I was an aspiring physicist who lost his passion in his work. Through brain education, I found my life purpose. My name is Phillip Jang. I live in Mesa, Arizona, and I'm a yoga instructor at Body and Brain Yoga Tachi. There's many things I overcame through brain education.  And when I first started this program, I didn't have a lot of affinity towards it.  I had the anxiety disorder for a very long time in my life. In my youth, I was always surrounded by kind of negative, kind of always conflict environment, like my grandparents fighting, my parents fighting, something like that. So I think that's where it developed initially, and many events occurred throughout my life. Like I was bullied when I was in elementary school. That was a big factor. I didn't know I had anxiety until I was in college. There was a huge event where a lot of people gathered, and that's when I really hit me like, and my heart started to run very quickly, and I actually had to run out and throw up somewhere. So that's when I realized I had anxiety. Until then, I just was living in this constant anxious state. I didn't even know that I was living like this. When I was in university, I was a very successful student. I was a top student in physics, and I was the president of the physics society, and I was working on a lot of research projects. And mentoring a lot of younger students. So on the outside, I was always like this outgoing and energetic and always encouraging person, but I knew I had something wrong inside because I never kind of felt it was like my true self. And inside, I was always kind of something was going wrong inside of me. Like I had all these negative, like cynical emotions, and I didn't know how to deal with it at the time, so the best thing I had to do was just hide them away and just show my kind of outside self. I had a lot of emotional and mental problems that I was neglecting. So it was like a snowballing, more momentum, and there's a point where I couldn't take this anymore. So I had to drop all my kind of social relationships. I had to drop from school. I had to drop all the research projects I was working on. I had to drop my work. Basically what I did was crawl into my room, just staying in my room in my bed, and I had so much chest pain, so much agony. And in my brain, it was just running, I'm kind of worth a human being. I don't deserve love. I don't deserve to love, and I don't deserve to be loved. I was in this kind of surreal state where I felt like this third person just out of my body, I had an out-of-body experience just watching my body do, like, live through the life. So I would be talking to someone. It didn't feel like I was talking to someone. I would just be like this observer watching this body, speaking to that person, something like that. I felt very disconnected to everything I did. I no longer felt joy in anything I was doing. Nothing was working for me. I tried many things like exercise, things like that, but nothing I did. I felt like it was helping me. I'll just keep going darker and darker and darker, becoming more and more sick. And there came a time where I became so physically and kind of mentally and emotionally sick. So I went into the scientific career thinking that it was something I really wanted to do, something that's really beneficial for the society and the world. But the more I was going deeply into it, I realized this wasn't what I wanted. I saw kind of all my people around me, my colleagues, team members, professors. They're always so stressed and depressed. I was in a very kind of competitive environment where instead of people like trying to work together, always fighting against each other for grant or scholarship or trying to prove that their scientific result is better, something like that. The more I was doing it, I realized I don't feel like this is what I wanted to do in the first place. I started this because I wanted to help. I wanted to help the world. I saw no way this was going to be beneficial to the world. So that's when I started to doubt myself, doubt my path.  Luckily, I was still working part-time at the body and brain headquarters because I knew a lot of Excel and programming, things like that. So they recommended me this opportunity to go to New Zealand. That's when I realized I needed a big change in my life. So I dropped everything. I sold all my clothes, shoes. I was really into fashion, something like that. So I sold everything at a not a good deal price. I sold everything at a half price. I just needed the money to go by the ticket to New Zealand. And I just dropped everything and went there. Why? Because I needed something desperately. I wanted to change. So the reason I went to New Zealand was because they had the Earth Citizens Leadership Program. That was for young people all around the world. During that program, I really grew a lot. I experienced a lot. Later, they needed somebody to teach the yoga classes at the new center, and they had nobody else. So they kind of made me the center manager. And before then, I probably taught classes maybe like two to three times. And they just made me the center manager. I was very kind of afraid and feel like I kind of fulfilled my duty. But I said I'll do it because I was so desperate to overcome all the darkness I was. So through being center manager and yoga instructor in the Body and Brain Yoga Center in New Zealand, I got to connect, learn how to connect with people and really learn that how joyful it is, how heartwarming it is that I can do something that comes from my heart to help people and I see them improve their physical condition, a lot of the problems they're going through emotionally and mentally. That was kind of a big growth moment for me. And unfortunately, I had to leave after six months of being manager in the Auckland Center. I came back to the Arizona. Immediately when I came back, I started to feel all this anxiety again. I realized that was because I kind of ran away from anxiety. So I had many options there. What to do? Like did I want to go back to New Zealand? Did I want to work in the headquarters again or in the centers? And I decided to work in the Body and Brain Centers because I wanted to overcome myself through people and I want to overcome kind of like anxiety and depression. And I felt like this was the right thing to do for me. I wasn't running away anymore. I've been working in the Body and Brain Centers for about more than a year. And I overcame many things through this practice. There's so many things I overcame that I cannot just make a list out of right now. Like for example, when I first started, I was going around trying to talk to people and sharing brochures. And even before talking to them, I was like so anxious and my head would feel like it was about to explode. So I'm like, and I would just run away. Until my center manager, oh I can't do this, I have anxiety. But after getting to interact with so many people, I really feel so much more open now. I feel even sometimes joyful about going out and meeting people. Even times it's still anxious, still fearful. I feel afraid to go out and talk to people. But now I can do it. And many times I kind of make these new connections. And I feel a lot of meaning and joy from making these connections. Before I was going through a lot of kind of feeling no desire and meaning in life. But I realized those are just kind of physical, emotional, mental phenomena. Energy that you can change. So now I feel, before I felt so hopeless in life. Now I feel kind of, I wake up, I feel excitement. Like what can I do today to improve myself? I have many things I want to do now. I still have many aspirations. Now I have a kind of more clear purpose. It's so that I benefit myself and I benefit others. I make myself healthy, happy, peaceful. And I can help others also become healthy, happy, peaceful. So now that I have this kind of strong center in my life. I feel like my life is so much more kind of meaningful and worth living. Through brain education, what I learned was that you have control over your emotions. You have control over your body. Many times what happens with people like anxiety is that anxiety, something causes anxiety and they just let it happen to them. And they don't know that they have kind of choice, like conscious choice that can help them. What I realized, what I learned through brain education is that you can strengthen your core by feeling, being more inside your body, feeling your body more and being less in your brain. You can actually lessen the anxiety and kind of be more crowded. So one of the biggest things I learned through brain education is that that helped me overcome my anxiety is that anxiety and negative emotions, things like these, are just energy in your body that goes in and out. So rather than just feeling like I have anxiety, I have these emotions and feeling hopeless about it, feeling like they're yourself. I realized that these are things I can let go and release through physical exercise. So one of the biggest exercise that helped me overcome my anxiety is called the Brain Weight Vibration, Tanjian Tapping. So what you can do is just gently straighten your spines and two inches below your belly button is where the Tanjian is. So this is kind of like your center of your physical body. So by feeling more inside your body and feeling your body more, you can be less affected by anxiety and kind of take action in a more grounded place. So what you want to do is make a fist and gently start tapping your Tanjian point. And also what helps is the Brain Weight Vibration, which is gently close your eyes, gently shaking your head side to side and comfortably breathing into your nose. As you breathe out, imagine you're letting go of the pressure or the stress and tension built up in your brain. So as you're doing this exercise, you might have kind of a lot of thoughts enter in and out of your brain, like, oh, what am I doing? Is this really helpful? And those kind of also anxious mind that you are experiencing keeps staying in your brain. So what you want to focus while doing this exercise is try to bring your awareness two inches inside the Tanjian point. Feel the vibration.  So before brain education, I had so much negative emotions and kind of trauma from the past, something like that, that has always been dominating my life, my relationships with other people. So one of the biggest improvements I saw through brain education is how through purifying all these negative emotions, things in myself, I was able to improve relationships with people outside. I always blocked myself from making connections because I saw myself in them. It's like, oh, that person is probably kind of very close to minded. That person probably has a lot of emotional issues. But in reality, I was just watching myself through them. Now that I'm learning to love myself more and accept myself and kind of address all these things inside of me more positively, my interaction with the people outside, with this whole world is drastically changing. I used to have this like big kind of cynical view about this world. I'm starting to see much more joy and love. The biggest kind of gift I received from brain education is probably hope towards life. I was an aspiring physicist who lost his passion in his work. Through brain education, I found my life purpose.


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. Hello everyone, Basil Chapman here. This is the Tiger Technicians Hour. We're looking at Chapman Wave's stalk leg formation in the daily chart of the week of the Dow. But it's very unusual to actually get it at a leg A and then going to a peak A and then just stalling for five or six sessions. So this is a work in progress. It's very easy to say, oh yeah, this should be a one-to-one to the upside because it's a propeller shaft. I'm just making it real clear. Closed in the next few days, going into Monday or Tuesday below, 32,500 negates the pattern and a move about 33,272 is very positive starts the leg B. It's actually a combined B and that would be very positive. And then the pattern that we look for is leg body. This is the oval body. Then the neck is fairly short and then it comes back and it retests the arch of the oval pattern. That would be 32,272. And at that point it needs to really just spiral to the upside. Otherwise, this is going to be a failure pattern quite soon. But in the meantime, acting quite well. Let's see. The dow is down 80 points at 33,100. Looking at the S&P. There we go. The S&P is trading at 4,154 down to six points. Also stuck in the same range. This is more the pattern that I'll look at for the Chamber of Stalker information. It makes a peak C within the oval pattern, pulls back. Then we get a D, which is just above 4,177.51. Then it comes back into the body of the oval pattern. And that's where we really get a test. Is the MACD still holding well? Is the stochastic still nice in the 88 to maybe 90% area? What's going on with this unbalanced volume, which has been the one thing that's helped me back a little bit. Now, what I've said to subscribers to my opening call is choosing specific stocks. We've seen how some stocks are moved up really quickly, and then they come very sharply lower. I've been a little bit more generic. We've got the diamonds. We've added a position in a little bit aggressive in the QQQ. And that way, I just alleviate this issue that there are some stocks I'd love to own, but they're just not showing stable moves to the upside right now. Yes, they've come off the bottom, but if you don't get the exact bottom, then you're stuck because they can wiggle around and take you out and you've got to get back in, et cetera. So we're just being playing this a little bit more generic and a little bit more cautiously. And so that's the S&P looking at the QQQ trading quite nice. Yeah, $1.41 at 311.23. If there can be a close above today as well, it's a Monday's high of $312.35 on the 120-minute chart, one full 120-minute count bar. A close above it, it says, wow, now it's a lot easier to go to leg C above the high of the 2nd of June, which is $314.56. And that all says that the $309.70-ish area is support today. If there's a sudden sell-off, who knows if anything could happen today. IWM Russell 2000 doing quite nicely. Actually, I'm becoming more impressed with the daily chart of the Russell 2000 having made a really nice V-shaped recovery, but in leg B probably maybe a P-D today. Underneath the previous side, that's usually not good, but all the technicals are very good and it's starting to help. Finally, it's helping the weekly chart of the Russell 2000 IWM. There's even a chance that this week on Friday at the close, who knows what's going to happen on Friday? What's the CPI? One of the data points are coming out if it can hold, but certainly if it's a very strong session going into the close on Friday, if the MACD can cross positive, that'll be a really good sign. All right, let's get back to our story here. XLK, which is the XLK-AEB, this is leg C. No, sorry, leg B. Leg B in the daily chart. This is the S&P Select Spider Tech Fund. Yeah, it's doing okay. It's not great. It's doing okay. It's down 16 cents at 141.53. Looking at the semiconductors, SMHs. I had a question about it yesterday and I said, I don't see the semiconductors having the kind of strength that they would have if we had a take-off, talking about a take-off pattern. The take-off pattern would have the semiconductors instead of being down a dollar and a half at 242.30, moving sharply into a really rocket ship leg D up in the 254, 255 area, and the Dow and the S&P, let's just go to the Dow for the moment, would look like this. They'd have not the sideways move. This V-shaped pattern would have had one bar rest, maybe two, but more like one bar rest, and leg B would have been close to the 33,900 of the 200-period moving average. And that tells me this is not the big take-off. This is a rally within, I'd say a bare phase. I haven't had the proof yet to say that we are out of that bare phase in the, talking about the daily chart now of the Dow and certainly the weekly chart is only a leg A. So I would say we are out of the phase, if we can see in June, 34,800, maybe try to test 35,000, to me that would be fabulous action. It's going to be tough to do. Let's keep going. I want you to show you something very interesting. Look at the dollar. The dollar is now down a penny at 102.32. Now, what goes with the dollar? We talk about this all the time. I like to look at everything separately. That's Dolly. That's the dollar. Bondi. That's bonds. Vixie. That's the Vixie index. Oily. That's oil. What am I missing here? Gold. And gold. I try to think of them separately, because if you try to put them together as a package, you've been totally, I mean, bonds, bonds going down as yields go up, as the markets come down. That is so unusual, almost always, historically for decades and decades. I've been looking at this and saying, all right, when the yields start to come down sharply and bonds rally, what happens is that money is going into stocks. When bonds drop sharply and yields go up, no, when bonds are going up, it means that money is going into bonds and money is coming out of stocks, correct? Yeah. And that's the flight from the volatility of equities going to the so-called security and safety of bonds. So that's changed. The dollar screaming to the upside and yet gold is holding well. But first, let me do this, USDJPY. Look at this. I mentioned this the other day that the yen, US dollar yen, was acting very well, moving in the same direction as the dollar, but that they sometimes only go in the same direction. They don't move in the same percentages. Look at this move from 126s to 134 right now in almost a single leg A. Look, a little bit of a mini peak A. And then whoops, and I have to consider this is a brand new buy mode with the Magdi Strong Stochastic at 95%. That is US dollar, Japanese yen, spectacular action that goes to leg E above the Fibonacci level. What was the extension there? That's the 300%. Now I don't know if, I've always wondered about, I could need to check, is there such a thing as a 300% from a Nanji? Funny, you know, I've had it here on this particular instrument. And I can't tell you how many dollars, 300% coming forward. All right, dials down 185,000. We'll be right. Time of booming inflation. We are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your harder and money-thinning gold. Vistagol's flagship asset is the Mount Todd Gold Project in the northern territory of Australia. This is Australia's largest undeveloped gold project. We are talking a world-class gold project in a tier one mining district. This is a large-scale, low-cost project with significant existing infrastructure in a politically safe and friendly mining jurisdiction. 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Subscribe to the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter today TFNN.com, Educating Investors. I've been recently and I said, I liked it. This is Vistra, core electric power business, VST trading down 69 cents to 2670. I'm calling this a peak C in the day, if there's no new recovery high from yesterday's high, that is above 2639, oops, 2739 and it's trading at 2668 right now. But the on-balance volume is getting a little bit overboard, so you can see the pullback. I suspect it's going to have a little bit of a higher high, but my target would be the high of 27, what did I say, 27 39 yesterday. Well, the high that was made back in 2019 was 2796. Remember my root of thumb in the rectangle in the very large rectangle lopsided gravy cup pattern is that if there are higher highs and higher lows, it should work all the way in the same time frame that you're looking at towards a peak D just under, right on or just above the previous high, in this case it's still Lake C in the monthly chart. G-Stash C in the with very good technicals, very good technicals in the in the weekly low of the stochastics under 80% at 79.69 still very good and the daily technicals are already good but as I said, on-balance volume just a bit of work. I still think this is the good area just on a very short base, I think it's going to be a little bit toppy. You never ask me anything other than just to do it and understanding what it is. Now, my opinion would be that in this particular move, because it had such a powerful rally to 27 back in May and then a plummet down to mid-May in the 22s just under 23. The way it's worked chart pattern higher says to me that how it handles if it takes out decisively 28-30 on a closing basis at any point that is absolutely spectacular action because that would be going towards the previous high of 2019 back in May of 27-86 and that would be above that and if I go back further it's an IPO back in 2016 in the 12s righted all the way to well, righted all the way to the 20s and then plummeted down to the tennis area so I would just say that if the whole power area, electric power area is still holding very strong and I think it's getting just on a purely technical basis getting a little toppy but it seems to me over the summer it's still going to be the place to be I'm only saying to you just money management says to me in this area in the 27s or so maybe you want to take a little bit off and just plan to put it back lower down that's just money management if you're one of these power brokers you'll do the exact opposite you'd triple down whatever it is and just say okay if it goes to 29 I'll have three times more that's not the way we do it yet just money management says this is where you want to be positive but also have money management that's all I'm also going to do Exxon because it was spoken about Exxon made another new high today $1.22 with $104.58 fantastic action what was our target? Our target was $104.70 $104.77 $104.76 that was the high of July 2012 so we're almost at leg F in the monthly chart oh sorry F this also could be a recycle this could in fact be F I have to do that just to be a little conservative I'm calling it F but actually I have to put in the background that is a possibility that it's an alternate count ABC there's no alternate count there's actually a D so let's just make that a D why? because I have a corner I'll get to the corner momentarily let me just do this quickly there it is putting the down arrow and then the up arrow and that becomes peak A, peak B, peak C and here we are at D, yet another D so it says here again money management says looks fantastic but this is probably where you want to take a little bit off let's go to our caller and let me check we've got our caller who is John in New York, John how are you? okay how are you? I'm very well thank you you would like to look at GNK is the symbol general shipping oh oh I used to have this I knew I recognized the symbol but I haven't got it all notated I used to have it notated I must have lost it onto another in the portfolio it must be in one of my other files so let me just do this A, B and then I can ask you what you're doing with this A, B, C, T, E and then what does it do at peak E? it has a little bit of a tumble today down to 17 and 24.76 GNK and the actual name is this is Genco yes Genco shipping and trading I think it's called so what are you doing? I have it and it looks like it's it's in buying territory today is the beating justified? it's taking a beating today so do you know who's pertaining to this at all? no I don't see anything on Yahoo but maybe Bloomberg has anything all right let me do this if you don't mind I'm going to do this I don't usually do it I'm going to do it right now news if I can find where the file is it's over there let me just type in GNK where do I type GNK oh there GNK and then I hit yes and it tells me there were no headlines I'm with you there are no headlines wow I mean there's no earnings yet and it's not a dividend today where they subtract the dividend price from there so are you able to see my charts live? hold on let me go to it okay while John's checking that out I want you to just explain something D E a possible F in the monthly chart so GNK shipping and trading I think it's called trading yes that's it okay so if you look at this daily chart are you able to see Tiger TV are you able to do that same time? yes I got the charts in front of me so if you look at it look how nice they've made this arch for a successful arch formation back in May from the load made in April and then ran up peak A peak B pulls back and then has a little mini what I call a gray A and B underneath and then there's an overlapping wave that takes you to leg C together because the old the new B gets taken out for new leg C and the old B gets reinvigorated and comes back so you've got you've got a compound up move here then it goes to D and E now what's really important about this you see the MACD is still very strong you see the 9 period is still very strong over the 14 see the stochastic fabulous at 89% but if you look at the blue line and I'm going to do this to show something very interesting get a vertical line right there this low that was made here which didn't coincide at all with the lows that were made very often it does it did at the very top right there at the very top within one bar it coincided coincided with the peak that was made back around about just under 26th in April and then it pulled back but look how well it's gone and now the only thing if you look at the blue line this blue line here is called the unbalanced FODGET and I'll think I'll discuss that coming back because it's just a little top but that's tough so the amount of pullback is a little bit deeper than I would have expected I'm going to take the break I'm going to try to see if I can find something that's maybe in tiger chat we've got people I'll be right back John hold on if you want to take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my gold report the gold report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold which is the currency and bond markets new subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to lose every Monday morning I publish the gold report with coverage of gold silver bonds DXAU, HUI, GDX as well as more than 30 different mining equities to see for yourself the types of profitable trades that are recommended within the gold report sign up now by visiting tfnn.com don't miss out on the next great gold trade sign up today I'm excited by a variety of professional traders during market hours and now they are expanding their reach with the Tigers Den available to all Tigers and Tigresses for just $1 for the year there's no catch or added costs when you join our community of traders in the Tigers Den you can look over the shoulders of Tom O'Brien and the other TFNN hosts while they analyze charts during their live Tiger TV programs and join an interactive trading community with hundreds of members exchanging ideas interact with other Tigers and Tigresses as they share trading ideas news analysis and discuss the market action all trading day even at night and on the weekends the Tigers Den at Discord is accessible on mobile or tablets as well so it's always at your reach to sign up today and become a part of this educational community of traders just visit the front page of TFNN.com Tom O'Brien has just announced a live timing the trade webinar Friday, June 10th from 9 a.m. until 2 p.m. Eastern Time. 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They haven't been, they haven't given up at all. They just keep coming back and coming back even when they pull back. So, and then I thought, no, it's a little too dangerous here because I've got some, I've got the commodities maybe pulling back oils very close to at least a digestive phase. Maybe we're looking at something that's going to allow the market to breathe a little bit to go up and maybe that's what we need. So I'm just going to say, John, it must be one of the shippers or at least some mention about the shippers. Maybe it's China. I'm not sure exactly what it is, but I don't see any news at all on a single shipper basis. So I think that what we're looking at here is, so the big question for me is, what price are you in at? Are you still comfortable? Are you holding for more of a longer term position? What should you do here? And so I'm going to ask that question. The average price is $25.65 so far. Ah, $25.65. So actually you're just down a little bit, but you've been in it for a very nice move to the upside and went all the way to the 27s, right? Yes. Okay. Is this a most recent purchase or is this going back some time? No, it's recent. Okay. Yeah, because sometimes people say that's it and then I look back and I say, hey, maybe you've been holding it for a year or six months or something. You've sent through a whopper of a decline and now it's come back. Then I give a completely different spiel. My spiel then is you've got to have a stop in if you haven't had one before and you've got to take a gain. If you have even a penny gain after having sent through that horrible scenario, this is very different. So what I'm going to say to you is this, just in terms of money management, because they use, they're coming down together and I don't think it's a one-day thing. It's probably about a two or three-day digestive phase. I'm going to say it's a 2461. I don't want you to check. Was this a position that you just got and then you would see whether or not you're going to hold a short term or long term or whatever it is, or is it you had a specific goal in mind saying, hey, the shippers are in vogue. This is the way we want to be. We want to be in the sector. I'm going to hold it for a while. What was your thinking? Well, it has like three bullish patterns for short-term, mid-term, and long-term. Yes, correct. It's a decent dividend. So it's a place to hold it if you look at the dividends. Okay. So, all right. So if that's the case, then I won't even say to you what I would have said is just for money management, because it actually could pull back full the gap in the 23s and then find a new stable base and then start to move up. If you're prepared to sit through that, I'm not going to mess around at all because the dividend in the end, if you can get this back to the 27s anytime in the next three weeks, then not only are you still being the dividend business, but you've regained, you've recouped, you can now, now you can put in a little bit more of a, you'll know where to put a stop on some part of the position. So how about this? I'm just going to say for money management, when something like this happens, when there was a gain and now there's a little bit of a loss, it's not a loss that I'm, I mean, even if it's, even if it's a half a point or a point, it's still within the three to five percent range. I'm just going to say for money management purposes, I personally would take something off right now and I would say, okay, now I need to be thinking about some kind of stop on another position, and then I'll let it be because I've got a smaller position, but I'm looking out as the area that's been, as I say, it's been one of the key areas, it's gone from a low of 2020, went down to the fours or threes, and now it's way up, it's gone, it's going to be, had a tenfold gain, you'd expect in the monthly chart even to have a bit of a rest, but I think you're right, in the long term, this is to be, so my, if you're calling me to ask me about it, I don't know what the reason is for the pullback, except I did check, they're all coming back down, and because they're all doing it, it's not a single issue, it says to me, maybe we've got a little bit of profit taking going on, and that could last, maybe towards the end of the week, and maybe next week we start up again, if that's kind of fishing with what you're thinking, then I'm going to say 24 to 2330 is kind of the area where I'd be watching closely, because if it starts to trade under that, the timeout could be a bit longer. Now, the big question you should say is, well, Basil, is this going to higher highs, and my answer is absolutely, I don't know, how can we really tell, right? I mean, it's impossible to just say yes, but my eye says all the technicals are still positive enough to for it at least to test the 2728 at some point over the next three to five weeks, so I hope that helps you, but I do recommend just, you didn't ask me about it, but I'm saying my recommendation would be just take a little bit off of money management, just so that you know you're in command of the stock, and it's not in command of you, that's all, but so far all the technicals are good. This looks like it doesn't look like a one-day event because it does this very often, and then it comes back again. So the answer really is that by Tuesday of next week, I want to see it back at 2630 somewhere around there. I hope that helps you. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much for calling. So folks, we've got a bunch of things we've got to talk about. I did do VST, right? VST. I did do that. Yes, I did that. Exxon, I did Exxon. Valeros question, VLO in a new D. It's in a leg E. I don't know what it is in the monthly chart because it's an F slash C, and the monthly chart is in a leg D. I mean these, the real thing which I didn't do, we did have rig and we got out of it. We were up and down, up and down, and trading in a very small range, and I just, I said to myself, I don't know, it's just not acting the way it should, but rig, which is rig is right here, or IG trading up 10 cents at 491. This is trans ocean offshore. We're messing around here, and I should have just said, you know what? This is in the area. It's a laggard. It should easily catch up. Some subscribers of mine said, we're holding on. We like this. We did give down your analysis. We don't want to be messed around, and fortunately some people have held on and they've done a, it's a fantastic thing. It's gone from the $4.08 or something that we were in, and here it is trading at hit 501 today. That means it's going to try to, for the 556 level, and what you really need to do on the, on the, on the sector that's in Fugo, the one that's on fire, the one that you really, you just buy it and you hold and you close your eyes and you say, I'm buying at the top today, but the top today could be the bottom for tomorrow. That's the way it is until they get, you get a major sell-off, and we haven't had a clue yet. I think we're getting close to a sell-off, not a major sell-off, but we're getting close to some kind of a digestive phase, and all I can say is metaculpha. I should have held that rig for subscribers, but some people did, but that's not the point. The point is that we don't have it in the portfolio right now. I'll be back in a moment. Down 108, S&P's down only eight. I'll be back and God is wonderful. 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It's having a struggle after that big D in the one-minute chart. It needs to hold 41.47, otherwise at 41.45, 200-period moving average becomes a target again. If at any point in for the rest of the day after maybe 2.30, if it's trading anywhere in the 41.63 area, that's great. If it's underneath 41.45, not so great. Let's go to the couple of questions that came in. Look, the USO, evidently thank you in the Tiger YouTube. Was it YouTube there? How old are the inventories? T-minus 7 minutes. And the other inventories are 2.03 million barrel bulls in oil. Okay. So as it stands right now, USO, which is the United States Oil Fund, also in that big gravy cap, that rectangle going towards high highs and high lows, the target would be at some point the last high, which was the monthly chart high of January of 2020 at 106.56. It's trading at 90.19 right now. So that could be a bit of a struggle. And in the weekly chart, the rectangle formation has actually gone higher and it's only a leg C. So that's really very important. Leg D in the daily, leg C, brand new legs. I could call it a C, E slash C. I don't need to. I'll just call it a C for now in the weekly, maybe E slash C. Yeah, E slash C and leg E in the weekly chart, but all the technicals are really strong except the on balance volume says getting a tad overboard. That's the one thing that says, but very strong, the 94% in the stochastic. So there could be a little bit of a pullback at any point. So that's what I want to look at. That was there. Then the question came in right here. SVRA, I'm going backwards, SVRA. So let me explain something to you. It's Friday that I do the technical part of the Chapman Way methodology, but I'll do this right now. You see this, whatever the stock is, SVRA Inc. Must be a biotech because Dan always says biotech. You see this low that was made? The candle of, if you're looking at your own chart, the candle of the 10th of May goes to 106 low, has a higher 116. And it looks like, oh, that should be a leg A. No, you can't get a leg A because you haven't started the right side with a trough. In other words, there has to be a higher low. Only from the 11th of May can you start talking about peaks, because it hasn't made that low bar, cannot be a high bar, except in the Chapman Way instant restart. So here we are, peak A, peak A, uppercase, peak B. And then under it, it has like a little A right there, gray A. And then under it has even another A right there. But it doesn't matter because when it breaks above that 1.40 level, it starts leg C. So today's high 1.47 is the same as yesterday. Let me just double check. I believe it is. So this is still leg C. If it was 1 penny below, 1.47, 1.47. Yeah. So 1.47. Now, if you look at the weekly chart, see the double bottom here, 1.02, 1.02. So this becomes peak A because there's a double bottom here. It didn't take out the left side low. So that becomes A. That becomes uppercase A. This becomes B. That becomes C. And now you're in leg D. But where are you? You're in the cup formation, the dreaded H that became the very successful, remember the Chapman Way, we're looking at the H pattern. And if it does hold the left side low and this starts to move up, then it takes out the left side high of the arch. All of a sudden you're looking at a very positive cup formation. Well, lo and behold, that would say that the target should be, it doesn't have to be, but it should be 1.60, the high of the week and the third of September. So that helps you, Dan. Good eye. Very good. I missed something here. Yeah. So the question came in because I showed deer. So I looked at these in great detail last night because I love the fact that deer has been running well for the gap. I love when the gaps are filled, but you need a lot more time. You need to go from the shorter term to the next level of time frame. So that's just the weekly chart is really what I'm looking at is one thing filling in the gap in the daily chart that gap in the 350s is trading at 360 right now, having hit the 200 period moving average of 368 just yesterday. But I want to see the weekly start to improve tremendously. So deer is lagging. It did the chapter. Look, there it is. There's the stalk leg formation. It went peak A and then it went to B and then it made non-rectangle, but really a beautiful oval pattern. Then it spiked to a higher high. That's the neck. And then the beak went below the trough of the oval pattern and didn't close it, but it went there. And that says when it's done, it has a really good relief rally after the beak is made. And that's what you've just seen. And then you're on your own. So that's deer. But look at canapola. Canapola is a leg A. This is still leg A from the low that was made at 194.04. Unbelievable. 190. So is this, this is what I'm saying that you can't get carried away about the economy as a specific thing. Try to think of all these different, the Vixie, the Bondi, the Goldie, everything's in a different area right now. And same thing. Look, canapola and deer are kind of good. They go together, but one is really more agriculture. The other one is infrastructure, heavy duty. Why on earth would canapola be up 30 points? Up 30 points, that's 27 or something percent in this environment if something good wasn't going on. And it made a lower low. So this is brand new peak B. And this will be a peak C if it goes above, if it goes into the 2, 39, 240 area. And therefore you're starting to make the cup formation. You don't understand how confusing it is. That's the reason why I said to subscribers, let's go generic just for the moment. I know I love certain stocks. I'll talk about them in a moment. But either we've missed the actually decent entry to get a good entry point so that we've got a really big leeway like we have in the Dow where we got the day after the low was made. Our thing is to try always to try to pick out lows. We've done in March six of 2009. We've done many times. March the 23rd of 2020. This is what we're trying to do. But now what we're looking at is, isn't this a mixed picture? Caterpillar, yes, it's a dividend law, but it shouldn't be doing what it's doing right now if this was a recession. And that's what I've said. Think separately. Look at CTAS, Sintas, it's been in a recession. This is overalls, uniforms, rentals, since the high it was made December of 2021. It's been in some form of a recession. Look at the IYT. The transports have been in some form of a recession. And you've got to think of it that semiconductors have been in some form of a recession, not just a pullback, but a recession in their own universe. 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But really, if you want to know what would make me very bullish to say it's going to go to leg D by the fall of 2022, I would say any week can close above $199.97 was the high of the week of April 22nd. If it can close above that, I'd say, you know what? It's going to go to leg D in this particular phase. So a couple of things. Gold is trading up at $6.18.58. Try to think of them separately. Look how it gets stuck and can't close above the 200-period moving average. The EUR, USD, look what I mentioned before, the yen, sorry, this is Euro, holding very well. It hasn't gone to a leg D yet, but it's still stuck in the lower range. USD, JPY. You remember I said that this is the one, broke out, leg B, just as a monster move to the upside in the daily chart. So things are rotating through the different sectors, but I'm going to make it as simple as possible. The day's young. 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Thank you, all three of you, for these very articulate and very elegantly presented papers. I was struck, as I'm sure many of you were, by the dialogue between Shannon's paper and Rachel's paper. I'm sure you will have your own questions for each other. Actually, maybe we should start with that. I would love for you to, if you have questions for each other, to go ahead, or I can launch into my own. I think you should feel free to ask me, I need to marinate a little bit before I ask a question. Yes, please do. So with what Shannon was talking about, and then thinking about your paper, and you were talking about the materiality of gold, and the importance of gold, I couldn't help but think about those garnets in the middle, that are right at the center, and are they always garnets, or are they glass, I don't know who to look at, do I look at them, or I mean. I can only talk to my objects, but they are garnets, and in the occasion of one of the crosses, the one from White Low, it was actually found with the setting empty, but I think because of other examples, they actually fitted a new one in there, I think in the 18th century, which was faceted, which is not typical of Anglo-Saxon garnet work. Just thinking about the prevalence of garnets that is so common in Anglo-Saxon work from this period, I mean I just didn't know if you had any thoughts about garnets, I mean I've never thought about what the garnet means. I did get this question in York as well, everyone's very interested in the garnets as am I, and there's actually a paper that just came out in 2017 that I have not read yet that is all about garnets and their symbolism. The only sources that I've read have just equated the red color to the blood of Christ, but then gold is also compared to the glory of kings, so there is certainly a Christological association, but Leslie Webster talks a lot about the contrast, so the contrast of the red and the gold, and I wish I knew how to embed a video into PowerPoint presentations because I actually got to handle one of those crosses at the British Museum, and in the study room the windows are so high and light is perfect and I was actually able to take a video of the play of light off the surfaces as I turned it, so. And that was one of the points that struck me between your two papers was the importance of light, that it was not about, of course colors, comes from light, but the idea of light and not color as the focus of the theory, I wonder if you could speak more to that. I think in two ways, because with the morning papers we were talking about making the immaterial material, so that's one line of thinking, another line of thinking that I saw in both of your papers was Rachel in your paper you were talking about the use of light as a reaction to environmental conditions, and in Shannon in your paper you were talking about the use of, you know, recreating light as a way to control nature, so I wondered if you could talk to both of those points. I mean, I can start by saying that there's just a vast body of scholarship on the importance of light in Byzantium, it's one of the most recurrent themes of what they valued in terms of aesthetics, so in ecstasies or descriptions of churches or decorative programs, it's just light this and light that and reflection this and mirror that, and if you just look at the prevalence of mosaic as a decoration strategy, you can really see it. What I think is interesting in the case of this recipe is that they're not interested in light that reflects, they're interested in something that gives off its own light, this is a different kind of power, this is something that lets you do things that you could otherwise not do with natural light, so this is a kind of, I don't want to say supernatural because it's something that happens in nature and they're very clear about that, but it's a powerful thing, it's a sort of special kind of light, and that's what's really interesting, and like Rachel, I wish I could embed a video, the most interesting thing to me was the antithesis of what I was expecting, which is Byzantine enamel looks like it would reflect a lot in bright light, it doesn't, when it's in bright light the gold reflects off everything and the enamel becomes almost like a silhouette, the enamel glows when there's no light or when there's very little light because the gold becomes dimmed and the glass and the glass formulations are able to absorb and then reflect the light back out, so that seems to be a play of light that they were very aware of and manipulating in a different way than they would do with mosaics which capitalize on natural light. That's an interesting dichotomy because of course a lot of these enamel objects are small, portable, handheld things versus the architectural interiors that you find interesting, so that's... They did make very large architectural features out of enamel, they just don't survive. I should open this up to questions for the audience. I have a question for Shana. Thank you. So are theories of extramission applied to that type of material versus understanding other alternatives such as intramission for other materials? I mean, I've never heard it discussed explicitly that way or seen it come up that way in literature. There's very little discussion of the affective nature of enamel. There's a lot of discussion of its implementation in spectacle and court ritual and in church processions and things like that. In one case, the light isn't ever talked about about extramission or intramission but it's often described in poetry as being visually disruptive. It's described often in poetry as enameled armor on soldiers or fantastic fighters and it blinds their opponents. So it's often something that disrupts vision. Thank you. I just want to share something with Shana and Rachel and my colleague Jean Campbell at Emory. We talk a lot about materials and about teaching with materials. I've never done this but she with students shines with garnets, direct artificial light, like a flashlight, and apparently they do something wow-inducing, very extraordinary. It's the kind of refracting of the light or luminescence. They have, but it's not something internal to them but with an artificial, very direct, strong light they will amaze. Let me speak into the fuzzy dice here. Caitlin, I'm just wondering if you could extend the discussion into the architectural decoration, particularly of polyuktos, where you have gems or gem-like glass inlaid in the columns and the marble was painted, et cetera, et cetera. I'm just wondering, because you did this wonderful juxtaposition of real peacocks with the stone-carved peacocks, were the peacocks themselves painted? That's a great question and there's a lot of debate about whether or not those peacocks in St. Polyuktos were painted. We know that the inscription that surrounds the peacocks, that they definitely had a blue background and the letters themselves were probably gilded, which is very similar to the types of church inscriptions that you see in places like Rome that are still extant in Mosaic, for example. The peacocks themselves though, it's hard to know if they were painted, because we don't have any pigment that survives on them. It would make sense to me that they would be painted, but I don't think it's necessarily that important, given what you were alluding to, the installation inside the church, aside from these ridiculous peacocks, there were also, I mean they're over the top, but there were also in the chiborium or the Templon screen, the columns themselves were made of the same type of Prokinesian marble that was inlaid with glass that's meant to mimic gemstones and also amethyst gemstones. So you have real gemstones and mimicked gemstones being embedded into the architectural fabric. I think the choice of color is also quite important to consider with those columns, which I should have brought a picture of, but these columns, so they have gold glass that would have surrounded each of these sort of cabochons of green glass and also of amethyst, and so these are the colors of peacock feathers. So it's another layer of this peacock imagery, kind of pervading the interior of that really over-the-top space, sacred space, which is important to remember. Down on that question, does decoration survive from, or the structure doesn't survive, but does any evidence of the decoration of Cento Stefano survive? That's a great question, and no. Too mad. I know. So Cento Stefano is tough, because we have the floor plan, but we don't have anything else, and we have the footings of the columns, so we can get the sense of the space, and it's a really conservative type of architectural style. You know, it's a Basilica style. It has one name with little side aisles, maybe a little bit of a transept. One thing that is interesting about Cento Stefano is that there was a baptistry attached to the back of it that was created out of one of the rooms in the villa. So thinking about the creation of new Christians in the 5th century out in, you know, kind of on the edge of the city is a little weird. And also underneath the chancel, so underneath the altar, there was some kind of a crypt down there. Unfortunately, there were no relics of Stephen there, but a lot of people have wondered whether or not, you know, could this have been intended for some kind of a space where relics could have been kept. But that's as far as we can go. We do have, and I showed the example, we do have some of the marble sculptures from the villa, which was still on display at some point while the church was still in use. So you have some of these classical sculptures that are still decorating the rooms that are, you know, kind of supporting the sides of the church, which is really interesting. So thinking about that play of this Christian sacred space rising out of this thoroughly pagan, this old Roman villa. But that's as far as I can go. I would love to go farther. X-rays of the enamels that you were showing, and I was really struck by this use of the gold wire for cloisonne, but that's not actually making cloison. But rather it's giving a sort of modeling effect of further shaping how light is reflecting and refracting. And to me, this seems really interesting as part of a representational project, because modeling, as you think about it in painting, is trying to achieve three dimensions by showing light and shadows as it's working across a three-dimensional shape. And actually you're getting the same effect, or kind of striving for the same effect, but using completely different means of using gold wire and light and glass. I just wanted to see if you've been thinking about it in that way, or if you had other thoughts about kind of the representational qualities paired with the technical work that you're doing, which is fabulous. So it looks, when I show it like this, like the cloison wire, which is not visible, it would seem to make sense that it would be sort of pushing the level of the glass up to create these modeling effects that you're talking about, but it doesn't. You don't actually. Only when it's under transparent glass. When it's under the opaque glass, you can't see it whatsoever. So enamel is always polished all the way down so that it's level with the metal. So you would be able to see those wires. They would have to be raised to such a degree that the glass wouldn't be able to cover them to create these modeling effects. I'm having a hard time describing it. Are the cloisons that are hidden, are they shorter? They're shorter. So they're shorter. They don't actually affect the refraction of light on the surface of the glass. When it's transparent, it does. Because then the light will pass through the glass and bounce off the submerged wires. So I've asked myself this question. Why are the wires that can't be seen under the opaque glass, why are they sort of figural? Why are they modeling hair or expressions of the forehead and the hands? And part of it is practical. Part of it is it helps the glass adhere and prevents it from cracking and breaking and falling out. But I have to wonder to myself, in that particular collection of enamels, some of the halos are opaque and some of them are translucent, but the wires are present in all of them. Which leads me to believe that in the one sense, this is the decision for what color the glass would be was made after the design. And it was kind of, I think they must have decided based on what the object was that these were on originally. And we don't know what the original object was that they were attached to. It would have probably played off of the aesthetic sensibilities of that object. The other thing I wonder is if part of this is just part of the artistic working process. So if you're an enamel or you're making enamels of different kinds, just these roundels or whatever, you're used to fashioning wires that are outlining figures and features and that sort of thing. And why would you not continue to do that anyway? It also helps refine the artist's sensibility for those figures and those shapes of wire. But it's something I'm still working through because I got to the same conclusion you did, that it was creating different effects of light on the surface of the glass, and it does that behind translucent fill, not under the opaque ones, and they were still doing it. And it's not just on this object, it's on objects in Venice, it's in Georgia, and things like that. So thank you. I was struck by the fact that all three papers somehow had something to do with or were interested in the manner in which materials were set in some kind of relation to nature, the natural world. And I know, I'm a scholar of the 18th and 19th century, so I know my nature is not your nature. And what I'm about to say might grossly simplify what each of you was arguing, but it struck me that each of you was describing a different kind of relation between materials and nature. So in the case of the peacocks, it was a relation of imitation, right? So figural imitation, but also the use of materials to imitate colors and the effects of those colors in combination. And in the case of the enamel, the relation was something like, not a substitution because, of course, you so rightly said these are natural properties, but it's something like enamel as its own natural world, right? And then in the case of the crosses, you described an interactivity between the wearable cross and meteorology and climate and gray skies and so on and so forth, but also light as an atmospheric phenomenon. And so I'm wondering if these, the configurations of these relationships that you described, I mean, do they come from contemporaneous discourses about the natural world or about the relationships imagined between different living entities or humans and the non-human? Are there these larger discourses on which these practices drew? Because I was so struck by the fact that each paper was about, I'm simplifying, but some kind of relation of this sort. I'm dealing with a primarily pre-literate people until the introduction of Christianity. So a lot of the poetry that's been written down, one would assume is coming through an oral tradition into, you know, into writing. But the natural world is only described in poems like The Seafarer or St. Gufflack's Writings because he decided to be a hermit in a very unpleasant place. So it's really only in poetry that we find that in the Anglo-Saxon world and not really anywhere else. As Ciara Dodd well points out, that's the only mention of the actual physical environment. When it comes to interaction with the animal world, there's certainly more description of that. But I just thought, I was just struck by the fact that the old English language had specific words, not just for red, blue, green, but varying brightnesses. And I thought that was the strongest argument to argue for a sensitivity to light in that particular environment which they had been in for some time. And if we, you know, believe bead or if we believe, you know, the various genealogical or genetic, you know, migration patterns that are being put forth right now, if we generally assume that these are northern people from Scandinavia or from German areas, you would assume that the environment would be similar. Although it's a very disparate amount of people coming in and that's the whole problem with the word Anglo-Saxon and that's a whole other argument. But yeah, I definitely think that there's a relation to nature, especially the forces of nature sort of being synonymous with the forces that are supernatural. I don't think that there was really a bifurcation of those in popular thought. And then that sort of conditioned, not only crosses, which were conditioned not only by, I think, this sensitivity to the environment, but also by, culturally, by continental fashions, you know, a relationship with Frankish kingdoms where it was the fashion to use golden garnets. But I definitely think of all the fashions they could have chosen, there must be some other reasons behind it, you know, that are more deeply biological. I think there's a lot at play. You can't reduce one to culture. You can't reduce one to biology, so. Is there a reason to look at those period descriptions or configurations of human-animal relations to get a sense of what relationality as such was conceived, how it was conceived of in the period so that you might develop a kind of armature or framework for thinking, okay, well, if this is period understanding of relationality, how might that help me describe this network of relations that's being established among atmospheric phenomena, materials, and bodies? That seems like a place you might want to go. I absolutely agree. I mean, the annulatic tradition, one of my slides, had a beaver's tooth, which was very prominent in female grades as are these crosses are most prominent in female grades. So that's an interesting relation. Yeah. And in other parts of my research, I've actually talked about helmets from this period, which typically, we have about three examples that we mainly refer to, but one from Betty Grange has a nasal with a cross protecting the forehead where you can also be blessed at the sign of the cross and yet at the top is a bore, a heraldic or protective bore with garnet eyes set into the bore. Right. And that's found close to some other artifacts of the cross. And then even the copper gate helmet has over the crossbars. There's an inscription of protection, invoking God for protection. And yet there's a dragon that comes down the nasal. So there's certainly a synchronicity between, there's never the end of paganism in the beginning of Christianity. So there's these ideas are call us saying, and I think the protective element extends not only to protection from, or competition with animals, because I think there was that relationship for the Anglo-Saxons. There was both of those elements happening. And then this protective quality of the cross. So merged into certain elements like the, or certain objects like the Betty Grange helmet. Just to jump off of from the animal discussion.  So the peacocks are interesting. We have lots of descriptions of peacock, lots of ancient descriptions of peacocks. Their behavior was known. They were bred. I mean in my dissertation I go well into this. Going well into it so I'm excited. So there's lots of discussions about this. And they are also used in poetry. And I think most interestingly for these patrons, which unlike Rachel's, they are highly literate. The Aniki Julliana especially, she would have been raised in a very classically educated household. And in those educational settings, they were in late antiquity, they would be doing these ecophastic exercises, where they would recite and they would write down and copy from memory. These descriptions of all sorts of things, from buildings to plants. And there's one really lovely example that in a longer version of this paper that I gave a few years ago, is in a crassus on a peacock. And what a peacock does. And it's not just a peacock walking around with its tail down, because that's not exciting. It's a peacock with its tail spread. And I think what's interesting is that so often when you see images of peacocks in early Christian churches, and they are literally everywhere. I mean, I get pictures of them all the time. Look at this peacock I found. Of course you did. But these peacocks, what is so significant about them is that they aren't the kind of docile images of them with their tails down. They are actually in this aggressive pose. When peacocks, if anybody's been to a zoo or been to, I guess, some rich person's house and they have peacocks walking around, they're very aggressive and they're loud and they're obnoxious. And when they have their tails up, they're in a gesture of mating. So it has to do with this aggression. I think that in some cases it's pushing against the boundary of what is and is not appropriate for inclusion inside a church. And I think that, you know, you can have mosaics of peacocks with their tails up, so at San Butale in the presbytery of the kind of groin vault over the presbytery, there are peacocks with their tails up, but it's not as conspicuous as it is in St. Pauliactos where it literally is a gauntlet. You walk in and you would have just been bombarded with these images. And it's very possible, given what we know about garden culture in St. Constantinople, that Eichia Giuliana on the grounds of her palace could have had peacocks walking around.  So it's very, very possible that people going to the complex could have passed by one of those loud and obnoxious peacocks and then walk in and they see all these quiet ones, thankfully. But yeah, it's interesting. So they are very much part of the classical and then into late antiquity, they're still continuing. And then medieval Byzantium, too. Yeah, I love them. I'll keep it a brief answer to this, which is that, again, I'm dealing with a highly literate section of the Byzantine populace. These are scholars who are writing these alchemical texts, and we don't know exactly who they are, how they're learning, but they're very literate people and they're drawing on a long literary tradition. What I find most interesting about the alchemical texts in Byzantium, which are very understudied, there's a small group of people working on them, but they're not a full part of the Byzantine studies canon as of yet. They are all about nature. They are trying to understand nature through artistic techniques, which is where I've drawn upon Pamela H. Smith, because I do believe that these scholars are actually using interaction with artisans to learn about things like geology and metals and even red baking or explosive making or whatever. But what I find most fascinating about this genre is that the undercurrent of all of this is not just to learn about nature, but to control it, to direct it towards the ends that you want to behave under. In some cases that means artificially reproducing it. It means accelerating natural processes, or even making a natural process have a kind of surprising end that it wouldn't have on its own. So the discourse is very much of controlling nature and discovering it for the purposes of control. I think I have the whatever you call this. And thank you all. It was terrific papers, and I love to hear the emphasis on the materiality. And light. We use so many inappropriate jargon terms that are modern. Illumination is actually a medieval term. And it's not about color, it's about brightness. And with a lot of scriptural connotations as well. I just wanted to say a word of peacocks. I'm also sometimes accused of being obsessed with peacocks. But I think in this particular case, they are everywhere, but nowhere else with this intensity as the super subject. And I just wonder whether since your project is about the assertion of aristocratic privilege and in a family that does have such strong classicizing roots, whether the fact that the peacock is Juno's bird is really, she's making a claim about her own, she should be queen. Oh, absolutely. And that is certainly an acute, you know, into this as I am. And he usually has, when the emperor, two emperors before Justinian, she thought that her son should be emperor. And he was passed over for Justinian's uncle. And then Justinian took power. So there's this, you know, sort of, it's an apocryphal story. We don't know how an anecdotal story about Justinian visiting St. Pauliachtos and going there to collect money from her, right? So, yeah, you know the story. So he goes to collect money from her and she says, oh, I don't have any money right now. I have to collect it for you. So come back in two weeks and I'll give you your money. He comes back in two weeks. She takes them. She's this old lady, okay? And they walk into the church and she says, look up your money. You know, the gold is on the beams of this church. Do what you want with it. And of course he's not going to desecrate a church. He's not going to remove those golden beams. So, yeah. So there is definitely this power play, these power plays that are happening. And the peacock, I argue in my larger project, is really a perfect animal and symbol for this type of aggressive self-promotion for sure, because that's what a peacock does, you know? And I knew Juliana knew that. Are we doing on time? Time to go. Okay, so I think we have to wrap up this session. This has been really exciting. Gems and peacocks. Thank you very much.