It's probably a felony. Yeah, we go to jail for that. Comfortable? Yeah. Comfortable? Yeah. Yeah. Welcome back to Life Lessons in Film, and today we'll be making sense of life through silver linings playbook. Playbook. Yeah. Yeah. Starring... Radnick Cooper. And Jennifer Lawrence. And Jennifer Lawrence. Disclaimer. Disclaimer, yes. We did a quick refresher on bipolar disorder. Not even refresher. Yeah. Because we don't really know a lot about it. No, just... Pick up. As we're talking about it, we're gonna try and make as few mistakes about the disorder as possible. It's possible, yeah. We are not clinically approved. Yeah. I liked it overall, right? The story follows Pat, who was imprisoned after... What did he do? He attacked his wife's lover? Yeah, wife's lover. It was like a professor or something at her where she was working at the school, I think. Yeah. And they were engaging in the shower. In the carnal knowledge. In the shower. Which is hard to do. Which is hard to do, honestly.  The living tar and the molasses out of the guy and ends up getting arrested. And then the wife gets a restraining order against him. He spends time in probably a mental institution. Yeah.  And then he's there for a while, loses weight, which is apparently... An asylum of sorts? Yeah. I'm actually not sure. We're not sure.  Is anymore, yeah. He works on himself while he's in there with the view to get Nikki back. That's the wife, the name of the wife, who cheated on him. Yeah. And one of those ways that he's doing that, besides getting better, is mentally is to lose weight because apparently that used to be a sore point for both of them. And he starts to lose back with his parents and tries to spend that time to work on himself enough and all the points that he felt were the issue with the relationship so he could win his wife back. Yeah. Starts reading books that he thinks if he read these books she would be happy. One of the points movies that he's still kind of missing the point is that sure you can lose weight but it's like, you know, there's more to it than that. He also meets this girl, Tiffany, who's friends with Nikki, his ex-wife or his wife still, a strange wife. And they start to form an unconventional... Well, her sister is friends with Nikki. She's not friends with Nikki. Oh yeah, friends and friends. Yeah. Yeah, there's a friends and friends thing. So initially the sister, Tiffany's sister then tries to hook Tiffany up with Pat. And then Pat's not interested because he's still hung up on Nikki. Yeah. They end up forming a kind of friendship that isn't really a friendship but Pat says, I want you to deliver a letter to Nikki, please. Yeah.  Because I always give people things and I never get anything in return. So I have this desk competition that I want to participate in. I would like for you to be my partner then. Yeah. Yeah, tit for tat. Yeah. And so that's basically the relationship throughout the movie. They're getting ready. They started an acquaintancehip, getting to know each other through the dance competition and they end up, spoiler alert, kind of getting together at the end. Yeah. And I think it's better now. Yeah, me too. I like that part where she talks about that one point where she's saying, wait, I keep, you know, like, I'm, you know what? I'm actually sick of this thing that I keep doing where I keep giving so much to people and like, I'm depressed right now.  My husband died and I'm still broken up about it, understandably. And you know what? I'd actually maybe like to get some reciprocal help here from Brad Pitt, Bradley, Bradley Cooper's character. Pat, from Pat. He's like, but you already agreed to me not having to do something for you. Now you're changing the terms. Yeah. Eventually you're a bit like, yeah, I can see where she's like, and it's that kind of thing that they talk about, you know, or it's, which has been said where just because you've agreed on something for doesn't mean you can, you can't alter it later if you feel like it's, it's not working for you. Exactly. I like that too, because in relationships, obviously you don't want to do that with like legal agreements and things and you don't want to alter the deal further for certain things. I mean, obviously even in legal agreements, you can alter it, but you'd have to get the consensus of both parties. But in relationships, right? Yeah. That's something that I've also personally struggled with. I think it is such an important lesson to learn that you could have agreed to relate with a person in a certain way for 50 years. And then the whole time you were unhappy about something. And you can say on the 51st year that, you know what, we have been relating in this way for 50 years. I don't like it. It has not served me. Can we have some reciprocity in the relationship? I would like you to consider adjusting ABC to accommodate so that we're both accommodated in this relationship. And a lot of the times it's true. People will be like, and you, and this is why then you're going to question yourself or hesitate to ask for this addressment because you're thinking, well, I have been doing this for 50 years. Is it fair for me all of a sudden if I've been doing it for 50 years to want to change? Yes, it is fair because we're people. And a lot of the times we tend to like to please other people versus ourselves if you are, you know, kind of like a person who's, who's inclined in that way. The problem is, it's easy to get used to the situation for both people. I guess the test for whether or not the, the relationship is lucrative anyway is whether or not the person will be amenable to adjusting to your personal needs. And if they don't, it means you cut those ties and you don't stick around. It isn't, it's okay. It is a good thing. Never mind okay. It is important to have reciprocity in your relationship always. You know, like at the end of the day, I think when you go through some kind of, you go through trauma, you can, a lot of people will do self-destructive things, which I think you do those because it's easier than thinking about, okay, this person died and trying to deal with it, you know, and to try to heal or to think about your pain. You'd rather distract yourself from the pain. You'd rather not go to see a shrink and talk to them about issues because that means you'd have to think about the guilt that you feel and you don't want to be at home like thinking about all of these things. So what you do, you distract yourself. People distract themselves in different ways.  These are all the same things. These are all coping mechanisms. So at the end of the day, I think one thing that she does learn when she's talking about taking and giving, I mean giving too much and not getting anything as an in return is that when you are having these people over these men, you know, you're engaging with them sexually, you do realize that they're just there for themselves, right? You want companionship.  I think she wants that kind of affection or companionship. But like, you know, drinking or dealing with food, it's not the same thing as connection or companionship or feeling full or, you know, feeling good from the alcohol. It simulates it for a bit. Yeah. And then you just kind of realize, yeah, like either if you're having alcohol, for example, you wake up from your drunken stupor and you realize, okay, well, that didn't help. My problems are still here. After the sexual engagements with these random men, they just leave. They don't care about who you are. They got what they wanted and they leave. And you realize that, yeah, I didn't get anything there. So I think that that's where she was coming from. Yeah, the father. Robert De Niro, Pat's father. So at the end, he does kind of redeem himself, but he was a problem. The entire movie, entirely setting up this whole gambling agreement with his friend where not only did his, you know, his football team had to win, but then his son had to get a certain score at the dance competition. Yeah. A lot of dysfunction. You just put this, these pressures on people all the time just for the excitement of the gamble. This movie obviously is doing with family dysfunction and is dealing with mental illness. Just looking at how the dad is, it kind of reminded me of there's this, I don't know if we've talked about Gabbermate here. And he talks about how a lot of times with mental, people with mental challenges, it often stems from family dysfunction and that it's not necessarily a biological predisposition. And he talks about how in the medical field, a lot of doctors are treating the symptom and not the cause, the cause being family dysfunction and therefore arrested development for the child. Because if you had a father like Pat has, who turns you into his good luck charm and makes you believe that if every single time, you don't do what he asks you to do and the football team loses, you've caused misfortune on the whole family because he's trying, he's betting all the time wanting to put money together for his business. And the dad is resting all of these things on Pat. He spent basically like the family's savings and then he's like, well, you got to do it because otherwise we lose all the money. And taking zero responsibility for himself and so this and placing it all on Pat's shoulders, isn't it? And so for me, when I saw this dysfunction and I see Pat being bipolar and just how his bipolar manifests itself, manifests, there were a lot of similarities there with his own dad, not really being aware of reality, of his own kind of reality, not being aware, recognizing the things that he does to his son, the detrimental effect that his behavior has on his son, his wife, his entire family because it's not just Pat. But yeah, I was watching this and I was thinking a lot about Gabbermate and just how much your own family can affect your mental state because that kind of pressure and that kind of, he talks about, Gabbermate talks about your brain as a human being developed in a certain way, but if you are growing up in a certain kind of family, that doesn't give you the tools, the nurturing, the safety, the security that a parent should afford you, which clearly Pat's dad is not giving him that security because here's Pat's dad making him feel like you're responsible for every single thing and you need to win, you need to make sure that we know you're the one who's screwed up here. There's no security there, you're operating on a sensor. Am I going to be a good kid today or am I going to be a bad kid today? The whole family, again, when they have that dysfunction and lack of communicating and if you're talking about, you know, you can never talk about the person directly. So at one point they're all telling like, are you comfortable with lying to Pat saying that his wife is going to be at the show and this was between the mom and the dad and Tiffany, the girl that's doing the dance thing with them. They're really trying to rationalize, this is a justifiable lie. And then, you know, at one point also Tiffany feels bad about it, but they still feel like, no, this is better than just telling Pat the truth. Yeah. And it's interesting too, because the mom is so opposed to this and then the dad is like, yeah, but you did it in that situation. Yeah, remember, you lied about Tiffany, I think she somehow like was telling Tiffany where Pat would run or something so they could be down because they were trying to go for something. So, but yeah, it's also that kind of like, well, you also have lied. So that means that you have to agree to this thing. To my lie too. Yeah. Let's just keep lying together and then no one can ever stop this cycle. Yeah. Did Pat really have a fighting chance in that kind of family, to be honest? Yeah. Can you really, you know, how like you can grow in the place that makes you sick, that entire family, I think this dance with Tiffany was the thing that kind of, he was spending less time at home and he was spending more time with her practicing for the dance. And I think that that was focus on a purpose. Yeah. And also just removing himself from the situation, right? The dysfunction, the family dysfunction that aggravates his mental illness. Yeah. Which shows, you know, how, you know, again, as kind of in my mind, kind of poking a hole in the idea that, you know, people are just born a certain way and they're only capable of certain things is a lot of times it seems like that because it's hard to get yourself out of whatever situation. If you're in a situation that keeps you stuck in a certain way, that is your world. That is your reality. So it's hard to see that there, if you just changed a couple of things, got a little, you know, got a little farther away from that, that you could then, you know, grow in ways that just wouldn't really make any sense in the moment.  And that's a really invisible kind of, you know, prison or kind of cage to see, you know.  Who knows. Just giving our opinions. This is, yeah, like it's, it's an opinion just based on personal experience and based on a lot of reading and interest in these kinds of matters. Observations. Yeah. And of course, we're just trying here. We're just trying, you know, like maybe that's not the case. You know what I mean? Maybe that's not the case. And it also obviously depends on the extent of your mental illness. This may not necessarily apply to all mental illness, right? I've been, I've been wrong more than I've been not. Yeah. So for me, I mean, why, I think there's a lot of credence to that idea that we're affected a lot of environmental factors is, I think we've all been through where there's a very, you know, toxic negative person that you're around. It can really bring down the party, you know. So if you have to deal with that as like every co-worker is like that, and you have to go there every day, all day for years, it's going to affect you. Yeah. So just imagine when that, but when you're a kid, when you're even more vulnerable, impressionable. Exactly. Even worse.  That's when that, that's when you develop these things, they're much more rooted, you know, in you. Because yeah, that's what you grew up in. People can look at a person with bipolar and say, this is what happens when a person has bipolar. And it can be very true. But at the same time, all of these same things I've seen in myself, you know, looking, not looking at myself and my contribution to whatever pain I may be going through in the moment and blaming other people instead of just like, okay, how am I participating in this thing? I think that's something that people have like a lot of people have experienced bipolar or not, you know, not necessarily looking at history in the past and looking at, okay, this has happened in the past, not taking stock of your past relationships, of your past experiences to and how it affects the present and how you can change it. Because this is what Pat is doing. Like he's not taking stock of the things that he's done in the past and how they're affecting his reality and how he needs to therefore make changes himself to adjust and to find happiness. He's not taking stock of these things. He looks at things. Okay, if I lose weight, then my life will get back together again. That's an easy fix for him. Yeah, not to say that sort of losing weight is easy for him. But you know, that's something that he can kind of measure. He can see, you know, that doesn't require looking back at all the things that he caused and all the stuff that he had no control over growing up that affected him, but that led him to that that takes more time, more work, you know, which that's harder for people in general. It's harder for people to do the work. I get that. The relationship between Tiffany and Pat is just, it starts, it starts sad but ends so good. This was definitely a feel good movie, but not in a, I don't know, like there's obviously an aversion to people who take themselves seriously to feel good. It was a good feel movie. But it was a really good feel. This is what I feel, feel good movies should be. When I feel good, feel good movies should feel good. There's so many things about it that I love. Number one, they create an environment in which both of them can grow and get better because their families are dysfunctional and they are not the foundation on which someone who is struggling with mental illness or trauma can really truly change and grow and get and heal. So they afford these things to each other. They provide themselves this platform and I think that was, I really cherish that and I wish a lot of people would find relationships with people or pursue relationships with people that afford them this kind of healthy foundation on which to get to grow and become the best version of themselves as possible. This is the number one. Number two, I love things that they, the fights that they have. Tiffany shares something about because at this point, Pat is so blind to his own reality and he thinks that he's right and everybody else is wrong, which apparently is another symptom of bipolar disorder. But he thinks this way and Tiffany shares about the fact that she slept with all of these men at the office and some women apparently and he then is like, oh man, you are worse than me. We are not the same.  I mean, these people, I didn't do that. I'm so much better than you are. And he's like, yeah, but you were just as interested and enticed and completely drawn in when I was telling you about this thing. You know, my engagements with these, so it was the same with this. He really, he really also wanted to feel superior to her. Like he wasn't as messed up. Yeah, like he was feeling ashamed of where he was at, but was always for a while fighting the fact.  Yeah, which is also very interesting, right? Because I think sometimes people who do have insecurities about themselves might end up pursuing relationships with people who they think, okay, well, you're lower down the totem pole and you're going to make me feel better because in this hierarchy, I'm definitely better than you. And I think with Pat, it was that where he's like, I'm pursuing this relationship, whatever it is, because you make me feel better about myself.  And it's nice to see that there's someone who's worse off than I am. Very bad relationship, very bad, bad foundation. However, again, like I said, it started off rocky, but then it gets, it progresses and gets better because of the fights. Like one of the fights she's, so she shares about the fact that, okay, I slept with all of these people.  Oh my God. And she's like, how could you be, I was vulnerable to you. So extremely vulnerable to you. And you judge me. You know, that was one of my favorite scenes because I think that I know for me personally that that has been a fear in my life. And it has been an experience with some friends that were not necessarily great, where you are vulnerable and people, we are vulnerable with, we want to be vulnerable. But when we are sometimes people use that against us. And then because of that experience later, you then are more reluctant to share and open up. And obviously that puts a cap on the kind of open and good relationships that you can have with people if you don't want to be vulnerable anymore. But I did like that a lot because she wanted to be that way. She wanted that kind of relationship with him. But he was judgmental of her. And I think it was just that reminder from me personally to always, when you are interacting with people, whenever anybody shares something with themselves that might be completely outside the realm of anything you could personally conceptualize or ever want to do to leave your own personal instinct aside towards that specific specific thing. And understand that you're very different to people and people do things for many reasons.  You know? And then when you would choose willing to push back against that ill treatment, then he respects that. Yeah, exactly. And that's the thing again, a lot of times I think we're afraid to do that to call bad behavior out or judginess and things. But a lot of times people will actually think on that or just, you know, think twice next time or reflect on it. And yeah, it's important to be able to do that.  Yeah, who take you expressing your needs and your desires or wants and vulnerability as conflict, which is interesting, right? And that that's the kind of, which I would say, again, also comes from a certain kind of trauma where vulnerability is seen as confrontation. Yeah. It gets you all. Yeah, because, because obviously then there are people who may not necessarily want to want you to remind them of these certain things that they experienced their own vulnerabilities. And if you're openly sharing your vulnerabilities, it might remind them of that. And so they don't really, it's kind of like, you know, yeah. So, which is also the tricky thing. I guess why human relationships are so tough, because we all need that sort of that really good, really juicy vulnerability. But exactly if the other person is not willing to accept it, or they're willing to exploit it, then that's what causes the deepest hurt, because you use the thing that the person needs the most and opens up the most. And then so it's a, yeah, but people will keep doing that.  Oh, I was going to say, and this, this seems very real to me where Pat's dad is able to see, you know, I don't even know if your wife ever really cared about you because those kind of people that are dysfunctional or exploitative can notice that in others, but they don't necessarily notice when they're doing it themselves or they don't really think about it because Pat's dad was aware at the end, he's like, go with Tiffany, she's clearly in love with you. You daft if you don't realize it. Honestly, I don't think he ever cared and you don't seem to get that either. And, but at the same time, you know, he comes to him one time and he starts crying, sitting by his bed, being like, I really just want to spend some time with you. But then another times, again, he'll lie to him, manipulate him. So I think it's one of those, you know, it's kind of, I think it's one of those people where it's inconsistent and I think like, I don't, I think that was actually done intentionally. I don't know if at the end it's supposed to see that the father grew much. I think he's just one of those people that when it serves him, he'll be open with his son or he'll be like, tell him, tell it to him straight and then at other times still be selfish and just use people as pawns for his risks and his gambles. The whole family revolves around the dad and his own needs. So in the moment when he says to Pat, I want, I'm trying all of these things, I want us to get closer. Who is that for? It's not necessarily for Pat, it's for himself. You know, the whole time. Let's get closer so that you can be my good luck charm and watch the game while everyone, well mom cooks us food and then I can just sit there and watch the game and win money. Yeah. And even if he does want, in that moment when he's crying, even if he does want that general relationship with Pat, that closer relationship, it's still again for him. Always. It's always for him. That's when he wants it. When Pat wants it, that doesn't matter. If you're coming from that background, you're most likely gonna, if you don't deal with that, you go and you find a partner who does exactly the same thing in the same way that your dad did or, you know, because that's how we are as human beings, right?  Because that's what you were socialized into. Don't realize what we're doing it, you know, when you kind of realize, you know, your first day of college, first week, you know, it's all frosty and you're, you're trying to kind of mingle and you just find yourself attracted to certain people. It's so unconscious. Everyone just kind of forms within a week or two, forms these groups and a lot of times it's the familiarity that causes these groups to form. Yeah. Familiarity and function or dysfunction. So I think the moral of the story there is just keep trying. Yeah. Keep different, meeting different people. If you're feeling uneasy and you're finding yourself in a bad situation and look at your past. Just know that peace is attainable. Peace is attainable When they're like, peace is attainable and don't give up. Yeah. Peace is attainable. That's the moral. Yeah. It's moral of life. Yeah. So yeah, that's about a lot of stuff we got from that movie. Yeah. And yeah, I don't know if you guys also picked up on those things and what else did you notice? Let us know. Silver lining's playbook. Yeah. Yeah. Solid. Indeed. All right. It's still next time. That's a wrap.


Hi, everyone. Lee Lowell here, smartoptioncell.com. How are you all doing today? It is Saturday, August 14, 2021. Welcome to another edition of our Saturday Synopsis, where we like to take a look at the charts. We look at indexes. We look at individual stocks. I'm here to help you become a smarter and better trader. And what I'm trying to teach you here is what to look for on the charts. We look at support and resistance levels. We look at moving averages. We look at price patterns. So it's all about how to become a smarter and more profitable trader. I get people asking me all the time, Lee, what do you do? How do you pick your stocks? What do you look for? So to me, it's all about looking at the charts. I'd say 90% of my trading, 90% of how I pick stocks is based on technical analysis, which is just basically chart reading. Over the 30 years that I've been in the business, this is what I've done. These are the things I look for. And I try to show you what I look for because it's all about helping you and I want you to become a better trader. So let's just jump right in, take a look at the charts and see what we've seen, see what stocks are doing, and see what they may be doing moving forward. So let's open up here. Let's move to the SPY, which we always look at first. We'd like to take a look at the broad indexes first and see what the overall market is doing. The SPY, which is the exchange traded front of the SP500, we'd like to see what it's doing because it gives us a good overall view of the market. So if you've been watching these videos, you know I've been bullish. And in these videos, I show you what I use. I have daily bar charts, which is each one of these vertical lines is one day's worth of trading. And on the charts, I have three moving averages. I have a 20-day, 50-day, and 200-day. They're all simple moving averages. These three lines here, these are called moving averages. And they fall, they track the movement of the price movement of a stock or index. And down here is what I use the RSI indicator. It's a 14-day lookback period. And the RSI is an overbought, oversold indicator tells us if stocks or indexes are getting a little bit overbought or a little oversold. And we use the 80 level and the 20 level as our barometers. And those numbers can be changed. Whatever charting platform you use, you can always change the numbers. Okay, so we look for patterns. Patterns are a big part of how I find stocks that may be moving in one direction or another. What are patterns? Patterns are just these basically patterns that stock prices will make over time and they will repeat themselves over time. So in this case, it's called a W pattern. This is called a congestion pattern. This is called an ascending triangle or an ascending wedge. You can go online and you can just Google search, you know, technical stock patterns. And it'll come up with lots of websites or other free information you can get, or it'll show you books that people have written about. Technical analysis and different chart patterns. There's so many different chart patterns. There's channels and there's wedges and there's congestion patterns and there's W's and there's M's. There's all these different things that over time, stocks tend to repeat themselves. These patterns tend to repeat themselves. So it's good to have an eye to see if stocks are making certain patterns because typically they will lead themselves to a certain reaction to those patterns. Okay, so and also we like to see the general movement of prices themselves, just the general price action. Price action is just where's the stock going? And obviously, you can see here, since the end of the pandemic, March 2020, the general market has been moving higher. Prices have been going up. That's just how it is. Now, one thing I do want to stress is that individual stocks, how did their prices move? It's all based on how well the company is doing, how well the company is performing, how many, how much, how are their sales growing? How are their revenues going? How are their earnings? And a stock or a company over time will move based on how it's performing financially. If a stock is, if a company is making great products and selling more and more products every year, obviously their sales and revenues are going to go up every year. So that means the stock price is going to follow in the long run. In the short term, on a day-to-day basis, a stock can move in any direction. That's just, it's too random. Short-term trading, swing trading, day trading, weekly trading, it's very random. And unless you're super good, it's hard to make money on the very short term because stocks could just move randomly on just whatever news that's out there. But over the long run, as long as a company is creating great products and their sales are growing, the stock price will move up over time. That's what we want to look for. We want to look for stocks making upward movement over time.  Let's take a look. Let's pull back to a monthly chart here and you can see over time. This is the S&P 500 index. Over time, stocks go up.  It's been the best moneymaker out of all the things you can invest in over time, better than gold, better than CDs, better than bonds, even better than real estate. So stocks is where it's at. If you want to make money over the long run, you've got to have some exposure to stocks. So that's what we look for. So let's open this up. We can see, go back to the daily chart. Now some people use candlesticks. I use just your open high-low close bars. And what does that mean? Well, each vertical line is one day's worth of trading. And there's a little dash on the left side of each bar. And there's a little dash on the right side of each bar. If you can see, I know these are very small. But the dash on the left side is where the stock opened that day. And the dash on the right side is where the stock closed for that day. The top of each bar is the high of the day. And the low, the bottom of each bar is the low of the day. Some people like to keep those statistics. So obviously, we can see the S&P 500 has been moving up over time. And what you'll notice is that 20-day and 50-day moving averages, which is what a lot of people follow, right? When a lot of people follow the same thing, usually have the same outcomes, just self-fulfilling prophecies. That's just how it works. And you will see strongly trending stocks, whether it's up trending or down trending, will usually hug the 20-day or the 50-day moving averages.  And they'll usually bounce. As long as the stock stays in that same general motion, they'll typically bounce off one of those two lines when there's a pullback. So if you're looking to time your trades, if you're bullish and the stock's moving upwards, you want to try to time your trades when it has a little bit of a pullback to one of the trend lines. And then you can buy there when it starts to bounce, or you can try to pick a bottom and nibble a little and then wait for confirmation that it will bounce. So like I said, when stocks are trending strongly, they'll typically bounce off the 20-day or 50-day. Now, down here, there's the 200-day. It's a lot lower, placed well below the 20-day and 50-day. Now, sometimes stocks will have a good pullback to a 200-day. That's your line in the sand, whether this stock's going to bounce or it's going to keep going and its trajectory has changed, meaning something has come along and forced it to move from an uptrend to a downtrend. And we'll look at some other charts and see what that is. So the broader market itself is strong. It's moving up. It's been hugging the 20-day and every time it pulls back, it either bounces off the 20-day or 50-day. So if you've been looking to get into just your S&P 500 fund and you're trying to time it, here's your timing. You can buy here. You can buy here. You can buy here. You can buy here. You can buy here. Now, everyone will say, well, I don't want to buy at the top. What if the next bear market comes and then I'm the sucker that bought all the way at the top? Well, you have to step in at some point. I mean, you could have been saying that all along here. All right. Well, here's the top. It's never going to go up anymore. Well, actually, it went up. Okay. Well, here's the top. It's never going to go higher from there. Well, there it kept going. Well, here's the top. I'm not going to buy here. And it just keeps going and going. So you have to understand over time, companies that continue to do well, their stock prices are going to go up. And these indexes are made up of those companies. So if the individual companies are doing well, the index itself is going to do well. So why would you think that the next bear market's coming? That means that all the stocks are doing horribly at the same time. Now, yes, when the pandemic hit, which was out of our control, the COVID came along. So everyone's fears, the fears took over, thinking that every company was going to go out of business and no one's going to be making any more products. That was the height of the fear right here. And then when everyone came to their senses saying, you know what, we're going to get a vaccine, companies aren't going to go out of business. That's when the bottom happens. So, you know, bearing any kind of other major disaster geopolitical world event, like another pandemic, which we see that vaccines can be created relatively quickly, it's hard to imagine what's going to be the next bear market or what's going to cause the next bear market for an extended period of time. Yes, we'll have pullbacks. We'll have pullbacks, but it's not going to stop companies from creating new products and people buying those products and those companies being profitable. So you have to understand the psychology behind the stock market and why the stock market moves in a certain way. The stock market is meant to go higher over the long run. Pullbacks are meant to happen. Pullbacks are just normal parts of stock investing history. Yeah, a company may have a bad earnings or CEO may be corrupt, but it'll be replaced by better products and better CEOs. So you want to err on the side of caution, which is the market goes up over time. Okay, so we want to, I'm in for the long haul on both. Right now, things look good. The market is going up. It's been hugging the moving averages. So I'm staying long until something comes along and tells me it's not going up anymore. All right, so let's take a look at the NASDAQ. And we'll see that. And now the S&P 500 also made an all-time new high this week. So we're making all-time new highs just about every week. Here's the NASDAQ. It's been kind of flat the last two weeks, but you can see it's still hugging the 20-day moving average, the blue line right here. Okay, once in a while, it'll get down to the 50-day moving average. Now, here's the W pattern, just looking for patterns. This is typically a bullish pattern once it breaks above the resistance line, which it finally did. So it's starting to move higher. You want to look for these patterns. Market looks good. You know, there's nothing, it's going to stay in motion in the same motion until something comes along and knocks it down. And I can't see what that is right now. The Dow Jones industrial average, let's take a look. Blow this up a little. Now, the Dow finally been making this ascending wedge, which is a bullish pattern once it gets above the resistance line right here, which it did. So this past week right here, the Dow had a good week, finally convincingly got above the resistance line. You can see all this action right here. All this action right here was just storing up this energy, just trying to get through while still having an upward bias. All that energy and finally blasted through so the Dow had a good week and it looks strong. So there's really nothing from keeping it from going even higher. You know, what's going to stop it? So the Dow looks good. The S&P 500 looks good. The NASAC looks good. I'm all making all time new highs. Okay. So that's the indexes look strong. Let's take a look at some individual stocks and see what they are doing. We always start with Apple. We'd like to look at Apple. Now I had mentioned last week, blow this up. Apple, you know, had been kind of not doing much. We were getting a little frustrated. You know, here's the 200-day moving average. So I said that's the line in sand. One, two, three.  It's time to get off our keyster and move up. And then Apple just went from $125 a share up to $150. Right? So it had a nice move. But now last week I said it's starting to, it has this, had a double top right here, which can be a short-term resistance area until Apple gets its bearings again and wants to make another attempt at making a new high. So we had this double top, had this sort of congestion pattern. Can't really see it right here. And it was just storing up energy to move one way or the other. And it meandered a little and now this week moved up again. So it's going to attack the all-time new highs at $150. It may make a triple top here, which could knock it down a little bit. So getting through $150 might be a little tougher over the next week or two. Just for now, it may knock it back down. But I think eventually it's going to make a hard core salt here and get through $150. But it may stick around here for a little bit. That's just my assessment. You know, Apple's still making tons of iPhones. People are buying iPhones. They're making lots of money. You know, what's the reason why Apple would start to go down and enter a bear market? There really is no reason. It may meander for a bit until it can convincingly get above this resistance line. So $150 is the line in the sand right now waiting for it to get through there. Let's take a look at Tesla. Tesla's still, you know, I drew this big triangle pattern last week, which is basically the ranges get smaller and smaller and smaller, builds up all this energy, and then all of a sudden it's going to break out in one direction or another. It looks like it broke out through the triangle here. So and it meandered for a week and a half. And it looks like it may want to continue to go higher. Once it blasts out in one direction, it will tend to keep going in that direction because people get geared up and say, oh, it's finally broke out. It's time to get bullish. As we get more people buying, obviously it's going to keep moving it up. So here it looks like a bullish breakout to me and it probably could keep going higher. Amazon and it's all about finding these patterns, looking at sport and resistance levels, looking at the moving averages. Try to keep it as simple as possible. Now, Amazon, as we know, had the big earnings gap right here, downward gap.  So it's right smack back in the middle of the channel again. It will probably be a while before Amazon really gets moving in one direction or another sitting right on the 50-day moving average. Amazon will probably trade sideways for the next couple months or so until next earnings announcement. So if you're an option seller and you're selling iron condors, which is a combo of a call credit spread and a put credit spread, could be a good environment here if you want to sell those iron condors because Amazon most likely will stay in this channel. Let's take a look at some other stocks that we'd like to take a look at. Let's see what we got. Now AMD, we talked about AMD. I love AMD as a stock, as a company. We had talked about just missing out on a bullish trade right here. We sell put options. We missed it unfortunately and it went on this $40 run from $85 all the way up to almost $125 at this power blast hire. I liked the pullback here. I talked about it last week. Once you have a vertical move like this where stock just goes straight up, straight up, gravity will take over at some point and profit takers will take some money off the table. Other people will say it can't go any higher so they'll sell it and it's what it did. It sold off, went from about $122.5 down to $105. So it lost about $17 or so. And I'd like to wait for the pullback and I'd like to wait for the moving averages sort of catch up to the price action. You can see the moving averages moving a little more vertical, prices coming down. I don't know if they'll meet here because AMD had a pretty good day Friday, yesterday August 13th was up $4 or $5. Yep, $4. So here might have been the bottom of this pullback. Had the pullback. This might have been the bottom. It was kind of congesting here for a few days. Had the good move up. So I think AMD will sit here for a minute or a day or two. Moving averages will catch up and I think it's up for the next move. So I'm hoping to possibly get into a bullish trade maybe in the near future once I see a couple more days of price action on AMD. What else do we have? Netflix also looks very much like the Amazon chart channel. Channels just when a stock just keeps bouncing in between off the highs and lows of the upper and lower lines. And just like Amazon just kind of stuck here in the middle, not really going anywhere. So if you're an option seller selling those iron condors could be a good strategy right now as long as Netflix stays in this range. Not really doing much, don't have much an opinion there on Netflix. Cisco and like Cisco and Oracle, we'll take a look at Cisco here first. You can see it just kind of hugging. You can draw the support line which is connecting the bottoms and it was moving a little sideways kind of hugging both moving averages and it's just been going hard. Just this upward move. So I don't see anything that could really derail Cisco. I think earnings may be coming out next week. So we're going to wait for that. See what happens. Let's take a look at Oracle. I also like Oracle as a company. I think this was the earnings maybe, this little gap down here. But it said screw that and we're going higher. It's been hugging the 20 day moving average line and looking ready for another assault on all time new highs. Had the ascending wedge here. Did blast through it. Came down. I guess the earnings was here possibly. And then not sure what that does. That might have been earnings or not, but it just started to move higher. So I like Oracle. I like Cisco. What other stocks do we have here? The Proctor and Gamble moved out of that channel. Walmart. We talked about Walmart last week. I liked Walmart. It looked like it was ready to go. If you go back and watch last week's Saturday synopsis, you see that we talked about Walmart had been making the ascending triangle just waiting to blast through the resistance. So here's so this Friday, Thursday, Wednesday, Tuesday, Monday. So it ended last Friday right here. So when we made the video last week, this is where Walmart was. I said I like the pattern. I like the uptrend here. If it stays through the resistance, it's going to go and it had a good week right here. It went up about, you know, for Walmart, $5 move is a pretty good move in one week. So Walmart's looking strong. It may consolidate that move right here and could take on looking to take out its all time highs right there. Walmart is a favorite of mine. Disney, another one. Disney. Let's take a quick look at Disney. Now here's the difference. You can see Disney had the uptrending channel until something came along and knocked it back down. So here was a change in direction. So you can draw these these channels and then you wait to see what happens. So it was it was in an up channel, went to a down trend channel and then it had another sideways channel just waiting to break out. Disney had earnings the other day and it was up about $10, $11 on the high. You can see here's the high of the day yesterday, Friday, August 13, but then ended on the lows just just back into the bottom of the channel here at the top of the channel. So I think Disney will probably consolidate the the big move it had after a big move of stock likes to consolidate. That's just what happens. So it's probably going to consolidate right around the lows of this big bar here, right where the the line was for the prior resistance. Now it's actually become support. Now a prior resistance becomes support now. So Disney probably will meander around here. People come to their senses. They like what Disney's doing and it'll probably start to move up again. So I may be looking at potentially bullish strategies over the next week. Disney consolidates and if I see it starting to move up again, that is probably the the key or the cue that it's going to continue to move higher from there. So keep an eye on Disney. What else do we see? Now the health care stocks we like health care stocks or the pharmaceuticals have been going up. You got Eli Lilly just has this nice uptrend Bristol Myers has this nice trend. Let's take a look at Bristol Myers a little bit closer. Now if you want to draw trend lines, this is what you do. You get your trend line and you kind of draw the bottoms, right? You kind of connect the bottoms. It's not an exact science. Okay. And you connect the, let me bring this down a little. Come on. And we connect some of the tops. Now it depends on how far back you want to look. Okay. You can go here. You connect the tops. You connect the bottom. So Bristol Myers is in this sort of range here. It may bounce here and then start to move back up towards the top of the channel. This is what's called an uptrending channel. And if you're looking to get long, you wait for it to get close to the bottom or wait for a bounce off the bottom. What was I looking at? Visa, I think, has the same kind of Visa has sort of the same kind of channel. You can draw bottoms here. You know, it kind of connects some of these bottoms connect the tops. So Visa is in the same kind of channel. You might want to wait to see if it bounces here off the bottom channel, you know, it's more art than science. It's all eyeball, you know, depends on where you want to draw the lines, like we can, we can draw this maybe from here. No, no, let's not do that. Let's do this one down here. And, you know, maybe this line could be your channel or this line. It all depends how you see it. Okay. So it's not an exact science. So that's Visa. What else? So we're talking about the healthcare. Pfizer, look at this, Pfizer had a great move. That's a big move for Pfizer. Great move that may we're getting a little overbought here. Let me blow this up. So Pfizer had pretty vertical move, hitting some overbought. This is just telling you, hey, you know, things are getting a little overheated, we may start to see a pullback soon, but it doesn't mean that the bull run is over. It just means we may have a pullback, maybe to the 20 day moving average line before Pfizer gets going again. So that's Pfizer. Let's take a look at Merck also healthcare. Merck looks good. I like the I like the uptrend channel that Merck's creating right here. So we can kind of draw, we can kind of draw a little bit of an uptrending channel here, connect the tops to so Merck looks like it's in this channel. And maybe it had that bounce right here, it looks like it bounced off the, this is the 200 day moving average, bounced off of that looks like maybe it's ready to go up here towards 80 dollars a share, keep an eye on Merck for potential bullish Kellogg Kellogg also maybe having this kind of like sideways rounded bottom action here, Kellogg's looks like it may be ready to go. That was in the downtrend, broke out of it kind of sideways for a bit. Now looks like maybe it's ready to go assaults maybe all time new highs. Verizon, I like Verizon, but it's just not doing anything, right? So we're staying out of trades for Verizon right now, kind of in this downtrending channel not really do anything. There's no sense in fighting it. There's no sense in trying to pick a bottom. And because you're going to get frustrated, if it's still in a downtrend, and not showing you any signs of bullishness, don't buy, because it'll just frustrate you if it keeps kind of slowly, slowly creeping down, you're just going to get upset. So you wait for, wait for the bullish activity to come around, you may not buy the bottom, but you'll least you'll get in when it's moving in the right direction. So the XLV is the healthcare, healthcare ETF, I love the XLV, because these healthcare companies are so great, you can see it's just been hugging the 20 day moving average, like healthcare may want to get in, we may do some something with some bullish put spreads here, bounced off the 20 day. So I like the healthcare ETF looks good. What else we got? Let's look at so PayPal and Square are the two payment processors. PayPal has come come off this downward move, going sideways, not much opinion there, Square, same thing, Square looks pretty good though, it's in this uptrending channel right here, bouncing off the 20 day moving average. So Square probably looks strong, may bounce, once it connects with the 20 day moving average, people get ready to buy again. So Square looks stronger, Square looks stronger than PayPal, it's in this uptrending channel, so it may keep going, assaulting on all time new highs. And we got McDonald's in sort of in this channel, Pepsi, I think I like Pepsi a little bit better. Well, McDonald's and Pepsi is not the same industry, Pepsi looks strong, let's look at Coca Cola. Coca Cola, Coke and Pepsi, both look good, Coke's, you know, stalwart, Pepsi stalwart as well, Coke looks good, just kind of slowly hugging, slowly hugging the trend lines here, Coke looks strong, Pepsi looks decent. And Facebook, Facebook in that channel, same thing, we've had this for a while, in this uptrending channel, Facebook just continues to go up, bouncing in between, these are the things you want to look for. All right, so I don't really like to look at these meme stocks anymore, they're not really going anywhere, Peloton, not much happening there, and the QQQ, which is the exchange traded fund for the NASDAQ, looks strong, hugging, hugging the 20 day moving average. So if you want a broad exposure to the overall market, the SPY, the QQQ, the DIA, that's the diamonds for the Dow Jones, that's what you can get into, watch the trend lines. All right, so that's it for your Saturday synopsis, that's what's happening in the market, ambos, things look strong, things look good, companies are having good earnings, QQ earnings are just about over now, most of the companies did pretty well, and most of the outlooks for the future look pretty decent as well, that's what's going to keep stocks moving higher, positive outlooks. All right, so that's all here for the Saturday synopsis, I hope this has been helpful, give me a thumbs up in this YouTube video, leave me a comment, don't forget to subscribe, hit that red subscribe button.  If you want to learn about PutSelling, our services tab here, we have our two newsletters and our one-on-one coaching. 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So next talk will be by Delhi and organizing the Beyond Face peer-to-peer facilitation training. So can folks hear me? I'm looking to IRC for responses because I will not have any sound from Jitsi. So just let me know. Is this ready? So I will start my talk. If you're noticing my screencast, I have an org mode file up just to let you know that no, I have not made slides. I am just publishing my raw notes such as they are for today.  Great. So here we go. And again, I apologize. I would not attempt to read all these notes.  But if they're recorded, if you want to look at them later, I'm exposing my typos for your benefit so you can see more about what I'm saying if that's helpful. I wanted to introduce myself a little differently this time and this is starting with DebConf 14 when I was available for the content team and the global DebConf global team when they were needing help on agenda setting for a meeting that was looking like it was going to be very difficult. We met over lunch. I made suggestions about how to generically set up good agendas. The next day I attended the meeting from the back and didn't really participate or have my name on anything. But it went really well and I was surprised they actually used just the generic template I suggested. Based on that and conversations after I ended up being invited for a keynote talk in Montreal on the topic of when do social issues matter in technical debates and when they don't matter. And there I had technical issues with an obsolete laptop I was trying to use. And so the recording has a lot of stuttering in it in terms of my presentation, but the content is good and you might be able to find that if you're interested. And the reason I'm talking about those talks is because all along I've been thinking about Debian as a community learning how to communicate better inside itself because from my point of view it's the starship example of what Democratic discourse can do. And the rest of the world needs these examples. So while Debian struggles with its own issues and publicizes those issues through completely open threads and on many levels. Meanwhile, this is an important conflict. It's an important conflict resolution process that the community is going through for itself and what it learns is helping others. So this has been my ongoing thought of how I can continue to help Debian with this process. So today's talk is a continuation that I was hoping to bring up more at Debian 18 Taiwan. When that was my intention for Deb camp actually and I ended up getting sucked into food issues that needed to be covered because there were translation and in my case important food issues so I ended up doing food team things which felt like a gender problem. Honestly. And I was angry and resentful because I really had this other communications work that I was wanting to work on. So that was two years ago. You know, I just want to let people know that this is something I've been thinking about. So today I want to talk about the possibility of Debian perpetuating its own internal communications training among its own membership, and it doesn't need to be just Debian internal it could be sistering with other, you know, outside free and open source communities who are also dealing with online communications and training each other so it doesn't have to be just internal to Debian but I want it to be Debian folks to really have an investment and be able to do it. And some of the examples that I'm drawing from are from community development of various sorts. I was looking for notes on such a group that I had set up for a co-housing community back roughly 2005 or six. And when I look back at my notes this week I saw that I had told them that they should learn from the software developers about issue tracking and that kind of thing. So that's, those are my introductions. Let's see here. I want to talk about, I'm going to jump around a little bit from my original outline here. I was also going to mention that I was available for the anti-harassment team in Taiwan. That's just background just to let you know that I have gotten involved with a few issues and seen what's going on from the inside in a number of ways. I've been paying attention to Debian since 2003. Something that came up when I was hearing the sessions the last day or two is when hearing about the communications team, I am looking at IRC, nope, they don't need me. When thinking about the new communications team, which used to be the anti-harassment team, seeing that that team will need to become more formal and meanwhile while Debian becomes more important, the issues become more central stage, more legal issues become more crucial to the overall reputation. And I'm going to see that, I believe I'm going to see that communities team get more and more pushed towards a regulatory role and by suggesting that there be more peer driven communications training within Debian that's not from a judicial, in a decision making policy setting group about what is and is not okay, have most of that nuts and bolts kind of work happening to help prevent those issues from coming up to that kind of level and end up needing something equivalent to policy, technical policy decisions being made on the communications policy because that is coming up, that is needed, but the rank and file need to be able to self-facilitate. An example I have for that is a story from another community that I believe developers should be aware of and it's large and it has a lot of literature and that's helpful. And that is the secular use of Quaker consensus decision making models. So I'm calling it secular consensus, secular Quaker because it's not from the society of friends necessarily and their spiritual communing that they do through, you know, egalitarian speaking from inspiration. This is more about a nuts and bolts how to run consensus meetings and do policy setting and do governance of important organizations and large organizations through this kind of formal consensus. It'll be called a number of different things. Meanwhile, within that community, there's this idea called facilitating from the back benches and facilitating from the back benches refers to someone who is not upfront doing something that is usually called moderating. It's not somebody moderating upfront. It's one or more people in the audience or from the circle who are asking questions and making comments that in fact facilitate the group and, you know, they didn't even need it.  And I said, actually, they saw that you weren't doing the steps that needed to be done, so they were doing it from the back benches. People were asking the questions, making the comments and making the suggestions that everyone kind of sort of knew were legitimate things for a facilitator to say to keep the conversation going. So this is the kind of math movement that I'm envisioning that WN developers could help engender within their own communities. It won't be everybody. Computer technicians often have a personality trait, prefer the clear straightforward or at least problem solvable communications you get from a computer and do not appreciate the thousands of different factors that need to be taken into account at once when you're dealing with real people. It's dealing with real people is much more complex than a computer. So there will be people who are good at that and they're not always very active in Debian now and might be in the future. So what I'm talking about is bringing those folks in Debian who are known for being better communicators and respected and appreciated and able to pass things on, at least by example, bringing them into circles of learners who are then passing that on. So here we go. So the concepts of facilitating from the back benches. I'm opening my horrendously huge org mode file here. My apologies. Okay. So here are some examples that I've written that you won't try to read I hope of ways in which a group can be made self perpetuating. So for example, so let's say you start with a small group. It's an affinity group style, meaning that these are people who have some affinity for each other that can work with each other. It's voluntary. It doesn't have to be voluntary, but I'm picturing something that's voluntary because that will make a lot of the hurdles easier to deal with. And for Debian it wouldn't make sense to be non voluntary. Actually, wait a second, I'm going to back up. voluntary is important because it allows the participants to support the group and know that each other all trying to be helping each other. If you force someone to go through such a training. Yes, you can force their presence, but you can't force their will to be nice and to help each other learn and get through this. So in the easiest ideal situation I'm suggesting everyone be voluntary. People come in with if they're all getting to if it's rolling admission, it might be different, but let's say you're all starting at once, then you're going to do a one month once a week. So you're going to do a four session training and you're all starting in the first week. So I'm suggesting people could come in with their original stated concerns or interests such as I have harassment concerns or I have moderating skill concerns. Or I'm wondering what are best practices in issue tracking communications that kind of thing. So those interests are what guide that participants study and also guide that participants future contributions to the group. Trainers may you might bring in an outside trainer, I would suggest first starting with people who are considered good at communications training inside the community. But the trainer's role is to set up each to hear those participants mentioned their interests and their concerns and point them to resources that they can study on their own. So it's a little bit of mentoring or tutoring to help those folks follow their own goals. Also, if everyone's starting at the same time, then that first session includes scheduling future dates. So the idea here I'm getting really specific, but these things are very flexible. The point I'm making here is that folks are coming in introducing themselves to each other saying this is who I am and what I'm interested in. But taking that not as an audience or a receptive students perspective, but take that from okay, this is an active participant that you're trying to take advantage of and make sure that their contribution helps this thing along. Find out what they're interested in and get their wheels on the road to actually making traction, getting traction and actually bringing back the results of their research into the group so we can learn from them. And then those presentations that they make later are just small presentations, maybe 10 minutes or less, depending on the context and the size of your training. But they're really just to get the conversation rolling and to point people towards resources that they found or maybe to get the group to talk about topic questions that they have about these things. Another thing to consider in this type of training is that you have rotating roles that people are actually dog fooding the process there. Someone's doing timekeeping someone's doing note taking someone's actually the facilitator who has, you know, somebody who has best experience available is the facilitator a convener which is somebody who actually makes sure the venue is available. Whatever that would mean if it was online. So basically you're splitting up a complex role into sub parts so people can get experience with those small points because believe me, having to combine time tracking, scribing, note taking, and calling on people and, you know, calling me to order those takes a huge amount of your brain and nervous system to do. So breaking those small things up so that people can practice. Now what I have is some content ideas. And let me see if I can find them. Okay, here I get a time check here. Okay, I see it. So possible topics. So let's pretend again, you have a group of people who've decided. Okay. You know, there's only three to five of us, but let's try this and see if it works. Okay, here's a recommendation of how you might start. Let's say you're going to have four meetings. In your first session. You're just going to talk about big per big picture stuff. Why are we having the training the importance what kind of resources are we going to use reading videos what have you. And then talk about some philosophy, some theory, you know, where is Debbie and in this stuff, why do we need it. And that way, because this topic is so broad because all these four topics are so broad people with their individual concerns can gear it towards what they're interested in maybe it's anti harassment maybe it's issue tracking forums that kind of thing. Second session concepts. vocabulary that kind of thing. Second session process. This is gets more implemented. Now we're talking about how does Debbie and make decisions. How does it make technical decisions. How does it make personnel membership decisions. Whether someone's a developer or not or loses their development status, you know, these are kind of like nuts and bolts of how we actually do things. But it's also should be about in the best of all possible worlds. How do we make decisions. So I did these kinds of trainings. I would usually focus on this CT butlers on conflict consensus handbook written in late 70s, early 80s, and he was encoding some quake secular Quaker process. In terms of what he observed in activist groups at that time. So it's a it's a very cookbook style book and I will promise to put a post of that up somewhere. But what I would do is say okay, this is Butler's version of the flow chart that shows, you know, first, you get the agenda set you have introductions you call for concerns. But what have you, you know, the other details of that. On your fourth session techniques, and then get into more of the specifics of okay now we know with overall process. What are things you do during different parts of that process. So how do you call a group's attention. How do you deal with people who are repeating themselves. How do you keep things on topic. How do you introduce topics how it's like a how to for the things you talked about theoretically before. And then repeat that cycle. Perhaps you have an outside trainer that's been a consultant during this process and maybe they'll stop after the four weeks maybe they'll continue on. So senior folks who've got a lot of history and Devin who promised to stick around for four weeks but they're not going to go past four weeks or maybe you know if you can, you'll have somebody continue for another cycle so people can learn how it is this cycle continues. And if you have rolling admission that people people can keep coming in. There's a lot more time, unless people ask me to later about about those nuts and bolts I'd rather talk about the overall idea. And I don't want people to get too specific and say this is the way we have to do it. Someone mentioned the Debian Academy idea. So here's something you could a proposal you could put underneath that concept that that general idea. This is in which this kind of thing has worked well. Vagrant pointed out to me that that I had forgotten that Latin America has a strong reputation for these kinds of literacy trainings, getting huge amounts of the number of the population from illiterate to book reading in the small number of years. Because you allow people who have got some measurable simply measurable amount of competence say your measure is this person has gone through the four part the four session cycle twice. They're now being empowered to set up their own. Something as simple as that can cause replication, not just self perpetuation, but replication where you have it branching off lots of branching in a way that is not a fork necessarily meaning completely different project but more of a supportive rolling out and delivery to a larger population. China did it quite successfully with barefoot doctors, getting herbal training out after decades of war, and we're able to successfully get many, many people the kind of first aid and health, minimal health training they needed. The example that I was first made familiar with was in the 1970s at a time when US and other European style cultures had lost intergenerational knowledge about breastfeeding. So women were relying on medical doctors telling them that formulas were safer. And when that scientific education became clearly wrong. There was a large grassroots movement to train for women to train each other on how to breastfeed and raise children healthy manner. So an organization called Le Laitier League, which I believe is French, just did something exactly like this in four sessions. You read a book together, and you had topics that were as equivalently broad as the ones I'm describing here. And after you had gone through a certain number of sessions, you might be empowered by the group to have the next set of meetings at your house. And this was, as far as I know, measurably connected to the very fast re-uptake of breastfeeding as a practice in the United States. You know, I'm not, it's only, it's about 20 minutes in. That was about as much as I wanted to say. I'd love to have questions because I might get some ideas about what more I was intending to say once I hear. And I need to hear that on IRC.  Hi, the question on IRC. Is there a link to the D-Lib project? I do a link to the D-Lib project. I have a personal web page that just has a link to a few talks. It's at dlib-rating.org. I don't know if you can see on my dlib-rating.org, dlib-rating.org. Again, that's just my personal web page. But I do have wiki and other Debian project access and I can post things there and I would love to work with people on Debian pages. That would be fine. Okay. Zafiq, can you show the link? I have it typed onto the org-mode file. I can put it on. Oh, okay, never mind. You're great. Okay. And Vagrant has posted the consensus.net on conflict flicked and contents O-C-A-C contents file. And that is, I believe, a GPL-ish version of the book. I was telling you about one of my students got it typeset and opened up. Can you show the slides again? What slides are you asking for? No, I was asking for the slides. It's okay. I don't know why they're not showing. No, they are showing. It's everything all right. How about ideas about possible ways in which Debian might use these information, this information? Vagrant, you said that you remember the cafe conversation now? Yes. We just didn't hear the last few 15 seconds or something yourself. Could you repeat? Say again? Could you repeat the last 15 seconds we just had cut off audio? Oh, you missed the last 15 seconds. Yeah. Oh, I was just giving a shout out to Wookiee who I had lunch with in 2004. Thank you. Here's a question I have for the audience and that is, is the community team the right place for working on this kind of thing? I would guess it is. An answer from IRC probably. Yeah. And I can be reached at dlib at debcomps.org. I found that that email is still working for me. Just another question. I understand you would like to organize a communication team and your info is organizing peer-to-peer Debian facilitation trading. Do you mean on making a manual for organizing a team like this and instructing them before events? I think that question is very important. I'm not parsing it exactly, but so I guess the answer to that is yes. The first question. I would like to help Debian and its ongoing communications training efforts. One possible way to do that that I'm making available through this is yes, in a sense, creating a training manual that I think that would be a good way to start. I like Wookiee writing. If people would like to work on this kind of things, I could pay attention to it and help it along. I prefer in-face trainings, so that's a difficulty, but so that in text is the next best thing. I think another part of it. For your previous question. My feeling is we don't have anything better. I like the community team to be a team of generally respected people that we know to care about such aspects. But it's an organization we will have to continue to hash and make better, but it has to self-improve several iterations. And it's a move-over, of course. Yes, that is the sense I have that the community team is a ad hoc team for so long. It's just now getting formalized in terms of what its real responsibilities are and methods and that kind of thing. So what responsibility it should and can have are open questions. I understand that doing trainings that allow people to train themselves might be a possible way for a community's team to have a role that has a large impact without being pushed into a more regulatory role. I think if the community's team doesn't do a lot in front of the public, it will end up just being the team of last resort as it has been in the past. And so this is an idea of how to be more proactive in a little less conflictual way rather than just being the folks you call when a problem comes up. Right, and I'm here. I'm seeing IRC now. Pre-training people could be usable to lots of teams, not just community conflict resolution. Of course, right. So you start with people who already have either very high skills or very strong passion to learn more. In my experience, what I see is that the mixes of people who come on their own to such trainings in the real world tend to be people who either want to get better at their own expertise they already have. They want to learn how this organization does something they know how to do elsewhere or they're having serious problems and either they've been told to go or they know they need some help. So you end up with a real mix of people who have skills and don't, which is actually fine. It's just they're all talking about the same topic. Bokeh is saying, what you say is interesting, but we're not sure what to do with it. I think a lot of us could benefit from training and communicating better. Yes, I understand. I tend to be very interested in Debcons because it's a place where I see real people learning to communicate with each other in terms of I think of everything in terms of communication. So of course that's what I think of. So I see real objects, bodies in spaces, learning who each other are and then either recovering from or adding to previous online communications they've had with each other that might have just been through code they're respected and probably maybe not even emails or IRC. Or maybe they just had a couple bug conflict conversations and they don't even know who each other are. So I see this real rich community coming together during Debcons. But doing it online, it needs to be a little bit more formal. And so that's why I would ask for a team to set it up. Someone's asking. So Vagrant mentions Debian already has many small or perhaps many two small teams. Should each team be offered and or encouraged to explore a set of sessions like this? Sure, I don't know. This is a kind of thing that Debian is its own world unto itself. And so yes, perhaps that's the case. Perhaps. Yeah, that's a really true. Another person, I'm X. I personally like the training system where you learn as you go and try to teach lessons. You just learn to two more people and learn some more people. The time they need to teach it is even more people and that time you learn some more. Yeah, exactly self perpetuating. If some of this info gets shared as online that could be more. I think that an online manual is really a logical place to start, especially if we get it into get or at least a wiki. I'm seeing flashing of information on the jutsu. I don't understand what that is. I won't worry about it again. The mix says again, so this could grow into Debian University. Sure. That's a reason why you might want to check out the possibility of doing it with other operating systems as well. There's no other communities. This is a universal need. Debian has its specifics in terms of its governance structure that will be different. That are very different, but working with other groups, maybe setting up a, for example, there's something called peer to peer. University. That is an online project and folks could from Debian could work through that. All right, so now I'm getting an idea that I really wanted to throw in. I forgot. In terms of different groups, each doing this maybe independently or with each other. A different proposal that I was actually hoping more specifically to work at in Taiwan on it Taiwan and didn't get a chance to work on was this idea of kind of a show and tell. So I didn't tell you about this. I forgot how much time do we have. Good, we still have time. So in DebConf Taiwan, I did a session that went very, very well, but it was unrecorded and it got some negative reviews after DebConf 18. Because it was unrecorded and because there's such a strong culture around openness and sharing in Debian, which is amazing. So if I did it again, I would have it, I would have, I would record it. If I went back in time, I wouldn't record it because I didn't know then what I know now. I think I made the right decision, but it did work and I think it would be safe to do it unrecorded. And I don't, I want to do this faster than I was intending. It's not just a software ethics thing. It could grow into a way of organizing lifestyle. Of course, yes, it is a lifestyle. So I'm not going to pay attention to IRC here and try to say this quickly because I had a lot prepared. So basically during that session, it was entitled, What Works Well in Debian? I recognized audience speakers when they raised their hands. My goal was to desensitize sensitive topics and get people who were struggling with previous wounds from conflicts that might even still be ongoing in some ways. And I asked them very difficult questions about what worked well and what they could use help with. The actual questions that I used are useful. I don't see where I put them in here, but they were along. What I did is I gave people ways in which they could answer the question that would put it in a positive sense and then ask them how they would ask for help. And I gave them very specific questions to answer about that. I should share that too. I hope I remember to share those. And the results were very, very good. There were people in the room who had been into very difficult issues. The microphone was passed out. I called on people. I asked just enough questions to draw out people who were being reluctant.  And the result was that folks who had been on multiple sides of hard issues in the past each felt good remembering things that worked really well in Debbie and hearing from other people things that they didn't even know about that had worked well. And so what I was trying to do was set up this idea of showing


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This may be the biggest move in my life. Thank you. Thank you. Pete, how's that going? Sir, on the end, you get a sweetie. Then we'll go with that. What's the reason? What's the reason? Okay, here we go. Everybody look in here. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. Look out. It's allegedly the President's counsel, and his fitness world, since you took her office. We are very pleased that we can bring this to you and report that the occasion is much more aware of fitness and that they exercise more regularly, but there's still much to be done. We are leaving a challenge behind us. For those who are coming up. I don't even want to feel I'm doing that too. So thank you, for having Inc. Well, your support. What a wonderful example you have been personally for the cause of fitness in this country. Thank you very much. Looking forward to seeing this, and I appreciate very much all of everything you have done. 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It didn't seem because there were about three waves of photographers impressed. Mom, you meet them? Because I'd never been surprised that a meeting was being sought. Mr. President, do you have any regrets about saying that Moscow, the American Indians had a primitive lifestyle? I said, man, I tried in response to a question there to explain that theirs was a freedom, theirs was all of the people in the manor, but a freedom that was quite different from what they had in their own country. Well, you said they were humored. They what? You said that we had humored them and they're all sitting on water. I said all of them. I know what that would mean.  Thanks, please. Thank you. The question was there, and Russia was trying to use the form of their questioning to intimate that there was some great discrepancy in the way we lived here in this country, all of us together. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Three words? Oh, that's our own. The last group coming in there from time to time when they've done that meeting to this kind, I resorted to a rather sacrilegious little statement, but that is that, as the Lord said at the last supper, anyone who wants to get in the picture, get on this side of the table. Welcome to White House. I appreciate this opportunity to meet with you and the leaders and the representatives of Indians from across America to share some thoughts together. Indian people are very important to America and deserve to stand proud for their contributions to this great country. I know you met with Secretary Hodel earlier and I'm glad to have Secretary Otis Bowen and Mike Dorsey representing Secretary Sam Pierce, who's ill with us here today, all have important Indian programs under their jurisdiction. As you know, my policy has been built on the concept of self-determination, the right of tribes to have a say in what happens in Indian country. I understand there's a continuing debate about whether this policy is effective or needs to be changed or strengthened. I believe we must respect the right of Indian people to live the life they choose, just as we do for every other American citizen. Sadly, all too often Indian people have been denied their rightful access to the American dream as a result of failed federal, social and economic programs. Yet the impression seems to remain that the answers lie in Washington and simply more federal intervention and more money will solve the problems. What you hear today know that isn't true. Tribes need the freedom to spend the money available to them to create a better quality of life and to meet their needs as they define them. And tribes must make those decisions, not the federal government. Our free enterprise system gives everyone the opportunity to reach self-fulfillment. I'm troubled, however, when I see that opportunity lost for some Indian people living in such standard conditions in a segregated environment. The choice to live in the reservation should be because there's real opportunity, not because of federal benefits or because they're forced to live there, but because they can get a decent job, raise a family and be educated in schools equal to those found anywhere else. I believe this can only happen if the Indian people and their elected leaders are free to take the responsibility to be accountable and to call their own place. All America is there cheering you on. Well now, I'd like to hear from you and Donald, if you start this auction. Mr. President, we met at lunch and we had an excellent lunch. Mr. President, that's you. Nice to see you. Mr. President, thank you. Thank you. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Nice to see you, sir. Nice to see you. How are you, sir? How are you? How are you doing? Good to see you. How are you? 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A 10-member bi-patite committee was on Thursday mandated to resolve the dispute between the Kaduna State Government and organised labour. Nigerians have, however, expressed mixed reactions on whether the Nigeria Labour Congress has been championing the cause of Nigerian workers in recent times. Plus TV Africa's correspondent Ngoziqa Ochaesi has more on this report. The CZ won a strike by the Nigerian Labour Congress against the sacking of some Kaduna State workers, which began on Monday, led to the shutdown of electricity, airports and schools, among others. However, the federal government convened a consolatory meeting with the Kaduna State Government and the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, led by its president, Ayuba Waba, to resolve the impasse that has grounded labour activities in the state. A public affairs analyst, Fermi Lawson, says the Nigerian Labour Congress has to wake up to its responsibilities, as Nigerians do not take them seriously like they used to. Meanwhile, this rift between Kaduna State Government and NLC has sparked reactions, as some residents believe that organised labour is still capable of holding the government to account in their policies regarding workers' welfare, while others say they are disappointed in NLC. The NLC is capable, due that the problem is from the governor of the Kaduna State, because in the law, so no other governor or government superhead the NLC. They have the legal powers to hold the government, not only in Kaduna, in all states. So the NLC has the power to hold the government accountable when they go against the labour laws. Well, in this country, we don't have any other room that can cry for the workers here in Nigeria. It's only the NLCs we know, and we believe that is the only people we know that can fight for the right of the workers. So I don't believe in NLC, simple because for the past they have failed times of oil increase and other things, so I don't really believe in NLC. It is hoped that the outcome of the next meeting, which will hold on Tuesday, will determine the fate of the sacked workers and the position of the strike. For more information on the NLC, please visit the NLC website.


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