Can you hear me. Okay. So, good afternoon everybody. My name is Giovanni Marini and today, together with my colleague, we are more case here. We're going to present to introduce epic that is a code which is a 90 based. And first of all, let me take this opportunity to thank the organizers because they are giving us this great opportunity to present in such in front of such a great audience. And I'm really glad to have this, this occasion. So, I will start by just illustrating you the main contributors of this project. That's basically pretty old, actually, because it's started more than 10 years ago, and then it kind of become bigger and bigger, but never managed to get a collective effort in order to be published in this project. And so, basically, we are me and we have been building in the past months on top of the work of all these other researchers and professors, including Yelena's yagste, Matthew Galandra, Johnny profet and Francesco Maori but not leave them to that to them but just they are the main contributors. And they've been building a suite that we think we could be useful for the community in order to compute the electron for interaction based properties of materials. So, our talk is divided in three first three parts and the aim is to give you just an idea of what we can do and of course, if you may like some of these capabilities you are more than welcome to ask us for more explanation about them. So, what is epic epic is was born as a photo and based open source software for the calculation of the electron form based interaction properties from first principles, and it's the main ideas were laid in 12 years ago in this PRB by calendar and other authors, and basically the idea was to exploit the unitary linear representation in order to allow users to calculate with precision, some properties that are difficult to obtain ab initio and especially because they are difficult to converge on an ab initio framework. So, the typical workflow of a calculation one with epic is basically made by three steps. The first step is to prepare your calculation, and this include the linearization procedure of your system together with a calculation and linear response of some operator that you are interested in calculating. Then you proceed with your calculation. And this can be this will be illustrated in the next slides by Wilma. And you can analyze your results with some of the post processing that are included in the public release. Essentially, this is a, let's say this is a scheme of what we are proposing to you. That is, you have a generic DFT solver right now we just implemented for quantum espresso but our idea is that this can be extended to order to other ab initio softwares. And then you use the ability to one you know 90 to go to the real space and this smooth gauge together with the use of a linear, linear response solver that in these cases again quantum espresso but can be extended in order to compute a generic observable that in general can also be dependent on on the momentum at this moment this this operator that's known from ab initio on on a grid can be calculated on a much denser grid using the fast calculation that are possible only in the one year representation. So what we want to do is basically is to calculate this observable that in the most of the occasions that we will talk about today is the electron phonon matrix elements. And what we we we managed to do is to calculate them on a very dense grid. And in order to calculate it more precision, the, for example, the, the spectral function that you need or whatever. So now I will leave to Guillermo for some application this. Indeed. Okay, before that before going to the application I would like to, let's say expose some of the feature that we would like to share about this code. This is not merely, let's say that the code is working correctly, but we would like also to show you that we try to make the code accessible and really paralyzed and with a structure that is modular in such a way that is easier to implement a new feature. So this is creating the interpolation or routine that is common to all these factor calculation that are performed inside the code. And so, this is on the right of the slide you can see the main driver, the source code of the main driver sub routine and as you can see it's quite straightforward. And you have the first interpolation that I developed shouldn't care about because it's already, let's say implemented, and you found afterwards all the possible calculation that are already implemented. And each module is quite easy and I think it could be, it could look familiar to you because there are some allocation routine the allocation, the main driver of the calculation and the closing part of the module. It's just a way to show you that it's meant to be ascended this code and this structure is meant to be accessible to facilitate this procedure. And then let's go on to the capabilities are epic. And in particular to one of his best I think a feature that is the ability to catch to represent the resonances that are characterizing our system. And I think that is, you know, you are very familiar with this, the simplest resonance of all that is the case of a force. And this is an oscillator in which the, this is the simplest system in which the this characterized by his proper frequency, omega zero, and this force to move a sport to response to an external the perturbation that has its own frequency omega. And as you already know, maybe the feature that's come out and characterize this kind of response is really picked, and it's really difficult to be described in with a computation simulation. As a matter of fact, we are dealing with freestyle so the characteristic frequency that we are interested to a depends on the left side on the difference between the band structure value again values so that in order to get the right value of this character is frequency that is the problem is I would like to in probe with my perturbation and I need a very fine measure on on on both the K and Q space. And moreover, I need a really final resolution of the frequency because if I don't match exactly the characteristic frequency of my system I don't get the proper resonance teacher. So, an example of this come this feature that is really common in all the linear responses function. I show you the adiabatic form of frequencies and did the way. How we can compute inside the dynamical matrices and then retrieved the adiabatic form of frequencies just performing the. The square root of the values and as you can see this, the main challenging aspect of this computation is to compute this by a function. Something is happening inside my mind. Okay, sorry. And the most problematic part of this function is the denominator because since it diverges in just one point we have the most significant part of this function that is located in one point it's very difficult to be with a course mesh. And as a matter of fact, on the left side you have the comparison with the dots that are the experimental values. And, for example, in this point between the value of Q between gamma and this point here, you can see that if comparing the red line that is the interpolated line that we achieved with that it and if we really did the performance on a course read that we see that the this divergent and not a bad behavior is not captured by the course mesh so it's, it's very difficult to use the epic and the vanier deposition strategy in order to catch these features and indeed the. And it goes beyond this approximation was beyond the adiabatic approximation and can perform the calculation of these quantities in a really fast way also for different frequency. And as you can see here, we have also the problem of sampling the frequency in in a satisfying with a satisfying mesh, but the result is really significant so it is useful to actually in a very fast way. The interesting quantities that we compute inside epic and it's interesting to be shown here is that the, and then the one of double resonant Raman that it seems like quite a exotic response because it's a third order response. But since it's characterized by it's third order resonances, it's a factor in the really significant and are more significant, for example, of the resonant Raman and not the double that is the first I like to be in the. The Raman density intensity on the left. And so we have just some and here we have a double resonant problem. So as you can see, even if it's a higher order response, the effects are really visible. And indeed, we have the need to interpolate both the G that is the electron phonon operator and the coupling with the dipole moment that is the coupling with the external radiation. And it's interesting that to use this experimental measurement because it's, it is really sensitive, sensible to the different, for example, is taking in the graphene multi layer. Okay, so now I can. Yes, I will proceed with illustrating some other capabilities. Besides so this so called catching resonances part, there is also a full suite that we to calculate superconducting related properties was our base basically on the knowledge of the electron covering malice element from the knowledge of these, you can promptly calculate the final line with for example, which is the basic quantity that's really that's needed to calculate the Liashberg function. And the Liashberg function in general gives you access to all the way to calculate superconducting properties of your compound. So basically we're solving the island lines formalism or we're solving the isotropic Liashberg, and this is both, both of those, these possibilities are implemented in the, in the code, as well as a full an isotropic resolution of the Liashberg equation. So you solve this couple equation for the gap superconducting gap, and what you cannot obtain is something like for example the brilliance on resolved Fermi's after the result gap or superconductor as well as. For example, the tunneling conductance that you can compare with your experiments per se. And that said, I think he's also able to calculate, for example, excited electron lifetime, always thanks to the knowledge of electron phonon matrix elements and the possibility to interpolate them on a very fun mesh but for regarding q amp k points. What you can do is you can calculate the, the living of excitation for example in semiconductors. This is the case of value marks and I, for example, and the excitation in the old valley, and the time, how much it survives due to the electron phone scattering. And we obtained two pico seconds which is pretty good comparison to the experimental values ranging from 1.5 to 2.5 pico seconds. We also implemented the possibility to calculate this quantity in the presence of the divergence through and through the interaction for long range so small q vectors. This is because this is different from the from the general case just because you have this divergent term for very small q that you need to subtract before you perform the interpolation then you add it back in the so called the vocal form. We also implemented in epic so you are also able to calculate the, for example, a gamma gamma lifetime, let's say, small q lifetime, and I will leave to Yelma for the final remarks and some perspectives. I will wrap all the application that are already implemented we have both adiabatic and adiabatic foreign frequencies, the possibility to compute the imaginary part so the phone online with and the possibility to compute the double resonance. So as the superconductive parts of the resolution of the anaesthetic and make that a large burger system and also the computation of the excited electrons lifetime, but we are still working on other projects that I think we've come out. Now, I hope that is the quasi particle interference spectrum and the dynamical one effective charges and also the optical conductivity that I needed to compute the infrared spectrum in metals. And so, let's thank you all for your attention and we hope that you may find the more useful information on the side, the skewer code is just linked for the site website. And if you are more schooled we leave you our emails so please contact us say it would be beautiful if you would be. Yes, so if any of you has any idea on some feature that would like to see implemented the net because it feels like it's compatible with what we are doing we are more than happy to hear your idea and to help you implement it in an epic if you want to. Thank you very much. Okay, so thank you. Guilherme Giovanni for the very nice talk. Is there any questions here in three steps. Okay, there's more. In the meantime, if this is for the people connected on zoom if you have questions, you can start to think and maybe write it in the chat. Thank you for the top and you mentioned about the, we have been you have frequency dependent quantities use some trick differential strategy, or I remember quickly so could you explain what that is. Yes, that is. I think there is a bit difficult because it's, there is a bit of mathematics involved. I use a big as life. I imagine such a person did. And I try to explain it as, as easy as I manage but the all the results are in published indeed in the calendar prophet I'm already articles of 2010. The idea is, first of all, of representing a generic linear response function with a functional instead of a functional density. And with this recasting it's possible to prove that this is a variation around a stationary point that is the equilibrium point with the right density, use density point. And thanks to this variational recasting, it's possible to use. Let's say in exact induce density, come in certain in such a way of forming just an error that is quadratic on such density. In this way, we can just use, let's say, use an extra approximated density, and just leave the all the dependence on the frequency, not on the operator that depends on the density, but just on the denominator that is indeed describing all the resonances. In this way, we have a response that is depending on the frequency. Yes, but with approximation that is, and isn't it's quite cheap to achieve this approximation because you have just a double content is attractive. And once you have this variation of form, you find out that indeed, since all the dependencies is around this denominator, the if you implement a differential approach, the difference between these two. Counties related and localize only around the Fermi energy. So, in some other words, you have actually effective low energy and it's on and let's say, and that can be easily studied with a bunny without taking care of all the unoccupied fence. And this way you can achieve a really accurate differential and response function depending on the frequency in a really achieve and control approximation. If I may add to what we already said just to give you some perspective on why this is also important in the case why when you have no frequency dependence. And this is also important because when you have your your normal procedure for interpolating dynamical matrices in in the final in linear response. What you do is basically you are interpolating also long range. And those, in principle, are not good to interpolate with for interpolation. So what we do is basically we subtract the non analytic term, then we interpolate and then we read it using the fast algorithm that have been implemented. One quick question in this slide so it's omega zero is zero or you do you do finite frequency dfp team. Indeed, you can choose your starting frequency as well as you like so it's it's it's faster for you to use the omega zero is it's good, or you can shoot it for. Indeed, since the main problem of this computation are catching the, the requirement of having a very dense mesh, when there is a resonances maybe your best frequency is not zero because there is a resonance zero, for example, for a metal. You can choose another frequency that is a far away that the resonance and you are able to perform a correct calculation without using a dense mesh. So maybe it's not the best choice to use the zero frequency. Thank you. Other questions. I see one here. Just a quick question on this slide so the last thing is the electron forum metrics and are you using in this the screen squared. Sorry, I don't know if the microphone is on them but I maybe I understood the person, the question is yeah. This new study by. Where is the dressing, let's say the operator. Okay. Yes, this variation. This variation of formulation. Okay, let's start with the usual common standard linear response function in which only one of the two vertex is dressed. And indeed, this is correct, and that is also correct to dress both vertex, that is, and that subtracting a double counting there. And these are two correct formulation, but if you perform an approximation on the induced density. So if you use an exact in use density. One of the two formulation is better approach because the data the error that you introduce a in this using an exact induced density affect both the double counting and the, let's say double dressed term in such a way that these two can cancel out. So that, in the end, the error is quadratic instead of linear, and you will find that need the approximation is quite better. So yes, they are both vertices are best and there is an additional double counting. Other questions. Okay. Yeah. So, for the doubly resonant from a member from the paper by Maori and other. Maybe this slide or yes so you do only like one of the diagrams which is only one of these expressions but I think there's like 144 or something diagrams if you count all of them. Yes, and then knowing the first order, they're 12 and it's important if they go 12 otherwise you get the wrong answer. So is it did implement all of them are only this one. Unfortunately, all of them. Unfortunately.  Yes. Okay, that's impressive. Is there a way to automate that to automate it to automate generation of all those diagrams, because in the end, there's a lot of variables. There are ways to automate generation of all those diagrams, because you know experimentalist measured higher orders if you go to like Jim Scott from Bell Labs in like 70s. They went you know, fourth order or something. So there are ways to do those higher ones. And then you know who wants to count all those or maybe for some other thing. Yeah, let's do the machine do it. Yeah. Maybe we can think about. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know how to do it. If there are no other questions, I think we can thank Giovanni, and thank you. Yeah, sorry. Okay, so now we have another contributed talk. I just. Oh, no. Okay. See. Okay. I've seen your email address. Then I will receive. Just, no, just click on the button. And then you receive an email. One, two, two. Okay, so now we have a, another talk on a very similar topic. So it's, it's Phoebe. So it's Phoebe, a collection of phone on an electron Boltzmann equation solvers and the talk will be given by Jennifer counter and underage a lot from our university. Yeah, so I


Welcome to ToffeeTV and welcome to episode number two of Everton in Reserve, the show where myself Cameron sits down and talks about Everton's Academy results over the last week or so. Everton under 23s drew 0-0 with Spares under 23s last time out. Ella Sims went close on a number of occasions but couldn't quite convert and it was a goalless draw. The game saw new signing Iron and Janier come on on the 46th minute for his Everton debut and they actually performed pretty well. He hit the ground running quite quickly and he looks to be a top, top player for the future. David Unsworth spoke about Janier as well. He said there's loads of development in there that's why we brought him to the club. He is very coachable, very very good young player of course signed a couple of weeks back and made his debut in that goalless draw against Tottenham Hotspur.  Hopefully they can get back to winning ways and hopefully Ella Sims can return to his goalscoring form as well. Really really interesting. We spoke last week about Ella Sims and you know about the potential of him being involved in the first team in the near future. Obviously now with Everton having the injuries to Hammers Rodriguez and Rashalison and Needing. That little bit of extra depth up front it may be only a matter of time before Ella Sims is called upon for the first team even if it is just a roll on the bench as a substitute. But unfortunately he couldn't convert in the goalless draw against Spears. However he did go close on a number of occasions. He is in very very very good form at the moment. He really really is. He's scoring you know constantly and he looks a top, top player 19 years old and definitely want to look at for the future. I'm in January as well. Again another solid performance as well as good performances all round but unfortunately the game did end in a draw. Like I said Everton under 23s will face Manchester United under 23 sorry tomorrow and hopefully they can get back to winning ways in that game of football. Everton's under 18s were due to play against Lee W. Last week however that game was not played. Instead they played a friendly at USM Finch Farm against Blackpool. That game ended three. All they are due to play the Mini Maisie Side Derby against Liverpool this upcoming weekend. Big big game for Everton's under 18s this weekend. Obviously we saw the fall out from the Premier League Maisie Side Derby last weekend and the Mini Maisie Side Derby are notorious for you know players throwing in challenges and getting involved and really really staking their claim as an Everton player I suppose early on in their career. So that game will be at the weekend. Definitely want to look out for as well. Definitely want to have a look at the players and see how they perform in a local Derby as well because I think there's you know obviously fans sort of look at the Maisie Side Derby and they think that's the big game that you want players to be playing in but I think the Mini Derby is the under 23 Derby and the under 18 Derby is maybe a little bit overlooked but to those players to those lads going out they're playing they're still playing in their local Derby and a lot of them are still playing against the side that they've grown up obviously disliking because it'll be a local rival so really really interesting. Everton under 18s will come up against Liverpool under 18s this weekend as Everton under 23s face Manchester United under 23s on Friday. Tyler Onyango has been discussing his recent performances as well as the performances of the under 23s. Here's had an interview with fnfc.com and said it's important you perform well and win the game. It has been a good start to the season personally. My goal coming into it was to gain my place in the team and keep hold of it. I have been with the under 23s for one year but I am only 17 and have loads to do in my development. I listen and learn every single day and take in as much as possible. I want to maximise my potential and see where that goes so a very very good attitude from the young player there showing his willingness to learn, showing his willingness to improve and also showing that even at 17 years old he's playing at an under 23 level. He is also down as an under 18s player so that shows the development of Tyler Onyango and just shows how well he has done so far in his Everton career since he has come in. Obviously taking that leap from under 18s to under 23s is absolutely massive. Obviously it's an even bigger leap from under 23s to the Premier League but it is a big big leap from the 18s to the 23s and Tyler Onyango is doing it fantastically at the moment performing well and like he says there speaks about his performances as an individual as well as the team's performance. Everton under 23s of course doing really really well at the moment in the league unfortunately couldn't be spares. However I've got a big big chance to beat Manchester United on Friday and that's about it for the academy talk for this week. I wanted to talk about Everton's Merseyside Derby draw against Liverpool as well before we go. Obviously Everton drawing two all in a controversial Merseyside Derby at Gotherson Park. There's been a lot of fallout to that Merseyside Derby as well regarding certain challenges made and of course the VAR decision. I think it was a big game for Everton mentality wise. We showed a very very good mentality to get back into the game twice obviously after going down and didn't start the game well whatsoever but we come back into it and we showed that even when we do go a goal down now we can get back into games and that was something that was unheard of previously under under previous Everton managers obviously you know we know Marco Silva didn't manage to come back from 1-0 down to win a Premier League game. I've already done that under Carlo Ancelotti multiple times and in fact this game obviously a local derby against not only you know Liverpool who are local rivals but also the best team in the league last season, the team that comfortably won the league title last season. It was important that you know we went out there and we showed a changing mentality. Now don't get me wrong you know it wasn't an unbelievable performance from Everton football club from the off and you know if we had to get the three points on Sunday against Southampton we absolutely have to do better but we showed that mentality and we showed that willingness to get back into the game. We improved in the Merseyside Derby which is not something that was being able to say many a times over the years. We actually got into the game and grew into the game and improved and hopefully we can go back to winning ways on Sunday listen it's going to be a massive massive game obviously Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed the absence of Hammers Rodriguez and Seamus Coleman due to injury. We know Rushalis on this out of that game has well through injury so it's going to be a big task it really really is but if we can get back to winning ways against Southampton on Sunday then hopefully we can kick on then hopefully Hammers his injury isn't too serious and he'll be back within the next couple of weeks or so and obviously Rushalis and we'll be back after his three game but has been saved. Our big big game on Sunday like I said was impressed by the mentality on Saturday against Liverpool wasn't massively impressed by the performance but look we had a lot of players that were coming back from injuries we had a lot of players that were coming back from international duties as well so you know it was always going to be a case of us struggling to get back to that 100% fitness level and they did perform very very well to be fair. Anyway that is going to do it for today's episode of Everton in a Reserve. 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All right, separate traders welcome on back here this Friday afternoon September 17th. Once again, happy birthday Faust. You never know if he's listening this afternoon, but great to see all of us. Otherwise though, you got Leda, Chuck, Patrick, Zacharias, one of our trial members here joining us today alongside many others for the first time today or the first time across the next few days here this week. Great to see all of us though. Otherwise, and if you're joining us on Facebook Live or YouTube once again today, welcome on back. I have further ado the ETER trade hot soup coming through looks like on the streets. Sox really pushing up nicely. You're heading into the afternoon is what I'm referring to here sharply pushing up towards we'll close up to the next major resistance off of 1190 from there 12 a couple of orders. I see on the ask. So let's see what happens here coming up. Wow, it's moving so fast. It's actually my matrix has to catch up here a little bit. There we go. 20,000 shares on the offer right now. 19 20,000 at 12. And then aside from that, really what I'd be interested in seeing should this break over 12. And I mean that a bit later on, I think it's going to false break this at first. But you know, a bit later on today, if it if it can a re clear 12 resistance coming up once again a bit later on this afternoon, then let's see what happens here back on September 10th high the day of 1325. I wouldn't expect her to move all the way up that much. In fact, if anything closing price closing bell print roughly off 1180 there. So perhaps right around 1180 in between 1180 and 12, you're going to find a resistance since perhaps a pullback down here coming up. Didn't even kiss 12. So that that actually shows that there's no buying interest at 12 at all coming up or just yet. So you know, for right now, great call from Chuck who had made mention of the stock right before we started this meeting. We'll put the stock back on our watch list at this point. I say back on our watch list. It wasn't on the morning watch list mind you. But of course it's a stock that we've been really trading more on than off really across the last week and a half to three weeks really. So great call from Chuck. And yeah, for right now, we'll put this on our list. Now without further ado, otherwise though, what we'll do is just go right from the top across the gainers and losers list. You know, I'm kind of lazy today. I really didn't log out, log back in. I didn't get my gainers list officially back up. These are just the scans or trade station actually, but gainers and losers in that regard. So what we'll do is just go right from top to bottom, we'll review any of the other stocks that we ended up trading. In fact, I wanted to start off by going over this stock CRVS. We'll get to that in a second actually. Number one though, I'd be remiss to begin otherwise by talking about the HLBZ trade ended up making a huge squeeze up as soon as the market opened up. You know, it's for the most part what I had made mention of in pre-market saying, you know, hey, this can make a really good opportunity if it ends up dumping off or making a false breakout, right place, wrong time, it can create a huge disaster and usually twice as fast. So thankfully it ended up making a really nice move up a bit later on after the, you know, market opened up right around 10, 30, 11 o'clock Eastern time, ended up breaking out from 19 and made an under and over from that price afterwards and really popped from that point. So from 19, roughly that breakout area ended up topping off around 25. So nice run.  So now we get to number two here, the CRVS trade. So I want to go over this trade in full. I say that for a couple of reasons. I say that because we did really well on this trade all together as a team. I say that because actually we have a lot to get through coming up, you know, although I'm kind of speeding up going across the gainers and losers list, I want to dip into Bitcoin. There was some talk about Bitcoin in the YouTube stream earlier this morning when I was subbing in for Fausto. So I really want to dig further into that and just provide a bit further analysis on it heading into the weekend. I also say that for all of us live inside the trading room, I'm dipping out after this meeting. I actually have to prep up for a wedding. I'm attending later on this evening. It's actually like hours out east. So, you know, very convenient, right? So I want to make sure that I have enough time to prep and I still have to get a card, get money, all that stuff. So actually after this meeting, I'm out here. So what we'll do is go over this trade in full. I want to bring up Bookmap with that in mind. And we'll do a review A to Z on this stack. I mean, it was a really nice runner from pre-market. I don't think there was even news that came out on this stack in pre-market, right? But nonetheless, it ended up making it for a nice move. So let's bring up level four. Again, Bookmap otherwise officially known as... All right.  All right. So I'm going to kind of go from A to Z beginning from pre-market. And I want to answer a question that one of our new trial members, Zacharias, had asked right before we started the meeting. I thought it was an excellent question. I said, hey, right place, right time here in the afternoon meeting, we'll go over it. So to begin, right? In pre-market, this stack ended up making a hell of a run pop from the 350 level that I'd called out, right? We were talking all about that in pre-market during the morning meeting at least. I ended up breaking above resistance off of 372, which I marked as a level on my chart heading into the open. I ended up marking off $4, a whole number resistance. You would always imagine right off a whole number or a 50-cent level, just like 350, for there to be a pretty big iceberg order on the order book once the market opens. And for the most part, that's what happens. But the pre-market high, it was right at $4.13, the exact pre-market high here. And I don't always mark a pre-market high. I really don't. But given that it topped off roughly around that high two times at the actual pre-market high here, and then before that little peak up to like maybe 4, 10, 4, 11, I thought that was fairly important to draw as a level on my chart heading into the market open. So when the market opens up, we had the opening bell print a $212,000 share print at $378, we always say this for a stock that is not to say this wasn't moving up. It popped in pre-market, but unfortunately after 9 a.m., it was pulling back, turning down a bit off the highs, leading into the open. We're not expecting a pop right out the gate on this. We have time, if anything.  We don't know. But it's to say that at 9.30, we're not expecting a pop, odds are at least, if the stock does look to run a bit later on, given that it was turning down off the highs across the final 45, 30 minutes leading into the market open. We're expecting consolidation, maybe a point of a breakout a bit later on. So this thing was pretty chaotic even after, but it ended up making two breakouts above the opening bell print. You could say 372 here, but really once it cleared the $212,000 share print line, pardon me there, off of 378, ended up making a really nice pop at first, but really it was the second under and over. Once it broke under the opening print, then back over shortly afterwards, that's what made the real run. So from there, ended up topping off right around 440-ish, 442. You normally don't expect a stock like this to make a second huge run up after it dumped all the way back down. I mean, it pulled all the way back down towards that opening bell price again, roughly between 378 and 372, that iceberg level from pre-market. But man, it ended up providing such a great opportunity later on and even right now as we speak. Yes, all right, good. So for all of us on social media today, Facebook Live and YouTube, I mean, I'm heading into a weekend Friday afternoon. There's not as many people joining the social feeds rightfully, so enjoy your weekend. But otherwise, this is why I always say you need to join us live inside our trading room just because it's not just the entries we're talking about from this meeting, but we're talking about this setup actually before the meeting even started live inside the trading room.  And we were saying if we could break under and over 450 again, that can create a really good trade, a really good opportunity, and thus here we are now. So I'm in this trade as we speak, and I was going to say a word. I have a lot of shares on this stock right now. Let's just put it that way. Given yesterday's day, it was, fortunately for me, I didn't say it this morning, but yesterday was really one of my best days ever. So I'm up a little bit today again, and for right now, I loaded up on this trade. I'm going to try and scale out as we go through this meeting. But otherwise, I want to kind of zip through. Nonetheless, though, for the 415 price that Zacharias was asking, I was calling it out because 413 was the pre-market high, and then also the iceberg order. There was one at like 415 I marked early on. So that's why I called out 15. Nonetheless, I didn't get in from 15 or 17 here where I dipped. I'm pretty pissed off about that. It dropped like 3 cents above where I wanted to get filled. But you know what? I'll take this right now. I'm actually going to scale out a quarter of my position. I can probably give you a good clue as to how many shares I have right now. All right. So at least I didn't have some money on this trade either way. I'm going to reset my stop on this otherwise, though. I'm definitely expecting this to make a move up to five, if not even higher. I want to take a look on the daily chart. Otherwise, folks, give me a quick sec. I got to do a bit of this. A bit of that. Give me a quick sec here. There we go. All right. So this stock ended up clearing the historical resistance that I was referencing, 450. I mean, really, that's what I was saying really from pre-market here. A couple of points of inflection where it touches it, maybe a couple of pennies under 450. Listen, a historical level is not going to be holding perfectly by the cent level. You can't expect perfection. But nonetheless, it was like 445 to 450 I was referencing. So with it making the strong clear above this price now, unless it craps out here and stops, yeah, which would suck. I think that we could be in for a real treat here heading into the end of the day on this stock. So I'm going to try and zip through this meeting right now. CRVS, though, easily enough. We'll put on the watch list for the afternoon. All right. Cool. Chuck got nine cents on a quick scalp. He was in from 67, so not from 50. Chase did a bit. He knew that. So in and out fast, rightfully so. Got a piece of the pie. It's all that matters. All right. Let's go fast here. Damn, we got to go through Bitcoin also. I don't know how fast we're going to get through this meeting before we finish up. I got to manage this position that I made. I might scale out another 1,000 shares that I have. IPHA popped from earlier this morning and once the market opened up, this was a fantastic trade. And this is what prompted me to actually look to jump in on the CRVS immediately after the market opened up. Not immediately after the open, but shortly after this took off, given the similarity in the move that this had with the CRVS early and pre-market, it wasn't exact. This was not an exact correlation trade, but thankfully it paid off nonetheless. But this ended up making a sharper pop and run from eight. Got halted a couple of times, I think, on the way up. Didn't get halted on the way down, but from that point, though, once it topped off, right around 12, 1186, the high there, ended up dumping from that point. So yeah, at this stage right now, this is just going to break lower, much like the other one from yesterday, unfortunately. You're talking about what was that, the IRNT. So I see a bunch of warrants otherwise on the gainer side here. I'm just going to skip past those. LGHL pulled back at least after the push-up from this morning. All right, so let's jump to this one. This was one on the pre-market watch list, and if it wasn't on the pre-market as I'm checking right now, okay, it wasn't. It was on the morning watch list, the stock surf. Unfortunately, though, this was more of a bust after the market opened up. If anything, it was a much better short than it was a long. It was easy to borrow, but our focus was more on the IEPHA, the CRVS. So I guess this dropped off pretty nicely, but look at where it's at right now. I mean, this is exactly where we would want to see a stock heading into this time of the day. So you know what? Hey, maybe the best to save for last on this surf stock here, hoping that the CRVS honestly just rips up to five pretty soon just so I can get out in full and then just kind of prep up for the wedding I got to get to. WKSP, not to be confused with Workhorse, WKHS, for anyone that suffers from traitors dyslexia like me, but stock ended up making a really nice push a bit later on into the morning after 10 a.m. Eastern broke out from 7.25, 7.30 as you could see and moved up really nicely. We'd called the stock out as it was breaking new highs, popped up on the Benzinga feed. A couple of our students like Norman had called it out, I think. Right now, though, it's just dropping. So for the meantime, we'll pass. Oh, actually, you know what? Really quick. How about this? I'm going to just make this a lot easier. I forgot to do this much earlier on.   All right. So the ATER, OPTT, also stocks that we ended up trading from this morning. Damn, this thing ended up dumping right back down, pulled back under and over from 11. So I'm sure a couple of us live inside the trading room as I'm going through, you folks are probably already in right from 11. OPTT, Ocean Power.  It's a little slow. And actually, as I'm realizing right now, the stock is trading like really poor volume right now. About 3,500 shares per minute. That's not a lot at all for any stock. And let alone this stock, we've seen the stock make some giant moves in the past. I mean, on a monthly chart here, Monu, but I was deployed back in 14. So this was one of the first real runners I remember catching at the time. It was right around here early on and then going back into 2016. So it's been a known runner. I mean, right now though, it's just trading no volume here. Maybe next week, there will be a better move. The Smile Direct Club trade, still very tradable. I mean, just in terms of a sideless stock, still up 11 plus percent making lower highs, kind of filling in your sideways a bit. Maybe it's prepping up for another move down, a breakdown here, perhaps the 650 again. It's easy to borrow. Maybe I'll come back to it at the end. If you did well on this stock heading into the market open today, heading into the late morning off another bounce here from 650, then I'm sure you're going to be more inclined to follow it. That's all. GOED at 310 right now, up over 10 percent. Trading more volume per minute compared to the STC trade or OPTT, I mean, I'm sorry. I don't know. Kind of just keep going here, folks. See if there's anything looking really good. I know it's a Friday heading into the end of the week or mid-month right now. The FOMC meetings are next week anyway, so things are going to be pretty slow. I know that, I know, it's quadruple-riching Friday. I got to make mention of that for any of my options people out there. Normally, I would be more excited about that, but we're coming off Labor Day weekend. We're going into a Fed meeting next week. I hate to be pessimistic, but I don't really don't know how much of a fast market up or down we'll have with all these options, expirations coming up. Nice catch later. Checking the trading room chat right now. I always got to go back and forth. Later got 18 cents on that trade. It's funny. I didn't know who was in. No one says when they're in, like upon getting in because you want to focus on the damn trade. I just do. I guaranteed a couple of us. Maybe like a Patrick, maybe a Gene, maybe a Ledo who got 18 cents on it right there. I'm talking about the ATER trade. Nice. Canon at the high of the day. That would be a good segue to talk about Bitcoin as Canon is a Bitcoin mining-related stack. You got FTFT up also, which is also, this one's not doing really much right now, I was going to say. It's also a Bitcoin-related stack to crypto mining. I guess what we'll do is hop over to the Losers list here in the meantime, see if there's anything looking just as good, if not better. I'm still in on like three-fourths of my position on the CRVS trade. Here's a move I'm kind of upset by that I didn't get filled on PTGX stack. For as much as this dropped off, we weren't able to short it on trade station, unfortunately, but we were hopeful for a dead cap bounce. At this point here, it ended up breaking under 16. It shot me around on one trade down like eight cents on one position, but ended up moving back up and I was more timid to jump back in for as much down as it was. I was hoping for like a dollar, $2 move and it ended up making that run back up without me. I guess for right now it's still kind of up there, but pretty flat though here in the meantime. Let me do this here also. I'm sorry. Really quick. I might stop set on the CRVS trade that just pulled back down pretty quick. I hope I didn't jinx myself there. I got 250 bucks on it, but it would have been nice to get a lot more on that trade. At this point though, still, I might stay here for another 10 minutes before or after this meeting. We'll see what happens. The Opad stock and other missed opportunity, we were calling out a bounce right off of $12.58. The closing bell print back from Tuesday, I think it was, ended up failing to hit it by like three cents. I was looking for an under and over and ended up making a pretty nice move back up at first. It's really flat right now, so I'm going to pass on the stock here for the afternoon. CRVS just took me out with minus one on the last three quarters and I'll jump back in. All right, TMC not doing much and really outside of that, not to sound lazy here. For anyone that follows me here in the afternoon's routinely, you know that there's a lot more opportunity on the gainers list most days than the losers, so not really seeing too many familiar names. The A and Y trade, it's not shortable anyway. I was hopeful for a break over 650 right here. I was alluding to a potential break over 650, how that could be a good setup, unfortunately, ended up holding 650 perfectly and then dropped right back down. I'll tell you what, that's just about it on the loser side here, folks. I'll take a quick scan across the most active list here that I have. I'll bring up Bitcoin after I finish that up, at least, I don't know if that same person on YouTube that was there from the morning talking about, they ended up taking a bit of a loss they had mentioned, hopefully not off my call outs because I've been pretty on the money at least across the last few months on Bitcoin. I made one mistake on Cardano maybe like three, four months ago, but otherwise we've been pretty good. I don't see much in the trading room. I don't see much on YouTube here in the afternoon, which is fine. Friday afternoon, not a whole lot really right now out there otherwise. I'll take a look on Benzinga Pro here first and then I'll jump to Bitcoin. Benzinga Pro, yeah, the surf stock's running. You know what? We don't really need to talk about too many others unless if there's really anything we drastically missed, but that surf trade is making a much better pop right now. A lot more buying coming into the trade off the pop from 7 or 7.05 seemingly. POTR testing the high of the day, yeah, but for a $29 stock, it's not making them nearly as volatile of a move as you would want to have. It would be a lot easier to make $0.10 on CRVS than it would be to make $0.10 on PLTR in my opinion right now. CRVS is like four times cheaper. All right, so folks, I'll jump to Bitcoin and then at the horn. If there's anything else here at the end, let me know if there's anything else that I missed or popped or dropped or whatever. All right, so I've got Benzinga Pro up here first actually. I'll just move away from this though in the meantime. Bitcoin, I, you know, hey, for the person from the morning that had made mention that they like lost a ton of money. I don't know where they got in. I don't know what happened. They were a first time attendee from my perspective here doing this afternoon meeting. They weren't one of our regulars like Daniel F or RJF or Mitch or Dan F or Doug C. Whatever, it's all right, but it's to say this, my outlook on Bitcoin and from the get go is not changed. Extremely bullish. I'm expecting the top to be right around January, February time. Some folks are calling for a longer cycle to where it tops off maybe around April. I don't know how much I'd buy into that.  So I think January, February might be pushing a bit myself, but nonetheless, where could we get a potential bounce coming up here on Bitcoin? Well, I called out the bounce last week right around 44,000. It broke below 44,000, of course, but you know, broke under broke right back above and made a really good bounce from there. But, you know, should it begin to dip back down one more time? If you're looking to add more to a position, I ended up drawing this line here preemptively heading into this meeting. So, you know, I haven't shown this line yet. Let's see how right or wrong I am coming up here. And if it ends up popping right from these moving average lines, then God bless, I'll take that. But I'd still expect a little slippage here. You know, some might expect us to really hold his support, but it already has to begin. I mean, we're seeing lower highs, it wouldn't shock me heading into the weekend if we happen to see a bit of a slippage here. And should that be the case, I personally don't expect this to drop much lower than this line here, right around 45,000. Why is that line there? Well, that's where you might have to email me or join our live trading room. That's part of the secret sauce. But nonetheless, we'll see if it ends up running right from this point, I'll be happy to be wrong from that perspective, right? Much better to be wrong. Should this run up before it touches this line than anything? Because I'm not really in an like the accumulation stage at any point further. Cardano, not much to write home about, it's been kind of pulling back after the squeeze up to moving averages here ended up holding pretty nicely as a resistance. Perhaps we'll pull back down towards this line that I'd set up right around 228 is that, or is that 221? 221 right there, you know, just really strong top dating back to mid August. So in a worst case scenario thing, I think that will pull back down to there. Otherwise, perhaps we'll get a squeeze much sooner than later. I think the buy the rumor sell the news thing took effect on the smart contracts at first. And, you know, I'd made mention of that last week with Cardano just expecting, you know, perhaps the squeeze up across the next two to three weeks from right now. All right. But otherwise, that's all I got. That's pretty much all I got for us right now. I think someone wanted to go over Solana from yesterday, not much to really go over on Solana really. I mean, it's been moving up so parabolically that, you know, if it ends up pulling back, perhaps I mean, this right now is the 100 EMA on the daily chart. And that's set right around $79, which makes sense with this little consolidation here. And then it popped and ran out much higher. So perhaps that could be a theoretical support level to watch. Should it drop off any lower than I probably look for right around this top. But man, I don't really have much else on Solana because it's so strong that who knows, this might just keep popping up. Should Bitcoin get another run back up and crypto altogether in the next two, three weeks, like I was saying with Cardano, that pop and bounce back up might be sooner than later here on Solana. So we'll find out. I'm not really too familiar with it though, otherwise. All right, folks, that just about does it for me here. At least I got some money on the CRVS trade at first.  But otherwise, I mean, really, we only have three stocks on our watch list heading into the close. That's perfectly fine. I normally put out a stock, a watch list of like, you know, eight, 10 stocks. And I don't normally like to do that if there's no need to. So, you know, heading into the end of the week, we got three stocks here so far. The market seems pretty flat, albeit, you know, it was dropping earlier. But if we end up getting a bit further of a drop across the, across the board, perhaps that could be a good opportunity to try and short the market. But outside of that, we'll try and stick to this list here first. All right, for all of us on social media, Facebook, live and YouTube today, one last call, at least heading into the weekend. Well, first and foremost, enjoy your weekend wherever you may reside. Hopefully it's nice out where you live. Enjoy the weekend. But otherwise, last call heading into the weekend in regards to our Traders Talk workshop. I'll make mention of that once again, coming up on Monday of next week. But as the banner says below, we're conducting a special Q&A edition of our Traders Talk workshop. We always host that live inside our trading room. It will be a simulcast coming up this upcoming Tuesday on the 21st. If you'd like to ask any questions on stocks or callouts, anything that I'd made mention of here, crypto, you name it, you know, anything. Feel more than free to send over a quick email right to my email address, Josh at ctutrading.com. For all, for all of our students live inside the trading room, again, you folks don't need to go on YouTube. You'll just be right inside the trading room business as usual there and I'll begin on Tuesday. But you folks know better than anyone. Just you'll send me emails going into Tuesday morning, if anything. All right, folks, aside from that, I mean, hey, enjoy the rest of the week. Enjoy the weekends here coming up and I'll catch back with everyone coming up on Monday. Take care.


Hey there lads and ladies, it is Petrifying Pumpkins here and with PlayStation Virtual Realty 2 on the horizon, Call of the Mountain. You may be wanting to know a little bit more about Sony's upcoming PSVR 2 headsets. That's what this video is here for. So what else any further ado, here is 10 things you need to know about the PSVR 2. 1. The PSVR 2 is Sony's next generation Virtual Realty headset for the PS5 console. It is the successor to the PSVR which released all the way back in 2016 for the PS4. 2. The PSVR 2 headset will release on the 22nd of February 2023. 3. The PSVR 2 headset will cost you 549 dollars, 599 euro, 529 sterlin and 74,980 yen. 4. Pre-orders for the PSVR 2 will begin on the 15th of November. Players in the US, UK, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg will initially be able to pre-order PlayStation VR 2 solely through PlayStation's online store direct.playstation.com. In other markets, PlayStation VR 2 will be sold at participating retailers with pre-orders beginning on November 15. 5. What's in the box? If you buy a PSVR 2, you can expect to find the PSVR 2 headset in the box, 2 sense controllers and 1 stereo headset. 6. There will be one bundle available at launch for Horizon Call of the Mountain. If you buy that bundle, you'll get everything listed in the previous point but also you'll get a voucher code for a digital copy of Horizon Call of the Mountain. However, that bundle is more expensive than the stand-alone headset, costing 599 US dollars, 649 euros, 569 sterlin and 79,980 yen. 7. You may think the price of entry is high but the PSVR 2 headset packs a lot of impressive tech. This display is 4K but not only that, it's OLED, meaning you'll have deeper blacks in your games. The headset includes multiple cameras to track your controllers using a method called inside-out tracking. This means you no longer need to set up an external camera and will lead to much more effective tracking than what the original PSVR could do. PSVR 2 also includes eye tracking, a feature found in only the most expensive VR headsets on the market. Eye tracking has many utilities for virtual reality games but perhaps its most important function is for use in foveas at rendering, meaning the PSY's processing power can focus only on the area that the player is looking at, giving developers more bandwidth to work with and players more impressive titles to play with. But that's not all. The PSVR 2 headset also includes a rumble-moser in the headset itself so that the player can feel bullets whizzing at their heads or a swarm of insects crawling all over their foreheads. Sprinkle in a built-in microphone, a 120Hz refresh rate and a 110 degree field of view and you have one impressive headset. Number 8 If you don't think all of that is worth the price then don't forget about the Sense controllers. These new controllers, built specifically for PSVR 2, have a lot going on as well. You'll find not only the same haptic feedback and adaptive triggers you would on a DualSense controller but also finger touch detection for more realistic gesturing and inputs, as well as an array of infrared LEDs that allow for far more precise tracking. Number 9 The PSVR 2 is wired. This may come as a disappointment to many quest players out there but the PSVR 2 requires a single USB-C cord to be connected to the front of the PS5 in order to function. But what you lose in freedom you gain in performance, title quality and not needing to wear a power supply in your head. The cord is estimated to be between 4.5 and 5 meters in length according to previewers. Number 10 What good is a VR headset without games? So let's talk about those. The PSVR 2 is set to receive a decent mixture of both the new games exclusive to the PSVR, ports from other VR headsets and also upgrades to existing PSVR titles that will improve them and allow them to be played on a PSVR 2. Many of those upgrades being free if you already own them. So let's dig into the confirmed titles. 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Hi Longmont! My name is Karen Stallard. I'm the membership director with the Longmont Area Chamber of Commerce. The Longmont Chamber has been working hard to support our local businesses and connect the community during this challenging time because we don't think that being physically distanced means that we can't still socially connect and support one another. So I'd like to tag in Jessica Wanasek, the Chamber Event Director, to tell you a little bit about what we've been up to. Hey everyone! So the Longmont Chamber of Commerce has been hosting daily Facebook live events Monday through Friday at 4 p.m. over on our Chamber Facebook page. We are featuring a local business or a nonprofit while having fun interactive activities, giveaways, and just connecting with our community. We wanted to share the fun with you after the facts, so we are airing all of our episodes from last week with you here now so you can enjoy. And we hope that you see some familiar faces from around Longmont. And remember, if you ever want to see the live thing, just tune into the Chamber Facebook page at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. Or check out a themed list of businesses over on our Chamber website. www.longmontchamber.org forward slash llama is open. And find a business that you would like to support. Enjoy the show! Hey everybody! Hello, hello! We are back. We're back for another episode of our Tuesday's Tunes and Arts. We are going to just give it a second or two to welcome everybody and let the audience come in. Come in, come in. We have a really exciting episode for you guys today.  We're just going to give it another second or two. We see a few people popping in here. If you're here, let us know by commenting. It's hard for us to see you unless you're saying hello to us in the comments. So go ahead and say hello everybody. Give it just another second or two. Like I said, today is Tuesday's Tunes and Arts. My name is Jessica Wanasek. I'm the Event Director over at the Longmont Chamber of Commerce. We are back for our second Tuesday Tunes and Arts and we have a really great special guest with you today that I hope you're going to enjoy. I know I'm excited and ready to go for it.  Again, let us know you're here. Comment, say hello. If you have questions as we get going into the live segment today, let us know in the comments and we'll try and answer those on air when we see them. So hi Patty. Patty says hello. I'm here. Hi Patty. Glad to have you here. And just to let you guys know too, one lucky viewer who comments today, we're going to have a little bit of a quiz towards the end of today's live. So somebody is set to win a really cool prize that is being donated by our special guest today. So let us know you're here. Pay attention because you never know what the question is going to be for the prize. So today is May 5th, also known as Cinco de Mayo, but it's also Giving Tuesday. Now some of you might be asking what the heck is Giving Tuesday and why do I care? Giving Tuesday is normally the Tuesday that is after it follows Thanksgiving. And what it is, it's an annual day of giving to local nonprofits or charities of your choice. But this year because the situation is a little bit different, another Giving Day has been added to the calendar and that's today. May 5th is Giving Tuesday. You can go to any local nonprofit or charity, check their websites and Facebook pages out. If you don't have funds that you can donate, you can also help support them by posting maybe one of your favorite pictures of a nonprofit that you've worked with or one of your favorite charities. So show them some love by sharing some of those pictures on your social media as well. Help them raise awareness today. Another real quick thing about Giving Tuesday is the Longmont Observer had a really great article on that today. So if you want to go check that out, go to longmontobserver.org and read all about the possible ways that you can support the Giving Tuesday today. So oh, hold on one minute. So I'm getting something, we're getting actually some breaking news. I am going to turn it over to hold on, yeah, we have some exciting breaking news coming to us live. So I am actually going to turn this over to our chamber membership director, Karen Stallard. Let's see, Karen. Karen, are you coming in? Oh, there she is. Karen, what is happening? Hi there, Jessica. Thanks so much for beaming me in on such short notice. I just really had to bring this very relevant information to all of our viewers right at this moment because yes, it is Giving Tuesday. And of course, the Chamber of Commerce here in Longmont has been working diligently to support not only our community, but especially our local businesses during this extremely challenging time. And we recognize more now than ever that businesses need support. They need resources. They need the ability to pick up the phone and have an actual real life human, a local, talk them through some of the challenging regulations and requirements for them as they navigate COVID-19. And we just want our members and the community to know that we are here to support them, that the Longmont Chamber is here to support you. And we have launched an exciting campaign, other hand, this hand, nope, that hand, this one, nope, this way, it's this way, that directions. We have launched an exciting campaign known as officially the member helping members fund. This fund is supposed to be for individuals, members of the community, and even businesses that may be in a good enough financial situation to support a business that needs support right now, because more now than ever, people really need that hand up to navigate these hard times. So the member helping member fund has launched, and to make it sound really nice, warm and fuzzy, we've got Foxfeather here to tell you a little bit more about it. So Foxfeather, take us away. My goodness. And I'd say we love them too. Can we just say how amazing those ladies of Foxfeather are? I mean, all the warm fuzzies. So this is just to remind everyone that we are here for you. And if you would like to support a fellow Longmont Chamber member or a business here in Longmont, go to LongmontChamber.org forward slash M-H-M for members helping members. That's it for me, Jessica. I'm Karen Stallard, membership correspondent, and that's the way the Longmont is Roars. Thank you so much, Karen, for that breaking news. And we hope to see you again soon with some other breaking news. My pleasure. Oh my goodness, all kinds of breaking news and exciting things happening around Longmont in the chamber today. So go check that out. If you also want to see a list of businesses that we are featuring each day at 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, right here on Facebook, go to the Chamber Facebook website, which is www.longmontchamber.org forward slash Longmont is open. And you'll see a whole list of the businesses that are open in some way or another during this crazy time. So with that, and I would like to bring on our special guest today, and she is with one of those businesses that we would like to highlight as well as part of the Giving Tuesday and a very special nonprofit to all of our hearts in Longmont is our friend and executive director over at the Firehouse Arts Center in Longmont is Elaine Hi Elaine. Oh, hold on. We're having some technical difficulties there Elaine. Try it again. Hi Elaine, how are you? Good. I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? We're good. We're good. We just had some breaking news. Sorry to interrupt our live broadcast, but we had some breaking news happening around Longmont today. So we thought we would share. So you are with Firehouse Arts Center in Longmont, right? Yes. Okay, so I have some questions because I love the building itself. I drive every time I drive by there. I just always want to stop and go take a peek inside. Can you tell us or tell the audience where you are located? We are located on 4th and Kaufman. So it's 667 4th Avenue right in downtown Longmont inside the renovated Firehouse building. So it's actually an old firehouse. Love it. Love it. I love that building. So okay, how long have you guys been open for business? So the Firehouse Arts Center has been around since 1986. It was actually created as a collaboration between the Longmont Art Council, Council for the Arts, and some local artists, some of which are still involved with the Firehouse. So since 1986, 10 years after that is when we put in the permanent gallery, the classrooms, and we also have the studios that are upstairs. So I've actually been involved with the Firehouse for 10 years, but I just came on as the Executive Director. Yeah, congratulations. It's been an interesting entry into being that part of the Firehouse in this way. But yes, it's the place where I taught my first art class. Oh, that's so cool. That's cool. Well, I would like to officially welcome you to the Longmont Chamber and everybody in Longmont. This is Elaine. Say hello Elaine. So if you want to stop by and say hello to Elaine and check out everything that the Firehouse is doing, it is FirehouseArtsCenter.org. It's FirehouseArt.org. FirehouseArt.org. Okay, so make sure to stop on by there. You've got some exciting stuff going on. So for those of maybe out there in watching land, who have been possibly living under a rock the last month and a half, can you share how you guys are running your operations during this time? So the FirehouseArtsCenter is currently closed, but we have tried to bring a lot of our offerings online. So we've been doing virtual live stream Facebook classes on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays for the kiddos. We usually have Saturday art experience, which is Saturdays at the gallery, but since we are closed, we don't have those right now. But we still wanted to offer classes and education to the community. So we've brought all of that online. We also have been doing artist talks as well as gallery walkthroughs. And all of that is on our Facebook page, also on our YouTube channel. Our instructor for Saturday art experience, as well as Art Attack, Mario, he has also been posting classes onto YouTube. And we are happy to be offering those both in English and in Spanish. Oh, very cool. Can you tell everybody what your YouTube address where they can find you over on YouTube? Actually, if you just search for the FirehouseArtsCenter, there's kind of like there's two channels, one of them is not us. But you'll you'll see. And also the link is on our Facebook page. Oh, very cool. Very cool. Well, I'm kind of seeing some of the comments coming into Kyle Mumford-Hamm says the virtual art classes have have been fun. Thanks, Elaine. Yeah, and if you go to our Facebook page, you'll see the kids have been sending in their art and we post them too. So it's really super cute. And if you go there, make sure to like their pages because they do check to make sure, you know, people are liking their art. Oh, super cute. So all you people watching get over there to their Facebook page and like those little kiddos artworks. I know they probably work super hard on those. That's so cute. Well, okay, so we every day, Elaine, we have been doing kind of a fun giveaway. So I'm sort of maybe it's a question or some way for the viewers to win a prize. Can you share or show us even what today's prize is? So today's prize is a mandala. It's a color by numbers paint the town by numbers. And it was actually donated by Donna Hensley from Go Craft Box. But it's kind of it's an easy way to to get your art on. You'll see it has like the numbers. So you don't have to be a professional artist to have fun with this. And it ends up being really beautiful. So you guys have a chance to win this one. So super cool. And you guys need to stick around to the end of today's live because Elaine is actually going to help us pull the drawing, the winner for the drawing today. So make sure that you're hanging out. You're letting us know you're here by saying hi to Elaine in the comments. If you have questions as we get going, you know, Elaine has a really cool demonstration that she's going to do. And some of us are going to try to follow along with her. So yeah, we want you to stick around for all that. And then afterwards she's going to do the drawing. So that's going to be really exciting. So let's see. So okay, Elaine, I'm ready. I have, I have to put my little my smock on, but I have my paints. I have got my canvas and I'm ready to roll. So I'm actually going to turn it over to you and see if I hit the right button here. And it's all yours. We're ready to watch you do your magic. Fantastic. So I'm actually going to turn the screen down so you can see my table. In all of these classes that I do, I actually have to paint or draw upside down so you guys have it the right way. So just it's a little challenging. So forgive me if it doesn't end up being the best painting ever. But this is my workspace right here. So just to show you the supplies that you'll need. And you don't need a lot of stuff. It's nothing fancy. I actually stole watercolors from my kid. So it's just pan watercolors. You'll need a larger brush, so a medium sized brush and then just a smaller one for details. Obviously you need your cup with water. You'll need painter's tape, tissue paper or toilet paper. You don't need a lot. So don't don't get too worried about that. You don't have to break into your stash and a paper towel. So the painting that we're going to do is this one right here. And I swear it's super easy.  If you don't have watercolor paper, just thicker paper works fine. You can use cardstock or anything like that. You just don't want to use printer paper for this one because it does get a little wet and it buckles. So what I have done, and let me just make sure you guys can see the whole thing. Oh yeah, it looks great. What I've done is I've taped it around the edges just to stop it from buckling. And the first thing that we're going to do is we're going to create our mountain with our painter's tape. So because mountains aren't straight across, you want to rip it and that ripped edge is where the mountain edge is going to be. So this is going to be a work of Artie Lane. I can tell already. I can feel it. Anything where you can rip things apart, right? Yeah. Okay, so that is going to be pretty good for me. So I've got my little mountain edge right here.  But we're going to paint the whole top area right here just with water. So just go straight across. And you'll know it's ready when you'll see it kind of shiny. You can go up and down. It doesn't really matter which direction you go because it's just water just like that. So make sure you have the whole thing covered just with water. This is going to be the sky color. So we're going to make the sky color just with varying shades of blue. If you have just your kid's watercolor and you just have one blue, awesome, just use that. But we want to make it darker at the top, getting lighter at the bottom. So go ahead and mix up your watercolor. I'm going to bring this piece of plastic right here. So this is just where I'm mixing. And then I'm going to prepare enough blue so that it covers that whole top area, darker at the top, lighter at the bottom. So I'm getting like three different colors of blue. But this is just your sky. And so starting at the top, you brush it back and forth. Now, since the paper is already wet, it blends pretty well. And this technique is actually called wet on wet because it's a wet paper and you're painting with a wet medium. So as you go lower, you can add a little bit more water just so that you have darker at the top, lighter at the bottom, just like this. I did purple. Is that okay? Purple is fine because purple skies are beautiful. Okay, mine's going to be a sunset. So now I have my whole sky painted in and I'm just going to add a little bit more blue to make it more intense at the top, just like that. And the reason that I said you guys need toilet paper is we are going to make clouds with our toilet paper.  Okay, so I'm putting my brush in the water. I'm grabbing my toilet paper and I'm kind of smooshing it into a little ball. So just like that, there's no right or wrong way to do it.  And you're going to create your clouds like that. So you have your full sky. That looks amazing.  How does she do it? Because she's amazing, Karen. It's an interesting skill to learn. So now that I have my sky in, it's basically, you know, a third of the painting's done and we just want to let it dry. So I'm going to bring this piece of paper. I'm just going to wave it like this. So your job, your next task is to just blow on your paper so it dries. And while I'm doing this, I can share some of the stuff that the firehouse has been doing. So I'm going to talk to you about the weekly classes that we're doing and the artist talks and the gallery walkthroughs. Something that we're doing actually that is totally new for us is we are going to have a online exhibit that is going live on our website this Friday for second Friday. We've never done an online exhibit before. But due to COVID-19, we did have to cancel our art walk. And we were really sad about that because art walk is such a great celebration for local arts that we wanted to do something to highlight our local artists. So we opened up this online exhibit to local artists for Small Works and it's opening this Friday on our website at 6 p.m. And the art show is actually called Artists in their Residence. Kind of a play on artist residency because the only residence we're in is our own. So I am going to keep going with this. Now that this is kind of dry, I'm going to peel off my mountain. And just be really careful if you're doing this along with me to make sure that you don't peel off the paper because it could be just a little bit wet on the side right there. But just be careful. Don't yank it off super fast. It's not like a band-aid. So okay. So I'm going to take this little ball of tape and put it up here. Great. So now we have the sky and we have the mountain edge. We're going to do four layers of mountains. They're going to get lighter. It's lighter in the background, gets darker as you go forward. So go ahead and grab your medium brush. Make sure you dry it on the paper towel. I'm going to put this paper towel here so you guys can see. And you are going to, now I'm going to wet it. But anyway, you're going to pull up some purples. So purples, blues, and maybe just a little bit of black. But that first row is going to be your lightest row. So make sure you add some water. And you are going to paint right up to the edge where that blue sky ends. And it's okay if it's really super faint. Because we're creating what we call... It's always things are right. You what? Oh, don't go ahead Elay. I'm sorry. Okay. So we're creating this, what we call our atmospheric perspective. So the things that are further away are lighter. Okay. So now I'm going to do the next one. And I want to make it a little bit darker. So I'm going to add a little bit of blue to it. And we're going to do the second row, but just make sure that you don't follow the same line. So maybe do it more like that. Okay. So that's our second row, a little bit darker. And watercolors are really hard medium.  Watercolors, it's hard to control it with the water, but that kind of like unplanned look is also... What is the beauty of watercolors? Are you experiencing that as well? The unplanned... Oh, okay. I'm experiencing something. Mine is not looking at all like yours, but we're going with it. Okay. So we're going to do the next level. I'm going to add just a little bit more intensity to it. So a little bit more paint. And then I'm going to add that next level, just like that. One more to go. And then we can work on the land in the front. So last one. There we go. So you've got four layers of mountains, lightest one in the back, a little bit darker, a little bit darker, and then a little bit darker right in the front. And going back to this, we're going to wave our magic fan to dry our watercolor. So we're already two thirds of the way done. So as far as in our class, this one's pretty fast. So for those of you guys watching, if you have any questions as we go, put them in the comments. I just got... Elaine, I have one from Patty Grove. She says, I need to go make supper, have fun, and congrats on the winner. This has been fun. Thanks, Patty. If anybody else has any questions while Elaine is showing us her magic, let us know. Let us know you're here. Okay. So I think it's doing pretty well drying. We're going to go ahead and do the trees right in front. The trees are going to be a little bit different. We are going to get some greens. So I'm going to do this olive green right here. Oh my goodness, I'm making a mess. And black. Okay. And instead of having like this very soothing kind of rolling line, we're going to do more jagged lines for here for the tree. You make it look so easy. I love it. I did have to practice. This was my practice one. I was like, okay, I'm going to have to try and see if I can teach this in 10 minutes. And upside down. And upside down. But it's been a lot of fun. So I came to this position basically as an arts educator. So I've been teaching, you know, for 10 years, my first class having been at the Firehouse Art Center. The best part about that class was my 11 year old was in the class. And it was actually called preschool Picasso's. And I'm just adding a little bit of black. So I'm going to do a little bit of darker line right at the bottom. Yeah, so it was preschool Picasso's. And it was basically just a class where they got to like, make a big mess and create some art along the way. And now he is like an accomplished artist on his own as an 11 year old. He has like, he teaches the kids at school, he does all sorts of different artwork. And he plays five different instruments. So I'm super impressed. Oh my goodness. Yeah. So, um, so yeah, so I've been teaching, you know, whether it's with the Firehouse or I also was with the La Ma Museum. And I did a brief stint in California where we moved away. But then we had to move back because we loved Longmont so much. So we love Longmont. The Firehouse loves Longmont. It's just such a great environment. So we're really glad to be back. And I'm really glad to be back with the Firehouse. So I'm just waving this around getting this dry again. And we're going to go move in for the ground. And then we are going to be done. Oh my goodness. The grounds are yellows and brown. So I'm going to start with this tan color right here. So I always encourage the kids in the weekly art classes to send in their art. If there are any adults or kids doing this one, definitely send in your art because it's always so fun to see what everyone makes. I love it. Okay. Okay. Let us know.  Elaine is going to help us do a prize drawing for one lucky comment. So let us know that you guys are here. Okay. Now we have the ground. And I'm just going to, I mean, it's all nature. And nature is all just random anyway. So I'm just going to add some browns in there. And however it lays is how it's going to be. And the last thing I'm going to do for this right now is I'm going to add some bright yellow. So that bright yellow right there.   And I'm going to pull in some darks. If you can see, you can see it like spread. And that is the joy of watercolor. Like you kind of never know what it's going to do sometimes if you're working wet on wet, because it just spreads with the watercolor and spreads with the water. And that's cool too. So I'll throw some greens in there. And I feel like I was saying really well until we got to the land. So watercolor paper. Is that the question? Did Laura have a question about? Laura is water. Yes. So Kyle says, I missed the very start of the instructions. Are you using a special paper? This is actually watercolor paper. So this is watercolor paper, cold press, and it's 140 pounds, which sounds like really heavy. But it's it's not that heavy. It's just like a normal weight of watercolor paper, the standard weight. But you can use any kind of thick paper if you have just card stock. The taping it down on the sides really helps with the buckling. So if you had a card stock paper, just a little bit thicker than normal paper, the taping would really help it from buckling in and it'll help it keep its structure. So that looks like it. So just to give you an idea of how we put this together. So if you guys missed the lesson, so we started with, we made the mountains with the tape to get that definition right here. I painted the whole sky with water, just plain old water. I did blue, darker blue from the top going lighter down to the bottom. I took my toilet paper, smushed it into a ball and padded it to create the clouds. We did the layers of mountains using lighter colors in the back to darker colors in the front for atmospheric perspective. Added the trees, so two layers lighter green and then darker green in the front. And then we just did the grounds with varying colors of neutrals and greens and a little bit of black for shadow. So that was my quick 10 minute demonstration for watercolors. I really hope that you guys try it. We are going to be back at the firehouse opening up May 13th. And hopefully we're going to start offering classes. Well, as soon as it's safe to rejoin and have people in shared spaces. But I'm going to turn the screen up because that's the end of the class. And I will be able to see you guys. Where's your lovely face? So I hope you guys try it. Watercolor is a hard medium. A lot of people say it's like the most difficult thing just because you have to let go of that control. You never know where the water color is going to go. So how did your painting turn out? I'll show you later. It didn't quite come out. I mean, I tried to follow along with you. I don't have water color. So I did acrylic, but I watered it down quite a bit. And I was right there with you until we got to about the ground part. And then it it was more of kind of a baby poop mustard color that I didn't like. It was fun. Yeah, like we feels I could pretend. It was fun though. And I am I used to love to paint and draw. I do come from a an artsy family. My dad draws. My brother is amazing. And I'm OK. But I think I passed that on to my daughter, who is she just astonishes me every day with the stuff that she comes up with. So I really appreciate you having, you know, coming on here and showing us and especially painting upside down.  Awesome. It's awesome. So let us know that you guys are here. I do see a few more faces popping up there. So let's see. Laura Amber, she says it's so cool. Thank you for doing this. And so Elaine, for you guys watching, now is your chance.  So if you're here and you're watching, Elaine is showing the price today. And what is it again? It's a paint by numbers hit. It is. It's a paint by paint the town by numbers. So it's a Mandela painting. You get one paint canvas, 12 paint colors and a brush. So it all comes in there in the kit. And it has all the numbers labeled. And it's kind of like, you know, a more mature paint by numbers. But it's good for adults. It's good for kids. So kind of a good three lever, right?  How fun is that? Yes. Right? Okay, so Elaine, I'm struggling. Some people came on late. So maybe we should instead of taking something that we talked about right at the very beginning of our live stream. What if we said, okay, so our question should be what medium did Elaine use in her painting today? Her demonstration she just did. What was the medium that she used? First one to put it in the comments is our winner. I'm going to let Elaine watch for it. Can you see? I can. I can see. So who do you see, Elaine? Well, Arpita is saying hi. Hi, Arpita. She's one of our board members. Oh, very cool. Okay, so I see one person has come in with the correct answer. Do you see her as well, Elaine? Let me see. Scroll down. Kyle, yes. Oh, yes, wet on wet. He even had the technique. So that's fantastic. Right? So yay, congrats, Kyle. You are today's winner of the paint by numbers kit that Elaine is donating today. So email me as soon as this broadcast or live stream broadcast. As soon as this is done at Jwanasek at longmontchamber.org and I will coordinate getting that kit over to you. Okay, Kyle, so congrats. Thanks everybody for showing up and watching us today. And I want to give a special shout out and thank you to you, Elaine, for taking your time out showing your amazing talent with the Longmont community. And we want everybody to go over, visit your websites, see what's happening over there. It sounds like you have some fun stuff coming up on Friday. We'll try and put those in the comments, that link as well. If I don't, can you do that as well, Elaine, just in case I missed it? Yes, I can. And then can I just do one more shout out for Giving Tuesday. So obviously, the Firehouse Art Center is a small nonprofit art gallery. We are participating in Giving Tuesday now. And, you know, if it is a possibility for you, we would love your support at this time, especially after being closed for two months and then having to cancel Art Walk, which makes us very sad. But we appreciate Longmont as a community for supporting us and all of our donors and just basically, we miss everyone and we can't wait to be back. That's awesome. And yeah, for those of you guys who missed the very beginning today is Giving Tuesday. So get over there and give where you can, say a special love, send some special love over to the Firehouse Art Center. Thank you so much, Elaine. Thank you, Jessica. Have a good Tuesday. Bye-bye. Bye. She's amazing. I struggled to do it right side up. So I am really impressed that she did her watercolor upside down, which is truly an art form that I wish I had. I wanted to give you guys a quick reminder because today is Giving Tuesday. We did last week, we launched a food drive for the Mountain State Children's Home. For those of you guys who may not have tuned in for that, you can still donate your food items. They are collecting items at four different locations as well as the thrift store on, I think it was 8th and Kauffman, but we will get those in the comments as well. You can donate those through Thursday of this week. So we are really working hard to try and fill the food pantry over there at Mountain State's Children's Home. So make sure if you have some extra items in your pantry or if you're going to the store, load up on a few extras and help fill that food pantry for those kiddos over there. Like I said, go see Elaine over at firehouseart.org. She has some amazing classes and things that she just shared with us, so make sure you stop by there. If you want to see the list of businesses that we are featuring every day at 4 p.m. here, go to the website of the chamber, which is longmontchamber.org. And also I want you guys to come back. Tune in right here at 4 p.m. at the chamber Facebook page for the next, I guess, edition of We Shop Wednesdays. So come back here tomorrow. We'll see you. And in the meantime, be well. Take care of yourself, and we hope to see you soon. Bye-bye.