I'm Ann Charles. I'm Keith Goslant. And I'm Linda Quinley. It's Tuesday, February 20th, 2024. Oh, very good. And we acknowledge that we're taping in Mount Pili, Vermont, which is unseated indigenous land. So welcome to the show. Ann, you have stories for us? I do. And I'm starting on an exciting note. There are only some awful stories, but they'll come up later. But let's start out with Greece approving marriage equality. The approval came despite the opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church and makes Greece the 16th country in the EU with marriage equality. It's the first Orthodox Christian country to do this. Parliament voted Thursday to legalize same sex. Marriage with 176 members in favor, 76 against and to abstaining. Pretty vague. Greece is proud to become the 16th European Union country to legislate marriage equality, said the prime minister. He tweeted this after the vote. This is a milestone for human rights, reflecting today's Greece, a progressive and democratic country, passionately committed to European values. The nation has offered civil partnerships to same sex couples for a decade, but those came with parental rights only for the biological parents of a couple's children. Now, both spouses will be legally recognized as parents, but same sex couples still won't be able to access surrogacy in Greece, although they can be legally recognized as parents of children born by surrogacy abroad. The majority of Greeks supported marriage equality, but of course, not surprising, there was strong opposition from conservative lawmakers and the Greek Orthodox Church. More than 80% of Greeks belong to the church, but its stance on marriage equality does not seem to be popular, which we like. Conservative politicians opposing marriage equality, said legalizing same sex marriage would open the gates of hell and perversion. Let them out. Too bad, friends, but there was much positive reaction to the approval. We started as an invisible marginalized community. Andrea Gilbert, a founding member of Athens Pride, said, we continue to vote, paid our taxes, campaigned. The legislation provides a legal basis to further build on. It is particularly significant for young couples. Good for Greece. I know it. I was going to ask you another true question. You? Yes. No, no. I was going to ask you another true question was, you said it's the 16th country. How many countries are there? I would guess 52, but of course, I'll look it up during somebody else's segment and inform you. But let's stay in Greece for a minute and look at a picture of Stefanos Castellakis, 35, who was the gay man elected to Greece's leftist party in an historic first. This was a stunning upset. He's a Greek-American businessman. He was elected to lead the largest opposition party in Greece, becoming the first out gay leader of a political party in the country's history. And now he's ready to become Greece's first gay prime minister, so for that. He received 56% of the vote. There were over 130,000 votes cast. So he defeated a former later minister and early favorite who positioned herself as the more experienced candidate. He's out and married to Tyler McBeth, a nurse he met while living in the US. He mentioned McBeth during his acceptance speech to supporters on Sunday. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming him and embracing him, he told the crowd. In July, he laid out a potential campaign platform in an opinion piece, adding that he was jumping into Greek national politics as a brief interlude between two chapters in his business career. He'd advocated for tax relief for ordinary workers, transparency on the finances of MPs and others, reform to civil court processes and more. Greek society wants solutions and results, he concluded in his opinion piece. And so to expats in order to return to the country. I am truly hoping this party will stand up to becoming the governing Democrats my homeland desperately needs. Experts call the novice politician's use of social media is key to his victory and Farley, the couple's Portuguese water dog became a familiar four legged social media presence for Castellakis and I looked up what a water dog is and learned it's a popular gun dog. So then a gun dog is like a bird or a hunting dog, well I didn't do that, I didn't. And I'd like to have shown a picture of Farley maybe in a future show. Anyway, he was born in Greece but came to the US to study at Phillips Academy Prep School and eventually graduate from Wharton Business School. During this period he spent time working on then Senator Joe Biden's 2008 presidential campaigns. He later worked as a trader with golden sex before founding his own shipping company. So, good question. A lot of exciting stuff happening in Greece. Greek and shipping, okay, where have I heard that before? Yeah. What's it in our nasses? Now there's more kind of exciting news from Poland although it's mixed. The Polish, let's start with, I have four Polish stories with pictures. And I think I showed you, I hope I showed you a picture of the Greek opposition leader, I'm sure I did. But now let's look at a picture of a Polish TV host, Wojciech Zellag, who apologized for the anti-LGBTQ rhetoric that it was spewed on his show. With Poland, and this is what I'm particularly excited by, Poland is now under a new, more liberal government. And so this TV host is apologizing for years of spreading homophobia. He's on state-run Polish television and said, for many years in Poland, shameful words have been directed against numerous individuals, simply because they chose to decide for themselves who they are and whom they love. And you've seen a picture of him, I'm sure. If you haven't, let's look at it now. He said this on Sunday night, people are not an ideology, but people with specific names, faces, relatives, and friends. All these people should hear the words, I am sorry, explicitly from this place. He was hosting two LGBTQ activists and he said, I'm sorry to them. Now let's look at the exciting background. Poland has recently had a change in government with the far-right anti-LGBTQ law and justice party losing its majority in parliament. There is now a governing coalition of liberal and centrist parties and Donald Tusk, a moderate, has succeeded Mateusz Morowecki as prime minister. Conservative Andrzej Duda remains president but the president has less power than the prime minister. The TV host's words were a repudiation of something Duda once said that the LGBTQ plus movement was not a people, but an ideology. Under the law and justice government, many Polish leaders claim that LGBTQ people were a threat to the so-called traditional family and we remember the LGBTQ free zones that were established. This host on your apology took me by surprise one of his LGBTQ guests said, I didn't realize how much I needed to hear it. He added noting that it feels like Poland is having a new beginning. He pointed out that there's still much work to do in Poland. The nation still does not recognize same sex unions but the European Court of Human Rights has ruled that it must. LGBTQ plus advocates are also lobbying for a new law against hate speech. On to Hungary. Yeah, Hungary. But let's take a step backward and talk about Lech Walesa who has shocked the nation with anti-gay sentiments. I'm not surprised by that. Well, he's Poland's first democratic era president and a legendary labor leader who's been lauded as a human rights activist, has made clear his support for human rights but that it also clarified that it does not extend to gay people. In an interview, he went on a homophobic rant saying gay people should not play a prominent role in politics.  They have to know that they are a minority unless there's just the smaller things he told to broadcast. Russia is waiting for him. And not rise to the greatest heights, the greatest hours, the greatest provocations, spoiling these for the others and taking what they want from the majority. I don't agree to this and I will never agree to it. A minority should not impose itself on the majority. The anti-hate speech group today filed a complaint with prosecutors in his hometown of Gdansk, more about Gdansk.  His language was appalling. A deputy speaker of parliament said it was a statement of a traglodyte.  Let's look at a picture now of Anna Grodzka, Poland's first transgender lawmaker and Robert Baydron, the country's first gay lawmaker. They coordinate a protest against Walesa's stance. And so the first openly gay and transgender lawmaker is to serve in Poland. And they sat in the front row of parliament earlier this week after Walesa said they should sit behind a wall. The member's protest came after his remark, Walesa's remarks that I just told you about. Anna Grodzka, Poland's first transgender federal lawmaker and Robert Baydron, the country's first gay lawmaker, sat together in the front bench after their party's leader relinquished his seat at the front to arrange the protest. Lech Walesa is an important symbol for us and for the whole world, Baydron told the Associated Press, I respect him and I'd rather he used other words of acceptance and respect for other people. Now let's go to Gdansk, where some citizens are taking action. Let's look at a picture now of Jakub Kozinski and Dawid Majczyk, who are a gay couple handing out rainbow masks on the streets of Gdansk, Walesa's hometown. In a move that was not only charitable but courageous, a gay couple in Poland recently produced and distributed hundreds of free rainbow cute masks. Face masks, they documented their philanthropy on YouTube, highlighting the love and appreciation they received for the pride-themed personal protective equipment. The positive response was heartwarming and frankly surprising since Poland, it does have a hostile historical and recent anti-LGBTQ history. One third of the nation's, well we know about the one third of the nation's municipalities were anti-LGBT free zones. Same-sex relationships have not recognized them there and LGBTQ people are frequently used to skate boats by politicians. Two bills currently under consideration categorize homosexuality as pedophilia. But these two citizens showed no trepidation in their video, smiling and chatting up current pedestrians in Gdansk in Poland's North. Maybe some weren't familiar with the symbolism of the masks though many people, especially young women, were in on the meaning. The two citizens made approximately 300 masks with some friends and borrowed a sewing machine to distribute so that they could make them and distribute them. That's a great, good for Poland. Lot of excitement in Poland. Keith. Alrighty, so trivia and someone got it. Oh yeah. We won't say who. Out in the mountains, February 1993 front page article, and it was a tribute to Vermont's first openly LGBTQ plus elected office holder. Who was it? What was the office and why the tribute? There'll be more. So the Green Mountain Film Festival, the 23rd Green Mountain Film Festival, and we're told that this will have a very queer look to it. Yeah. And we should be ready for updates. I'm counting on Anne to feed them to me. All right. March 14th through the 17th, and you can get tickets already online. Passes, correct? Okay. So Rainbow Umbrella, same thing. The Women's Discussion Group. You're tackling not some easy topics. We're getting into it. And there's a lot being expressed. I'm really impressed with what I'm reading in your notes. It's a really powerful meeting, Chef. Hi, Chef. And then there's the book discussion. There is. If you're interested in either, you can go on to Rainbow Umbrella's Facebook page to sign up. So our friends at Fox Market, Saturday, February 27th is the queer poetry reading. I know. But keep your calendars open, because on Saturday, March 16th, at the old labor hall, it may be Foxy's Gala. This is a fundraiser for the new site that will be opening on Main Street and Berry, just down from Rainbow Bridge, who's doing phenomenal work.  Come dressed to whatever nines you'd like for a night of magic, performances, music, sexy get down dancing, and community love.  So get that on your calendar. A reminder, social tinkering in Rutland, they have their monthly social get-together at the Vermont Farmers Food Center on Wednesday, February 28th. Craftsbury Outdoor Center. It's an event we won't be going to because it's their pride ski day. Complementary ski rentals and trail use. This is Sunday, March 10th from 11 to 4 p.m. You can sign up on the Pride Center of Vermont's website, and it's being sponsored by the Pride Center outright Vermont, Audubon, Vermont, and the Craftsbury Outdoor Center. Now, something that we haven't promoted that actually was created during the pandemic in 2022, Dike Nike in Burlington at the Wallflower Collective, the second Monday of the month. Apparently this has been so well attended, they've had lines outside the door. We'll have to go in. And they've had to turn people away. And what they said is that this is open to Dykes of all genders and experience. So if this is how you identify second Monday of the month, Wallflower Collective in Burlington. I know where that is. You can go online and they have a Facebook page that will give you all the details. All right. So get it on your calendar. And with that, are you going to tell me happier things? No. Then we may go back to you, ma'am. All depressing. Well, we may go back to you. Oh, I know. Well, you know, there's better news in other countries than there are in this one right about now. So, anyway. I know that feeling. I know. The funeral of her renowned transgender activist Cecilia Gentile in New York Cathedral elicited a denunciation of the event by a senior church official who called to mass a scandal within one of the most prominent houses of worship in the United States, Catholicism. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of Cecilia Gentile, which was held on St. Patrick's Day in Manhattan and drew a large audience. I don't know. I think it's St. Patrick's Cathedral. Yeah. St. Patrick's Day is coming up. St. Patrick's Cathedral. Yeah, not St. Patrick's Day. Oh, St. Patrick's Cathedral. Right. In Manhattan. And drew a large audience on Thursday. In a written statement, Reverend Enrico Salvo, pastor of St. Patrick's scandalous behavior at the funeral. The cathedral only knew that the family and friends would be degraded in that, I'm sorry. The cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral mass for a Catholic and had no idea our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such a scandalous and deceptive way. Salvo said in a statement, the Catholic, the cathedral held a mass of redemption following the funeral at the direction of Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Archbishop of New York. So, good for the Catholic Church, right? Yeah, typical. Yeah. In Columbia, South Carolina, thousands of people in one of South Carolina's most conservative counties roared when Donald Trump promised to cut federal funding on day one for schools pushing what he called transgender insanity onto children. And I can't even believe I have to say it, but I have to say it. Trump told the crowd with this month, I will keep men out of women's sports. A member of the NCAA Committee on Infractions, a voluntary group that prescribes penalties to member schools that break association rules has resigned over NAACP's policies regarding the participation of transgender athletes. William Bach, the former general counsel of the US Anti-Doping Agency told the Associated Press on Friday that the policies permitting transgender athletes to compete against women are unfair. He submitted a letter of resignation to President Charlie Baker dated February 9th. A lot of people have known how to respond to the smoke screen that says that you can just suppress testosterone and that it's going to make the playing field level. You can't suppress testosterone, Bach said. And the policies that the NCAA and other sports organizations have come up with which supposedly favor inclusion actually discriminate. You know, it's like that all the right-wing salvos against reproductive rights, my own business, you know? I know. It's my body. And who's fact-checking their statements? I know it, I know it. Just because you saw it on social media doesn't mean that it's a truth. It isn't. You heard it here first. Baltimore County police announced February 15th. They had arrested and charged a 22-year-old man for first-degree murder, first-degree assault. Armoury and a fire related charges in addition to other offenses. According to a statement released by police, Jaylen Green was arrested in connection with the sexual assault that occurred in the 3,000 block of Putty Hill Avenue in Parkville on February 11th. At approximately 3.30 p.m., the hookup was made on a dating app. I know, there's nothing but sharing news in the country. I'm telling you, I tried to find stuff, but it was really hard. So now we have Madri Taylor-Green. She comes up every week or every, you know. When Georgia Republican U.S. Representative Madri Taylor-Green says outrageous things in committee hearings, California Representative Robert Garcia, a Democrat, rebuts and holds her accountable at every turn. His first year in office has been marked by a dedication to calling out what he sees as extremism in lies from the mega-Republicans, mainly targeting figures like Green. The noted transphobic firebrand who often spews anti-LGBTQ plus bigotry and absurd conspiracy theories. When she made a derogatory remarks about former Twitter executive Yol Roth during a hearing in which she said that he disgusts her, Garcia came back with gusto. I just want to start off by just apologizing to our witness, he said, particularly Mr. Roth, for just the homophobic rant and comments that were just made from the gentle lady from Georgia, calling her remarks shameful. He's gay. Yeah. Good for him. Yep. Stephen Miles, best known for his gay adult film persona, Sergeant Miles, was sentenced to two years in prison followed by a year of suspended release after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer during the January 6th protests and riots in Washington, D.C. Miles Foddy of Zephyr Hills, Florida, a member of the Proud Boys Group, breached protective perimeter around a Capitol building and engaged in a physical confrontation with police protecting the building. He was arrested on Tuesday, April 12th, 2022. Now here's one in which is an indication about how sometimes in our own communities, we eat our own. And, you know, and this is an example of that. Horrible story about Tuesday, the Georgia Seattle Committee on Education and Youth met to consider Senate Bill 88, a bill that would promise the forced outing of transgender youth to their parents and restrict LGBTQ topics in schools. The bill, which saw a surprise substitute with little time for review, would mandate that schools develop policies around outing transgender students to their parents and would require parents to opt into education on gender-related topics. What happened in the hearing, however, was unusual. Only those in favor of the bill were allowed to speak, leaving those against raising their hands.  Following an incendiary speech in which he advocated for separating transgender individuals from LGBTQ community, Republicans allowed four people to speak. These included a former president of the young Republicans, a representative from Gays Against Groovers and a representative from the Georgia Log Cabin Republican, a group of gay Republican activists. Then they abruptly ended the debate preventing the dozens of attendees opposed to the bill from speaking. Beautiful. Well, let's see. We'll do this one. An inclusive celebration of faith and diversity at a Kansas university has sparked outrage in right-wing circles, including drawing ire from the hate group Libs of TikTok. I've never even seen these people. Of course, I'm not on TikTok, but Fort Hayes State University in Hayes is a center of controversy following its glitter ash Wednesday. The initiative merges traditional Christian observance with a message of inclusivity towards the LGBT community, allowing participants to choose between transitional ashes or a blend of ashes and glitter to be smeared on one's forehead. I love that. I know. The event designed to open a space of welcome and acceptance has ignited a firestorm of debate highlighting the ongoing tension between maintaining religious traditions and fostering inclusivity. So that was fun. Delightfully sacrilegious. Gotta love it, Anne. What you got? Oh, sure. I have a couple more Europe stories. This is a bad one. A teenager is in court after transgender girl 14, it was stabbed 14 times at a roller skating party. It was a birthday party in London. Four people have been arrested and one charged with the attempted murder of an 18-year-old at the leisure center. A girl has been charged with the stabbing that occurred before the one-year anniversary of the brutal stabbing of Breonna Gay, which I've been talking about at great length. And just an aside, Prime Minister Richie Sumack made a transgender joke and Breonna Gay's mother had been invited to this session where he made that joke. So the teenage girl has been charged with the stabbing. A 19-year-old girl has been arrested and charged with the attempted murder. The unidentified transgender girl at the birthday party was subjected to transphobic abuse by a group of teenagers. Police alleged that summer bets Ramsey stabbed the victim 14 times with a knife. The victim was rushed to the hospital where she was treated for her wounds and was subsequently discharged, where she remains in seclusion recovering from the attack on her wounds. Summer bets Ramsey and other individuals have been arrested in connection with the crime. A detective involved said the investigation into the roller rink stabbing continues as the public for help. Sobbing bets Ramsey did not issue a formal plea to the charges and was remanded in custody until her former plea hearing on March 12th at the Old Bailey. But on more upbeat note, transgender Irish dancers can compete in categories matching their gender identity of governing body rules. Irish dancing has ruled that transgender dancers can compete. It's called the, I won't pronounce it in Gaelic, but it's the CLRG, the ruling body, said that they considered a lot of legal opinion and the chairperson said that there've been considerable internal and external discussion on the subject. As a worldwide organization welcoming dancers from many different backgrounds, CLRG is committed to creating a safe and inclusive environment for every dancer in our community. However, we understand it's divisive. There have been calls, some parents want to withdraw dancers and this began, this discussion began after a teenage transgender girl from the US qualified for the upcoming Irish dancing world championships held in Glasgow. The new inclusivity policy to reflect the position on trans competitors will be voted on at the body's annual meeting, but they're recommending that it be included. Now let's look at a clip from a very interesting Finnish-British Greek co-production called Drift, featuring an actor I love, Cynthia Riveau. It's called Drift and the brief plot, a young Liberian refugee, Jacqueline, barely escapes her war-torn country to settle on a Greek island, Greece again. Her daily struggle for survival keeps terrible memories at bay and she becomes close to an American tour guide. So let's look at a picture of Drift, a clip. Century BC, can we take a few minutes, look around and then we'll head up? Our parents. Where are the parents? They fled. I'm Callie. Jacqueline. Don't look at my face. You're not Greek. I'm no American. When it's all over, you might. Where are you from? Liberia. Interesting. You can see it by renting or purchasing on Google Play Movies, Voodoo and Amazon Video. It looks great. Yeah. It's a, I read a review, it's a film about healing. Ooh. Let's go to Asia. Hyderabad has had its first pride march in three years. Let's take a look at a participant, celebrant. It's called the Self-Respect Pilgrimage. And it was, it's conducted once a year in most major metro cities in India and across the globe. About 600 people participated in the march. The event was conducted in the city after a three-year gap caused by COVID. And their demands are transgender queer intersex, the demands of the transgender queer and intersex transgender community were legalizing same-sex marriages, recognition in education and employment and provision of housing for members. One more Asian story, good news from Japan. Let's look at a picture now of trans man Takito Usui, who is 50. Japan court, Japan court has ruled that Takito Usui can change their gender marker without surgery. This ruling was reported. He had positioned petitions to change his legal gender in 2016, but was rejected because he had not been medically sterilized as was then required. His appeal was also rejected in 2019, but then happily, in October, Japan's court struck down the 2003 statute recording trans people to be sterilized for obtaining legal recognition. Human rights groups lauded the ruling. I wanna thank my family, I feel a new life is beginning. He's a farmer living in rural Japan. Seeing this shift in Japanese laws left me feeling society has changed and moved by the progress that has been made. He said, Japan still be in same-sex marriage, meaning that Usui will be able to marry his partner of many years. And this is the thing about intrusive laws. Although the Supreme Court ruled against the sterilization law, it left intact other parts of the 2003 law. For example, trans people must still appear to have parts that resemble the genital organs of their gender identity to be granted legal recognition.  Last year, Supreme Court ruling asked other courts to revisit whether that statute should also be overturned, but it wasn't. The law also requires the trans person to be unmarried and have no children under 18. So the court found that Usui had satisfied these requirements. It's a milestone, but that's not the first time. Less than two weeks before the Supreme Court ruling last year, Jenna Suzuki also won his gender change with the ruling that it is wrong for the state to force an unwanted surgery. Good point. We have to move on, Ann. Okay, can I just do my headlines? Yeah. There, Grim. Houthi Rebels sentenced 13 to death on homosexuality charges in Yemen. A court has confirmed that. I can talk more about it maybe next time. Putin, let's look at a picture of rainbow frog earrings. Because a woman has received a jail sentence of five days for wearing these rainbow frog earrings. And I'd like to show you a picture of the pair of earrings and then a close-up of one of the earrings. And also a person, RE2P pleaded guilty to post the implant picture of a pride flag to Russian social media. So the court, they admitted guilt. Then Russian TikTok stars who kissed were forced to apologize. Duolingo faces investigation in Russia over LGBTQ content and they're sticking to their guns where an inclusive platform they're saying two miserable stories to end with. Zimbabwe's vice president says the government will block a scholarship for LGBTQ people. And in North America, St. Vincent Court rejects the challenge to colonial era, anti-gay laws. So I'm ending on a sad note, but let's cheer for Greece. Yes, Keith. Well, we're gonna go to a positive place which is Barry Vermont where someone who should be very familiar to people who watched the show, Sam Stockwell, who is currently one of the city council members has announced that she is running for mayor. Yay. The current mayor has decided not to seek re-election and actually in his announcement of not running, he gave an endorsement of Sam saying that I couldn't be happier to see Sam Stockwell announce her run for mayor. She is hardworking, kind, ethical and a true public servant for regular people. Here, here. I can't think of a more qualified and prepared person for this challenging moment and role. Barry is not doing their mayoral election on town meeting day. They're gonna be doing it on May 14th. And it's birthday. Happy birthday to you. You've got time to go out and help with this campaign. We're gonna do phone banking. I'm not gonna ask where they're hiding the bank, but there we are. So, an interesting story that's come up within the past week. The ACLU has issued a statement against the current administration and specifically the commissioner of health, Mark Levine. Yes, that's so interesting. Vermont is getting $5 million as part of an opioid settlement fund. And there was an advisory committee that was put together by legislative statute to come up with recommendations. Well, when commissioner Levine submitted the statement on behalf of the advisory committee, he is a non-voting chair, he kind of left one recommendation off. And it was that $2.6 million of the money be used to create two overdose prevention centers. This is the bill that's currently going through, has gone through the Vermont house is being debated in the Senate. This is Taylor Smalls bill. And what Levine said is, oh, well, it was very clear the legislature was looking at creating a fee schedule to fund this, so he left it off. How high handed? Well, what's also kind of interesting is the current incumbent governor has already said that if this bill were to pass creating these centers, he plans to veto it. Why? He doesn't agree with it. Why? He thinks it's the wrong strategy. We should not be encouraging by creating safe spaces. Oh, God. We should do greater penalties. It's been proven that, you know, it works. It saves lives. You think? So here's Levine saying, oh, this is not necessary because you're putting money into fees to fund this while the governor is saying I'm going to veto it. So the ACLU said that what Levine had done by changing the recommendations was in direct violation of Vermont's open meeting law. That there wasn't a chance to see the debate, contribute to the debate, and have some kind of input in the eventual outcome. So the other story that I find kind of interesting, and this was HRC, the Human Rights Campaign and Equality Federation's State Equality Index. And they have 20 states listed in the highest category working towards innovative equity. And Vermont is indeed one of those states. And on a future show, I will be saying more of what they think we're lacking, what we could do to enhance that even further. But also listed is most of New England, we're in the forefront, but New Hampshire is included. Which I think gives an indication of the incredible polarity in our political process right now because New Hampshire has four bills that they have going through their legislature, two of which have already passed the House and are over in the Senate and two in the Senate that are waiting action. And these are things that would restrict gender-affirming care for minors. It would specifically prohibit any type of surgical intervention if you're a minor. And they're also looking at extending it to include some adults that you may need to be over 25 or before you are eligible. They're also looking at imposing a ban on transgender in women's sports at both a high school and collegiate level. But here's the one that makes my little P-brain go snap, crackle, pop. The Senate Education Committee has already done public testimony on a bill restricting libraries, prohibiting material deemed harmful to minors from being allowed in the library. So who do you think is going to be making those decisions? And sort of the backdrop to this is in the past, some of these measures have been diminished by statements from the New Hampshire Attorney General saying, I think he's flying in the face of our non-discrimination statutes. And they either do not make it through or get voted down. And in the past, Nunu has been a supporter of transgender rights, but his office and administration has not issued a statement about where he stands on this or what actually he might take. And very briefly, New Hampshire as well, and we've reported on both aspects of this story in the past, Littleton, New Hampshire, where there was a great controversy about a mural on the side of a Chinese restaurant, private space, truly freedom of expression. But one of the Littleton City Council members who is also a state legislator took issue with it, saying it was a supportive LGBTQ plus. She was looking at it from a biblical perspective and that LGBTQ people are in abomination. She thought it should be taken down while that was occurring, the local art center was hosting a performance of La Cachal Fold and the council was looking at how they could pull funding from the art center because of what they did. The city manager with all of this going on said, I can no longer be the manager for this community and submitted a resignation. He then has been enduring a high degree of harassment. He had a son who came out to him when the son was 16 years old who has subsequently died of cancer.  That's terrible. So here's New Hampshire working towards innovation. Here is the stuff going on. But in our remaining time. Yes. Well, I'm gonna do some brief stories here. This is kind of a fun one. In the Logan Circle neighborhood of Washington DC a popular gay bar celebrated unveiling of a large mural on the side of its building that celebrates the diversity of the United States and the United Kingdom communities. The vibrant, great love is for everyone mural now overlooks the bustling streets above the little gay bar. The striking piece of art by Lisa Marie Thalhammer sponsored by the British Embassy was celebrated with pink champagne and a joys ceremony on Tuesday afternoon. And you can see a picture. It looks like a British pub painting. We like pictures. I know.  But the victim's friends say the killer was homophobic who threatened to kill the victim one day earlier. John Walter Lay 52 was shot and killed while walking his dog in the park in Tampa. Always before he was gunned down, he sent a video to friends detailing a threat to kill him and had received that he had received that morning from the suspected gunman Gerald Declan Radford. 65 admitted he shot Lay, but claimed he didn't self-defense end of discussion. Stand your ground. And he has never been even charged with even looked into him doing this. And a 19 year old Florida man was arrested after he was caught on video defacing a rainbow crossword walk in Delray Beach. Dylan Brewer, 19 of Clearwater turned himself in when there's videos of him, you know, like trying to squeal his tires on there so he couldn't deface. The tire march. Yeah, okay. Well, let me just add there are 27 countries in the European Union during this pause. Ah, okay. I was all wrong on that one. Okay, and in the heartland of America, tragedy unfolded as next Benedict, a 16 year old non-binary Native American student lost their life in an Oklahoma high school. The circumstances surrounding the brutal killing case raised questions about LGBTQ safety in schools prompting a nationwide discussion. The article explores the events leading to Nex's death and the reactions from various sources. Next Benedict, they, them was a 16 year old non-binary youth in Oklahoma. They endured a reportedly vicious beating in a high school bathroom in Owasa High School. Nex died the next day in the hospital. They were a sophomore. This was February 7th and 8th and they were in high school. So this is a picture of Lex. So, very. Groom. Very sad story there. Columbia, South Carolina. The first federal trial over hate crime based on gender identity is set to begin Tuesday in South Carolina.  Oh, so that's that story. Let's see what we have here. The Oklahoma high school student, were there not also allegations that the school administration had failed to call an ambulance or offer assistance? Yes, all of that. They didn't call an ambulance. They didn't call the parents. They didn't do anything. They did nothing to intervene or render any kind of medical assistance when this student was found. I mean, that was the part that really stuck out to me. Yeah, that was part of that story. And let's see, we have a few minutes left, so I don't know. Ann, do you have anything? Sure, I want to give you- Oh, of course she does. I think I'm kind of out of stories for today. Well, I want to give more information about this Houthi death sentence. The Houthi movement, officially known as Ansar Allah, is a Shia Islamist political and military organization that emerged in Yemen during the 1990s. Houthi militants controlled vast swaths of the country and the group's recent attacks on the Red Sea shipping has prompted retaliation from the US and the UK. I'm sure you've heard about that on the news. These 13 death sentences were handed down in an area controlled by Houthi rebels. According to reports quoting an anonymous source, three others were jailed on similar charges and another 35 people were detained in the province also for alleged homosexuality related offenses. The court findings are open to appeal. It is not clear when any of the public executions are due to be carried out, but the Houthis have sentenced 350 people to death, 11 of whom have been executed since they seized Yemen's capital Sana'a in 2014. They're ramping up their abuses at home while this Red Sea events keep occurring.  In addition, the Houthis mahram agreement continues to ban women from traveling without a male guardian or written evidence of their consent. Meanwhile, increased restrictions on travel have affected women's ability to work, resulting in many being unable to access healthcare with Yemeni female humanitarian workers unable to reach them. According to Amnesty International, in 2022, a secessionist organization in South Yemen and the Houthis arrested at least five people on the basis of either their refusal to reform, to conform to either masculine or feminine presentation or their LGBTQ plus activism. So that's a chilly note to end on, but I think it's important to give a little background. Absolutely. Now we'll have trivia. So our first openly elected LGBTQ plus official was Ron Squires, who is elected to the Vermont House representing Wyndham Five, which was Guilford, Vernon, and part of Brattleboro. The trivia was because he had passed due to complications of HIV and AIDS. What I didn't fully appreciate until I was going back and looking at the article again is not only was he the first openly elected official here in Vermont, he was the first Democrat Party state executive committee member who was openly LGBTQ plus and he was one of the first openly LGBTQ plus members of the National Democratic Platform Committee. So he was in the forefront in a lot of ways. And since his passing, his mother has championed an AIDS walk in his honor each year. Nice. So with that. With that, I think we have to go. Yes. Catch y'all in a couple of weeks. In the meantime, Resist.


The following is a presentation of TFNN. 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. Well, today is the 16th of November. This is the chart of the gold we were on the show yesterday and we mentioned to the folks that if we got a 382 retracement on this it would be a pretty good idea and we did. There was 62 and we're now trading at 87. It's had a pretty good rally. Some people have asked me if this is a head and shoulders pattern. This would be your left shoulder. There would be your right shoulder. It's a little bit lower, but if you look at the timeframe between the left shoulder and the right shoulder you'll see that it is just about spot on from the last low that we had back in here. So it's acceptable, but frankly, folks, this is what you pay the money for. Your 382 comes in right here at 62. The low was 59. The risk on that was like $8 or $9, but it never got anywhere near it and now it's off to the races. What this usually means when you see something like this is that you're going to see an ABCD pattern up into this area here going above 2000. Again, we're only $14 away so we're probably going to get that without too much trouble. That takes care of the gold market of what we're looking at here today.  One is we've got a potential trade set up here. Now this is the Euro. We're going to be taking a look at this. This is on an eight-minute chart. You can see where we are up in here. This is where we are right there. If we look at the daily, you can see the daily, we went out here, we took out all of these highs right at the 50% level. Then we had a pretty big break. That break tells us there's where we are right now.  If you like three eight twos, maybe you do, maybe you don't, but we're going to take a look at it. Three eight two comes in. What do you say, Billy Ray? Here it is, looking good, feeling good, acting good. Sell it there, stop it there, and you're on your way to San Jose. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. You've got to remember that. We had a great day trading yesterday. We ended up with $1,600 profit. I've already went through those trades. I'm not going to waste any more time with this, but I do want to show you a couple of things that were really very, very important, and that is here in the crude oil, and this is where your frustration index goes a little bit off the wacky board, but just wanted to get this up here today because we had a beautiful three eight two, just a second here, a beautiful three eight two retracement here off of this high right here. I'm going to try to blow it up, but it doesn't allow you to do it very much. That's close enough. It was close enough, then it disappears. Folks, I've had more technical difficulties today than I've had all year, and you know I've had a bad year. Let's just collect this on. That was your last three eight two was right here. Remember, this took several hours to complete that, just like this one. They're both basically equal, and you'll notice there's your three eight two comes in right on the money today, right here, and I can't get on the machine at all at that time and look at this folks. It's dropped four dollars. I mean, just straight down and I, I've just had a lot of trouble. So I'm a little frustrated, upset, angry. I've used words that I haven't used in a long time, not since I was at St. Benedict's and Bishop Schulte High School. I was very, very upset, but I'm over it now, and tomorrow is another trading day. Okay, now let's look at a couple others that we have to pay attention to because one of them is rocking and rolling, and we still got time for some money to be made up in here. Here's what we've done here over the last two days in the bonds up and down, but the real key to this, by the way, our guest today is none other than the Shane Mann himself, the Wolf Trader he'll be on in just a little bit. I want to get the daily chart up here because this is still a valid signal folks. Last night, that was, that was one of our trades last night was we sold the three eight two. Let's just go down to a smaller timeframe to show you what happened. What we did is we sold this three eight two right here. We were stopped out of it right here for 10 tick loss, and then it's continued to go higher, but look what we've got going here now folks. We're still going higher, and if we take this, Shane will be joining us here at the first break by the way, so just bear with us here. He'll be coming up in about seven or eight minutes, but let's look at this. It's important from my perspective. Maybe you don't even care, and that's okay too. Let's look at this daily again. This is where we want to play the game. This, my friends, is a 61% retracement from the high on the 28th of August. There's the 61 at 1609. We're less than a point away. So when we look at this, we're going to blow this up on the 44-hour chart so we can see it clearly, and there it is clearly. So we see we came down. See, last night I assumed that this high was in, and I sold a 382 right here and got stopped out of it. Now it's going higher, no big deal, but look what we're going to be looking at folks. Remember that number we're looking at is 1605, and that's what we're going to look at for right here. There's your AB leg, there's your C leg right here, there's your D leg, and that says this thing can get all the way, potentially, to 1710. Now I am looking at the possible and it certainly could, because once we get above here, it's going to be really interesting. But the key level here is this level right here, 1609. Look at this on the daily, because this is what's important. Remember, mathematics precedes geometry, and there's your geometry right here, 1609. If you can sell it at the 50% level and it drop two points, you can certainly sell it at the 61% level, correct? So there's the level to be watching right there. Let's get back to this, see where it is again. Here's where we're looking at it on the hourly basis, and we're going to go up and certainly looks like we're going to make a new high above here, doesn't it? We're almost there now. So what we want to be watching is that next level, and that is going to take us right here at 1605, 1610. That's where the prize is supposed to be. Let's just move this. I'm trying to get these things on my computer. Even my mouse ran out of batteries, folks, believe it or not. I just had things that just haven't happened in a long time. So let's see what the 1.27 expansion is on this, because that's what we're going to be shooting for. And there it is right there. There's a number right in here, 1610. That's the 61% replacement. I have to do that one. That's basically it now. The caveat is possibly that we have this working for us against us, okay? That's at 1709. That's a whole point from where I get away. But if I'm going to sell it here at 1610, okay? 1610. I'm going to risk 15 pips right above here. So my stop is going to be 1630. I'm going to risk $600 on that to see if it's right, because my minimum price objective on this would be almost two handles down, if that is correct. So that's why I'm trying to do this. We did so many of these yesterday on the live trading thing that it was really a lot of fun. But let's take a look back here to take a look here at this euro because this has really got everything that you could possibly ask for. It even had an ABCD today. Look at this, folks. Right up against that number. So we're going to find out what's happening here. Let's take a break and we're going to have the shame man up next, Mr. Wolf Trader himself. Bear with us. 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Last time we were talking about those lows coming in on the Bradley. We'll get to that. I do want to go into order, though, in terms of what we normally talk about, which is the geomagnetic storms, because I think this is important, because this relates to the annual cycle of the Dow Jones. Where are we now? We just hit this peak in October and we're starting to drastically come down here in November and December. It's going to keep falling down through December is the low and then January is still pretty low. That's bullish for equities. That's a good sign. This has been a thorn in the side of equities. We've had these storms that have just come one after the next after the next and it's been just hammering this market down. It gets a lot easier to make money to the upside and I think we're getting closer here to some type of a some type of a low that can take off and rally, but I don't think we're quite there yet. This is the actual seasonal pattern here of the Dow Jones below and you can see it's a direct inverse reflection of the solar storm activity. There's a strong correlation here between the solar storms and the Dow Jones. The amazing thing is that the small caps get hit almost immediately with these storms. That's on a statistical average here but when the storms actually come the markets do flag, particularly the small caps. We talked about this before but we are in a period here. We hit this early right before November this low and it does push up all the way into the beginning of January. From this perspective I like this because we got this off the table now. We don't have to worry about it as much. It's not to say there won't be storms but we don't want to see storms if we're seeing if we want to see a rally in the market. This was just an example of some past examples of storms. I show this just to give people an idea but the geomagnetic storm came here at the top. This was back in March of 2022. We were short on this market for December 2021 all the way down to October 2022 and then we were long last spring and we had a short trade from last June to the end of September and I was messaging Eulera and all these trades to give people a viewpoint of where we've been in the long-term calls but within this long-term call we had these storms and it's really amazing how these markets tend to immediately sell off especially when we were in the bear market context. This was August 2022 and so this was a period we were still short all the way from December 2021 all the way through this period of October but you can see there's these really big rallies and then these geomagnetic storms would come and the market would just kind of falter immediately because we were in this really strong bear market phase when the Fed was contracting and so the market would just kind of in this stage of trying to just throw in these fits where it would try to rally and then it would just kind of collapse. This is where we are right now and so we had a buy in the Fed internals last October it rallied all the way up until August and this is when the Fed internals go into a sell but these storms show along the way every time there's one of these storms or most of the time I would say 8 out of 10 times the market does have a negative reaction to it and so you can see here there was just quite a few storms here during the summer and every time they came it kind of coincided with these peaks now we did have a couple of storms here that seemed to do anything with it in the last couple of days but these were strange storms they weren't in the forecast and they just showed up after the fact they said there was a G2 storm and so I just put it in there so people can see I also put in the solar eclipse here the full moon perigee here and the full moon perigee over here so full moon perigee is a very strong turning point in astrological terms so I always try to plot these on the chart just so you can get a visual perspective of this but I do expect these folks the perigee is closest to the moon right? yes so think about like a periscope on a sub so you have to be close to the surface for the periscope to come up so perigee means you're close so that's how I always tell people to remember it Apogee means it's far away and conservation of angular momentum states that you're going to be the fastest right when it's there and so that also goes with the planetary speed index that we talk about all the time the moon is just one of the factors of the planets so you've got a full moon when it's moving really fast and so when the moon moves fast the markets tend to run up especially a full moon perigee the full moon end of itself can be a turning point but when you get both of those together when you get the full moon and the speed the orbit is not exactly circular so when it comes closer that angular momentum states that it's got to be moving faster when it's closer and slower when it's away when it's moving on the full moon perigee when it's close to the earth there so it does tend to be a very strong astrological marker so whenever you guys see a full moon perigee out there it has a very strong statistical chance of reversal it doesn't always work you can see here we had one over here it went up for a couple more days but if you go back to some of these big turning points that we had there was full moon perigee on the August 2022 there was a full moon perigee here too so that is just something that anybody who has a calendar that when there's a full moon perigee they call these super moons but a time when the market likes to turn especially if it's rallying in the market so typically full moons tend to be tops and it can be it can be the end of a downtrend too but tends to be the end of a trend typically and since the market is usually rallying across time if you go back that's usually a high so that's just something to think about see that looking here on this 12-hour chart I'm going to zoom in just a little bit here this is an intraday we had this really strong rally here on the CPI report and I'm going to get into that in terms of what I think is going to happen long-term but these Bollinger bandwidths I like to look at these because when these are sinking usually it indicates a consolidation of a market and because these are still sinking to me this does suggest that we are going to come down to some type of a consolidation here in the next few weeks I don't expect this lake to keep pushing higher just yet I think we're in this phase of bottoming right now and I think it's going to take a few more weeks but we're getting closer and I think 2024 is going to be a really positive time for the markets particularly the early months we're going to have planetary steeliums and these are big steeliums, these are not little ones we did by the way we did have a little steelium on the day of that rally I'm going to show you a picture of that so for people who are interested in the astro aspects I'm going to show you a picture of that and it actually kind of came together right when we had that big CPI surge so right into here when we had this surge up into here this was the CPI into here this is when we had that little mini-steelium coming in but the fact that those Bollinger bands are contracting I think is a good thing so I'll show you a picture of that real quick here the steelium that happened there now Larry you know the real reason the market went up on the 14th don't you because I was long the real reason it went up on the 14th no it's my wedding anniversary that's why it went up everybody celebrates on my wedding anniversary so oh I think that makes sense hey let's take a break here we'll have shots holding back wolftrader.com<PHONE_NUMBER> Capricorn The Gold Report As a precious metal gold is still king it continues to hold the most effective safe haven and hedging properties across the global major trading hubs of the London OTC market the US futures market and the Shanghai Gold Exchange The Gold Report Tom O'Brien publishes his weekly Gold Report every Monday morning for subscribers consisting of coverage of the XAU HUI TDX, The Dollar, Bonds, The South African Rand as well as 25 different mining equities with specific buy sell recommendations The Gold Report New subscribers get a 30 day money back guarantee so you have nothing to risk Subscribe to Tom O'Brien's Gold Report newsletter now at TFNN.com Tom O'Brien is responsible for everything from the most aesthetically pleasing artwork to patterns in the stock market To stay on top of stock patterns you can take advantage of, sign up for the Fibonacci 24-7 newsletter at TFNN.com When you subscribe you'll get a weekly report from Veteran Day Trader Larry Pezzavento on stocks you need to pay attention to and you can trust Larry's analysis. 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Alright so what I have here is a simple S&P chart with the 20 and the 50 day moving average sorry the 50 and the 200 day moving average. This tends to be a popular chart people look at for the Golden Cross this has really rarely been below the 200 moving average since 2009 I mean the market has just been very resilient with a couple of exceptions and there of course COVID being one of them but this looked like it was going to cross down the market had a nice rejection off the lows here so to me I think this market is just looking more and more bullish it's just taking some time to set itself up now if we take a look at the Fed use here this is really the crux of the matter here this is why we had this short trade back here into late June into here we were short all the way down to this level here which was this 42.78 level and so that was a long a pretty long short it wasn't as long as the one that we made from December 21 to October 22 but it was still pretty long and so the reason why I felt bearish on that market is because the Fed internals were sinking and the market was rising so that's what we call a negative divergence there and so that really started right here it started when we got to this it started at this 42.78 and so when those divergences happen the market needs to come back and retrace to those levels and that's exactly what it did it came right down to that 42.78 level and so to me that was the biggest advantage that we had in terms of selling activity because we had negative astro we had the Fed down so everything was kind of pushing down but now we don't have that so much we have kind of a mixed bag here we have positive astro but the Fed internals are still sinking now we actually have the reverse case right now because the market has actually been rallying here while the Fed internals have been sinking so we actually have a negative divergence right now that has to play itself out so I do think this market is going to have to come back down here there's a couple of levels that we've been looking at but I do think it needs to come back down to some degree here before it wants to take off and really get going here I think 2024 is going to be I think it's going to be pretty positive I mean things are set up here I know the economy you know people are talking about recession and whatnot but in terms of what I'm looking at here with these charts this looks pretty positive at this point so you know I do think that normally we have these positive holiday seasonals coming up but I think that because it's run so much at this point and we do have that divergence in effect that I do think there's a good chance it's going to try to come back first before it goes up there's another divergence that I look at and I send you these laries from time to time when I see these this is with the money flows so we had a couple of really nice divergences here that have played out the first letter here on the screen is the letter J and this this was a time when the money flow was rising and the market was falling and so we had a divergence here to this 43 72 level and it you know it has to go back in retrace right when you have the divergence and it did exactly that it came back in retrace then it happened again here with this letter K here you can see that the money flow was still rising another positive divergence it goes all the way up here and it gets past this 43 72 now we have the opposite again here we have a case where the market goes up and the money flow is falling so that's another negative divergence here at that 43 72 level so there's two of these out there so I think there's a good chance we're going to at least get back to that 43 72 level probably a little bit further on the pullback but I think this is all part of the process this bottoming process that we're in right now with this market and I just think it's so impressive that the market has held up the way that it has with this whole tightening phase that's been going on with the Fed I mean they've been slowly trying to you know run off this balance sheet and we did have that little spike back in March with the bank term funding program but for the most part I think the market the fact that it's held up here is a very positive sign going forward Bolinger bandwidths are at a peak here which suggests this this is probably the end of this move here I do think that those Bolinger bands are going to start to come back down into here and when that happens usually we get some type of a consolidation so it would not surprise me to see some type of a consolidation here in the coming weeks as we head into Thanksgiving and then into December so I think overall picture looks pretty positive we just have a mixed bag right now we have negative Fed positive so that's kind of what's happening there but overall I do feel positive positive about the S&P as I do with proxy vehicles like Bitcoin I think those are that's showing us already what's going to happen here in terms of the the risk on type of a trade so right now we do have a negative very short term signal on this Astro into this Thanksgiving period into here and this is the quad lunar cycle but you can see over here this is right over here this red arrow this is the Fed juice here this is still in a cell and then the Fed internals here this is also still in a cell and so when both of these are in a cell the market cannot do any types of long-term rallies so there's really no exceptions to this I mean if you go back to 2009 there's no there's no exceptions to this I mean the market can do little moves here and there but for a sustained big type of a rally you need this Fed internals to be pushing pushing up with the market so it doesn't really even matter if the Astro is positive if the Fed is still in this tightening phase you're going to see that markets struggle to get up and this is not just with the S&P pretty much across the board if you look at long trades across the board because we look at this with our Polar R-squared system almost all the markets have not done well in the long side of the trade since tightening has begun so this is something that affects all the marks the credit conditions affect everybody and so that this is the reason why I think it's so impressive that this market has held up as well as it has so so overall I'm still very bullish on this market so let's talk about the S&P versus the Vixie here this is I follow the Vixie which is a ETF index and we run a Paris trade on this and so you know people like to look at the Vixie as a contrary indicator with the S&P this actually picked up this buy signal here this is a Paris trade that we run so on 1023 this does pick this up it does still have the S&P up here and it had the Vixie in a sell here on 1023 but one thing I do want to kind of caution to everybody is this Vixie is getting down to very extreme levels right now and so we have another chart that we look at where we look at just the Vixie in of itself and it's getting down to extreme levels right now so I think this is pointing to a possible short-term high here on the S&P and I think this could start this pullback here for the next few weeks you can see down here this is the extreme level that this is at with the Vixie down here this is also the Quad Lunar Cycle here this makes a buy on 1114 so why does this matter for S&P because these two run in inverse mirrors and this has reached an extreme stream low right now and so this is a buy until 1127 and so the volatility tends to run counter to the S&P so just something to think about I think on a short-term we could be looking at a high end here but longer-term I still think that election year coming up looks pretty darn good at this point so any questions about that no it's that you've pretty much spot on and you're coming right into the next break so then it works out pretty good we'll have you back in just a minute or two okay I think our break is coming right now if I'm not mistaken let's just double check here I've got 30 seconds left tell the folks how they can reach it take that 30 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have the jobs report that would come once a month that was explosive but and of course the Fed meeting but now we just seems like this happens like four or five times a month now so we really have to be on guard with the risk on these on these types of scenarios so just wanted to kind of put that out there for everybody that that is coming this Saturday so it's a risk control focused webinar so that's going to be Saturday at eight it's free to everybody you can just come out to YouTube and join us in the chat all right let's talk about some Astro Larry what do you think Astros good I'm on I'm on board buddy let's go all right I know that it works yeah I thought this was interesting this was on 1114 this was the day of the rally now this was a steelium that just came together pretty quickly I mean it's not like you know when we have in January February we have a lot of these just sticking around for weeks and weeks this came together for a day you can have these four planets we're all working together in the steelium and they were opposition Uranus Uranus tends to go either way it tends to go explosive either up or down it's very unpredictable so I felt like that that was a classic signature of Uranus energy on the market we just got that explosive move to the upside like I said a doomsday scenario if you're trading this and you got to really keep those stops extra extra tight I mean really tight on those days because those days are here to stay the computers are here the AI is here all this stuff is here so the volatility is very high we get these positive feedback loops that come into the markets and they cause they cause things to just really go haywire so this was the optimized Bradley we talked about this last time we said we were coming this is the actual charts I'm just showing you the chart from last time I was on the show so you can see on the left side here this is the Bradley we talked about this last time I was on the show just to kind of refresh everybody's memory I stopped this in June okay so this all of this information out here was was out of sample information in other words it's not a back test it was actually running from this date here you can see forward and so last time I was on the show just to kind of refresh everybody's memory here we were at this low in the in the optimized Bradley which was the letter for here this was making this low right at the beginning of November here okay and then it was forecasting a rally here this was an as this is an astro forecast this is not a fed forecast this is just astro but this optimized Bradley is is specifically optimized for the s&p so it weights specific planets in different positions and it's it's to you know I deal with trading systems all the time and so to have a system like this that's able to just keep going after you stop running the test and this is all into the future it's pretty that's pretty amazing I mean it's a very strong indication a lot of times and people do back tests you know they're so obsessed with saying oh is it statistically significant what is the chi square say what is the t test say what's the z score what's the Poisson distribution what's the Bernoulli none of that stuff matters because the past doesn't matter at all what matters is that it can keep going into the future so it doesn't really matter if it models it well into the past you can have all types of models that look statistically significant in the past it means absolutely I'm going to show you now what this graph looks like with with this month's actual data and so take a look so take a look over here this is the letter four here this is the last time I was on the show and you can see here that the market came into that low exactly at that low of the optimized Bradley so it just continues to model this market very well from an astro standpoint now it just going to measure the turning points this the scope and the strength of these moves is going to be largely dependent upon what the Fed use does I mean once the Fed turns this back up you know I don't see anything stopping this market I mean I think I think there's a lot of with the Fed is you know they're just to have a lot of room to start cutting inflation is coming down we were down to three percent there is a lot of room here for the Fed to maneuver and to help this market get higher so I just think that what we're waiting on right now is just this Fed activity to start to turn up so I just wanted to kind of go through that with everybody just because it was it just did such a good job I mean this was this is another vantage point here where we looked at some larger term moves you can see this was the optimized Bradley over here on the letter E was the low on November and then once again you can see it just picks that low up just very nicely so you know sometimes it works better than others I mean but this was a specific time where it did it did pretty good so I'm happy with it I Larry I've sent you two charts already for what was it was for golden the tenure I sent you sure was yes so we were very good starting to put these out for all the symbols that we have and those those show highs coming in I think gold I showed it shows it coming in pretty soon here and then I think the tenure in another month or so something like that I have a question sure is pretty soon an astroterm you got to give us a date here Bubba pretty soon don't cut it I want to know the time of the day to the second well let me see if I can get to the minute I'll tell you I gotta look at this ten year chart doesn't load anyway and I get this to load I'll put it out oh here we go the ten year has a high coming in I think it's around December the 12th and then the metals has gold high coming in I think it's November 19th it's like three days so gold has it topping sooner I think that makes sense because if the S&P starts getting stronger stronger I think gold is going to struggle because I think Bitcoin there's two things I want to talk about well first thing is Apple here so let's get to Apple real quick so what you're looking at here is the wolf trader wave this is a wave function that I've written I wrote myself that it uses machine learning to get these forecasts going this is in line with the forecast for the S&P to pull back the way that this wolf trader wave works is there's specific time segments but for the next up wave to start I programmed it in so it has to work with RSI so this is a weekly timeframe so this is weekly and so what happened here well Apple was in this down wave here and the down wave is not that long and so the down wave ended so it's not in an up wave yet what has to happen is Apple has to have a pullback here on this RS this is the weekly RSI so this pullback level is at about 42 it's currently at about 71 so once this pulls back to 42 Apple will have the green light here for the next leg up into this bull market here so I think that goes nicely 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around this and just how we've been dealing with this on these highly volatile days so that's what it is so it's each Saturday eight o'clock and you're more than welcome to attend it's free to attend just show up and we'll see you there. How do they go online to do this or do they go to your website or how do they do it? Oh it's just on YouTube I just post so what I do okay each morning it's eight o'clock if you sign up for the YouTube channel you get a notification it's on Saturday at eight o'clock typically it's eight o'clock and then it's open eight and they can chat and ask questions in the chat section on the webinar and they get free to attend I usually leave it up for a couple of hours because there's some people on the west coast that don't wake up as early but we have people also in Europe and Japan so I try to make it at a time where people can come in at eight o'clock and then the archives of the webinars are going to be on Patreon after a few hours I take it down so I try to leave it up for a couple hours if you want to come by and see it but we're there every Saturday and so we have a good time we'd love to see you there and chat in person By the way Shane there are people on the west coast that don't wake up at all not even at ten o'clock anyway listen we'll have you on again soon my friend live every day and the attitude of gratitude and may God bless Thank you Larry You bet Shane Smollion folks stand up guy we'll see you on Monday folks day off tomorrow and we'll see you Monday may God bless


What's up guys today? I'm gonna talk about the four main characteristics of film You really only need to know these four main things Then you're gonna go before I do that though I want to talk about what film actually is because you may be new to it and you might be wondering what is this magical thing that? Creates images without any digital information and here is a roll of film. Okay. The first part of film is just a thin plastic base That's what everything is going to be layered on top of after that you have a microscopically thin layer of Emulsion and that is basically a chemical compound of silver halide crystals suspended in gelatin And yeah, it's that gelatin film is not vegan Number three you have an anti-halation layer and number four you have a protective layer that protective layer is just gonna help Your film to not get scratched. Okay. What are the four main film? characteristics we have film speed we have grain we have tonal range and Lastly we have contrast so we'll talk about grain first Actually, we'll talk about film speed first because that's the most readily available information to you. It's on the box So film speed of 50 is often Considered a slow speed anything below that 50 and below a 100 to 200 range is sort of a medium speed film and a 400 end up is considered a fast speed Just like your ISO and your digital camera the higher the number the more sensitive the camera Sorry, the more sensitive the film will be too light Okay, number two is grain when you expose that piece of film the silver halide crystals are gonna form these black clumps called grain And that grain creates what's called a latent image. That means you can't actually see it It's not until you go through the chemical process of using developer fixer and all that that that image will start to appear So the size of the grain is actually relative to that film speed So the lower the film speed the finer the grain so you're gonna have more of a detailed higher resolution looking image If you want more leeway you want to go with the higher film speed So 400 and up will give you more leeway and also more grain So it is important to note that not all film speeds are gonna have the same grain There's different types of grain structure and it varies from manufacturer to manufacturer. So one ISO 400 speed might have a very different looking grain or have more or less grain than another 400 speed So number three was tones tones which also by the way correlates to that film speed in general is The amount of grays you have from black to white a lower film speed is gonna have a greater tonal range a higher film speed We'll go from black to white more suddenly in other words You're gonna have more contrast and that was actually number four So that's pretty much everything you need to know about film. Let's go. Let's do a recap actually So we have your film speed you have your film grain you have tonal range and you have contrast It's all you need to know So that's it. Those are the four characteristics of film if that still feels a little overwhelming My advice would be to go and pick up a 400 speed I really like tri-axe because you have a lot of leeway. You can be developed as if it were a 1600 speed film I think that's kind of the limits of tri-axe personally I shoot tri-axe at 1250 and I develop it in diaphine and it comes out great I don't really shoot tri-axe at 400 because I mostly use diaphine. So I kind of keep it Consistent I don't really worry about pushing or pulling it. I just shoot it at 1250. That's like my standard So I hope this helped. I'll have another video tomorrow if you guys want to see more videos Like and subscribe. I guess you have to click a bell now. I don't know I don't really like YouTube. I don't really like being on video at all to be honest But I like helping people so I hope this is useful to you guys. I will see you in the video tomorrow


All right. Good morning, everyone. My name is Ryan Coleman. I'm the director of economic development for the city of Columbia and welcome to five points. Columbia's original shopping village where we are happy and excited to celebrate yet another business opening in Columbia here today. All right. Yeah, let's give it up. To want to briefly introduce our lineup of speakers for this morning. First, we've got Councilman Will Brennan for District three. We followed up by Councilman Howard DeVall, our in-house residential pickleball aficionado and all things sports related. He will be followed by Miss Ashley Wendler, who will be speaking on behalf of the Five Points Association and then our business of honor, Miss Wisa Barrett, owner of Breakpoint Coa. With that, I will turn it over to Councilman Will Brennan, sir. Thank you. Thank you. How about it? A beautiful, warm day in Five Points. How's everybody doing? Fantastic. Fantastic. You know, it's it's a wonderful day for another small business opening, but I want to take a minute. Look around at all the other Five Points merchants out here to support another wonderful small business. Give yourself a hand. Thank you so much for the support Five Points. We are on a hot streak right now, and I can't thank Lisa and Adam for putting their vision into action. The city, we want to help small businesses grow and prosper and really make that vision come true. Is Greg here? Is Greg here? He's not here. All right. Well, I'm going to give a shout out to Greg Williams from the city of Columbia. Lisa called me a long time ago and kind of described the vision.  He is our business development liaison. And Lisa, I think you connected with him and he helped you through the processes of permitting and everything. Ryan Coleman and his team. I see Grace over there. Grace, how are you doing? They are out recruiting new wonderful small businesses and are a great resource for us at the city of Columbia. So Adam, Lisa, thank you so much for your investment and seeing the vision through. So Howard DeVall or Pickleball guys next. Thank you, Will. Thank you, Will. It is a great day, a hot day in the city of Columbia, but as my pickleball friends say, if you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. We're delighted to have Lisa and Adam opening up this shop in Five Points. It's a wonderful addition to the transition of Five Points into a family-friendly, merchant-friendly atmosphere for the city of Columbia. We applaud what they're doing. The city staff sent me a little bio on what they planned to put in the shop. And Lisa, I am intrigued by the trendy brands such as Love Shack Fancy. I want to see the Love Shack Fancy when the ceremony is over. Welcome to the city of Columbia. Welcome to Five Points. I live right up on the Hill University Hill and I'll be a frequent customer. Thank you. Hey guys, I'm Ashley Lindler and on behalf of the Five Points Association, I just want to welcome you to the village. I'm an owner of a business here as well and I can tell you that I couldn't imagine being anywhere else. It's just the best place in Columbia. And as your friend, Lisa, I'm so excited to have you here. My girls have already found your shop. They know you're the dealer for the Goldhenge, for the Love Shack, and for the Free People. And they'll be spending lots of money there. So we'll be supporting you and welcome to the village. I prepared a few comments. You know when Adam and I embarked on this journey in March, just five months ago, we had no idea what we'd be getting ourselves into. And we probably still don't. But I can tell you the last five months have been very humbling and frustrating, exhausting and fraught with uncertainty. But also it's been so fun and exhilarating and a source of pride and accomplishment. Frankly, it reminds me of another journey I've had the good fortune to embark on raising children. And like Parenthood, a good support system is everything. We could not have made it without our family. Thank you. And our friends, all of our friends who've been so good to us, and the tennis community, Adam's students. Thank you so much. The pickleball community and our wonderful neighbors here in Five Points. And of course the city of Columbia has been such a wonderful resource. So we're grateful for everybody who has been supportive and hopefully will continue to support us going forward. We're excited you're here for the birth of our baby, Frank Pointcola.


Sleep specialists often manually score patients' neurophysiological signals collected from sleep labs. This process is time-consuming, tedious, and difficult. As a result, there has been increased demand for automatic sleep stage classification, ASSE, systems. Sleep stage classification refers to identifying the different stages of sleep, which is important for diagnosing and treating related sleep disorders. To address these issues, this paper surveys the progress and challenges in existing electroencephalogram, e.g., based methods for sleep stage identification. These methods typically use multiple EEG channels, and are based on either 32nd or 22nd epochs, which limits their applicability for real-time applications. Additionally, the Physionet Sleep European Data Format, EDF, database was used. The proposed methodology achieved an average classification sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy of 89.06%, 98.61%, and 93.13%, respectively, when a decision tree classifier was employed. Furthermore, the proposed method was compared to other recent studies, which confirmed its high classification accuracy. This article was authored by Caldali Iyabualayn, Mayad Faisapur, Wafa Esalmehamedi, and others. We are article.tv, links in the description below.