Max Levchin once said at Y Combinator Dinner that if there are any doubts, there are no doubts. When it comes to team members, if there are any doubts, there are no doubts. And I thought about that and I thought, that seems super harsh. And I think this is for collaborators. You can still politely end a collaboration, but then say, okay, I had a lot of doubts and they kept delivering 80%. And then you see one partner or one collaborator, one team member deliver 120%. And then you're like, okay, that's my new bar. And it turns out that especially as you keep creating your network grows, your ability to sleuth around through friends to find another 120% creator and whatever collaboration you're searching for and they keep delivering that and then, like I said, you get addicted to it.


It's been changing a lot because Kevin's been trying to put different twists on, you know, like different locations, not necessarily theatres setting on. I heard it with him. I mean, from what I can tell in the last couple of years, it feels like it's maybe getting a little harder. Yeah. Good afternoon, everybody. I mean, I look at the picture. We've got kind of an open mic forum today. And just to give you a little bit of an idea before we get into our general announcement of what this is about. Essentially, in the past few years, we've had you guys share information with us, links, publications, groups, theatre companies, anything like that, that you had success or love with. And yeah, and then you can just kind of jot them down as you need them. But also, this is still going from a column realm, so you'd be able to check in their archives if there's anything that you missed. And go back through and take it that way. But if you do have, you know, no paper, you might want to take it out and listen. So yeah, so think about that for a little bit and let that stew, and then we've got a few more announcements.  We'll have just an open mic and we'll just form a line up this way here. And then just say your piece and then, obviously, then we'll continue on. But here's Kevin with someone else down. Welcome to Friday, you guys. It's going really fast. I wanted to talk just a little bit. We're going to send out a survey right after the conference is over. It's an email survey. It doesn't take too long to fill out, but it's immensely helpful for us to get feedback. There's a number of different areas of the conference that it helps us adjust things. We've taken it every year. We've been able to change the conference and make it better, make it stronger on how we do it. We always get great ideas from you. So we really appreciate it if you can fill that out and send it back. And it's always helpful too. There's a place in the survey, but if you, whatever experience you've had, if you feel strongly about it, one way or the other, if you can send an email about that, we're able to use a lot of those emails to help generate more interest and support from the Omaha community and the people who fund this. And it's been very, very effective for them to hear from you about how this week may have affected your work, your lives, et cetera. So that's a huge favor if you have the time and energy to afterwards that it would be great. Oh, no, I don't, but I can, do you want to grab one? I might do it. To do the surveys, in front of you guys on the tables, there is one that is kind of necessary for us. It's from the communities in Nebraska who wants to know your reaction to this program so we can continue to provide high quality offerings and actually require this specific feedback from you guys. So just as people are giving their steal up here, you can just fill that out and leave it on the table and we'll come around and collect those. Yeah, there's some information at the bottom you can fill it out. So, a couple of other things, just general announcements. We're starting to get some stuff in for the play slam. A couple of things about that too is just keep in mind the shorter the pieces, the more people are involved. And if there are duplicates, if you guys put in two things, we're just going to do one. Just for fairness and for time so everybody gets a voice. So if you put two things in there, I'll just do the first one that you put in. But again, even 10 minutes can take a lot of time away from people. So even like five pages is probably ideal for that type of thing. Let's see, also, let's see. Andrea wanted to talk a little bit about tonight's event here. Smalls all over, but I can tell. So don't shake my hand. I have questions about the fringe tonight. So this is a little description and also a formal invitation to please come to the fringe tonight. It will be a conglomeration of performances by various people who have attended the conference over past years, as well as local companies, actors, people. It will be all over the campus.  You might love them, you might hate them, but they will all be short enough to move past as soon as they're done. And it's going to bring the house down. So you should come. Thank you. And I feel like there was something more I should tell. But if you have questions, ask, but it's going to be fun. It's going to be loose. It's fly by the seat of your pants. It's been pulled together sort of long distance a couple months ago, but really most of it has happened this week. So just come with a spirit of fun. Where should we start? You should start down, probably downstairs outside this building. That's where the bus will bring you if you're coming on the bus and then everyone else should kind of gather there. And it will be made apparent where to go from there. Can I also say my one thing, my open my thing really quickly? Yeah. Okay. Really my new favorite website. And some of you probably know this is Capsule K-A-P-S-U-L. And it's a really awesome way to work with collaborators long distance and share photos and videos and text and all sorts of things so that if you're just looking for visual and reference material that you can all put in one place, you can create these castles. And it's awesome. And I love it. And so check it out. K-A-P-S-U-L.com Great. Let's see. One more thing that I missed is general announcement wise. The departure schedules and drivers are available downstairs at the registration desk. So if you need to be reminded or find that out at all, it's down there. Let me see. And then, yeah, I think that's it for general announcements. I've got a couple of things just to point out too. You might have noticed downstairs there were some scripts. Jason Aaron Goldberg who was here last year does some micro-publishing under Original Works. And do you know? What's that? Look, Original Works Publishing. Original Works Online. Yeah, Original Works Publishing. Yeah, it's online. And then also there's a flyer down there too for local theater, the Shelter Belt. They do original work. There's a couple of vignette shows that they do each year. All of them for good 10-minute plays. One about Halloween Shelter Skelter is the name of that one. And that's been a tradition in town for a long time. And then they also do kind of a pseudo love story from Shelter Belt of Love. Originally it was kind of more romantic stories, but they've broken that into just, you know, general heartwarming pieces basically. And that is Shelter Belt.org. And again, there's a flyer downstairs as well with support for the information you guys can take. So we can start just lining up. There's no hands are necessary. So if anybody has some goodness to share, come on down. I should say that Original Works Publishing is actually published a number of playwrights that they found here at the conference when Jason was here at the conference. And a number of playwrights who were here before he got here that he just found. And we have a couple of those publications down on the table below. But he's constantly looking for new playwrights to publish whose works fit within what he's trying to do every day, every Monday.  So he's a very active, vibrant guy, trying to get this independent publishing for playwrights going. So that's a great resource. One thing I guess if you want to try and keep moving quickly so everybody can get resources in. If you have something, you want to kind of just form a line, you know, when it goes down to two or three people, the next person can come up and just hang out so that you're ready to get right back up to the mic with the next person. I'm not even sure, Aaron, are we how-rounding? We are. Okay. Welcome to the National Audience Senate. So David, are you? I do. You've got one? All right. This is just a, how many drama skill members do we have here? Raise your hand. Just a few. Okay. Well, the drama skill is having its second national conference, August 22nd through 25th in Chicago. If you're not a member of the Guild, you should join the Guild. I'm the Missouri Field Representative. Hello. And at this year's conference in Chicago, August 22nd, you can ask me more about it. And I'll give you more. The following things the artists are invited, Gretchen Crier, Rebecca Gillman, they're invited and they're coming. Gretchen Crier, Rebecca Gillman, David Ives, Lisa Crom, Martha Lady, Terrence McNally, Marsha Norman, Theresa Rebeck, Steven Schwartz, Jeff Sweet, John Wyand, and George Seawolf, and many, many, many others. So if you're not a member of the Guild, come join us. It's a really exuberant experience. And if you want more information about that, I'd be happy to share it. I'm David Crespi. And my email is crespi.edu and Missouri.edu. David, I think the price goes up tomorrow, doesn't it? And yes it does. The price goes up very soon. Who said that? Where are you? There you are. I think it goes up tomorrow. It goes up tomorrow for the conference. Join today. Join today. Join your Guild that's out fighting for you. And it's also, it's going to be the only place where you'll get a major resource directory that the Dramatist Source Book is going to be stopping soon. And yes, and the Dramatist Guild's Playwright Resource Guide will be the only current guide and will be updated constantly. And it'll be available online. What is the guide? It's the Artist Resource Guide. So if you're not a member of the Guild, now's the time to join. Okay. All right. Bye. We're talking about small publishing. I also wanted to mention a really great small performance text publishing company called Fifty Third State. I think they've now been subsumed by TCG, which actually makes it easier. It was just two women running it. And so it would take a while for you to get the plays. But they publish a lot of performance text that might not be published otherwise because of being problematic in different ways. And it's Fifty Third, it's 53rdstate.org. And I don't know about whether they're taking submissions or how that's working yet at this point. But if you want to read some new sort of non-traditional work, that's a great place to find, great place to find it. They publish some of my plays and also Eric End and Miguel Gutierrez, who's a really great choreographer who uses text in non-traditional ways. And Erin Courtney and Corinne Keithley, she started it out just self-publishing on lulu.com, which is another really great resource. If you want to self-publish, it's really easy and inexpensive to do that now. And the other one, there's three more. McDowell Colony, everybody please apply to the McDowell Colony. They also have started, I think they're starting a new thing for device theater. So if you're interested in device theater or you make device theater, it's a wonderful artist retreat for all the different artistic disciplines in Peterborough, New Hampshire. And it's because of the way their funding works, it's easiest to get in for the first time. So you may not, even if you're feeling, oh, I'm not qualified, you should still apply because you're actually very likely to get in the first time. And you get artist retreats that last anywhere from a week to eight weeks to choose how long you want to be there. And you get your own studio that's in the woods and no one is allowed to disturb you unless you invite them to. And somebody, the meals are prepared for you.  But then during the day, a little elf brings you an actual picnic basket from the Peterborough basket company filled with your luncheon.   Nobody bothers you. And you actually get an enormous amount of work done there. And it's a great experience if you feel like you want to re-establish the work that you do as being at the center of your life. So I always call it, I need to re-McDowellize and put what I'm doing at the center instead of at the edge where it gets pushed you sometimes. And the other one is, there's two other ones. And I consider them to be sister organizations. One is in New York and one is in Minneapolis. And New York is the new dramatists. And in Minneapolis is the Playwright Center. They are organizations that support playwrights and that don't ask really anything in return. The Playwright Center has all different ways to be involved. They have a core writers group. They have different fellowships, commissions, residencies there. And it's up playwrightcenter.org I think is the website. It's either that or pwc.org. It's probably playwrightcenter.org. Anyway, you can Google it and find it. And you can just see the different grants and all that kind of stuff that they have on there. They're also connected with the Jerome Foundation in a number of ways. And they're very, very supportive. And it's in a church, an old church in Minneapolis, as is New Dramatists. It's also in an old church in New York City. And they have residencies that are seven years long. Their application process is very competitive, but it's now all online. You have to do all this printing out of scripts and making this package and everything had to be bound in a certain way. It was a total nightmare, but it's actually a lot easier to apply now. It also means that there's a lot of people applying, but it took me 10 years to get in. But man, once I did, everything changed really quickly. So I just made it my business habit to apply. I think the deadline is September 15th every year. And everyone should be applying every year. And I finally got in three years ago, and I'm able to see who's applying. So I want to see all your names on the list this year. On September 15th, I'm going to hunt you down. Because it's really the greatest thing that could happen to a player of absolutely seven years of total support. You know, I didn't even think to say, we've been saying all week that we're doing the national broadcast in partnership with HowlRoundTV. Just in case anybody doesn't know, HowlRound is an incredible platform for the theater community in this country. There's amazing writing going on. It's kind of a somewhat open portal. Anybody can send in essays, thoughts about things that are really affecting them in their work in theater in the country. And it's curated from the staff there. So it's not a guarantee that your writing is necessarily going to get them. But a lot, every day there's at least one new piece of writing up there. And I've read some really beautiful, progressive, very insightful essays there. It's not to see some people shaking their heads. So it's just a great, great organization. Their work is really wonderful. If you go to HowlRoundTV, VJ is documenting things from across the country conversations in their all archives so you can listen to them at your leisure. So an excellent, excellent group to check out. You can sign up to just get their daily email so you can see what the writing is of the day and really quickly kind of see if it's a topic that you want to go into or not. So anyway, HowlRoundTV. This is a resource for women writers. It's called Hedgebrook Writers Retreat. It's on Woodpey Island in Washington. And their motto really is all about supporting women offering change. And so they are like the McDowell Colony. They give you time and space and it's up to you, you know, how long I think you can go up to eight weeks, I think. And they too, they have amazing chefs who cook you incredible food and support you. And you come together for dinner every night. And the last time I was there, Gloria Stein was in residence. So having dinner, you don't know who the invited guest is going to be there always is one. And they don't teach or do anything. They're just there being writers. But you get to share time and space with all kinds of interesting humans. And yeah, apply to them. They're good. Hedgebrook.org. H-E-V-G-E-V-R-O-O-K.org. I have four from the San Francisco area. So there are a couple organizations. There are a couple theaters that I work with a lot. The first one is Cutting Ball Theater. And annually they have a new place, a new place festival that's called Risk Is This. So go online to cuttingball.com and you can find, you can learn about the theater, but they do, they do experimental work and they envision classics. So they have a regular season, but they also have Risk Is This festival. David Jacoby, you're going to play in the next season, Risk Is This. The second organization I work with a lot is the Bay Area Playwrights Foundation. You can find them at playwrightsfoundation.org. And they, one of the things they do is they host an annual, the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, which is, it's different, but it's, again, a new play development organization. And the people there are very accessible and just call them up or email them. That would be a new ruler. And there, it's a two-year-long development lab. It's a great way to meet people from all over the nation as we're doing here, to meet new directors, new actors, you know, playwrights. Let's see, the third one is, there are two artist residency programs in the Bay Area. One is the Gerasi Foundation, D-J-E-R-A-S-I. And just Google Gerasi, and you'll find out. I don't, I think that's not the official name. There's a longer name, but it is Gerasi Foundation, supported by Carl Gerasi and, you know, his peer donors. And that is, I think he can stay anywhere from, I think it's a monthly residency, but it's, again, like McDowell, like Hedgebrook. It's everything, you stay there, all your meals are provided, it's beautiful. And, excuse me, in that residency program, there are all kinds of artists there. There are sculptors, the visual artists, there are dancers, there are filmmakers, composers, writers, novelists, all different kinds. And then there's also the, it's called the Headlands Center for the Arts, which is in Marin County, so across the Golden Age, which is really beautiful. You can Google them and find out about their residency programs. And that's Headlands, H-E-A-D-L-A-N-D-S, Center for the Arts. This is for the teachers out here, especially teachers of undergrad. I'm at UCSD on a graduate program, and every year we have the Wagner New Play Festival, where we do full productions of the MFA's work. But one, it's about 10 days, but one of those days we take time to dedicate one reading to an undergraduate student from anywhere in the country, who has written a play on the African-American experience. It's called the Floyd Japanese Playwriting Competition. And this year, I mean, we happily had a winner, but we didn't have a lot of applications. So I guess we'd like to get the word out there. You get $1,000, you get flown in, and the Wagner Festival, we have a lot of literary managers, agents and directors from around the country that we invite as guests. So these undergraduates, very early on in their writing stage, can have a really great reading and then have a discussion and have meals with a lot of prominent artists. So it takes place in April, and they're flown to San Diego. It's a really great experience. Once again, it's called the Dr. Floyd Japanese Playwriting Competition, and more people definitely need to apply for this. I have two resources. One of them is called the Playwright Inge, which I, some of you may have heard several of us talking about. I know Crystal from there. I found out that Kyle is not there. Are there any of the Alps on the Mary Inge? Okay. So the Playwright Inge is a Yahoo group. It's a, there are two challenges. It's a research sharing, but also there are two challenges each year during March and in September to do script submissions, one a day for the entire month. And everybody sort of reports in as they're doing it and sort of egg each other on. And it's an amazing way to get in a lot of script submissions. And so you also, and then throughout the year people also sort of post other opportunities that happen or inform you of places that might not be so great. And also report in about anything that they might have had from the Playwright Inge. So you can just go to Yahoo and search the Yahoo groups for a Playwright Inge. The other one, I'm actually a board member of the International Center for Women's Playwright. And that is at womenplaywright.org. It is not just for women, but it does support women's playwrights. They have a listserv that is very, very active and very supportive. It gives advice and it has very, sometimes heated conversations, but also it just generally, at any time that you have a production happening in one city, it is very possible that somebody might host you or might do a meet-up so that you can meet other people who are in the city. So it's a very, very supportive group. We also, I am the co-chair of a new award through that organization called the 5050 applause awards, which highlights theater companies throughout the entire world that have produced women's playwrights in at least 50% of a given season. We actually just closed the nominations for that right before our left, which is rather challenging. But we're going to be sort of going through the process and announcing recipients in September. And then we'll have, hopefully, another one next year. But the research part was very interesting and so if you do happen to know of theater companies that did that for this past year, note that theater companies that are particularly dedicated to women's work are not eligible. But if you do know of theater companies that have produced women playwrights in more than 50% of their season, this past one was 2012 to 2013, you can feel free to email me. Only ICWP members are able to nominate. But I'm happy to start putting people on a list for next year. Great, it looks like there's a ton that's going on out there. Let's see, continuing theme, Magdalena for Women in the Arts. It's a collective that's woman-centric. It's based in Europe, but it's really global. They include writing, but also performance directing. They have a... They're footed strongly in the Olden Theater Project in Denmark, which is a... Gritofskin and kind of anti-text, but brilliant anthropologically. Magdalena for Women in the Arts. The MAP Fund, which you must all know about, it's one of the finest, large sources of funding for new work that's out there, and their deadlines are generally in September. La Mama Umbria, they have a directing and acting and a playwriting workshop that they conduct every summer. I'm heading up the one this summer. You have to pay to get yourself over there, isn't it? It ain't free, but it's nice that food is in credit. And Cataphysics is an organization that Magdalena and I have both worked in, and they run a fantastic series of workshops. They're... I think they're still under the umbrella of the Flea Theater in New York. And lastly, again, if you're on the West Coast, she's based in the Bay Area, but she really gets around. If you want a really kind of vitalizing, light practice and writing workshop, check out Sharon Bridgeport, and she has a workshop. She calls the River Sea Workshop. And she has her own website, Bridgeport with no E, V-R-I-D-G-F-O-R-T-H, a teacher I'd recommend. It's Mark Costello who's going to talk about the shared drive. Seriously, though, the sign-up sheet is downstairs. We can be a resource for one another. Anybody who puts plays up, I know I'm first going to try and respond as many as possible. I'm a new play dramaturge, so I enjoy doing that sort of work. So sign up for it. I'll put you in the shared drive. We can share work together, so we can start being a group resource. Thank you, Mark. I wanted to mention one resource that's a little bit tangential for playwrights. It comes to playwrights in a sort of a bleak angle, but it's called the Edgerton Foundation for New American Plays. And they're sort of a secret society. I don't think they have a website, but if you Google Edgerton, E-T-G-E-R-T-O-N Foundation, you'll see a lot of references. They work closely with PCG. And the way it works is kind of strange. They give grants to theaters that are doing world premieres of new play. So if you have a play that's getting produced and your theater doesn't know about this, the foundation basically is there to supply at least one full extra week of rehearsal for the play with a full artistic company, including a writer. So it's a kind of a weird thing for writers. We argued why the money isn't going directly to the writers, but that's the way they want to do it. And it is based on the theater submitting the plays, and they're chosen on a blind reading. Edgerton. Hello, my name is Doug Patterson. I teach theater at UNO, and I haven't been able to attend a lot of the conference because of a lot of other commitments. But I am directing the piece that follows next of Kelly Smith's Empire's Eternal Boy, and I hope some of you can stay around to see it. There's a wonderful conference that started here in Omaha about 20 years ago called Pedagogy and Theatres of the Impressed. It's based on the educational theories of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian, Augusto Boal, the Theatres of the Impressed, a Brazilian. The basic premise that they follow, which is really simplified and works very well, is that the best relationship of human beings to each other is in dialogue, that theater sort of works in dialogue. And there's an assumption of equality on all sides, that we are basically human beings in dialogue working to create the future together. And if this is our best relationship, the worst is monologue. And one side is in charge. So Freire's approach to education is to engage young people in all learners, in dialogue rather than monologue. Freire's approach is to engage the audience in real, genuine dialogue. Pedagogy and Theatres of the Impressed conference began about 20 years ago. The 19th conference will be, anybody who's in the south Ohio area, will be at a university called Miami University at Oxford, Ohio at the end of June, last part of June, goes to the 27th to the 29th. And if anybody's in that area would like to go to it, stop on by. It's a great event. The next year, the 20th conference will be back here in Omaha. We've had seven here before, where we started. And it'll be, UNO is building the first community engagement center in the United States to link up the university and the community in very concrete ways. And that building will be opening around May of 2014. And the conference, the PTO conference will be the first event in that building. So if people are from on top, think about coming back, or staying around for like another month, yeah. Or people here in Omaha might want to just think about going to that conference as well as to this one. Now, thanks very much. It's all been very exciting here. Kevin, you're on. I just wanted to let you know that the Ingram New Works Lab, the Tennessee Rep, is now taking application. Every year they bring in four playwrights and residents. And the play you'll see here in just a few minutes actually was developed there in 2011-12. They typically work for about nine months. The only requirement is that you actually have to be in Nashville for a monthly meeting. So if you're able to make that trip, it's certainly worth your while. Every January, you're there for a week intensive with their visiting fellow. That's been ranging from this year with Streets of Rebeck. They've had David Albridge, Shandley, Stephen Deets, and others along those lines. So obviously I found it a very worthwhile program. So it's worth a look. You can go to TennesseeRep.org and take a look at it. And I hope you guys have fun. So hey, my name's Jack. I'm in New York at a small off-off Broadway theater company called Nylon Fusion Collective a lot. They just did a play of mine in March. And every few months they do a 10-minute play festival that's usually centered thematically around whatever random holiday is that month. So they do it before the July. They do it for Halloween. They do one for Valentine's Day. So they're always looking for 10-minute plays. They don't have to be specifically about those holidays. The themes are pretty general. There's anything that is remotely related to the idea of independence. We're always looking for plays. The festivals themselves are very fun and laid back for any of you who are in New York. The plays usually got a couple of rehearsals. They usually do it on a Sunday and Monday night or Monday and Tuesday night. But there's an open bar. Lots of sangria. They usually do a couple plays. You drink. You socialize for half an hour. You do a couple more plays. If any of you are in New York and want to come or if any of you have a 10-minute play that you want to see get up, it's a really just great fun opportunity to get it up. And the other thing is that they do also do new full-length plays. Like I said, they just do one of mine a couple times a year. And I've been really wrestling with them over the last couple of years to force them and push them to do more new unknown upcoming playwrights as opposed to well-known playwrights and the better, stronger full-length plays get submitted. The easier it makes it for me to convince them to do new upcoming playwrights. And so just from some of the readings I've seen this week, these are really great strong plays. If anybody wants to send those to Nylon, it just makes that much easier to make that argument that we should be doing new playwrights. And I also happen to be one of the people who reads plays there and decides what we do. It's just nylonfusioncollective.org. I believe it's the website. And if I'm wrong, just google Nylon Fusion Collective and it'll come up. Do you have a line? Yes, if you want to bribe me when you send the script, I'll take bribe. I just thought of two other things. One is that this is just a little bit off topic, but that survey that we're going to send out to you guys later we've got a couple, we're going to have a series of questions on there. Now, as you all know, we're 100% blind submission process. We're in conversations right now about how that process is working if we want to modify it in terms of women and racial minorities. And so there's going to be a series of questions on that survey and a space to write in thoughts and stuff. We're really interested to hear what you think and feel and what you've discovered in your own lives and work with regards to that. The second comes back to the resources thing, which is that a lot of people do use our Facebook page and the connections here to support. There's been numerous numerous people working on other people's productions who have been here hiring designers who have been here actors working with directors playwrights directing other people and there's little kind of bases in every city, New York City has probably got the largest base but LA has got a base, I mean San Francisco is getting a base Seattle is just getting started with Minneapolis but people even we've gotten emails saying last year somebody wrote me and said I moved to LA, I didn't know anybody so the first thing I did was went out on the Great Plains Facebook and said hey I'm moving to LA and got hooked up with an apartment and all these groups and stuff so you can really lean in there's seven years worth of playwrights that have come before you guys that are spread out and they all love to connect so that's been really fruitful so you can lean on that and it's a great way to work through that and then Mark's setting up that resource too I discovered this micro-granting organization called The Awesome Foundation I applied and I didn't get it so I don't know if yeah, but one of the reasons I wanted to suggest it is that the application process was really easy and they seem to respond just based on looking at the website to multidisciplinary found spaces things like that that are a little bit off the beat and I was wondering maybe my production was a little too traditional because they just had some beautiful really interesting creative projects but it's an easy application process I think I don't know if there's a regular granting schedule but they have different branches across the country that you can kind of focus on if your piece is an Omaha-based piece then maybe there's an Omaha office that you can send it directly to there's a Los Angeles office which is what I did but it's a thousand bucks and it could take you I think like a half an hour to fill out the form awesomefoundation.org the resources thank you guys very much you


So my beautiful people, I am back with another Aldo and Ring video and today I've showcased you guys 5 items you need to consider using with the Rivers of Blood. Has it gone guys? My name is DPG and if you do enjoy the video, leaving a like really helps out and you feel like quite a see and want to see more Aldo and Ring, be sure to subscribe. So the Rivers of Blood Katana is probably the best weapon in the game right now, it's definitely up there either way. It is absolutely incredible, since the 1.03 patch as well with them fixing the arcane scaling, this thing is on another level it seriously is. And today guys, I bring you 5 items you should consider using with this Rivers of Blood Katana. Ok so we're going to start with the Talismans, so the first one we want to check out guys and you want to get is the Rudeon Amber Medallion plus 2. What this does guys is give you, well it vastly raises maximum stamina. Now we all know using the Rivers of Blood special attack, it does use stamina as well as the FP points, but stamina, I mean if you're draining out on stamina, guys you're going to have, well you ain't going to be able to use the attacks as often as you want to, as frequent as you want to.  So yeah and I've only got, what's that there, a 167 of a stat score, so it's quite a chunk of stamina guys and it's a good few attacks with this weapon's special ability, there's not too much words about it, so yes I will consider getting the Rudeon Amber Medallion. Now this actual medallion, you get via the Hallig Tree area, more specifically come to the Hallig Tree town plaza at Grace Point, where I'm out on the screen right here guys and follow this short route to grab this thing. If you don't know your way around the Hallig Tree area or you ain't got here yet, I'll link two guides in the video description which will help you out a ton in getting here relatively quickly guys and grabbing this medallion super super easy. Okay so the next talisman I'm going to be using here guys is the Karrion Philogrid Trist. This lowers FB consumed by skills, I think it's like half, I'm not sure if it's actual half, we'll check it out right here you'll see. So if I do an attack right now you can see how much it's taken off, it's not too much to be honest there's three attacks and we're down to what's that I don't even know but if I take this off guys you'll see that drastically changes and it does work it gives you way more attacks with this thing so one attack there you go it's almost one attack, two attack it's almost like 50% reduction in FP use that's absolutely craziness so yes say must if you're gonna be spamming you're gonna be spamming out those abilities now where have you gone where's my little medallion gun there she is okay so this one right here is actually well there's there's two ways you can obtain this the way I got it and the easy way and I got it early on I purchased this from EG who is the weapons smithing guy on the west side of the map just in this location right here guys let me pull up my map he is literally right there he's sitting right there you can see me right there war counselor EG that's the guy now I purchased mine from him after speaking to blade real early on after whistling him down I say if I spoke to him then I went here and it was there for sale now other people have said that you get this from EG's bell bearing after he dies after you tell him that blade is dead that happens after the run his quest which starts up here so run his quest you complete and blade when you go back here he's sitting outside of the the rise and he tries to attack you if you kill him you obviously get all his amazing looking armor but then if you go down to this EG here and you tell him about blade's death he poaches and you get his bell bearing I think after you go back there take that 2d twin maiden husks in the round table and you can buy this talisman like I said that isn't how it worked for me I purchased mine after off him early on in the game after first meeting blade so doing a whistling jump down off I think it was so well I got the footage but yeah it was super super early on it's crazy but yeah the talisman 100 percent are great it's not just for this as well it's great for any like sorcery build mage build it's amazing the next one guys we have is a lord of blood's exultation bloodlust in vicinity increases attack power so if you're attacking people guys if you're being attacked this thing increases the power of this katana it just makes it even better which is why would but yes why not why not grab this thing it's just it's probably the best talisman I've got it's the one here which I'd say is an 100% must for using with the rivers of blood katana now how this is got is relatively quite easy there's a boss you have to be but it's not hard whatsoever now if you come to the capital and go down and you and I actually got this after the capital was destroyed because I'd already be uh melakiev and you know what happens to the capital a little while the tree goes on fire the capital gets turned to ashes but I actually thought I couldn't get it but you can and I've actually got a video guide on this down below in the video description but you have to run through the the sewers here you end up running circles you activate a lever you open up the bus door go in there kill the bus and you get this thing now the full guide will be linked down below it's probably too long to post here it's a good four minutes of a mage after running around but yes this is a definite guys for any bloodlust build up build there's no two which was about it this is a absolute must and the final talisman I'm using is a taker's cameo now this restores hp upon defeating the enemies now with a weapon like this I mean this is used for killing bosses but it's also used for killing hordes of enemies too and it's great at that and that's more so what this is for here this talisman I mean it's gonna be no good against bosses but there is another talisman you can get which where is it it is this one here the godskin swaddling cloth this one successful attacks restore hp but yeah I mean I've tried that it doesn't work as efficient as you may think it is I think this one's better you take his cameo so this is actually rewarded to you by tannith at volcano mana after completing the third letter quest we have to go out and hunt the invaders um yeah after you return to her she gives you this taker's cameo it is really as simple as that now the other thing I would 100% recommend is the white mask and war surgeon armor set that's what's great about this actual armor set all the white mask helmet itself I'm not sure you have to wear the entire set but hey I like to have like a the complete set I like to match you know I'm saying but yeah as you can see here guys a lot of blood's curse in livens the wearer when blood letting occurs slightly raises the attack power when there is blood loss nearby so you can get extra damage wearing this and that's why I think it's important to well there is the blood and to be honest any other bleed weapon for that matter now this is actually rewarded to you upon doing the white face very quest line this is one that starts more or less at the beginning of the game as you spawn into the first step he's on your left hand side it's that same quest line where he gives you the pure blood knights medal which actually teleports you over to the mogwin dynasty area which is this down here now the actual quest continues here but I messed it up people and this is something I recommend you don't do if you haven't already because if you don't finish this quest line before you kill mog who's located here who are a lot of us have cheese for them 300 400k ruins you can't if you've already killed him you can't come back and do we can do the quest line guys you get a weapon which is this but you can't get the armor suit you just can't get the armor can't get the armor set now you get that but what happens is once you actually invade him white face very and kill him he's on the floor you speak to him and and then you get this but the quest as far as I know stops right there because you've already killed more give you haven't killed more there's a few set places you can go and you'll be invaded and for each invader you kill you'll get a certain piece I believe of the armor set on the third invader you kill you'll get the full set but I will link a guide down below anyway for those that haven't got this already and haven't killed morgue so yes hopefully that helps you out like I said I messed up I actually got this duped for me by a pal so a massive credit to him his name is idle smoke from my discord idle smoky so I appreciate the hookup I really do he also hooked me up with Lee with as a blood because I actually made a massive mistake in this as well and if you don't know guys and you're still not too far into the game if you're not up to the mountain tops of the giant shit or you are up here but you haven't progressed and you haven't killed the fire giant don't do this do not kill the fire giant before you go to this church right here the church repose be invaded by a guy called the I think it's the bloody finger okina he invades you here you need to kill him he gives you the rivers of blood katana if you kill the fire giant first you can't get invaded you'll go back here and you won't be invaded that's where I messed up so don't do that so yes you will get this incredible weapon right here now if you've got another katana um I'd say probably this one which I'll link a guide in the video description this one is easily obtainable from a cave up here where are we I think it is it's relatively near the start of the game to be honest is I think it's like here maybe I think it's actually here could be mistaken but either way guys I confirm that with a video on screen now of actually me running to this cave running down and grabbing it but yeah the katana it's actually the one the samurai start with but it's a great great weapon if you level it up and so it's also got that bloodlust build up so you dual wield the rivers of blood with this unbelievable you can see in action here guys it's just using two katanas it's just brutal it really is now I want to say again a massive shout out to idle small key because he actually gave me two of the other rivers of blood so I'm actually lucky enough to be able to rock two of these which is just unbelievable and like I said guys this is by far right now the best weapon in this game in my opinion anyway there's probably a couple out there that people ain't explored probably yet but this for me is a next level and there we have it guys those are the four actually six items there if you include the dual katana but yeah either way it doesn't really matter those guys are the items I recommend you do check it out if you do enjoy indeed love the unlike loot you but yeah guys those are the actual weapons I do recommend you checking out if you enjoy using the rivers of blood and you're looking for a few inspirations in what you can add to your build and there we have it guys if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out if you like what you're seeing once more out of ring be sure to subscribe and hopefully my beautiful people I will see you on that next one


Hi guys, welcome to a new vlog. Today's portion of the vlog is going to be like one minute because I just want to show you guys stuff that we got at Emirates. So, we have this. Yes, and remember you pretended it was lip gloss. Yes. It's Arendelle Off-Wide. But Wendy and I are going to try this and then we also got some goodies here. So we got key lime pie, cheesecake, then Mickey and this one is, is this key lime pie? Key lime pie and then I got my brownie like normal. Oh my gosh. What is going on over there? That's scary. Oh my gosh. Wait, taste it. Is it good? Dry? No, it's champagne. No, it's good. It's good. It's just normal champagne. Kind of tastes like blueberry-ish. Cotton candy-esque. Yeah, okay, it's still good. All right. Uh-huh. That's what I describe it as. Okay guys, I was just about to take a shower and everything, but I got a little package. I bought some fake Cartier. I ended up buying the wrong size like bracelet and rings, so I had to like return it and everything. But hopefully this fits me. So it comes in this fake red box that actually kind of looks legit. I mean like look at that. Oh my gosh, it still kind of doesn't fit. That's embarrassing. Well, I guess I'll just wear it on this finger because I don't want to have to like return this again. So I'll just wear it on my ring finger, but not obviously the left one. And then I got the Cartier Love bracelet in this box. Ooh, it's so pretty. Ooh, and it looks like the right size. I'm happy with it. It looks very good quality. So I got the silver because I didn't want it to like have the gold or rose gold like wash off. So I think this is absolutely perfect. The ring is, all of this stuff is good quality.  This vlog's already a mess because it started off at Disney Springs trying the drink. And this is the second clip. And then the third clip is going to be... How many drinks? When were you there having a drink? Oh, the blue drink with Wendy and Charlie. Oh, that was a while ago. Look at the little screwdriver. How cute. I'm going to actually have my mom help me put this on probably. You see the ring. So this is what the love bracelet looks like on. I think it's so adorable. I got the size 17. It fits perfectly. Okay. So I was kind of rushing through that like unboxing thing, but we're going to do mother's hair. And also I want to say this is a really good quality fake love bracelet. But the thing is it's missing a millimeter. So it's like too skinny. But I like the design, the imprints of where the circles are. The other one I had, it was like too big so I returned it. But I just want to say that it's a pretty good replica.  Yes, I measured it because I just wanted to see. That's only like complaint also. The silver is like a little bit rounded on the top. You right, Sherry? I am. I need to leave it off for 30 minutes. I checked it out. The developer. Yeah. And this. So we take that off. We have to take the little thing off your thing first. Toss that pink ring thing away. You don't need it. Of course, I guess we get to figure that out because maybe you have to punch. Okay. Can you get it twisted on? Yeah, I did it. Okay. Okay. Perfect. I'm just going to squeeze it in here. I know we have to unscrew this top. But I just want to shake it first. Okay. Or even you RCB, or in your case, AV. Oh gosh. So Sherry, what's on your mind? What are you thinking about? Oh, this coronavirus things on everybody's mind. Oh man. We got a skunk in the house. I haven't blogged it forever. I've had more like themed videos going on. But I mean it's just because like my ideas are just more themed, I guess, these days. Okay. So. I was watching our cruise videos. I haven't really been watching those because so many are up.  Yes. And keeping track of those. But I watched the cruise ones and do it in the right order so I couldn't figure out how to find them. There's a playlist. Was there? I thought there probably was a playlist but I didn't see it. She showed me how to get the playlist but I didn't see it on the playlist options. So I'll have to check that out so I can put it on a playlist to go when I'm driving for more than 15 minutes. They're pretty good. I still like the one where I won the $300. Is that your favorite? It is. The first time we went to the pink bar. Yeah. That was a good one too. That one has like thousands of views. Should I make you try an arm wall again? Sure. Arm wall is an arm wall. So it's good you're able to work from home now because of the virus. I know. Unfortunately I can't work from home. Honestly, well then you could work from home but you don't have all the stuff here. Right. If I was hooked up, there are people who do my job that are already working at home but I never signed up to do work at home so I go into the office. So are they going to close down your... I don't know. I don't know. I mean we're a call center. People are still calling to make reservations for this fall. Oh, okay. Next winter. Oh, so that's probably why they haven't closed down. Yeah, so right now though it's just all pretty much cancelling reservations. Tooth. For the next... That's so sad. For the next couple months. I know. That's hurting our economy. It is. It is. And I'm going to have to go on tonight and cancel our reservation too. Impacted by this. But Sherry, why...  Because if they have either banked in points or borrowed points they're afraid they're not going to go where they're supposed to go. Oh, so they want to talk to somebody. Yes, so they want to talk to somebody to make sure it's done. Can you let me lean your head? Yeah, make sure it's done right. See, your neck flexibility is terrible. It is terrible. I know, it's always been terrible. Oh really? Yeah, I've never been able to like turn on driving very well.  Well, I have more flexibility going the other direction. It's this direction where you don't have much flexibility. Oh, wow. I know. I feel like my ear is like on my shoulder but I know it's not. It's not even close. Most people have questions about their tickets.  So, you know, there are a lot of other things they might need to do that they want help with. But it will calm down eventually. Eventually everybody's reservation will be canceled and people will be calling. Do you think this is going to end any time soon? I have no idea. I thought, I mean, this is bad but I was like, it's not like I was making light of it, but I kind of was. Yeah. Just because, you know, I think before Disney closed I didn't take it all that seriously. Yeah, I know. I took it seriously that I didn't want to get it. Not necessarily that I was afraid of catching the flu. Right. Right. I am concerned about catching it and passing it on to somebody who might pass it on to somebody else who has, you know, a deficient immune system or somebody who's super old, you know, because we do go see people in nursing homes and if, you know, if we go there and somebody dies because we've been there and we've been in the virus, I feel terrible. I know. That would be awful. I know. So that's been my major concern is just passing it on to someone else and, you know, since I did work at a park two days a week, hopefully, that will open back up, but, you know, you're exposed to a lot of people when you're working in a theme park, so... That's true. We'll see. You know how many, like, conventions and stuff? Oh, I know. I can imagine the, you know, the tourism trade. Travel and tourism is going to take a big hit. In restaurants. Yeah. It's already expensive to eat out. I know. It's just going to get more expensive. Yeah. Anything that's like a leisure activity. I know. The grocery store's however. However. That's correct. They're raking it in. Public's mostly raking in the dough.  I was going to say what's your opinion on that? Well, I think it's crazy. It's also crazy that they're really stocking up on things like bread and milk and eggs because all those things could go bad. We don't know how long this could last. Exactly. They're going to eat still bread. I know. If you buy bread, it's only going to be good for the next week because you're hoarding it off the shelf.  But I don't think it will. Knock on wood. Well, that sort of thing, I mean, electricity doesn't get infected by viruses. No, but if people who are running the power plants or whatever, if everybody is sick and nobody comes into work, I don't know if there's a problem. I don't know what happens.  Forward. Okay. That's barely forward. Yeah, that's forward. Okay. There you go. There you go. I'd have to leave my whole body evidently. Yeah, you do. Your neck flexibility. Don't tell me, too. I know. It's not very good. Really, it never has been. Well, I've only noticed, like, ever since I started doing your roots. Yeah. But see, Bonnie, she could just, like, raise you up and down. Right. She could raise the chair up. Uh-huh. So you don't have to, like, move your head, like, yeah, but this is kind of crazy. But honestly, I was tweeting this. I don't mind being in quarantine. I love staying home. If I, like, could stay home all the time, like, I would. Valerie was saying, because we're talking about shopping, and she's like, going to Lowe's, and Home Depot, whatever, like, these stores. And, um, all right, I'm just a year older. So I'm out. Okay. You and Valerie are totally opposite. Oh. Oh, God. You and Valerie are totally opposite. She hates to be home. I know. And I love to be home. Like, it's something that I just genuinely love. She's like, your type of store, well, you don't really like going out. You just want it delivered. I'm like, yep, kind of. I prefer, like, Cartier, Tiffany's, you know, Louis Vuitton. Those stores, I would gladly. Yeah. They're not going to deliver, and they don't have a drive-through. Hey, they do deliver. I ordered my bag. Well, that's true. I ordered my bag. They order it online. They would deliver. That's true. Oh, I got it on myself. Hmm. Okay. Um, so, yeah, but other than that, I do not really like going out of the house. I would stay in. Only, I love going out to eat. That's one thing I love, too. Yeah. And like, go to different bars. Are bars shut here? Or shut down here? Not here. Um, but, I don't know. Other places, right? Florida will follow in Ohio's footsteps. Remember that one time, I'm changing the subject, but you remember that one time, we did your hair only, the dye didn't do anything. And it's still the exact same. I know. That was confusing. I guess it's been an old box of dye or something. Wait, what were we gonna say then?  You can't have sit down restaurant open. So you can't have like a dining room open. Yeah. But you can have delivery and drive through and. Yeah. Because it's not like, like it's not a lot of people. Right. Because you're just like coming and leaving. If they have a drive through window, you can just stay in the car. Yeah. Hand them the bag, but like not touch their hand. Yeah. So. Well, they're money though. You have to touch. Money. You know what, when I went to Ulta, everybody worked on the register had on gloves. Oh, really? Mm-hmm. Yeah. Well, that's a good precaution. Yeah. I guess if you were gloves, then like. They all had gloves on and when I drove past Payway, they were closed. Payway doesn't have a drive through, but they had carry out. Oh, carry out. So I don't know why. Well, maybe a lot of people don't use that service. Like maybe a lot of people don't do carry out. But maybe they do carry out now. Yeah. Or maybe they just like their workers opportunity to stay home. They're just concerned about all of them. I don't know. I heard that some Disney employees like have to still go into work. Kind of like Universal. They have to like go in and clean or whatever. Yeah. What do you feel about that? Yeah, I don't. I think if they're in the category that is a theme park thing. Yeah, they should stay home. They should be able to stay home. I don't understand not having the crowds there. But I don't get why they should still come into work when they're not doing anything. Well, you know. I mean, I guess deep cleaning is a good thing. I guess deep cleaning and painting. I saw somebody on Facebook that I know who is a tour guide. And it said she had to report into work tomorrow. Yeah. So I don't know. So what are they doing? I don't know. I'll find out on Facebook. That's where I find out all of my information. That's where I found out this morning that the resorts were going to be closing. Now, why did they make that call? Because they were going to be open and Disney Springs was going to be open too. Yeah. I don't know. I guess just making sure everything is sanitized is going to be hard. Right. It would still be, I mean, if just Disney Springs is open, then everybody's eating in either the restaurants at the resort or the restaurant at Disney Springs. Oh, yeah. So you're still going to have a lot of people in restaurants congregating and you know, I don't know. They are closing Disney Springs too. Yeah. Oh my gosh, that's so sad. All of the places that are owned by Disney. So there are some third party people there and they can decide on their own. So like Halio. Right. They can all decide on their own what they want to do. Oh. But all of the Disney owned and operated locations at Disney Springs will be closed. Got it. Got it. The thing that I think would make economic sense closing the resorts is that if you don't have that many people there, then why keep them open? That's true. You can only have... You're taking a money loss. Right. You have less than half of the resort open, but you have to keep it open because you have those... Yes. 25 rooms have guests in them. Yeah. And you have to keep staff on to service those people. Maybe it's just better to close them. Yeah. If air travel is stopped in the next few days, how would people get home that flew here? Oh, yeah. That's really awkward. They're going to be stuck. Right. So if they... They're closing on the 20th, which is... What's the date today? The 20th is Friday. Right. So they're closing on Friday. So people have, like, all week to get their arrangements in order to get back home. So do you think people have a right to be, like, mad about their vacations being canceled? I think people have a right to be disappointed. All right. I don't... I think they can be mad at the coronavirus. That's true. But however, when you think about how much money Disney is, I mean, let's just say some families have to save a lot of money. Yes. I mean, this should be... I mean, I'm not saying, like, oh, Disney should be cheaper, but this should be a time where Disney also reflects the people, like... I mean, I don't know. Well, the thing is, if they don't close and somebody gets a coronavirus from coming there after all the warnings, and somebody sues Disney, and then there's, you know, 10 cases with people suing Disney, and then 100 cases with people suing Disney, it's probably not a good idea. And if they're trying to help stop the spread, stopping the gatherings of a lot of people, will help stop the spread of the virus. I do agree, sure. So I think that... I think people certainly have a right to be disappointed. I'm disappointed we can't go. Right. I guess... This is all, like, near serious birthday too. It is. My birthday weekend, perhaps, will be quarantine. I'll probably be working overtime on Saturday on my birthday. She's been getting a lot of overtime, though. That's positive. Yeah, you know, on the bright side, we're getting a lot of overtime. We've got 11 hours in already, and my week hasn't really started yet. It doesn't start to tomorrow. So I think that for vacation club members, it's not as much...  But for vacation club members, they have their vacation club. They're going to be coming back. Right. Vacation club is meant for people to come back year after year, decade after decade. Hello, please. So they're going to be back. The people I feel most sorry for, people who are not vacation club members, who have saved money for, you know, three, four, five years. I mean, a while ago, I remember going to a seminar at Disney, and they were saying that an average family of four saves for three to five years for a trip to Disney for a week. You know, somebody's been saving that long, and they've been looking forward to it, and now it has to be canceled. It takes a lot to save all that time to get your rides and your dining reservations and your fast passes and everything, then to just have it all be canceled on you kind of at the last minute is terrible.  And I understand being upset. I don't understand being all angry because there's no one to be angry at. Coronavirus. Just the coronavirus. All right. Well, the viewers probably want to see the results. Okay. Well, I didn't like dry it but if you want to see the color. The roots. They look good, Sherry. They look fantastic.  And a little gray whispies. Looks really good. Thank you, baby.


It doesn't have to be by 8.30. Oh, sure. I just remembered, I might have a phone call tomorrow. Shoot. In the morning. Seth, they need a few more. It's almost ready. My recovery from my workouts was off. Two each. Seth, thank you. Thank you. Look, they're soft. They're soft. Are they warm? New toaster oven, man. Question of the day. Well, I don't know if this is a good question of the day, but why not?  Whether it's a fridge, a dishwasher, a toaster oven, which I know is a small appliance, but like, what's your once again strategy for making sure your appliances are running top-notch and not dying on you like our old one? Oh, always something. I'd always... YouTube, I got to tell you, sad moment coming up in about 30 seconds. I'm deleting the Pandora app off of my phone. We actually paid $32 a year for, I think, two or three years to listen to Pandora ad-free. Well, we're trying to save money, pinching pennies, and so we're not going to pay $32 a year, which is not much money, but it's still something. If you had to multiply that out over 10 years, that's 320 bucks. That could be used for... New running shoes. So, iHeartRadio is now offering how you can build your own... Basically, what we use Pandora for is classical music. We love listening to classical music in the evenings, and so now you can type Beethoven or Bach or Mozart or whatever you want into iHeartRadio, and it will build a radio station around that person, that artist. So, sad moment, but it's going to work. Here's my trick. I made this last week, and I double-batched it. Then I just froze that in little zip-lock baggies, and tonight, I'll have to do with Hewlett. Nice! Genius. Hun, what were you saying about the money? I was saying the money, it's a good deal. Pandora, $32, no commercials for a year. That's a great deal already, but there's only a limited amount of dollars. We want to pick where those dollars go. We have other priorities. We want to put those in as far as race fees or spa days or whatever. Adventure days. Adventure days. We want to take that money and put it in a different place. Not to say that that wasn't a great deal, but it's like use your money to work harder. Work smarter and harder. Work harder. Harder, smarter. Smarter and harder. Oh boy. Edit, cut. What are those boys yelling out? Oh, you want to go dragon? Dragons love tacos. Hey kid, did you know that dragons love tacos? They love beef tacos and chicken tacos. They love really big, gigantic tacos and tiny little baby tacos as well. Why do dragons love tacos? Maybe it's the smell from the system you're in. Maybe it's the crunchy, crispy...


T. F. N. N. Headline News Update Good morning, folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This year, 11 a.m. update, and currently we have a bit of a mixed bag out there. The mix goes like this. You get the Dow down to 16 with the S&P down 13, 6 tenths and 3 tenths to be specific while the NASDAQ is up 4 tenths, 53 points, the Summizer up 17 points, that's 6 tenths percent. That is not the way a bear market runs out here. The Brussels up is off 18, that's 1 percent to the downside. Trendy's are down one and a quarter percent, under 69 points there. Gold's off 15 bucks, silver down 10 cents, Light's Recruit is trading out at 70, 73. That's off 37 pennies, natural gas up 6 cents, 30 of Treasury's down 25 ticks. She's printed out at 129, even Steven. Let's take a look at that nine panel market update chart. We begin with the ESP, the upper left-hand side, that good old fashion consolidation. You can see the sideways move and you can see the consolidation range out there, so nothing new. Spot ballotinics is rising, so we can see on a closing basis a slightly rising spot ballotinics. That typically translates into a market that wants to get down and test support. With regard to the ESP, that would be towards the bottom of its consolidation or specifically about 40, 76. The NASDAQ. If it closed the day, the NASDAQ won the Yankee I should say, if it closed the day above 13, 495, 25, what it will do is it will negate a roadsman to indicator top, it will negate a TD9 count top on a five-hour time frame chart, that would suggest higher price. However, today is now bar number eight of a TD9 count. That says the Yankee could form a top between today and Friday out there. The US dollar index, it continues to trade above its consolidation. That says we've got a consolidation breakout, it's trading above the top of its daily profile. If you're asking where could this head to, well, the issue that the US dollar has, let me see if I can turn that on here. I don't know if it will turn on with this little data, or is it going to try to turn on the top of the weekly profile? Let's see if that will pop up here. Yeah, it does. The issue for the US dollar is at $108.65. If price can close above $108.65, then I'd say this measured move consolidation breakout would get underway. Goldilocks pulling back, it's within its profile, it's within its consolidation. We're testing a .382 retracement of its move up off of the lows from back in March. I've been close below this level, it's got a consolidation breakdown move that would probably take us towards $22.53 or $23 bucks. Lights being crude, this made a .382 retracement of its last move higher. It's trading below profile, so it's kind of iffy out there in natural gas, taking our resistance at $2.42. Folks, stay tuned for the Trader Z Show, but if you're up to start your Tuesday, please have a terrific one. Thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care now.


Hi everyone, so thanks very much for having me to give this talk so I'm going to be presenting a recorded talk in case we have connectivity issues and I wish I could be with you all in Dublin. I can't. So, I will be doing this digitally. The question of who are the Tibetans and the origins of Tibetans and Tibetan language families has been a topic that's been featured very prominently in the press. But in archaeological paradigms for the spread of agriculture to the Tibetan plateau farm, the foragers or are presented as passive conquered or simply just ignored. So this is really got to do with this very predominant theory and archaeological literature which is this wave of advance that farmers moved into this area as a wave of advance and foragers as a result are seen as making very little linguistic or genetic contribution to to modern peoples on the plateau and its margins. So these colonizing farmers have really dominated the genetic archaeological and as a result linguistic literature about the plateau. So for instance, she had all that you see this article here. They make the explicit statement that the source population for this movement has come composed of Han Chinese people's one that obviously has political implications. Likewise, in this discourse about the origins of the Tibetans. And the role that other languages non-Tibetic languages like your wrong languages may have played is something that's been relatively ignored. So in my talk today, what I'm going to be doing is I'm going to present be presenting you some data about what we know about the archaeology of the area that currently encompasses some of the areas where I'll get wrong speakers live today. I'll talk about the prehistory of the area and how that might inform new models for thinking about the spread of the spread of languages across this area. So, first off, the, the, according to this current wave of advanced model for expansion to the region. So farmers that belong to a culture known as my jail. Which has its origins in Northwest China and whose farmers practiced militant pig farming are seen as being responsible for genetic archaeological and linguistic linguistic heritage of the plateau. So they're seen as moving out of Northwest China at around 6000 BP on to the various margins of the plateau, including the northern plateau, but also the southeastern plateau or areas that sort of roughly correspond to undo and come. So, what do we know about the magile in galeronga speaking areas well, first of all, there are several things that that seem to be apparent. So first, this culture occupies the area between about 5500 and 4000 BP. And what's clear is that we do see a spread of a spread of cultural attributes that are very similar to those of the magile core area. We see the same presence of painted vessels we see the same types of daily use where, and we see the same types of houses, sometimes even with with what appear to be human sacrifices in their bases. So there are two key sites that are worth discussing so one is in Kanshan and Mao Shen, which was located currently in a cultural area at 1750 meters above sea level and then there's the site of Hashi and Aba County on the Chabal River. So I'm going to be discussing some data from, from these two sites, and what they show about migration to the area. So at the intention, what we see data from the intention sites are shows that people lived at the site and relatively permanent waterland or houses that are very similar to those from the magile core area northern China. And another similarity that they share with these houses is the presence of the sacrifices that I said in the foundations. So the mechanical and zoo archeological evidence also shows that they relied heavily on domesticated pig at the intention, alongside both foxtail and broom corn millets. As I mentioned before the pottery assemblages both in terms of their high fired prestige and pottery, where and also their course or daily where also really dead ringers for pottery assemblages from the magile core area suggesting that farmers may indeed have moved more directly into this area, bringing more people on suite of domesticates building style and pottery repertoire with them. So I'm not going to get into too many details about the Hashi site, because I don't have too much time but one thing I did want to, to tell you about is that while it might have very similar pottery to young country and based on very limited excavations there. I don't really understand too much about housing structure at Hashi yet, but there's one key difference. So, again, we do see that the diet is overwhelmingly reliant on domestic pig. However, Hashi and other high elevation sites on the Tibetan plateau like on the northeastern plateau or show and on the central Tibetan plateau, we actually don't see any domestic animals aside from the dog. So I guess that there were varying uptakes of far farming throughout this region and not everybody adopted farming products in the same way, potentially also revealing some type of difference amongst in how people themselves identified themselves as members of an ethnic group, or not as members as one. So in terms of the cultural historical sequence, we see a real shift in the Bronze Age in this area with the arrival of the Shuguan Zang culture at around 3500 BP. So during this period of time, we no longer see people living in permanent settlements or at least we have found very, very few of them, almost none of them have been found in the region. We see the appearance of these characteristic stone cyst burials. They're often primary inhumations in these but they're also secondary burials which are found which indicate that people died in a location potentially far away. And then were reburied or their bones were replaced in this type of burial. In terms of material culture, what I haven't pictured here is there's a lot of pottery that is placed in these burials but there's also a wide range of different bronze and other items that show clear connections, both with the low lying areas in China. So you find these, you know, Bashu style daggers, but also with other areas of the step, as far away as the Ordos and Inner Mongolia in terms of decoration. So we carried out a survey. So what I'm going to be mostly presenting here today is a survey that we carried out of the Jiamudzu and the Chabal River valleys in Maracang. So this is one of the of the area we surveyed. And you can read this publication in the journal of field archaeology that Ankhain and I published together. So the areas in red represent our survey area you can tell we did not do a systematic survey of the whole area this is because we were extremely limited in terms of time. And we were limited by a couple of other factors, namely one of the slopes. So for those of you who know this area well you know that there are a couple of areas of wide river valleys and then you have extremely steep hills. So the areas with a slope of over 27 degrees were areas that are frankly unsurveyable, even if there were some archaeological remains on these they would be, they would pottery and other stuff would through erosion fall down to the to the valley bottoms. So we'd be interested in trying to survey the areas on green. However, our colleagues from the Citron Provincial Institute of archaeology we're not willing to do a thorough survey of the higher altitude areas for political reasons. So we really focused on these lower lying river valleys with one exception of an extension up here. What did we find? Well, so first of all, we found a lot of sites from what we call phase one, which are the Neolithic, Marjail type of ceramics. And then we found a very small number of phase two or Bronze Age ceramics and we found these exclusively onion graves and then we found here again a very large amount of phase three ceramics that I'll talk about the dating of but that day to the historic period. So group one ceramics, this is the distribution of them across our different site areas we didn't find any in the, in the last area area that we found quite a few centered around the lower altitude valley bottoms. And most of these associated with most of these surface ceramics scatter we could see that these were present in deeply stratified sites where you can see clear straighter so here on what we see is the floor of a burnt earth house. And these were predominantly basically distributed on the lower altitude terraces, a buttressing, the Chabal, and Jambudzu rivers. As an example of something else we found on a number of these sites are actually we, you know, kind of had to hold our breath when we discovered the number of these sites were really at huge risk for discussion so this is the Baisha monastery in the area and they were building this tower, as well as just built this new Buddha at the time that we surveyed and unfortunately in the process of doing so. They actually dug through what is potentially one of the most important my jail archaeological sites in the region and this heap of debris that they pulled out to build this building was really you know chock a block full with material culture. So from here so this is a site that was heavily destroyed during this construction. The second part of the, the, the bronze age component or our group to ceramics were only distributed in fact we only found them in in one or two locations and we only found them exclusively within these shoe ones or within these stones as tombs and these were basically based on what are pretty opportunistic finds so in this case, we were at Parabatsun, and a road was being constructed in an area of higher altitude. And this revealed the presence of these stone sciss graves that were deeply cut into the list with the typical ceramics and other material culture, but we did not find any of these ceramics in the river valley bottoms, or in the only in graves. So, again, for phase three ceramics we now moving to this phase. And I'll get into the dating of this in a little bit. We see a similar distribution to what we saw in the Marjail period again. And here, we basically see these phase three ceramics are distributed throughout the valley bottoms, but also in some areas of higher altitude like this little extension that we did here. And when we weren't carrying out excavations on the survey this was just a pedestrian survey. We opportunistically saw a couple of terrace cuts that actually had this period remain and we didn't see any in the very lower altitude on the river valleys where the Marjail sites are. But at this one village what we did see was people that dug a trash pit and we saw some cultural layers there and we radio carbon dated them. And this is basically what it showed so the what I'm sharing here is this is the different dates that we carried out on material from the region these gray ones are radio carbon dates and you can see that the Neolithic here sort of starts around 4,000 or 3,500 to about 500 ish be be BC. And then we have a couple of dates on one radio carbon date on on the stone systems that places at about 1000 BC and then some thermo luminescence dates here too so the red is thermo luminescence dates. What's really interesting is that this whole scatter that we have of both thermo luminescence dates on these later ceramics but also radio carbon dates they really sort of date between 1000 AD and present which was really interesting for the history of the region. So the location of where we got these dates from and where the ceramics are distributed suggests that people occupied these valleys quite intensively, but it also suggests potentially that their, that their sites like this one that was opportunistically found in the trash but near the village may actually be located underneath contemporary settlements which is why we don't see them. So you probably all well know. Some other interesting historic period features on the landscape, which are these towers and radio carbon dates by Da Hagon that were that were carried out in various regions suggest that the ones in this area date to about the 10th century AD but some of the various ones in central Tibet date to about 250 AD, and there are also historic texts from the Eastern Han dynasty, annals that these were built by the Rong Man tribe, speaking about the wind trend area I believe. The territory that these that these towers are found in this extends basically from Nyong'o and Kampo in the Tibet autonomous region over to what are what at least Da Hagon places in Minya traditional lands you have the ones in Galerongic speaking areas and then the ones in Malshian in, in, in Malshian. So what do some of the dates on these towers show. Well, so Da Hagon still has not made the dates for the Sichuan towers available, however, she has made the dates from Nyong'o and Gong, Gongbu Jiangda County in the Tibet autonomous region available. So what this appears to show is that these dates are somewhere between, you know, about 250 AD, and then they their life ends or their usage seems to end around the 15th century AD, or at least construction holds on around that time. They never have to really be taken with a bit of a pinch of salt because of the old wood problem so trees grow. Every time every year a tree grows puts down a ring, and trees can grow over a very long period of time particularly those in high altitude and high latitude locations like the Tibetan factor. So what I'm showing here, this is about a sequence of about 100 years difference between the core of this tree and between the middle of this tree that I'm showing here so if you got a sample from the middle, versus from the edge or from underneath the right underneath the bark, you could have up to sometimes up to 1000 years of error within this. It's possible that some of these that some of these were impacted that some of these dates are impacted by this old wood problem in fact it's highly likely. However, it, what is clear from the series of dates that I'm showing here is that at least construction of these appears to have sort of halted around the 15th century AD, and probably likely extends to at least 500, or 1000 AD in this area. So my talk is sort of left us with a lot more questions than than real answers at this point but I hope that this identifies some avenues for future research that both linguists and historians and archaeologists can collaborate on in this area so one key question for us as archaeologists is why is there a lack of stratified sites in the Bronze Age. Is there a more and more about pastoralist occupation during the Bronze Age, or our sites, maybe like the historic sites potentially buried too deeply under contemporary occupations. When do these towers really date to. And then finally again where are the historic periods sites located so we found ceramics scatter across large areas from these phase three ceramics, but only in one instance that we actually in that opportunistic trash pit that people had made, did we actually find evidence of an archaeological of a buried archaeological site or strata. And the reason by the way that ceramics are probably scattered throughout the fields that's just people will use their trash as fertilizer and then you get pottery mixed into the trash and that's how pottery gets distributed across a landscape but that doesn't mean that that was actually the area that people lived in. At least that wasn't the precise location that they lived in but they lived in a village in the vicinity but identifying the village really requires more archaeological work. So, the issue of these towers, but also, you know, thinking back to the earlier prehistory on the Bronze Age and potentially earlier, you know this raises questions about what was the original territory that go wrong xp, because occupy further what types of material cultural traits are unique to them and what are shared. And, you know, basically, like, you know, we need to try and reintegrate the important role that are played by non-tabetic language speakers in this region's history because a lot of the way that archaeologists have written about this area is, this is the eastern plateau or this is part of the Tibetan plateau, associating it with Tibetan language speakers but that of course as many of you know is really a more recent part of the history of this area and potentially does not value the role played by other language speakers and shaping the landscapes of this area throughout history. So, I'm going to be online for any questions. And I'd really like to engage in conversation with you all about the potentials that history archaeology and linguistics can bring together and our understanding of this area so I want to thank all my collaborators, particularly from the provincial Institute of Archaeology and Anka Hain who carried out these surveys, these surveys with me so thank you very much.


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As you might expect, we are continuing the trend of the past few months of focusing on minerals and elements. Today's topic is sulfur. Unlike what we have been speaking about, sulfur is non-metallic. Even calcium, which we spoke about last week, is metallic. Sulfur is one of the most abundant minerals in our body. Amino acids, methionine, and cysteine in protein sources are the predominant source of sulfur in our diets. Other foods, even if you eat lots of garlic, onion, broccoli, don't really make up a significant amount that is utilized efficiently by our bodies. Sulfur has been used for thousands of years millennia in medicinal treatments, which makes sense as it's tied to the chief antioxidant in the body, glutathione.  In the past, shamans might have actually aromatized sulfur and you would inhale it and you would get a small amount in your lungs that would boost your body's antioxidant capacity. When you look at food sources of sulfur, it's pretty safe to say that most diets are getting too much. Granted, you're eating animal protein. A vegan diet is completely ridiculous. I'm not even going to entertain it. You're deficient in everything. You're not going to guess what type of crazy food a vegan has to eat. You think you can get sulfur. What we want to figure out here is the standard American diet, keto, carnivore diets, are their issues there. So going down the list, foods in red, I'm not too much of a fan of blue, is acceptable. Now peanuts, organic, you can have them maybe a couple times a month without too much of an issue, but I wouldn't consider them a viable consistent source of sulfur. Beef, cheese, kind of a fan of, but if you guys missed the calcium video last week and various videos I've done on dairy, you might not want to have dairy in your diet depending on your specific circumstances. Haddock, fish is too polluted, egg white and egg yolk. I'll touch more on that later, but allergen concerns, different things. I don't think most people should be eating eggs either. Oatmeal, I think that's okay to include in your diet, you know what I considered from sulfur, probably not, but it's good for detoxing the liver, has soluble fiber, kind of like a clean slate, but it is hard to get high quality oats and oatmeal. Almonds, pretty high in anti-nutrients, they're not fresh, not a great, you know, just not the best choice. Barley can be a decent quality grain, it's okay to have it, especially like barley soup in the winter. Walnuts, look if you're going to have like organic sprouted almonds and walnut butter a few times a week, it's not the worst thing in the world, but for sulfur, there's much other things in those foods that you would be getting, especially caloric density gaining weight as opposed to this specific mineral. So yeah, most people are eating beef, they have cheese in their diet, they're eating a lot of eggs, especially standard American diet, you're getting plenty of sulfur. What you're not getting is the nutrients you need to utilize sulfur and it interacts with zinc, molybdenum, copper, calcium and selenium and you can clearly see why a carnivore diet becomes quickly, minerally imbalanced. Sulfur is antagonistic and synergistic with zinc and molybdenum, but directly antagonistic to copper, calcium and selenium, those three minerals being the typical deficiencies in the carnivore diet. I would say sulfur is excessive enough in all diets for the most part. On carnivore, you're not getting enough selenium or molybdenum to keep it in check. A standard American diet is so deficient in everything including zinc, so sulfur isn't really being utilized. This excess of sulfur results in copper, selenium and molybdenum deficiencies, some of the main minerals I have on organsupplements.com actually. When I made that website, the supplements, it was because I needed to take specific things to rebalance and fix myself from the carnivore diet. It's interesting how much you can be missing. High sulfur intake plus low minerals equals skull. What I mean is you're not going to feel so good. Sulfur toxicity isn't going to actually have symptoms as technically speaking, sulfur is not toxic to the body. What happens is you will see symptoms of being deficient in the minerals that sulfur is antagonistic to. For copper, that's anemia, heart palpitations, paleness, histamine intolerance is a big one. Molybdenum is headaches, nausea, vomiting, heart palpitations. Molybdenum is infertility and fatigue and that's a big one.  If you have sulfur deficiency, it's more likely you're missing those other minerals to activate and use the sulfur. Since it's incredibly vile to antioxidant function, the symptoms can be really general. Arthritis, brittle nails, depression, memory loss, slow wound healing. What's interesting is that sulfur deficiency symptoms typically get better when removing sulfur from the diet so that those other minerals can rebound and you start balancing out your metabolism and your mineral profile in your body. Most of you guys are probably familiar with the NAC, Na-Cetylcysteine, cysteine and methionine being the two main sulfur containing amino acids we mentioned earlier, incredibly effective at boosting antioxidant capacity in the body so much that Amazon banned it. You can't buy it on Amazon and they actually blocked payments on organsupplements.com. You have to use PayPal now because I have a product that does contain NAC in it, the antioxidant support supplement. The elite psychopaths controlling business are taking very effective solutions out of the hands of the masses and it seems that NAC supplements are very available to the body. They can bypass those mineral requirements that you need to use sulfur from food and what's more realistic for the average standard American diet to do, to go completely organic and balance all of these crazy minerals or just take a NAC supplement. The methylation pathway involves most of the important cycles in our bodies. Citric acid, a.k.a. energy cycle, urea cycle for removing waste, folate cycle for cellular functions, and the methionine cycle for detoxing, filtering overall cellular maintenance and health. The metabolites in those pathways contain a lot of sulfur. As important as sulfur is, we need to make sure we have everything in the body to utilize it properly. If you want to know more about those cycles, I have a video on kidneys, I have a video on antioxidants, I have a video on inflammation. You can check those out where I go a little more in depth. Now last week you guys weren't too happy when I said, hey, you probably shouldn't be consuming dairy, same here with eggs. And the reason is that people will start having half a dozen, a dozen, two dozen eggs per day. And because of the nutrient profile and texture of eggs, the sulfur is highly absorbed, will cause imbalances much quicker than only eating meat. And plus, high quality eggs even have allergen concerns because the feed is never wild and perfect. And egg whites also contain the lysosome, the substances that can cause leaky gut. My suggestion for most is very simple, remove eggs and dairy, see how you feel. Problem is, most people enjoy these foods to an extreme extent and will justify their consumption in any way. I'm here over 10 years of researching nutrition, following diets since I was a teenager. When I say things, I'm not going to sit here and argue with people. You can take my advice for what it is, try it out, or just go be sick and unhealthy listening to all the other pricks online. So I think that's everything for today, guys.  We have a magnesium oil that actually has MSM, a form of sulfur that is great for energy feeling good. And we have NAC and acetyl cysteine directly in the anti-oxygen support supplement. So check that out, guys, organsupplements.com. And you can also check out frank-dash-to-file.com for all of my other businesses. If you guys can please just share this on any social media you have, I work pretty hard to do these videos every week and it's just getting to be a lot lately. So please drop a like as well. Watch so that YouTube can unsubscribe you next week and I will see you guys for tomorrow if I don't fly off to Colombia for some coca and buba.