what's up what is going on everybody hold on a second that's about right okay guys what is going on look at this got big this fucking thing is it's gonna be the biggest package I've received so far we're back for another subscriber starter pack reaction I assume well sorry opening so what is it rugby player receives starter pack fan starter pack of a particular team from it from anyway let's get into it big this thing is it's from my guys across the ditch usps as always and it's actually from a man William Quinn from Dallas Texas he's dropped a cool $97.90 us to send this to me plus what's ever in the box so look man before I open it what a fucking legend welcome back to another YouTube no what is it rugby player reacts to no rugby player receives subscriber starter pack no it's not it's not it's rugby player receives fan starter pack from subscribers so that's what I assume is in here I can't remember what he said I'm not gonna look up his Instagram message because I want it to be a surprise so let's do this let's fucking do this I love this shit man I will never get sick of it and I hope you guys enjoy it too okay that's no good to me where's my key okay here we go I'm excited by the way if you were wondering a package like this from Dallas Texas got sent on the 16th of October 2018 today's date I've just received it the 31st so that's two weeks let's get into it William Quinn what we got here what do you make of that guys it's packed full all right okay it's either a towel or a blanket maybe maybe it's a blanket for those cold cold winter games when they're playing in six six inches of snow I'm not sure I don't even know what's on it what is on this thing what does that say north north Texas neon green no mean green north Texas mean green established in 1890 north Texas oh man we've got some more north Texas I'm loving this I haven't had any green yet so wait we've got a some sort of bird like logo kind of looks like the Eagles logo but I guarantee it's not north Texas apparently let's put this on we're gonna excel and it fits perfectly now this is what I'm looking forward to a hoodie everyone loves a hoodie and especially when they look as sick as that I've got to say man before I got into any of this football stuff before I got into college football I've always known that I've liked like your college style font college style print you know whether it's in Mississippi Alabama like I could have said anything I still would have liked it so to receive this I mean it's in the same fashion gray silver and whites and green fuck you know that's another thing these color schemes are absolutely brilliant I mean the gray and red for for a higher state you've got the the maze and blue for Michigan you've got green and white and silver for north Texas you've got purple and yellow for LSU you've got so many others and I really love them all and this is fucking sick I can tell you right now I'll be wearing this a lot when it's cold enough yeah perfect size man what size is it X size XL thank you man this is amazing I love it absolutely love it what do you got here drinking cups with a straw north Texas the tower the fight song okay this one north Texas fly fly fly okay what do we got here Scott Brown properties so these are just these must be cups that you buy at the game got your coke got your beer boom all right we've got a letter here holy shit right we're gonna read that at the end oh man oh fuck you this is gonna take forever you have outdone yourself my friend you have absolutely outdone yourself we've got this is this is definitely a starter pack that's for sure north Texas bag for whatever you want to put in it we've got the beanie I love this fuck yeah could you see me in the stands you wouldn't know where I'm from yeah I'm in North Texas brah yeah second year second year redshirt pencils pencils pencil pencil I don't know when the last time I used a pencil was in fact I don't have a pencil sharpener but I do have a knife downstairs so that's all good this is fantastic this is this is beyond fantastic this is unbelievable all right let's get through this holy shit man oh this this this playing jersey looks absolutely sick coaster for the bears we've got a hat we go straight back I love my straight backs in fact I'm gonna put this on right now beanie can wait that's a bit small maybe this is for a girl I'm actually not sure I think it might be for a girl although my head is a size double XL no hats fit my head but beanie's do so there you go we've got we've got a key ring key ring with number 75 and it says mean Joe green from 1966 to 68 mean Joe green we're gonna have to have a look at him ladna is this is this a real playing jersey is this from a player number 91 mean green I've got one I've got another actual like playing jumper from North Dakota State in this similar style it's like the room for the pads and stuff number 91 well we'll have to find out who that is like I said anything with the college style print is an absolute winner in my books including this one XL my man North Texas North Texas North Texas what eagles we've got here another one I want to know what that is oh football magazines mate well that's a first thank you mate well I'm actually going away on on a trip soon going on holiday it's gonna be a bit of travel time but a downtime I'll be taking these as well as these two the two books on the Michigan Ohio State rivalry so sweet man I've got some reading and I'll learn about the game football what we got here another something else football cards the mean green standard 2018 North Texas football fan guide not approved for entry all purses bags containers larger than a small clutch backpacks binocular case briefcases camera bags cinch bag computer bags coolers fatty packs and luggage of any kind oh man I'm fucking hungry now veggie dogs black bean burgers salads fruit cups cheese burgers grilled chicken sandwiches Philly cheesesteaks mini corn dogs brisket sliders brisket nachos jalapeno cheese sausage wrap brisket mac and cheese the raffa sandwich Rudy's barbecue Metzler's barbecue mate is this what they call tailgating this sounds absolutely delightful I'll have a read of that and here we go here we go mean Joe green mean Joe green considered not only the greatest player in North Texas history mean Joe green was rated the greatest defensive tackle in the history of football when the NFL named its top 100 greatest players I'm gonna watch that a three-time Missouri Valley all conference player green anchor to North Texas defensive line that allowed just two yards per rushing attempt from 66 to 68 helping North Texas to a 23 5-in-1 record green was a consensus all American in 1968 mean Joe green here's another one in 1969 green was the first nor first North Texas player taken in the first round of the NFL draft selected fourth overall by the Pittsburgh Steelers as achievements included 69 defensive rookie of the year 10 Pro Bowl selections five first team all pro honors defensive player of the year in 72 and 74 NFL man of the year and 79 and four Super Bowl championships what green is a member of the North Texas athletics college football and pro football Hall of Fame and its number 75 was retired by the University of North Texas and by Pittsburgh Steelers whoa what a fucking legend we definitely got a legend on our hand here another one founded by his three children in loving memory of their late mother Agnes the green family foundation provides scholarships for students who have who are breast cancer survivors or who have a parent affected by the by the disease going Agnes met while there are students at UNT and the foundation is a nod to her love of the University in its first year the foundation provided two scholarships to UNT students who then attended the annual nibble and mingle event featuring all-star chefs and a celebrity guest list the event serves as the primary fund fundraiser for the foundation right the green fan green family foundation supporting breast cancer we've got one more guys I'm gonna read it out NFL 70s all deck all decade teams Joe Green here are some dates 1980 he was named in the 70s all decade team for the NFL 1981 he was named in the North Texas athletics Hall of Fame 1981 also his number 75 was retired by North Texas in 84 he got inducted into the college football Hall of Fame 85 Texas Sports Hall of Fame 87 pro football Hall of Fame 94 the NFL 75th anniversary all-time team in 2010 16 years later he got the top 100 NFL greatest players I believe he's number one 2014 number 75 which was retired by the Pittsburgh Steelers who I'm assuming he played for and in 2017 last year he was named in the Texas High School football Hall of Fame so that's high school so he's in one two three four five six Hall of Fames holy shit that's impressive and we've got one last thing last but not least we've got to have a flag and it looks as if that's what this is but I still it's it's obviously just called North Texas and that's it there's no like North Texas Eagles or North Texas birds or something like that it's just North Texas and that's upside down so I suppose I suppose it's time for a thumbnail which means that we're gonna have to go like this and get that so we will get behind me there and I want to say William man this is amazing this is amazing just like all of my other you know packages are from my subscribers I mean this is me checking my postbox not really expecting anything getting a massive package coming home opening it it's amazing I feel like it's Christmas and it kind of is Christmas in two months but this hoodie sick man I love the silver I love the white I love the green I love the beanie I love all the information mean Joe green is coming up but before I do go this video has probably gone on about 15 minutes already we have a letter and as always I am going to read it right now to Jacob greetings from the mean green nation I am so elated that you have come to embrace American football especially the college game I personally like it more as a whole over the NFL but I still do love my Cowboys I just like the college game as a pure sport I'm a graduate of the University of North Texas in 2002 and since I have been at school here I've always followed the football team from good and great years to lean and even better and even bad years I will always follow this team through and through I hope this care package is a great token of my appreciation to you for embracing American college football let me describe a few of the items the white game jersey from 2010 when we were when we were still in the Sun Belt conference we are now in conference USA I don't remember the player exactly but I think number 91 fits you well the player is is Ladner my man and you know what thank you my friend a real plain jersey baseball cap and pom beanie hat size large North Texas white be in sports shirt and coosie be in sports here show UNT games here okay so be be sports must be a broadcaster the world class sports network okay a couple of greens a green shirts and a hoodie which is awesome three by five foot flag yes a set of UNT pencils a gift bag two of my favorite college football preview magazines the anthlons national college football and Dave Campbell's Texas football so we got Athlon sports college football magazine that's gonna be a good read Dave Campbell's Texas football so I'm gonna learn all about Texas brilliant North Texas plush throw oh this one what's a throw must be a little blanket an actual game program from our game against Louisiana Tech which was here this one mean Joe green trading cards and bronze keychain from statue ceremony before La Tech game foldable fan guide actual souvenir soda cups from our home grounds as for YouTube clips for you to review I have four of them for you Jacob but bold print and YouTube search bar to find clips easier okay number one North Texas goal line stand versus rice October 31st 2013 goal line stand was for eight straight plays the last play was the craziest okay number two North Texas first UTSA which is I got no idea final drive here we had to go down the entire length of the field in a minute and two seconds with no time outs piece of cake for our quarterback Mason fine number three North Texas fake fair catch the 90 yard punt return touchdown so far this is the 2018 play of the year in college football this is pick this is a pic of me with the punt return a Keegan Brewer and the man that created the play special teams coach Marty biagi brilliant wait a name drop breath wait a name drop number four any episode of this season of Beyond the Green 2018 this is our weekly show it is a very in-depth look at our team I really think you would like it Jacob one last picture I would like to show you is this picture from 2017 I'm on the very left and next to me is Zach or one of the great linebackers ever to play here he played for the Baltimore Ravens for three years afterwards Zach or I've actually heard of him I have next to him is the fight as his father Terry or who used to play for the Washington Redskins and on the very bright was our running back Brandon Bird who led us to winning the heart of Dallas Bowl in 2013 14th season Jacob I hope you enjoy your UNT swag box University of North Texas and go mean green sincerely William Quinn and that's the picture of him with the or the or guys and the current running back on a Brandon bird 2013 14 running back sir man what a legend what an absolute legend man I am blown away as I always am but God I mean this is this is incredible I love it I love it all I want to say thank you so much I want to say stay tuned for the next few videos they're gonna be he didn't actually mention anything about Joe Green I'm gonna have to look at him anyway so look the next video or two or three or four is gonna be dedicated to my man William Quinn it's gonna be associated with North Texas and I can't wait so if you have enjoyed this video if you want to support me and the growth of the channel please press like if you want to subscribe please do go North Texas baby it's all I can say look at my pencils


Hello everybody, Andrea Mayesca here with Dental L. So I've been pondering something for a while. I have not done this before because honestly, I'm just a very busy person. I'm just being, you know, truly honest with you. I tutor full-time. I work at a dental office still two to three times a week and since opening up my own dental hygiene practice I'm always doing something. But a lot of students have been asking me to hold like a board exam review seminar in Canada because they do have them out there for the US, but not in Canada. So I'm thinking about doing this. I'm thinking about actually doing it in April, but I'm curious though how many people would be interested. You know, if there's not a lot of people then it's something that I might hold at my house. But if there's a ton of people then I would just have to rent a space somewhere. It's kind of what I'm thinking. If there's a lot of people, you know, I think it would be fun to give away prizes to give like a good little loot bag of some like dental board exam prep stuff because that's what others do. So why can't I do it too? I think it's an amazing idea. When I was a student I would have loved something like that, but there just wasn't anything out there. So it's kind of the thoughts I'm thinking. I'm thinking a lot of things. If you guys had watched the video earlier, I am coming out with an app, a board exam review app for mock exams, case studies, the whole works. It's going to be amazing. It takes a lot of time to develop and work with everybody, but it's going to look amazing. So I just thought I would kind of pop on and share this other thought of mine. So let me know if you're interested in that. I might have like a little sign up sheet online to just see how many people would be because I would do if there's a lot of people, like I would do the whole lunch thing. We would have fun. I'm thinking do like a board exam review in the morning, have lunch, do something in the evening, and then that's it. So it might even take a couple days. I don't know. Probably a couple days. I don't know. We will see. We will think about this. We still have time. So let me know your thoughts. Thank you guys for watching, and I'll see you in the next one.


What's going on, guys? We're back with another episode of the After Hours podcast. Today we have one of our newest junior moderators, Christopher. And so thank you for coming on, man. We're glad to have you. Appreciate it. Of course, man. So I guess as usual, we kind of want to start with, you know, how did you get into trading? And then how did you find MIC? So kind of give us the whole beginning picture of your career. So I started in 2017 and I saw on YouTube, like a lot of people, the Tim Sykes videos. And at that time, I was actually in college again. So I've been in the military and I got out and went back to college and was grinding that out, you know, which is fine because I just always wanted to go back and I just saw the videos about trading and I was like, man, it's pretty cool, you know, and I was going to school for, you know, business management and finance. And it just kind of like, you know, caught my interest. And I started looking into it more and, you know, I had a little bit of money and I opened a little small account. I was like, hey, I'm going to try this.    But I also kept it in perspective. I was like, well, I'll mind losing a little bit of money to learn. So it was just small, you know, I mean, I started like 10 shares, whatever, and just trying. And then as time went along, I researched it more. And I don't remember how I came across. And I think it was on Twitter, actually, because I started seeing, you know, traders on Twitter, you know, I saw Harry, you know, like a long time ago when, you know, you were starting to get into it. And I just started following people like everybody else. And, you know, that's how I found MIC. I researched all these people. So I'm like big into that. So I looked into a lot of these traders, try to look up stuff on them, everything I could.  I hadn't been in any other service. Oh, cool. This looks legit. I like the way these guys talk. So I joined, you know, I was like, I'm gonna try. So were you having any sort of success before that? Like were you making any money? Or was it kind of just like, basically breakeven or small losses? Hey, it's just small losses. I wasn't making any money, you know, because I just didn't know what I was doing. I didn't know what I was looking at.  So I have to look at stuff a lot. Many times, I just have to try it. So I'm one of those types. I'm not a data person. I don't like tracking data. Like people, some of the people ask me, hey, what do you use to track this? Well, that's not me.  Yeah, me too. Me too. Yeah.  And that has tremendously changed my trading that helped me. You know, and that's just kind of, it's almost hard for me to explain. Harry probably understands it. And you do too, James. I'm not a data person. But now I've seen it enough where I can look at stuff when I'm in a trade, you know, on a chart on level two, whatever, I can kind of see what's going on. And I do research stuff a lot too. So like I put on my watch list, you know, I've already looked at these things most of the time, read about them, looked at the filings, whatever. I mean, yeah, it doesn't matter a lot of times or small caps, especially, but just gives me a better idea for my own, you know, personal choice of what I want to take and how I want to trade it. And that's kind of how I got into it. And actually, I started out in with MIC, I started shorting, you know, that's how I got over PDT. Oh, really? Oh, yeah. Yeah. I started shorting and I did that for like 2020. And that got me over PDT. But damn, dude, that's pretty good. Yeah. When I got over PDT, I got to the point where I was like stagnated and flat. And I was always nervous, shorting. Like I just wasn't super comfortable. Yes, I can trade the setups and, you know, I have my risk. I've always been very good with cutting my losses, taking loss. I've never taken any huge losses because, man, that's a good one.  Well, you know, it's funny. So how long have you, when did you join MIC with in 2020 or 2019? No, I think it was beginning of 2019. Okay, cool. So it's funny though, right? Like, we always talk about how new traders could be so much more successful if they just did the basic things like max daily loss, hard stops with your set risk, all that. And you're a good example of like, you clearly just did that. And look at how quickly you kind of started to grow. Yeah.  And mentally, if you can't handle cutting it, like I can handle it like I know when I'm wrong, I'm out. If I lose, yeah, it's what it is, you know, and that's a talent dude. So I just, I'm just like, kind of just have a couple of questions here.  Yeah. And then at some point you transitioned to longing. And like when you started to get into longing, what types of stuff did you kind of look at? What types of like setups did you play? Because I know there's going to be a lot of long people listening to this who are probably struggling and saying, you know, because you have a very kind of solid niche now where it's like, it's not really the same as Austin and it's not really the same as me where you kind of have the ability, you're trading like afternoon a bit more, you're trading some of these stocks that are, like some stocks that aren't even on my radar. Yeah.  Well, should I never even knew about? Yeah, I just, well, with that, I have found this other guy, you know, and I don't mention too much stuff, you know, because I know it's in my seat, this other guy, this swing trader on Twitter, you know, a while back, I started following him. Is it like the Maggie guy? Yeah, exactly. You can mention him. Okay. Well, I started to call Maggie, is that who it is? Yeah. You know, I called Maggie. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like I started following his swing trades and looking at his daily charts, right?  Yeah.  So one of the things that I do, like I say, is that helped me longing is I just wait, I'll let that thing go, let everybody chase it, short it, whatever they want to do the first red day. And that thing will come down, you know, four, five, six days. And I just have it on my list. And I'm watching every day I look at it, you know, and every afternoon I'll look at it.   That's how I'll see them. I'm watching it. And I like the low floats. A lot of times they have lower volume, they've got a bigger spread. I understand that, you know, I count for that. I'll trade smaller size, but like I was telling somebody in the days, you know, I took the trade on, I remember the one that ran early this morning, JSPR. Yeah, yeah, I took a trade on that one. I had to go to work today, but you know, I knew this was a stack. I looked at this thing. I've seen it before. And yesterday or we had GWH, same type scenario. And I'm like, okay, you know, pre-market, I had to go to work, but I had an order in, you know, I bought it, I got it right around 10. I had another order at eight. Okay. Jesus. And I had a stop. I was like, okay, my plan was my stop, I was going to put at 796. I was willing to scale down to that eight level. Yeah.  Yeah. It went up $10. Am I willing to lose, and I was trying to tell somebody, it's only 100 shares. If you trade 100 shares, whatever it is, but are you willing to lose $100, $200 to make five or six, you know. And yeah, on this low float run, I was like, you know, I just keep it in perspective. I don't let myself get oversized. You know, I'm watching the spread on these things. I use fantasy orders to get in. You know, you can't chase them. Jesus. And, and you just, when they work, they work great. You know what I mean? And you can see them, if they're lower volume, I went back and watched a bunch of Harry's videos on the level two. So I'd go back on TOS on demand, and I'd watch these key levels in these key spots. And you can see these people buying these things at certain areas, right? On these lower floats, it doesn't take much. Look at the volume. It'll take 10,000 shares buying this thing and move a dollar, you know, on some level. If nobody's watching them or shortroom. So some of the lower volumes, I don't, I don't advise it for, I'd say, new, the new trader to do it. But I look for them specifically, you know, and that's kind of how I plan some of these things. But I like what you're doing, dude.  Like, I remember when I first got the trading with like 20, like that's 2018 or whatever. Like that's what everybody did at the time. People wouldn't be like scanning and like going through and like picking the next place and like, I don't do that. But like, I love seeing that. And I think it's cool that you took like the MIC process of like risk and like how you approach that and kind of put it into your own style of trading. Like you're not oversizing, you're adhering to your risk. And like, that's really impressive for someone who hasn't really been trading that long. Well, in, in, like Harry asked me, you know, when I started switching back to long. So I try a lot of times I'll look at like the, if you want to call it the macro view of things. So 2020 was a amazing long year in my opinion. When COVID happened, right? You saw all these long traders. It was a massive year for them, you know, and I was shorting the whole time for a lot of it. And I'm like, dammit, I'm on the wrong side of the state for me, you know, and I'm going to keep looking at it. I started studying it more, you know, because I mean, really, once I got over PDT, like I said, I kind of flatlined and I was scared to move my sides up and I'm like, I don't know why, but just for me, just feel right. So I need to switch. I even went to the point where I changed my accounts back. I don't have a margin of counting more. I took it away. So I had the ability to short. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I went to that extent. I said, I'm going to just get rid of that.   I saw it last year and I knew they had a certain amount of time to merge, you know, and as you see recently, you see all these mergers coming up because they've got so many, you know, like 12 to 18 months to create this merger or a risk getting de-listed. So you see them all happening now because SPACs were only here, what, two years ago, 18 months ago? That's a new thing. That's why they're kind of doing what they're doing. And a lot of them have gotten crushed, you know, they have. If you look at all the charts, a lot of them look the same. You know, they'll run them up, they get crushed, you know, even in most of them, like a lot of these ones that I find like today, that S or that, I don't remember what, JSPR, that people don't know it, but it had a nano float because so many people redeemed their shares at like $10 a share. They had less than a million shares out there. That's why I traded the way it did. Right. And they have a certain amount of time before the pipe investors can start selling their stuff. So there's like a few week period where these things, if the initial investors or the people that held the SPAC shares, you know, redeem it at that price, at that $10 price, then that just makes that float that tiny, right? And when it's that small, it takes nothing to shoot that thing to the moon. And I just realized that I was like, man, a lot of these things were like, can just go nuts. On a particular ticker, like, let's say what would be something that you would like, like other than the first kind of green day setup, what types of like kind of intraday charts do you look for? And also on, on those type of like afternoon trades, what types of like intraday patterns are you kind of looking for? I'm just curious. So that is, I don't do well on day one hot shakes. I just, I don't know why, not, not in the, not in the morning. Like I don't, I just don't do well because they're like crowded, just hard for me to judge those things. I don't know what it is about it. They are difficult. They are, they are because there's so many people in them and, you know, manipulators, whatever, whatever.  I don't, I really try not to trade to open and wait until 10, 10 30, you know, see where it's holding, if it's holding, right? If the volume is holding up, you know, you know, do I feel like shorts or trap is easy to borrow or that kind of thing. And I will take a trade on that. And I'm like you, I'm trying to sell, I'll sell part at VWOT, sell the rest or another part of it at high day, if it gets there, you know, and move my stop up as it goes. That's probably the best thing, zombie time for me, you know. I really, I'm really looking when, when the open happens, I'm really looking for like setups, you know, like that. But day one hot chicks are not my favorite. You know, lately I've been trading them the last couple of weeks because there hasn't been like many multi-day runners that I can watch. Yeah. I like multi-day runners a lot of times, you know, third or fourth day. I'm not going to hold them, but I will day trade them, especially if they're holding a certain level on that daily chart. You know, if I see a multi-day, if we get a big day one comes down like Prague the other day, I think it was Prague or there was one last week, me and Austin talked about in the webinar. I saw it the first day, came down and held this 360 level. I said, you know what? I said, I told him, I said, I think this thing, it's got more in it. And it spiked on Wednesday, it held the level Thursday and Friday, you know, from 360, it went all the way to five. Yeah. Those kind of things I look for. It's cool that you know, because I feel like long traders, everyone thinks they have to trade the open. I feel like all longs get so excited for that rush of volume at the open and that's where you see a lot of amateur longs take losses where Harry obviously is seasoned and knows to wait for his spots and all that. But how did you get so disciplined? I think it's pretty rare for new traders to be as disciplined as you are when it comes to like everything we're talking about like knowing your setup, like waiting for your specific times, like how did you get to that point and like what made you like this, I guess? Well, I mean, I'm like everybody else. I've gotten in fights with stocks over the years and lost. I told somebody earlier and I was like, hey man, trust me, we've all been through it.   And I know I'm doing it. You know, it's just the fact that I have to stop myself.  And I'm like, I know I can do this. I mean, God dang it. You know, the military has definitely taught me discipline.  I went back to college. I did that on my own every night, sat here until, you know, 11 o'clock at night, worked a full-time job with three kids and, you know, get all that. That's just like for me training, I'm like, I'm going to get this. I love doing it. And I'm going to be successful no matter how long it takes. And I don't care if I make $20 a day until I learn how to do it. You know what I mean? I'm just going to keep hacking away. I'm just one of those people. I don't quit, man.  That's the one I'm going to quit. Every new trader needs to listen to this twice. Seriously. I think this is one of like the best like, like episodes for newer guys, like, especially trying to get into longing. Like, Harry, how many questions do you get that it's like, if a new trader could just follow this? Like, I mean, Jesus Christ. Yeah. Well, I know. And a lot of, I, and like, I like how you just kind of said yourself, like, I am someone who trades the open, but I'm very selective about it.  And like, I respect that you just said like, okay, this isn't really working for me. And it doesn't work for some people and everyone's different, right? And I respect that you're just like, you know what? This isn't really working that well for me. And a lot of the opens like the past six months have been really heavy anyway. So, you know, you just said yourself, it's not working for me. You know, you found something that kind of worked. You found like a little kind of like niche for yourself.   Hey, do you guys, can you give me one second so I can take my dogs out and let my wife out? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, good. Oh, that's Harry a question. Yeah, we can talk.   I think it's that if you have a pre market. Well, I just do it based on like day to day market. So like, yesterday, we had a ton of things running. And everyone all I knew that like longs today, we're going to have major long FOMO. So I knew that we might get that one runner. But if things start to stuff, it can turn really bad for longs. You know, also all great about the setups, right? If we have a ton of broken charts that are just disgusting, I probably don't want to long those at the open, you know, yeah, you know, if we've had a main main runner in pre market, I know that every single long who missed that is going to want to probably jump in right away. Like a lot of people don't have really good self control. So like, they see something pop a little bit and they're like, bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.  So it's really just been about like, which side do I think is FOMO? And then I judge it by the kind of setups. And then sometimes I just say, okay, we have had one runner overextended hot chick that, you know, maybe you could get a trade on, but probably not. Like, it's probably not going to, you know, do what you want. So I'll probably write that overextended stock off the other broken ones I'll write off too. And I'll just be like, you know what, I can wait till zombie. I can wait until I'm kind of, I guess, I can wait till I can, you know, put myself in a situation where I should be trading. And that's one thing that I've been working on the most is just knowing when to trade, being extremely selective. Bow and I, the past like four days have been just like bitching about range and saying like, when the top is set, you shouldn't be looking to go long. You should just write it off and look for a new chart or a new setup or not touch it. And that's something that, you know, Bow and I have definitely been preaching daily. Interesting. So I have a question for both of you guys actually. So I get a lot of DMs. I don't know why long traders DM me all the time, but I always just send them to you. I send them to you. But most of the people I get, they get into this habit. And I've mentioned this in the past, I think being a long trader is very hard because I think there's a lot of emotions involved too. I think it's harder than short selling in my opinion. But why, why is it that new traders are like stuck longing broken charts? And like, how do you guys, what's some advice that you guys have for long bias guys to kind of break that habit of like longing or wrong stocks? I mean, for me, I try to go in with a plan on something we're going to trade.  But if it's something that I'm already in or trading that day, I've already got, you know, I've already got my plan and what I'm going to do. If it doesn't work, it stops me on.  So for me mentally, that's okay.  I don't scalp it. Well, yes, I do because I have a size that I'm comfortable with and I'm okay with holding it a little bit longer, but I do take profit on the way out, you know, that has helped me tremendously, but picking the right stock is because I'm not just jumping in it. Like, I've looked at it before, you know, and if it is the hot chick, it's pretty easy through the process to look it up and come up with a pretty good plan, you know, and if you're trading a hot chick to me, it's a technical plan, right? I mean, you know, I'm gonna get deep into it. So used to chart and used to lines. I mean, that's just it. I mean, that's what's going to keep you safe and, you know, potentially a good trade for me. Yeah, but yeah, with me with the broken stock thing, the thing is, is that, and this is the thing that I've noticed quite a bit, is that every single newer short trader or even intermediate short traders are looking to nail the hot chick for whatever reason. Everyone's trying to get that top tick, right? You can post it on Twitter later, can boost the ego later.  Everyone's getting like almost like a negative reinforcement from that. And so, you know, that puts it, you know, in a situation where a lot of short traders like put themselves at risk to get trapped. Now, if you look at long traders, it's the reverse opposite where if you nail the bottom on a broken stock, or you get in on a broken stock, we always see those broken stocks that once in a while will teleport. It's maybe like one in 100, but we always see them once in a while. And that's probably in the back of every single long trader's mind who's looking to long those, right? And so it's kind of the reverse short traders are looking to get the hot chick. Long traders are looking for that broken stock, hoping it can get that like second or third push higher. And that's where I think that happens. And it should just be completely reversed. Short traders who are looking to make money should be taking advantage of that pop, where everyone has already been bagged from pre-market, bagged from the open, looking to sell into that kind of VWAP or resistance push, right? Short traders should be taking advantage of that.  I'm not a big proponent of that. I'm not a big advocate of that. I think in that type of situation, it's good to just sit out on a hot chick like that. But if you have something that's kind of around VWAP at the open, we dip down and then, you know, we get that kind of rip higher over higher day, that's a type of hot chick that you want to be involved in. That's not something that you want to be short on, right? And I don't think you want to be short on the other one if you're short either. You should just wait till longs are bagged and then just take advantage of that excess supply when it's flooded and it goes lower. And that's what you should kind of be looking at. And I just think that long traders want to be the hero. Short traders want to be the hero. And when you long a broken stock and it goes up as a long trader, you're a hero.  So it's all about being the hero. It's not about making money. And it's all just about getting your ego stroke, whether it's in the main chat or whether it's on Twitter or whatever. People love that more than making money. And if you can say, I love making money more than that, you definitely have a shot at trading. And like that. And something too for, you know, on that is, you know, a broken stock to me might be a different definition for somebody else, because when I have a plan on one, I'm usually basing it off of the daily chart. So I've been looking at it for days. You know what I mean? Intraday, yes, I see a lot of times their stocks are broken and there's, you know, levels that you don't want to be on or a death line. But, you know, if something has been holding for three or four days and I'm watching it, to me, it's not broken yet. So I'm looking for another move. And that's something I have to explain, you know, sometimes because I don't always base my trade off of that intraday chart, you know, because sometimes that will swing these things. You know, if I see it holding a level, I will swing some, you know, for a few days, you know, and there's that quality Maggie setup that I'm looking for, you know, and I use that a good bit and it works very well, you know, like that. It has to be just right for me to do it. You know, I think I just want to add one more thing on a situation like that, where I know the type of chart that you're picturing and it's the one that's broken in the morning and then rips up in the afternoon, right? Yeah, that type of situation where we'll either get that afternoon kind of rip after like two, three o'clock, where we get that big afternoon rip and everyone who's stuck short at the lower levels is forced to cover and we go over high a day, which is a situation that can happen on a lot of broken stocks. And I think that that should be pointed out as well, because once in a while, and it's usually a stock that you're tracking, we do get those broken stock moves in the afternoon or in after hours, right? When they're moving the stock and it's a liquid and now everyone who's short as fucked. But again, it's going to be time-based trading, right? Like you're not looking to go long a broken stock at 10 or 30 a.m., right? And so I know the exact charts that you're talking about. And that's just why I wanted to point that out, because they're gonna be like, Chris Lee said, bro. Yeah, no, no, don't get that. Yeah. And that's what I say. I use a lot of larger timeframe levels for me, you know, and what I'm looking at. So here he's exactly right. Do not long a broken interday chart. Oh, the DMs I'm going to get from this.  You can look at it. The volume goes away. It's just not going to do it. You know what I mean? The moral of the story is know your setup. You know exactly what you're looking for. I know what I'm looking for on the DM chart. And it's hard and just like here, you know, no one trades exactly the same. And that's what I try to tell everybody. It took me a long time to figure that out. I've tried all these setups and they work and I have no doubt. But for me and my personality, I've just adapted a lot of different things that I've learned from all of you guys and the rules and just kind of made my own thing and it works. So that's just what I did. And I can explain it as much as I want to a member, but until they figure out what they're comfortable with and what they do and what works. I like that. I mean, so we are coming up kind of on our like our time limit, but I guess the last question I wanted to ask because I think you're someone good for this is what piece of advice would you give to any new trader kind of struggling to find their knee shirt, like how they trade? Or what kind of advice would you give them on going forward? Well, I've tried it all. Every different little thing, you know, with small size. I mean, I just in practice, I still practice every day, you know, like today, you know, I had some trades that I traded and a lot of times what has helped me and you know, if I see a setup that I want to learn and I use like five shares and I'll just use five shares until I figure it out, you know, or to see if it works or if I'm okay with it. Yeah. And that's probably been the biggest thing for me to help control my emotions because everybody, everybody has them. That's your biggest enemy is your own emotions, you know. The trade is there and you can take it, but you just have to control yourself, you know, and implement the rules. That's the hardest part, like everybody says.   I mean, if you're not spending a lot of screen time, try stuff out like I've been, you know, it takes longer. I mean, it's taken me a long time, I mean, but you just got to be willing to put in the time and the practice, you know. I agree. Perfect. You know, you get, over time, you'll see it. You'll finally start seeing it.  Perfect. I like that, man. I think that's a good note to end on, honestly. That was really good. So, Chris, I mean, thank you for coming on. We had a lot of requests to get you on here. So, we'll definitely have to get you back in the future and monitor your progress and see where you're at. Well, I appreciate it. And, you know, thanks to M-I-C for everything you guys do. And, you know, anybody in there, like I say, in the best place in the world to learn because you're not going to find any other community like this. I promise you that. Amen, brother. Thank you again. Love it. Thanks, guys. It's great.


and so the shortest day came and the year ended. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow white world came people dancing, singing to welcome back the light. They lighted candles in the winter trees. They hung their homes with evergreen. They burned beseeching fires all through the night to keep the year alive. When the new day's sunshine blazed awake they shouted, rejoicing through all across the centuries you can hear them echoing behind us if you just listen. All the long echoes sing the same delight, this shortest day and longest night, as promise awakens in a sleeping land. They carol feast, give thanks, dearly love their friends and hope for peace. And so do we here now, this year and every year, welcome Solstice. And what a joy it is to welcome you to this celebration of the winter Solstice. We gather on this night in the early darkness and refreshing cold of winter to be together in the dark, to appreciate the restfulness and the peace that comes in darkness and also to recognize that this is the point when the light is reborn. Gathered here we draw a circle of community and recognize that the darkness is where we hold seeds of hopes and dreams to come. Round and round the earth is turning, turning always round till morning and from morning round till night. In the northern hemisphere the sun is peaking lower in the sky and setting sooner. Each night grows longer as we await this longest night the winter Solstice. Tonight we celebrate the return of hope to our land as our planet experiences the first slow turn toward greater daylight. Soon we will welcome the return of the sun in the coming of spring. As we do so let us remember and embrace the positive enriching aspects of winter's darkness. To lure the sun back to us we light candles, burn the eulog, decorate our houses with light. Many religions have a son-child who is born this time of year, a child who lights the way back to spring, back to life. But it is not just children newly born who carry the light and give renewed hope for this world each and every one of us carries that light. As we gather this evening, hold in your heart how do you carry the light? How will you carry the flame of hope, love and justice with you into a new year? How will you carry the light? If you will rise now in body and or spirit and join us in the calling of the spirits. In East, I want to see if you guys know. Spirit of the East, home of the rising sun. We welcome you into our circle this night. We feel the embrace of the spring winds stirring our minds. We hear the soft rustle of air through leaves. We feel life renewing itself again and again. Here knowledge is born on light swift wings. We kindle this fire today in the East and invoke the spirit of air. Flow within us wind of life. Let there be truth and knowledge. Spirit of the air be with us tonight. And if you will please turn to the blazing south. Spirit of the south, spirit of the noonday sun. Okay, I thought I was facing the wrong way. We welcome you into our circle this night. We feel the blast of summer wind igniting passion. We hear the sharp crackle of dancing flames. Here transformation rains. Here cleansing fires temper and renew. The sun at the noon of his majesty illuminates the world and ignites the spark of life within us all. We kindle this fire today in the south and invoke the spirit of fire. Flow within us o flame of life. Let there be passion and inspiration. Spirit of fire be with us tonight. Please turn to the watery west. Spirit of the west, spirit of failing light of the setting sun. We feel the caress of autumn wind awakening dreams. We hear the ebbing and flowing of the sea. Here intuition rains. Here emotion flickers in the depths of the dark spring. The well fills with the waters of the bosom of the earth. The cup overflows with deep wisdom. We kindle this fire today in the west and invoke the spirit of water. Flow within us o well of life. Let there be wisdom and intuition. Spirits of the water be with us tonight. And now if you will please turn to the frozen north. Spirit of the north, spirit of the star strewn midnight sky. We feel the bite of winter wind chilling heart and bone. We hear the crunch of snow beneath our feet. Here winter grasps the land. Here darkness rains. Dreams are born and nurtured. The seeds of peace are sown. The visions of a new world are nourished. We kindle this fire today in the north and invoke the spirit of earth. Grow within us o tree of life. Let there be strength and courage. Spirits of the earth be with us tonight. And now we will light our chalice symbolizing our center. Please join together in the words printed in your order of service. I'll give you a second to grab those. In this small flame dwell the beacon light of lanterns adding travelers home. The warmth of hearth fires tended through the generations. The transforming energy of furnace and the power and life of our sun. May these blessings warmth and light and life giving energy be kindled in each of us. And now if you will take a moment before we join in song to turn and wish a hearty solstice greetings to those around you. A solstice tale from the slavvy people of Canada. The light on which everyone on earth most depends is the sun. For the people of the far north who spend winter in constant darkness the return of the sun is a constant preoccupation. Many people have told visions of a story in which animals help return light to the earth. In this story from the slavvy people of Canada the sun is kept in a bag by bears who hibernate through the deepest winters of winter months and who will not allow the warmth and light back to the world. Once long ago before there were any people there was a very long winter. The sun was hidden behind black clouds and the snow just fell and fell. After three years of this the animals got together to discuss what they should do. As they gathered in council they agreed that it was because of the lack of warmth that they were all so cold and hungry. But no one had any ideas about what they could do to change things for the better. Then the sharp-eyed wolf noticed that there were no bears at the council. Perhaps the bears know something that we don't. I wonder whether they're keeping all the warmth for themselves. So it was decided that seven animals should go and find the bears, the sharp wolf, the quick fox, the swift bobcat, the nosy wolverine, the wise pike, and the secretive mouse and the strong dogfish should go out and seek out the bears. All of the animals knew that the bears lived somewhere in the upper world but how were they to find them? The wise pike suggested that all of the questing animals sit around the fire and chant for help. As the different animals howled, barked, growled, snuffled, squeaked and bobbled, bubbled in their own voices, their song rose up like the wind, shaping the smoke from the fire into a pathway that enabled them to rise upwards and pass through a hole in the sky. In the upper world they came to a big lake and a hut beside it. The animals went in and found two young bear cubs huddling by a fire. Where's your mother? they asked the bear cubs. Mother's gone hunting, they replied. The animals looked around the hut and noticed lots of bags hanging from poles. The swift bobcat asked about the bag nearest him. What's in this bag? Oh, mother keeps the rain and that one, said the bear cubs. What's in this one? asked the secretive mouse. Oh, that one is full of winds. And what's in this one? asked the quick fox. That one has got fog in it, replied the little bears. Nosey Wolverine sniffled loudly at the bag nearest to him. What about this one here? Oh, we can't tell you that. Mother keeps that one secret. And we're not allowed to tell. You can tell us, said the mouse, sweetly encouraging. We're your friends. The little bears put their paws over their noses, remembering how hard their mother would cuff them. Mother would be angry with us for telling you. Swift bobcat put his head to one side and said, but how would she know? We wouldn't tell her. The bear cubs were confused by this, but the animals were all very friendly, so it seemed safe enough. In that bag, she keeps the light and the warmth, they said shyly. Well, thank you kindly, said the sharp wolf grinning. The visitors all went outside to have a council meeting and decide what to do. We need a diversion so that the bag can be stolen, said the wise pike. And we need to make sure that the bear won't run out and the bears won't run after us too fast once we've got the bag, said the mouse, who had shorter legs than the rest of them. The secretive mouse got up on the quick fox's back and the fox ran to where the mother bear's canoe was moored on the other side of the lake. Mouse immediately set to gnawing through a good part of the paddle, then the three of them watched and waited. Their patience was soon rewarded. The bear came running into view around the other side of the lake. Quick as a flash, Swift bobcat changed himself into a plump caribou. The bear smelled the caribou and began to yell for her children to come and help her catch some food. The cubs tumbled out of the hut and ran for her. Everything was happening just as the animals had hoped. The caribou bobcat picked up his legs and began to lead the bears deep into the forest. As soon as the bears were out of the site, the other animals unhooked the bag of light and warmth and ran off with it. Doubling back swiftly to the lake, the caribou bobcat launched himself into the waters and swam across. The mother bear rushed after him. Soon she told the cubs to wait for her on the bank and then she jumped into her canoe and set off after the caribou bobcat. But after she had taken just a few strokes, her paddle broke in two pieces. She fell head first into the river and down with the canoe. Bobcat changed back into his own form when he reached the other side of the lake. Quickly now, let's run before she can follow. The bag of warmth and light was very heavy and the animals had to take turns to drag it back to the hole where they had come into this world. They began to pull it more and more slowly until they could almost feel the bear's breath on the back of their necks.  The bag and all the animals fell rapidly through the hole. Tumbling down the path of smoke back into their own world below, as soon as they regained their breath, they tore open the bag to everyone's relief, warmth and light, rushed out and spread in all directions. Ice and snow began to melt. The black clouds started to dissolve and the sun at last came out again. But the ice and snow were melting so fast that it caused a terrible flood. All the rivers flowed to the seas so quickly that the seas rose all over the world. The only thing left sticking out of the water was the tallest tree in the world. The animals climbed onto its mighty branches and called for help. Deep in the depths of the sea, a giant fish heard their call and rose to the surface. It drank up the flood waters until it had swollen to the size of a mountain. There it remained as a great mountain forever afterwards. So the sun dried up the land. The trees and flowers began to bloom again. And summer was able to return to replace the winter cold. And that was how the animals brought the bag of light and warmth back to the earth. We'll now sing hymn number 1063, The Winter Solstice Chant. Please be seated. I invite you to enter with us into a time of myth and legend to hear the tale of two immortal brothers. Twins, as alike and as different as day and night. No one knows which of the two is older. For both are said to have existed since the dawn of time. I've already said that. Like many brothers, the Oak King and the Holly King sometimes don't get along. He calls me name. He steals my stuff. Sometimes they don't know how to share. Why should I share? I'm the king. For now. Sometimes they even fight. Only because you steal my crown every winter. Fortunately, even the most stubborn person can learn to get along with others. I'll be nice, but only if he apologizes. Fortunately, even families that have been estranged for years. Millennia. For millennia can be reconciled. You wish. It begins with learning to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Dignity? He's about as dignified as a chimpanzee screeching for a banana. It begins with learning to respect even those you disagree with. That was uncalled for. And once you learn to affirm each other's worth and respect one another, you can work on ways to overcome your differences. Really effective ways. My favorite begins with a club and ends with a thud. Ways that do not involve violence. We're going to try one of those nonviolent ways today. Do you want a turn at wearing the crown? He's just going to try and hurt me to take it. Well, it's my turn. I'm not going to hurt you. He's not? I'm not. No, you're not. You are going to have a little contest. No, not a duel. You may notice that behind you there are two drums. I like drums. I'm really good at drums. You wish. Your Majesty's, please. And thank you. Oak King, please choose a drum. Because he's the incumbent. Okay, now Oak, please choose a drum. Okay, not so fast. Ours is an interdependent world and those of us living in it should have a say in how the world is run. So I would like to ask all of you to pick a team. Team Holly or team Oak. You can participate by clapping, stomping, cheering along with your chosen King. Holly King, you are the current ruler of the known universe. So your side gets to go first. Ha, we've so got this. Now the Oak King. Okay, now we're going to speed it up a little bit, but remember to take turns. Holly? I must admit defeat. Only on one condition. In six months you will give your brother a chance to win the crown back. And Holly King, you are not going to hurt him to try and get it. Another drum battle? I can't agree to that. Good, now just give him the crown. Fine. All hail the Oak King. Thank you for helping keep the wheel of the year turning and ushering in this waning season. And thank you to Reeze and Kian for playing along so well. Thank you to Heather and Linda and our team choir for the beautiful music this evening. Now our next story is called The Wish Tree. Once upon a time there was a boy named Charles who wanted to find a wish tree. His brother said, there is no such thing. His sister said, there's no such thing. But Charles said, what do you think, Boggan? And Boggan thought, surely there must be such a thing. So the next morning Charles and Boggan sat forth. His brother said, bring a map. His sister said, don't forget a compass. But Charles and Boggan were already well on their way into the woods. They had the whole day ahead of them. The whole day to find a wish tree. Up, up to the top of a hill they climbed and down, down to a frosty meadow they slid. Where Charles went, Boggan followed. Where Boggan went, Charles followed. Charles and Boggan did not see the wish tree. But they did see Squirrel who was puzzling over how to get some hazelnuts to his home. Charles realized they could help and help they did. Slow, slow through the snow they went and hush, hush past Bear's den they crept. Where Charles went, Boggan followed. Where Boggan went, Charles followed. Charles and Boggan did not see a wish tree anywhere. But they did see Beaver who was busy gathering birchwood to bring to his lodge. Charles realized they could help and help they did. Slide, glide across the ice they slipped, passed a few logs and around a bend. Where Charles went, Boggan followed. Where Boggan went, Charles followed. The wish tree was nowhere to be found. But they did find Fox who was late getting berries to her burrow. Charles realized they could help and help they did. Now they had less than half the day ahead of them. Less than half a day to find a wish tree. Along the way there were many friends to find, many friends to help. Rabbit, owl, deer, bird and mouse all received the care of a friend. As the light began to leave the sky Charles said we may need to move a little faster, Boggan. But Charles and Boggan were moving very slowly now. Their shadows were growing longer. The whole day was almost behind them. Boggan, Charles said, I am tired. I cannot search any longer. Charles laid down to sleep as his friends gathered near. They realized that it was now their turn to help and help they did. When Charles awoke it was snowing. It was snowing on Squirrel and it was snowing on Beaver and it was snowing on Fox and it was snowing on everyone. For a moment Charles could not see through the falling snow but then he said, oh look, see Boggan? It was just as we thought. Charles wrote his wish on a piece of paper and tied it around a branch of the wish tree. The snow was falling more gently now. The animals had prepared a feast with hazelnut souffle, a pot of birch tea, biscuits made of berries. Charles and Boggan celebrated their friends until it was time to be on their way. The moon was glowing brightly all the way home. And I now invite you into the giving and receiving of our evening's offering. As you'll notice in your order of service our offering is dedicated entirely to our eviction prevention program and we thank you for your generosity. We have come together from our many homes to join in this celebration of darkness and light. We have come together out of the cold to fill this place with songs and stories and the warmth of people willing to share of themselves during this glorious season. Let us now join together in filling this sacred space with light and wishes using our own energy, our power, our hope and goodwill to encourage the sun to return once again.  We invite you to write a wish that you have for our world, for your own life, for those you love. In this season of wishes, what do you wish? If you had but one wish, what would it be? Take your time thinking about it. So much is at stake. An end to all suffering, a stop to all violence, a solution to poverty and all its ills. Would you wish for love, for forgiveness and healing? Would you wish the world joy or the wisdom to change? Would you wish to understand everything or to know less than you do? Take your time thinking about it. So much is at stake. For a wish is a thought and a thought is an idea. An idea leads to commitment and a commitment cries out for action. A wish can be a dangerous thing, something daring, and it need not be witnessed by the stars to come true. Let us be glad that we are not given just one wish in our lives but many. Let us be grateful not for wishful thinking but for the discipline of thoughtful wishing that can lead to change. So what would your wish be? When you come forward to light your candle and the candles are up here at the table, you can give your wish to one of our ushers and we will hang it on our very own wish tree for you. Here in the darkness of our sacred space let us feel the warmth of community knowing we are not alone. For in the quiet shadow is the glow of life within us all. Let us know in the darkness the dreams within all and the gift that each one of us bears. We are each a small flame, a diminutive light. What a wondrous gift to see another's glow. Let us be in awe at this moment as we bring our wishes together and our lights envelop this room as our hopes for peace and goodwill fill this night. We invite you now to come forward bringing your wishes, lighting solstice candles, helping us fill this room with light and love and hope. The period of winter rests with us to enjoy your peace. Remind us to pause during this season. Remind us to wish to hope to dream. Grant us awareness keep our gratitude fresh each day. May the songs in our heart be blessings and insights to us and to others. And may compassion always shine forth from the depths of our hearts. Our closing hymn will be hymn number 235, grateful this night for the spirits who joined us in our circle as we release them now. Spirit of the north power of earth, we thank you for your gifts of growth and nurturing. We ask for your blessing on this solstice night. Spirit of the north, hail and farewell. Spirit of the west, power of water, we thank you for your gifts of cleansing and healing. We ask for your blessing on this solstice night. Spirit of the west, hail and farewell. Spirit of the south, power of air, we thank you for your gifts of passion and transformation. We ask for your blessings on this solstice night. Spirit of the south, hail and farewell. Spirit of the east, power of air, we thank you for your gifts of clarity and inspiration. We ask for your blessing on this solstice night. Spirit of the east, hail and farewell. The circle is open, but never broken. Merry meet, merry part, merry meet again. On this winter's night, we wish you a season of love and light. May you hear the dreams, the hopes, the shout waiting to be reborn. Blessed be and go in peace.


Good afternoon. Welcome to our session on migration in forests, people in motion, landscapes and transition. Bimbika wanted to get a distinguished speaker to open our session today and unfortunately none were available so I'm volunteered to step in and help out with the talk today. Yes, to appear distinguished. I've got glasses. I'm going to be doing two things today. I'm going to go review a few of the issues that underlie this program and this series of projects that we've developed over the past two or three years. I'm then going to review a case from Peru that shows how we're dealing with some of these issues in this research. So I'll get started. And then afterwards, given the theme on migration, we're going to have everyone move from a migrator on the room to different positions so we'll be doing a World Café format which I think will be appropriate after lunch because it will wake people up but it also stays with our idea of migration, getting people to move around the room. We'll be right in tune. So first of all, our research deals with this issue of how does our research or how do we engage with the scholarship and forestry around the agenda 2030 on sustainable development. There are key elements of the current transition in forest landscapes that enhance mobility. It's easier for people to move around. There's transportation corridors, technology that allows people to move around that has changed, we think, the way migration is affecting the world we live in. But also there's the issues of population and community change that is in both the sending areas and receiving areas. So understanding what is happening in places that you have low population decreasing as people move out but other areas where you have people moving into and what are those dynamics. And then finally looking at the varied impact of remittances, incomes and investments. So as people move to different areas for different economic drivers what happens with the people that are left behind and the way they interact with the funds that are coming in. So while forest policy research and trends assume that first of all households and communities are static and spatially bound. So that's generally an assumption, a lot of the work that is done. And the issues of migration, mobility and remittances are seen as outside the attention of natural resource policy makers. So these are seen as sort of externalities or complications in the development of programs or in research that's being done. And migration is perceived either as disruptive that migrants are the problem or it's a sign of livelihoods failure. So migration is dealt with simply because it's a strategy adapted by people that are failing wherever they had been. And so the expected policy solutions attempt to keep people from moving. It's focused on trying to stop migration rather than understand why it's taking place. So in the agenda 2030 on sustainable development, migration and remittances targets are included in particularly in goal 10. I'm not going to read through these but they're dealt with in a very passing way. The critiques of the way this is dealt with is that migration only focuses on international migration. It emphasizes the management of migration rather than either dealing with or taking advantage of these migratory flows. And it reflects glowing anxiety in Europe and North America over the migration crisis. So it's responding very much to the agenda set by policy makers in those parts of the world. And there's a lack of attention to the tensions and trade-offs between managed migration, inequality, and environmental sustainability. So these topics just aren't dealt with enough, we believe. So in our program on migration for us, people in motion, landscapes, and transition, we seek to address these gaps in current scholarship and policies through comparative research to document and understand who is moving, where are they moving, how are they moving, and what patterns does this produce, why are they adopting the strategies they do, and how do these trends affect land use decisions, livelihoods, other strategies, social dynamics, gender roles, and forest management. So in a broad sense, that's what this suite of projects is dealing with, each project in a bit different focus and in different parts of the world. I'm going to focus specifically on a case of some of this research funded by the German BMZ in the Peruvian Amazon. And it addresses this key question. Migration is seen as a key driver of deforestation in the Peruvian Amazon, and you often see it cited. The government will often release documents that say things like 90% of the deforestation in the Amazon is caused by migratory agriculture. But they're always quite vague about what they mean. First of all, migratory agriculture could be swidden agriculture, it could be migration, but they're not specific about where they get this information. And we, in a past study we did, we looked into this, the origin of these figures of the 90% figure, and actually rather than measures of deforestation, it was just the frequency of deforestation events. So they found that 90% of instances of deforestation were less than one hectare. And from that, then they extrapolate that to be migratory agriculture, even though they have almost no information in that study on who's doing the deforestation or why. And they don't try to identify where that deforestation is taking place. So there's a lack of systematic information about migration, the characteristics of migrants, or the actual effect of migration on forests. And there's an underlying narrative that emphasizes that migration is primarily the shift of population out of the Andes into the Amazon. And there's an implicit racism in this that is a view among policymakers in Lima that it's the poor indigenous people from the highlands moving in and causing deforestation and destruction in the Amazon. Although it's rarely couched in those terms as you talk to people or you see how it's presented, you can see that bias very evident in their work. So in our project, we're looking at four different multi-village landscape sites that are based in the central Amazon in Peru, around the city of Pucalpa, which is the capital of Ucayali. And these landscapes are Nishuya, which we're calling Nishuya, it's not actually the name of the place. Which had been a production forest in the 1980s that was invaded by forest workers who settled there to begin growing coca. So during the 80s, this was actually a no-go zone for the government because it was primarily controlled by the drug trade and narcotraficantes that didn't allow other people to move into this area. Another one of the landscapes is the Abohaushesha, which is a traditional riverine settlement area. These are areas that have long histories of human settlement. But this was an area that was also heavily impacted by the violence of the 1980s and 1990s when the Shining Path Rebellion was going on. And much of this area became depopulated due to the violence. And only recently did people move back to these communities. Tornavista, which is another landscape that's accessible by road, this highway that it's located on. You can't see this green pointer doesn't show up on this. This was actually one of the older feeder roads in this section of the Amazon. It was built originally in the 1950s that goes to the town of Tornavista, which is on the Pachitea river. And finally we have the Pisquis landscape, which is an area of Shepibu indigenous communities in the Pisquis watershed. And just over the border in Loretto. So we're looking at comparing the dynamics that we see in these areas. You'll see that there's these outlines drawn around these communities. It's because there is no administrative unit at the level of a community in the Amazon. So we established buffers around these areas. So in one portion of our study looking at land use change, we could bound to the landscape that we were talking about to have some comparative aspect to the spaces we were talking about. And we used multiple methods then. We used focus group interviews. We did over 30 focus groups with over 200 participants. We did a systematic household survey with over 300 interviews with families. Key informant interviews. And we also did some land use change analysis in collaboration with researchers at Temple University. So migration indicators improve. So when the proving government, while these statements about migration or migratory agriculture causing deforestation in the Amazon is quite vague, the Peruvian Census Bureau does have some indicators they use for migration. One of them is birthplace. So whether or not when they do the census, the individual that they're interviewing had been born in the place where they're being interviewed. So that's their primary indicator of migration. But they also have a second indicator, which is recent migrants. So these are people that have moved within the past five years. So when they do a census or a survey, when they find people that have recently arrived in an area, they're counted as recent migrants. So the question is where were the migrants in our sample? And how did they play out in these landscapes? And you'll see when looking at the first indicator, practically everybody is a migrant. 94% of the people we interviewed had been born elsewhere. So these were landscapes that were predominantly migrants. And across each of the sites we looked at, we found a very similar pattern with the exception of the Pesky area where there were more indigenous people that had been born in that community. And it doesn't show up here, but while they hadn't been born in these communities, many of these people had been born in the watershed, the indigenous, the people in the sample. When we looked at the origin of these informants, we found that actually most of them were Amazonians. So many of these people, while they're migrating to different places, they were shifting around spaces within the Amazon, not coming from the Andes and not coming from the coast. And there was some variation across the sites, particularly when you look at the sites, the landscapes that were accessible by road, you find there were more Andean people at these places. However, when you look more at depth at this information, many of these people that we're counting as Andean because they were born in the Andes, were often you'd find, for example, a 40-year-old man that had spent the last 35 years in the Amazon. So while these people were originally from the highlands, they had spent most of their life in the Amazon. So it was very difficult, while you often hear the criticism that Andean people move into the Amazon, don't understand the environment, they deforest land needlessly and fail. In fact, many of these people had lived most of their lives in the Amazon and were quite familiar with these environments and used to working within these spaces. But at recent migrants, there was a little bit different story. There were more people that were recent migrants, but not the majority of people in our samples. And again, there was some variation across the landscapes, but a much different pattern. I mean, rather than it being primarily the road settlements that were receiving people, we see that Abul Haal representing the people that were moving back after this period of violence shows up with a lot of recent migrants. Neshulia, another area that happened in the road, has received recent migrants, but then other places like Turnavista did not have that same pattern. So we are just in the process of doing this analysis. We haven't gone through, we haven't had the time to do more in-depth analysis on it, so it's still very descriptive. But we see that there doesn't seem to be the patterns that we expected when we look across these different landscapes. We purposely chose them to try to have a distinction between road accessible landscapes and riverina landscapes. And it's not playing out quite as we expected. So if we looked at how these people were explaining their patterns of migration, we found that there were a number of different drivers people cited. Many people were migrating to different locations in search of variable land. There was forced migration due to terrorism and violence, but also natural disasters, particularly in the riverine sites. Floods would destroy communities or river channels would shift and so people would have to move. They were searching for economic opportunity, wage labor, wage labor and opportunities to invest in land if they had income from other sources. But also searching for public services, primarily education. Healthcare was an issue, but primarily education was something people were looking for. As their children grew older, people wanted to move to communities that had access to high schools. Access to land was cited as the main driver of migration, but many of the non-Indigenous informants had been landowners in other areas. They didn't own much land, but they did have access to land in these other places. But we didn't find many of them that had large areas of land. So they were very much microfundia, very small properties that people were moving out to and then investing in these areas where they could get more land. These were long term stable settlements. The average informant had lived in the community for 19 years. Most villages had initially been settled in the 1970s and 1980s and they had done this through a process of spontaneous settlement. Residents had demarcated properties on their own in collaboration with their neighbors and they targeted areas that were forested because there were perceived as areas that were unused. So forest was seen as synonymous with available land, unused land. Even though the state was often claiming these areas as production forests. Later, once they were settled, the state would come in and formalize property rights of people in these areas, but they had a tendency to only title the forested areas. So even though people would claim properties that were much larger, they would find out as the titling brigades came through that there was this process of only recognizing areas that they were currently using or that were in fallow and forested areas were either excluded, unless in some cases people were willing and able to pay bribes, in which case they would receive title to their whole area. That's something that we're analyzing now to look at this variation between the types of rights people claim and I think it'll show up in the customary areas that people still claim. Five minutes? Okay, I'm about done. Most properties were small, about 34 hectares. There was some variation across the landscapes and farming was the major income source. However, it was mixed agriculture in most places, but in the accessible areas on roads where there was better market access, there was more cattle and cacao. This was partially due to crop substitution programs to try to eradicate cocoa production. And the average income in Peru is the minimum wage in Peru per month is just under $300. And so estimated income at these sites was roughly synonymous with the minimum wage. The road sites had a little bit better income opportunity compared to the riverine sites, but in general it was close to minimum wage. So looking at the land use data, just to give you some idea of the patterns of deforestation in Tornevista, you can see that there had been large parastatal cattle production areas in the 1980s that had collapsed. And so these areas drew colonists that moved in and invaded them. And you see typical fish bone deforestation patterns that you see in other parts of the Amazon. Similar in Nishuia, it starts out as production forest, gets invaded by colonists wanting to grow cocoa, and then gradually consolidates as more of an agricultural landscape. However, in the riverine sites, you see that there is some change, but not as dramatic. And most of the light green area you see are actually riparian forests that appear as secondary forests in this area. So there are shifts in the area covered by riparian forests, but it has probably a lot to do with shifts in flooding in any given year and how that affects that. And you could see in the Peskis, some of the landscapes, for example, on the top, is almost all the village closest to the Ukaiali River has almost no Tierra Fermi in highland areas. It's all flooded forest areas around the community. So looking at land use change in these areas, you could see that in the period of 1995 to 2005, there was dramatic forest loss. The green line indicates mature forest areas in the road sites. And this period of 95 to 2005 was the period of people moving back into rural areas after the violence. So there was periods of extreme violence and governance problems due to narco traffic. In the 1980s and 1990s, that was solved and people began moving back up to their sites. However, in the riverine sites, you don't see as big of a change over time. And in particular in the Peskis, the purple line represents secondary forest, which are mostly the riparian forests in this case. You can see that there's very little change and you have, while less mature forest, you have a much higher area of this secondary forest. And then looking at mature forest loss in these landscapes, you can see again it's much more dramatic in the road sites. And it's in this period when governance had improved in rural areas and people were moving in. Right now with the people at Temple University, we started out the study just looking at 10-year intervals. We're doing it again looking at 5-year intervals so we can try to pinpoint more exactly when these changes were taking place so we could then compare that to the information we have on people's arrival in these sites. So, what are the links between migration and deforestation based on this very descriptive information? First of all, migration and spontaneous occupation of forests does entail land use change. So, these were economic migrants searching for opportunities through agriculture. And when they arrived in these areas, forest policy tended to discourage small scale management options. So, even if people had been interested in maintaining forests, there were very few legal options available to them for that. But rather than a driver, we think that migration is more a symptom of the governance dynamics nationally or regionally. So, rather than being understood as a driver of deforestation, I think migration is one symptom of a number of other drivers that are causing change in these landscapes. We think that there could be a need or we think we can use this information to promote strategic policy dialogue needed to move beyond these broad generalizations. For example, forest management options to address migration, is there some way to facilitate local management in forest areas or viable options for forests and trees and small scale producers? We think that's a possibility, but it's necessary to place information on the table for policy makers to consider. Also, it's necessary to be thinking a little bit more detailed about deforestation. Whereas deforestation, we don't think all deforestation should be treated equally. So, there's questions of where is deforestation taking place? Who's involved in the deforestation? And what reason are they deforestation in these areas for? So, in conclusion, spontaneous settlement has produced grassroots regrarian reform in Peru. So, state lands are occupied by migrants. Later, state agencies formalize these claims. And the pattern results in forest conversion. So, much forest land is owned by the state. Forests are perceived as unused. And titling focuses on the cleared land. So, you have this spiral of deforestation being driven by this whole series of activities revolving around the way people perceive forests and the way this state tries to govern in these forests. However, migration patterns are not clearly linked to the deforestation patterns that we see. Infrastructural improvement definitely seems to be one of the main drivers in this area, which is not particularly surprising. Thank you. Thank you.


This is week 13, and we got our dogs Playing in the snow here. They seem to do pretty good in the snow. I have to say It's not easy to shoot video in this in the snow unless you have a really high-end camera I just applied a filter on here to make it somewhat uniform But the Ocho was definitely more interested in the camera than he was playing in the snow But in general the dogs there they handle the snow pretty well They still can't walk in it pretty well They fall down a lot then slip and slide and they also like to pester other dogs that we have we have three older dogs and they're They don't they're not too pleased with it And they let Ocho and Sonny know that they're dissatisfied and by growling or snapping But there's no there's been no real hard dealings So I think some of our dogs are actually taking a liking to the new guys in the family and and that's pretty nice And in general the dogs just want to chew and bite and then get into everything which is normal for puppies We're gonna try and keep an eye to make sure they start don't start doing more destructive things. That's it for this week We'll see you for week 14 next week on the life of the two Australian shepherds


What's up everyone and welcome to Super Mario Bros, but it's different. Now I'm said to believe that it's like a horror based Mario game. The graphics did seem a little like realistic from what I've seen on the Ichitayato page, so let's go ahead and begin. Let's go down to the Toe Town. Alright, cool. Alright, let's begin. Oh, you can't break the blocks, what kind of- this is fake man, it's online. Okay, so I haven't played Mario such a long time, but- Oh my god, I thought I died. I'll try to do my best. Okay, I just died right there man. Yeah, you can clearly see how- okay, let's try attempt number two man. Okay, I guess we have to see this again. Alright, sweet. I will- I will survive this time, I swear. Make the jump, oh my god, that was fairly close and we almost missed that again. Okay, let's get the high ground, bro. High ground always wins. As we've seen in Star Wars Episode 3. Okay, oh my god, go. Joe Mario, oh my god, I thought I was gonna fall right there, bro. Not gonna lie, kinda nervous, bro. Okay, cool. And we made it to Toe Town, I believe. Hopefully. Okay, press E to talk with NPCs. Bro, look at the graphics, it totally changed to like a different game. Alright, this music sounds familiar, I just can't reconfirm where it is. Okay, cool, um... Oh Toad! Look at Little Toad! Alright, let's talk to Mr. Toad. Oh, he even has a little voice. Aw, Little Toad. He gotta be one of my favorite characters in Mario. I don't know why, he just smock you, Little Toad, you know. A copy of you, what? It's haunting us. Okay, that sounds clearly sus. Wait, this is a camping music from Roblox, I think. Please help us, we need you. Okay, so he said that there's a copy of me haunting everybody in this Toe Town. I don't know, man, that seems pretty sus, bro. You trying to suspect me, bro? I'm Mario, it's me Mario, man. I'm nothing but good, I'm just a plumber. Okay, oh, there's another Toad. As you did see in the Mario movie, there's like millions of Toads. Okay, uh, do we talk to him? What's up, bro? What's up, Toad Jr.? Oh, why is it dark?   Oh, are you scared?  What? What did he do to Toad? Okay, so now where the heck are we at, bro? What the? This game is like switching up so much, it's kind of confusing me. Oh, there's like a Mario right there. I don't know if we should go towards it. Should we go towards it? Uh, here goes nothing. Hello, Mario head? Oh, I can't move.  Uh, I think we're dead. Okay, you can't move. Bro, what? Okay, so that definitely has to be the evil copy of Mario that's going around on to people. I don't think the game is over, just that we died. Let's try it again. Okay, so we're back here. There's an arrow pointing downward. So let's go ahead and try this. Okay, cool. The season wasn't game over. It was just like a trap or something. Oh, why is there a double star? I think we're about to be sacrificed. Or maybe, oh, it's a checkpoint. Okay, I was a little worried there. Oh my God, what?  Toad, he's trying to like, it is alive. Okay, lava. That is a lot of lava in the back. Bro, look at these grappers. It's like 3D realistic. Oh, Bowser's castle. Oh no, we made it to Bowser's castle, man. This can't be good. That means we're going to actually fight Bowser or something. I think we actually might. No, how did I fall there? What? Okay, that was a little confusing because the cloud kept moving. And then somehow I fell. Okay, let's go down. Okay, so you got to be careful when you jump because like, because like, I don't know, it's kind of, it moves too much. When you jump. And I jumped right into the lava, bro. I never wanted to race quite harder at any Mario game. I think I never played it like that, Super Mario Maker. That would drive me insane. Oh no, there's one of those. No, how did that fireball touch me? Okay, we got it right here. Okay, we got to be, we got a timer. Oh, okay, we actually made it. Nice. Oh my God, I'll be chased. What? What is that?  Oh, what the? It just got, did he eat us alive? I thought he ate Bowser, but he actually ate us. Alright, P Mario. I like how we actually still pixelated throughout the whole game. Like we were still like the 3D, I mean the pixelated Mario. Alright, well I guess that's the end of the game. It was a pretty short game, which was a little underwhelming, but I mean, the game was pretty good itself. I don't know if they're going to continue this game or not. I mean, it was pretty good. It was well made. Yeah, shout out to Taranix. That's the creator of the game. I'll link the game down below in the description. So you guys can check it out for yourselves. It did release today, so it's like fresh. It's brand new, bro. So yeah, thank you for watching. And I'll see you guys in the next one.


How to set up your EFL classroom the right way Once you've decided on a proper desk arrangement, read the post, if you haven't yet, it's time to think about the setup of the rest of the classroom, including the students themselves. This post explores how to set up your EFL classroom the right way to maximize efficiency and fun with your students. The right student placement So you've got the desks arranged in one of the recommended setups, and now you need to fill those chairs with your students. If you don't know the students or you're beginning a new year or term, it's often recommended to seat the students simply in alphabetical order or in a boy-girl-boy-girl arrangement. This gives you great opportunity to maintain control over the class and allows you to get to know the individual students. After you know the students better and feel that they have got a good sense of self-management, you can allow them to sit next to a friend. This shows the students that you trust them and give them responsibility. Should they consistently misbehave or disrupt the class because of their new seat neighbor, simply take their privilege of sitting and working with their friends away and place them somewhere else. You'll be surprised how well behaved they are once you threaten to separate them from their friends. Should the class as a whole misbehave, take control back by changing the seating arrangement of the entire class. This also allows you to create new working patterns at the beginning of a new unit of work. Placing your equipment effectively Most schools already have a lot of equipment and resources available for their teachers. Check with the school and make sure you have everything you need for your planned lessons ahead of time. If something isn't there, notify them and they will likely purchase it for you. Once you've got all the teaching material together, it's time to figure out how and when you'll be using each piece of material for your lessons. Here, you need to distinguish between materials you need occasionally and those you need on a regular basis. For example, things like art supplies and sports equipment won't be needed every single day and should, therefore, be kept out of the way for occasional use. On the other hand, things you will need every day, such as notebooks, stationary items, and textbooks or reading books should be kept out on display and within easy reach for both the teacher and the students. At the beginning of your teaching career, you will most likely struggle a bit with classroom management and organization, but once you've got a set of lesson plans made from scratch in your personal filing system, it will become a lot easier. A teacher filing system is recommended for things like your lesson plans, worksheets, tests, assessments and any extra materials, such as visuals, printouts, and so on. The two main benefits of this filing system are that you can easily and quickly access your material and secondly, you can draw and add to the collection as you go. Lastly, be sure to locate all electrical outlets necessary for any electric devices that you will be using in the classroom. Are they easily accessible? Also, don't forget to make sure you can access the internet when needed. Decorating your classroom Depending on the school you work for and the students you teach, you might also have to decorate the classroom. This is especially true when teaching young learners at kindergarten or elementary schools for instance. A classroom that is visually appealing and stimulating benefits the learning progress of your students. One great and efficient way to decorate your room is by using bulletin boards. These boards are used to illustrate instructional material in a visual and entertaining way that is easy to understand and follow by the students. Here's how you can use bulletin boards in your EFL classroom. Permanent displays and important information. Class rules, class jobs, the calendar, weather, rewards, behaviors, schedules and announcements, birthdays, and so on. Subject specific information Areas for maths, reading, vocabulary or even a unit of work. Consider the size of the boards, take measurements and gather materials you will need, such as cardboard, paper, velcro, stickers, etc. Are you ready to teach English abroad? When arranging and setting up your EFL classroom, you need to make sure that it meets the needs of your students and also complements your own teaching style. Consider the tips above on how to set up your EFL classroom the right way to create an effective learning environment for your students and yourself. Apply now for your TEFL TESOL certification course and start teaching in a matter of months. Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us toll free at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.