This show was brought to you by these happy patrons Today's highlights first line art is in master second Kurt Skizak uses blender NPR and third malt has light groups Welcome to the BNPR show a celebration of stylized rendering Now the news The first news item is the grease pencil interpolation tool We have seen something related to this in the last show But grease pencil interpolation is now a tool on the tool sidebar with tweakable parameters on the top bar The sequence interpolation has more control to interpolate only the line selected You can tweak the interpolation on each stroke and how many frames to interpolate Second the most wanted grease pencil line are modifier is in master It was a hard journey to find a home for the line art inside blender So we want to congratulate Wu Yiming and all the developers involved in this project With the addition of line art we have more line rendering options for different use cases inside blender The line art modifier can be used on the lighter stuff Freestyle for the heavy post-process scenes with endless line style possibilities and Maltz line art filter for super fast real-time line art independent of scene complexity More of the line art modifier in the tutorial section later Third malt has light groups this feature is useful when you want to isolate the shader using the light It's also useful to have a shadow that is independent from the light vector controlling the material You can have a light group number one shading material and the light group number two be the shadow caster Another use of the light groups is having control of the specular reflections Download the latest refactor malt build to test it out Fourth if you like what you see in the hashtag 256 fest you might like pico cad Pico cad is a program to build a textured low-poly 3d model coded by Johann Pites It uncomplicates 3d modeling to the bare essentials It's built on the pico 8 platform, which comes rich with constraints Look at what people have been doing with pico cad and go search pico cad on Twitter. They also have a discord channel You'll be amazed by the models made on it. There's also an exporter for blender The first tutorial is by the developer of the line art modifier Wu Yiming Here he shows how to use the features inside the grease pencil line art modifier There are two ways to enable line art in the viewport The first is by using the add object menu shift a and selecting grease pencil then selecting either Scene collection or object line art the second method is using a grease pencil object and adding a line art modifier Note all edge detection is done through the camera view if you see lines in weird places. That's the reason The first tip is to use line art on a relatively low-poly scene and objects The line art modifier does not cache geometry This means that line art is recalculated on every view change and this can be very heavy on a dense mesh The second tip intersection lines will only be drawn inside the selected scene collection and objects and Intersection between not selected and selected objects will not be drawn A note line art has edge type detections, but fewer compared to freestyle. There is no silhouette line type and For those who are into the math of line detection silhouette line type is too heavy for almost real-time performance Malts line art on the other hand doesn't have edge type detection Everything is an elaborate filter Third tip turn off intersection edge detection to speed up the viewport response Fourth tip Line art uses freestyle edge marks for edge marked line types in edit mode edge menu control E Select mark freestyle edge to add the edge for line rendering a fifth tip Rendering line art on particle instances can be turned off to aid viewport performance The sixth tip For view occlusion it works a lot like quantitative invisibility range in freestyle The new feature here is transparency Inside material check the transparency in the line art panel Click the mask bit you want then in the line art modifier enable transparency and click on the mask previously set So only the object behind those faces will have their lines rendered It's great for visor and glass material Seventh tip To render different line styles on the same mesh You can use different object vertex groups and change the settings on the vertex weight transfer subpanel You are also required to make the same vertex groups in the grease pencil vertex group We know this is tedious and it should be automated in future updates and Lastly baking you can bake in fixed frame steps To do that change the frame step on the output properties tab Please download blender 2.93 and have fun with grease pencil line art modifier You may have seen those glitchy effects made with EV and screen space shaders, but how are they done? The secrets have been revealed by late as usual in his article on his website The key to the effect is screen space refraction or better known as SSR You can enable SSR in the material setting The first step is making a glass material. This is done using a refraction node linked to the output node To make the distortion effects use a noise texture to transform the normal vector For chromatic aberration that RGB channels are offset When you combine those two you get this colorful distortion effect For a blocky glitch you need to use a 1d noise For more controlled glitch mask out the glitch with a few simple threshold nodes Using SSR you can make a pixel art filter SSR in EV is really cool and we'll get a few SSR effects into Mont soon The third tutorial is how to create pixel art animation sprites by soya The initial setup is a bit uncommon since it uses cycles as a render engine And it's a little overkill on our opinion. Nonetheless, set the pixel filter to the lowest value This is to make sure that aliasing happens. Also set a transparent background For the lighting setup Use four point lamps at the top of the character so that the upper parts of the character are brighter Add a sun lamp to fill in the rest of the lighting For the freestyle setup, a short note. He sets the line thickness on the master thickness We discourage you to do this since all the line thicknesses in the line style setting will be a multiplication of the master thickness You will have more control of the line thickness when it's done in the line style For the line color set the color of the line on each material You'll need to add a different setting later in the line style color to use this setup In the line style color add a material modifier to use the color set in the material just now Compositing the render is an old trick of using scale pixelate scale sandwich node setup This will get rid of the sub pixel data and only sample from the visible pixels alone If you want to use the pixel size of the render remove the last scale node Now you can animate the character and set up the camera to get multiple viewpoints of the same animation Render everything to png files The next setup is the cleanup. You'll need a good pixel art software like graphic scale or as per a Load the pngs, crop them to size, paint the eyes, enhance the animation And then you can export the renders of the characters to be used in your game engine Turning 3d models into pixel art is relatively easy. Please give this one a try Here are a few bonus tutorials that would be very worth your time Projected texture eyes by a version of reality At the time of the writing of this show the series has nine videos and is ongoing The first video is the overview of the setup The second details the object versus uv coordinates Third is about uv mapping options The fourth is about vector group settings The fifth one is about gradient lines and masking And the sixth about mass group setup The seventh video is on iris texture Eighth is on bend and displace The ninth video is on bone setup There might be more videos in this series now and you can get the whole eye setup on gumroad for a small fee The next set of tutorials are by team miracles The first video is making a ghibli style animation with grease pencil Second animating an anime cooking scene with grease pencil This is part one of the yummy scene The second part is coloring an anime cookbook scene with grease pencil And the fourth video is the making of hairmageddon We will feature hairmageddon later on in the show Now for the robot voice Tune shaded face rig using booleans by lightning boy studio If you have not watched this, please do it after the show Lastly, how to make animations in blender using a sprite sheet by genabit This is an easy to follow tutorial if you want to bring a sprite sheet into blender and animate it And robot voice We hope you have fun with all these tutorials Well, the amount of ah oozing from the artworks of the month segment is undisputed Hold on to your hats, here comes the torrent You may have watched kirk skazacht in a nutshell video And in their recent show titled what if the world turned to gold As shown on their more recent tweet on twitter blender is used It seems like blender is everywhere nowadays The next animation is high q a tribute scene by at croissant We love the camera work, so let's watch it a few more times Here's a snippet of a music video by at nikomiya yodaka Made using blender grease pencil and the ai voice synth neutrino There's a full version of the music video on youtube as well The last animation is from 2020 Ah quarantine hair, hairmageddon by team miracles It's a mix of grease pencil with freestyle And we know it has freestyle since we saw maybe a few freestyle artifacts It's good you should watch the whole animation We have more animations than we can fit here in the show notes Be sure to catch them there And that's a wrap Remember to download malt picocad and the alpha version of blender 2.93 to test line art And again all links in the show notes This show was brought to you by these awesome people Please thank them kindly Before we go one final question Which sports show do you love the most?


Okay, hi, I'm Scott Gray. I'm an engineer with Apple, thus the dark mode presentation. So I'm here to talk to you about CloudKit, which are CloudKit built on FoundationDB and Record Layer. And specifically, I should probably start with kind of what is CloudKit? CloudKit is resilient, structured cloud storage. You might otherwise know that as a database. The idea behind CloudKit is we provide infrastructure for an application developer to come in, design a schema for their application, deploy that schema to the cloud, and then provide all your standard database functionality. Insert update, delete, query, and really kind of where the bread and butter of it comes in are on notification and sync between, and the synchronization of changes between your devices. So we're not just a place to kind of rest your data in case you drop your phone in the toilet, which I've done, don't ask me how. And, but also to make sure that any change you make on one device has been synchronized to another device. So from a tenancy model, CloudKit takes sort of an inverted view of tenancy from a lot of other database systems do. And that is that for every application that you're running on your device, whether it be your phone or on macOS, every application that uses the cloud is allocated a distinct logical database.  So this is made possible thanks to FoundationDB, of course, or I wouldn't be here talking about it, and also by RecordLayer. So RecordLayer is a project that actually came out of CloudKit. It was open-sourced in January of this year. It provides facilities that give you basic relational database semantics, relational-ish. There's a couple places where it might feel a little foreign, but by and large, relational semantics, which of course includes the ability to have a schema, to define record types, to create indexes, and maintain those indexes. It has a stateless execution architecture, which I'm gonna talk about in a bit, particularly on how we leverage that, and also point out there is a more detailed talk specifically on RecordLayer that's gonna happen at 340 p.m. So let's start off with one of the key abstractions of RecordLayer, which is this concept of a record store. So a record store is a logical database. It is defined by an external schema, and as I said, that's because if you think about it, I'm developing, say, the photos application. I have one schema for photos, but I wanna instantiate a billion databases. You locate, a record store is located at a given prefix in the FDB key space, and the entire database is contained within a contiguous key range. That means all of the records, all of the indexes, all of the metadata about the state of the record store is all contained in a contiguous key range, and that becomes very important in a minute. So for example, let's say we took, we decided that our key at which we wish to locate our record store is maybe the first part of the prefix is gonna be the user ID. The second part might be the application that we're talking about. So what this allows us to do is have a series of databases that all belong to this user. They are all contiguously located next to each other, and each one is, of course, completely self-contained. And thus, within our cluster, we can be housing millions of users and many tens of millions of databases. And of course, when we wanna scale out, it's simply a matter of adding a directory service which basically keeps track of which cluster owns a particular user's data, and every request gets routed to the cluster. We know because of how we've organized our keys, we know exactly where the database for that application lives. Taking it out a step further, of course, scale out becomes easy. Every time we feel that we're reaching capacity, you can throw another server in, new accounts will be allocated to this. And furthermore, so we have some machinery that sits at the bottom, it's physically at the bottom of everything. So we have this machinery that's keeping an eye on things. So how is the workload distributed across the cluster? If it sees an imbalance, so now here's where the contiguous key range comes in. So if it sees an imbalance, all we need to do is to be able to pick up these ranges of keys and begin shifting and moving them around to rebalance the load across the clusters. Of course, in this example, I've kind of lumped, our unit of work is an individual user with its contiguous set of databases, but of course, that's kind of arbitrary. You could just as easily decided that every application is gonna live in a different set of clusters. So the other major attribute that I mentioned about record layer is stateless compute. So what does that really mean? So what this means is that every server can handle any given request. And a great deal of care went into record layer to make sure that the act of physically opening a database or physically opening a record store and beginning work on it is extremely fast. So it can be done in milliseconds. So what this means is every incoming request, these servers are just sitting out here being arbitrarily handled requests. They open the database, do their work, close it, and then they're done. Furthermore, all of the requests that we currently support are stateless and streaming. And what that means is currently, none of the requests that we support will currently do any in-memory work. That means no in-memory sorting, no in-memory joins, nothing that spills to disk, like an in-memory sort. Instead, we rely very, very heavily on record layers, extensive library of indexes to support these operations. So record layer has text indexes. We have indexes that support aggregates and indexes that support joins. But as a result, kind of part of this kind of streaming and stateless architecture is in terms of memory, every request is very well bounded. This goes all the way to kind of larger, you know, larger high-scale query operations. So for example, any query that's being executed on the server can be stopped at any point. And what that means is it may have made some progress but may not have finished. And what happens is at that point that it gets stopped, we return the result set along with this opaque continuation, which is really just an encapsulation of the state of the query. At any point, the client can then return with this continuation and pass it back in. It gets routed to an arbitrary server in the cluster, which can continue the query, proceeding, handing back results back and forth until the operation is completed. As you saw, the continuation is valid across servers. It's even valid where you, to say, bounce the entire system between, we don't, but where you to bounce the entire system between these continuations, it wouldn't matter. As long as there's a server to process it, it will continue the work. So where this comes into play, when you pull all of this together, is if you think about a request, what is the cost of a request? A standard, like an insert, update, delete operation, they're all a fairly finite, fixed, well-defined unit of work. Well, what we've just done is we have now broken a query into a well-defined unit of work. So what we can do is we can place limits. This is another facility of record layer. We can place limits on how much work a given portion of a query is allowed to consume, whether that be on the number of records that have been read, the number of bytes that have been read, the amount of time that's passed since the query began. So now we have a well-defined discrete unit of work, and so now what that allows us to do is the entire rest of the system can think about resource management in terms of just rate of requests. The amount of work being done by every request is fairly fixed, so now we can just simply apply rules on how fast may an individual user come back with requests, how fast can an individual application process requests, we can have all these rules that maintain order, that maintain stability across the system simply by rejecting, if we see that a request is exceeding the rate for which it is allowed, we can go tell the client, in this case, a device like a phone, go away and come back in just a little bit, give us some time. Next, I'm gonna dive in a little bit into how CloudKit uses FoundationDB and Record Layer for indexing. Originally, CloudKit relied on mostly non-transactional indexing, kind of external indexing services, and I'll kind of drill into that in a little bit, but as most of you probably know, by having an external non-transactional system, you get lots of strange idiosyncrasies when it comes to handling requests against these indexes. FoundationDB, of course, gives us transactions, transactions give us fully consistent indexes, and I'm gonna dive into a couple of the key indexes that we utilize today. One is what we call our sync index. So as I said, syncing is really kind of the bread and butter, it's one of the things that makes CloudKit special and particularly useful. This sync is implemented via an index, the index itself is implemented via version stamp, and I know several people have discussed a version stamp previous to this, but effectively what version stamp is, it's FoundationDB provides the ability to insert a value with just a placeholder, and what the placeholder says is when you commit, I want you to replace this placeholder with your commit version, and the commit version is really, really useful because it's monotonically increasing, monotonically increasing, and it's unique. The other feature that we leverage when building this index is, you remember I mentioned that record layer is kind of relational-ish. One of the interesting things that it's capable of doing is defining indexes that span record types. For example, theoretically you could create an index on the field first name, and regardless of the record type, I wanna, if you've got a field called first name, I'm gonna index it, if I say give me all the records that have a first name of Scott, I will get all the records of all the record types for which there is a first name of Scott. So by leveraging this universal index feature, what we can do is we can build an index that spans say like the modification time or more importantly, because it spans the commit version, which really is a modification time, of all the records. So let's talk about this in action, but before I do, I wanna go into a little bit about how we used to do it and kind of maybe the naive way, and actually we used to do it before version stamp was introduced, was our old index was built on this concept of just a change token. So every record you insert is just, we give it a unique number, a unique increasing number called change token. So along comes a client, they need to insert their lemon, because who doesn't need to insert their lemon? The first thing they do is they go read the next, the maximum token we have, they see that it's four, they increment it and voila, we have an ordered commit, maybe we had another device out there that the last time they looked at their fruit, they were at two, so they knew all about their grapes and they're asking for, what fruit has been added since I last looked? And voila, a banana, a strawberry and a lemon. I know my fruit really well. So works fine, the problem is it serializes all modifications. So for example, let's say we got two people come in at the same time, we've got your fruit, we've got your lemon, you've got your pear and at the same time, they both read the max version, they both get four, they both write at five and the first one that commits wins, the second one that commits gets a conflict. No problem, you simply retry the transaction and it works. So this actually served us really, really well because if you think about our usage model, you have a database per application, so what is the actual concurrency in that database? It's fairly low, it's like if you have two devices, it's the odds of those two devices trying to write the same set of key or trying to write or do a modification concurrently, but as CloudKit grows and evolves we're handling larger and larger use cases, more concurrency on devices, more concurrency on users and clients and this just doesn't scale. So everything is better with version stamp. So now what happens when we bring in the idea of version stamp? So now when our two clients come in and they decide they wanna insert their respective fruits, what their insert becomes is insert a key of version stamp which like I said, is this opaque thing and your fruit and then at the time one of the transactions is committed, they are assigned the commit version that FDB assigns, it's guaranteed to be unique, it's guaranteed to be monotonically increasing and thus we have a consistently ordered, a consistently ordered index of modifications that's also free from conflicts. There are some really interesting aspects about this, I'll highlight some of the interesting challenges but I can't really go into it in a 20 minute talk. So first is how do you implement deletes, how do you handle deletes and updates in this world? Because you don't wanna remove the record, you would like to maintain a forward view of changes. How do you move data between clusters? So that commit version is unique per cluster. So if you just, that machinery I showed moving users from one cluster to another, if you just move that data as is, you get this interesting problem where the commit version on the target cluster might be logically before the data you just moved. So if the user begins doing new inserts, they will actually be placing data earlier in the index than at the tail of the index, so how do you deal with that? And further we have this old implementation and we needed to switch this new implementation without shutting everything down. So how do you do this change without disrupting the client behavior? So all of this is in the record layer paper, I'll be talking, I'll have a link to that at the end of the presentation. But next I just wanted to move on to text indexes. So I mentioned, we had our indexing used to rely on external indexing services like solar. This has the problem that there is some lag, so that when you write a record, you might have a slight delay between the record, when the record's available in the index, so for a brief period, you may not get results, or even worse, you might end up out of sync. So if something goes wrong between the time you wrote the record and the time you indexed it, you may not get an index entry at all. Obviously, foundation DB, transactions, everything's consistent. But in order to do that, we needed a text index. So one of the features that was added to record layer over, I guess the last year, was the presence of this text index, which is, again, fully transactional, low overhead, and it's also interesting to think of it as sort of like a personalized index. So typically with a text indexing scheme, you'll have a big indexing service sitting out there, managing the world. In this environment, again, a record store is completely self-contained, which means you have your text index totally self-contained alongside the data. So it's fairly inexpensive. It moves with the data. It's managed with all the rest of the data. It's super convenient. And the last thing I'll touch on is just kind of like what our experience has been with foundation DB. Obviously, foundation DB was open sourced out of Apple. We didn't open source it because we're through with it. We open sourced it because it's great and you should use it. Obviously, it's the main development focus of it is testability and simulation. Because of this, it tends not to break. Bugs tend to get caught during development and not deployment. There's extensive testing of kind of cross version upgrades. What happens when you're upgrading this thing live as making sure that the old version and the new version are fully compatible.  And it is a tremendous testament to the quality of testing in foundation DB that we can take a release of foundation DB, have it rolled into production in a matter of weeks rather than a matter of years of testing and fixing problems. And you can have a great deal of confidence that it will just work. Record layer and foundation DB are awesome. I'm not just saying that because it came out of my team. I highly encourage everybody to use it if you haven't, if you aren't already. We have a number of papers. So actually I only list one of them here but this is the one very specific about record layer. As I said, at 340 there's a talk from another member of my team, Nicholas. I highly encourage you to go check that out and please get involved. We get involved with foundation DB, get involved with record layer. We would love to see the support from the community on this. And that's it. Thank you. Thank you.


This week saw not only ups and downs of the crypto market, but also ups and downs of the world cup, but Spain, Argentina, and Switzerland all knocked out. However, England, Sweden, and Russia are all through. We also celebrated the 4th of July this week, like former American Roger Ver, who sarcastically celebrated America's independence day from his new home in St. Kate. Ver renounced his American citizenship after the US government convicted him of selling explosives, a.k.a. fireworks online. I'm Molly Jane Zuckerman. This is Lake Zug in Switzerland's crypto valley, and this is your Hodler's Digest. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love. They had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. It's a long holiday. Well, not anymore. Switzerland has come a long way since the 40s. Apart from chocolate and cuckoo clocks, it is now home to over 200 blockchain companies located in and around Zug. Welcome to the crypto valley, the crypto capital of Europe. Even its mayor, Dolphine Mueller, is such a big believer in crypto and blockchain that the city held the municipal vote on the blockchain last week, which turned out to be a huge success. Switzerland wants to follow in the footsteps of Malta and Singapore, two countries that have taken significant steps in becoming more crypto friendly. Earlier this year, Switzerland's economics minister said he wanted his country to become the crypto nation. You can already pay rent in crypto, buy wine, and purchase glasses for Bitcoin and Zug. However, many in the industry question just how serious the Swiss government is about removing the obstacles faced by crypto and blockchain-related companies. Not a surprise among cryptophobic nations like India or Finland, but Switzerland is meant to be a leading light in the industry. Heinz Tanler, finance director of Zug, believes that in the coming months, crypto and blockchain-based companies will have access to normal banking services just like any other business. He describes Zug as exceptionally economically liberal. In the meantime, some companies have been running their banking operations via the Virgin Islands and Liechtenstein. Last year, Switzerland raised $900 million from ICOs, ranking second active in the US. The Tezos ICO, currently in serious legal trouble, raised $232 million alone. And on Friday, 6th, the owner and operator of the Swiss Stock Exchange announced that it would be launching a cryptocurrency platform next year. While Switzerland may not be a world leader in soccer, there's still hope for it to become a world leader in crypto. The Bank of Fuddland, I'm sorry, the Bank of Finland, called cryptocurrencies a fallacy with zero value. A scathing report on cryptocurrencies attempts to explain why crypto and blockchain are accounting systems for non-existent assets and unrelated to the fundamental characteristics of money. The report then goes on to compare the desire to buy cryptocurrencies with the same intangible value as buying toys or firearms, noting that other reasons could include criminal activities and security against real or imagined state oppression. Well, that's it, Finland. You know what else is a fallacy? Santa Claus. Lapland is a joke, flying reindeer? More like fly agaric, if you get my meaning. With England safely in the quarterfinals, we thought we'd bring you some crypto stories from across the pond. Meet Bitmex exchange co-founder Ben Dello, who is reportedly Britain's youngest crypto billionaire. The 34-year-old Oxford graduate who founded Bitmex in 2014 would rather keep it humble, though, telling reporters this week that he prefers to give his money away to charities following in the footsteps of his idols, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates. Bitmex is currently one of the largest derivatives crypto exchanges in the world with a daily transaction volume of around $2.4 billion. You might also be interested in a conservative MP in the UK who thinks the blockchain will lead to increased social freedom, trust, and make government savings more efficient. Eddie Hughes put his name to a paper, Unlocking Blockchain, embracing new technologies to drive efficiency and empower the citizen. He wants to set up a UK blockchain hub to develop British entrepreneurs and attract foreign investment. The paper argues for the appointment of a Chief Blockchain Officer. In other news from the UK, a Treasury Committee listened to experts on crime and crypto. Three main areas were expected to be discussed. One, large-scale attacks, phishing, or scams targeting individual investors. Two, hacks on exchanges in companies. And three, ICO fraud. This week, England proved to be surprisingly adept at penalties. Even the Treasury Committee must be in a good mood. So fingers crossed for no China-style crackdowns and that the good mood prevents hodlers from being penalized. Now time for your crypto world cup quiz of the week, which former England soccer player will never sell his Bitcoin? I'll give you five seconds. One, two, five. Time's up. Can't get it right? Blend hodl. This week, Russia got to the next stage, but it might be a while before Bitcoin does the same, according to the head of Spherebunk, Russia's largest bank. CEO Herman Greff said he could not yet foresee governments giving up their centralized role. He did, however, reiterate his belief that crypto assets will play a future role in the economy. Greff's comments reflect the broader regulatory uncertainty in Russia, as this week sees the deadline for new legislation which would define crypto as an asset and not legal tender. But there were reasons to be hopeful. Last month, Spherebunk revealed plans to launch a crypto-based investment fund. However, Greff did admit recently to a Russian news outlet that he wouldn't recommend buying crypto, comparing it to gambling. It has been speculated that countries under sanctions like Iran, Venezuela, and, of course, Russia are into crypto purely to circumnavigate sanctions. But crypto can be a great store of value for private citizens when the economy tanks. So for the sake of Russian citizens, let's hope they don't score any more own goals. Let us know in the comments who you think is the true crypto nation And as always, like, hodl, and... Wait, Roger, what are you doing? Subscribe. I don't like acting. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. Subscribe. 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Hi everyone, I'm very quick video by way of some apology. This is a message from Ed That the this morning we recorded a discussion on common law an Edna tells me that we're getting into downloading this from the system I'm trying to play it. We're getting an error message, which we don't understand which has never appeared before We've gone through this a few times now And nothing is helping so We'll keep working keep trying but on the off chance that we cannot get this fixed by half past seven We will do this again Next week. There's nothing wrong with the system. Everything worked fine when we recorded it Everything else is working fine same system. So we've got this sort of anomaly at the minute We will try to fix if not, I'm afraid the common law discussion is going to continue Be put over until next week, but it'll be worth it because I've got a lot of plans on this Like I said, we'll keep working on it Hopefully we'll have it have seven if not, it will be next week and I'm really sorry about that But sometimes technology does this At seven o'clock. I have I've recorded a Response to Rishi Sunak's spending review. That's casual to come up at seven on the forbidden channel at half seven was a discussion on common law With a bit of luck might still be But if not, if we cannot get this thing to play ball, then we will do it again and put it up next week for now I've got a book of you tomorrow. Join me for that one quite an interesting one Saturday I'm speaking at the Hearts of Oak Online conference and I'm going to be speaking about good versus evil Sunday back with my Sunday column Monday live stream. I'll be discussing bedroom tax and Sugar tax. So do join me for all of those Like I say, Ed is still working on this We don't quite know what the issue is everything else seems to be working fine if we can sort it out by half seven If not, it will be next week and we will do the whole thing again. All right. Thanks guys. See you soon


Welcome to Toffee TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Tom Davies is back in training and has been pitched a Finch fan today back in full first team training and he will be available to play for Everton between now and the end of the season. He suffered an awful hamstring injury in the first part of the season which looked to have ruled him out effectively till the end of the season but he's come back a little bit quicker than anticipated. He's been doing strength work for months now on it, he's charted that on his Instagram account and Everton made the move to re-register him when John Philippe Gabaman left the club to go on loan to Moscow. Davies was put in the first team pool then and which means now that Everton can call on him. It's good news because obviously we've been lighting midfield, Fabian Delph has come in the last few weeks but again Everton had to leave him on the main side Derby because he'd had a bit of tightness in his legs after playing that game against Leicester and he did in the game before as well. Therefore Frank Lampard will be more than happy to have another centre midfield player and one that can play the number six role other than Delph ever having really got it and Davies can play there. In fact he did well under Antielotti there so I've said it before the more players ever have available for this run in the better and especially ones you've got first team experience as well. Reports out of Italy today stating that Juventus want to sign Moise Keane from Everton this summer only to sell him on to possible French teams. PSG being linked again with the Everton striker I'll call him because he is still our player. He scored the winner for Juventus earlier in the week but looks like they want to make the deal permanent now so they can move him on and either replace him or use the money elsewhere but they do have to pay Everton in the region of 28 million euros for Moise Keane this summer. I'm not sure how it works because he signed a two year obligation which meant Everton were getting two years loan fee as well as the end fee so it may be a little bit more than that 28 million euros that Everton about to get from Moise Keane but that will be money that Everton were expecting until next summer so that will help I'm sure with FFP. Everton today being linked with a move for QPR centre back Rob Dickey the 26 year old 6 foot 4 inch centre back has been in excellent form for QPR all season he's also been linked with Wolves but apparently Everton have been watching him of late. I guess that depends once again but I imagine where Everton end up whether it be in the championship or if we stay in the Premier League. The kind of players that maybe Everton have overlooked in the last few years although saying that we did buy Ben Goffrey from Norwich but these are the kind of players that David Moise bought and done well over the years with them and Everton maybe moved away from that under Mishiri so if they are looking at British talent and certainly players in the championship who are doing well we've seen other players being successful in the Premier League who did well in the championship so want to look out for. And sources in Italy today saying that Alan will be a target for a number of Italian clubs but he won't join Latio unless he drops his wage, takes a wage cut basically. He's obviously on good wages at Everton Latio and Meritio so he can't afford that so Alan if he was to move from Everton would have to take a wage cut. They mention a fee of around £10 million for him, I'm not sure we'd get that much, he's in his final year of his contract in the summer but maybe £8 million something like that but the piece goes on to say Alan will have a few Italian shooters obviously played there before with Udonnaisy and Napoli as well so he may be moving on in the summer. That is it for the news daily, make sure you give the video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't and if you want more videos join us on Patreon the link is in the description and there's a QR code on the screen. See you later.


Hey, you're on it's Andrew. Hey, Andrew. How's it going? Pretty good. How are you? Good. Good. The conservatives. Yep, they talk they're talking a lot these days about masculinity. Yep, and Don't you think their concept of masculinity is rooted in fear, you know when Josh Hawley talks about it and they associate it with fear of immigrants and fear of you know. Yeah, I think it's I think it's that but I think it's deeper I think and this is this is you know if you look at BAP it's interesting that they're going for masculinity because that's the big critique of bondage perverts and others against the conservatives is that they're not masculine enough that you know and his version of masculinity is anti-mind and that's I think the essence of the view of masculinity the essence of the view of masculinity is anti-thinking anti-mind ultimately thinking evaluating judging is feminine to them and it is the physical action oriented passion driven violence emoting which is what to them is the essence of masculinity and of course that means you view one of things according to their view of masculinity one of the things you learn about the world if you're in the bronze age right in the bronze age the world is zero some game you know this is not capitalism this is the bronze age everything land is finite women are finite it's all a struggle for resources and struggle for women and therefore you kill or get killed and the whole mentality that they have which come which which which partially comes from the view of masculinity or maybe the view of masculinity comes from this is a zero sum world and that's where the fear comes from that is immigrants are taking our jobs they're taking our women they're taking our resources you know it's fear of look at CRT and everything like that they're feminine why they're feminine because they're intellectual the the the thinkers they should be denounced and and rejected not because of their bad ideas but because of of the way they are you know Tucker Carlson applauded when Chinese government made it illegal for effeminate men to be on television what does it mean to be an effeminate man it's it's a man that's not physical it's not muscular it's not in physical in the world so it's it's it's the zero sum mentality of the middle ages of of knights in shining armor who are fighting over again a given supply of land and a given supply of women that that that from which their view of masculinity has evolved and in that sense they're barbarians and and and they're primitive and and and and ultimately they're weak they're weak because what drives is ideas the problem is that even though they're weak ultimately their ideas when combined with religion and you have to combine it with religion because otherwise they have no nothing to stand on is once you combine it with religion they can provide a pretty powerful stance historically from which to oppress and suppress people and from which to to to you know to control so you know that is a follow-up yep sure what do you think what how do you or what do you think of the the adage better to be feared than loved well I think it's barbaric I think it's absolutely ridiculous right better to be feared than love is again is is all about a zero sum fight for resources right in a in a in a life or death battle for resources and in that world women are viewed as resources then yeah you better be feared than love love doesn't give you anything but fear will allow you to gain resources without having to exert too much effort but that's that's a sick world that is a sick world you want to be loved and to be feared is in a in a capitalist society to be feared is meaningless that's what freedom is about freedom is one of the things that freedom this is why I always say objectivism is the philosophy of love it's because it's because capitalism is the system of love it's a system that allows us to love it a system that you know in a sense leaves you free to pursue your values to pursue your loves to to engage in love you're not constantly struggling to survive you have time for love and you have the ability to manifest that love so no fear is a negative emotion love is a positive emotion few of you why should you be feared I don't want to be feared I want to be respected I want to be only somebody people want to trade with they don't trade with people they fear yeah it all presupposes power struggle between people yeah so now it comes on zero some view of the world my gain is your loss that yeah Conan the barbarian thank his political philosophy thanks Andrew thank you for listening or watching the Iran book show if you'd like to support the show we make it as easy as possible for you to trade with me you get value from listening you get value from watching show your appreciation you can do that by going to Iran book show dot com slash support by going to patreon subscribe star locals and just making a appropriate contribution on any one of those any one of those channels also if you'd like to see the Iran book show grow please consider sharing our content and of course subscribe press that little bell button right down there on youtube so that you get an announcement when we go live and for you those of you who already subscribers and those of you who already supporters of the show thank you I very much 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Hey there, Psych2Go family. Welcome back to another Psych2Go video. Before we begin, we would like to thank you all for all the love and support that you've given us. Psych2Go's mission is to make psychology more accessible to everybody. So, let's get to the video. Have you ever wondered why we dream and what it could all mean? Modern-day psychology believes that dreams are manifestations of our deepest and innermost wishes. Many dream experts believe that our dreams hold the answers we search for inside ourselves, and that there are accurate reflections of who we are, what we fear, and even what we desire. If there's someone special in your life who keeps floating through your dreams, you might be wondering what that could mean. So here are seven of the most common dreams we have about our infatuations and how to interpret them. 1. Dreams where your crush confesses to you Do you have pleasant dreams about your crush confessing their love to you? These dreams seem to reflect your own wishes of your feelings being reciprocated and your desire to be with this person. However, many dream experts also believe that it signifies confidence and optimism. You believe you deserve to be loved and that you're hopeful about your chances. Dreaming about your crush confessing to you may be your subconscious mind telling you that it's time for you to take a chance and let this person know how you really feel. 2.  Most people believe that these types of dreams arise from anxieties or uncertainties in your life. Do you doubt your own self-worth and struggle to feel good about yourself? These dreams can also occur when you're still unsure about how your crush really feels about you. It can also reflect uncertainty about the way other people see you and insecurities you might have about your other social relationships. 3.  This is another popular kind of wish fulfillment dream and it's believed to symbolize strong feelings of love and affection. If you're having dreams like this about someone you just met or someone you have feelings for, it means that you're falling deeper for them. So much so that your subconscious is fantasizing about what it would be like to be with them. You feel a strong emotional connection to your crush and you're eager to start a relationship with that person. 4. Dreams where you argue with your crush If you've ever dreamed about getting into an argument with your crush, it can be interpreted in one of two ways. The first one is that it might mean that you're subconsciously aware that you two aren't compatible. Or that there's very little chance of you two becoming a couple. But because you can't accept that, the realization is repressed in your waking life and finds its way into your dreams instead. And the second interpretation of fighting with a crush can also represent a desire to resolve an internal conflict you have within yourself. 5. Dreaming about dating your crush Dreaming about dating your crush signifies positive feelings about yourself. It shows that you have a good self-image and that you believe you deserve to have everything you want in life. Dreaming about your crush asking you out on a date means that you're in touch with your own desires and emotions. But it could also symbolize a desire for a more active role in your own life and your relationships. You want to be with your crush, but you're too afraid to make the first move, so you subconsciously dream about it instead. 6.  Oftentimes though, dreams are rarely ever that simple. Dreaming about being ignored by your crush, especially if you two are close friends, may mean that there's something about yourself that you're neglecting or repressing. There could be certain aspects of yourself that you haven't accepted yet. Perhaps you have an unconscious desire to be more introspective and want to get to know yourself better. 7. Dreaming about your crush dating someone else Finally, if you've ever had a dream about your crush dating someone else or choosing someone else over you, it means that you're most likely dealing with feelings of abandonment in your waking life. Have you been feeling out of place in your circle of friends or ignored by your parents, and did someone you love recently move away? If you relate to any of these instances, then these dreams of rejection are most likely a reflection of your anxieties about being left behind by the people you love, including your crush. Have you been dreaming about your crush a lot lately? Are you starting to connect the dots? When you spend so much of your waking life daydreaming about your crush, it's only reasonable that they'd be likely to appear in your dreams as well. But dreams are often much more complicated than they seem. Dream interpretation is rarely ever so black and white.  Tell us about your crush in the comments below. 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Okay, morning guys, hope everyone's well. Let's get this briefing started. So we are Thursday, 26th of September. Three more trading sessions to go of quarter three. Of course, Monday next week we'll round up the final day of September. Final day of Q3. So we'll move into October. It'll be interesting to see how the likes of Corporate America got on as we... Well, and Europe really perhaps more importantly as we hit that sort of quarter three earnings season. But let's get... I mean, I'm just showing you the charts here. I'd say that what's happened this morning and let's say what's happened overnight market's been pretty subdued. You've got reasonable amount of sort of consolidation. If I just pull up a quick look just to set the tone. This is the S&P 500. Let me just get rid of that ellipse. So just draw a couple of lines up here. We got this level that we've been looking at. The low from the 23rd of September that got broken on the 24th of September quite sharply. We had that low on the 24th posted and that kind of got a really strong couple of tests yesterday. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon, in the end it kind of just about did the business and we had to move higher into the US close last night. And that kind of got us back up above this price point 29.82. So that was 23rd of September low and really that's formed some support throughout the Asian session although we kind of slipped through it in the last few hours and it's kind of acting almost as a little bit of a centre point if you like for what's been very tight consolidation. If you think about it, let me just add a sort of fib series to... Let's just take that move that we had here. You've got a 50% fib of let's just take that 24th of September sort of range going down actually to the low of 25th of September. You might, I don't know, you might draw it there as well. There's a few options for where you locate the top of this fib series but either way both of the 50 fibs are coming in around about that low from the 23rd of September and this is where we're consolidating. So actually pretty subdued overnight, not really much market action to look at from an equity point of view when you're looking around some of the other asset classes. Well, let's check cable here which had that nice move lower through yesterday. Obviously we'll talk about that, we'll talk about Boris getting dragged back from New York early and then the showdown in the Commons. Certainly the pound devalued through yesterday's session as a result of this and we're testing yesterday's low just over the last sort of 15, 30 minutes but we are still trading around about those loads from yesterday. So a little bit of weakness here for the pound and that's looking like it may well be a feature of this morning. If that level from yesterday breaks, let's check the commodity space. Gold's been on the downside yesterday. Let me just add a level right there. So we've got a low here from the sort of back on the 20th. We almost got there and that sell off from yesterday. I'm just going to mark that up with a couple of double bottom from yesterday just above that low from the 20th and so then we've rebounded somewhat overnight but we didn't quite make it back to the pivot. We didn't quite make it to the double bottom from the 23rd of September and so technically just kind of not quite clean and we're just drifting lower here now I forgot but I'd say generally speaking things are relatively quiet as we start and look at last night and we look at this morning's action so far. Let's get into the headlines then. What are you guys reading about as you open your web browsers this morning and of course if you're in the UK then it's obviously dominated as per usual by the Brexit latest and so Boris in the Commons yesterday I mean it was quite extraordinary. I don't know if you saw any of it, saw any of the sort of Commons live action or if you saw any of the action I don't know if you watched the news last night. It was quite extraordinary. I don't think I've ever seen it fired up quite like that an unbelievable session of Boris being defiant and ultimately as expected I think watching last night I don't think anything happened that was particularly surprising you could have predicted it pretty clearly Boris coming out very defiantly saying that ultimately the Supreme Court really it wasn't their place to make a decision on this. It was a parliamentary decision and really just ramping up that strategy of his where it's about preparing for the general election and he's positioning himself as the people's champion and it's the people versus parliament but it's not even just parliament now he's now adding the Supreme Court so it's really the people versus the establishment with Boris being the people's champion wanting to get Brexit done but being blocked on every path by the establishment so what happens next? You know the deal here basically Boris on the sidelines is trying to make some effort to negotiate a deal remember that he's got until the 19th of October we've got an EU summit on the 17th of October the 19th of October is the deadline given that new bill that was voted through parliament a couple of weeks back if there's no deal by the 19th he has to legally request an extension of Brexit but will Boris do that? Well firstly two things will he organise and negotiate a deal let's deal with that one first I don't think so I think history tells us that trying to get this deal trying to solve this Irish backstop problem has proved nigh on impossible and ultimately I think it comes down to is Boris willing to sacrifice Northern Ireland to solve the backstop and take the UK out of the EU on the 31st of October and even if he did that by essentially saying that Ireland will remain aligned with EU regulations but the rest of the UK will not and effectively putting a customs border in the Northern Irish Sea if he did go for that I don't know if that would get voted through parliament anyway so even if he did use that as a strategy would parliament vote it through? So really I guess it comes down to the 19th of October will Boris request an extension? I don't think so I don't think it's really in his interests to do so I think Boris will go ahead and try and leave the EU on the 31st of October with no deal but you saw what the Supreme Court's done this week so you would have thought the Supreme Court would again vote and rule on that and make that illegal and maybe that plays into Boris's hands I reckon that's his strategy now leave on the 31st with no deal it gets ruled illegal by the Supreme Court we then have an election and then Boris representing the people versus the establishment that's his plan so what's going to happen over the next few weeks with regards to the pounds value well I think in the near term I think the downside's the pathway and I'm going to go to the daily chart here and that's because we've moved a lot higher in recent weeks if we just mark up a few lines here the 120 handles key we went down to test that area twice in August 9th of August and then again on the 3rd of September where we indeed did break it briefly but that 120 handles pivotal that's the 2017 and 2016 low then we ramped higher over the last few weeks as Parliament got a bill through that supposedly prevents no deal Brexit so that's helped to lift the pound and of course we moved up to this 126 handle area and we've come off now this week as tensions have escalated in Parliament Boris has been forced to come back from the UN General Assembly early what can Parliament do in the next few days they can actually look to try and put through a bill that actually forces Boris to request an extension earlier than the 19th of October but will that make any difference I mean Boris isn't going to request an extension on the 19th never mind earlier so I'm not really sure Parliament reconvening is going to change much other than keep the Brexit uncertainty levels elevated we've then got the Conservative Party conference next week normally what happens is the Prime Minister or the Conservative leader asks the Parliament for a recess of a few days so the Conservative Party can have their party conference but actually they do need MPs to vote this through there is talk that actually Labour are going to block it and that actually Parliament won't go into recess whilst the Conservatives have their party conference enabling the let's say the opposition to remain in Parliament to debate Brexit further what that means for the party conference in Manchester I don't know other than if it does cut the ironically if it does cut the Conservative Party conference short and well it's held in Manchester this conference and if it's cut short that's bad news for the Manchester economy because these conferences are massive and the big Conservative road show turns up and they do a lot of consumption and they spend a lot of money and if it's cut short well then that's bad news for the Manchester economy and Manchester's Labour so actually it could be ironic Labour could shoot themselves in the foot if they block a recess for the Conservative Party conference it's actually bad news for one of their own constituents so there's a few different angles to look at here but in the end be aware of where Cable's trading now that sell-off yesterday has brought us to the high that we saw mid-September if you take the 9th, the 10th and the 11th of September then you got a triple top just shy of the 124 handle we're kind of sat there now so keep an eye there any kind of breach of that today let's say and I'd expect this market to drift down to 122 over the next well maybe into the end of the week let's just say alright so that's the Brexit your Brexit update obviously headline risk elevated what else is going on let's talk Trump, why not you can't not talk Trump obviously so he's in the middle of another impeachment saga and you know the story here the Democrats are suggesting that he has been withholding money from the Ukrainians in return to trying to get information about Joe Biden's son maybe some kind of dodgy dealings here with a Ukrainian company where Joe Biden's son sits on the board and somehow Joe Biden managed to get the prosecutor to step down from investigating this company and like it does sound a bit dodgy so Trump's been trying to get some info on this the Democrats have said that in the telephone conversation between Trump and the Ukrainian president Trump threatens the Ukrainian president and said I'm withholding military aid $391 million and withholding it unless you give me information on Biden that's what the Democrats are saying and they're saying that's an abuse of power you should be impeached Trump's obviously been just brushing it off and obviously the transcript of this telephone conversation was released to the press yesterday and it's kind of you know as a neutral I'd say the what you see in that transcript is kind of in the middle ground so in that transcript and if I scroll down on the screenshot here I'll highlight what he said he said Trump said there's a lot of talk this is talking to the Ukrainian president there's a lot of talk about Biden's son that Biden stops the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the attorney general would be great so that's Boris's quote so he did bring this topic up with the Ukrainian president however I mean from the transcript what he did not do is threaten to withhold funding in return for this information so you kind of got this middle ground here he's kind of stepped over the line maybe but I don't know maybe he hasn't I don't think there's actually I don't think the Democrats have much of a case here personally I don't really you know I'm not a Democrat I'm not a Trump fan so I'm kind of a neutral and I don't really think that the Democrats have got much on this and it's purely just an election process scandal that they're trying to exaggerate and blow up but ultimately in terms of impeachment risk I don't think there is one what Trump did do in Trump fashion was try to throw out another snip bit of a headline to try and distract people so he talked about China and he said yesterday that actually we may get a deal done a lot sooner than you might think was his kind of throw away comment now being a skeptic when it comes to Trump I personally think this was purely thrown out there like throwing a dog a bone if you like to distract the press from the Ukrainian impeachment situation so I don't buy too much into his comment what is important on the US-China trade war risk is next week's negotiations you've got China representatives delegate a delegation coming to Washington for further talks that's where we're going to get some proper news Trump's throw away comment yesterday I don't think particularly relevant what else is happening before we look round the market it's interesting here's one ECB's Lautenschlager has stepped down why is this important two reasons number one perhaps more importantly number one is she's the German representative on the ECB's governing council so she's stepped down she hasn't been quite clear and forthright about the exact reasons but most likely it's because of her opposition to the dovish direction that the ECB have taken at their last meeting where they cut rates marginally from minus 0.4 to minus 0.5% on the deposit rate side but they also restarted their QE program remember they're going to start printing 20 billion euros a month open-ended so there's no deadline they're going to print it until it's not needed anymore who knows that's probably forever but anyway Lautenschlager has stepped down that just shows that there's a lot of division up at that top level at the ECB council there's a big fracturing and it's not just Lautenschlager that's been voicing her opposition to the point where she's now stepped down you've actually got the German representative, Lautenschlager not that she is anymore, she's resigned but you've got the Austrian representative you've got the Belgian representative you've got the French ECB representative all saying were opposed to this move, now what's critical what's interesting about that those four economies make up more than 50% of the eurozone so you've got effectively monetary policy representatives representing more than half of the region opposing the ECB's actions now Draghi's done it he's cut rates and he started QE but where does this put Lagarde remember Draghi was he obviously tries to maintain a neutral stance he's Italian you could say therefore being more sympathetic to the let's say peripheral southern part of Europe that does require stimulus Lagarde is French Lagarde is taking over from Draghi does that subtly shift the sort of dovish sort of dominance at the top of the ECB and will Lagarde be less dovish will there be political influence on Lagarde from France that then sees the ECB step a little bit further away from this dovish move they've taken, I don't know, we'll see so this is quite an interesting development obviously Germany will replace Leitenschlager and they'll go light for light the other point was that she's the only single female on the entire 25 person ECB council so they are now without a female until November the 1st and Lagarde comes in and she'll be president and obviously female but most likely Germany will replace Leitenschlager with another female representative but it just caught my eye this morning and just shows you that there's division there's not a consensus on that council and that just ups the ante and makes things a little bit more uncertain as to where the ECB might go in the future a couple of stories to finish on before we look at the markets the economy weakens across the board this is early indicators so Bloomberg have this economic gauge aggregating the earliest available indicators from financial markets and businesses they kind of gather together a whole bunch of different metrics and I'll show you which ones in a minute but this is their gauge this is their speedometer if you like and the economy is struggling we're across down into number 3 now that means that the economy is cooling this is a fifth month in a row so they're using indicators for trade factory prices, small business confidence, lots of different they're using stock levels in iron ore, iron ore prices and so on so about 10 different metrics all of which are thought to be a lead indicator towards economic activity going forwards and again Bloomberg reporting that it remains in the blue for a fifth month in a row final point on the headlines you saw this yesterday I assume Saudi Arabia is all output bouncing back I was talking about this at the start of the week having been in Saudi last week this is not a surprise they're back to 8 million barrels a day and as the Saudi energy minister said on Monday they expect to be back to full capacity by the end of next week so this story is very quickly drifting into the ether and perhaps not something we should be too concerned about from an oil supply risk point of view so let's finish by having a look around the markets then just finishing on the data calendar for today's session so let's give them that, I was just talking about oil let's have a look in here at the crude oil situation, as I speak it's just hitting new lows for the session let's just mark up a few levels here other than I've got the pivots on this chart but if we put a couple of levels in place, you've got this low point that we had from yesterday, that's the low of the week so far and as those headlines hit the wires yesterday, obviously that was a negative as the supply comes back online I'm going to pick out that low here not that I don't think it's going to be important today but the 23rd of September low, that got broken on the 24th and that really set up this downward trend that we saw going into that low from yesterday afternoon we bounced I will put in this level which was what's the day Tuesday's low kind of roughly, a bit messy but formed some resistance last night and we're drifting though, we're down through the pivot this looks bearish and I'd say we'll be drifting down towards the 56th handle probably over the course of the next hour or so, yesterday's low ultimately being that key price point on the downside but if we look at the daily chart it's definitely a different picture well, actually let me just draw a trend line here let me just get rid of that one and draw a new one this is a daily continuation chart and you do have some it depends on where you draw it I'm going to draw it roughly here but you do have somewhat a trend, upward trend support coming in which might as not today but like tomorrow if we were to get down to yesterday's low tomorrow 55-55 you may well see this double support then that's the lower the week plus this trend line coming in so just be aware of this trend line this extends back through August and September so just be mindful of that but when you look at this chart we're kind of bang in the middle here of the range in the last few months and we've now retraced most of that Saudi drone strike spike to the upside and if Saudi oil production gets back to full capacity next week then we will retrace the whole lot we'll get back to worrying about things like the US-China trade war risk and the demand side negative risk that that presents so that's your crude chart let's have a look at the euro dollar let's have a look at about light and Schlager and the ECB there and the euro right now you need to be conscious of the fact that we're testing yesterday's low so this is an important level of course I'll just mark that out yesterday's low we had some downsides throughout yesterday's session let me mark in the low point from back here earlier on in the week on the 23rd of September so we broke that that coincided with S2 setting up an extension lower almost down to the 110 handle here so we're testing yesterday's low now the 110 handle just below there, I mean yesterday's low is at 110.03 so it's basically on that 110 handle and if I go to the daily chart that was the low point on the 16th of September there's obviously a psychological level but do be conscious that perhaps the biggest level now is the double bottom of 2019 which is the third and the 12th of September's lows so we have had a couple of forays down below 110 this month already looks like we're setting up for maybe another one so keep your arm yesterday's low really important support level being tested on Eurodollar as I speak as that euro is weakening you're actually getting a bit of upside on the DAX so stocks are okay you're seeing upside on the S&P as well it's trying to get up towards the high point from yesterday let me mark the level here for the DAX which was the high going into the close yesterday really is yesterday's high we're almost there so a little bit of upside here for stocks mild, it's mild but the euro weakness perhaps helping where the DAX just pushing higher but it's quite quiet on the headline front this morning we've had a bit more Chinese news I should just say three minutes past eight Chinese Commerce Minister says US and China are closely communicating and preparing for making trade talk progress next week so slight positive upbeat comment from the Chinese about next week so that's maybe helped here just edge the sentiment positive for stocks but do remember the proof is always in the pudding and we'll find out from the trade delegation next week of course exactly how things go I'm going to finish the briefing by looking at the headlines and so let me switch up my screenshot and we'll finish off here so we've got US, I mean this morning nothing really of no so we've got some data at 9am money supply, annual growth of M3, money supply out of Europe we've got some loan data really this afternoon we're looking at US GDP now do be aware this is the final reading for quarter two remember quarter two that's April, May and June we're now at the end of quarter three this is so old for this data that it's actually not particularly relevant so whilst this is in bold on my data calendar here I personally wouldn't have it in bold I don't know who put it in bold it's very old news I know it sounds important US GDP but it's quarter two not really relevant initial jobless claims then coming at 1.30 pending home sales coming in at 3 o'clock so from a data point of view it's not that interesting today we'll have some retail sales I know we'll have more interesting we've got some inflation related data tomorrow so from an economic data point of view nothing major but check out this speakers chart you don't see many more speakers than that in one day so there are headline risk on the central bank front Kaplan's getting involved he's dovish but he's a non-voter ECB's Deguindos he's dovish Cunliffe from the Bank of England he's also dovish Bullard's dovish as well Feds Clarida is kind of neutral you've got Daily so we're probably going to be spoiled for monetary policy related headlines but to be honest just understand the Fed made their move last week they cut rates the ECB have made their move so actually the Bank of England might be more interesting from Cunliffe are the Bank of England going to cut rates for their next meeting but I'd say by and large you've got a lot of chat here from central bankers I don't think much of it is going to be particularly market relevant that would be my feeling alright so I guess it's just listening the fall out from the commons but otherwise it might be more of a technical day to seeing the DAX sneak up through yesterday's or just testing yesterday's high now the Eurodollar testing yesterday's low so we're at some interesting price points today's low alright that's it from the desk for the briefing guys enjoy your session and we'll catch up tomorrow


And across the room from us is a lady who makes all of this possible if she didn't take care of making sure that we all have these beautiful events. Nothing that is so important as the events of the White House would be really be as beautiful as they are. My mother, Mrs. Nancy Reagan, I know we were now, we took a poll upstairs and we decided we weren't who you wanted to hear from at lunch. And so we decided that we'd do some serious thinking about who that might be. And we want you, of course, to have time to talk to your host for luncheon this afternoon and the man for whom we are all here, the President of the United States. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good afternoon and welcome. And it's always good to see so many old friends and have the chance to make new ones. And it's always a pleasure for me to be joined by two of the most important women in my life, Nancy and Maureen. Today, we're lucky to have with us some of the very capable women in our administration. You've already heard from the Director of the Women's Bureau at the Department of Labor, Lenora Cole Alexander, the Staff Director of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission, Linda Chavez, and the Assistant Attorney General for Justice Assistance, Lois Harrington. This afternoon, you will have the chance to listen to the Director of the Export-Import Bank of the United States Rita Rodriguez, Peace Corps Director Lorette Ropey, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Nancy Stortz. In addition, here at lunch, we've been joined by two other outstanding women in our administration, the Undersecretary for Travel and Tourism with the Department of Commerce Donna Tuttle, and the Department of Education's General Counsel Maureen Corcoran. And I see we've been joined, you probably noticed that there were some here that seemed out of place, a few of the men in the administration. And in this crowd, they do sort of stand out. But permit me to begin by giving each of you high praise and heartfelt thanks for all you've done for our Republican cause. Politics has its share of fun and glamour, but in the end, it's sheer, unrelenting hard work from people like you that makes it possible for us to put our beliefs into practice. And the role you play is especially important because you demonstrate the Republican commitment to American women. The GOP commitment to women runs deep. Some people have tried to keep that a secret. First, the GOP gave its backing to women's suffrage. Then our party became the first to elect a woman to the United States Congress, and the only party ever to elect women to the United States Senate who were not first filling unexpired terms. And today, the two women in the Senate, my friends Nancy Cassabon and Paula Hawkins, are Republicans. And we have nine outstanding Republican women in the House of Representatives. Now, I think you'll agree with me, it's time to give them more company. Now in this administration, we've appointed women to positions of top responsibility, women like our United Nations Ambassador, Jean Kirkpatrick, our Secretary of Health and Human Services, Margaret Heckler, our Secretary of Transportation, Elizabeth Dole, Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, Faith Whittlesey, and many other women in the White House staff. And one of my proudest days in office was when I appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to be the first woman in history on the United States Supreme Court. Just as important, today, there are scores of able Republican women like you seeking or serving, I should say, in public office outside Washington. Recently, Maureen gave me some impressive figures about Republican women candidates. In the 23 state primaries that have been held this year to select candidates for state and federal offices, in addition to incumbents, a grand old party fielded over 200 women. And more than 150 of you came out of your primaries victorious. Now, those of you that are in or are running for state legislatures and other state and local offices, you're on the front lines of democracy. You have the chance to put your beliefs into practice close to the people, and Washington can't match that.  And just as we're eager to see the number of Republican women office holders grow at the national level, we're determined to see these numbers grow in every American town, city, and state. I want to be very clear on this. There's no place in the Republican party for those who would discriminate against women. And let me say there is no place in the Republican party for those who would exhibit prejudice against anyone. There's no place in our party for the kind of bigotry and ugly rhetoric that we've been hearing outside our party recently. We have no room for hate here, and we have no place for the haters. We Republicans are working to reshape America's destiny. Everyone who takes part from stuffing envelopes to running for a position in the town council to holding national office is making history. Now I know you're having briefings all day, but if I could just take a moment, I'd like to give you an overview of what we've been trying to do. I may be plowing some ground that's been well plowed already, but on the legislative front, we've made proposals to toughen child support enforcement significantly. These proposals would improve state collection of child support payments and require the adoption of proven, effective enforcement techniques. Our one version passed the House in November, and in April, the Senate passed a similar bill, and we trust that a conference now to resolve any differences will meet very soon. In pension reform, we have legislation well on its way to enactment. Our bill would provide protection for widowed and divorced spouses and help women earn their own pension credits. Recently, I heard about a 62-year-old woman in Rhode Island whose husband, unbeknownst to her, dropped the survivor coverage in his company's pension plan. So when he died, she was left with virtually nothing. Now that's the kind of tragedy our pension reform will prevent. Tax equity for women is another vital field. Many of our tax equity proposals are contained in the Deficit Reduction Act that the Congress passed just this week. Of course, we're disappointed that the Congress dropped our proposal to raise the spousal IRA limit from $2250 to $4,000, and we intend to go on pushing for its adoption. But the Congress did adopt a number of our proposals, including one that will permit contributions to thousands of nonprofit-dependent care organizations like daycare centers to be treated as tax exempt. Another will remove current restrictions which keep women from treating taxable alimony as compensation in determining IRA contributions. These measures represent a significant advance for American women. Despite the importance of these efforts, however, one step we've made possible has done more to give American women opportunity and independence than all the others combined. It's called economic expansion. Just five or three and a half years ago, you remember we inherited an economic disaster, soaring inflation and interest rates with declining productivity. The month that I stood in the steps of the Capitol to take my oath of office, inflation was in double digits, growth was disappearing, and the prime interest rate had hit the highest peak since the Civil War. The economic crisis struck women particularly hard. Most elderly Americans living on fixed incomes are women, and they found their purchasing power eaten up by inflation. Women saw jobs become more and more scarce. They found that 12.5% inflation made it a nightmare to buy groceries and pay the bills, and the thousands of women who wanted to start their own businesses saw 21% prime interest rates slam shut the doors of opportunity. When we took office, the economy was priority number one. With Republicans in control of the Senate, we moved quickly and boldly to get our program in place. We reduced the growth of federal spending, we pruned needless regulation, we reduced personal income tax rates and passed an historic reform called tax indexing, a reform that means government can never again use inflation to profit at your expense. We reduced the marriage tax penalty, almost doubled the maximum childcare credit, increased the limits for IRA and KEO contributions, and eliminated estate taxes on family farms and businesses for surviving spouses. Today from Maine to California, a powerful economic expansion is taking place. Inflation has plummeted by more than two thirds since we took office to under 3.6% for the last three months. Retail sales are up, the American workers' real wages are rising, investment by U.S. businesses in new plants and equipment, that has risen at the fastest rate since 1949. The best news of all, since the expansion began, more than six million Americans have found jobs making for the steepest drop in unemployment rate in more than 30 years. And just as the economic crisis hit women hard, today's expansion is giving them new opportunities. The unemployment rate among adult women has dropped from 9.1% to 6.8%, and today more women have jobs than ever before in our nation's history, more than 50%, and that has never occurred before. And we can see that the jobs the women hold are getting better and better. In 1983, women filled almost three quarters of all the new jobs in managerial, professional, and technical fields. And the number of women-owned businesses is growing four times faster than the number of those owned by men. And just as we've acted decisively here at home in foreign relations, I think the United States is demonstrating new firmness and a new sense of purpose. From the Pacific Basin to Western Europe to Central America to an island called Grenada, we're working to defend freedom and peace. And in our dealings with the Soviets, we're strengthening our defenses while proving our willingness to negotiate in good faith. And because we've been doing this, the prospects for world peace stand on a new and firm footing. It isn't true, as you've been heard in the demagoguery that is being uttered today, that we are in greater danger than we've ever been. No, we aren't, because we're stronger than we've been in a great many years. I believe our trip to Japan and Korea and our visit to China markedly improved our relations with those important nations in Asia. And our recent trip to Europe showed all the world that 40 years after so many gave their lives on the beaches of Normandy, the West remains unshakably committed to the defense of human freedom. We Republicans have more than a good record. We have a vision. We see an America forever free from the evils of inflation. And to make that dream a reality, we must enact structural reforms like the line item veto and the balanced budget amendment. We see an America with a simple and fairer tax code that provides the American people with new incentives to work, save and invest. And we intend to design a major tax reform in which we broaden the tax base and lower personal income tax rates for all who work and earn. And that will be a great step forward for America. The Republican message is simple. Our country's best days are still to come. And with faith and courage, we can build a genuine opportunity society, a nation where all women and men have the chance to go forward just as far as their dreams and talents will take them. I just have to believe that if we did everything in our own power to carry our message to the voters, then November 6th they'll be respond by keeping Republicans where we belong on the job. Now, I know that we're running late and I only have time just for two or three questions, but well, yes. Mr. President, my name is Lois Errol and I'm running for Congress in the Sixth Congressional District in South Carolina. I have served for the past eight years in the South Carolina legislature as a Democratic. However, like you, Mr. President, I have chosen to become Republican. I'm a Republican, please. Get the message across to the voters that the Republican Party represents the best interest for the working men and women, black and white, for this country. I think the message, and you're right on many of the things that we've done and that we believe in are very deeply held secrets. But I do believe that we've got the facts and we've got to see that you get the information that counters the arguments of whether we're fair or unfair. For example, our tax program, the tax cut that we put in, which was the basic stimulant for the present economic recovery. And we're supposed to have, we're not the friends of the poor, we benefited the rich. Well, let them explain then why the people with incomes above $50,000 a year are paying a higher percentage of the total income tax burden than they have ever paid before and the people below $20,000 a year are paying a smaller percentage of the tax than they ever paid before. There wasn't anything unfair in our tax, but there was something unfair about giving, for example, people on aid to depend to children on welfare, giving them three raises in just a brief period of a few years before we got here. And at the end of the three raises because of their inflation, those people had purchasing power that was $43 a month less than they'd had before they got the raises because inflation was raised far faster than they were raising the taxes. So we've got a good argument, but you need the facts and figures and it's our responsibility to see that you get them. I know that you had your hand up. Mr. President, I'm Mary Moshari from New Jersey. Congress recently decided that they were not going to fund the aid to Nicaragua, Nicaragua Contras that you were looking for. How will that affect your Central American policy? It would affect it dramatically and drastically and we're not going to give up on that fight. We have a totalitarian government in Nicaragua that took power out of the barrel of a gun, then did what Castro did in Cuba when he won the revolution, kicked out of the revolution all the people who honestly wanted true democracy. Most of the Contras we were trying to support are people who were once part of the revolution but who were ousted and the communist element took over and there is a totalitarian government now in Nicaragua and the Nicaraguan government is supporting and providing ammunition and weapons to the guerrillas in El Salvador who are trying to overthrow a government that was duly elected by the people and has had three elections since that is democratic and not totalitarian at all. And we're just going to have to keep fighting and convince the people of this country that to listen to those who would shut off Nicaragua is to listen to people, the same people who criticize and say that we're willing to support right wing dictatorships but never do we see anything from the left. Well, we're supporting people who are fighting for democracy and freedom and those people who shut off that aid are supporting a totalitarian dictatorship in Nicaragua. I knew it, yes. Mr. President, Michelle Coles from West Virginia was nominated Secretary of State three weeks ago for the Republican nomination. When you were campaigning in 1980 to be our president the country was bloated with Dally Thomas who refused to believe you when you promised to turn our economy around to feed inflation, reduce unemployment and taxes put new millions of workers to work and restore a widely felt sense of national security. You have kept your promises and in borders on being miraculous. Now we all know you have a wonderfully engaging personality and everybody loves you. But you certainly didn't accomplish this with your charisma. Now what is your secret? Well, if I have one secret it is that I like people and I believe in people and I believe and I've always believed even when I was governor holding that office I've believed sometimes that if those of us in government would lock the door and quietly slip away for a few days we'd be surprised how long it took the people to miss us. So, you know, it is giving more back to the people and if there's one thing that, again, has not been treated as widely as it should in regard to credit. When we started our private sector initiative and encouraged people at the private level to find areas where they could be of help that for many years we've assumed now were governments functions that government should take care of these. This has been so widespread. Every major charity is collecting even in the depths of the recession was collecting more money than they ever had before. But the programs, we have over 3,000 programs computed over here in the West Wing the private sector initiative place where people all over the country can call in and with some problem and we can tell them how some community, some private group has found an answer, has put together a package at the private level with no government involvement to take care of this and we can give them the phone numbers and the addresses of the people to get in touch with and find out how it was done. An example if I could and I know I've got a run and I'm way past time here. But down in Texas, one town in Texas had a thing called Christmas in April and all year long in that town they kind of keep their eyes open. They spot the homes of people that are poor or elderly or disabled and so forth. They see things that need doing whether it's new plumbing or painting or a new roof or whatever it might be and then come April. These volunteers and this includes the professional people, doctors and lawyers and judges and merchants and people of that kind, they put on their old clothes and out they go and they've all been a sign of their tasks, they put on new roofs for these people, they do all these things and here I was with all of this private sector thing and to show you how fast it all happened I'm looking at television one day up there while I was getting dressed upstairs and I saw a television program and a fellow there with a painter's cap and a paint brush in his hand and yes, he was a judge and what was he doing? Well, there's Christmas in April and so forth and I started to yell to Nancy that hey, they've got that town in Texas on the air. I found out it was Washington, DC. They've adopted the program here too and all over the country. So as I said, the main thing I think that's been wrong, we've had seven recessions before this last one since World War II. All of them have been cured by the government artificially stimulating the money supply, bringing on more inflation and bringing on within two or three years another recession and I have believed that we have had our business troubles in our recessions because the government is taking too high a percentage from the gross national product for government functions and not leaving it out there at the private sector. So by way of the tax cut, by George Bush heading up a task force to reduce and eliminate needless regulations, they eliminated enough regulations to reduce the paperwork burden on the American people by 300 million man hours and doing that so that it was a real stimulant for the economy. All of a sudden we find we're getting more money at the lower tax rates than we were getting at the higher tax rates and the economy is showing the result. And I've said this before and I should quit saying it but one of my great happinesses is that when the program hadn't been put into effect yet, we were just getting it. Our opponents named it Reaganomics. Now that it's working, they don't call it Reaganomics anymore. Oh. Thank you.


Welcome to Toffy TV, it is the Everton News Daily. Leucadine and Certruma are back in the French squad for the nation's cup ties. Both have done well since moving through Everton. Leucadine has been absolutely fantastic so far in his show and in the first team. Certruma has been solid and has looked very good for the most part of the games that he's played for Everton. It's a big boost for those kind of players who've moved to Everton to see that they will be recognised by their national sides. Despite Everton not being in Europe or near the top of the league at the moment. I think it's a boost for Everton and it's a boost for both of those players from a personal selfish point of view. Had they been happier if they'd just been a Finch fan. But it's good for them and obviously we want happy players and it will give them a chance to refresh and recharge their batteries away. With their national side I suppose. On the back of that Jordan Pickford has been named in the England squad as well. So you know the England number one missed Everton's defeat against Southampton on penalties on Tuesday night. Everton might have still been in the Carabaugh Cup had Jordan been in goal for us but it is in the England squad as well. So a big boost for those three players ahead of our trip to Leicester City at the weekend. Another big news or sorry another boost for Everton today is that Andre Gomez is back in full training. Marco Silva will be delighted to have the Portuguese midfield player available as soon as possible. I think we can all see there's a big gap at the minute in our midfield. No-one's really nailing that position down with the exception of Ghana and it's an opportunity you know if we can get Gomez fit. He looks like a player from what I've seen who can get us passing. He's quite quick. He's a physical player you know big tall player and therefore that's what we need. We need somebody good on the ball in that position. Tom Davis is peaks and troughs. I think Snidlund's too slow for what we want to do. I don't know I don't think it's it works necessarily when it's Ghana and Snidlund. I think we look more balanced when it's Ghana and Davis but there's still not enough creativity there and I feel as though Gomez may be the player to go in there and really take us up another level in that area of the pitch. So hopefully he's going to build up his fitness now. I mentioned yesterday on Everton's News Daily that Marco Silva was looking to have a behind closed doors game next week during the international break and he would have been hoping that Jeri Mina, Andre Gomez and Phil Jagielke would play in those games sorry in that game and hopefully that will be the case and they'll all come through it and be ready for the Crystal Palace game after the international break. So fingers crossed on that. Umaneas has been linked with a move to Galatasaray in January. Apparently the two clubs were very close in August to getting a deal over the line for Umaneas but ran out of time and I don't think Everton's backup striker I don't think that you know progressed as much as they had hoped for in Umaneas. So you know he's had 48 minutes I think of Premier League football so far this season. He came on a hard time again in the Carabao Cup the other night and was a bit hit and miss so I think Umaneas himself is probably looking to get out the door now and try and get some games. He's 28 he'll want to be playing regular football and quite clearly he's not going to get that at Everton. And finally it's Marco Silver's press conference tomorrow so I'm sure he will give us an update on the fitness of Seamus Coleman, Jeri Mina and of course Andre Gomez ahead of Everton's trip to Leicester. Obviously Gomez won't be included in that squad. Be interested to see whether Coleman is and whether Mina is but like I said we'll know more tomorrow when Marco Silver gives his press conference ahead of the trip to Leicester on Saturday. If you haven't subscribed please do so and it only takes a second and if you want more videos get over and join us on Patreon and if you've got any spare pennies lying around don't forget to donate through our zip wire challenge 100% of the donation goes to Everton in the community. Thanks for watching, see you later on Toffy TV.