My name is Emma Chapman, and I'm a Royal Society Dorothy Hodgkin Fellow and Astrophysicist.  Then I came across a book explaining special relativity, saying that time travel wasn't impossible, and that the faster you move through space, the slower you age. I was instantly captivated and thought I have to study this. Fast forward to today, and I study the early universe. So let's start at the very beginning. About 13.8 billion years ago, our universe started with a big bang. This is not an explosion, as we know it, but the emergence and expansion of space-time itself. After a few seconds of exponential expansion, the universe began to cool and the matter within it began to spread out into a smooth cloud of gas. Let's pause and give ourselves a sense of proportion. Carl Sagan came up with the idea of thinking of the universe's timeline across one year. With the big bang starting the year, and us cheering New Year's Eve one year later. Using this scale, the universe slowed and cooled for the first few days of January. The first stars formed on the 5th of January, and the first galaxies formed on the 9th. But the thin disk of the Milky Way galaxy didn't form until May. Our solar system and Earth formed in September. Dinosaurs evolved on the 25th of December, and were already extinct by the 30th. The first known cave paintings date from 90 seconds to midnight on New Year's Eve, and the pyramids were built only 12 seconds ago. There is one period in this whole history that we know incredibly little about, almost nothing, the Dark Ages. These lasted from about 380,000 years after the big bang, to about 180 million years after the big bang. The only elements present were hydrogen and helium, and it was a time of incredible darkness and cold. But behind the scenes there was a different kind of matter at work, dark matter. Dark matter spread through the universe, making a web, which drew in the hydrogen gas such that the gas traced this web almost perfectly. And then finally the hydrogen gas itself collapsed under its own gravity in the densest patches, and the first stars blazed into existence. My work explores the creation, lives and deaths of the first stars. We call these population 3 stars, and they were the fundamental cosmic factories that fused the hydrogen and helium into heavier elements such as the carbon that we're made of. These stars cannot physically form in our modern polluted universe, and so they're likely to be an extinct species. These first stars were very different from any stars that we see around us today. First, they were hot. Our sun is 5,000 to 8,000 Kelvin, whereas these were around 100,000 Kelvin on the surface. They were massive as well. Our simulations indicate they were generally 10 to 100 times more massive than our sun. They died in an instant. A population 3 proto-stars life was on the scale of 100 or so million years, a blink of an eye compared to our sun's 10 billion year lifetime. To relate this to our cosmic year, the first stars would die only three days after formation, compared to our sun, which would live a whole eight months. When these first stars died in supernovae, the explosion threw heavy elements out into the surrounding gas, which in turn cooled and reformed into fundamentally different population 2 stars. To study this period, we must look back in time. We're only able to do this because we have telescopes that can look really far away. The thing with light is that it takes time to travel. So, for example, the sunlight that's hitting us right now left the sun a whole eight minutes ago. And if, for example, there were an alien species on our nearest neighbour galaxy, Andromeda, and they were pointing a telescope at us today, they wouldn't be seeing us, they'd be seeing the earliest ancestors of the human race. The further we look back in space-time, the more the light we observe has been stretched by the expansion of the universe. Visible light telescopes and infrared telescopes have limits on how far they can see back. So to look at the very earliest events in the universe, we need to look at the longest wavelengths, the radio. But stars aren't normally that loud in the radio frequencies, so how can we hope to observe some of the farthest and faintest light in our universe? Well, we look instead to the effect those stars have on the environment. The first stars burned bubbles in the surrounding hydrogen gas, and the size and shape of these bubbles can tell us a lot about these stars. In 1957, the Lovell Telescope was built at JoJo Bank. At the time, it was the largest steerable radio dish in the world, and it still holds the title for third place even now, and that's because there's an engineering limit to how big you can build these dishes before they simply collapse. A really useful aspect of radio telescopes is that you can distribute them into arrays, with bigger arrays offering better resolution and sensitivity. I've been involved for over a decade now in a big project called the Square Kilometre Array. This will be the largest radio telescope array to ever have been built by many magnitudes, with over 100,000 antennas in its initial configuration. The arrays are now being built in the quietest radio areas on Earth, the Western Australian Outback and the South African Desert, and here at JoJo Bank we have the headquarters. These radio telescopes are going to be so sensitive that they'll be able to pick up an airport radar from an extraterrestrial race ten light years away. That's a big step up from current radio telescopes, which would only be able to pick up that signal if the aliens resided on Mars. Construction has already begun, and when data begins streaming we're going to be facing one of the single largest computational challenges that humanity has ever faced. We're streaming the universe over a billion years. This project represents huge effort and investment from teams all over the world. I can't wait to start exploring that data and unearthing the lives of those most ancient stars.


The First item of business is general questions. Alexander Burnett To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work that it is doing to support the reopening of the Inche War Memorial Hospital. Any decision on the future use of Inche War Memorial Hospital will be decided between NHSahampian and local stakeholders. Ond y maes, yr ysgolwyr dypa hwn yn golygu gael ei prosiectau a'r gael. Aelodd wedi'i cymryd i ddysgu, mae eu bobl yn myth i mi, mae'n golygu i'r gael i'r gyferwyd a'r gael i'r gyfathorio cymryd yn gychydigol iawn o'r cyflwybranol mewn. Ac mae'n gael i'r gael i'r gael i'r gael i'r gael i'r gael i'r gael, oeddaeth y pwysigol iawn. Alex Sander-Burnett Aelodd ac yn gychydigol ysgolwyr ysgolwyr am ydyma'r pandemi yn 2020. ond, ddespid o ffordd o'r cymdeithasol, ac mae'r ddweud o'r ffawr o'r ffawr yn ystod yn ni, mae'n ddweud i'r ardal. Felly, ddiddordeb, y gallwn am yn ei gilydd y fawr 100 miliwn y gyrwyllt i'r gweithgwydau, mae mae'n ddweud i'r gweithgwyd i'r gweithgwyd yn ddwygen ein ffodus o'r sefydliadau ar adeiladol o cyfrifiadwyr 12-bed unig, ac mae'n ddweud o gyfrifiadwyr newid yn anhygoel hiss perspectives. Does not allow있는 bans to be freed up at the AR Eye, and in turn allow overdue operations to take place? Membership asked any plans that the local health board have to take forward the use of digital awareness of Europe Is a matter for local partners to decide on what the best configuration would be to meet local health needs, will recognise, that the £100 million that you have been investing in tackling waiting pounds over the next three years is revenue funding, not capital funding. Therefore, it can't be used for the purpose for which he's highlighted. He'll also be aware of the challenge that we face that has colleagues at Westminster have cut our capital grant, which means that there is less capital available to invest within our NHS estate and in capital projects right across the country. He may want to encourage his colleagues at Westminster to increase capital expenditure to allow us to invest in those types of facilities in the future. To ask the Scottish Government whether it consulted Elon Musk as part of its R100 programme. Minister Richard Lochhead, I've never spoken personally to Elon Musk, maybe that'll happen one day, who knows. Starlink, a subsidiary of SpaceX, which was founded by Elon Musk, is one of the many companies that we engaged with when preparing to launch our R100 Scottish broadband voucher scheme. However, at that time, it chose not to register. We have continued dialogue with Starlink and other providers, and all of Scotland is now capable of accessing a low-earth orbit satellite broadband connection commercially. That confirms that the Scottish National Party Government is dependent on the controversial American billionaire and his low-earth orbit satellites to deliver their manifesto promise on R100. The truth is that the R100 programme is still going when it was supposed to be completed two years ago, and the Government itself admits that thousands won't benefit from R100 until 2028. Isn't the minister even just a little bit embarrassed that he is now using Elon Musk as his latest excuse for failing to deliver the SNP R100 programme on time? I'm not sure of the chamber's notice, but it was Mr Rennett who raised Elon Musk, not myself as the Minister for Connectivity in Scotland, and I was simply answering his question. What I can say is that access to superfast broadband Scotland has increased by 46.8 percentage points in the past 10 years. That compares with 29.8 percentage points across the rest of the UK in the same period. We're making really good progress in Scotland, and that also benefits Mr Rennett's constituency. Of the 30,680 premises within North East Fife I've benefited, 28,368 are capable of accessing speeds of 24 megabits per second and above. Of course, the R100 project is also rolling out to most of Scotland. We're also speaking to the UK Government about their £8 million-announced investment in satellite connections to understand what that means for Scotland. Despite telecoms legislation being wholly reserved to Westminster, the Scottish Government has made more than £600 million of investment through the R100 contracts. Can the minister provide any update on any engagements with the UK Government to extend gigabit networks to Scotland's rural communities, given that telecoms is its constitutional responsibility? In terms of gigabit activity, which offers even faster connections, the Scottish Government continues to work closely with the UK Government to prepare for project gigabit activity in Scotland. That has the potential to build on the transformational impact of R100 and continued commercial activity. Of course, we continue to urge the UK Government to be more flexible in their approach to funding for project gigabit and ensure that there is a sufficient level of funding that is available to deliver across Scotland, where many of the connections can be higher and cost than other parts of the UK. In September and October of this year, the Scottish Government and BDUK carried out a pre-procurement market engagement exercise engaging with broadband infrastructure suppliers to gauge the level of market interest in bidding for new gigabit-capable broadband contracts in Scotland. To ask the Scottish Government how it supports the safety of Scotland's fishermen when at sea. The Scottish Government takes the safety of all fishers within Scottish waters very seriously. Whilst maritime safety regulation remains a reserved power of the UK Government, the Scottish Government continues to support the work of the Scottish Fishing Safety Group and it has worked with partners to support a range of safety improvements through the Marine Fund Scotland. The group is a joint fishing industry and Scottish Government initiative that supports Scottish fishing on safety matters. Its group has clear aims and objectives with efforts to achieve zero deaths annually and reduce the number of accidents across the industry. The group, co-chaired by the Scottish Government and Scottish Fishermen's Federation, consists of 14 representatives from across Scotland and the UK bodies responsible for maritime safety regulation. The cabinet secretary will be aware of the video showing aggressive and downright dangerous behaviour last week of the French registered Spanish vessel Antonio Maria towards the Shetland fishing boat Defiant, 18 miles east of Unst. The Defiant had shot her gear when the long-liner Antonio Maria circled and tried to foul the Defiant's propeller. That's not the first time there's been such an incident in waters off Shetland. The case of another Spanish vessel, the German registered Pesora DOS, is well documented. Constituents question where Scotland's fishery protection vessels were in all this and what action, if any, they have taken to follow up this latest shocking incident. Can the cabinet secretary respond to that point and can she also indicate what representations the Scottish Government has made to the UK Government and the flagged states about fishing vessels that appear to have little concern for safety at sea and fishermen's lives? I would just to say that I really appreciate the member's questions and also very much appreciate the concern that these incidents and other incidents like it have caused. I would say that it is a very complex area when it comes to safety in the marine environment with different jurisdictions taking place there, too. If I am not able to cover everything in my response today, I am happy to follow up with the member, too. I understand that the incident that took place last week occurred outside territorial waters and relates to a maritime safety incident. Under devolution, the Scottish Government powers are restricted to enforcing marine and fishery-related offences that do not extend to enforcement of maritime safety regulations. Maritime safety is a reserved function and jurisdiction over these incidents rests with the flagged state authorities of the vessels involved. Although there was no evidence of a fishery offence taking place, the Scottish Government deployed its marine protection vessel MPV Herta to investigate the incident further and it has passed any information gathered on to the UK maritime coastguard agency. I would add to that in terms of next steps. Is it that senior operational staff are arranging a follow-up meeting with the MCA and Police Scotland to discuss further opportunities to work collaboratively to support safe working practices in the marine environment? We have much interest, so concise questions and responses are appreciated, I call Rhoda Grant. For years, fishery protection staff have been underpaid and undervalued and that needs to change to keep that expertise and experience within the service. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what she is doing to retain officers and strengthen the protection fleet to enable better policing of our waters? The member will no doubt be aware that we take a risk-based approach when it comes to incidents that are reported to the marine directorate as well. We have limited resources and a number of different vessels, but we have a large marine area to try and cover and to get across as well, which is why we have that risk-based approach in place. However, we make the best of the resources that we have, value and appreciate the work of the teams that we have working across the marine directorate and particularly in our compliance and working across the vessels, which have had the opportunity to visit as well. If there are particular issues there, the member would like to today's with me a more than happy to follow up after that. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the delivery of its stroke improvement plan. Since publication of the stroke improvement plan in June, the Scottish Government has appointed a consultant stroke physician as clinical lead for stroke to lead on implementing the plan. We are developing a bundle of rehabilitation measures for inclusion in the Scottish stroke care audit, and we are also developing measures of patient experience of rehabilitation. We are also increasing access to thrombectomy procedures for patients presenting to spoke hospitals and undertaking significant planning to further expand Scotland's thrombectomy service with a plan outlining expansion of the national thrombectomy service to be published by the end of 2023. I thank the minister for that response and the information on thrombectomy and it is to thrombectomy that I want to follow up. She'll be aware of the medical procedure thrombectomy, and for others in the room who might not be, it's where a large blood clot blocking blood flow to the brain can be removed. As a result of thrombectomy, a patient may be up and about within days instead of in a wheelchair for life. It's truly amazing. Around 10 per cent of stroke patients would benefit from receiving thrombectomy, but currently in Scotland it's happening for less than 1 per cent, which is the lowest level in the UK. Therefore, I note the words from the minister as per its commitment to the stroke improvement plan and its commitment that it will be moving forward, but I really would like to push on when the Scottish Government will publish the blueprint for the steps to get us up to a fully functioning, safe, sustainable, national 24-hour, seven-service to make it available to everyone that actually needs it. Minister. I thank the Ross McCall for that question, and I'd also like to commend the work that Ross McCall has been doing to really promote and explain the different symptoms that a stroke could result in, so I appreciate that very much. I'd like to say that the Scottish Government remains committed to introducing a high-quality and clinically safe thrombectomy service in Scotland. The delivery of a national thrombectomy service has already received over £26 million of investment, and through the national thrombectomy programme board and thrombectomy advisory group, work is being undertaken to drive expansion of the thrombectomy service. We expect additional spoke hospitals to begin referring appropriate patients to four thrombectomies in the coming months, increasing geographical access to thrombectomy procedures. To ask the Scottish Government what recent meetings it has had with neonatologists from NHS Lanarkshire. Minister Jenny Minto. Scottish Government officials had discussions on the new model of neonatal care with neonatologists from Lanarkshire alongside neonatologists from other Scottish neonatal units at the recent Scottish neonatal consultants group meeting. Senior Scottish Government officials also met recently with the chief executive and medical director from NHS Lanarkshire to discuss neonatal intensive care. Mark Griffin. If the Government are relying on clinical advice, which is now five years out of date to downgrade wish on neonatal unit, it is absolutely shocking that the minister has not taken the time to meet with the experts that run that unit. Will the minister commit to meeting with the award-winning experts from NHS Lanarkshire neonatal unit before progressing with the plans to downgrade this absolutely crucial life-saving unit? I thank Mark Griffin for his question. I think it's important to recognise that the best start project started in 2018 and has really taken evidence from experts on the clinical side, and it is those experts whose advice we are following. Originally, we had eight neonatal units that were reduced to five, and then the next stage, which was reviewed in 2022, was down to the three. I'm happy to meet with the unit at Wishaw General Hospital, and I think that it's important, though, that officials continue to meet with the services there and also patient parents that are involved in the service as well. We've also very much involved Bliss in all our work that we've been doing, and they represent parents that have experienced what must be an incredibly traumatic time in their lives. To echo the comments that Mark Griffin has just made about the vital neonatal service in Wishaw General, parents and families who have used the service over the many years that the award-winning neonatal department has been opened are deeply distressed, deeply worried, deeply concerned that they will not be able to travel locally in order to get the care that they need for them and their babies. Will the minister commit to making sure that she engages with families who have used the service over the many years to hear the life experiences in why this department is so important to them and their families? It's important to remind everyone that the neonatal unit in Lanarkshire will be remaining open and will be bringing the patients, the babies back as soon as possible. We have made those decisions to ensure that the sickest and the smallest babies, the most vulnerable babies, get the best treatment ever, and we have based that on clinical evidence. As I've said to Mr Griffin, I'm happy to meet people within North Lanarkshire. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported statistics showing that the number of people in Scotland dying from Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia has more than tripled in the last 20 years and the concerns that the country is unprepared for the further expected increases. Minister Marie Todd? Firstly, our thoughts and condolences are with everyone who has lost a loved one. Scotland's new dementia strategy was published in May this year, setting out a 10-year vision for dementia policy. It recognises the importance of being able to access a timely diagnosis and post-diagnostic support that is right for them and for those who are caring for them. We'll soon publish our first two-year delivery plan, developed in collaboration with people with lived experience, local and national partners, and this plan will include measurable deliverables to help us to achieve the ambitions of our dementia communities as detailed in our strategy. I look forward to the delivery plan because I'm finding it difficult to see how we get from where we are now. I recently met a group of carers in Dumfimlan. What they described to me was the dehumanisation of care, a service that is in crisis. Community care is failing people up and down Scotland, so what is the plan to tackle the problems that we have right now in social care? Minister. We have invested over £6 million of ring-fence funding over the last two years for dementia post-diagnostic support, a significant further allocation for dementia periods in 23-24 will be issued this year to IJBs. That's in addition to the estimated investment in dementia by health and social care partnerships of £2.2 billion, a 14 per cent increase since 2014. As set out this week as part of our £1 billion NHS recovery plan, we'll reduce and address waiting times year on year for all conditions, including dementia. Of course, you will absolutely be aware of the social care system. Derek Feely did an independent review of adult social care for us in Scotland and said that the system, whilst working well in many ways, is under strain. His recommendation was very clear. It requires that if we keep doing the same thing, we will keep getting the same outcome. He made a very strong case for transformational change, which we are pursuing in the form of the national care service. I look forward to Alex Rowley and Scottish Labour supporting us in that endeavour. Can I invite the minister to meet, as I have, dementia-friendly Tweeddale, to learn of their work in supporting carers and those with dementia to continue to enjoy life and their activities after diagnosis and even add more? Absolutely. I'd be absolutely delighted. I recently visited a dementia meeting centre in Cirmure. It was a wonderful experience. I learned a lot from the people who were there and I'd be more than keen to meet the people in the MSPs area. Thank you. That concludes general questions. Before we move to First Minister's questions, I invite members to join me in welcoming to the gallery his excellency, Mr Miguel Berga, ambassador of Germany to the United Kingdom.


This study investigated the effects of land use changes on land surface temperature, LST, in Dohaq City, Iraq. Three Landsat images from 1990, 2000 and 2016 were analyzed using supervised classification to identify different land cover types. The results showed that the highest temperatures were found in barren lands and built-up areas, ranging from 47 degrees Celsius, 50 degrees Celsius, 56 degrees Celsius in 1990, 2000 and 2016 respectively. Lower temperatures were observed in water bodies and forests, ranging from 25 degrees Celsius, 26 degrees Celsius, 29 degrees Celsius in 1990, 2000 and 2016 respectively. Additionally, the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, NDVI, Normalized Difference Built-Up Index, NDVI, Normalized Difference Barrenness Index, NDVI, and Normalized Difference Water Index, NDVI, all correlated negatively with low temperatures, while NDVI and NDVI correlated positively with high temperatures. This article was authored by Galen Rasul Fakib Rahim. We are article.tv, links in the description below.


All right, I'm just get a couple of webcans up and running. Good to see you, Chuck, Mark, everybody. Robert, good to see you, Wayne. Sassy to you. Hopefully, everyone's getting excited. This is a short week. We only have two days left of trading. Friday market is closed from Good Friday. So I would probably expect it to be quite quiet. Kids are off from school next week. A lot of kids had spring break and so on. Double whammy. Tax season's coming on, too, on top of it. Easter Sunday, so it's like a perfect storm. Yesterday, I just had Josh and had to do my morning meetings with him. Didn't really see that much even yesterday. We had a couple of stocks to talk a little bit about them. That did pretty well.  Leave. And it was like the first five, 10 minutes. Now I know, granted, not a lot of us here probably did that well, but that's fine. They're there every day and that's all that matters. Like the LIXT and the ATER would talk a little bit about that. Norman says the, was that what it is? The GOEV, I will check it out in a minute. Sometimes these stocks pop in program trading going into the last, right at the nine o'clock starting hours. So anyway, a couple of, obviously, if you've been watching the news this morning and seen what's been going on, the PPI numbers came out and they were worse than they were expected. They were at 11.2 versus 10.6.  And see, and I think the first thing people look at is they see gas, right? And now there's, you know, obviously food and steak and eggs and all that stuff and bread and stuff like that. That's the wholesale number, okay, that went up. So, I mean, Jamie Dimon already said that we could go into a recession, you know, probably go into next year to where it's going because that number is pretty bad. That number is really bad and that's why the market's not down huge, but that means that whatever a wholesaler pays, okay? You have to think about it. There's a manufacturer who, and then a wholesaler buys from a manufacturer and then the wholesaler is selling it to the public. Some of you own businesses, you know what I'm talking about.  You're buying it and so on. That number went up substantially. It was more than they anticipated, which means that it's gonna be passed down to the consumer. Some inflation is keeping it continue to go higher because they're not taking a hit at all, okay? Listen, I just got a letter from, I gotta call them up. I don't know what the hell this is all about, but I just got a letter from my processing company that my rate doubled and so if you've noticed, to another thing, that credit card charges. If you notice a lot of companies in Arizona say, hey, you wanna pay by credit card, we'll give you a 3% discount, you know? Or they're gonna charge you 3% on top of it. I mean, back then it wasn't that bad. You were paying like one and a half, 2%, but now they want 4%, you know? I mean, like that's like net net for them. So I mean, it's really gonna affect a lot of things. So just be prepared for it. Once again, we're traders, we're hopefully gonna capitalize on it. So whatever happens there with inflation, with the PPI numbers, we're gonna try to kind of monetize that and use it to our benefit, I guess, right? Already have a deal with not using a credit card.    That's almost like 30% of their revenue that comes out of their pocket and they're already dealing with the headaches in there. So it is quite, it is quite expensive. Another thing I heard too, that was pretty bad this morning. Did anyone look at what the interest rates are in homes? Oh my God, I was just listening. I mean, I have my niece, my poor niece is looking for a house. I mean, you can locked in at like what, 2.258? Now it's at what, yeah, I know 5% Norman, 5.08 it was, 5.08 it doubled in less than a month or two. I mean, that just changes everything.  So a lot of crazy things that are happening, you know, and it's so weird how it's just like, it's like, it just hit us like all of a sudden out of nowhere, you know? But let me just tell you something. This is not like the stock market. Whatever goes up comes down twice as fast, doesn't work like this in reality. Whatever goes up twice as fast takes, you know, whatever goes up takes five times slower to go down, they said. So that's what prolongs, it's easy to go up. It's hard to bring it back down. All right, so anyway, with the bad news that we heard this morning, let's look on the bright side what's going on. So I know some of you here did pretty well on some of the stocks that we traded. I wanna talk a little bit about some of them that we had yesterday. I mean, this thing was just literally a animal yesterday, nice little pop, you could see right here at 9.30. This thing just came out of nowhere. Literally went from like 2.50 and went all the way to $4.25. It was a beautiful, actually higher, 4.80, a great run up, did a little bit of shake right here. So some of you could have caught on to this, right around was hovering around 3.50 and it just made another small little pop for about another buck. So if you came in late, you could have caught on to this, then you could see a party was over and then started making a Fausta flag on the downside. But that stock alone right there, you caught it early, you saw it here, you had about a couple of minutes to capitalize on it. And I think some of you jumped in right around the $3 price range. It was like a level one stock and all of a sudden, boom, it became like a level four. That one did pretty well, ATER, let's bring up that one in the afternoon, right around, I mean, literally 3.30, another great runner, $4.30 stock just did not want to stop going all the way up until the after hours. This thing ran all the way to $5.50. I did closing bell yesterday and I was showing some of the people in there, the wonderful new traders, which are gonna be joining us. And they couldn't find anything, they didn't see ATER, but you know what, we did. I know it was the first stock on Josh's watch list and that was at $2.30, he found it, $2.30. And look, we know where program trading kicks in right at 3.30, if you don't know that, should have had your mouse pad, if you haven't got one, email us, get it, best times to trade right there, see it right there? 3.30 to write the last five minutes, but this apparently went after hours. All right, so that did pretty well and that was pretty much it. So let's not, so let's forget about what happened yesterday, let's see what's going on this morning. Honestly, I'm not seeing that much out there. One of you just brought up the stock, GEO EV, we'll go check it out. Yeah, you see, you called it out and look what happened. Things shot up, 9 a.m. program trading and came crashing right back down. So that tier size or ugly volume is decent. I'll probably pass on that right now.  Usually that looks like it, another one right here, SSRI. Stock is flat, not going anywhere, $52 stock, we're not staying. This one is, I mean, we got some volatility on this one.  It was at $2, went to $4.50. You got some resistance levels here, $5.25. It did that in pre-market around 6.30 this morning. If it does break that, then it probably will go, get a nice little push. We're at 11%, 11% as one of the number five biggest percentage gainer on the NASDAQ. That's not good for this morning. Listen, I anticipate it's gonna happen. I think it's gonna get a hell of a lot worse tomorrow. Actually, let me take a step back. I totally forgot about it. Tomorrow is gonna be Holy Thursday.  So today might even be really slow, okay? It might even be really slow. Doesn't mean that we wanna quit trading because sometimes these stocks have to come out with news and they will make a move, but we can keep an eye on that. Airlines, I don't know what happened to airlines, but I didn't check the news. I think Josh will let me know, but the airlines obviously are moving well. You can see American Airlines did pretty well. Delta Airlines had a big pop. I mean, this is very rare to see Delta up that much. I mean, they had that big crash from $44 down to 30, but it's really been channeling here. I mean, that's a pretty big move. So you got American, you got United. You got all the airlines that are all in the market. You can probably look at Save. I know they were looking for that merger with JetBlue, really kind of holding here. I mean, all of them are looking pretty good as well. So we might be focused on the airlines, all right? Airlines might be the ones that, because they're all up there on that list. Losers, not really seeing that much out there. Nothing good on a dead cap bounce right here. New York Stock Exchange, you can see Delta, second biggest percentage gainer on the New York Stock Exchange, and that is only a 4%. That's pretty bad, all right? That is pretty ugly. That's about it. That's about it. I don't know, do you guys see anything else out there that I'm missing? Michael says BBBY took a little bit of a hit. Yeah, BBBY, Bed Bath and Beyond's taken a little bit of a hit. It's getting close to support levels. I mean, the stock was, had a nice little rally when it went from like 15 all the way to 30.  Support levels are pretty strong.   So you're not too far off. Lita's saying the, you know, Lita, I saw that stock and it was on my watch list. The VRU, I'll throw it back up there, but she started coming back down again. You know, that was the only problem. And it's going to be a fast moving stock. So I don't want to be too aggressive on a day like today regarding, you know, getting close to a big, really big weekend. All right. All right, traders. So we got about 15 minutes for the market opens up. Listen, if you missed yesterday's video of closing bell, it is being recorded. If you're in a cyber group room, if you watch Josh's, you know, traders talk, that's been recorded. You have that party library. If you're new here to Cybertrain University, make sure that you don't buy anything. You're only here to watch to see if there's something that you could do. You want to see if the other traders are doing very well. Don't count our money. Count theirs. See how we actually work together like a team. And hopefully this would be something that you want to do. And if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook Live, you can always join us here every morning until you're ready to join the cyber group room. We hear live every morning from 9am to and back here at 2.30 for the afternoon hours. Thanks for watching, everybody. And we'll see you in a little bit. And for everybody else, I'll see you back here at 2.30.


Hi I'm Ryan Emerton. I'm a trainer here at Slate River Ranch. Today I'm going to show you some two-year-olds. It's early July. They've had about six months training. First horse I'm going to focus on is a little slow-footed. I'm going to teach you how to approach a horse like this.   And the third horse is a real cow horse. I'm going to explain how I keep her disciplined and focus on the basics and building the foundation. This mare here she's a little doorway-feely. I really like she wants to stop. She's cow-y. She's been at times a little bit heavy feeling. So I keep that in mind always. Really try to stop. I really try to get that draw right there light feel. And I want to use this turnback man a little bit more on this horse to really get a lot of move away. A lot of feel for that cow. Because she's a little bit heavier. If I get up there on top of that cow too much it's going to be a wrestling match me trying to force that turn right here. It's that cow making that turn right there. Here right here I just keep drawing that cow to me riding away. Keep that front end clean. Here that cow has released me. It's a good spot to break across. Again she's she's she's hard to do a lot of this to clean her up right there. Here it's keeping up with this cow. Trying to get all the way across. Draw same this way. She's a little bit a little bit lopy there.  Draw try to let her hook to that cow there on her own. Same on this side. Got her ears working. She's thinking about it at all. Better come through there on her own. Here the cow has released me again. Another good spot to break off. Yeah it's not it's not pretty. Try to do it again and get her to really clean them feet up and move away. That was a little better. They want to do it all the time. I want now I'm going to go back to that cow and and have the cow make that move. I don't want it to be. When I break off I'm not taking her all the way off the cow. I still want to have that connection with the cow in her mind. What what that does as I said it'll clean up the front end and if I'm traveling across there and she feels like she's freewheeling a little bit. If I break her back across I'll redirect her attention back to that cow. Again not real pretty. Just keep work chipping away at it until I feel like she's picking her feet up and putting where they're supposed to be.


Hi, time for the mini lecture and I'll share my screen and let's pick up where we left off when we left off yesterday We had this program where we're using variables and it's okay. It works as advertised But if we want to change somebody to having a different age We have to have them change the program and that's not really ideal I guess we said yesterday at the conclusion what we'd really like is we'd really like to be able to ask the user Hey, how old are you? And then when they tell us we use what they tell us in the calculation In order to do that we need to do input and we do input with something called a scanner Now it turns out that Java has a lot of little libraries of code to help us do stuff Not everything is built into Java one of the things that's not built into Java is a way to do input so we have to say Import and we're going to import a library from the Java util library package And it's going to be called capital S scanner Your import always always always goes at the beginning of your program Now what we need to do is we need to connect the scanner to the keyboard so that the scanner knows Hey, we want to do input from the user's keyboard The way we do it is to create a scanner object and we'll call it input and That's going to be a new scanner based on system.in System.in is A special object that's built into Java that is connected to your keyboard So I'm saying take the keyboard and Make a new scanner based on that And save it in a variable called input Remember just like I have integer years I give them data type the variable name and the value My data type is scanner My variable name is input and its value is this new connection to the keyboard Now what I'm going to do is I'm going to system.out.print and not go to a new line How many years old are you and then here instead of putting 48? I'm going to say input.nextint and that tells the scanner input To read the next integer that the user gives us Whatever that integer is will go into years Then we'll use those years times 365 to calculate the days and print that out let's compile that and Let's run it and Now it says how many years old are you and it's waiting for my input? So if let's say I have somebody who's 23 years old they type 23 and press enter and It calculates their age and years and days excuse me. Let's run it again Let's say somebody comes in who's oh, I don't know 19 years old and then somebody else can run it and maybe they're 80 years old and That'll tell them approximately how many days old they are So now we have a very nice generic program that will work for anybody a couple of things to note here I used print here instead of println gee. I wonder what would happen if I did use println let's compile and run it and Now my input cursor Where I put the age is on a separate line from the prompt the By prompt. I mean the text that tells the user what to input There's nothing particularly wrong about the program will still work fine But it's ugly. I always want the cursor to be on the same line as my prompt Now you'll also notice I put a blank here after the question mark. Why did I do that? Let's take it out and see what happens and by the way, I'm gonna go back to the same line here and again the program still works But again, it's a little bit ugly This number is too close to the question mark and That's why I'm putting in this extra blank here because that gives me some breathing room for my cursor And that's how we do input. There's one other thing I want to do here I created the connection to the keyboard when I'm done with my program I'm going to say input dot closed which is closes down the scan It breaks the connection with the keyboard You don't have to do that when your program ends the system will automatically close it But the reason I have put it in there is because on some integrated development environments If you don't say that you are closing the input, you'll get a little warning message It'll say you didn't close your input. Yeah, okay fine. So this explicitly closes it That's input Let me take a quick look here at what else is in chapter three here Oh literals and constants. I think we talked about that earlier namely, um Did I use constants here before last time? I don't remember Oh, yes, I did cool. Okay. So what I might want to do just for grins. I might want to say um final integer Days per year becomes 365 and then here Days per year Yeah, that's what makes things a little bit nicer Cool, let's go with purchase dot job. And now we want the price of the item Well in this case, we don't want it to be always 12 95 So we're going to say in this time. Oh, we're guess we're going to need our scanner again, aren't we? We're going to have to import java dot util dot scanner And we're going to have to put our scanner in here And I'm going to put in there scanner Input becomes a new scanner object connected to the keyboard And then when I'm done with my program I'm going to close my input You know what? I'm going to be doing this a lot because I'm almost always going to be asking for input from now on Time to change my template That way I don't have to retype this every single time and And just for cleanliness. I'm going to get rid of some of these extra blank lines that aren't helping me any And I just want to compile this to make sure that it compiles. Okay, and when I run it Yeah, it doesn't do anything, but that's cool. I've got a good program here Let's go back to purchase now in this case First of all, and now that this is an error that I see a lot. I'll say okay. We want input dot next double And let's compile that And run it and now it's waiting for input, but I forgot the prompt So how do I know what I'm supposed to enter? So I always remember to put up a prompt So here let's go and put here System dot print Enter the item price Now here I'm not putting the extra space and there's a reason and you're going to see why Because I want the Numbers to be right after the dollar sign Although if you do put the blank in there, I'm not going to complain If you want to be consistent and always put a blank in there if you think it looks better this way I'm perfectly happy with that So there we have our input I'm putting in some blank lines here. So the things that belong together are grouped together There we go. And let's see what else I need to talk about here Oh typecasts and error messages and a whole bunch of other stuff. Oh my goodness. Okay Formatting output though. That's important So let's go on to formatting output here. Um, when I run this program You'll notice I get this really ugly business here I would like to have things as exactly two digits after the decimal point The way I'm going to do this instead of using print l and I'm going to use print f So I'm going to Actually, let's let's stop here for a moment I'm going to save I'd save this under different names so that we can have purchase with format dot job Purchase with format We're going to use print f which means print with formatting And what we do is our first Argument the first thing that we call put inside the parentheses is going to be a format string What we're going to do is we're going to say we're going to want the words your item cost and a dollar sign And then we're going to say I want a placeholder a fill in the blank and a percent sign introduces a placeholder Then we would say how do we want that placeholder? Formatted when we print it out and the answer is we want dot two Which means two digits after the decimal point and f because this is a floating point number Then we are also going to say Percent sign n which means new line So let me put a comment in here for that percent sign dot two f means floating point number with two digits after the decimal And percent sign n means Give me a new line The reason we have to do that is because print f does not give you a new line. It's not like print lm. It's more like print So if we want a new line, we have to put it in ourselves Let's compile that and run it try compiling it. There we go And running it and now by the way if I say something like 34.1 Notice it gives me my two digits How cool is that? And we'll do the that comes out to we're going to need to also another percent sign dot two f Percent sign in we'll put a period here This period here is not part of the format. It's a period in the sentence So here's our format string. We'll change this to a print f says that comes out to this And then after the format string comes the thing we want to print Let's compile that And if we have 34.95 cents notice We get only two digits after the decimal point Now I need to work on this second line here And we're going to again say percent dot two f percent sign in comma tax Now what happens when I compile this? It compiles successfully But when I run it I get a conversion mismatch exception This is what's called a runtime error What I did in java we didn't have a syntax error We've seen those before like if I leave off a quote mark or if I put in too many parentheses The compiler will stop us right away.  It's wrong Yeah, but everything I've done here has been syntactically correct the grammar and spelling so to speak in java is perfect The problem is when I try to run the program It can't run it because there's some problem when I run the program and you get this thing called an exception And we'll talk about exceptions much later in the semester Now some of these are very Weird and confusing and you're going to see a whole bunch of stuff here And one of the things in there is always going to be your program So it says okay this happened in purchase with format It happened in the main method And it happened on line 27 And the problem is I can't format this correctly And the reason is on line 27 here Because remember I said percent sign introduces a placeholder and then I have to follow it with what kind of thing there is Oh knows I have a percent sign here and there's nothing to follow it. It thinks I have a placeholder So the question is how do I get a real honest to gosh percent sign? And the answer is I put two percent signs in a row, which means give me a percent sign This is not a placeholder So if I put two percent signs in a row here Now when I compile this And run it For 34.95 cents I get my seven and a half percent there Which is exactly what I want and I get two decimal points for everything, which is again exactly what I wanted You know what? This seven and a half remember. Oh, wait a minute. It's not seven and a half. It's seven point seven five Oh bummer We want to print The tax rate and the tax here. So now I have two placeholders My first placeholder Will be filled in by tax rate These percent signs are not a placeholder And my second placeholder this percent dot 2f Will be filled in by the tax. Oh, we had a problem here. Okay Good. I'm glad I made this. Oh, this is perfect. This is exact I did not do this intentionally but boy did this work out great Wait a minute. This is 7.75 percent and it comes out as 0.08 percent. What the heck went wrong here? What I have here is called a logic error. In fact, let me write these three kinds of errors. We have a syntax error That's sort of like grammar spelling And that is a things like missing semicolon too many parentheses, etc Compiler catches these for you We have a runtime error and that is The syntax is correct But when you run the program Java can't do what you told it to do That's when we had that percent sign hanging out in the middle of nowhere. Java couldn't handle it And the last kind the hardest one to fix is a logic error The syntax is correct Java can do what you told it What you told it Isn't what you really want to do 7.75 divided by 100 works out to 0.075 But I don't want 0.075 percent. I need to multiply that by 100 That's a logic error I'm printing the wrong thing I don't need the tax rate because I'm printing a percent sign instead of a decimal here I need to multiply by 100 to convert it to a percent That's the whole definition of percent So there's my logic error Which I now think I have corrected I have $50 And there's my 7.75 percent tax. Yes, it works The last thing I'm going to do to this program is I'm going to make this one long print one print f instead of a whole bunch of print fs but appear here with percent dot 2f Tax of dollar sign percent dot 2f percent n That comes out to percent sign dollar sign percent dot 2f Oh, I don't need a percent sign in here Yeah Now I have a lot of placeholders. So I have to fill them all in The price is the first one The tax rate times 100 Fills in this The tax that I calculated here on line 19 fills in this placeholder And The total fills in my last placeholder To all this And my period is outside of the percent sign in I screwed that up a little bit here The percent sign has to come at the very end There we go. That'll that'll that'll fix that and that's formatting. Oh gosh, I guess we can do some formatting here as well So instead of using all these plus signs, we can say print f your age of percent sign d Years is about percent sign d days old and then a percent n And we're going to fill that in with the years and the days in this case Percent sign d is used for an integer Now there's a lot of other stuff that you can do with formatting And let me see if I can find it here under pages View all pages Actually, I want to go back here. Let me just check something here real quick I want to do this in student view. I want to make sure if sure it works for the student So if I go here to pages Yeah, okay, you can view all pages too. How wonderful Somewhere down here we have Ah, let's see. Where was it here? Formatting output there we go And this will give you another recap of this So if the you got confused by my mini lecture, no problem you can Go through here and you can read it at your leisure Now this is using backslash in instead of percent sign in So I may as well put that in here to let you know Let's do this here backslash in Also gives a new line But percent sign in is preferable So I I wrote that page about formatting output before I learned about percent sign in So this is wonderful. That means I now have come back and covered this thing in chapter two about Compiler error messages and other types of errors knew how I would be able to find that eventually We've talked about the remainder operator. I talked about reading error messages here um And finally we want to type a cast operators So let's do this Let's um, oh, let's use our template now to have my template. I can use that hooray And let's call this average sale dot java And here's what we're going to do. We're going to ask the user how many people Bought items And how many items were sold total And then we will print the average number of items per person Which we want to have decimal places in So there's the purpose of my program And because I called it average sale dot java. This has to be called average sale So we're going to say system dot out dot print You know what no stop stop stop stop stop Let's plan this program. Let's write down the steps that we're going to have to do Step one is prompt the user for the number of people Read it into a variable Which we call it uh, how about call it n people number of people Not the best variable name of the world, but it'll do Then we need to prompt user for a total number of items sold Step four will be read that into a variable Called items sold Now what we need to do is we need to calculate the average As items sold divided by n people And then print the average Properly labeled So those are our steps now you're saying oh my gosh, why are you going through all this Fancy schmancy rigamarole For a simple program like this and the answer is because I went y'all to get in the habit of planning your program before you write it So there's six steps. We have to go through here Okay step one prompt for Um the number of people how many people bought items And then we're going to have an integer called number of people becomes uh input dot next int Then we're going to do our step three How many items total? Did you sell and then we're going to say our integer? This is step four items sold becomes um Input dot next int also Now i'm going to have an average which is a double because remember I went to have the decimal point double average Is going to become items sold divided by the number of people and then I can say print f average items Per person is percent sign dot one if i'm going to have one digit after the decimal point And then a period to end the sentence a percent n And i'm going to fill in the blank with average And let's compile that And let's run it And so how many people bought items? Let's say I had five people bought items And they had 17 items so so total Uh, no, that's not right. I don't want 3.0. It should be 3.4 I believe Yeah, because I want an accurate average So the question is How do I get that to happen? Here's my problem. This is an integer and that's an integer. Remember 17 divided by five is three Not 3.4. And that's why I lost even though i'm assigning it to a double on the left hand side Remember this happens first So i'm taking integer 17 divided by integer five, which gives me integer three And that gets promoted to 3.0, which is not what I want So the question is how do I make this a double? Here's one way to do it I could say 1.0 Times items sold divided by n people now because I have a double times an integer that gets promoted to a double And as soon as I have a double Everything else is a double So I have 17 people five Okay, I got I got those backwards. Okay. Let's try that again Uh I have five people buying 17 items. There we go. And now I get my 3.4. Cool. That's what I wanted Then that's one way to do it Another way to do it is something called a cast and this is in the book here in chapter um three called type cast operators And what we're going to do here is we are going to say This is going to say take items sold and convert it to a double Then when we divide it by an integer, we're going to be cool. Everything's going to still come out as a double I have people with 17 items and 3.4 I could also do cast them both It wouldn't hurt All right, so I can take the double items sold divided by double n people Yeah, so it's like people with 17 items Now once I've got a double by the way, I do not have to do casts anymore I don't have to say double average. It already is one. So don't go overboard with these casts, please Now you've got to be careful. I'm going to tell you this right now If you do this, then all of a sudden that undoes all your work Because what happens now is I'm going to do the items in parentheses first, which will be 17 integer divided by Integer five, which is integer three and then I'll promote it to double 3.0 Which is not what I wanted Then I'm right back where I started So be careful when you use casts that you cast the right things Speaking of which, let me go into here Jay Shaw The other kind of you can cast things to other data types. For example, let's say I have a double x and I said to 37.9 And I say int um Whole number is going to be int x That says convert x to an integer. This is again I'm casting x to be an integer and that will not round instead what it will do is it will get rid of the decimal part entirely So here's a cast to integer and here I have let's say um integer a is 12 integer b is uh, let's say seven And then I can say double c Is double a divided by b Again, I don't have to all as long as there's one item That's a double the whole thing is going to be a double but what the heck So here I'm casting to a double to make everything work out, right? I think this pretty much covers what we need to know in chapters two and three Um, you may want to look at this thing called the scanner bug. It's really not a bug. It's just the way the scanner is built Read this at your leisure. It's not going to come up in any of the in the our assignment Let me just do a real quick look at what the assignment is though And the assignment is going to be variables so Here we have a staircase made of concrete that's shown in this diagram There's four steps There's the width The run and the rise those are the dimensions that you need to know when you're building a staircase And we want to know the volume of this staircase because we're building it out of concrete How much concrete will we need? We're gonna need a cast by the way here um To figure out the volume what we want to know is that we we can figure out that the volume of one of these Blocks here like this bottom block is the width times the run times the rise That's the volume of this bottom block Now on the second step, we have one block two blocks, don't we? And on the third step, we're going to need three blocks stacked on top of each other and for the fourth step We're going to need four blocks So we're going to need four plus three plus two plus one which is 10 blocks altogether So the question is how many blocks the size of the bottom step do you need to build a staircase? And you can draw a diagram that will really help you If you have n number of steps The total number of blocks is the sum of the numbers one through n if I had five Steps in the staircase that need one plus two plus three plus four plus five for the fifth step To get the sum I can calculate it with that would be five times six which is 30 divided by two I need 15 blocks So here is your But the program output might look like You're going to ask the user how many steps in the staircase you're going to need to use it a scanner They'll tell you that now is that going to be an integer or is it going to be a double? Well, my question is can you have 3.79 steps in a staircase? Probably not so we probably it's going to be an integer For the width the rise in the run in centimeters could those be double or the integers? Well the answer is here since I'm using 7.5. Yeah, I should expect to have decimal points or double for the rise the width in the run And then the total volume is going to be an integer And there's some style hints here for doing user input and talks about doing the prompts Printing blank lines again and blank lines and source code So you'll definitely want to read this so that your style is nice And the reason you want to do that is because That's worth two points is your programming style And that I think is going to do our Mini lecture for tonight What I'm going to do tomorrow if I have a mini lecture is I might just do a couple of programs From the extra exercises book or I'll just make up some new exercises So that I will practice these things and by the way, you should practice these things as well And I'll see you all around


What is profit? It is common to hear profit attacked as exploitation and greed. How many supervillains have appeared in TV shows, books, or movies with a diabolical plot of putting profits over people? In reality, profit is a powerful mechanism for human cooperation and serves to make sure that the Earth's resources are maximized to serve the best interests of humanity. Why? Think of profit as the reward for making good decisions. Doesn't have to be only about money. Selling something for $5 that you made for $3, it can also be something immeasurable. Volunteering time to a charity can be profitable if doing so benefits a cause you're passionate about. The benefits of profit are obvious. We want to benefit from our actions rather than be disappointed by them. Now, let's look at the benefits of profit beyond an individual level. The world is a complicated place full of billions of individuals with different opinions and interests and a future that is never predictable. Add to this that there are many resources that have numerous uses. For example, iron can be used to make all sorts of things from refrigerators to cars to medical devices. Given this web of complexity, decisions on what to make and how to produce it are beyond any one person's comprehension. No single person can imagine a way to fulfill the needs and desires of every single other person. Luckily, no one has to. Instead of one single person trying to figure out how to use all the world's resources, property rights mean individuals own these resources. These individuals can then sell these resources on markets where others can buy them and combine them with other resources to build new products. The individual who risks his money buying resources to build products to sell is called an entrepreneur. In doing so, he also invests in capital goods such as machines and buildings as well as laborers who have a variety of skills. All of these parts of production have costs. The entrepreneur is hoping that he will be able to sell the end product for more money than it costs to make it. That money is the profit that he gets to enjoy. It's not just the entrepreneur who benefits, though. Consumers benefit because they get new and different products. Workers benefit because they make money. A successful entrepreneur is therefore helping other people while making a profit. Just as important, however, is loss. As we mentioned before, many of the components that go into producing a good have a variety of uses. This is true for natural resources, buildings, workers, and machines. If these resources are being used on a product and it isn't profitable, this means that consumers don't value that product enough to buy it. By suffering a loss, an entrepreneur may sell his resources to other entrepreneurs who can use them better. The factory is sold to another company. The employees work new jobs. This process plays itself out every day in various ways all around the world. Even better, it adapts to all sorts of changes. Maybe people's taste changes. Perhaps people stop liking sweet candies and instead like salty chips. Some candy factories may close, but new chip companies will emerge. When individuals get to choose how to spend their money, they end up influencing where entrepreneurs invest and what is produced. Unfortunately, governments interfere with this process of profit and loss. For example, politicians add cost to businesses and industries in the name of taxes or regulation that make businesses less profitable. This is bad for the entrepreneur, bad for their workers, and bad for the consumers who don't get the products they would like. At other times, governments choose to bail out industries that aren't making a profit. Politicians do so by saving jobs they want to protect, failing to recognize the profitable jobs they are destroying. Bailing out unprofitable industries means that scarce resources, including labor, continue to be used for products that people don't want enough to buy. We have limited resources on earth, and we should use them as wisely and efficiently as possible. The market economy, where entrepreneurs are driven by profit and loss, is the best way to make sure we do just that.


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Hey everyone and welcome to Norris Cove or welcome back. I'm Yoshida and today we are here again for another paycheck to paycheck or weekly check-in for me. So if that is something that you would be interested in stay tuned. Okay you guys so y'all I hate to report that it is another week so that may not go as well or as planned last week I guess it made it 300. Let me look on my everyday planner to see what we made. I said I would update you guys. Just briefly looking at it it was four five. I ended up making about 700. I thought I wrote the total down but it ended up being like 700. But again I had bills to pay Shopify didn't do too bad. We got a seller too from Etsy. I need to get on like a good schedule with my Etsy and my Shopify. Right now I have my payments coming like daily from both of them because I need it. I really need it but I'm going to switch it to a week once I get a little bit out of my head. So let's hop right on and this is week four a week three. No last week was week three. So we are the 20th through the 27th and one two three four yep week four. So y'all this week again it looks a little surprising but I'm going to make it work. Well it's going to work but I will say this I just actually came back from the bank and I took some money out of my sink and funds to pay the bills. I should have showed you guys this before I zoomed in but the majority of these bills I do at the beginning of the week. I don't have enough to cover them so that's the reason why I had to go on my sink and funds and I just don't have enough. I just don't have enough. So first let's just write down here we'll just get into all of my issues you know. So already I know that with miscellaneous which is Etsy it's going to be about I don't know I'm gonna put 60. Shopify last week we didn't do too bad. I'm just gonna put another 60 here for Shopify and then here I'm I'm gonna put 650. I'm gonna go a higher than last week. So let's do a little lab that's $770 for the week. So this week we have our card notes which is due today actually and they usually take it out at night. You guys I just didn't have the money and I'll tell you a mistake that I made remember a couple of weeks ago I said that Shopify tried to get their money early and I was gonna pay it when it was due. I didn't so they came and got it yesterday and I'm like oh my god that was like my card note money so that was that. I paid my loan today. Now what I have done is I put a little extra on this loan because it was on like $600 left on this loan. I'm trying to get this loan paid off never to return because this is a big chunk of money. The loan is $96. I gave them 83 today but I plan to give them another 20 but I gave them 50 last week so I'm paying extra on it to knock the loan down but I gave them $83 today and some change to give it an even number. So like there's a 20 so let's say it's 520 now so I want to give them 20 later on in the week but for right now I'll just leave the 83 just in case I don't. T-Mobile is due y'all tomorrow but I made a payment arrangement so let's do like it on the 29th. Don't have it and I did see where Insta Inc came out and Insta Inc came out like on the 15th that was last week. There is something else I have car insurance due on the 27th and then I paid some credit card bills last week so I'm going to add them here let me see on Barclays. I ended up giving Barclays a hundred I believe and then yeah Barclays got a hundred and then Citibank got 40 so but it's still pending so I'm assuming that it's coming out this week so I'm just going to add it to this week but because again Shopify took my money and so that was actually part of it too I just didn't have it how about that didn't have it. Car insurance is $213 so I'm going to go ahead and put down those bills from last week because I'm just waiting on them to clear because the 18th was Saturday Barclays is doing a Saturday and Citibank is due I mean excuse me 18th Citibank is due on the 17th so I paid both those bills on Friday but I guess by being a weekend they won't hit till this week so I'm just going to go ahead and put them over here because this is when they'll be coming out. Like I said I don't know I'm like am I doing something wrong like am I doing my budgeting wrong I don't know I'm just trying to still figure it out I think I'm just I don't have all the answers okay this would be the 21st because it normally comes out on a Tuesday if I paid on a Friday so I'm just including that in here because it's really bothering me that it's just lingering like that and let's see what we have that quick I don't know what I put so we're gonna start over so we have a total of oh I forgot Boothman let me write that down y'all I'm sick of paying bills I know everybody is but I'm really sick oh and then I just noticed I forgot Wayfair and then my son's birthday is Sunday oh my god let's see I'm just looking at numbers and just happened to see that I'm gonna add this 200 Boothman is due on the 25th and then I see I have Wayfair and actually I ordered like some patio furniture from Wayfair maybe the middle of the summer and it's like on a promotional kind of thing but I have no interest for like six months but I really want to pay that off it wasn't the $300 so I'm gonna put down 50 for them because I really want to get this paid off so we're at $867.93 so this is it y'all so I'm actually minus and the negative again I'm in the negative again that's $97.93 how does this keep happening I mean for one it's just not there okay I'm just gonna be real with you it's just not there like this really should have came out like last week but it just didn't work that way like I said I was behind so I actually should have put Shopify here as well because they got their money but actually Shopify came out this week so and that's another thing I need a buffer for Shopify because I don't really know I can go in and look and it would give me a guesstimate but I still need a buffer for Shopify so I'm just not gonna there's nothing to give over here not right at this moment so for notes I'm gonna put that it's my son's birthday so of course he's a boy so you know he wants a game or something like that he's 15 though so he likes clothes also and you know what you guys I'm making take off car insurance because that is a Sunday and it's gonna come out on Monday but I'm gonna leave it here on this week because let me take that off but I still need some of the money in there because it's gonna come out on Monday so I'm gonna leave it like it is um also I want to make some goals for myself this week and one of those goals I was thinking about this all day like just trying to figure out like what am I doing wrong with my budget what am I doing wrong with my money um even though I'm not making a lot um I did recognize some things like I need to do more promoting of my business I need to like really focus and like get my websites together and list everything correctly and move things to where they need to be and just make everything really more accessible I think that's the word I'm looking for um just make things easy to find especially for my budgeters I want them to be able to go to my website and go right to what they want especially if they don't want stickers or anything like that so first goal is to track my spending um I have a spending tracker in my everyday planner but I have barely only thing I come in my everyday planner for now is for my salon schedule but I want to get back into tracking my spending and color coding it because I think I'm doing good but obviously I'm not so this is over y'all can see this is from June I was tracking pretty heavily in June up until the beginning of August so I need to get back on that also track my um I guess it tracked my spending and I also want to it's another goal I wanted to do um time block oh that's not it I made a mistake um I want to promote my business more I just don't like to be salesy but uh since you broke I don't have a choice I'm broke well I mean really I gotta do more so right now those are gonna be my top two goals for the week is to track my spending and let me also add spend less spend less and the only thing I was coming from the bank and I was like what am I doing wrong I was just trying to figure out like where did I go wrong with this like you know I was saving really good there for a moment but where did I go wrong what am I doing wrong and I know a lot of people say well you can't blame yourself you know you know you're on a low income or whatever and I totally get that but it's something not right you know something's not right and I said this always happens where I have to go into my savings anytime I get a little bit of savings it seems like I have to go into it and I can just never save so what's going on what am I doing wrong and the only thing like I said I need to track my spending I said I did not spend frivolously during the month at least to my knowledge um but I looked at I do a lot of eating out so I need to stop that um again go back to tracking my spending that way I can see where this money is going because I really need to just start from scratch like with my budget tracking I like I always say and I give advice to others start with tracking your spending and you know your income and that way you can kind of see where your money is going which you have to spend so I'm just going to be starting to square one I still have money in my envelopes but I won't be contributing a whole whole lot because I just don't have it and especially if I have to go back and get it it doesn't make sense if I have to go back and get the money I just put in something's not adding up so I'm going to get off of my little soapbox I'm working on an order let me show you guys I'm working on a hundred envelope order so I wanted to show you all my process but um my process is it takes me a day to cut the envelopes and not necessarily a day but a couple of hours um to cut the envelopes then I take a day to eliminate them um so I'm almost done with this and I got a few more to cut takes me a day to laminate and then the next day I add the numbers and ship out and it just depends on my schedule so it's about a three to four day process and then you guys let me show you what I have coming just a little sneak peek I'm going to be doing some Gucci's and some Gucci 100 envelopes and then I'll be doing the cash envelopes I'm going to finally list those so I'm going to try to get up my business planner um and do a video on that because I haven't done that in a while so that way I can figure out my process and that's what I'm going to go back to kind of sneak in my way back into planning because when I was planning I was a little more on top of my stuff and so yeah that's that so thank you all so much for listening to my ramble thank you for you know watching today if today was your first time watching any of my videos and you enjoyed today's video and you would love to see more videos like this from me do me a favor hit that subscribe button also hit that notification bell so to notify whenever I upload videos and I will see 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Today, we're opening the worst mystery products from Walmart. What's up, guys? We're back and you have probably been to Walmart and decided, you know what? I'm going to buy one of these mystery products. It seems cool. They're showing a lot of awesome advertising on the front. I can probably pull something awesome and guess what usually happens? It turns out to be a scam. So today, I decided to open a few of the worst mystery products Walmart has ever had. This includes a mystery cube with Battle Pack Monster League, a key chain and supposedly a Ghost Ogre and Snow Rabbit. I'm going to guess that's not in there. We're also going to open one of the most recent mystery cubes, which I think is slightly better, but it's also still not great. So we're going to be opening that. And finally, we're opening a product I've never opened. This is a Pokemon mystery box that I've heard is really, really terrible. So we're going to be opening these three and we're going to figure out which is the worst of the mystery items. But first, we have a giveaway. I'll be giving away this near meant Bazoo, the soul leader, first edition, Labyrinth of Nightmare.  Let me know what you think is the worst. Or if I didn't show it in this video, tell me a worse mystery item from Walmart. OK, let's start off with the more known quantity, which is the newest mystery power cube, one legacy pack, two boosters, which is cool. I mean, that's all nice stuff. Five rare cards, 35 comments. That's when you get into the kind of the garbage.  All right, let's open this cube up. Let's see if any of these cards will matter. Last time, I think we actually got a token collector common, which is like the only decent card. The rest of it was pretty bad. And that's just a common card that they didn't know was good. This is very tight wrapping. OK, we got it off. That was not easy. OK, what will you get inside this first mystery cube? So we're going to start off with this. We have Indemy on the Magistrate of Mastery. OK, that's our rare, Cyberangel Benton. That would be good if it was not a rare. Cyber's gadget. OK, we got the rainbow. So now we're going back into the regular commons, the fencing firefare, the gazelle. So most of these are not going to be worth anything. So occasionally, you'll get lucky and hit something that's actually something decent.  They're just not valuable. Some of them are not bad. I should say a lot of them are. Oh, Jama Pink. That's a funny one. OK, we've got Arm Dragon stuff. So a lot of this looks like is this Lioff or BLVO? Yeah, Blazing Vortex. Yeah, I got it confused. Yeah, not great bulk there. Then we got a, actually, this is actually a pretty cool pack. 2017 Megaton. So for the giveaway, Invoke Magellanic, I love Invoked. So for the comment, let me know below what order you think these mystery products go in. So best to worst. Oh, and we got a Pevo Pendulum Evolution. Yeah, it's weird to pronounce that, but Pendulum Evolution.  So that's that fits this product perfectly, just a card that we don't really want. Purple Poison Magician. We've got Astrograph Sorcerer. That's, I mean, isn't that like bad? No, brought back to one, right? Summoner's Art, Pendulum Reborn, and Rare Metapholes Bismugir. OK, not too crazy. Then we have two packs, one Pharaoh Servant. I think we're gonna go with this guy because it could potentially have a Jinzo inside.  That would be kind of funny, actually. It's possible. I mean, technically you could do that. Drill bug, we got a Burning Land. That's like burning our money on these products. Overdrive, Light of Intervention, Cold Wave, The Eye of Truth, All Seeing White Tiger, Skull Invitation, and a Time Seal. OK, not great. But now we have a 2017 Megaton pack, which I think this set was, I don't think it was that good actually. I think 2018 was the good one. This did have desires as a promo in the tin, which would be nice if that was in the actual pack. Rocket Hand, Ghirgia Anchor, Dice Clops, The Crystallic Potential, Angel Trumpeter, we got the Speed Road Gum Prize, the Zodiac sign, the Ninjitsu, that's Zodiac, not Zodiac, OK. Full Metapholes Fusion, we got the Zodiac, there's Zodiac, Broad Bowl, OK. We've got Electropingel and the Draco Lord, and the Tuning Gum, ew. Then we have Bug Matrix, the Giraffe, all right, Ignite's, and Paleozoic's, very fun. OK, so first cube, not very good. OK, next, let's check out what's in the Pokemon. I know, it's pretty despicable that it's on the channel, but I saw this and I had to buy it. You guys know how I am with a mystery bag. Look at this, it's been the blister packs to fit it in there, what in the world? This is supposed to be like this. What a nightmare of a product.  OK, let's open all these real quick. OK, so in here we have the Trainer Challenge. All right, there's a nice code card for you guys. Let's see if we can pull anything good. I don't really know, I think Darkness of Blaze does have a Charizard, but that's like every set these days, so that's all I know about it. Let's see what we can do. So we have this, which will be that, there you go. Let's see if we can pull something cool. I don't know, Mary, I'm an old school, so I know the Paris thing, Mary, that kind of stuff. Oh no, Skarmory, Torchic, cool. Delcati, wait, is that our rare? Is that our, we have a non-hollow rare? Dang it. OK, next up, next up, we're gonna try again. We're gonna see what we can do. Can we pull something good? I don't know. So far it's a bad start, though. Bad start, I'm glad that, OK, I'm kind of glad we don't have code cards. If we did though, it would be nice for Master Tool, but also like, it's just kind of annoying to have to deal with that every single pack. Clink, all the Rux and Special, even on Pokemon and the regular common rare, OK. Even though it's technically a rare, it's a non-hollow rare, which doesn't exist in Yu-Gi-Oh, which is kind of weird. I don't really like non-hollow rares. Oh no, we ruined it. Green code card, I was trying to avoid that. OK, that means that we didn't get anything good, so let's go through this. Jerome wrote him. Wow, that was quite an exciting mystery box right there. Those were incredible. That is certainly in the running for the worst product, so we're onto this one. I don't know, this one might be really bad, though. This one has like, Battle Pack Monster Lee, which is one of the worst sets I think ever, so I don't know if we can top that one, but we'll see, OK, let's go. Let's see if it can get worse than that Pokemon box. So inside, we're supposedly gonna get a Ghost Ogre Psalm Strike and Pot of Design, not really, but this is a very old Mystery Cube. It's like a couple years old. Oh, but this is sick though. I mean, this is pretty cool. The Exodia the Forbidden one, that is actually insane. Like you could put this on your keys. I'm tempted.  I had one of these that was like Wing Dragon of Ra. I think I actually gave it to Rev, I think. OK, Exodia, very cool. Our cards, what shall we get in here? I can't get these cards out. OK, our cards. Here we go. Were we even guaranteed rares on this thing? I don't even know. We got Akasha Synchro Soldier. This is a lot of cards. This is gonna get tiring. Shadow Spell. There's a rare BES Core. There was a Transmigration, but here they are. Star Blast. All from Crimson Crisis, which we just opened like a couple of days ago, so that's weird. Elemental Hero Ice Edge actually has value. Wait, this is like a $3 card, I think. OK, we hit something. Overpowering Eye, and it's an actual foil, which is a miracle, so that might be our five. I think they still do the same thing. Rise of the Snake Deity. Dark Scorpion, Chick the Yellows. They're anything good, they're tricky. Chamber of the Six Samurai. OK, I'm trying to find anything that's worth a couple bucks, maybe as a comment. There's a lot of potential in comments. Oh, Dark Scorpion, Clip the Traff. Clip the Trapper Mover is actually kind of hard to find for goat format, so I will pull that aside. That's cool. Zombina might have maybe like $0.50 a dollar, I don't know. Somewhere in that range is another Zombina, OK. Pulse Minds, Air Cracking. Dangerous, very nice, OK. Jack Wyvern, we got the familiar possessed Lena. There's a Cobalt Sparrow, all right. And Turquoise Warbler, all right. So far we have some absolutely amazing things. We have five. Battleback Monsterly, gotta be one of the worst sets ever. And every time you get them out of these Mystery Products, they're stuck together. They're literally stuck with like some sort of glue. So I don't even know what you can pull. Is there anything in here? Back in the day, the highest, most expensive car was like $4 or something. And it's like really hard to get because like every card in here can be the specific rarity, this rarity, like the Shatterfoil. So you just have to get lucky and hit the right one. These are all bent too. No, pretty much your burial and dweller of the depths. Okay, so that's how this is gonna go. I'm gonna take these off the mat because they're all sticky. I don't want them to stick to my mat. Okay, Battleback Monsterly, it's got the O-lantern on it. Okay, we have an inspiration. I have not seen this one since Duel Links for sure. Inspiration, Rhino Taurus. I have seen this guy when we used it in auction series, RIP. We have Evil Swarm Kettos. We got the Swords of Revealing Light and the Evil Swarm Thunderbird. Still three packs to go. This one has the psychic guy. I can't remember his name. He's like 1900. Yeah, he's psychic. He's 1900 to zero defense. I remember him specifically from auction series. Another RIP there. We got a Cestus of Dogla. Goblin Elite Attack Force with the weird rarity. Kwakimir Sandman is actually not terrible and the Banner of Courage. Oh wait, we forgot this. The Submarine Roy, I love this guy. Okay, final two packs. Guys, honestly, these have all sucked. I don't know which one to pick. You guys are gonna have to let me know in the comments. These are really terrible. But yeah, the fact having to open Battle Pack, you know what, we're gonna do this and get the Shatterfoil at the end.  Vylon Ome, this Battle Pack specifically and Gorgonic Angulum. Okay, all right. And the final pack of this very strange, yet fun-ish opening. Let's not go too crazy. Forbidden Lance is a pretty good card. Okay, so there's a rare there. So let's put the rare right there. We have a Master Craftsman of Gamble, the Gale Lazard, okay, all right. Forbidden Lance, not a bad card. Breaker of the Magical Warrior, also not a bad card. And we've got a Mizuki. That's actually a decent card for zombies as well. So that final pack was definitely the best one of those five. If you guys know of any other awful mystery products that you think that I should open or you think are worse than these, let me know in the comments. Also, if you enjoyed the video, make sure to subscribe for more epic videos like this. Shout out to TCG, Trusted Cards, Tomefo Show, Tomato Juice, Stanley, Mike Nantz, Mimegeko, Dax or Ian Musa, Junior Barting, Anana Thai Show, JT Show, and Anima the Hollow. Thank you guys for supporting the channel and I'll see you guys next time. Peace.


The McCrossey Arts Center is getting ready for a new year filled with unique classes for the public. Archwell Moore has a preview of the 2018 calendar in this week's In Focus. You've probably heard of the McCrossey Arts Center in Grand Rapids by now. They've been around for 51 years and have been featured right here on Lake Lanuse tons of times. But did you know 2018 may just be one of their most art-filled years yet? We've been doing non-stop kids classes at least two to three times a week for the past year and a half. Because everything creative you can think of is a class at McCrossey Arts Center. Currently they have a class that's teaching young kids and teens how to draw in an anime and manga style. We've only had one week so far in the comic book class, but the first thing we started off with was just basically making a cartoon character. How do you make a regular person look like a comic book or like an anime character? From pottery making and basket weaving to anime and animation, the McCrossey Arts Center is always coming up with brand new classes for you guys to enjoy. It helps a lot for kids to learn how to take chances and to be okay with failing because art doesn't come naturally to anyone. So you have to practice at it and it helps the kids understand how to take risks and to be okay if those risks don't succeed. And another cool thing about the McCrossey Arts Center is they offer scholarships. So money is hardly ever an issue. The scholarships are available for everyone all ages and it's whatever you can afford. We don't want to turn any kids away so there's scholarships available for kids and I'll always make the classes available for kids no matter what your income level is. For future classes, the Center is hoping to get more technology involved like this past summer when one of their classes incorporated a 3D printer. Right now their 2018 calendar includes wood carving, collage making, jewelry making, wine and paints and even beer and paints for adults. Then there's pottery, painting, guitar lessons and stop motion animation for kids. David says one of the cool things about teaching the kids classes is watching them go on the journey. You also get to see their skills improve, get to see them start off by barely being able to draw a circle, to being able to draw people, to places, making their own worlds. Reporting in Grand Rapids with this week's in focus, Shremor, Lakeland News. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.