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A few things before we get started with that. Facebook is on 60 minutes Sunday night after the House panel asked questions yesterday. 60 minutes and some of the other folks came out with a whistleblower who may have a bunch of internal memos that say that maybe Facebook was doing the exact same thing that the tobacco folks were doing years ago. And that is they had all the inside info. They knew exactly what was going on. But we're lying to everybody, including Congress. So we'll find out. They pushed some small smuck up there to take the slings and arrows of the questioning from both sides yesterday. But generally Facebook, when you get in front of 60 minutes, probably not a good thing. So keep an eye on that when we come back Monday morning. Maybe they'll land a glove. Maybe they won't. Also, Hollywood votes on, starts to vote on today, goes through tomorrow, I think, what I read. So we should know Monday whether or not a lot of all the background folks, not the actors, are going on strike. And that would affect everybody that has streaming services. So keep an eye on that. A lot of people thought that since they delayed the vote for a handful of days, that that meant that they didn't have the votes. I wasn't too sure about it. But from the inside scoop out there, they probably have the votes. So look for maybe a little less streaming stuff coming your way in whatever it is. Take six months to get stuff done. So maybe by Christmas, maybe a little after, maybe they're in a lot of stuff coming your way. And last night, as I said, we got one of the biggest signals of all times. And that was a reverse repo to the Fed. Now back in May, I want to say the 23rd, can't remember. Anyway, the mother of all reverse repos was three times bigger than the one in May where everybody freaked out about it. This was taking the same kind of bond vigilanteism, but on the equity side of the market. And taking it with the money that we were talking about is really a 12-gauge shotgun, maybe a 10-gauge shotgun, and aiming it at everybody that continued to go down the path the market did not like. Anyway, a trillion and a half dollars in the last hour of the day yesterday went into reverse repos. I went into it a little bit. It's also confusing. It gives me a headache bringing it up. It's kind of like anything that has to do with quantum physics. If your head hurts after talking about it for five minutes, or if it doesn't hurt, then you probably are not getting any of it. It's going to make your mind warp. It's like probably taking LSD, then getting drunk, and then probably smoking some more marijuana, and then watching Inception. Maybe watching Inception and then do the drugs later. Either way, my point is valid. The mother of all repos yesterday, that money can be left in overnight and then recovered back today. My thought was that if things went the other way, then heads the people with the equities that decided to use them as instruments to get cash overnight. From the Fed was the telling point. We were either going to blow up this morning or not. Now, since I saw that, I ended up for the second night not really doing much other than sleeping for about two hours. Since Wednesday, I've got about four hours of total sleep at 4 p.m. this afternoon. I'm going to say 4-0-1, I'm going to be asleep. I was up trying to buy some lows at 2.30 in the morning in the den. I can't even remember. Like I said, I'm a little punch-drawn from being up. I decided to figure that we probably found some kind of low, got out at the open, waited again, got most of my subscribers in. I started sending out the newsletter updates, I think about 10.45. Most of everybody should have probably gotten them by 11, hopefully. That was pretty much what we were looking for, that trillion and a half dollars that got parked, probably coming in over the next few days. We've got fund buying. I thought maybe, of course, that it would be a big move in the bond market. It was not. They figured probably the easiest way was just make a big splash in the repo market and hedge their bets rather than go ahead and sell their bond market. TLT 144.74, not great. It is up 61 cents on the day. But I suspect that that's going to always be kind of the sort of Damocles held over the Washington, D.C. big tax and spend crowd as we go forward, because there was just a few things that people freaked out about yesterday. One was the press conference and a few other people saying that spending $5.5 trillion was not going to be anything like spending $5.5 trillion. So probably one of the most absurd statements ever to come out of a politician's mouth.  It's all, it's just flat. It doesn't matter. Nothing's going to happen. That is what I think brought everybody to their senses a little bit later in the evening last night and this morning. But again, I think it was about $2.30. Again, I'm about half in the bag. So we'll know. But I think we found a low. Last anybody come back and start talking about a lot more spending. I think we've probably got a low in for the fall. I don't know how much is up. But I think we have probably the best risk award came in about 1045, maybe a little bit more than 1030 on some stocks as late as 1130 on some others. But good time to get along. Learn to take the path of least resistance with David White's powerful trading newsletter. David White is an accomplished trader whose deep understanding of technology and the markets allows him to consistently find and share winning trades. Support and resistance define the ranges in which stocks trade. 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TFNN Educating Investors 664-8 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> And as we return and probably gonna see a little bit of people try to take a little money at the close today. But I think we're in and good close above 30 excuse me 43-60 on the S&P cash would be a very good signal. That we at least have a midterm low end through through the end of the year. A lot of what happened probably be blamed on sector rotation looking for a faster horse. But a lot of it could be you know based on the headlines over the last week or so where the market really truly did not like what was going on. You can debate the rightness or wrongness of it but the market will go and do what is best for it financially and they were uncool with a lot more spending. And for the most part probably that is gonna be I'm gonna say probably not brought back up again until next year maybe in January or something when they all come back. So I think we got a little bit of respite on that we can go back to worrying about all the other stuff we were worrying about before. Gold up another two bucks today not a lot of follow through you'd like some follow through in the next couple of days and that's about it. We've got a lot of other stuff going on. Let's do a little history. On this day in 1890 an act of Congress greets Yosemite National Park and of course my favorite cartoon character Yosemite Sam. Not at the same time home of such natural wonders as Afton and the giant Sequoia trees environmental trace trailblazer John Muir and his colleagues campaign for the congressional action which was signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison and paved the way for generations of hikers campers and nature lovers to be eaten by bears and of course a lot of don't feed the bear signs but occasionally Congress does some stuff that's pretty good on this day in 1890. Got a nice park. Other things going on as we said they're going to start looking at some of these stocks that should have bottom today. So we're going to go through and look and see if we've got any good reversal signals. Is it a tweezer bottom no but Adobe coming off of the mark of the devil 666 and 47 cents back here on September 16. It's been kind of down since then. You're at least starting to find some levels where you might find some support. There may be just a little bit more pain to go in these. You'd love to see 560 on Adobe. I wouldn't be surprised to see some of these big cap stocks that a lot of people or a lot of people a lot of the street names probably were getting out of to get a faster horse for the fall and into Christmas. Keep an eye on but they may be good for a bounce to do some other stocks out here. I don't know about this one maybe someone who knows more about it than me but I like the chart pattern out here and this is our Venus. Don't know what they do. Guess I could look at a fact that probably ought to do it right now and see. Do I see. There we go. Clinical stage biopharmists companies and maybe that is not as good a low as I thought. But it looks pretty good. You got 154,000 compared to 360,000 about a month ago. And now that's of course going into this gap that had 2.8 million shares back on the 22nd. This is a very nice long term basing pattern. I'd have to find out more about them. Biotechs makes it a little hard to trade sometimes. But you know if you're looking for a good pattern that's what I love. You get first reversal you get some decent volume. But then you come back and all the volume just dries up which is what we've seen over the last couple of days. That's what I love. Give me a call<PHONE_NUMBER>. Email me at path at tfn.com. Brinks company another one. A lot of these things may just have some temporary bounces in them. I would have loved to see this thing down at $57 if you wanted to buy it or you were covering the top. But there are two really good gaps at 57, which suggests that after this gets up here. This one though does look like before the end of the day it could close above the 3x3 which means you might get a fairly decent bounce if you're waiting to get out of that. Back in Dickinson got down to 240-92s almost got all of it back. That's back into the support area. 800,000 where you were getting 2.5 million shares before in candles and that time frame. Big trading range back up to 264 on it. Beam. This one a little doji out here. Beam therapeutics. Volume is a little better than I would like or a little more than I would like. Bayozian. This one really didn't do much today. It's continuing to move lower. CERN. Least back into the trading range of yesterday. Nice thing is you've got half the volume you had in that candle yesterday. Still no turn back over the 3x3 on that one. Care Trust. This one looks like it's going to close back above it. You know, not a lot of money in that one. But does show you that the trend has changed for it. Decker's Outdoor got down to 352.01 this morning. It's back into the trading range of yesterday. It may take a couple more days for some of these stocks to take the turn with it. Okay. Other things. What else did I see this morning that made me feel like going along. to one of the people in the den. And that is, I've been getting people all week long, probably 20, 25 messages either after the bell or before the morning. Can I buy? Can I buy? Can I buy? Can I buy? And this morning was the first one that I saw where no one was wanting to buy. So that kind of, that generally kind of is a good signal when everybody kind of gives up. And the patience is worn out by a lot of folks. Generally makes me want to take the opposite side of that. That was one of the other things I saw interesting this day. We looked at Decker's EVRG Evergy. 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There are a lot of factors in it, shortages and stuff like that, but I think we're probably pretty close to getting all that stuff priced in. GPM, another one out here that's interesting, not quite turn it. This is the Enhanced Equity Income Fund. About there. IEA, the Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives. This has got a nice long-term base out here. What do you have for volume today? $221,000 back into the May 11th low. Now, this one actually has turned. Today does look like it's going to get a good close. So you're probably going to get a fairly decent rip next week. Probably want it to come back and retest the lows no matter what, but this is LBRDK, Liberty Broadband. It looks like it's up on a bad hair day. As far as ones that maybe have blown off a top, Neonode, N-E-O-N, he had some big volume at $12.42 on September 29th. Just kind of going sideways here. But that's it. I forgot about that. NSTG. This one looks like it's ready to come back. Nanostring Technologies. NSTG. Right at where it needs to do. Now, it may take, like I said, a handful of days for these things to start turning up next week. Fun buying, of course, on Monday. I suspect there's going to be a lot of money coming in. And not only usual suspects, but what we're probably going to see are a lot of news stocks that everybody has gotten into this week that they think are going to be the faster horses than what we've seen in the big tech cap space. Got a question from Ronald about Microsoft. What do I think about that? The same kind of thing. You really just pulled back 25 bucks off the high. The interesting thing is that Windows 11 starts shipping next week. About only half of the existing desktops out there actually can use it with a trusted platform module. But keep an eye on that. Make sure and get your, if you're going to put Windows 11 on it, get your trusted platform module. That'll help you out a whole lot with security. But on this, I suspect maybe another, on Monday, you could see this back up into 292. Maybe as high as 295. Then it'll probably have to base out for a while. I don't see anything that changes anything in the outrageous profit that Microsoft's going to see in the near future. Pinnacle West Capital just ticking above the three by three today. So like I said, a lot of these are going to get one or two or three days of a decent bounce, just being oversold. PSNL, disclosing over. Not a lot of money in that one. QTNT, a wonderful reversal out here today. Quotient Limited, QNT, he said. And it was, so I remind myself of what these guys do. Commercial Stage Diagnostic Company develops, manufactures, commercialize, and sells products for the global transfusion diagnostic markets in the United States, France, Germany, and internationally. Well, isn't that internationally already? Company is developing Mosk IQ, a proprietary technology platform which tests for all kinds of stuff. Molecular disease screening, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I hope I don't end up sounding like that girl from Norway or what. Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. You can't fix that. QTT, nothing on that one so far. I'm kind of looking at a lot of these ones that are washed out. RAP Therapeutics, back in the trading range that, kind of a question here from Angie and she says, how does this actually make a bottom? And generally, I will go back to some of the biggest bottoms that we've ever had. I remember in the S&P, I think we were about 675 and it was time to go along. This had to be like 2003, I think. And I was talking to Tim Ward at the time. Tim said, you know what? They're probably not going to believe any of this for a month or two. And then once they start believing it, then the market's really going to take off. But you're going to make a whole lot of money just sitting on your hands. And I thought, oh, that's kind of an interesting idea. And swear to God, the market, I think, went from 675 in the S&P to about 1050 before anybody believed it. So yeah, there is that kind of thing where after people have been kind of kicked in the teeth a few times as they have been this week, that they're fairly shy. But that's generally where the money is made. And what I'd like to see is a whole lot of shorting going on in the first part of next week to help the market get up and even faster. If we continue to see very light shorting, that may be a good indication that I'm a little bit wrong. We may still have a bounce for fund buying, which will go through Wednesday. So I don't see anything or I don't see a lot of risk until maybe Thursday of next week. And what else do we have here? Ruby is a lot of biotechs out in this space here. Now, if you want a good-looking chart, see what these guys do. And I'm sure they're biotech. Clinical stage biopharma company focused on development of red cell therapeutics with severe diseases, treatment of cancer, treatment, I guess it's probably, if you don't have any white blood cells, this says red blood cell therapeutics. Type-0 treating type 1 diabetes that had been around since 2016. Been around for a while. This is a good-looking chart, though. 3871 on March 15th. Huge volume. Long pullback on light volume. Back to the gap. We'll be back in a minute. This is a firm that has extensive experience in the Tampa Bay area. Whether you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value or you're in the market for a second home or investment property, Tiger Realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the Tampa Bay area to help buyers and sellers make the most informed decisions across all price levels. 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You may not like it why it's happening, but it's a good sign that everybody's either throwing in the towel or buying. Generally, it's throwing in the towel, but keep an eye on that. Anyway, yeah, I'm still at up 51. Past about 43.60 on the S&P cash, I would not be surprised, although I'm not predicting, a huge run. Maybe we get the run on Monday, but I wouldn't be surprised if we see something like a 4400 print either shortly after the open on Monday or before and pre-market. We get above that 43.60 area on the S&P cash. There's going to be a lot of people, I suspect, that short it on the close today.  You can trap a lot of shorts that have been on the been to the party with Cinderella. Everybody thinks they're going to leave at midnight, but you know what? There's only so many people can get out that door at one before midnight, but we'll see. But a lot of short sellers and of course, what you need to do is get the short squeeze started today, let those folks sweat and then steam them like a fine crab come Monday morning. Anyway, I'm fairly bullish at this point. I think we've had a good wash out. We didn't really talk a whole lot of about volume, but we will now. And already in the, let me update this thing just to make sure here. You know, when we pushed down this morning, we should have had something like right now, probably 12 billion shares or something. If we're going to blow out that low, we're doing about 7.7 right now. So it's going to be a light volume day going through those previous lows, blew them all out. I still think that there's problem in the bond market, but I think they're just going to sit there and hold that over everybody's head until the danger goes away. But keep an eye on that. Other stocks, got a few more minutes here. Give me call 877-927-664-8. Okay. Now I can get my oil changed. That's a very interesting thing. Got another one. Okay. Select medical holdings. This one actually may have a nice run to continue on that one. SLGN. What is this one here? Silicon holdings. Well, this one broke. It's not good. This one actually in a doji could be the halfway down, moved down to 34 bucks. Normally I can remember these things, but like I said earlier in the show, I have got four hours of sleep in the last two days. And I don't remember much of anything. Cells, rigid packaging for consumer good products. So I guess that continues just to be this shortage of that everybody is talking about in variety of things. But they make packages for everything. That's never a good long-term thing. But if it's, if you're not worried about something being packaged like dog food here in the United States, not a big deal, but that could go all the way back to 34. If that's the halfway, move down. If that's the low, you see that gap up on Monday, then that's yet another good sign. Question about Spotify. I added this to the list. With all the cancel culture going on now, Jim asks with Joe Rogan, what's going on with Spotify and everything going on there. This kind of looks like an ABC on the way up for it. The core business is still sucky. If they hadn't had the bizarre way of going public, this thing would probably be a $20 stock. As far as Joe Rogan, I think people like, there's the old story and headlines in the newspaper, and that is dog bites man. You're not going to get the top of the fold with that one. But man bites dog. Yeah, you're going to get everybody watching. So I think anybody that probably talks against the popular culture today, too, they don't have to worry about everybody carrying them on YouTube or Facebook or anything else. He's got his own island. One of the other guys that's kind of done the same thing as him calls it the pirate ship. They can go fornicate themselves, he says generally, because I own everything.  They can't do anything to me. I can say anything I want. And to extent, Joe Rogan has that at Spotify. But that's the big guy that they brought in kind of like they brought in a big guy for a serious XM satellite, and that's held them or helped them at least hold the the subscribership up. Some people debate whether or not if you're at in kind of an island or a silo like that, can you keep the interest up? But I think there are enough people kind of going that way that he'll do okay. Of course, he throws a Molotov cocktail every once in a while. And of course, that just always brings more viewers like a lot of other folks. I think he's pretty sincere, but just having even a slight opinion other than the people view these days is enough to get UX communicated. Joe Rogan, probably a positive. The long term business of Spotify. Just I haven't seen anybody really make any money on music yet, except Apple. And of course, they made it by destroying music the old fashioned way. Other things target out here. Let's take a look at that one real quick. Again, I was talking earlier in the week about how many things I saw in stores that are missing. This one does look like you could have a very nice candle starting for next week going into Christmas. You know, you're 230. Could you get back up to the highs by Christmas? Really depends on whether or not we turn things around in the shipping part of it. But yeah, I think this thing's always done well in October, November seasonally well all the way through January. Yeah, you could see 260 again in target. But again, we're going to have to get through a few of these hiccups with shortages for TV. Okay. What else do we have? TKC. It's actually fairly nice low out here. Going back into the March 31st low with 1.6 million shares with 600,000. So that looks good. TKC. We'll be back in a minute. Sharpening your skills as an investor is like getting better at playing a musical instrument. 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Again, if they can get a little or a few of these problems sorted out with supply, my guess is fairly good through the end of the year and great next year. I think that if they say it's going to last a year or probably last six months, there's just too much money to be made in most products in the semiconductor-based business. I know when we looked at General Motors, of course, they said that their unit production in the last quarter was down 48% because it couldn't get a lot of this stuff. But again, that's fairly inexpensive stuff, at least on the semiconductor side, not a lot of people making money. If you sell something for a buck, the most you can get is a buck. If you sell something like what I want, which is a $700 video card from NVIDIA that you can't get at all, the interesting part of that was that Best Buy had a deal where they were going to at least have those available at the location. So you could go there at 7.30 this morning, stand in line, get a ticket, come back at 9 and buy one of them. I think they had 20 people for every one video card they had at retail. So give you an idea, there is demand there, it's more of a supply issue. So when you can, not when you have to, we'll see you back here on Monday. Same back tap, same back.


The best way to introduce our next speaker would be to say that he is New Zealand's leading legal expert on both the act and its application to the industry He probably works for the country's number one public law experts as well, and yes, he does and it's called Chen Palmer Ladies and gentlemen, please put your hands together for James Dunn Good morning everyone Grants asked me to as perhaps as a sort of a taster for the rest of the event to take everyone through the The the act the New Zealand solution how it came about What it means and where it fits where it fits into into the grand scheme of things? So I thought I'd start that by talking about the principles and the purpose behind the psychoactive substances act because in many senses They are the most revolutionary part of a part of legislation in in a New Zealand drug law and even a global drug law context So the purpose of the act and this is set out in section 3 is that it's to regulate the availability of psychoactive substances to protect the health of and minimize harm to individuals who use psychoactive substances So in there we've got a recognition the purpose of this legislation is regulation and we've got a recognition that individuals do use psychoactive substances And then moving on from there You then move to the principles behind the act and these are the principles which every decision maker under the act has to take into account That a psychoactive product that is approved for use by individuals should pose no more than a low risk of harm to individuals who use it and Before a psychoactive product that is approved for use Can be it's sorry can be approved for use by individuals the degree of harm posed by the product to individuals who use it Should be assessed by the authority on the basis of and this this is important this part on the basis of evidence and The advice of an expert advisory committee So we're not talking here about Whether the risk of harm should be assessed on the basis of what a politician thinks about it or what the media thinks about it Or even what the people who use the product think about it We're talking about evidence evidence meaning preclinical and clinical trials into the safety and efficacy of the product a psychoactive product that poses no more than a low risk of harm to individuals should be approved and A psychoactive product that poses greater than a low risk of harm to individuals should be prohibited and Finally a psychoactive product that has not yet been approved Should be prohibited on a precautionary basis until it has been assessed and the authority is satisfied that it poses no more than a Low risk of harm to individuals who use it So what we've got here effectively is a market clearance system if you want to enter the market You must provide reputable clinical evidence to the psychoactive substances regulatory authority that your product poses no more than a Low risk of harm and until you until you can do that you are not permitted to sell it One of the other things that's important to understand about the act and this underlies a lot of how the act fits together Is that the act draws a distinction between a psychoactive substance and a psychoactive product? A substance is your active ingredient and a product is that active ingredient packaged up and ready for retail sale And the reason that approach has been taken is what that means in terms of risk assessment Is that you're not looking at a substance and trying to work out every conceivable way that it might be used and every Conceivable concentration that it might come in and work out whether that's safe You're looking at a product a product when theory you should know how much it weighs how much it costs how it's packaged How it's supposed to be used how much stuff is supposed to be in there What the expected effects are going to be and that's really important in terms of making decisions on an informed evidence-based basis The act establishes a really detailed system of control at almost every level over over the market and psychoactive substances So the starting point in the New Zealand context is that the import of psychoactive substances requires a license At import the authority requires evidence that the substance you're importing is what you say it is The manufacture of psychoactive substances requires a license Increasingly now the code that there's a code of manufacturing practice that has been rolled out over the next two to three years That will move manufacturers towards Total GMP compliance status probably by the end of 2015 2016 In terms of wholesale that is what that also requires a license and finally retail licenses You know you must every retailer must have a license where they wish to sell online or through a physical store And off to the side a bit There's also a license for research which is really important because one of the concerns when the app came through Would be that it would actually represent a block on research because the way the app works is to blanket cover Every psychoactive substance that has ever been invented and in fact some that haven't It's important. There is an opportunity there that researchers who wish to research psychoactive substances Still have it still have a way to do that that it complies of the law Next question what exactly is a psychoactive substance? Quite important because it affects what the act apply what the act covers to the act defines a psychoactive substance And this is this is you will have questions about this. So just be there with me It's a substance mixture Preparation article device or thing that is capable of inducing a psychoactive effect by any means In an individual who uses that substance. So what you're looking at there is a very broad attempt to future-proof The act against anything people might come up with in the future to induce psychoactive effects in people now accepted from that definition We have controlled drugs Precursor substances, so we're looking at the precursors to for example methamphetamine medicines herbal remedies dietary supplements food alcohol tobacco and the catch all anything else the authority decides ought to be a psychoactive substance and this is to avoid the Kind of situation where somebody presents Something against for example fish flakes or CD cleaner or sticks not for human consumption on it But as soon as you look at it, you know that it's for human consumption. We all know the kind of products where we're thinking about here It's obviously one of the big gaps in that of course is that it doesn't apply to Currently control drugs those drugs remain illegal But there's a very broad range of substance that will apply to there is of course a legitimate question here about what? Induce a psychoactive effect means what the primary purpose of inducing a psychoactive effect means at the moment and so far We're only only eight months in It's the issue hasn't really come up every every product that's kind of come under the ambit of the act Everyone knows was always supposed to come under the ambit of the act But it probably will be an issue that will come up sooner or later particularly as the sort of an aligned piece of regulation coming through probably this year which will deal with Natural natural supplements and herbal remedies and that sort of thing and you might then start to see some some potential for Sorry some potential for a bit of a bit of back and forth that which regulatory regime a particular substance fits into So once you've got your substance and you've come up with your product, how do you go about getting it approved for sale? You have to make an application to the authority and as I've said that application will need to be supported by evidence That evidence will be then assessed by an expert advisory committee that committee is made up again not of politicians and Not even of sort of representatives of the general public It's made up of experts of experts in toxicology of experts in pharmacology of Experts who will assess the evidence you've put forward which is likely to involve both preclinical evidence I to be frank proof that the substance you want to put forward is not poisonous and Clinical evidence which will be around the effect the substance has on people how addictive is it? How much do they want to use it doesn't really deliver the effects you say it will deliver Unlike pharmaceutical medicine It's not likely that one of the real key tests there will be around efficacy and the reason for that frankly is that if you Want to go out and sell a psychoactive substance that doesn't work That's not the authorities problem. That's going to be your problem with your consumers In terms of enforcement the act Replicates the medicines act in many senses which is a public health angle So we're looking more at fines here which reflect the fact this is that these offenses are essentially regulatory So fines rather than imprisonment I think there is a term of two years for deliberately selling unapproved substance and at the very very bottom level if you're Found in possession of an unapproved substance you can get an infringement notice and a $500 fine now frankly I think that is a solution in search of a problem But at the concert committee when they put the legislation through felt very strongly that they needed to to send a strong message against something or other Once a product has been approved It's still subject to a range of controls but how it's packaged packaged and sold So the key one is that it has to be sold obviously in a licensed premise Licence premise in this context Will means one that's been granted a license kind of premises that are excluded from having access to a license petrol stations dairies anywhere that sells alcohol tents mobile vehicles And anywhere else the authority decides that perhaps it would be best not to have products sold from now Obviously the key thing that we're this reflects is concerned over the previous two or three years about these products being sold from dairies I'm not certain. It was ever a huge issue that was sold in petrol stations, but that's that's again That's in the legislation. So it's important to bear bear it in mind There are also controls on who these products can be sold to they can't be sold anyone at the age of 18 Products have to be packaged in particular ways They have to include health warnings increasingly. They'll have to include barcodes batch numbers all of the information about Ensuring that a substance is is is safe that people know what they're using they know what they're getting They understand the risks of using it and they know they know the consequences of doing so So how do we come to this legislation? We came to this legislation because we tried a range of other options in terms of controlling new psychoactive substances That if you would go anywhere else in the world, they're now trumpeting as new and innovative measures So we're looking here at for example analogs and emergency scheduling at at trying to impose blanket bands We've tried all of those over the last ten years Not one of them has worked in most cases. They haven't even worked for a day We had emergency scheduling of psychoactive substances between 2011 and 2013 and I don't think a day went past When psychoactive substances were not legally available in New Zealand So one of the advantages of this act is that it does represent as as Ethan said earlier a real breakthrough Because it's a recognition by a government That if effectively if you must use drugs Use these ones. We know these ones are low risk. We're not saying they're safe In fact under the act it's illegal to claim that your drug is safe But we do know they are low risk and we'd rather that you use these than dangerous drugs So we don't have control over the market. We don't know who's selling them. We don't know who they're being sold to So this act in many senses is all about control. It's about Admitting this market exists admitting that it will continue to exist no matter what we do and saying well if it must exist Let's take control over it. Let's understand how it works Let's establish a system where when every psychoactive substance enters the country We can track it through every manufacturer and retailer down to a granular level So if there is contamination if there is a risk of harm We can easily take that product off the market and protect the public and protect public health The act is interesting also because of these potential international Rantifications and some of these I think funnily enough are quite optimistically included in the legislation There's provision in the act for export certificates where the authority provides will provide a certificate for your for an approved product That says this is an approved product. We're satisfied it poses no more than a low risk of harm now in 2013 It's not quite clear what anyone else would actually do with that certificate But it might be that in the years to come as other countries catch up to us that you're looking there of us at a System of mutual recognition where having got a substance approved or product approved in New Zealand or Australia or elsewhere There will be some level of some ability to take it from country to country much in the same way as we do with medicines So there are real possibilities here for a realistic international reappraisal of where we sit where we stand on drugs As I've said one of the gaps is that there is no space for control for control met drugs in here They're not covered off and in the future It may be that a future government will decide that is a much more rational and sensible way of approaching the issue of controlled drugs then What we do with the misuse of drugs that which could be charitably described as sticking our head in the sand and Pretending that somehow if we ban these things hard enough, they'll go away And that's that's never worked and I'm not quite sure why it might work this time But it is it is it is this legislation creates a way through there that as you can see it avoids the extremes of total legalization And a free-for-all in the same way that we recognize that in an ideal world alcohol wouldn't be sold We know that it's dangerous. We know it is extremely dangerous We know it is so dangerous. It would never be approved for sale under the psychoactive substances act But we also know that we cannot now get it off the market. I mean the Americans tried that they spent the better part of a decade trying to Do it and it didn't work So it's better that if that market exists we control it in the same way In fact in a funny sort of way that we control we've realized that a free-for-all of tobacco was the wrong choice And if that market must exist it must be controlled So the act in that sense as Ethan says is an international breakthrough because it's a recognition by government that these markets can be controlled That the options are not just wave goodbye to public health or free-for-all There is a middle ground. There is a sensible solution and this is that sensible solution The last thing I wanted to cover off very briefly are the current interim arrangements These arrangements are designed to allow a sort of orderly transition so to speak into the new regulatory regime And basically what we've done there is we've frozen the market as it was in August 2013 And the intention is that over time as regulations come into force the interim licences will be replaced with full licences The interim product approvals which are currently more or less assessed for safety on the basis that nothing bad has happened so far Will be replaced with an assessment on the basis of here is your evidence that this product is low risk So that transition will happen over the next year or the next year and a half I mean we are in early days yet. I want to emphasize that. This is a very new act. It is eight months old It is far too early now to say whether it will work but all the evidence is good We've seen the number of outlets and there's a figure that the Ministry of Health quotes endlessly That they've taken the number of outlets from three to four thousand to a hundred and fifty Now we've got to bear in mind that three to four thousand. One of the problems was that is a guess Because we did not have control over the market. We didn't know how many outlets are selling these products Nobody did. Not even the industry knew because there was no way to tell. There was no central register No one could agree. So that control means yes there are far fewer outlets But now we know where they are. Now they're accountable Now we know they have to comply with the law. And the outlets that we do have now that are licensed are complying with the law Similarly with products there were somewhere in the region the Ministry of Health thinks of two to three hundred No one really knew what was in them. No one really knew what the effects were They would change on a weekly basis and all of this was actually driven by the regulatory regime at the time So the government effectively encouraged people to do this But we didn't know what was going on. We didn't have control And now under the cycle act of substance is that every approved product you can go on the website You can look it up. You can see what's in it. You can see how much it should You can see what it should look like. You can see how much it's how much is going to be there So you know exactly what you're getting and you can have confidence that when you buy it That's what you will get. You won't get some batch from last year You won't get some other product. You will get exactly what you want You want. Now as I say this act is new. This act has not bettered in yet But it is a genuine breakthrough I think in drug policy And to quote from Winston Churchill I don't think this act is the end and it's not even the beginning of the end But it may well be the end of the beginning


All right, what is this peek-a-boo? I see you. This is our M4 eyes code, but it's been ported now to the ESP 32 s3 on the qualia board. This is like first light, you know the first working eyeballs you see like I have a little bit of like Math, I think it's I think this is a uint 18 that eight that should be a 16 So you see that there's a little bit of gray around here But you know the pupils working and the iris and the eyelids and so we're making good progress This is a 480 by 480 screen and then I'm also going to try to get it working on the 720 by 720 screen For this, you know, this is already like kind of working hard 10 frames per second for this one I'm probably gonna do pixel doubling so it'll be 360 by 360 and then pixel doubled up to 720 by 720 I'm sure I'm sure it'll look fine. I'll be gigantic, but yeah anyways first eyes


So, welcome everybody to my talk. I called it Animating Container Terminals for Lazy People. So, first, some things about me. My name is Jonathan Bell. I've been doing 3D for quite a long time using various programs. I studied computer science at Delft University. I specialized there in computer graphics, and you might have seen some of my posts on the Blender Artist Forum under the name of John Amater. Also a bit about my work. All of the things that the company where I work, TBA, is doing, it's already related to container terminals. We do logistic optimization of container terminals. We develop container terminal software. We train the planners for container terminals. And in one very small subsection of the company, we create animations for container terminals. And these animations can have different purposes. So, sometimes it is to explain one of the procedures in a container terminal. Or sometimes it is more to show plans for the terminal to possible investors. So, for that kind of purposes, we make these animations. Here I'll show just a few shots to show what kind of animations we make. This is all made in Blender. As you see, container terminals can be quite big. We have all kinds of equipment in container terminals. There are these cranes, a lot of movements with the containers, a lot of things driving around. And so this is just a short view of what kind of stuff we do. And there's also a lot of container interactions. So, where containers are going from one equipment to another. So, what am I going to talk about? I'll first talk a bit about how we organize the files in our projects. I'll talk something about the virtue of laziness. Show some tips and tricks that we have. Tell a bit about how we write plugins. And a bit about our render farm. So, first our project structure. We have a library folder structure. We check that whole folder structure into Git. Git is not ideal because it has trouble with binary files. But it's good enough. And we've been using it this way for several years already. We have the library files of all the equipment and the containers and all the different kinds of buildings and fences you might find on a container terminal. And we also have project files which are specific for each project. And we actually have them in one folder structure. We use a lot of linking, especially we link using the Duplic groups. And we always use relative paths so that if you want to render or work on a project on a different computer, you just need to make sure you have the whole directory tree cloned from Git or just copied from the other drive and then everything works. Until now, we have not really figured out what a suitable place would be to store the renders because you don't want to have them in Git or the montage files because you might want to have them in Git for the version controls but they need the renders to actually do something useful with it. So, we're still thinking a bit about that. So, in our library folder, we have an objects folder with all the meshes, textures, materials, that kind of things. We have an effects folder with reusable material node groups. We don't have a lot of them but we have some. We have a folder with animated objects. That's where we store our rigs. I'll tell more about our rigs later on. We have a projects folder and that is where we have the projects for the specific terminals and customers. In a project folder, we have the scene which is basically the background and then we have one or more animation files with actually all the moving parts in it. We have a fonts folder. It's very important to not use system fonts because if you then open the file on a different computer, suddenly the fonts look weird. Some backgrounds. And very important for us is scripts folder with inside add-ons, misc and modules. The add-ons folder contains custom add-ons that we developed ourselves or sometimes customized version of the add-ons that we can find online. The misc folder just contains scripts that are useful but you have to load them in the text editor and then click run script. And the modules, that's basically Python libraries. One of my plug-ins uses MySQL, for example, so then the MySQL Python bindings are in this folder. And from Blender, you can refer to a scripts folder and if you refer to it correctly, that means that it will automatically also find these add-ons. So that's how we have Blender configured on our systems. So the important part of my talk, laziness. Larry Wall said there were three virtues of a programmer and one of them was laziness. And why is laziness important? Well, the idea is you do the smart work and let the computer do all the dumb work for you. And if you find you're doing the same series of steps over and over again, automate it. So I will just give some examples of how we work effectively and in the same time in a lazy way in our work. First of disclaimer, some of the solutions I'm going to show are solutions I found out during the past few years. And once you have a working solution, you don't really look into different solutions. So maybe there are some new features in Blender that make my solutions obsolete. I don't know. I don't really care actually. I just use my solutions that work. And also my solutions might not apply to your specific situation, but you can be the judge of that. So in a typical container terminal project, we have something like 30 cranes, 50 trucks. We want to have 10 minutes of container terminal operation in which a lot of containers are actually switching parents, so from trucks to cranes to the stacks. We also have a lot of different shots or angles of the same terminal, so we also have multiple cameras. Luckily, we work at a company that also does simulations for container terminals. So if we have a simulation, we can have it store the x, y, and z position and rotation of everything that moves. Then with a plugin that I created, we can load it into Blender that gives a huge file because for every second, for every moving equipment, it stores a keyframe. And if you have 10 minutes of simulation data, that's really a lot. And we cannot always use this easy trick because sometimes the customer wants to show a very specific story and, well, the simulation just shows some general how the terminal works. Sometimes they want to show processes that we don't actually simulate, for example, when it concerns humans. Then in simulation model, we just say, this process takes two minutes, but we don't actually show the person walking around the truck or things like that. So that's where manual animation would also come in. So if we are not in the fortunate situation that we can just import the simulation data and, ta-da, everything is there, we need to do something with rigs and manual animation. And this is a quote from the Blender development blog that made me very happy because already for years I've been hoping for the possibility of just linking in a rig and using multiple instances of that rig and in the future that is actually going to be possible. But as long as Blender 2.8 is not yet here and feasible for work production work, I do something different. We use actually rigs, which are structure of empties and dupli groups and constraints and we append that to the scene and then we use that. So when you're making a rig, you have to think what do you animate most often and you have to think about how do you want to animate it, move it along a path or give it free movement or constraint movement. You have to think about anchor points and maybe other reference points that are important for you. So I'll give a few examples. The first one has to do with the question forward or inverse kinematics and what do you want to animate and how does the rest of it relate to that. And so I will show this in a blend file. So here I have a stack crane and this is a crane that drives along the stack and on the crane at the top you have a trolley which goes from the left to the right and on the trolley there is a spreader which is a sort of grabbing thing to grab the containers. Basically when animating this kind of crane, the only thing that's really important to us is the movement of the spreader because the spreader goes to the container, grabs the container, et cetera. So how we would animate that, first of all, insert a location key frame for the spreader. And actually what's important to note the spreader, this is not really the spreader, but this is an anchor point or an empty that I added below the spreader, exactly one container height below the spreader. And the idea why I do that is I can also select the container and then with shift S, selection to active and then suddenly the spreader is directly on top of the container which is fun, which is easy. So then for the spreader I insert another key frame. Then I wanted to actually grab the container, so I select the container and this anchor point and then I have this plug-in that I wrote to make things easier for myself and it's called switch parents. Basically it is similar to normal parenting operation except that it uses constraints so for the container it now added a child of constraint. Now we can decide where we want to move this container to. So we select, for example, we want to put it on top of that container, so shift S, selection to active, but then we need to move it up to point 38 meters. Oh, I forgot to move to the next key frame. Go again, sorry, select to active and then here we can insert another key frame again. So in this way it's very easy to make the crane move, but of course you see that the movement now it's going straight through the stack. You don't want to have that. So basically what you do then is you go to this nice curve editor and then you can say that the spreader stays up. Let me just move this one out. So you can say that the spreader stays up till the end and then it goes down and then after that it should go immediately up again. So I duplicate it along the x-axis and again and in that way it is making a nice movement. So this is just a quick example of how setting up a rig correctly saves you lots of time. I showed you the selected to active trick and the switch parent operator. What we do a lot for driving vehicles is we animate them along the path and then it's very important to choose what is actually the anchor point or the center or the, how do you call it, of the vehicle because you could put it here on the axis that is not steering. You could say put it here because that's the center of the vehicle or put it here, the front axis. I don't know why you would do that. But in our rigs we chose to put it on the axis that is not steering and in container terminals we have a lot of trucks and the issue with trucks is you want to have the trailer following the truck in a realistic way. You cannot just say that the trailer has to drive over the same path as the truck because basically the trailer doesn't exactly follow the same path. And we also want the wheels of the truck to turn and I've seen some workarounds that have to do with putting a car on a path and making the wheels turn but I haven't actually seen something that works perfectly. So the solution we came up with is baking it into key frames. So let me switch to the truck example. So here we have a scene and here we have a truck and as you see the center of the truck is actually the rear axis, the axis that is not steering. And in this rig we also have a target here and the trailer is always pointing towards the target. And now this truck it will move along the path. It's all very nice. So we go to the big animations dialog and then I say, well, every four frames I want to have a key frame, do it and then you see the timeline filling with key frames. That's also very nice for the file size. You get huge files this way. So you always try to keep that to the last point in your before rendering. But what you see is that the trailer is now nicely in the trailer. So the trailer is following the truck and also here you can see that it's just realistically following the truck. And something that you might even see, yeah, the wheels are also turning. And that's all what the script has calculated based on some settings that the objects have. So for example the wheels here, they have a custom property wheel radius. So this is another way of saving yourself a lot of time. We also, let me see how much time I have. I'll just skip this example and go to writing plugins because this is actually the tool for being lazy. This is a very important comic that XKCD made because it actually tells you how much time you're allowed to spend on automating a task. If you do a task five times a day and it takes you 30 seconds each time, that means that you have three days to work on automating it, creating a script for it. And that will earn itself back in the coming five years. So keep this in mind when you think about is it worth to automate or not. When you're writing plugins, we have MISC scripts that you load into Blender and then click Run Script. Or you can have plugins and you enable them and then you can use them. But it is a lot of extra work to write a plugin. And so I created Operator Script. You click it in the text menu. Then you have these fields you can fill out with how do you want to call it, what the tooltip should be. And then ta-da, you have your script. The only thing you need to do is replace the print hello world with something useful that your operator is going to do. Finally, I'd like to share a bit about our render farm. We started out with what is called the poor man's render farm. You have one PC with a shared directory which contains the file or the files in our case. And the output directory. And then all the other PCs that are going to help rendering, they have this placeholders checkbox checked and the override is not checked. And what happens is it stores an empty JPEG file and when it starts rendering a frame and when rendering the frame is finished, it replaces it with a real JPEG file. It has some down sides. It is quite annoying to start a render because you have to walk to each PC, open the file, wait for it to load, take some time, then click render animation. And then if you figure out you forgot something, you need to stop all these renderings and then start it all over again. It is impossible to queue renders. And if on one PC you forgot to update the Blender version, you have one PC producing frames that are slightly different and then after that you need to go through the folder and delete every so many frames, which is annoying. So we have version two of the poor man's render farm. I put Blender also on the main render PC just in a folder so you can just load it from there. You don't need to install it on any other PC. And I added a script in that folder and what it does is it checks in a render tasks folder if there is a new Blender file, if so, render it. And in that way you have a simple render farm. All the other PCs, you just start them up, start a script and that does the rest for you. Still, it was not ideal because for our projects you often have one animation file with multiple shots and each shot has a different start and frame, different camera, different frame step. Still quite annoying to fill that out every time. So now you can also add a file in your animation blend file. You add a text file called render plan and it's a tab separated file with this information and if that file is present then one folder will be created for each shot and inside that folder with that camera those frames will be rendered automatically. And so that is how currently our render farm works and the nice thing is it works with one PC, two PCs. Or if you're really, really in a hurry you can walk through the office and claim everybody's PC when they go home and set them to work. Although there is one limit, I figured out at a certain point something like 20 or 25 PCs and then Windows says you're not allowed to share the folder with more than so many users. There was something related to that. At least that's how our render farm works. So to summarize, how can you be lazy and effective? If you have smart findings you can save work. Custom plugins can be very smart findings and automate your rendering. Thank you.


Okay, so I want to talk about a question that I've been getting a whole lot. I've been getting every once in a while since I started my YouTube channel, and nowadays I get it all the time. And that is, it's basically, people ask it in different ways, but it's basically, how do I get good? And it's a weird question. I mean people ask it for different things. Usually they ask it about, how do I learn about a Linux system? How do I learn about technology? How do I learn to configure this? How do I learn how to operate this? I want to be a sysadmin. I want to be, you know, I want to do this kind of tech thing or something else. Or lots of times I get questions about the other stuff I put up. How do I learn about linguistics? How do I learn about languages? All these questions that I think can be answered more or less in one video. So in this video I'm going to talk about that. Now I have my own personal idiosyncrasies. Everyone does when they're actually learning about something or they're actually figuring things out. I don't want to talk about my idiosyncrasies because I think that they can vary from person to person. But I'll go ahead and talk in the broadest strokes about what I think the problem is people have when they try and learn something. And that is, it's something that it's sort of everyone has wrong, but I think it's not because it's not your fault. It's something, it's society's fault or something like that. And I'll put it this way. If you want to learn something, well actually let me move back. Let me talk about my, how I got good at whatever I'm doing. And that is, it's a process that well is gradual, but has happened not necessarily by me sitting down and learning, reading from books or even reading the manual or anything else. It comes from ultimately just experience. Not just experience, but the feedback mechanism you get when you have real life tangible experience with something. Now with respect to technology, that means I learned about a Linux system or a Unix systems, not by reading about them in a book, not one of those goofy books with the animals on them or something like that. I didn't learn about it in a class. I've never taken a computer science class. I never did that in undergrad. I've never read a book on programming. I've never read a book on anything in Linux or anything like that. How I learned what I learned is really just an issue of throwing myself in the actual situation and figuring things out gradually. So specifically how I did this for my Linux system, keep in mind I've only been using Linux since I guess late 2015. I mean I think I used Ubuntu or something before that years ago, but never seriously. I started what would become this channel in 2015 when I started playing around with the Linux system and configuring to my liking and how I did it was not going and reading a bunch of books in the library or something. I've got checking out 20 books and going home and leafing through them or something like that. But I just sort of sat myself down and I said these are the tools I know how to use. How can I use them to get what I want?  I wanted to have it configured exactly how I want. I want it to be as efficient as possible. I want it to be as productive as possible on it, down to having every key press being very economical. And with that goal in mind that sounds like something totally arbitrary. In fact I could tell that to some random person.  Like I mean maybe you're saving a couple seconds, but what does that matter? And maybe even it doesn't matter. I think it definitely does. But in the process of doing that, in the process of being motivated by something else, my desire to do that sublimated into basically me gradually learning everything I need to know to have this channel to put up videos and stuff like that. And the general process of learning is one, real learning is one where you're put in the situation of trying to figure things out. You figure them out and the knowledge you gain is not necessarily just academic knowledge, it's knowledge that makes sense to you in your situation. And that's one of the reasons I don't end up forgetting these things because I've actually done them my experience.  And that's part of the learning process. You have to grant it in my position it's more a more social thing because what I do is publicly available. But you don't have to do that. I mean it can just be you gradually tinkering with the system to get what you want out of it and you know whatever. So this of course is the context of technology but it applies to basically everything else. I mean for example as I mentioned I get a bunch of questions about linguistics a lot like people ask me like how do I, what books do you recommend about linguistics? So I'll just say that I never really learned, I mean keep in mind that I work in the field now, I read linguistic stuff all the time, articles and books and stuff like that. But when it came to me actually learning the basic knowledge nearly none of that was actually reading through books, especially reading through textbooks. No one has ever learned anything from a textbook or maybe they accidentally learned something but textbooks are written for the people who write textbooks. They're written for institutionalized knowledge, they're not necessarily good tools to learn from. How I learned about linguistics was sort of the same thing. I started, I really just threw myself into learning an individual language and that shows you how languages work generally, why linguistic theory, why linguistic concepts exist, what they're useful for, what they account for. And I should say this, I think there is a divide in people who are in linguistics and I think I've mentioned this in other videos but there's a divide between people like me who have sort of studied languages relatively extensively have a good idea about them and there are other people who just sort of come to the field just because they decide they want to do this academic discipline and they don't really have a good sense of how things work and it's very obvious who is who I'll say in the field and not to downplay it's not to say that those people can be useless but they don't come with the same kind of intuitions, they don't come with the same kind of BS detectors and stuff like that. So my recommendation for you no matter what you're trying to learn is don't be in the mindset of looking for explicit direction. So everyone is used to this mindset and you get it in school, you get it from the concept of the ridiculous concept of going in front of someone who's lecturing and the idea that them just sort of talking at the wall, maybe they're saying interesting stuff but the idea that that will actually help you a. learn something and b. make that learning actually make sense to you. That's not really how it works in the real world and it's always easier to learn something that you have, you're putting yourself actually into experiencing. Now a lot of that you know sometimes people are a little moot like they want to learn about some kind of subject but they don't know how to do it and I think it all comes down to having sort of an axe to grind. It all comes down to you know what do you actually want to accomplish in knowing about this and how do I actually achieve that accomplishment and the the process of going from step a to step b that is the learning process.  That's not how it works you know you it's a kind of it's a feedback process where you're tinkering with something and you're getting a response like if I'm on the computer and I'm trying to figure something out I'll put in a command I see what happens is there is there an error is there not an error what's going on. It's very different from you know if I were you if I were reading some book about programming in C and I didn't even have a computer you know on my side I could just read that book but it wouldn't mean anything even if I remember all the stuff inside of it doesn't mean anything until you actually play with it until you actually make it real. So again my advice for getting good is really just put yourself in a situation where you get a you get feedback for doing well you you get direct experience there's no you don't have to be a professional at something to start figuring it out in fact there's no other way to figure it out really just sitting around and reading books that's good mind you that's something that I do for my academic work in linguistics but that's something that I think should be done after you have a good sense for what's going on and so that's sort of my advice and this is sort of response to the the many questions I get from people about what books should I read what books should I read about Linux what books should I read about i3 gaps I don't think there's a book about that but I've gotten that question what books should I read about arch Linux what books should I read about linguistics how do I how do I learn this stuff and I'm just saying throw yourself out there you know the learning takes I don't want to call it mental effort because it's not something that's necessarily painful or exhausting but you have to put yourself in that situation where you're actually you're actually doing something with your brain you can't just sit down and plug the wires into your head and expect to learn anything this isn't actually the matrix contrary to popular belief um so that that's about it um that's all I had to say so um I guess I'll see you guys later on