Ssss... That's drunk. This channel has been around for almost 10 years now, and I'm much better at making videos now than I was when I first started, so when I go back and watch the video I made for Cybernator back in December 2013, I know I can do much better now and do that game proper justice. Cybernator has long been one of my personal favorites, and hey, what better thing to do than talk for a while about one of your favorite games? So, let's do that. Cybernator was released in April 1993, published by Konami, but made by NCS, otherwise known as Messiah Games, who made all sorts of other great stuff, ranging from shooters like Glalancer on Sega Genesis, tactical strategy games like Langrisser, as well as silly, ridiculous stuff like the Shouniki series. I should mention that in Japan, Cybernator is known as Assault Suits Vulcan, and it's the prequel of Target Earth, or Assault Suits Rhenos on Sega Genesis, and the series later continued on Saturn, PlayStation and PlayStation 2, and Cybernator has recently been given an updated, re-release titled Assault Suits Vulcan Declassified for Nintendo Switch, developed by M2, and yeah, it's awesome. It's also got an all-new translation, although I'm not sure if it includes the Japanese ending, if it does, let me know in the comments. But we're just talking regular old Cybernator for Super Nintendo here, and you've got one health meter and three continues to get through seven levels with no saves or passwords, and it's B to jump, and you hold it down to hover for a bit, and it's Y to attack, A to dash, X to flip through your weapons, L to hold your aim, and R is your shield. When I played this as a rental back when I was a kid, I remember being really impressed that this game actually used every button on the controller. I was used to fighting games doing that, but not much else, so I really got hooked on trying different stuff to get through certain parts of the game. Like I said, this is a prequel to Target Earth story-wise, but the graphics, presentation, and sound design are all significantly improved in this game. But what I love most about Cybernator, and why I think it's held up well over time, is that the controls feel consistent across different settings and game modes. Like for example, in level one, you can breeze around and blow up these turrets with your melee attack, man that's satisfying, I could do this all day. Then in level two, the game shifts to a horizontal shoot-em-up, where you're dodging huge asteroids and flying around in a lower gravity environment. Level three is similar to the first level, but then level four has you plummeting to Earth with your suit burning up in the atmosphere. The feel of the controls of all three of these kinds of levels is a bit different, but not too different that the game suffers. Sometimes when games try this, it falls kind of flat. Like Battletoads for NES, that's another game that matches together different genres. In that case, it's a beat-em-up, a platformer, and you get all the turbo-tunnel stuff too. But that's a game that never totally clicked with me, because the controls feel so different from level to level. It's not the case with Cybernator, the controls feel consistent throughout the entire playthrough, regardless of what you have to do. The story complements the game structure too, the action takes place in the not-so-distant future after World War 4, and everyone is fighting over oil. Yeah, that'll happen. You play as a dude named Jake Brain, gotta love that name, and you follow his path as he joins the Federation and fights against the Axis government. The way the story is told here is through lots of character dialogue, portraits, and cutscenes, and it's all really well done, although personally, I'm not really a fan of just stopping the game out of nowhere, just to slowly scroll some text at you. Hey, General, I'm a little busy right now, can it wait? But still, I always admired how the story segments were done.  I mean, it's easy to go into a game like this and expect just a real simple playthrough where you're a mech, moving from left to right, blowing stuff up, the way the game flows from beginning to end has you following a path where you're infiltrating enemy ships, following them as they crash to the planet's surface, and then making your way into enemy headquarters. There weren't many other 16-bit action games like this that did that effectively. Now, some people may find this game to be pretty tough, and yeah, the controls take a little bit to get used to since there's a bit of a delay with how your mech jumps, and sometimes you may feel like a sitting duck, but all you gotta do is whip out your shield to protect yourself. Also, aiming is a little weird. Like, for example, to aim straight up, you have to hold down up on the D-pad, and your weapon has to rotate around to aim that way. Some people may not like that, but it works for me mostly because this approach gives the player 32 different angles of attack, and since you're rarely standing still in this game, it works out well, and the game doesn't require you to be that exact with your aim anyway. This game can be a bit of a challenge, though. I've finished it a few times, and it still gives me trouble, especially the shoot-em-up levels, but if you're looking for even more of a challenge, what's also nice is that the game gives you a chance of unlocking the most powerful weapon in the game right away, the napalm gun, and it's just a simple matter of not shooting anything in the first level except for the boss. But even then, that only gives you the napalm gun for just the second level. If you want to keep it, you have to clear the second level without taking damage and without shooting anything except the boss. If you can manage all that, then you've earned the napalm gun for the rest of the game. I really can't overstate how fun the settings are, though. Like, in this part, a boss evacuates his ship since it's about to crash down to Earth, so it's up to you to redirect its course by blowing up this energy core thing while the boss tries to stop you. Man, I remember playing this as a kid and my heart was just pounding from this point on for the rest of the game.  It's clear this game wasn't just slapped together as a simple action platformer or whatever. A lot of work went into this one, so hats off and a sincere thank you to all those who helped make this one. And I also want to quickly mention that the Japanese version of this game, Assault Suits Vulcan, has portraits of the characters with each line of dialogue while the US version does not, which is kind of weird. If I had to guess why that is, it's likely something to do with the process of translating to English, and maybe English letters just took up too much space or something, I don't know. The Japanese version also has a different ending. In the US game, you beat the final boss and you get some text and the credit. But in the Japanese version, your mech flies up to the top floor of this building, finds Bob Evil or whatever his name is, and rather than face the consequences of his crimes, he pulls out a gun and shoots himself in the head. Whoa, that is freaking nuts. Interestingly, there was no official word on who made the call to take this out of the game. Supposedly it was either Konami or Nintendo, but come on, we all know who it was. So yeah, in case you can't tell, I really like Cybernator. I go back to it all the time. It's tough, but not stupidly difficult. It's a longer playthrough for the genre, and it usually takes me well over an hour to finish. The graphics are great, the music is great. It's just one of those games where you can clearly tell it was made by people who actually played lots of video games and really knew what they were doing, which sadly can be hard to find sometimes with older games. The Japanese version was later ported to PlayStation 2, but you're gonna wanna avoid that one because it sucks. They change the controls around a bit, and it just doesn't play well as a result. Stick with the original. It's one of the best on Super Nintendo, and check it out on Switch if you can. It's well worth your time. All right, I wanna thank you for watching, and I hope you have a great rest of your day.


When I first came to work for the Drug Policy Alliance, it was actually in 2000 and that was so long ago that DPA was still called the Linda Smith Center and it was a project of the Open Society Foundations housed in a tiny basement on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. And I was brought on as a consultant to pull together programs for these massive media events convened by Ariana Huffington that were meant to put opposition to the drug war into the national spotlight. At the time I thought I knew very little about drug policy. My background was in international human rights, but I was charged with pulling together the program for these events that were meant to inspire the uninitiated and get them to care about this issue. And in the process I found myself becoming very passionate about this cause. I met Gus Smith, the father of Kemba Smith, the remarkable woman you met yesterday at the Morning Plenary when he came to speak at one of the events to advocate on her behalf because Kemba was still incarcerated. I met medical marijuana patients fighting so hard for the medicine they needed to survive. I met people from Latin America whose lives were devastated by the violence caused by the drug war and prohibition throughout the region and I met drug users who were pushed to the margins of society and denied basic humanity and dignity.  And not only was the drug war a human rights issue, but one of the principal instruments of violating human rights around the globe that affects each and every one of us. So it's my honor to be here today to present a series of incredible speakers who are really fortunate to have with us today who will talk to you about the impact of the drug war across the globe and its impact on human rights. So please join me in welcoming the first of these speakers. It's Damon Barrett who's joining us. He's a co-founder and director of the International Center on Human Rights and Drug Policy based at the Human Rights Center at the University of Essex where he's visiting fellow. From 2007 to 2014 he worked at Harm Reduction International leading the organization's Human Rights Strategy and is deputy director from 2012 to 2014. He's now a PhD researcher at the University of Stockholm and he lives in and he helped me in pronouncing this Gothenburg Stockholm Sweden. It's not easy to say, it looks like a different way than it's pronounced. Thank you Sweden for being hard for us. But Gothenburg Sweden is where he lives. So join me in welcoming Damon Barrett. That is a big room. Okay, for a little man. Gov Mahogott Sharda and G.E. Irvamajanakarja. Thank you Sharda and good morning friends. I begin in Irish to have a little detour if you don't mind in the light of events yesterday in Congress. I saw Congress people with names like Connolly and Fitzpatrick and Murphy passing an act that will stop refugees coming into this country and 170, 170 years ago Irish people fled famine and repression in their hundreds of thousands and came here and I as babies are being washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean I ask if they've got no sense of history and no shame. So listen, speaking of Ireland, okay, Catholic Ireland, we legalized same sex marriage through a constitutional referendum, recognized the legal status of transgender people and are probably having safe injection facilities next year. So things change, right? These are not things the Vatican likes, but as I speak there are more than 10 million people in penal institutions around the world and we don't know how many but it's likely millions for drug offenses. Right now we're going to miss global HIV targets by decades, decades because we flush our money down the ineffective and abusive sinkhole of enforcement rather than investing in harm reduction. Right now billions, billions, four-fifths of the planet, mostly in the developing world have little or no access to basic medicines for pain. This is people with cancer, people who have been in accidents or undergone surgery. Right now hundreds of thousands of people are displaced because of drug related violence, perhaps millions, and crop eradication campaigns. And on average today, tomorrow, the next day and for the rest of the year, two or three people will be executed for drug offenses in the world. So we could read the human rights indictment of the drug war all day. In fact, many of you have experienced its worst abuses and you could read your own indictment. And here's the kicker, if this were a trial, if this were that all of these facts would be stipulated by the other side, nobody denies it's happening. The only disagreement is what's driving it, who's to blame, and what drug policy reform can do about it. So that's what I'd like to speak to and a whole conference could go on this. But I'm going to focus on the international regime. But through that I hope there's some resonance with national systems. So I know talking about treaties can be tedious and boring. But I want to just make two important points. The first is that international law and treaties matter. They do important things. The refugee convention is more important than ever. But like any other legal system, there's good laws and there's bad laws. And in this case, we have three drugs treaties which enshrine a certain strategy for how to deal with drugs. And what they require states to do is hugely risky from a human rights perspective. So let's look at why. States have to ban private behaviors. They have to ban indigenous people from doing what they've been doing for millennia. They have to stop religious minorities from pursuing their beliefs. They have to conduct surveillance, arrest people, prosecute them, extradite them. They have to eradicate crops. They have to ban certain forms of expression because of an ill-defined idea of incitement to use drugs. This is what was signed up to. And it's done and it's all carried out under a so-called principle of shared responsibility. This has been the wording for many, many decades in the UN. And usually used to resist reform. We have shared responsibility to control drugs. Well, who takes shared responsibility for everything I just listed? Who takes shared responsibility? Who shares it for the human rights consequences of what's happening? Ethan said yesterday, everyone went along, right? Well, no matter what they say now and no matter how friendly some of our governments are, they went along too. And they went along for decades, so every state has to answer for it. Because it's too easy to say, look at China, look what they do. Look at Indonesia and who they execute. Look at Mexico and its violence. But if you prop up the system that creates the infrastructure in which that takes place, it's your fault too. So I think that recognizing past errors is cathartic and it's important. And that includes governments who maybe now see some flaws in this system and want to change it. They have to recognize their own responsibility in creating it. The in-memoriam, we saw Nils Christie. Well, Nils Christie didn't just refer to drugs as a good enemy. He said it was a perfect enemy. It was a perfect enemy, sets up an extraordinary threat that requires extraordinary responses. It doesn't ever die. It never goes away. And it's a moving target. So we had opium, we had marijuana, we had cocaine, crack, novel psychoactive substances and so on. And the thing is, this is a huge human rights problem because if you identify an extraordinary threat, point the finger at who's to blame for it, human rights abuses are coming and they're exceptionally easy to justify. And a final point about a perfect enemy. The extraordinary responses should not be those that threaten the powerful. So it helps to justify the abuses if the victims are minorities. It helps if they're in the global south and connecting the dots. It really helps if they're poor. And that's what we have. Today in fact, I'm going to a film screening. There's a fantastic man called Albi Sax, who's speaking. He was a judge on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and before that an anti-apartheid freedom fighter. Now in 2002, he wrote a wonderful dissent in a case about cannabis use among the Rastafari. The majority of the court said that a religious exemption for this already maligned religious minority would threaten the broad prohibition that was in place and it would undermine South Africa's ability to live up to its treaty obligations. Sax said, no, no, no, no, hang on. This goes against the tolerance of diversity that is central to the entire constitutional project and, and this is important, it represented a thumb on the scales for ease of law enforcement. Now that for me is an important lesson because that's exactly what the UN Drug Control Treaties are. And importantly, that's what they were intended to be, especially the Drug Trafficking Convention. It was intended to make enforcement easier. And this for me is an enormous human rights problem because part of the human rights movement is to resist the arbitrary capricious overreach of state power into our lives and the treaties in many ways legitimize that, make it stronger in international law. And that's a major problem for these treaties and I think a taboo, if we're going to break them, that likely wouldn't come up at the UN gas next year. So if, if the, the treaties and if drug control is a thumb on the scales for ease of law enforcement, and then our job in solidarity is to put all of our weight on the other side of the scales, surely. And doing that requires considerably more than arguments about personal freedom. It requires considerably more because a person, in fact, because I mentioned it in apartheid South Africa, they used to say no freedom without bread and no bread without freedom. Starving person is not free. A person working three minimum wage jobs is not fully free. When people's life chances, their opportunities are so curtailed by poverty, they are not truly free. And I'm talking, of course, about economic and social rights, not just civil rights for what we do and how important it is. You know, even if we look at drug dependence, there was a time when people thought addiction, if we want to call it, that was all about the dependence producing properties of substances. We know now that's not the case. We know there's a role, but there's so much environmental and social factors going into that. And economic and social rights legislate better for that, better for that than any drug law can. So personal freedom is really important, but not enough. And marijuana reform is important, but not nearly enough. And you know what? Drug policy reform I don't think is enough because the damage the drug war has done is so far-reaching. And the causes of so much of the things we care about that lead us into this movement have something to do with something else. So Ethan, I think yesterday asked, you know, how do we know when we've won or what does victory look like? I don't know, but I do know this. I won't back off on human rights. I won't do that, so I'll stick to my principles. I also know this, that once the drug war gets out of the way, we're going to have so much more left to do in solidarity with others. But our job will be a lot easier than it currently is. Now, I began 170 years ago, I'm going to go back further. According to the Spanish artist Goya, the sleep of reason produces monsters. Or as he clarified, the imagination without reason will bring about impossible monsters. Now, people stood at this podium yesterday and described things that happen to them that should be impossible in a free society, that should be impossible, life without parole for nonviolent defense. This should be impossible. But the imagination of a drug-free world has brought about its impossible monsters. But I think that HIV made a big noise and started to wake up reason in drug control and harm reduction has become like that little buzzing alarm clock on snooze mode, reminding reason every three minutes or so to wake the hell up. And I think that human rights, the human rights consequences of the drug war now, it's more like a fire alarm. And there's no sleep any more possible. And reason has to not only wake up, but stand up. And, you know, Goya's image was actually, imagination and reason combined will bring about wonders. So I think that if we can campaign for life of dignity for everybody and solidarity with them, and if we reject state repression in the name of social policy and if we reject the legitimization of that level of state power through international law, then I think we combine our reason, everything we know from all of these decades with our imagination for the world we want. And in that way, I think we'll have impact beyond our drug strategies and for the human rights movement way beyond this room. So that's what I have to say and just I should say that England or English is in the house. So thank you very much. Ireland is in the house. So Gora of Mila Mahgweb, Galaire, and Sweden is in the house. So tack så jättemycket.


Hi everyone, my name is Nude and I'm here representing Code Pink, a feminist-led organization rejecting imperialism everywhere. Occupation aircrafts will fall on us. The missile is coming from above our house. Questions we need to ask ourselves right now is why can we hear these words and these first-hand accounts from Gaza still continues. The ceasefire.


Hello and welcome to messages from above with Tony G. Actually it's psychic medium Tony G. I changed the name for my WSCS TV show so that they're kind of a combined name now. If that makes sense, I hope that makes sense. Okay, anyway, welcome to the show. It is Monday, April 12th. Yes, and there was a new moon, a new moon yesterday. So this is a great time to start manifesting what you want in life so you can bring it to you. Which I think people underestimate the amount of, I want to say responsibility they have for their own life and where their own life is. They really underestimate the amount of power their thoughts and their abilities have and where they're going and what they're doing with that. They really underestimate that. And they underestimate the power, especially of their repetitive thoughts. You know, I read a post on Facebook and several people have posted it. And so I don't know who actually gets the original credit from it, but it said, it's easier to fool someone than to convince them they've been fooled. I think part of the reason for that is because we're so afraid to be wrong. We're terrified that we were wrong. How could we be wrong? Like, of course that goes to ego, but that also goes to fear, which is, yeah, ego. But the bottom line is, if we're so afraid to be wrong, if we're so afraid that our thought or our belief was wrong, how can we change our life? How can we take what's not working and make it work? How can we at some point turn things around, right? Because if we're so set that we're always correct and we are never wrong, then we are going to keep doing the same thing we've always done and we're gonna end up in the same place we've always ended up and we are going to repeat the same patterns we've always repeated. And not for lack of maybe wanting something different, but for lack of just being able to admit even to ourselves that we made a bad choice, a lover, partner, job, what financial choice, whatever it is for each and every one of us. Now, here's where it gets interesting, because if we can admit this isn't the best choice for me, in that moment, the universe will say, finally yay, finally you're realizing there's something better for you. Okay, you don't even have to say, I all out messed up making this choice. You can just say, this isn't the best choice for me. And in being able to say this isn't the best choice for me, you are instantly calling on all the powers that be in your life, whether you believe in your higher self, angels, guides, God, loved ones on the other side, you are calling on all of that instantly to show you a new way, to show you, to put in front of you what's better than you're already in. So, okay, so let's look at this, you're in a, let's use job because I always use relationship, hey Benjamin, hey Genevieve, hi guys, thank you for joining me here today. I'm really grateful for that. Sorry about my phone, if it dings, I use my phone for the switchboard. So if we say, you know, I'm in this relationship, oh job, we're doing job, not relationship. Okay, so if we say, this isn't the best job for me, I could be in a better job. Instantly, all the powers that be, whether you believe in them or not, will start showing you little sign, synchronicities of a new job, a new path, a new place, even a new business for yourself, that's just the way the world works. We were not put here to, the word they're using is concede. We were put here to achieve, to create, and to co-create, and to be in that space where we are making a life that we love. Okay, seriously, just creating a life that we 100% love and want to wake up to every morning. So in doing that, we have to take, if we're not in a situation that we absolutely love, we have to take a little bit of responsibility for that and say, and again, it's not about saying, I'm wrong, it's, there is no right or wrong. There's just a choice that you have made until you change your mind about that choice. And there are circumstances that go with that choice, good, bad, or indifferent, that's it. We put so much stock in the fact that we can't be wrong. We put so much stock in the fact that we cannot have made a mistake, okay? So don't say you made a mistake. Don't say you're wrong. Just get up and do it differently the next day or in the middle of the day, get up and do it differently. It's, it really, it really is kind of that easy because you're not admitting it to anybody else. It's just the way the universe works and that it's just that simple. It really is that simple. It really is that innocently profound. That's really what it is, innocently profound. Now, if we're talking about a career choice or a job, the more you put the power into there's gotta be something better out there, the more they're gonna show you, maybe through other people talking about how much they love their job, maybe through other people sharing with you availability in other areas, maybe somebody coming up to you and talking to you about a business they started or an invention they have, any one of these things will spark something inside of you that says, I could do that, that's for me. If you're talking about a relationship, matters of the heart can be complicated. But at the end of the day, you really have to consider your heart. Are you happier? Are you happy in this? Are you not happy in this? Are you, is it a balanced thing? Are you as in love with this person as they are with you? And there are so many aspects, but the bottom line is if you want better, it's available. It is, and that is the whole thing. That is pretty much everything about it. Once you understand you're truly creating the life that you have and the life that you're living, good, bad or indifferent, some people find that insulting in a way that that can't be true, but it's so empowering. Because if you are creating this life, then absolutely nothing is stopping you from having it be better.  And just move on, just get into the next thing, just do the next thing. And you don't have to do everything all at once. You can do it one at a time, one baby step at a time and you'll get where you wanna be. Okay, thank you, Benjamin. I'm gonna go to callers now, if you would like to call in, if you have a question and you would like to call in, I would, I'm gonna give you the call in number, it's<PHONE_NUMBER>. And I'm gonna take the first caller who's area code. Dun, dun, dun, come on button, click. There we go, six, seven, eight, hello, how are you? Okay, and if you're on the speakerphone. Hey, Kathy, if you're on speakerphone, please go off of speakerphone while we're on the air because all that background noise gets picked up and it sounds horrible on the TV show. So go off of speakerphone and I'll be happy to take your question. Yeah, so much better, thank you. I'll be working in Georgia in your level role. So what do you see around it? Okay, here's what I'm getting. I'm getting that you are going to get an offer, but it might not be the exact offer that you're expecting. I feel like there's definitely going to be an offer coming in. I don't think it's going to come as quickly as you would like it to come. And it's definitely not going to be exactly what you want. Now, here's what I'm going to say next. Negotiate like a man. Now, don't be offended by that, please. Please don't be offended by that.  And this is all back from thinking and business operations from like in the 50s, let's just say archaic thinking. So don't be nervous to aggressively and politely negotiate this. Aggressively doesn't mean saying, listen, this is exactly what I want. Aggressively means putting on the table in a very politically, I don't know what word to use, in a very good way, putting on the table, everything that you want. Now prior knowing this, here's some beautiful things you can use to your advantage. Prior to them getting back to you, start really figuring out the details of what you want in this package because there is a package and there are going to be things that you really do appreciate about the package they're going to offer you. However, I think if I'm getting it correctly and it's always the bottom line, let me tell you something, it's always the bottom line. They'll bump up stock options, they'll make your healthcare package sound so good and then they'll take a little bit off of that bottom line. But if you really want a better bottom line, don't be afraid to overshoot what you want in a bottom line because they'll come back with a number, it's a negotiation. So please, when- Right, no, I, go ahead.  There's a difference between require and need and they'll respect the negotiation process. Now, I'm gonna ask a question that nobody ever asks when they're calling about a career change. They wanna know if they're gonna get the job. What I wanna know is if this is the best possible job for you coming in, okay? So this job has, and I don't know why they're telling me to ask this for you, but you know what? I just listen. What they're saying is this is a really good job opportunity, but in a month and a half, I get a month and a half and three months, there's going to be an opportunity shown to you that's going to be very good. So even if you get this opportunity, I want you to keep your eyes open. It's like that song, Thank You Next. And the reason they're saying this is because if you take this job opportunity, you'll be kind of done looking, kind of like, oh, I just settled into this, but in about a month and a half, there's an opportunity coming forward and this opportunity is gonna take you straight to the top is what I'm hearing. It's up to you. If you accept this opportunity, it's up to you. If you keep looking or entertain any other offers, this is a good offer that's coming in. And they just want you to be aware, there's an offer that's gonna kind of piggyback this one that's going to be maybe more in alignment with some of the things you want, growth and potential are top of your list. You want to be able to make a lot of growth. You want to have that potential to hit those top rungs is what I'm hearing. The next opportunity that comes in is going to be one that allows that for you. So what you do moving forward, I know I just threw a monkey wrench or whatever some kind of wrench into this for you. I didn't. They are letting you know you are going to have a lot of potential, a lot more potential with the next offer. And I do want to say, if you put in for more than one offer already and you haven't heard back from someone, there may have been like a little stall in their plans. It's not that they weren't thinking of you, but it may even be an offer that you've already put in for and they're just now moving forward with it. However this all comes about, entertain all the desserts on the table is the way they're saying it. Entertain all of the desserts on the table, whatever comes to you, whatever you hear about. And even if you decide to take this position, kind of keep your eyes open for something else because I feel like right behind this position is a position that's going to kind of, they're using the statement, blow your socks off. Okay. When you said, can it be the same company? Is it the same company? No, no, no it's not. I don't feel like it is. If it ends up being the same company, that would be interesting, but I'm not, they're giving me a solid no on that. I feel like it's a different company and I feel like it is same company, different location. Nope, it's a completely different company. Yep, it's a completely different company. I feel like it's a completely different company.  I'm good. I do feel like however, something else is going to come and it's gonna come right behind this one. It's gonna piggyback, it's right on the heels of this one. So I just wanna say, if you're interested, if you're, keep your eyes open and your ears open because I do feel like something else has the potential to come in, that will really kind of knock your socks off and make you happy, or happy, or happy, or okay. Okay. Okay, Kathy, thank you so much. Okay, and this is within a month's time, right? I'm sorry? This is within a month's time, that this will occur? About a month and a half, about six, that's six weeks period, a month and a half. And I think, and I'm gonna tell you something, I normally, this is something that I'm being guided to say for you. So there's a reason they want me to share this with you. Whatever that reason is, I'm not really sure. All I can say is, it'll be up to you when the time comes. Maybe you get into this new position or maybe the money isn't enough for everything they're asking. Whatever happens, don't be discouraged. Just know this other position is right there. It's going to be right there. Now, time is fluid, and when I say a month and a half, sometimes it's a little bit before, sometimes it's a little later, but, and sometimes it's right to the day. I do feel like this is coming in one way or another.  I do feel like you're going to be hearing or seeing this offer some place.  So okay, you're so welcome and thank you so much for calling in today. I really appreciate it. I hope you have an amazing rest of the week. Now, I'm gonna say, typically I start the show with a clearing and the clearing I wanna start with today is abundance. I'm gonna clear everybody that we get the abundance we want, we need, and we don't think about. Oh yeah, so let's start that clearing right now. So we always get the abundance that we need for most of us, it's always coming in. And then the abundance that we want should be flowing to us freely and easily at all times. I'm gonna tell you there's an abundance level that we don't even think about. Most of us don't think about it. Now abundance isn't only money, although most people when they think of abundance they think of finances, wealth, money. That's part of this. The other part of this is the abundance in the life that you love, the abundance in the career and the career opportunities coming in, the abundance in the love of a partnership. These are really important abundances also and there are many others but I'm just speaking to these right now. And this last caller, we get this one offer and we put so much on it because we think there's a scarcity in opportunities for employment or money or even lovers. I don't mean lovers like hooking up in a park like puppies, I don't mean that. I mean real love because if it's not real love it's just going through the motions. It's icky, it's like a bad job. So this abundance, I'm sorry, wait. If you're hooking up in a park like puppies, please don't be offended. You do you, just for me, that's not me and unless I'm with somebody I love then maybe I'll hook up in a park like that. Okay, let's just stop that hole. Let's just stop, we're gonna stop. I'm not justifying any more of my statements because it just takes me further down the path. Like I try to explain that I'm not trying to be offensive to anybody and I end up in this weird place, a little embarrassed. Okay, so here we go, let me get back on track. Abundance, and even those things we don't think about that abundance that is offers coming in that you wouldn't have even thought about but meaningful offers, let me put it that way. That's a beautiful way to put it. Meaningful offers that are noteworthy, noteworthy that are going to go some place and mean something and be something. Okay, that's what's very much what we want. Those are the offers, that's the abundance that matters. Hi, hi, Joshua. I hope you're having an amazing day, but everyone, I can't read all of your comments. I think I'm actually gonna come over here and read this comment. I'm gonna pull my screen over just a bit but everyone loves puppies, yes. Joshua, you are not wrong. So okay, for everybody on the TV show, watching on WSES, I'm live streaming on YouTube. So if you wanna watch the live stream, I do that every Monday at noon and you can join in with the comments or call in the numbers, eight, four, five, two, seven, seven, nine, one, three, one. If you have a question that you would like to ask, if you would like to connect with a loved one on the other side, you can call in and do that. I'm gonna go to the next caller I'm gonna take is eight, three, one. Hello, eight, three, one. How are you today? Oh, thank you all. So many things on my mind and quite a lot of study I almost don't know which one person to ask. So maybe what I get, and they all have to do with relationships, siblings, friends, I feel like I'm undergoing a really big change in my mind. Okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, okay, wait one second please. If you're on a car phone or speaker phone, please get off of that because you sound a little bit muffled. Sorry, okay. That's okay. And then let's bring it in, let's bring it in, let's hone it down to one question because unfortunately it's only a 30 minute show. So I kind of need the question and then I'll give you all the information I can give you from that, okay, love? Okay. ["The Star-Spangled Banner"]


Hello, this is born from one of that TV and today. I want to talk about a pex Legends you may have heard about this game over the past week I kind of snuck up on us and it's been quite an amazing story just to watch from the outside and Actually, it's been quite amazing to play from the inside as well I want to talk about why I think a pex legends has been a success so far from the guys over at respawn entertainment If you don't know who respawn entertainment is they made the games Titanfall and Titanfall 2 and they're going to be working on the Star Wars title later This year I believe and they're former developers the founders are former Developers and I guess you can call them former executives From Infinity Ward back in the Call of Duty modern warfare days So if you play Call of Duty 4 and you enjoyed it you can thank those guys So a pex legends why is it is it a success? Well number one There was no marketing and I'm a firm believer that a lot of gamer perceptions are formed and molded by expectations This game had no marketing. Nobody knew it was coming. There was no pre Campaign or anything like that. So it was just kind of like throwing at us And we had like little no little to no time to respond or even expect anything So we came in with zero expectations.  You're like, wow I can actually assess and you know determine what this game is Based on nothing and a lot of a lot of gamers gave it a fair shake because of that It was like no no kind of attitude and no kind of you know mindset coming in So it was a blink slate in terms of expectations and on top of that this particular game Really Really surprised everybody because there was no early access no alpha no beta When they surprised us they surprised us with the full game Completely released and not only that the game has a fleshed out Timeline of everything that's going to be coming out. It has a roadmap already So we're not used to this as gamers. So this was a pleasant surprise So number one they got up to a good start good first impressions Mean a whole lot in this industry Another reason why the game is successful is because of the movement as fast paced is exciting They dumbed down the titanfall movement a little bit There's a lot less wall running and the speed has been toned down But I imagine this was done for balancing reasons And I got to say from from all the All the expectations and you know all the all the feedback we've been getting the balance has been fairly well received And there's lots and lots of action. There's very little downtime Also, the looting system is very very reminiscent of pubg which I think actually got looting correct in terms of a balleroy out game Everything is easy to read big colors big icons and a lot of You could tell there was a lot of testing in terms of of user experience and usability because It's easy to catch on to this. There's not a lot of a learning curve involved And I want to talk about the elephant in the room that everybody In their grandmother every article I've come across and every tweet I've seen is the communication their communication Features and apex legends. I think is what one of the biggest Biggest features that separates it from his competition Uh apex legends has a contextual ping system that you've seen In other games, you know, there's games like uh league of legends and dota 2 where you ping on something and depending on what you're Pinging you'll get a contextual You know message or an audible signal, you know shooters in the past have kind of tried to do things like this I think battlefield with their comma rows Trying to give orders to do this and do that Holding down q and getting their wheel to do things they've tried to do that and it's been, you know, okay But if you play battlefield, you know that players generally don't use it And it just sits there and a lot of the comma rows things that they've done Have been neglected apex legends came in with this innovative new system. I think it's a really refresh or uh, I just say refreshing take On a common ping system that we've seen in MOBAs If you ping an item on the ground Unless your teammate know where it is and it shows up on the minimap sounds very simple, but it's very powerful If you ping an item in your inventory such as a gun, you can request ammo for that You can ping an area over there and say hey, I think the enemy has been there Or you can just hit a button real fast to say enemy spotted over here You get all these visual and audible. It's very important to denote that you get visible and you get audible responses Based on those pings Now, why is this so great? How do you think this may have happened? Well respawn spent an entire month with no voice comms To test this they turned off their mics and they tested this system to make sure it worked And I can tell you straight up that it did it is one of the best systems in the game Now given that the game is a 3v3. I'm sorry a three person squad only there is no solo A lot of players are are represent other, you know, they're They're a little bit hesitant to jump into the game because they don't like team-based games because in general Team-based games can be very toxic Why are why are these games toxic because gamers in general have a tough time communicating All it takes is one or two bad experiences for gamers to either become toxic or just shut down completely For example, you may see an enemy over there and you may say Hey, there's a guy over there by this and nobody listens to you and that enemy kills everybody So nobody listened to you. So you're like, okay. I'm just not going to bother to call it out again Or you know, you you you get so fed up and you become that person that says, hey There's somebody over there and you don't give them all the full information and you're thinking to yourself Well, they probably weren't going to kill them anyway and your teammates are like, you could tell us where it is So there's all this frustration that leads to this toxic Miscommunication, which is a big problem in team-based games today that drive a lot of players away They're like, I'm just gonna solo There's been a weird thing that happened in apex legends People are actually responding positively to team-based games in public groups with strangers I've seen many many comments on twitch about players saying, hey, I've got like three wins today with a public group With randoms. Now, when do you hit that in any other game? Hey, I had a good experience with randoms It's kind of rare. So apex legends has Solved one of the biggest issues I think With online gaming and team-based gameplay because I love objective-based gameplay I love team-based gameplay and this is a class-based shooter This is a class-based shooter that has mixed in with the battle royale genre not a new concept But a refreshing innovative concept. So those are my reasons why I think apex legends. This is just the beginning I got a lot to say about this game, but I'm cutting it short This is why I think apex legends is a successful game They did so many things right and they made very little mistakes and gamers are picking up that and they're accepting it And they're actually gonna run with it right now on twitch. Let me look real quick I'm gonna give you guys a snapshot on twitch. There are how many people watching apex legends There are 348,000 people watching apex legends and it's been going up It's crazy. This is born from one of that tv apex legends If you haven't tried it, it's free to play on origin right now You can download it give it a try even if you don't like team-based games You'll be very surprised at how much you enjoy yourself. Have a good day everybody


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Ladies and gentlemen, excellencies, dear friends, it's my absolute pleasure to welcome you here today in Abu Dhabi to our panel, to discuss with you together, including our sophisticated experts, a topic that has come to such an essential value or necessity in our lives, maybe sometimes with us really not noting it. What makes me especially happy is that we might meet in person again, something that we would have taken for granted for all our lives, but at least until two years ago, another thing what we always expected to be granted for all our life, and this brings me to the topic of this session, maybe as part of our lifestyle is the excess and the ongoing supply of critical raw materials. They are omnipresent in our daily lives. The planes that brought us to Abu Dhabi, the cars that drove us to this beautiful venue, the phone that helped us to schedule the meeting and we hold in our hands most of the day, the food we will have fun later on, all these things likely wouldn't exist without critical raw materials and our again ongoing access to these. They help us to create the society of today, they are the key for the society we live in and without them, the society especially of tomorrow will be impossible to create. This society of tomorrow we aspire to live in a society of climate neutral, the neutrality of sustainability, of ongoing technological achievements in health, mobility, communication and ongoing on, is constantly driven by critical raw materials. As we aim to achieve the climate target goals of the Paris treatment, we need critical raw materials like vanadium for renewable energies for battery technologies. The European or the worldwide green deal will be the guiding principle for politics for decades. Green parties and parties with a strong focus on climate change have become a dominant force. Being a German having had an election last weekend, I know what I'm talking about. Climate-focused politics are here to stay in Europe and so it's the need for the economy and for the industry to have a constant and secure supply of necessary resources in order to comply with the green deal. Beyond energy, an ever-growing global population demands access to critical raw materials required for the production of fertilizers like phosphate, advancement in communication and mobility, demand critical raw materials, artificial intelligence, digitalization and whatever, it's always critical raw materials. This brings us to the question of demand and supply. As the global demand is already high and will some kind skyrocket throughout the coming decades, the question of supply and accessibility arises more than ever. It will be, it is already a geopolitical thing for the future. The projected increase in demands will thus likewise increase the dependence on China and other countries which are beyond the Western Hemisphere, sometimes geographically and sometimes politically. The geopolitical relevance behind this topic we are going to discuss today becomes very clear. How will the European, how will the United States and other countries and regions handle the existing and future question of these global supply materials? Which political answers are possible? Which new players can potentially completely shift this landscape? We, and what are the risks from a security or economical standpoint associated with the US, with the European and European efforts to build own value change and form strategic partnerships that we need for the future? To give an answer on these and maybe other questions, I'm delighted to introduce three prime experts on that topic. Heather, to join today is on that stage, is Ms. Ingwer Tebrinda, who has served as Norway's Minister for Oil and Energy, Minister of Public Security in the Ministry of Justice and Public Security, who is now a board member in the Anglo-Norwegian mining company Norge Mining. Ingwer will show us how the country of Norway could completely shift the balance of global supply of critical raw materials. Peter Handley, head of the Energy Intensive Industry Raw Materials and Hydrogen in the European Commission, will highlight to us which efforts the European Union is making in order to respond to the question of supply. David Wormser, founder and executive member of the Delphi Analysis Group and former senior advisor to the U.S. Vice President Cheney on Middle East, will present to us answers the United States could potentially give to the geopolitical dimensions of our topic.


Hi, my name's Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180 comm and welcome to this week's supply and demand for us Technical analysis if you're new welcome, and if you are returning Welcome back, and I really do hope that you find my analysis every week useful and applying it to your own trading so we start off with the week ahead When it comes to fundamentals and sentiment because that's what really drives the market and we understand fundamentals and sentiment because We want to understand value and bargain and where we're what we're buying at bargain prices. So Um in the week ahead trading economics website, um, we have next week's important release include us inflation. That's very important um And that really sets the tone for the federal reserve central bank monetary policy, whether they're going to be Holding or cutting rates a lot of traders are pricing in Say a lot, but traders are pricing in a A rate cut this is actually gone down slightly since I think Friday Um, this was at about 32 and now it's gone down to about 25 and this is just a the CME group fed watch tool and this gives a guide on what the sentiment is and what the financial institutions are doing um, and pricing in with regards to rate cuts and rate holds and hikes so federal reserve I think has a 25 chance based on, um financial institutions sentiment and their positioning on a an ease cut or 75 percent is no change so um sentiment wise, um potentially there could be a cut and this was really based on last week's um figures non-farm change um kind of added to that and it was the lowest figure in a while 75 000 jobs were added which potentially means that the US economy is slowing down so no, you know, no increase in jobs massive decrease in new jobs created so, um inflation is definitely now being watched and if it comes in, you know, way under target then I guess that the federal reserve may start to look to cut interest rates but for now if inflation is at their 2 percent target then we can assume that the federal reserve may want to hold and have a wait and see approach so um again coming into this week's uh news data, so you've got UK unemployment monthly GDP and trade balance China foreign trade consumer prices I think that's going to be important as well and retail sales Japan final first quarter GDP growth and machinery orders that's going to be an important one for Japan and Australia unemployment figures business and consumer morale so uh, we've got quite a lot going on this week from a sentiment perspective we have, um the front pages of, you know, Bloomberg we have really, um the trade war still in the background when it comes to the G20 meeting they are focused on that also have Italy confident of complying with Europe fiscal rules so that's in Europe European risk at the moment from Reuters you have Trump is confident Mexico will enforce new immigration deals so that if they do then that could maybe ease some of the risk off sentiment because uh Donald Trump, you know, was potentially in um enacting I guess some uh some trade tariffs on the Mexican economy which meant that um they get again a lot of uncertainty as to what he was doing with regards to potentially trade conflicts and also from market watch we have oh the uh Trump's suspends plans to impose tariffs on Mexico after reaching a deal so um this could be potential risk uh or less risk off when it comes to uh the dollar so potential dollar buying opportunity this week so let's get into the technicals and we start off as we always do on the dow jones dollar index so from uh last week what we had was prices come up into the supply zone and again a bit of weakness if we look at really what's happened over the past you know probably like you know year or so we've had this um massive you know long-term uptrend and this is really due to again fundamentals and the U.S. dollar being the strongest economy um raising interest rates um out of really the um the major uh economies and now we're getting into a cycle where we could potentially be entering into a bit of a downturn so what you've saw what you're seeing now is a bit of uncertainty around the dollar and you've had prices come down a bit and this is just normal these are pullbacks does it mean you should sell the dollar well that's a question that you have to answer and really the dow jones dollar index to measure with dollar strength against the major currencies like the euro yen the british pound and the australian dollar um so we did get a bit of a sell-off which is probably really due because prices don't go up forever so um if we enter this week into um you know and uh the interest rates as we just spoke about come out as expected or even maybe a bit better then we could have move to the upside so let's go to the chart so what again we're looking for this week potentially is a move to the upside or what you'd be looking for is for prices to kind of drift down and then you know move to the upside if you're looking to buy the dollar if you're looking to sell the dollar this week we could potentially be looking at this supply zone look at supply from here as we've made a new low new lower low so you've got the supply zone here so then what you'd be looking for is a move back up to this area before looking at getting short so again it all depends really on um you know dollar sentiment this week moving on to the dollar yen the dollar yen from last week risk being um really off the yen is a beneficiary and its strength is in a risk off environment so with the trunk trade wars with china we did have a bit of a move lower and now we've got a bit of a wait and see approach with the yen um they could get some positive sentiment as well trade deals could be done we could you know the Chinese could come out and actually say you know what we'll do a deal and in that case risk would be more on then off and we could see a buying opportunity um at the moment but again with the dollar being potentially sentiment wise a bit weak then we could see some downside but we're in a wait and see position this is a nice buying opportunity to be fair like this area of demand so if we believe that the dollar is going to gain a bit of strength in inflation it's going to go into coming to the market then what we'd be doing if we go to the chart is looking for some buying opportunities right now to the upside and if we were looking at sell trades then we'd be looking at really prices to come up to this daily supply zone before looking for short trades or we would have to wait for price to break lower this creates then a supply zone as the supply would take out demand and then with price to come back into the supply zone and then look for some short trades around here so this is going to be purely if you're buying the Japanese yen it'd be you know risk off and really what you want to do is look at the headlines and see um what the sentiment is before basing your trading decisions on just dollar strength or yen strength so moving on to the dollar swiss and dollar swiss this week again swiss frank being a beneficiary of risk off sentiment the swiss frank will tend to strengthen and again there was some negative sentiment around the US dollar as well as the uh the non-farm numbers so what you've got is a move all the way pretty much down here taking out all this demand there was no demand fundamentally or sentiment wise for the um for the dollar when I say no demand um I mean there was probably a little bit of demand but the market obviously is thinking that risk is off hence the reason why you shouldn't base your trading decisions solely on technical analysis fundamentals will give you and risk sentiment will give you your directional bias right um and again that's not to say that you should necessarily be buying the swiss frank but um we know that this week this is pretty much what's happened the data has shown it so looking at the uh dollar swiss we are down into a bit of a bit of a level where we've got two demand zones there demand right this level I think for now I'm gonna probably say it's gone so I'm gonna delete that and I'm going to this is a bit of a supply zone but it's not the strongest supply zone the reason why I say that is because my rules really dictate that um you want to see a lower low before creating a supply zone but because we've closed down here and that level of demand pretty much is is from around this level this 99 level I would probably say is gone um I'm willing to put this as a supply zone so what you want to do is look for prices to come up to here before looking to get short if I was looking to get long based on the uh demand zones I wouldn't be getting long based off of that previous demand zone which was actually around here right which was that zone there I'd be waiting for prices to kind of come down into this demand zone here before looking at some long trades and I like this and many of the traders will also understand that taking the course and this is a nice CPR retracement CPR zone as well very nice CPR zone here at this this level which put a resistance zone yeah so I do like this as a nice CPR level so um in this area nice buying opportunity for looking to buy the dollar again you want to probably see some uh some some dollar strength again we would look at the dollar index if that starts to turn up and uh dollar strength starts to come into the market as we're down into this demand zone then we're looking for buy trades if not up here then look for sell trades moving on to the dollar CAD and the dollar CAD Canadian dollar has actually strengthened got some very good news last week regarding employment way above expectations of 5 000 new jobs increased to 27 and a half thousand and an unemployment rate also went um uh beyond expectations great numbers for the Canadian dollar so looking at charts and we want to see is the CAD we can see that really price is now taking out you know supplies taking out demand so there's been an appetite for buying the Canadian dollar as you're buying the quote currency it's taking out demand right here for the dollar all right so we're down into this decent demand zone down here now so let's go to the charts and update this so what we have now is the Canadian dollar strengthening so what we have let's uh go to that to that can update this here as well your supply and this is proof of value so it's basically prices have proven that the Canadian dollar was a bargain at this price and you can see what's been happening here so into next week if you are looking to buy the Canadian dollar then you'd be looking for potential pullbacks into a level of supply like this before looking at getting short if you are looking at buying the dollar at the moment then this area of demand is where you'd be looking to really start to buy the dollar but just be it might be aware that this level is touched several times once twice three times so at the moment you're buying dollar strength or US dollar strength if there is any against a quite strong Canadian dollar sentiment wise so maybe long trades on this currency pair aren't the best trading opportunity at the moment I'd probably say maybe to the short side if you are looking at trading this currency pair so waiting for potentially a pullback into supply before looking at a short trade so next is the New Zealand dollar US dollar and this week we came down into this demand zone here and due to US dollar weakness we did get a massive move up and New Zealand dollars been doing actually quite well when it comes to their economy so this is what you're seeing you're seeing some weakness on the US dollar and strength on the New Zealand dollar and you can see where prices have really been taking out a lot of the supply zone for the US dollar so go into the charts it wasn't any appetite really for buying the dollar at any of these supply zones due to the bad data which is increased price at the moment to a decent level really to try and get short if you were looking at buying the US dollar so right now we have prices up to here we could see some profit taking going on at this level we also have a level that's been used once twice three times support term resistance within this supply and demand zone so a decent short if that doesn't work out and we get some more dollar weakness from a sentiment perspective you'd be looking at some of these areas here got supply which also got a bit of supply around there if you're looking at buying the New Zealand dollar then really be looking for prices to kind of come back into this demand zone here so prices would need to come all the way back down into here before looking at buying opportunities you can delete that as well so I think we could potentially be entering now into arranging market at some point between these uh this supply and this demand zone we've had a nice little trend down and after a trending market we tend to enter into a arranging market now is this the place where price may enter into a range could do especially with inflation numbers coming out and if inflation numbers meet targets or they're not as bad as what is once thought then this could be a decent buy for the US dollar again keep your eye on the dollar index so pound so next currency pair to analyze and the pound really has been suffering from negative sentiment due to brexit a lot of uncertainty we've got the conservative government leader contest and brexit is still on the table so we did get this week a bit of a some demand at this zone right so you had the demand zone you also had a level of support as well within that demand zone so you had definitely proven value but is this pound strength or is this basically based off of dollar weakness and I think this is more dollar weakness than pound strength there is a nice zone this is coming into I do like this 128 127 level to try and look for short trades so at the moment you do have this supply zone so looking at short trades you've got an opportunity right now you've also got that level that went 28 level pretty around there's my preferred area all I do is get rid of this longer term demand zone got demand here we've also got a bit of demand here as we did did make higher highs there so prices if you do want to be a buyer of the British pound you'd be looking for that be your first demand zone but I would say the better area if you're looking to buy the British pound to be down into this lower demand zone this 126 area but for me this looks like a decent short trades opportunity and if not then it'd be really up to this higher level it's 1.30 level before looking at any kind of short trades which are getting in really the dollar at a better price your buying a dollar at a better exchange rate because in the lead up to brexit which really is going to be October the 31st there's going to be a lot of uncertainty and a lot of uncertainty with the British pound so short trades for me all the way on this currency pair euro dollar and the euro dollar since last week again we've had some dollar weakness and they come up to this area here looked like it was selling off and then you've got some weak non-farm numbers so demand for the US dollar again faded and the euro kind of works in opposition to the dollar so when traders are not buying the US dollar in certain situations they kind of go into the euro so you've seen the euro rally but Europe isn't doing any better than the US dollar so this for me is just is allowing me to buy the dollar at a better price you know to get short and that's just my opinion so looking at the euro dollar in fact what I should have done is drawn the supply zone from there all right so if you draw the supply zone from there as that was a the the swing we haven't quite broken this level yet so if prices do start to turn lower from sunday's open I think that is a decent sell if not you'll be looking for prices really to come up into this zone before looking at sell trades and again look for structures within this wider supply zone either on the daily or intraday all right so within that supply zone so because traders will say well this is quite a wide zone how do I know what area this is going to you know bounce off of well within that wide zone you do have daily resistance resistance so you could wait for price to come all the way up to here or you go down into maybe a four hour and look for some intraday zones and it looks to be one right here see it around there just around there move back a little bit so yeah just on the underside of that level where you have resistance bit of support so bit of resistance here support resistance bit of support where it held bit of resistance there so we could look at the 1.137 level here has a level to look for first shorts but I think this 1.14 round number will be you know above would be probably the optimum trade to the downside if you were looking at short trades looking at long trades and let's delete this and let's delete this this would be where your demand zone is right there like that so you'd be looking for really a pullback into this level here before looking at buy trades if you're looking to buy the euro and take advantage of this this uptrend over the past you know week or so so moving on to the euro yen in the euro yen again some risk off sentiment coming into the market did have a bit of a you know move sliding me down but now we've got a bit of a respite so euro is strengthened a little bit let's go to the charts so there was a bit of supply here that's what looked like on the intro there you would have probably seen if you were going trading the one hour it was a trading opportunity right here up into that supply zone look for a short trade decent maybe one-to-one type move if you're basing it off of that engulfing type candle but then we've had you know again a bit of a respite markets don't move down forever so now we're up into this supply zone I still think that there's a risk off environment so if you're looking to trade the yen then you'd really be looking for prices to come up into a bit more confluence this area here before looking at short trades or again looking at intraday levels before looking at potential short trades there we can get rid of this supply zone as prices have made new highs and I'm going to add this level here as a level of demand as we've taken out some supply right there so if you're looking to buy the euro then again waiting for pullbacks into the lower end of this area before looking at getting long but risk off the Japanese yen does well in the risk off environment so anywhere from probably now and it's higher level on a demand on a daily time timeframe chart within this supply zone is you know very decent I do like that area moving on to the Aussie dollar and the Aussie dollar this week we had a bit of again dollars US dollar weakness so there really wasn't any kind of supplies I'm working for on this currency pair now we are where we are around this 0.7 round number which I do like for potential shorts as the Australian dollar is still very weak they were an interest rate cutting cycle and the expectation is for them to cut so this could just be a potential pullback and I like this for potential short if not if this trade pretty doesn't work out depending on the entry then you'll be looking at this area here as a for short trades the supply zone is still here it's still valid the same thing for the for the move above but short trades depending on again what happens with the US dollar could get some against some negative sentiment but I think overall the US dollar is really the pair to buy on this this currency pair the Australian dollar is for me a sell and they're most affected by the Chinese trade war as well but again just dependent on the data that comes out for the US and also the Australian dollar and finally we have the Aussie yen and Aussie yen this week had a bit of a turn up into this supply zone here again I think overall that as long as risk is off and trade wars are still in the papers you could still get a move higher why you still get to get a move to the high side and say hi but you know to the upside but looking at the chart that is pretty pretty just you know just some sort of pullback and again unless the trade war is really this you know is resolved I think there is a there are a lot of fears when it comes to what's happening globally global slowed down so the Australian dollar isn't going to do well as it is a commodity currency so commodity currencies don't do well in risk of the environments going to delete this one for now and add a bit of a demand zone right here so if you are looking at a potential reversal you're looking at prices to really kind of come down to this demand zone right here before looking at long trades but if you're continuing to trade the Japanese yen and risk off to the downside then you're looking at you know this higher area here this 76.2 level or thereabouts or just above this 77 round number would be the optimum short so that's it for this week hope you enjoyed it please like subscribe and share if you do have any comments definitely leave them in the section box below and I'll get back to you as soon as possible so guys take care hope you have a great trading week and I'll speak to you soon


Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel. I am in the car today, which means we are going shopping. I am very, very excited because Ikea released their brand new spring collection and I figured why not go and check it out, film it for you guys, share with you all of the brand new arrivals over at Ikea.  I use their products in a lot of my makeovers, in my DIY project. So I honestly come here quite often just to find items that I can upcycle or DIY into something different and share with you guys. So we are going to be heading into Ikea. I just pulled up right now and I'm just excited honestly. I haven't been here in quite a while actually since Christmas time. So we're gonna be looking at their spring stuff. I am definitely excited for some warmer weather. Now if you are not already, make sure to subscribe to my channel. I post brand new home decor and DIY content every single week. Normally more in-depth videos, room makeovers, DIY projects. 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I think those are a fun additional layer that don't take up too much weight or light. And then on top we had some hat boxes styled with some books, but across the way was the kitchen space, which I loved how they had the kitchen kind of on the side of the living room and all as one space, because it really shows you what you can do. And so this is the same light blue tone. And I think mixed with a very bright white kitchen is a fresh take for spring for sure. That's something that you like. I think the light blue and white works perfect in a kitchen space. And some of my favorite details were these knobs here and also these light fixtures with the silver and brass. I absolutely love that mixed metal look.  I love the use of diamonds. I think checks and diamonds are gonna be really popular this year. So I like the oversized kind of wallpaper look and the pegboard on the wall is perfect for extra storage. Then right outside of that space, there was this little plant tray with a couple of super cute planters. I've actually never seen these woven planters before and they had a larger size at the bottom and then in the middle where some smaller kind of pots, but they're really cute. Here we have some new seating and I love these for an apartment. If you have a small living room space, these are truly perfect because they have a design style to them, but they're also compact. So that comes in this ivory tone. It also comes in the dark gray and they have three different sizes, including a sectional style and then a smaller love seat. Now this sofa here had a new tag on it, but I believe it might be a little bit of an older product, but I still loved how Ikea kind of created a more linen looking sofa that kind of is more with the times of what people are wanting at the moment at a fraction of the price. Now these chairs here also have that linen look fabric to them. They come in four different finishes and they're oversized so they could be great end of the table chairs or even accent chairs in your space. I then came across another showroom space that I just love. I feel like I shared one similar to this as well in an old video, but it was a different shade of green and different styling. This one is just really elevated and intense. I feel like it has this moody vibe to it. It's very not what I think Ikea is, however, Ikea really pulled it off. I loved the way that the space looked. All the furniture pieces give this antique look with them being brand new pieces. Then I made my way outside to the consoles in like coffee table area and I actually have shared this coffee table and side table in the past, but they have a console version now, which if you're into the shape, it's perfect for a small apartment. It's more of a compact design. As I made my way around the new storage, I also noticed this four door kind of console unit and I think this would be really great if you were to get two or three of them and line a wall. It would give like a retro look and they also have some new shelving that has a wood framework on the sides and some more like white melamine shelves in there, which I think would be really pretty and like an office space, nice and airy and it holds a lot of storage, of course. I then turned the corner and saw this showroom space, which had a bright orange focal sofa and I love how they accented this with a bunch of neutral elements to really make that orange pop and be the showcase of the space, but this table area as well, I was obsessed with these pendant lights. They are so pretty. And in the recent episode of What Would Drew Do, I kind of talked about how round tables are always so expensive, but do not worry because Ikea has a brand new rounded tulip style table, which is perfect for a dining area or small apartment. But then I saw the perfect circle table. This faux marble one is a fraction of the price of real marble, but gives you that same look and I actually love the legs. Still in tables and chairs, I saw this new smaller table, but I really wanted to focus on the chair because this chair is $30, you guys, and it has a wood seat and a black metal base to it, which I think is pretty substantial. And then this red plastic chair, I feel like just has this retro element to it. And if you love red, it's a perfect accent color. It's brand new at Ikea. And last but not least, I loved how they utilize these towel rails as like little plate holders on top of this bookshelf. It was just such a genius idea. This table here has a really Scandinavian feel to it and I love the white top with the wood legs. I like that contrast, the rounded corners are really nice and I feel like it's perfect for like an oversized office table. And another interesting desk that Ikea got was actually this one here. They call it a desk with storage ladder or a table with storage ladder. I'm not too sure what you can do with a storage ladder element, but I thought I'd share it with you guys. Maybe it will spark some interest to one of you out there, but it is pretty interesting, I will say. And look at this, you guys. Ikea now has a bar cart. It's a brass bar cart. It's really authentic looking. Now I will say the price is 149, which I feel like is similar to what Target would charge, but overall it's still really cute. I was obsessed with this bathroom space when I walked in because it had so much character and you would never believe everything in here is available at Ikea. It shows that you can really use new items and still create a very kind of timeless and bathroom that's full of character. And as I walked out of this space, there was some new storage I saw and it looked to be all of this darker wood tone, which is really nice because they do have some dark wood furniture, but it's almost black whereas this still has that kind of brown hint to it. So if you are going for a darker wood, this is a perfect storage option.  And this little hutch here was also super interesting. I loved the sliding doors, it has a kind of vintage vibe to it as well and I feel like it's that perfect piece for the blank wall in your home that just needs something. After checking out all of the showroom areas, I made my way downstairs to the marketplace, which is all of the mortgage core, kind of kitchen, bathroom, vines. And one of the first items I came across was this new utensil holder, which is pretty simple, but I thought I'd share it with you guys, pretty cute and it has a little base plate as well. And I also noticed that they have some new cleaning supplies, these dish sponges with a handle and without a handle are also new. So they have this one here and they also have the smaller one as well. Some new kind of accent dishware that they have are these sets here. So they have these smaller bowls and they have like smaller kind of salad or dessert plates as well. And these actually come in four different colors. There's a different pattern like this one, but this is the blue shade here. These little bowls here I thought would be super cute for cooking or for sauces. They come in three different colors and they have different textures on the surface. And then I also came across a new dinnerware set that they came out with, which is like this Indigo blue with this really warm brown edging to it. I actually think it's so pretty. So if you need some new dinnerware, maybe try this one. Now, if there is one thing from this video, I would say go out and get. It is this set of vases here and the glasses I'm gonna share next. These are fluted. They come in a set of two and I think that they are so, so cute. They are part of this collection called Ann Ledming, which I'm not sure if is newer or is older, but I've never seen it at my IKEA before. Is this not the most perfect coupe cocktail glass you've ever seen? It is so pretty and it has this like peachy, kind of brownish undertone to the glass. And then I saw this cake plate, which was just a normal cake plate at first, but then I realized it had a scalloped edge and it also had this floral print in the glass. So freaking cute and it's $15. Making our way over to bedding, believe it or not, there actually wasn't too much new bedding or throw pillows available. There was this kind of linen look bedding, which I thought was pretty. It had a tan tone to it. And for only $34.99, I thought you couldn't go wrong with that. But then I saw this one, a little bit more spring vibes. Now I personally wouldn't go for this pattern, but if you like more of a quirky look, I feel like this is a cute pattern to kind of mesh with that style. And this striped one was also super simple. A new one, it has a flannel finish to it. So if you live in a colder climate, this could be a great option for you. These storage boxes have a cute pattern to them and a yellow tone for the smaller one and a tan tone for the larger one. And then I also picked up this wicker laundry basket. It's actually one of the main reasons I went because I saw that they came out with it. I loved it. It's perfect because it fits right to the left of my bathroom vanity. I have just like this dead space there and this hamper fits perfectly right there. Over in the frames, I noticed this smaller brass frame, which again, I'm not sure if it's newer or older, but I hadn't seen it before. And when I brought it home, I found out that there was actually a mat on the inside of it. So I added this little artwork piece and it totally looks like one you'd find in the thrift store. There's also a new finish of their classic picture-led shelf, which is this kind of weathered white look, which is great for like a country or farmhouse aesthetic. And the last few items I came across were first this little gold mirror here, which I think would be a cute accent mirror in a gallery wall or any area that you need a smaller-sized mirror. I feel like it has like a crest look to it, which again, it kind of draws in that vintage vibe. And lastly, these round glass vases were also really pretty. They come in a larger green tone and then a smaller black one. And I ended up picking up the larger green one just because I'm always grabbing anything green I could find decor-wise. And I just, I love this space. I just got home from Ikea and the sun is setting. So I ran outside quickly because I forgot to film an intro per usual, or an outro actually. But I hope that you guys liked today's video. Those were all of the new arrivals for spring over at Ikea. Now to be completely honest with you guys, I am not one that decorates too much for spring. I definitely do add a few bits here and there. So I think it's nice to pick up an affordable option, you know, like one of the cake plates maybe, or some of the fluted glassware, or even something a little bit more spring vibes like the bedding. But overall, I just love sharing with you guys the new products, checking it out. I think I spent about four hours in there today. But when I go, of course, I am filming at the same time. So it takes me a little bit longer than the average person to walk through. But I hope that you enjoyed today's video. And if you did, give it a big thumbs up. Do not forget to also check out today's video sponsor, Simply Safe. I have mine in my current apartment inside. I'm gonna have to turn it off when I get in and I'll catch you guys in my next one. Bye everybody.