Welcome, it's documentation office hours the 31st of August 2023 topics on the agenda for today blog posts. Choosing a plugin bill of materials version Java 1117 and 21 Google summer of code and I think we should move this one much higher on the list because it's actually got real action. Existing requirements document, then some bookkeeping items and DevOps world anything else Bruno. No, thank you more. Okay, so let's look at the blog post first and see what we've got an impressive array of blog posts that arrived over the course of the last few days. So we've got exactly we've got the risk five blog post from Bruno. We've got Docker base quick start examples summary from Ashutosh. Okay, we've got get lab plugin modernization. Modernization from harsh. Then we've got summer internship and security which I think was also before no no this was before our last. Yeah, 23rd. So that was eight days ago right so that that was not in our lab that was already there. Good. Okay. That's a victory. Nice. Yeah. Do Google summer of code so Bruno you want to share with us how Docker compose for tutorials is going. So we are almost at the end we are in the last week of call some of code for this project so the goal was to modify the existing documentation for the tutorials and to simplify them. Quite a lot and to get rid also of Docker and Docker in these tutorials because it was very intimidating for first time users. We are at the end of the project and we haven't been able to integrate the new documentation into Jenkins.io yet. And we haven't been able to insert our Docker images for these tutorials in the Jenkins Docker Hub repo either but we all we have all the material to do so the thing is the time frame was kind of short to get all of this done. And we can't integrate the documentation as long as we're not using the Jenkins Infra Hub though it's a chicken egg problem but only there and we do hope to be able to integrate everything into Jenkins.io and the Jenkins TI Infra by So by the end of September if all planets get aligned correctly. We'll see but now we have now four or five five tutorials working with just one command which I find beautiful it just Docker compose up in the name of the tutorial and bam you've got a working Jenkins instance with an agent and ready to go. So if you want to start with node you're we've got you covered with Python also with Maven and it's working thanks to the huge work of Ashutosh and it was a joy to work on this project and I do hope we'll be able to integrate that into the Jenkins.io website soon. Excellent thank you. You're welcome. Docker compose up that's and and what that does then is that downloads from a downloads a container image that we maintain right and that has current versions with current plugin versions. Yes. In fact we try to get it as up to date as possible so you're we're using the Jenkins LTS version of course but as for the plugins we have something that runs every day and proposes a new plugin versions if ever they exist so you're Guaranteed that you're using the latest versions of plugins and officer Jenkins LTS that's pretty cool but yes. The problem is it's still on Ashutosh Docker Hub repo and not on Jenkins and that's why people could be afraid of using that and that's why we can put that in the official documentation yet. But the PRs should arrive you know for Jenkins.io website should arrive next week hopefully and we won't be able to merge them of course but they will be there we can discuss for a few weeks and then hopefully integrate them into the website one of the Jenkins info has our images in there Docker Hub repo. Very good. And do the have you found that the tutorials when using this run it with a single argument. Which tutorial you want to do they collide with each other or is it okay that they I can can I run. Both the Python tutorial and the Maven tutorial on the same machine or do I have to destroy something to make them work together. To make the same machine yeah on the same machine at the same time I'm afraid it's not possible yet. But can I run them on the same machine at different times with one torn down. Yes. The trick is you have to do a Docker compose down minus V if I'm not mistaken between the two.  Very good okay so well and and it gets them the experience of hey compose compose really is doing things on your system you've got to take action when while it's running it's running if you want to stop it you need to stop it. Yes because if ever you reboot it will still be there right stop it right Docker compose is very good at persisting things right that's part of its job. All right. Excellent. Thank you. Anything else you want to share. No except the time proud of progress. That's okay. Very good. Thank you. Well actually there is something more to share right which is that the demonstration, the final presentation will be September 14 is that right. You're right. Yeah, we'll have a 10 minutes presentation and five minutes for the question and September the 14 for all the projects which are for. Yeah. Very good. Congratulations. All right. Thank you. So the second documentation for Jenkins Vandit continues to progress. We've extended the the project has been extended for a little bit extended a few weeks for a few weeks for Vandit's benefit he was able to continue the additional work and moving forward. He's been struggling with Gatsby, I think. But gave in Morgan came to the rescue and I think they will solve the issue. In a few days. Yeah. Very good. All right. Anything else on Google summer of code. No, thank you. Okay, so we have an open one on how to describe the process of choosing a plug in bill of materials version I made no progress this week as a reminder. The question was raised by a Jenkins contributor from I think sales force. Yes, Kyle Leonard. And the question was how do I choose the bomb version. And there are a number of comments there. We discussed it in Docs office hours Asia came to some conclusions and now it just needs to be implemented. And yeah, there were some additional ideas we could consider using update CLI to update the documentation. We could static reference older versions in addition to the most recent release, etc, and a blog post was a suggestion that we had. And the Java next topic Java 11 Java 17 and Java 21. There's more work needed there and that work continues I've got it scribbled on my whiteboard behind me, but haven't yet turned it into something I can discuss with the Jenkins community. We've got interesting challenges hiding there. More more happening hopefully later this week. Any questions on Java 11 Java 17 and Java 21. The first time you explained that in that I listen, I thought it was pretty straightforward, but then you discovered some hidden things and you had to, yeah. Right, it is definitely not straightforward. And so if there's that's why the diagrams are, I think so crucial here is to show, look, here's what we've done in the past. We're doing what we think we should do now and here's where I think we should go in the in the future say two years from now. And each of those is a step on this progression process so I'll I'll get those together and start sharing them. Thank you for that. The next topic was, we had had a discussion with Kevin about possibly embedding the so we've got a document here. When we look at installing Jenkins and we look on Linux for instance there's a section here called software requirements. It links to separate pages related to Java requirements to web browser compatibility to windows support policy Linux. All all very useful things but only available through links embedded inside these pages it's never visible over here on the left hand navigation contents. And Kevin, Kevin observed really it should probably be on the left hand in a separate section. So he's creating a poll request that will create a new, a new chapter here on the left and this chapter. I think has he's even given we discussed a possible name for it and I think it was platform information. I mean the previous meeting notes. Yeah, right and Kevin's Kevin sent me a link to a prototype in his working repository and I was able to do some tweaks to it. I don't think that he has yet submitted a poll request so more work needed there but it is looking promising. So what I ultimately proposed was what if we renamed Java requirements to Java support policy and then had four pages for support policies in the chapter. No actually five, all five of these as support policies. Then there was one additional topic that was related to upgrade and I think that he's been persuaded by my arguments that we probably want an entirely separate chapter on upgrading Jenkins, because it's, it's there are lots of things to consider when upgrading Jenkins. Even there are already a section somewhere about upgrading Jenkins or is it just blog posts. I don't see in my searching and I may have to do more searching I know that Vandit had started work on a an upgrading Jenkins but I'm not sure it was ever merged so needs more looking if it if it does exist it's not as a top level chapter. Oh, maybe it should because we have some questions on Community Jenkins are you regarding that exactly how do I questions like how do I upgrade across multiple major versions of LTS. Right, I'm going from 2.387 all the way to 2.414 how do I do that. What are my choices and why that kind of thing. Yeah, I'm always tempted to answer. Oh, you should have done it earlier. Goodbye. Thank you. Good luck. That sir is a very bad attitude. I know. Yes, very good. So discussion and refinement will continue. Anything else on the support policy document. No, but that's an important thing. Yeah, that's something interesting and that may we may discover it on that some other things are missing. Right. We have to. Yeah, we have to start somewhere. That's cool. Thanks. Excellent. Then next was I've got an action item that I'm giving myself to archive the Docs Office hours notes because what you'll see here if we look at the table of contents is getting Yeah, it's 25 pages of 56 pages right now. So it's it's too long. And what we did before was create archives of multiple months that we can reference for history when we need it. So it's the same kind of document, except it's show exactly just all we do is truncate this copy this create a copy of this document then truncate this document. Yeah. And that's all that I had for one more is devops world tour I owe a blog post. And I hope to get that done today. Because you will be the star on stage. I will be one of the speakers. Yes, one of the speakers. Anything else for today. It's for today, but it's for tomorrow. I think you will see Ashutosh tomorrow in the Asia Docs Office hours. Oh, I don't think you will do a demo but you could maybe discuss what's going on in the very last straight line of the project. Very good. All right. About 12 hours from now. Yeah. Super. Look forward to seeing him. Anything else. No, thank you, Mark. All right, thanks recording will be available whenever I make it available.


The following is a presentation of TFNN, the Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now. Call free at 1-877-927-6648. Good morning, everyone. Basil Chapman here. This is the Tiger Technicians Hour on Friday, the 22nd of September. What we're seeing right now is really not what I wanted to see if I was anticipating some kind of a major low coming in, say, Monday or Tuesday. The day is young, and what I would say is this. Let's just do this backwards. Normally, I'd look at the VIX later, but I'll look at the VIX right now. The VIX index, and this is the volatility index based on options. Let's just look at it as a price. You don't even have to know how it's calculated. It doesn't matter. It ran up exactly the 200-period moving average yesterday.  The S&P got hammered. Look at this huge candle. Look at the way it's pulling back today. It's 16.51. It got to the 17s yesterday. The weekly chart has made a new low over the last two weeks at 12.68, just a tad under the previous lows that were made back in July and August. But what's really important is, you see this table here in the volatility index in the monthly chart? Look at this. It just goes back. Once upon a time, for the Greece crisis, nobody even remembers that anymore, $48 back in August of 2011. We've been all over the show. We actually hit $89 back in the bank crisis of October of 2008. Within this context, the majority of the price movement in the volatility index is in the 20s, and then it got raised because of COVID. The baseline was much higher. Eventually, it did things like 53, the China domestic, China US rates. Back in August of 2015, it did 53.29. We've got a pullback down to the 84 and the 856 area in 2017. It spirals up to higher yields, just tariffs, China, Saudis, everything. Back it's 50.30. That was right here, February of 2018. Pulls back again, pulls back to the tennis area, pops up to 36.20 December of 2018. There again, faired in yields. China was a big pop-up in July of 2019. It keeps coming back because this is the magnet line for the volatility index. Even if we have a major, some bad news or anything, and the volatility index screams up, and now it's making lower lows for quite some time. If it screams up into the 20s, that's a warning to say, Mark is going to be pulling back, but you can't expect a major low from this area here at 16.57. I shouldn't say you cannot. Things can happen, but the rotational correction that we've been looking at is still ongoing. With this context, what I was anticipating was there was a chance, and the reason why we still remain short to down the short, the SMH is the semiconductor ETF. The reason is that if you're looking at this context yesterday with that big green candle, we hardly ever see a candle on a Friday like that. Look, this is one big green candle here on a Friday, and that was back in August of 2018. That's a couple of weeks ago, and then the market started to pull back after that high. Now what we're looking at is within the context of this particular, just patterns, this age pattern, there is always a chance that if it's successful and either just tags the left side low, in this case the low of 12 point, I think it was 70 something. Yeah, it's 73, 12.73 back the week on the 23rd of June. So it's taken that out, but fractionally, and it's closed that same week, that's the last week, closed above it, and this week it's even higher. And that's saying to me that there is a chance that this dreaded age, which has become so far a successful age, even though it did take out the left side low, could become a cup formation. So with all those things said, I was anticipating that yesterday with that big green candle, if instead I'd said, there's a chance that we'll find some strength today. But what I would like to see, and those are two separate things completely, what I would like to see is by the end of the day, the volatility index closes up towards the high. In other words, towards yesterday's high of 17 was at 57, 1754. So somewhere in that range, we're at 1669, a lot has to happen for that to transpire. But that's still my wish. One of the reasons is it's a wish because I'm hoping that if we close ugly, Monday and Tuesday, remember there was this expression, it's really just a mantra, kind of a, wow, what do you call those things? It's just an expression that you sell on Russia's show on the Jewish holiday, the new holiday, and you buy after your kippah that's a day of fasting, which will be Monday. It's hardly ever worked. This year has actually worked quite well, but that's just unusual. But my thinking here was that if we could close really ugly, if somehow some way late this afternoon, all of a sudden the Dow instead of being up 38 points now is actually not down 38, it's got to be down 90. And then as we go into the closes down 150, and the S&P suddenly turns around instead of being up 12, it is down 18 or more, and then the news comes out of the weekend, oh, bad action, one of the worst weeks we've had, blah, blah, blah, then next week we'd be ready for at least a decent rally attempt for a couple of weeks. That's a possibility, right? I mean, some of these stocks have really been hammered, some of the really good stocks. I mean, look at Amazon. Amazon hasn't been hammered per se, but look at this weekly chart. At a peak E, having achieved the 140s, left side, right side price time match and everything, and now extending just by one pop to 145.86 last week above the 143.63 level peak D a couple of weeks ago.  And yet the 90 is not even close to turning down in the weekly chart. Yes, we've got a sell mode in the daily. And that's what I'm saying. I think we need more time to let this resolve itself. The 121-200 period exponential moving average in Amazon is an idea that I would have, even if there is a pop and a decent rally in the next week or two. I'm still thinking that's the way we'd go. Look, yes, Van Neck retail ETF, 20% is Amazon. It reaches 199 back in November of 2021 has a pretty decent rally. This is the RTH is assembled trading right now up 71 cents at 170.79. It went to the dreaded H pattern. It went right down to the 200 period exponential moving average yesterday. It just broke down. And look, here's the weekly chart. This could be an A to B equals C to D. That's the classic TFNN lightning pattern, lightning bolt pattern. So, and here's your major uptrend support level. I'm saying we cannot be too sanguine right now. We're not quite done. I'll be back in a moment. 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Sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders. Just visit the front page of TFNN.com. Toll free at 1-877-927-6648. Internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. I had a question about the semiconductors. Do I think it's going to pull back again? It's up $1.25. It's just intraday. A couple of people. I made it to stop on our most recent SOXS. That's three times long. Sorry, three times short. The SMH is tad too tight. And then it's screened from the 1070s up to the 12s. Some people held it. Congratulations. Took some profits yesterday at the close or this morning. And just wanted to know, where would you go back in? I'm going to suggest something. And this is only for people who have actually traded this vehicle because you really have to understand it can move so quickly and percentage-wise it could really do a job on you. Just the way I'm looking at it now. And this is just, it's not even a recommendation. I'm just giving you parameters that I'd be looking at. So the SOXS has made a low today of 1176. It is trying to climb over the 200-period moving average of 1198 in the one-minute chart. The five-minute chart is at a pretty decent pullback. This is A, let's go A, B, C, D. Pulls back and goes A, alternate count, A, B, C, D. Alternate count E slash B. And then it goes to the requisite brand new A, B, C, D. And now it's got a peak D right there in the 10-minute chart, right? So it's starting to pull back. I would just be real careful. You can see the buyers. This is what we've been seeing for weeks now. Buying comes in. Selling comes in. At the end of the day, the sellers seem to have the baton. They got the lead voice. But it's not like it's going straight down. I've been talking about this for weeks. I said this is not usual, yes, on purely statistical terms. We're in bear market territory, for me, in the daily charts. Not the weekly. The weeklies are still holding really well. Even today, they're holding not too badly. So that's why I'm saying we might be using up a tremendous amount of time, and then we just need to fulfill some part of it in the weekly charts. So with that said, what I am going to tell you to do is to don't be over-anxious on the buying the SOXS because it's three times. If you do, just have a little nibble on it. But watch it closely. I probably would say I'd prefer to be buying strength rather than weakness. The 11, right here, the 1198 200-period moving average is support.  It should not take out, and this is going to be tough. It shouldn't take out the load that was made right here at 10.07 this morning of 11.76. So it doesn't sound like much. Big deal, 11.89 to 11.76, 20 cents. Hey, it's a big deal. So what I am going to say to you is you could split a tiny position. And that means the tiny position is even split just to get a sense of what you want to do. And right here at 11.89, I'd nibble and just wait a minute, maybe by the end of the show we'd have another position. But all I'm saying is that if I can start to go to 12, that means the estimators are coming down. That's where your start to some accelerators. That's where you might add a little bit. I don't know. I'm just saying to you, it has to work. And I have to tell you something in time. It has to be right about there. Right about, let's see, 12.07. Right about 10. I'm going to say 10.45. It already has to be moving up. Time is of the essence because the longer it goes sideways with the market, trying to rally, the more you're using up both strength and weakness. And it means just meandering. All right, so let's just go back to the E-mini right now. Because that's also a good clue. Look, it made a peak B pullback sharply underneath the 200p moving. It's kind of showing some support. So that's what I'm saying. Don't overthink this. If you haven't had a really tight stop, I'd even say you could do it twice if you already want to get into position. But I wouldn't get in position, especially if by the end of the day, the estimators are actually running quite sharply. They're at 142.17. If they go to 143.10, I wouldn't be thinking at all about the short. I'd say, hey, just wait. You've had a fantastic run. Don't waste money right now. In fact, I'd even say to you, I'm inclined to step aside. As you know, from my newsletter, I said today, let's just step aside. We know what we'd like to buy. And I also know what we'd like to short. So with that said, let's move on. So I want to run these things quickly now. I want to show you something absolutely I think is fascinating. Look, we waited and waited and waited for the Dow after the sell signal or the day that we shorted on August the 1st for the nine period moving average to cross to pink. And then it finally did that right there on the 16th of August. The weekly chart has taken out the left side low. This is the pattern that I call the dreaded age. For those of you, I know more and more people are starting to use this particular technique of looking at the pattern. The patterns repeat over and over. And this is the pattern that I've been talking about forever. I mean, since I came to TFNN back in 2002, 2003. Straight line up, straight line down. In fact, this is from my CD, introducing the Chathamway methodology. And then a CD book. And now you've got a cup formation and arch formation. There's a mix between one and two and one and three. Straight line down, goes to a peak A or B, and then fails takes out the left side low. Takes out a peak A, goes to a new low. Takes out a peak A, takes it down, and the left side goes to a new low. Dreaded age, big arch formation. Within that, there's an H pattern that goes to a lowercase m. And what did we do? The left side low in the Dow was right here on the 25th at 34,029. And today we took out the left side low. That 200 p.m. moving average of 33,914. It's beginning to act like a magnet. If we go even just a little bit low, if we can go to 33,980 at any point in the next two days, that's 33,914 becomes a magnet, and you can stay there for a little while. So we're going to be watching that very closely. So that's that particular. But look at the weekly chart. 9 is still way over the 14. That's what I'm saying. It's a process. We've gone from a daily sell signal to a sell mode. By the end of the day, I might say, the weekly has gone to a sell signal. Can you get a major buy signal when you've just gone to a sell signal? Oh, absolutely. Look, it's an H pattern. You can start to form a cup formation. If there's a close at any time in September or preferably in September, but it could go into October without taking out this left side low, seriously taking out the 34,000 level, you close above, not you, but close above 33,000 and 35,070 at any point, it's going back to that left side high of 35,679. That was made back in August the 1st. I don't see it just yet. We'll be watching this closely. Look at the S&P for weekly charts. S&P, we've taken out as here as well. We've taken out the left side low, 43,33 was yesterday. 43, what did I say, 28, was it? Yeah, 43,28 yesterday. We went below this left side low. Now we've got the H pattern. This is going to become a dreaded H pattern going much lower. Well, the weekly chart, since you've got to be careful but that nine is still positive. Give the Q, Q, Q in the weekly chart. Look, time period moving there is still positive and it hasn't taken out the left side low. I'll be back. Gals of 28 S&P's of 11. That's what I can take for some time. Adding stock options to your portfolio can be a major game changer but the full complexities of these instruments can oftentimes allude even the most experienced traders. Whether you're a seasoned trader looking to sharpen your knowledge on options or you're completely new to the market, Teddy Kextat is here to help. 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And all I can say is I look for certain things and I'm not in the position to say that I can see anything major other than a really decent pop-up and a lot depends, of course, look, the dollar is, I wouldn't say it's struggling, the Chathamay-Forting Act, we'll go through it again, even though it's taking a Friday, break out of this particular pattern to the upside. And it's done that so many times and this is a pattern that you can now respect and say, hey, it's worked well at some point it's going to fail. So you want to watch for failures because that's the clue to say, hey, the modus operandi has just changed, hasn't yet, but we did get in the dollar, today's high is 105.78. Well, the high that I've been talking about for months, not weeks, but months, was 105.68, that was the high of the week of the 10th of March. And I said, we just stuck in a rectangle, anyone who says, oh, the dollar's collapsing, just keep looking at the rectangle and now that it's gone up, anyone is saying, oh, the dollar's fantastic. No, look at this, the dollar is just having a corrective mode after coming down to the 200 period moving average and now it's having a fabulous balance, but this is what's impressive, is on the daily chart here on the left, 87% in the stochastic, flat, it's good, Magdy's flat and positive, the nine is way over the 14, the price is way over the nine, but it is starting an art, look, I drew this in some time ago and you can see, I don't want to make this messy, but all I'm saying is that this dash green line keeps coming up to it and gets repelled, the Chapman weave inside track repellent zone, but wait a minute, look at the weekly chart, there's a chance that we close with a little dogy candle today, after a whole week's worth of rallying, not much, but rallying nevertheless, and it's getting to the upper level of resistance in the weekly chart. So it's had a fabulous, now this pattern, this rectangle pattern, when it breaks underneath, it very often goes just above and then comes back into the pattern. Well, if that's the case, let's look at the EURUSD, the euro, that's doing the peak D turnaround, it broke the up channel, support level inside track, propellent zone, it's now repellent zone, the nine moving averages crossed negative in the weekly chart, the magnies were very weak, stochastic down at 11%, I don't have volume, that's why that blue line is straight because it's an index, it's a currency pair, look here, we've got your trough, a leg E to the downside, so that says, yeah, a leg E, you could bounce a little bit, but there aren't any signals, and look at all the resistance you've got at 1.078, the 200 period moving average, and it's at 1.066 right now. So it's got a long way to go, and you've got all those resistance, look at the USDJPY, this is the yen currency pair, dollar yen currency pair, did I type it in the wrong place? I wrote type to write on the chart again, UPS, type it in over here, USDJPY, got it, okay, and look at that, peak D goes to a peak, E, G, C, I always say, be prepared, the majority of times, 90% of the time in fact, it can go 90%, maybe 80 something percent, at a very high level, of not certainty, but a chance that it can go to an E, and it's gone above that resistance level, the next one for the euro is at 1.4809, up 52 cents, the next level will be right here, and remember, when we're looking at price symmetry, the further away you go, on the upside of the downside, the greater the chance that you have to re... If it isn't an absolute obvious left side, right side price time match with the price on the left side, going down or up to the price in the middle, which says the same number of bars to the back again to that level, you have to find a different plum line, and this is my plum line, a particular candle that I always look at, and it just says, hey, if that's the case, we should get some kind of a top in the euro-dollar currency pair, maybe early October, it could be sooner of course, we're not the boss here, this is 87.4, no, that's right, this is a big D, and you get into the Chamberlain inside track resistance line, which is also the wedge target line, so this says, we're starting to get to areas of resistance, we haven't got the yen, look at the monthly chart on the right, it's the same pattern, and that usually does go to a D, but we get very close to the left side high of 150... 1.94 made in October of 2022, so all I'm saying is that I don't get this, and look at this, if you look at gold, nice move up, up eight points in 1947, just stuck in the range, could this turn into a U-shaped pattern that goes to a soft W pattern? Absolutely, so it's holding very nicely, let's go to GOLD, this is Barak, look, A, B, C, D, this is, you remember the chapter where we're always looking for D's, and that's where other things can happen, and what does it do, it goes, peak A, B, C, D, I hadn't updated it, there it is, and the weekly chart says, ah, nothing to see a monthly chart says, do you mean I have to type this in, how many times in 20 years have I done Barak gold, of course it changes the name to GOLD, but I did it just the other day anyway, I lost the chart, you know ASA is the one I always look at because the South African wine is nothing to see here, just in the low range, could have a bit of a balance, weekly chart doesn't look too good, so that's what I'm saying, and now you can go to silver, silver's much nicer, peak C just above the 200, moving average in the daily, the weekly is just a big congestion area, digesting gains, let's look at PAAS, peak D back in August, plummets down to the 15th area, runs up to the almost 17th, peak C1, pulls back, goes to peak C2, fails, and is plummeted down, no, I just, the fact that the market does up 51 right now and the SMB's up 21, it's just telling me, we aren't ready for any serious low, but we are getting closer, but I don't think we are there yet, so with that, we've raised cash for subscribers to my opening call, and we did take, get taken out of a particular stock that we had for ages since March, and it did fabulously, we took nice percentage gains, the last one for the core position got taken out for a 10% gain because I just wasn't prepared to see it go from the 24 entry level, it hit 26 something to our stock, we're out of that, and now it's trading at 20 in the 24s, I'm ready to get back in but I'm going to have to wait, and it's interesting because it's in an area it's in an area that has been hot potato for a long time, and not recently, now I just want to do this, as we're wrapping up, I've got questions about FXI, same thing, Dreaded H with a nice, is that a nice bounce deck, yeah, very nice bounce deck, yeah, stuck in a rain, rain, you got, and Baba was a question, Baba was a question, the gold report, as a precious metal gold is still king, it continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market, the US futures market, and the Shanghai gold exchange, the gold report, Tom O'Brien publishes his weekly gold report every Monday morning for subscribers consisting of coverage of the XAU, HUI, GDX, the dollar, bonds, the South African Rand, as well as 25 different mining equities with specific buy sell recommendations, the gold report, new subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk, subscribe to Tom O'Brien's gold report newsletter now at TFNN.com Are you ready to take your trading to the next level? 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Distributor Four Side Fund Services LLC This program is brought to you by Vista Gold traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. Hi folks, so let me just get back to this here. I was asked about Uranium. So Uranium, this is the Kamiko Corporation Uranium of Fuel huge move up. Look at this weekly chart beautiful G slash B weekly chart is an F maybe it's an F slash B because it had an instant restart I'm calling it F for now but the price is way over the nine. The MACD is really strong. The casting spread 92% and look the MACD just deflected back up again. The casting in the data is down at A61 but that showed you that it had a little bit of weakness over there and the blue on balance volume is just steady right here. It has pulled back from that peak F I'm calling that a peak F top. But here's the pattern that we're always looking at. Coming down like this coming down like that. Definitely falling X formation. Let me just clean it up a little bit there and this is Uranium I mean really and the crude oil let me just put this together. Look at the left side chart. Yes your crude oil crude oil holding very nicely. I have no other way of counting it but to say it's a peak B. That says crude oil should go a little high and then we got to watch out because the 92.81 in the continuous contract a high that was made back here on the 11th or week of the 11th of November 2022 92.81 to continuous contract that price might change nothing else changes. In leg D right now with the doji candle says kind of watch this closely but it is holding very nicely. I just want to add heating oil only because I'm talking about the oil. So heating oil did the same thing. Look at this beautiful price time actually inside track inside wedge target repellent line it's going gone right to that point and it's at a peak D digesting gains we're on the cusp of a lot of different things if it's all of this turns down right here that'll be positive for the market I think but at the same time look how beautifully it's held so with that said the question came in so is you still catching up to UEC so you for you is the energy fuel right. Energy fuels uranium had a big move up to a g-stash scene now we often see that g-stash go to D and it's up today 55 cents up 6.7% at 844 this is all of this is not that good news for the general market because it's saying alternative energy and all that and the UEC which we still own from the 360 I think 364 area turning at 531 right now that's a very nice move it has the same kind of triangle pen information so we're going to be watching this closely but what a nice move it's up 7.6% today at 530 so all I can say is that there are so many mixed messages and cross currents in this market this is real riptide this is riptide action when you least expect it suddenly something goes a different way so all I can say is that this is a period to be a little bit careful don't be anxious to buy I wouldn't be too anxious right now to shorten this in specific areas for instance tall brothers now I started to really pull back look at that weekly chart look at the weekly I measured I showed you the measured move from the left side vertical move to the right side all the technicals were weakening on balance volume was very good and it popped higher now I'm starting to find that just says to me that the TLT breaking down like this I would be a little suspicious to say that gap can be filled with our little bit of backing and filling first so yields look at the TBT the TBT had a very nice move didn't make a new height today not yet I don't think so that was 37.49 37.49 49.49 an equal move so this is a leg C to get to the D if it's going to do that another high and then another high and this gets you I was doing this yesterday I'm going to do it again this gets you to this cup formation that says round about now you should be trying for the 39.22 high 3.92% of this October of 2022 almost a year ago so okay with that said FXI did that I did that Baba yes GT said call positions great I don't know where you got the calls if you got the calls yesterday this is fantastic 84 it hit 83.76 yesterday 88.88 that's fabulous if you have the calls congratulations but I would just I would get out of anything that makes me that money that quickly because this pattern is making lower lows and lower highs and that's the trend is lower lows and lower highs so I wanted to do some things here EEM was a question yeah this is the emerging markets having a very nice iron reversal pop up but iron reversals in anything that trades overseas is that's not a big deal at all because it trades before this market opens therefore you're going to get gaps like gold stocks silver stocks oil stocks that's what happens so as you're dreaded H and it closed within a day of a high well it hasn't closed but so far it looks like it's done that so this can go to a lowercase H that goes to a lowercase M pattern weekly chart in EEM emerging market ETF at 38.63 right now up 61 cents doesn't look that great K K KRE so this is KRE is the I haven't updated this for a while because we've been so disappointed in the action of the S&P regional banking ETF look at this daily chart trough D leg E to the downside this is a horrible move trading in the 49s just a month or two ago and now to the 41s and this is a whole index a banking index sector this is not good at all but the weekly chart is negative but it hasn't taken out the left side low of the 34s way back in April of last year of this year but that monthly chart is really struggling so I can just tell you that this is not a market to kind of dismiss and say it's just a little digestive phase in the sense that if you look at some of the stocks within some of the indexes indexes that used to be leaders like a bandit this is XLF it goes quickly peak A, B, C, D, E and then it gives back a huge chunk weekly chart is not too bad the line is still over the 14 but you've got to stock like Bank of America really one of the great banks wow look at that that's ugly, ugly, ugly and then you've got a Berkshire Hathaway which is a bank in the sense that yeah it's like a bank but it isn't a bank BRK.b and look at this B shares pulling back from your peak D in the daily leg D in the weekly and that's why I'm saying I don't see this as a major turning point in the market even if we get this kind of this kind of climax VIX index next week or some kind of a buy signal I still think lower lows and lower highs is the theme I don't want to change that oh I didn't finish there yes sorry this has been crystal ball I think it's got 10 information 5 5 see it's going to hide 37 things I'll be back 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5


Hello and welcome to MBA 604 Innovation and Sustainability. We are in Lecture 2 Unit 1 covering Learning Outcome 1B today. I'm Joni Roberts. I'm Vice Program Chair and Consulting Professor for Sailors MBA Program. We are following the study guide and you will find this in your learning materials in this course on sailor.org and this is a program that you have to be enrolled in in order to take. All right one more review on the learning outcomes. So during this time together we are going to be looking at the key components of innovation and sustainability and their connection to one another. We are going to be assessing issues related to innovation and sustainability by identifying pros and cons of certain courses of action and the ethical and values based roots of those issues. We will analyze the cultural, ideological and practical perspectives on innovation and sustainability in ways individuals, communities and organizations can express those perspectives and put them into practice. We will also be learning how to incorporate elements of innovative sustainability to a specific business or sector by developing a hypothetical entrepreneurial startup organization. All right in lecture one we covered Learning Outcome 1A and today we're moving into 1B which is analyze how businesses transform themselves to advance socio-economic and environmental well-being. All right so let's find out more. The question we have is what does it mean to be a sustainable business? So from some of our learning resources here are a few statements on what that means. Sustainable businesses are concerned about the impact of their organizations on the environment, society and future generations. Sustainable businesses seek to innovate and optimize performance across economic, social and ecological business dimensions and they contribute to an evolving design of commerce aligned and compatible with human and ecosystem health. All right so with this idea of an evolving idea of commerce and sustainability let's look at some of the sustainability economics and mindsets. So two of the key ones are the belief in limits to growth and the belief in no limits to growth. So with limits to growth this group of people and people in sustainability believe that our current society is living beyond earth's resources and that we must change to live within the context of what earth can provide. So at some point the world's growing population will consume too great a quantity of natural resources for human society to exist and we must stabilize growth and live within the caring capacity of earth's natural system. So unsustainability is living outside the caring capacity of earth's natural system and we are already in that place. So some of the contributing factors to limits to growth and no limits to growth are things like the world population which is continuing to grow we're eight billion now. Industrial production how do we make goods, food production, resource consumption and pollution. So the no limits to growth believes that market signals and technological innovation can overcome limits to growth in natural systems. So there are few limits to economic growth and economic growth is always desired and this growth relies on continuous consumerism. Something to think about is that the cost of goods rarely include the impact on natural resources and human well-being so this is known as the externalities and these show up as biodiversity loss pollution and the impact on health and wellness. So the no limits to growth has been the dominating mindset of the industrial revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. So in 1968 ecologist Garrett Hardin published an article in science called The Tragedy of the Commons. So this takes us back a little bit to lecture one where we discussed the TED talk by Naoko Ishii an economic case for protecting the planet when where she was referencing the global commons. All right so The Tragedy of the Commons describes a situation where different parties share a common good such as public land or you know the air that we breathe and or the oceans and acting independently in their own interest they will ultimately over exploit and deplete or destroy the shared resource. So the tragedy is that the individuals acting in a way that they believe is in their own best interest end up acting in a way that is detrimental to their collective and individual long-term best interest. And Naoko Ishii and her TED talk gave an example about the fishing industry. I believe it was was in Japan. All right so that article The Tragedy of the Commons was published in 1968 long time ago now. So how well have we done since 1968? How you know well have we done with our government policies? What about our business practices? Our personal choices and our educational systems? Well we have actually done some things along the way. So starting in the 1970s we have a framework for pollution control. That was a reactive approach by complying with regulations. So clean up the pollution and using certain technologies specified by government. Next in the 80s we had pollution prevention. So that was more of a proactive approach. And this would be a way of managing resources to minimize waste based on better operating practices and consistent with total quality management efforts. So lean manufacturing for example saving on water reducing materials and in total quality management. So you're reducing waste through poor quality items. That definitely was an advancement for sustainability. Then in the 1990s we moved into eco efficiency. So maximize the efficiency of inputs processing steps, waste disposal and so forth because it reduces costs. And when you reduce costs you can boost profits. All right next in the 1990s we also got into things like industrial ecology, green chemistry, and engineering design for environment, life cycle analysis, and concurrent engineering. So this was a way of incorporating ecological health impact considerations into product design and extending this analysis to the full product life cycle. And we'll talk a little bit about that today. So from the 2000s forward we're in a new era of sustainability innovation. So sustainability innovation combines all of the above in a systems thinking approach that drives entrepreneurial innovation. So this is a quote from one of our learning resources framing sustainability innovation and entrepreneurship, one of our books, and it says the early decades of the 21st century will mark a transition period in which conventional economic models that assume infinite capacities of natural systems to provide resources and absorb waste no longer adequately reflect the reality of growth and its related environmental and health challenges. So providing material goods and creating prosperous communities for expanding populations in ways that are compatible with healthy communities and ecosystems are the core challenges of this century. So we are in the process of developing an evolving design of commerce. This leads us to the question, how can businesses take action to advance social and environmental well-being? Well, one of the steps we just reviewed was that came about with life cycle analysis and design. This is a thorough yet also very complex process and it uses, you know, various analytical tools for determining the environmental and health impacts of products and processes from material extraction to disposal. So we are looking at, you know, kind of a cradle to grave, you know, the beginning of making a product, looking at all of those steps along the way, and then the end of life at that, of that product. And so engaging in this process helps reveal the complex resource web that describes the life of a product and aids designers in finding ways to reduce or eliminate sources of waste and pollution. So this diagram here is quite complex. You really need to zoom in on it to get, um, to see really all the steps and some of the fine print there. You can find that image on Wikipedia by searching for life cycle assessment. So life cycle assessment is the same as life cycle analysis. Right. Maybe an easier way of looking at this process is by looking at this diagram. So life cycle analysis, we're moving from cradle to grave. So the raw material extraction to the end of life to more of a cradle to cradle process. So the steps here are material extraction, materials, manufacturing. You have your inputs and you have your waste in each of these steps and the product manufacturer. And then we move to the youth stage and the end of life. So at the end of life, we can look at ways to reuse parts and pieces of the end stage product. We can look at ways to recycle some of those materials and put them back into manufacturing. And we can even create an ecological loop where the end product becomes part of the ecosystem again for raw materials. And that is called cradle to cradle. This image can also be found on Wikipedia on the same site, life cycle assessment. Right. So let's take the classic example of a cup of coffee and consider the life cycle of a cup of coffee in all the steps and all of the impact. That can happen along the way. So the journey of a cup of coffee begins with clearing forest in Columbia to plant coffee trees. These coffee trees are sprayed with insecticides manufactured in the Rhine River Valley of Europe where affluence from the production process to make the Rhine one of the most polluted rivers in the world with much of its downstream wildlife destroyed. So back in Columbia, when these trees are sprayed, the insecticides are inadvertently inhaled by Colombian farmers and the residues are washed into rivers adversely affecting downstream ecosystems. So each tree yields beans for about 40 cups of coffee annually. The harvested beans are shipped to New Orleans and a Japanese constructed freighter made from Korean steel, the ore of which is mined on tribal lands in Palpa New Guinea. In New Orleans, the beans are roasted and then packaged in bags containing layers of polyethylene, nye on aluminum foil and polyester. The three plastic layers were fabricated in factories along Louisiana's infamous cancer corridor where polluting industries are located disproportionately in African-American neighborhoods. The plastic was made from oil shipped in tankers from Saudi Arabia. The aluminum foil was made from Australian bauxite strip mined on Aboriginal ancestral land and then shipped in barges fueled by Indonesian oil to refining facilities in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. These facilities drive their energy from the hydroelectric dams of the Columbia River which have destroyed salmon fishing runs considered sacred by Native American groups. The bags of coffee beans are then shipped across the United States in trucks powered by gasoline from the Gulf of Mexico oil refined near Philadelphia, a process that has contributed to serious air and water pollution, fish contamination and the decline of wildlife in the Delaware River basin. And all of this ignores the cup, the actual cup that holds the coffee that we were just talking about coffee. Then we have the cup and then maybe you're having a donut or a pastry with your coffee and that opens up another long story of that product's life cycle. So to get into this analysis is quite comprehensive and there are a lot of steps along the way. And maybe we get an idea, a little bit of an idea by talking about that, why we are where we still are in our business practices because this is hard. It's hard to do and it takes a lot of effort and a lot of thoughtfulness. All right so what are the opportunities and challenges in life cycle analysis and design? Well it provides measurements and accounting of all points of impact and then it reveals sources of waste and opportunities for innovation and redesign that would otherwise remain unnoticed. We can then compare products to evaluate impact and outcomes so you can do a life cycle analysis for product day and product B and then see which one has better outcomes or which one has issues that can be more easily overcome. And it analyzes the full life cycle and very importantly also involves systems thinking which we will also be getting more into in this course. All right there are some challenges. LCA is data intensive, it's expensive to conduct, takes a lot of time to do that and sustainability in general how you define and measure for impact is controversial. There are scientific difficulties that need to be considered and LCA may not account for other non-environmental aspects of product quality and costs. All right so with all that and considering how hard this can be, LCA certainly has its challenges but it's better to begin than do nothing right? Every step you take to start identifying those opportunities for waste reduction, for innovation, for redesign to make something more sustainable the better. So what can happen as companies say that's too hard and walk away from it when you could say that's hard but we can start and get on this journey and keep going farther with it as time goes on. All right so what we are seeing is that these problems may not be easy to solve. We have to undo a lot of the way things have been done but they are worthy problems to solve and many would say our very life here on this planet depends on us solving these problems. All right one way one way businesses can start on this journey is with biomimicry and I think this is an endlessly fascinating approach to sustainable innovation and Janine Benyes she has really brought forward biomimicry starting with her classic TED Talk, biomimicry and action and then also with her biomimicry institute and she also has asknature.org which we'll also talk a little bit more about as we move through this. All right so in her TED Talk she shares that we live in a competent universe. We are part of a brilliant planet and we are surrounded by genius and nature knows how to live here gracefully on this planet and nature has already done what we are trying to innovate and do so imagine designing spring you know imagine the orchestration that happens in nature during spring imagine telling us no time to melt and then the cascading events that take place in the spring the flowers that began to bloom the new life that springs forth the mating season for many animals the timing the coordination doing all of that without top-down laws without policies or climate change protocols so this is really a reminder for all of us that nature is genius and we can learn from nature and nature can be a mentor to us all right the idea of biomimicry is when designing products and services ask how would nature solve this and we can think about the problem of energy usage and we can look to social insects to solve energy usage problems and create smart grids so we can ask how do ants and bees find their food and their flowers in the most effective way as a whole colony or high how can this be used with appliances and HVAC systems to talk to one another and determine how to minimize peak power use all right this led to the idea of swarm technology and a company called EnCycle when Janine Benyes did her TED talk it's now no I'm sorry it was called Regen it's now called EnCycle this company has continued on and they use swarm technology with AI artificial intelligence to dramatically reduce HVAC related energy usage and carbon emissions and it's called swarm logic all right that was by looking at these in particular for that design okay another example the question is how does nature gather the sun's energy all right we can think of leaves right other ways nature gathers the sun's energy and this led to solar cells that mimic leaves and it's self-assembling it can be put on any substrate it's extremely inexpensive and rechargeable every five years and this innovation started as one sun which was founded by Paul Hawkin known today for his work with project drawdown and involving Janine Benyes of the biomimicry institute today this company is called energy everywhere all right very interesting innovations the next question how does nature strengthen with minimal material so we can look at skeletons and we can think of how trees and bones are constantly reforming themselves along lines of stress and by looking at skeletons an algorithm was put into a software program that's now being used to make bridges and building beams light weight it was also used by GM opal the european division which is now called cilantro and to create a skeleton in in what was called their bionic car and it lightweighted that skeleton using a minimum amount of material as an organism must for the maximum amount of strength and i'm sure we can keep going with this idea and find many more applications for it including in the airline industry another example how does nature reduce drag well we can learn from a humpback whale so humpback whales have scalloped edges on their flippers and those scalloped edges play with flow in such a way that it reduces drag by 32 percent so this idea was applied to wind turbines that can rotate in incredibly slow wind speeds as a result there's another one how does nature provide ecosystem services so how can we look to nature in our cities to build better cities you know ecosystems are sustainable right self-sustaining pretty much so we can ask how can cities do at least as well in terms of ecosystem services as the native systems they replace that is sustainability in action so this kind of thinking and collaborations have resulted in creating ecological performance standards that hold cities to a higher bar and you can go to the biomimicry institute and even read more about that right so here's another idea that we can think about so we thought about how we can do product design how we can build better cities and then last thing too how can nature help us create social sustainability we have the environmental sustainability but we also have social sustainability how about you know humans and humanity how can we do better by learning from nature so we can learn from fungi and I looked this word up because I've heard it said so many ways and you can say fungi or fungi or perhaps even fungi so the dictionary has a fungi and fungi and I've heard people say fungi so anyway however you want to say it also known as mycelium and they are the expert communicators and connectors in nature but they provide a support system for nature in forests agile they're adaptable to conditions they share nutrients between species and protect them from parasites and bacteria they communicate a lot of trees and tree roots and they encourage diversity and a healthy forest so they help to strengthen and sustain forests all right so we can think about that and think about how can humans be more like nature in that way right all right for more examples you'll find this and Janine Venious's TED talk on her website biomimicry.org for more inspiring ideas you can go to ask nature.org it's sort of like a search engine for asking questions about how nature solves problems it's just endless inspiration here and I encourage you to check that out and back to the idea of sustainability economics and mindsets this process of developing an evolving design of commerce what we can see is that we're shifting from economics that are economic systems that are cutthroat and competitive that look to dominate nature to ones that are collaborative and creative and use nature as a mentor so I'd like for you to think a lot more about that as we move through this course together cutthroat and competitive to collaborative and creative what does that really mean what does that mean for us how do we evolve into that how does commerce evolve into that do we keep secrets or do we share what we learn we share openly how much do we share how much do we help one another how much do we help one another to be stronger and more resilient and how much do we embrace diversity so with these questions in mind we'll be hopefully improving our relationships with nature and with one another okay so I'm going to leave you with those thoughts for today and in our next lecture we are going to be finishing out learning outcome 1b with some topics like linear versus systems thinking ideas on innovating across the supply chain we're getting into a very important topic called circular economy and multi-value creation and we will finish up unit one by covering learning outcome 1c sustainability and ethics


Join me for some robotic hijinks in me and RoboCo. Hey everybody, welcome back to another exciting episode of A Week in Geekdom Geo here and today we're going to be taking a first impressions look, although it's been out for around 18 or so weeks so I'm a little bit late on that, I do apologize, but nonetheless we're here to talk about the latest gag comedy series in Shonen Jump or one of them actually because there are a few that are in publication as of this video is of course me and RoboCo. This is written and drawn by Shuhei Miyazaki and he's a newcomer to the whole scene. I only know him from a parody manga that he did on Promised Neverland so this is like the full first experience I guess with the mangaka. So what exactly is me and RoboCo? Well the official description tells us that in the year 20X a time where every household owns cute maid robots known as order maids. Average grade schooler Bondo dreams of having his very own robot but what he got was unable to compute. Life is going to get a whole lot weirder when RoboCo the most powerful clumsy maid ever created shows up at his door. So that in a nutshell is what me and RoboCo is all about but it's so much more it's a very charming funny wacky and utterly bizarre series you have the character Bondo and he's jealous that everybody has these order maids these cute maids that help all the different people around or in his circle friends all the elementary school kids and he's you know he's jealous and he wishes he wishes he could have that opportunity to have a maid cater to all his requests and needs I guess his family of course doesn't have the money for it but it isn't until Bondo sees an ad for a used maid that he's able to awkwardly convince his mom to order one and part of the charm in this series is how self-aware this title is it's it knows its premise is wacky and bizarre and it's just going to go with it and you see as soon as Bondo gets his wish the story really kicks off with the introduction of what he was not expecting at all RoboCo is unlike any maid every other maid that you see at the beginning of the manga is very stereotypical very boy based and sort of a caricature of what you would expect a anime cutesy servant would be like but RoboCo is uh thick she's so she's very expressive she's strong she's bizarre and she pulls out the most obscure humor and references to other pop culture stuff from Japan and the fact that it's a shonen jump title I love that the characters reference other jump titles and do references to other manga and anime which is always great to see and don't be put off by that sometimes you you might think oh I'm not going to get it because it's referencing stuff I don't know you you will still laugh and you will still enjoy me and RoboCo but if you happen to have uh know who Napa is from Dragon Ball Z or you know about uh Jujutsu Kaizen you you're gonna get the jokes and it's gonna make it that much better and funnier in my honest opinion the art in this is charming and it goes really wholesome and wacky the character designs are really um yeah they do exhibit some manga sensibilities and you know stereotypical art for what a chibi gag comedy is but I think it shares more of a mix with western sensibilities the way the characters are designed and their bodies and stuff the supporting cast in this is hilarious uh the the uh uh his Bondo's friend the uh gorilla is probably one of the funniest side characters that I've ever seen and there was this specific chapter in uh where they're fighting off a bear in the forest and RoboCo uh the kid decides to volunteer to be struck to strike the bear so that the the rest of them can escape Bondo and his friends and RoboCo so RoboCo takes the kid and just chucks him at the bear and she doesn't know her own strength she's super powerful and the thing about her is that uh she is so large as in life her humor her references her strength she's unlike anything else which is great it's a great message for kids as well to be your own person and not be like everybody else and all the other maids are very stereotypical they behave a certain way they follow a certain pattern but here you have RoboCo who's larger than life and she really enjoys what she's doing and she loves her new family even though she goes about it in terrible ways and that's sort of charming and really defines the series and makes it a standout in my opinion with all the current catalog of manga titles in Shonen Jump but yeah going back to my little uh joke here uh RoboCo chucks the kid at the bear but she completely misses and she just goes flying off into the distance and i just i'd laughed so much at that scene but this series being more episodic in nature yes there are a couple plot threats running throughout but it's very minimal it's most uh uh of a story of a week type of thing and you can enjoy it regardless uh part of the charm relies on two things one is the comedic timing of the mangaka and how he's able to pull off the jokes and for the most part they all land pretty solid and i think it's pretty funny for kids and adults there are a couple of lewdish uh jokes that kids probably aren't going to pick up but uh us older folk will appreciate and i thought they were pretty clever and pretty funny the comedic timing of all the characters and how they interact with each other is pretty uh fun and spot on and it's very enjoyable there's not a moment where it becomes too boring the story always keeps a an energetic pace you're not bored or lose interest as to what's happening most of these chapters the stories are very simple but very fun in its execution so all in all i'd love the progression of bondo of how you have this kid who was worried about being bullied for not fitting in to realizing that he doesn't have to be like everybody else and he can stand apart on his own whether that means having a robot companion to make that realization happen well that's that's that's life i guess but regardless his journey is pretty uh wholesome and his interactions and his family i i'd love the gab with his mom constantly holding a knife i thought that was pretty funny and overall it's just a treat and very uh nice it's a very nice funny manga that i think you'll enjoy so as a first impressions basis 18 chapters in i think it's a success and i cannot wait to continue reading and enjoying it's sort of a palette cleanser to all the craziness that's happening out there in the world so i look forward each week to a new chapter of me and roboco what about you guys did you like this manga have you been reading me and roboco let me know in the comment section down below what you thought of it and if not what are some of your favorite robots in manga or comics as well let me know in the comment section as well guys thank you so much i've got to go thank you for liking commenting subscribing and being a part of a week in geekdom again it really does mean a whole lot and if you're new here please consider subscribing i do content like this where i talk about anime manga comics and even the 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Hey weirdos, I got something brand new that we're gonna start doing here on Weird Darkness every month I have been working on this for a while, and I am so happy to be able to do this creepy-create I've actually done one a few years ago, and They just sent me one that time just for me to check out and I gave it away Because I thought it'd be fun to give away a surprise. Well, I've contacted them. I won't they contacted me we contacted each other and Now they're going to send me one of these each month I'll open it up for you to show you what's in it and then I will give this box away to Somebody who is signed up for the Weird Darkness email newsletter That's all you got to do. You'll automatically be registered to win if your if your name is on the email newsletter list so if your name well and Email address said your name of course so if you are not already on the list It's free to be on just go to weirddarkness.com slash newsletter and you can sign up for it there and Let's see what's in this box I've actually had this box now for about a month because I've been putting things off One to get everything lined up so when I do start it I can just hit the road running But they're gonna start sending me a new box it each time so I have not opened this yet I have no idea what's in this no idea what to expect So this is an unboxing video for you, which I have not done one of these in a very long time But here we go. All right, so creepy creepy crate It actually comes to you looking like this. I mean my address is right here on the side So that's how it got to me. So all right. So here we go. We're gonna Open up the side over here. I think I only have to do that one Yeah, it's only one piece. Oh good good good good good good good good good good It's been so long since I've opened one of these. I'm never really I'm I'm not really sure what to expect so We've got Uh Okay, the year 2000 Uh was feared for many reasons this crash of the internet the onslaught of boy bands And the butterfly hair clips to name just a few Simultaneously the universe gave us some of the scariest films of all time Y2k trends have made a comeback Even if some should have stayed in the past trends will come and go but a film that haunts our nightmares never goes out of style Okay, we'll start with some of the small things first um a patch That you can put on put on a jacket or something together forever. You can see that it's a Claw and a human hand and the claws making it bloody. Okay, so we've got that Put something over here so I can put things down. I've got a Tiny little pin I don't know if you can see it or not a pin right there Something you could wear like just wear on your shirt or a jacket or something Okay, there's also a book in here Called graveyard of lost children by Katrina Monroe On the back it says Once she has her grip on you. She'll never let go At four months old Olivia doll was almost murdered driven by haunting visions Her mother became obsessed with the idea that Olivia was a changeling And that the only way to get her real baby back was to make a trade with the Dead women living at the bottom of the well Now Olivia is ready to give birth to a daughter of her own and for the first time she hears the women whispering Everyone tells Olivia. She should be happy. She should be glowing But the birth of her daughter only fills Olivia with dread As Olivia's body starts giving out slowly deteriorating as the baby eats and eats and eats She begins to fear that the things she gave birth to isn't her daughter at all And despite her best efforts history is repeating itself Soon images of a black haired woman plague Olivia's nightmares Drawing her back to the well that almost claimed her life trying mother and daughter together in a desperate cycle of fear and violence That must be broken if Olivia has any hope of saving her child or herself Nice, that's a great premise for a book So that's here the uh in the uh Creepy great as well All right, and no, I will not be narrating that Mostly because they're female characters You don't want me doing this the entire time in a book trying to narrate it because that would be really annoying Oh, a nice tote bag Check this out a big tote bag too. There you go Really nice Boy that that that's something you can keep a boat a lot of groceries in uh, what else do here we have A bracelet that says Raccoon City umbrella corporation Many of you will know exactly what that refers to It's a sticker I think I think this would be from the grudge I don't even realize it actually has a it's more of a mirror look sticker There you go And finally And looks like there's a a a glass in here The problem with trying to get this back into the wrapper after I pull it out All of this just because I have to show you Oh my gosh, that is I want to keep this myself I don't know. Can you see it says swing away If you know the reference That is so cool From the movie signs I want to keep this myself. I love that film But no, no, I will give I I will put it back in and give it away like I promised I would So anyway, there you go. That is the creepy crate the latest one and or the one that they sent me And I'm going to give this away to somebody On my email newsletter list So all you got to do is just go to weirddarkness.com slash newsletter And you can register and I will just draw you draw a name at random on july 1st So you've got a little less than a month to get your name in there before I do this drawing Meanwhile, if you would like to gab to gab Grab a creepy crate for yourself and just subscribe to it and be surprised each time a new box arrives Just go to creepy crate dot store and you can learn more You can also see a little bit about what is in this month's box by going to that website So I might actually give you some incentive to sign up now. That's creepy crate dot store And again if you want to win this particular box Just register for the email newsletter for weird darkness. Just go to weirddarkness.com slash newsletter


What's up guys, Rex and 34 back with another collection purchase and today we have a collection that I recently bought We're gonna open it up. Check out what's inside before we get started the giveaway for this video I'll be giving away a harpy dancer harpy queen This is the old version not the lart version. This one is more clothes more appropriate We got a smart bird of divinity from the starter deck and finally Kunai with chain super rare. So yeah, roll the clip Yeah, that's pretty epic So those four cards will be given away to one of you guys all you have to do is like the video be subscribed Let me know in the comments your favorite card from this collection that we purchased and let's get into it But before we do that, I want to remind you guys about the 20k special to subscribe because we'll be opening up heavy champion pack one packs and five First edition legend of blue eyes white dragon blister packs. That is gonna be a lot of fun.  It's gonna be a lot of fun. Make sure you guys subscribe for that We're at over 15,000. Make sure you guys check out the 15,000 subscriber special I posted the other day It was also a lot of fun. So here we go. Let's open this up Okay Let's see if I can get this open without destroying everything Chances are very very low that I don't destroy everything. I Think it might be just a binder, so it'll be a little bit Won't be too crazy to go over even though binders are at the bane of our existence when Opening collections, but you know everybody has a binder. So you naturally have to have a binder Okay, here we go bubble wrap in there Some extra bubble wrap we can definitely reuse that I always am using bubble wrap.  Okay. This might be a lot a little easier This is gonna be actually fantastic for the video. We'll actually be able to fit it in the frame Okay, this is also a crazy amount of bubble wrap, but keeps it safe can't complain about that Trying to get these out without Bubble wrap going everywhere. Oh My goodness Alright, here we go Three small binders see this will be this will be nice. It's nice to go over. I'll throw that over there We'll reuse that Very soon probably okay. Oh wow. He has a booster pack in here So we have looks like a tactical evolution pack in there. Okay. This is taped. Where's my knife? This is taped. Let's shop this open. We have inside Some large cards You got cyber nova we got all kinds of stuff. I don't even know where all that stuff's from This is from dual overload. I know that because I have a bunch of those still We have a Tactical evolution pack which might have a isn't in a sleeve. We've got looks like some random cards Yellow dustin. Oh man The old piece of toast. He sent us an old piece of toast.  This is incredible. This is incredible already a good start to this collection So we got madulce chick a lot days Get him out of there. Okay. Let's throw that away And I'll start with the sleeve not the card. I would never throw away a card away Throw away a card away. Okay, and then I oh my goodness. Check out this oc dragons rebirth. That's actually really cool Very off-center. So that's pretty cool to see we'll put that back there Then we have Okay, we got the tactical evolution booster pack. Let's see. Is this sealed or is it now? It's not sealed So it's got something inside of it. What is inside of the tactical evolution pack? Okay, we got a gift card. Is this like a re Like this looks like he opened the pack and just pulled out the rare So these are the cards from originally in the pack. So that's kind of cool gift cards Actually worth a little bit. Whoa. Check that out. Oh, this was from a This was from a a blister pack because all the blister packs They would have this crap like on the rare spot So I bet that this common was in the rare spot and then it was damaged So if you guys check out my tactical evolution opening when I did those blisters in the eye I'll show then you'll be able to see that all of my rares came out like this. It was pretty crazy So that's kind of cool to see I wonder if he knew that or if he was just sending it. He probably watched that video or something Okay Let's get into okay. We're gonna move these big cards And we're gonna go into the binders So we got two binders. We got a monster protectors. Here's the nice part about this. It is not too big We're gonna have to move these back too because even though it is a small binder It still takes up some room. So let's go like this. Oh check it out. We're starting off hot Chaos emperor dragon envoy the end that is a secret rare Crush card virus ultimate rare infinite impermanence from dupo. We got a nibiru the primal being that's a that's a hot start To the first page.  That's okay. Hopefully the cards are not sticky They shouldn't be because they're in here We've got a gosh rare buzhin a materasu or something like that. I'm sure you say differently comic hand There's a what is this card? Surziel watcher the evil. I'm not not too familiar with that card sign that mining artifact sanctum familiar with those We've got fantasmase from a dual overload. That's nice These are definitely a little sticky It's okay You got a blue eyes alternative white dragon witch crafter. Hey, that's a nice $10 super rare pretty cool Ash blossom always good to see Skystriker roses up to $10 now Dark magician the dragon knights cool ebon illusion. That's a nice. That's a nice card. We get a solemn judgment secret. I love the secrets We've got madame verre witch crafter madame verre effect valer from the Noble knights of the round table brianic. We got a first edge in otto. That's really cool foolish burial goods grave cupers commandment Right arm with forbidden ones secret rare. I'm actually wait one second. Do I have these? All right? Yeah So I I already I I had three pieces.  That's nice for goat I am I don't have very many sinister sturbants. I have almost everything else.  We've got a christron querio gandra Andrex not christron. Halifam rex Uh, we another witch crafter mecha fanobisa rhodon a couple of those those are decent value.  We have the oh two ultimates We have the ghost and two ultimate reversions of the bougie. That's pretty sweet Plunder patrol card. We got another uh maha. No mahaad. Sorry And not oh, I love the magician of chaos one of my favorite new cards That's just like not very expensive. I just really think it looks cool Witch crafter holiday. We get some clearwing synchro dragons. We got some chocolate magician girls Borrillo dragon link kareebo. I mean that's some nice nice stuff right there Sorcerer of dark magic that is super. Yes, that is um blue eyes chaos max Okay, that's awesome Blackluster soldier first edition sye. We've got an elo in dark necro fear. That's really nice All right, we got a dog howling outside. We've got uh ghost ogre and snow rabbit play set from dual Dual power. It's really nice another chocolate magician girl Another exodia head or a exodia head. We had an exodia piece not a head. That's cool Signet mining chaos dragon la vionneer Oh, this card was I remember the saline went up really fast from Um, what's it called dual overload number 39 ultimate rare? That's a sweet card One of the best cards you can pull in judgment of the light as it is the cover card Got cockadoodle do the classic fireflint lady Fossil fusion. So we got some new stuff numeron network. This is from the newest set Numeron calling so he just got this stuff. Yeah, a lot of this is from um Battles legend armageddon. So there's the first binder. That's a lot of solid stuff a lot of really great stuff So that's good to see let's go into the last one. I don't really know too much. What's in here Link spider. That's cool zodiac tiger mortar Neo blue eyes ultimate dragon slide for the sky dragon torrential tribute Lady of the lake. I haven't seen that lady of the lake card very much Okay, we got a noble knight. We got a wean dragon of raw mortal phoenix. That's pretty cool red eyes Alternative black dragon The bullion shield the ugly art in my opinion. I think the original one looks a lot better because that is my favorite card, by the way Here we go. Yugi's legendary decks.  I guess We've got a wing dragon of raw We've got inferno tracker spice. There's the last piece of exodia book a moon that's been printed a few times link spider mystic mind we got a cast Blue eyes chaos max dragon We got the tour guide the alternate art from dual overload. That's really cool another wing dragon of raw And shadow tune gar dragon lp and a fusion dragon. So it looks like that might be the end of it So overall not a super large collection, but definitely has some quality in there a lot of cool cards He sent us the epic madolche chicka latte. Don't forget about that. So that was pretty awesome So, yeah, I hope you guys did enjoy this shorter collection video. It was pretty sweet. We there was some good stuff And I paid a little bit under $500 for it. So I think it was with the value and it should be pretty good I'll check out the conditions afterwards But it seems like it was a pretty decent buy and the cards should be in decent condition So hope you guys did enjoy the video make sure you guys like it and subscribe if you want to see More epic collection videos. Let me know in the comments if you want to see anything Like specific openings or anything like that. Remember the 20k opening will be happening at 20,000 obviously And we have the epic champion pack ones and legend blue eyes first edition And don't forget to check out the champion pack three opening in the eye up there And that's it for today guys. See you guys later. Thanks for watching peace