Do you have trouble making friends? Unsure how to make others like you? You want to show others how likable you are, but they have to see what's great about you in subtle ways. How will they know you're interested in them? What will make them want to get to know you more? What subtle things make someone start liking you as a person? Want me to let you in on a secret? You have some pretty interesting and great qualities, but others just don't know about them yet. So to help you with that, here are six tips to make others like you. Number one, ask questions to show your interest. Do you forget to ask follow-up questions to whom you're speaking with? You're in a deep discussion and you're definitely interested in what they have to say, but how can they know you are? Social psychologist and professor at James Madison University, Natalie Kerr, wrote in a Psychology Today article that research shows that people who ask more questions during conversations are perceived as more responsive and are better liked by conversation partners. A good point indeed. Wouldn't you get the impression that your friend is actually interested in your story if they ask to hear more? The next trick is to actually actively listen to them and ask follow-up questions when you're curious about something. Number two, show you're trustworthy and keep your promises. Are you trustworthy? Do you keep your promises big and small? According to research, trustworthiness is very important to others when it comes to relationships. A 2007 research study from researchers at the University of Singapore, Arizona State University and the University of Florida found that trustworthiness was an extremely important value in relationships for people. The study states, across different measures of trait importance and different groups and relationships, trustworthiness was considered extremely important for all interdependent others. So next time you make a promise, it's a good idea to keep it. It will show others you're trustworthy and they may just like you more for that too. Number three, give genuine compliments. When you think of something nice about someone, do you often let them know? Do you compliment others when you get the chance? It may just make someone's day. The reward theory of attraction is a good example of how others may start to like you more when you make them feel better. The theory states that people will like those who they associate rewarding events with, or if your behavior makes them feel rewarded, then they'll like you more for it. If you're often in a good mood and in turn make them feel better, that's a reward. If you don't shy away from complimenting them when they've done something kind, that's a reward. They'll simply feel better being around you. Number four, let them know you exist and be around them more often. Do you want someone to like you? Well, they first need to know you exist. According to the mere exposure effect, the more we're repeatedly exposed to something, the more familiar we become with it. And people will start to prefer the very thing they're more familiar with. So make yourself be heard and seen. Stay around for those coffee conversations during lunch break. Invite some people out to an event you're going to. Let people develop familiarity with you. Number five, befriend their friends. If you have a shared friend, you already have something in common and perhaps an easier way to get to know someone. This is similar to the triadic closure. If there are connections A to B and B to C, then there is a likelihood of the connection from A to C to be created as well. So if you really want to be friends with someone and realize you know someone they're friends with, let them know. You'll not only have something simple to both relate to, but you may also have a better chance of becoming friends with that person as well. And number six, let them know you like them or enjoy their company. How often do you let others know you like them? People have an easier time liking someone who likes them back. So let them know you appreciate them. Let them know you enjoy their company or give them a hug or a wave when you see them next. They'll have an easier time liking someone who they know genuinely appreciates and likes them back. Wouldn't you want to know if they liked you? So which tips will you use when making new friends? How will you let others know you appreciate them? Will you give out genuine compliments when you think of them? Let us know in the comments below. We hope you enjoyed this video and if you did don't forget to click the like button and share it with a friend. Subscribe to Psych2Go and hit the notification bell for more content like this. As always, thanks for watching.


Hi and welcome to the session. I am Asha and I am going to help you with the following question which says find the sum to n terms of the series 3 into 8 plus 6 into 11 plus 9 into 14 plus so on. Let us now start with the solution and let the series be denoted by S. So S is equal to 3 into 8 plus 6 into 11 plus 9 into 14 plus the nth term of this series will be 3n into 3n plus 5 since the first term is 3 into 1 into 3 into 1 plus 5. Similarly the second term can be written as 3 into 2 into 3 into 2 plus 5. The third term of this series can be written as 3 into 3 into 3 into 3 into 3 plus 5 and so on. So let the kth term of the series be ak and ak will be equal to 3k into 3k plus 5. So ak is equal to 9k square plus 15k. Now we have to find the sum to n terms therefore taking summation on both the sides. We have summation ak k running from 1 to n the right hand side 9 times summation k square k running from 1 to n plus 15 times summation k k running from 1 to n. So this is for the equal to 9. Summation k square k running from 1 to n is n into n plus 1 into 2n plus 1 upon 6 plus 15 into n into n plus 1 upon 2. Now 3 3 is the 6, 9 and 3 2 is the 6. So here we have 3 upon 2 n into n plus 1 into 2n plus 1 plus 15 times n into n plus 1 upon 2. Now let us take 3 upon 2 into n into n plus 1 common. So here we have 2n plus 1 plus 5 which is equal to 3 upon 2 into n into n plus 1 into 2n plus 6. Now taking 2 common we have 3 upon 2 into 2 into n into n plus 1 into n plus 3. Now 2 answers are put 2 and we have 3n into n plus 1 into n plus 3. Thus sum to n terms of the given series is 3n into n plus 1 into n plus 3. So this completes the session. Take care and have a good day.


Miguel Ángel Moratinos, the former Foreign Minister of Spain. Well, thank you. Thank you for inviting me. Give me this opportunity to talk to this important issue. Let me say two preliminary remarks. Number one, that being a Spaniard, I really ask to my Latin American friends to be condescended with me because in Spain we have a long interest, moving interest. So we do with a lot of political and historical elements, but sometimes as the former, you know, colony, I mean we are not very well understood. Number one. Number two, I will try to be not ideological. I will try to identify the challenges of Latin America today. Either you are from the left or this populist on the left, on the right, and trying to be objective to identify the challenge of Latin America today. From a Spanish point of view and from an analyst international point of view. I will start by commanding the World Policy Conference to convey this Latin American debate. It was unusual. Even there is not too many people. Well, thank you for being here with us, you know. But there was a reason. Ten years ago nobody will care about Latin America. There was not in the agenda because situation was going quite well. Latin America was growing in 5% average. There was no military pooch, no military coup. There was some success story in Salvador, even at the end of the day, even in Colombia, again really I went to the democratic processes. Even after the financial crisis in Europe, in Spain, and my compatriots, they was queuing in the Brazilian consulate because Brazil was asking visa. So the new architect engineer was rushing to go to Brazil, to Peru. Going out of the crisis in Europe. I was going to a Latin America and they were asking me, oh, I was planning for a minister, you have problems. You are in a bad situation. We are now. So they didn't make headlines. But today I will give you three main headlines. Number one, a statement of the candidate of Argentina that the polls say that he's going to win the election in Argentina, Alberto Fernandez. He said, the main problem of Argentina is the hunger. Can you understand? The most important country in agricultural production cannot feed his citizens the hunger. Second headline, President Macron or President Bolsonaro, Amazon. What is going on in the environment framework? And what Amazon means is for the biodiversity for whole, of course, Brazil, but for the whole international community. And what it means for the Latin America economy, not only the Amazon, but in Bolivia, the forest, and the raw materials, the environment, the nature. Because the Latin American economy has been during the last four days or even more depending only on raw materials. Third headline, Ecuador, my friend Rosenthal mentioned. Indigenous people taking over keto capital. Who could imagine five years ago or three years ago that keto will be invaded and trying to be approved from indigenous community to try to overthrow the regime. Three headlines that reflect the three main challenges of Latin America. And I will try to be brief. Number one, the economy. Either populace on the right or populace on the left. There has been no serious economic policy in the majority of the Latin American countries. There has been a low productivity. Today the figures you mentioned, they are growing at 0.5. Even Brazil, imagine Brazil, 0.8. Argentina, 0.9. Mexico, 0. And they are producers of the most important natural resources that combine and facilitate the economy of the international trade. No fiscal reform. You know what is the pressure of fiscal reform in Latin America? The average, 10%. In Germany, 40%. Spain, 38%. And Sweden, 50%. They don't pay taxes. They have not been introduced in this fiscal reform. From the left to the Bolivarianan, whatever. To Macri or to any government had been in Latin America. So the economic reform should be addressed. Number two challenge. The environment, as I say, the Amazon is the symbol. What they are going to do with these resources? They can continue with this extractive production?  Well, okay, it's only agricultural product, natural resources. And how they are going to maintain and satisfy the sustainability agenda? They have to address this issue. And third challenge is the political and social challenge. The most important one. And that is the reason why today we have still people in the street of Quito. There have been many success stories. But one that, of course, is not so popular is Bolivia. Then we can discuss, maybe by people around me, they were against my position. But can you rule a country? I put the example of Bolivia, where 60% of the population, 60% are indigenous. And that till 2003 and 2004 is only 15 years ago. They were not citizens. They didn't participate in the political life. They didn't vote. They were absolutely outside the political system. And Evo Morales introduced them and succeeded to get them into the new reality. And today Bolivia is growing at 4%. And we have a very nice and positive economic situation. I don't know if it's going to win the election. I don't know. So you cannot avoid to take into account the social elements of Latin American countries. With all my respect to my Brazilian friends. Of course you have an elite. You have the economic class. But if you don't address the situation in the social poor areas of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, people will revolt. People will not accept. And that is one of the main concerns. What is happening in Iphoneis in Argentina? Why after the collapse of the Kirchner? What's a disaster Kirchner? Okay, everybody knows how much problem were caused by them. Everybody was expecting that Macri will be the magic formula. Neoliberalism and Bach. And he failed again. So the three challenges have to be addressed together. The economic, the environmental, and the social and political reform. Thank you for that very forceful and clear presentation.


Okay, I know this isn't my normal topic of discussion, but it's been bugging me for a while and I need to do something about it. If you follow my channel, you'll know I had surgery a few months ago and that I was unable to work during my recovery, so I decided to play through a bunch of Call of Duty games. It was a fun journey, I won't go into a lot of detail since this isn't a review, but they're mostly fun games. The storylines are sometimes just excuses for explosions and swearing, but others are interesting and kind of intelligent. Same goes for the settings they take place in. It's clear that the writers don't put much thought or effort into making worlds that make sense, at least on the occasions when the games aren't just set during World War II or something. It seems like they just went with something that sounded neat on the surface, which is probably fine for most people, I just think way too much about this sort of thing. If you're new here, welcome. Prepare to listen to me point out issues with continuity and realism in the world building of Call of Duty games, separate from things like story and gameplay. There's no real attempt to maintain continuity between most of the games, which is fine since they're mostly self-contained stories, so I won't point out how Black Ops 2 canonically ends with a cold war between the US and China alongside a massive economic crisis and armed uprisings around the world, or other things that should probably change up the world in specific ways and don't. But despite all the complaining, I do like these games.  Except Black Ops 3 and 4, those were trash. With the compliments out of the way, let's get to complaining. Before that, sponsor time. Spooky podcast that takes place in a well-lit suburb just like where you live. A podcast by James Tullis, Jimmy Tullis, and Jimbo Tullis. Again. After finding that note telling me to come to a secluded area alone without telling anyone, I decided to follow the directions without thinking about it. I needed to discover what exactly had happened that fateful night four years ago when my brother disappeared, and my girlfriend, and my best friend, and my parents. Was that a supernatural occurrence? Some government experiment? Aliens? Stay tuned, and maybe you'll find out one day. As I trekked further into the woods, I played sound effects to indicate that leaves were crunching underfoot. Another stock sound effect rang out from deeper in the trees. My feet froze to the ground as I saw some sort of creature emerge from the brush. I didn't get a clear look at it because leaving its appearance up to your imagination is spookier, but it had a mouth that looked almost human. The creature spoke in a gravelly voice that sounded very similar to mine for some reason. It sent a chill through my bones. 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There's a free tier, so you can try everything without paying a dime. It even has a month-long free trial and refund option if you change your mind. Click the link in the description to see if Campfire Blaze is right for you. The creature's words couldn't be true. A deal like that just doesn't exist. I turned and ran. A mysterious creature that might be connected to the mystery of the series, or might be something the writers forget about in two episodes, didn't give chase for some reason. End of Episode 74. Let's start with arguably the worst world-building from 2013's Call of Duty Ghosts. This game takes place in an odd setting. At some point prior to 2014, there was a conflict called the Tel Aviv War that devastated the Middle East so badly that all countries involved collapsed, and oil ceased to be exported. This then caused the economies of many other countries to slow down or fall apart, weakening most major powers. I know this is vague, but it's all the details we're given. Around this time, several South American countries merge into a new government calling itself the Federation of the Americas. The Federation quickly gobbles up most of Central and South America, spreading around a message of pan-Latin American nationalism that paints the United States as an imperialist aggressor. Well, broken clocks. The Federation is a brutal, authoritarian, borderline fascist state that suppresses any and all dissent, and a lot of its annexations are less than cordial. To deter attacks, the American government builds a weapon system called Odin, which is basically just a giant cannon that fires tungsten rods to Earth with the force of nuclear bombs. Then the Federation takes control of Odin, attacks American cities, launches an invasion, and thus the game begins. Now that we're all caught up, let's examine all the ways in which this is dumb. First the formation of the Federation is, uh, unlikely. Here's a shitty map I made of it. Green denotes member states and black denotes occupied territories. These are all countries with very distinct histories, cultures, politics, geographies, and in some cases, languages. They have distinct identities. People from Peru are different than people from Chile or Guatemala or Mexico. San Colombia was an attempt to unify a large chunk of South America back in the early 19th century, which fell apart in only a few years. The idea that they might form some sort of economic union in the wake of the rest of the planet shitting the bed is believable. In the best case scenario, they might even form a political union similar to the European Union. But a full-on Federation? Hell no. And if we accept that the Federation forms, its rise is even stranger. Over the course of three years, the Federation gains not only the capability to invade and hold on to unruly territories, but the capability to invade the United States and take over a large part of the Southwest. To what end, I don't know. Do you know how difficult it is to build up a large professional military? First, you need the economy necessary to support it, and when you consider how, let's say, undeveloped many Latin American economies are, that alone would be a Herculean task. You'd have to build infrastructure, root out corruption, stamp down on large criminal organizations, educate the parts of your populace that haven't gotten it yet, and so on. A single aircraft carrier costs around $13 billion to build, and another $6.5 million per day for maintenance. A single American Marine's equipment costs over $17,000, and M1 Abrams tank costs nearly $9 million, and so on. The Federation certainly has the potential to build to this point. Venezuela has massive oil reserves. Brazil's agricultural output is huge. Other countries have large deposits of metals, like copper and lithium. In 2014, the Federation, not counting occupied territories, would have had a real GDP of around $6.4 trillion, barely over one-third of what the US was at the same time. It would also have a giant population and diversified economy. According to the Americans' level is doable, but not overnight. Once you have the needed money, you need to build all the needed equipment. You can buy some of it, but sooner or later you would have to become self-reliant in order to have enough. That means you need engineers and researchers to design it all. Then you need factories and resources to build it all, and that's a learning process that takes quite a while. And then you need an officer class to properly lead every branch of your military. For the Navy, you need admirals. For the Army, you need generals. For the Marines, you need someone with crowns and a lot of patience. A government can function with a certain level of corruption and incompetence. A military can't, at least not in times of war. You can't just ignore that your frontline is collapsing until your citizens get tired and accept it. You have to be able to fight properly, or you'll lose. Educating the thousands of officers that such a large military would need takes years, if not decades. Then you need someone to train various specialists, like pilots and special forces. You can bring in foreigners to help with that, but it only takes you so far. Sooner or later, you'll need to cultivate your own talent. Yes, before unification, every Federation state will have its own armed forces of varying quality. However, they will all be different, with different tactical doctrines, different equipment, and so on. All of that has to be standardized and brought up to the level of the U.S. military, so it's not like it would save much time. Taking all this is possible, but it takes time. Generations, in fact, since a lot of combat expertise can only be learned by engaging in combat. Taking the American military from a bunch of semi-trained militias to a united professional force took, uh, well, it depends on who you ask. It definitely wasn't three years after the country was granted independence, though. Oh yeah, the Federation's invasion was land-based too, which means that they had already occupied Mexico and the U.S. hadn't done anything to stop them from expanding further.  You're already a nuclear power. You have all the deterring power you need. If you're worried about a conventional war, you need to do things like reinforce border defenses, or frustrate the enemy's ability to invade.  Even later, the Federation builds a similar satellite array despite being in a favorable position. Not to mention how absurd it is to imagine the Federation being able to launch such a successful surprise invasion in any case. For starters, the sheer size of it means it would take a long time to build up the needed forces, and in the modern day with things like satellites, they'd see it coming with plenty of advance notice. I can buy that the Federals would be able to make rapid gains after they used Odin under ideal conditions, just not that the invasion is a surprise. It's not under ideal conditions, though. For starters, all the infrastructure, stuff like roads, would have been destroyed in the attack. Then consider that the Federation is already occupying territory with nearly 200 million people spread out over a large geographic area. The American occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan used over 200,000 soldiers at their peak, and that was a much smaller area with a much smaller population. The Federation holding on to places like Mexico, Panama, and Colombia would be difficult even if there weren't insurgents making hell for them in their supply lines. Having a foreign occupier is a great way to get people to do things like plant IEDs on the highway and assassinate officials. That goes for anyone in Federation territory that takes issue with the authoritarian nature of their government, too. It's not too much of a stretch to say that the American government would be willing to send weapons to any rebel factions making life hell for the Federation. In fact, if history is anything to go by, it's almost guaranteed. Plus, there's currently no land route between North and South America. It's not too crazy to think that the Federation government could build one after taking Panama. Granted, taking Panama is already kind of a stretch since there's a heavy U.S. military presence there to guard the canal zone. Maybe they could take it after they crippled the country during the Odin Strike, but that ties into the next issue. How the hell do they transport all the needed men and material to the American border before the invasion?  You can't do that from 2014 to 2017. You just can't. And if you ship it all that way, it's even more obvious than it would be on land. So the Federation is a new country that lost its authoritarian leader, is building up large amounts of infrastructure, trying to get its economy off the ground, fighting off domestic unrest, and dealing with insurgents both at home and abroad. And all of this while undertaking a land invasion that would rival Operation Barbarossa in terms of scale. If they put the point of divergence between the game's timeline and real-life earlier, say, in the mid-90s, then a lot of this would be more believable. It would give the U.S. more time to fall apart and the Federals more time to grow their power. As it stands now, they have far too much growth and too small of a time just for an excuse to have a, quote, intimidating villain for the players to fight. Yeah, whatever. It's still a decent game. Specifically, I'm talking about Black Ops 3 here. Mostly, I'm just looking at the alliances that make up the world's military powers. Here's another shitty map I made. Blue is the Winslow Accord, headed by the United States after the collapse of NATO. In red is the Common Defense Pact, led by Russia. And in green is the Nile River Coalition, which later joins the CDP. The Nile River Coalition is the most plausible of the three. Climate change is a big part of the new political order. And desire to control resources, such as fresh water, makes perfect sense. A few countries banding together to keep control of what they have? That's believable. I have no issues here. The CDP is the dumbest by far. You mean to tell me that places like Finland, Ukraine, Germany, Italy, and Greece all sided with Russia, while places like Serbia and Venezuela didn't? Both countries are fairly close to Russia today, or at least they tend to be anti-American. That's why Steven Seagal likes them so much. I can maybe believe some countries in Eastern Europe becoming Russia friendly if they invaded and set up puppet regimes like in the aftermath of World War II, but at least give us a throwaway line to justify it. I feel a bit sorry for Cuba, too. In the event of an all out war, they're fucked. The WA isn't great either. Both India and China entering on the same side while they have territorial disagreements is laughable. And are China and Pakistan still working together on the Kashmir situation? Seems difficult if they're in opposing alliances. If China decided to instead side with India there, then did they finally stop fighting over Arunachal Pradesh? How about the Sinkaku Islands? Did they acknowledge those as Japanese territory? How about their, frankly ridiculous, claims on the South China Sea? Did they give those up? Have the US and China come to an agreement on Taiwan? Does China still prop up North Korea? And if not, what happened there? These are just the territorial disputes involving China. If we include other countries, the list gets even longer. Places like Halaib, the Spanish North African territories, all of Israel and Palestine, or Northern Ireland could all be flashpoints for the beginning of a war. That's why before a country can join NATO, they have to settle any territorial or irredentist claims. If they didn't, it would be too easy to pull the entire alliance into conflict. That doesn't even count all the disputes within the NRC and CDP either, who have their own list of places a war might start. I'm also curious about why the entire WA didn't go to help Egypt when it was invaded by the NRC, but I've already thought about this more than the writers. Why did the NRC invade anyways? They're upriver from Egypt. If they want to control all the water, just build a dam. They can build an army of murder robots, but they can't build a dam. I feel awful criticizing this one since it's my favorite entry in the series and the only one to truly embrace the sci-fi aesthetic. Plus, Spacenautsy John Snow is one of the only memorable antagonists from any of the games. We don't fight. We attack. I'll survive through this at gunpoint and breathe by permission of the front. But I can't stay silent. Backstory. Hundreds of years in the future, the solar system has been colonized by humanity. At some point, Mars rebelled and gained independence, calling itself the Settlement Defense Front. It grows and strengthens our nakedly fascist governments until it attacks Earth and the events of the game unfold. First, the name doesn't add up. Settlement Defense Front would make sense as the name of the armed forces, especially during the War of Secession. Kind of like how China's army is called the People's Liberation Army. As a name for a country, though, it's weird. It would make more sense to call it something like the Martian Republic or the Colonial Federation or the United States of the Outer Planets or something. It's just odd. Then let's look at how the SDF managed to become so powerful.  I can believe that they might be able to build up to a certain level since they had around 30 years to do it. But their population would be a few hundred million at most compared to the billions Earth and her colonies have. It's hard to build your economy in that situation. Not to mention that every male citizen is required to serve in the military for 15 years, which would take them out of the workforce and further slow productivity. I don't want to harp on this too much, since I already made similar criticisms and the Templin Institute did a video on the same thing, but I needed to at least mention it. One other thing that stands out to me is how every SDF soldier, at least everyone we see, is fanatically loyal to the regime and its supposed ideals. If they've been inundated with propaganda for a generation, then that makes sense. Real-world countries have done similar things plenty of times, from Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan to Communist China. However, one of the first things we see space Nazi John Snow do is murder one of his own men. He doesn't sacrifice him to win a battle or execute him for a crime. He shoots him to prove a point to an Earth soldier, who he then kills right afterward anyways. I guess it was more to prove a point to the audience then. Why would anyone be willing to die for a regime like that? The reason nationalistic propaganda works is because it ties in the identity of individuals with that of the state. It tells them that they're better off as part of a whole and for that reason, they should be willing to sacrifice for the whole. Like that famous JFK line, you're supposed to be willing to give up everything for the state. If space snowman can so casually murder one of his men, he's probably done similar things before, even if he and the other SDF leaders prevents any solid evidence from getting out, there were eyewitnesses and that means word would get out eventually if only as rumors. And once that's in the public consciousness, the idea that officers are just murdering their men for no reason, it'll never go away. Some people will believe it and that brings the level of fanaticism in the population down considerably. This may not collapse the regime right away, but it will weaken it. For that reason, John the Jingle would have been court martial afterwards, no matter how good of an admiral he is. What interests me most and is probably the weirdest thing about this setting is how fast the ships move. See, the entire war that the game focuses on takes place over the course of a single day. During that time, the battleship retribution goes from Earth to the moon, to Titan, to Mercury, to Pluto, to Uranus, then back to Earth. Then the main cast steals a Martian ship and hops back over to Mars. When the ships go into warp speed or whatever the hell it's called, it takes literal seconds to go across the solar system. That changes the entire geopolitical calculus. Imagine for a moment, if Russia could send an entire invasion force to Washington DC in an instant and vice versa. Defending against that would be impossible for either side. If the SDF ever defeated Earth in a war, Earth could just send a kamikaze attack to Mars that kills millions of them. There would be mutually assured destruction here. Not to mention how such quick transit would affect the economy.  Look, the point is that it's impossible to stop something that moves too quickly for you to react to. Not to mention if they moved that fast, humanity should just be able to colonize other solar systems no problem. Why bother fighting Earth when you could just head off to be space Nazis in Alpha Centauri? And why does the SDF use forced human labor when they have intelligent humanoid robots? And what do they use for fuel? And why doesn't firing guns in space send you flying backwards? And why do strangers get uncomfortable when I try talking to them? Here I'm talking about the 2019 game Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Not to be confused with the 2007 game Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare.  Short version, it takes place in the modern day, mostly in the fictional country of Erzikstan. 20 years ago, Erzikstan was invaded by Russia and the West has funded armed anti-Russian groups to fight in a proxy war. And one of these groups also attacks the West for some reason, we'll get to that later. Except wait, it's not just a proxy war because the US has soldiers fighting on the ground. And it's not actually the Russian military that's invaded, it was a rogue general. But there are also ultra-nationalist rebels helping him out.  Did they just slam like eight scripts together when they wrote this? Erzikstan is on a chunk of land that doesn't exist in real life, a little peninsula sticking out of the Caucasus. And that's fine, both Middle Eastern and Caucasian borders are controversial enough already. The developers probably didn't want to look like they were taking sides by carving a new state out of real ones. Despite the location, the people there are Arab, speak Arabic, the climate is desert, and the name is Turkic. If you're unaware, there aren't any deserts there, nor are there very many Arab people. It's a distinct region, separate from the Middle East in basically every way it can be. Here's an ethnic map of the region. It's kind of a mess. The geography and culture might make more sense if Erzikstan was a peninsula in the Persian Gulf or the Mediterranean. So I'm not sure why they didn't just do that. It gets worse though. The two big armed Erzik groups that we see in the game are the Erzik militia and Alcatala. The militia is straightforward. Just some folks who want the Russian occupation to end and they get support from the Americans and British to do so. Makes sense. Alcatala is weird. At first, they seem to be an Islamic terrorist organization similar to Al Qaeda or ISIS, which is fine. But some of the game's death screens imply that they're fighting against both Russia and NATO forces because they want to get all foreign influence out of Erzikstan, which suggests that they're some sort of ultra-nationalists rather than religious extremists, not that those are mutually exclusive. Okay, that's a little different. Gameplay and story-wise, it doesn't change much, but it's something. It turns out, though, that Alcatala is an anarchist organization. What? As an anarchist, no, this has nothing to do with our beliefs. This is just a Hollywood depiction of them. I'm not offended or anything. It's just inaccurate. That said, if Alcatala's beliefs and tactics still made sense, it wouldn't bother me at all. And they don't make sense. For starters, they want foreign interference gone from Erzikstan, most notably the occupying Russian army.  All that would do is make them hated in the Western world. I'm not even objecting on grounds that it's immoral or that it's ineffective, though those are both true. I'm pointing out that they are literally attacking someone who isn't their enemy. What were they hoping to accomplish here? You should put that on the front of the box as a quote. If anything, this would make the UK government start supporting the Russians since the average Westerner probably can't tell the difference between Alcatala and the Erzik militia. Some reasons are given on the game's wiki page. Apparently, Alcatala wants to use terrorist attacks to draw the world's major powers into an untenable war that will collapse the world's economy. After that, all hierarchies will be gone, I guess. I suggest a return to the drawing board.  If they want to collapse the world's economy, then they should attack, you know, economic centers, blow up stock exchanges, airports, railways, things that are directly connected to the economy. This whole strategy is so nonsensical, it's kind of hard to even explain how nonsensical it is. Maybe you could argue that Alcatala used the Erzik militia as an American puppet, which would be reasonable for them to think. And there are plenty of civil wars throughout history and the modern day, which are multifaceted. So this isn't totally unrealistic. But these sorts of terror attacks would only work well if they targeted the Russians. It's just an odd choice. And very little of this information comes across in the main game. It's mostly in death screen quotes and other tiny, easily missed material. If they're trying to kick off some sort of worldwide revolution, then they shouldn't actively try to draw negative attention, which is what terrorism does, the purpose is to terrorize people. You don't see Rojava or the Sapatistas committing these sorts of atrocities for that very reason. Some half-assed reasons are given here, but let's be real. The creators just wanted to take advantage of the controversy that came with opening the game with a massive terrorist attack. They wanted to be able to point at it and say, look, we're adult and edgy and dark. And all this sort of thing does is make video games seem childish. And hey, if the developers wanted to put that in, they should be allowed to. It is a brutal, unpleasant opening that shows what the stakes are should the heroes fail. If nothing else, it makes me hate the villains. So even if it's a tad exploitative, I don't have moral issues with it. I just wish the developers had justified their decision better. Maybe have the heroes fight ISIS or something. It's not like anybody likes them and you'd have to do much less explaining to have it make sense. But that's about all I have to add here. Call of Duty is a fun series, if uneven. And even though they could easily get away with making the storylines nothing more than excuses for gunfights, they usually put in more effort. Usually. If they want those storylines to be even better though, they need a strong foundation in the world building. The games are all about conflict between nation states and other armed groups. If that conflict doesn't make sense or has other issues with it, then cracks will start to appear. Things like the Russian military staging a successful invasion of the US East Coast is far-fetched. But since Russia is a military power in both real life and in the games, we can suspend our disbelief long enough to buy into the idea that they would build up to a point where they could do that. 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First shooter is going to come up to the line and engage, you have two target banks. Once you are done shooting you're ten rounds, you're two streams of five, all you're going to do is, every time, immediately, as you become the second shooter in the order of movement. String of fire, kneeling support is going to be the second gap. The guideline is going to be, use that guideline, you're going to kill it after I'm going to get it because you've got to start. We know it.


Next up we've got Guillaume Aboushon from Digital Film Tree. So come on up Guillaume. Have a seat. Mark, good to be here. I can call you Mark, right? Sure. Sweet. It's fine.  Piston party last night. Wow. I don't know. You look familiar. I feel like we should be doing this between two ferns. I don't know. I think we should. It just seems like that would be more appropriate. A little something for you. Biggest conference yet? You've got to tip them. 20s now. No more singles. Really? Times have changed. Times have changed. The economy is getting tougher. So what the heck are we doing here? You're doing some open stack thing. Yeah, doing some open stack. Have you ever practiced the ancient art of origami? I can't say that I have. Japanese paper folding. So an open stack is like origami. And you can sort of take a flat sheet of paper and you can fold it into a beautiful crane. And that's like software-defined paper. I see. Let's shape it, mold it, lotus, lotus. It's a big insight. I just came up with that on the bus ride over here from the piston party. So what else can you tell us about open stack?  Crushed under the loads of their own servers. You know I love data. I know we could have had a graph, but okay. Sure. Yeah, open clouds? No one killed. Maybe one. Okay. Unconfirmed. Unconfirmed reports. Okay, so anything else that we should be aware of? What goes on in those server rooms of yours? I'm not sure if I actually want to know that I ask it. Yeah, it's a frightening place to be alone at night. But the biggest thing we're introducing this year, really why I'm here and why I feel like the biggest contribution we can make to the community is something we like to call swaths. So that's a sweater as a service.  Okay. It's sort of South American in its pronunciation. But the swaths, IT professionals are exposed to hypothermia every day in data centers. And we want to make sure that there are sweaters hanging there for them to just grab at a moment's notice. They feel a little bit chilled. They're sitting there and they're like, ah, I'm so cold. I can't write code anymore. They can grab a sweater. Well, hopefully OpenStack has produced enough of this kind of clothing, apparel, if you will, to keep everybody safe. Well, in all seriousness, why don't we actually bid adieu to Zach and hear from Guillaume again? So you actually are in addition to cracking me up backstage. You're also with this company, Digital Film Tree. We heard a bit about what you guys do in Hong Kong. But you're part of how television gets made. You know, what is that exactly? What does Digital Film Tree actually do? We're a full-service television and film post-production facility in Los Angeles. And we take content from camera acquisition throughout that entire finishing process all the way to distribution. So we work on shows like Modern Family, NCIS Los Angeles. We did Her Last Year. And, you know, we're really trying to sort of change the industry in a positive way that I feel will save the industry in many ways.  A lot of people think OpenStack's only for big companies. We were talking about this yesterday and you were very excited about, you know, the fact that a smaller company can be a part of a big mission. You know, how does that, how do you feel about that? Is that true? Yeah. I mean, we stood up our first OpenStack deployment. We only have four people that concentrate on OpenStack. And we stood it up in six months. And OpenStack is now the cornerstone to, you know, almost every television show we do. Including not only an OpenStack instance that we have at DFT, but also on-site instances of OpenStack that we run right in an editorial environment on two of our shows. So you've talked in some of the videos we've seen. Somebody, people may recognize you from, you know, your TV show as well as the videos here. But, you know, what is it about your career that you felt was, you know, possible now? You were saying that, you know, maybe the industry was dying. There was a lot of people predicting its demise. So, you know, how does that change your career trajectory? I read a highly depressing Yahoo! article about four years ago. And it said, the industries that will go away in 10 years. And I went down that list and it was like, print. Okay. Yeah, I could see that going away in 10 years. What are you going to do? And then I got to the bottom of the list and it said, post-production for TV and film. And I was like, aw. Like, I got to find something else to do with my life. There goes that 12 years of a career suite. So, you know, we really felt that by moving in a more software-oriented direction, what we like to call is software-defined post-production. That, you know, we can offer a much higher level of service to the creative professional and really keep post-production services relevant. That's great. So, you know, the tools that your industry uses, you know, I think traditionally they're very expensive. There's a very small community.  That's a tool used by a much bigger community. I mean, how is that different in terms of how that makes up your strategy? It makes a tremendous impact in terms of how efficient we can be as a company. You know, using open-source software and being able to reach out to all of these people in the audience to say, hey, have you done this before? Or go to a blog post where somebody's done that before is tremendously beneficial. Prior to this, you know, we were using software that could cost a quarter of a million dollars, and there may only be 30 or other 40 companies that are using that piece of software. You know, your blog, your wiki page, was having the cell phone number of the guy who wrote the software to begin with, because the company who wrote the software is only two people. So, you know... By the way, I have Vish's cell phone number if that's what you're looking for. Absolutely. I will take that any day. But yeah, I mean, we, you know, we really found it tremendously helpful to enter this community and have the support of thousands and thousands of people behind us. So what do you want to see happening in the community moving forward?  How do you want to see the community evolve? You know, we've always been tremendous advocates of communication and education in whatever we do, and, you know, I really think the next evolution of OpenStack is really to educate a broader scope of people so that there's a broader spectrum of professionals for us to hire. You know, one of the problems we have, particularly in Los Angeles, is that, you know, we just can't reach out and hire an IT professional who's fluent in OpenStack. It's still sort of highly specialized in that way. So continuing to grow the education efforts are important. Absolutely. Well, thank you very much, Yoam. Appreciate you playing along. Thank you. Everyone in the audience. Go OpenStack! Thank you very much.


Hello, everyone. Hi, I am Shepra and it's really good to meet you all today. I'll be talking about the unwritten norms in product interviews. Let me clarify what I mean by that. Today there is tons of advice out there for PM interviews, tons of resources, tons of advice and I really do not want to add to the noise. My intent here is to try to talk about some key insights I have learned in my time interviewing and taking interviews that have worked for me in practice. These insights are not generally mentioned pretty much anywhere on the internet, but I felt were extremely useful in going from good to great and being able to stand out. And hence I want to share those with you today. So I have categorized my talk into three different parts before the interview, during the interview and after the interview. And I will talk about what are some key things you could do at each stage to help you go from good to great. So what you must do before the interview, talk to someone working at the company. The moment you have had a conversation with the recruiter and you are scheduled to interview with the company, you should start looking for someone who works inside the company. One basic conversation with someone on the inside is infinitely more valuable than hours of extensive research about the company from the outside. It really is. It's a really good use of time to try to get hold of someone working at the company and having a very quick conversation with them. How are you going to be able to find someone? For me, LinkedIn has worked. I search for works working in the company and reach out to them through connections that I may have with them. So these are second degree or third degree contacts. I will ping them for one quick conversation. Most people are happy to oblige. Most people really want to help. So please don't feel shy about doing this. So when you talk to someone working at the company, what is the conversation about? The key thing you want to get at is the top concerns of the executives of the company for the current year. You want to get at what are the top key challenges the company is facing today and who they consider to be their strongest competitors. Essentially, you are trying to get at what the executives might be telling all the people at the all hands internally. If you think about it, the product managers who are working at the company are essentially trying to solve these top concerns of the leadership. It is their job. And so if you can find out what those concerns are, give those some deep thought and then bring your knowledge and thinking about those problems during the interview. You are going to stand out from the crowd. It's extremely useful. It also helps you understand the company further. Let's say you want to assess the company for yourself as well and really decide whether you want to work there. This conversation is also going to help you with that. So strongly recommend being trying to do this. It can make a significant difference. All right. So what do you do during the interview? The first piece of advice I have is to not slot an interview into a type. What do I mean by this? All of the product manager interview advice out there categorizes interviews into different types, product design, product analytical, product strategy and so on. Most folks will study for each type of interview in isolation and get really good at it. And that's great. But when it comes to the real world, we all know that real world problems don't neatly fit into one type. And most often, PMs will have to bring the bag of all of their skills, including design, analytics, market research and strategy into solving a particular problem. And so if you want your interview to feel like a real conversation about solving a real problem, you have to be careful about not slotting the interview into a type, but about thinking about how you would actually solve it. The access you can keep in mind is all the rubric of skills that a PM needs to have. And if anything, you should be thinking about those rubric of skills and trying to demonstrate as many of those as possible, every chance you get. Right. Let me explain this also using an example. Let's say you are asked a quintessential product analytical question about troubleshooting the metrics for a product, metrics that have gone down recently. You could approach this question from a purely analytical perspective. However, if you take a minute or two, diving a little bit into the strategy behind the product, into the market of users of this product and their current conditions, you are standing out. You could also end your answer by proposing some design choices that could be incorporated into the product to troubleshoot such metric issues in the future. Here you have demonstrated design and creativity skills. So take every chance you get to think about the question in a real-world way and think about all the skills you want to demonstrate. It will be extremely useful. Another way in which I can explain this is by saying that you know you're getting really good at product interviews when you are able to come up with the framework for a question on the fly. All the PM advice out there on the internet includes lots of standardized frameworks for each type of question. Most folks will master these frameworks and get really good at them. But if you want to be great, you have to understand that those frameworks don't neatly apply to real-world questions and real-world problems. And those frameworks have to be modified dynamically on the fly to suit the question. Try doing this and you will get better. All right. What's the second piece of advice I have? Admitting ignorance is a desirable behavioral quality. And I have dedicated an entire slide to this because this is something that folks shy away from doing during interviews. It is understandable. Interviews are a time when people are supposed to sell themselves, present their perfect selves. However, admitting ignorance shows humility and humility is an extremely desirable quality in not just leadership, but in any role where you have to engender the trust and respect of your peers. It's an extremely important quality in a product manager. So please do not shy away from admitting ignorance and demonstrating humility. What you must do, however, is end your answer with some sort of a solution that helps you get from there to another question or a real answer. As an example, let's say you are asked the question, how would you improve the product TaskRabbit? And let's say you have never used TaskRabbit. Be willing to admit that. Be willing to say, hey, I've never used TaskRabbit. I'll not be able to talk about what they have done in the past or what they're currently doing. However, I do know that it is a marketplace for gig workers. And so if you wish, I can approach this question from a first principles perspective and talk about how I might build a marketplace for gig workers. If I were to build one today, right? So you have not just admitted ignorance and ended at a roadblock. You have actually proposed a solution to go forward from there. This will be respected and appreciated by your interviewer. So do not shy away from doing this. Okay, my next advice is speak from your counterparts perspective. Now, this is especially applicable to behavioral type questions. But since we're not slotting any interview into any type, please keep this in cognizance at all times. Whenever you are talking about a third person, please talk about what you think was going on in their mind. Whether you're talking about the user of your product or a peer you had a conflict with or an exec you had to give a presentation to. Or a data scientist you had to negotiate a project deadline with whatever it may be. When you're telling a story, talk about what was going on in the mind of the other person. You're demonstrating the quality of empathy, another extremely important quality. Most folks will focus on getting the facts of their story right. Most folks will focus on communicating the story succinctly according to the star framework. And that's all great. But the key ingredient that could be missing from your answer is demonstration of empathy. So please remember to include that in your answer as well. Another corollary to this is showing awareness of what was going on in your own mind. That is demonstrating the quality of self-awareness. This is something that you can do as part of all your answers, especially in the retelling of stories. Instead of just saying, this, this happened, then I did this and then the problem was resolved. Be sure to include the story that happened in your head at that time. What did you realize? What did you think before talking about what you did? These are the ways in which the most important qualities that folks are looking for in a behavioral interview really shine and come out. So keep these pointers in mind, especially when answering any type of behavioral question and when retelling a story. Okay. So lastly, I want to talk about what you should do after the interview. And the most important thing here is to keep in touch with the hiring manager and all the other interviewers on your panel. The least cost way of doing this is to send them a connection request on LinkedIn with an honest thank you about the fun conversation you had and all the learnings you got during the interview. However, if you really want to work at this company and you have a real keen interest, you can go further than that. How do you do it? There's one idea I have used and explored and it has worked to my advantage. These days, homework interviews are really common in PM roles. Most of those homework assignments contain questions that are real problems the company or the team is facing today. Now, you may have already worked on that problem in an extremely nice way during your panel. However, that does not have to be the end. You can keep working on that problem, thinking about the extensions to that problem, thinking about the current market conditions that might affect the problem and its solution and share those insights with the hiring manager. What you're looking to do is create value for them. You want to create value for them without overloading or hounding them. Now, in the hiring manager's eyes, you are demonstrating keen interest, keen ability, humility and all of those are endearing qualities. There's a high chance the hiring manager then keeps you in mind for any future roles that come up. So this is a really good thing to do for companies that you're especially interested in working at. I have done this, I know other folks who have done this and it really helps you, especially in the current recessionary market, where you may not land your dream role immediately, but you want to keep those avenues and doors open. So try doing this and let me know what happens. Lastly, I'll wish you all the very, very best. I have kept this short deliberately, but I hope that the key points I made make a difference to your future interviewing journey. So all the very best and please do find me on LinkedIn if you have any question, any concerns or we generally like to keep in touch. Thank you very much.


This week we're doing MWX, right? 2TAC 21. We're in support of 2.7 Golf Company for the next five days We're working on the integration piece So that way they know what our capes, our limitations are and vice versa with the infantry This right here really brings what we need to the fight as far as the communication systems The stabilized platform when it comes to the weaponry Maneuverability is a huge plus The way we employ the vehicle is first and foremost we support and lift the infantry in general But the added bonus to that is once these guys are out on the deck and they're doing their work What we do is provide that those flanks and rear security along with that Kazevac platform So all in all it's a great integration between us and the infantry and it allows them to have a little bit more Added peace of mind knowing that we got their six as predicted the vehicle Whiff stood all the challenges that came about to include the landscape the terrain But I would say yeah, the vehicle did really well overall This is just a taste of what's to come in the future with the ACV in general We've got some things coming down the road.  It's gonna be a good time coming down the road


Hello and welcome to the Monday market update with me Dave Madden. Today's date is Monday the 17th of September At the time has just gone 902 for this summer time Basically the big stories over the past few days have been increased Great tension between the United States of America and China It's looking likely that the US are Edging closer to imposing tariffs on 200 billion dollars worth of Chinese imports But it was also cited in the same article that the US government are looking to impose a 10% levy on those $200 billion worth of Chinese imports rather than the 25% Levy that they are originally talking about so it's believed that the United States Haven't I've gone with the planning and going with the lower rate as a way of a as a way of putting some pressure on the Beijing government and should they feel the need to buy additional pressure They can always wrap up the rate from there So we saw we saw stock markets in China Sell off overnight. We've seen a bit of a sell-off in Europe this morning It is worth pointing out that The trade tensions have been have been getting getting getting worse between the US and China for some time So even though we are seeing every markets lower in Europe this morning and in Asia overnight You start a certain amount a certain amount of this has already been priced in a certain amount of this Has already been expected One one topic which is sort of off the radar for a few weeks is back on the radar again And that'll be emerging market economies the Indian Rookie has fallen to a new all-time low and the South African round and the Turkish Lira are lowered our lower again this morning We haven't seen major sell-offs in those particular currencies, but given that We did see US government bond yields on the 10-year on the 10-year government bond back in the Friday Gold just north of 3% We could potentially see a renewed interest in the US dollar and also US government bonds in the near term Given that the Federal Reserve are having the meeting next week And should we see a push higher in US government bond yields and also the US dollar We could see addition pressure being applied to emerging market emerging market currencies and that could trigger three years about the stability in many emerging market economies around the world which could then spill over to sell-off in in more West Western economies Take a look now at the week ahead The week ahead article can be found on our website if you go to see the markets calm I think go under news and analysis You'll find the week ahead article. So starting with today Monday later today. We will have the first quarter figures out from FedEx Looking ahead to Wednesday and Thursday. We have UK CPI and UK retail sales also also on Wednesday We have the back of Japan into interest rate decision No change expected there on Thursday. Sorry apologies on Wednesday. We have first half figures out from King Fisher Listed in London on Thursday. We have the Swiss National Bank the SNB Will have released their interest interest rate decision with the SNB There's no no change expected to the industry of policy on Thursday at Dardan the restaurant group over the US They will report their first quarter figures on Friday. We have full your figures from Smith's group listed here in in London And also on Friday with both Canadian CPI and Canadian retail sales So taking a look now at some of the major markets, starting off with the FTSE 100 Which is a touch lower this Monday morning So the FTSE 100 as you can see for the last say Secret seven weeks has been in a downward trend We because if you take a starting off with them with a high from from that from early August Market push lower creating a lower low pushed higher lower high and then only last week Failed back fell back to a level here not seen since April So I give you an idea how negative sentiment was and most of last week We did see the market manager kind of bounce off and recover somewhat from those lows, but Bearing in mind, we're still well below this level here the shred line the dirty moving average Which is off the scene. It's a fairly good problem whether a market of is is a is Is in is enduring positive or negative sentiment and as well below the to the moving average We're not too far away from the from the multi-month lows and like I said, we are lower again today So if you do manage to take out last week's low They could be looking at a back down towards this area here Which comes into play at 7188 and if you break below that we then we head back down to levels not seen I was since early April, so we'll be going to fresh multi-month lows. It should be should be head down there If you managed to kind of push higher on the on the fudsy 100 Keep an eye out for this this level in around here, which comes into play at seven thousand four hundred and twenty two It's the kind of the it's the the low of Friday the 31st of August And if you managed to kind of push beyond that and really keep our for will be this red line here the journey moving average Which comes into play at seven thousand four hundred and eighty seven as you can see that notice how the the journey moving average acts as a support Back in back in mid-August and also act as resistance over a couple occasions in early September And if a metric has a history of acting as support as both support and our resistance Recently that means it makes it all more likely you will do so again in the near term Taking a look now. What's going on over in Germany in the Dax? Relax a bit in fairly weak shape for a number of months now similar to the footsie Last week the Dax hit a multi-month low back to levels not seen since early April So once again quite negative sentiment It's been a very clear downward trend since the July lower low lower high another lower low and lower high And notice how when the market did match to rally here and ready back up to this area, which is in around 12,120 an area which act as very decent support on a couple occasions back in June and also in August So that area was very significant back then and once again it was actually very significant in mid-September So while we remain south of this region here, which comes into play in around 12,120 it's likely that the outlook for the Dax is going to remain negative And if you do look if you do head south of here We could be looking at our heading back below 12,000 and a move back below 12,000 Quick but the recent low on the on the on the radar which comes into play in around 11,800 and 64 Kind of because south of that we could be likely heading back down towards this region here This this region here not seen since the beginning of the year in around the 11,690 area Any moves to the upside in the in the Dax may run into resistance in around the 12,250 area we see a bit of consolidation and In that area recently enough And if you push higher from there, I need to keep enough or will be this blue line here at the 50 moving average Which comes into play 12,440 also on a few occasions. We did even in the market Trade above it acts as a bit of consolidation area both in in later August and also In early August, but the real better to keep a mile for will of course be the journey moving average this red line here at 12,637 as I said, it's often seen as a good brawler of whether, you know Very simple gauge of whether a market is a positive sentiment or a negative sentiment and given that we're well below the grid It moving average and we can assume that how negative sentiment is in relation to the tax On the flip side us markets are looking is still in fairly good shape Even though we have seen a bit of a sell-off in recent sessions So I think this year is the Dow Jones and the Dow Jones has been basically broadly speaking Been been been been pushing higher since since April and a fairly fairly decent upper trend Since July fast example of higher highs and higher lows If you do continue to push on higher from here We could be looking at targeting this area here, which comes into play in around 26,330 and we'll be on that we'll be looking at a backup towards the all-time ice which we've reached in January north of 26,700 moves the downside in the in the Dow Jones may find some support in on this area here Which comes to play at 25,820 or perhaps even down at the East the mid-September low of a twenty five thousand seven hundred and fifty in around this area here Move even if you do drop below that is It makes the remain in the upper trend and the next area of support could come into play at this blue line here at the 50 moving average at really funny twenty five thousand five hundred sixty eight and also the 50 moving average Actions very decent support on the 15th of August As I said before if a metric is acted as support in the past it makes it more likely they will act as a support in future Although of course, there are no guarantees Taking a look now what's going on at the S&P 500 far as similar scenario there or by the marks been in a solid upper trend since April And a pretty decent upper trend since late June It was only at the back in the focus the the S&P 500 rich all-time ice I give the indication of actually how positive at the sentiment has been we've managed to recoup most of the Losses that were incurred in early September. So I think they're looking quite positive The markets been pushing higher in the last number of sessions as you can see here on the MACD indicator on the MacD instagram Although we are still firmly in negative territory on the terms of momentum pause negative momentum as in is in decrease So the markets be marks pushing higher I'm gonna see a steady decline in negative momentum So we get that that move a the back D indicator confirms the upward move that we're seeing in the in the S&P 500 So it makes it all the more likely that the this upward move that we've seen Since around the 7th of September is likely to continue I think it and if you need to push on higher from here on the S&P 500 we could be looking any backup to war back up towards 2,916 and then if you go beyond that 2,920 and 30 with them in the next regions to keep an eye out for Well, if you do if you do move to the downside I will support quickly to play in around this area here as I said the low of September 7th 2,864.1 And even if you just saw there you may find some support to play in around this area here Which coincides with the 50 moving average 2,850 take a look now what's going on in the gold market Seagull remains very much in the in the downward trend that's been in place since August It's our since August since April I apologize the other a Markets been a classic example of a downward trend lower lows and lower highs all the way down Although we have seen a fairly decent recovery over the last month But when the market has bounced back is still really hasn't gained back It's only gained back a small percentage of the ground that has lost over several months and notice how When the market did push higher it ran into the 50 moving average at 1,209 This blue line here and actually failed to actually clear that level So this disappeared in interesting area to keep an eye out for the market hasn't really gone too far south of 1,200 recently but the same time that it's the same time as in managed you can go go too far north of 12 Either if you do manage to break north Of the of the 15 moving average at a 12 on 9 the next year to keep an eye for would be this region here in on the 1225 and a bigger to keep an eye for will be 1236 or 1236 but 37 notice how it actually is in runs it got down as low as As 1237.9 in late July and also the valley here in Apologies in late in early July because it got down as low as 1237.9 and I rallied up to north of 1235 In late July, so keep an eye for 1236 If you do continue to fall back in the end of the old downward trend Thanks here to keep an eye for to the downside Will be 1183 1184 if you go south of that Because you back down toward this district in 1175 and go south of 1175 if you were looking at retesting Apologies the August loan at 1160 Taking a look now at the oil market so now looking at Brent crude Brent crude hit it was hitting a multi multiple actually multi month highs Only at the back end of last week and the manage market as magic and come back a small bit from there But it's been in a firm upward trend since mid-August over the over the last month As you said it hit a multi month high only last week so get an indication of how strong is the sentiment is While we remain north of this yellow line here the 50 moving average Which comes to play out at 75 spots 71 It's like if the outlook for Brent food is going to remain positive And if you can push on higher from there, we keep looking at hitting 80 dollars dollars for barrel And if we go beyond 80 the exit area to keep on that for will be the the may high of 80s by 89 And if you go beyond that we can really looking at our I think 81 spot of 53 and if he once we go bit once we go beyond 80s by 89 we are in multi-year high territories Most of the downside I can say it may find some support from the 180 moving average this yellow line here Which comes to play at 75 spots 71 and even if you go south of that This blue line the 50 moving average may also provide support at 74 spot 62 notice of both those lines Did manage to act as both support in recent weeks therefore making them all the more likely because the addition support coming to play Should be drift floor in the near term Taking a look at WTI not as a not as a strong market as Brent But it's once again, it's broadly speaking in the kind of upward trend that we've seen for the last few for the last day four weeks Taking a look here from the F and the August lows The market has managed to push higher but still give back some of the gains While it remains north of this red line here the turning moving average at six that's just north of 66 dollars in barrel It's like at the outlook is going to remain positive for for WTI if you continue to push on I from here We could look at retesting the recent highs of 61 71 apologies about 69 I think we'll be on that you can be getting back up towards this area here In a 72 spot 79 and then if you go beyond that we could be looking at targeting 75 Like I'll say if you take off this red line here The turning moving average at a 66 spot or one keep an eye out for the third the mid-August low At a 64 spot 66, so if you go south of that keep an eye out for the early the low and in mid-June 63 spot 50 58 Take a look now at a couple of currency pairs So the big picture is that the euro has been losing ground versus US dollar since April But we have seen a fairly decent comeback in the euro versus versus the pound So first is the US dollar The market starts began this began this move higher a bottom month ago We've had a we've had the push higher here into Late August the markets pull back to a reaction low here and appears to be pushing higher here yet again The note to keep an eye out for to the upside will be this region here one spot 1750 quite a bit of Solid but very slightly resistance area throughout try to July so we break north of one spot 1750 I mean that would be fairly significant the next area to keep an eye for north of that will be one spot 1850 this region here And although if the market does matter to turn over on itself yet again And I think we do see a break south of this region here in One spot 1510 that will be quite negative And if you go beyond south of one spot 1510 it could take us back down toward the August low of one spot 1301 And this finishing things up now on the pound versus the US dollar the pound dollar has also been declined Since since April rather, but we have seen a fairly decent push higher in the pound recently As you see of the last month the market does indeed pushing higher higher low higher high higher low higher high higher low Market has been has been pushing higher were firmly above the display line here the fifth moving average comes into play in around Just just just it's just south of the one spot 30 region while we remain above one spot 30 For the pound dollars likely we could see these these these gains being extended And if the amount to push on higher from here the next area to keep an eye for to the upside Will be this region here one spot 3250. It was acted as a fairly decent Consolidate solidation area back in both June and also July and if you go beyond that the bigger keeping our for would be the early July high This price here which comes into play at one spot 33 63 But if you do see the power of the dollar trap back low the 130 region We could be heading back down towards the early September low of one spot 2785 And if you go south of there, we can really get it back down towards the August low at one spot 2661 Well, if you've any commentary you want to make any feedback positive or negative on this video or any of the other videos We produce here at CMC markets, please feel free to leave a review on Google reviews. Well, that's all for me this week Thank you very much