What is going on everybody? Welcome to Saturday, the 15th of May, 2021. Oh my gosh, who's been watching the news? We don't have to wear a mask in stores. Not all stores, some stores are gonna still make you do it. Even though the very same stores that were making you do it did it because the CDC said you should do it. Now they say you should and they say no one's still doing it. Wow, anyhow, welcome to today. If you're new here, do me a favor, make sure you subscribe, hit that subscribe button below. Don't forget to ring the bell, turn on all bell notifications so that you're notified every time I go live, like this. Cause we're live, that's awesome.  But for right now or this Saturday morning to you guys that are listening live, it is live. All right, James, let's see what's going on. Let's get right into this, buddy. Raring to go, it's my Saturday entrepreneurial fix. I note the words to build, not just given, but work for overtime. Yes, yes, very true. It's interesting because I'm having ads pop up on my screen and it has to do with what I'm talking about. Man, YouTube knows you well. What have we got for weather wise? Let's see what we got for weather wise. Weather, weather, weather, weather is, what is weather? 67, James. What the heck? You got 75, I got 67. However, our house is almost done in Texas and it looks like it's gonna be done next month. So let's see what the weather is there in Texas. I'm gonna get on with the subject matter in a second. Don't worry about that. Christine Carmines, what is going on, girl? Haven't seen you for a while. Now it looks like in Texas it's gonna be 81, James. So what about that? Christine, tell me what you've been doing. I wanna know what you've been working on, girl. I hope you've been working. I hope you've been doing stuff. So today we're gonna talk about the 12 ways to build entrepreneurial skills. These are things that I think matter a whole, whole lot and help you keep an order of this because I have 12, 14, I may have 15, I may have 10, I don't know, I think I got around 12, but I wanna share it with you today. I think they're gonna be really super helpful. However, however, if you've got a question, anything about starting running and growing online businesses, go to that chat section, I will read it, I'll respond to it right now. You're gonna get free counseling, free counseling. Hey, you just don't always get free counseling, right? But anyhow, I put together these things. I thought they were pretty interesting. I hope you think they're interesting too, but I think they're gonna be helpful to you. I'm pulling up some of my notes here now. The first thing I'm gonna tell you guys is always be learning, always be learning. That's number one, always be learning, okay? You can't get to a point of being an entrepreneur and saying, I know it all, because you don't, and here's why you don't, it constantly changes. I mean, I resisted, I mean, I resisted so many things in the beginning.  And I hated them. And I said, I'm not doing those because I don't like them. And that was the stupidest thing I could have done because I finally learned that just because I don't like them doesn't mean they don't work. I put pop-ups on my last email campaign and over a period of nine days, the one pop-up, the one pop-up that I put on there generated $39,000. $39,000. I don't like pop-ups and I resisted them for years. How much did that cost me? Always be learning, always be learning. That's the first thing I'm gonna tell you today. Number two is really crucial and it's something I'm doing right now. Always help other people. Always help other people.  You can't do it. That doesn't mean you shouldn't help some people some of the time for free.  You'll get all of what you want in life if you help enough people get what they want. That is so true. It's never been truer. Paul says, share this with friends and they're loving it. Oh, good, I'm glad, I'm glad. Thank you so much. Looking good here in hot springs, 80 degrees. Everybody's got me beat on temperature. Everybody's got me beat on temperature. But you know what? Here's the deal. It's May gray. If you've never been to San Diego in May, it gets friggin' cold. You got May gray and you got June gloom and everybody's thinking, oh, those are the warm months. Those aren't the warm months here, guys. It's different. Marketing, what did your pop-up say? Oh, I'm gonna tell you what my pop-up says. It says, wait, or it said, stop, don't leave, get an additional 10% off your order right now, use this code. That's what it was. It was just something saying, hey, I'll give you 10% more off. That's it. And that one thing generated me $39,000 and some change. But that one thing, if I hadn't put that there, now how do I know that? How do I know it generated that amount of money? Because the sales that came in that used that code told me so. So those people, this was an exit pop, exit and intent pop. That meant these people were leaving the page and were not gonna buy. They were not gonna buy. They had decided they weren't gonna buy and then that popped up and they used that code and they purchased. $39,000, pretty interesting, right? So what do you have? Number two is help other people. Number three, this is pretty interesting, guys. Network with like-minded people. Network with like-minded people, okay?  You guys are asking cool questions. You're doing good comments. Let me jump into that and I'm gonna talk right about this networking. It says simple but effective. Yeah, it was, Richard. And it doesn't have to be like earth-shattering something new that nobody's ever done before. Certain things are proven and they work. And I'm sure a discount pop-up has been around for years and years and years. But just because it's been around and you know about it, if you don't use it, it doesn't matter. You're not gonna get anything out of it if you don't use it. I love the idea that you're teaching how to become a servant leader entrepreneur. How many pop-ups did you test? You know, I didn't do a test on this particular one, Paul, because I've done a similar one before and I tested that and I knew it would work or I felt like it would work and it did in a big way. I mean, it did in a big way. I mean, 39 grand. 39 grand, guys. That's not bad money. And no, that's not millions of dollars but you know, I didn't send it out to millions of people either. So it was well worth it. And a like from me, JR, for your consistency. Thank you so much, Canadian entrepreneur. I, you're honest to God, you have no idea how much that means to me. I think I'm 47 subscribers away from 5,000 which puts me into the fame bit. 5,000 is a big thing for me. I mean, I don't get paid any money for it or anything but I like it. I mean, it tells me, I've gotten through to some people. And number three, network with like-minded people like we're doing now, this live right now.  You know, I did a meetup here in San Diego for two years. Two years solid. I think it was twice a month I did this meetup. Yeah, twice a month. And I just helped businesses. Now they had to pay a fee but it was a very small fee and they could come in there and ask questions, sit in a room and learn stuff. Do stuff like that guys. That's number three. Number four is this is something that so many people resist is develop sales skills. Number four, develop sales skills. Sales skills are probably one of the most important talents to become an entrepreneur. Heck, to becoming a good human being than anything else in the world. Now think about this. People say, well, I don't want to be a salesperson. I'm too honest for that. That's, you're missing the point. Being able to sell just means communicating an idea that you want to get people to buy into. A politician is definitely a salesperson. A teacher is a salesperson. They're trying to convince you of this information. A preacher is a salesperson. Selling is really just convincing people of your idea, putting a good argument out there so that people agree with you. That's a great skill to have. There's nothing better than that.   You're trying to convince them to brush their teeth. You're trying to convince them to eat healthy. You're trying to convince them to study. If you don't have sales skills, you won't be able to do it. You're not going to be a good parent. You've got to have good sales skills. I was talking to my son yesterday and he's in a hospital setting and he has patients that are really near death. And he has to talk him down. He had one guy yesterday who's 21 years old and was supposed to get a lung transplant and the lungs didn't come in. And he told my son, he goes, I just want to die. I don't want to live any longer. And Patrick talked him out of it.  He was going to be there to help this guy. And he was going to be there for him. And he gave him all the reasons. Those are sales skills. He told me, he says, dad, I sold him on the fact that he should live. I mean, that's pretty important stuff, don't you think? Don't you think? I think that's number four, right? Is that number four? Yes, that's number four. Develop sales skills. What did Harvey McKay said? Harvey McKay wrote a sales book if you don't know. To me, job titles don't matter. Everyone is in sales. The only way we can stay in business is to sell something. That's it. That's the only way you're going to stay in business. If you don't sell something, everything stops. There's no more important person than a sales person. Let's see. Wow, JR, six thumbs up already. Thank you so much. Where is you, JR? You ain't loud and clear in Savannah. Got tech problems today? No, it's working well here. I don't know. If anybody else can't hear me well, let me know. I haven't anybody say anything. So hopefully it's working well. Paul says, what events do you like for networking? Did you go to Nate's event and are you going to do meet up in Texas? I probably will start an event in Texas, yes. I think it's nice. It's a midway in the United States. I think a lot of people could get to it. So yeah, I recommend the one I'm gonna do, but there's a lot of good ones out there. All kidding aside, it's really getting around like-minded people. I don't think there's one event that's better than the other. I think the problem with events is a lot of people go there to see what they can get out of it. I go to an event to see what I can contribute to it. If I go to an event and I try to contribute to it, I wanna be the person that people go away saying, hey, I learned a lot from that one guy. That was really useful. That's what my goal is. Now, as an ancillary side effect, I probably will get something out of it too, but that's not why I go. I never wanna go to an event and come back and go, that was a crappy event. There was nothing there for me. No, my goal when I go to an event is to contribute. I wanna be a contributor. If I'm a contributor, in many cases, I'll pick up business. I'll pick up clients. I'll have people who enjoy it. I'll pick up subscribers from my channel. So my goal when I go to an event is to help other people. That's it. That should be your main. See, if you make that your goal when you go to an event, guess what? You'll never go to a bad event. Ever. You'll never go to another bad event. How about that? How about that way of doing it? What would you suggest is the best way to sell a 100% natural skin patch for diabetes? Wow, that is, that's a lot of information there. It's really difficult when you're doing anything that's health related because you run afoul of the government and making claims that it's gonna do something can be very difficult. You can have testimonials and stuff like that, but before and after and all that and saying you're gonna cure stuff. I'd be very careful in that. And that would take me probably days if not weeks to research. So I don't wanna give you a quick answer and say do this, it's gonna work because that would take some research. It really would. Sales, the system by Eric Laughholm, my next book to read. Don't know that one. Could be a great one. Don't know that one at all. Sounds very interesting. What's my next one? Number five. Number five is, what did I put for number five is who do you respect? Who do you respect? And then once you respect this person, learn from them.  That's what I want, I gotta get me a mentor. The thing about mentors is first off, people, not too many people wanna just mentor you for free. I mean they've gotta worry about their own business and I've had so many people of the year say, will you be my mentor? If I was a mentor to everybody who said please be my mentor, I would never get anything done but mentoring. Nothing. So you can find somebody online that's putting out good content and you can listen to them and follow their advice. That's what I would tell you to do. And I would tell you to only follow the advice of people who are actually doing what you want to do and getting good results and they're still doing it. Don't listen to somebody who said at one point I did dropshipping. Let me tell you I do dropshipping but I don't do it anymore. Don't listen to that advice because there's a reason they're not doing it anymore. So find somebody that you respect and listen to what they have to say and do that. I've got number six now. I think I'm doing right. Number six. Number six is learn to communicate better. Communication skills are so very important. And I don't mean just talking. I mean writing sales copy. I mean writing emails. I mean writing sales pages. I mean doing videos. Communication skills are so very important. It's been proven that the majority of the people in prisons have a very limited vocabulary. They cannot communicate well. When you can't communicate well, when you can't get your point across, you get frustrated and you get angry and a lot of times you get physical if you can't communicate well. There's a frustration factor if you don't have an open vocabulary that you can pick from a lot of words and describe how you feel.  You really will. And I think that's number six if I'm counting. Let's see. Yes, that's number six. Okay, I gotta keep my count here. But so learning those communication skills guys, they are so very important to what you're doing. Number seven, number seven, do something free. Do something free. That's what I'm doing right now.  I'm sorry I can't help that. However, I am doing this video for free. I don't get paid to sit here and talk to you on the Saturday morning. I love doing it. I love doing it. It's great. But do some stuff for free. Every now and then pick somebody to give them some help and do it for free. Don't charge them anything. You can't do that all the time. You can't do that all the time. But you gotta do it some of the time. Because you can't do it all the time doesn't mean you should never do it. That's how people justify. They go, well, I can't do that.   Just do some of it. But do some, give back some. Super important that you do that. That's number seven. I think I'm to number eight now if I'm correct. And if you're coming along with me and following along, let me know. And James, let me know if that sound is right too. I wanna make sure that sound is right. At number eight, watch your money. Watch your money. I see too many people will have a good month or a good week or a good year and they blow a lot of money. I don't blow a lot of money. I do like nice things. But that doesn't mean that everything I buy is nice. That doesn't mean I have to have the best of every single thing that's out there. Every now and then I reward myself and I get some nice stuff. But for the most part, for the most part, I eat pretty reasonable. Every now and then I go to a super fancy restaurant and spend hundreds of dollars. Very rarely. I just don't do that. I can't justify it. I have a hard time with that, okay? I know if I go to Ruth Chris and get a $50 stake, it's gonna be good. But $50 for a stake is a lot of money. I also know I can go to Costco and I can do it without a mask as of today. That's pretty cool. But I can go to Costco and for $50, I can get four or five stakes, filet mignons, prime for the same price. So watch your money. Don't always just blow your money because you have money. I remember my son when he was little wanted something. And I think I told the story the other day and I said, no, you can't have that. And he said to me, dad, you have the money. You can afford this. You can afford this. You have the money. And I said, son, if I bought every single thing that I had the money for, pretty soon I wouldn't have any money. You can't say, well, I've got the money for this, so I'll buy it every now and then. You gotta say no. You just gotta say no to yourself, your kids, whatever, your wife, your husband. You gotta say no, we don't wanna spend the money right now. We wanna save our money. You should be accumulating more money every year.  It shouldn't be going down. Your debt shouldn't be going up and your bank account going down. That's not the right direction. And you know what? When you hear it, you're probably going, well, yeah, that's common sense. Well, it is common sense, but people don't do it. Okay, that was number eight, I believe we'll see. Yes, that was number eight. That was number eight. Now we're to number nine. We only got 12. Look, we're blowing through this pretty darn fast. Number nine is, promise yourself a gift later. Promise yourself a gift later. Here's what I mean by that. Have some delayed gratification. You don't always need to have gratification right now. Okay, put things off. Give yourself a vacation a year from now or two years from now. Here's a thing I found on Elon Musk, founder of Tesla SolarCity Space X. He set himself a challenge to live only on a dollar a day to see if he had what it took to lead life as an entrepreneur. How cheaply could you live?  I'm not saying you can't have that stuff, but that shouldn't be your goal.  Okay, so right now I'm losing an audience because people are going, oh no, I wanna make money right now. I need to make a million dollars this year. You can't, it doesn't work that way. If anybody's telling you that, they're lying to you. It takes time and effort. However, you can achieve those things. Those things can be done. Let's see. What do we got? What do we got here? That was number nine, I believe. That was at number nine? Yeah, okay. Elvis was broke when he died and had blown $400 million. Yeah, I'd say he lived a little extravagantly. Let's see, Richard Brown. And so was Michael Jackson. Yeah, they're making more of Michael Jackson. Well, Michael Jackson's estate is worth more now because he's spending no money. Okay, it's just making money now. James Breen, quarter after one and still no JR live stream in Savannah. Hope you're like me JR, make plans but don't plan the results. See you all Monday. Oh, I guess he's having a hard time there. Peace and blessings everyone. Sorry for that, James. I mean, it's coming through fine. Everybody's got a good connection. So I don't know, maybe it is your situation there. So that was number nine. Number 10 is don't do what is easy. Don't do what's easy, okay? Too often we always go for the easiest part.  I think I'll do a six minute video and you know you should have an intro and an outro on your video and you don't put that on there.  You're not going to get the results that you want to get guys. If you do it easy, you're just not going to get it. Let's see here. Canadian entrepreneur, Richard Brown. Eric is one of my mentors. He is good, generous, consistent and affordable. He has free stuff too, but I took him up on a couple of offers you should try if you want to build your sales skills, okay? Cool, cool. So that's number 10. Don't do what's easy, okay? Albert Einstein said this. It's not that I'm so smart. It's just that I stay with problems longer. He didn't quit, okay? He didn't quit. There's something to be said about that. Now we are up to number 11. This is a big one.  Number 11, number 11, number 11. Start an online business. I don't care what your skills are. I don't care what your talents are. There is the internet. Have you heard of it? Sure you have. You're listening to me right now. The ability to make money online is the easiest that it's ever been. I mean, there's never been anything like the internet. My entire income is dependent on the internet. Think about that. My survival food company, my courses, my YouTube channel, my live training is dependent on the internet. I don't want you to go in 25 years and tell your great-grandchildren or grandchildren. Yeah, there was a thing called the internet and everybody was making money on it, so I chose to ignore it. I chose to say, no, I mean, it looks really good, but I think I'm just gonna ignore it. Here's the truth, okay? Richard Branson said this. This is a quote from him. You don't need, you don't learn to walk by following the rules. You learn by doing and by falling over. You need to start a business and it's gonna fail. Parts of it are gonna fail. Parts of my business fail all the time, but I have enough good parts that support it. There's really nothing like real-world experience in starting a business. There's nothing like it.  You know, I forced myself to learn more accounting stuff, more marketing stuff, all these different things because I'm running an online business. It makes me learn these things. Let's see here. Paul said, I like to invest in experience and not things. That's a very good point, Paul. I'm the same way. I love to get back to Rome with my wife. Yeah, I don't buy a lot of jewelry. You don't see jewelry. I've got my wedding ring, gotta wear that. Got my Apple watch because it helps me out with my fitness and talking to it and all that stuff. But why do I need a bunch of jewelry and diamonds stuff? What do I need that for? I don't need it. I just don't need it. I did start buying into Bitcoin, but I didn't buy Bitcoin. I say, I take that back. I don't have any Bitcoin. I have cryptocurrency and I bought some, I think good cryptocurrency and I'm working on that. But anyhow, it's a little off track. So have an online business. Number 12, this is a big one. I thought about this, I thought about what to call it. And here's what I chose to call it.   Because the herd is going in one direction just means that the herd's going in one direction. It doesn't mean that the herd's going in the right direction. Elon Musk is a prime example of that and I know I bring him up a lot, but he always goes against what everybody else is doing. You know, I watched a video about him the other day and he was predicting how many sales he could do. He did 500,000 deliveries in 2020 and he wants to do 750,000 in 2021. And that's a 50% increase, which is a good goal and he can do it. And he has the marketing in place, he has built the company, he has the products, but there was a problem. He took that and he projected it out for a few years and he figured out something. He figured out the fact that he wouldn't be able to get enough batteries because he was buying these batteries and there wouldn't be enough batteries to fuel his growth. And the reason was that the people who are manufacturing batteries were doing tabs in their batteries. And what tabs are is there's layers in a battery and these tabs communicate with each layer and that's what stores the energy and this gets a little complicated so I won't get into it. But what he did is he got his team together and he says, how can we produce these batteries faster? And they said, well, if you didn't have the tabs in there that's what takes so long as for these, you know, these layers to communicate through these tabs. He goes, well, what if we did it without tabs? And they said, well, that's never been done. He says, let's figure it out and they did. And he came up with what's called a tabless battery and along with two other battery manufacturers you'll have enough batteries now to fuel his company because he didn't become a sheep. You know, he didn't let people say, well, this is how batteries are manufactured. This is how it's done. This is why it takes so long. And he's like, well, let's not do it that way. Let's not do it the way that everybody else has done it before me. Let's do it differently. And they did. And now he can grow his company. So when he runs into obstacles and he hears that there's a problem, he's like, okay, well, let's just fix it. Let's fix it. Is that what you do or are you a sheep? Do you follow what everybody else is doing? Do you listen to what everybody else tells you when they say you can't do something?  I mean, he's got rockets going out into outer space and dropping them off and using them again. They said that can't be done. They said that can't be done. And he says, well, I'm not a sheep. I'm not gonna do what everybody else is doing. I'm gonna do what I want to do.  Do you do that? Do you do that? You know, you gotta think about that. Let's see here, and I gotta tell you when I started my survival food company, it was really pretty interesting because I had a lot of people, oh, somebody just came to my door. I had a lot of people say, J.R., what, you know, I know you're doing good and I know you're making money, but what if it fails? What if, you know, you only make money for two or three years and then it all goes away? And, you know, I thought about that so I started a lot of other things. But my answer to them was at least for two or three years I'm doing what I wanna do. And if it lasts longer, it lasts longer. So far I've been doing this 11 years, okay? And we've made a lot of money, made a lot of progress.  I say, I can always go get a job. Somebody will hire me to do something, right?  This is the biggest one I'm gonna tell you today. Just don't be a sheep. What was the movie 2008, the big short? It's a movie that depicted how several opportunist entrepreneurs and investors managed to profit in the 2008 financial crisis by going against popular opinion. You know, popular opinion is just that. It's opinion and it's popular. It doesn't mean it's right. Quit believing because the masses think something that it makes it right, it doesn't. Let me read some more of what you guys got going on here. Which cryptocurrency are you investing in? Ethereum, ADA, I do have ADA. Paul's a matter of fact. Let me tell you what I got here. Let me tell you what I got. I've got ADA. I've got Dogecoin, surprise, surprise. And I got VET. So you can look up any of those. Those are the three I invested in. I'm not gonna say how much. A little bit of money. Let's see, Cheers Canadian. I'll keep in touch, read the progress. Yes, I wanna know Richard, honest to God. I love hearing about people's progress. Paul says be sure to get out for lunch on Fridays, to get a break, haha.  That's right. And I did, I did go out on Friday and I posted, so I don't know if you saw that or not. Paul says Elon seems like this century's Edison. No, I think he's way beyond that. I mean, Edison did a few things. Elon is changing the world. I mean, and Edison did it in his own little way. Man, there's something about Elon. Elon can do all this and have a smile on his face and kid around and be on Saturday Night Live. I don't think Edison was a funny guy. I think Elon is funny. By the way, Edison, Summer Home in Fort Myers is an awesome experience for entrepreneurs. He was the first telecommuters with a dedicated phone line up North. Yeah, yeah he was. No, he did a lot, he did a lot. And I think it's a little easier for Elon because he has access to technology now too.  There wasn't any. But Elon is really using technology to its maximum capability. And I think that's very, very important too. And by the way, I've made, let's see here, 4.41% on my cryptocurrency in five days. Now, if you can make 4.4% in five days, what is that annual, you guys? Five days, five into 365. Now, I know it won't, I know this is craziness, but this is how I figure stuff. That's 73 times 0.04, that's 292% on my money. Yearly APR. So that's pretty good. Let's see here. What was the backup plan to Survival Cave if it had not gone the way you thought? I don't think I had one. I think what I thought was I'm gonna sell stuff online and one of my main products ended up being Survival Cave because I kind of fell into it. But I didn't stop there. And you know, Paul, I have a lot of things that I sell online now. And I have a lot of ways of marketing and doing it now. And now I teach marketing because I learned that. But I guess I kind of burned the bridge, you know? I burned the bridge. I mean, I wasn't rude. I didn't say bad things to my company. I worked for anything like that. But I didn't have a plan to go back. I didn't want a plan to go back. I didn't want to be planned. I wanted to make sure it worked. And that's kind of what I did. I jumped in the water without knowing how to swim. And believe me, I was not a swimmer. In real life, I'm actually a swimmer. I can swim. I'm just talking about the business world of selling stuff online. I mean, to this day, I can't type very well. I don't type right. I mean, I use like two or three fingers or one and two or another. But there was not a plan. There wasn't a plan. Guys, if you have any other suggestions, thoughts, questions, anything you wanna ask, put it in that chat box. If you are watching this and it is after the live, okay? It's a recording that doesn't mean we can't talk. What you'll need to do is put it in the comments section below the video. Also, in the description section, I have a lot of different links to a lot of things, things I use, products I use, some of my courses, all these different things are available to you. So check that out in the description section. Don't forget to subscribe. If you haven't done so, the button down in the subscribe button will be red. If it's red, it's a warning. You need to click it, turn it gray. As soon as you do that, as soon as you do that and do not wait, there's gonna be a bell. It's gonna pop up next to the subscribe button. You wanna ring it? Turn on all bell notifications so you're notified each and every time I go live or I upload a video. Now, this is very important because you won't miss anything. Plus, it saves you time because you don't have to go looking for videos, going, hey, I wonder if he uploaded a video today. I wonder what he did. I wonder if he did it live. You don't have to waste your time doing that. Your time is immensely important, okay? You have no idea. There's nothing more valuable to you than your time. So if you make sure you turn on those notifications, you won't have to worry about that. Christine says, hey, JR, I'll email a little later with an update on my work and a question for the future. Sure, would love to hear it, Christine, and I know your rentals are doing well because California rentals, Christine has some rentals, but I know they're doing well now in California and it's crazy how well they're doing. If you had to look at a different field of endeavor to sell online, what would you be looking at? I think teaching people how to sell. I think that's probably the best skill that I could ever share with anybody. I have years of experience in selling. I actually was a professional speaker. I was on the road for nine years. I trained automotive franchises across the country. I toured eight months out of the year speaking to car dealerships and I think sales is it. I think sales will always be it. I think of the best politicians, the best preachers, the best parents, all of these people have one thing in common. They were great salespeople. They were great salespeople. I think selling is number one. If you know how to sell, it doesn't matter so much what your product is. You can take a mediocre product if you're a great salesperson and make a lot of money with it. McDonald's does that every day with hamburgers. Very mediocre product. They're great salespeople. They sell those burgers. So yeah, that's what I would say. That's what I would pick. Guys, this has been a lot of fun today. I've really enjoyed it today. Today, you know what we have to do today? I have a storage unit across town and we have to go over there and purge because I got word that our closing day for our house is the 28th of next month and that's pretty quick. So I've got just over 30 days to get everything together, get everything in this whole house boxed up, packed up, ready to go. So yeah, that's my goal today is to get all that done, give away stuff, do whatever I need to do to get things going because I got a lot to get rid of, I really do. Guys, I really appreciate you being here today. It's been a great day. We had a nice crowd show up today. We have great comments in here. Please, please, feel free to put more comments in here, more questions in here. You can do it in the chat as long as I'm live right now. As soon as this is not live, you can put it in the comments section. I'll come back and answer those. I answered a good 60 to 70 comments this morning. I went in there and hit all those. Let's see here, did you do a book on selling when you were in that biz and doing a POD book, what would you use? POD book, I'm not sure if you mean the company. I do use Amazon now. They print up some of my books, Great American Food Shortage. They do print that one up and it is a print on demand. However, I have inventory. I keep several hundred of those books in inventory just for the fact that we ship them out from the office too, so we do that. Christine Carmines, love you girl. She says, thanks again, no problem. I'm here to help you out. Super as always and thanks, J.R., Richard Brown. My man, my man, Richard Brown. Paul says, have a blessed week ahead gang. I will not be here tomorrow, guys. I mean, I'll be here. I mean, I'll be here. I just mean I won't be live on here is what I mean. But I will be back on Monday, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. Saturday, 10 a.m. Catch me live, helping you guys out, helping you start running for online businesses. Thank you so much for being here, guys. I really, really do appreciate, I appreciate every one of you very much. Love you.


Thank you. Thank you, Susan. It is such a great pleasure to be here celebrating 100 years of public policy at the University of Michigan. And it's great to see so many personal friends out there, fellow alums, students for school faculty, staff. It's this network of fabulous people that keeps me coming back to the school and keeps me engaged in the school. And I just thank you all for being friends and colleagues. The principal mission of the alumni board on which I serve is to engage the alumni population in the life of the school and to support the students who are here in their career development and their career opportunities. Turnout at this event was one of the projects for this year, and I think you can see by the 400 strong here that a lot of people contributed to making this event and a success. I know our current alumni board did a lot to help alumni board people raise your hand. Thank you. Former alumni board members, former alumni board members, alums that served on the volunteer committee for this event that called their fellow alums. Thank you all for supporting this. My next duty and honor and the reason I'm really up here now with the microphone is to present the Neil Stabler Distinguished Service Award. The Stabler Award was established in 1987 to honor Neil Stabler who was one of Michigan's leading political activists. His life was devoted to improving democratic government by increasing participation of citizens in all aspects of public affairs. Neil's son Michael has stayed here for more minutes before he goes out trick-or-treating. So I want to recognize Michael. Michael is on the Ford School Committee and has been a terrific friend of the school. And as another one of those people I count as my friends in this network. The Distinguished Service Award recognizes a Ford School alum for outstanding professional achievement. The recipient will have demonstrated a commitment to addressing public policy challenges of the world and through his or her professional accomplishments and public service. The 2014 winner is Patrick Anderson. Pat is the principal and chief executive officer of the Anderson Economic Group. The Anderson Economic Group is a consulting powerhouse. It has provided services to numerous states, private firms, countries, and universities including UM. Before founding the Anderson Economic Group, Pat served as deputy budget director for the state of Michigan and chief of staff to the Michigan Department of State. He's been a prodigious writer with over 100 articles written and articles and other publications on policy issues. He just recently released the economics of business valuation published by the Stanford Press. The National Association of Business Economics has given him an award for outstanding writing for three separate works. And Pat has continued to give back to the Ford School. He has hired graduates of the program and served in a leading role in raising the money from alums for this building. We thank you for that, Pat. In the end, though, the committee selected Pat from all the many other distinguished alums who were nominated because he has been using his analytical skills and his public policy degree to change policy. He has made a difference and he continues to make a difference. His leadership and analysis has led to numerous changes in state law around personal property taxes, state sales tax, increasing wages for home health workers, the creation of a Michigan-earned income tax credit, and many, many other things that he listed in his bio. Pat has moved the dial and we can expect it will continue to be a policy powerhouse going forward. Please join me in congratulating Patrick Anderson as this year's recipient.


Shocking serial killers. Number one on our list is Jamie Asuna, also known as the man with thousands faces. His face was covered with tattoos of Joker's smile, and he was sentenced to life in prison.   When asked why, he replied, I saw an opportunity.


Oh hey, Hola! Woodworkers, Paul Carlson here, small workshop guy. What's on the agenda today is this discussion of the layout of the small workshop. In fact, we are going to reveal for the first time in the history of mankind the four major principles for laying out a small workshop in a one-car garage. So if you'll meet me over by the table saw, we will begin the discussion. My guess is that most one-car, one-stall garage workshops are very, very similar in that they are probably just somewhat wide enough to handle a car and maybe somewhat longer than a car.  We all probably have a common amount of footprint available for our tools. So since that's the case, there must be one or two ideal ways to lay out the tools. I know I've tried many ways and I suspect you have tried many ways. So again, I appreciate your comments when we get done with the tour. So what are the four principles of laying out a workshop that I'm going to reveal to you for the first time in the history of mankind? No, really, this is the first time in the history of mankind that I am revealing these secrets. Anyway, what are the principles?   Secondly, look for nooks and crannies in little places underneath power tools and end corners and end sections where you can utilize the space. Third, set up everything so that there's unrestricted access in and unrestricted access out, at least with a minimal amount of effort and the tools aren't interfering with each other. And then the fourth principle and probably the one that's the most important is if you know you're expecting an expensive new tool from Amazon or Rockler or Woodcraft or Home Depot, open your garage door, hopefully it's not in view of your spouse, open your garage door and listen for that delivery truck, get that package, get out those box cutters, get it unboxed, get that box cut up into recycle, and in the 3.2 seconds that that all takes place, your spouse will never know what happens. So that's the fourth principle. I was frustrated with where my table saw was and tried it in different places. As I was doing cuts, I would find myself saying, wow, this is really stupid, Paul. Got to be a better way. I actually bought a book on workshop layout and history of workshops and so forth. In that book there actually were several drawings, as there were on pin interest, that showed a commonality of people putting their table saw inside of the large garage door, maybe about three, three and a half feet, which is what I've done. I have about four foot from the garage door to my blade and so the idea is if I need more than that, then up goes the garage door. The saw stop as we discussed with underneath storage, with the contractor saw as the outfeed table and vice versa, utilization of the crannies for lumber, clamps, dust collection system, second island continuing further into the garage, consisting of a temporary work table to be replaced by a samurai workbench a cabinet for the thickness planer that quickly is put up on top of there. And then the port-a-mate for the compound miter saw for a seven foot long by 28 inch wide or 30 inch wide workspace. Got the tool wall. Got the hand power tools hanging on bicycles above that tool wall. Used the upper storage as well. In the back computer station, Wifi, Alexa have a pantry for the family and then in the backhand corner have the drill press and then against the wall have some sheet goods being stored and then the eight inch jointer. That does have to be moved to be used but I can easily roll the router table out of the way and move the jointer over and or take it out into the car port. The entry to the car port is right there nearby. Have some ladder storage and then the band saw. Right now I have a section of the garage that I let a grandson keep some weight lifting equipment there he pulls it out into the outside of the garage and use it. I try to cover it in order to keep the dust off of his weight lifting equipment. So that completes the 360 degree. Probably make you dizzy because I probably go too fast so I will try to slow down. Anyway, I'm the small workshop guy and I would appreciate it if you would subscribe. Hit the like button if you liked anything and leave your comments if you see some ways to improve things. Iro con huevos, have a nice day.


So that brings me to sort of the notion of IT as a service and specifically data protection as a service. I mean a lot of people have said, oh, data protection's broken. We sort of think about data protection as a bolt-on or as an afterthought. Oh, I get this application, I have an understanding of what the application requirements and performance requirements are. Oh, I got to protect the data. Is that changing? Absolutely it's changing. And what happens is the economics start to become very compelling. When you look at the economics trying to consolidate the infrastructure and bring that in, now I have the ability to be able to outsource my backups, outsource my replication from the standpoint of being able to take it out through a service provider that pays for the WAN, the connectivity and the recovery capability. So the economics from a CIO standpoint starts to make a lot of sense, but only if they can guarantee the service levels. So talk specifically about how that manifests itself into a solution with the stuff you're working on, whether it's RecoverPoint or partner products. Can you give us an example? Yeah, absolutely. So from the standpoint of where RecoverPoint fits in, RecoverPoint delivers quality of service so that for my SAP Oracle and my mission critical applications, I can deliver a quality of service that is as I can do within a physical environment. So I'm not giving anything up. The ability now to extend that out across my tier two applications also starts to make sense, because now I can take my tier two applications and also leverage that same infrastructure. So now I have the ability to take advantage of the services running in the cloud, but then at the same time, make sure that that CIO has the comfort level that the services of the applications are being met.


موضع الله سبيل علينا الشيطان اللعين الرجيم بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم الحمد لله رب العالمين نحمده ونستعينه به ونتوكل عليه والصلاة والسلام على أشرف الخلق وخاتم الأنبياء وسيد المرسلين حبيب إله العالمين نبينا محمد المصطفى وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين الطاهرين المعصومين المطاهرين المكرمين وعلى أهل بيته الطيبين وخاتم الأنبياء وسيد المرسلين السلام عليكم ورحمة الله تعالى وبركاته واحد من المصطفى ومصطفى قرآن ون Doubt من المصطفى قرآن هو المصطفى بالنسبة to the Household of Purity, Nobility the Household of Generosity and Magnanimity يهل البيت Peace and Blessings be upon them when they dedicated and donated their food for three consecutive days as the Quran explains to us in سورة الإنسان ويطعمون الطعامة على حبه مسكينا ويتيمن وأسيرا الله سبحانه وتعالى across a number of verses highlights how these group of pure individuals thought about others before themselves took care of the needs of others before looking at their own requirements and their own needs indeed we are told that the أهل البيت عليهم السلام سيدة النساء فاطمة الزهراء Peace and Blessings be upon her her husband the commander of the faithful مولى المتقين علي ابنى بيطالب عليه السلام their sons إمام الحسن and حسين Peace and Blessings be upon them and we are told their servant فضى رضوان الله تعالى عليها had made this vow that they will fast for three days if the imams حسن and حسين are cured from their illness and the first day that they observed this fast a knock on the door is heard whereby a poor individual requests some assistance one after the other they all give that individual their entire portion of loaf or the bread that they had that they would use to break their fast that day they did not half it they did not quarter it they all dedicated it and donated it to this particular individual they broke their fast with water and slept hungry the next day an orphan comes and requests the same thing once again this household that is known for its generosity did exactly the same as the first day gave its food to this particular orphan and on the third day a captive who perhaps was not necessarily a Muslim requested assistance requested food and أمير المؤمنين سيدة النساء فاطمة الحسن and حسين سيدة فضى would give their bread and whatever they had to break their fast with and indeed when the prophet of Islam محمد المصطفى صلى الله عليه و آله و سلم saw them there after saw that they were pale for three days they had not eaten anything they had broken their fast with water only and الله تعالى across a number of ayat what exhibits the praise upon these holy individuals and their eternal sacrifice as well as their achievement of altruism and kindness one of the important areas to focus and to seek lessons and to implement in our lives as far as this story is concerned هو ما القرآن يجب أن تقوم بعمل أهل البيت أهل البيت عليهم السلام يجب أن أخبروا why they did what they did الله تبارك وتعالى يقول إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله لا نريد منكم جزاءاً ولا شكوراً نحن نعطيكم هذا الهاتف نحن نعطيكم للمساعدة الله نحن لا نحتاج للمساعدة أو للمساعدة منكم من هؤلاء هؤلاء هؤلاء سبباً قبل أن يطعمون الطعام على حبه مسكيناً ويتيماً وأسيراً They provide and give food for the sake of Allah due to the love of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى Not as some unfortunately have said for the love of the food despite the desire for food على حبه إن القرآن refers to the magnitude of the love and the compassion that the Ahl al-Bayt عليهم السلام had towards the absolute perfect being الله سبحانه وتعالى Why? Because the verse clearly says إنما نطعمكم لوجه الله When you put the next verse right next to this one you come to the conclusion that it was the purity of thought it was the sincerity it was the devotion it was the sincerity that was manifested by these holy individuals in this action of theirs and therefore it emerges for humankind to learn the virtue and the necessity of demonstrating purity of thought and purity of action in other words the requirement for our deeds to be presented sincerely for it to be accepted sincerely for the sake of Allah سبحانه وتعالى This story of the Ahl al-Bayt is one of many that highlights how these glorious individuals throughout their lives throughout their teachings have highlighted the importance of sincerity the importance of having purity of intention and purity of action and indeed the religion of Islam emphasizes this greatly The Holy Quran has numerous references to it ألا لله الدين الخالص الله سبحانه وتعالى says surely verily to Allah belongs the religion which is pure بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم والإني أمرت أن أعبد الله مخلصا لله الدين سي in chapter 39 verse 11 I have been commanded to worship Allah sincerely when it comes to my faith when it comes to my practice This sincerity of action and thought is many a times presented as a feature which is unique for the religion of Islam that it is the barometer by which the actions are measured and indeed accepted by Allah سبحانه وتعالى and the prophet of Islam رسول الله عليه وسلم in a famous narration says how will the deeds of you and I be measured well it is primarily through the intentions isn't it and therefore خلاص is defined as the pure unadulterated clean unshared intention for the sake of Allah and Allah سبحانه وتعالى alone and indeed when you and I throughout our lives purchase certain products do certain deeds and actions for other human beings want to accomplish certain tasks we are expected that these products are presented in its original form not tampered with not adulterated not changed where the products are mixed up if we want a certain brand we expect to buy that brand if we are told it's a mixture of several brands most people are not keen and are not interested to acquire that particular object we require and often ask for 100% purity or 100% originality when it comes to certain elements certain aspects that we want to purchase or obtain services included Allah سبحانه وتعالى says as far as our deeds are concerned they must be presented in that way for his sake and his sake alone and there must be no inclusion of the intention of others when it comes to our deeds he in a narration the prophet محمد صلى الله عليه وسلم tells the famous righteous companion أبو ذر الغفاري رضوان الله تعالى عليه يا أبا ذر ليكن لك في كل شيء نية صالحة أو أبا ذر make sure that your intention is righteous for everything you do even حتى في النوم والأكل even when it comes to your food when it comes to your sleep what is the message the message of the أهل البيت is ensure that every deed that you and I perform should be for the sake of Allah whether we eat we drink, we sleep we go out to work we go out to study whatever task we are about to perform it should be entirely for the sake of God and Allah سبحانه وتعالى alone and that purity that intention that hard work to make it second nature and to constantly inculcate ourselves with that mission and that objective produces amazing and brilliant results it produces fantastic outcomes صلى الله عليه وسلم highlights this to us he famously says اذا كان يوم القيامة نظر رضوان خازن الجنة on the day of judgment رضوان who is the angel in charge of paradise looks at people نظر إلى قوم لم يمروا به he looks at certain individuals who have entered paradise but he did not know about them they did not necessarily go through him or he wasn't aware how they entered paradise so he asks so you know surprised how did these people enter جنة من اين دخلتم how did you enter من انتم who are you people فيقولون they reply اياك انا don't worry about us فإن قوما عبدنا الله سرا we are people that worshiped Allah in private and he entered us in jannah in secret and in private how beautiful is this امام جعفر الصادق صلى الله عليه وسلم even that element is looked after by the Almighty وعلى and of course اهل البيت عليهم السلام اذكروا how امام علي ابن الحسين السجاد زينا العابدين امام بيس and blessings be upon him يجب ان يجد الناس and deliver it to the poor and the needy at night يجب ان يجد يدخل it next to those individuals without them knowing who this person is without necessarily identifying himself without telling them whom the person giving them food in reality is امام عمير المؤمنين بيس and blessings be upon him امام الحسين وحسين عليهم السلام they passed by after the burial of the Imam and they saw a man crying when they asked him why are you crying he said that you know there is a man who kept coming to me and providing me with food he would speak to me but if I knew who this person was after three days he has not come to me I have not seen him I miss his presence they said this is our father امير المؤمنين this man was so shocked he was weeping and he requested that there he is taken to the grave of امير المؤمنين and so we find such beautiful practice of sincerity by the Ahl al-Bayt of nobility why is this important for us to remind ourselves on a continuous basis امام الصادق says according to a narration if an individual has a pure knee and Allah verifies that their intention is indeed pristine for his sake when they are given the reward of the act that they would have done if they had the resources for instance I may have the intention to build a school or to build a hospital or to for example hold the Majlis about Abdullah al-Hussain but maybe I'm not in a situation or a position to do so I may be in a place where it is not possible I may not have the financial capabilities امام عليه السلام says because your intention is pure and Allah knows if you had the money you would have for example have helped the Majlis or you would have contributed towards the orphanage you get the reward for actually doing that deed سبحان الله how generous is Allah سبحانه وتعالى how many ample opportunities exists for reward for the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى and yet of course at the same time as we find that there is so much reward given to us by the Almighty exemplified and demonstrated by the Ahl al-Bayt for purity of thought and sincerity there are also devastating consequences for ostentation which is known as for showing off for doing things for the sake of others for doing things to seek the approval of others for including others within our intentions and indeed we are told that if that unfortunately happens and it could easily happen according to the narration of the Holy Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم it is so easy for the human being to start doing things not for the sake of Allah and it will slip into their minds and in their heart as easily as it will be difficult to see an ant on a rock in a dark night it's impossible to see that and pick that up likewise sometimes not possible for us to feel we are pushed towards ostentation showing off or seeking the pleasure of others at the expense of the pleasure of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى we are told according to the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم صلى الله عليه وسلم that this individual who shows off who seeks the pleasure of others at the expense of the pleasure of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى will be called upon on the Day of Judgment إن المرائي ينادع يوم القيامة يا فاجر يا غادر يا مرائي أو رچد أو دسدويل one or one who shows off continuously ظل عملك وبطل أجرك your deeds have been deviated your actions have been annihilated إذهب فأخذ أجركة من من كنت تعمل له go and take your reward from the one whom you sought to please go on الله says on the Day of Judgment who can help you other than the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى and those who can intercede from the permission of the Almighty سبحانه وتعالى and indeed if the human being somehow was under this false illusion that those people and their approval is of the greatest importance they will recognize how the Shaytan made it so disillusioned for them and they will feel a great sense and a state of remorse and thereafter of course for an individual who was seeking that sadly the Prophet of Islam would say that الله سبحانه وتعالى would say place their action in jahannam as he did not seek my pleasure in it أمير المؤمنين علي ابنة بيطالب says if you want to know the signs of somebody who is constantly showing off المراعي or is not مخلص is not demonstrating sincerity in their thought there are four signs according to the narration the first is they feel lethargic or lazy when they by themselves meaning that only in the presence of others they feel the need to do for example certain good deeds or to worship الله سبحانه وتعالى because others are watching them but when they by themselves they don't feel the need to for example put the effort or struggle and that is why the أهل البيت عليهم السلام have emphasized Salatul Layl the night prayers the holy prophet Muhammad in his famous statements to أمير المؤمنين would say to him علي عليك بصلاة الليل علي عليك بصلاة الليل or علي make sure you perform صلاة الليل of course the message was primarily for us أمير المؤمنين and the أهل البيت would find sweetness in the conversation with الله سبحانه وتعالى when it comes to the night prayers here we have سيد أزيين on that very difficult painful night the eve of the eleventh of محرم performing Salatul Layl while sitting down so the first quality is therefore or the first characteristic of a person who is showing off is their laziness in isolation the second is when they are with people they somehow feel the need to do more and to seek that particular attention and pattern the back from the individuals themselves and that's where it's compared to the first point in other words it's not that they're always busy or working hard when they're by themselves and likewise when they're out there with other human beings no it's when they're in isolation and they're very much bothered but when they are in public they somehow feel the need to do it so that people don't necessarily criticize or people don't necessarily say bad things about them and the third characteristic is that they increase the work once they are praised in other words they are not only hypocritical they have a dichotomy as far as their actions are concerned so their Prasala is longer in public for example they find the need to give more charity so that others would approve no what also happens is that when people praise them they do more and they only will do more if there is praise and therefore the fourth the characteristic is that Amir Mu'minin says according to the narration is that if they don't get praise they give up they're just looking for that particular good encouragement so to speak from people because that is why they're doing it therefore my dear brothers and sisters we as the followers of the Ahl al-Bait whom see them as the ship of salvation there is an honour for us to be able to be called the Shi'a of the Ahl al-Bait peace and blessings be upon them in order for us to be individuals who truly are labelled as their followers as their lovers as their true Shi'a we must be able to understand that sensitive and the delicate nature of the spirit and the soul of their deeds and actions and that is if we have doubt in our minds whatsoever why am I doing something it is better not to do it because the moment I do it for the sake of others then it will perhaps switch and change from a deed which I will be rewarded by Allah for to one that I may be punished for because it may become one that is a result of showing off people ask but how do I attain how do I seek to continuously become sincere and be of the مخلصين we must increase our knowledge and understanding of the faith towheed and monotheism and learn about the life of the holy prophet and the Ahl al-Bait peace be upon them all this is why the famous narration of the holy prophet Muhammad peace be upon him من قال لا إله إلا الله مخلصا فله الجنة whomsoever says لا إله إلا الله سنسيلي then the prophet of Islam continues but this لا إله إلا الله should be one that stops them from the committing of evil deeds and sins and transgressions against the Almighty number two if we are unsure and we are hesitant about whom we are doing it then we must do it in private if it is done in public yes number three we should be careful when we feel the need to speak to people about our actions yes sometimes it requires us to do that. أمير مؤمنين gave four types of charity الذين ينفقون أموالهم بالليل والنهاري سرن وعلانية at night during the day in private and in public yes sometimes we need to do some things in public but of course Allah knows the intention that why we are doing it so scrutinize and investigate our intentions very very carefully don't let us just do it without any reflection or introspection of why we do certain tasks and of course the Quran tells us beautifully إنّا أخلصناهم بخالصة ذكر الدار but certain individuals attain إخلاص and sincerity by the remembrance of the day of judgment the day of reckoning the day of measure accountability the day of remorse and the day of grief the more we can somehow picture the more we can keep that image in our minds the more we can understand how our deeds will be held accountable and how our deeds will be measured the more we are driven to ensure that it's done for the sake of Allah and for the sake of Allah and of course above all we have to ask Allah for this we have to beseech him we have to continuously be in the intercession of the Ahl al Bayt عليهم السلام to ensure that we do not deviate and if God forbid we do deviate we seek Toba and forgiveness from Allah for any act that we may have committed for the sake of others and if some people praise us then there is not a problem but we must not necessarily actively be looking for that praise given in the face of social media and for example the craving for attention that people have we must be very careful if we do something and promote it out there not necessarily looking for that pat in the back but rather doing it for the sake of Allah and Allah سبحانه وتعالى alone may Allah bless us and grant us that we practice sincerity and sincerity in the footsteps of the glorious ship of salvation Muhammad وعليهم أجمعين وآخر الدعوان أن الحمد لله رب العالمين مصلى الله وسلم و بارك على نبينا محمد المصطفى وعلى أهل بيتها الطيبين


Welcome to the NTN Nightly. I'm Nisha Charles. This edition stops stories. The Department of Health and Wellness remains on high alert against the flu. St. Lucia guarantees public participation and justice in environmental matters. Ensuring the security of all within the shores of St. Lucia has received a shot in the arm. All that plus the latest in youth development, sports and the NTN Nouvelle-Arcuer. The Department of Health and Wellness is on high alert as St. Lucia's continued to present at medical facilities with respiratory infection symptoms. Recently, officials expressed concern over deaths in males suspected of being flu-related. More from Anise Antoine. The flu season in St. Lucia typically runs from October to March, which usually picks in the month of December. From December 2018, the ministry noted that there were increased cases of the influenza virus, which have continued to climb. Even more alarming for the ministry is the unusual deaths of two male individuals. The ministry is closely monitoring the situation. Between week 7 and 8 of 2019, we noted that the cases have gone even above our usual threshold, both in under five years and over five years old. And the flu seemed to be more intense when we reviewed the cases that we noted at our healthcare facilities. Our cases seem to be a little more intense, a little bit unusual as to what we usually see on a regular basis. So we have been putting out the alert to let people know what we're seeing to try to cope. And we have also been investigating two cases which are influenza-related in males, two unusual deaths that are related to the flu, which is quite unusual for us in St. Lucia and more so at this time of the year. The Ministry of Health and Wellness monitors the flu season through its epidemiology unit, which has noted a stark increase in the number of cases recorded in the month of March 2019. We have an epidemiology unit, which is important for surveillance of health conditions. And we monitor through our healthcare facilities the different pathologies that come in. And we monitor closely so that if we note any unusual patterns or any increases, it allows us to try to manage to curb those increases. So that department puts out weekly surveillance reports and we do meet regularly to discuss and to see what trends we are noting. Because sometimes we may see an increase in one part of the island and not another part, so as to reduce the impact of that disease on the island. So we have been monitoring the flu from last year. We have been monitoring it closely. The medical officer of health says the flu vaccine is 80% to 90% effective preventing persons from getting the flu and is available at the healthcare facilities free of charge. The new vaccine is done every year and it is prepared based on the circulating strains of the flu in that year. So usually because the flu virus, the influenza virus tends to mutate quite quickly and every year we tend to have a different strain of the flu circulating. The influenza virus is between 80 and 90% effective in terms of preventing persons from getting the flu. So it would be the first line of defence in terms of preventing it. Persons most at risk of getting the flu are those with chronic diseases, the elderly and young children. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. In seeking to guarantee the right of present and future generations to a healthy environment and to sustainable development, the ECASO agreement, the Regional Agreement on Access to Information, Public Participation and Justice in Environmental Matters, is the first regional environmental treaty in Latin America and the Caribbean. It is the only treaty to have emerged out of the principle 10 declaration of the Rio Plus 20 meeting in 2012. Communications and Advocacy Officer of the St. Lucia National Trust, Coretta Crookes-Charles, says St. Lucia's signing on to the agreement was a major achievement for the country. In the Caribbean, thankfully, we don't have that many issues per se with environmental defenders or human rights defenders being attacked. But in Latin America, it's a serious issue where hundreds, even thousands of them are killed annually because of their decision to stand for the environment or stand for land rights and indigenous people. So this is really remarkable for our colleagues in Latin America. But for the Caribbean, we have issues as it pertains to getting information in a timely manner. Many times or too often, we see things happening and then the public, they are consulted thereafter when it's too late. And this really is raising the standards to ensure that you get a high level of input and participation. So far St. Lucia and Tiguan Barbuda Haiti, the Dominican Republic and Guyana have signed on to the agreement. Approximately 11 countries are needed so that the agreement can enter into force. Each country has to implement the agreement on its own level. And the good thing about it is the regional agreement so they would have to have meetings like you have, for example, the climate change agreement where you meet every year to see how you're progressing, if you're meeting the targets, etc. So these are some of the things that will have to be in place to see how countries are complying. And if not, what can be done because the technical secretary for this is the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, UN ECLAC, and they'll be providing capacity-building opportunities and support to guide countries through the implementation because you would appreciate that some countries are further ahead than others in Jamaica. For example, they have an access to information unit. Mind you, Jamaica has not yet signed on. They have not yet signed on, but it doesn't mean that they won't. The agreement is open for ratification until September 2020. Efforts at ensuring the security of all within the shores of St. Lucia have received the shots in the arm with parliament passing the Castries constituency council bill. The Minister for Home Affairs, Justice, and National Security, Senator Hon. Hum. Francis, says the bill allows for the creation of a Castries city police. And one of the reasons for giving the city police the powers of arrest and the amenities enjoyed by ordinary police officers is to allow them the latitude or the ability to involve themselves when they see crimes or offenses being committed outside the constituency's boundaries. So, for example, a city police officer in the grocery area on a Friday night, seeing an infraction being committed does not have to wait for a police officer to take action. The mere fact that he has the powers of arrest, he can initiate an arrest there and hand over that person to the police officer. So that enables or assists the police officers in policing the country a little better. Minister Francis also stated that the city police focuses on the city of Castries and their duties in Norway affect the powers and privileges of regular police officers. In fact, the minister indicated that city police provide greater assistance to regular police officers as it is impossible for them to be present everywhere. It has been proven over the last couple of years that the city police have been in existence that there has been a reduction in visitor's harassment and crime against our visitors. So the police officers in the city are doing a good job. They are trained by our regular police officers. They receive almost all the very same training that police officers have received. But the time is a little different because we deal with a lot more when it comes to police officers. Senator Francis expressed his full support for the bill at the last sitting of the Senate on the 28th of March 2019. Activities celebrating April as Youth Month are rolling out through collaborative efforts by government and the National Youth Council the details in this report. The month of April is being celebrated nationwide as Youth Month. The Department of Youth and Sports in collaboration with the National Youth Council have organized a number of events to commemorate the occasion. The celebration included a speech festival from April 1st to 4th where students were trained in areas such as parliamentary debating and public speaking. The official opening of Youth Month will be held on Friday April 5th with a youth expose hosted by the Department of Youth and Sports in collaboration with volunteer St. Lucia. Mary Wilfred is the director of youth in the Department of Youth and Sports. The expose begins with a march from Serenity Park on to Constitution Park where we would have various uniform groups, the cadets, Red Cross, Scouts, Guides, Perfinders and Master Guides, other groups and organizations where they would now be met at the Constitution Park. Wilfred explained that the youth expose will allow young entrepreneurs to showcase their different talents and skills. There will be given the opportunity to demonstrate what they can do in small business and we have a number of young people across the island who would be coming in to showcase some of their businesses and we really want the public to come in and see what young people can produce and what they do in order to earn a living and how they are contributing to economic development in this small space as well. Other activities will include a youth camp, a youth service week and youth awards. From the Government Information Service, I am Anisia Antoine reporting. And this is the end of your nightly. Ryan O'Brien is standing by with more youth development and sports. We have to contribute a small amount of gas in the space so that TPI can try to do everything it can to ensure that we lower the amount of gas in the service so that the earth is warmer. And it is necessary to lower the amount of gas in the service to mitigate it. For me, it has changed. It has changed the name of the entire world of the earth because of the oil, carbon, and sugar that causes the earth to be warmer. That is what we have to do all the time to adapt. We have to do everything we can to prepare and respond to these negative consequences because of climate change. We all know that it makes a difference. For example, we can't sit down and protect ourselves all the time. It's a life that is natural. We have to do everything we can to stop the damage of cyclones and goblins. We have to build a channel for people who need it. And we have to do everything we can to survive climate change. We have to find information about our national government adaptation plan and we have to do everything we can to protect ourselves and all our cyclones. Welcome back. We join Ryan O'Brien for the latest happenings in youth development and sports. Welcome once again to your update from the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports on the NTN Nightly News. I'm Ryan O'Brien. We ball off with cricket and the time has come for the staging of the Mass United Insurance Schools Cricket Final at the Grozile Plain Field Friday. St Mary's College and Miku Secondary are the two schools that have made it to the finals of the competition in 2019. Dave Albert is the coach of the Miku team. First of all, Miku Secondary, we elated that we are in a final of this competition after many, many years. But you've not heard Miku Secondary at a secondary school cricket final. We're more known for football. The school is very excited about this final and the players are very excited too. I'd like to congratulate the players. I mean, at the start of the competition, we never thought that we'd have gotten this deep into the competition. I've been realistic there. But we continued working hard. I know SMC has a very good team, very well-rounded team, and we have made it our duty to take on the challenge with SMC. Akim Ogiz, the inspirational captain of St Mary's College, will be missing for the encounter after being named on the senior national cricket team playing in the Winner Islands tournament. Ogiz spoke about the importance of the Mass United Insurance competition in the development of young St. Lucian cricketers. It was a wonderful initiative by Mass United Insurance because they've been hosting the tournament for a very long time. And I think it has played it well done and a very good job in developing the youngsters in the cricket team field. And I think I hope they continue it and develop our young cricketers. Friday's final starts at 9.30am. Let's take a look at the teams. St Mary's College from a Mary Vena, Ryan Goodman, Zidane Arthur, Jihann Bouda, Anselm Gittins, Shaquan Prudent, Jindal Cyril, Jovel Dupre, Tim Jio Ogiz, Marin René, Dominic MacLennan, Tariq Wells, Jason Collimo, Miku Sekendri, from Key on Gaston, Dishesh Henry, Marklin Estefan, Nindy Tervel, Sean Villeneuve, Cody Lesmore, Brent Edward, Shanik Stanley, Christiane-Louis, Joshua Thomas, Gerlon Justin and Lupin Joseph. Champion High Jumper Laverne Spencer has been urged to continue excelling in athletics and maintain her high standards. The words of encouragement have come from a Parliamentary representative, the Honourable Ezekiel Joseph. So I want to encourage Loven. I'm sure that, like we have heard, there are many more days and years ahead, and we're expecting to see that she continues to perform and to bring home the goals that she has been doing. So Loven, on behalf of the Government of St Lucia, I wish you all the best and I'm sure you'll appreciate that we're working to encourage you and to encourage sports persons in St Lucia. The Parliamentary representative made their comments during a gala dinner recently in recognition of 20 years' outstanding service for St Lucia by Spencer in the sport of track and field. Youth Month gets an official launch on Friday with Youth Exposé at Constitution Park starting at 10am. The event, which replaces Youth Overhaul and Youth Festival, is an exposition of youth talent in St Lucia. Youth Exposé, like other activities for the month, is being staged by the Ministry of Youth Development and Sports in collaboration with the National Youth Council, the NYC. The first actual activity for the celebration of the month was a four-day speech festival which ended at the Financial Centre on Thursday. Staying with Youth, the Youth Empowerment Project is focused on mitigating risk factors that trigger criminal and antisocial behaviour at the individual, family, community and societal levels. The objectives of the project will be achieved through a number of components. Joanne Husbands is a project coordinator. The first one is that of the Integrated Court Diversion Programme, which consists of two subcomponents, the Youth Recidivism Reduction Programme and the Outer Schools of Suspension Programme, pardon me. The Youth Recidivism Reduction Programme will be implemented through the Department of Probation. It's one way the youth may be recommended by the courts, which do not receive non-custodial sentencing or they are not sentenced, so they provide them to that alternate program where they can be rehabilitated and to prevent them from reoffending. So services will be provided to the youth in that program and also the parents to ultimately develop a program to mitigate that negative behaviour which got them in trouble with the law in the first place. The Youth Empowerment Project will also feature a logo competition to run throughout the month of April. And that's where we wrap up our segment today. I'm Ryan O'Brien. Thanks, Ryan. And stay with the NTIA Nightly. Up next, Primus Hutchinson is here with the NTIA Nouvelle Arquio. To control a new disease, it is necessary and very important to keep all equipment, particularly machine sprayers, in good condition. Always clean the machine after the service and keep it in good condition, even if it is not recommended to the youth. Since the service that is required to control a new disease, it is absolutely important to protect all equipment in every situation. Operating these machine sprayers to protect the equipment that is well protected, serves overall goggles, boots, and gloves to prevent them from touching the skin and breathing. For more information on how to control a new disease, please contact Jardin to call the Department to manage a new disease at the number 454-594 and email it to bpmuatcandw.lc For mission Salaf, we have come to the end of the International Cooperation with the Development of the Republic of China. Welcome back. We join Primus Hutchinson for the NTIA Nouvelle Arquio. Thank you very much. We have come to the end of the International Cooperation with the Development of the Republic of China. We have come to the end of the International Cooperation with the Development of the Republic of China. We had a forum with the government at the NTIA Nouvelle Arquio, the Prime Minister Hutchinson. Thank you the International Cooperation C'est leci. C'est le honneur Joseph, ça fait édiction en sécurité figue et les cultivataires et bifamme figue qui a vendu par semaine, c'est une qui a corsé les gouvernements pile, mais il faut que là qui a conseillé Winfresh pour venir plus mê, qui ça. Because I'm the best chef here, and we serve that the people who came here for my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, my, here put up Winfresh coupon, and then NFTO coupon, we've been here in agreement because it's not that you can't encourage farmers to plant figs, even if you don't work, but you can't make a share, you have to order. If you can't encourage them to do production figues, and then they come here to do production figues, that's what the government has to do, they don't have to do it, and then we serve Winfresh and then NFTO, because what does it do to ensure that we start production at the right level, at the right level, that at least we can do it, that's what the farmers have to do. On behalf of Joseph, I have to explain to you that they don't have to accept, at least, for their cultivation figues, because the quality of their figs is only 20% so they have to come here to do it as quickly as possible. Minister Dacocchi, I would like to thank the government to fix this issue 20% in the future, for example, Trinidad and La Grinade, that's the most important thing, it's the place you are. For this reason, I would like to ask you, do you trust them to prove it because Winfresh has established an agreement with the French government? So we don't have to do it? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Because we don't have to do it at the right level, and we don't have to do it at the right level? Not by the way, it's the quality fig. Where? Quality, quality, that's what we are talking about, that's what we are doing. Even if you come to Trinidad, quality figs are good. Well, I mean, what is the extension of this? What are the things that, even if we are talking about farmers, we don't have to do it at the right level? In fact, the Forestry Department is here, I have indicated this paper, for a long time, for example, to provide importance to protect the Forestry Department. Yesterday, its head of the Forestry Department, Mr Alfred Prosme, who made a statement on the Forestry Department this month, a national day observation for the water. Prospects that have been caused by us, for the occasion of this, you will notice that it has been a long time for the country to find advice, to evaluate the Forestry Department for their country. If the head of the Forestry Department, I have visited several schools, chain discussions in different communities and other media countries as well. To change, we are going to ask the Forestry Department to take a look at the forestry in the United States. The Parrot population is less than 100. Simply because the forestry has been devalued by the Parrots. The schools are now going to give us a few more educational resources to help the farmers. The forestry department in Parrot is in Jakarta. Actually, we are almost 300 in the forest. So we also have laws that have to be implemented here. So we have the Soil and Water Conservation Act, which has to be implemented by the government. But we don't have laws that have to be implemented by the government. So even if we have laws for the forest, if they are not implemented, we have to enter the forest as a river. Even if we have laws for the forest, even if we have laws for the land in the Sea, it is not necessary that the government invests in the forest, in the forest, even if they are not implemented, they are not possible. So we have the case of forest conservation. We have to do something about it. We are going to change the world of coffee. It's going to be a behavioral change. The sense of it is that we don't have to do anything about it. We don't have to do anything about it. We are going to change. I'm going to say, hey, hey, we have to do the past that we have been working on before. The commission, the world's commission, is going to change the way we are. We must continue to educate everyone, education is not that important, but we want that young generation, young people like you, even if they don't do it, even if they don't do it, we have to do it. We have to do something about it. We don't want our generation to do it. So we must continue to educate people in their departments, to educate as much as possible to create a change. A coordinator for a project that is sustainable to reinforce the importance of the tourist industry among the young people of the school is a common player, Mr. Wendell George. He declared that the students at the school are the ones who will be affected later. Mr. George was among the Greeks who found an invitation to address the school by saying that it is an observation for the young people of the school. We know that it is important to build a new relationship with the school. We also want to protect our big brother, his brother-in-law, and to address those who want to build trust, who want to build chicken, who want to work hard, who want to speak publicly, Mr. George, you have the opportunity to help these young people to build their capacity but Mr. George said that the majority of the young people in the country are women but not enough for the young people of the school. We also want to help them to find good advice to help them to solve their problems and to encourage them. So, it is important to build a new program like this. Mr. George, we want to help these young people who are in need to make a difference in the direction that these young people want to go. We also want to complement these young people who are in need and who are in need and who are in need. We also want to help these young people to participate in the community initiatives. Mr. George, we want to help them to build a better world so that they can live here. So, we want to help these young people to stay and to provide them with a new home so that they can live and help these young people to build a new home. We want to help these young people. Thank you, Mr. Prime Minister. And here is a look at what is happening to us weather wise. over the next few days. Low-level clouds drifting along this windflow will bring a few widely scattered showers over the region during the next 24 hours. The tide for Castries Harbour was high at 3.38pm and will be low again at 9.22pm. The tide for V4 Bay was high at 4.45pm and will be low again at 10.49pm. The sea is moderate to locally rough with waves 5 to 7 feet or 1.5 to 2.1 meters. Small craft operators and sea bathers are advised to exercise caution due to above normal seas. The sun will rise Friday at 5.57am.


I've never, as an actor or a director in the commercial environment, been in a place where there is such collaboration. It isn't just, oh my god, that's not on the storyboard. What are you doing? There's a freedom to riff and to play like we did on our show, like we do as actors, we do it in comedic films. So that it isn't so, it isn't so... Precious. Yes. It isn't so, thank you, precious. You're welcome. God, you're good. See? You saw it happen live. It isn't so precious. We can like go to Mike and his team and be like, wait, we want to try this and they're like great, do it. And so a lot of good ideas come out of just being on set in a comedic space and riffing.


Hello subscribers! Today is July 6th, an entire week of not trading. I placed the trade today and went awesome. I'll let you watch the video so you can see exactly how that trade went down. But before I do, I wanted to get some feedback. Sometimes I put some music in the background and I, you know, I haven't heard anything, any complaints or anything. Please leave a comment below. Do you like the music? Is it distracting? Does it take away from the actual video and what I'm trying to do here? Definitely. I want this experience to be as enjoyable as can be to all the viewers watching. And please, please leave some feedback. I haven't gotten any complaints of any kind, which is awesome. Let me know. Hey, you know what, I would like to see a different angle. I don't just want you to, you know, record your screen, maybe record yourself. Something, anything would help just so it'll let me know that I'm doing a good job or decent job at the very least and not a bad job. But definitely hit that subscribe button down below. Today is Trading Tip Thursday, where I give you a trading tip that helps you become a better trader. And I'll put that video out later today, but I wanted to go ahead and get this video out to you because of that. So hit that subscribe button so you don't miss Trading Tip Thursday or any other of my videos, and it'll help me out tremendously. I'm trying to get to 100 subscribers. Thank you so much for watching. Good morning, everybody. Today, we have the final services PMI at 9.45 Eastern Time, the non-manufacturing PMI 10 o'clock Eastern Time, the FOMC member pal speaks at 10 o'clock as well. And we also have the crude oil inventories set to come out at 11 Eastern Time. A few, a few things to watch out for, but for the most part, I think we are set to go. And here we go. I'll be playing the 242 calls that expire tomorrow, July 7th. And the interesting part about this is the spy SPY is already down 90 cents. So it's sound pretty big. I'm pretty big. It's starting to look fairly good for calls. A few things have to happen, but it's looking like we are definitely getting an opportunity to play some calls. I'm still looking at the 242 calls that expire tomorrow. We've lost a signal string, obviously, to the downside on one minute. And being patient. That's the key here. That's what's going to make me less money. Well, no longer seems like we'll be playing calls. It's like puts me out in play. I'm now looking at the 242, excuse me, 251.50 puts? 251.50 puts. If we consolidate here, I think we might plan to set up a fence. The only thing is the five minute seems like it's hitting support at these levels. So it's looking really good. Let's see what we've got. It's looking really good, though. There it is. We're ahead and bought in. I'm pretty high. 73 cents, 241.50 puts. Get it in here. I bought in a little high. It's okay. Down a little bit on here, but it's looking really good here. There you go. Come on. Alrighty. I went ahead and got out, guys. Got out at 82 cents. Got in at 73 cents. Got out at 82 cents. I like that, guys. I like that a lot. Wow. That felt great. That really did feel good, especially since it's been a week since I last traded, guys. Literally, my last trade was a win. My last trade was exactly a week ago, and it feels really, really good. Guys, that was awesome trade within 20 minutes of market open. That was 12% right there. That was 12%. Two minute long trade, not even a full two minutes, by the way. When all my indicators line up, when my strategy comes together and I execute my strategy, it's easy to trade, and I'm usually in it for just a couple minutes. Look at that. It's already down to 72 cents.  That is exactly why I put my targets, my goal, my daily goal, 5% to 10%. Every day, even though I can squeeze out a ton more, most days, I don't want to be in a position where, like right here, it got up to 82. It only got up to three more cents from where I sold. Guys, that was awesome. Thank you so much for watching. If you like this video, if you think it was helpful, please comment below and hit that subscribe button. That'll help me out tremendously. I'm trying to get to 100 subscribers, and today is Trading Tip Thursday. I'll make a separate video later today, where I give you one tip every Thursday to help you become a better trader. So hit that subscribe button so you won't miss any of these videos. Thank you so much for watching. I appreciate it. I have fun today, made 12% on a trade, and within 20 minutes of market open, feels great. Guys, we can go ahead and enjoy the rest of my day. You guys take care.