Time for me to judge another children's series through the eyes of an adult. That seems fair. Artemis Fowle was a very popular series when I was a kid and it helped to get members of my generation into reading. It was a unique take on old myths of elves and fairies and a new spin on the child discovers a hidden magical world genre. The last time I analyzed a book series like this was when I looked at Maximum Ride last year. In that case, the books started good and became hilariously awful after James Patterson tried to pour gas into the tank of a broken-down car. Most fans stopped reading out of annoyance. Artemis Fowle is a little different because plenty of the fans stopped reading before the end, but they stopped out of disinterest. Nothing about it stood out as bad to them. They just couldn't summon the energy to care anymore. Out of my circle of friends, I was the only one who read all the way to the end and honestly, it wasn't worth the effort. While it was nowhere near as bad as something like Maximum Ride, it didn't have the same magic as before. Each entry just felt like it was going through the motions until the finale came up with some semblance of an ending. With the movie adaptation finally coming out soon, or maybe not, it's been pushed back like eight times and stuck in development hell for 20 years, I thought now would be a good time to look back and see why we not only loved the early books, but why we lost interest as they went on and no, it's not just that we got older. Spoilers for the whole series ahead. But before that, a word from this video's sponsor, Campfire. Organizing stories can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. Campfire Pro is a writing software with tons of tools to keep you organized. Its character pages will help you keep track of all your characters with details and backstories. Timelines can help you hammer out all those plot points. 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Most of these types of stories follow the Harry Potter formula. The main character is a normal kid who stumbles across the hidden magical world or is inducted into the magical world by a mentor because they're some sort of important figure. Sometimes both are combined. Artemis Fowl, which is the protagonist's name if you didn't know, is an Irish boy genius who has the highest tested IQ in Europe. His dad used to be a criminal boss who engaged in things like drug dealing and smuggling.  Artemis follows in his father's footsteps as a criminal boss, and he also decides that he can make way more money by exploiting fairies. After his father dies, Artemis Fowl tracks down an alcoholic sprite who makes a living as a faith healer in Vietnam. From her he gets a copy of The Book of the People, which is basically just a fairy bible which contains valuable information about them, their magic, and their history. I should clarify that fairy is the term used to describe every magical species in this setting. Elves, dwarves, gnomes, trolls, centaurs, demons, and others all fall under this umbrella. Artemis has some trouble translating the book, but he manages to figure it out eventually. Then he finds out that, in order to replenish their magic, fairies have to come out of their underground hiding holes, so he and his bodyguard, who is just called Butler, begin a stakeout, and soon enough they manage to capture an elf named Holly. Holly is a member of the Fairy Police, known as the Leprechaun, or Lower Elements Police Recon. Get it, because it sounds like Leprechaun. Yeah, it wasn't funny when I was 10, either. She's the first woman to join the Lep, which causes some friction between her and her compatriots, including the commander, Julius Root, who is a woman played by Judy Dench in the movie, for some reason. Holly isn't a particularly complex character, especially in the first book, but she's likable and has multiple facets to her personality. She's tough and determined and wants to prove herself, but she's also intelligent, and most of her actions come from a place of kindness, not spite or anger. Except for her general dislike of humans and hatred of Artemis in particular, since he kidnapped her, and humans have forced her people to live underground, far away from the nature that they love. At no point is she relegated to being a pawn in someone else's plans. She utilizes her own unique talents to save the day throughout the whole series. She's also in her 80s and looks young because she's an elf, but she's definitely not 14. Holly goes on a mission to the surface to save some humans from a rampaging troll, but she only barely succeeds since she's almost out of magic.  He's hard on Holly because she's the first female LEP officer, and as such, she's a lightning rod for all forms of criticism, as well as a test case. If she screws up, that'll ruin the chances for other women that come after. And as the series continues, we see more of how he genuinely does care for his men, and he does his job with a real desire to protect fairy society, warts and all. Holly is forced to go off and replenish her magic, which results in her being kidnapped and Artemis demanding a ransom from her superiors in the LEP. They show up, freeze the foul manner in time, and thus a siege begins with both sides using Gael to gain an advantage over the other. See, the fairies aren't just small people hiding in holes. They have massive cities miles underground, or underwater in the case of Atlantis. Their technology is far beyond what humans have. They possess lasers, cloning, airships, memory wiping devices, and cloaking technology, among other things. But they also have magic. Magic can do a variety of interesting things, like heal, make fairies invisible, and mesmerize humans into doing their bidding, which all tie into old stories about fairies. Owen Culfer managed to take Irish myths about fairies and add a new spin to them, which most hidden world settings don't do. They either make their own mythology or copy old myths without changing much. This one not only does something original, but also makes a hidden world that has reason to stay hidden, and reasonably could stay hidden, which is rare. Back to the storyline. Artemis takes Holly back to foul manner and holds her hostage in exchange for a large ransom. The LEP sets up a siege around the manner, even freezing it in time, but they only have a few hours until the time stop ends and they're exposed to the humans, so they have to act fast. Fairies can't enter homes without being invited. It causes them to lose their magic, meaning the LEP can't just break into foul manner to rescue their friend. Enter Mulch diggums the dwarf. Mulch is a burglar, so he's already lost his magic and he's in prison. The LEP offers to free him if he helps them out, to which he agrees. Even without magic, as a dwarf, Mulch has some, uh, other talents. You might think I'm making this next part up, but no. Dwarves are natural miners, which means they have gigantic mouths with jaws that come unhinged. They can tunnel by eating dirt, quickly passing it through their digestive tract, then shitting it out to plug the tunnel behind them. They even have gas powerful enough to propel themselves forward. Mulch breaks into the mansion, but mostly winds up stealing some stuff and running off, faking his own death in the process. Eventually, Holly manages to complete the magic ritual and escape herself. The LEP send in a troll to kill the humans, or at least force them to ask for help. Holly and Butler defeat it, though I want to take a sec to mention how violent this scene is. Bones get crushed, flesh gets torn apart, and the book goes into explicit detail about all of it. Very little is left to the imagination. The rest of the series has scenes of broken ribs breaking out of someone's skin, limbs getting cut off. It's pretty hardcore for kids books. It's not overused, though, so you don't become desensitized to it. Plus, this is a great example of how badass Butler is.  After the troll is beaten, the fairies are forced to admit defeat. They give Artemis his ransom gold, and he makes a deal with Holly. She heals his mother's madness in exchange for half the gold.  It's pretty much the perfect way to start off a series. The story is complete, but there's room for sequels. However, this method of storytelling is a double-edged sword, since an episodic format makes it harder to build to a satisfying climax. I'll get more into that later. There are a hundred little things about this series that I could talk about for hours that set it apart from other kids books coming out at the time. For now, let's focus on Artemis himself. Think about a normal protagonist of this type of story.   Artemis Fowl is nothing like that. He's a literal genius, and he's the bad guy, at least at first. He has this arrogance about him. Like he doesn't just think he's above everyone else, he knows he's above everyone else. There's a scene where he asks a waitress for spring water and specifies that she shouldn't put ice in it like she was planning to since the ice would be tap water and that would defeat the purpose of drinking spring water.  There are other scenes where he outsmarts and or humiliates older characters, and he really takes time to rub in how much smarter he is than them, and how annoyed he is at having to do things like attend school. He doesn't rub in his ludicrous wealth nearly as much, but on a few occasions he shows off his private jet and other gadgets. This is how a lot of kids see themselves, as being above others and held back by society, and if they just got a chance they could show the world how amazing they are. This meant that kids around Artemis' age could project themselves onto him at first, then see their own flaws staring back and grow up along with him. However, despite all his intelligence, he's still young enough to believe in things like magic, so he spends time tracking down a way to contact the fairy world. This could wind up making him too smart and a bit of a Superman character, but he gets dragged back down to earth in a couple of ways. Notably, the scene in the first book when he hears that his father has returned home. Right after he kidnaps Holly and brings her to the manor, one of his employees says that his missing father has returned. Immediately, Artemis forgets his plan and runs to his parents' bedroom where his mother is wearing a wedding dress, and has his father's tuxedo stuffed with pillows. She thinks it's her wedding day, that her husband is still there, and she doesn't recognize Artemis at all. He plays along with her delusion to keep her happy, then goes back to his scheme. Despite his intelligence and the persona he projects about himself, he's still just a kid who lost his family. Damn. Make sense why he'd give up half the gold in exchange for healing his mom now. He's still not a good person, though. He's a hardened criminal when the series starts. Then he kidnaps an elf and holds her for ransom. The entire first book is about him outsmarting and outmaneuvering the fairies who are just trying to save their comrade. Artemis isn't any sort of chosen one, or hidden magical prodigy that needs to save the world. He's just a smart kid who was able to cut through the layers of secrecy that the fairy world put around itself and then injected himself into it. When things go wrong and he decides to help later on, he does it in his own way, using his intellect and not any God-given magic powers. And he does it because he feels he should, not because it's his destiny. He never does anything egregiously awful, though. He never kills anyone or seriously harms them. He never exposes the existence of the fairy world either. They're free to let things go back to normal afterwards. So Artemis, despite being a criminal mastermind, is more chaotic neutral than chaotic evil. Nonetheless, he does some bad things and spends the rest of the series trying to make up for it, which leads me to the second book. The Arctic Incident starts off with two separate storylines. One about the lep discovering a smuggling operation between the humans and fairies, and one about Artemis discovering his father is still alive and being held prisoner in Russia. The fairies are technologically more advanced than humans and live miles underground, but their population is tiny. Throughout the series, they constantly talk about how if humans discover them, then war is inevitable and that'll wipe out the fairies. And even if there somehow isn't war, the humans would bring their polluting technology and greed down into the lower elements, which would wreck everything just as thoroughly. Oh yeah, this series has a strong environmental message. The fairies, particularly Holly, despise what humans have done to the natural world since they have a strong connection to it. For his part, Artemis also tries to preserve nature. The message isn't exactly subtle, but it's not the focus of the story, and it does tie into some of the overarching themes, so it's not a big deal.  Holly and her boss believe that Artemis is behind it because, well, who else would it be? And they arrest slash kidnap him so they can read his memories. But they learn that he's innocent and come to an agreement. He'll help them stop the smuggling if they help him rescue his father from the Russian mobsters who kidnapped him. Things seem to go well at first, with the heroes managing to neutralize the human half of the smuggling ring, but things go south quick. A conspiracy between a LEP officer named Briar Cudgin and a technology magnate named Opal Koboy is seeking to take over the lower elements government.  They do, however, disable all their weapons since they were made by Koboy's company, and she can do that. Then they release their soldiers to take the government by force. Artemis and company break into Koboy laboratories with the help of Mulch, who they discover is still alive, restore everyone's weapons, and the revolt is put down. Cudgin is killed while Koboy is made comatose. The day is saved, and they manage to rescue Artemis' father without much trouble. All in all, it was another self-contained adventure without any loose threads at the end. The main thing that carries through is the development of characters and their relationships.  He's a genius who's outsmarted just about everyone who's ever opposed him at such a young age that it's caused him to look down on others. Over the course of working with allies, seeing their ability to do things he can never dream of, he realizes that even if he's a genius, others have something to offer him. And as he works with the fairies, he realizes that he was wrong to kidnap a thinking, feeling person just to take their gold. Likewise, Holly learns that Artemis was doing what he did to salvage his family's name and that he can use his talents for good. By the end of the book, they're solidly friends, and while they have disputes after this, they're never adversaries. Then we move into Artemis' foul and the eternity code, in which Artemis almost exposes the fairies to the human world. After the events of the first book, he was able to use some left-behind technology to build a computer far more advanced than anything humans can make, which he calls a C-Cube. He arranges a meeting with an American businessman named John Spiro, where he shows off the power of the cube.  He just wants money to keep it off the market, since if he put it out there, it would put other tech companies, including Spiros, out of business overnight. Spiro steals it and runs off to crack the code protecting it. Unfortunately, the fairy world, while it is protected from human technology, is not shielded from what's in the cube. Artemis has to get the cube back for revenge, and the fairies need to get it back to protect themselves. That said, they're tired of Artemis causing trouble, and they tell him that when the cube is returned, he needs to get his memories erased. He reluctantly agrees. I should take some time here to talk about Artemis' bodyguard, Butler. When Spiro takes the C cube, one of his goons shoots Butler, and Butler, thinking he's about to die, tells Artemis his full name, Domavoy Butler. Yep, that's actually his name. He lives, barely, and continues to act as muscle for the heroes throughout the series. This is the culmination of their relationship. See, at first, Butler is just an employee, albeit an extremely loyal one with an unbreakable code of honor. He only goes along with Artemis' pursuit of fairies reluctantly and doesn't believe in them until he's presented with irrefutable proof.  There's little respect in either direction. As Artemis begins to change and become a better person, Butler slowly becomes more of a father figure to the boy, leading him onto a better path and giving him advice. When he jumped in front of a bullet to save Artemis, he didn't do it out of obligation. He did it to save the life of a boy he was attached to. This is more subtle and less focused on than Artemis and Holly's friendship, but it's just as notable. The rest of the book is a big heist story where Artemis, Holly, and some other allies steal the sea cube from Spyro's evil villain lair. There's some planning, twists and turns, all the fun stuff you would expect from a heist. Artemis is forced to live up to his part of the bargain and get his memory wiped. More than that, the fairies comb his mansion for all traces of advanced technology or magic and interrogate him about anything he might have hidden. To prevent him from lying, they use magic to mesmerize him and get him to admit that he had set up contingency plans to restore his memories at a later date. Then those are destroyed. All except for a medallion that he gifts to mulch, which, for some reason, raises no suspicions. In the end, the procedure goes through as planned, with Artemis and his friends having their memories of the fairy world wiped. However, the epilogue shows that Artemis was wearing reflective contacts that prevented him from being mesmerized, meaning that this was all according to some grand plan, not for the last time you just have to shake your head at how much smarter Artemis is than the rest of us. Yet the author never falls into the trap of giving him magic deductive powers to figure things out before it's possible to do so, nor is he made to seem smart by withholding information from the audience, a la BBC's Sherlock. He comes to conclusions based on logic and reason. Then things go back to normal with both worlds separate. For a while. Part of the problem with looking back on this series is that there isn't one single jumping the shark moment. Unlike Maximum Ride, which had a clear divide between the original trilogy and the rest, Artemis Fowl is a series of one-off adventures that feature familiar characters and settings. There's very little overarching story here. Everyone has their own point where they feel the books peaked, and for me, that's the opal deception. After the events of the Eternity Code, Artemis and his friends have no memory of the fairy world. In fact, that would have worked reasonably well as a finale to the series, now that I think about it. But without their memories, they go back to their old criminal ways. Artemis stages a complex heist where he steals a valuable painting, but his conscience pains him for some reason he can't understand. Before the memory wipe, Artemis hacked the LEPPS database and changed the date on some of Mulch's arrest records, resulting in him being released from prison on a technicality. Meanwhile, Opal Koboy is still comatose and under guard after the events of the Arctic Incident. It turns out that she was in a deep, meditative state the whole time, and so she's able to orchestrate her escape by replacing herself with a brain-dead clone. Then she sets out to get revenge on those who wronged her and conquer the world. Her scheme is… weird, to say the least, but I'll try to explain it here. First, she'll lure Holly and Commander Root into a trap where they'll be killed.  After that, she'll get a human pituitary gland implanted that'll slowly turn her into a human. Then she'll trick an environmentalist into releasing a probe into one of the fairy tunnels so that they'll be exposed to humanity, in the, quote, inevitable, end quote, war that comes after, she'll give weapons to humans in exchange for being made queen of their most powerful country. Finally, Opal will conquer the world. I feel like she skipped a couple of steps in there, somewhere.  She's an egomaniac who's convinced of her own superiority to everyone else. Of course she would think that humans would bow down once they learn of her genius, but even if she won't be able to take over the world, she can still cause all sorts of mayhem, so the heroes have to stop her. The plan gets off to a great start. Commander Root and Holly are lured into a trap and Root is killed by an explosion. This scene made my child jaw hit the floor. Think about how rare permanent death is in kids' media, especially for major good guy characters who have been around since the beginning of the series. And the scene where Root dies is brutal. The bomb has metal tentacles attached to it that wrap around Root's body and squeeze so tightly his ribs break and he starts to spit up blood before the explosion. Holly escapes, barely, but through some technical shenanigans, the lep think Holly killed the commander and so she can't go to them for help. Artemis and Butler narrowly avoid being killed by a biobomb by jumping out a window with a mattress to cushion their fall. Holly shows up in time to heal Artemis and whisk him away to safety. She tries to tell him about their past together and he doesn't believe her. They're recaptured by Opal before being thrown into an abandoned theme park infested with trolls. Meanwhile, Butler goes looking for Artemis and runs into Mulch back at the foul manor. He holds him up at gunpoint while he tries to explain everything, which Butler doesn't believe at first, but then Mulch gives Butler the medallion, which is actually a disguised hard drive. It has a recording of Artemis explaining the situation which triggers Butler's old memories. They head underground to rescue Artemis and Holly, then show Artemis the recording of himself to jog his memories. After his experiences, he becomes a good guy again and realizes that Opal must be stopped for the good of the world, not just because she wants him dead. Then comes the climax. To prevent the probe from entering the wrong tunnel, Mulch sneaks onto Opal's ship and takes some bombs that were needed to redirect the path.  Angered, Opal sends the signal that will set the bombs off. Turns out they were hidden on her own ship the whole time and she jettisons them to avoid dying.  It's a simple plan that utilizes Artemis' intelligence, the skills of his friends, and Opal's complete inability to self-reflect. Opal crashes in an Italian vineyard and mesmerizes the owner into believing she's her daughter. When the woman tries to make her work, Opal tries to backtrack, only to discover her magic is gone. The human pituitary gland rendered it inert. Opal's arrogance was her downfall in more ways than one. Now she's stuck working a farm for a week until the Lep show up and arrest her. The day is saved, yet things can never be the same again. With Root Dead, Holly retires from Leprechaun to become a private investigator with mulch. Artemis returns the painting he stole and gives up crime. The status quo, such as it is, remains in place, but the heroes all come away different. So, what comes next? After the Opal deception, the series didn't have anywhere else to go. The books introduced, built up, and then defeated an ultimate villain. The heroes saved the world more than once, and for that matter, they saved it from basically the same thing every time. The fairy world cannot be exposed under any circumstances. Great. Even though the series up to this point has been episodic, there was a sense of escalation. The first one was a small conflict between two groups, and no matter which side won, life on Earth would go on as usual. The second one had the heroes facing a threat to the stability of the lower elements. The third one had a threat to the very existence of fairies, and the fourth was the same as the third with the added threat of the heroes meeting a grisly end. After that, we go to Book 5, The Lost Colony, all about a city of demons, who are a type of fairy, that are in another dimension. They're slowly being brought back into our own dimension, and if the heroes can't get things under control, then the fairies will be exposed. Also, Holly rejoins the police less than 20% into the book. This is just a rehash of what we've seen before. The only real addition is a new character named Minerva, who is also a genius around Artemis's age. She's figured out that the demons exist and wants to put them in a zoo, but she ceases to be a villain early on, so the idea of a dark Artemis is never utilized. This book also introduces the character with the most unpronounceable name I've ever had the displeasure of coming across. Seriously, how do you say that? Things go bad, but in the end, they manage to save the day again. Then things go back to normal again. Great. Then there's the time paradox, which is all about Artemis's mother getting a magical disease and him going back in time to find a cure. Turns out, Opal Koboy was in the past and trying to gain power with a lemur's brain fluid. Through time travel shenanigans, she pretended to be Artemis's mother and caused him to bring her to the present day. The past Opal's plans are foiled, but she escapes. Cool. Time travel never makes sense, really, which is why I don't like it much as a plot device. So Artemis got magic at the end of the Lost Colony, which was a huge game changer and an opportunity to do some neat stuff with both his character and the plot. Then he lost it at the very beginning of the next book when he attempts to heal his mother. Minerva is never seen again either, even though she was introduced and built up as Artemis's ultimate rival. Cool. This is what I mean when I say that the episodic nature of the series is a double-edged sword. Neat ideas that could lead into something bigger are dropped without ceremony in favor of returning to the status quo. Other ideas that are never properly expanded on include Artemis and Holly's romantic relationship.  Commander Root's evil brother and their difficult relationship. Holly becoming a private investigator, magical diseases that wiped out huge portions of the fairy population spreading to humans, and revealing that the souls of dead fairies are still trapped on Earth. Two final books come after the time paradox. One called Artemis Fallon the Atlantis Complex, where Artemis gets a magical disease. Cool, it's not like they didn't use that plot device already. And the last one is called Artemis Fowl in The Last Guardian, and it's... not as bad as it could have been, I guess. It starts with the past version of Opal Cowboy, who, remember, is running around in the present, being killed by the present Opal's underlings. This creates a time paradox, which causes everything Opal created in the last few years to explode. And since her company created most of the technology and the lower elements, they're thrown into chaos. The explosions even caused disruptions in the human world because Opal's technology had been sold to humans on the black market. To prevent the paradox from destroying Atlantis, Opal is put into the containment chamber of a nuclear reactor.   Okay. I'm getting a lot of mileage out of that clip. From there, Opal tries to keep the spirits on Earth permanently in order to gain absolute power. Fowl and the others stop her through guile and friendship. You know the drill by now. The only difference is that Artemis is killed and his spirit trapped with the rest of the dead fairies. In the epilogue, Artemis is cloned, which would normally only make a comatose copy, but they manage to place his soul into the body, effectively bringing him back to life. One positive thing I'll say is that the final few pages are great. Artemis is brought back with amnesia, so Holly starts to tell him who she is and what sort of adventures they've had. The final paragraph of the last book is the same as the first paragraph of the first one. It brings everything together in a nice way. It also ties into this story's major theme of memory and how perception of the past affects who we are more than the reality. Artemis remembered his father as a criminal mastermind and emulated that in his own unique way. He didn't remember him as a loving father, and that was part of why he had such a sociopathic outlook in the first few books. Opal Koboy remembers every one of her own failures as a slight against her, and she remembers every slight against her as an attack on her very being, leading to her becoming a megalomaniacal narcissist. Humans as a whole have forgotten the fairies, how to use magic, and their connection to nature, which makes them self-absorbed and unconcerned with everything around them, and so on. This was also Artemis' final transformation into a hero, sacrificing himself to save the world and his friends.  The final conflict is with a villain that the heroes have beaten more than once and her army of dead souls, which sounds kind of cool until you learn that they mostly just possess squirrels. Similar to Maximum Ride, this went on far longer than it should have, and that's why so many never finished it. Unlike Maximum Ride, though, this one never went truly crazy in a way that wrecked its characters and themes. It declined in quality through repetition and a lack of anything to build towards, not through a loss of identity. There's no crazy plot twists like the heroes getting new powers or the world being destroyed by evil environmentalists or the heroes rising from the bottom of the ocean using snot bubbles, all of which happened in Maximum Ride, by the way. I still fondly remember the early adventures of Artemis Fowle and I can go back to them from time to time. I can't do that with Maximum Ride because I know how everything they do in the original trilogy winds up being pointless. At the same time, I remember all the bad things in Maximum Ride a lot better since it goes so off the rails. Even though I've read all of Artemis Fowle twice, I had to do a lot of rereading to remind myself what happened in the last few books. The events and developments aren't awful, they're just dull, forgettable, generic kids fantasy schlock, not unlike what the film adaptation is shaping up to be. In a roundabout way, it really is an accurate adaptation. Maybe the lesson to be gleaned from this, in addition to making sure you quit while you're ahead, is that even if you crash and burn, at least you still go out with a bang. God, that sounded pretentious. I should come up with a better line to end on. Wait, I used that joke before. So, why did the chicken crust that... Nah, the moment's gone. Don't forget to check out Campfire. Thanks to my patrons, especially the following $10 note patrons, Appo Savilainen, Brother Santotis, Christopher Hawkins, Christopher Quinten, Joel, Joseph Pendergraft, Taylor Briggs, Tobacco Crowe, and Vei Victis. All of you are great and I'm happy for the support. It means the world to me. That goes for everyone who watched this far as well. If you haven't liked the video and subscribed to my channel, then go ahead and do that. I like doing these long, in-depth videos, and if they continue to do well, I can continue to make them. Until next time, bye.


Hello, welcome to this week's CMC Markets Commodity Snapshot with myself Jasper Lawler. This week we're going to be looking at gold and it's particularly interesting at the moment just because we are seeing a bit of a flight to safety because we've just witnessed the Swiss National Bank remove their peg of 120 against the euro and so we're seeing about a risk aversion going on in markets at the moment and a big question mark over the influence of central banks. Now quickly looking at this Swiss franc trade this is obviously largely in the past and entering in the market at this point it's highly volatile there's some profits to be made but in terms of forecasting pretty difficult that the move has essentially already taken place you can see on the chart here that we've had this taken place at 120 you can see the price has been largely flat for about four years and only today have we seen this calamitous drop would fall and past its multi-year lows in the kind of moves that you do not see in currency markets on a day-to-day basis though the euro Swiss franc was down at one point over 30% and could be again so then looking at that chart in the Swiss franc why is there such demand for Swiss francs we've actually seen alongside removing the peg the Swiss National Bank have introduced a negative interest rate of minus 0.75% so why would you have your money in Swiss francs when you're actually going to be earning negative interest on it well the reason is because it's a safe haven in times of turmoil in fact this move today has introduced a bit of turmoil into markets Swiss francs have been used as a funding currency for buying higher yield or assets Switzerland is obviously a major financial center so there is going to be some ramifications for this and so in that time of need for a safe haven what better place than gold gold obviously is immune to the kind of actions that we've seen from the central bank today there is no central bank for gold so that's why we've started to see a move higher in gold today and we're going to have a look at the chart now just to see if that could be so sustained so what we're looking at now here is with gold having made is plunged down towards $1,130 per ounce it's recovered largely since and been a bit of a sideways kind of range but we've seen a bit more positivity recently and we've just broken through this downward sloping trend line and we've broken beyond this 1240 mark which was the previous peak so then looking forward if this play towards a safe haven in gold which we've also seen safe haven played towards the US dollar we've also seen it to the Japanese yen if that follows through and keeps going into to gold then we could be looking at a retest of this larger downward sloping trend line with a resistance perhaps around this 1270 mark and should that break we could be looking at a retest of the July high which is around $1,340 per ounce so that's a wrap for this week's CMC markets commodity snapshot we're of course looking at the Swiss frame can look in simplifications for gold so we've got to keep an eye out on how the Swiss National Bank act going forward a lot of a lot of other reason for their actions is the ECB so we have to look at what they do in their January 22nd meeting and we need to watch and see whether gold can break through this next declining trend line


This is it! The penultimate episode! I'm on season 3, episode 11 of Mob Psycho 100 to date, and it is as dire as it has ever been in this show. And I say that after claw, basically like, nuked the city. That's because there is an even stronger nuke walking through the city right now, Mob. It has brought out literally everyone we have ever known from this show, even going so far as to bring back Suzuki, who at the end of the episode, dive-bombed into the city, as part of a way to sort of reduce his sentence as if he can stop Mob.  Student council. Oh my gosh! Ritsu doesn't know yet! I've forgotten about Ritsu. We've just seen so many people come in. Last episode being Teru, specifically. You can sense him. He's like a connection. Oh, that- I'm not surprised that's what he thinks, yeah. No, I think Mob would have been sad, but this- it wouldn't have obliterated him this bad. I can see why he thinks that though. Oh, that's the car! No, now he knows. Man, I wonder if it's gonna be like- I wanna like too far into it because we still have this episode next, but I wonder if it's gonna be like the course of the show. So like, first we dealt with Teru and all of that, and then the entire thing with Ritsu and his relationship with him, and then the claw guy, Suzuki at the very end, and then- I mean, if he really wanted to come full circle, Dimple would be revived, but that's more of a long shot than anything. It's up to the brother. This is the claw guy trying to stop him. Well, X-claw. And he actually used the tongs! Is that a gnar or something on his face? There he is! My God! It's all happening so fast! Like they called in everyone. And he- I think he has a soft spot for Bob. He won't wanna hurt him. Yep, repaying his debt. He has a lot of confidence in himself, but I don't think he understands. This is not even Bob. Brother, he does nothing! Man, it's a little bit of blood. Oh my gosh! The ramen all over him! It's not a bad mood, man! Oh. Liberated. Interesting. But he doesn't wanna be doing this. We've seen the mob inside. No. Yeah, Suzuki is not gonna be able to do this. It's showing that even raw power won't stop him. The strongest character in the show that we've known beside from mob. He's gapped, baby! Just like that? Oh, there he is! Dude, how long? Five minutes in the episode with the intro and he's already lost. I was wondering if it would show up too. And Shou will try to talk to him maybe a little bit. Oh, father and son getting a chance to fight together, man. This is cool. Maybe Ritsu's gonna get here and it's gonna be all three of them versus him. Oh wait, it actually hit him! He can take it. Ah, he wanted him to hit him, yeah! Gotta remember how he works. Dude, that technical aura is so cool. He'll die. Oh, or pass out? What if he never runs out? This is so sick. Father and son. The father's redemption. Well, they started locking those emotions away. Maybe this is all stored up all over the years. All the percentage he's built up. That's creepy. Oh! He's alive, I think. He has to be alive, yeah. At least Ritsu can get him to help. I mean, is there even help anywhere around? I'm such a sucker for that, like, circle effect, like the ground just dropping. He's still holding onto the flowers, isn't he? Yep, he still has them. He's protecting them. Is he absorbing it? No, I don't think so. Oh my gosh.  I thought that's what he was doing. Then I thought I'd just hit him. Oh, they're not trying to defeat him. Like they said, they're just trying to drain him. What was the symbolism between the bulls? He's just taking the hits for his son. He's like, how pathetic! Oh, brother, it's like a sacrifice play! Oh, inside mob. He's screaming. They injure him? Oh, he knows? Is that broccoli behind him? Oh, shoot. It all comes full circle.  Oh, dude. God, he didn't have that cybernetic aura before, no? Oh, that was a flashback for a second. I was like, he 100% dies in a flashback. What did he? He's leaving them. That door, if he goes through it, he can't come back. He leaves them behind. Leaves the son. The son who's wanted to dad this whole time. He can't leave him. I get it, though. He's lived his whole life, and he'd apparently be sacrificing his son's relationship, too, with him. Oh, man. He admitted he can't be as strong as mom. That's real, man. That's real. Oh, he just put... Okay, so Reeds is just like, okay, put him on a safe rooftop. Covered him up, too. Gosh, just destruction amongst the city. All right, well, that's one loose-and-tight-up show when Suzuki are out of the picture. Oh, my goodness. Oh, no. Oh, no. They all came for him, man. Oh, the uniforms. The final bosses of the show. He just gets it. My goodness. Fight on! Yes! Oh, my gosh. No, I know they don't stand a single chance, but they're the Bonnie and Prima Club. They're gonna try to help their friend. Aww. Yeah, this is the most they can do is try to talk to him. Was that him that said stop? It sounded more like... Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Brother, there's Ritsu. Oh, my goodness. He was like a centimeter. Bro versus bro. Yeah, he just usually burst out in short periods. Wait, so this form is what he saw way back when they were kids when he heard those other kids that were bullying Ritsu. So ever since then, he's been scared... Oh. He comes full circle. Wait, was that Ritsu's percent? He needs to get away. Maybe it's Mob's percent inside of Mob? The same thing would happen to him? I can't tell. I wonder if I'm supposed to be... No, it has to be Mob's percentage. What if this Mob gets to 100%? Just restrained him? No, this is Mob. 100%, and I don't know what happens when this version of him gets to 100%. Yes, that's it. That flashback. Oh. It was him! Wait, he damaged the flowers. I doubted it. Why did I doubt myself? Yeah, baby. He might be able to match him to some extent. He's trying to hold on between both. I still think that it'll just make this version of Mob angrier. Maybe that's his life force. And that's why he's trying to keep it safe. But why would he by the truck put his life force into the flowers specifically? Because they meant that much to him? Dude, that...the glowing Ritsu? Oh, it's sick. It's not enough. Dude, the POV shots in this show are just something else. Giant tornado. Oh, there's their parents. Jo-no! Oh, my gosh. I was literally showing everyone. Oh, my gosh. Dude, we've met so many cool characters. And Subami. Dude, maybe she, like, confronts him. Like, finds him and confronts him. She knows he has psychic powers. She has, maybe, an inkling that this could be him. Oh, that she wouldn't be shocked that this is a... Regan! Yes! That's what we need. Oh, Ritsu's down. Oh, my gosh, dude. You did what you could at his moment, too. Is that mob? That's that version of mob? He said found you. Oh, my God, psycho helmet. Who are you supposed to be? I'm the real one, yeah. Oh... The emotions he's stored away is the real him. No one? Oh, shoot. The real final boss of the show appears. One piece? I'm so sorry. Oh, man. He just needs to get to mob. If there's anyone that can do it, it's Regan. Oh, man. He's serious, serious, too. Yeah, did we get an explanation? Sheer will. Yeah. So wait, I was right. He was just trying to slowly walk to her, right? Yeah, okay. So he was still pretty far from her when Validate his true feelings. Ooh. He'll just explode. He has to find some middle ground between these emotions he's stored away and him now. He's taking from him. It almost feels like earlier in the season, the whole dimple thing with Psycho-Helmet and that fake tree version of him was sort of foreshadowing for this. Like a precursor version of this fake mob, except this one is actually mob.  That's now all come to fruition because he was put on the verge of death. But I just love how Ritsu comes full circle with him not being scared of mob anymore, scared of the powers anymore, afraid of this monster mob has become. Because in the end, he knows he's done it for Ritsu to be that stronger older brother. That's why Ritsu was like, you don't have to be that strong for me anymore. I could be there for you too. It's just, oh my gosh, dude. I can't believe there's only one more. We make Amiga with Petition or something for a slice of life version of mob, where it's just them getting groceries every day or something. I don't know, man. But I feel like next episode's going to be jam-packed because we are still at the midst of this entire attack that this version of mob is laying down in the city. We have to get some kind of closure with the entire Subami thing. It's just going to be a lot. Ladies and gentlemen, this is it. My reaction to the final episode of Mob Psycho 100. Today we have season 3 episode 12 called Confession, The Future. The show has been a ride to say the least. I have grown to love these characters in a way that I never thought I could. I am the biggest fan of really long shows like that, where you get, it feels like endless content with a lot of characters. So shows like this, where it's condensed into three seasons, each comprised of 12 episodes, you don't have nearly as much time to get to know them, get to love them, and just moments with them. And through the run that Mob Psycho 100 was, it has become one of my favorite anime so far. I'm still kind of new to the whole scene, low-key. Despite having watched for years, I still haven't watched that many. But we are on the brink of destruction of the city. Mob is really fighting with himself and his body. I'm excited to get into it.  And let's get started. What? There's a tornado! She's like, that's odd. It keeps heading my way. Yeah, walk away. Right? Why would she walk towards it? She doesn't know what it is. Oh, she's thinking about him. Oh, my little mom, bro. She is waiting for him. Oh my, my heart. There's a literal tornado. Bro, she has to like him back. Oh, yeah. No, you're right on the money. What, not natural? I think even Reagan is scared that he won't be able to do anything. It's draining his energy.  Is he gonna push through the wind? Aww. Nah, that's right, man. Oh, my God! Save yourself, Sarazawa! Oh, my goodness. One last intro. She can't see me like this? The real hem. The hem that he's stored away. Didn't treat him differently, and was nice to him. Hmm. Both of us. They're meant to be, man! She fell in love with you. Oh, the real hem. The hem before he put all his powers away. He made it! Tell me this series is not in with Reagan being hurt because of all this. Like, that's his full circle. I feel like Reagan's gotten to a good point.  Mm-hmm. Oh, man. At first, yes. He's different now, though. Also, what? I've never seen Reagan so unsure of himself. So scared. Oh. It's literally a physical representation of, yeah, everything he's stored away. He's almost gone! That happened so fast! It's a completely unleashed mob. Oh, my God. Reagan's gonna get hurt. He's literally taking all this physical beat down just trying to get to him. It shows how much he cares about him. It's exaggerating it. Old Reagan would have never gone to these lengths. Mob is so special to him now. Mob is gone. The intro! Oh, shoot! Oh, shoot! This is the first intro, no? Oh, my gosh. He said he didn't want to fall behind. Bro, this animation goes hard. But again, what happens once he gets to him? What is he gonna say? Has that physical touch that changed things before, too? Oh, I'm scared. What if he just explodes? The shoulder! God, if Dimple were here, man. It's a... Oh, no. This mob doesn't care. I mean, he sees Reagan as strictly a manipulator.  He's just gonna say it. Yeah. That's it? Well, he's... At Tsubami, what happens? Man, Reagan gave it his all. Standing right in his path. Oh! The art style! No? Wait, what? Why was he able to stop him? He doesn't care what he has to say. How is he doing this? Oh, my gosh! Some tiny part of him was left in mob. Oh, my gosh. Oh, boy, he's back!  He wants to talk to him alone.  That's how Reagan's able to stop it.  He has nothing. I didn't realize he never said that to him. Oh, my gosh. Even whenever he explicitly knew. He's never said that. Was he waiting for that? He pulls his floats away. He's submitting it all! Well, Reagan... Hahaha! Because you're you! Oh, my gosh! That was what he needed! Yeah, he can't just push this away. This part of him. The last person that has to accept Mob is himself. I never even thought about that. Oh!  He'll be okay. It doesn't matter what she says. As long as he says it. I thought Mob was ready. But he wasn't until now. 100% positive. One flower remains. I never even thought he had to go through all of this. Yeah, does Reagan know? True. The fact that she is still waiting, too. Yeah, he's not a bright green. I don't think. Poor blindness isn't that bad.  He's just less vibrant. No, she was, though. Did she say no? And that's okay. It's a show, bro! There's someone calling him! Oh, my God! Is that it? No, thank God. The goals for October. The next semester has started. He's got this whole group around him now. No! Oh, my God! He's still one of them! Look at him keep up with them, too. Oh, there's a whole new group! And Mob's leading them. All the new little body improvement members. He's got to fill their shoes. Vice-Case, Vice-Capt! Oh, I see. Yeah, because the others graduated.  Ritsu is not about the body improvement club. Get a cat. So what happened to Dimple that he fade away? Oh, it's stuck on the pole. He uses his powers, but... Oh, no, he's climbing! Oh, my God! I can't watch this show anymore. He doesn't need them. Oh, my God! There's hair! I was going to say that's the monkey t-shirt line. Oh, my God! The flash, Max! Why are they so about this clothing line? Spirits and such. What is Reagan up to? Oh, does she work there now? Wait, God used to the job. Did he take over? Where's Reagan? What?! Oh, oh, my God. Ah, something's brewing. It's a slow process. Oh, shoot. Oh, this is for the UFO thing, no? So! Is it Reagan? It is. It's gotta be Reagan. Oh, is it him and Dimple that like the duo now? What? Oh, is it a surprise party? Show did have drinks. He would never cry. I mean, he kind of did already. Okay, so he is still, he still works there. No! Wait, the powers! Nope, he's just kind of... Wait, did it actually fall on the floor? It looks like it hovered. No, yeah, it did. He just face planted. This is pure joy. It is not it! Oh, my gosh, that was rough. Oh, I just tied everything up with a knee, but there's like a large part of me that is weirdly glad that he got rejected. It showed how far he had come and that whatever she said didn't matter. In the end, it didn't. Sure, it would have been cool if she had said yes. And things would have still been the same. Things would have still been happy. And it looks like things are like building to them having a relationship eventually. But it exaggerated more the fact that all these people care so much about Mob and this group he has now around him that he didn't, he wasn't in a relationship at the end. He just had his people, the people that care about him. Even Dimple is back, man. Oh, my gosh, what a ride, bro. Just like a complete character arc, satisfying character arcs for so many characters. Mob, Reagan, Teru, Ritsu. I could name literally everyone on the show, honestly, actually. Nobody had sort of their moment and developed into the who the show wanted them to be at the end. And Mob not using his powers to save the cat at the very, very, very, very end was so impactful. I cried at him not using his powers, bro. It's such a fake fan of me to assume that he was going to. But just spectacular animation, spectacular storytelling. Season three, this is recently biased because I literally just finished, but it was the best season out of all three of them, in my opinion. I think the little mini arcs, especially with Dimple and just this one just really knocked it out of the park. And it's even more biased because we've known these characters so long, I already, like, had a general idea who they were and where they were going and where they ended up. But guys, that has been it from my reaction to Mob Psycho 100. I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you stick around for the other series I react to, but if not, and this is the end of our journey together, I thank you for being here. That being said, drop your comments about Mob Psycho 100 down below, your thoughts in the series overall. And as always, I will catch you guys in the next one. Peace, peace.


Good morning everyone. The next talk will be about up install your neighborhood and it will be held by Andreas Montt. Enjoy. Okay, thank you. Good morning from my side. After Metdocs nice talk about frame of the emerging countries all over the world. I want to take you now next to your home to your neighborhood. Your neighborhood is now sitting in the new queue waiting for FTP master's approval. No, just kidding. But maybe your neighborhood is sitting in a pub in a local pub like it is every two weeks in my village I live and we started some new Linux meeting there some workshop help desk so you can go there everybody's invited to drop by help get help just to chat and of course you bring can bring your laptop or computer and Have it installed learn how to install that in how to use it. So in the beginning, this is simple Everybody knows this. I don't think I have to spend much time on it you fetch the installer media you run the installation you put the system and Usually you have to do some manual configuration user has some preferences and so on we started then with Kind of a special event so called we called it install party and we make these posters all over the village more or less and made some advertising and Invited everybody on a Saturday afternoon to do this in a bit of a bigger scale and The question was how are we going to do that running around with CDs with USB sticks and so on seems to make troubles So we thought about a better idea. How is this done in enterprises? It's done with a proxy technologies with a net boot installer and we thought about Setting up such on such a small box and we called it install books What does it look like a friend of mine found this? nice interest your great PC in his in the basement of his company and the nice thing is it has two network interfaces and you can install debian on it and that was our Hardware we tried to put that install mechanism on Of course, it's not needed to have this hardware. You can do the same with a virtual machine on every laptop Slightly more complicated because usually you don't have to Ethernet interfaces, but you can use but you can use the VLAN interface and it Works the same in the end more or less Okay, what does this install box need? I? Already set the hardware It's desirable to have these two network interface cards and you need about 10 gigabytes of disk space and then We need to configure the network. We need a we want to Connect to the pubs network. Usually you get a DHCP a network the dynamic address from the From the outside more or less and then we have our internal network where we are going to set up our own addressing then we use big reboot net install and We want to install 64-bit and Sometimes people show up with really old laptops old hardware. So we will also need some 38-bit installer and As services really need to set up the HCP as I said DNS a trivial FTP service and a package cache something we also want because The bandwidth is rather limited So I will now quickly go through How this can be set up I Wrote this down extensively to really copy and paste it and set up this machine for your own But I now will only quickly rush over it okay, first you start with a standard Jesse installation maybe at an SSH server to log in on to the machine and In the beginning you have automatic after the installation One network slot will be already configured to use DHCP. We will use that for the outer network and Well first step is always a good idea install ETC keeper to Make sure you don't lose anything when you're doing all this Then we add the second we configure the second interface for our static At this static configuration And we install DNS mask. It's a Simple for these simple use case. It's a nice thing We don't need to configure much We just have to tell it in first step what the DHCP range is we want to supply to machines in the local area network So then where do we get the net boot images from there is a package Which is called DI net boot assistant and you just install this package create a TFTP boot directory and then you can With these two commands the I net boot assistant installed Jesse and the same with arch I 386 386 you can make these net boot images ready and We just have to look how to To we just have to tell our DNS mask to serve these images at the right time so we Put the path in there in the DNS mask configuration enable the TFTP server and Well, tell him where to find PXE Binary and we then start we start the service and if we check What we need and what we already have we will find that the HCP IP address Works with DNS resolution PXE install a boot works, but we don't have Web access yet, and we don't have a package case catch cash so far Okay, how to do that there are different ways I did it with sure wall because I used it in another setup. It's a fire wall Frontend I would say What do we have to do there just install sure well switch it on we want IP forwarding and Then we just use the two interface example configuration we just have to copy it in the to the configuration and Modified slightly We want the Local net to access also these install books And we want From from everywhere we want to be able to log in via SSH just to simplify maintenance So after that we will have also web of says But no package cash so far so we install squid and This is now some more modifications are needed to Make sure that the packages are archived. I Won't go into details there But after we've done that it's by the way taken from a package Squid that proxy this configuration We Have set up the package cases cash as well now we want to make one other modification. We want to have a transparent cash, we don't want to configure the The proxy on the On the computers that are going to be installed because then the people go home and This proxy isn't it's not there anymore and It doesn't work as expected. So we want that all traffic is going to the outside is To port 80 is going to be redirected to our package cash and this is done with these few lines of Configuration and then we can check that in the access lock and we see after having downloaded the package it's cashed and it's just Resolved from the cash if it's required again Okay So far we're done all our all the stuff we wanted to implement is working and We can PXC boot a client we get these Ugly menu I would say We can then choose an installer get the usual Debian installer menu and this is slightly improved system where we have some monitoring for the Squid boxy you see the green fields are all hits of the cash or of the memory and only very little packages or The package lists or something which Is is is downloaded from From From the internet, but most of the stuff is from the cash Okay, so far this is the simple setup and now we want to improve it even more and I Want to show a technique which is well known for many years, but it's quite Can be quite confusing or it's not easy to use it's very powerful But also a bit complex and I just want to show what we did in our case What is preceding Well preceding means when you do the installation you're asked a lot of question questions and Preceding means that you answer the questions in advance. So how is it done? You need to prepare a pre-configuration file There is an example provided by on the link below You need to make it Available there are several ways how you can do that HTTP TFTP and even some more and you have to tell the installer where and how to fetch this image This this preceding file Okay, how are we going to do that? We use the TFTP server of the DNS mask So we don't need to install anything else. We just Create a location there in the TFTP server route and put there our in our precede configuration and Some cosmetics we want to Resolve the install box with the name install box. So we put the name into the ETC hosts That's where DNS masks looks for In the first in the first attempt looks for names To resolve names Okay, then the precede file We use that one I have to say we we don't want to do anything automatically we want also to some kind of educate The people to show them that it's not complicated to do an installation and so that they at home Can do an installation on their own, but we set a few things which we Think for our case are quite useful. So we don't Want the root account we switch that off took the question Usually unfortunately we need some non-free firmware So we switch that on we choose a mirror which is next to the village And we use KDE because we think that's Kind of What people expect or what they are used to when they come from the Windows world A Few extra packages At block plus is useful and as I said some firmware and we switch on time service Okay, how do we tell the installer to use that file? We have to add some node in the in the boot boot line And with this setup I show here. It's as simple as URL equals TFTP double points double point slash slash inbox so when we now install with that boot line we find in the lock Lines like precede successfully loaded precede file and then you know are anything works as it should can also Grab few if you missed that The moment where this line is created you can also use grab precede while lock sys lock And then you also end up with this line. So this is a nice check because if you try it Try it here and there then Sometimes takes a bit until it works as you think it should Okay, a few further notes and You can Specify these pre-configuration files also by the by the DHCP server you can also Answer questions already within the boot parameters You can set a debug parameter which is useful when you try this Ah Default values can be modified as well and there is a boot parameter automated install which Helps when you want to proceed questions that are asked even before the Network is set up. So it it shifts the configuration of the net network to an early stage so That In the extreme all questions can be answered by preceding. Okay, if you want to do an completely automatic installation You need to answer all questions asked and You can put a extra line to the net boot the I net boot assistant menu. I I Showed it's shown here in the middle You add auto equals true priority critical and you tell Again the location where it finds the Proceed file and then you rebuild the menu and after that you have another entry here in the in the boot menu which is booted after a timeout and then this entry is booted and Installation goes through and the machine is ready Okay, there are some limitations We see this this preceding in my opinion is fine for more or less standard installations You can do really you can do in the end you can do anything, but it's a question of how How to handle a complexity And Yeah, it's it's kind of fragile sometimes things are changed and Yeah, you have limited logging logging capabilities. It's all there, but it's Sometimes tedious to figure it out and to find what you need and It also takes a lot of time to try again and a try again until you succeed So if you want to do more complex things then Usually you would probably use something like puppet chef Ansible CF engine or five Two years ago I gave a talk about the Debian line which tries to solve this problem. It's a small project inside Debian which Has the goal to set up A local area network within Debian As simple as possible and if you're interested in that I recommend to go back and Watch the video Slides are also online. I will skip this now completely, but I left the slides in here Kind of refurbished slides just to if you may look this up later you have a complete line, but now I switch To the summary and conclusions. I hope hope I gave you an idea how to set such an install box How to configure DNS mask the iNetboot assistant or wall and squid with a few lines of configuration? I Hope I could give you an idea about How to use preceding to get rid of boring questions and As I said for more complex installations take a look at fire and Debian land Here are some Links where you can find further information more information. I think the experts about preceding our the Auditorium as well sitting here in the front. So if you have really special questions Maybe I can't answer them, but we will find someone who can and I want to say thank you and Maybe there are some questions non-technical question about the publicity and telling in a Pup that you're doing the install party Could you tell me tell us more about this how it went some tricks what you learned news and don'ts mostly did non-technical stuff You mean how we how we did a bit more about install party And telling it to people outside of the usual technical area. How did you get in contact with them? Okay, I think this is very much Depends on where you live. So I I ended up in a rather small village which which Don't doesn't have any really Much geeks, but I found a few neighbors Which are interested and I we started do it to do some Using Debian and they got interested and there is a This this puppet does a lot of it's very open to cultural things and it's You can there are concerts from time to time and it's really they have a Repair workshop once in a month where you can bring old Old kitchen gear and they try to repair it and so on and There we started with this idea and we asked the guy from the pub if he would be interested to serve as a Location for such a venue and he was interested and that's how we get started and then we created this And this this advertising and ask friends and neighbors and so on and it's really in a small scale and it's probably Different from how you would do it in a in a larger town because it's more anonymous in In this in this in this town But the other one I've shown you oops Oops Can I do that the other one was on it in a small on a small conference in It was called tubics near tubing in Maybe I can show you that and we just recycled the This this banner so it was a we offered this it has a Along the conference. It was one day's conference and we offered that To do installations and we prepared that one any more questions yep So one question about Security, I mean when you're on a local network like this there might not be a Malicious intent, but if you are in a more office environment Or in a virtualization environment, maybe there are Someone trying to intercept your initial boot to a is there any protection against this like signing or Providing a hash of the pre-seed file or something like this or could you talk some about security aspects? At the moment, there are no security No No methods against these attacks implemented at all So this is really for a small scale where where you more or less know the people or you you you can look what they are doing and these are people that You are happy when they Try something else than their windows and it's not the kind of Geeky Hacker hacker space as we have it here. So it's really something completely different. So I think the The probability that someone tries to hack the system is rather low Okay, I'm around for the whole week. So if someone wants to know more or Has questions whatever Just contact me


This is hang time on up rocks. What's up guys? I'm be died. You know me as the NBA impersonator And today we're doing a very special interview with a very special guest from HBO's Immy-nominated Silicon Valley today's guest is Jimmy. Oh, yeah, or you might know him better as Jin Yang I eat the fish man. I'm eating the fish.  Yeah, that guy can act But Kenny Hain I just did two push-ups last night. I got this man Jimmy. Oh, yeah, let's hang So the interview lasts as long as you can hang. So what do you say? Let's do this. Okay? Let's do a 10-second interview. All right, man. It's the moment of truth. You ready? Uh, is it too late to tell you have a fear of heights? I'm not gonna find I'm shaking alone, but I think I'm oh my god, this goal is wobbly ready. Let's get it three two one Hang time Okay, so the first question. Can you describe Silicon Valley and your character Jin Yang? It's a very funny show about the tech people in Silicon Valley and Jin Yang is a Chinese immigrant It's really smart and he makes apps if there was an app you could start what would it be over for ladders? Okay, so so so there's a fan theory going around about you and um Jin Yang and early can you explain that one of them said Maybe we're lovers another one It's a maybe Jin Yang just a figment of earlys imagination because nobody else has really talked to him Don't you don't down with me now. I got this coach hang in there I got hoop dreams coach. So um Patriots days be getting some amazing reviews. Could you tell us a little bit more about the film? It's a great movie about the Boston Marathon bombing directed by Peter Burke starring Mark Wahlberg. It's a wonderful movie I want you guys to see a very important film. Are you an NFL fan? Yes. Who's your favorite team? Ah I'm trying to roof for the ramp. So it's really hard. How's your fantasy football team doing this year? I made it to playoffs for week 14. That's Brian to me. You got one point This they're children in this park, and I'm yelling help me kids. How are you feeling? I'm feeling all right Are you running out of questions cuz you didn't expect me to hang this long? Just dropping to be over Hey, is that record that's a record right? How are you feeling man? Are you feeling good? Let's go for a second round. Yeah, I think Marvel is gonna call me after this place Thor My hands are like swollen you're shaking it's the next time that's hang time on up rocks If you like what you saw, please click the subscribe button and leave a comment below. Thanks for watching


I'm Specialist John Fromar with Bastion Company Brigade Engineer Battalion, 173rd Airborne Brigade. Alright, so what exactly did you guys do here today? Right now we're blowing an obstacle for us in the infantry. So like it's just training now, but you know some day the future might have to get through an obstacle and to get the infantry through and whatever else through. So that's what we're doing out here today practicing. Okay, so since you've been out here in Georgia, how has it been working out here, working with our allies, our partners? What has your overall experience been over here? It's really cool honestly. I love working with the British and the Georgians and there's other units around here that I haven't worked with. There's a National Guard unit out here and it's really cool being able to talk to them and work with them and see what they've done and what we've done and compare and contrast what we've done and it's really cool working with them. Okay, very good. Now, last question. What are you looking forward to taking back from your training here back to Italy? One of the big things that I'm happy to take from here back to Italy with me is once all the new soldiers come in, the new privates that have just gotten to our company, teaching them everything that we've done out here and teaching everything that we've done anywhere but here as well and teaching them once we get back.


Hello everyone, this is Mr. P. In today's lesson, we're going to take a look at Sentence starters. Yes, in essay writing. Let's start by first talking about what an essay is. Mmm, you don't know? Well, I'll give you the answer. An essay is a short piece of writing which is set around a specific topic or subject. This piece of writing will give information about the topic, but it will also give the author's opinion. So it will also give the author's opinion. That's very, very important. So now let's take a look at essay types. There are four important types of essay. There is argumentative essay, which it states and proves a point. Persuasive essay, it tries to convince the audience. Number three is expository essay. It explains something with facts and presents a solution. Number four, narrative essay. It tells a story with a purpose. Now we have other types of essays. There are less common ones. The one that compares and contrasts essay. And it's called compare and contrast essay. Descriptive essay.  And the last one is cause and effect. It explains why and how something happens. Now that you have a clear picture of the essay types, we're going to look at the essay structure. So first, we have an introductory paragraph. Well, the introductory paragraph is subdivided into the following three main points. The first one is the hook. It catches the attention of the reader. Number two, or B, is background information. This can be the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth sentences of your introductory paragraph. The last sentence of your introductory paragraph is the most important one. It's called the thesis statement. If you don't have a thesis statement, you don't have an essay. Number two, body paragraph or body paragraphs. Why do I say that? Because a normal type of essay has three body paragraphs. But there can also be just one body paragraph. It depends on the essay. So the first sentence of your body paragraph is called the topic sentence. The second sentence and the third and the fourth, there can be detailed sentences with examples. And the last sentence of your body paragraph, of course, is called a conclusion sentence. So it draws a conclusion about the topic sentence. Now, the last paragraph of your essay, which can be the third paragraph or the fifth paragraph of your essay, is called the concluding paragraph. And again, it is subdivided in three parts. The first one, it paraphrases the thesis statement. Then we have the summary of the points you talked about in the body paragraphs. And the last point of your concluding paragraph is your opinion, your suggestion, or a prediction you make about the topic you talked about in your essay. Now that we have a clear picture of the structure of an essay, we're going to take a look at the most common sentences for essay use. I divided the sentences into seven groups. The first ones are general sentences. The second group is to introduce ideas or to introduce a topic. The third one is to conclude a paragraph or your idea. The fourth one is to compare and contrast. The fifth one is to give examples. The sixth is to show relationships or outcomes. And the seventh is to present prior or background ideas. Well, seriously, well, yes, you'll understand, Mr. P. So first stop, general sentences. Well, hello, Mr. P. Here we can say, we can start a sentence with, it can be argued that this is the most common one. Another point of view suggests that it can be seen that it may be that on the positive side, on the negative side. The next point that I want to mention is to try to avoid sentences that announce what you will discuss in your essay. Sentences such as this essay will discuss or this essay will be focused on etc etc. So now let's take a look at the second group to introduce. So we can say something like the definition of will be given or is briefly outline is explored etc etc. The issue focused on is demonstrated is included. These are all examples so you can use either or. The key aspect discussed or presented is justified. Views on range from is evaluated is examined or the central theme is described is analyzed emphasized are is explained and illustrated with examples. Now let's take a look at my example sentence. The issue focused on crime is demonstrated on the following points. So now to conclude we can write a sentence starting with in summary in brief to conclude. It has been shown that in conclusion to sum up to review to summarize thus hence in short. So an example could be in short crime is at a record low because our police force is at a record high. Group number four to compare and contrast similarly in comparison however and yet on the contrary whereas while this is the case in the same way complimentary to this this is in contrast to nevertheless on the other hand in contrast to disputes likewise then again in contrast conversely not withstanding that aside despite this and my example is likewise Detroit has seen violent crime rates experience a general decline since the early 2000 now the next point is to give examples and here there are tons tons of expressions so as you can see okay I wrote for example for instance specifically such as also furthermore next to more importantly than and so on I also provided some examples of sentences that can be used not at the beginning but in the middle of a sentence such as as it can be seen in or as demonstrated by these are all sentences or collocations that we can use when giving examples my example for this group is furthermore crime incidents at Metro are as frequent as disorderly conduct incidents so let's take a look at the next group to show relationships therefore hence the evidence adjust after examining considering etc etc as you can see we have also many many expressions that we can use to show relationship my example for this group is considering the nature of the crime it can be questioned that disproportionate force used to arrest the suspect now the last group to present background ideas in the past customarily prior to this previously conventionally initially until now historically etc etc my example for this group is in the past crime in Canada was measured by its effects well that's it for today yes that's me that's mr. P okay thank you very much for watching if you have any questions any other examples that you can give your fellow classmates please post them under this video if you haven't subscribed to my channel please do if you like the lesson hit on the like button please and you may share the lesson with your fellow classmates see you soon see you next time and good luck with your writing take care bye bye


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Plutonic players. Polish truckers and farmers are blocking parts of the border of Poland to Ukraine. Yeah, Ukraine. Poland is blocking. The truckers are blocking any grains and stuff coming into Poland. Slovakia is doing the same. Hungary is doing the same. So right now, and I don't think there's anything going to Belarus, right? So I don't think there's any shipments of grains or any products going out of Ukraine through Belarus. Poland has blocked it. Slovakia has blocked it. Hungary is blocking it. Moldova is just landlocked. You can't ship anything out. It's got no access to the Black Sea. And then there's Romania. So right now, as far as I know, the only place that Ukraine can ship anything out, is foodstuff grains and whatever wheat or whatnot, is through Romania. Right? That's it. How many billions of dollars did the Western world burn in Ukraine? Right? What is it? 500,000 Ukrainians dead now? They're sending women, pregnant women to the front lines. As far as Ukraine is concerned, what's going to happen and all this? No, Russia already won it. They won it as soon as it started. They won it as soon as Russia didn't crumble under, you know, Western sanctions.  Thank you very much for subscribing. All the Ukrainian leaders that had opportunities to sign peace treaties, to have Minsk one, they could have implemented, there would be no more. Minsk two, they could have implemented no more. There was a treaty a month after the special military operation that Zelensky and Ukraine, represented a sign that I believe is a sign in Turkey before Boris Johnson won it on orders of the United States to prevent that peace treaty from being signed.    So Russia is done with the West. But my guess is when all is said and done, Ukrainians will hunt down every one of those motherfuckers and take them off the board, right? Because those motherfuckers took kickbacks, billions upon billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars. They bought yachts and mansions all over the world, they got bank accounts, maxed out, right? FTX, cryptos even going through Ukraine, 10% for the big guy, don't forget that shit, right? Once Ukrainians wake up to what the Western world, politicians and traders to their nations did to their country, I think they're going to hunt the motherfuckers down.   As he should be, as he should be.


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Hello, good afternoon all of you, I am Prajakta Patil, I am working as a CISAR in CAC department and student of MTech 2 second year. Now, today I am going to cover the main topics that is introduction to Linux environment and GCC. We will see the agenda, now introduction to Linux environment all of you must be aware of the windows environment and we will look at the Linux thing, we will look at some text editors that is V, VIM and G edit, we will write some programs in these text editors and compile them with either GCC or G plus plus. Now, you must be watching the login screen on your computer, I guess all of you must have logged in into the system, as here it is saying that we are assuming no Linux background from all of you, so be relax, now we have to start the terminal I hope you all of you logged in in the system. So, we have to start the terminal, now what is the terminal? It is a common box through which we can execute some commands, we can through the commands to the operating system, we can launch the applications or we may execute some programs. For example, in the windows system when we double click on some windows media player it gets started, same here if we type some command the application get launched. Now, you can go to the terminal through application, then accessories and terminal, you can go to the application that you can see on the left corner in that accessories and that terminal, you will see a white box or there are other ways for opening this, you can also do ALT F2 and can type genome terminal the same box will get open, ALT F2 will open some will pop up a small box in that you can type genome dash terminal G N O M E genome dash terminal the same white box will get open, so through this terminal we will write the code. Now, when you open the terminal you can see a prompt which is displayed on the terminal the prompt is made up of some word followed by add sign followed by some again word and colon tilde and dollar sign. Now, dollar sign is nothing but a prompt, now the word which is word before add is your user name is the same user name which using which you have logged in, after add sign you can see the machine name the machine which you are using and after that the tilde is your home directory, the Linux is made up of a directory like a structure, there is a root directory the main directory inside it has a home and inside all home directories of all users is are maintained. Now, you are currently logged in to the home directory of the user you are logged in, now you have to work in that home directory only, so now we have to create one directory inside your home directory. Now, you must be aware of the folder structure of the windows where you can store many files for example, if you want to store the files of say movies and songs, you create separate folders for movies and songs, the same structure maintained in the Linux, you can create the directory using command mkdir that is a simple simplest command mkdir is nothing but Mac directory, the syntax is mkdir the directory name, you can create the name you can specify may be your own name mkdir and directory name. Now, after executing mkdir you on the prompt you are on the same space or the same position on which you are before executing the command. Now, you are currently working directory is home slash home slash user.  Now, you will store all files or programs which you will write today. Now, here are some basic Unix commands which you will require for running the Unix system. Now, ls is listing the files in your directory, currently if you type ls in the current directory it will show nothing because you have not created any of the files in the current directory. Now, pwd is displays the present working directory, if you type pwd it is showing the directory slash home slash user and pure directory. Cd we have just shown we have just done right now that is a change directory, remove it is removing a file nothing but deleting a file from the folder. Now, copy is a cp is copying a file then move or mv is a moving a file that is nothing but a cut paste in the what in the windows we do mkdir we have just rmdir is nothing but a removing a directory. These are the simple commands for the linux. Now, we want to write a c program for writing a c program we can use the different editors and I have also created the directory I am going inside the directory. Now, we will write the program using text editors. There are different text editors maintained with the unix environment. We look at the vi and g edit. Now, vi is very powerful text editor. Now, for using vi we have to create one file that we can create using vi. You can use also vi, vi is the latest version, vim set temp dot txt. You will enter in the vi editor there you can there are actually two modes two working modes of the vi the normal or command mode or a text mode. In normal mode the key strokes the key which you are you are pressing are nothing but the commands you are giving to the vi editor and in the text mode these are the simple letters you want to type. You can enter into the command mode by typing the i you will enter into the insert mode. There you can type anything if you want to save the file you have to come again back from the insert mode by pressing escape and if you want to save then colon wq enter. It exits from the vi by say after saving the file if you do not want to save the file just colon q enter. If you want to see the view the file you have just written right now you can say cat temp dot txt. This is the same file it is displaying the same file on the console that we have written right now. Now, again I will open the file first you will find it little bit difficult while working with this editor but after practicing you will find this is very great. Now, I will write some lines over here. Now, the various commands you will see for deleting you have now you want to enter some commands. So, come out of the insert mode. So, that is a command mode if you go on some line the green cursor is showing the line which I am highlighting. If you press double d it will delete the line currently my cursor is on the first line.  Now, in this editor they have they have given the facilities you can move here and there using the arrow keys which are provided on the keyboard. Previously you have to use different commands for doing this but you can use the arrow keys which are on the keyboard for moving up and down. If you want to search a particular word you can do you can you have to come again out of the insert mode and press slash look at the down is it visible. Now, if I want to search for a word I will press I will come out of the insert mode I will press slash and I will put the word which I want to search enter it will highlight the word it will go at the start of the word where it found the word. And if you want to go to the particular line you can do this by colon and a line number in the say in any integer it will go to the line number. You can study other command from the VI on this links it is very the first link is very useful it gives almost all commands which you can run on VI. G edit is another GUI best editor this you will find little bit easy because it has the same structure same as I mean what you will use what you use in the notepad in the windows structure. So, you can open the g edit g edit and file name and you will do anything on g edit and file name it will open a notepad like structure and there you can do anything like search and replace then editing cut copy paste it can displace the line numbers also when you write programs in different languages it also highlight the syntax various syntax you can directly have a print option in the file menu then I said the search and replace then bracket matching I will think if this GUI editor is available then why to use this VI-VM because sometimes what happens the machine we get is just has the command mode and not the GUI mode in that case also you can use VI and edit all files all system files that you want to edit even if the GUI is not present VI and VI-M use VI or VI-M can suffice I will go to the actual now we are very comfortable with the Linux environment and the terminal and editors now we will use this editors for writing the C programs now GCC is nothing but GNU compiler collection which is a compiler system the developed by GNU project it is used to compile the programs written in different programming languages now here is the first program that is program 1 dot C now you can write this the same program using VI-M just we have seen VI-M program 1 dot C you can type the whole program it is a very simple program it is just declaring one variable printing hello VIM iterating through the loop and printing the various integers and finally done you can write this program in one file and save this file using colon WQ you have to install one software using apt gate I will write here on one just type one command sudo apt gate install build essential this is for running the program through GCC just type this it will ask for a password enter 1 2 3 now this is the same program now I want to compile this program using GCC compiler I will use the command GCC program 4 dot C if the program is perfectly written that is no syntax error or no any logical error then it will come out of the command at it shows it shows the prompt that is the compilation is successful no errors after compiling it creates one executable file that is dot out file named as a dot out which you can run as a dot slash a dot out which displays the output actual output of the program which is expected if the compilation is successful then only you can execute this step dot slash a dot out by default it gives the name a to the executable file you have if you want to give the different name then there is a second command you can GCC program 4 dot C you can specify minus O option and say program 4 it is the name that you want to give to the executable file and you can run at run as program 4 if you want to give some different name to the executable file you can give it through minus O option now there are some other options for the compilation using GCC you can compile a different source files using GCC and specifying the least of the source files that you want to compile but here it without specifying any other option it links those all files together and it creates a simple one executable file. So, if you have the different files say P1 dot C P2 dot C and if you have main in both the files then it will not execute successfully because it tries to link both the files creating a single output file I have one example which is not with you I will just show you the thing this is one program that is program 1 dot C it may not be with you here the last second last line it is calling print hello function which is not declared which is declared in the same file but not defined in the same file the print hello function you cannot see the print hello definition the definition of this function in the same dot C file I have declared I have defined it in another file here it is just returning or printing goodbye now I will compile both the programs together so that GCC will link them together and it creates a single output file combining both these source files. So, it prints everything and the last function call for printing goodbye it goes to the that file prints and again come back. So, it is nothing but linking two files using GCC you can enter the debug mode using minus you option there are different debug as present you can see it in the later presentation if you want all warnings to be displayed on the screen after compilation you can give the option save minus wall it displays all warning options in the previous example we have seen that it links all the files together if you do not want this to be happen that if you want the different absolutely different files which I have to be compiled together you have to specify option minus C after that all the C files will get compiled and it forms the dot O files dot O files are nothing but object files and these are simple binary files which these cannot be executed this again have to be converted into executable files using GCC now these are options you can write various large programs and can I mean if you have very large program then you can divide it into two simple small programs you can link them together you can debug through minus you options and the C programming becomes very easy using GCC now this is another example that is dot CPP that is C plus plus exam the currently above it is showing IO stream it is the same it is header file used in C plus plus using name space sd it is you can say it is a package or a group of variables or maybe definitions that are defined that are defined in sd library if you do not specify this using name space sd the C out and C in all these operators are defined in this sd and every time you have to specify sd double colon C out sd double colon C in so when you specify this using name space sd above the compiler itself search for all this C out and C in the sd library and you will not have to enter it again and again you can create your own name space also and use in the program now what it is doing it is just defining a constant and taking one taking the radius of a circle and calculating area that is nothing but a pi r square and displaying the same you can also write this program in the vi editor currently I have it but GCC it will give I have program 2 dot CPP that is a C plus plus file the same file that we have in your presentation I am compiling it with GCC compiler it will give errors because GCC does not know thus header files or any other library is required for compiling C plus plus program. So, GCC provides the generalized structure it has G plus plus sorry for compiling the C plus plus program I am just typing G plus plus program 2 dot CPP it is it creates the same dot a dot output file the other options and other things are same as GCC and you can type a dot out it ask for the radius I will put set 20 and it displays the area of a circle that is pi r square. So, GCC for different languages it provides the different set of the compilers that you can use very easily the structure remains the same you can use in a different languages the other things that if you want to change the a dot out file then the same option minus O option linking you can you can also link the files you can also go into the debug mode for debugging some other interesting thing is some libraries have to be enabled while running the program for example, thread dot CPP it has it requires the LP the P thread library for running the same program. So, it can be run as follows G plus plus threads dot CPP minus LP thread because it executes or it has some thread system calls for that it requires this system library.


Please subscribe to this YouTube channel mentor. Talk can do. Press bell button for notifications. Well, when it comes to its own deep interests, even Pakistan will not tolerate China. Pakistan has recently warned China's TikTok and blocked the Singapore-based Beagle, a live streaming platform on the ground of immoral, obscene and vulgar content on the apps. Both these apps being extremely popular among Pakistani teens and young adults. Globally, we all know that both these applications have been facing major opposition due to anti-community content. Many would say that this is a censorship move, instigated by the rightist activists or Muslim fundamentalists in Pakistan. But Pakistan telecommunication authority believes that the content on the two platforms could have extremely negative effects on the society in general and youth in particular. Apparently, the explanations received from these two platforms by the Pakistani authorities were not found to be convincing enough and sort of not even reasonable, as I understand. A section of Pakistanis believe that these apps have been banned at the instance of China. Yes, at the instance of China itself, as they believe that China itself controls the Pakistani cyber space as a whole by virtue of Chinese IT infrastructure in Pakistan. Many youngsters in Pakistan dislike China because of their censorship-based ideology. Pakistan has directed TikTok and Beagle Live to formulate a thorough structure, you know, to control, monitor obscenity, vulgarity, immorality and other objectionable contents on their social media applications. Apparently, it could be a battle between two schools of thoughts in Pakistan, as is there in almost all the countries in the world. But one thing is becoming clearer and clearer by each day, that sentiments against China are on the rise even in Pakistan. Yes.