On behalf of Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, I welcome you all to this evening's Achinto Kumar Tapadar Memorial Lecture. As a tradition, before the lecture starts, we read out a small life sketch of Achinto Kumar Tapadar. Accordingly, I read it. Achinto Kumar Tapadar was born in a reputed family in the year 1938 at the Mecha village of Assaransol in the district of Badwan. He had a religious background from both the sides of his father and mother.  Since his boyhood, Achinto was quite and intelligent and gentle boy who had his early education at Searsol Raj High School. During his studies in Assaransol College, Achinto had come in contact with Swami Vishuddhanandaji Maharaj who finally initiated him. Maharaj did also inspire him to join the order. His father, Yogesh Chando, could not, however, accept the proposal since Achinto was his only son. After having completed his undergraduate and postgraduate studies under the University of Calcutta, Achinto took up teaching assignment but nothing could put an end to his contact with Belur Mod. He was fortunate enough to come in contact with many distinguished monks of the order including Swami Madhavanandaji, Swami Biresharanandaji, Swami Abhayanandaji, Swami Bhuteshanandaji, Swami Atasanandaji. As a sincere devotee, Achinto worked hard to spread the teachings of the holy trinity among students and young boys and girls at Assaransol where he had been working. Thus, in 1985, Rani Ganj Vivekananda Service Centre was formed. He was associated with the centre throughout his life. He was also a member of the general body of Belur Mod and a managing committee member of the Assaransol Mission Till Death. Monks and Brahmacharians of the order were his Kith and Kin. He and his sisters lawfully donated their inherited and accumulated wealth to the Ramakrishna Mod Belur Mod. Achinto Kumar passed away in 2011 at the age of 71. Today, Achinto Kumar Tapadar Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Dr. Gilio Pesco. He will speak in English on physics and Indian spiritual tradition. Before we start our lecture, first of all I request Amiz Nupur Munshi to come on the stage to say something about the Dr. Pesco, who is the Indian coordinator of this chapter. And then I request Shamul Babu to come over the stage and felicitate our speaker. Thank you. Shamul Babu will come first. First we will felicitate our speaker. So Shamul Babu will hand over a small momento to him. Namoshkar. Good evening and a warm welcome to our distinguished audience members. To an epoch making episode of understanding the relationship between science, spirituality, truth and eternity perhaps here at the Sivananda Hall of the Ram Krishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India. It's a beautiful bonding that I have set up with RMIC and to have been bestowed upon the blessing to stand on this pedestal under the divine presence of Swami Vivekananda. It's perhaps a supreme achievement in India and I am deeply, deeply grateful and thankful to Srimad Shami Shupannanandaji Maharaj, revered secretary, Ram Krishna Mission Institute of Culture for your blessing. My heartfelt gratitude to Srimad Shami Progatmanandaji Maharaj, the center for indelogical studies and research and the cultural activities department here at the RMIC and the whole of the Ram Krishna Mission for your support and inspiration for me to learn and work. To some of us, this is a beginning of a learning journey. Our aspiration would be to understand and then to communicate how the insights of Indian spiritual tradition can be made compatible and mutually reinforcing with those of modern physics. Revered Shami Shupannanandaji Maharaj once said to me that the universe around is manifestation of God. So you serve this universe very lovingly by selfless service outwardly through science and inwardly through meditation and explained the need of convergence of science and spirituality as a need for attainment of fulfillment in a way of blending the external and the internal. We are really happy and honored to have Dr. Jalio Prisco, founder Turing Church, a theoretical physicist, former systems engineer at the European Space Centers. And I am honored to also announce that our global community Turing Church have set up India Awakens from India and we are looking forward to be working in India with the blessings and guidance of Ram Krishna Mission to continue our journey. We want to fondly remember our dear sister, late Mrs. Rumjhum Munshi Pandit as our inspiration or maybe our sister is here with us today. Never was there a time when I did not exist nor you nor all the skings nor in the future shall any of us cease to be, says the sacred Geeta. In future of artificial super intelligences science may uncover more and more the mysteries of the mind and the universe and may find for us our sister Rumjhum or all our loved ones we lost from the fabric of fundamental reality. Dr. Prisco believes that a cosmic divine mind embedded in the fabric of fundamental reality itself and of which individual minds are but pale reflections could shape the becoming of space, time, particles, fields, matter, energy, life forms. The mind could remember the memory of the universe. Almost like what Tagore says chokher dekhah praner kothah shei ki bholah jai abar dekhah judi holushakha praner majhe ae and nothing is complete without Tagore and Bengal another small line at the immortal touch of of thy hands my little heart loses its limits enjoy and gives birth to utterance ineffable. Thank you. Dr. Gilo Prisco. Thank you very much Nupur for your beautiful introduction. I'd like also to thank all the organizers at the Klamakrishna Mission Institute of Culture. It's really a honor for me to be here and last but not least I'd like to thank you all for taking the time to come and listen to me. I'm not expected to talk about physics and the Indian spiritual tradition but I have to say that I don't know and don't understand Indian spiritual tradition that much. I'm basically here to learn and I will mention a lot of things in the relatively short time that I had that means that of course I won't have the time to go into much detail. At the same time well you can read all that on my website which is here which is touringchurch.net My name is Giulio Prisco and you have also my email address here and I would be delighted and honored if you write to me with whatever service, questions or comments that you may wish to bring to the table. Looking forward to being in touch with you all I should explain what that strange symbol means but that will come later. And as Nupur explained this talk is dedicated to the memory I hope I pronounced that well. I will mention some things that concerned all of us life and death issues like what happened when we disappeared where, when, who, what do we become and as I formulate these questions and try to formulate tentative answers I'll have roomjum in mind. Where is roomjum? When is roomjum? Who? Or what? I'm going to move that one. Thank you very much. We have different concepts of divinity in western and eastern traditions. I'm going to oversimplify very much of course but I can say that in most western religions especially Christianity God is personal. We in the west tend to have a personal concept of God but as I understand in the eastern tradition God is more perhaps diffuse is the correct word a God that is entangled and entwined with the physical universe without necessarily having any personal attributes that our own consciousness can relate to and the same applies to our concepts of self and afterlife. We have different ideas and different concepts of afterlife in eastern and western spiritual traditions reincarnation, resurrection, nirvana different things and again oversimplifying I will say that we in the west are very much emotionally attached to the idea of self. We are not happy thinking that after death we will just emerge into the universe at large but we want to think that something of our own personality and individuality will persist after death. So we want to be here. Before moving on to other things I want to mention that also in western philosophy recently we are starting to become more and more close to some concepts that we know from eastern traditions. For example we have a theoretical framework called open individualism which has been described by Daniel Kolak an American philosopher in a book named I Am You and the central thesis of the book is that we are all the same person which I believe is a concept that many people from eastern spiritual traditions can relate to. We are all the same person that makes scientific sense I believe and I like to call this open individualism a minimalist theory of reincarnation because it doesn't make many assumptions on the nature of either human consciousness or the universe at large and gives an essentially acceptable in a psychological sense of the biggest questions that we ask ourselves how can we think to persist in the afterlife? We persist in the afterlife because everyone is the same. The mental metaphor that I like to use to think of these concepts is to think of windows open on the world Here we see that there are many windows and the point of view from this what can I point? The point of view from this window is not exactly the same from here there are differences here I see something slightly different here I see something slightly different that reflects the difference between different persons I am me and you are you we are different persons but what we have in common we are all alive on the planet earth in year 2018 and this thing that we have in common is perhaps more important the things that separate us so we have many windows that show different things but we can think that there is one person looking from behind the windows so what happens if what we see here disappears for example if we pull the curtain and make this specific point of view disappear what happens you could say nothing really too unpleasant happens because I still have this point of view and I still have this point of view so from the perspective of the one mind who is looking simultaneously at all the windows it's not really that much of a deal if the content of one window disappears because we still have all the others this I believe is a nice metaphor to think of this minimalist idea of resurrection ok now let's move on to physics which is advancing spectacularly indeed and to illustrate this concept I have chosen a book that was written almost 90 years ago a book called Mysterious Universe published in 1930 the author mentioned the spectacular revolution that happened in physics in the first 30 years of last century with the development of Einstein's general relativity and the beginning of quantum physics today we could add a couple more things for example the development of quantum field theory and the standard model developments in condensed matter physics but one thing seems equally valid today as 90 years ago when James James pointed out that physics is not yet in contact with ultimate reality I think we can still say that and I'm not going to tell you what ultimate reality is I don't know that of course but I'm going to give you some example and some intriguing concepts that can show how we are still far from having an idea of what ultimate reality is and perhaps ultimate reality is nothing that we could imagine at this very moment we have engineering and we have technology which is also advancing exponentially every day we read in the news of some new technology development and some technology development is becoming really like science fiction we can do now things that would have been considered science fiction from one generation before us this is a magic machine and everyone has one in their pocket with this little machine in my pocket I can do things that my grandfather would have considered as a magic my grandfather would have had other words for it but magic appreciation and enthusiasm for what technology has done and what technology will probably continue to do is described in the literature of a philosophical movement called transhumanism I don't really have the time to define the terms that I'm going to use just Google things for example this transhumanism philosophy is outlined in an anthology called the transhumanist reader I very much recommend reading it I very much recommend reading all the books that I'm mentioning here transhumanists think that there is no a priori limit that can be placed on the development of technology and science and using technology future generation will be able to make the world a magic place just like our world would have been considered as a magic place from the people of a couple of generations before so science is advancing and technology is advancing we will come back to the interation between science and technology I want to mention a new camera in scientific theology which is called the simulation hypothesis is the idea that some of you may be familiar with in its naive formulation that basically says that our world and our reality is a video game which is being run on some kind of hypercomputers in a higher dimension or something like that there are much less naive ways to formulate the concept and I'm going to come back to this later I want to mention the fact that Elon Musk, the guy the very famous technology entrepreneur who last week sent his video to another space I'm sure many of you have watched the launch of Falcon Heavy so Elon Musk who is a star technologist and one of the best known people in the technology world once said that he very much believes in the simulation hypothesis and I mean we just have to google that basically he said that the number of possible simulated realities is much bigger than the number of possible physical realities and therefore the probability that we live in a simulated reality is much higher I don't really buy that argument but you know when somebody like Elon Musk says something at least he deserves being listened to the point that I want to stress here is that the simulation hypothesis is completely equivalent to a western religion in particular it is completely equivalent to Christianity similar, not a little bit like not very much like no, it's exactly the same thing as Christianity we have creators who have created a universe and can run the universe according to their intentions they can if they want violate the physical laws of their simulated universe which has not necessarily the same laws of their home universe but they could do whatever they want acting in our reality which from their point of view is a computation and in particular they could grant everyone an afterlife according to any framework they can think of so we have a creator who is presumably only science only present and only potent and this is the simplest formulation of the western religion of Christianity we can think of simulation theology my message here is that this family of speculative theologies is exactly equivalent to Christianity and very similar to other religions now let's make an example of what I mean by simulation simulation, computation we are all familiar with video games in which we can create realities but let's consider something simple let's consider a simple cellular automata like the well known game of life invented by British mathematician John Conway here we have some very simple rules of evolution which says step into one cell for example we have a white cell here at the next time step the cell can stay white or can become a black this is a simple universe of black and white cells and there is a very simple mathematical way to compute the future from the past in fact this is the symbol that I had on my very first view graph which is a life pattern that evolves in time a growing to infinity is an infinite growth pattern it starts chaotic anyway it starts moving and leaves behind a wake that could be seen as a DNA shaped helix I like very much this symbol because it has all the things that it has really all the things that I'm discussing and that's also the evolution of biological life we can have a very simple simulated physics able to generate something that looks like life and in fact John Conway himself thought that given a life mathematical space which is big enough it is perfectly plausible to think that intelligent life could evolve in these simulated universe eventually intelligent species might evolve from the same sort of selected pressures that operated on Earth modern science of cellular automata has been developed by many mathematicians most notably Stephen Wolfram has written a very thick book the book is literally that thick about 15 years ago called a new kind of science but he thinks that cellular automata could be a model for how fundamental physics works in the sense that the machinery behind space, time and the structure, the fabric or reality could be something that looks like a cellular automata or a more sophisticated version perhaps based on graph and networks here two people that I mentioned here American mathematician Ralph Abraham and Indian physicist Shishir Roy have frequently visited the Ramakrishnan Institute and they have written a book a few years ago called Dennis Defying the Akash where they elaborate on a concept similar to Wolfram's idea to look for a discrete cellular automata-like model behind the scenes of everyday reality as we know what's interesting here is that the model seems to live enough room for the concept of a permanent memory of the universe some information store where all the information that has ever been produced in the universe continues to be stored and it in the concept that you teach me that has been called Akashic records in ancient traditions so physics is beginning somehow to move toward that this is one of the main concepts that I'm mentioning tonight physics is beginning to move toward the different forms of ancient wisdom for example quantum physics we have known of quantum physics for almost 120 years now quantum physics is still mysterious and Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman says once that if you don't think that quantum physics is mysterious that means you don't understand it for example is something a particle or a wave quantum particles sometimes appear as particles sometimes they appear as waves waves in ways that no one is able to understand intuitively how can something be both a square and a circle well as matter of fact something can be both a square and a circle because a three dimensional object meaning something more complex than what can be captured in two dimensional geometry can have both a square and a circular projection and this is a good metaphor to think of quantum physics too I mean it's not a particle it's not a wave it's something else but it's something that our two dimensional imagination is not able to visualize and this is a way to make sense of the fact that quantum physics is mysterious it is mysterious because we are not meant to think in these terms one of the most frequently mentioned mysteries of quantum physics is entanglement that is that phenomenon which creates instant correlation between things separated far away instant correlation that seems to propagate faster than light even though it can be demonstrated that it is impossible to exploit entangled correlation to actually exchange information so causality and relativity is still safe but the correlations are still there and they have been found not only theoretical but also experimentally in many labs around the world there is a metaphor that helps us think of entangled correlation this is an example due to physicist David Bohm one of the founding fathers of the second wave of quantum physics development so there is a magic fish a magic couple of fishes and what is magic is that when the first fish does something the second fish does the same thing can be turning right or turning left the two fishes are correlated and this correlation is independent of the distance and seems to actuate faster than light this seems very mysterious but as a matter of fact this whole setup is not mysterious because the two fishes that we thought of initially as different fishes are actually two images of the same fish we had just one fish two video cameras looking at both and showing the fish on two different screens from two different points of view so if this one turns left one will also turn left because they are one and the same fish and this is a useful way to think of some situations that we encounter in quantum physics and I'm sure many of you people must have heard about many words like interpretations of quantum physics quantum physics does not really decide exactly what will happen in a given physical situation it only offers probabilities, not definite outcomes we can think that many different realities coexist like different sheets of paper each with a different history written on it and the universe could be a multiverse with many different realities existing in parallel or it could be one single universe, one single sheet of paper but in this case then we would have to have an idea of how the decision is made and who makes that decision and here let me quote another founding father by this time of the first wave of quantum physics Erwin Schrödinger who said that the choice is made by mind but at this point the question becomes whose mind, my mind, your mind it can't be and in fact the choice is made by the one mind which our individual minds have reflections I don't have too much space so I only mentioned Schrödinger here but as a matter of fact a lot of the founders of quantum physics said exactly this and it boils down to a concept that I believe is a common place in Indian spiritual traditions that at man the personal self and Brahman, the omnipresent all comprehending eternal self are essentially the same thing and I only mentioned Schrödinger for short but a lot of scientists are saying that more and more ok let's come to one of the newest family of scientific theories that is developing very fast is the theory of condensed matter systems like superfluid and superconductors, exotic matter which can be considered as a quantum matter because these are systems where long range coherent quantum effects become important and you can think that all the constituents of quantum matter know what all the rest of the material is doing by entanglement look at this picture you see some small things like arrows and the organized behavior of these small things gives rise to big things matter of fact nobody, not everyone has glasses but now I can see the small things if I take my glasses out I can only see the big things which makes us think that perhaps what we see and what our scientific instruments see the big things are something that emerges from the organized behavior of something smaller and there are theories that that's exactly how our brain works the process of a memory and consciousness formation in the brain is a result of quantum behavior intrinsically quantum behavior of the matter that constitutes the brain so the brain can be considered as a form of quantum matter there are some physical theories which seem to say that space time itself could be considered as quantum matter as a matter of fact the concept is not as strange as it could seem but for decades there are some very strong similarities and analogies between condensed matter physics and fundamental physics in the vacuum a very highly recommended book called the universe in a helium droplets makes a very convincing case the physics that we see could be nothing but the behavior of a micro physical world that we don't see yet these unknown micro physics of the quantum vacuum could make empty space time itself behave as a quantum matter now look at this picture we see ghosts and we see small things here the idea is that this the ghost world is our world what we see at these ghost-like formations particles and fields the gravitational field itself emerges from an under-like substrate for micro physics that we do not perceive at this moment so the fabric of space-time, empty space-time itself could behave like quantum matter which means that we have if all these ideas are correct we have similar physics in the brain and in the vacuum and we could have mind-like processes in the quantum vacuum itself I'm not going to focus on this point just let me mention the fact that the chain doesn't have to end here we can have one level of reality another level of reality we can have all new forms of matter all the way down but let's come back to the point if the same physics happen in the vacuum as it happens in the brain then we could have intelligence in the fabric of space-time itself and this intelligence could become super-intelligence very fast all these things quantum fields and particle physics is much faster than biology so it is plausible to think that evolution could take place much faster in this realm and lead to the emergence of a god-like mind in the very structure of space-time itself which our mind is a part our small mind is a part of the big mind encoded in the structure of reality and that gives a plausible answer to the question of what happens after that after that our mind leaks a back into the big mind of which it really always was a part and this seems like a logically very sound solution to the question of what comes after that only that as I said at the beginning for us in the West it doesn't sound that good I don't want to think that I will continue to live as a part of a super mind I'd like to think that I will continue to live as myself and perhaps also many of you feel the same way there is this concept of an abstract impersonal god encoded in the fabric of space-time here there is a local very famous scientist he wrote a very good book where he basically describes the same idea that I just described of an impersonal mind encoded in space-time well of course he wrote it much better that I could ever hope to do but this is still an impersonal god something abstract, something difficult something abstract, something diffuse is not a god that we can relate to emotionally but perhaps the cosmic god can learn from life this is a concept that is explained very well is one of the master pieces of science fiction literature either is Star Maker I cannot give you a synopsis of the book in a couple of minutes but what happens at the end of the book is that a god starts learning from his creations and becomes also a personal god now I want to make an analogy here and I hope my analogy is not too disrespectful the main analogy is that perhaps the relation between god and man is the same kind of relation that we have without dogs a dog is not at home in the city environment with cars things for which a dog is not prepared but takes care of dogs I'm much more complicated than my dogs they won't understand anything of what I'm saying now for example they don't understand my word but having had dogs for a long time I have learned how to make myself understood from dogs so even if they cannot rise to my level I know how to descend to their levels and make myself understood to them I can understand my dog within some limits and my dog understands me within some limits so if the god of the cosmos becomes a personal god and if he loves us then perhaps a personal loving and caring dog could provide a personal afterlife just think that god can have a little door for a dog to go out and this little dog is you and I now I think I have talked too much of science and forgot engineering which is also one of the main topics of this talk and one of the symbol of western technology is Nicola Tesla who said that the day science begins to study non-physical phenomena it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of course I have to qualify one of Tesla's statements non-physical phenomena does not mean phenomena that cannot be studied by physics it means phenomena that cannot be studied by physics as we know physics today the idea is that physics will permit understanding more and more of the world including those aspects of the world that we can only call non-physical today I think this quest for Akashic engineering how I called it engineering to I don't want to say I invade to use engineering to become closer to fundamental reality is I believe an ideal fusion of eastern and western thinking and perhaps our condensed matter engineers will be able to build real words into new forms of quantum matter which is something that is very much discussed in a Mormon theology there is this contemporary Mormon scholar who said that the end point of engineering knowledge may be diving knowledge we will learn how to understand God and within limits we will learn how to act like a God through science and technology in Mormon theology I mean there is a difference between God and man but that difference is not as huge as in other theologies basically in Mormonism God was once like man is today and conversely man could become like God Mormonism is not well known even in even in Europe and even in most of the United States as matter of fact most Mormons live in Utah around Salt Lake City now let me show you that I arrived in Kolkata two days ago and I noticed that there is a part of Kolkata that is called Salt Lake City I believe and I was like whoa that I've been to Salt Lake City many times speak at conferences organized by the Mormon Transhumanist Association that's the first serendipity that I want to mention another interesting data point is that my good friend my good friend Lincoln Cannon who is one of the founders of this Mormon Transhumanist Association once said that if he wasn't a Mormon he would be a Hinduist and he he says that he still thinks that because he can see many fundamental parallels between Mormonism and Hinduism is interesting to think and speculate about that I think I'm coming to the end and I only have five minutes left so I want to rush a bit but there is this very intriguing philosophy that was developed between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century by a group of thinkers known as Russian Cosmists one of the best known is Nikolai Fedorov but even better known is his student Konstantin Tsiolkovsky known as the father of modern astronautics in Russia and in the rest of the world as well the Russian Cosmists can be seen as Christian Transhumanists and the main themes in the Cosmist thought include the active human role in human and cosmic evolution the creation of new life forms and the physical resurrection of the dead so seeing resurrection as a scientific objective that could be achieved through engineering is the big gifts that the Russian Cosmists have done to humanity and I think that they were a real precursor to today transhumanist movement but much more than that as an actor of fact the Cosmists were much more radical and visionary than today's transhumanists so putting all together the idea is that through science and technology we will gain access to deeper reality a breaking out from the sphere of reality in which we have been confined so far and gaining access to another part of reality that we do not perceive right now but that we will perceive in the future and within this a deeper reality there will be the answers to the big questions that we ask ourselves today including the question where is Runzion? The idea is that using science and technology we will become cosmic engineers in God's control room transform the universe and resurrect the dead and I think we are finished exactly on time I would like to thank you very much and remind you that my website and my emails are written here I will be very happy to receive comments and questions from everyone but perhaps we do have a little bit of time for questions now in which case I will be delighted to do my best to answer thank you very much thank you very much for this thought stimulating talk now it's open for questions and interactions for the next few minutes so if you have any questions please raise your hand we will try to pass on the microphone to you so that your question is heard by everybody yes please Thank you for your talk Dr. Prisco now you have said that Nicola Tesla has talked about non-physical aspects by non-physical does he mean metaphysical this is my first question and yes I don't know what he meant but I have offered my own interpretation of what he meant and knowing what I know about Nicola Tesla I think my interpretation is correct by non-physical he just meant things that physics doesn't understand today but I believe as most scientists he did not place an arbitrary limit on what science cannot understand and I guess he thought that if science doesn't understand something today then perhaps science will understand it tomorrow I think second question is what is the correlation between mind and energy of course you understand that I cannot answer your question because I don't know is still working problems is what scientists are trying to understand one thing that can be said one thing that should be said is that many experts used to think that mind was just a simple mechanical byproduct of a matter that follows the deterministic laws which are basically those of Newtonian physics but today's scientists are beginning to understand that things are not probably that simple and that a mind may not be only a byproduct of matter but there could be feedback loops between mind and matter that make the old things non-linear and not explainable by a simple Newtonian model so again is work in progress that we haven't completed yet but the answer promises to be very interesting welcome to you see as per Indian tradition we have got the idea of super mind now as you have seen that God's control I am sorry I had this call could you just say it again we have got a tradition of super mind super mind which is beyond mind that will come in due course of evolution which has not yet come now you were saying that God's control room where some engineering process will take place what is exactly the engineering process and what will be that what type of mind will control that process that I would like to know whether that is of that nature of super mind it would have to be something much more advanced than our own mind now of course and for this reason is very difficult for us to imagine how a mind evolved than ours work just like for a dog going back to my analogy is difficult to understand our mind the reality is that the best what we think and what we do and why we do the things that we do would not be understandable to a dog that's it we will evolve very gradually or perhaps very fast toward a super mind but we cannot understand yet what it is like to be a super mind we will have to get there first and then we will understand Doctor please go I have studied Mormonism a bit but I didn't quite get the relationship we tried to establish between Mormonism and the Indian religious philosophy can you explain a bit further please I can only repeat to you the explanation that Lincoln cannot give to me when I asked him exactly the same question I also didn't see many many parallels but first you teach me that Hinduism is a polytheistic religion you have a concept of one god but we also have concepts of many more gods we have both one big god and many little dogs I have said very stupid things but I believe you all understand what I mean and in Mormonism there is exactly the same concept which is besides the god with uppercase G of religion there can be evolved, super evolved and exalted beings which are halfway between gods and the degree of god head can change in time in the process of evolution of the mind so something and perhaps humanity itself can become like god and take a place in this hierarchy of gods that exist in the universe I think in that just a second this is not a question but an observation Bushman says that engineers are trying to create humans who would be able to act like god but in molecular genetics and also in molecular biology there are lots of genes who have expressions and these gene expressions cannot be changed by the scientists it is not for them yet there are lots of things in the biotic world which cannot be changed or influenced by humans so far and I don't know maybe it will continue like this for next hundred years also well maybe but I think you said yourself the key word and the key word is yet you just did the key word is yet as you said yourself we cannot yet do many things but that doesn't mean that we won't be able to do all these things tomorrow yes I do thank all of you for coming here and the speaker particularly for this very thought provoking talk and so we should give him another big clap thank you very much to you all


Hi there, I'm Geoff Watts and as part of my job, I'm really privileged to be able to coach people. I've been lucky enough to be invited into the worlds of my clients and be trusted to help them inspect and adapt their mindset and their actions in order to become more effective. And I honestly love that. It doesn't matter to me whether I'm coaching a marketing or a finance executive, a product manager, a head of IT or a startup entrepreneur. The context doesn't matter because I'm not there to teach you how to do the functional aspects of your job better. I'm there to help you understand you and manage yourself better. We've all got strengths and those strengths will undoubtedly help us be successful. But our strengths can also become our weaknesses. And my job is to help you become more aware of when your traits are working for you and when they aren't. And if they aren't, I can help you bring them back into balance. All of the traits that I come across in my coaching practice and the ones that we're going to cover here in this course are all positive and can potentially hold us back as well. A little element of perfectionism is a great thing as is our propensity to be a people pleaser and even imposter syndrome. Something that many people experience will actually play a part in your success. What we're going to cover in this course isn't how to get rid of any of those traits, but instead learn how to master them so that you can get the positive aspects of each trait without the negative aspects. I've designed this course so that you can dip in and out of it if you want to. And you can focus on whatever trait stands out for you most of all or you can go through them one at a time. Each of the sections I'm going to explain where the trait comes from. Give you some symptoms to look out for that can indicate that it's getting out of balance. I'll also explain how it can be helpful and how it can hold you back and most importantly what practically you can do about it. I'm going to share at least three practical techniques that you can use to practice strengthening yourself in that area. You can think of this course as a bit of a combination of some education around your psyche, some tailored professional development and also some built in coaching. And as well as the videos that you've got here and you can take them at a time whenever it's convenient for you. You're also going to be invited to a learning community with myself and other learners on this course where we can discuss what's going on and ask more deeper questions. I've been told many many times that the one person in the world we have the most chance of changing is the person we see in the mirror. And when you join me on this course I'm going to help you master the one person who has the biggest impact on your career, life and overall happiness. Yourself.


I'm from a company called Cebo Labs. We're basically a data science and remote sensing company. So we established ourselves in the marketplace two years ago, but really that was about sort of 10 years in the making. So the usual story of basically where you have a lot of these companies. We might be young, but we've been in it for a while. And I suppose something that's actually quite differentiated us as well as we really, there was a lot of groundwork done basically before we hit the market. And basically pretty much the first day we turned the lights on, we basically had clients that were actually paying for work. So actually we haven't been taking any venture capital money. We've been basically growing the business organically through real customers with real revenue, which is a nice way to be doing it. I suppose when we first started the business, we were really focusing on things specifically to do with pasture biomass and land condition assessments. And our primary clients are really the corporate agricultural, the corporate pastoral companies. So we really got to start with some confidence and some trust from some very large corporate cattle companies in the north. But over the last couple of years, we basically started to, that we've been doing multiple pivots as we're going, but still the core is really our core pastoral monitoring business. So those issues around climate variability, we found ourselves monitoring floods for pastoralists in the north. We're now working with retail companies. We're working with processes. So this whole issue is basically about how we actually get a better understanding of the value chain. So a few years ago, basically our primary client was basically with the individual producers. And now we're actually working with processes and retailers actually who are supporting their producer network. So how do they actually manage their supply chain? How do they manage their supply chain risk? We're actually starting to work with retailers and processes basically about that. It's just transitioning with that. I'll just change that, but I'll try it one more time. So I suppose we've seen some shifts basically in terms of the awareness of the supply chain. And we're also starting to be doing a lot of work basically at the industry level. So I suppose as a small company, we've found ourselves now working with individual producers. And we're delivering about 20 million hectares of individual pasture by, individual paddock pasture biomass data every week now. So that's a lot of data being delivered directly to producers across the country on a weekly basis. But we're also basically working at the other end of the spectrum with the industry and contributing to things like the beef sustainability report. And there's actually a sheep sustainability report coming along as well. And I want to touch on that as well. So I suppose we're working from the individual paddock and then actually right to the other end of the spectrum at the industry level and everywhere in between in terms of how we actually get the producer connected basically back through that supply chain and the processes and the retailers. So I suppose in terms of the core things that we're doing in terms of the value proposition. OK, I'll go back to where I was. OK. So things around basically kilos per hectare. So there's been many, many years basically working around estimating pasture by mass. And remote sensing hasn't done a terribly good job of that in the past. Working at things like how many grazing days we have in the paddock, issues of land conditions. So estimating ground cover within a paddock and across the property. And how is my ground condition, ground cover changing over time? So looking at both the production perspective as well as the land condition perspective. I'm going to touch on that as well as I go. Now I suppose in terms of the, this is a bit of a messy slide but I suppose in terms of how individual companies and producers interact. I think there's been some comments here earlier on about basically about we've got lots of people sort of trying to throw apps at producers. And I suppose we find ourselves in that place as well. But when you've got a producer that basically has to do things like do biosecurity plans and other things. They've got to be working with their processes. They've got to be collecting data in the paddock. And there's now other efforts basically at play around sustainability reporting, particularly in the beef industry. We've now got a number of mechanisms that are basically trying to develop accreditation systems for the beef industry. So how do we actually have information flowing basically for an individual paddock level at that biosecurity level right through to how do we report across the whole industry. Basically from a paddock effectively to the nation and even things in the middle there basically around individual animal recording. So that market is actually developing quite rapidly. So what we're doing is things like using ENVD technologies to develop basically a blockchain systems for registering and authenticating onboarding properties to allow them to flow effectively information through that information chain. So things around pasture biomass, looking at changes in land condition over time. Tree cover, it's not an issue here but basically we're doing a lot of work in Northern Australia around tree cover, monitoring and demonstrating to the marketplace that producers actually are looking after their landscape and we're getting into carbon accounting as well. So we actually want to make sure that we've got systems in place that allow a producer to walk down that value chain and to be able to talk to other systems along the way. And so it's not just CBay Labs actually doing that. Just wanted to quickly touch on some of the technology perspectives when I'll dive back into how we're using it. So I suppose there's been quite a few slides on that but I suppose in terms of the last five years, particularly the last three years we've actually obviously had a big shift in technology capability. I was a post-grad student in 1987. I thought we were gonna solve the world's problems with airborne video and within a few years I thought we're gonna have basically everyone basically having satellite imagery so it took us, it's taken about 30 years for that reality to really come to the fore. But we really have reached a point in time here where the data is not the problem anymore. It's actually how we actually get people using that information and how we actually get that information synthesized is the issue. Now we can access, and we've got Tim Neal here. Tim's delivering high resolution imagery to individual producers. The fellow of the service guy earlier on was doing the same thing. And we've got the ability to monitor the whole of Australia every five days at 10 meter resolution using 13 band data now. So data is not our problem anymore. It's how we use it and how we integrate it. And just to give you an idea here, I mean this is sort of where past us from space was only a few years ago, 250 and 500 meter resolution pixels and we're now basically able to image an individual property at 10 meters and see individual tree canopies basically on a weekly basis. So some of the sort of things that we're working on I'm gonna dive into just a little bit of technology here for a minute. Onboarding properties, processing data. There's an enormous amount of data available here now. We've developed an on-demand, on-the-fly processing system which basically allows us to process images in the browser and actually throw thousands of CPUs at an individual computing problem. So just for example, here we've actually got the whole of Australia worked to produce a biomass index map in about less than about a minute. So we've actually accessed 3,000 satellite scenes sitting basically in a data catalog and in about a minute or so we've actually been able to access those, apply a biomass model to them and produce a map of Australia. And we can dive in here, I was doing this last night. This is a million, basically 100,000 square kilometers. That's about 10 million hectares. You can see the individual parcel, sorry, the individual property boundaries here. This is a pasture biomass model running across the Northern Australia. In about a minute, that 10 million hectares there, I was able to process that whole area and then you can see down here at the individual property level, the level of variability here. So that's happening basically in a minute over about 10 million hectares. So just actually just mentioned there as well, in terms of the accuracy, we've got thousands of sites, so this does not happen by accident. We've actually got producers all around the country and we've got Tim Prance here, one of them helping collectors collect data. We're basically trying to develop an army of producers basically across the country, they're collecting field data for us. I'm gonna show you that a little bit more of that in a moment. But to get across 10 million hectares and basically produce about, you're able to produce a product on the fly within a minute or two. And here's an example, basically here's the whole of South Australia. So this was about 11 o'clock last night. Very happy to grab a laptop and show you here, basically live. So there's an image there, the whole of South Australia that basically was produced, a multi-spectral image there. It was a two week image, so taking 15 day image, looking at the median spectral response over a 15 day period for the whole of Australia and that took about a minute to generate basically for the whole of the state. And I'll just dive down here, sort of just zoomed into this area here. Happy to show you that working on the fly later on.  It's really about how we actually then start to integrate that. And at the core of it, so all of those things I was showing you a minute ago, it's all on the left hand side here. It's really about how we collect the data. So we've got mobile apps that we're using, we're using lots of plate meters data and I don't know why plate meters haven't been used more in Australia, we're using plate meters to estimate pasture biomass and calibrate data. We've got mobile apps that we basically are giving to people to do visual estimates and collect data basically in the field. Yes, we've got some fancy machine learning in the middle here and it's getting faster and faster all the time. It's quite typical for a given week for us to find a 10 fold increase in the speed and accuracy of a model in a week. Basically where some new techniques of the machine learning sort of capabilities are just effectively going through the roof. And I suppose one of the challenges for us is to ensure that we actually have a full understanding of the technology as it moves forward. But we typically, very often, I'll basically, we'll be sitting there in a week we've actually increased the throughput of processing by 10 fold, just by doing things a little bit smarter. Now at the other end, Pops basically intelligence for producers. So basically working with other service providers to deliver online and in the paddock solutions. I'm gonna show you that in a second. So here's just a quick example here. Who's doing pasture biomass assessments here on a regular basis? Penny? Two people, okay. But what this allows us to do, just imagine, you know, if I wanna get out in the paddock and I spend, I do about 50,000 kilometers a year basically driving from basically central Queensland to basically South Australia on a regular basis, doing pasture cuts. I've got gear in the back of the truck, plate meters, clippers, pasture cuts, going into hotel rooms and sticking grass, in the microwave and drying it during the night. They must wonder what's going on in a hotel room for the next day. But just imagine here, if we basically, anyone that's going in the paddock, we can give you an open source mobile app.  It basically, you can take a picture, GPS reading, walk across the paddock doing pasture estimates. Every time you press the button, if you're in mobile phone reception or as soon as you get home, it actually hooks up to the cloud and basically dumps that data, the pictures, everything into a database. And if we actually had every one of you in the room here that was in the paddock doing that, we could be generating thousands and thousands of basically of sites. Basically, I don't have to leave Toomba as long as often as I do at the moment. And this is sort of the work that we're doing with Tim and others just to try and get that sort of that, the data that we need to drive these models. But I've got producers that can be 1,000 kilometers away and I'm sitting there basically analyzing data and as they're in the paddock and pressing the button, I'm actually seeing records coming into our database. And typically if they need it, we can actually have a model actually built for the property basically the next day. Calibration of plate meters here as well. So every pasture type is different and so you can't just presume when you're using a plate meter that basically it's going to be the same all the time. Different pasture types, different seasonal growth stages. So we're spending a lot of time building libraries of data for plate meters, lots of cuts. So I suppose this is sort of what the front end looks like. We're a data science company, we're not trying to produce some front end where it's been millions of dollars building front ends because it's a very costly exercise and also for every front end you build, it often reduces your capacity to integrate and collaborate with others. So we're really focusing on, yes we've got to have a front end, but we really are focusing on how we integrate with other systems such as AgaWeb, MyaGrazing and others. So basically on a five daily basis, so I might just, I'm not sure I'm not going to basically click here and it's buggered up a little while ago, but I'm going to give it a go anyway, why not see if I can get some web. Okay, so there's a little web interface there. So it's the 19th, it's a few days ago. There's an estimate of basically, there's basically the multi-spectral imagery.  A fractional cover image, you can actually also see here that we're stripping out clouds and doing cloud detection and cloud shadow detection as well to make sure that we're actually the imagery that's coming through as clean. NDVI at this time of the year is absolutely useless. So there's a lot of people who've been using NDVI and pasture systems. It's actually, it's completely valid in cropping systems where the crop is obviously green. In this case here, we've got basically, we've got brown pastures and NDVI just does not work in effectively outside of peak growing periods. And then we've got our machine learning model which is actually predicting pasture biomass basically on a five day basis. And then we can get estimates of kilograms per hectare there and the total tons in the paddock. In the paddock name, you can see that I'm just clicking around. This property here is highly drought affected. You can see here the numbers down in 300 kilos per hectare. So it's obviously in pretty poor condition at the moment. And then we can also produce a traffic light map. So every five days they get a traffic light map of basically where their pastures are at, plus the reds, the lowest and greens the highest. This starter here, any individual paddock in here, it's a real time feed straight into AgriWeb there as well. So that number in there goes straight into the AgriWeb app. Get back to here. Oh, very good. Okay, I just wanted to quickly, just as an example here at the other end of the scale here, this is half a million hectare property. We've basically got grazing circles there. So that's a three kilometer and a five kilometer grazing circle. We've got the paddock boundaries and the land types. We can zoom in. That's changes in ground cover. So the red areas are bare ground. The green areas are photosynthetically active. The cover and the blue areas are dry cover. So we can separate the green fraction from the brown fraction and the bare fraction. And we're actually then able to predict estimates of biomass basically within each grazing distance away from the water. So you can see here, we've got basically lower biomass basically in the areas that are more watered and being heavily utilised. And as you move away from the water points here, so you're getting more biomass, you're getting less utilisation. And yes, we've got integrations. We've got a lot of work going on with AgriWeb at the moment. Mya Grazing, we're working with the integrations with Mya Grazing. Saving technologies is the same thing we've actually integrated into their system. So the idea here is for us to be in the back end rather than the front end as much as we possibly can. I just wanted to quickly touch base at the other end of the spectrum at sort of the industry level. We've been doing work with the beef sustainability framework. And while individual producers right now might not see direct benefits to this, we're actually, we're starting to link them up. So we've got a property database or a land parcel database for the whole of Australia. We've actually processed 30 years of satellite data for every single land parcel in Australia, about five million land parcels greater than a hectare. There's about 550,000 individual properties. And we've actually got a, basically, a longitudinal database of tree cover changes, basically, per land parcel and also a longitudinal view of ground cover for every property in Australia. So this is a South Australian example here. So this is basically, this is the arid zones there. So the red area is the lowest, the lowest ground cover. And then we've actually got a graph here over the last 30 years of ground cover changes basically in the, this is the arid lands region there. So this blue line here is the median ground cover levels basically for the arid lands region. And so 50% of the arid lands basically is that blue line. Can you see the trend, the long-term trend there in terms of ground cover? So actually we're seeing a decline in ground cover levels basically across the arid lands region over the period. There's obviously a wet period in here. And then we're going, we've actually been on the slide. But the more concerning thing here, and this is what we're really trying to highlight here, is that's the 50% of the region. Look at the lower 10% and 20% oil. So what that's saying there is that we've actually got 50% of the land cap that's following a particular trend. And actually it is a declining trend. But the bottom end, so in terms of those land managers that are struggling with their ground cover levels, they're on a very different trajectory. So their decline in ground cover levels actually is a lot steeper than effectively than the average. So in terms of a land condition perspective, we've actually got the ability to produce a graph like this for every single land parcel in Australia now over the last 30 years. So what we're doing is there is looking at how we can connect individual producers to that long-term trend data so they can look at the paddock. They can look at the paddock today this week. And then we can also get them to look at the last 30 years and put everything in context in terms of what they're doing now. And we're just building a dashboard so the middle of the year we'll actually have a dashboard that actually allows, basically that exposes this information to basically to the general public. Now, it's a lot of sensitive information. So clearly basically producing individual property level data is very, very sensitive. And we have no intention whatsoever to basically in terms of exposing the individual property data to anyone other than the property owner. So there'll be zoom controls on here and we won't be providing property boundaries and those are the things into the data. There'll be zoom controls on it, but it's all publicly available. And what people will be able to do is to be able to select a region and select basically sort of a, it might be a catchment boundary or it could be a local government area or whatever and then look at effectively the trends across that region in terms of their ground cover condition over time. And we're then building some tools to then give them secure access so they can actually then benchmark their property to everyone else without people seeing their property. They'll be able to go in and select their property and then benchmark themselves to the rest of the population, if you like, without dealing with those major privacy issues. Now, I just wanted to just finish up quickly. So I've got a minute. How many consultants have we got here in the room? Okay, now in terms of producers, when you're actually, when you're onboarding someone at the moment, every single software provider that's actually here at the moment, when a new client rings up and basically you ask them, who are you? Where are you? Basically, what are your credentials? Where's your property boundary? And quite often that can actually can take hours potentially to actually identify where a property is. They might say I've got a KML file or they've got, there's ways of getting out but generally onboarding of a client is actually quite difficult. We've built a system here which has been commercialized basically over the next few months. We call it the MyFarm Property Key. What we've actually done here is taken, basically we've got land parcel data for the whole of Australia. So the lot plan numbers, everything that sits in your rates notice with a lot plan numbers, we basically got access to every land parcel. We've got an authentication system we've built with Meet and Livestock Australia.  This has really been built around the livestock sector here but there's parallels in the grazing in the copying industry. If you're trading in cattle, you're basically sheep, you've got a property identification code. So we've actually got a system here which goes and authenticates a producer. You put in your LPA credentials and your password and your PIC number. It goes off to Meet and Livestock Australia, authenticates you as a valid producer.  We go to MLA, we get the information on your, on the producer's behalf. We then get the address from that and we actually find that half of the PIC addresses, actually, are not in, not the front gate. So God help us, if there's ever a major biosecurity in Australia. So what we then do is get the producer, we present the parcel boundaries to the producer. They can go click, click, click, identify the parcel boundaries for their property. There's the lot plan details coming here and they hit the button and that's them producers basically a property key. So it's actually an encrypted data package with all of the authentication information, their property boundary, their lot plan details and what that allows us to do is then start to build services around that. So we've got APIs now that we're developing that can give them a satellite image, we can do a change image. What the producer can then do is then take that key and hand that key to any other provider that they actually wanna work with. So rather than every third party software provider having to onboard that same client over and over and over again, what we've actually got here now is a single point of truth where that key, as that producer hands it to other organizations, that gives them permission to basically access their details and where their property is. It's also gonna allow us to build APIs as an industry and allow me as a company to be able to work with Tim or work with Tim Neal or other companies that basically are building applications. We've got an authentication key that the producer has provided which we can then build services around integrate services basically without having to duplicate effort across individual companies. So that'll be coming onto the market in the next few months. So we can do things like here, we're doing a trial with about 100 properties in the next couple of months, doing forest cover change analysis across those properties as part of an accreditation system, ground cover analysis and other things. And then we've got this, this is just a little blob here, we've got this encrypted data package in here that basically gets produced when you hit the button, hit submit. And when you hit the download button, it doesn't go to anyone else, it goes to you basically.  So it's really, that's really about sort of how we then integrate those services and start building dashboards. Everyone wants a dashboard, but at the moment, it's really, really difficult for these dashboards while individual companies actually are struggling to integrate at that sort of machine to machine level. And that property key is gonna help with that. I'll leave it there. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.


Okay, welcome everybody to the weekly charting analysis webinar with myself, Jasper Haller. It's going to last about half an hour. It's going to cover some of the major indices, effects and commodities that you can trade through CMC markets. We've just got the risk warning on the screen at the moment. We're going to skip through that and get into it. Any questions at all? Definitely just let me know through the chat box and I'm happy to do my best to answer. So we've got a couple of the big events before the end of the year out the way. We've got the ECB out the way. We've got OPEC out the way. Some pretty huge price moves resulting from those meetings. And the next one's the Fed. So as you can see, all prices down pretty steeply today. That's on the back of even steeper declines on Friday. That's after OPEC failed to announce even any kind of quota. So normally it's $30 million per day. And so they couldn't even agree on that. It couldn't even agree on expanding that. There were some initial reports that OPEC might produce, might rise it to $31.5. But the statement actually amounts no number. So it looks like Saudi Arabia and Iran are two kind of big opposing political parties, participants involved here. Just couldn't come to some agreement. And as a result, all prices are really pushing right down into these multi-year lows. And here I've got a fairly short-term chart on crude oil WTI, showing that we're breaking down through that support in around 39% and we're breaking down right now. So the downtrend's resuming, fell out to a longer-term chart. You can see right here, right near these multi-year lows. So obviously the speed of this decline has slowed up. But we're still putting in some lower lows here. And it looks like we're probably going to put in another one down here. And then this line at the bottom here, just around this 35 level, is where we come in from the low-putting in 2008. So getting a bit interesting here, below 35, that's when we start getting into the 20-type vicinity that a few have been forecasting. Looks like that generally could happen, because OPEC is producing as much as it can, Russia is producing as much as it can, and US Shale, they're producing as and when it makes economic sense according to the price. Now that can't go on forever, particularly on the US side, because there's been a pattern of US Shale coming back online when prices bounce a bit, but the price is right down right now. So we're going to start seeing that, well, we've already seen it, that the number of US rigs is going to decline and inventories are going to start falling by the wayside too as those number of rigs come offline. So that's going to eventually support the price, but it's not happening at the moment. Then an excess supply situation going on at the moment. Obviously, the other big event was the ECB, so let's pull up the main chart involved there. Just trying to look at some of the short-term levels that could cap this retracement that we're seeing in the year at the moment, but obviously this is a 30-minute chart, but it's still a fairly epic move that we saw during the ECB, and you can see from the daily chart, pretty huge reversal engulfed the previous two weeks worth of price action, almost three weeks, if we've got up here. And we're back in and around the 110 handle. We're pulling back now, so as we currently stand, we're right in that 108-type vicinity, which is this previous peak here is a bit below, but just on a short-term basis, you can see on that 30-minute chart, she's using where the price had paused during this incline to try and make some assistance, where there's also a bit of a potentially nothing really to show us on the downside. We can connect the lows a bit. It's not a very good channel, but you can connect the lows in here quite well, and that would take us down to this line. If we were using the highs, then a new low would probably come in down at this price peak here, where we reversed a little bit going into the press conference. So that's some levels to look out for, but I think it would be hard to see a move this size just completely erased without pushing higher a bit. My assumption here is that this is basically a change of short-term trend. We were grinding, grinding, grinding lower, and now we've rapidly pushed higher, and I think we're going to eventually find some level on which people are willing to jump on board and go long again, and maybe even more to the point, not willing to go short again through these lows given the size of the reaction we had higher. So these levels to be considered, this was a cap that we blew through quite easily here. So if these levels give way, we're down to here, and obviously we're at the low, and then just based on that daily chart, you could see that we had this peak in here just below 107. I don't think that's going to be too instrumental, but as I see it, we're still, if you pull out based on this chart, we basically kind of undone a bit of this short-term trend that was taking place here, and we've come off before reaching new lows, so to me it's more like we've turned into a medium-term sideways market and a short-term uptrend, and now we're retracing within that uptrend is how I'm perceiving it. There's lots of side issues around the ECB. I think generally the way we've got to look at it here is we've got to listen out for the ECB members, and a lot of them are going to be speaking this week. I mentioned in my morning note the highlights as I see it in terms of who's speaking. There's quite a few, but probably three important ones in terms of really potentially market-moving. But really I'd be surprised if they hint at additional stimulus having just taken action. Obviously the idea here is that they thought what was done was enough and I would imagine that they want to see this play out in the economy first before starting to suggest that more needs to be done. That said, if inflation does remain well below target in around the 0% mark, then there's always going to be this kind of background wondering if and when they're going to do more. The market's going to start pushing for them to increase stimulus at some point in time if that inflation remains low. There's a good chance that it won't because we're getting to the point now where we're almost a year past the big fall in the oil price. Obviously oil's still at those low levels, but that sort of yearly change which we use to judge inflation year over year, that oil price change is going to start coming out to the market around kind of March time. So we actually could see the year over year numbers start to reflect a more of a kind of levelling out and then starting to rise in sort of just the non-core benchmark inflation rate. So then that would suggest that actually the ECB isn't going to do any more or don't need to do more. So that's got implications for the euro. There's still a big divergence between the euro in the U.S. and even the euro in the U.K. Worth putting up the euro pound chart because we saw a big push high there. Potentially a inverse head and shoulder pattern setting up here is not perfect. The patterns never are. The head is only slightly deeper than the left and right shoulder. From that perspective you could almost call it a triple bottom but potentially a big basing pattern here. And so then we'd look for the neckline. The most extreme one would probably just be up at those peaks here around 75. So having failed to drop through the 70 round number on three major occasions, if we were to push above 75, that could suggest that we're pushing all the way back up to 80. Obviously there's still big policy divergence between the U.K. and the eurozone. We're still looking to raise rates in the U.K. We've got the Bank of England later this week. They are expected to keep rates on hold and if they're going to continue the language from the inflation hearings then it's going to be fairly dovish and that could push expectations for a rate rise in the U.K. out to 2017. And so then given a slight kind of change in circumstance, slightly less easing than expected from the EZB, even more dovish than expected from the Bank of England could see this rate push back up to the 75 level again. Because that size of the difference between the two countries in divert... I mean, the extent of the divergence has come in a bit if the two central banks ease away from the extremes that we thought. Obviously the other impact from the EZB last week was on equities, for example being the Germany 30. You can see this take place in other markets. Well, this is a weekly chart that's looking a bit crowded, but just sort of going to show that we're still... It's difficult to see, basically we took out this high here, which is where we still got this potential double bottom pattern in. But we haven't really cleared out the next peak yet, but potentially this might be a peak that we can use to say that we've formed a higher high. Haven't really... Yeah, here we formed a higher low. So kind of still while above the weekly number and the 15th low, still kind of technically within an uptrend. So if we can hold above there, might be all right in the Germany 30, but that is a pretty large bearish and golfing candlestick on this weekly chart. Looks even more extreme on the daily chart. And so a really aggressive sell-off has failed to take place because this previous low has not acted as, you know, was support broke, didn't turn into resistance, we pushed through it. So the next level I'll be eyeing is, well, to some extent, the 200-day moving average is not so reliable, but also just this peak from over here on November 20th are some potential areas of resistance to see this trend roll over. But as I mentioned in the chart forum here, what we're seeing is that we've made a higher high and then we've made a lower low. So that's basically telling us no trend. So what I wouldn't be surprised to see is us actually push up towards the top near this high somewhere, maybe even push through it and then roll over or maybe just not quite get to it and roll over and just turn into more of a sideways market again. Kind of reminiscent of the kind of thing taking place here. Bit sideways perhaps until a few days before or after the Fed meeting, which of course takes place in just over a week on the 15th and 16th of December. The other thing to look at is similar to what we did with the Euro and just zoom in on the lower timeframes to find some potential levels. Here, you know, this is that previous high that I've used. This is actually the kind of lower the day on the second, so the Wednesday I believe that would also potentially be some area. You can also pull up some Fibonacci levels to see if they correspond. But as I mentioned, these would be the areas to look for some sort of reversal for a continuation of the trend lower, but I don't actually think that that's going to happen right now. I don't think we're going to see some massive sell-off off the back of that decline in the Germany 30. I suppose what I'm facing a lot of that off is just the fact that we pushed through this previous low and that we, even the very next day, we couldn't push any lower. So if we just stick them with equities for now, let's have a look at the UK 100. Here, I pulled up a short-term chart again as well. Again, looking for potential areas where this rapid downtrend that we saw on Thursday could begin to roll over again. So, you know, rapid downtrend retracement. We've fallen off a bit away from this 31.2, 38.2 percent Fibonacci level. Kind of corresponds a bit with this low over here and this hot peak over there. More about the Fib level. Then we'll move back up into the 50, which I think we probably could get towards. And then we've got a couple of days where we saw quite sharp reversals that could have a slight vacuum in volume in around those levels and sea prices drop off again. So, a similar kind of idea where we've had that extreme move down. We're looking for cheaper areas to sell into it on signs of reversal. But again, you know, we basically made a high-high. Now we've made a low-low. So it's basically speaking to us of no trend. And also just the fact that it was this, these series of peaks up here that caused us to roll over in the first place kind of tells us that we're not going anywhere higher. And we've kind of paused at this low here. I suspect we could maybe get down to the 6,000, 6,7 level again. So that would be, you know, if you were selling from one of these retracement levels, then your first target would just be the third low. But if you were feeling more bearish, then you would start targeting the 6,100 level just to sort of show that the market's in complete chop-up and down here basically between 6,100 and 6,500. Over to US markets. You're probably going to notice a bit of a theme here. US markets are definitely stronger than that. And you're obviously slightly more indirect beneficiaries of risk-on-mode in markets that quantitative easing brings about. So you can see here that this was Thursday's leg lower, not as extreme as we saw in the Germany 30 or even the UK 100. And on Friday we had those non-farm payrolls results. It was a pretty good number, basically in line with expectations, slightly weaker than was seen in October. But November's data was nonetheless in line with expectations. Over 200,000 jobs created, sometimes a wage growth still. Unemployment rates stayed at 5%. So basically the overall message was that not enough to derail the Fed hiking rates. So in FYI in terms of the Fed, we've got retail sales on Friday and then we've got inflation data next week. They're basically the last two hurdles for the Fed to have to jump over, for the data to jump over for the Fed to decide on and hike them rates. At the moment, looking at Fed funds features, you hear this burn around with percentages doesn't always necessarily mean a lot, but there's basically an 80% bet that the Fed's going to hike according to Fed fund features at the moment in December. So looking pretty odds on, but should markets collapse? We've got Chinese data this week. That was the previous cause of the big August collapse. In fact, the very data that caused the collapse we have reported tomorrow. That's the Chinese trade data. So watch out for that. That comes out early morning tomorrow. So that may impact the open of European markets tomorrow. That could be a big one. We also have Chinese inflation data on Wednesday. That's probably not going to show anything too cataclysmic. And then we have retail sales and industrial production data on Saturday, which could set us up interestingly for Monday next week, which is obviously the week of the Fed meeting. For the moment, I've been talking about this in the chart form for a while, is toying with a double top here, but just sort of based on a sort of 200-day moving average and the sort of general trend, assuming that it's going to be more of a consolidation topside breakout. But there's obviously significant resistance to the topside. This peak from back in July, but then the all-time highs from early in the year, May and Feb. Is it May? Yeah. You'll notice definitely a bit of bearish divergence taking place here. The bearish divergence can turn to a bit of a potential setup if you just get a break through that declining trend line there on the RSI. That kind of nullifies the divergence for me and could see us pushing nicely higher. Coming into the last 10 minutes of the webinar here, we've covered a few currencies while just talking about the ECB. We've covered some of the major indices. Happy to talk about others if need be, but if not, I'm going to switch over to crude commodities. Now, this was the other interesting move. This was not on the ECB. This was on the jobs day. This was on Friday. So as in the 4th of December is when we saw this massive push higher in gold, which is interesting because the data was pretty solid, indicates that, as I mentioned, it basically confirms the idea of the Fed set to a hike in December. Typically, the assumed reason for the sell-off in gold is that you don't want to be holding a non-interest-bearing asset when interest rates are rising. You want to be there to take advantage of those rising interest rates and have your money in bank accounts or whatever the case may be. But on that strong US data, gold actually rallied and rallied pretty massively, broke this declining trend line. So obviously this has been a pretty huge sell-off and the momentum's just slowed heading into this long-term trend line here. We've got a bullish engulfing candlestick in and around the bottom of this line. And I think obviously this kind of trend is generally down. I think the better possibilities are more along the top trend line here. When you see top reversals, a generally higher probability in this scenario than at the bottom. But nonetheless, this is a couple of factors supporting it here. A strong bullish engulfing candlestick on a weekly chart, which obviously has more bearing than on the lower-time frames, almost took out three weeks, which adds strength, didn't quite do it. But to me, the possibility of a reversal here, and again, we're back into that same scenario, but okay, can we pick out some points on the retracement? I actually think if we are going to push higher, the retracement's not going to be too large in gold. That's quite characteristic, is that it sees pretty shallow retracement. So even from here, where we're getting a bit of a bounce at the moment, just off these previous peaks, that could be as shallow as we get for another leg higher. Potentially, though, down to here, we've got a kind of double previous resistance, which could then act as support on a drop-down. I suspect if we even get that low, then we'll probably dive all the way down. And we'll trace a good amount in the move, perhaps. And then still, I think, still the bias will be to the topside then. You've got to be aware here that you're kind of fighting the kind of longer-term trend, but you've seen signs of a reversal of that trend. More so here in gold, than I would argue in equities. Obviously turning from a sort of bull to bearish reversal. There I've characterized them more in ranges. Here I think there's a better chance of a turn to an uptrend here, just off the extent of this downtrend. Silver in a similar ballpark to gold. We're going to win a nice few false breaks here. If you've been paying attention to the daily chart and not just your intraday charts, you would have seen that none of these breakouts were confirmed with a lower close. And on the sort of what was at fourth time lucky, we just couldn't push lower. And so we just, the shorts gave up and we saw a massive capitulation drive to the upside. And this has engulfed all these previous days here with just that one big move. So chance of a retracement, but I suspect it, again, I think it's going to be a small one. I would say maybe, I haven't drawn it in here, but kind of looking at that, is that what kind of, if you are considering there's a horizontal resistance rather than the kind of declining resistance line that I have here, then I think that's probably the most, it's based in and around this low here. So if you want to capture the move for definite, you're going to long fairly shortly, but if you're looking for a slightly better value, risking not capturing the move because it never gets there, then back towards the kind of 1440 dark vicinity, I think. We've already had a bit of a look at WGI. We can have a quick look at Brent now, maybe. Here you can kind of see that we're basically in a kind of sideways motion at the moment. We tried to push off the low here, didn't get very far, basically ran into the previous lows here, rolled over again before even getting there. It's looking pretty weak. You know, I would not, probably this, you know, whereas gold, we're looking at a kind of reverse of a trend to the top side. I don't think that's happening with oil. My default assumption is that we're breaking through this low from obvious and it went lower. And then you have to look quite far out to start catching some kind of support. The main one, again, just like we had drawn in the WGI chart, is the 2008 low. So I had mentioned the Bank of England this week. Before, we do actually have Mark Carney speaking today. Governor of the Bank of England speaks at 3 p.m. today, GMT. We do have UK manufacturing industrial production data tomorrow. But that's all sort of leading into the BOE rate decision on Thursday. So, you know, basically, I think the way I tend to play this in terms of data releases before the policy decision is that you just look, you know, you pay attention to data, make a note of it, and then, you know, once the BOE rate decision is out of the way, then you can start to see that data playing out in the price. So if we see some weak data, for example, maybe the pound doesn't sell off too heavily because you don't know quite what the Bank of England is going to, how they're going to position. So you hold fire. And then, you know, once the Bank of England is out of the way, if there's nothing too much of a change, which I don't think anyone really expects it to be, probably just still fairly dovish, then you can kind of get back on board and, you know, maybe if there was weak data, for example, start selling a pound. But technically, we're in this, the top trend line is not perfect by any means. The bottom trend line is a bit better. But we're in a sort of declining channel now. And we've seen a strong bullish reversal, candlestick pattern, with bullish divergence as well using the RSI, suggesting there's some scope for a bit of a bounce back towards the top channel line. And the 200-day, and that peak from November 19th, and the declining channel are all sort of in that same sort of vicinity. So there's a good chance that we push up to that 153-type side area. Got to be aware that we blow the 200-day, so any reversal candlestick patterns, perhaps error on the side of caution. But, you know, regular candles, you know, then 53 looked like a solid area. We'll quickly touch on Dolly Yen. Oh, actually, no, we'll look at Dolly's Swiss, because the other interesting event this week is the Swiss National Bank. They are their rate meeting this week. And a lot of what they were going to do, I think, rested on what the ECB did. And so we had, in the base of the ECB, sort of failure to really ramp up the stimulus has obviously resulted in the Euro spiking. And so there hasn't been a big sell-off in Euro Swiss. I've put up Dollar Swiss here. Probably the slightly better one for trading, Euro Swiss is a bit complicated after the giving up the peg. But you can see, you know, last week, yeah, we closed lower but barely, still inside the kind of recent range. And so, you know, basically, we're not looking at a situation where this Swiss bank is about to rally massively. And because the Euro is weakening so much, actually, the Euro's gained value, so the Swiss ranks devaluing slightly. So that takes the pressure off the Swiss National Bank doing anything. I think there's a possibility they maybe will just kind of cut their rates maybe to match the ECB, just that there's a consistent differential. So the ECB cut by 10 basis points, maybe the Swiss National Bank will do the same. I'm not really sure to what benefit they would have in really going aggressive and cutting by, say, 25 basis points. Because they just didn't need this point. The ECB's kind of done the work for them. So as I mentioned, this chart, bit choppy, hard to trade. But essentially look at that Dollar Yen chart. That Dollar Swiss chart. You're in an uptrend, but we've had a retracement. Look for the opportunities there. Just coming off this peak. Okay, my voice is giving way, so I'm going to call it a day there. I hope that was useful. Good luck with trading this week. Jasper Law's on the out.


Good morning. Sorry for the terrible lighting. It is only 7.36 in the morning here. As you saw, I just pulled into Jazzercise. I thought that I would do this week's grocery haul just a little bit differently. Kind of do it vlog style. Take you guys with me throughout the day or at least through the grocery shopping portion of my day today. I'm at Jazzercise to get my workout in and I'm just excited to do this grocery haul just a little bit different than normal. So if you are excited for another grocery haul, give this video a big thumbs up. And if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, I would love to have you here. Hit the subscribe button and click the bell next to it so you never miss a single video. Make sure you're checking out the description box down below for my three recipe ebooks. Recipe book number four in the final ebook is coming out shortly. You're also going to find nutrition coaching. I offer personalized to you macros and calories as well as one-on-one coaching to help you reach your goals. Links discounts to all my favorite things and don't forget to head on over. Join us on Facebook. We'd love to have you. So I'm going to go in, get my workout in. Actually I'm going to take my pre-workout.  So I hope you enjoy this more vlog style grocery haul for the week. One hour later. Alright, Jazzercise is done. You can still see all the sweat dripping down my face. It was a long class. It was over an hour today. I have 38 active minutes and fifty three hundred steps. I'm pretty sure I earned myself Starbucks. So let's head to Starbucks, get food, coffee, and then we're heading to Trader Joe's. Okay, can I have a spinach and feta wrap? Yeah, of course. A spinach feta wrap. And a venti of the almond milk chocolate shake in espresso with light ice. And then a venti almond milk chocolate shake in espresso with light ice. Anything else? Nope, that's everything. Come on down. Thank you. Thank you. I have secured the goods. I have my coffee and my feta wrap. Officially at grocery pickup at Walmart. And then we'll head home and we'll go through this week's grocery haul, meal plan, and meal prep. So here is this week's grocery haul. I went to both Trader Joe's and Walmart grocery pickup. There's a little something here for the dogs and they know Palmer. Say I know there's something here for me. Is there something here for you? Is there? You gotta be patient. Patience. Everybody patient. Since they're not the most patient, let's do their goodies first. So Trader Joe's had a new dog treat. This is called the chew cootery assorted flavored dog treats. And it looks like there is cheddar cheese, provolone cheese, prosciutto, and salami flavored. So let's go ahead and give one to them. Okay, back into the grocery haul. I also picked up some very small garbage bags since Washington State now charges for grocery bags.  Troy takes them for his truck at work.  Real bacon bits. This is for a meal prep recipe. It was either bacon bits or crumbled up bacon. And I just thought this would be much easier.  I'm making a Halloween charcuterie board. Of course, I'll share with you guys all the Halloween inspired meals that I make for that little get together. So I picked these up. These are super cute. Also needed white American cheese for a recipe for the Halloween party. Grab the box of turkey corn dogs just to have on hand so that we had quick, simple, easy lunches or dinner. You can just toss these in the oven or the air fryer. They are so, so delicious. Small can of tomato paste for a dinner recipe. Large black olives. This is for the charcuterie board. A can of petite diced tomatoes also for my meal prep. I remember this pub cheese as a kid. And I remember it being so good. It was kind of a cheese log with nuts. It was so delicious. But I grabbed the sharp cheddar. I thought that I could add this to the charcuterie board. A restock of my light shredded cheese for dinner recipe. A couple of different meats for the board. I have some Italian dry salami and some pepperoni. And then I also picked up just a ton of super fun cheeses at Trader Joe's. This is this organic pepper jack cheese. Pepper jack is my very favorite cheese. Green goddess Gouda. I thought this looked so good with basil and herbs. The Cotswold double glue kester cheese. Glue chester. I've never had this cheese again. I just thought it was pretty. It would be a nice touch to the board. And then just some extra sharp cheddar cheese from Cabot. Food coloring for a little treat that I'm making for the Halloween party. Had to pick up a bottle. My very favorite kombucha, the GT's fall edition living in gratitude. This one is so delicious. I just grab one every time I go to Trader Joe's. I also saw this caramelized onion dip. And I thought that this would be a nice addition to the charcuterie board as well. Two cans of pizza crust. I actually ordered the thin and they substituted for the classic. This is again for the little Halloween get together. I'm making a pumpkin dip and it has a pumpkin crust on it. As as I mentioned, I'll be sharing all those recipes with you or at least showing you the end product when I put together the little get together cheese tortellini for a dinner recipe. I needed crescent rolls for our Halloween party. I'm making mummy wrapped hot dogs. That's going to be so cute and so fun. So for hot dogs, I picked up the ballpark bun size all beef hot dogs. These were longer. So I thought that they would be cuter for those a mummy wrapped dog.  And then I needed shredded Monterey Jack for a dinner recipe. I did pick up a block of sharp cheddar cheese. This is for the Halloween party. I needed just a small amount of blocked cheese. So I ordered 1.25 pounds of roast beef and instead I got a whopping 0.33 pounds, which is enough maybe for one sandwich for Troy. So he is going to stop and pick up some more roast beef.  This is pretty soft. I think I'm going to pop open the end. I wanted to get a little bit of that crusty bread vibe for the board. I'm just going to rip it into pieces. We could dip it in the caramelized onion dip or the pub cheese. Just thought that a crusty bread would make a nice addition. And then I did pick up these sweetened dried orange slices for the board. These are just so pretty and they're orange. The perfect color for Halloween. A loaf of bread for Troy's sandwiches and then for the charcuterie board, it picks up this organic cracker assortment from Trader Joe's. I buy this every year for Christmas. The crackers in here are so good. You get like five or six different kinds for $3.99. So it's a really good deal and it's a good assortment of different crackers. A bag of the Trader Joe's corn dippers for Troy and his French onion dip.  I do have an imperfect foods order coming on Monday where I picked up some extra produce. So that is everything besides a case of Diet Coke and Coors Light for this week's grocery haul. Let's jump into what I'm doing for dinners and what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. So here is my meal plan for the week of October 23rd through the 29th. Today, Saturday, of course, is an out for dinner day. Tomorrow, Sunday, I'm making French onion chicken bake. You guys will see this recipe in Wednesday's what I eat today. So stay tuned for that. Monday I'm making potato soup because it sounds really good. Tuesday is leftovers. Wednesday is BLTs because my lovely husband would like BLTs again. Thursday is a leftover night because Friday is our little Halloween party with our friends and that way we can finish up everything from earlier in the week. And here is what you guys will be seeing on Monday for meal prep. I'm really excited for this week's recipe. So for breakfast, I'm making a cinnamon swirl pumpkin bread. Doesn't that sound amazing? And then for lunch is cheeseburger, tortellini soup and dessert. I'm making pumpkin snicker doodles. My husband wanted cookies. So I thought pumpkin and snicker doodles sounded amazing. So stay tuned on Monday for all three recipes. Thank you for joining me on this week's WW grocery haul. I hope you enjoyed seeing all the good stuff that I picked up at both Trader Joe's and Walmart. If you enjoyed today's video, don't forget to give it a big huge thumbs up. It really helps out my channel. And of course, if you're new or you haven't yet subscribed, hit the subscribe button and click the bell right next to it so you never miss a single video. Let me know down in the comments what you thought of this type of a grocery haul. If you like the vlog style or if you prefer just the straight grocery haul, let a girl know down in the comments. 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