Good day, fellow investors. I continue with my research on solar stocks. Yes, I've checked more than 48 of them in the last few weeks, so I pretty much see what's going on there. And a very interesting stock that has a lot of potential, maybe not in the short term, but in the long term, is SMA Solar. It's a German stock that builds power inverters and all other kind of equipment for solar systems. Let's see. SMA's product offering goes from inverters, DC technology, and then also digital technology that is needed for the control of the whole power plant system. And they are developing data and system efficiency operation that are segments that are expected to boom alongside the continuation of the booming solar trend, at least in the long term. The mega trends that they see transforming the electricity ecosystem are decarbonization, sector convergence, the structural transformation of the energy system, and distribution in the electricity industry. So they see a five-fold increase of installed PV capacity by 2040 and tenfold by 2040, where better storage global capacity also increases more than 2000 times by 2040. And I must say I agree with their assumptions, but I don't know when this will become a good investment, because it will probably become at some point in time with all the cyclicality in the market, but not yet. Let's see. In the short term, things are not so rosy as we have discussed in yesterday's video about China cutting its quotas for solar electricity, cutting solar electricity prices that has really clamored the market for all solar stocks and all solar related producers, which might create an opportunity. So that's again a very interesting point. Now going back to SMA, we have had guidance with China growing or staying flat. They guide about 900 million to 1 billion in revenues for 2018. However, you can see here on the right side extreme volatility in their regional sales. They lost 50% of sales in the Americas in 2017, in confront to 2016. Other companies really gained territory there. And then they were growing in China and Europe and the Middle East and Africa. However, this volatility can now happen also in China, so I don't think they will hit the 900 million or 1 billion nor the EBITDA guidance they have shown. And that means a turnaround from profits. I think the profits was 0.8 on EPS in 2017 to quickly negative losses. And then the only thing that can save the stock price is the book value. And you can see here how the stock price has been going up and down, similar trends, short term cycle in the solar industry up and down, up and down. And what saves the stock price in a downtrend is the book value. The book value has been around 20-25 for the last 10 years and in 2015 it really went below that, but in 2017 it stabilized at around 25. Now, if it comes again to the book value, which is 17 at the moment, then it will really be an interesting investment as the downside will be limited, but the upside will be explosive. So I'm waiting for 17 here, 17-20, but I follow hundreds of stocks and I can wait and I'm very happy with just five of those 100 drop to my levels in a year. Just another look at the financials. If they have difficulties hitting those 900 million in revenue, the gross margin might drop from 21% to 15% and then we have losses instead of gains. And then everything changes. All the models the analysts use, changes, negative earnings lead to downgrades, guidance cuts and depressed stock prices. So I wouldn't be surprised if we see 20. It might not happen, but I don't have to invest in any stock that I think has potential. So they expect a flatish market development in China. Their addressable market might not grow at 14% as they expect. It might grow at 10 or it might remain flat and that changes completely their investments. They have invested in growth and now they might not see the profits they expected. So the company is really a leader in specific sectors. It is a good business. It has a lot of cash about 10-12 euros per share, which is the most part of the book value. So it's not a bad business. It has no debt. So it's a good business in a very, very positive trend. But it might not just yet beat the time to invest in it because I'm not going against the market. I like the price to stabilize or to really be below the intrinsic value, give me a margin of safety so that I can wait out one, two, three, four, five years and accordingly when necessary. So this is my discussion SMA Solar. I'm looking forward to your comments. What do you think about the stock? What do you think about my strategy? It is possible that it reverts. The China says, oh, we change our mind. It is possible. But you never know. So we'll see. We'll keep following. Keep an eyes on this stock on many others and then we'll find the best investments. Thank you for watching. Check my research platform for more research in detail and analysis on sectors and on stocks to invest in. I'll see you in the next video.


I want to invite you, if you have a Bible with you, to turn with me to Matthew chapter six. Today, instead of spending some time in one passage, we're gonna be all over. I want to inculminate several passages of scriptures together, culminating in the point that will end in Matthew chapter six. But before we get to Matthew chapter six, there'll be several different places in which we'll lay the foundation for what I want to conclude in Matthew chapter six. But today, my heart, my desire, and my prayer for you is that you would gain a greater understanding of the 2020 vision that God has for your life. The 2020 vision, of course, we know when someone says I have 2020 vision, that means that you have clear sight. And how cool is this that we get to talk about our 2020 vision about having clear sight for what God wants to do in and through our lives in this next year. And I want to talk to you a little bit about the vision that God has for you for this next year, but in order to accomplish the vision of what God has for you, you need to have a vision of him.  And so I wanna share a message with you that I'm entitling a New Year's Revelation. A New Year's Revelation. 2020 vision for the future God has for you. And so let's pray one more time and ask God to bless this time that we have to be together. And Lord, as we gather here this evening to spend the last few moments of this year, the way we ought to spend every moment of every year, putting you first. May the way that we end this year in these moments be a precedent God for each of us that we would live our lives in such a way that we would place you as a priority within our hearts, within our lives in the way that we live. And so Lord, as we spend this time together, we want to see you clearly. That's the desire of our heart, Lord. We are here to hear from you. And so we ask God that you would speak to us now. Our hearts are open. We are ready to receive your church desires to know what you have for each of us this day and for this year. And so Lord, we pray that you would meet us here as you promised to do. We know you are. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, today, of course, is New Year's Eve. And even within that title, it talks about, it speaks of and brings the remembrance that we are on the brink of a new beginning. A new year brings about a fresh start. We get another chance to do better and to improve in the ways that we want to improve in. And so with the beginning of a new year, of course, comes New Year's resolutions. Now, with a show of hands, and you have to be honest, we're in church, you can't lie, how many of you have either made or planned to make at least one New Year's resolution? Raise your hand. This is totally a setup. You desire and you're planning on making a New Year's resolution. Most of us, if not all of us in some way or some form, are planning on some type of resolution. Just so you know, a resolution is defined this way. It means to determine to purpose or with perseverance. And do you know the top things that our country is determining to purpose and with perseverance, the resolutions that our country is desiring to do, there's the top two. One is to become more financially stable and the second is to lose weight. Maybe that's why one person prayed, Lord, for this next year in 2020, I pray that you would give me a fat bank account and a thin body. And Lord, try not to mix those two up like you did last year. Resolutions, the problem with them is they rarely last. Research reveals the truth. If you make a resolution this year, statistically speaking, after just one week, 25% of you have already failed at your resolution. After one month, 36% are already failing with 64% still staying true. After six months, 54% are failing. And at the end of the year, only between three and 5% of people who had a resolution actually saw it through the entire year. That's why we have this holiday every year so we can start over again. Now, statistically speaking, resolutions don't last for more than a year. That's why there's over $250 million spent on unused gym memberships a year. $250 million nationwide is spent out of your pockets and my pockets on gym memberships that we don't ever use. We like the idea of going to the gym so we pay for the idea. But $250 million are spent on unused. Why? Because we start off the year to resolve. I'm gonna do better, I'm gonna determine to purpose with perseverance. One week later, I don't know about that anymore. It's hard to keep a resolution. That's why one person said, this year my New Year's resolution is to break all my resolutions. That way I'll actually succeed at one for once. Resolutions, New Year's resolutions, they don't seem to last. But tonight I wanna share with you one thing that will have a lasting impact in your life. Not only for the year, but throughout the years of your life. Something that will last in your life. I'm not talking about a New Year's resolution, but a New Year's revelation. A revelation of the risen Savior will change your life forever. For the Lord to be revealed to you for you to have clear sight, 2020 vision of who Jesus is will leave your life changed forever. And tonight I wanna talk to you briefly about a few stories throughout the Bible of people who had encounters with the resurrected Savior and that they found their lives were changed forever. Because when you see who Jesus is, it is impossible to remain unchanged. When you see who Jesus is, it is impossible to stay the same. And so those three groups of people that I wanna talk to you about the first are disciples turned preachers. Disciples turned preachers. You see when Jesus was put to death, those men that were close to him and that followed him everywhere. They didn't have very many worries as long as they were with Jesus. And when they were close to Jesus, they knew that things would be okay. But now Jesus is betrayed. He's taken into an illegal trial. He's now put to death. He hung on a cross. He bled out for the sins of the world and now was buried in a grave. The stone was rolled in front of the tomb and it says that the tomb was sealed and that doesn't mean that they took some gorilla glue and they sealed it and glued the stone on there. What that is talking about is the seal of the Roman Empire. That the Roman Empire would place a seal of a crimson red cord, cable across and stamp it on both sides of that stone. And what that seal stood for was that the contents that was placed inside of this container were still intact. And if anybody broke that seal, the punishment for breaking that seal would be death by crucifixion. And so to the disciples, things looked bleak. They forgot about the many times that Jesus told them exactly what he was going to do. That he would go to the cross, he would be put to death for the sins of the world, but three days later he would rise again. It seems like that never processed in their minds that they couldn't fathom that they wouldn't be with Jesus. And so now Jesus is buried in the tomb and we see in John chapter 20, I want to pick up in verse 19. It says then the same day at evening, being the first day of the week, when the doors were shut, where the disciples were assembled for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood in the midst and said to them, peace be with you. Verse 20 of John 20, when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his side. Then the disciples were glad when they saw the Lord. The disciples were filled with fear because Jesus wasn't with them. Little did they know Jesus was with them, but they were filled with fear and so they were hiding behind locked doors in fear of the Jewish religious leaders. After seeing what they just did to Jesus, they knew that they would probably come for them next. So curtains drawn, shutters closed, doors locked, they're hiding in fear. But now Jesus appears to them and they have a revelation of the risen savior. And when they saw Jesus, it says in verse 20, they were glad. When they saw Jesus and they had an encounter with the resurrected savior, it changed them forever. Where these men who were in fear would proclaim the word of God boldly, the gospel, the good news throughout the world. No longer in fear of their lives, but almost all of them minus John, who they tried to kill by throwing them in a hot vat of boiling oil, but he wouldn't die. So they finally banished him to Patmos where he would receive the revelation of God, talk about a revelation of Jesus, seeing those things that we have written in the book of Revelation. All of the disciples would be willing to give their lives no longer in fear but proclaiming the good news, no matter the cost. Why? Something changed. They went from being men filled with fear to men being filled with the spirits. Something changed because they had an encounter with the resurrected savior. They saw Jesus and were changed forever. Peter, this manly man, burly. Peter means the rock. Dwayne the rock, Johnson. Peter the rock. I'm a manly man. Really, Peter?  And Peter denied that he even knew Jesus to a little girl. And then another lady among the crowd, she recognized him and his accent, you see, because Peter was from the region of Galilee, which was the blue-collared society. It was the redneck region of Israel. They had a distinct accent, and so they picked it up and said, no, we record your accent. Your accent, well, we can tell who you are. Your accent betrays you. You were one that was with Jesus. And finally, Peter, he's cursing. He's cursing even that he knows God. He's denying it and swearing he doesn't. Peter, this manly man. But it doesn't end that way. Peter, in that very moment in denying Jesus three times, somehow, someway, Jesus is being taken by the Jewish leaders, and Jesus makes eye contact with Peter.  If I have to follow you to death, I will. I will never deny you. And now he found himself denying Jesus just like Jesus said he would. So Peter goes away remorsefully. And the next place that we find, Peter, is back in Galilee. Back fishing. He went to his old way of lifestyle. That's what happens to a lot of us when we deny Jesus with our lives or with our words. We find ourselves going back to the old ways of life. Three years earlier, Jesus called Peter out of fishing and he says, I'm gonna make you a fisher of man. Peter left his nets behind him because when God calls you into a new life, there's a change that takes place. You leave the old behind and you step into the new that God has for you. So Peter left that behind, but now three years later, Peter went back to his old lifestyle, his old watering holes, so to speak, doing what he used to do before Christ back in his BC days, but Jesus doesn't leave Peter there. Jesus in John chapter 20 goes after Peter and he finds Peter and we see Jesus there on the shore, cooking up some fish, waiting for Peter as he was fishing all night. And in John chapter 21, as Peter's coming in from the shore after catching nothing because you need to remember that when you go back to the old way of life after you've tasted and seen that the Lord is good, you'll always find yourself coming up empty again. And he caught nothing and Jesus shouted from the shore, why don't you throw your nets on the other side? No doubt that would bring back a memory of what took place with Peter when Jesus first called him into ministry. Peter could have yelled back, no, I'm a professional, I know what I'm doing, it's already daylight, the fish are gone, if I was gonna catch anything, I know the spots to catch them, I'm the professional, let me take care of it. But Peter listened and obeyed and he threw his nets on the other side of the boat again and he caught such a great catch that when he saw it, he immediately knew who was on that shore, it was Jesus Christ. He didn't wait a moment, he took off his cloak, his outer garment and he dove into the water and he swam to the shore and there Jesus was frying up some filet of fish, cooking up some fish and what Peter was looking for all night and coming up empty was found in Jesus all along. What will satisfy you isn't found in the old ways of life or going back and compromising, what's found that you're looking for that will truly fulfill and satisfy is only what is found in Jesus Christ. He has what you need in your life and Jesus recommissioned Peter that day and he told Peter to feed his sheep in the very next two chapters later in your Bible in Acts, chapter two, we see Peter going from a man who was hiding in a locked room to a man who was denying Jesus by the fire to a little girl, to a man who went back to his old way of life, to a man now who's standing before a mob of 3,000 plus people and boldly declaring who Jesus is and sharing the gospel with people where 3,000 among that crowd gets saved that day. Talk about a revival beginning to break out. What changed in Peter's life? He had a revelation of the resurrected savior and disciples turned preachers. Number two, skeptics turned believers. James the step brother or half brother of Jesus, he wasn't a follower of Jesus according to John chapter seven, verse five. He thought Jesus was crazy according to Mark chapter three and it's no wonder if you think about it why James wouldn't like Jesus, think about all the pressures that James would have to be more like his big brother growing up.  We never had these problems with Jesus. Jesus always listened, he always obeyed, he always did what was right. James, couldn't you be a little bit more like Jesus?  That's what happens when the light is in our lives, either we'll want the light to be removed from our lives or we'll wanna come into the light. And so Jesus and James, well, James wasn't a big follower of Jesus, but then something changed. James was a skeptic, but Jesus appeared to his brother in first Corinthians chapter 15, verse seven. It says then he was seen by James. Jesus made a point to go after his brother. And James and Jesus had this moment where James had an encounter, a revelation of the resurrected savior and his belief was radically changed so much so that James radically followed Jesus and became a leader in the early church. But it wasn't only with James, it happened with Paul. You remember the story of Paul for you that have been around and even in Sunday school, a man named Saul of Tarsus. He was so zealous and adamant of his Jewish upbringing and belief system and religious system that these Christians were destroying it so he had a letter of authority to hunt down Christians and find Christians and put Christians to death. You remember when Stephen was stoned in Acts chapter six. When Stephen was stoned, it says that as they were stoning him, there was a man, you have to look for it, Saul holding everyone's garments that was stoning him. He was behind the scenes making sure that worked. These men that were leaders in the early church, Saul was going after them one by one and picking them off. But there was a radical transformation in Saul who later became known as Paul because he had a revelation of the resurrected savior. On the road to Damascus, Jesus appeared to Saul and he said, Saul, Saul, why do you persecute me? Jesus appeared to Saul and Saul never was the same. He went from persecuting the church to being a leader in the church so much so that God used him to write two thirds of the New Testament of the Bible. Paul had an erratical encounter with Jesus and was radically changed and began living for Jesus in a radical way. So you have disciples that turned preachers, you have skeptics that turned believers and number three, you have witnesses that turned into martyrs. First Corinthians chapter 15 verse six says after that, Jesus was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time. Most of whom are still alive though some have died. We know that in this crowd that Jesus appeared to of over 500 followers, we know that some of them believed in Jesus and were followers of Jesus. Others were just gathering because, well, some people just gather wherever there's a crowd and some were gathering there because others were gathering there because they believed they were gonna see Jesus. There were some there that didn't believe that they would see Jesus but were still there to watch what was going to happen and Jesus appeared to that crowd and 500 people encountered Jesus, including people's lives who had a complete radical 180 degree change. They went from not believing in Jesus to believing in Jesus because they had a revelation of the resurrected savior. And so much so that these followers of Jesus and even those that weren't followers of Jesus, they were willing to give up everything as a reward for serving God. The early Christians were beaten, stoned to death, fed to lions, dipped in hot wax and lit as human torches. They were burned at the stake. They were tortured and crucified. And every conceivable method that was used to stop them, to silence them and to quench what God was doing through them was used against them but they did not stop because they had a revelation of the resurrected savior. I started off this message by sharing with you this very truth. It is impossible to have a revelation of the resurrected savior and remain unchanged because when you encounter the resurrected savior, it will change your life forever. What changed? They didn't have a New Year's resolution. We need to do better, Peter thought, I'm gonna not put my foot in my mouth so many times. It wasn't that James said, you know what, maybe I gotta get things together and try harder and purpose within my life and determine with perseverance to get my act straight and stop cursing and stop drinking and stop going to those places and stop watching those things and stop clicking on those links. It wasn't a New Year's resolution to do within my own willpower or something changed in their lives that day. It was the presence of Jesus Christ. They beheld his glory and they were changed forever. They saw Jesus for who he was, their savior. We don't need a resolution to do better. We need a revelation of our risen savior because when we see Jesus, it will have a lasting impact in our lives. You see the beginning of the year, it's a time for a couple of things. It's time for retrospect, where we look back over our past year, look at the things that we did and weren't able to do, the things that we wish we would have been able to accomplish and the things that we did accomplish. And we look back over this last year and realize the areas that we want to do better in and the areas that we want to change and the areas that we're thankful for, but it's not only a time for retrospect, but the beginning of a new year is also a time for prospect, a new year, a new beginning, see what we would like to accomplish. But let me tell you this, if you want to have the best year you've ever had yet in your life, if you truly want to believe the best is yet to come, it's a very simple principle to guarantee this will be your best year yet. It's a simple principle with great power, but often neglected in our lives. It's Matthew chapter six. I asked you to turn there. I want to draw your attention just to one verse, verse 33 of Matthew chapter six. It says this, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you. The principle that will guarantee that you have the best year yet, if you put Jesus at the greatest priority of your life, that if you seek after Jesus like you've never sought after Him before, that you live for Him for the purposes of what God has created you to do, if you seek Him first, Jesus shared this truth right after He just got done talking a message about worrying and don't worry about what you're gonna wear and don't worry about what you're gonna eat. And I like how Jesus talked about those two things because as men, we're always thinking about what we're gonna eat. You know, at breakfast time, usually when we're eating breakfast, we're thinking I wonder what we're gonna have for lunch. Lunchtime, we're thinking about what we're gonna eat for dinner. Jesus, don't worry about what you're gonna eat. And then He says, don't worry about what you're gonna wear. And I like that, because ladies are always thinking about what they're gonna wear. I have nothing to wear. I don't know what I'm gonna wear to this New Year's Eve thing. It's stressing me out. And Jesus says, don't worry about it. Your Father knows. But seek me first in my righteousness. And all these other things will be added to your life. The problem is many of us don't take Jesus upon that promise. The New Year's resolution, well I wanna become more financially stable so we take the second job or the third job. We wanna get that vacation house or we wanna get the boat. We wanna get the new car or whatever it is we desire. Not that it's wrong, but what is wrong is when we start sacrificing the calling that God has on our lives to be used by Him. For Revelation chapter four declares that we were made by Him and for Him and for His good pleasure. Ephesians, it also declares that we were made by God for His purposes. Let me tell you this.  You might say, well then why do I wanna surrender my life to Him? Because what Jesus has for you is always gonna be better than what you could ever have for yourself. Jesus's plan for your life, the purpose in which you are created and many people are finding a difficulty in their existence. Why do I exist? What's the purpose of my life? In this time in history, in this location in which I live. What is life really all about? And people are perplexed with that question until you realize your life was created to accomplish God's purposes. And the Bible declares that you were bought with a price.  But because God so loved the world, He gave His only begotten Son that whoever would believe in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.  And so now when you surrender your life to Him, you are free to live the life that Christ has created you to live for His plans and for His purposes. But in our culture today, we get so caught up with everything else and living for ourselves in our house and the car and the job and the career promotion and these things that we get so caught up in that we forget about the vision that God has for us this year.  God has created you just the way you are to accomplish His purposes and plan for your life. So the question is, will you live for His plans and for His purposes or will you live for your own new year's resolutions to purpose?  This is what I'm determining to do this year, 2020, a new year, a new beginning. It does come with a fresh start and opportunity to do better. But for each of us made the very thing that we purpose in our hearts to do with perseverance is to seek Him first and His righteousness. And when we do Christ promises to take care of everything else, that happens when we realign our priorities with God's plan and our actions will convey our priorities. Your priorities aren't what you say they are. They're not even what you think they are. To know your priorities, you just look to what you do the most, where you spend your most energy, your most money, your most time, your most resources. That's what's most important to you. You see, we don't need a resolution to do better. We need a revelation of the risen savior. And we need to put God first in our lives. Our year will be full of problems and there will be a lack of provision when our priorities are not in line with God's plan. So God gives this challenge, but it follows with a promise. God is challenging you. If you rise to this challenge and seek Him first in His righteousness, it says everything else will be added because God's priorities are directly linked with God's provision. God's priorities are directly linked with God's provision. And when God's priorities become your priorities, when you no longer pray, Lord, my will be done on earth as it is in heaven, but you begin to pray like Jesus demonstrated, Lord, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. No longer what I want, but what you want, God, when we align our priorities with God's priorities, then we will begin to experience God's provision in our lives. God promises to provide all that you need in your life.  Haggai chapter one talks about your, you're putting it in your pockets, trying to store up these things that you're working towards, but it's as if you have holes in your pockets. It's falling out, you'd never be able to obtain it. It's as you're grasping at the wind because God knows if you're not gonna keep Him first in your life, He can't give you the very things that He desires to bless you with because He knows that will keep you from Him even in a greater way. When your priorities are not in the right place, God can't bless you like He desires to bless you.  God desires to bless you to be a blessing to others. And you know the quickest way to stop receiving God's blessings? Think that God's blessing you for you. You see, when there's an inlet, but not an outlet, that's what our society calls a cesspool. Nothing lives in a cesspool.  Why? Because water flowed in but there was no way for water to flow out. Water becomes stagnant, it dies. That's when you go to Israel with the church, they'll take you to the Dead Sea and they call it the Dead Sea because hundreds of thousands of living water, gallons and gallons and gallons of living water from the Jordan River flow into this sea. Life from the Sea of Galilee in the North flow down into the Dead Sea but the Dead Sea has no outlet. Thus nothing can live in it. Not a single bacteria can stay alive because of its salt concentration.  To die out in your vision, in your passion for the Lord? Stop pouring out what God has poured in. And you will find your passion quickly passing. But if you, like these disciples who turned into preachers, like these skeptics who turned to believers, like these witnesses who turned into martyrs realized that they saw Jesus and they wanted to do something with what God had given to them. They wanted to give it to others. You will find your life radically changed and transformed and you'll be able to walk forward with the Lord into all that He has for you this year because your priority was Jesus Christ, one and only. Everything else revolves around that. Jesus is most important. He needs to be on the throne of your life. Is Jesus on the throne? Second Samuel chapter two verse 30, excuse me, first Samuel chapter two verse 30 says this, honor the Lord and He will honor you. This year, this new beginning, this fresh start, honor the Lord, put Him first. As a precedent in your day, give Him your first, give Him your best, give Him your all. And you truly will find this next year will be the best year yet. Because the Bible declares that if you draw near to Him, He promises to draw near to you. If you seek Him, you will find Him. If you look for Him, He will make Himself known to you. If you keep on knocking, it will be open. If you keep on asking, He will answer. If you look for Jesus Christ, you will see Him. He will reveal Himself to you. And then you will have a New Year's revelation. You'll see Jesus for who He is and you'll begin to understand what He has for you. Maybe someone tonight brought you here and you haven't yet in your own life experienced what Peter and James and Paul and the crowd experienced. For their eyes were open to seeing Jesus Christ as their Savior. And perhaps tonight you haven't gotten to that point where you've seen Jesus as your own personal Lord and Savior. Maybe someone brought you here tonight or maybe you even brought yourself to church thinking, maybe I need to get back into church and try to figure things out in my life and try to do better. Maybe you heard there was an epic band playing tonight which didn't disappoint. Maybe you heard there was a good-looking preacher, Pastor David, now you're disappointed. Whatever reason you came into church tonight for, I believe that God has brought you here for one reason to have a revelation, a New Year's revelation. Of the resurrected Savior. So that this day could be that day where everything changes for you. You might think, well, how can I, how can I turn back to God after what I've done? Listen, Paul killed Christians. A lot of them, mothers, fathers, children. Children, I'm pretty sure you've been killed as many people as Paul, maybe a few, but not as many as Paul has. I don't care how bad you are or how good you think you are, we are all in the need of a Savior. And Paul shows that no one's too bad to be saved and to be used by God. Peter shows that no one could fail so many times where Jesus wouldn't go after him and still call him back. James, who is a very religious person, shows that no one's too good to need a Savior, but that we're all in need of Jesus Christ. And God sent himself to take your place and your punishment for your sin so that you wouldn't have to. He loves you that much. And if you would like to live a life of hope, receiving a living hope, all you have to do is turn from your sins and turn to Jesus Christ, the one who gave his life for you. And then you can know Jesus Christ. You can know that your sins are forgiven. You can know that you're going to heaven. You can have that absolute assurance because Jesus promises it, but it all starts with a revelation of the resurrected Savior. And when you ask Jesus into your heart, like Paul, who was blinded, his eyes were healed, the blinders removed, and he was able to see clearly, so too when you open your heart to Christ, the blinders come off and you are able to have a revelation, Christ revealing himself to you. Christ brought you here tonight to reveal himself to you, to give you this opportunity to give your life to him. And for those that are in Christ Jesus, the Bible declares all the old is passed away. Behold, all things become new. It's the best new year ever.


What's up guys Isaac here and today I want to talk about how you can develop your posture Ultimately improving your body language. We get a lot of requests from a lot of guys asking How can I get more charismatic more confident body language? And I always tell him the same thing you need to start off with your posture because that's the foundation, right? Once you have the foundation right once you have a good foundation You add different layers and ultimately become the best version of yourself become the most charismatic version of yourself, right? So why would we want to improve our body language anyway a little bit of background into this? What you have to understand is when you're having a conversation with someone you're talking to a girl when you're talking to a group of guys or whoever it may be What's being conveyed more than your actual speaking more than your actual language is your body language your Subcommunication your facial expressions or these small nuanced things that we don't really think about that usually operate on the subconscious level and The reason for this is because the part of the brain that's used to Interpret language is more recently developed in the part of the brain that picks up on body language and subcommunication Evidence of this is how long does it take a kid to learn how to speak a language? By the time you're maybe age five you could probably learn how to speak a language proficiently right with some degree of proficiency however How long does it care take a kid to be able to understand the angry facial expression or to understand what someone said doesn't take long, right? You can pick up on it and no one teaches you these things. It's because it's deeply ingrained in us So if you can master your body language, you're tapping into something that's deeper than just what you're saying and people will be able to Associate you with associate you with those positive characteristics that you want the confidence in that demeanor Okay, so what is good posture? A lot of us have bad posture, right?  I envision that there's like a line coming from my chin if there's a line that's coming from my chin That's gone straight out is not Perfectly horizontal or at least close to horizontal Then my body language is poor which means if the lines pointing down at the person like that like laser beam, right? I've got bad body language on means the shoulders are rolled forward and I'm not in the right stance Another way you can envision it is you can try imagine that you're like a puppet and there's like a string That's being pulled from your forehead from your the top of your head. I mean and it's taught So how would you behave you stand upright, right? So that's good posture It's not that hard to do but the hard thing is maintaining it because we've been Used to the bad posture. We've been used to sitting with bad posture and not being aware of it So you need to bring some awareness to your life and the way you can do this where you can bring awareness to your posture Now I learned this tip from Scott Herman Fitness is to use an alarm, right? Use the time on your phone You're only going to do this for preliminary stages and two is second nature to you so every 30 minutes, right? Get your phone to ring get your phone to ring and check if your posture is right so if you set your alarm and the phone rings and you realize that your shoulders are rolled forward and Now your chin's down your bag is hunched all those things that we said I'm good by language good posture Go back to that stance remember those cues.   They like to do biceps. They like to do you know pushing motions in the gym They like to do things about but not too many people Develop their back muscles. You need to develop your posterior chain develop your red delts You upper back your rhomboids your lower back well, that's up But those are the muscles that are gonna support you right they're gonna pull you back with that and the best way You can develop those the best exercise I recommend if you had to choose one the biggest bang for your buck is gonna be deadlifts The delts are gonna teach you how to maintain that correct posture because when you're doing deadlifts you have that correct posture you have that neutral spine and You're actually working Throughout the movement with that good posture, right?  It's easy as a basic But it's the difference between having confidence Superman body language or you know weak meek Smiggle body language. It's up to you. I'll be seeing you guys next time. Peace


Live from Orlando, Florida, it's theCUBE, covering .conf18, brought to you by Splunk. Welcome back to Orlando, everybody, splunk.conf18. This is theCUBE, the leader in live tech coverage. I'm Dave Vellante with my co-host, Stu Miniman. Carnival Cruise Lines is back. We heard from them yesterday. We heard them on the main stage of .conf. CEO was up there with Doug Merritt. Sheldon White is here. He's the enterprise architect at Carnival Cruise Line. And Alex Tiberis, who's the director of threat intelligence at Carnival. Gents, welcome to theCUBE. Thank you. Doing a lot of talk on security today. They've lined us up, which is great. We love the conversation, so much to learn. Alex, I'll start with you. When you think about security and threat intelligence, what are the big changes that you've seen over the last, whatever, pick a time, half a decade, decade, couple of years even? So it's just the amount of threats that are coming in now and how fast they're coming in. We can't seem to be keeping up with everything that's happening in the environment, everything that's happening outside, trying to get into our environment and cause all that damage, right? So that's why Splunk is awesome. I get to see everything come in real time. I'm able to quickly pinpoint any action I need to take, send it to my team and have them remediate right away. So Sheldon, yesterday we had ship and shore from Carnival and it was talking about really different problems. The folks on the ship, you got 250,000 people on the ocean at any one point in time, collecting data, trying to make a better experience, trying to keep them connected, folks on the shore, obviously websites and things like that. Where do you fit into that mix of ship and shore? Right, so there's an entire value stream that we map out as enterprise architects. And so what we do there is we analyze all the customer touch points and then we aggregate all of that information into a pipeline that we then address our audiences with those critical KPIs, operational and infrastructure, the entire stack. You guys obviously have a very strong relationship with Splunk, we heard from your CEO, Arnold Donald, right? Correct. Interesting name, I haven't messed that up yet. And so where did that relationship start? Did it start in SecOps? Did it start in IT operations management? So it really started in DevOps, right? And they started, they purchased Splunk, I think back in like 2007, 2008, and they started looking at it, right? And I think I was talking to one of our other architects and it was one gig is what we started at, right? Now we're upwards of 600 gigs just for security. So it started there and it just kind of morphed into this huge relationship where we're partnering and touching all aspects of our business with Splunk and the cloud and everything else. So we heard, I don't know if you guys saw the keynote today, but we saw some announcements building on yesterday's Splunk Next announcement. We heard some business workflow and some industrial IoT. I would think both of those are relevant for you guys, not industrial IoT, but your IoT. Do you see Splunk permeating further into the organization? I guess the answer is yes, you've kind of already said that, but I'm interested in what role you guys play in facilitating that. Are you kind of champions, evangelists, experts, consultants, how does that work? How do you see that shaking? So we see ourselves as internal consultants. We have our internal customers that depend on our guidance and our end to end view of the business processes. So, and now as we enter our cloud journey into the second year of our cloud journey, just we're able to accelerate that time to value for our internal customers to gain even greater insights into what's happening ship and shore. I wonder how, if you could talk about how enterprise architecture has changed over the last decade even. You know, it used to be you were trying to harden a two-tier or three-tier architecture and harden top, don't touch it, it works. And then of course we all know it's created a lot of different stovepipes and a lot of data was locked into those stovepipes. That's changed obviously, cloud, now the edge. Maybe because you guys were always sort of a distributed data company, you approached it differently, but I wonder if you could give us a second. No, that's an interesting question because the evolution is not so much enterprise architect as it is ecosystem architect, right? So now you have these massively distributed systems. So you're really managing an ecosystem of internal and third party and then all the relevant touch points, right? Like Alex mentioned, all that perimeter is constantly shifting now. So yeah, our focus is always aligning with the end-to-end business process and our internal customers. Yeah, I wonder if we could dig into the cloud a little, Alex, if we start with you, how does cloud fit into your world of security? So for me, the cloud as far as Splunk goes, it allows me to expand and contract as needed, right? So before we used to have our on-premise hardware, very finite RAM memory, I mean, this space, everything. So now with the cloud, I'm able to expand my environment as I move across all my North American brands, European brands to be able to gather all that data, look at it and take action on it, right? And Sheldon, you're using AWS. We see there are, you know, every software provider really lives in AWS. It's often in the marketplace. We've been seeing a lot this week that there's, you know, a deeper partnership. There's actually a lot of integration. Maybe give us your viewpoint of what you've seen of how Splunk and AWS work together to meet your requirements. Yeah, so that's an interesting evolution as well of that partnership, right? So you're starting to see things like these S3 API integration so that you're removing storage from the critical path. And now that opens up a different scale of possibilities, right? And internal opportunities. But yes, as you can see, leveraging the machine learning toolkit, I saw that one coming. It's going to be interesting to see how that keeps evolving, right? And also, like I was speaking to Alex about the natural language capability. So that also as well broadens the dimension of how our senior leadership will interact with these operational platforms. Yeah, I got to think, you're going to have your customers natural language has to get into some of their rooms. It's going to be part of that value chain. Yeah, for sure. How does the S3 API integration affect you guys? Obviously, you got to get put syntax in an object store, which is going to scale. What does that mean for you guys? So using this Splunk developer cloud, we can develop all sorts of solutions to manage intelligently our storage, right? In near real time, right? So we can completely automate and that end-to-end just integration with Splunk, how it ingests, how long that data stays relevant, and how we offload it into things like Glacier. And the enablement there is the S3 API, so you're taking advantage of the AWS automation tooling? Is that right? Correct. Another example of that tight integration, not only with the S3 API, Lex for the natural language, and obviously TensorFlow and the machine learning toolkit. So I think you're going to see that type of capabilities expanding as Splunk evolves. Next year, I'm sure they're going to have a ton of more announcements around how this evolution continues, right? So I was interested in the TensorFlow and Spark integration, and Stu and I were talking in an earlier segment. It's great, developers love that. We saw a lot of demos today that looked so simple that anybody could do it. Even I might be able to do it. But as practitioners of Splunk, is it really going to be that easy? Are business users actually going to be able to pick this stuff up, and what are they going to have to do in order to take advantage of Splunk, of some training involved? What's the learning curve going to be like? No, that's a great question, because there's a dual focus to this, right? First is offloading from the developer, all that heavy lifting of creating this user interface and the dashboards per se. Now it's all API driven. So as you saw maybe in the keynote this morning, that within the demo, was an API driven dashboard came together in several minutes. But one is offloading that, and the second part is just enabling the business user with other capabilities like natural language processing. They don't necessarily need to be on that screen. They can get exception reporting through emails and voice commands. So training is also part of it, obviously, but so it's a multifaceted approach to leveraging these new capabilities. Are you guys responsible for the physical infrastructure of your ships? I mean, is that part of your purview? Okay, so really it is. There's an industrial IoT component, it's a big time for you guys. And there's a huge push now for maritime security, right? We saw what happened with MERSC and the Napatea virus, right? So how it took them out of operation for about three weeks. So this IoT is very, I think, awesome, right? I was speaking to some of the Splunk guys yesterday about it, how we can leverage that on our ships to gather that data from our SCADA systems and from our bridge and engine control systems to be able to view any kind of threat, any kind of vulnerability that we might be seeing in the environment, how we can control that and how we can predict anything from happening, right? So that's going to be very, very key to us. So Splunk is going to take that data right off the machines, which Stu and I were talking about. That to us is a huge advantage. So many IT companies are coming in and say, hey, we're going to put a box at the edge. That's nice, but what about the data? So Splunk's starting with the data, but the standards of that data, they're really driven by engineers and operations technology folks. Is Splunk sort of standard agnostic? Can they be able to ingest that data? What has to be done for you guys to take advantage of that? So we'll have to ingest that data and we'll have to look at it and see what we're seeing, right? This is all brand new to us as well, right? This whole maritime thing has risen up in the past year, year and a half. So we're going to have to look at the data and then kind of figure out what we want to see, normalize it and we'll probably get some PS services or something to assist us, some experts and then we just go from there, right? We build our dashboards and our reports. And predictive maintenance is a huge use case for you guys. I mean, to me, it's as important as airlines. Absolutely, yes. So I would think any time you, well, first of all, real time during a journey, but any time that journey is completed, you must bring in the inspectors and I'm sure very time consuming and precise. So I know that some of our senior leadership, especially in the maritime space, has now looking towards Splunk to do some of that predictive maintenance to make sure that we have the right nuts and bolts, right? Per se, on the ship to be able to fix any issue that might arise at sea while we're on there. I would suspect that the drive is going to be for human augmentation and if drive efficiency, correct. You're not just going to trust the machines right out of the box in no way, right? But it's empowering those engineers, right? As we see with some of the dashboards that they're coming up with at the keynote. Empowering some of those engineers that are in the engine room, that are in the bridge to be able to see those issues come up, right, and be able to track. Plus, I would imagine this is the kind of thing like an airline pilot, you're double checking, you're triple checking, so you might catch, you know, misses earlier on in the cycle. Yeah. I can see it having huge impacts. Yeah, Sheldon, I was just, you know, thinking through the other next announcements. I wonder if Splunk business flows, it sounds like something that might fit into your data pipeline, get insights, understand satisfaction, seems like it might be a fit. Is that of interest to you? Yeah, it sure is, because we definitely want to, since we've evolved with kind of fragmented different systems, we still have mainframe, we still have a whole call center environment that we need to ensure that it's part to the end-to-end guest experience. So for sure, we're getting into the early adopter program on the process flow. Yeah, Karna, can you give us a little insight? What kind of back and forth do you have with Splunk? What sort of things are you asking that would help make your jobs easier going forward? So going forward, I mean, I know they're addressing a lot of the ingestion and data standardization, and now with the decoupling of the storage, which is awesome, makes our lives a lot easier. But the evolution of the natural language and the integration with AWS natively is huge for us as well as our cloud program matures, and we start enabling serverless architectures, for example, so yeah, no, it's a very important part. Yeah, I mean, serverless is actually something we're pretty interested in. What are some of the early places that you're finding value there? Well, many people don't know this, but Karna was also one of the largest travel agencies in the United States, so we have a whole, well, it's a global air travel platform that we're currently migrating to a serverless architecture, integrates with Saber, and so we're looking at things like open trace for that, and I know that our folks, our friends at Splunk are enabling capabilities for that type of management. And what's the business impact of serverless there? You just better utilization of resources, faster time to value, maybe you could describe it. Yeah, near real time processing, scaling up and scaling down seasonally are key aspects of that, removing the constraints of CPU and storage. Alex, has it changed the security paradigm at all serverless? How does it change it? So it does, it lets me not have to worry so much about on-premise stuff, as I did before, so that helps a lot, right? And being able to scale up and down quickly as much data as we're ingesting is very key for us. You guys are heavy into cloud, it's obvious. I wonder if you can share with us how you decide kind of what goes, if you're not all in on cloud, right? It's not 100% cloud. No, we can never be all in on cloud. And we've put forth that notion for years. We call it true private cloud. That what you want to do is bring the cloud experience to your data wherever that data lives. There's certain data that in workloads you're just not going to put into the cloud. That's correct. So you would confirm that, that's the case. Like you just said it. Correct. You're never going to put some of these workloads. Well, we have floating data centers, so I mean we'll always be in a hybrid model, but there is a decision framework around how we create those application migration pipelines and the complexity and interdependencies between these platforms. Some are easier to move than others. So yeah, we're quite aware of it. And so my follow-up question is, are you trying to bring that cloud experience to those sort of floating data centers wherever possible? And how is the industry doing? If you had to grade them in terms of their success, I mean you certainly hear this from the big tech suppliers is, oh yes, we've got private cloud and it's just like the public cloud and we know it's not. And it doesn't have to be. But if it can substantially mimic that public cloud experience that's a win for you guys. So how is the industry doing in your view? So I think it's a crawl, walk, run type of thing. Obviously you have these floating cities and the satellite bandwidth is a precious resource that we have to use wisely, right? So we definitely, our edge computing strategy is evolving rapidly. What do we act upon at the edge? What do we send to the cloud? When do we send it? There are also some business drivers behind this, for example, one of our early cloud forays was in replicating a guest activity on board the ship so we know if somebody buys a Margarita off the coast of Australia, we know it in five seconds later and then we can act upon that data casino or whatever data it may be in near real time. So a lot of data stays at the floating data center, obviously, much of it comes back to the cloud. When it comes back to the cloud is a decision because of the expense of the bandwidth. What do you do? You park the ship at the data center and put a big fire hose in there. I wish it was that easy.  That's got to be a big challenge. So there are business requirements, right? So we have to figure out what application is more important, right? So usually you're like our ship property management system, right? Where we have all our guest data, as far as their names, birth dates, all that stuff. That takes priority over a lot of other things, right? So we have to use, like Sheldon said, that bandwidth wisely because we don't really own a lot of the ports that we go into, so we can't just, like you say, plug in a cable and move on, right? We still rely heavily on our satellites. So bandwidth is our number one constraint and we have to, you know, we share it with our revenue generating guests as well. So obviously they take priority and a lot of factors go into that. Data's not shrinking. So I'll give you guys the last word if you could just sort of summarize in your view some of the big challenges that you're doing to try to apply Splunk towards solving in the next, you know, near to midterm. Well, I get, I'm more security focused. So for me, it's just making sure that I can get that data as fast as possible. I know that I saw yesterday the keynote, the mobile app. That for me is going to be like one of the things I'm going to go like research right away, right? Cause I, for me, it's getting that alert right away when something's going on so that I can mitigate quickly, move fast and stop those threats from hitting our environment. Sheldon? Yeah, so I think the challenges are, like you mentioned earlier about the stove pipes and how organizations evolve now with this massive influx of data. It's just making sense of it from a people technology and processes standpoint so that we can have managed the chaos, so to speak, and make sure that we have an orderly end to end view of all the activity on the ships. Well, thank you guys. Stu and I like kids in the candy shop because we talked to so many customers this week so we really appreciate your time and your insights and inspiration for your peers. So thank you for coming on theCUBE. Thank you for having us. You're welcome. All right, keep it right there. Everybody, Stu and I will be back right after this short break. You're watching theCUBE live from .conf18. Right back.


Before the Gaels and the Celts moved into Ireland, they supposedly lived a race of little people. Earlier references to these little people claimed that they originally lived in the water as water spirits. But once they started to inhabit the land of Ireland, they became the people of the goddess mother Danu. Once the humans came to the island, the little people gave up their land. They went from being the people of the mother goddess Danu to becoming the people of the mound. This particular group of little people would become one of the most iconic folklore in the whole world, folklore that is said to have its origins in Ireland. But before we go any further, you know what to do, please hit that subscribe button and give us a like. If you would like to help support the channel, there is a link to our Patreon down below. Welcome to esotericatlanta, my name is Bryce, and today we're going to be talking about the legends of the leprechaun. I have no Irish in me, although I have been to Ireland and it was a beautiful and super fun trip. But I do ask that you will have some patience with me as I get through the beginning part of the leprechaun's history. You see, I'm not super well versed in Celtic or Gaelic dialect. And please understand, if I do mispronounce a name, it's not, it's not a disrespect. It's just simply not really knowing the dialect that well. All right, let's get started. So the leprechaun is defined as a supernatural being in Irish folklore. It is considered part of the fairy family, which I didn't know that when I started to research, I thought that was very, very interesting. Now, a lot of people claim that there are no female leprechauns, that there are only male leprechauns. Of course, that's super strange because how do you reproduce if you don't have any females? Well, a lot of people believe that the leprechauns possibly don't die or live extremely long lives. And in fact, some people believe that the leprechauns are the disfigured or possibly deformed children of the fairy kingdom. Again, I don't know if that's my opinion, but that is a belief as to why there are no females. In our video over the changelings, we did speak about how perhaps there were some difficulties for fairies to reproduce. And I will put a link to that video down below. So maybe that's where people get this idea that the leprechauns are the unwanted children of the fairy kingdom. And then that's why the fairies got involved with humans in order to help their reproductive cycle. However, people like John O'Donovan believe that the leprechaun are actually a form of the pygmies. We did talk about pygmies a little bit in our first video covering the folklore of little people, which again, I will place down below. Now, most people when they think of the leprechaun, they think about the rainbow with the pot of gold, they know that the leprechaun is very mischievous, a little bit naughty. And in later folklore, more in our modern times, we see the leprechaun as being a shoe cobbler. What's also fascinating to note with the leprechaun is that the leprechaun wearing a green outfit is modern. That's a modern interpretation of this being. You see, before the 20th century, the leprechaun notoriously wore red. Although some people might tell you that depending on where you are in Ireland, that will depend upon the color that the leprechaun wears. Now, Ireland is not that big of a country. In fact, when I lived in England, I used to fly over Ireland to come back to the United States. And sometimes you could see Ireland from the airplane window and it's really not that big. In fact, the population of Ireland alone is the exact same population of the city of Atlanta. So we're talking about a relatively small country with these leprechauns wearing different outfits depending upon the territory where they live. Now, the first known reference we have to the leprechaun comes from a medieval Irish legend called Adventures of Ferguson's son of Letty. You see, Ferguson Mac Letty was the king of Ulster. And these were different territories that were ruled before the Norman invasion of Ireland in 1177. Now, the story goes that Ferguson Mac Letty fell asleep on the beach. While he was sleeping, he woke up to find three leprechauns trying to drag his body into the ocean. If you remember from our intro, it is possibly believed that the leprechauns first lived in the ocean before they became land bound to Ireland before average sized humans moved to Ireland. Because Ferguson Mac Letty woke up, he was able to catch his three little abductors. In fact, leprechaun is a medieval Irish word meaning small body. So again, this kind of goes back to the idea that they might be of pygmy origin, that they literally were small bodied people. But as the rule goes, because Ferguson Mac Letty had captured these leprechauns, they were supposed to now grant him three wishes. Now they say that if you were to catch a leprechaun, you might not want to take those wishes because sometimes what you get is not actually what you wished for, because like I said, the leprechauns can be slightly mischievous. And then over time, the leprechaun became super famous in the Irish tradition. In fact, most people when you say leprechaun, they'll probably think of Ireland first. People would see them, people would talk about these legends. It became much more than just folklore, so much so more than folklore that in 2009, the European Union, which Ireland or the Republic of Ireland is a part of, classified the leprechaun as a protected species. In 1989, PJ O'Hare was a pub owner in Carlingford County, Laos in Ireland. One morning, O'Hare heard screaming coming from the nearby Foy Mountain. So he went to go check it out. When he got closer to the mountain, he found a wishing well. And what he saw on the wishing well changed his life and the life of the EU's protected species forever. Because you see, on the wishing well, he found a little tiny green suit with bones that had been smothered to ashes. When O'Hare picked up the green suit, he found four gold coins in the pocket.  Now, one of his friends did not believe that his findings were authentic. And I can see it probably for years on him, his friend kind of teased him about the leprechaun that he had found yada, yada, yada. Well, the teasing got so relentless that his friend decided that he was going to start going on these leprechaun hunts. And so now, even to this day, in the month of March on Sundays at 2 p.m. in this town, there are official leprechaun hunts. Well, unfortunately, O'Hare eventually passed away. And when he died, he sold the family, sold his pub. And so his buddy, his friend that didn't quite believe him, went to go collect his display case of the leprechaun's clothes and his coins. The only problem was the coins were nowhere to be found. Well, a few days later, his friend was repairing a stone wall near his home when he found the coins had magically showed up inside the stone wall. After that experience of magically finding these coins again, his friend started to then experience leprechauns. At that point, his friend went from being a doubter of the authenticity of these leprechauns to fighting for their protection. You see, he believed that the leprechauns still lived in Foy Mountain. Since all the average size humans had moved to Ireland, the leprechauns had to move underground.  So he did what anybody would do and he petitions the EU to protect the leprechauns. In fact, they figured out there's about 236 leprechauns living in Ireland to this day, most of which are probably living in Foy Mountain.  Now we do know that there have been pygmy bodies found in the United States. And that's important to remember because you see Ireland's not the only place that apparently is home to the leprechaun. In 1917, the Guinness Book of World Records recognized Mill Inns Park in Portland, Oregon as the smallest park in the world measuring two feet. And in 1948, Oregon Journal columnist Dick Fagan reported on an official leprechaun sighting around this park. You see, it appears that the center of the park was originally supposed to be a place for a power line. And so there was a hole that had been placed in the ground, but then it got left behind.  There were lots of weeds.  Well, apparently when he went out there to plant these flowers, he ran across a leprechaun. Now some sources say the leprechaun's name was Patrick O'Toole, while others say the leprechaun was named Dennis O'Toole. Unfortunately, Mr. Fagan is no longer with us to tell us what his first name really was. But what we do know from his findings is that this leprechaun was the patriarch of the O'Toole leprechaun colony in Portland, Oregon. Throughout the rest of his life, Dick Fagan continued to write stories about this leprechaun colony and his interactions with them. Unfortunately, Dick Fagan passed away in 1969, long before he was able to see the leprechauns become an official part of Portland. That happened in 1976, and the park officially became the leprechaun's park, and the leprechauns were officially recognized as citizens of Portland. Now I know right now Portland, Oregon is going through its own little situation with the riots, and we are constantly keeping those cities in our prayers. However, when all this dies down and we're able to travel again, I personally would love to go to Oregon to see this park and to see what the locals think about having leprechauns in their city. Now the weather in Oregon and the weather in Ireland are probably pretty similar, so maybe you could understand why leprechauns would choose a place like Oregon. However, there's one more place that I want to bring up in our story today, and that's Mobile, Alabama. Now Mobile, Alabama is hot. It's right on the gulf. It's very close to New Orleans, very, very different from the weather in Portland, Oregon, or in Ireland. But on March 14, 2006, the news came out to film a group of people who were standing around a tree claiming they had seen a leprechaun in that tree. In fact, they claimed that when you put the light up on the tree, the leprechaun disappeared, but when the light was down, you could totally see there was a leprechaun in the tree. Now this happened three days before St. Patrick's Day, and I will say the clip of this news report went viral because people in the South, I mean people in the South are my favorite people because I'm from the South, but people in the South can be really, really animated. And this group of people looking up into the tree were super stoked and super excited about seeing this phenomenon. You see down here in the South, as we've mentioned many times before, we got a lot of folklore. There's a lot of strange stuff that happens here down in the South. So seeing a supernatural being is not weird. It's just kind of like, oh dang, yep, there it is. In fact, the story went so viral that the local leprechaun hunter named Demarco Morris was interviewed on the news. Now Demarco Morris told the news that his great, great grandfather was from Ireland. He also held up an instrument and said that it was a flute passed down from his great, great grandfather to lore leprechauns. Now first people were very skeptical of Demarco Morris because, well, he's a black American. And he said his great, great grandfather was from Ireland and Irish people are pretty white. However, that didn't really ruffle my feathers because I have many friends who are black or Asian that have white ancestors. That's not uncommon. But what was really interesting about Demarco Morris is that his flute that apparently was passed down from his great, great grandfather was actually a pipe. Over time it came out that the likelihood of there being a leprechaun in the tree in Mobile, Alabama on that night was pretty low.  I don't know. But it still begs the question, are there leprechauns down here in the South?  And I have attached a video down below in the description box of somebody going through the story in great detail. I'm also going to attach another video in the description box that has nothing to do with leprechauns. It's a story I did many, many months ago about the Irish influence on the state of Georgia. And so if you would like to learn more about the Irish influence on this state, I would suggest you watch that video as well. All right, guys. So what do you think? Do you think the leprechauns are more than folklore? Do you think they're possibly connected to the pygmy people that were found with the giants? What do you think? Or do you think it's all just fun and games and legend and urban legend and just tradition from a particular culture? Once again, thank you to Josh McKay for doing our music and to Todd Rodbrick for helping me produce this story for you all. I know October is a crazy, exciting, a little scary month, but I am so happy to be going through all of this with each of you. Our next video, we are going to depart from little people and get more into some conspiracies around what's going on at the moment. I am looking forward to shooting those videos. I hope you all are doing well. Please stay calm. Make sure you've got food in your house and supplies in your house. And hopefully I will see you soon. God bless you all. Bye.


Good morning and welcome to CMC Markets on Friday the 10th of May and this quick preview of the week beginning the 13th of May and contrast the performance this week of equity markets in general To the optimism that we saw at the end of last week and the very good US payrolls numbers We've seen a little bit of reality Creep in concerns about Chinese tariffs the increase in Chinese tariffs on the back of Donald Trump claiming that Chinese officials have broken the deal seen big declines in US markets European markets in general, I don't think it's raising the question As to whether or not in the short term we may well have seen the peaks Well, let's have a look at some of the charts. Obviously, we can see the S&P 500 is flirting with the 50 day Moving average. We've seen a very sharp down move Over the course of the past few days. We've gapped lower from the peaks that we saw at the end of last week We made a marginal new high on the S&P 500 But we weren't able to sustain those gains and we've slipped back below 2900 so I think the big question is where do we go to from here? Well, certainly, I think the narrative is as has shifted ever so slightly and if we look at the Dow Jones While the S&P 500 did make brand new highs all-time highs Last week it was interesting to note that the Dow Jones did not We haven't been able to take out the Twin set of peaks in and around Just above the 20 just above the 26,000 level We can draw a horizontal line all the way through these peaks here And we can see that there was a significant area of resistance on the US 30 or the Dow Jones Look at the German Market the the DAX we've seen a lot of choppiness over the course of the past two or three days We've managed thus far to maintain Maintain momentum above 12,000. We've had little spikes below it, but we haven't as yet been able to Push significantly below it, but I think what we can say is that while we've seen a rebound Over the course of the past few hours I think the big question is now that these new tariffs Have kicked in is whether or not they will actually be implemented. There is now a two-week grace period because any new tariffs Will not be applied to goods that are currently in transit. So any goods that left Chinese ports Prior to midnight eastern time today Will not be subject to tariffs when they arrive any goods that leave Chinese ports after After today and arriving say one to two weeks time will be subject to tariffs So there is still time in the calendar to Avert these increased tariffs Another thing that's quite notable this week has obviously been the ramping up Of the stakes with respect to Iran and the US's approach to Iran New sanctions have been applied To Iranian exports of industrial metals and the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier group has sailed into the Suez Canal So that could actually prompt an oil shock if we get a deterioration In conditions there also in the coming week We've got the prospect of a decision for the us on EU imported cars And that could well be a decision that could could weigh on risk appetite going forward So I think the trade story Is going to be a continue to be a headwind for investors to navigate a round As well as obviously further discussions with respect to the EU summit coming up On the 16th of May in the coming week In Brussels, which is likely to be a low key affair Heading into the European elections, which are due on the 23rd of May and which I will probably cover in more detail next week But the key the key the key items on the calendar for the coming week Are as follows and we can see that from The way the pound has performed over the course of the past week or so It's pretty much continuing to trade in the range with a slight downward bias We've had some decent economic data out of the UK economy This morning GDP 0.5 for the first quarter And actually business investment showed a significant pickup in the first quarter up 0.5 Which confounded expectations of a 0.7 decline that being said The brexit uncertainty is likely to continue to weigh On business investment going forward Certainly not going away on the wages and unemployment data, which is due out on the 14th of May Wages numbers still look likely to remain fairly robust at around about 3.3 percent And the unemployment rate is expected to remain at 3.9 percent As far as the charts are concerned The cable rate is currently flirting with the 200 day moving average Which is currently acting as a fairly decent area of support at around about 129.60, 129.50 If we do break below there then obviously the the lows that we saw In April are likely to come into play in and around This 128.60 level in the short to medium term The oscillator is starting to turn over so we could well see a little bit of a roll over there But we're still in the range and I see no reason to see Any I see no reason as to why we should break out of that range We've also got some additional China data out This week now China does have The ability to react to the US sanctions the the US tariffs rather That have been increased in the past 24 hours And I think one thing about the Chinese economy that last week's trade numbers or this week's trade numbers told us Was they have underscored the fact that the Chinese economy continues to face challenges With respect to weak domestic demand The US is going to continue to keep up the pressure on the trade front And this week's April retail sales and industrial production numbers need to be able to maintain the rebound That we saw in march now these numbers are out on the 15th of May An industrial production in particular saw a strong rebound In march from 5.3 to 8.5 percent The april numbers I think really need to consolidate this move To the 8.5 percent which was a four and a half year high for an industrial production So there was significant evidence of a strong rebound there though This might have been a result of some catch up After the lunar new year holiday which prompted a little bit of restocking So I think we could well see april activity slipped back a touch I'll be particularly interested to see how retail sales perform Given the improvement that we saw in march Which saw them rise to a six month high We've also got US retail sales for April and that's due out on the 15th as well the same day as the china data On the earnings front, it's going to be a very very big week as well You may have noticed that I've got a few IPOs up there. Obviously we've got uber technologies out later today and um It'll be very interesting to see where they finally trade at once they start to price on the new york stock exchange Initial pricing is coming at 45 dollars a share, which assigns it a valuation of around about 80 billion dollars now I'm highly skeptical about the valuations of some of these these um these companies Um, I think they're incredibly overvalued I wrote a piece earlier this week about investors potentially losing the plot When it comes to IPOs and you can read about that on the news and analysis section of the website I certainly think there's potential for further downside in lifts Share price we can certainly see that in the context of the price move that we've seen here We've got first quarter earnings coming out on the 16th of may for Pinterest Which I think by and large is fairly has had a fairly decent Performance in the wake of its IPO. It certainly surged out of the blocks gone quite a bit higher But like most of these unicorns, it's still to make a profit. Its losses are reducing. They came down from 182 million dollars in 2016 to 63 million dollars last year revenues are around about 750 million dollars But if you look at the valuations, we are talking multi billion dollar valuations And to sort of put that in context, we've got beyond meat the vegan burger producer Their valuation is in the region of um 4.3 billion dollars on turnover of 87 million dollars So you've got a 4.3 billion dollar valuation on turnover of just short of 88 million dollars and losses Of 28 million dollars. So if this if that isn't an accident waiting to happen, I don't know what is um Having said that the share prices has the share price has come off from the highs that we saw earlier this week IPO at 25 dollars spin is high as 85 dollars. It's from now around 68 dollars But if equity markets continue their downward thrust that we've seen over the course of the past few days Then I think investors will start to look an awful lot more closely at some of the valuations of these IPOs So uber will be closely watched I'll be keeping a very close eye on that when it prices later today and over the course of the next few days I'll also be looking very closely at lift and beyond meat because I certainly think there's potential For further downside in those we've also got some big earnings out in the coming week. We've got First quarter earnings for war mart on the 16th, which is one of the few us retailers That's actually being able to take the fight to amazon recent retail sales figures have shown the company has continued to outperform Its peers and the us consumer does appear to continue Be able to spend money now the acquisition of flipkart may well weigh on its numbers But ultimately, I think War mart has been one of the few us retailers. There's actually been doing fairly well We've also got earnings numbers out from vodafone four year earnings For 19 out on the 14th of may burberry group four year earnings on the 16th And thomas cook first half earnings Also due out on the 16th So big week for earnings big risk in terms of further downside Moves in global equity markets, but we are approaching some very key support levels So I think in the context of the footsie 100 keep a very close eye on these high This key support level the 200 day moving average around about 71 95 These lows around about 71 80 if we break below there, we could well see further declines But for the moment there could be a little bit of bargain hunting coming in around these sorts of low levels And the same applies to the german deck. So that's it for today. Thanks very much for listening Michael Houston talking to you from cmc markets