Hi everyone, Joe for jazzy's case breaks calm coming at you with another three box break of 2020 tops luminaries at baseball Should be some great stuff in here. Love this. Just dropped yesterday Already on break number 14 Sold the three spots big. Thanks to Wes tj and Aaron for getting into the action You can get a random a guaranteed but random hit We're gonna select the boxes tj. What's going on? We're gonna select the boxes And then we'll open the boxes typing the hits randomized names randomized hits match you together see what you get It's gonna be crazy All right, let's see what we have in here. Let's use that die right there We'll go one two three four five six on the dice roll And it's five one two three four five six We're gonna do the far right column first and when we do the next three box break is posted already folks If you're watching live jazzy's case breaks calm next time We'll do one two three four five six on the dice roll. So there's only two stacks left Leave those right there because I'm sure we'll do another stack or two of those tonight and Let's see what's inside. Here we go pocket here. There it is. All right. Just one card per box in here See what we got. Good luck We go maybe this way It's vertical You've got a Philly and it's gonna be Reese Hoskins nice One of the nicest autographs in the hobby six out of 15 What are we commemorating here 16 home runs Sit wow 16 home runs on a phone full count From 2017 through 2019 it's pretty crazy. All right, that's a nice one. Good start. All right next one Matt what's going on seems like a much thinner card than Feels lighter for some reason we got cubs and We've got Nico Harner nice 10 out of 10 Isn't this card thinner? No, no the same same size. All right felt lighter for some reason 10 out of 10 Nico Harner rookie Autograph big prospect for the cubs three hits commemorating his three hit major league debut on September 9th 2019 Supposed to be pretty good Third and final box another three boxes in the store check it out. Jasper's case breaks calm That's our I didn't see any more cases in the back. I think those two stacks that I put behind me. That's it for now At this price So go get it while you can we got masters of the mound red. That's I think that's out of 10 Featuring a 156 what 100 oh 15 games Steve Carlton nine out of ten nice 15 Wow a 15 game winning streak in 1972. That's crazy like it's Steve Carlton underrated. I feel like You're gonna 15 game winning streak boss, man. That's crazy Is Steve Carlton underrated boss, man, right because I feel like no one talks about it People don't talk about him like when they talk about Kershaw, they're just like co-fax and then it's like wait wait wait Yeah, what about carling? They could put him in the mix, too All right. Yeah, this would have been a good team break for the Phillies. All right, let's flip screens right here Let's type in all the hits if I know I spell Reese. There you go Reese Hoskins Auto six Out of 15 then we had Nico Herner autograph That was a little bit lower number 10 out of 10 and then the Steve Carlton auto and that was 9 out of 10. All right. Now. Let's randomize your names and randomize the hits 11 times each that's a lot 6 and a 5 11 times each your names first good luck 1 2 3 4 5 10 and 11th and final time After 11 we got West TJ and Aaron. I think that was the order that they originally purchased it It's only three so there's only so much the randomizer can do 6 and a 5 11 times for the hits 1 2 3 10 and 11th and final time after 11. We've got Reese Steve and Nico. All right. There you go West Thomas You have the Reese Hoskins autograph 6 out of 15 TJ Lender with the Steve Carlton Hall of Famer auto 9 out of 10 and Aaron Pettit with the rookie auto Nico Herner auto 10 out of 10 There you go ladies gentlemen another nice three boxes in the books. I Don't know if One of ones are out of fives are necessarily guaranteed in a case But we haven't seen one yet and we're halfway through some nice hits, but no train whistle hits yet So let's keep searching for that on Jasper's case breaks calm I'm Joe and I'll see you next time for the next one. Bye. Bye


So, here we are at the marvellous organics. Here we are at the start. We're at the bottom of Pat's pond. That's her fridge. And the stream comes down and we're going to start on the bridge here. Here are the sticks. All ready to go. Pat will launch those in a moment. And then the course is down the stream here. All the way down past Pat's pile of resources. There's one or two obstacles along the way including Sam the dog. That might catch one or two and then there's a bit more of an obstacle here. It's kind of a little bit of a rapid. And then around to the finish line which is here just before the next bridge. So, here are the sticks. And there we are. That's your number. So, pay attention. So, ready when you are. Let's see who's going to win. And already. No idea. Oh, the excitement! There's certainly a leader. But whether or not the leader's going to stay in the lead is another matter. There's definitely some interesting stuff going on at the waterfall. A few blockages there. Oh, there's a new leader. I can't see who it is. This one's in the lead over here. Yes, we definitely have a clear leader. Can't see that. It looks like number 12 at the moment. But is number 12 going to get to the finish first? Nope, there's a new leader. But they've got stuck in the greenery. So, it's down to whoever that one is there. Pat, pull them out. Can you pull out the third one as well? Just so that we have some... Right, put them in order. Number 12 did come first. Number 2. Is number 12.


Did you know you can take a very simple gradient like this one and just add a color stop to both of them the same color stop for both and it actually creates two solid bars. We can make this more interesting by turning it sideways and getting the bars to be vertical. The fun thing also is we can add a background size to that and make some stripes like this. We can actually do this with a second gradient as well on the same background image declaration. They're just going to be comma separated. The important thing with this is we're using a little bit of transparency here and will come and also set the same background size for it. And now we can create this kind of interesting pattern that we have right there. Hi there, my friend and friends. Thank you so much for coming to join me yet again. And if you're new here, my name is Kevin. And here at my channel, I help you fall madly deeply in love with CSS. And if I can't get you to fall in love with it, I'm hoping to at least help you be a little bit less frustrated by it. And I think one really cool way to do that is to have some fun with gradients because well, we can often use gradients for simple things. Just adding a little touch to something or a little subtle, you know, change of color or sometimes something that's going to add a lot of spice with a big, aggressive gradient. They do a lot more than that, as we just saw. And there's more than what we just looked at that we can do from creating zigzag patterns to waves and a whole bunch more. And they're by calling them gradients. The name sort of hides the fact that they can do a lot of these really awesome things. So with what we just looked at, it was a little bit of a teaser of the things to come. So let's jump back into VS code here and get started with the other stuff that we can create. And this is, as I said, just one and what we're going to do is move down. All I've done for this is set up some sections and we're going to work on each one. So we can scroll down, get rid of that one and come to the section, too, which is not a class and start working on that. So we have a color that can come and act as our background. And often when we're doing these effects, we're going to want to use some transparency along the way. So setting sort of a base background color can be a really good starting point to sort of set the stage for things to come. Now, for this one, what we're going to be doing is looking at a zigzag pattern. So let's come and first set up the first gradient that we're going to put on here. So of course, we're going to want a background image. And because I have done this with a background color shorthand here, I don't want to, or longhand, I should say, I don't want to use the background shorthand or would overwrite the longhand that's there. So I'm going to do the entire background image. Of course, you can do these the other way around and then not worry about it. And there are other approaches to setting these up that can sometimes be a bit more concise. But I just find this way is a little bit more clear. So if you're new to the patterns, hopefully it helps you understand exactly how they're working for the zigzag. The first thing we're going to do is have a transparent that's 50 percent and then have an actual color that's the other 50 percent here. And you can see here, this is just that background color that I had here originally. And then what I'm going to do is we'll come here and we're going to say negative 45 degrees to set it so it's actually doing sideways like that. Instead of how we have the other one creating bars, we're creating triangles, I guess. And that made me think of something that could have been useful a few days ago, but that's okay. And just really fast, I am breaking these down over multiple lines just to make it a little bit easier for readability. During the tutorial here, because I don't like word wrap and stuff. And if not, we're side scrolling, which is terrible for demos and everything. But you can write this all along one line, no problem. Now, the way I've set this up at the moment, it's actually doing, you know, we're splitting it right in half, but we could actually change these points here to be a 75 percent and a 75 percent. And it's going to push that triangle up a little bit because we're basically saying, you know, we have the negative 45 degrees on there. So we're turning it around. It's going 75 percent transparent. And then the last little bit here is going to be filled in with that color. And then what I'm going to do is actually copy this entire gradient that we have here. And we're going to put it in, including the comma after there four more times. So we have four gradients going on. And I'm just going to rotate each one around a little bit. And you can see now because we've rotated it differently, we're getting the triangle up there. And then we want a negative 135 and then a positive 135. And the order of these really doesn't matter. But basically it puts a triangle in each corner or gives us sort of this interesting pattern that we have right there. And it's just basically about having the four gradients creating a triangle on each side. Now, as we saw with that first one at the beginning, if we add in a background size on this background size, I'm just going to say four rem, four rem. It's already going to create sort of an interesting checkerboard pattern right here. And the reason I'm doing four rem, four rem is it's doing, if I just, that's kind of interesting too, I guess, but we want to repeat it on both axes. And we could do something even kind of weirder if I put a comma here, two rem, two rem, let's say. Look at that, that's kind of cool. But basically this is going to be used for all of them until I actually declare something else. And if I declare a second one, I think this one is actually getting used for, you know, this would be for my first one here. And then we're repeating that one for all the other ones. So you could have different background sizes for all of them. But for a zigzag, we're going to stick with this. Now in the previous one, we looked at how we can do background size differently. But one thing we didn't use is setting up background positions. So let's go background position next. And we can move these around a little bit, which is kind of interesting. So because I used four rem for the size, I'm going to move the first one over by two rem, and then I'm going to say zero. And then I'm going to move the next one over by the same amount. And then for the other ones, we're just going to do a zero, zero, zero, zero to keep them in the same spot. And look at that, we get a zigzag pattern. Now, if I just do one of them, you can actually, you can get some interesting stuff coming in here, obviously, by playing around with these numbers. But when we're moving them around, you're just taking those triangles that we created and you're sort of shifting them over. So I want to take those first two that were set up, and we're effectively just shoving them over a little bit. And it creates this kind of cool pattern that works really well. And really, the important thing for the zigzag is this, the offset here is half of whatever your background size is. So if I had, you know, if I needed a bigger zigzag, we could put that up and I could increase this to be half. And then you get the same thing. This could be a really good use case for custom properties. So you're just updating one using a couple of calyx and everything just works really well. And of course, you could get really funky and muck around and get sort of these interesting things going on with different stuff just by playing around with the numbers and seeing the types of things that you can create along the way as well in, you know, changing your zigzags, playing around with stuff by updating these values and seeing what happens. And just before we move on to the next one, I just want to say really quickly that I had to do a lot of learning to really figure out how this was working. And so there's a lot of sort of research and articles and stuff. So I have linked down below to a lot of the resources I used in learning how to set these up. I do want to give full credit to the resources I did because I didn't figure out all of this on my own. So if you'd rather do reading and, you know, you prefer blog posts over videos, those are all linked in the description. And with that out of the way, let's get on over to our pluses. So we're going to move down to this section three and we can scroll this down to this next part as well right here. And we can get started on this. So here again, I'm just putting a base background color, whatever color you would want could work really, you know, should work perfectly fine. And we're going to jump in once again, of course, we're going to need a background image. So we can throw that in there. As you guessed, we're going to have a gradient on here. So for this first gradient here, I'm doing the same trick that we just looked at where before we were doing 50%, but now I'm only doing 0.5 REM. So we're moving down 0.5 REM and then we just have transparent for the rest of it like that. And then what we're going to do is we're going to put a comma and bring in the exact same gradient. But the difference with this one is we'll rotate it 90 degrees and what that's going to do is if I don't break my gradient there, we have fixed it. So in this second one, you can see that it's just turned 90 degrees for being the exact same thing, but from the left to the right instead of from up to down. And now the fun part starts with how we can repeat this. And as you might guess, the trick for this is the background size. And up until now, we're only using linear gradients, but we're going to get into other sorts of gradients through this as well. And through this, we've so far, we've only looked at linear gradients. But we will be looking at radial as well as conic gradients because both can be super useful at creating some interesting stuff. And we're going to sort of step our game up a little bit as we go through these. So for this one, I'm going to come in with a 5RAM and 5RAM value just to give myself a grid like this. And maybe that's already the thing that you want to set up. And it could be interesting. You could play around with that, create almost like a grid paper grid effect with this type of thing as well. So yeah, there we go. That already looks kind of cool. But now we can create some pluses with this. And this is where things get a little bit strange in a sense on how we're going to do this. And it requires some creativity in thinking about how we can actually create these types of things by creating patterns and overlaying other patterns and stuff. So the first step for this is bringing in a radial gradient. And I've made it really bright and sort of in our faces. We can understand what's happening right now. We're going to change the colors on this to make it all work. So I'm doing a radial gradient. I'm saying it's a circle. Now, because we have a background size, it's declared and it's actually the same, you know, it's five and five. So they're the same. These are always going to stay perfect circles. But if I change this to say five and one, where it's maybe we'll do a five and three, you can see these are still perfect circles, even though my squares are now rectangles behind it. If we didn't have the circle in there, they would also smush.  But basically we're saying that we have a circle. It's transparent in the middle. So we have transparent for one rem. And then after that one rem, we're just going to a solid color. So we're just creating this circle that's right there. Now, what I actually want to do is move these circles to somewhere else. So what we're going to say is background position once again. And for the positioning of this one, it's a little bit interesting because we want to move it over. And basically I want to line it up. So it's always around this part where they intersect. So to be able to do that, I want to take half the size of my background size here, which would be 2.5. But I also want to take half the size of this because if not, it's going to be off by a little bit. So we need half the size of that, half the size of that. Again, custom properties using calcs could make this just much more adaptable. But we're going to stick with solid numbers for this one just to make it a little bit easier for everyone to read. So on that, we need a 2.75 rem and a 2.75 rem. And I'm just going to do 00 for the other ones to ensure that my other lines don't actually move. And now you can see that those circles are perfectly lined up where these are crossing over. And you might be saying, Kevin, I don't understand why we're doing all of this. But if I take my background color now and I replace this trend, the bright pink with my background, then I get some pluses. Now, let's say you don't like that they're lining up here along the edge like this or along the top. You'd rather them start a little bit offset. We could update these values here. So let's just say we'll grab both of these at the same time. We'll say we do a 2.5 rem and a 2.5 rem offset. If you do this though, you have to add that number to what we have here. So that should be a 5.25 then. And by doing that, we're just sort of offsetting everything a little bit. It happens to work perfectly with my screen size right now that it's fitting within here, but that is a little bit of luck just because it's a background image that's repeating. So of course, sometimes it will be cut off somewhere along the way. Maybe you could use viewport units for everything to try and get it to always sort of scale around and stuff. It could be worth the effort. It depends on the type of thing you're creating. And of course, right now, I'm also using really bright colors. You can do this as a really subtle background effect. You can keep these much closer together with smaller background sizes and stuff. So it's just more of a subtle pattern. But to really see what's going on, I am using bright colors for these. Now, just like in the other ones where we played around the background position and I got some really interesting effects, you of course could continue to play around with that or you could come in and play around with your background size. They're all the same right now. But I could come in and actually say that that first one has a smaller background size on it. One ram, one ram. And then we have the other ones and you start coming into some really interesting or creative things. So for example, if we did two ram, two ram for the circles and then one ram, one ram for the other ones. And so you get sort of these fun creative patterns just by mucking around either with the background size or the background position. And if you're trying to come up with these, having the overlaying layers as transparent is always sort of interesting or not interesting, useful. So like not using solid colors just so you can sort of see how things are moving can be really helpful. And just really importantly, my radial gradient did come first. I don't think I mentioned this at the beginning. But if we're layering things on top of each other, the first one is always the one that's like closest to the viewer. So it's overlaying sort of, you know, we're going deeper and deeper as we go. So just this is the one that will be covering this which will be covering that one. Always important to remember. But yeah, I think that's kind of fun. I'm going to put this back to the pluses for now just because that was sort of the purpose of that one. But you can see same idea, completely different result. And now we can move down to the next one which is our section for right here. So for this one, I'm going to use a radial gradient. And again, I'm putting circle here just to make sure that it doesn't get weird oval shapes on it. We're doing our transparent in the middle. So one ram transparent. And then we have the rest of it filling up with this color right there. So we could actually do this by having multiple radial gradients like we saw before where we have multiple gradients and to build like concentric rings if we wanted to but we could do it all with one.  What I could do is take this same color that we have right here and on that one we could say that this is going up to three ram because the difference between one and there is two. And then let's just come in. I'm just going to use steel blue as an example color. And we're going to say that steel blue starts at three. So we get transparent up to one. Then starting at one all the way up to three, we have the light color we have here. And then we get the steel blue and I can continue that out. I could say steel blue goes up to five ram and then we have transparent that starts at five ram. And we get that type of thing going on which is kind of interesting. We could do a little bit more with this of course but we can get this already to be a little bit more interesting if we come in and we add like usual a background size. So if I start this and this is going to be kind of weird if I start this with a 10 ram 10 ram and I just get that repeating itself as you'd sort of expect. And let's say I went up to 20 and that would sort of work as well but maybe going well, okay, why were they stuck together before and now they're not? And it's sort of how I'd set all of this up basically and because I'm using ram units here so I'm using a fixed number rather than a percentage or a viewport unit or something. It's not worrying about, it's a saying like we're doing one, then we have plus two. So that's a three total. Then we're going all the way to five. So if we're going all the way to five, well that means we have a 10 total. So going all the way up to five with a 10 total means if I have 10 as my background size they repeat themselves like this. Where this gets kind of more interesting is let's just drop one of these numbers to a smaller value and maybe this one could be a three and it probably wasn't what you were expecting right there. But it gets kind of you know and I can pull these closer together. Of course, whoops, that would should have been a three to get dots like that because I'm only seeing the transparent part to that and we're not seeing the steel blue coming out of it. Now I've updated this really quickly just doing going up to the 1.5 here and you can see we're sort of getting this ring pattern. So I'm just doing transparent to this color and actually let's take this background size off. So basically I just get this here right. So we have transparent for one rem then we have the 0.5 rem here and then it goes back to transparent. So with a background size on there using three because it's double this we get these rings like this. Where this is kind of interesting though is this circle. I can actually move where the circle is within sort of this space that we have here. So I can say and actually know what we'll do we'll turn off the background size because this will make it more obvious. I'm going to say at 100% 50% and when I do that so it's moving it all the way over to here where we only see that half of it. Kind of interesting right and I can do this as a negative 50%. So now if I bring my background size back in I'm going to get that repeating itself over and over and over again. And so here just really fast if I update that we go back to having the circles. The default is 50 50. So what I'm saying is we're moving all the way over and we're starting at like 100% of the way over to the right and so the gradient is sort of coming out toward the left by doing it this way. And what we can do with that is come in and I'm going to copy this gradient that we have right here and I'm going to put my comma. Whoops. And we'll put the comma there and paste this back in. I don't have formatting on so let's just do that really fast. But what I want to do for this one is started at the zero side instead and it goes back to the circles. So you might be wondering well Kevin what's the point of this we had this already. Now right now the three and three gives us this but what I actually want to do is move things around a little bit. So I'm going to change this three here to a five and that's going to give us more space because we have extra space up and down basically. And the reason I want to do that is because I want to move one of these. So what I'm going to do actually just so we can see what I'm moving let's change this color a little bit from a we'll just make that an F just so we can see like one side their opposites and what I want to do is slide the pink one down. So if I want to slide the pink one down we're going to say background position. The first one can stay at zero zero and then the next one I want to move it down. This is my X. This is my Y. So I want to move my let's just try a negative one and it's not going to be quite enough but you can see it is moved or it could be positive one to move down and we need to move it down enough to line up with this next one. And for that it just means we're going to move it by 2.5 and look at that they line up and then of course if the colors were the same right then we get it looking like a wavy pattern which is really really cool and if I change my background size this way we can just add like more and more space between them basically to play around with that of course play with your sizes different things like that which would involve updating background positions and everything so percentages for this could also make it a little bit more obvious or using custom properties once again the important thing here is the background position is based on the background size that I'm using here and the background size that I'm using here is based on the size of the actual circles that we're creating we were doing them they're three big each but then we have the 0.5 RM so it's actually two and a half big each really to get them to line up properly so the two and a half plus you know plus two and a half is five so that happens to work because you might think that it would have to be six but then they can never quite reach each other though that does mean you can do kind of cool things like this as well and then maybe play around with different settings to get interesting stuff going on once again but I'm going to bring that back to just being some waves like we had originally maybe I will space though it a little more because it's a little bit busy so something like that could be interesting and just before we do jump onto the next one I want to say that all of these could actually be animated we have app property now which really opens up the doors to doing stuff like that so I don't want to jump into that in this video but I just want to say like not only can we do creative patterns we can do creative animated patterns as well which is really really interesting but this is sort of the building blocks we'd want to build upon to create them and now let's move on to our last one so we can scroll down to this section right here and scroll on down in our CSS and get started so for this one once again background image and we can actually we're going to use a conic gradient that looks like this and a lot of the other stuff we've done so far you could actually do with conic gradients conic gradients are for pattern creation are absolutely crazy but people generally aren't as familiar with them so I wanted to sort of look at this things people are more familiar with to start with and basically conic gradient means start at that color here and spin around until you get to the other one in this case I'm using transparent but if I red or whatever it spins around and gets eventually to the red and then you get this big harsh line and yeah they're kind of cool I have a video where I went into a lot of depth with them so I'll put a card in case you've never played with them before but we can do some crazy stuff with gradients with them so the first thing we can do is just like everything else we've been doing so far you can change sort of the positioning of it but because it's dealing with the way it spins around something you can do it in degrees so I'm going to say 60 degrees and 60 degrees here and we're doing the same thing we did before we're starting at the original point we're going 60 degrees with this color and then we're doing transparent the rest of the way around so it gives us this sort of triangle thing like this which is sort of what we want to start with now like other gradients as well you can say like starting from top left or give it the positions like we saw the circle we gave it a starting point we can do that here we can do a from and I'm about 150 degrees and that's going to give us a triangle right on the bottom like that and basically it's just if we take off these 60 degrees that we have right here take that off take that off it's just moving where this first line is we're spinning that first line all the way down to 150 right so if I change this to 100 we're just going to sort of spin less and so it's just where that line starts from we have the 60 degrees in there so from we're adding from 150 adding 60 degrees and it gives us this triangle now another interesting thing with this just like we saw with the circle before where we're doing we use the at I can actually use the at to move where this middle point is rather than you know so we spun around but where should this middle be so the default is 50% but then we can also move around so I can say 30% and you can see it moves up or I can make this 70% and it's going to move down so I'm going to put it back up to 30% for now just so we have a bit of a bigger triangle and guess what just like before we can come in with our background size and I can come in with a number and it gives us this which is kind of cool this is sort of if you had transparency set with a background you had this like right at the top of your thing you know you can give yourself one of these types of shapes along the top of an element if you needed to in a very simple way but of course then I could come in with another three rim and then we get triangle patterns there we go so you know it's kind of weird that something that spins around like that can create a triangle pattern like this but there we are I think it looks pretty good and you can play around with your numbers and your spacing and everything as usual to play around with how the triangles look now what we can do here once again and as usual we can make this a bit more interesting by coming in with a second conic gradient or other gradients I guess would work as well and let's change the color on this one and so now I'm coming with this really bright green color right there and they're overlapping each other but of course then I can rotate this one around to be the other side and now it's on top going downwards but we want to sort of what I want to do is sort of position it a little bit differently so this number say what's like really tiny and basically they're both meeting at the 30% point they're both meeting like right in the middle right there but we can take this number and I could make it a bit bigger so it's going much further down and this one is on top because of where it is maybe we'll do 60 on this one actually just make it a little bit tinier than the other one and now what I could do is come in with my background position and I could offset them a little bit which makes things a little bit more interesting so my background position here the first one I guess we could leave it where it is is 00 and then we can move this next one over by a 1.5 rem and a 0 and in doing that we get this coming in there and that's happening because we've moved over half of the total distance so it's giving us sort of this type of thing going on but what I could also do is I could move up and down so I could do a 0.5 rem here and I could move it let's do a negative 0.5 rem and look at that we sort of get these bigger triangles and smaller triangles all interlocking with each other and I don't know what happened there there we go so we're sort of just shoving it up a little bit so we get the space that's on top of this as well because these blue ones have been moved and offset a little bit there and of course you know playing around with this number is going to change the overall effect of it and you can come up with all sorts of different things but the 0.5 with the sizes that I have used here work really well and of course you could come in and play with these numbers as well and come up with different sorts of patterns and all sorts of interesting things it's crazy the types of stuff you can do just by mucking around and playing with one of the values along the way for background size and background position on these to create really interesting stuff and what's really cool with this is now that we have app property all of these can also be animated as well so there's really exciting things there I don't want to go into it in this video but something that I might look at in the future and as I just said a bit earlier if you're not familiar with conic gradients I do have a video where I go in-depth on them so that video is right here for your viewing pleasure and with that I would like to thank my neighbors of awesome Michael, Simon, Tim and Johnny as well as all my other patrons for their monthly support and of course until next time don't forget to make your corner the internet just a little bit more awesome


Good morning and welcome to the Monday market update with me, David Madden. Today's date is Monday the 17th of February 2020 and the time is just gone, 1010 GMT. And it's been a fairly positive start to the European trading session. The major European indices are showing slight gains, very modest gains, but the gains that we're seeing in Europe at the moment are relatively small to the fairly large gains that we saw in China. Essentially, given the deepening health crisis in relation to the coronavirus in China, the Chinese authorities have come out and made it clear that they're going to go down the route of supporting the economy. So there's talk that the people's bank of China, the Chinese central bank, is going to inject further liquidity into the market. On top of that, there's also talk about a tax cut being proposed as well as a way of encouraging economic activity. And it's not just China that this is going on in relation to governments intervening. There's also talk that Singapore, the government of Singapore is also going to have some sort of stimulus package in relation to, potentially in relation to cutting taxes as a way of assisting the economy. And with this, we did see a decent move to the upside in Chinese stocks overnight. And that positive sentiment has all flowed over to the European session, although the gains in Europe are fairly small. Also, in the last 24 hours, 48 hours, we had some pretty awful growth figures out of Japan. In the fourth quarter, the Japanese economy contracted on a quarterly basis by 6.3%, which is quite sizable. Much worse than the contraction of 3.7%, that was expected. So this was driven by a consumption tax that helped really clobbered growth in the last three months of 2019. And with such a deep contraction in growth, there's already kind of chatter about, could we be potentially looking at a recession in Japan? It's all the big stories over the past 24 hours, 48 hours. Today's trading session is going to be fairly quiet. The European markets are going to be fairly quiet. This is because in the US, they have a public holiday. It's President's Day, so the New York Stock Exchange is closed. And whenever you have a European trading session with the US closed, trading volumes and volatility are tend to be very low. So today's session is likely to be fairly quiet. But keep in mind the strong gains that we saw in Asia overnight, in China, particularly, should translate into kind of a positive sentiment for the rest of the trading week. Well, quickly now, take a look at the big events of the week ahead. The weekly article can be found on our website, cmsomarkets.com, under insights, under news and analysis. This is where you'll find the article. Take a quick run through of the major corporate stories and economic events of the week, and then look at some of the big, most popular markets, indices, currencies, and commodities. So today, well, to my technically speaking, because it's an Australian, it's a jewellery, a jewellery company. PHP have first-time figures. They'll be out at nighttime, UK time or Monday morning on the morning of Tuesday the 18th of February, morning time out of Australia. Tomorrow, we will have the full year figures from HSBC. This is going to be interesting because the bank makes a large portion of its money from the far east, giving us going on in relation to the health crisis in China, and also the political unrest in Hong Kong in recent months. That's going to be of interest. On the next few days, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, we have quite a few important economic indicators of the UK. We've got employment wages, we have retail, we have CPI, and also we have retail sales. On Wednesday, we'll have Canadian CPI. On Wednesday, we will have the minutes from the Federal Reserve meeting last month, where rates were kept on hold, meeting expectations. On Thursday, we have full year figures from Lloyds. We have full year figures from Anglo-American. On Friday at the back end of the week, we'll have the very different flash manufacturing and service PMI reports from basically the major European economies and also the US. And then also, finally on Friday, we'll have first quarter figures from DEAR. You might know them as the Frederick John Deere tractors and what I view. We'll take a look now at what's going on on the FTSE 100. So broadly speaking, in the last few months, the FTSE 100 has been pushing higher. But the FTSE has definitely underperformed, compared to, say, some of the stock markets of Europe and particularly those of the US. The FTSE 100 has a disproportionately large amount of exposure to mining stocks and oil and gas stocks. And with that, because they've been clobbered on account of what's going on in the fierce round in China, the FTSE 100 hasn't done as well. I say the DAX or the S&P 500, which should be coming onto in a minute. So the broad trend, after the last number of months, since October onwards, has been at the upside. But we can see here, the FTSE 100 is back below the blue line here, the 50 moving average in around 7,500. In around 7,500. If you can hold above this red line, the tourney moving average, which comes to play at 7,366, if you can hold above that, it's likely that the wider upward trend could continue. I should that be the case. We could, like, retesting the mid-fabrile highs here in around 7,562. And if you go beyond that, we could, like, be targeting this area here, excuse me, in around 7,600. If, on the other hand, we do have a size of break below the tourney moving average here, this red line here, that could set us back towards the late January lows in this area here, in around 7,232. And if you go beyond that, we could be heading back down towards 7,200. Notice how we differ a bit of consolidation in that zone of the past. So it makes it more likely that area will be of importance in the future. Over in Germany, the tax is in very good shape, not a million miles from all-time higher territory. This is what I mean about how the FTSE is languishing in comparison to the tax and also the S&P, which I'll show you in a few minutes. So if you take a look at the price action throughout February with the aggressive sell-off on the back of the coronavirus fears from early February onwards via the Chinese authorities assisting the Chinese economy. We've seen a jolt higher in the tax. It's been driving higher. We've set all-time highs. We're not too far away from all-time highs at the moment. So if we do press on higher from here, we could be targeting $13,800, $900, and then, of course, $14,000 would be the next big psychological number. Should we see a pullback in the stock, support could be found in this zone here down around $13,640 down to $13,600. And even if you go below that, the upward trend is still likely to be in play. If you do go below that, this area here, in around $13,400, could potentially act as support. We can see in a few occasions, that area, or maybe just south of it, acted as support in the past, so it makes it more likely that that area will be of importance in the future. It's only really, I think, a slice of break below this blue line here, the fifth of the moving average, could then we begin to think, maybe the wide-ropper trend has come to an end. I'll take a look at what's going on in the US. Like I said, US stock market, the actual equities will remain closed today as of present day, but the futures are trading for a number of hours, but I suspect volumes are going to be low and trading ranges are going to be narrow. But this is another good example of how strong the US markets are. It's only last week, we're setting all the tile highs on the likes of the Dow Jones, so we're still very much in the kind of strong upward trend. If you do press on higher from here, we could look at retesting the recent all-time high in around 29,506 there, thereabouts at best sort of zone. And if you press on higher beyond that, we could be targeting 29,607,800, so on and so forth. If you do look to have a fairly decent move to the downside, support could come into play in around 29,000 or the mid-February lows in around 28,924. And even if you go below that, the 50 moving average, this blue line here in around 28,770 there, thereabouts, that could potentially act as support as well. I'll take a look now at the S&P 500. It's a fairly similar position, where it's in an all-time high recently, and the wider upward trend is still very much in play. So the upward trend is still very much in play, but the next big level to watch out for will be 3,400. Should you see a pullback from these levels, support could be found in around this area, 3,360, down to 3,350, there, thereabouts. And it's essentially why we hold above this area, 3,300. If you can hold above that metric, it's likely that the wider upward trend is gonna continue. And even if you don't, even if you break below that, this blue line here, the 50 moving average, acted nicely as support in late January, early February. So even if you head below 3,300, we could look at finding support from this area here, the 50 moving average, and that comes into play in around 3,265. So we'll take a look at some big currencies now, currency pair starting off at the Euro dollar. The Euro had a pretty terrible week last week. Last week, Euro dollar fell to its lowest level since May 2017. So we're not too far off, a three year low on Euro dollar. And to be honest, there was no real kind of catalyst that really kind of sparked that massive sell off. It was possibly more down the dollar strength, but it just got chipped away and chipped away. And as we can see the last few months, since basically the end of December, it has been a nice example of the downward trend on the Euro dollar. Like I said, we hit over a two and a half year low, nearly a three year low on Friday. We have much to rebound, this ever saw slightly amount of ground. If we can hold above the Friday's low, we could see a better profit taking, push the market higher from here. We could head back up towards 109, or this area here in that one spot, 0925 as a potential area of resistance. But keep in mind, like I said, we hit a level last seen in May, 2017. So the trend is clearly pretty much to the downside. So if we do press a lower from here, we could be lucky heading back down towards one spot, zero weight. Aturcal look now, what's going on on the pound versus the US dollar. We saw a decent increase in volatility last week on the shock announcement. That said, David stepped down as chancellor of the exception in the UK. And the new chancellor is the relatively unknown, Rishi Sunak. And it's, initially there was a negative reaction to the news, but then afterwards, traders took the view that Mr. Sunak is probably more likely to be influenced by Boris Johnson. And, you know, there's been speculation that Prime Minister Johnson is keen to have some sort of spending spree, some sort of Trump style spending spree to kind of reinvigorate the British economy. A lot of uncertainty is hanging over the British economy in relation to the UK and leaving the European Union. And the question still remains, what's the relationship going to look like with the European Union app in the transition period? So there's talk, excuse me, Prime Minister Johnson wants to kind of have some sort of a spending spree. And Mr. Sunak could be the man to deliver that via the budget with the due out next month. So we can see here, even when we did have a move to the downside recently, this day last week on a pound dollar, it received support nicely from the one-third day movie average along here. This is the other line. While we hold above that, we could look to continue to press on higher. I should be pressing higher from here. We could be looking at retesting this area here in just north of one spot 32. And the movie on that could take us up towards the late December highs in one spot 32, 84. But on the flip side, if you do take out the lows on the scene on the 10th of February, we could head back down towards this area here in around one spot 27, 68. I'll take a look now at some of the big commodities, starting off with gold. So gold hit a multi-year high at the beginning of the year. At large, you've been trading range balance in the same. But still, as you can see here, the wider train, this is very much in play. So if we do press on higher from here, we could be looking at retargeting the highs of early February in around 1593. And the movie on that could take this potential towards 1600. If you do drift lower, support might be found in this zone here in around 1560. And even if you go above that, support could be found from this area here, the lows of mid-January in around 1536, which actually coincides with this blue line here, the fifth of the movie average. And notice all that metric active nicely as both resistance and support in December. And the metric has been important in the past. It makes it more likely it'll be important in the future, although there are no guarantees. And lastly, I should come on to the oil market. And oil has had a terrible time recently. China is the largest importer of the energy in the world. And with all the fears surrounding what's going on, the coronavirus, traders have been very worried that China's demand or appetite for oil is going to dwindle. So we've seen some major declines in all of the last few weeks, although we do appear to be staging something of a comeback. So if you take a look here, we fell on the last week, we saw levels that work at 13 month lows are clearly very bearish, but we did see a fairly decent rebound in the last week. We did see a fairly decent move to the upside on the unbrained crude oil. I'll take a look at it on a weekly chart and see what it looks like there. So this candle here has the potential to be a bullish weekly reversal. So we could look to get a press on higher from here, and should that be the case, we could head back control with the kind of psychology important 60 bucks a barrel. We can also see that this red line here is the 200 week moving average because I'm looking at the weekly chart. That metric acted nicely as a support on a few occasions and resistance as well. So that metric in a 60 spot 86 might, could potentially be an area for resistance should be pressed on higher from here. So keep a line of that. If on the other hand, if the market doesn't manage to kind of a full rebound, perhaps it could just kind of push a few dollars higher before it turns over on itself and then falls back into the wider downward trend. It should be fall lower from here. It could take us back to this zone here in round 53 spot 76. And below that, could take us back down towards the 52 area. That was Brent crude. It's a similar ish looking story with WTI similar story here whereby we've had a creta sell-off between early January until early February, but we have been rebounding higher from here. We can see a steady increase in positive momentum. So if the market does manage to push on higher, we could look at targeting this zone here in round 54 in the near term should the rebound continue. But if market does manage to turn over on itself yet again, we could look at heading back below 51, back below 50 and pitch it down towards the lowest scene beginning of the month in around 49 spot 29. And if you go beyond that, we could look in the head down towards 49 and 48, so on and so forth. That is this for this video of this particular week. Have a good trading week and good luck.


Hi. I'm Linda Quinlan. I'm Keith Ghostland. I'm Ann Charles. Welcome to All Things LGBTQ. It is Tuesday, September 24th and we have a lot of news ahead. Starting with Linda's headlines. Alrighty. My headlines are poses.  We'll have a little more about that. Tell me you have pictures. I have a picture. Oh, good. Oh, I know. But I'm going to show it with the story. Gay skydiver Don Zorda is dead, but his legal fight could alter history. That's another story. And then highlights of the advocate's historic LGBTQ presidential forum in Iowa. Oh, yes. Did you watch it? No. Oh, it was really good. Three hours. Well, it's YouTubed, right? Two and, yeah. Yeah, you too. Two hours and 15 minutes. Jonathan Van Ness of Queer Eye reveals he's living with HIV, anti-gay church in Florida, and um, Saturday Night Live fires cast member for using racial slurs. And homophobic slurs. Well, we'll get to that. Okay. Phoenix, Arizona in a 43 opinion. The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Phoenix based brush and nib studio. We'll have more about that. Robert Destro was confirmed for the State Department position. We'll talk about that a little bit.  They were held hostage in a church by their family. And so we'll have more about that. So that's my basic headlines. Okay, but they're free now. They are free. And where was this? Um, it was in, um, Blackwell, Oklahoma. So a hotbed of progressive liberalism. So on to you. So before we totally forget to do it, this week's trivia question, September 1988 out in the mountains, front page story, talking about a new queer holiday. What was it? So and then I'm going to do an entire section just talking about events coming up. There may be some that are very exciting. And then we're going to have a little conversation about Bernie. Oh, and we might talk a little bit about the advocate forum and power of our pride. And Bernie's campaign response, Bernie's campaign response. All right, are you going to talk about the trans woman? Oh, aren't we just okay. So we also might want to talk about the Vermont Catholic diocese and why do we have to maybe a little stab here and there because it will make Professor Charles happy about how their great revelation and disclosure may have been not so great and not so revealing. And we're going to talk about Maine because we've got to have some good news and there's really good news coming out of Maine.  Well, we'll see. My hope. We haven't gotten to that election. That's 2020. And then we're going to talk a little bit about, oh, and I can't believe we're doing it again, bathrooms and pronouns because you all know the fun I have with pronouns. Well, I got a lot. It is as follows. Trans Pride March in London, the first ever. A Welsh rugby legend, Gareth Thomas reveals his HIV diagnosis and I have a clip of that, it's very moving. Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv, holds the first gay Pride March ever. Security risks force cancellation of Montego Bay Pride. Jamaica once again is proving itself to be deplorable, at least to city fathers in this case are. Off the vacation list. You know it. Hasn't been on for a long time. No. Murder in Tashkent, the killing of a gay man, spotlights the plight of the Uzbek LGBTQ community. And I'd like to show a picture of this young man now. His name is, was Shokir Savkatoff. His body was found in an apartment just days after he came out on Instagram. He was 25. Good news and bad news from Nigeria. Rwandan Gospels, I have a little Africa segment. Rwanda's gospel singer comes out as gay to the country, Shok. His name is Albert Nbobinbo. He's 35. Collude your dentures on that one. And I'll show you a picture when we get to this story. Well, I can show you. Let's look at the picture now. He's 35. His coming out has been greeted by a lot of aprobarium, but he feels better. I mean, friends have stopped talking to him. Nobody's, people are afraid to admit that they ever knew him and so forth. Yeah. I'll tell you more about where Rwanda stands. Young Mauritanians, this is good news, seek to challenge the country's sodomy law. There are four young men, part of the queer youth group in Mauritania. They filed suit.  More good refugee news. A trans refugee held by ICE for 20 months has finally been released. I have a picture of her. Her name is Alejandra Barrera. She's from El Salvador. Speaking of El Salvador, I now would like to show you a picture of Bianca Rodriguez, who was named the regional winner for the Americans for the UN High Commission for Refugees, Nansen Refugee Award. She trans champions transgender communities rights in El Salvador and deserves this award. I was going to show you a clip about queer tango in Argentina, but I couldn't pull it up. So we'll have to wait with that. In any event, those are my headlines. Well, thank you, Ann. Well, I'll be waiting for the tango. I know. Just to add, Linda and I read a wonderful novel by Caroline D. Robertis called Last Tango in Brazil. No, Last Tango. All right. Come back to me. Yeah. You'll have to look it up. Yes. It was a very good book, though. Well, let's have a picture of poses Billy Porter. Yes. The Emmys. What a outfit, wasn't it great? And his speech was wonderful. And the category is love. Love. The category is love, y'all. Love. I anticipate. As he took the stage at the Emmy Awards on Sunday, he won for Best Actor in a Drama Series for his role in Pratel. As Pratel. In the landmark FX series. Pose. Will you please be quiet? No. I'm such an eager beaver tonight. Sorry. She's irrepressible. Oh my God. I see. I want to add something, but... Carry on, Linda. Carry on. Oh my God. Oh, sorry. He also won a Tony for his role in Kinky Boots. He quoted James Baldwin well on stage. It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself and half-believed before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here. I have a right to be here. We all have a right to be here. It was beautiful. It was really beautiful. And if I may add something? No. Last? Yesterday. I said no. Linda and I saw a play directed by Billy Porter called The Purists in Boston. Highly recommend it. Yes.  And it was co-hosted by GLAAD, One Iowa, and the Gazette. And it was also hosted by poses Angela Ross. The forum featured conversations with Joe Biden, Cory Booker, Mayor Pete, Julian Castro, Tulsi Gabbard, Camilla Harris, Amy Klobuchar, Joe Sestak, Elizabeth Warren, and Mary Ann Williamson. And guess who's missing from the list? Which you will of course talk about in your segment. Yes, I will. Please watch it on YouTube if you get a chance. It is really, really good. And I think you'll enjoy it. We had some winners, but we're not going to try to influence anybody right. And we thought- Oh, I have strong views. I'm trying to influence people. And an anti-gay church in Flora can be labeled a hate group. Yes. According to a judge, the Southern Poverty Law Center says, Coral Ridge Ministry maligns the entire LGBT community and is deserving of being labeled a hate group. They challenged it and lost in court. Yes. So there you go. Then there was this really strange event in which Dad beats and calls the F-word as this designer after his daughter didn't get to the runway. Did you hear about this? I know. No, I didn't. Tell us. Paul Attu and husband Patrick Simpson threw a charity ball for the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Attu says that around 6 p.m. during the show, a man went backstage and started punching him and calling him names, including Faggot. The designer thought the attacker was angry because his nine-year-old daughter wasn't chosen for the runway. And I read that it was actually the father of someone's daughter who didn't get to walk the runway. The father of the daughter? Well, the father beat up the guy who didn't let his daughter... Right, right, right. I became confused. He became very angry. I was slightly disoriented. And Duke University rejects a group over its homophobic policies. Young life applied for official recognition but was refused. The Christian groups, national rules prohibit any participants that are living a homosexual lifestyle from volunteering or to hold any positions. And student government rejected the group's application because their stance on homosexuality conflicts with their non-discrimination policies. May I pause now and correct myself? The title of the novel is The Gods of Tango. Right. It's highly recommended by us. So continue tangoing. So looking at events coming up, even when it's not her, I hear voices. So someone who might be one of our favorite poets on September 30th, seven o'clock, the Lamp Shop, North Winooski Avenue in Burlington, and then at our own Kellogg Hubbard on November 4th at 7 p.m., you might get to hear some lovely verse read to you. And maybe some that will be a little unsettling. You can never tell. Maybe. Other events going on. If you're watching this, you're not at the out in the open summit. That's true. It's coming up this next weekend. Oh, which is when, I'm just, she is irrepressible and Zach will have to take her under control.  So they will be at the summit. So they will report back. The Pride Center, please go to their Facebook page. It's a public Facebook page. You don't have to subscribe to Facebook. They are in collaboration with the Vermont Department of Health who are trying to do an LGBTQ plus health survey. The other thing looking at coming up in the future on October 3rd, the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules is going to be looking at the Medicaid formulary and gender affirmation procedures. My concern is that looking at the list of excluded practices are still some that, depending on the individual case, may actually be essential and best practices. So if you have an interest, you can either submit testimony in person or in writing. And the LGBTQI Alliance of Vermont is finally trying to truly conduct outreach and public forums. There is one scheduled already for Brattleboro on November 8th, one in Bennington on November 9th. There is one to be confirmed maybe as I am sitting here for St. Johnsbury. Rainbow Umbrella may be asked to sponsor another forum and Momentum has already scheduled or looking at a date in late October. So, well let me begin by apologizing to my colleagues. You just saw I corrected him and I was wrong. I wouldn't let Linda deliver her headlines. I just am a smarty pants today, but I do apologize. I deeply respect you both. This may mean she's paying for dinner. All right. Let's talk about the trans march in London. Hundreds of people, there were more than 1,500 people. They filled London streets. It was the first ever march. The organizer Lucia Blakie said the sun is out and the sky is blue. If you look at everyone's faces, it's just big smiles for trans people. It's a lot different being out in public. Usually we're scared. We're having things shouted at us. We're humiliated and just really embarrassed. Social interactions aren't usually that relaxing. So today is all about being together in public and keeping each other safe and uplifted. It's the one day we're not outcast. So I have a picture of that celebration before you now. Sticking in that part of the world, I'd like to go to the Welsh rugby legend, Gareth Thomas, who is an ex-British Lions captain, believed to be the first UK sportsman to go public about living with the virus.  He's thought to be the—he's revealed that he was driven to suicidal thoughts as a result of his diagnosis. He told the Sunday Mirror, I've been living with this secret for years. I felt shame and keeping such a big secret has taken its toll. I was in a dark place feeling suicidal. I thought about driving off a cliff. To me, wanting to die was just a natural thought and felt like the easier way out. But you have to confront things. He's 45. He's going to be a TV pundit in the upcoming Rugby World Cup. He said he broke down when he got the news of his diagnosis. I went for a routine sexual health test at a private clinic in Cardiff. I didn't feel ill and thought everything was going to be fine. When the doctor said those words, I immediately thought I was going to die. I felt like an express train was hitting me at 300 miles per hour. Then I was thinking, how long have I got left? He won 103 caps and scored 41 tries for Wales between 1995 and 2007. And he's 13th on the all-time international test tri-scoring list. I'm not sure what that means. I don't follow Rugby. Last November, he was attacked in Cardiff City Center in a homophobic hate crime, but he asked instead, rather than charging the 16-year-old assailant, he asked the police to deal with him with restorative justice. He now takes one tablet containing four medications each day. Doctors have said his condition is under control to the point that it's considered undetectable and cannot be passed on. His partner, whom he just met after his diagnosis and married three years ago, does not have HIV. He said he hopes that his openness will help help end the stigma around the condition, adding, I'm speaking out because I want to help others and make a difference. I hope me speaking out about my diagnosis will help a lot of people. And now I have a clip that I'd like to show you of his talking to the world about it. Hello, I'm Gareth Thomas, and I want to share my secret with you. Why? Because it's mine to tell you. Not the evils that make my life hell, threatening to tell you before I do, and because I believe in you and I trust you. I am living with HIV. Now you have that information that makes me extremely vulnerable, but it does not make me weak. Now, even though I've been forced to tell you this, I choose to fight to educate and break the stigma around this subject. And that begins today, when I take on the toughest Iron Man in the world in Tenby, and I push myself physically to the limits. I'm asking you to help me to show that everyone lives in fear of people's reactions and opinions to something about them. But that doesn't mean that we should have to hide. But to do this, I really, really need your support. Very moving. Wow. Let's go to Ukraine, if we may. Around 2,000 people attended the first-ever Gay Pride March in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. 2,000 people were estimated to participate. It was one of the largest events to be held in Ukraine in recent years. Of course, the mayor threatened legal action against the organizers, tried to block them from marching. Conservative activists threatened violence. Many marchers wave rainbow flags and chanted, Kirka for all, security for all, we are equal, we are all different as they paraded. So that's my first segment. There's more to come. So back to national. Saturday night live, fires cast member for using racial slurs. Shane Gillis was fired over a video which surfaced him when he was making offensive remarks, including racial slurs about Chinese people. They cast a new member, and his name is Bowen Yang, and he's the first Chinese gay American to be on the show, and the third out member of Saturday Night Live. Robin Destro was confirmed for a State Department position. He's a Catholic School University law professor, and Trump nominated him to be assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights, and labor. He's against the Equality Act. He criticized non-discrimination protections that allowed transgender people to use the restrooms that corresponded with their gender identity, and he is called for trench warfare with the LGBT community. And the gay couple were violently attacked in a church to turn them straight. Sean Cormy recently came out to his family in Blackwell, Oklahoma. Since then his family has been trying to get him to go to church with his boyfriend, Gary Gardner. So he says, Sean says, well, I went to church to make my mom proud and to make her happy, but what happened when they got there turned out to be a trap. The congregation started saying it's a sin and abomination. You need to wake up. The couple started to leave. Gardner, his Sean's partner, was pushed away. Sean was forced to stay, and he was slammed to the ground by his stepfather. What denomination was this, did you say? I would say evangelical, but I don't know for sure. Twelve and fifteen church members held him down and prayed over him. They were speaking in tongues. I just started crying, Sean said. His sister convinced them to let him go. The police have been contacted. So that sounds pretty bad. Okay. All right. So very quickly there's a lot of conversation that's happening now relative to bathrooms and pronouns. One of the things that of which we should be critically aware is that every time we engage in these types of debates in the public forum, it actually puts our youth at risk because it puts greater attention on them and highlights how they may not fit in with the rest of the student body. Looking at pronouns, Marion Webster has redefined they to include used to refer to a single person whose gender identity is non-binary. I might have to reconsider the Hans designation. The Vermont Catholic Diocese was getting praised for having been forthcoming with a list of priests who had, you know, they were able to substantiate abuse. What's coming out now is they never committed to a course of action in response to that. They never told how many people might have, they did not know. Okay. They, here was the thing people said, oh, this will make it easier for someone to file a civil suit. I would, as a victim survivor, I would still have to file a civil suit. They did not offer a reparation. They also didn't say how many people that might have been involved as victim survivors and they did not identify how many other priests might have had a complaint that was not able to be substantiated. So there we are. Maine, we love Maine. We do. Remember how I said that, you know, citizens initiative and there was one of those groups who were not so progressive thinking that we're looking at filing for citizens referendum on a number of different issues to try and repeal positive legislation that they missed the filing deadline. They didn't have enough signatures so the ban on conversion therapy, the ban on the use of gay or trans panic defenses, it just became law. And finally, Bernie. Yes, Bernie. Angelica Ross at the advocate forum that Linda was referencing called Bernie out about his not being there. He's not going to the other one either. Well, we haven't gotten there yet. Someone who was a part of this panel might have been reaching out to Bernie's campaign for perhaps the last month saying his name is not on the list. And on Friday, the day of the advocate forum, they might have finally issued a statement saying, oh, he had a scheduling conflict. So he is going to miss both of the LGBTQ forums. And what wasn't disclosed in the public accounting is these invitations were extended in March. The advocate interview happened last Friday. The CNN is not scheduled until October 10th. The invitation was extended in March. Instead of being at the advocate, he was at a barbershop. Are we going to talk more about this forum? Yes. The presidential forum? Well, he also, I did a little bit. Not anymore? You're not going to see more? We're running out of time. But he also missed the Black feminist forum also. And one of the things that Angelica Ross had called him out on is he and his campaign were not seeing the intersectionality of issues, LGBTQ people of color, feminist women. And he doesn't like it. He is beyond labor. That's what I heard. I mean, I don't know.  This is not what I expected from someone who issued a proclamation in support of Vermont's first Pride celebration in 1983. My theory is he dismisses it all as identity politics, which is a way he can't afford to do that with this electorate. Well, let's go to Nigeria. Shall we? Do I have to? How much are the tickets? It's not on my bucket list. I'm skipping the Jamaica canceled Pride. We can all figure out what happened there. And in Nigeria, the bad thing was there was an anti-Gate Nigerian group of protesters who demanded harsher laws against LGBTQ plus homophobic Nigerian youth protested this week. Even though a recent survey has shown some progress toward LGBTQ acceptance in the country, Nigeria remains one of the most homophobic countries. A typical display of such ignorance and homophobia came Wednesday in Abuja in a protested spearheaded by the National Youth Council of Nigeria. It focused on a popular former cross-dresser who recently identified as a trans woman. Members of the group who stormed the headquarters of the LGBT group in Abuja held placards that read NYC and the Youth Council of Nigeria is against LGBT. Speaking of the protest, the vice president of the North Carolina north central region of the group said we are here to submit our petition. We want the legislative, the national assembly to please strengthen their legislation and how to nip down all those who are involved in lesbianism and gay activities. We must come to tell the whole world this is not part of our culture. Our culture is about decency. Nigeria's has already has repressive anti-LGBT laws. The same-sex marriage prohibition act calls for prison sentences of up to 14 years for any Nigerian who enters into a same-sex marriage and up to 10 years for anyone who attends or assists a same-sex wedding. It outlaws public display of any same-sex amorous relationship and provides for a 10-year prison sentence for anyone who registers, operates or participates in gay club societies organizations or supports the activities of such an organization. But now I have a good story.  Members of the gay community are excitedly anticipating it. It's called Walking with Shadows based on an award-winning 2005 novel of the same name. Set in the city of Lagos, Ebele Nyoko has been running all his life. A search for acceptance and love from his family has led him to recreate himself with another name, respected father, husband and brother. Suddenly his past secrets have caught up with him. His world begins to crumble as he frantically tries to control the ripple effect of these revelations. Let me show you a clip now. Truth in it. If your personal life is affecting your work and your colleagues. If I had told you about my past, it never would have given me a chance. That is not a decision for you to make. It's good you came. You see, the Holy Spirit spoke to me about you. I remember you. We go way back. Are you doing this to us? I gave you everything. This is a sin.   It's a letter. Something must kill a man. Looks really good. Good one, yeah. Really intense. Do we know if there's going to be a US distribution? I certainly hope so. Right now it's premiering in the British Film Festival. I hope so. It's being shown in the West. I don't know if it's being shown in Nigeria. Probably not. Yeah. A lot of really good writers come out of that area, too. Oh, yeah. Look, how much, may I? You have some more time, yeah. Okay, I'd like to talk about this Rwandan gospel singer and show you his picture again. Alberto Nobibio shot many Rwandans in August when he really revealed in an interview with a Christian YouTube channel that he's gay in a country where such public assertion of homosexuality is unheard of. Although the Central African nation has been relatively free of the anti-gay rhetoric commonly heard in some parts of sub-Saharan Africa, homosexuality is still widely despised and LGBT people keep a low profile.  The reaction he's received, he says, has been horrible. It's so sad to see people you know abusing you. He's an accountant. He had become an outcast at his workplace after he came out. He's afraid he's going to lose his job. Even at home, news of his homosexuality shocked many relatives, although some have been acting tolerant, he said.  This means that many homosexuals are forced to live underground lives to avoid the harsh judgment of society. He was compelled to come out because he could no longer live in denial, he says. I can't talk about gay rights in Africa generally. If you have a minute, you can. A brief synopsis. I wanted to talk a little bit about, I forgot about the Larry, is it Larry Cohn, the FBI guy, or is his first name Cohn? Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn. There's a despicable documentary. Well the documentary isn't despicable, is it? No, but about him, he is, yes. And so there's a documentary and it also ties in with his McCarthy era. Activities. And also that he was a mentor of Trump. Yes, and he was a really legal counsel to McCarthy. He helped to mentor him. And apparently he was the one who said never apologize, never tell the truth. And all of the splendid things, many of the splendid things that our president is showing today. So. That's such a wonderful setup for our interview. And I did hear. Is that, is it true that I just heard before we came in that Nancy Pelosi is going for impeachment? Yes, that's what they said, but. She's announcing it at five o'clock. Okay, we have an interview. Yes, let me introduce it. Our colleague Keith, interviews, you and Bear, you'll see it right now. Hi, and welcome to an interview that I have really been looking forward to. And it's not often that I get to do two interviews in a row with old friends.  Now, you were saying you first came to Vermont in 1977. That's correct. And what brought you here? What drew you to Vermont? What drew me to Vermont? There are the things that that pushed me away from New Hampshire, where I came from, including having been arrested at Seabrook at the Nuclear Power Plant. Thank you. Well, Seabrook was about 15 miles from my parent's house. And that my boss at the University of New Hampshire Library wanted to put a letter of reprimand in my file because I was AWOL for two weeks with and there was 760 something people, including me incarcerated in an armory. And while negotiations went on and there were two telephones, I was not going to spend my one telephone call talking to my boss, even if I could get it during work hours. But so that's the one of the things that drove me away. And one of the things that drew me to was that I had met members of the Redbird Collective who were had bought some land in Heinsberg. And we're trying to build a house and a school and a women's health center. And a yurt. I don't know about a yurt. There was an eight said the house was an eight sided Okay, that may be why I'm thinking yurt. Eight sided house on big, you know, 12 by 12 peers in a floodplain. And it flooded a time or two. We were young. Yes. And we had a lot of energy. And there were no power tools allowed on the land. But I had met them. Yeah. And but that was one of the things that drew me to because some of my housemates wanted to be part of that at that time. And so a bunch of us just came up and started tending we were camping on the land for the whole summer. Now it was not merely a women's collective. It was a lesbian collective. It was a lesbian collective with three children, including two boys. Okay, that must have been challenging. I think it was, but there wasn't a whole lot of discussion about it. It was just a fact of life. You know, there was Lee Zepp's child, Bjorn. And there was another woman's another woman's child who was a toddler. And then there was one another piece of that was that one of the members was being sued for custody by her ex husband of her daughter. Yes. And I'm a little hesitant to mention names because I don't know where these folks are. And sort of where things stand. Yes. I remember. Yes. But that was one of the first custody cases in the United States. And one of the things we did that summer was we all piled into a van, drove to the Michigan Women's Music Festival. We got in for free because we were raising funds for the custody case. And they let a couple of the women from Red Bird speak from the stage and explain during an intermission and explain about the custody case.  You know, it might not be okay everywhere, but in this place, it was going to be okay. And over the years since then, you've taken on a number of different roles. But right now, you're one of the elders of our community. And you're one of our historians or her historians. I want to be very conscious of gender balance. And at times when, you know, what the men's community does supersedes what the women's community does. Or the men's community comes on the tails of the women's community and tries to take credit for work. That's really not theirs. However, where I was going with this, Stonewall 50 rally, you spoke about the women's history in Vermont, and people heard things that they didn't know. So what do we need to do or what has happened that that strong movement that started with Red Bird in Howell seems to have gotten lost? What have we forgotten? Well, Red Bird predated Howell. That I know. Yes. And Howell happened in part because one particular woman who was involved in Common Woman, which was an early newspaper, a volunteer newspaper. For which you may have been an editor and contributor at one point in time. Yes. The same as without the mountains. That's but Common Woman was how I met my wife. And we were two of the people who took responsibility for making sure everything got done. And that some poets who really wanted to arrange their work on the page and left no room for anything else, except lots of white space, that that didn't stand before we went to the printer. Because you can't do that as a volunteer organization with very tight budgets. You just can't. And so. Vermont Woman just did their last issue. That was Vermont Woman. I'm talking about. No, no, no. I know. But Common Woman closed as well. A long time ago. Vermont Woman did. Yeah. Out in the mountains did. Yes. What's happening with our alternative press? What's happening to our voice? Well, it's similar to what's happening to mainstream legacy press, you know, that access to the internet and to interest groups in particular. And Twitter streams and so on. You can find resources that certainly didn't exist back then. And we, I remember without in the mountains, we had our best subscription numbers while civil unions was happening. And then after it passed, they dropped off seriously. And we had less budget. Our voices got co-opted. Well, yeah, it's a similar discussion as to why so many pride parades have so many liquor sponsors. It's because we used to, that was, the bar was the place where we hung out and met each other. And that stopped being true a long time ago. Though it's still true probably in some communities. The question now is, why are there no political speeches at Pride Festivals? But going back to Vermont women's history, what have we forgotten? What do we need to remind ourselves of now? Because certainly on a federal level, we're under incredible threat.  We really owe a lot of our advocacy and our organizing to what the women's community did. So what have we forgotten?  You're not really men. You're not really women. You're somewhere in the middle. Oh, exactly. Yeah. Having grown up in Vermont is the city. Yes. Yeah. But it's from the status as a maybe woman that ranks you down in the hierarchy, in the patriarchy. So what we've forgotten is that sense of community and that sense of if we're not standing arm in arm, we are alone and just totally vulnerable. Yeah, I think so. I mean, there are certainly high roller women among the donors to political campaigns. But I don't know if there are as many of them. I certainly don't hear about them. Neither do I. With few exceptions, the case that established marriage, and I can see the picture of the woman. Edie. Edie, yes. That case exposed one pair of women who obviously were high rollers. I'm sure there are others, but I don't know about them. So we need to engage more politically and not wash our hands of patriarchal dirty politics, I think. And that's a tough one. It's a tough one for me. I am the town vice chair now of my town Democratic Committee. And you were the moderator for town meeting. I have been the moderator for town meeting for three years, but that's a different, that's nonpartisan. And that's okay, but that's still a very public role. Some of the conversations I've had with people recently is looking at what is supposedly our community's agendas and how they're being pushed. And looking at us as sort of grassroots activists, why was it that marriage equality and the right to serve in the military was the issue when there were still 26 states for which, okay, I can now get married, but I'm now going home. And it seems to be talking to what you were just saying.   Yes, you can get married, but as soon as that becomes known, you can lose a lot. Yeah, that's true. I think for me, it's such a mixed bag. We've gained so much and we're in danger of losing so much. And especially in Vermont, where we pioneered civil unions and we were not the first state to do marriage, but we were in the first. The first by legislative process. Yes. I mean, one of the unique things about Vermont that most people forget is other states had achieved their political victories by court litigation.  So Vermont, you know, the right to marry movement in Vermont was very deliberate and about we need, you know, four people every hour at this table at this county fair to be there and be visible and be willing to talk to people because it's by sharing our stories that people realize we're not very different from them. However, there's, you know, there is only, I think I am different, but that's okay. Exactly, that's where I'm going. It's exactly where I'm going. A lot of lesbians, I know we're like, what do you mean we're not different? You know, we are different. We believe differently. We care for each other differently. And how I construct my relationships are different. Yes. And how I view myself in this body and how it relates, it's different. Back in the day, in the late 70s and early 80s, monogamy was a bad word in the lesbian community. I imagine that there were similar feelings among the gay male community. Well, maybe she thinks it's changed. And so marriage was just kind of a, why do we want this? It has so much baggage with it, and most of it's bad. And it's a patriarchal condescending. Some of us called it mahogamy. Exactly. Ownership. It was ownership.  We were going to undo that social paradigm. We were going to dismantle the military machine. So now here we are advocating for. So in our last minute, I know. Choices. I mean, what we were really advocating for was choices. And if one of those choices needed to be in the service and not be thrown out simply because of being gay, then that was a choice we needed to support, because not all of us are radical lesbian feminists. Well, and at that point in time, military service may have been your way out both socially and economically, etc. We have 30 seconds. Okay. So you will come back and we will talk more about anything that I should have asked you that because we had all of that conversation before we started taking your treasure. Well, thank you. You know much of our history and we need to record it. I appreciate that you include me. Some other forums I've had to fight my way into to make sure that lesbian herstory in Burlington does not disappear. As the sister I never had. Thank you. Sure. As the brother I never had. And now we have trivia. That was a great interview. I just adore you. Yeah. So very sweet. Ewan is one of the few remaining elders who truly remembers Vermont, herstory, and all of the components of it that we seem to be forgetting. So out in the mountain, September 1988, a publication of which Ewan might have been the final editor. New Queer Holiday. What was it? Well, if I said the Queer Holiday happens on October 11th and it was the anniversary of the 1987 March on Washington, it might be National Coming Out Day where the challenge was what is the next step for you to take personally in your LGBTQ plus visibility? I got that. So with that, yes. Resist!


Hello and welcome to a summary of all you need to know about Maniza Alvi's poem An Unknown Girl. Now, I'll explain the meaning related to this poem as it appears in the Pearson International GCSE anthology and I'll highlight literary and language devices that you need to be aware of as well as some contextual factors that you need to know when studying this text. So let's get started. Now do remember that Maniza Alvi, who resides currently in Britain, was actually born in Lahore Pakistan and she came to England when she was just a few months old. So what I'll do is I'll read through stanzas within this poem and pause every so often to highlight literary techniques that you need to be considering when analysing this poem. In The Evening Bazaar, studied with Nian, an unknown girl is hennaing my hand. She squeezes a wet brown line from a nozzle. She's icing my hand which she steadies with hers on a satin peach knee. In The Evening Bazaar, for a few rupees, an unknown girl is hennaing my hand. As little air catches, my shadow-stitched chemise, a peacock spreads its lines across my palm. Colours leave the streets float up in balloons, dummies in shop fronts. Now I'll pause there. So the title is really intriguing first off because we wonder who this poem is about. So she's anonymous, she's an unknown girl and it's interesting because this is repeated throughout the poem. Now in the first line of the stanza, the reference to Bazaar is actually a traditional Arabic market. So these are traditional markets which have stalls, usually quite busy, lots of different things that are sold and of course you find them in lots of Arabic countries but also you find them in places like India, Pakistan and so on. Now in the second line there's the reference to Nian. So Nian is something which we consider very modern, very western even. So this colour is actually a contrast to this traditional Bazaar, this traditional environment. So there's a dissonance here. Now the title was repeated, an unknown girl. So there's Anaphora here and it's interesting that although this woman is anonymous, she plays such a central role to the poem. Indeed the poem is named after her. Furthermore, the Anjambamon here after unknown girl emphasises that this is a stream of consciousness. This poem is dramatic monologue. The speaker, who we don't know if it's the poem or somebody else, is recalling and recounting this experience. Now this girl is henna-ing her hand and the alliteration here shows just how unique this experience is for the speaker. Furthermore in line five, the sibilance, she squeezes, emphasises a soft and fluid movement of this henna and of course she also highlights the colour, the wet brown line from a nozzle. Furthermore, the present continuous verb icing describes the action of this girl as if she's icing a cake, she's decorating her hand. Also the speaker tells us she steadies with her, so she steadies the speaker's hands with her own hands and this could be a symbol of how this unknown girl is giving the speaker a stable sense of her identity. Now that question of identity is really interesting because if we consider Manisa Alvy's own background, she herself of course we can assume has struggled with her identity being somebody who lives in the UK but it's from a different culture so sometimes that sense of identity can be quite shaky. Now in this case perhaps even the speaker themselves have a very shaky sense of her own identity. Moreover in line nine, we get the pre-modifiers satin peach and this is a very beautiful aesthetic that's described. Furthermore in line 11, we learn that she's getting this done for a few rupees and the alliteration for and few emphasises and creates the sense that her culture is actually not that valuable. She's only just paying a few rupees to get something that maybe represents her own culture and again there's this anaphora and unknown girl, the title is repeated like a refrain. Now in line 14, as the little air catches, now air is personified here and it shows that the outside world perhaps is encroaching on this encounter. Now in line 15, she refers to her shadow stitched chemise. Now the sibilance shadow stitched highlights that she's in the shadow of knowledge, self-awareness and understanding of her culture so in other words this could be a metaphor for how her knowledge of her culture is quite weak and she then mentions how a peacock spreads its lines and this is a metaphor which refers to how colourful her culture is. Moreover she talks about how colours leave the streets and this personification just highlights how dark it is getting, the external world is getting but also we can see that the world is getting less and less vibrant. Moreover in line 20 she talks about how the dummies are in the shop fronts and this is a reference to the mannequins as you can see in very up market shops and up market establishments so there's kind of a negativity to these mannequins which are fairly western, they are dummies, they're mute and even if they're quite western actually they don't have as much depth as her own culture. So let's carry on. Tilt and stare with the western perms banners for Miss India 1993 for curtain cloth and sofa cloth canopy me. I have new brown veins and the evening bizarre very deftly an unknown girl is hennearing my hand. I'm clinging to these firm peacock lines like people who cling to the sides of a train. Now the furious streets are hushed. Now in this part of the verse she talks about how these dummies tilt and stare and these verbs hint that outsiders or westerners like these dummies perhaps stare at her as she's when she's dressed in her cultural attire they don't understand it. Also her reference to western perms shows the westernization so western culture really encroaching on this really traditional experience that she has and of course what she wants to learn more about her culture and there's this kind of conflict perhaps that's being hinted between western idols that look down on her culture versus her culture which she really respects and sees as vibrant. Also she refers to the banners for Miss India 1993 for curtain cloth and sofa cloth all of this is in this bizarre and this listing adds the busyness and chaos of this scene and this canopies her so what actually this is showing is that she really finds this chaos and this busyness actually very beautiful and really comforting so all this activity just very much comforts her. Moreover this declarative sentence I have new vein new brown veins which of course is a reference to the henna the declarative sentence shows the unknown girl has really taught her more about her culture and identity than she thought was possible. Furthermore in line 30 she refers to how the girl deftly henna's her hand and this adverb shows just how skillful and practised her movements are of course this could also be a metaphor for how in tune with her culture this unknown girl is. Also the repetition of an unknown girl is entering my hand this is constantly repeated throughout the poem and this repetition in many ways makes it a refrain something that we keep on hearing over and over again showing how powerful this encounter has been for the speaker. Moreover the present continuous verbs I am clinging so the verb clinging shows that this speaker really really wants to cling onto her identity she wants to cling onto the shreds of knowledge that she's developing and she's clinging to these firm peacock lines and the adjective firm shows she's gaining a firmer sense of her own cultural identity and the simile like people who cling to the sides of a train actually references to a stereotype of indias notoriously crowded and packed trains the trains which people especially in the west sea in images of lots of people not only are they crowded inside the train but also on the outside of the train and this is sometimes a very derogatory stereotype however it's interesting that she's really referring to this and owning it. Furthermore she talks about the streets as furious and this personification shows just how busy Indian streets and roads are. Now you might be wondering when you're thinking about Manisa Alvi as I'd mentioned she's actually Pakistani heritage but actually this poem refers to a speaker who's talking about India so there's continuous references to India however what she's showing is that she's not only focusing on her own identity and the questions perhaps related to her identity as a poet but also showing the questions that other people might similarly face when they come from different parts of the globe including India. Now the poem continues. I'll scrape off the dry brown lines before I sleep reveal soft as a snail trolled the amber bird beneath. It will fade in a week when India appears and reappears. I'll lean across a country with my outstretched with my hands outstretched longing for the unknown girl and the neon bazaar. Now this ending verse is quite poignant so she talks about how she'll scrape off the henna of course do you remember the process of henna ring it's this liquid which hardens and you have to remove the hardened part to show the pattern that's on the skin so of course she's talking about how she removes this but actually this could be a metaphor which we could think about as her shredding and chipping away at her identity so the identity she's learned from this unknown girl is going to gradually fade away the more she sinks back into her normal routine and her normal life. Furthermore she talks about it being a snuffed as a snail trill and this similarly shows how fragile her understanding of her identity really is. She also talks about how the henna the color itself and her skin may fade in a week so this emphasizes that she fears she may lose a grasp of her culture and her understanding of her culture is also still very weak and tenuous. Moreover in line 45 she talks about how she'll lean across the country and this hyperbole shows that she is trying to really understand her own cultural identity within the confines of her life and also within the confines of things that are seen as westernized and more ideal. However she's trying her best her utmost to try and understand her own culture. Furthermore the present continuous verb longing shows she wants to continue discovering herself she earns to understand her culture more and she makes an aphoric references back to this unknown girl highlighting how she really really admires her and she's teaching her something about her culture. 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