Welcome everyone. Thank you for coming today. My name is Bik Lee. I'm a co-founder and chief architect at Platform 9. And today I want to talk about something we built, and it's a lesson about how to use Kubernetes building blocks to create something useful. So we built a tool to make it really simple for us to deploy large numbers of services running on behalf of many, many customers and services that are exposed on the Internet and how to do this in a secure enough way to isolate each customer. And that's what we mean by multi-tenant. So to motivate today's talk, let me briefly discuss our use case at Platform 9. So we run open-source software as a service for our enterprise customers. And we specialize in infrastructure management software. That is why we offer an integrated product that uses Kubernetes for container management, open-stack for virtual machines, and fission for serverless functions. Now what makes this unique is for these stacks we split the control plane and the data plane so that the customers can run the data plane on the hardware of their choice, which could include bare-metal servers or their public cloud instances. And then we host the control plane and run it as a service, and then the two planes communicate securely over the Internet. So what does a control plane look like? For Kubernetes it would be the master nodes that most of you are familiar with. For open-stack, we would run dozens of services such as Nova API. That's one example. And then on the other side, our customers run the clients. For example, they could run web browsers, CLIs, SDKs, and those would typically communicate over HTTP, over the Internet, to one of the control plane services. But there are also data plane agents which run close to the hardware and those need to use binary protocols over TCP. And examples include RabbitMQ and even MySQL. And those connections tend to be mutually authenticated over TLS. So we are currently in a transition period moving all of our control plane services from VMs to containers. And of course, we want to use Kubernetes and take advantage of it. We also want to use and run everything on a shared Kubernetes cluster to gain high utilization and, of course, all the benefits you get from Kubernetes. So during this transition, we wanted to build a set of tools that would help our ops team automate as much of this as possible, right? Something that lets them very easily provision new customers, new regions of customers, deploy the services, make sure that they're exposed on the Internet with DNS names, and secure everything so that everything can be well isolated and support multiple protocols such as HTTP and also some of the TCP binary protocols. And since our ops team is kind of ramping up on Kubernetes, and Kubernetes can be pretty complex, we also want our tool to automate as much as possible. You know, automate a lot of the repetitive tasks, maybe abstract away some of the complexities of Kubernetes without really hiding its true power. And finally, we wanted to build something that is useful not to us, but also to the community. And that is why we started an open source project. And this, I'm going to talk about kind of the very first generation because it's a work in progress. It's called deployment cluster config and ops, also known as DECO. And this is a program that follows the typical Kubernetes controller or operator pattern. What it means is it declares new custom resources that you as an admin can create in Kubernetes. And once it detects those resources, it'll just kick in and do a lot of automation for you. And we'll talk a lot about this. So, for example, it will manage DNS records and inside of the cluster, it'll provision and tear down all the resources that you need to coordinate Kubernetes like namespaces, deployments, services, ingress resources, all that stuff. Okay. From a network security, DECO is going to use a combination of two things, end-to-end TLS and also a network policy. So having said that, let's kind of dive into some of the concepts exposed by DECO. We're going to be talking about spaces, apps, and projects. So let's start with space. So think of space as a naming and security boundary for a set of internet-facing services. Okay. And in DECO, we implement this as just a Kubernetes namespace with a DNS binding so that it is visible on the internet at a well-known name. To illustrate this, let me show you a little animation here. So when you run DECO, it automatically creates a special namespace called DECO. This is where you're going to upload your space resources. Okay. And a space resource describes several things, but the two most important ones are the name of the space and its domain name. So the first thing that DECO does is create a namespace with that name. So in this example, it's called example space 1. And then it will create the DNS binding. And the way it does that is it first looks up the public IP or endpoint for the main ingress service of the cluster. Okay. And then it's going to communicate with a DNS provider to create a DNS record. And the record is going to create maps, the fully qualified domain names. So in this case, example space 1.platform9.net. Okay. So now things inside of that new namespace can be accessible from the outside. It also populates the new namespace with a number of resources to configure traffic management and security. And we'll talk about that later. So now that you have a new namespace or a new space in DECO terms, you are ready to provision applications into it by creating app resources. Okay. So let's talk about apps. So an app resource really just represents an internet-facing service. And it's just a thin wrapper around a pod spec. When you create an app resource, you tell DECO how you want your service to be visible on the internet. And you have two choices. If it's HTTP service and you want to use a reverse proxy, then you specify a property called HTTP URL path. Okay. What this means is if you set that property, then your service is going to be visible at this endpoint, which is HTTPS slash slash the FQDN of your space slash the URL path that you specify. All right. If you don't specify this property, DECO will assume that it's a TCP service. And it will create a new FQDN and DNS record for your service. And the way it's going to name it is it's simply going to concatenate the application name with the FQDN of the space. Additionally, you can specify a flag that determines whether when you do a TLS handshake, whether to verify the client's certificate using a well-known root CA. So that's the verified TCP client cert flag. So here's an example of an HTTP service, Keystone, which is mapped to the path slash Keystone. And we use this in OpenStack. Here's an example of a TCP binary protocol service. It does not have the HTTP URL path. And additionally, it specifies that yes, we do want to authenticate the client TLS certificate. Next, we have the concept of a project. This is really an optional feature of spaces. And what it allows you to do is restrict internal traffic within the cluster. So normally when you create a new space, the pods in that space will accept traffic from any other space within the cluster. But you can restrict that by declaring this field here called project. So here what I'm saying is only accept incoming traffic from other spaces who also have their project set to dev. All right? Internally, Deco uses a Kubernetes network policy to enforce this. And hopefully I'll have time during the demo to show you what it looks like inside. Here's an example of how you could use projects. Here we have two customers, foo and bar, for which we've provisioned multiple spaces representing different regions. So for example, we have foo east and foo west. And to make sure that within a customer, the spaces can communicate with themselves, but disallow communication across customers, we set all the spaces belonging to foo to have a project equal to also foo. And we do the same thing with bar. So they can talk to each other, but not across customers. We also have a global space here running a service we call its console, and we use it as a global configuration database. So each pod, when it starts up, it needs to talk to console in order to retrieve its configuration. And so all spaces need to be able to access console. So what we did here is for the global space, we set the project to be empty, and what that means is it can accept traffic from any other space. Last but not least, let's talk a little bit about traffic management. So this is probably the most complex topic. This is about network routing, and it's also about TLS termination, which are related. So DECO is built to accept multiple providers of traffic management. The requirements we've already discussed, it needs to support HTTP reverse proxy from the internet. And for TCP services, it needs to support end-to-end TLS authentication from the client all the way to the pod. And this has to be authenticated on a per customer or per space or per app basis. It is our intent to integrate with service meshes, especially Istio. That's currently in progress. We are currently blocked by an issue in Istio. It's about SNI support for multiple server certificates. Looks like they're working on this, so I expect this to be fixed within weeks. But luckily DECO also comes with its out-of-the-box, very simple traffic manager, which I'm going to describe today. So to route traffic, the out-of-the-box manager uses off-the-shelf components. And this is pretty interesting, I think. It's using two Ingress controllers. One of them is called K8SNF. This is a pretty neat controller that was first presented at the coupon Berlin. So that one's going to look at TLS traffic, and if it finds a matching destination that matches the SNI headers, it's just going to direct traffic to that service. If it doesn't find a match, it's just going to punt it over to NGINX, which is going to handle HTTP and reverse proxy. In order to handle TLS termination, DECO will inject external sidecar containers into pods. And those external sidecars need certificates and route CAs to verify identity. So typically what you're going to do is you need to create and sign your certificates outside of the cluster and then supply them to DECO through secrets. And we're going to look at an example. Okay, so here we have the DECO namespace that I referred to earlier. And this is the two Ingress controllers that I talked about. They're configured to be chained one after the other. So I'm first going to upload two secrets containing certs and CAs for HTTP and TCP style services. And then I'm ready to create my space. Okay, in this example, it is a space called foo-west with a domain of platform9.net. So the first thing that DECO does is create a namespace called foo-west and then copy over the secrets so that they can be used within the namespace. And then it'll create an HTTP Ingress resource with a virtual host set to the FQDN of the space, which is foo-westplatform9.net. It also initializes a rules table for the paths. And initially it's empty except for slash, which goes to the default service. Okay, so now we're ready to populate the namespace with new applications. So the first example I'm going to show is MySQL, which is a binary service. What DECO does is it'll create a deployment resource, a service resource for MySQL, and notice that in the pods, it also will inject an S-Tunnel Ingress container in order to process incoming TLS traffic. And that S-Tunnel will use the secret that we configured earlier. But since this is a TCP... Sorry, this is a TCP service, DECO also creates a TCP Ingress resource, which is just an Ingress resource, but with an annotation that says that it is meant for the K8 SNF controller. And I'll explain how that works. So now a client on the outside can connect to MySQL.FooWest.platform9.net. That will get routed through the external load balancer and into K8 SNF, which is then going to look for a matching TCP Ingress resource with the same hostname. In this case, it does find it, and that directs it to the MySQL service, which takes us into the pod, and there the S-Tunnel container will terminate TLS and verify the identity of the client. And if everything is okay, it'll forward to MySQL. All right? For an HTTP app, let's say Keystone, here we specify a path of slash Keystone for the reverse proxy. Same thing, DECO is going to create the deployment, it's going to create the service, it's going to inject the sidecars. But since this is for HTTP, it's also going to add a new rule to the path array of the Ingress resource for HTTP. So now, if a client accesses this URL, HTTPSFooWest.platform9.net slash Keystone, again it's going to go to K8 SNF, but this time it's not going to find a matching TCP Ingress resource. So we've configured K8 SNF to just punt over any traffic that it doesn't recognize over to NGINX. So now NGINX will look for a matching HTTP Ingress resource, it finds one with the required virtual host name, it follows that, it also looks at the rules table, it finds a matching path, and finally it directs the traffic to Keystone. All right. Now, in addition to all of this, we also support internal traffic between applications. When you specify an app resource, you can specify a list of egress entries for other apps that you want to talk to. And for that case, Deco is going to inject additional external containers for each of these egress entries and encrypt the traffic and send it to the appropriate service. So the conclusion of all of this is Deco treats internal traffic just like external traffic, right? Everything is meant or assumed to be insecure, and so you always have end-to-end TLS encryption and customers are isolated between each other because they will typically have different root CAs, different hierarchies. And in addition to this, as I spoke earlier, we use network policy with that concept of a project to add an additional layer of security. All right. So I think that now we're ready for a demo, and I'm doing this over VPN. I hope it doesn't crash. So let me exit out of this. Okay, it looks good. Okay. The Deco control can run inside or outside of the cluster. It doesn't matter. It's an operator. Let me start it in here. I hate typing, so I have alias KC to cube control. I hope you forgive me. So let's look at what's going on here. So we have the standard namespaces and also the special Deco namespace that I told you about. And let's look at a bunch of resources running in the various namespaces. So in Deco, as I said, there are two ingressed controller services, K8SNF and NGINX, and only K8SNF is exposed to the outside world. Okay? You'll remember this IP here. We're going to go back to that. Okay, so we're ready to create our first space. It's going to be called dev1 with a domain of platform9.horse. You might wonder why .horse. It's because we use this in dev and test and .horse is actually one of the cheapest domain names you can buy. And one thing I forgot to show you was I've also uploaded some secrets for my space. So this one is verifying TCP traffic and it has a CA in it in addition to the cert. This one is a wildcard certificate for the HTTP proxy. So I have those two secrets specified here. So let's go ahead and create this dev1. Oh, before I create this, let's make sure that the hostname, the DNS is not set up yet. So right now this results to nothing. Okay, so create dev1. Okay, so we created the space. Let's look at the resources that were created. Here's our space and notice something new here. There's something called dev1 and that is the new namespace corresponding to our deco space. So if I say K, you'll see dev1. Okay, now let's see if deco has created the DNS binding for us. It has, okay. So now our space is accessible to the internet using a well-known name. And next we are ready to create our first application. And I'm going to use something we demo a lot. It's called Time Server. It's kind of stupid, but it's great for demos. It's just a web server that returns the current time in a pretty cute UI. And this is just a regular pod spec with some added metadata. And here we're saying that it will be mapped to the time server slash time server path. Okay, so let's create this guy. And we need to create in the dev1 namespace, oops. Okay, so we just created the app. Let's see if it appears anywhere. Oops, let me resize this a little bit. Okay, so where's our app? It is here, okay. And you'll also notice that we've created a deployment and there should be a service as well. Okay, so if everything worked well, the service should be available through that URL. Okay, there it is. But for a better visualization, let me copy this and paste it into Chrome. Okay, so it's just displaying the current time. And there's one color per pod. And currently we only have one pod. But since this is just a regular deployment, we can scale it to three pods. And let's see what happens. Okay, now we get three colors. Okay, pretty simple, but it's showing that there's three pods backing the service. Now for our next example, we're going to look at a TCP type of app. And I'm going to show you, let's see, MySQL. There it is. Okay, so we're going to spawn a MySQL container with a root password set to dummy. And we are going to require client verification for TLS. And remember that for TCP type of apps, we're going to create a new FQDN, which is the app name followed by the FQDN of the space. And right now the DNS record does not exist. So let's create, okay, we created MySQL. And now we have wrong namespace, dash and dev1. Okay, we have MySQL running. And once again, there's a deployment, there's a service. And let's look, take a close look at the pod that's running. Notice that there's two containers. So if I say kc dev1 describe, let's see if this works. Okay, here's our time server container. But also notice that we've injected a nest tunnel ingress to handle traffic coming in on 443. And it's going to forward that to the MySQL container. Okay. Actually, did I look at the wrong one? I think this is, I'm showing you your time server. Yeah, I showed you the wrong one. Okay, so here we should see MySQL. And with its sTunnel container, it's listening on 443, but then it's redirecting and forwarding to 3306, which is the database container. Okay. So how about DNS? DNS has been created for us. And now we can connect to our database over that well-known name over the internet, except that it's enforcing strict TLS. So we can't just run our standard MySQL client against it. So what I've done is I have a local sTunnel configuration that uses the correct client certificate to authenticate itself. It's also using the correct CA file to verify the server. So I'm going to run sTunnel. And now let's see if we can connect to the database. There we go. So databases. Okay, so we're connected to MySQL. Great. The last thing I want to show you is you'll notice that our space set the project name to dev. Okay. And as explained earlier, we use network policies to enforce this interspace traffic. And so somewhere in this list, we should see a network policy. There it is. Okay. So let's take a look at what's inside. Dev1. Okay. So what you'll see here, I don't know how much you know about network policies, but there's various ways you can specify who can do and who can connect to what. Here we're saying only allow incoming connections from namespaces with a label that has this pattern. Deco project equals dev. Okay. So that's what we expected. But also notice that we've inserted another one here for a mysterious namespace with a label, a Deco project equal system. And the reason we had to do this was to allow traffic from the ingress controllers. Right? Because remember a K8SNF and Nginx. If you didn't have this, then the space would not be able to get any traffic from the internet. Okay. So we're almost done. In terms of road maps, so this is work in progress. And from a security perspective, I discussed how we handle network, but we want to go one level further and isolate customers between each other even deeper. You've probably seen a lot of projects around using virtual machines as a better way to isolate containers. So this is kind of our next step is to investigate integration with many or some of these technologies. In terms of other things we want to integrate with, as I mentioned earlier, service meshes. We want to be able to also take advantage of automatically setting up pod autoscaling and perhaps note autoscaling. And then we've looked at single Kubernetes clusters, but we would like to expand Deco to support multiple availability zones and also Kubernetes Federation. So that's some of the things we're going to investigate next. And to find out more, there's a GitHub repo. We need to add some documentation and a lot of tests. You can visit our company website. We have some pretty interesting talks this week. If you like to hear about serverless and functions as a service, we have a talk about Fishing and a co-speaker and myself. We're also going to be talking about how to run Kubernetes clusters more cheaply. And that's Friday. And that's it. And thank you so much for coming here and thank you for your time. And I'll take some questions. So the question, do you have any customers? The answer is we're the first customer. This is just brand new. We're developing this as we go to first meet our use case. Yes. Yes? It looks like each space is a single external IP address. Was that true? Was I servicing that correctly? No. All the FQDNs all map to the same endpoint or IP address. Which is the IP address? The entire Deco cluster across customer is one. Yes. That's it. Yes. Feel free to grab me on the side or in the hallway or at our booth. Thank you.


Hey guys it's Nate A.K. The Foot Account and welcome back to the channel. We have a new promo coming to FC24 this Friday because it's new to us by name, but not necessarily by design or so we think based off the news and the information that we have about this colossal promo. Get ready for a promo with a lot of icons and heroes and they actually might be packable. We're going to talk about that because it's drawing some comparisons to a promo we had at this exact same time last year right after ultimate birthday. So we're going to look at that and what's happening today on Wednesday. Rolfo is getting another upgrade and we have one last, or one of the last ultimate birthday SBCs to be gracing the SBC section today. If you're excited for it, drop it thumbs up and subscribe to the channel if you're new. Of course, thank you guys for all the birthday wishes on yesterday's video. I've read them all. I've not responded to them all, but I feel the love and thank you guys for that. Let's get into SBC content from yesterday quickly to go through this because there's not a whole lot to discuss. We had our player SBC yesterday is basically useful for the cup or if you are a fan of the Sevilla football club. It is Luca Bakeo. Medium lower grades is the downside of this card. But honestly, it's just a fun card and it's cheap. It's technical and finesse plus Luca Bakeo with five star skills. I don't know how good his finesse shots are actually going to be. 85 long shots, but he's got the play style plus. He's also got rapid and it is pretty cheap. It's two squads is an 82 squad and an 85. So pretty easy to get done and he is again 88 rated so you can use him in the cup. Not a whole lot to talk about there, but if you're a fan, you're a fan and that could be a decent SBC. Also yesterday we had a player of the month Pierre Le Meleu, which actually I've already completed and I would recommend if you guys need an 88 rated fodder card. You do so as well with maybe some duplicates you get from an 84 times five. Very easy to get him done. I think it's an 84 squad with an 86 to get it done. So very easy to get done. And I put him straight into the show many SBC that I'm still currently crafting and I'm almost done with. He was very helpful inside of that. I mean, 88 on the market or like 18 or not 18 K to like 16 K and he's a 16 K SBC. So it is an SBC that is very easy to craft. And in my opinion, you might as well go ahead and do it. If you need that fodder with your throwaway fodder that you might have. We also had another 88 plus right gamble Tuesdays as we call them. We had the 88 plus wild cards versus or team of your auto mentions player pick. They made it a little bit more expensive because it's a one of four, not a one of three. They increased it just as we thought that they would. I don't know if it's worth it guys to be honest. I did see some more big polls out of this with more choices and the higher rating. But I would say only craft this if there's not a player SBC that you want to do right now. Or if you're just jones and for a gamble from the David 84 5 grind to put some of that fodder into. That's kind of the best reason to do that. I think on this game, not expecting to get a big poll from any of those type of gamble player picks that you get there. Now also, we did have an objective that was kind of released yesterday. It was the daily play. It was refreshed. I don't know if this was supposed to happen or if it wasn't. Maybe this is kind of like a bonus for them messing it up the first time. Remember, the daily play completionist was already messed up around the first time because it was not counting for a couple days on the first weekend. So then he extended the time and now it's out for another six days, 13 hours, which I'm not going to complain about because the daily play completionist. The packs are great going all the way through this. Hopefully it stays the next six days as it says that it's supposed to cross fingers for that because that is very, very good. Speaking of objectives, I'm almost done with the cup. I just need to win two more games and we have that done. And today, looking forward in today's content is the final day of the daily log in. Massive day for an 85 times four and an 83 times 20. I don't think I'm going to save these for the next promo. I am going to rip these today with ultimate birthday being out and there because I just think at the very least you're going to get yourself a little bit more fodder because there's way more cards in packs. So I would say for you guys, I think it's better to open those packs today rather than save them for this go lasso promo. And with that, I mean the market yesterday was a kind of a mixed bag too. It wasn't all good. It wasn't all bad. There were a couple flips that I was able to make. I bought a Benzema at 740, sold it at 807. A couple of small flips here or there. The rights were a good trade. If you followed that yesterday, the Sasha Bowie was pretty good as well. And then the rest of the stuff that I'm just kind of flipping right now in this game is just as simple. I got a low bid on this Rodgery. I'm going to sell them hopefully for like a little bit of profit here, listing at 577 or bought for 517. And the rest of these cards are just kind of being listed for lazies. The market's just kind of in a whole home spot. There are some cards that are down though because of the recent links and leaks with this promo. Ooh, that was a really low bid on Tony Cruz. 1.89. I wish I would have been able to get that one. So I'm still out trading and watching the market because I think there are good fluctuations to be had here. Like this Rodrigo for 900K. Maybe this Ronaldo on a low bid might be able to snag some deals. I would 100% say it's still a great time to trade. Just maybe be a little more careful with what is upcoming in terms of the content with the Colasso promo. So we've already mentioned it a couple of times. Let's dig right into it guys. What is this Colasso nonsense that we are talking about? Well, does anybody remember a promo last year where cards looked like this? Yes, Trophy Titans in FIFA 23 was a brand new promo that consisted of all icons and heroes. And it was kind of the first promo ever that made icons packable. Like you actually had a really good chance of packing icons. I'm seeing a lot of similarities between this card design and the cards that we've seen leaked already for this Colasso promo with especially the Croy. And we have a few more leaks to look at today. Remember that Croy we talked about in yesterday's video? We now have a leak for the Al-Oweirin card as well. And not just any Al-Oweirin. Evidently he's going to be an SBC. And that's going to be massive, right?  It was the one of the most meta cards in the game. And he was just him. Everybody wanted to use this card. Everybody was using Al-Oweirin because he was so pacey. And he was just so, so meta because of that pace. Fast forward to this year in FC24. And I don't think I've ever seen this card except for maybe a cup. And then maybe one or two people evolved him in one of the hero evos.  He's not been as meta this year just because of the sheer pace that he has. He hasn't been as good. I don't know what it is. He's still four star, four star and the stats in his card aren't terrible. I mean the pace is obviously the best thing. He needs more play styles for sure. But the fact that he is coming as an SBC could shake some things up. Now obviously they're going to give him a big juice in terms of the stats. I hope he's going to have 99 pace. It's of course not exactly known. But since that was leaked yesterday, FIFA trading Urania says Al-Oweirin is set to come as a golazo SBC nightmare. It's going to be a very pacey card. It's going to be a card that a lot of people will probably want to do just based off of the pace. So that's a huge leak to start off with. An SBC for Al-Oweirin. And then of course you've got the leak for the Cruyff and a new leak yesterday of Gnola coming as a golazo player. Of course this is just soon after. A lot of people have completed the triple threat Gnola SBC because they've wanted one of those Gnola cards in their club as an SBC to sit there and craft out and have their alternate team for a long time. So those are all the leaks that we have right now. And it's looking like this promo is going to be Friday. Now again let's talk about the comparisons of what we're seeing with these cards and these leaks that we've had so far and last year's trophy Titans promo. Well first of all of course you look at the card design for the icon for that Cruyff. It's got the orange edges, it's got orange on it and EA obviously are known for the repetitiveness of the promos in the similar times throughout the year at certain points of the year and that has us thinking about trophy Titans. Now last year was the first year that we saw this promo and it kind of came as a shock to the system of Ultimate Team because icons last year had three versions still. They had the base, they had the mid and they had the primes. But we saw last year with this promo the first time ever multiple versions of the same icon impacts at the same time. Enter the little bro and big bro icons. Remember we had two versions of Philip Lam in this promo. We had this one that was 93 rated and we had the little bro version who was still better than the prime icon. Like you look at 91 prime Lam, this 92 version was a lot better and he was one fourth of the price on day one and ended up being literally fodder price later on in the year. Like look at this guys, this card was 190,000 coins. I remember him being 140k on day two and his prime card when that little bro version and the big bro version were dropped in packs was 400,000 coins. This caused a massive, massive crash on the icon market across the whole market and even on some of the meta market as well because these brand new Trophy Titans icon cards especially the little bro ones were so packable. We even had icons like the first ever fodder icons. Like we had icons that were so cheap that everybody was packing. Remember little bro Del Piero and little bro Fernando Torres? Like these guys were annoying how easy they were to pack. They were like 30k and this was the first time ever that he had icons around the same price of like normal regular promo cards in a promo and it was just astounding. It was like the wow factor of icons in such a cheap card. It was crazy. Like everybody was packing Del Piero and Torres and Unberg and Donovan, right?  Lam, you had some big cards though too. It's not just all lower rated cards that are easy to pack.  Hence the name Trophy Titans. So not to mention there weren't as many heroes but there were some and there was a team too. This is a two week promo last year as well. It was all the same thing. We had that R9 which was crazy. We had Owen, we had Javi, we had Blanc. Gerard, this Cole was very good. Dudek was a staple as a prem goalkeeper with of course the hero Lynx. You had a Gerard, you had a Dalglish with the hat and of course the Trophy, Vieira, Lampard, multiple versions of Lampard and multiple versions of who was it? There was Mont Van Basten. There was another Dutch attacker. I forget which one it was. But there was another Dutch attacker. I don't think it was Van Nistelroy. It might have been Bird Camp. There was a Bird Camp objective where you could like work your way up and get a different version of Bird Camp. There was like a 93, yeah that's right. There was a 93 objective and there was a 94 rated version of Impax and you could get this 93 rated version that had a 4-4 and then the one that had 5 star skills was Impax. That was kind of wild because it was basically an icon that everybody could get that was pretty meta in objectives. It was pretty dope. So this promo has, it has promise guys. We'll say it that way. This promo has promise because it could bring icons that are very, very packable. That's not what we're used to seeing. And I think that is what it is going to bring this year. It's going to change it up in terms of the packability of the icons because a lot of the icons that we have this year, the base icons are already so cheap and they've been so cheap because it's been a year we've had way more icons introduced into promos and that's been by EA's design, right? Because we don't have the base. We don't have the prime, the mid and the base. We just got one base icon now. We've known that since the beginning of the year but we've had future stars icons, Thunderstruck's team of the years. We've had so many different versions like ultimate birthday icons that we have right now but they're all so difficult to pack. I don't know if I've packed a promo icon this year, maybe like one, you know what I'm saying? But these cards, you're actually going to have a decent chance of packing. Not all of them, of course, but specifically the little bro ones that they throw into this promo. Those are going to be pretty high pack weight but even some of the other cards are going to have some decent pack. I remember this Buresi. This was like a super usable Buresi who started off being 600K but ended up only being 460,000 coins. And the biggest thing about this promo is it has the allure of the icon players and they're affordable-ish, except for the top tier ones, but they're packable and cheaper on the market like a normal promo team which just kind of has its own weird feel to it. So that's cool, but at the same time I don't think this promo is going to end up being as crazy as maybe it was last year. Last year it was more a shock to the system because it was the first time that we had seen icons as packable as they were, right? It was like, oh my goodness, that Fernando Torres is literally fodder price. I can go use a Fernando Torres icon card for 16,000 coins and that's crazy. Wow, yes, that is crazy. I think now that we've seen so many promo icons this year it's probably not going to hit the exact same and I just don't know how there's... I mean, there's still some unknowns with this promo. Is it going to be the exact same? Are there going to be the two versions, the junior versions they were called? The little bro version. So there's still some unanswered questions. So it's not 100% fair to compare it with Trophy Titans at a one-to-one rate but the way this car design looks, the way it's looking, it does look like it's going to be somewhat similar. Now the reason we have to talk about this and prepare for it is there might be a loading screen today. There's already starting to be a little bit of market preparation because I'm not saying there's going to be an R9 card. I actually think it's very unlikely there's an R9 card in this promo. Who knows? But R9 and some of these other icons have started to be listed up on the market as people are selling this stuff because they remember last year a promo that brought out a bunch of different icons.  It brings out so many icons that people want to go out and try because of course this year they're probably going to have all two playstyle pluses and they're going to have sick car designs and dynamic images and boosted stats, right? It's going to drop some of the other existing icon prices on the market, especially if a card is coming out for a player who has not had a promo card in a while. Like this Thunderstruck Cruyff, since the leak of this new Cruyff has happened, how much has he come down? It looks like, let's see, 4.9 mil, he was down as low as 4.3, right now he's 4.6 and he gets rare so he's bouncing back up. But I would expect Panic to continue on some of the Cruyff cards because of this and then the more leaks that we see for players that are going to be in this golasso promo, probably the more drops on the icon market you're going to have. I would say for the safe route guys, I would not own any icons right now that are a player that has not had a promo icon recently or maybe not a promo icon at all. Just because this is going to really, I think reset a lot of the icon market. Like I talked about with the LOM card from last year, LOM's base icon was still 400k. He went all the way down to 100,000 coins because the new card came out. Of course, this year's base LOM is dirt cheap. He's already super cheap and we got a team of the year at LOM. So if he's not getting a card, who is it going to be? Maybe a card like Etoe. You got to think about heroes as well. Maybe a Cordoba. We haven't had a special Cordoba this year but an Etoe card that's 200 something thousand coins. He's already really cheap but you never know what's going to come out with leaks and what's going to happen. So just be very careful with that and just again to prove to you guys, this is a screenshot from one of my videos last year. How packable these icon players could be. A trophy Titans icon player, 15% pack weight out of a 86 plus star player pack lightning round. An 86 plus lightning round which I wish I could show you the lightning rounds right now in the store but just go take a look at the 86 plus star pack because I believe it'll be out again today on Wednesday when they release the lightning rounds and look at the percentage for like ultimate birthday players. I know the pack weight for birthdays is really high because we have a ton of players in packs but 15% chance of packing an icon like that's crazy. I know it's a promo pack percent. That's crazy though to be completely honest. That really shook the game up and the market up last year and it's probably going to shake things up again this weekend as well. So that's what I would tell you be careful with icons right now. The top tier has already started to be sold off as we looked at with that R9 and it could be continued to sold off be sold off if there are more leaks. Same thing with the heroes right with the Ginola those are some big names to start things off. Ginola and Croyt and then Allaway are in SBC. That's the type of SBC that can get people really excited on a promo Friday especially because that's plug and play into any team and if you've been wanting to use some Saudi players that's a card you can very easily link to those. So I'm not trying to sit here and just blabber about this promo and hype it up. I'm just trying to give you guys a realistic expectation of what this golazo promo might be because I really do believe it is going to be similar to the trophy Titans promo of last year and that promo was really cool because it was the first time the icons were so attainable and impact multiple icons during that promo just because the pack weight was different and that's just kind of cool on its own right. So we'll watch for a loading screen today see if we get more information in news. I don't think it's going to cause an overall market crash. I'm still trading in and out of cards as you can see talking about that but what I will say is I'm going to be a little more careful especially with the icons but again I'm not saving packs and everything right now with ultimate birthday I think looks better than what is maybe going to be out this next week and we'll break that down more as we get more information of course. Now let's go into today on Wednesday and move towards what's happening in the here and now of ultimate team content today. First things first right. We got to talk about the Wednesday of upgrades that we are going to be getting today. This is my cup team at the moment does not have my main team in mind but speaking of main team players we got upgrades coming in today and I know a lot of you guys have been using this team Overnor maybe that delict or specifically this Rolfo. Rolfo is finally reaching her final form today she's going to go to a 93 rated card as a part of the Wednesday upgrades which last week did not happen on time. Remember we were upset because they were late hopefully today they are on time. These should happen three hours before the content drop. Rolfo is going plus one. Stanway is a huge upgrade I even packed Stanway I don't even want to know what her card is going to look like but we are going to have to use her in rivals today for sure she's got pinged pass plus and jockey she's going all the way to a 93 rated card might just have to run a Stanway Rolfo and Hullett midfield today on this game. Tiki taka long ball man that's going to be a really good card so we are going to try her out today with her plus three we've also got a couple cards that are really interesting for fodder purposes Miedema and Julie P I want to point these cards out really fast because when you look at the cheapest 91 rated in the game they are 43,000 coins Miedema is 38k I'm not telling you to invest in this midema card because it's probably going to be a card that doesn't rise up a ton maybe 1 to 2,000 coins maybe she goes to 40k I'm not saying invest all I'm saying is Miedema is going to become one of the cheapest 91 rated today if you're trying to do Shoumeni if you're trying to do any of those high rated squads maybe you buy one of those if you still need to finish off a high rated squad same thing with Julie P Julie P is like 30,000 coins she is going up to a 90 rated today and I think the cheapest we just looked at is 34k so it might be a cheap opportunity for you to pick up a card I don't think they're going to explode in price today I don't think that Miedema is going to go straight to 45k or anything like that it might be a continual slow rise on the high rated fodder because I do believe we are going to continue to see this fodder rise up especially if we're getting an out-of-way run soon that could be an SBC a lot of people want to do and it could be more demand for high rated fodder not to mention we still have a Vinny Jr. play of the month that is on the horizon just wanted to point that out though that's an interesting part of the market today but these are most of the upgrades that are coming for some players that are maybe still a little bit up in value since this might be their full upgrade potential or close to it I would maybe sell on the hype a lot of the fantasy cards don't have a lot of hype left in them bar just a couple of them that have games left so I'll be selling on the hype for those just to play it safe now SBC wise today we are getting Evan Bergeson which I'm genuinely intrigued by this opportunity today that EA is giving us a Premier League center back I think though I don't have high hopes for this and here's why think about all the twin SBCs that we have had this year Karchawi, we had the Openda SBC that was a twin two different versions one 5 star skill, one 5 star weak foot this Ferguson card he could be good I would just say watch out for other prem strikers it's going to depend on the play styles that they add to this card it's going to be 5 star weak foot for one 5 star skill was for other hopefully the other skill moves or weak foot boost would go to a 4 star instead of a 3 star guys we're just going to have to see how much they price this at because I'm not expecting a twin SBC to be insane but who knows it might be a phone with a try, he has 6 foot 2 hopefully they give him I don't know he's got 71 heading and 80 jumping so maybe he's going to be like an aerial threat aerial and power header or something who knows but it should be a little cheaper fingers crossed and then that should be NSBCBC today it might just be a fun card to try or any Everton fans or sorry Brighton fans not Everton Brighton fans will be very excited to use Evan Bergeson there I think the hero pick is refreshing today not that I've done it or planned to do it but I believe that is refreshing today because usually the icon pick refreshes on Wednesdays and then Wednesdays always bring team of the week which Bonmati is in team of the week and so is Bruno Fernandez double play style plus Bruno Fernandez watch out for that today, not saying there's going to be a lot of hype in that but everybody's down for Bruno Fernandez at some point his highest card right now this year is just an inform that is 89 rated actually I thought he did have another version like a road to the knockouts or something is that here on the market did he have a road to the knockouts guys yeah he does for sure 90 rated so his inform today is probably going to be 90 rated maybe they give him a nice boost and give him like 80 pace he needs that you know Bruno Fernandez I don't know when we're going to get another special for Bruno it's been a minute since we've had one yeah that could be a card that EA try to fix in somewhere between now and team of the season if he's not going to get a tots card but he might be in the I don't know man who knows chat but Bruno Fernandez is getting a team week today so he's getting a new version with two play style plus this might be the best version that he has and I think that's about it man again another little bit of a quieter day I'm still grinding through a lot of the packs that we had of course it's a big day for SBC and crafting like that because of the SBC packs will be getting from the daily login which will turn into the objectives and a quick update on the accounts I went crazy yesterday ended up opening the 700,000 coin pack on the birthday didn't get anything insane I put a clip of it on Twitter but I did get a lot of fodder and I'm actually semi-close to getting the last squad of ShuaManny done probably not my finest moment spending 700,000 coins on a store pack but you know what got a little bit have a little bit of fun I got Reese James done yesterday too with all that fodder which I could have done a lot of exchanges and I'm putting in a bunch of low rated cards here for this SBC that's higher rated so I got to get to crafting open my 84 fives get myself some higher rated fodder get this ShuaManny done and then maybe we'll just stock up on some fodder because I think all the player SBCs that are out still right now I don't really have too much interest in maybe I'll do the showdown just to have some skin in the game for that one Quadrado Openda Grimoldo I feel like I should do just to have him in the club because he's super super cheap other than that I haven't done the Bali yet but the rest to me I don't know they don't look that crazy and there's no icons that I really just want to start splurging on right away at least before we see what this go lasso promo is going to be about so that's the video for today guys maybe those surprises with something on a Wednesday today but I'm going to keep trading keep trying to get these coins coming in and out since we spent 700,000 coins on a pack yesterday we got to get these coins back and up a little bit higher somehow so we're going to work on that move the market a little bit and yeah I'll see you guys in the stream today should be a good one if you like the video today guys drop a thumbs up on it comment below if you have any questions and subscribe for new see you guys in the stream today the link is down below in the description see you guys there peace


update. Good afternoon, folks. Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of sunny Delray Beach, Florida. This is your 2 p.m. update and we have a mixed bag out here. You've got the Nasdaq and the Nasdaq composite trading higher. 92 points for the Nasdaq composite. 6 tenths of a percent, about a half a percent for the composite for the NDX 100 is 6 tenths. The Nasdaq composite about a half percent of 65 points. Otherwise, everything else trading to the downside. You've got the indice, the Dow down 106.5 points. The S&P is basically flat. The Russell's off 7 tenths over 7 and 15 points. Semi is down 9 tenths or 31 out here. The one thing to be watched, we're going to switch over and take a look at our indices charts out here. When we look at the indices charts, we'll talk about the number of TD9 count patterns that are there. In some cases, they're not. One thing, and so those TD9 counts, the top that we're anticipating is going to form today in the S&P, the Nasdaq, one that's already exist in the Dow equity future contract, but not the Dow, that we could see prices move, in fact, lower. But the one thing that could get in the way is this chart right here. This is really just specifically with regard to the Euro. And the Euro is trading lower at this stage here. That is capital that is fleeing Europe coming to the US. How do we come to the US? If we take a look at the US dollar index, that's moving higher. So that's pretty easy. And it's just simply the flight to quality is still, even with all the crazy stuff going on, is still inside the US. It's still the US dollar because it is the reserve currency. And that includes US dollar oriented assets such as our stock market out there. So just want to be able to point that out. Meantime, let's go take a look at, in the time that we have left, let's go take a look at our indices charts out here so you can see what they're signaling to us. When you don't see on the upper left hand side a TD9 count for the Dow. So we've got a little bit of divergence that the equity future contract does. The indices does not. The S&P is going to form a TD9 count today, just like the ESPINI, the NDX100, a TD9 count just like the NQ out there. But remember, it could be tomorrow's high. That could be the high of the pattern. The Russell 2000, just a sideways consolidation. The SEMIs do not. The SEMI index does not have a TD9 count, but the SMH does. And that's just simply because of the way that it deals with dividends and so forth. In the case of the transports, price just got up to its resistance level at the 16, 6 to 18 level. It's possible the New York Stock Exchange will form a TD9 count today. It needs to close above, close above the 5. That's at 16, 7, 35. If you close above that, the New York Stock Exchange will ask that composite, which is trading higher, will give us those TD9 counts. So folks, stay tuned. Your favorite polar bears up next. David White is going to be a great show. And I'll see you back here tomorrow, one o'clock sharp. Have a magnificent Monday. Take care. Be safe out there.


Hi, I'm George Kau and today I am with Christelle Arcucci. I'm excited for us to talk about the very important topic of money and how we are relating to money in our mind and heart and how that of course ripples out and into our own financial lives and beyond that. So hi, Christelle. Thanks for having this conversation with me. Hey, George. I'm super excited to be here with you. Thank you. Yeah. So let me first read your bio to everybody and then we'll get going. And I just want everyone to know Christelle has been a student of several of my courses and I thought that she has a message that might be encouraging and inspiring for some of you here. So, all right. So Christelle is the founder of Soul Purpose Network. She is a soul purpose mentor, healer, writer, artist, and speaker. Christelle is passionate about empowering women to be seen, heard, and financially supported and aligned with their soul purpose. She has supported thousands of clients to align the body, mind, and soul purpose since 1991. So, Christelle, one of the things, you know, there's so many things you could, you work with clients on and one of the things is the relationship that they have to money. So I'll let you kind of take it over from there. Okay, great. And this is a tricky topic because a lot of people in our community don't want to talk about money and, you know, so much of the programming, especially in spiritual communities or artist communities, that money is evil. And I think, unfortunately, that's because there are so many businesses that are using money as a vehicle for destruction. And they are using money and business in a way that's not in the highest alignment. So the first thing is that looking at our relationship with money, being present with where we are with it right now, and also seeing the possibility of utilizing money as a force for good. So it's always good to come up with examples of businesses that are doing this that we can look to and say, okay, here's an example, you know, like a couple of people that popped to mind for me or Oprah, right, she's sharing her message and using her platform and and money in a way that is creating powerful change. You know, I think the same of Richard Branson, you know, a global leader that is doing business in integrity. So it's so important that we look to those businesses instead of focus on just the businesses that are using money in corrupt, greedy, awful ways, you know, to be like, money is neutral, right? Often people talk about money as energy. And I would go even further to say is money is fuel. So money can fuel the vehicle of greed and corruption, or money can fuel the vehicle and be a force for good and powerful transformation in the world. And so I want to set up that context, because so many people in our community are like, I don't want to talk about money, I wish I didn't have to deal with money, I wish I didn't have to sell anything, I just want to change the world. And so in the current paradigm, we money is an important thing and essential for most of us that are doing business, right, we have to be willing to spend money and make money to even be in business. So I want to set that context that we are looking at money as fuel and we get to choose is it a force of good, or is it a force and fuel for evil and corruption. And from my perspective, the more people in business owners, we have making conscious choices with their money and building conscious sustainable businesses, the more quickly we're going to be able to turn this earthship around. Yeah, I like I like this idea of money as fuel because, you know, to me, it's like primarily when we make money, it's not that we are trying to get the money itself at that, but it's like we want what the money can do, you know, just like the fuel analogy that money allows the vehicle, the car to go farther and to operate. Money allows our vision to go much farther. Similar, another thing about money as fuel is like we can't, we don't want to drink fuel will die as we can't eat money either. But it's like, again, it's like the I think I think when when when greed comes in when we got some money, it's like people focus hyper focus on the money itself and they forget about the people, they forget about the vision, they forget about the values and it's like, wait, are we just drinking fuel here? No, no, we just want the fuel to do the thing that it's supposed to do. We'll just take care of people, take care of planet. You know, take care of our, take care of the future, right? Yes, yes. So that's the place we're setting up that context. And then the next piece is so important is to get present with our relationship with money. And in doing this, I work with clients in supporting them in thinking about money now as a person. So when I first started doing this with this building this relationship, building a healthy, sustainable relationship with money, the dominant feeling I had about money was fear. So if I think about, okay, money is now a person. And if I was continually saying to that person, I'm afraid of you. You're never there when I need you. I don't trust you. You never do anything good for me. You know, if I was saying this to a person, the person wouldn't stick around for a long, like they wouldn't want to help me. Right?  So, and when you first begin to recognize your present moment relationship with money is to do it without blaming, shaming, making yourself wrong, you know, is to think of, okay, I'm working to heal a relationship. And just like inhaling a relationship with a person, it's first like, okay, where are we now? And, and where do we want to be? We need to first be focused on like what the experience is. You know, often we, we vilify money again. And so it's like kind of clearing the slate of being like, okay, money is neutral. It's my relationship with money, which most often comes from our parents relationship with money and our culture's relationship with money. So it's like clearing the slate after we've figured out, okay, my dominant relationship with money was fear where it was like, I would be afraid of opening my bills. I would be afraid of not having enough money. I was afraid of having money too. So it wasn't just the fear of not having money. It was like the fear of doing awful things with money because I had, I've seen so many businesses and I was about to say politicians, but I'll just say it, politicians do things with money that I didn't agree with and I didn't align with. So I was like, I just don't want to deal with it. But then as I first recognized what my relationship was, and then I said, I am going to focus on building a relationship with money that's aligned with the greater good, that's aligned with sustainability of the planet and to do business from that place. Yeah, it's beautiful. Exactly. Yeah, it's, you know, fear is essentially about avoiding, right? And so when we approach that kind of relationship to money, it's, well, we're avoiding it money. And of course, now money is going to avoid us. So yeah, thank you very much for that, for that reframe. Yeah. So then in that shift of recognizing our relationship with money and then looking to shift our relationship with money.  It's not money itself. And then it's important to then shift to how do we shift our experience of money? So it's easy to just be like, well, how am I going to do that? It's so ingrained in everything I do. So one of the practices I work with clients on is a very fun practice. And George, I hope you would do this with me. It is the money mantra. And so mantra is a repetition of a certain word. And so with this practice, we're incorporating, it's a breathing practice. It's a sounding practice. It's a movement practice. And so basically what we do in the practice, and I'm laughing already because you can see that I've done this enough that it's already shifting me even before I teach it. And also people find this very funny, this practice. So what we do is we take a deep inhale and then as we exhale, we repeat the word money over and over and over and over and over and over again. And ideally you're moving your body and and and also notice what your mind says about that. Because most people that have a spiritual practice, they're like, I can't save money over again because again, we have made money the enemy, but what if money is just fuel? So me repeating the word money and having an experience in my body that's funny and fun and playful and is simply energy. Then we have a chance of being able to be like, okay, my relationship with money can be fun and playful and be a source of good in the world. So would you do this with me, George? All right, let's go for it. Okay. So we're going to take a deep inhale and then as you exhale, you're just going to repeat the word money money money money money money. See, yeah. George is already laughing. Right. Right.  But I think, I've, you know, greatly reformed my relationship with money over the years and that's part why I think my business is able to work well and it's true. It's kind of like, if we were to think about another tool, like a vase, for example, I'm looking at a vase of flowers and it's like, I don't have a, I don't, I have a usual relationship with a vase when it's useful, it's gorgeous, it's wonderful. And when it's not, it's just sitting there.  It's like, right? It's the same, it's, so that's an interesting thought. It's that, you know, it's a tool and if you're repeating it and you can't do it in a fun way, it's like, there's something there, you know, it's for us to transform, yeah. Right, and it highlights that practice, it highlights most people's resistance to the word, which then means they're resistant to money, which makes it so that it's gonna be difficult for them to make money. If you're resisting money, then how is it gonna come to you easily? Well, I think if you're resisting money, I think what happens is we subconsciously sabotage our efforts to make money. I think that's really where it happens is like, oh, I'm scared of saying what my rate is to my clients. You know, oh, I'll give them a discount, or oh, I wanna do this thing, but I wanna create an online course, but you know, someone says that you charge for it, but maybe I'll just give it, you know, give it that a discount or for free. So yeah, it's an interesting exercise, yeah. Yes, well, thank you for playing with me. So the next thing that we work on, I call future casting. So once we've looked at our relationship with money where we are, we've begun to do the work of seeing money as fuel and committing ourselves to using money as a force for good in the world. Then we future cast, which is like we're creating the future from here and now. And in that process, helping the practitioners in our community like put their stake in the ground to say, I take a stand for this one global problem that my business also supports people to transform on a personal level. Like for example, my one global problem that I could wave my magic wand and wipe out would be I would make it so that every woman and girl on the planet has a way to make money in her local economy that feels good to her. And when I first really landed on that, I was afraid because I was like, oh, are people gonna think I'm a man hater or are they gonna be like, what about men? Or there's all this blah, blah, blah chatter in my mind. And yet when it's so true for my business, but at first I was really scared to take a stand for that. And then I was introduced to Lynn Twist's work. She wrote a book called The Soul of Money and she talks about the same thing. And so then I was like, okay, here's a relief. Here's a woman who's creating massive change and she's also talking about the same, like how that would change the planet. And it's also a ripple effect because I also really deeply care about the environment. I care about people getting fresh water and having medicine when they need it.  And so I think that's also a challenge people in our community come up against there's so many things I wanna change. But for me, it's like when I take a stand for women and girls being able to financially support themselves in a way that feels good to them, then they can make choices in their local environment. And they can then fuel the causes that they believe in, which means it's gonna create a massive ripple effect in many areas of life. And that in my opinion happens for everyone and what they do. So I'm gonna give another example. And then George, I would love to know if you, if one comes to mind for you, if you would share like what your one global problem is that you would shift and then you can share it. So for example, one of my clients, she's a chiquon teacher and a performer and has been doing it for four years. And but there were like these two, she was an amazing performer and speaker. And we were at a speaking program together and they knew she was a highly trained chiquon teacher. And so she had these energy practices, but then when she was on stage, she was so exceptional. And she and I were in a speaking program together and I was like, I want you to teach me how to do that. How to tell my story in an embodied way that captivates the audience. So then with us working together and her taking a stand to bringing those things together, her focus is in supporting women to share their message on stage and through storytelling to make a positive impact in the world. And so in her taking that stand, now her programs are sold out. And then she's again, supporting people and getting their message out, which is it's like the ripple effect of positive change in the world. So George, does one come to mind for you? Gosh, there's so many. But like if I'm not sure, okay. You know, one of the challenges I see in the world is that politicians are being bought and sold, right? And if I had an unlimited money, I would give everyone, there's actually a policy called Democracy Dollars, which is like imagine giving everybody $100 a year where politicians can say that money can only be given to political campaigns. And so what happens is that washes out all the lobbying money because it's like in a community of a million people or a thousand people, what is that? That's $100,000 right there. Or I'm sorry, a community of a hundred thousand people, that's $10 million right there. And so anyway, so if I had a bunch of money, I would change a political system so that's really citizen funded. So yeah, that's what I would do. And our viewers can see how that one change that George would make the impact that would have, that would impact our education system, it would impact the prison systems, it would impact funding for so many things. And so I encourage all of our viewers to really look at that, like by taking a stand for that one thing and saying I'm gonna use money as a force for good, how it creates this ripple effect and also supports other people to stand in their power and to stand for their cause. And then we create this global network of people who are doing business in a conscious way, using money as a vehicle and a force for good in the world. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you for that inspiring exercise. And I hope that those who have something like that, if you have a future cast, if you have abundant money, what would you support or what would you help to create? Feel free to comment below and let us know if you can get inspired by seeing those comments. So there's so much more, Christelle, that you could share with us, but I know that you have something that you wanna share with the audience in terms of an offer that, how they can continue doing the work with you. Yes, so I have a free course that's called the Mystic Money Jumpstart. So it goes deeper into these principles of looking at your relationship with money, giving you practices to help you shift your relationship with money, and also deepening the relationship with money that you want to have. So seeing money as an ally in your life and then going deeper into how you can create that change so that when you're in that place of power with money and in your business, then you attract clients and opportunities that support your vision and your mission-driven business. So I would love to invite your viewers, our community to come to my website and sign up for that free course to go deeper into these practices. And then if that's a good fit, they can set up a conversation to explore how I could support them further. Awesome, and I will make sure the link to that is in the notes of the video. So be sure to check that out. It's a free course and it comes with like audio. Tell us what they get. So with that, yes, there's audios and journaling exercises to, so the audios, there's a couple of audios and one is a journey to meet your mystic money ally. So it goes deeper into that embodied practice of money being an ally in your world and then journaling practices to help you first recognize your money blocks and then reset them. So that's a deeper way to go into these practices. Cool, great. Well, I look forward to some of you actually doing this and please comment below once you get the course and how it helps you. I'd love to see that. So thank you so much, Christelle.  The main encouragement I wanna give everybody is to trust yourself in your relationship with money. Trust that you will use money as a force for good in the world because right now, from my perspective, we're in a global crisis and we need as many conscious spiritual people and business owners taking a stand and using money in alignment with the highest good of all. It's beautiful. Thank you so much, Christelle. Thank you. It was a pleasure to be with you and your community today. Yeah, thank you for uplifting us about this important topic. Thanks.


Good day to all of you It's an honor to be invited to this very important conference on integration through openness knowledge communities in research and teaching I'm very grateful to Professor Thomas Kohler for giving me this opportunity to be present virtually at this conference and to bring to you some perspectives of openness and how these have impacted Education in the developing world But first a word about my organization the Commonwealth of Learning Which is an intergovernmental body? Established by Commonwealth heads of government and located in Vancouver, Canada with an office in Delhi Our motto is learning for development We work in 54 Commonwealth member states in all the regions of the globe and you can see from this map That it's a very wide spread and my examples will be from these Commonwealth countries Our mission is to help Commonwealth member states and institutions to harness the potential of distance education and information and communication technologies For expanding access to education and training we work in low-resource settings Where lack of access to education is a major barrier to human resource development According to the World Bank For countries to achieve sustainable economic development the age participation rates or APRs That is the participation of the 18 to 24 year olds in higher education Must be in the region of 40 to 50 percent which is the OECD average But age participation rates in South Asia are below 15 percent and in sub-Saharan Africa even lower below to 10 percent Likewise the global participation rates in secondary education are about 65 percent While in sub-Saharan Africa only 30 percent of those who complete primary education Can move to secondary schools Developing country governments are looking for alternative means of providing access to quality education to their citizens Opening up education in various ways is one such option My topic today is Opening up education in low-resource settings the users of open education resources or OER I will first look at three generations of open education and Will then focus on open education resources and their advantages Taking examples mostly from those low-resource Commonwealth countries. I Will finally take up the three challenges that need to be addressed if the OER movement has to reach the unreached and Will conclude with some of the initiatives that are being undertaken at the international level to address these challenges Let us now turn to the three generations of open education 40 years ago the Open University UK was launched to open up education to large numbers of people That was when the term open education became popular and the model captured the imagination of policy makers around the world The success of the British Open University led to huge expansion in open universities particularly in the developing world Asia alone has over 70 open universities and the numbers continue to grow Germany has its own open university the fun University at established in 1974 there has been a leader in global distance education and Professor Otto Peters formerly of this university has been a thought leader in this field and Continues to inspire distance educators from Malawi to Mongolia The founding Chancellor of the Open University of the UK Lord Crowder's statement of openness in relation to people places methods and ideas forms the Basis of the first generation of open education Open education is a philosophic construct That advocates the removal of barriers and constraints to learning Open education refers to policies and practices that allow Entry to learning with no or minimum barriers with respect to age gender or time constraints Open universities were oriented towards the massification of higher education Many open universities do not insist on entry qualifications Allow learners to accumulate credits at their own pace and convenience and are flexible enough To allow learners to choose the courses they wish to Towards their qualifications The principal technologies in this phase were print radio and TV telephone and teleconferencing The second generation of open education was shaped by the emergence and use of the internet and the worldwide web the first electronic course was launched in 1984 and The use of web-based programs allowed learners the choice to study on campus or at a distance Interactivity was a key aspect of the second generation with a high level of personalization through the use of ICTs This led to more flexible and blended approaches Many campus-based Institutions began to offer both face-to-face and distance learning programs thereby opening up access to newer constituencies in this phase we see a convergence of face-to-face and distance education provision the third generation of open Education may be seen to commence at the turn of the century with the open education resources movement Which is based on the idea that knowledge is a common valve and that technology can help us share use and reuse it The Massachusetts Institute of Technologies open course were initiative rise universities connections the open learn of the open University of the UK and the open education resources of the Netherlands open University initiated this movement Which has now been taken up in Asia Africa and Latin America This slide sums up the emergence of the three generations of open education models The first covers the 21 years from 1969 to 1990 the second from 1984 to 2005 In both cases the development is gradual In the third generation which could be seen to begin in 1999 We see a phenomenal growth showing that thanks to technologies Paradigms will change in much shorter time spans than Thomas Kuhn had initially imagined Let us briefly review what we mean by open education resources This phrase open education resources was first coined at a UNESCO workshop in 2002 There have been several definitions Since but here is one which captures the essence of what we mean by OER OER are teaching learning and research materials in any medium That reside in the public domain Or have been released under an open license That permits their free use and in some instances repurposing by others In short OER are educational materials which are free and freely available Are suitable not just for higher education, but for all levels of Education including primary and secondary OER can be reused and repurposed to suit different needs and could be available in any medium print audio video digital One key difference between OER and other educational resources is that OER Has an open license Which allows adaptation and reuse without having to request the copyright holder The concept of OER is not new to Germany The Berlin Declaration on open access to knowledge in the sciences and humanities was signed by key academics in October 2003 They said and I quote Our mission of disseminating knowledge is only half complete if the knowledge is not made widely and readily available to society Content and software tools must be openly accessible and compatible In this presentation, of course, we are only speaking of content rather than software tools What then are some of the advantages of using open education resources I Will give you seven examples of how the use of OER can increase availability of content Improve the quality and cut the costs of education foster collaboration build capacity Open up access to affordable education and finally encourage the global exchange of knowledge The students of Banda College of Agriculture in Malawi, Africa Had no textbook on communication skills and were entirely dependent on the notes from their lecturers Now they have a textbook 75% of which is based on OER or freely available web resources and Supplement it with locally relevant activities examples and assignments Many of you have heard of the Indian Institutes of Technology or IITs in India These premier institutes in partnership with the government of India have made their engineering and technology courses available as OER These are being used in 509 institutions most of them in very remote locations In India with very limited resources Both teachers and students are using the free IIT resources to improve the quality of their teaching and learning The teacher education in sub Saharan Africa a Partnership between the Open University UK and institutions in 12 African countries have developed OER for teacher training in four languages English Kiswahili Arabic and French These were used by 320,000 teachers in 2010 alone and The free materials as well as the sheer numbers of users Can radically reduce the costs of providing quality teacher training My organization the Commonwealth of Learning has initiated a six-country partnership To develop 20 sets of course materials in print and online formats Based on the secondary Curricular of Botswana, Lesotho, Navibia, Seychelles, Trinidad and Tobago and Zambia With support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation This has not only established communities of practice, but has helped teachers and institutions Save both time and money by collaborating on the content development The virtual university for small states of the Commonwealth is a consortium of 32 small states of the Commonwealth which have come together to develop capacity in online course development Several need-based courses in disaster management, tourism, entrepreneurship, fisheries, etc. Have been completed and are available on COAL's website Teachers who had never developed a single online course are now training other colleagues Three universities, the Otago Polytechnic in New Zealand The University of Southern Queensland, Australia and Athabasca University of Canada Came together in February this year to develop the model for an OER university The participating universities plan to put a percentage of their courses on their websites as OER So students anywhere in the world can access them free of cost They will then recruit retired teachers and volunteers on the lines of doctors without borders or engineers without borders Who will then provide free tutorial support to the students Students pay only if they wish to take exams towards a qualification This will cost students only 20-25% of what they would normally pay Thus making higher education more affordable and accessible to anyone in the world We have usually seen a one-way flow of knowledge from the developed to the developing world OER can provide for a global exchange of knowledge in both directions A lecturer at the University of Ghana developed a simple procedure for a caesarean section and videotaped it It is now being used in the Netherlands for medical students Similarly, a lecturer at the Kwame Nekrumah University of Science and Technology Ghana Who also happens to be a world authority on the Buruli ulcer Has developed an OER module on the Buruli ulcer Which has been used by the World Health Organization or WHO And the University of Michigan in the United States While there are benefits, several challenges remain How can we reach teachers and students in remote and marginalised communities? It is these communities that need most help to improve the quality of education Many of them have not even heard of OERs Most of the available literature today on OER focuses on production How do we move to the next level and promote actual use and reuse? What kind of advocacy strategies will be needed to reach these constituencies? My organization, KALL, has developed various resources to generate awareness on OER and their uses Please look at the basic guide to OER Which has recently been developed jointly by UNESCO and KALL And is available on our website UNESCO and KALL also collaborated with the U.S. Department of Education To develop policy recommendations through international consultations at six workshops Which concluded in Paris in December 2010 These workshops came up with recommendations which require governments and higher education institutions To have one, policies to support the development and reuse of OERs Two, develop capacity in OER And three, support the improvement of national ICT infrastructures UNESCO and KALL have also developed international guidelines for the use of OER These are now in the public domain at our respective websites And would benefit greatly from your feedback OER has the potential to create genuine knowledge communities And capture the tremendous wealth of tacit knowledge that each one of us owns Technology has made the world more interconnected than ever before And we can collaborate across the different regions of the globe To pull our collective knowledge to address the great development challenges of our time On that note, let me conclude by wishing you every success in your deliberations Thank you very much for your kind attention


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey, guys. Good morning, everybody. Welcome to another edition of theaxistrader.com weekend update. It is Saturday. It is 8am. I've been up since like 5.30, already went to the gym, went to the sauna, walked my dog, had breakfast on my cup of coffee, decaf, half-calf. And I'm ready for the day. And I think the message is, as we get older, you don't appreciate this when you're in your teens or your 20s or even sometimes your 30s.  It could be just as simple as taking a walk with your dog, taking your kid somewhere, spending time with your loved one and friends. But make the time that you are on earth awake, breathing, and healthy count. And I think that's the most important part. As I get older, I can't ever see myself like sleeping in 8, 9, 10 o'clock. Life is too short. And I think it's an incredible gift that we get to wake up every morning. So might as well make the most of it. Other than that, guys, if you are brand new to the channel, thank you very much for tuning in. If you could take a second and be so kind to just like, share, subscribe, come along. Come along in this journey of unbiased technical analysis. And for all you guys who joined us this week, right? Celebrating the 25 years for me in this wonderful reality show that's not on television. The Trading World next couple of weeks. We've been kind of celebrating my 25th up and coming anniversary in a couple of weeks. So for all you guys who came along this week, you got pretty much to see everything, right? You got to see the bounces, the rejections, the natural pivots, long shorts and so forth and so on. And it's a very, very cool unique way of looking at the market. It's not the quote, unquote, normal way to look at the market. The PS60 theory was designed for channels to be played within those channels and outside those channels on expansion days, both long and shorts. For you guys who are interested to take advantage. You have a couple of days left. I think I think Kenyon is running it through through President's Day weekend, which is this weekend, I think through Monday. So if you want to come aboard guys, you have until Monday to kind of take advantage of the special. So let's talk about, right? So the market has been absolutely stellar, right? Absolutely on fire since 2023. This is probably as equal to the internet craze as you can possibly get. The moves, the aggressive moves in real stocks. Again, if you guys remember going, oh, some of you guys do, some of you guys don't. But going back to the internet craze in 99 and 2000. Yeah. For you had a lot of crazy random stocks, eToys and Sdli and JDS Uniface and Sun Microsystem at that time and Norital Networks and PDLI, like all these weird symbols. Of course, you have the internet stocks popping. But the major difference between this potential craziness versus what we saw during then, this is happening with real companies. These panic buying with companies have been around for a while that have billions and billions and approaching trillions of dollars of market caps. So this is a very, very special market. It's unique in that fashion. And you've seen now in the last five weeks that fund managers are playing catch up. They're playing catch up because of these extraordinary runs they missed in 2023. That's why you're seeing such exaggeration moves in the sleast in the first month and change of 2024. However, the most basic thing happens is markets get tired. And if you look at this past week, just on the scoreboard, all major benchmarks down about 1% or so. Some less, some a little more than NASDAQ. NASDAQ was down 1.3%. And this pretty much snapped a five week winning streak for the indexes. But again, if you traded indexes again means nothing. It's water cooler talk. It's just the scoreboard people keeping tabs. The market was vicious, absolute vicious this week. And despite the cues failing to reclaim back the five day moving average, we saw some extraordinary moves. Let's just go one by one. Let's start off with SMCI. This was definitely the most majestic move probably I've seen in a real company in a long time. Again, you could turn around and say, well, Tesla had this magnificent move in 1920. It absolutely did. Nvidia is still in the middle of its mass majestic move. Now, obviously they report in a couple of days. But this is one of those stocks that for the majority part of the move, I don't think at least none of my buddies. Even looked at this thing. Because again, you turn around and say, well, why am I going to trade SMCI if I could trade in the same space in video? If I could trade in the same space AMD, the liquidity is there. I could buy, you know, and this is the rationale behind it is, you know, I could buy 10 times more liquidity on AMD that I can turn around on SMCI because it trades $1, $1.5, sometimes $2 spreads with 100 share lots. And of course, it's cool, you know, seeing the stock go up 50, 60 points. But if you have no size on 50, 60 points, what the hell is the point, right? If a trader's methodology is I would rather make two points on Tesla than 20 points on SMCI. You kind of understand where most traders are coming from. But nevertheless, I mean, this was pretty much one of the biggest moves I think I've seen in my career in a real stock. It went from what, 250, kind of out of this, quote unquote, blow off top around the 1,078 level and an incredible reversal. But hey, listen, that's gravity. You knew it was coming eventually, right? It wasn't really a secret. The question is, you know, if you took advantage, you were fantastic, right? We had a 970 backside pivot on this thing that imploded. Again, congratulations for all you guys who caught it. Again, this is not really my thing. And I've been saying this for weeks and weeks and weeks. Again, I'd rather trade NVIDIA. I do trade NVIDIA. I love NVIDIA. I'd rather trade AMD. I love trading AMD now. So this is really not my thing. I know a lot of people did really very, very well on this thing. And God bless, right? And that's the whole point of pivots.  It's either going to go or it's not going to go. And this was a perfect scenario just to stop, just to stop, right? Just absolutely stop putting the blow off top. It lost the previous day's range, right? It lost the previous day's range of 917. And once it lost the previous day's range in 917, it got to the five day. And, you know, next week, if it starts taking out, if it starts taking out Friday's range, it probably has another, you know, 30, 40 points in the trade. Might have a day two in this thing as well. But again, absolutely majestic run. Tesla, right? Tesla finally broke out, right? Finally broke out. The problem with Tesla is it broke out at the wrong day, right? It broke out the day that the market, you know, kind of rested. But this was a great move. This was an absolute great move. I'm still holding a runner from a couple of days ago. Finally broke out above this 196-50 level. Traded his highs to 205s. Kicked out more stock pre-market yesterday. You know, again, this is the highest close in this whole formation. You have short-term call buying coming in for next week, a lot. A lot of it despite the weakness in the market. Again, great, great move on Tesla. On Thursday, consolidation inside day. On Friday, they were coming for the February 23rd expiration. Basically this week's up and coming weeklies. They were coming for the 205s, the 210s. So let's see if Tesla could wake up on some of the money flow that's maybe taking out of SMCI or some of these other names. It could be kind of pulled into Tesla. Tesla starts reclaiming back Friday's pre-market highs. You can see the 60-minute view. If Tesla starts getting above this pre-market high on Friday, we could see a move in this whole fill of this 210-212 level. So hopefully it can get it's done. All eyes, obviously, if you trade technology. All eyes on NVIDIA. They're reporting on the 21st. I believe it's Wednesday. Price targets all over the place. It feels like every single day a new broker is coming out and giving them a more exaggerated price target. I mean, I saw a $1,200 price target. I saw a $1,500 price target this week. All eyes on NVIDIA. But before it gets there, right? Before it announces earnings, I want to kind of give you guys a little bit of synopsis. The market is a very... It's every year the expression copycat league, right? Like in the NFL, now everybody's past happy. It's very, very rare that you see a run first team. Everybody's past happy. So the market's kind of a copycat event as well. So, you know, the thought... Like I already spoke to one of my buddies last night. And he's like, well, yeah, everybody knows nothing's going to happen to NVIDIA prior to its earnings released Wednesday night. But what happens if it doesn't, right? What happens... And I tweeted this out on Friday afternoon. But what happens if the market decides to do a juky-puky and pull a SMCI right before earnings? It's very possible, right? If you see here the last three days that it held the bottom of the range literally at the same price. Now, what happens on Tuesday, right? Because earnings are Wednesday night. So you have two full trading days. Now, what happens if this thing decides to pull a SMCI and loses the bottom of the range? Hey, maybe we could get a, you know, $15, $20 move before earnings. Again, I'm not saying it will happen. But hey, like I say every single video, it will be prepared. So all eyes on NVIDIA for Wednesday night. We'll see. You know, we'll see what happens there if this is indeed already priced into the move or does the market have more room to go? Not all pretty in everywhere, okay? Apple is very, very close to the bottom of the range. It's not a good thing. This thing starts getting below the bottom of the range. And now this is like day two now below the 200-day SMA. Again, nothing happens good. You guys saw what happened with Tesla when it lost the 15 to 200-day. Nothing good happens if this thing starts putting in a nice base here below the 200. This is definitely a name we want to watch if the market starts to pull next week. And again, it's a very, very big if it starts to pull. But again, the stock sitting below the 200-day moving average is not a good thing. Same thing with Microsoft. Guys, look how close this Microsoft is to really giving this an exaggerated swan die, right? Look at this rolling. This is a rolling top.  If Microsoft loses the 20-day support, folks, there's room all the way down to the 50-day moving average. You're talking about, what, 404 all the way down to 388, which is the 50-day? Again, something to be prepared for. It doesn't mean it's going to happen, but something to be prepared for. Google, right? Another name just like Apple and just like Microsoft. Google is sitting on its 50-day moving average, right? The last time it lost the 50-day moving average, it got down to its next rising support, right? Next rising support. So watch Google. Same thing. If the market gets pulled next week, watch Google. If it starts losing the 50-day moving average, this thing can really, really get back to the bottom of the range here. Look at Coin. Coin had an incredible run with Bitcoin, right? Incredible run with Bitcoin. It put an inverted hammer, right? It put an inverted hammer. Keep this in mind. In two weeks, the stock has gone from 114 to 200, okay? Can this be a same scenario as SMCI? Hey, why not, right? Why not? Again, copycat league. If this thing starts losing the bottom of the range and there's another down-day on SMCI, well, why can't Coin come in 20, 30 points? For God's sake, the stock is up from 115 to almost 200.  Absolutely. Again, keeping the theme of a potential copycat theme. Look at Arm. Arm had an incredible run. Now it's sitting at a very tight channel. Again, we don't know which way it's going to break, but again, if we are trying to set up a narrative again, I'm not trying to convince anybody for anything, but if this does play out and they start pulling the coins of the world, and the videos of the world, right? Look at the bottom of the range of Arm, right? Two out of the last three days were red candles. It means the closes were lower than the open. So what happens if it loses the five-day? What happens if it loses the bottom of the range?  You have 20 points back to the downside. So there's a lot of really, really good setups in case we get pulled on the market. Meta I traded this week was finally, remember we told them for like two, three days, maybe we'd finally break that, finally broke out, right? Finally broke out. It was a phenomenal move on Thursday. The problem was the market got soft. It picked a wrong time to break out, and now it's sitting the last couple of times on the 10-day. Now what happens if the market gets pulled? What happens if Meta starts losing the 10-day? It doesn't mean the stock has to go higher. Stocks do go down. So we got to watch the 10-day. Last time it stopped at the 10-day was February the 13th and then bounced. Friday stopped at the 10-day, held the 10-day. We know what happens if it loses the 10-day. That's exactly what I'm watching for the start of the week. And last but not least is Amazon, right? Amazon never really gave that second earnings run after a pretty good quarter. And if you guys watch the news, Jeff Bezos has been selling a lot of stock, right? As that has something to do with the ability for this thing not to get going. Again, very tight channel. Again, I don't know which way it's going to break. As you can see here, it's got rejected three of the last four days on the five-day reclaim. It needs to reclaim the five-day moving average of a dozen. Now we're talking about the bottom of the range of the 20-day support. So there's a lot of stuff going on, an amazing market. And the key to this fall is the queues, right? Is the queues. So the queues have failed to reclaim the five-day moving average in the last three days in a row. And now we have to look at the bottom of the range here of the 20-day moving average, which is 425. As 425 gets violated and especially closed below 425, that means it will take out this whole rising support of the 20-day moving average that's held now for the last two months. So if we start losing 425 and that's to be a big cog here, then it's going to be a pretty good sell signal. This means the end of the rally just means the sell signal for the next couple of days. So we're very, very conscious of those levels. So that's it, guys. That's it. It's pretty basic stuff here. Hopefully everybody is doing well. Hopefully everybody's happy and healthy and taking care of themselves and taking care of the loved ones. Again, there are no Mulligans, guys. We only have one life to live. Again, if you are interested in pivots, take advantage in the next couple of days through President's Day weekend. And I look forward to working with you guys soon, right? No fluff, no editing, no nonsense. Just straight-up channels, straight-up pivots. And the most important part is you're fully understanding of why, and that's the key to being a trader. Guys, God bless. Have a great weekend, and I will see you all on Tuesday.