The greatest weapons, coupled with the fighting skill of the American soldier, stand ready on the alert all over the world to defend this country, you, the American people, against aggression. This is The Big Picture, an official television report to the nation from the United States Army. Now, to show you part of The Big Picture, here is Sergeant Stuart Queen. Today, the free world and the communist world are locked in a peculiar struggle for the minds of men. They have launched a subtle war of diplomatic maneuver, propaganda, deception and calculated intimidation. It is a war of incidents rather than campaigns. It is a war in which a carefully timed show of force can be more effective than a pitched battle. It is an economic, political and psychological struggle. It is the sort of war which is new to the American army. Yet the stakes are the highest in history. They are the whole world in the freedom of all mankind. In this cold war, perhaps even more than an enormous war, understanding the communist enemy is terribly important. It was to help further this end that Senator Henry Cabot Lodge sponsored the alien enlistee program of 1950, now generally called the Lodge Act. Under the provisions of this legislation, political refugees from any country behind the Iron Curtain were given the opportunity of enlisting in the United States Army for a period of five years. At the end of this time, if their record was honorable, they could become American citizens. Today, their first-hand knowledge of communism is an invaluable asset to your army in this strange battle called the Cold War. Right now on The Big Picture, I'd like you to meet some of these Lodge Act soldiers. Commanding officer of one group is Lieutenant Colonel G.E. Hartel. Colonel, I wonder if you would introduce your men to our Big Picture audience. I should be very glad to, Sergeant Queen. We have with us today Sergeant Ritter, who was born and brought up in the Ukraine in Soviet Russia. And on my right, we have Corporal Falkevich, who was reared in Poland, which is now occupied by the Soviets. Colonel, could you tell our Big Picture audience briefly what the purpose of the Lodge Act is? One of the many purposes is of course to use a Lodge Act soldier's knowledge of communism. But he's also used as a linguist and a skilled craftsman. How do these men join the American army? Once these men are across the Iron Curtain, it is relatively easy for them to enlist in the U.S. Army. We have some army films which were taken earlier, which show how these men enlisted in Europe. You are now at the barrier leading into an American Army replacement center somewhere in Germany. The year is 1951. Those five civilians are soon to be the first Lodge Act soldiers. They've come from many places behind the Iron Curtain. They've risked their lives to be here now, but they have won the first round in their battle with communism. They have crossed through that Iron Curtain. They are free men. Once inside the replacement center, they are sworn into the American Army. That's my point of two minutes for enlistment. Very well. We're very happy to have you with us today. Thank you, sir. Are you ready to be sworn in? Yes, sir. You raise your right hand, please. You repeat after me. I, Archbishop Rudovsky. I, Archbishop Rudovsky. I, Carol Caris. I, Carol Caris. Do solemnly swear. Do solemnly swear. That I will bear true faith and allegiance. That I will be, be a true faith and allegiance to the United States of America. Though their English may be poor, these men are fully aware of the responsibilities which they have undertaken. But there are opportunities, too. As they shake hands with the Colonel, they know that for the first time in many years, there is hope in their future.  Ike jackets sometimes present a fitting problem. From Germany, the Lodz Act soldier is transferred to the United States for training. This is an important moment. For the first time in many years, he can speak without fear. Where are you from? I'm from Przakczyk, Slovakia. I am from Poland. What's your name? My name is Michael Daraden, Russian-born. What is your name? Thomas Fandoza. Where is your home? I was born in Romania, but I was a Hungarian. After their initial interview, the Lodz Act soldiers are taken to Camp Kilmer, New Jersey. Here, it is Senator Lodz himself who greets them on behalf of the United States. He tells them that he is proud of the hand he had in helping them to freedom. He tells them that they are American soldiers now with all the opportunities open to every American soldier. Five years after their enlistment, they become citizens. Is that correct, sir? They will be citizens, and you will not find better citizens anywhere. These men have experienced perfect slavery, and they will accept democracy and freedom with all its imperfections. I'm afraid too many of us take our liberties too much for granted. One of our biggest jobs is to acquaint the American soldier with how the communist soldier lives and what he's like. We feel that as a natural byproduct, this will result in a greater appreciation of our democratic ways of life. Well, what about this communist soldier, Colonel? What is he like? Let's ask those who can speak from experience. You may be surprised that Corporal Falkevich speaks excellent English. He acquired this in European schools. To find out about the communist soldier, I think it's best to go back to the time when he's a young boy. He may live in the city or in the country. It doesn't really make much difference. Life is hard everywhere. When the time comes for him to go to school, he will be indoctrinated from the beginning and without usually knowing it with the strict communist party line. His mind, in fact, will already be molded to the shape that the communists wanted to be in. Just what do you learn in school? Well, from the very earliest stages, you learn about the communist party, its history, its principles, about its leaders. Lenin, for instance, in particular, is quite important. What other activities except work and school are there for the young communist? When you're quite young, you join pioniere, which means pioneers. It looks like the Boy Scouts on the surface. Actually, it's a political and almost paramilitary organization. From then on, when you're about 16 years of age, you would join the Consomor, which is the young communist league. Life in the Consomor is made to be clean and powerful. And you like that because your experience is of dirt and poverty. And you're beginning to like it more and more.  We have some film clips which demonstrate what Corporal Thalkevich has just described. This is a Soviet motion picture film showing actual contemporary scenes of life on a communal farm. It is spring planting time. Note the highly organized, almost military aspect of the whole operation. Upon command, a tractor team is dispatched by radio. Under such a system, there is little chance for individual initiative, for every move is rigidly controlled. With the harvest, there is another pseudo-military operation. There is work for everyone, but most of it is hard, backbreaking labor. Women as well as men take part in this heavy field work. With the harvest in, there is a celebration in town. Everybody attends. As is due his position, the local commissar arrives by automobile. The people have come to witness the awarding of prizes to those who've served the party best during the year. The local commissar acts as MC. But the giveaways here aren't refrigerators or sewing machines. They are medals, dozens of medals to reward the hard and diligent worker. One already be-meddled woman receives another, only reward for much hard labor. This is pioneer training.  For some, there is a definite lack of enthusiasm. With the flag up, training begins. This pretty teacher is leading a class of pioneers in calisthenics. Massed exercises such as this are important in Soviet training. They serve two purposes. They develop the bodies of the young pioneers, but over extended periods of time, they also tend to condition their minds to almost automatic responses. The goal is a controlled pattern of behavior. This aim is furthered in school, where all children wear a simple uniform. Boys have their heads shaved. School is a serious business for the young communist. There is so much to be learned, but mostly by memory. Discipline is strict, and teachers are firm. There are three here questioning this little girl. The rest of the class pays close attention. They may be next. Word for word, the passage is recited. There is little joy in school. Life is taught to be a sobering experience. For ordeal over, the little girl sits down. The faces on those school kids tell the story better than anything else. Life shouldn't be that gloomy when you're only six or seven. Well, you see, these children are subjected to a pattern of political and military training, which they should not really have at that age. There isn't much joy in life like that. But the communist state, you will find, prefers it that way. Life generally is unpleasant. As long as life is unpleasant, you can always make promises of better things to come. Promises are easy, and people will always go for them. Does this policy of making things difficult on purpose extend into the army also? Could we ask that question of Sergeant Ritter, who's had extensive experience in how the Communist Party controls the army? Well, Sergeant, I could tell you, it does. During the training, you won't get easily a pass, not talking at all from a three-day pass. Movies, you won't find at all on the post. The training is divided in two main parts. It's the summer training and the winter training. Summer training is hot. You have prolonged marches, runs, you're not swimming. The winter training is the same. You have to stay overnight, cold weather outside. You have to sleep in snow without tents, even a raincoat. But couldn't all this be termed a tough form of physical conditioning? It is a rigorous type of physical training. We have some communist film footage which demonstrates Soviet basic training. Look familiar? The American soldier goes through much the same thing in basic training. The difference is one of degree. Almost all Soviet training is field training. Outdoors, despite extremes of temperature or weather, such training makes for tough, hardy men. The communist soldier will run or crawl for literally hundreds of yards. He will perform the most unpleasant duty without a gripe. But don't forget, he is used to unpleasantness. He has lived with it all his life. However, if he should fail in his duty, punishment is swift and terrible. An individual's life is of no value unless it conforms to the communist pattern. What you are about to see now is a field exercise in bayonet training. The troops are divided into two sides, the ones with helmets against those without helmets. Both sides wear face protectors similar to fencing masks. And of course, rubber bayonets are used. As in fencing, a good thrust puts a man out of action.  Communist tactics call for close-in fighting. Hand-to-hand combat, such as this, is something that is stressed. As you can see, this makes for rough and tumble, tough, realistic training. In this sort of training, spirits run high and there is a real sense of accomplishment for the victors. There is mental conditioning. And we have a clip from a Soviet propaganda film which is shown Soviet troops regularly. After a day of hard work in the field, these men will be subjected to the lies contained in these films. These are newsreel clips of isolated incidents from our past. But to the Communist soldier, they are presented as the general living conditions here in America today.  They say that riots are prevalent because food is wantonly destroyed by the greedy capitalist to keep the prices high. They imply there is much discontent in this so-called land of liberty. Films such as this one are shown almost daily to Communist armies. The purpose of these films, of course, is to create controlled attitude among soldiers. We have touched on this before, Colonel. But I wish either you or your men would clarify it a bit more for our big picture audience. Let's ask Corporal Kalkevich. Uh, well, I think the point is here that, uh, all Communist armies are not just military organizations. They are also very powerful political organizations. You see, at the head of every single unit, there stand two men. One, the commanding officer. The other is a politruc or political officer who is a member of the Communist Party. What is the function of this political officer? He is an attitude maker. He has more power in many cases than the unit commander. But we must look for the function of this individual to the basic documents by which he operates. And there is, for example, Lenin's Life, which is probably the most important and the most frequently read book in the Soviet Union today. It demonstrates all of the basic hate, struggle, even corruption on which communism thrives. This is the overall book. However, the political officer in the unit actually works by a field manual, which I'd like Corporal Kalkevich to demonstrate. This, uh, little booklet here is called in Russian Работа партины организации подразделения, which means, in fact, the handbook for Communist agitation and military unit. It provides the political officer with all all the information he needs, all the procedure, uh, anything at all. Could you quote a statement out of his book for us? Yes, I think that, uh, there are many statements here that are quite, quite enlightening. Here is one I think that is particularly significant and quite representative. And, uh, shall I read it out loud? Please. It says, Воспитание советского патриотизма, беспредельной любви воинов к своей родине, органически связана, etc. How about a translation of that, please? Well, this means, in essence, and it may shock you to hear that, perhaps, that the essence of Soviet patriotism is burning hatred towards all enemies of the communist state. It's quite a state. Yes, and of course, this hatred is the tool with which the political officer works within his unit, and the tool with which the political officer compromises the unit commander in many cases. But whether it's in a unit or in the entire country, the system is the same. We have a chart which I think demonstrates this very graphically. And that is on one side to give you a point of comparison. We have the United States government where there is a loosely organized way of getting along with each other of ameliorating our problems. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, in Soviet Russia, we have a centralized government where all of the sections of state, the various operations in the country, are rigidly controlled by the Communist Party. The army, the scientists, they are all enslaved under this communist thought control, the political control.  And of course, from this peculiar type of setup, emanates the ideological attack on our country. We on the other hand, in an attempt to counter this propaganda attack, attempt from the army, industry, labor and science to come up with some of the solutions. But as you can see, the Iron Curtain is the main obstacle between the people on both sides of this Iron Curtain. To us who live in the free world, it is hard to believe that men's minds can be shackled so effectively. Today, the mass of soldiers and officers in the Soviet Union are found everywhere behind the Iron Curtain. Isn't that true, Sergeant veteran? Yes, sir. In communist countries, you see soldiers everywhere and they are not on leave either. They are in duty. They represent, their duty is to represent the power of the government. Alone, their presence is a certain psychological as well as a physical barrier to any opposition movement. I think there's also another aspect to representing the power of the state and that is the parades in Soviet Russia. Communists are very good at organizing them. They organize them frequently and on a very large scale usually. It appeals to the emotions of the people. They see a lot of uniforms. The bands are playing. It's a show of force, a show of apparent unity and enthusiasm in the nation. It's an opportunity for dishing out propaganda at home and giving out a good propaganda impression abroad. We have some Soviet film footage which shows some of these recent parades. Now, I think it might be some interest to you, Sergeant Queen, to see some of these films. That is the clock on the Kremlin Tower and this is Red Square. It is May Day. A marshal of the Soviet Army reviews his troops. It is a massive, elaborate demonstration designed solely to impress those at home and abroad with the power of the communist state. At the other end of the communist empire, there are other parades modeled after those who have just seen, designed to achieve the same effect. Impress the people with a show of strength. Make an excuse for dropping propaganda. Frighten the people, excite them. Impress them with the power of communism. These are their reasons for holding a parade and they are held very often. A communist parade certainly is different from what we are familiar with. Yes, there is much that's different in a communist country and much that is distasteful to us. And that is, of course, where large-act personnel come in. These men give us the knowledge which we need to counteract communism worldwide. These men give us the details with which to blunt the ideological attack of communism on our country. I can readily appreciate the value of this program. Yes, Sergeant Queen, and I believe that as time goes on and there is a better understanding of the program, we will even enhance its value. We've had statements from Ambassador Lodge recently who feels that the fight against communism is one in which we may expect not only support from those people who have fled from communist-dominated countries but of countless others who cannot breach the wall of communism. And General Delquist, who is the Chief Army Field Forces of Fort Monroe, Virginia, who feels that it is gratifying to note that these stateless citizens, most of whom come from countries behind the Iron Curtain, have volunteered to serve five years in the United States Army to qualify for U.S. citizenship. He feels that this is a history-making program. Colonel Hartel, you and your men have given us a very clear picture of the soldier behind the Iron Curtain. I can readily see how men like yourselves with firsthand knowledge of communism are invaluable assets to our Army. We are proud to have you on our side and I want to thank you all for being on the big picture. And so, these men who have lived under communism and who have rejected it are today American soldiers, frontline fighters in this ideological conflict for the minds of men, called the Cold War. Now there's a Sergeant Stewart Queen inviting you to be with us next week when we'll take another look at our Army in action on the big picture. The big picture is a weekly television report to the nation on the activities of the Army at home and overseas, produced by the Signal Corps Pictorial Center, presented by the U.S. Army in cooperation with this station. You can be an important part of the big picture. You can proudly serve with the best equipped, the best trained, the best fighting team in the world today, the United States Army.


Okay. Hello, everybody. This is Ray Pake. I'm a community manager at GitLab. I'm very excited to be here with my good friend Sophia from Ericsson Software Technology, and she'll introduce herself in a few minutes. Hopefully, everybody is healthy and safe. It's too bad we can't be in person in Austin, but it's still good for everyone to get together virtually and talk about open-source software over the next couple of days. The topic is something that's near and dear to both of our hearts, documentation and open-source projects. If you've been involved in a lot of projects like I have, and Sophia has, you'll find that documentation is a topic that's talked about very often, and people realize the importance of documentation. Unfortunately, in some of the cases that we've seen, it doesn't quite live up to the expectations that people have for documentation. I wanted to share our experiences and some of the things that we tried and learned over the past several years. I just wanted to remind people, if you have any questions during the talk, please feel free to type your questions in the Q&A box. Hopefully, we'll have plenty of time towards the end to answer the questions you have. Both Sophia and I will be monitoring those questions as they come in. Without further ado, let me turn things over to Sophia, and then Sophia will cover the first half of the presentation. Thank you so much, Ray. Hi everyone. I'm Sophia Valin, and I work as a project manager for Ericsson Software Technology. Over the past four years, I've been the technical lead for documentation for OpenFV and ONAP. I'm also one of the initiators for the cross-community working group for documentation within LFN. With that, we can get started. Why is documentation important? We all know that open source is not only for developers and not all people can read code, which makes it a really important entry point for users and other interested. It's key for onboarding and project introduction. It's just super important. If you don't have any docs, it won't be too easy to use whatever incredible stuff that you guys are developing. Documentation should basically always be considered as a natural part of the software delivery. What common challenges do we see then? It's often done by a few volunteers, and even if you volunteer, you might not have too much experience in writing technical documentation. It's more often started in the very last minute. It's treated separately from the code. We tend to see lack of consistency, poor quality, and then this vicious cycle just repeats itself. What can we do then? I will now give you some insights in what we have been doing for the LF networking. As you can see here, a couple of years ago, a cross-community working group was established for LFN with the goal of providing a common way of handling documentation. We saw the need here since a lot of the project was struggling with finding a sustainable way of working with documentation. Not all projects had a designated lead for the DOCS project, which led to a community effort with more often a low priority. We also saw a necessary overlap of maintaining guidelines and so on. What did we achieve? We did achieve way more consistency across the project within LFN. We provided clear and simple guidelines for how to work with documentation. Documentation contributions are treated in the same way as code contributions, and this goes for metrics as well as recognitions. The projects do keep local style guides and templates since this might differ a bit between the projects. As you can see here at the bottom of the slide, we do have a common documentation and tool guide for all the projects within LFN. Moving to some more concrete examples then. I'm going to use OWNAP, the Open Network Automation Platform as an example. I've been working closely with David McBride, who is the release manager for OWNAP, among other projects. We're trying to find a sustainable way and an easy way for projects to work with their documentation. First of all, we have designated milestones for the documentation for each release cycle. This goes all the way from planning to having your repo structure with associated templates, reviews all the way to sign off. We don't let projects get away with not completing their documentation, and I think that's a really important one to have the TSC and others really emphasizing the importance of documentation. We do have two hackathons per release cycle, which has also been very appreciated by the community. This is basically just a Zoom call running open throughout a full day, and people can call in if they have questions or need any support, or it could also just be used as a reminder that maybe you should set aside some time to work on your docs. We provide templates with expected level of content, this is currently a working progress, but I know that since I said earlier, not all people have too much experience with writing technical documentation, so to have some indications in templates has also been a great help. Of course, we're tracking all the documentation, work and tasks in JIRA as we do with the rest of the work, and then we do keep all the documentation stored in the respective project repo, and this is to basically enforce the responsibility and make sure that the project really takes the responsibility and feel that they own the documentation. With that, I'm going to give the floor back to Ray. Thank you, Sophia. Let me advance the slide. Just a bit of the context, I had experience, Sophia mentioned the OPNFV project, so I was able to see working with Sophia, there's been an evolution of how documentation, both in terms of process and structure-wise, they've sort of evolved over time, and I remember the first docs hackathon that we participated in a few years ago, so it's great to see the growth and maturity of docs in large open-source projects in Linux Foundation Networking. So I want to switch gears to, like I said, I joined GitLab about two years ago, leaving the LF Networking communities, and so obviously this is a transition, and Linux Foundation Networking has, I mean, dozens of member companies participating, member companies and organizations, and a lot of volunteer contributors that have been contributing to not only technical work, but also docs as well. GitLab, obviously, it's an open-source project. I mean, we have thousands of contributors from the wider community that have contributed to our product, including documentation, but it's definitely different from projects like LFN, where this is a single company-led project, we also have, you know, within our staff at GitLab, we have a full technical writing team that are professional technical writers, whereas in projects like LFN, other open-source projects, you know, mostly a lot of the work is done by volunteers.  So we love getting contributions from wider community to help our documentation. On this first slide, you'll probably see some of the common themes that Sophia's already talked about, and this is something that I noticed pretty early on in my days at GitLab. Just like it is at the LFN or other projects, documentation is a core part of our product. It's not separate. I mean, if you want to find the docs for our various projects, you see some of the examples here, our flagship GitLab project, Omnibus, runner charts. If you want to find the docs, just go to the repo, and it's at a logical place where you think it would be under the docs directory. So go to, like, the GitLab project, and then the doc will be the same place where you find other things like code. So it's not at a separate repo or separate place somewhere. It's where the project lives. I mean, similar to having milestones at the LF networking projects for documentation for projects to go through the release cycle, we have this documentation page for definition of done. So when you contribute any improvements to our product, including docs, you do that through merge requests at GitLab. And if you go through the checklist, one of the items is if you're introducing a feature or if you're fixing a feature that's going to impact users, you need to have a documentation. And that standard applies equally to GitLab team members and wider community members. And if that requirement's not met, I mean, the merge request will not be merged, and then you'll not make it to our next monthly release cycle. Obviously, if the wider community members need help with documentation because they've never done it before, we're obviously happy to help them out, but that step can't be skipped. Like if you want your merge request to be done, it needs to have the documentation requirements met. So that's one of the things that we have in common with LF networking. So how do you contribute to documentation?  The way you contribute to docs is exactly the same as the way you contribute to the code base. You do that through everything starts with the merge request. That's sort of one of our models at GitLab. I have a link to a documentation there. So the process you go through to submit an MR for documentation is exactly the same as it is for code. So a lot of people, as Sophia mentioned earlier, a lot of people start getting engaged or contributing to open source projects through documentation. So once you mastered how you get through the review cycle or submitting an MR, getting a triage reviewed and merged, once you mastered that mechanics of how you make your contribution to documentation, the process is exactly the same as it is for the rest of our products like code. So we definitely have a consistent process. So you don't have a separate process you're dealing with for code versus documentations as an example. For docs, I mean, we do provide a shortcut. So if you look at any of our documentation pages at GitLab, go to docs.gitlab.com and go to any of the pages. If you scroll all the way to the bottom, you'll see that little publish area says help and feedback and you'll see a link for edit this page. So if you click on that link, it'll take you directly to that page and you can hit the edit button and start editing the page whether it's fixing a typo or adding your information that you think is missing. So you don't have to dig through the directories or folders to figure out where that particular file is located. So just hitting that link will directly take you to the page to make your... We really want to make it easy for people to contribute to docs or documentation. And we have the similar link for all of our websites as well. So if you go to about.gitlab.com and whether you're looking at partners page, community page, or pricing page, if you find something that you want to fix it's just a simple matter of clicking on one of those links and then you can start your contribution. So we have that extra shortcut there for documentation but the process itself, the rest of the way is pretty consistent. So that was really great to see when I first joined GitLab. So having the consistent processes I think is very helpful and important. Moving on to the next slide. And Sophia talked about this as well for recognition within Linux Foundation Networking. And as a community manager, I mean nothing makes me more happy than recognizing community members from all over the world. And for recognition I wanted to provide like one example. So on the left-hand side of that, the slide, that's a mug that you can order once you get your first MR merge. So there was a contributor there who celebrated receiving their mug on Twitter with the hashtag as well. And so for first MR that gets merged, whether it's code or documentation, as far as I'm concerned MR is an MR is an MR. So whether you contributed an important code bug fix or if you just fix a simple typo, it all counts the same. So we want to make sure that people that are contributing to documentation is recognized and awarded. So that's one example on awards. And then in terms of like community metrics, I think Sophia mentioned it as well. We have our contributor dashboard go to contributors.gitlab.com and all the MRs merged or contributor accounts there that counts all MRs including documentation improvements. So we don't have a separate metric for docs versus code. It's just all, they're just all in one place. And I apologize for the last image here, like the red highlighted box. I think I moved over one word converting the slide to PowerPoint meant to obviously highlight the word documentation. But we have a group of people called a core team at GitLab. And I think a lot of open source communities like BJS and Ruby and others have a similar concept. It's basically, it's to recognize people who have made sustained contributions to GitLab community over a period of time. And what we stress here is that when we're talking about contribution, we're not just talking about code contributions. We're talking about contributing to our forums, contributing to our documentation, UX translation and other improvements that you help make to the GitLab community. So these people get nominated and selected by existing core team members. But wanted to stress that documentation is spelled out there. It's one of the important contributions that we look for. And one of our core and core team members actually, it's not shy about sharing with others that, you know, most of his contributions have been on documentation, which is valuable, not just for the docs, but he also works for an organization that's enterprise user of GitLab. So his feedback as a heavy user perspective is extremely important. So we definitely appreciate that. So I think that's what I wanted to talk about in terms of GitLab. I'm going to try to wrap this up in a couple of minutes. I do see a few questions that come in, which we'll get to in a second. So just to, sorry, I forgot to hit the advance button. Just a summary, and I think both Sophie and I kind of emphasize as having a consistent process with the rest of your project and then having documentation be a key part of your core offering. You know, we talked about a number of important reasons why that's important. But one thing I wanted to touch on is that if for whatever reason, I mean, unless you have a very good reason of having a process that's different, for example, between code and documentation, the risk that you might run into is that, I mean, code gets for software projects, including open source projects. I mean, code gets a lot of attention anyways, right? But so if the process for documentation is different, there's a risk that it's not going to look like a first class citizen because it's going to look really odd. I mean, if you tell people that documentation is key to your project, but the process for contributing where the documentation folders are located is different, then you certainly, you might certainly run that risk of, you know, not looking like a first class citizen. So that's one of the things that I wanted to mention. And this may sound obvious. As Sophie mentioned earlier at the onset, people get engaged in communities through documentation. So obviously that you want to make that first step easy to either join the community or contributing. So if you don't have that, you know, process of documenting or contributing to documentation while documented, you're going to be pretty hypocritical. So you want to make that initial experience very, very welcoming and easy. So that's the third bullet there.  Like, I mean, you know, go through the effort, making an effort to recognize people that have made significant contributions to documentation. I think it'll go a long way. So I'll pause here. It looks like we've got about less than five minutes left. And I see three questions here or more than that. I think Sophia will be on screen pretty soon for the Q&A. All right. So Sophia, so I think the first question from Norris, hopefully I'm not butchering the name. Tips on structuring documentation. Do you want to cover that if you don't mind? Sure. I would say less is more. I see projects that ends up wanting to do everything from the start. And I think that you will probably thank yourself later if you look at it and who is the target for this project or product and the documentation and have some basic installation, basic configuration, maybe some high level overview, and then you can build on that instead of trying to deep dive right away and make it super complicated. Yeah. I would say that's a good start. What do you think Ray? I think you answered it. I mean, I think the only other thing I would add is that obviously it evolves over time. I mean, just because you set like a one structure as a project evolves, I think it will evolve. But I think that's where consensus and feedback from the community is important. Good question. Thanks for the question. And next one I think I'll take is from Beth. Developer time is a concern whose employees contribute to open source. How do you address this challenge with documentation? That's an excellent question. I mean, Sophia, you can probably answer this question as well. But I know this is not easy. It's a difficult thing to do. But I think on a regular basis, you need to campaign for the fact that you need to reserve capacity for documentation, whether it's done by developers themselves who are contributing or getting additional resources from the company, like including like a technical writer is from your organization that can also contribute to the open source project. I think it's one way to do it. But I mean, Sophia, I don't know if you want to add anything there. No, I think you covered that pretty good. Yeah. Cool. And I think next question from Brandon at the start of the open source project. Docs might be a top of mind. How do you make Docs a priority from the start and help sure the Docs protocols and standards are followed? Sophia, I'll let you answer that. Yeah. I think it's a good question. It's a valid question. As I mentioned, not having projects to get away with not completing their documentation is basically you need to have the TSC. You need to have PTLs. You really need to have people be individual advocates for the importance of documentation. I think that you just need to be super tough from the beginning that Docs is a natural part of what we are doing here and the whole software package that you are delivering. All right. I think I'll take the next question from Cornelius. How many contributions do we get from this page link? The answer is I actually don't know. I mean, that's actually an excellent question, and I'll look into that. I can probably talk to our marketing and Docs folks and see if we have that stat, but that's a very good question. Fortunately, I don't have an answer, but I think we have about 20 seconds left. Sophia, do you want to take Matthew's questions about more details about Docs hackathon? Sure. We came up with the idea because Docs is always done in the very last minute, and then we figure what can we do to get projects to start earlier and make it a bit more fun. It's all about hacking. It's all about code. Let's make a documentation hackathon. It's always focused on the upcoming release, and we basically just get together and we sit and we hack or we write Docs the whole day, and it can be new projects that needs to get their toolchain running and get everything done in their repo. It can be just working with content and we talk about stuff and we do it together, so we're making a more fun thing out of it. I don't know if there's too much more to say, but people really call into this and they do appreciate it, and yeah. I think we probably take one more question that's somewhat related from Laisa. Is there a name for the hackathon or is it just called Elephant Docs hackathon? I forget the name of it since it's been a few years for me, but... Yeah, it's just documentation hackathon. There is nothing fancy. Yeah, I assume that's... Yeah, these are per project, so it's not like an Elephant thing. I'm not sure if all projects have the same release cycle, so we have one for OpenFV and then we have one for own app. I don't know if other projects are doing it as well, but it's on a project level. Cool.  I guess it would be a good place to start. Yes, good point. Cool. All right, well, I think we have to unfortunately cut it short. I think we got like three questions that are unanswered, but we'll hang around in the Slack channel. So if we haven't addressed your question, please feel free to ping us, and we really appreciate your time. And especially you, Sophia, it's like 11 o'clock over there at night. Thanks for everybody else. Thanks for participating. Thank you so much. Thanks. And thank you, Ray. Yeah, thanks.


actually a very old trick it has been used in the Roman Empire when the Roman Empire conquered certain lands they would take the fighting-age males some of them and move them to other countries that were part of the Roman Empire and within that country that they just conquered they would introduce certain foreigners just to confuse the society just to confuse the peasantry ultimately because those people couldn't communicate with each other and moreover it would raise suspicion in the people the indigenous people would think that the foreigners would want to take something away from them but ultimately it was the Roman Empire that took away their land the Roman Empire that was controlling them anyways the Roman Empire was the enemy but the people were focused on the bad bad foreigners and the foreigners were of course as well suspicious of the new land and of the new people of course this is how this works you confuse the peasants down there and you play the cards up there


Parliamentary representative for Ancillary Canary's Honourable Wayne Girard has reiterated his commitment to meeting the socio-economic needs of constituents, among the priorities for Honourable Wayne Girard is providing quality healthcare to all constituents. We hear more from Rajvaro Lawrence. Officials from the Ministry of Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs joined minister in the Ministry of Finance, Economic Development and Youth Economy and Parliamentary representative for Ancillary, the Honourable Wayne Girard on a walkthrough of the completed Ancillary Wellness Centre. The building located in the heart of the village will serve residents of the community and environs and will provide staff and customers with an improved experience. Assistant Principal Nursing Officer for Community Nursing Services, Alma Dolor expressed satisfaction with the facility and highlighted comfort and ease of use among the many benefits We have the dental unit, we have pharmacy, very well done, we have the nutrition department if many persons have been come you know asking for a demonstration room which is well done and the place is spacious you could see that the nurses are going to have enough space besides the nurses we have the space for the other units like environmental health and so on so this is a facility that is really really at a standard that I know where the clients will be will be satisfied the nurses and other supporting staff will be well pleased to be able to work here and provide a service as a standard that the community will be well pleased and also the surrounding communities. Honourable Wayne Girard noted the significance of the Wellness Centre to treating the ailments plaguing the community. The important thing about the Wellness Facility is not just to deal with the injured but also to impart knowledge and information to the community. As you would see there's a kitchen at part of this facility which speaks to the nutrition and the importance of nutrition so going into the future I think it's important that we utilize the facility not just to deal with the sick but also to encourage people to take better care of themselves so that I think is a very important fundamental part going forward not just dealing with the sick but also preventing some of the issues that we are now seeing quite a bit of our local residents are suffering the non-communicable diseases the asthma, the diabetes, the COPD a lot of information could be imparted upon them right in this facility to help address some of those issues. Minister for Health, Wellness and Elderly Affairs, the Honourable Moses Jabatis indicated that the facility provides an avenue for expansion of medical capabilities. I mentioned to the team here today that the location of this facility right here in Ansleray gives us a perfect opportunity to begin to think about the treatment of snakebites and to begin to think about what capacities we can build locally capacities in the nurses the doctors and the other healthcare professionals and it's not too far fetched for us to begin to think of a center of excellence so to speak for the treatment of snakebites and so on and we know countries we know Ansleray, we know this whole region and we know about Federalists and so on and this facility has the space it gives us opportunities to develop all of those capacities so we have to think not only of health and wellness center in the traditional health center kind of thinking but we have to go beyond this and to see what we can develop not only for St Lucia but for the whole Caribbean. The National Insurance Property and Company Limited NIPRO facilitated the walkthrough of the Ansleray Wellness Center from the Government Information Service, Rojvaro Lawrence reporting.


Most of all, thanks to our guests, James and me, who have come to join us, as you have seen from the file, James has done a lot of things in his career. His date, he is yet almost at the New York University Foundation. He spent almost two years as the Chancellor of the Economic Advisor of Australia this year. His PhD is from SOAS, the... Excuse me. He's a great book, which, if you're very shorty, will be published some time later this year. Good, so James is going to give us an overview of how he thinks later party policies are evolving and what it might mean for government. I'm going to go to the floor, which shows a lot of issues around exchange rates and prices, et cetera, et cetera, that people will have an interest in. But really about the Q&A, which would be awful, I would, if it was a discussion now, it is in all of that. So, James, welcome to the room. Thank you. Thank you very much for the invite to say a few words. I just wanted to sort of lay out and outline the latest economic program. I think one of the things we've suffered from since... I mean, it starts working with China October 2015, so the police seems to have... It's a degree of... I'm going to say fake news, but misinformation about what Labour is up to and what we plan to do and that sort of thing.  We've got hold of some bit of an analysis through one of the city firms, which is basically a sort of close copy of an editorial in the Daily Telegraph. You know, that kind of thing. It's not necessarily very helpful. It's not where we want to get to. John has always stressed that the only way this works is we agree it will be transparency. There is no point. I was trying to say, yes, we want to be a radical and transformative government. Yes, we want to do these things, but they're having some secret plans to it. They can be really open, completely clear about what we're doing. And that's the only way any of this will work. So, in that spirit, I wanted to try and lay out where we've got to on economic policy. I should say, obviously it says of a former economic advisor, which means it's kind of off-leash. I can say where it pops into my head, but just to be clear, this is me speaking, is one that doesn't appear to you rather than reasonably necessarily as a way to help these corporates sort of view of the world. I think that's a question that doesn't have to give a kind of personal opinion or overview of that. But again, it doesn't necessarily take this as like speaking with the authority of the party itself or whatever. You might think through that. So, with that provider, there's a couple of things. Like I said, the economic program does plan to be radically transported. The phrase that John used was to criticize its radically fairer, more democratic, more sustainable than more before. The issue that we face, the big sets of issues that we face in the British climate, I think, but fairly clear, even leaving aside Brexit that would have been clear over the last years, that we have now, I think, criminal stereotypes in 2010. The social consequences of this. I don't believe it's London or really anything in the city. You can see the social consequences. There's a shocking rise in homelessness over the last few years. That's not a visible aspect of that. The usual estimate, or the estimate of recent respectable Germans, is responsible for 130,000 excess deaths over the last few years. So the social consequences of serity are pronounced. There are multiple economic consequences, more directly economic consequences, I think, that have faded through quite clearly in the last few years. It's been a contributor, certainly over time, to the stagnation in real wages. It's quite extraordinary. You have to look back a very long period of time. You have to look at the Polish laws to find a period in which real wages have either fallen or at least long risen for as long as they have to have over the last few years or so. So real wages, average real wages are lower today than they were in 2010. It's an incredible period of decline and stagnation in most people's living standards. Related to that is the decline and stagnation in productivity, especially in terms of output per hour, that we have converted quite notably over the last 48 years or so, into an economy that is dependent on basically a low rate of investment, producing low productivity jobs and which would pay low wages and which would have few protections. So this is a labor market that's become skewed in a very specific way over time. If we factor into that a couple of big emerging issues, one of which is really, as I'll talk about briefly, but we can take questions, have a discussion on that, I think mostly in the Q&A section. The two big issues, striking I think the effects of climate change, which now are becoming apparent, haven't been apparent really for a long period of time as a scientific opinion, I think they've only become apparent to popular opinion. If you look at just the opinion form of this and you ask people what are your top three concerns about the state of the country today, shift the environment from being that number 20 to being that number three over the last few months has been very, very striking and I'd expect that situation to continue. The climate change and the environment will be the proverbial, or one of the proverbial, doorstep issues whenever the next election occurs. Speaking personally, I strongly suspect that the next election will not be happening before 2022. Given the fixed-term parliament act removes most of the ways in which the government can be easily forced from office if it doesn't want to be forced from office, given the few incentives for the government to want to leave office at this point in time, 2022 remains the most likely date for the next election, I would say. And that doesn't mean you won't end up with one earlier, that whoever takes over as a conservative leader, the press leader is probably going to be Boris Johnson, by and good toward, whoever takes over may decide to do a sort of Theresa May and force a vote through Parliament and therefore reliant, because we would vote for an early general election, of course it has to be set upon us, vote for an early general election, potentially go on in October, I think before or around, we'll just have to raise it, we'll basically do it, raise it in some form. That's a possibility. But given what happened in 2017, I think that there will be some sort of alliance on the conservative side to not go through that again. I strongly suspect that if I was any contended to the leadership where the race emerges, I'd be surprised to see that I'm definitely not going to go with the early general election, if you want to think too, people are just going to be able to see it, so 2022 is probably a time frame, and we're looking at on that level. Which means that the century of time in which we're established, if you like, based on the 2017 manifesto, the baseline in particular, the kind of economic policy we want to see and we want to develop over the next few years, it's a question of moving on from that and dealing with some of the challenges that come with this manifesto. I don't envision the next manifesto will vary that much from the 2017 war that got to 2017. I think that's proof to be, and people might remember the story that, say, being leaked in draft form some time before it was due to be published, which had the unexpected, certainly the people leaking it, which wasn't us, but would have been a nice Machiavellian thing to do. Have you expected the impact of proving to be a very, very popular document that a sort of solid, recognizably European socio-democratic offer was something that proved to be very, very popular with a great deal of electric labour, got the biggest increase in its share of the votes since 1945 and 2017, that it completely upended the prior polling that had taken place prior to that, and that was to a very significant extent on the basis of all four manifestos that were obviously made. So I'll guess, obviously, the process of the process of development is ongoing, and there are discussions in the party about where we're going to go to from there, and I'll touch on some of that in a minute, but I'll guess we're not going to deviate too far from that. So what's the outline of the economic program? The first one, and I think I want to sort of underline this, because there's been some not necessarily answering very helpful debate, certainly on the lexical roots about what labour is doing or not doing, which sometimes gets translated into about what we may or may not want to do with the economy. You know, if you look at our macroeconomic policy, in other words, if you look at the big headlight stuck around, what are we going to do with fiscal policy? What are we going to do with monetary policy? This is quite deliberately, quite intentionally about as boring as we can make it, right? That is absolutely rocks on the commitment on our part to do extremely conventional macroeconomics. There is nothing in here that starts to touch on some of our more unconventional ideas that are not going around in a minute. If certainly there's nothing to do with monetary theorem, we aren't going anywhere in the year that we talk about people's question of easing, these things are not going to happen. If you take monetary policy in particular, John has said this himself and has said into it that banking independence is sacrosanct. There is absolutely no intention at all of changing banking independence. It simply doesn't have to happen. There is a discussion, and I think this is a discussion that's now happening all over the place about the Bank of England's mandate, that has been in place for over 20 years. If you take the last 10, the mandate in place, he says you have interest rates. This is your primary instrument for effecting the economy and all that's happened is you jammed pretty much near zero for 10 years. Clearly there needs to be a discussion about what goes in the mandate. I think that's an interesting discussion about how we think about what a central bank would do in conditions up to 2000x with unconventional monetary policy, this sort of thing. That is not a very discussion. There are suggestions knocking around. Again, it's not set about including monitoring of house prices. There's a bold idea to give the Bank of England a productivity target, which certainly starts with quite a bit of debate and discussion one way or the other. That is an ongoing part of the discussion. But the core of it is the idea that with any Bank of England independence I think it's a complete monster after it's not going to happen. That's the monetary side. As they said, the fiscal side, we signed up very, very early on to what we call the fiscal credibility role. Drawn up on the back of somewhere with Simon Reimers and Jonathan Portes to be an English microeconomist on the basis of the 2014 paper where they tried to lay out what would be the ideal kind, what would be the optimum fiscal rule for a government. The idea being here, I should describe it is that we said in terms of what this involved that Labour will seek to eliminate deficit and current spending over a 5-year rolling period. In other words, every year the Chancellor will set a target for eliminating deficit and current spending, debt-deficit spending at the end of the 5-year period. We think this is a good way to both show that you are not simply running a current deficit for the forevermore but also gives you a degree of flexibility because it's a rolling target to deal with sort of debt-deficit shocks and that sort of thing. We've also included a debt-to-trains-GDP ratio. It's amazing that at the end of the 5-year period the debt-to-trains-GDP will be lower at the start of the 5-year period. That's actually a tie to that on what government can do with the deficit target. There's still a degree of flexibility in here because obviously we've not obviously written down to spending it all. The unit that's imparted this is directly from the work of Labour's supporters is inclusion of a zero load of animal in which if the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England decides that there's no freedom of office or standing. In other words, if you get to a situation hopefully done by 2008 you will have the capacity to use fiscal policies to include. You don't just have to rely on Monetary Policy for a day to day or rather for a sort of emergency action on the economy. Again, this is all really quite deliberately conserved. This is quite intentionally setting out something very clear. This is what we have to stick to. I think, broadly, the problems in the British economy are not ones that are easily solved by saying that it's a special moment. We are going to take our step. This isn't me. And we can do that inside our own fiscal rule because it allows us to say we can reverse the thoughts and we can undo some of the damages we've done over the last eight years or so or potentially 12 years by 2022. It allows us to do that. So we think the deeper issues and the problem of low investment isn't simply whether the government is doing cuts. The problem of low investment is the problem of our institutions which are too short-term which are too fixated on day-to-day profit and easy short-term considerations and aren't delivering the kind of economy we want to see. So we want to start to correct those institutions. One part of that is getting to the Treasury and starting to rewrite making better decisions. How we decide what projects get funded. How we find the green book. Green book is an extremely standard document for cost-benefit analysis. We have a few other tweaks, bells and whistles that have been slightly introduced over the years on perhaps you can clear the social impact. We don't think that goes far enough. We think if you want to correct the extraordinary bias in the British economy and this is one of the deep underlying problems we're up against is the extraordinary bias of economic activity towards London and the South East. The extraordinary bias of government spending particularly in investment spending and the figures in this are quite something to report. But we need to change how the institutions at SIG that's in the stock rate. So rewriting the Treasury's group, changing and introducing a wider concept of how you make a investment decision to do something more to see happen. Plus I've done all the former management director of the Treasury from ahead of the civil services. It's been interesting to report recently on the use of well-being measurements and wider conceptions of what the economy is and how an economy can work for people which I think is of interest. You can look at what the New Zealand Government has done to get its own Treasury to start to think more broadly about how the economy operates. Introducing well-being budgets. I think these are the areas that we'll start looking at. Getting away from pure cost-benefit analysis. We're moving by time coil and the co-author from the end of last year just goes into the details of how that bias happens. That in particular you have cost-benefit analysis you end up just looking at what's happening now and how you can adjust that. You can't do the big transformative investments you want to do. The big transformative investment you want to do will be rather grandly labelled the National Transformation Fund. Inside of this credibility we're all given space to borrow to invest 250 billion pounds. We're at ten year periods. The primary focus of that although it was less of an issue in the 2017 manifesto that was going to be right before this time around will be on decarbonising the economy and on providing a green new deal in some form or other green jobs. Green jobs across the whole country and economy that has significantly less environmental impact to the end at least of our first term. There is discussion in the later party going over to Conference at the minute the commitment to a net zero carbon target in 2050. The government as of what yesterday now has a commitment to a net zero carbon target in 2050. There's a discussion at the minute to pull that date significantly to the back. If that happens that becomes a more radical or interventionist programme. So we'll see where that discussion gets to. Labour to the Green New Deal is a pressure group inside the party calling for a 2030 as their date net zero carbon target. My guess is it will end up somewhere between 2050 and 2030 as policy at some point given the way the discussion is going to play out. But nonetheless that will be a change I think from the 2017 manifesto where we're moving somewhere beyond it. The other parts of this think are around the the Irish agenda or the language of the Irish agenda. The top of academic strogan and Marcel and Neil call it Labour's institutional term which has a nice sort of academic term phrase. And this is the idea exactly of getting out of thinking that we're just here to do a sort of standard socio-democratic tax and spend end of service and make public services work. We are going to do all that. That's the primary thing that we're going to be aiming for. But if you want an economy that works over the long term in particular you want an economy that works over the long term in conditions where you have to be carbonisable if there's a climate change and one that is fair in addition to all that you have to deal with some of these structural problems. So that's the institutional term. The document we put out before just before the 2017 election is called Paternity Bottle Soil and Ship. This is the kind of outline of some of the areas of what's going on. And what's happened since 2017 is we've started to flesh some of that out. The commitment is to bring back into public ownership the various parts of the economy that the French should then be privatising. So railways, perhaps the most obvious utilities and post office. All of these will come into public ownership. In your forms the recent document from Labour which is after which is after I talked about goes into what we might do to energy systems. I think the interesting thing there is not that we're here to simply take the entire existing electricity system bringing back into public ownership but instead there's a need to look at forms of local energy ownership community energy ownership that you want to rapidly decarbonise the economy. For example the obvious way to do this is more offshore wind. It's cheaper than gas by this point. The objection that you run into and you want to want your wind to be to the offshore wind for windy parts of the country and people not recently don't want their view spoiled to matter much about the crew people. This is how the thing starts to play out. They don't want their view spoiled whether it's a big private energy company doing it or whether it's a big public energy company doing it. It really doesn't make much difference but if you give people ownership of wind fast and the scale that you need to operate on here allows you to do that and it starts to disappear. This is what happens in Denmark, what happens in Germany. Again we're operating inside kind of Northern European and Social Democratic norm at this point but I think it's important that if we say we want to change ownership this isn't just about let's have public ownership of all things. I think that's important for certain areas that should then be private ownership after the 80s and into the 90s but it's also about why forms of ownership or dispersals of ownership which is starting to happen. Community ownership of some assets locally if you land reports produced by George Monty or a few other people that sweep those into certain forms of local supportive ownership land and also I think most dramatically a rapid expansion of employee ownership, worker ownership which we call an inclusive ownership fund and then slide John last year's conference which we're expecting large companies, there's over 250 employees to put 1% of their equity into a collectively owned trust every year which will then be held by the workers in that company and they'll be entitled to different voting rights across that collective ownership. So over time you can actually convert your large companies to a form of collective ownership when you give people a great state in that company you give people direct say and control over them and receive the difference so you have an obvious material state here and we think this is simply an important way which will start to dramatically shift how decision making happens in our large companies that we know worker ownership and when you have more participation in corporate governance from the workforce companies tend to act in a more longer term way they think about the future a bit more they're not just chasing what we have of them which is very, very short-term profit basis that large companies too often rely on so we're going to shift that over time again it's part of the ownership agenda again this is about more than just saying we should do that the 20 cent e-multiply so about 46 billion pounds or the tax rises to 46 billion pounds or the principle we'll probably end up around the same place for the next time around that is an important part of it it's important to be able to serve it but the programme here is structural changes these institutional changes that we're all trying to deliver through that it's one of those things where I think everybody secretly would prefer not to have to talk about it by this point in proceedings it's sort of wrapped them around for three years in its own way all sorts of fairly bearable bearable consequences that we would see in particular I would say that Theresa May insisting of trying to drive through a deal that Parliament wasn't going to accept to reduce the most extraordinary sort of political backwash across the whole country but her determination to try and get that initially through which by the way from a personal point of view it should be on its end or if it's progressive on the left I personally don't think personally I've said this publicly before I personally don't think we should talk about any movement in the way that we have done I absolutely don't want to see a deal with the EU which prioritises the MP3 movement and sort of trashes everything else that was roughly the deal on the table at the minute I also don't want to see a deal in the outline of their political declaration the continuation of that playfield of the European Union that stated the rules that this to me looks like a deal but no one on the left is on the progressive side of the central should go anywhere near and fortunately Parliament is consistently objective if you look at the very talk from the very conservative leaders they're insisting they can get this through somehow or other this doesn't look particularly likely and I don't see any reason why Labour would shift its position into a formal position to a deal that is demonstrably not the jobs first breaks it not the kind of deliverance or the breaks it that people would like to see more widely than that I think you're seeing the situation in which the discussion on breaks it has got to a point where clearly if it comes down to saying how do we prevent a no deal breaks it lays you very clearly in respect to the result of the referendum but it comes down to the situation of preventing a no deal breaks it and certainly something like the second public vote would be an option to consider if it's not possible to get to a reflection and this is the option then you end up having to look at that would be challenging itself to say the least but if we're determined to try and avoid something like a no deal breaks it which I think you don't have to think too far about just how damaging we've found this could end up being the civil service is happening telling people this that the second referendum is not shown on the table and we could end up in that situation by September of 2017 so that's the outcome of the situation there are some nuances around that which sometimes don't get discussed I think from from a point of view of the future Labour Government there are specific issues around financial services and the access of financial services to European markets broadly once you lose passporting you as a financial service provider in passporting access to European markets once you have financial services to provide outside of passporting you can be fairly different about no deal or of different kinds of deal equivalence regime is just never ever going to be as good as its passporting access it's quite a hit for financial services to do this worse than that I think is the possibility of weakening future governments negotiating positions we have to still negotiate deals they have the potential to remove the government's rights at the moment so 30 days a week they can pass the government forward pressure for the people to remove market access of financial services the commission has already done this so it's something to watch out for in a future situation in the European that is sort of an introductory remark to that I'm very happy to take comments and questions I'm really interested in what you're about to say and where you can come from on all bits of the particulars of course, thank you


What is up everybody, Jason here for jazzybeadscasebreak.com Um, 2024, Tops Chrome Black Baseball, 12 box case break PYT number 8 just sold out And, here we go, so we had a little R&B for this one here Everybody else bottom straight up though Alright guys, here we go Alright, we still haven't hit depths of darkness here guys We're well, well due for at least one Jesus Supposed to be one in every five cases on average, 60 boxes, and we're well over that We're three cases over So hopefully we get one here, and then maybe another number 9 or 10 to kind of flatten out that average We did a 10 case here on Wednesday and I released on the fanatic slide, we did hit two So one in every five, but still haven't hit one here guys Hopefully since we're due, maybe we get a nasty one out of five or super-factor We'll tell right away if we get one, because it's a really thick patch A really thick pack I should say Saving it for 9 or 10, I guess Alright guys, here we go Louisa Reyes, Nolan Chanel, that is the rookie variation So everybody would get a shot at that via the serial number We'll randomize the names We'll probably split them up from this to the base and everything else Especially if we get autographs, but we'll play it by ear And a nice Henry Davis to start us off for Ed And the Pirates, Matos, and Alvarez for the Astros Going to add Josh Young, Guardian of the Ramirez, and Tyler Soderstrom for the Oakland AES Yohan to 150 Darvish and Tatis for the Bathers That's 97 out of 99, spot 7 is David And Wilier Abrayu for the Red Sox to 150 Showtime, and Kibrian Hayes to 50 Nolan there for the Pirates Freddie Freeman, Justin Steele to 99 Yohan Alvarez, and Colonel Strangestran for the Phillies, Bryce Harper to 75 Steele, Shelver, Zalfre Lick for the Bruce Going to Kevin Yang, and there's Aaron Cog, Gary Cole And a nice Jason Dominguez to 150 for the Yankees Going to Tris Evan Carter for the Rangers Barris for the Royals, and a nice Luis Castillo to 50 for the Mariners 12 out of 50, two is also going to David Alright, last pack before the autographs Ellie the Cruise Base, Evan Carter, nice one at 75 And then Tyler Soderstrom to 1009 Nice one there for the Rangers and Adam Kelly Soderstrom for the AES, and then Ellie here for the Reds Alrighty, and then these are all the non-numbered base for the R&B teams So put that over there as well And here we go, let's go with the hits First one, Trey Cabbage for the Angels Part of the R&B, so we'll have to randomize that as well Second one, Rookie And it's Owen White for the Rangers out of 50 Rangers, that's going out on Kelly Rookie again, Forrest Wall for the Braves Lana Bray is going to Big Dog Lawrence Butler for the Athletics, going to Johan Wade Makler for the Giants Going to Logan And Jose Dena for the Guardians, going to Tristan to 150 Nolan Chanel for the Angels There you go, that's another one there for the R&B, not numbered And a Rookie Green, Lawrence Butler little color match there at a 99 Johan with the Open Ace Kyle Harrison for the Giants, another one for Logan there Alright, three more to go guys Taylor Colway for the Padres, that's R&B 60, Spud Zero Zachary So that's going straight up to you buddy Two more And we got Quinn Pryster for the Pirates Going to add Last one here guys Nice Jason Dominguez, 37 out of 50 That is the Ivory autograph for the Yankees, going to Tris That's a nice way to end that off right there Very nice Just like that guys, there you go So definitely I feel like Dominguez definitely saved it there But definitely have seen a much better case, that's for sure But Dominguez kind of saved it a little bit So obviously he's brought to the straight up customers there He's went to the R&B numbers, so we got that So what we're going to do here too guys is we'll live in number one Nolan Chanel, number two gets the Trey Cabbage And then number three as a consolation, we'll get the Nolan Chanel with the base So there you go So we'll switch scenes and let's get a dice roll List randomizer, copy just these team Customer names here Roll it five out of two seven times One, two, three, four, five, six, and seven And again, split it a little bit Five out of two seven, so Zachary you're going to get the Nolan Chanel Which is a nice one David you're going to get the Trey Cabbage And then David you're going to get the base with the Nolan Chanel variation So I'll print out this list here too For the shipping team All right guys, well two more cases too guys Now remember we're going to go to back here really quick Copy and list the names Remember you guys will get chances of winning that case And here's the list for number eight Remember everybody gets a shot at it Only the R&B teams will not be part of it So let's quickly just delete those really quick There you go, nice So everybody else is in And two more cases guys We could kill that promo tonight If you guys wanted to Just two more Appreciate it guys, jaskiescasebreaks.com


Welcome back folks. We have the Dow finished down to 286 Nasdaq off 122, S&P's off 38. Let's go over to our man, Mr. Basil Chapman, as we do each and every Thursday at 20 past the second hour. And folks, as you come over to TF, don't forget, Basil is an outstanding program here. Every trading day, 12 to 1 each in standard time, also has a great newsletter, the opening call.  As you hit Newsletters, you're going to see the opening call right there, right in the top line. You hit View, you can hit Subscribe, and you can get Basil's letter for one month for $128. You can get it for six months for $5.95, which is a savings of $173 at 22%. You can get it for a year at $995, a savings of $541 at 35%. Now, as you're over to TFNN, if you want to pile on, which would be a beautiful thing. We have a semi-annual tiger dollar sale. We do this a couple of times a year. It seems to always about kind of Memorial Day and basically Christmas. The way the tiger dollar sale works is that tiger dollars are good for our product at TFNN, have no expiration date, totally transferable, and you get either, if you buy $500 in tiger dollars, you get a 20% bonus, you get an additional $100 to spend. If you buy 1,000, you get a 30% bonus, or 1,300, 300 extra. If you spend 1,500, which is the max, you get 2,100, which is a $600 bonus, off 40%. If you have any products at TFNN right now, you're looking to get me. Great way to save a great amount of money. Basil Chapman, what's going on? Hi, Tom. How are you doing there? I'm doing good yourself. Very good. Looking forward to the long weekend. Yeah, that's right. And you get some good weather, right? We're going to have some really good weather at least. I'm hoping that it's going to be good weather because we deserve it. No, that's a fact, no doubt. So the weather in the market, let's talk about the weather in the market. So the weather in the market, so we're talking about the weather, now we're talking about the market. So the rain was coming down for weeks and weeks and weeks, and now for the past many weeks, it's the 23rd of April with a dowry of $26,695, which is 300 points off the all-time high from October. It just couldn't get going, and there was what we call a peak D. I'll just really quickly do this in the Chapman Wave methodology. We're looking for patterns, and the first pattern we look for is to identify the lowest low bar that can start a buy signal, that can go to a buy mode. We merely look for four successively higher peaks, alphabetize them on the way up, A, B, C, D, uppercase, and it can go to E, F, and G, but D, the fourth highest peak is where other things can happen. I always look at the market saying there are only three directional moves, it's straight up or straight down, there is an arch or a curve, and sometimes you can get a mix of the two, but it's still the same pattern. So this H, what I call the dreaded H, because if you take out this left side low, it could go a lot lower. That's what we were talking about, and I spoke to you about this last week. And what I said is we have a sell signal, we got a sell signal in the Dow, it was actually the day before the peak D high on the 22nd, we got that sell signal 23rd was the high, we've taken a little profits and we're still in a short position. Now, you see then the Dow daily on the left side, you see this arch formation here, and there's something I call the left side, right side price time match, and this came down from the high that was made in the 23rd in a much quicker timeframe to the 26,222 level, which took out the low that was made right there on the 25th of March at 22, I believe it was 22,372. So what happened is there's now a bounce. And I spoke to you about this 14 period moving average over the last couple of days, I've made it nice and thick and black.  And for four out of five sessions, the Dow tried to get above that line and it couldn't, and then the last one was yesterday and now we've come down sharply underneath the 200 period moving average, but be closed above it. So this next arch formation, this is what I call the dreaded H, that's what we're looking for because in the next couple of days, if it takes out 25,222 low, we've got to see how it does it. Do I get any signals here to say that there's perhaps a turnaround with a bounce back? It's going to be very important. And on the upside, once again, we've got this 14 period moving average of 25,827, and you can see the weekly chart is making a little arch formation here, stopped at the 14 period moving average, the black line couldn't get through it, but it has held this little uptrend line. So those are important. Also, for the subscribers, we're also shorted semis, the semiconductor index. Look at this big arch formation, it's the same methodology. In this one, we had a left side which took the law of 103.99, made them the 28th of March to the high of all time high of 120.71 at P.D. on the 24th of April. And we've come down. We went one bar extra to break that law of 13.99. We did that four days ago, tried to bounce, hit the 9 period moving average, and now it's come down to the 99, actually the low to those 98.50. So you can see from the technicals, it's really close to at least some kind of a bounce. Unfortunately, the stochastic still flat at 9%. So how the semis bounce is going to be very important. I think semis are very tied to the Qs, the NDX100, and tied to the XLK, which is the S&P tech sector. So to go with all this, I thought I'd also mentioned that I'd spoken on my show about crude oil and crude oil. I said, I like to look at crude oil as a positive like the transportation index, if the three are going together, the Dow, industrials, the Dow transports and the crude oil for a while, that's been a good sign. And if they start to come down together, which they've been doing, that's not a good sign. You just spoke a moment ago about crude oil. Look at this long term up channel and it took it out. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying, well, I was looking at it as maybe time, maybe price, maybe a time and price on the consolidation side, we'll know a lot more by early next week. But I think we're getting close to some kind of a bounce. But I think, first of all, I have to treat it as a bounce. The technicals aren't yet in this in the area where I'm saying that it's a much bigger career that we're starting a much bigger move to the upside. I just think we'll see a bounce. And to do to go with that, I'm the actual the speaker. Let me show you over here, special speaker meeting. This is the Boston Investors Group. Yeah, this is going to be Wednesday. It's coming Wednesday, 29th. It starts at seven. I'm the guest speaker and it's over at MIT. It's E-51, room 376, 17 Memorial Drive, Cambridge Mass. Very easy to get to. And I'll be discussing the socioeconomic political trends we're looking at. What what what the charts and the Chapman Wave are looking at. I've discussed again, the fang stocks, which I've done many times over the past six months of saying saying that they're in a big consolidation, I'll be talking about financial semis, dollar, gold. And many, many questions come. It's really a great group because many are fundamentals and I do technicals and fundamentalists look at the the theoretical side. And I try to do the tech, I do the x-ray of the patient. So they give me questions that I have to on the spot, try to figure out. So with a lot of fun, a lot of people and we really have a good time. So I'm looking forward to this. That's going to be great. And what all what always happens, folks, is this is so funny, too. I'm not saying it's a bad or a good thing, but in down markets, folks, fundamentalists stop paying attention to technical people. It's hilarious. When I when I hear it, even a fundamentalist on TV said, oh, technically, this is going on. I'm saying to myself, they're not a thing they had. They hate technical analysis.  Do you remember how long it took the Wall Street Journal to actually put a chart in the Wall Street Journal? Yeah. And then investors business daily was doing that back in the 80s. Oh, yeah. So, yeah, you'll see what happens. Yeah, technical analysis is the x-ray, the MRI of the patient. And you got to love it. And listen, folks, that's going to be a Wednesday, the 29th. Check it out. Check Basil out tomorrow. Basil, you have a great one. Safe one. We look forward to a show tomorrow. Thank you very much. Have a great long weekend. Thanks, man. You too. Stay right there, folks. Come right back. The Taz profile scanner is the most


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