Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another toyhacks.com sponsored review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not a subscriber of Patriot Prime Reviews, please consider hitting that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing, but will help me and my channel out tremendously. And help me reach my goal of 10,000 subscribers by TF-Con in October. Now, on to the decals. And the set we're looking at in this video is for Transformers Generation Selects, Shattered Glass, Optimus Prime, and Ratchet. This decal set includes five decal sheets, a combination of vinyl, foil, and clear backed decals. Now I'm going to break up this decal video in two separate parts. One video for Optimus Prime and one video for Ratchet. So now let's take a look at Optimus Prime both before and after toyhacks decals. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. In robot mode, straight out of the packaging, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime looks amazing. I absolutely love the collar scheme on this figure. Taking a closer look at him, the head sculpt has some great paint applications. You got green right there in the crest, those evil red eyes, a silver mouthplate. Moving on down here to the chest, he's got a tamper-craft crack right there on his right window. And I do like the windows. They are translucent plastic with a green background. So that looks really good. There's a tamper-craft silver Autobot logo or silver outlined Autobot logo right there on the right shoulder. Moving on down to the stomach area, we have more silver and gray. Down here on the waist, we got more of that lime green collar and navy right there on the crotch. Down here on the legs, we've got silver shins. And that's about it. I do like the silver there inside the wheels. So all in all, a really cool looking Optimus Prime. And I can't wait to see what Toyhacks has in store for him. So there you go guys, one final look at Shattered Glass Optimus Prime before and after. Shattered Glass Optimus Prime gets quite a few new decals to help enhance his robot mode. Taking a closer look at the figure, he gets new decals right here on top of the head. Blue accent decals, but this one on this side has a red stripe that lines up to the red stripe there on his brand new chrome face plate. He also gets new red chrome eyes. You do have a couple different options. You can go with red or green, but I went with red.  Now he also gets new decals that cover up those translucent windows. And I'm still kind of on the fence with these. There is the cracked damage here on this one, some little cracks on this window. And these decals look to be more of a armored window. So I'm not too sure on these. These may come off and they may stick with the regular retail release windows. Down here on the abs, he gets new chrome decals that really pop in the light. New decals right here on the waist and a brand new decal right here for what I like to call the belt buckle. Moving on down for the thighs, we got new decals here and here. Down on the knees, we get new blue and red decals and red and yellow decals here on the feet. As far as the arms are concerned, we get new blue and black decals right there below the bicep and green decals right here above the wrist. Now Optimus Prime also has some hidden weapons. Flip the panels here open on the knees and there is hidden rocket pods. This will not have a hard time lifting up, but there you go. So you got rocket pods in the knees right here. If we flip this down and fold in the fist, we got a rocket pod hidden within the forearm. So you've got a rocket pod right there and additional missiles here below. So I like that. And then here on the right arm, we flip this panel open, fold in the fist. We have some sort of energy weapon. We've got the barrel of the weapon here and there's some kind of green energy right there. So this guy is loaded for bear with weaponry. Also on Optimus' left arm, there is a readout screen. So it's something he can look at if he's wanting to call his fellow evil Autobots. So there you go, guys. There is Shattered Glass Optimus Prime in robot mode after. In vehicle mode, straight out of the packaging, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime still looks amazing. Taking a closer look at the figure. I absolutely love the front of this cab. It looks so cool with the translucent windows, the green background and the crack right there. He's got silver striping that goes all the way around the cab. Big grill right there, translucent headlights, big bumper. Here on the side, he's got the Tampagraft Autobot logo once again. And translucent side windows there on both sides. He's got the great looking wheels. I love the wheels on this Earthrise Optimus Prime mold. He's got a darker gray gas tank right there. And that is pretty much it for Shattered Glass Optimus Prime in vehicle mode. So there's one final look at vehicle mode before and after. And the first decals I have to show off are the new decals here for the grill. He now has chrome decals with blood splatter. And there's even a hand print right there. So he has plowed into somebody and just kept rolling. I love that. That is so cool. He also has the window decals that we saw in robot mode and new window decals here on the side to make these look a lot longer. Remember before, it was just the window, the translucent window right there. So now this extra decal makes the windows look just a little bigger. More decals here on the front. He gets new headlight decals. Decals right here on the bottom of the bumper. This chrome M, a chrome decal right here. And a license plate that says Prime. Now there are options. You have all gone. Instead of all or one, we got all gone. And I swear that says car. So maybe that's a night rider reference. If so, that is awesome. On the back of the vehicle, the only decals he has is these rear taillight decals. But still, this looks so cool. I love the chrome blood splattered grill. That is awesome. So there you go guys. Shattered glass Optimus Prime in vehicle mode after. Toyhacks once again makes a fantastic decal set for the Earthrise Optimus Prime mold. This is actually my third one. I've got the regular Earthrise Prime, the alternate universe dead Optimus Prime and now shattered glass Optimus Prime. And I just love what they do for these figures. Especially the chrome mouth plate, the hidden weaponry, the chrome abs. And for this guy specifically in vehicle mode, I love the blood stained grill. It is so cool looking. And if you enjoyed this video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Including the Toyhacks decal set for Shattered Glass Ratchet. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoorah!


Okay we're back folks and hold on let me this is Larry Pesevendol mid-morning update big moves in the market folks Dow Jones up 400 S&P up 70 NASDAQ up 250 this was not unexpected folks because we made a big ABCD pattern here yesterday at that 38 39 level in the S&P I'll get this up on the chart so you folks can take a look at it but this is what it looks like as you can see here we had a rally that should have gone up into the area of around 3960 to 3990 so far we've been to 3970 keep an eye on the bank stocks and also the treasury bonds I believe that's where we have some real possibilities we're down in the bonds today which is not unusual but they're still holding up you know excuse me relatively relatively well gold is backed off a little bit we hit the 61% retracement yesterday and the whole move down from 30 1975 we hit that at 1916 the high was 1918 and we're now trying trading at 1913 so it's no big deal on the downside so those are just a few of the things that we're paying attention to today also the US dollar has backed off a little bit folks but the key to watch is the US treasury bond and I think it's key enough that I'm going to post a chart here into the den so you folks will take a look at it because we are at the proverbial moment of truth here in these treasury bonds I'll get it up here and hopefully so you can see it and there it is right now and we'll bring it up so the folks can take a look at it and we're going to be discussing that on my show that'll be coming up here in just a few minutes and we'll see what's going on with it but there's where we are we've had this big move up and we're finally having a really nice ABCD retracement down here at that 129 level we're trading a little above 130 again now so still down on the day so this is nothing more than a correction folks this stuff does not get cleared by the magic wand of somebody saying thing or somebody doing thing look at the bank stocks and see what they do when they start exploding to the upside you know the bottom is in but but until that happens you know this is just a short covering rally off of the really big ABCD that we hit at 38 39 yesterday in the S&P and also look at the Russell you'll see you know the difference between the the mixture of the markets of what's really happening between the Russell NASDAQ and the Dow Jones we'll be right back folks


Hey everyone welcome to another video lesson from navigation trading comm in this video I want to answer the question when are options expensive and when are options cheap and So I want to take you through a little example of a couple different symbols Just to give you a little bit of perspective and idea of what we're talking about here when it comes to option pricing the amount of time that those options have until expiration and The level of implied volatility are two of the main factors that play into whether the option prices are Actually cheap or expensive But let's take a look at our first ticker example of Netflix and if you're on the trade tab in most Brokerage platforms. I'm looking at thinkorswim at this point You could see that the May monthly implied volatility is twenty nine point eight one percent That's the monthly implied volatility. You could go out to June and see it's about thirty one point six two So those are the different monthly implied volatility levels in Netflix at this time But how do we know if those options are expensive or cheap? Well, what you have to understand is you can't just look at that number and say that that those numbers are Expensive or cheap you have to figure out Relative to what right so relative to another symbol? Relative to itself. What are we comparing those to to understand if those options are expensive or cheap? And so what we like to do is compare those implied volatility numbers Relative to itself Over a period of time and so we look at over the past year is the implied Volatility for example in Netflix cheaper expensive relative to itself So if we look at the chart one of the things that we use to get just a quick snapshot and a visual idea of Options are cheaper expensive is our navigation trading implied volatility indicator. This plots two different lines It's got the IV rank which is plotted in green and the IV percentile which is plotted in yellow So these numbers range anywhere from zero to one hundred. So if one of the lines if one of the implied volatility Numbers is above 50 and we consider that higher implied volatility because it's higher Relative to itself over the past year. Okay, so that's an easy way to do it And that's why we've provided this indicator to our members Because if you're just looking at the numbers and you said okay the implied volatility of Netflix is around 30 Well, what if you looked at another symbol? Let's say XLV which is the healthcare ETF and you look at this and implied volatility in XLV You range is anywhere from 16 to 19. So if you just looked at those numbers You would say well I want to sell premium in Netflix because Netflix has higher monthly implied volatility But let's take a look at the chart of XLV and what you'll notice is is look at the implied volatility Rank in the implied volatility percentile Relative to itself over the last year. You can see implied volatility IV percentile at 76 IV rank at 32. So these are actually much higher Compared to Netflix if you're looking at it relative to itself. So I would much rather be selling premium You know selling iron condors selling iron butterflies selling strangles and straddles in XLV Because the options are more expensive relative to itself Whereas going back to Netflix You can see relative to itself the options are actually very cheap The implied volatility has gone down. It's contracted and so even though the monthly implied volatility is between 28 and 31 Here you've got to look at where they are relative to themselves Okay, and so just to kind of reiterate high implied volatility equals higher option prices Low implied volatility equals lower option prices So we want to sell options when they are more expensive Look for that contraction and implied volatility and that's how we benefit Now does that mean we always want to buy options when implied volatility is low and the answer is absolutely not and Newer traders ask this question a lot because they think it just makes sense If you sell options when implied volatility is high Then you must be able to benefit from buying options when implied volatility is low But that's actually not the case and the reason is is because across the board Fear is overstated uncertainty is overstated meaning options are actually Almost always overpriced So you can actually be profitable selling options when implied volatility is low The difference is your edge is just much smaller. So does that mean we never sell options when implied volatility is low? No, we can still make money when implied volatility is low. We just want to scale down our size a Lot just to compensate for that less of an edge that we have in those options And that's why we want to scale up our positions scale up our overall capital usage when implied volatility is high in That specific symbol relative to itself because that's when we have the greatest probability of making the most money So I hope this was helpful if you have any questions or you want to check out all the other stuff that we're doing at navigation Trading just check us out at navigation trading calm. See you in the next video You


Alright. Hi. Can hear me? Good. Yep. Hi everyone. So today I'm going to talk about material design for Rails. I'm Sam. So a while back, I started the journey of trying to find out the unifying UX experience for my own app. I want the UX experience to be the same regardless of iPads, computers, large screens, TV, watches, and so and so forth. So I chance upon material design. And today I'm going to use that format. This format is to go through the materials review. Material design has a very brief, very short history so far. It's introduced last year by Google. I'm going to go through that. And who are the target audience material designs for? The principles of material. What material design isn't? Some of the material design UI, why should you use material design? Comparison with Bootstrap. I know it's not an Apple to Apple comparison, but it's good to put things in perspective. And then finally a gem that you could use so that you could apply material design in your Rails app today. So Google announced material design about last year, June in the Google IO conference. And the crux of that message was that material design is a visual language that expresses principles of good design. And also it's a unifying system that will provide the same UX across all devices and screens. That's all. That's basically the key message from Google. Who are the audience? Well, first of all, application users because that's the people who interact with the app that you design. Second of all, developers. Not so much for UI and UX designers because they are the guys who come up with the new UI elements. But it's actually the developers who consume all those concepts and apply it to the apps. And then in return, your users will use them. Yes, VisualCom's designers could learn a few things from Google. That's definite, but they're not really the direct audience. Now, it's hard to jump right in and show you a few things of material design. We're just going through some of the basic principles of material itself. It's very worthy. I'm just going to go through very, very quickly some of them. Well, material design is a 3D world, so light and shadow give depth. Shadow is not just an effect. The width and height may vary, but the thickness is always 1dp because material design runs on an XYZ axis. So the thickness of every object is important. Elevation cast shadows, content behaves independently of the material but limited by its bounds. Number six, no two material can occupy the same overlapping XYZ point in space. Well, as with a reality world, we don't really have two things knocking each other on the XYZ space. Material cannot pass through another material. That's straightforward. If you take two pieces of paper, they don't go through each other. Material can change shape, can shrink, grow, not a problem. If materials join together split, they can be spontaneously generated or destroyed. Material can move along any axis. The Z axis motion as a result of a user interaction. So I'm going to try to show that down some of the slides. Now, what material design isn't, just to put things in perspective as well, it's not just a bootstrap theme and it's not just a CSS or Android theme. You actually see material design more prominently in a few places or few apps. Firstly, in Lollipop, the latest, or one of the latest Android OS, in Google Drive, in Google Inbox, some of those apps, but it's not just a CSS or Android theme. It's not just a concept without implementation. There is implementation. It's not just for the web. It can work for your watchers too. So as a mock-up, there is a watch face mock-up using material design concept. Now I'm going to jump right in and show you a few material design UI elements. Like Bootstrap, it has a responsive grid system. So child columns and rowing columns. That's not very surprising. It has shadows. Because material design talks so much about shadows, in Bootstrap or any other CSS, you have to actually specify your own box shadow. But in material design, since they have talked about the different layers or different depth, it's good to have a CSS class to actually define all that already. So what it means is that the one with the depth 5 is closer to the screen and the one with the depth 1 is further away from the screen. In conventional UI, when you press a button, when you use a mouse click and you click, the item actually goes further away from you. It goes down. But in material design, it's the reverse. Why? Because nowadays we use touchscreen more often. So when your thumb presses on the glass, the material actually goes closer to the glass as a magnetic effect. That's how it works. Colors. Material design or Google is nice enough to define all the colors for us. There's a very huge palette of colors that you can use. And there are some color theories or, say, style guides that Google has left us with to say that perhaps you want to use a certain contrast to emphasize important things and you shouldn't use certain colors or foreground with certain background. And if you were to look at the code I have here, it says the blue and lightened four are classes. And you can use the same on your markup. I'm going to show you a gem later on that we'll demonstrate this. All right. So like Bootstrap, Material Design has a number of responsive framework classes that allows you to specify medium and down, medium and up, large only, small only, hide on small only, or show on small only. That's all there. That's not too different from Bootstrap actually. But where it differs are elements like this. Responsive topography. Well, no matter how responsive is your web design today, your text sizes are about the same, right? But in this gem that I'm going to show you guys, it knows both diff has actually the exact amount of text. Same words, same characters, right? But the one on the right-hand side uses less or smaller font size. It's responsibly resizing itself. So you don't have to do all the media queries on your own. I tried that before. It's very frustrating to fit on all screens. And all you need to do is add a class called flow text. Truncating text as well. It's just a class called truncate. And it figures by itself whether there's enough width. All right. So this has a very good use case where let's say you're developing a tribal website and you have a description of a location, right? So you want to have the more toggle, more and less of the description of the place. You could truncate or don't truncate. You can work that out. So it's very easy. Without using a lot of JavaScript, you can actually have truncating text. Floating buttons. So this is one of those features that material design actually tries to express. If you try out any of the latest Google apps, say Google Drive, or you try out Google Calendar, you actually see this. Or actually even Google Inbox. It works as a very good contextual manual, right? But it's also very nifty. It doesn't take up a lot of space. And if you look at the markup, it's actually quite straightforward. It's just a button floating, button large, wave effect, and red color. Very straightforward. Nef bar. So I think one of the things I tried to do with Bootstrap was to mimic the Google Inbox search bar. So if you want to click on the search, you want the whole bar to change color and all, you probably have to write some form of CSS transition and then use the JavaScript toggle. But this gem that I found actually tries to mimic all that behavior. So pretty good. If you try to search, it switches to white color, switches back to red or whatever color that you choose for your theme. Okay, toasters. You could do this in Bootstrap as well, but what's interesting here in this framework is that they know if you're on a larger screen, iPads, IMAX maybe, and the toasters will come from the right.  And then you can swipe it away. It comes with building gestures as well. So what it means to developers is that you don't really have to care. All you need to know is that, oh, this is an alert. Let me toast it, right? And then the framework takes care of it by itself. And many, many more features that I cannot go through in one talk. I can highlight a few. That's parallax. So a lot of us like to do parallax website designs in these days. And they have that. Pushpin, which mimics the material design pushpin. Tons of transitions. And they have sticky footer. More importantly, this gem called materialized sass actually provides you with sass variables, sass mixings, and sass prefixes, which is really interesting because I'm going to showcase some of those websites that has applied this gem right now. Okay. Okay. Let me zoom this. All right. Okay. Sleek. Burglar website, right? And so this website uses material design, specifically material sass CSS gem. And it uses a few nifty tricks of which, one of which is the spy fire, which means as you scroll, it detects a certain scroll height and it fires an event. So let me try to do that now. Scroll. You get to see that. Scroll some more. You get to see some of that. Yeah. So all this is building to the framework. You don't have to like, you know, install or add another plugin for this. Okay. And it's really nice and you could actually, let me try to resize this thing and then, okay, let me try to resize this. And like you would expect, the website actually resizes itself pretty well in a very responsive fashion. It has a nav bar. So you can access all the manuals regardless of screen size. It has a little alert on the bottom, which can go away. Okay. Next, yeah. So this is the parallax theme that I talked about. It's one of the effects that come with the framework. So as I scroll, you can get this little, little parallax effect. Okay. That comes out of the box with the framework. Okay. Next, this is a website. It's actually a Chosmode lockdown app for Android OS. But what's interesting is that the website actually has a lot of stuff, a lot of details, that would fit very, very well on a large screen. But look what happens when I try to resize this. Again, the sidebar is there to navigate all the different links. Okay. So this is more like a real application with a lot of details on screen. It looks really well on a large screen. And see what happens when I try to resize the height as well. You will see that actually the floating button is here. Yeah. The floating button is there. Okay. It doesn't take a lot of space to show the details of the page, whatever you want to navigate. The page still works. It's still double tap. It works. So what I really like about material design is it's not so much just a framework that allows you to, say, detect large screens, small screens, and everything. Even a UI element behaves differently on different screens. And a lot of those are not just code. It's actually UX design concepts passed down by Google. And I like the floating button a lot because a lot of time, if you look at Visual hierarchy from VisualCom's design, you would have a navbar on the top and then you have the side links, which are the sidebar. And then you have the content. But then more often than not, you're going to have links in the content when you click and you try to navigate your sidebar or the navbar. But sometimes you want something contextual. What happens? You don't want the content area to change or to swap out your parents. In this case, it would be the sidebar or the parent or the navbar. So what you can do is to provide a floating button. The floating button menu changes as you select different items on the content area. And that would conform to Visual hierarchy pretty much. That's what I like. Okay, so I'm going to go back to these slides for now. Okay, so why material design? It conforms to Visual hierarchy. Why is that important?  So you actually get to write good UI and good UX. Materialism metaphor is a natural approach because it tries to mimic paper. Motion provides meaning. And this is something that a lot of coders, a lot of front-end coders, we know how to create animations, right? Sliding, gradient alpha and all. But sometimes they are overdone. Sometimes we don't use certain effects that we're supposed to do. So if you study material design, it actually teaches you how to use motion in a very meaningful way. So if it comes from the bottom, it wants your attention, comes from the side, it's more so for information navigation. And because of that, you would have less user training with standardized UX. Across different apps, if you apply the same principles, the UX is the same. So a user would know if I swipe from extreme left to the right, I pull up the sidebar. But if I swipe from the center to the right, it's more of navigating between cards. So that's one of the examples. And that example can apply on your watch, on the iPads, most probably on your browser as well. It's a spec rather than a framework for responsive design. And why is that important? Because we all know if you use Rails, it's an MVC framework. But you can actually code it such that you defy all the MVC values. But you're still using Rails. So material design, because it's not specifically an implementation, it's a design concept. So if you do not apply some of the material design principles, you are actually not following material design at all. So that's more important. It has a consistent icon, UI element, look and feel. So it's not just colors, it's not just buttons and all. Your icons as well, you can look at the example there done by Google. It's pretty good, very nice. And so that your app won't have a certain look and feel for buttons, but then the icons look totally different. In fact, if you look at Bootstrap 3 or 4, in order to provide a very good consistent icon design, the Bootstrap guys have reduced the icon set to a very low fidelity, just one color, white or gray or black, more of an outlinish silhouette icon, so that it will fit all situations. But that low fidelity sometimes may not be enough. So material design actually has a guideline for icon design. And because it uses size, color and depth for emphasis, which is more natural. So for example, on an ad ticket, if you want to develop an ad ticketing app, so what's the most important? Not quite the date, because you usually get your boarding pass on the date itself. So the date is not so much important. What's important? The gate number. If you get a gate number, you get the airline correct. You get the rest correct as well. So maybe boarding time. So those, you use a bigger font, maybe a more high contrast color. The rest of the information, maybe lower font size, less contrasting colors. And it works from desktop to watch. Just a short little comparison between material design and Bootstrap. I like to say that material design is 100% replacement, although in certain cases I will still use Bootstrap. So well, material design first and foremost conforms to visual hierarchy, right? And it's a responsive design. Whereas on Bootstrap, if you use Bootstrap, it allows you to conform to a responsive design. There's a huge difference there. So because Bootstrap allows you to know when the screen is small, when the screen is medium, when the screen is large, the default UI elements will respond according. But your custom elements may not respond. And you have the right CSS that detects those sizes and then respond. But since there's no guideline as to how you should respond, so it's up to you. And then you have this ping-pong between your UX guy and you as to maybe force, or small screen switch the fonts to something else and large screen use certain fonts and everything else. Material design is not really an implementation. It's more of a concept. It already shows you how to do so. Material design is a responsive set of layouts, UI elements, and user interactions. Bootstrap is more of a grid system with a default UI look and feel. Like I said, material design is an opinionated UX. So it's very opinionated in terms of the UX. But Bootstrap is very opinionated in terms of the implementation. And therefore, material design does not or does not have a popular implementation yet. There is materialized CSS or materialized CSS. There is materialized from Google. But there's only one official implementation from Twitter for Bootstrap. At the moment, material design is more so a designer ecosystem. Whereas Bootstrap, you have a lot more designer themes. You have plugins and jQuery and all that sort of stuff. The only few plugins that I see that is targeted for material design is ReactJS. I guess hand in hand because of a fixed UX, fixed UI kind of a concept. ReactJS is kind of like naturally suited for that. Material design provides you with transitions, typography, icons, UI elements, tables, colors, layout, and navigation. There's more for layout, icon, for my elements, and navigation. Having said that, Bootstrap 4 is now in alpha, so check it out as well. Alright, so how do you use material design in your code today? You actually can use your material design in your code today. And all you need is to add these two lines, the top two lines. Gem, materialized CSS into a gem file. And I recommend using reals utilities. That's a gem written by Winston. You have to include the icon spawn to utilize all the icons. You have to include materialized sprockets so that all the JavaScripts goes into your assets pipeline. You have to initialize JS and bind some of the events that you want to use. And you can use the built-in CSS classes. And you can also use the sass variables mixing prefixes. Let me see what's the next slide. Okay, so I'm just going to show you a sample. A very basic sample app. Alright, so pretty straightforward. Add materialized sass into your gem file over here. And add reals utilities over here. So that's step one. Step two, include the font icon, right? Sorry, the icon's font. That's simple. Just go to your application layout and include this line. It's actually a web font from Google. Materials icon. Quite straightforward. Okay, next step, initialize JS, sorry, include materialized sprockets. That's also pretty simple. Just go to your application JS and add this line. Require materialized sprockets. And now you have enabled materialize. And the next thing you need to do is initialize JS to bind events. And I happen to have such a file here. The reason why I use reals utilities is because it kind of organizes a JS code for you. So I have a single point of in it for all pages of my app. And this is where you could actually bind all the universal events. You can also bind page specific events or controller specific events if you want to just create more methods or more classes. And you can use like CSS classes. I'm going to demonstrate that by just bringing up one of the hammer files. Quite straightforward. It's actually a Nefbar fix. The Nefbar color is cyan, lighten one. It's a Nefbar wrapper. I have a brand logo here. And I have a vertical align. I have material icons here. It's on the right hand side. It hides on medium and down. So I have two menus. One hides, one doesn't hide. Quite straightforward. And lastly I can use a lot of the SAS variables. So let me show that to you. Utility. Let's see. So this. See that there?  So all the media queries you used to have to tell your CSS, hey, which size to which size. But now you can use all these variables. And that's specified by materialize. And all the classes that you can apply, for example, wave effect, which is this ripple effect when you click on a button, you can just extend it in SAS. Even down to colors. Your primary color, your secondary color. All the different colors, you can use them as variables. And that's basically a very simple demonstration of how you can use it. And if you're wondering, I have a lot more resources to share. The gem comes from materialize.css.com. There is a huge gallery on materialup.com. I'm going to show that to you guys in a sec. You should check out Google's material design spec. There's a lot to read. A lot of videos to watch. It's amazing. There is a gem, another gem called material icons for Rails. Which will just include all the icons to your assets pipeline. There is the material icons guide from Google. And there is another font called material design iconic fonts. And that's also on GitHub. The credits are for some of the references that I have picked up. All the icons that I've seen on the slides, I picked it up from materialup. And some of the websites that I have showcased. So if I were to return back to materialup. It's a very nice website with a lot of showcases of material design. Really really nice. You're all animated. Check it out. Also icons. This is the material design iconic fonts. The actual spec itself from Google. Lots of videos here. You should check it out. And finally the gem that made it all happen. Materialize. So a group of really really nice guys who... Let me bring up the credit page. These guys who made it happen. They implemented all, if not more than the spec. And made it happen. And provided a SaaS friendly gem. So I don't have to learn all the colors, the hexadecimals and everything. I get to use them as variables. I could extend them anywhere I want. I could use them on a markup or within my SaaS. I know that a lot of people don't like to put classes on your HTML tags. They say what if I could just bundle them in a class. So now you can do so. Just keep extending those class in SaaS. And just apply a single class on your markup. And they have a lot of JavaScript stuff. Very nifty tricks. They have applied to the gem. Wonderful team. And yes, if at all I think the credit goes to all of them. They did a good job. In fact, I recommend this gem more so than Materialite from Google. That's all I have. Thank you.


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Lee Hopper. I guess I'm got a passion for this particular motorsport. It's the only motorsport I actually gauge in but it's three events a year and that takes seems to take up any more time amongst other things you want to do in life but this is quite captivating. It's once you get it in your under your skin you want to keep coming back and it's the ability to drive a car like this one which is about 550, 600 horsepower it's only a little old Evo 3 but it's a rocket ship you know the ability to drive at full pace up to 200 kilometers now New Zealand open roads it's just fantastic the roads we have in New Zealand got to be the best in the world just really some of the fast and windy you can really throw the car around you don't have to drive at this pace of course but you know for those little linear with more modest cars and classics that are having a lot of fun just as much fun they're captivated by it as well and the the other thing I guess is the camaraderie great bunch of guys here and everyone's here to help people and I see how to keep everyone going on the road you know I guess I enjoy that social side of it just as much as the racing as well so yeah great great fun great sport


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I want to know if I can get Webster's dictionary to put this in the dictionary as a tortilla snack. It's not a quesadilla. Let's make it. Pay attention to the details. We start out with corn tortillas, not flour. A little bit of oil, pinch of sea salt. Rub that around. A little bit of cheddar cheese. Add your shredded chicken. Dano's hot chipotle. Scoop of pico. A little bit of hot sauce. A little more cheese. Top it with tortilla. Press it down. Some oil on the tortilla. Spread that around. And another pinch of sea salt. And you're like that. Pretty successful. So that's how you make a tortilla snack. Give it a try and you'll see why it should be in the dictionary. Mmm. Yum yum, get yourself.


Good morning everyone and welcome. This is Melissa Armo with a stocks question reviewing spot spot You know spot was a tough one here I Called spot as an option trade last week in the earnings and it rallied so I called it as a put the 150 puts expiring May 18th, and it's gonna end up being a huge trade But I think a lot of people killed it now when you train options in the letter You got to have decide what you want to do for money management I say either kill it at 50% or you hold you hold all of them So that means you hold the ones that work to the big moving and the ones that don't work you hold out Past the 50% mark. So in other words on this day, if you had if you did the put You would have been down and you would have been down more than 50% But this is working out. It's through the straight and actually this is this is going to be a big trade It went two points through the strike this morning And it's going to end up being a huge straight because it's gonna it's going to continue to sell off here now So and in fact this sold off on friday gapped up and fell hard despite the fact the market rally Now that's not the reason this is working. It's working because the gap rated well And and I rarely rarely look at things that don't have a lot of data, which this did not But again use the rating system the 26 points That's how I call the options trades and all the trades we do in the room in the morning It's a day trades and the gap rated good it did that's not to say that every single gap works Sometimes the gap doesn't work and there isn't a reason But very often the gaps that rate well 20 points or more do work way more than not And even if they don't work the actual day of the earnings Or the day of the gap if it was a news gap or a market related gap or a sector gap or a gap for some other kind of Reason other than earnings Usually it will work the next day and that is what happened here That is exactly what happened here and it didn't gap at all today just open and dropped But this is through the strike and it's lower and this is going to end up being a big trade because it's going to continue to sell off here And this is on its own and has nothing to do with the market at all Because you see the market here and you see this So there was one person in the room that said this and he's going to have a big trade in this I mean who apple was huge But who knows this could even be bigger because this could literally literally literally Drop 10 15 20 points even in a week So this will sell off and continue to do so. So it was a really it was it was hard to see that was going to work Except for I went with the ratings. So the rating. It's the gap rating. That's how that you you just it You've got to have conviction in the rating system Which if you don't if you're not a student you don't know But if you sign it for the gap letter and I give the trade I'm giving a face to my rating system Even if you never did the class so you got to go with it But money management rules are still important if you really can't stick with the trade and you're down 50% then kill it But then then you're taking quick profits in the ones that work and killing the ones that don't at 50% And in this kind of tricky market, whatever you decide, you do have to be consistent consistency is key in this market Or you're going to be chopped up to bits and pieces so if you're holding every trade you're holding every trade and then you're getting the big moves and You're and then some the some that you'll lose and you'll lose it. Okay It's still an 80% win ratio with the option letters same as with the day trades So there will be Two out of every 10 trades for the letter you're going to lose an eight out of every 10 You're going to win But some are better than others and this is going to end up probably being a very large winner So congratulations charasing or stayed with it She's the only one in the room and we'll we'll just see where this goes. I'll be monitoring it Have a good day everyone


I wanna touch drinks, yeah bro bro, ¿tienes smote? yeah bro but you don't need pork I'm stuck for the law bro I'm Muslim I can't smoke, Muslims can't drink but they make it fun but no, es haram haram es haram it's okay, you don't need pork because you have many good things in Argentina we have cow me gusta you don't have to worry you don't need it they filter growing your beer is sunnah it's good for Muslims maybe you use so many Muslims because our Prophet Muhammad he make the beers so we follow him because he's our no model I understand but I don't have Korean, my beer is not girl I'm so sad sorry everyone I love that I love that I want that mascar? no, no, no, no, no usually we have 3 hours to do that and she make like 1 second oh my god we need to find that leave in the comments why they have a christmas tree? because muslims don't celebrate christmas but she lives with christian parents so it's like and when she see that christmas tree same same for me too my parents are christian so when they say let's pray to our Jesus and I said I'm like she is so pretty and she can dance so well you got it she look like a goddess you know when you see pretty thing you can say masha'Allah you masha'Allah you know it she so ah, the fashion, I love it no she mad you have it all I love your fashion wow ah, they made it the guy for mary must convert right? good masha'Allah ah but he became muslim before that he understand islam well masha'Allah but this is very common thing in korea too because many people think when muslim girl marry Korean guy they think maybe he just convert islam just for marriage but I saw many Korean muslim convert to islam after marriage they also understand islam very well and practice islam very well they really really really study ah, it's like you ah, it's like you their parents, grandparents or christian but she became muslim what is black box? this is kaba it's in mecca, the Saudi Arabia this is our holy place for muslim before you die we should go here it's called hajj so you go there and pray there one of the duty of muslim it's the first time I see this wow but I have question why they cover this just hiding your hair it's common thing except eyes you hide everything it makes you more modest more mystery it's not compulsory they choose I respect mecca is this? just that just your eyes she's funny I'm hijabis hijab transformation wow she looks better really? I think so too hey fine good match for the rest they think she will like this way she looks more elegant I think she looks elegant I want to try it too ok I want to try I will make you hijab transformation next time ok ok I want like hair last one why do muslims wear hijab this I want to know let's start off with what hijab is hijab is not only just the covering of the hair but an overall act and modesty so not everyone wears proper hijab I don't but hijab is a journey and also is a choice upon a women it is mandatory in our religion but it should never be forced upon a women linguistically hijab means barrier muslim women choose to wear hijab because God instructed us to do so in the Quran however hijab is more than just a piece of cloth hijab is a mentality a symbol of modesty a statement that we value a religion's beliefs and character above our outward appearance I personally wear the hijab because it boosts my confidence and personality ahh I understand now I saw one girl remember elite girl I like spanish girls I guess they are papels people say take off I say why but she wanna study so hard for the dream she take off like in islamic countries I don't know but like in Europe there are many christians and muslims are a minority there are so many discrimination even in Korea there are discrimination too but I hope if people know why muslims wear hijab and why muslims act like this practice like this then they can understand so I hope many people can understand this I just respect that's the saying that I am wearing this t-shirt no one ask me why you are wearing this t-shirt like that so the important thing is respect and love love matters the most ok so how was it I love it, I learned a lot because I don't know nothing I respect more muslim and I want to know more and I want to try the ok let's try next time I think they look elegant but also I don't know meaning behind that is a symbol and it's important so now I know you look beautiful and we love you thank you thank you for teachers today gracias gracias a vos también de nada para mostrarles y espero que les haya gustado y gracias por ver mi vídeo cuéntenlo y nos vemos adiós oh eso es bueno


Good morning. Welcome. Thank you for joining us. Commissioner Carr. Oh, I'm really glad to do it. Thank you Is this your first time in hot springs or you know, I've passed through Arkansas before but this is my first time down in hot springs We're having a great time so far. Well, we're glad to have you. I just want to get started by talking a little bit about what you will Be talking about today Can you give us a tease of what what you'll be? Discussing so look, you know high-speed connectivity having affordable access to the internet is table stakes in today's economy for educating our kids for accessing health care Particularly for America's farmers and ranchers and I was that's a big industry here In Arkansas and the story is a bit mixed across the country really there are many many pockets of this country where we've made Tremendous progress bridging the digital divide over the last couple of years if you look back for instance in 2016 We put up something like 708 new cell sites total in the country that year. Well flash forward to 2019 and we had 46,000 new cell sites go up in this country and that's because at the federal level we were streamlining Regulations we were getting the rules right and that helped unleash a massive build, but it's been uneven particularly around the edges There's still too many parts of this country too many Americans that don't have connectivity The good news with respect to that is we are right now seeing an unprecedented infusion of federal and state dollars Being directed towards efforts to bridge the digital divide at the moment the challenge is less the money and it is more How do we coordinate among local state and federal leaders to make sure that money goes in the ground? That's why this Farm Bureau's connectivity summit is coming at exact right moment and bringing together all of the stakeholders to make Sure that the American people get the bang for the buck of these dollars that are being infused here and that they go into the ground And so is that a concern is making sure that the the money gets to the right? Projects and is funneled correctly and then and everything is tracked accordingly I mean is that a concern at the federal level? I think that's one of the biggest issues You know look there's always a lot of challenges One is infrastructure in terms of the regulations and it frankly costs too much and took too long to build internet Infrastructure in this country and at the federal level we spent the last three or four years Streamlining those rules we've got that in a pretty good spot. The next challenge was how do we have the money? That's needed to build out internet connectivity. Look you've got costs in the ballpark of $30,000 to run a mile of fiber and that makes a lot of business sense when you're downtown in a big city But when you're in parts of the country that have one or two people per square mile That 30,000 isn't going to pencil out for the private sector So we needed an infusion of federal support to do that and now particularly after COVID when everybody realizes the value of connectivity There's a lot of political support support for spending money on infrastructure So yes the point we're at now is how do we take that money and make sure it doesn't get? Sidetracked either to overbuilding places that already have service or Upgrading gold plating places that already have pretty good broadband How do we focus that money in areas that have zero megabits per second and this is particularly important for farm country? So a lot of people wonder well, it's not a lot of people there. Why do you need high-speed connectivity across America's farms and ranches? And I'll tell you here's the reason we now have the technology that can pull 18 gigabits worth of data off of a single plant This is imaging. This is soil sensors So you can take all that data and that's what we need to get productive efficient farming today Well 18 gigabits of data. That's about two times the amount of data that the average smartphone user Consumes every single month. So when you look out on, you know, Arkansas's soybeans rice fields every single Plant think of it as a smartphone and that will start to give you a sense for the data needs And why we need high-speed coverage to blanket this country not just concentrated population centers Yeah, and I think that is something we've seen that people don't take into account a lot of the farm equipment these days is very you know technology dependent and Not only that but then you have people dealing with education, you know They're their kids going to school in these rural areas and having some difficulty connecting even with schools We heard a lot during this COVID period of kids going to local McDonald's Just so they can connect, you know and do some of their schoolwork. So there's lots of challenges in those areas What's the Do you have any good examples of who's doing this right or you know states that have really attacked this in certain ways that you've seen That are models well, you're right that Combines tractors today. They're essentially many data centers. I mean obviously they have the ability to drive themselves I've been on many of them and you see the amount of connectivity that they have and that they need You're right during COVID-19 parents were driving kids McDonald's to use the Wi-Fi hotspots and we need to get the job done so that we don't see that anymore I think one thing that Arkansas is positioned very well with and I was at an event just recently and obviously at this summit as Well with Governor Hutchinson is they put in place a grant Body that can take federal or state dollars and award that money to broadband projects So I think that's an important model that the state is doing right. I think broadband mapping is another key Congress directed the FCC over a year ago gave us a hundred million dollars After that to stand up nationwide broadband masks to help states Federal government accurately identify right here's where we're missing connectivity. Let's put money there And until we get those maps completed That's a bit of a choke point with respect to federal funding because I don't want to be pouring billions of dollars And that's what we've got billions of dollars not knowing exactly where there's connectivity There's not we've got to identify with precision the unconnected communities And I know that's something you've talked a bit about is the mapping process Where do things stand in the mapping process? Is there anything states can do to help with that process? Well, unfortunately, it's a bit of a black box right now and it shouldn't be so I work at the FCC and At the beginning of the year in January or February, you know I asked our new leadership when we can get these maps done and the answer I got was not this year I Then called for the FCC to complete the maps this fall, which is about now But we haven't gotten any indication of when the FCC's new leadership is going to complete that now It's a hard project. We've got staff working very very hard to get it done I don't grudge what they're doing I just think we should be more up front with our timeline because then that will decide Can I wait another month for this map and then use that to drive my? State effort or is it going to be another year down the road when I maybe got to stand at my own state initiative to Look at mapping, but ideally we'd be running the mapping solely at the federal level because we want one map That's accurate. We don't need a lot of inaccurate maps, right? Is there anything you know people can do with the you know grass roots level to help You know move that process along or is there anything that you want to hear from people out there? When you're getting feedback or what's the process there for people to say we want to be a part of this And what can we do to help? Yeah, you know, you know state reps You know just everyday people yes speaking up and sort of asking where we are in that process But I think the most important thing is what we're going to do here today Which is you're bringing federal leaders local leaders state leaders together make sure we know who each other are that We're talking with each other that we're on the same page. I mean events like this You may be able to see it in a tangible way But this is gonna make a big difference to make sure that we move quickly and efficiently with internet builds Great. Well, we appreciate you being here today. Look forward to hearing from you later And thank you for taking time to join us really appreciate it. Thanks


In our upcoming video, we're exploring what is possibly the oldest snack food, popcorn. But before we dive into that history and some of the ancient methods of making it, I wanted to explore a little more of the science behind it. So let's explore why popcorn pops, what other seeds can be popped, and then push it to the next level and experiment with the device that allows even more items to be popped, which was invented 100 years ago and revolutionized the breakfast cereal game. Let's try and shoot some food from guns, using probably the most dangerous method to cook popcorn. And maybe even see if we can make our own cocoa puffs. First, why does popcorn pop? Popcorn kernels come from a specific breed of flint corn, one that I've grown myself for our next video. Let's design to replicate some ideal circumstances that allow the seeds to pop. Flint corn in a few other varieties can be popped, largely due to its hard outer shell, for which it's named, for supposedly being as hard as flint. This hard outer shell acts as a pressure chamber, so when heat is applied, the moisture inside expands into steam and slowly builds pressure. Inside, the popcorn seed contains starch, which when heated with a small amount of water inside the shell, gelatinizes into a soft, swelling substance. As the pressure inside builds up to around 135 pounds per square inch, the hole fails and the superheated steam forces the gelatinized starch outward, which then solidifies into popcorn. So for the pop, it needs a hard outer shell, and the right amount of moisture and starch inside. Popcorn is probably the best grain for undergoing this process, but a variety of other grains can also be popped. So I have a few different ones that I've either grown or in the process of growing, so let's try them all out and see how well they pop just on their own before we go to the more advanced cannon. Let's give it a shot. All right, so I went through and tried popping a variety of different grains here. We got different results. Popcorn is obviously the best. So I think it was probably the closest. The little itty bitty popcorn kernels. Wild rice was, I think, pretty reactive and got some decent pops. Regular rice, also a lot of them didn't pop, but a few did. Similar to popcorn, the pre-cooked rice actually puffed up and looks like a little Rice Krispies. This is the Amaranth, which mostly just puffed just a little bit. Pretty similar with the quinoa, puffed just slightly, and the teff. Barely see it. Very small little puffs in there now. And then the wheat. None of them really popped, but they definitely kind of expanded. But what if you want to pop something that doesn't have that strong outside shell? Well, then you're going to need a special device that I happened to stumble across wandering around the streets that she had in China several years ago. Following a loud bang, I discovered a vendor using a unique apparatus to explode a bag of popcorn all at once. Since then, I've always been intrigued and curious its history and how it works. When you research the popcorn cannon, as it's often called, frequently it's referred to as a traditional method of making popcorn by street vendors in China and other Asian countries. However, digging deeper, I was surprised to learn this foreign technique was actually invented back in the US by Alexander Anderson in 1901, and the exact method was refined in my own hometown of Minneapolis. And his invention was instrumental in producing many forms of breakfast cereals we eat today. As you know, Quaker Puffquit and Quaker Puff Rice are shot from guns. We'd like to show you this process. Knowing more as the puffing gun, he debuted it in the 1904 St. Louis World Fair, where he would puff rice using eight cannons, often advertised as food shot from guns. This technology was utilized by many different breakfast cereals, and a version of the puffing gun was instrumental in the invention of kicks and cereals. So we've got here is a little popcorn cannon right from China. The box was horribly beat up and like half the pieces were missing. So I had to kind of improvise and go a little frame to hold it, put everything else is here, and I should be able to still operate it. It's a pretty similar setup to what they first used when they invented it. There's a variety of like different temperatures and pressures you want for different grades. So it's going to be kind of a wild guess at this point on which ones will work at what point and how it will turn out and everything. So with mentioning that this is potentially super dangerous, China has different safety standards than the US. Something like this would not be possible to sell in the US. This is basically a pipe bomb if it goes wrong. If it overpressurizes and goes beyond the capacities of the actual container, it's going to explode and that won't be good. We might die. So I'm going to try and take some precautions, not be in direct range of it when we have it going. I have it set up with our ball mill motor to kind of rotate it, so I don't have to be by it and hopefully reduce any potential risk. So don't do this at home. Give it a shot, see what it does. So basically just load up a few cups of grain inside here, seal it up, tighten it up, then apply the heat with a torch, rotate it so that no one side burns. Then once it reaches the desired pressure, whack it open and it all goes flying out. All the starch will instantly expand and you'll have puff grains. And fully open. Oh, it's got to lift it up. Oh, that's my fault. So it made the mistake of not lifting it off. The lid of it connects to the bar there. So when I released it, it could open all the way and just kind of puffed inside of it and trapped it all and then because it's still hot, I'll have it burnt. Some of them came out pretty good. It tastes pretty good. This looks like more standard popcorn. So they're generally known for coming out more like this where they look puffed instead of popped. We're not popping corn, we're puffing it. That was a successful fire and that was the most dangerous way to pop popcorn. It's still pretty good. It's good stuff. Try the next grain. Next let's do rice, which is what it was originally intended for. Kind of the predecessor for Rice Krispies. Their process of making Rice Krispies now is a little bit different but this kind of would have inspired it by puffed rice. So slurred up. Just have a medium grain rice. See what we get? A little snap, crackle, pop. Boom. The first attempt didn't pop much. So let's try again at a little bit higher pressure. I'm off there. Try to lift it down. But, huh, that definitely puffed. It's like popcorn. I don't quite the result I was expecting. Literally looked like popcorn. It tastes like popcorn. Almost a little bit more bland popcorn. Yeah, that's popped rice I guess. Almost like the Rice Krispies. A little different. So we're done. It's kind of scary as it just started shooting way up really quick. Right into the red. Less pressure maybe? It is now a sauna in here. So I think I got a little overcooked. Feel it close. It did pop. Little, little pop guys in there. Mostly charcoal. So puffed charcoal is anything edible in it? Not horrible. That one's a little bit more horrible. We try that again. We try a lower pressure to get a better result. After some issues with the gauge, had to reset and do some adjustments to get it working again. Then back at it again. This time with some wheat berries. This is wheat. I don't know if they fully pop. They're supposed to puff. So we got some dried sweet corn here. Going to give that a shot. See if you can make popcorn out of the sweet corn.  Looks like we just drove through a thing of flies. That last blast completely knocked out the cheap gauge on the cannon. So time to pick up a new one and reset once again. But in the meantime. Since we have the puff cannon now, we are going to use it to puff some cereal. I'm going to make my very own version of cocoa puffs. Using cocoa, cornmeal, sugar, and some oil. I am a great baker. I'm lying. All right, here I go. Does not look good. Oh god. New gauge. Who dis? I've got my beans. All right, so I tried a few different grains and got mixed results with those. So now I'm going to try something a little bit different. Beans. So you have a wide variety of different beans. We've got soybeans. We've got mung beans. Then we've got some bling beans that I dehydrated. All you kind of standard bean soup beans. Throw them all in there and see if they work. As I've previously proven by making beer or just wine out of beans, they do contain a fair amount of starch and these are all dried. So it should meet the qualifications in that regard. And it'll just be the lack of a hard outer case that prevents them from normally popping. So with the use of the cannon here, in theory, she'll get some puff beans. Beans. They did something. Green bean. Pretty much charred with the lime of bean. Nice and puffed. Black bean. Kind of puffed, but not too well. Lime beans look interesting. They've definitely puffed. That should be good. Kind of like a chip. I believe this is soy bean. Ooh, that's very hard. Looks like a pinto bean possibly. Also very hard. This might be a mung bean. Not too bad. Try one of these green beans. Mostly char. Not very good. Lime beans definitely showed the most impact. They definitely puffed and actually pretty edible. So definitely worked.  But next up I'm going to try some different starches. Potatoes and sweet potatoes. Both have a lot of starch. Should be expandable. So I cut them up into slices. Basically chips. Dried them out. Now I'm going to see if they puff. See if we get some nice, puffy potato chips or something. Maybe better if they were cooked first. I'm not sure. I'm going to try them raw. See what happens. Check out the damage. Definitely worked. These guys are certainly puffed. See how they taste. I think this is a sweet potato. It's like styrofoam. They did work. They did puff. They are definitely thicker, fluffier. I think this is a potato. All right. The last and not least, I have the cocoa puffs that I had Lauren put together. For now they're kind of just dry dough balls. One of the main ingredients in this is corn flour. So that should expand with the starch inside of it. And get a little bit more puffier. These are basically just kind of biscuits. So the big question is how moist they should be. Let them dry out because I didn't want them to all gloop back together into one ball. The one reference I found to like when they made cakes and stuff was it was still damp. So I kind of re-moistened them so they aren't completely dry. Who knows what will happen. Load it up and give it a shot. All right. So basically everything broke in my last attempt. The ball didn't stop working and they torched. Stopped working consistently. The camera stopped recording. And yeah, I didn't die at least. I don't think I did much. I don't think it worked. It was a little bit puffier but not a whole lot better. I was after several days of experimentation trying out the popcorn cannon or puffing gun. These are pretty much all the results. Besides the ones that are stuck to the wall. There's a fair amount of like trial and error you need to do to actually get good results. Pretty hard to get things to adequately puff but not burn. Probably took years of research to figure out how to make these cereals. So probably not going to get in the first attempt. Potatoes and sweet potato. Very weird. They don't have much flavor and they're very foamy now that they've expanded pretty bland. It just seems like I'm eating styrofoam. If I had seasoned them before, it might have been a much better result. Same with some of the beans. The lime beans are probably the best ones. They're still pretty hard and then the green beans and such were just charred. So it might be better to actually precook them and then dry them again and then fire them. I'm not sure. Lots of different things to try out. Not a lot of documentation because not many people do this now. Probably because it's dangerous. The cocoa puffs were not very successful. They seem to be pretty much the same consistency as before. And my suspicion is that they are just not moist enough. They probably dried out too much. They do have these weird little white specks on them which looks like it's expanded starch. So I think it was kind of a partial reaction because it didn't have enough moisture. The wheat didn't puff as much as I thought it would. I was hoping to get more like a cereal. They're like really puffed. These are pretty similar to what happened when you cooked them in oil. So of all of them, probably the rice and the popcorn turned out the best and most edible sort of one was pretty good as well. Sweet corn was kind of a long shot. It doesn't really have enough starch to be effective and that just kind of splattered all over the wall. So that was fun. Yeah, so this has been a fun experiment to kind of see why things pop and what are kind of the extremes of it. And tune in for next week's video. We're gonna actually go through the history of popcorn. I'm gonna grow my own popcorn and we're gonna make popcorn. So stay tuned for that. Hope everybody enjoyed this. 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So we're going to talk about selling gap days and buying gap days and some good practices to use during those. Boeing, the only reason why airlines are down is because of NCLH, everybody expects further travel restrictions. So what I'm going to talk about mainly today is AAL and really airlines in general. But first, let's look at the market. So a common practice is if you are buying dips or shorting pops, whatever it is, okay? Shorting pops, buying dips, it doesn't matter. If you're accumulating a position over a period of time, all right, accumulating a position over a period of time and you fail to sell or cover into the gap, an extremely large percentage of the time the gap is going to fill, all right? And how you react during that time is what dictates really a lot of your trading. People will mistake what a big gap percentage is, okay? You need to know what's within certain range tolerances, all right? So a good metric for that, and we're just going to be very simple with it, is called ATR, average true range. And it's usually calculated on a 14-day look back period. So that means that it's going to take an average of the range each day for the last 14 trading days, okay? So if you have $2, $4, it's going to be a positive number. There's not negative range. One strategy and one form of analysis in swing trading is by just judging a weekly candle, all right? And if we judge based on the market and we look at weekly candles, at the end of 2019, all right, the last week of 2019, the average range per week, the average range per week and you can see it in the bottom left hand of my screen, all right? If I hover over this, you will notice this number right here will update. Using it in that metric, you could change your look back period and calculate the average and stuff like that, but or we could go into some really in-depth study and find out, you know, what the average gapping day or what the average trading day is or the average gap in the market and then you can go and judge what an outlier might be, okay? So an example of that, and this is just some food for thought, we're not going to do this or this webinar would be four hours long, okay? Outliers are going to be using deviations, all right? So you're going to calculate the average gap and then the standard deviation, okay? Of spy in 2019 and you can calculate all of this stuff out and figure out all these metrics and everything like that. Now, I mean, these can help you learn how to trade the market itself and learn what is an outside day and what is an inside day that, you know, an outside would be that it's trading outside of its normal days range or it's trading at an elevated number or an elevated or extended gap range. I'm just going to give you a metric just to judge off of it, a normal days range and I'm going to go back and I will actually do this study and I will share it with you guys, okay? So whatever the average is, you have that number, it's positive 0.5%, right? And then you calculate the standard deviation, which is an algebraic formula, it's really not that hard to figure out. If you do this in Excel, all you got to do is this. So Excel formula for standard deviation, like you don't even need to know what standard deviation is or how it's calculated, okay?  That's it. That's all you got to do. All right?  All right? What I'm going to explain to you is this is going to be how you can tell what a difficult day is going to be, okay? This is all very complicated to say something extremely simple. For me, it's when the market gaps like 2% or more, plus or minus, okay? That's a big gap for me. And it is almost always a gap that you need to be selling into or buying into, all right? Or covering, I'm sorry, not necessarily just like at the open, just buy that shit, which historically has worked in the market except for here. When it increases and it becomes the number one position, like today is UONE is the number one position in Robinhood accounts in increases, right? Increased number of positions of Robinhood accounts, holding shares of each asset. We started at 46.75 and we increased to 18.678, which was a 14,000% increase. Is that what that means? Or is that a 14,000? Oh, no. That's just adult. That's just a physical increase. What I wanted to point out here, what I thought was funny was that AAL was like number two, okay? In like biggest decreases, okay? And I thought that that was, like Roger said here, a good metric is a 50% increase in the call options, okay? A good metric to start scaling some out is always when you're up 50% on the position. And a lot of people think it's really hard to make 50% on a position in options.    It went to three days. In the three day decreases, it was in like the top five.   So big parabolic washout. And so it was the number one decrease in 24 hours and it was like in the top five decreases, uh, in positions in like three days or five days or some shit like that.   Faye is not invited, all right?  I'm just not going to be able to do it, all right? So remember, these are not decreased positions. These are the number of accounts holding shares, all right? So this is the number of accounts that have went flat, right? Totally exited. So usually when that is the case, uh, it's probably near a bottom. Um, and for example, HTZ is the number one decrease today, but it's not that much, okay? There's still a lot of people holding this stock. And so there's no real good, like, bottom dip buys right now that, um, I see, but obviously number of increases, everybody, I mean, we started the day with 4,600 people holding shares of UOINI, which probably are not selling.  This would have been a good gap to sell into, all right? Had you bought a position like I did, uh, and held it overnight. Here is the gap and here's a great example of what happens. Look at what happens at the open, at the open, you get the big sell down, all right? The push to 17 and fails to continue, fails to continue, fails to continue, and then you get the big washout, all right? And most people, most people, when you've got a double top, the tendency is to, um, like adjust for that. Just to correct it, okay?   Like, I'm just looking at this chart and being like, oh, that's a first green day right there and like that's 58 to 48, roughly 49, 58 to 49. Okay.  There's some inefficiency in the price there. Okay. I see an opportunity. AAL. AAL, we gap from 1650, 1670, we gap all the way to 21. Something like that.  We gapped 65 points and the average true range on any given day is 56 points prior to the volatility. And so we are like way outside the range. Like we're at the max extension of the range. So that is going to tell you that when we are at the max extension of a range and there's no catalyst to why we're continuing higher, like today was like retail increase, like retail number of increases, but that isn't really much to go on. So when you get a big catalyst that is a justification to why you should make that upward move or downward move and that price extension to create a new range, then it would make sense to hold into the gap.


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Hey everyone, welcome to Arslan. We have two new banners guys dropping today I'm not sure if some of you or most of you have Have drawn in these banners, but I'll try to get this out and decide if both either or none of these banners are Bait banners. Okay, so we have here Silva we have here Cassie She's named cash. I don't know why but we'll start off with Silva. I'm just gonna give you guys an overview of If sorry Going to give you an overview and let you decide whether she's worth pulling or not and give you my points After I don't know all the things that we have this we have shown to you So Silva lacks damage first false victim to water elements, especially if Charlotte is there So that's a problem, especially for PVP has to do a debuff in order to For enemies to take more damage Also buffs allies not enough to consider her actually in terms of those of both of those skills. I would Probably advise you guys to wait for off banner poles just in case you want her But in the end I would steer clear of her banner Not really in the high tier. She's actually considered a B tier to be honest, but on the off hand Let's take a look at Cassie here. So as a tank she is really hard to position Also has decrease of physical defense of enemies and She is really just a hard roll on defense. She doesn't contribute much an offense Again a tank should be hard on defense, but also average on offense at least Okay, she's dependent so much on her unique equipment That she needs to increase the area of her debuff Decent enough tank in escort if you ask me. I think she is in Tier A if I can recall You may really pull for her if you really need a tank at this point, especially for beginners Especially if you were not able to you know to catch Richard's banner And if you don't have a tank or again, you have other choices here for a tank. You can actually pull for The banner of Gabriel is still here So again, if you really need a tank that is of water element I think that is only the only time that you should pull for Cassie Okay, but let's let's do a showcase on the both of them So that at least you could you know further decide whether you'd like their kit or not Okay, so this is the event announcement here is the hero experience and let's try Silva out. Okay guys, so we have here Silva. Let's have this a go So you can actually move to the front most you can use this skill to do an AOE damage It's actually a wide range. So take note that Silva can do a big damage Can do great damage if they're all bunched up, especially if it's in an AOE Let's confirm this and let's shoot those buggers there So we have four left Hopefully she can survive the the four and Deal enough damage Okay, so and we move and shoot Okay, so move just a little bit Then shoot There you go. Nice animation, but you guys will need animation when you're playing, right? Let's move further She can she can be viable guys actually But again If we're looking for a shooter definitely She is going to help you in some of the stages, but not all Okay, so that is you know, that is my my opinion and also again Shh in terms of in terms of enemies clumping up together It's very rare it even in PvE scenario So I don't think you'll use it to that high to that great value in terms of our AOE in terms of our ultimate so moving to the next one which is Cassie here, so let's try out her hero experience Okay, so we have here Cassie and we Have her as a tank. I think we have our ultimate here. So let's Read this first No, not there you're supposed to go there and do a shield and Protect that guy there So you can shoot Okay, so guarding one So Cassie is strong against against fire. This one is Her skill damage to all enemies. Let's try to Use it there. Okay, so that everybody would Get a taste Okay, let's see how she fares in a brawl situation And if she survives Let's see. Let's see. There you go. That is how she's used. So Kind of okay Her offense isn't that much But I'll take it. I think she's she's more valued for her defense anyway So again, if you don't have any tank, especially if you're looking for a water tank Probably she's the second best from Richard If you're just looking for a tank, you actually still have Gabriel's banner available up until now so For Cassie Maybe if you want to summon for her but for Silva, I don't think so I don't think that the demo earlier gave her much value because again, she needs to Release that AOE damage where a lot of enemies should be clumped up and probably you can get value again There aren't a lot of lightning enemies. So more or less, you don't need that much fire at this point So thank you guys for staying this far. Take care. Stay safe. This is the warden and I'm out of here