanford study of math anxiety in the brain. This is, by the way, a stock photo, it has nothing to do with the researcher's research, but now we know, you see, when you look at this now, you'll know why they throw it in there, won't you? Cause now you'll really think this must be science. And what they find is, when people are anxious, they're anxious, it doesn't matter if they're anxious about math or if they're anxious about giving a talk. How about this one? This is a good one. Political bias affects brain activity. Study finds. Okay, I have a personal interest in this one because there were only 3,000 studies of cognitive dissonance in the years before people were able to do FMRIs, but now that we know we can track it into the brain and see how people's thinking operates, then it must really be true. In another study, combat veterans with PTSD displayed different patterns of brain activity than did veterans without PTSD. Okay, that's interesting. The lead investigator says, said, this shows that PTSD is a brain disease.  It shows nothing of the kind. Another psychologist looking at these findings said, this one makes me mad, said the findings offer concrete validation of human suffering. Concrete validation of human suffering? My friends, if we can't recognize human suffering without an FMRI, we are technomaiopic indeed. And so, by letting technology ask our questions for us, what is the brain doing when we are suffering or happy? We let it blind us to the questions we don't ask to what Stuart said before is so important to the expanding questions we need to be thinking about. On his blog, Andrew Sullivan described a show in which they put seven contestants in an FMRI and told, they were told to try to love someone as hard as they could for five minutes. Sullivan said, yeah, it turns out, it's possible for one person to exhibit that they can love someone more deeply than another person can. Duh. But more important, what kind of love is being defined here? What about the love of two people who have been devoted to each other for many years? Long past, my friend Elizabeth Loftus calls the bunny rabbit phase. What about the love you feel for your partner when you're having a quarrel? The clinical neuroscientist Raymond Tallis put it this way, quote, love is not a response to a single stimulus, such as a picture. It's not even a single enduring state like being cold. It is a many-splendored and many-miseried thing that includes jealousy, kindness, lust, guilt, happiness, fury, and moments of not feeling in love at all. An FMRI study gives us none of this. It blinds us to the importance of anything it cannot measure. The second sign of pseudo-neuroscience is methodological, deceptive practices, and the manipulation of statistics.  This is from a book by Joseph Doomet years ago who pointed out that people can color their scans, their brains in any way they want, and this leads to a kind of lively set of notions that we're talking about some real differences here. This is a stock photo from Corbis.  And he says, one of the important things to understand is that the common practice in these studies of combining individual brains into one average scan masks, and this is really important, masks the significant variability among people's brains, which leads to the false conclusions that everyone's brain responds the same way to a given stimulus. You can show some people chocolate. My brain's gonna be really happy, but someone else might go to sleep. In a questionnaire study, we understand about ranges. We can talk about averages and political attitudes or in beliefs about something, and you can see that there's a range. What is often not made clear is how individual brains also vary. Now we come to the really good part. This is a little statistical here, but stick with me, I think you'll follow this. A few years ago, a study was published in the journal Current Directions in Psychological Science. It was called Puzzlingly High Correlations in FMRI Studies. Puzzlingly High Correlations. The researchers had retracted their original title, which was Voodoo Correlations in FMRI Studies. That was considered a bit over the top for a journal. So they said a study reports something like this, and FMRI finds a high correlation between part of brain X and some emotion or personality trait or cognitive ability. These authors examined 55 articles and showed how most of them used a statistical computation method that inflated the correlations that do exist and also created entirely spurious ones. Spurious ones. Well, a few years later, once that Voodoo Correlations idea was out, you couldn't get it back. And so by 2011, we had this important paper. Voodoo correlations are everywhere, not only in neuroscience. These investigators pointed out that a typical full brain analysis encompasses more than 130,000 measurement points called voxels, of which only a small subset is included in the final validity test. In most studies, researchers select only those voxels that bear the strongest correlations to the criterion they're looking for. What these researchers wrote, other correlations involving different brain functions and potentially supporting different theories may go unnoticed. And look at this sentence, published fancy correlations. Let me have that slide back. Published fancy correlations, which made it into the highest impact journals, maybe little more than outliers. Notice the similarity here between the effort to get your article and FMRI published and the same thing that pharmaceutical companies were doing to get theirs published. But here, the best demonstration ever of how fancy correlations can mislead comes from a study by Craig Bennett and colleagues in their fine paper with the best title in the entire history of 21st century science. Neural correlates of interspecies perspective taking in the post-mortem Atlantic salmon. They did an FMRI on a dead Atlantic salmon. They showed it, photographs of people, and asked the salmon, but emotions the person in each photo was actually feeling. You ask, how could an FMRI detect any brain activity in a dead salmon, but it did. The scan revealed that the salmon was thinking about the pictures and the people in them. Well, that's because FMRI produces a mix of signal and noise, and scientists use techniques to quiet the noise and reveal the true signal. But it's easy to make errors, the researchers explained, because if you don't correct for multiple comparisons, you are virtually guaranteed to get a false positive, a correlation between this part of the brain and that emotion or that thought or that feeling that's totally wrong. When they did the proper statistical controls, the salmon turned out to be dead after. So you see the take home message here as my colleague Mary Ann Gary said is, you have to realize that other studies too, we may not know if the result is real or just another dead salmon. Of pseudo-neuroscience is reductionism. Okay, the failure to recognize individual variation in context, here you go. There is no better example of reductionism than to take a look at the many books out there on the something brain.   Of course, there are sex differences in the brain. We are mammals, we're primates.  The problem, as Stephanie Shields has said, the identification of difference is treated as the end of the explanatory story. Finding a difference is equated with explaining the difference. So just take one of those pop neuro books like Luan Brizendine's, The Female Brain, or Michael Gurion's, what could he be thinking? Or it's a baby girl, they all have those kind of titles. You will see reductionism in action. These books all claim that men and women, all men, all women, are hardwired to misunderstand each other, have different interests and skills to learn differently and to different empathy and logic. The author of The Male Factor, a woman, said, the male brain has the enviable ability to essentially switch off emotions when desired, in part because it's hard for a man to think clearly in the face of emotion. I thought it was women who couldn't think clearly in the face of emotion. Wasn't that what it was supposed to... All right, these are the kind of remarks that you get. So you can hear reductionism, it has a tone, there's a hum to it. You can hear the hum of reductionism when writers write this way. They'll say women, women are more empathic than men. Now we have the biological reason, they have more mirror neurons, they have more oxytocin. Okay, so on questionnaires, women are more likely to say, yeah, women are more empathic than men, and that's a nice quality, and we have it. Does anybody think that what people say on a questionnaire about themselves has very much to do with how they behave? Do we think that Sarah Palin is empathic towards scientists? And what about men? Are they lacking in empathy when they rush to help a child who's taken a tumble or rescue somebody in distress? Are women really more empathic toward their enemies than men are, their enemies in their families, or enemy enemies in wartime? No. And by the way, not only is there no sex difference in the number of mirror neurons in the brain, but people's mirror neurons go to sleep when they're observing members of an out group. How about oxytocin, which immediately got labeled the cuddle hormone and marketed to eager buyers? It turns out that giving people doses of oxytocin makes them more likely to favor their own group over other groups and increases defensive aggression against outsiders.  And by the way, high levels of oxytocin in women and men now seem to be biological markers of relationship distress, and also by the way, always and ever, people's love and attachment histories affect how they respond to hormones in the first place. I've been studying the study of sex differences for 40 years, ever since I was four. Saying that number is scary, kids, let me tell you. But I'll tell you, it's given me a vantage point that has really been useful as I read the current crop of these sex difference things. In that time, many efforts to locate sex differences in the brain have come and gone. Decades ago, it was thought that the real reason for sex differences was that the size of the corpus callosum was different in men and women. Those studies weren't replicated. How about differences in hemispheric lateralization? Well, that was sort of an interesting thing, but not only did those studies not predict actual behavior differences between men and women, they, many of them, were not replicated. The one unchanging thing is that the search for differences persists, differences mark you in personality and skills and abilities and human qualities that, as far as I can tell, are evenly distributed across both sexes. And differences which, in turn, depend on context. Of course, that's me as a social psychologist speaking. Ignoring the difference, ignoring the situation in which the tests are done, the importance of the person's class, experience, history, and even the person's own brain's history. When I was writing Anger all those years ago, there was an interesting study I found about how if you stimulated the amygdala of men, it made them more violent. That was in the days when the amygdala was thought to be the anger center. Then it became the fear center, and now it's a more generic all-purpose emotion processor, so that in itself is interesting. But okay, we stimulate the amygdala of men, and it makes them more angry and aggressive. Next part of study. That was only true for men with a history of violence.  You can see how we do a study. We see how a brain responds in some particular situation. If we ignore the individual's history, personality, experience, and culture, nutrition, what the immediate situation is that they're in, we will often come to the wrong conclusion. It is easy but wrong to assume that a snapshot that we take of men and women at this time in this study is an unchanging, timeless blueprint. And so the fourth sign of pseudo neuroscience is hype and oversell for the sake of marketing or public policy or an agenda. You can buy your own oxytocin now on the net. What is that man doing to that woman? What is he giving her? I didn't hear that. I would humbly suggest that if he were offering her chocolate, he would have better luck. Now, many social critics have raised concerns about neuro policy, applying fMRI studies on the service of some agenda you have. The gambler's brains are different from non-gambler's brains that lies can be detected in the brain. Look out for this one. The police and military, as many of you know, use the polygraph today, not because they think it works. They know it doesn't work. It's very unreliable, especially with innocent people. They use it because they know the suspect thinks it works. You can be sure that they will be using fMRI the same way to induce confession or bamboozle a jury. One interesting group of researchers have already shown that if you educate jurors about the complexities of fMRI, they're not as likely to regard it in as simplistic a way as I've been describing. I have a few more minutes. So today, here's what's coming down the pike. The drive for cognitive enhancement is going to produce not only medication, but things we can do to the brain. Just a few months ago, neuroscientists at the University of Oxford reported that transcranial direct current stimulation, TDCS, might soon be used with healthy people to improve their math skills, memory, problem solving, and other mental abilities. One researcher said, I can see a time when people plug a simple device into an iPad so that their brain is stimulated when they're doing their homework, learning French, or taking up the piano. That sounds good, doesn't it? It would also be a great educational aid for children. Well, sure, sure, but by now, don't we want to ask a few skeptical questions such as, who funded this research? How much research on TDCS has been done? Not much. Has research determined whether there are better or worse ways of using TDCS for different mental abilities? Not yet. Has the method been tested on children whose brains are still developing? Not yet. Is it known whether boosting ability in one arena might affect abilities in another? The dreaded side effect, risk factor problem? Not yet. Has research determined whether the use of TDCS in the laboratory can improve anybody's abilities in real life, or whether its effects last longer than 10 minutes? Not yet, but we can be sure that plenty of entrepreneurs won't wait for answers to these questions before they start trying to market it to whoever is willing to buy. Can we read this? A story? Honey, wouldn't you rather have a mild sedative? I love this cartoon, a story. I started by saying I was gonna tell you a story about neuroscience, and so let us take a step back here in conclusion to ask what are the social, political, and personal consequences of the neuroscientific narrative? Its story creates a metaphor for human behavior that can be illuminating, phenomenally interesting, and also narrowing. My friend and colleague, Leon Ortiefer, who is a sex researcher, puts it this way. Sex involves the brain and the body, thank God. And this is a fine thing. But do we want to see sex only as a biological process like digestion, or do we want to see it as something more like dancing, which is social, and psychological, and cultural, and learned? Notice the consequences of what follows in our lives for how we wish to see sexuality, the story we tell about it. Is it built in? Is there some notion of what's normal? And if it isn't normal, how do I fix it? I assume it stays the same over a lifetime. All people respond the same way, and if they don't respond that way, they're not normal, they're not healthy. Please, let's put it back, okay? Or do we want to see sex as something that we learn, that we can change, that we understand will change with new partners, with new situations over our lifetimes, and by the way, that there are lots of ways to do it, all of which are healthy, normal, and just fine. Doing the tango is not better than doing a foxtrot. In this respect, I think it's wonderful to see that neuroscientists themselves, such as Michael Gazaniga, and social critics, such as the British biologist, Nicholas Rose, raise the same kinds of questions. Do we want to see ourselves as brains that do things my brain made me do it, as Bruce said? It wasn't me doing it.  Is the brain the origin of action and responsibility? Or as Gazaniga says, does responsibility emerge from the interaction of our brains with particular environments and cultures? As we welcome the contributions of neuroscience in the future, let us also be aware of the risks and dangers of pseudo-neuroscience. Biology is an important piece of the human story, but it is only one chapter. Thank you very much.


In this question, we have to simplify this given expression. So if you see there are cubes of two binomials here and we have to simplify it. So the moment you see a cube of a binomial, the first thing which should strike your mind is A plus B whole cube is equal to A cube plus thrice A square B plus 3 AB square plus B cube, isn't it? And similarly A minus B whole cube, because if you see there's a minus sign here, minus here. So A minus B whole cube will be A cube minus 3A square B plus 3AB square minus B cube, correct? So let's now use this identity and expand this or simplify this. So hence the first term will be, what will be the first term? A minus cube plus 3 times 4X whole square into 2Y, then plus 3 times 4X into 2Y whole square and plus 2Y to the power 3, right? And if you open the second one, so this will be minus sign in the outside the bracket still. So 4X, sorry, cubed then minus 3 times 4X squared times 2Y plus 3 times 4X times 2Y whole squared minus 2Y cubed and within bracket, correct? Now guys, if you see, let us simplify further. So that means, if you have to simplify, what do we need to do? You need to multiply this minus sign with the entire expression here. So let me rewrite it, no problem. So it is 4X cubed. Or rather, if you leave this like that and then 3 times, I'm not simplifying for a purpose right now, because you'll see in the next step, you'll see a few of the terms getting cancelled. So I will be, you know, reserving my calculation for the last step, right?  Minus 4X cubed. So if you see, this is going to be cancelled. So hence I didn't calculate it, right? Then minus, multiplied by this minus will give you plus. So plus 3 into 4X squared into 2Y. Then finally minus 3 into 4X into 2Y squared and then plus 2Y whole cube, isn't it? So simple mathematics. So if you see this and this term will go, similarly this and this term will go. So hence we will be now seeing, we will be simplifying the remaining term. So if you see, what is here? So this one, 3 plus 3, these are the like terms. So hence 3 into 4X squared plus, into 2Y plus 3 into 4X squared into 2Y is nothing but 6 into 4X whole squared into 2Y. And this is nothing but 2 times 2Y whole cube, isn't it? So hence, if you simplify it further, you'll get 6 into 4 squared is 16X squared into 2Y plus 2 into 8Y cubed, right? So the answer is 16, 6 is 96 and then into 2 also. So hence it will be 192. So 6 into 16 into 2 is 192, X square Y are the variables and here it is 16Y cubed, right? So if you see, the final simplification, the final simplification would be 16Y cubed or 192 X square Y. So this is the simplification of these two binomial cubes.


안녕하세요. 다트키입니다. 안녕하세요. 알림입니다. My name is Alif from Turkey. I'm living in Korea for years. And I'm a YouTuber here and study. And that is my friend. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. I love him. So today's topic is Korean Muslim's daily life. So we came to Itaewon. If you are Muslim in Korea, I think Itaewon is the most common place. Because it's really hard to find Halal foods in Korea. In other place. And second, there is a mosque in here. There is only one mosque in Seoul. So I should come here often. So today I will show the daily life as a Muslim with my Turkish friend Ali. Okay, let's go. Let's move. Okay, let's go. 괜찮은가요? 좋았던 것 같아요. So let's go. Yeah, let's go. Is it hard to be Muslim in Korea? I think so. There are some difficulties like food and social relationship. Yeah, of course. And you live here for four years in Korea.  How do you think? This is hard. Really? Four years ago it was really difficult to find Halal foods. But nowadays it is more better because a lot of foreigners are coming to Korea. There are so many Muslims. And a lot of restaurants. So we came to Itaewon Halal Street. Islamic Street. Halal Restaurant and Halal Mart.  Okay. Let's eat some snacks. Let's go. There is a convenience store here. Let's go to the convenience store first. What do you like? I like potato chips. Okay. But we have to check. What? Ingredients. 닭고기, 쇠고기. This is okay. Yeah, this is okay. Really? Yes. Ali, do you like jelly? I like jelly. I like Haribo. Haribo? Really? It's pork. It's pork. It's pork. So this is haram. Haram? Haram Haribo. There is pork. 돼지고기. Really hard to live in Korea. Oh, I think. 소고기. 이거 소고기. Turkey. Turkey. Yeah, Turkey. Made in Turkey? I find Halal Haribo. Yeah. Made in Turkey. Made in Turkey. Wow. Okay, I can buy this. This is very famous Korean snack. Yeah, choco pie. It's very famous. But I think there is marshmallow here. So... It's halal. Yeah, there is pork. Really? 돼지고기. So you cannot eat this choco pie. Really? You cannot. Oh my God, I didn't know. Did you try? Halal? This is from Malaysia. So this is halal. Halal. So you have to check this ingredient always. I want to drink something. Okay, let's go drink. So is there any halal drink here? This is halal. Yeah, this is not soda. This is not soda. This is alcohol. If you drink this, you can change to anymore. We found halal drink. Halal jelly in convenience store. Made in Turkey. It's not easy to find. You always find the ingredient. You have to always check. Yeah. This is the rule. Okay, let's eat. Let's drink. But I think... prayer time is soon. And mosque. Yeah, yeah. And mosque is very close here. Okay. Can we prayer? Okay, 이거 먹고. 이거 먹고 기도. 다음에 기도하는. Okay, mosque. We can eat this mosque, right? Not in mosque, but there is better. Okay, let's go. Not in the mosque. No, no, no. We are live mosque. Yeah. So you like here, right? Yeah, I always come here. Because the mosque is only in here in Seoul. If you want to prayer in the mosque, then you have to come here. Yeah. And you know this decoration from Turkey? Oh, yeah, right. The first imam was Turkish too. Really? Yeah, from the Korean war. Oh, really? Yeah, yeah, Korean war. There is a soldier. Yeah, the Korean Islam start from that. We are brother country. Like... This is Turkish. This is originally from Turkish decoration everywhere. I really want to see in Turkey. Yeah, okay. Come to Turkey, bro. Yeah, everyone. Can you... 이글 수 있어요? Lailailala muhamman al-asrullah. Wow. Well, it's not perfect. Okay, let's go inside. We are in mosque. And I changed my clothes. I love this clothes. Sometimes wear this. It feels really good. Are there any... This is Arab style, yeah. Turkish style? Yeah, Turkish style is normal. But we should be really clean. Clean? Yeah, right. When we go to mosque, please, everyone, wash your foot. Because of smell. Sure, yeah, right. 양말 냄새. 맞아, 맞아. 너무 조심해야 해. We should be careful about it. 맞아, 맞아. How was your memories in mosque in Turkey? 분위기 너무 좋았어요. I learned Quran. We are going to mosque when we were child in Turkey. And even if we didn't go to mosque, we can eat. We should show good atmosphere to children. I see. So we can look naturally without hesitation. 맞아, 맞아. Good, like Jannah. Jannah. Like Heaven. Like Allah House. 맞아. Yeah, this is Allah House. 한국에도 좀... I hope many Korean Muslims grow up and I hope there are more beautiful mosque in Korea. Yeah, okay. If I have money, I will make it. Really? Promise? If I have money, yeah, okay. Promise. Do you want to pray? Yeah, of course. And we have to do Udu first. The cult? Yes. We can do it. Yeah, we can take shower this cult. 남자. 할 수 있다. 할 수 있다. Okay, let's go to attest. attest. 우와. So this is the rear mark, Muslim friendly restaurant. So if you see this kind of mark, it means it's safe. Have you ever tried this? Of course. Hello guys. Hi, hi guys. This is hello guys. And this is nice tentage. Yeah, I like this. I really like this. Turkish style in that? Yeah, this is Turkish style. I think you guys care about, like care about. It's like subway. No. More delicious. More delicious? Okay. 맛있겠다. Bismillah. Bismillah. 어떻게 먹어? 먹어. 큰데? Delicious. Hey, Alhamdulillah. Alhamdulillah. 너무 맛있어요. 많이 먹었어요. 오늘 정말 맛있었어요. 헬랄데이. 네. 한국에서 매우 어려워. 아, 네. 첫 음식은 어려워요. 음식은 정말 어려워요. 네. 왜냐하면 제가 매우 어려운 음식을 먹으면 아주 조심스러워야 할 것 같아요. 항상 재료들을 확인할 수 있어요. 네. 그리고 한국朋友의 사랑, 고기, 아이콜, 파티. 네, 파티. 진짜 어려워요. 소시지의 인생을 위해서. 네, 소시지의 인생을 위해서. 저는 모든 분들을 알아요. 네, 맞아요. 하지만 괜찮아요. 왜냐하면 저는 항상 건강한 음식을 먹어요. 네. 그래서 저에게도 좋은 것 같아요. 물론. 물론. 그리고 제 소시지와의 인생을 위해서. 친구들이랑 많이 연락 안 하고 지금. 아, 아. 네, 그래서. 조금 아깝게 보이잖아. 롤리. 롤리. 롤리. 아, 제 친구들. 네. 아, 제 친구들. 제 친구들. 걱정 마세요. 빙ing a Muslim in non-Islamic countries is not easy. 하지만 if you overcome this difficulties then Allah will give you more rewards. 네. 네, 그래서 I think I think it's okay and I'm trying to deal with it. 이 Islam이라는 정도도 굉장히 평화롭고 사람들한테 좋은 것을 주는 거라는 걸 좀 많이 알고 무슨 일들도 많이 생기고 이런 음식 좀 더 많이 생기고 네. 그러니까 한날 맛도 많이 생기고 네. 그러면 참 좋을 것 같다라는 그냥 개인적인 my wish. No, I have a new idea. You can learn the cooking Turkish food. 오. Good idea. It's good. Okay, let's make Turkish food next time. So today was really fun. So thank you for watching my video and take care and be safe. So 고맙습니다. See you. See you. Bye bye.