CHAPTER XXI THE SUTTON DEATH OF SO PROMINANT A MEMBER OF THE SOCIAL WORLD AS THE HONORBLE Judge Jaffrey Pinchon created a sensation, at least in the circles more immediately connected with the deceased, which had hardly quite subsided in a fortnight. It may be remarked, however, that of all the events which constitute a person's biography, there is scarcely one, none certainly, of anything like a similar importance, to which the world so easily reconciles itself as to his death. In most other cases and contingencies the individual is present among us, mixed up with a daily revolution of affairs, and affording a definite point for observation. At his decease there is only a vacancy and a momentary eddy, very small, as compared with the apparent magnitude of the engurgitated object, and a bubble or two ascending out of the black depth and bursting at the surface. As regarded Judge Pinchon, it seemed probable, at first blush, that the mode of his final departure might give him a larger and longer posthumous vogue than ordinarily attends the memory of a distinguished man, but when it came to be understood, on the highest professional authority, that the event was a natural end, except for some unimportant particulars denoting a slight idiosyncrasy, by no means an unusual form of death, the public, with its customary alacrity, proceeded to forget that he had ever lived. In short, the honourable Judge was beginning to be a stale subject before half the country newspapers had found time to put their columns in mourning and publish his exceedingly eulogistic obituary. Nevertheless, creeping darkly through the places which this excellent person had haunted in his lifetime, there was a hidden stream of private talk, such as it would have shocked all decency to speak loudly at the street corners. It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them. Death is so genuine a fact that it excludes falsehood, or betrays its emptiness. It is a touchstone that proves the gold and dishonours the baser-metal. Could the departed, whoever he may be, return in a week after his decease, he would almost invariably find himself at a higher or lower point than he had formally occupied, on the scale of public appreciation. But the talk, or scandal, to which we now allude, had reference to matters of no less old a date than the supposed murder 30 or 40 years ago of the late Judge Pinchon's uncle. The medical opinion with regard to his own recent and regretted decease had almost entirely obviated the idea that a murder was committed in the former case. Yet as the record showed, there were circumstances irrefragably indicating that some person had gained access to old Jeffrey Pinchon's private apartments, at or near the moment of his death. His desk and private drawers, in a room contiguous to his bed-chamber, had been ransacked. Money and valuable articles were missing. There was a bloody handprint on the old man's linen, and, by a powerfully welded chain of deductive evidence, the guilt of the robbery and apparent murder had been fixed on Clifford, then residing with his uncle in the house of the Seven Gables. Whensoever originating, there now arose a theory that undertook so to account for these circumstances as to exclude the idea of Clifford's agency, many persons affirm that the history and elucidation of the facts, long so mysterious, had been obtained by the daguerreotypist from one of those mesmerical seers who nowadays so strangely perplexed the aspect of human affairs, and put everybody's natural vision to the bush by the marvels which they see with their eyes shut. According to this version of the story, Judge Pinchon, exemplary as we have portrayed him in our narrative, was in his youth an apparently irreclaimable scape-grace, the brutish, the animal instincts, as is often the case, had been developed earlier than the intellectual qualities, and the force of character for which he was afterwards remarkable. He had shown himself wild, dissipated, addicted to low pleasures, little short of ruffianly in his propensities, and recklessly expensive, with no other resources than the bounty of his uncle. This course of conduct had alienated the old bachelor's affection once strongly fixed upon him. Now it is avert, but whether on authority available in a court of justice we do not pretend to have investigated, that the young man was tempted by the devil one night to search his uncle's private drawers to which he had unsuspected means of access. While thus criminally occupied, he was startled by the opening of the chamber-door. There stood old Jeffrey Pinchon in his night-clothes. The surprise of such a discovery, his agitation, alarm, and horror, brought on the crisis of a disorder to which the old bachelor had an hereditary liability. He seemed to choke with blood, and fell upon the floor, striking his temple a heavy blow against the corner of a table. What was to be done? The old man was surely dead. Once would come too late. What a misfortune indeed, should it come too soon, since his reviving consciousness would bring the recollection of the ignominious offense which he had beheld his nephew in the very act of committing. But he never did revive. With the cool hardy-hood that always pertained to him, the young man continued his search of the drawers, and found a will of recent date in favor of Clifford, which he destroyed, and an older one in his own favor, which he suffered to remain. But before retiring, Jeffrey bethought himself of the evidence in these ransacked drawers that someone had visited the chamber with sinister purposes. Suspicion, unless subverted, might fix upon the real offender. In the very presence of the dead man, therefore, he laid a scheme that should free himself at the expense of Clifford, his rival, for whose character he had at once a contempt and a repugnance. It is not probable, be it said, that he acted with any set purpose of involving Clifford in a charge of murder. Knowing that his uncle did not die by violence, it may not have occurred to him, in the hurry of the crisis, that such an inference might be drawn. But when the affair took this darker aspect, Jeffrey's previous steps had already pledged him to those which remained. So craftily had he arranged the circumstances, that at Clifford's trial, his cousin hardly found it necessary to swear to anything false, but only to withhold the one decisive explanation by refraining to state what he had himself done and witnessed. Thus Jaffrey Pinchon's inward criminality, as regarded Clifford, was indeed black and damnable, while its mere outward show and positive commission was the smallest that could possibly consist with so great a sin. This is just the sort of guilt that a man of eminent respectability finds it easiest to dispose of. It was suffered to fade out of sight, or be reckoned a venial matter, and the honourable Judge Pinchon's long, subsequent survey of his own life. He shuffled it aside among the forgotten and forgiven frailties of his youth, and seldom thought of it again. We leave the judge to his repose. He could not be styled fortunate at the hour of death. Unknowingly he was a childless man, while striving to add more wealth to his only child's inheritance. Only a week after his decease one of the Cunard steamers brought intelligence of the death by cholera of Judge Pinchon's son just at the point of embarkation for his native land. By this misfortune Clifford became rich. So did Hepsiba. So did our little village maiden, and through her, that sworn foe of wealth in all manner of conservatism, the wild reformer, Holgrave. It was now far too late in Clifford's life for the good opinion of society to be worth the trouble and anguish of a formal vindication. What he needed was the love of a very few, not the admiration, or even the respect of the unknown many. The latter might probably have been one for him, had those on whom the guardianship of his welfare had fallen deemed it advisable to expose Clifford to a miserable resuscitation of past ideas. In the condition of whatever comfort he might expect lay in the calm of forgetfulness. After such wrong as he had suffered, there is no reparation. The pitiable mockery of it, which the world might have been ready enough to offer, coming so long after the agony had done its utmost work, would have been fit only to provoke bitterer laughter than poor Clifford was ever capable of. It is a truth, and it would be a very sad one, but for the higher hopes which it suggests, that no great mistake, whether acted or endured in our mortal sphere, is ever really set right. Time, the continual vicissitude of circumstances, and the invariable inopportunity of death, render it impossible. If after long laps of years the right seems to be in our power, we find no niche to set it in. The better remedy is for the sufferer to pass on, and leave what he once thought his irreparable ruin far behind him. The shock of Judge Pinchon's death had a permanently invigorating and ultimately beneficial effect on Clifford. That strong and ponderous man had been Clifford's nightmare. There was no free breath to be drawn within the sphere of so malevolent an influence. The first effect of freedom, as we have witnessed in Clifford's aimless flight, was a tremulous exhilaration. Subsiding from it, he did not sink into his former intellectual apathy. He never, it is true, attained to nearly the full measure of what might have been his faculties. But he recovered enough of them partially to light up his character, to display some outline of the marvellous grace that was abortive in it, and to make him the object of no less deep, although less melancholy, interests than here to fore. He was evidently happy. Could we pause to give another picture of his daily life, with all the appliances now at command to gratify his instinct for the beautiful, the garden scenes that seem so sweet to him would look mean and trivial in comparison. Very soon, after their change of fortune, Clifford, Hepsiba, and little Phoebe, with the approval of the artist, concluded to remove from the dismal old house of the Seven Gables and take up their abode for the present at the elegant country seat of the late Judge Pinshawn. Chanticleer and his family had already been transported thither, where the two hands had forthwith begun an indefatigable process of egg-laying, with an evident design, as a matter of duty and conscience, to continue their illustrious breed under better auspices than for a century past. On the day set for their departure the principal personages of our story, including good Uncle Venner, were assembled in the parlor. The country house is certainly a very fine one, so far as the plan goes, observed whole grave as the party were discussing their future arrangements. But I wonder that the late Judge, being so opulent, and with a reasonable prospect of transmitting his wealth to descendants of his own, should not have felt the propriety of embodying so excellent a piece of domestic architecture in stone rather than in wood. Then every generation of the family might have altered the interior to suit its own taste and convenience, while the exterior, through the lapse of years, might have been adding venerableness to its original beauty, and thus giving that impression of permanence which I consider essential to the happiness of any one moment. Why, cried Phoebe, gazing into the artist's face with infinite amazement, how wonderfully your ideas have changed! A house of stone indeed! It is but two or three weeks ago that you seemed to wish people to live in something as fragile and temporary as a bird's nest. Ha! Ha! Phoebe! I told you how it would be, said the artist with a half melancholy laugh. You find me a conservative already. Little did I think ever to become one. It is especially unpardonable in this dwelling of so much hereditary misfortune, and under the eye of yonder portrait of a model conservative who in that very character rendered himself so long the evil destiny of his race. That picture, said Clifford, seeming to shrink from its stern glance, whenever I look at it there is an old dreamy recollection haunting me, but keeping just beyond the grasp of my mind. Wealth, it seems to say, boundless wealth, unimaginable wealth. I could fancy that, when I was a child or a youth, that portrait had spoken, and told me a rich secret, or had held forth its hand with a written record of hidden opulence. But these old matters are so dim with me nowadays. What could this dream have been? Perhaps I can recall it, answered Holgrave. See, there are a hundred chances to one that no person, unacquainted with the secret, would ever touch this spring. A secret spring! cried Clifford. Ah! I remember now. I did discover it one summer afternoon, when I was idling and dreaming about the house long, long ago. But the mystery escapes me. The artist put his finger on the contrivance to which he had referred. In former days the effect would probably have been to cause the picture to start forward. But in so long a period of concealment the machinery had been eaten through with rust, so that at Holgrave's pressure the portrait, frame and all, tumbled suddenly from its position and lay face downward on the floor. A recess in the wall was thus brought to light, in which lay an object so covered with a sentry's dust that it could not immediately be recognized as a folded sheet of parchment. Holgrave opened it and displayed an ancient deed, signed with the hieroglyphics of several Indian Sagamores, and conveying to Colonel Pinshawn and his heirs, forever, a vast extent of territory at the eastward. This is the very parchment, the attempt to recover which cost the beautiful Alice Pinshawn her happiness and life, said the artist, alluding to his legend. It is what the Pinshawn sought in vain, while it was valuable, and now that they find the treasure it is long been worthless. Poor cousin Jeffrey, this is what deceived him, exclaimed Hepsiba. When they were young together Clifford probably made a kind of fairy tale of this discovery. He was always dreaming hither and thither about the house, and lighting up its dark corners with beautiful stories. And poor Jeffrey, who took hold of everything as if it were real, thought my brother had found out his uncle's wealth. He died with this delusion in his mind. But, said Phoebe, apart to Holgrave, how came you to know the secret? My dearest Phoebe, said Holgrave, how will it please you to assume the name of Maul? As for the secret, it is the only inheritance that has come down to me from my ancestors. You should have known sooner, only that I was afraid of frightening you away, that in this long drama of wrong and retribution, I represent the old wizard, and in probably as much a wizard as ever he was. The son of the executed Matthew Maul, while building this house, took the opportunity to construct that recess, and hide away the Indian deed, on which depended the immense land claim of the Pinshawns. Thus they bartered their eastern territory from Maul's garden ground. And now, said Uncle Venner, I suppose their whole claim is not worth one man's share in my farm yonder. Uncle Venner, cried Phoebe, taking the patched philosopher's hand, you must never talk any more about your farm. You shall never go there as long as you live. There is a cottage in our new garden, the prettiest little yellowish-brown cottage you ever saw, and the sweetest-looking place, for it looks just as if it were made of gingerbread. And we are going to fit it up and furnish it on purpose for you. And you shall do nothing but what you choose, and shall be as happy as the day is long, and shall keep cousin Clifford in spirits with the wisdom and pleasantness which is always dropping from your lips. Ah, my dear child, quote good Uncle Venner, quite overcome, if you were to speak to a young man as you'll do to an old one, his chance of keeping his heart another minute would not be worth one of the buttons on my waistcoat, and so alive that great sigh which you made me heave, has burst off the very last of them. But never mind, it was the happiest sigh I ever did heave, and it seems as if I must have drawn in a gulp of heavenly breath to make it with. Well, well, Miss Phoebe, they'll miss me in the gardens hereabouts, and round by the back doors, and pinch on street, I'm afraid, we'll hardly look the same without old Uncle Venner, who remembers it with a mowing-field on one side, and the garden of the seven gables on the other. But either I must go to your country-seat, or you must come to my farm. That's one of two things certain, and I leave you to choose which. Oh, come with us by all means, Uncle Venner, said Clifford, who had a remarkable enjoyment of the old man's mellow, quiet, and simple spirit. I want you always to be within five minutes' saunter of my chair. You are the only philosopher I ever knew of whose wisdom has not a drop of bitter essence at the bottom." "'Dear me!' cried Uncle Venner, beginning partly to realize what manner of man he was. And yet folks used to set me down among the simple ones in my younger days. But I suppose I am like a Roxbury Russet. A great deal the better, the longer I can be kept. Yes, and my words of wisdom that you and Phoebe tell me of are like the golden dandelions, which never grow in the hot months, but may be seen glistening among the withered grass in under the dry leaves, sometimes as late as December. And you are welcome friends to my mess of dandelions if there were twice as many.'" A plain but handsome dark-green barouche had now drawn up in front of the ruinous portal of the old mansion-house. The party came forth, and, with the exception of good Uncle Venner, who was to follow in a few days, proceeded to take their places. They were chatting and laughing very pleasantly together, and, as proves to be often the case, at moments when we ought to palpitate with sensibility, Clifford and Hepsiba bade a final farewell to the abode of their forefathers, with hardly more emotion than if they had made it their arrangement to return thither at tea-time. Several children were drawn to the spot by so unusual a spectacle as the barouche and pair of gray horses. Recognizing little Ned Higgins among them, Hepsiba put her hand into her pocket, and presented the urchin, her earliest and staunchest customer, with silver enough to people the domedennial cavern of his interior, with his various a procession of quadrupeds as passed into the ark. Two men were passing, just as the barouche drove off. "'Well, Dixie,' said one of them, "'what do you think of this? My wife kept the scent shop three months, and lost five dollars on her outlay. Old maid Pinchon has been in trade just about as long, and rides off in her carriage with a couple of hundred thousand, reckoning her share and Clifford's and Phoebe's, and some say twice as much. If you choose to call it luck, it is all very well. But if we are to take it as the will of Providence, why, I can't exactly fathom it.' "'Pretty good business,' quoth the sagacious Dixie, "'pretty good business.'" It rolls well all this time, though left in solitude was throwing up a succession of kaleidoscopic pictures in which a gifted eye might have seen foreshadowed the coming fortunes of Hepsiba and Clifford, and the descendant of the legendary wizard and the village maiden over whom he had thrown love's web of sorcery. The Pinchon Elm, moreover, with what foliage the September Gale had spared to it, spurred unintelligible prophecies, and wise Uncle Venner, passing slowly from the ruinous porch, seemed to hear a strain of music, and fancied that sweet Alice Pinchon, after witnessing these deeds this bygone woe and this present happiness of her kindred mortals, had given one farewell touch of a spirit's joy upon her harpsichord, as she floated heavenward from the house of the seven gables. End of chapter, end of book. Thank you for listening.


trade what you see with Larry Pezzavento call now toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> now Larry Pezzavento okay looking good Billy Ray feeling good Lewis we're gonna go over a couple things here this is this stock of folks I'm a bit tired I enjoyed doing I'm especially enjoying doing this to help Dave out but I it just the hours are long now because we're having such incredible moves with ABCDs and stuff so you got a dance with the girl you took to the dance because she might leave early and then you're out there on your own because sometimes these ABCD patterns don't work I posted a chart here of the E-mini S&P and we've been following this every day just like we usually do and you can see the the high today if you look at it we suggested it might get to 40-30 in the newsletter anything above that it's you know you know flat off to the races but stop and think now if you look at that bottom we made just about you know eight trading days ago we're up eight days in a trading cycle now Larry Williams did all kinds of work on this he charged I was a huge amount thousands of dollars way back in mid seventies when I was at Drexel and Drexel gave me when I went to work for them I said I'd like to have an educational thing he said don't worry he said whatever you want we'll pay for of course it took it out of my commissions but it was it was well worth it but the thing that Larry told us at that time was you know the statistics behind the market in other words it goes up three days in a row what's the statistic that'll be up the fourth day the fifth day the sixth day the seventh day and the eighth day he said the eighth day was the most important because if it went past eight days you didn't know where it was going to go so you want to be expecting after eight days they either a pretty significant bounce or you know a rally in a bear market so that's what I'm looking at so today you're looking at the today it's the eighth day and there it is sitting right there at the 786 at 40-30 so as it looks like it might be a place to take a look at it so that's that's what I was watching today I I don't get to talk to Larry much anymore we chat by email of course but he's does so much traveling now for personal use he's not does he's not doing any more speeches or anything like that but he really enjoys fishing and stuff up in Montana but boy those things that he told me that's just one of the seminars that I went to with him there were many others that when he first coming out you know with the Williams indicator was one and then his displaced moving averages he actually got that from my best friend Jay Cross who worked with Amos Hostetter at commodity corporation so he he had a lot of great things and Larry and then Jay were friends too so it was he was part of that Conti group you know going back into the 19 they started in 1968 there at Conti the office was at Warner of Wilshire Wilshire Boulevard and oh I can't remember the Cross Street goes right into UCLA anyway there was an office there for Clayton brokerage and that's where I met Eddie Horowitz and Jim 20 men and Larry Williams 1965 they were all trading through there and then what happened was when Conti commodity came in they bought that office and all the customers and moved them over to McCulloch oil building which was right across the street they had been in the use the Howard Hughes building in fact when John Wayne passed away the helicopter came in from Orange County and landed on the Howard Hughes building and they took Mr. Wayne into the UCLA where he passed away about a day or so later but we were watching it was a big deal it was not as big as the deal as the OJ Chase but it was a it was a big deal to watch the you know the old cowboy you know take his last last steps in here anyway let's that's what really happened here but I was want to tell us tell you about what Larry did because there was a lot of things there that were just really you know really spectacular now here's something that I think we should all watch okay now this happens to be a city corp when we get finished with city corp we're definitely going to take a look at the natural gas I promise it that we would do that and we'll do it very efficient well as efficiently as I know but you can see where we were just a few weeks ago a month or so ago way up here and how much it's dropped okay now that's a that's a very very big drop but to stop and think folks city bank is not a very well-run bank it really isn't and the reason why is if you go back and look at the charts for it oh are you kidding me where are all my bank stocks oh well I guess that's something that I deleted by accident boy that doesn't make me very happy okay let's not worry about that anyway if you look at that on a day you know what I've got a charting thing right here I think I can do that real easy so bear with me here and I will get this up and we will take a look at this for come on there it is right there and all we have to do is get the daily up and you'll be able to see that this market told you that something was wrong hello operator this is just look at it during the past year folks and remember this thing split this was a reverse split oh dear it's not coming up yet hold on it'll be there in just a second here there it is right here and you can see it right there this thing split 10 for one reverse no it was a 30 to 1 I don't know but back in in 08 I think it had a 30 we want reverse 30 to 1 reverse split I'd have to I don't follow that but that's going back many years ago in the 08 crash they had all kinds of trouble and then they split the stock so that they the reverse split makes the stock higher in other words they reverse it 10 to 1 it's trading it to $3 so the reverse it so the price goes up to $30 so you got more shares but the problem is is that it they're all deluded and so now look where we are now this is not this is not a well-run company just just recently we just made a 382 ABCD Gartley here in you know just about a month or so ago and now we're we're breaking down Bank of America has gone below those now you want to see how they rally because if they don't rally much and if they don't rally much that's where the problems lie and you don't want to get involved in that because you don't know where the bottom is down in here how about this bottom here same pattern see the little Gartley pattern right there and then boom look what happened when you broke the mid part at point C look what happened when you broke point C this tells you this stock wants to go lower so I don't believe that this banking stock index thing is over that's my opinion and I'm sticking to it the only thing would change my mind is if they come in and all these stocks gap up huge and just keep running and I'll say yeah well not today where they up 4 or 5% I'm talking if they jump up 10% or something like that that takes all the heat off and that means somebody's got to be paying the bills here and the only way they can do it is create money and that's what the Federal Reserve is doing and what is creating money do it dries inflation so get ready for spending more for all the stuff that you're going to be buying because you know you can see look at the grades they've been down for months maybe this is the major bottom in the grains we don't know that but it started in the right direction anyway nothing else so that's an important fact to keep in mind we got a break coming up here just in about another minute or so but we come back we're going to look at the natural gas market in both long term and short term to see if there's a place here or pattern that we might be able to take advantage of so that's what we're going to try to do when we come back from the first break now if you were lucky enough to call through right now don't even try because the lines are just jammed Al sitting there and he's just the sweats coming off his brow 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ends up hello operator this is not an April Fool's joke this week so we got a watch for a possible bottom in natural gas this week you can see the beautiful ABCD pattern that came down in fact we had this trade we were on it we were in that trade a long time it was about an hour but we bought it at 287 and we were out at 286 and of course it dropped a great deal more than that and when these patterns fail you got to know that because you don't want to stand in front of that freight train no way no how you don't want to do that so I'm analyzing this that that's the first thing I want to look at to see that yes there's a possible day in here I don't have a really good ABCD the only way I can do this is to measure the AB leg and then assume where it's going to be down here where I think we're going to make a double bottom and find out if that's a ratio more than 1.618 because it certainly looks like it might be but remember the first thing we're looking for is price the time is most elusive so we think it's going to be April 1st but we don't know that you know what nobody else does either so that's a real advantage on our part so the second step that I'll do is I go and I look at the daily chart just to see what's happened here you know over the last few weeks or months to see you know how well the market is held up I'll get this up here so we can see it together okay now there it is you can see we had nice right I'll look you see the bottom right here watch this folks 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 on the eighth day what happened the market topped come down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 then it rallies up to the 3, 8, 2 comes down 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 again right here right out of Larry Williams's $10,000 seminar made covered my cost on that on the second day of trades that I did but anyway you'll see here that we're getting low we have a big ABCD coming in right here don't we so the next thing we want to do and try to be pretty creative on this is we're going to go and we're going to take a look at what's happening on the hourly chart okay let's do it let's say the four-hour chart so here's where we are we'll get up here remember we have a big ABCD coming in it's not going to be on this chart but you'll just saw it on the daily tells us that we're getting really close to a double bottom in here remember that this is the ABCD that we had on the remember that there was your AB there was your 3, 8, 2 retracement see you're down eight days 3, 8, 2 retracement now you're coming down and you're going to be more than eight days which you can see here what we're trying to do is to get down into this area right here because this could be a this could be a monster because the whole world is buries this stuff even Johnny still raising his hands it looks lower to him but look what's happening you see we're having it looks like it's a bottom here you have a big down day today so what's going to happen next well what you do is you've got to analyze this part right here to see if it's got anything in it that would tell us that possibly yes this may be a bottom coming in to natural gas and by doing this show guess who's going to be buying natural gas very very shortly now here's is the picture everybody send in ten dollars for this and folks will donate it to charity but this is the kind of trade that you'd like to see trade what you think trade what you see not what you think but look at this there's your move up there's your eight day run okay then your eight days down we're a little above the 10th day right now but all these were were the same as you remember but look at this this is where you are the eight days were here there and there's where the eight days were here's where we are right now we've got a market that couldn't take out the high of four days ago stopped right at the 78 percent level then it rolled over today it's coming down this sets up potential for absolute dead on lock lock your horns into the old steer and riding for a while it's right on the money and that is where you want to be watching to buy it now when it gets there the ideal situation is that it takes this low out which many people say oh if it gets below that level i'm going to be wrong well this is where the pattern says yeah you might be wrong but by golly if that turns just a 3-8-2 on that can let you to buy a new Chevy Impala or a Honda Accord or something like that but anyway if you're looking at this this is what you want to be watching and i'll be following that since i've been doing this right now looking at i saw a couple things that just really lit lit up so i've got to do a special video for the folks to get them ready because here we are on the 27th and it's due between now and the uh 1st of april april fools i think that's on a friday isn't it no that's uh comes in on uh saturday is april fools day anyway that's what that's the day you put all your money on the hurricanes and miami hurricanes to win it all i'm going to make sure i make a little bet on that today because uh sean has been pretty good and so has mr what's his name um norm winsky so let's do one other thing since we've got you here i might as well do it just because we can take a quick look at it and that is pull it back up again larry get it there it is right there and oh i have to show you this too folks give me two things i this was pretty good here because uh we're going to be watching in here uh very very shortly and i want to get it up here on the hourly chart to see here see where we are because then we can really tell us where we're going to be so bear with me here one second here and we'll be oh this is this is great we've got the great price here if you if we went on this one folks give some money to charity because this has got everything on it that you absolutely i like to see so there's your this is from the 21st coming out here now and we're going to assume that right around the end of the week here we're going to break break the lows at 200 which was the old low oh this is uh i i can't i can't show this one folks because it's got too much information i'm just joking just a second okay here's where we are when i see these things that you know i've been doing this for so long and i still get excited oh dear anyway here's where we were look at the high today market coming off dramatically this is where we want to be looking right here folks it will literally be at the 127 or at the 1618 ideally it's at the 127 but if it's at the one this is where you're going to take out all the stops right here so watch it in this zone here in the next few days you remember the week trade that we talked about a couple weeks ago before it's rallied 80 cents this is the same type of pattern so be patient it's getting ready to happen and whether it happens or not i'm not sure but at least we got something to work on and that's it for just for kicks and giggles i put in the AI program today for natural gas just to let you take a look at it and you can see it did a pretty good job of saying what the natural gas was going to do for the day and it says it should start to rally here the last part of the day now whether that's true or not i don't know but it's done a pretty good job there was a high here and a high here and a low came in there so that's that's what you're looking for to see if these things uh you know move in the right direction so i certainly hope you can gain something from that but we'll keep watching it to see if in fact it'll give us something that we can use to to make sure that that's doing the right thing so that's the main thing okay we'll be right back eight seven seven nine two seven six six four eight if you want to take advantage of this sector now is the time to subscribe to my gold report the gold report is a comprehensive look at the metal sector as well as the markets that move gold which is the currency and bond markets new subscribers get a 30-day money back guarantee so you have nothing to 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tfnn.com tfnn educating investors this segment is brought to you by think or swim for more information just click the think or swim banner on the front page of tfnn.com your schedule for thursday yeah i didn't see it so that's not a problem so hello operator i think that was mike more folks i think i uh interrupted the show here to uh i think we're on the air now i hope let's double check to see if the old show is starting you were on the air all right let's go back and review what happened hold on i gotta do one thing right now and then i'll be right back with you gotta gotta hit the old cash register once in a while you know we've got stocks coming in real strong again dow jones up almost 300 all right let's go back and we remember uh earlier in the show yet my previous show we talked about the crude oil and the fact that it was set at such an incredible area that if it broke above that level it was going to be you know a very very strong move and i wanted to bring that chart up to you to show you that strong move and i'm having a real difficult time finding it because i just put it in here why does it do this to me ah this is it right here here's where we are there's the first one i got three to show you okay here is the the crude oil and when it broke above the trend line this is something we covered in the in the newsletter okay and you'll look here you'll see that that's exactly there was that 135 pattern right here said once it broke that and you see it broke it right in the morning and then it backed off here for about a dollar hit 70 10 came down to 69 and then it took off and you can see here without any type of imagination that you've got a low here and a high here and a perfect 61 percent retracement here okay look where we are we're going up we're making a big abcd so all i did to make it interesting was to go and check to see if that abcd is in fact going to be a valid one and that's what the next chart next chart will show this shows it very clearly you know what technical analysis all about covered in my book trade what you see and dr andrew's lo's book the non-random walk down wall street and you can see the big abcd from right here a b cd up around another two dollars a barrel at least to just about the 74 75 dollars a barrel level but the thing you got to remember when a market comes out of point b like a point c like this one has has the tendencies to expand it with a big wide-ranging day-to-day of oil up three dollars a barrel that most probably tells you you're probably going to go a little bit higher than than what you might think so let's let's keep that close to our vest and we'll see if that's working i hope that shows you how the how to what you break a trend line like that and the pattern fails the whole boy you don't want to stand in front of it and that's where you see some of these you know really big monster moves to be watching so we now have the now almost up 300 points the s&p is turned it's up on the day uh nasdaq has turned turned but it's still down 50 and so it's uh it's going to be interesting to see you know how much higher we're going to get here we've got the the yen is a strong or a little weaker to the dollar the euro has been you know setting at one level here we finally went to that level in the euro i believe let me get my chart up to see if in fact that we did do it but this we have set we just had 73 dollars a barrel in the oil folks very very interesting but the the euro is still not taking it out it went up and stayed there for well over two hours and you'll see i'll get it right here so you'll be able to take a look at it whether that means much or not don't know all i know is that the risk here is to doggone small that all you have to do is put about a 25 pip stop on that and if you're right just the half of a down day this is just three up days just half of a down day will you know double doubled your risk to reward ratio so that's what we're paying close attention to we did hit the exact number of 108 and uh that's really hit 108.01 as i recall here very very interesting so anyway let's move on here and see we got the things are moving quite a bit higher well look at soybeans folks they just hit 1421 folks i have to show you this because this is it just like the crudel let's this is fun i could do this all day long hold on let's get this up here to take a look at it and then we will see it there's our soybeans right here okay now there were we bought them right there folks that's where we bought the beans they went against us a little bit okay then it rallied up made the first 382 retracement and then today it made the second 382 retracement and anybody with an imagination is going to say there's an a b c d here up another 45 or 50 cents and i told the people i'm honest that god did i said please and i'm just looking at it myself uh to get some information into you but i said don't look at the soybeans i said just don't put take them off your machine and don't even look at them and i said that you'll be tempted to sell and you don't want to sell because there's a possibility because that low we made was so perfect at a 61 retracement that's the one you want to get folks in december of 1975 that was the pattern that i saw in soybeans it was in soybean oil and the spread was by july sell december you can put that spread on it was a four thousand dollar margin for both of it like don't wait it was about a thousand dollars on each side so that that if you went longer short but if you put the spread on the spread was only 150 dollars margin because your long one your long july short december july was old crop december was new crop so for 150 dollars you could be long the beans okay and you had a your maximum risk was 150 dollars i mean what what kind of deal is that i mean that that's no deal at all so i started putting those things on and what happened was uh they started to move in december i think it was we put them on in december they laid their flat for a while up a little down a little you put 150 bucks in pretty soon it was worth 300 big deal and then you know 350 400 some around 400 bucks and uh one friday uh just before the market closes um long july short december and july jumps 30 points and december drops 30 points at 60 points times the the amount of the money which uh 600 per pound it made 300 on that day with a margin of 150 but we'd already doubled so it was up around eight or nine hundred dollars and Reuters came out again and they said well this is a real aberration this is going to be corrected first thing monday morning well monday morning came and i'm already to see the correction and guess what they stayed there until the end of the closing day boom up another 30 pips tuesday same thing wednesday same thing that spread went 18 days in a row before it had any correction and by then you you're talking serious money that 150 bucks was well over three grand and we when we finally got out of it it was even higher when we got out in june of that year but that's what happened to it and the market just kept running and running and running many times you're thinking of taking profits and oscar and dav nelson would tell me you know no no no he said this is the big one and these guys knew where the anchovies were and all the fundamental stuff that i thought was important but later on i realized it wasn't it was the prices of the stock that did it but that's the one that got me the job at direxel bernum that and eddie horowitz because they wanted to do a commodity department and they wanted somebody that you know done some trading and i've done a lot of that and so they said come on in and take a look and so i did and that next year since eighties some 76 to 80 uh december of uh jess excuse me january of 82 were the easiest of the years i ever had because i it was so i mean i slept in silver all the time so even if i made a bad trade or two you know those things went up but i 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you by vista gold traded on the nyse american ntsx under the symbol vgz okay i've been asked by howard over there in connecticut to take a look at the nasdaq and so what i'm going to do now is to bring up the daily chart of the nasdaq this is up to date i just did it just a few minutes ago and as you can see here uh there's where we are on the daily if you remember the that level right here so all i'm going to do now is to go in and bring it to an area that you'll be able to see exactly what's happening today because we did pretty much the same thing i got to make sure i get that right one ah this is the one i want yeah this i blew it up so you can see what today's action here you'll be able to see the same thing and i think it's important because i watch these ratios uh quite a bit so there there's what you're looking at and this is just making remember we're up about uh five months now we're still setting at the three eight two folks to me that's not a that's not a bullish sign so let's take a look now for howard what the market's been doing over the last five or six days and there's what we're going to do we're going to go in and we're going to put this chart in so you folks will be able to do this and there you go and that's it by the way a line just opened up if someone calls in you can see here this is the nasdaq we made this big spike high now you notice here we we stopped up here today we broke down still didn't take out the low we stopped at the seven eight six and we're we're rallying back to the three eight two level here with several hours to go which means we're probably going to get a little bit higher here maybe even blow it out to the upside that's also a possibility so this is just a pattern and when these patterns fail and when these patterns fail you got to stand aside and that's the main thing that you want to remember okay now that covers pretty much the nasdaq let's move on here i want to get back to the natural gas because i'm going to have to do some work on this and i might as well do it on the air here so that we can see this stuff happening so bear with me one second so i get this natural gas contract here one more time and i want to i'll go through it again on a little bit uh slower pace to see where we are so let's get it up here and hold on we'll go to the daily okay now we just started to rally if you remember we were forecasting a possibility of a rally and as you can see here from the chart that i'm going to post right now you'll see that that rally has already started and there it is right there so the first thing i need to do now is with this rally starting this way that's going to tell me how much do i have to go up here to see because i wanted to get down you see this is just nothing more than a short covering rally that's happening in natural gas as a matter of fact the easiest way to do that will get back to the the contract itself and we just put a 15 minute up here and you'll see it's going to be oh this is going to be it's actually doing a lot a little bit better than i thought but uh we are backing uh we're already back in just a matter of uh we're only around five points that you can see here this is the uh well you can see sunday and everything else so i'll put it up here that this is just going to be another way of measuring the swing you know to the downside so you can see this is where we stopped right here and we've rallied past the 382 in fact we're almost up to the 61 percent retracement already and maybe this is a major bottom i don't know but i'm going to be watching it if we get above this level right here there's a pretty good chance that it could be what happened just yesterday or a few days ago actually eight days ago could be a major bottom so if that happens the only thing you can do is do like what we did in hogs what we did in soybeans and what we did in the hogs soybeans and gold and silver we always wait for that 382 retracement and that's the one that will lead you to the promised land and then soon as soon as you get a big lead you know you just either you don't want it if you think this is a major bottom and we're only the second day up you got to give it a little room folks that's the thing is you don't catch these very often and that's the that's the real key you know to be watching as you're going through looking at these because that's the important part we've got two hours to go to the market so most probably we're going to close close really really strong today and we're right near the highs now in the Dow Jones are up 300 points and we are up only down 38 now the Nazak it's coming back up 29 30 points in the Russell 23 in the S&P now bonds are down about two-thirds of a point and we've got silver and gold or silver's down 20 cents and gold's down $27 so we've got some real interesting markets here to pay attention to but we're over a really key time and that's a cycle that Shane Smollion works on so we're going to find out if that is in fact going to be it's going to be the case so that's the main thing and that what else i want to mention here uh natural gas i got to get working on that because let me just do this right here and that might give us yes it would let's go to the hourly chart and it'll really help us to tell us where we want to go because oh this would be really great if it would just do this i'm going to bring in the bring in the pattern folks to show you what could possibly happen and that's what these patterns will do they are predictive within limits if you remember so give me a second and i'll draw it in and then you'll be able to see the whole thing together and that's it right here okay now all right i have to bring this up and show you the next thing that i want to see uh and that is what is going to happen next and so as i look at this right now as we're trading we've had a pretty good bottom in here i'll bet you that was exactly 61 and that'll be telling us that on the next one i'll bring it up to show you where you are because if that's the case we know exactly what to do and we will just wait and see and look it was just a little bit beyond the 618 uh right at the uh right at the uh what do you call the uh 76 78 percent level so what i'm going to do now i'm going to spread this out so we can see the bigger a b c d and where we can be going to okay that's the the real key and that tells us that we're going to probably be making a low here in the next two days and that low is going to be a butterfly pattern and that's the one you want to be buying remember that long-term one that we looked at this is a short-term version of that what you'd like to see is the market fail from here and then start moving on to the downside near the 20 or the 30th at 30 for 30th 29th or 30th that's uh what is it 29 it's yeah yeah the 30th 30th and 31st anytime between wednesday thursday and friday is what you want to be looking for for a bottom and natural gas now if we take out today's high then that bet is off but until that happens until that happens that's going to be the one that you need to pay you know very very close attention to very very close attention just uh extremely important to do that so let's do that now i wanted to bring one other thing up today and that is in the hog market because we just had uh let's go this is such a guys i just don't understand why people are not interested in some of this stuff this stuff is so shut the front door and raise the rent let's take a quick look here at the lean hogs you don't have to know much about reports or anything like that if you'll see here there's an action over the last few days there was your three eight two retracement there was your first one there was your second one and we got to get ready for the other one because what's happened now you look at this closely look there's a b c d perfect count the bars up count the bars up perfection we're going to look at that when we get back eight seven seven nine two 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also a special guest on CNBC Tom will bisect and dissect the markets the Tom O'Brien show next on tfnn folks are wrapping up i wanted to remind everybody this is the eighth trading day in a row that we've been up in the stock market and the odds favor at least a three-day correction coming in here not to remember it's odds favor it doesn't mean perfection so that's the main thing to keep in mind we're looking at something that could be you know very very interesting here from a long-term perspective but you know we're setting right up here to this Fibonacci number in the s&p they're at 40 30 and we're almost there again we're there earlier this morning we might even close a little bit higher than that which would also be unusual i did post the chart in the NASDAQ had been the leader if you remember that's the one that took us off the bottom and now it's actually backing off a little bit telling you that uh-oh maybe it doesn't look nearly as good as it possibly does it always looks the worst folks right before it takes off if you remember here just a few weeks ago well just a few weeks ago about just a few days ago this is where we were i'm going to get this up here to show you we were looking for a lot larger prices at that time there's where you are okay we came down to our level right here came a little bit lower and then hit this line this downtrend line was drawing perfectly with beautiful symmetrical cycles everything there that you can see the good symmetry and nice little valid trend line and then away it goes to the upside folks way i traded back in the early 70s was to break in other words if the bottom came in right here soon as a market like this went above that little correction area i bought everything in sight i started buying wheat corn and soybeans the farmers that were behind it i was also rooting for them and what we were doing is many of these guys were getting government money this was in uh 75 and 70s early 76 and uh they were getting paid in gold because the government had excess gold at that time and gold was only trading for like under 200 bucks it was not a big deal 877-9268 we'll see you on the flip side tomorrow and may god bless


Our rituals, our culture is connected to this heirloom rice. The heirloom rice project is one of the seven priority projects of the Department of Agriculture in the International Rice Basics Institute. In the absence of short-term projects like the heirloom project, they could well be at risk of disappearing. This heirloom rice project is definitely a gift of the Philippines to the world. It's an happiness of Parangay, Anganad. I'm married with six children and I have also 12 grandchildren. I am the leader of the farmer here in Anganad. It is a respect to our grandparents and without them we should not be what they are, so we have to maintain the traditional rice. This research project of Ili and the Department of Agriculture are of significance because it will empower the farmers to get them organized so that they will attain the economies of scale. Hopefully, the market says that there is high demand for heirloom rice and it even commands the higher price than the rice variety that is cultivated in the Lola. So there is a great opportunity for our farmers and the affluent community to access the niche market, which caters to heirloom rice. There is an existing market and we believe that the market is even expanding. We're trying to get the so-called geographical indication for specific traditional varieties. So this is like wine appellation where you can really identify a particular variety to a specific territory where it is originating from. And this is very important for the farmers and for the consumers' life because we can know, we can trace where the products are coming from and who's growing the varieties and the location where the varieties are getting the traits that they are known for. Tourists are coming. We are actually helping the lodging in the Manawi Hotel and we are helping people who are involved in the tourism activities. We are helping them indirectly. That's why I convinced the farmers that we should also be active also and revive our custom and tradition in farming. We return back our native rice. We return back all the fishes, the delicious foods that are growing in the rice field and sell it to the visitor so that while the other people are gaining from the tourists, you are also gaining. This Aerium Rice Project is a win-win-win situation. For Erie, Erie got to learn more about these Aerium Rice varieties, particularly the traits, the unique traits that they carry to the farmers because the farmers will be getting more from their produce and they will be able to showcase their culture, their tradition to the world. And third, to the consumers because they are going to get the health benefits and other important traits that these Aerium Rice varieties can provide. It is a win for the Philippines also, for the country. The value of these Aerium varieties comes from combining them with the communities where they have been traditionally grown, the practices those communities have used for growing them, their whole culture is built around them and those Aerium varieties are an essential part of those communities, their whole life, whereas when you bring those varieties here into the gene bank, all we brought is the genetic material. We haven't got the knowledge of those communities. We haven't got the rest of the farming system that they're maintaining. We've just got the genes. What ought to happen is that we combine their knowledge with our knowledge and that would allow us to produce a package of improved varieties and improved agricultural methods that combine the best of both worlds. In the Cordillera, they own the seeds. Like you go from one family, they have a selection of seeds that were passed on to them from generation to generation and you look at them and it's like, you're looking at the gem. Every grain that is sold really goes back to the farmers because the way that our NGO and the market is set up is that there is a dividend sharing, sharing to all the stakeholders, the farmers, the NGO and the consumer. And so all of that plays into part when they sell the rice and you buy the rice at a premium price. If we lose the farmers, if we lose the terraces, if we lose all these heirloom grains, we are poor. What is Filipino food is what grows in our environment and what people do to it. I want you to feel that you're eating the terroir of this country. You want to taste the Philippines? You want to taste the food? This grew from our land. This was filled by Philippine farmers. The DNA of these grains come from our forefathers.


I'm Steve Nunn, President and CEO of the Open Group, welcome to Toolkit Tuesday, where we highlight the various components and leading experts of the Architects Toolkit, a collated portfolio of the most pertinent technology standards for enterprise architects. During the series, I'll be calling on a number of recognised experts who will bring their particular insights on how to most effectively use the various tools in the Architects Toolkit. We'll have a mix of interviews, panel sessions and pre-recorded presentations along the way. While all standards of the Open Group are designed so they can be adopted independently of one another, the greatest value for an organisation can be derived when they're used in unison. The sum of the parts should be greater than the whole. In the Architects Toolkit, we have collated a portfolio of the most pertinent ones for architects together, all in one place. For most of these tools, certification from the Open Group is also available, so practitioners can demonstrate that they have the skills required, and recruiters can take the guesswork out of the recruitment process, all backed up by our Open Badges programme. Whether you have an agile approach to solution delivery these days, or a blend of styles to suit differing needs and domains, the need for all of the disparate change initiatives to reconcile into a single cohesive landscape that supports the end-to-end needs of our organisations and their customers remains constant. One way to govern across the various developments has historically been the use of design authorities. Today, regardless of the style of delivery, any portfolio of significance will command and deserve a properly functioning design authority, or more accurately, a series of interdependent design authorities. Whilst having a design authority won't mitigate all the risks of every change initiative in your portfolio, I can attest that of all the major troubled deliveries I've ever seen over the years, a lack of design authority has been a constant missing component, and 100% has contributed to the scale of the issue, regardless of delivery approach or method. Bottom line, good guidance is always good guidance, whether, whatever way you choose to develop or deliver your solutions, but good governance is essential to exploit that good guidance and needs to be planned in with the DAs in to suit. A fire and hope approach is simply naive. Welcome everybody to this episode of Toolkit Tuesday. It's great to have you with us. Thank you for joining us wherever you are in the world. And a big thank you to Paul Holman there, with wise words as ever. Absolutely, design authority is required whatever your working style or practice. So thank you for sharing that with us, Paul. And for all the others you've done so far on this season and our previous season at Toolkit Tuesday. To our attendees, again, thank you for joining us. Really glad to have you with us. Our main topic today will be the portfolio of digital open standards, which you may have heard about a little before. But what we're going to show you today will be demonstrating the great progress that we've made on this since we first spoke to you about it. So in just a few minutes, I'll start introducing Sonja Gonzalez, who will be our speaker today. But just a little bit of housekeeping beforehand. If you have questions for Sonja today, then please put them in the Q&A the QA channel in the WebEx tool. If you can't see that on your screen right now, then please go to the three dots in the bottom right hand corner of your screen. And that will give you the chance to click on the QA channel. And if you would like to communicate with the other attendees and participants on the broadcast today, then do so please in the chat channel. As regulars will know, we love to hear where people are joining us from. It's usually quite a diverse set of geographies. And we love hearing where you're all joining us from. So please do that. Some of you are doing that in the chat channel. I can see that as I go on. So that's about it for the housekeeping. So without further ado, let's move to our topic today, the portfolio of digital open standards. So we've spoken about this at a number of open group events and we've had a previous episode of Toolkit Tuesday dedicated to this. But we've really worked hard on making progress and making this real. So it's not just a thought in our minds or in our members' minds, but something real. And today we will get a demonstration of real navigation through the portfolio of digital open standards. And to do that today is Sonia Gonzalez-Paredes, who is the digital portfolio manager here at the Open Group. Prior to this, Sonia was the Togaf product manager and she has more than 30 years experience as a business and enterprise architecture consultant in different fields and industry verticals. Sonia's professional experience as a project manager includes leading highly effective teams, applying different frameworks, best practices and tools. And today, obviously, Sonia will be focused on the Open Group portfolio of digital open standards and demonstrating the value that bringing these things together can bring. So a warm welcome from Toolkit Tuesday, please, for Sonia Gonzalez. Over to you, Sonia. Thank you very much, Steve, for that warm welcome and just getting to it, I will start sharing my screen now. Okay, so you're actually seeing here the real thing, which is the portfolio of digital open standards. Let me try to put this in extended modes so you can see better. Oh, okay, enter for the screen, so here it is. So again, welcome everyone to this session today. Going to lead you to the portfolio of digital open standards and the first question you may be asking yourself, what it is the portfolio of digital open standards and what you should care about is, what's the value of your proposition? And those are exactly the same question that we have been asking ourselves when we put this product together, this digital platform. And the responses like has, we have said before in many other occasions, the open group standards, the portfolio of standard that we offer has open group are meant to be used to transform organization into a digital space and they are very powerful on their own. However, they are become even more powerful when they are used together. So what we are offering with this portfolio is a way to consume them together in one single digital platform, which is the one that I'm showing right now and for doing that, we have put all these standards in one single place to make them more discoverable and easier to be consumed. So that's what are part of the value proposition. The other one, of course, is for this content to be relevant. Therefore, all this content that you will, that I'm going to present in here, it's already in our library, so all this is approved content and I'm going to start the practical demo now. Important also to mention that this portfolio is already in our website, so you can get into there and I'm going to show at the end of the presentation how you can actually navigate and give us your feedback. So first, why is this important and what we should care about this? You will see here in the left part of the menu that I'm showing right now, you will see the whole list of portfolio digital open standards that we are showing. So we are here, the glossaries on the wall, which is something that we have put together to pursue more consistency because also part of the value proposition is consistency. We are here over the years that it is good to have different definitions because every practice will have their own point of view, but it's also important for that to be consistent. So this glossaries on walls is one piece of content that we'll put together that is aimed to do that and I'm going to also show that in the demo. We also have other content in here, we have the digital practitioner body of knowledge, I'm going to refer that as a DP book in the rest of the demo. We have the IKFRIT version three, which we recently also released and launched in October. We have the OpenIr architecture, and we see all the content in here. We have the principle of OpenDigitalStandard, which is one of the fundamental documents and of course we have the TOGAF standard 10 edition included into this portfolio. So the value proposition is all the standard using one single place, of course all of them are very valuable, you have them in the library, but it's easier for them to be consumed in one single place that instead of going into the library and downloading all the different PDFs. So for example, and I'm going to start showing how you can navigate through this platform. In the left menu of this, you will see the list of the standards. So here you will see the digital practitioner body of knowledge, the DP book, and you can start clicking in here and actually you're seeing the actual content of the standard. And you can navigate through the different part of that. Just in the left menu, you can either go to the IT for IT version 3 standard, you can go over the TOGAF 10 standard edition or the OAA or any of the other content. Important also to mention that what we released in January and October is what we have called the medieval Bible product, meaning that this list of standard is meant to be growing. So the more standards we'll be adding into this platform, the more value will be offered to our community and our members. In order to do that, we need members contribution of course, and we are pursuing a lot of cross cutting collaboration between forum. And that's another part of the value proposition, consistency and synergy among the standards. So I mentioned also that all of them are visual and easy to be found. So we already see like all of them are here together. So no need to go into the library or any other place to see the different standards. But the other part of the value proposition I'm going to go back to the main landing page, which is this one, is the possibility of having visualization for this, which is something that I'm sure you're going to find pretty useful. So in here, the ones that you are familiar with the DP book, you will notice that this is the scale model in which we have from the founder all the way to the team, team of teams or the enduring enterprise. So if for example, I'm using the platform, I'm interested to know what it is about the enterprise level just clicking here and I'm making a zoom in another mapping. And this is just not graphics. For example, I went to know what about architecture at the end of enterprise. I click in here and I'm actually seeing the real content of the standard in here. So, and you may notice that in the upper part of the navigation, I'm actually seeing the exact components. So in here, the other part of the value proposition is like, we are the boundaries between standard don't exist anymore in here. You are just solving your problem, your business problem in this case to support digital transformation doesn't matter if the content is in the DP book or in the IT for IT or the open-rider architecture or the Toga standard. So this is one way to navigate and you can also come back to the previous. Let me go back again. Probably it's easy to make this and not in full screen to order to show the navigation. So you can go back into the previous one and navigate also using arrows. The other important element for this besides the navigation is cross linking. You know, right now, if you're using a PDF version of the standard and you click, for example, you are in the open-rider architecture in the OAA and you click to see the Toga of content you will be directed to the library, which is great. You can download the PDF or use the HTML or digital version but you need to go over other documents. So what we are also using in this platform, by the way, the technology we are using is JITLAB and Entora which are both open source and we are heavily working on that is to pursue two scrolls and cross-linking between content. And I'm going to show you an example. Let's say, for example, this one, which is the principles document and let's try this on. For example, here, this is another document that we have in the portfolio. Also, approve and publish content. And in here, you will notice that this is one, one link we have in here, origins and practice of agile development. So if I click in here, I will be actually seeing the real content which is in this case into the DP book. So instead of having to go into the library, I can navigate between standards. You may be asking, how are you going to do this because you have several forums and several standards in here. So the reason is we need to start working together to make this cross-cutting and cross-linking more effective. Going back to the visuals, again, we have several visuals. The ones that you that are familiar with the IT for IT standard may be familiar with this. So again, this is another way to explore the standards. For example, if I'm interested in the exploring value stream, I just click in here and I can see the actual content which is showing up in the top part of the menu. You will see this is the explore value stream into the IT for IT standard, which is exactly the same that is showing up in the left menu. So going back to the navigation, you can navigate using the visual mapping we are offering that is also something that we are interested in growing. The more visual we have, the more appealing this would be initiative to be used. You can either use that, you can use the left menu if you want to navigate either through the same standard or through the different standards. And also, since all of this, you may have noticed that all this is web-based, it's HTML content, you can also use either go into here and browse into the same content or you can also use the right menu to move into a different part of the same page. So there are very dynamic ways of doing this. Some of these pages are very large, so this right menu is very useful for that. The other value proposition, which is very important is to start working in components. As you know, some of our standards are big components, big documents, big bodies of knowledge because they hold practices like enterprise architecture or IT management. So they are big. And over the years we are struggling trying to release sooner into the market. So what we are doing, and it's happening in all forums connected with this strategy is to go for a smaller component and to be delivered faster into the market following an agile approach. And we are also working to offer a platform that will allow us to do that along with our forums. And we have had a few pilots on this. So that's the other big element in the value proposition. Componentized, searchable, discoverable, easier to be used and visual. Again, the engagement of our members, it's important for us. If you're not a member, also your feedback and your adoption is very important for us. I'm also going to show something for me it's my favorite, which is the search facility. And in order to do that, let's suppose that I'm a practitioner and I want to pursue digital information in my organization. And I know, okay, I need to start first trying to define new digital offering. So that is appealing for me to be giving into the market. So I can make a search, for example, experiment design. And you may notice that already I have content and that's related with experiment design. Content comes from the open agile architecture, definitions and the glossaries and roles, and also content from the IT for IT standards. So if I click in this one, just the first one, this is the actual content. So in here I can find, okay, problem space, solution space. I can also use either navigate into the page using this, or I can also use the right menu. So, okay, what about jobs to be done? This is information about jobs to be done. This information about how to design my digital products. If I want to know what it is in another standards, I can use this arrow in here and I'm back again into the search and I can also navigate in other content. For example, I also have a product design functional component in the IT for IT standards. So I click in here and I'm actually seeing the content of the standard where this lives. You may have noticed that in the navigation I'm already positioning in here so you can easily navigate through the standard and again you can go into the rest of the different components in this page. So this search facility is really the best way to find information quickly and again, no boundaries anymore. It doesn't matter where the content is, you're just solving your problem. Another one, for example, product design is another one that is also design thinking, which is, as you know, an important part when you are designing and going to provide more innovation. Let's say that, okay, what about agile, agility? Okay, I want to find something about agility. So I click in agile and of course the first one that will pop up in here is the open agile architecture, agile organization, agile governance, agile and architecture. So again, I can navigate in here and I can either use the right or left menu. In terms of agility, of course, we have a lot of agility into the Toggle Standard 10 Edition. So the Toggle Standard 10 Edition is also a key part of this portfolio. You may be familiar with this, which is the Toggle Standard 10 Edition. And we have several guys now around that. For example, I have in here the agile methods enabling enterprise agility, which talks a lot about agility and product management. And the other element that it is important, as you know, to be addressed whenever you are becoming digital is complexity and what better to address complexity than using the Toggle of ADM to address with complexity, and scope management and all that. So again, all this is content that is into the portfolio. Coming back to our search facility, let's make another one. What about the digital backbone? I need to have a digital backbone in order to offer my products and services in a digital way. So let's try that, digital backbone. And here again, I have definition, but it is a digital product backbone. From there, in this case, the IT for IT version three standard, I have more definitions in here. And also, I can look for further definition in the glossary zone roles, also in the distribution of volume of knowledge and in the rest of the standard. So let's go into the open loop. This is the definition that we have in the IT for IT standard, and we can also go further and continue browsing. This is again more definitions, but you can also go into the actual content of the standard for something here. We already have some examples what it is a digital platform. So I wish I would have more time to show you this, but I think you will have an idea about how to navigate, how to use the surf facility. Again, this is already live in our website. So just I invite you to go ahead and try it out and give us your feedback. And you may be asking, how am I to give you feedback? So in here, that's the beauty of this, you will see this small icon in here that is visible. It doesn't matter in which page you are. You can click in here and you will be seeing a very simple form in which you can add your comments. It doesn't matter if they are around content or the structure of usability of the customer experience of the platform or any other, you just can send your feedback, you will receive an email that your feedback has been received. And this will create an issue into G-Lab that we are going to address with our members or internally depending on the kind of issue. So this will allow us to continue improving this in an incremental way. So again, wrapping up a little bit, you know, all of our open group standards are powerful, they are relevant, they are fit for purpose, but they are even more relevant whenever they are used together and they are being leveraged each other and working in synergy. Finally, before going into the Q&A, I'm going to show you where you can find this in our website and you may be familiar with this page, which is our digital portfolio page into the website. So in here, you will find this banner. And if you click in here, you will see that you are growing the digital organization. You will be, first, you need to accept this term. Some conditions, which for us are very important. You need to see that you agree on them. Then you submit this and in this case, I was already logged in, but you need to log in. And meaning that if you are new and you have an account for us, you can create an account that's completely free, by the way, if you are a non-member, you can create your account and that will also give you access to the library and resources. And whenever you have done that, this is exactly what I was showing. This is the landing page. And again, you can start playing around with this. So this is what I have for today. I would really like to give some time for Q&A. And again, if you need to know more and send us your feedback, you can drop me an email and we'll be more than happy to provide a response for that. Over back to you now, Steve, in case we have some questions. Sonja, thank you very much. I've seen you demo this live at our Edinburgh event and thought that was brave, but doing it over the internet as well is very brave to do, but it just shows that it works. So great job on demonstrating it. And thank you for talking us through it. I know it's a very brief time allotted, but you've given people a real sense of how navigable it is.  It really does make a difference to the usability of the standards. So thank you for that. And to everyone involved in really driving us forward, it's been a lot of work and there's a lot still to do, but great progress. So in terms of questions, one of the ones that we get asked have been asked before is how does the standards in the portfolio, how does that relate to the Open Group Library? Because we always point people to the Open Group Library to get Open Group content. So how do they relate or are they connected in some way? Okay, first is the same content. So like I mentioned, all these that you see here is approved content and the same will happen whenever we are increasing with more standards and more information in here. So the same content is in the library. The library has always been and will be relevant and important for us because it's a very rich collection of information for you. So for example, you can use this platform to navigate to the standard of the dynamic way. But for example, they say that in one of the searches, I found a lot of information about experience design, for example. But then I want to know more about offline so I can download the PDF. Or I can just, if I'm just interested in that specific standard, I can also use the digital version, digital edition, that also has searches by the way. So either way, in both cases, information is there, it's the same information is equally valuable so they're both are connected in that sense. And actually the other important of the library is like, you may have noticed that in here and that's part of the intent, there is no more book structure because this is not a book structure, it's a platform, it's a digital portfolio platform. In the PDF, you will see the formal structure, which is very important for us for certification because of course, for learning outcomes and all that, you need to map with a formal structure. That's why we are keeping both the two different outputs, either the one in the portfolio or the ones in the library. Okay, next question, Sonya, probably the last one given the time, but we have a very global community at the open group and indeed here at our toolkit Tuesday broadcast. So question, how does the localization activities that we do for our standards and other publications, how will that feed into the portfolio? Okay, that's an excellent question and actually that is something that is in our roadmap I had by next year, even though you may imagine there's a lot in that roadmap but since localization is one of the things that it's most important for us in general, not only for the portfolio, but in general to pursue adoption and awareness. So what we are going to do is like, we are going to continue working with our members and contributors in the translation of this and probably going a step further away on that and putting this in different languages. That is something that we can do. The technology is there, which is need to have contribution for our members for translation and other contributors that we have over the years and of course, also that implies internal work for us maintaining this platform to make that happen. So the response is yes, it is in our roadmap, it is ahead for next year. It will take a time and effort of course, but above all, it will take also our members engagement. Right, which leads me, I will, this is right on cue, questions come in. I like the initiative. How do I get involved in the activity? Okay, great question. The one that I want to hear first, if you're a member, you can, the digital petitioner working group which is the one that maintains this platform is open to all members, so working group. So drop me an email and I can move my happy to onboard you. If you're not a member, you can send us your feedback because this is open, this feedback is public. The one that I show, this small icon that is in here is for the public, it's not only for members. And of course, if you are interested in becoming a member, you can also drop me a note and I will be sure to address your needs with your well-visited development team. So either way, you can contribute to us. The other thing that also will be very valuable if we are, you are a non-member is that we are also open to receive use cases and case studies and you don't need to be a member for doing that. Also blogs are something that we can receive and participation in our either virtual or face-to-face event is another one. The other thing that also, even though we have done that for now only with Archimate, we have an Archimate Open Community that also the word is saying is open to the public. And if you're interested on that, let me know and I can connect you with Kelly Cannon, Markology, she's the one working on that. And probably it will sense that that is something that is interesting. We can create other open communities as well. Great, great Sonya. We will leave it there. Thank you very much for showing us the great progress and again, well done to the members and staff involved in this great job. Thank you for joining us Sonya. Thank you very much everyone for attending today. I think Steve, take care everyone. You're welcome, thank you. So that's largely it for today. Just a plug for next week, in fact, two weeks time doing something a little different. So December the 13th, I'm gonna be host and presenter because we've had really quite a significant number of major releases of new versions of standards and updates to our certification program in the last six months or so. And although we've covered some of those on Toolkit Tuesday, I'm gonna take the time to do a whistle stop tour of some of the highlights of those in case you've missed things and probably some new things that haven't been covered previously. So in two weeks time, December 13th, you'll get more of me, I'm afraid, but for now, thank you for joining us today and hope to see you in two weeks and appreciate your attendance and questions and all your contributions. I'm Steve Nunn, this is Toolkit Tuesday. Thank you for joining.


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