The following is a presentation of TFNN. The Tiger Technician Hour with your host, Basil Chapman. Call now toll free at 1-877-927-6648 internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, Basil Chapman. Hi, everyone. The pattern that we're looking at right now just on the very short term shows you just the whippiness that you've seen from this morning. The futures last night really, everything was priced to perfection last night. When Apple came out with this news and advanced micro devices had really come out with this news. Simes was soaring. The Dow suddenly picked up strength. The futures in the NDX100 had tanked because of Google and they were soaring. I thought to myself, wow, is this one of those chips that we see every once in a while where you see everything just, if you were short, you think, oh my God, if you were long, you're thinking fantastic. I should have been 300% long, et cetera. And now you've got kind of a look. The futures up three that you've been all over the show, the hike today has been 29.61, 25, and the E-mini and 29.47, we're trading at 29.51 towards the lower NP, sorry, peak F in the two-minute chart in the Chapman wave on the E-mini peak D in the five-minute chart and only a C in the 10-minute chart, but the others really are dictating everything the shorter term. So let's just get to the nitty gritties. The dollar you can see, sorry, the crudal right now is down at the lowest, down at $1.11, making the H pattern after peak F in the chart. Maybe I should just do that. We did not put it. Oh, let me just show you this. Chapman wave we're always looking for this particular pattern from most obvious lowest low, you count many four higher peaks at peak D, the fourth highest peak is where other things can happen. You get an instant restart, you get a whole bunch of other things, but that is where often some of the deeper declines occur. Yeah, you got your peak D and a three-bar Chapman wave instant restart pattern, but it did continue higher and then that M-shaped pattern in the MACD and the daily crudal did not confirm that peak F top, sixth highest peak at 66.60 on the 23rd of April, and the stochastic was much low, unbalanced volume immediately turned down. And now I've got to be a little worried about this H pattern, the lowercase H. That's what we look for in patterns. It went right to the 200 pre-moving average in the weekly chart at a peak C, if there's no new high this week, recovery high that is. So I'm watching this very closely because the techniques are still very strong in the weekly chart. My suspicion is that the 61 to 60.50 area is really going to be the test. That's going to be a test of a lot of things. Test of the general market as well because it's kind of followed crudal and the markers have been getting up together. Let's get back to our little story here. I'll do this in greater detail. That's what I was asked to do because that little brief tribute that I do is an update at noon. There's really just too short to go into all the different time frames. Now peak D double top. Look at the failure pattern in the MACD. Look at the stochastic way low, but the unbalanced volume, the blue line has pushed much higher and the regulatory strength is lower than it was at the peak D, but it's pretty good at about 63%. So I'm looking at this and I'm saying it better be perfect what the Fed says tonight this afternoon that is because if there's to be another move to the upside as if it's the start of another, a breakout pattern, you want to see the doubt in that. Let me just show you this for a moment. Look at all these resistance levels at 26,000 all the way to 26,918. So there's a lot of resistance, but if you look at this particular chart right here that I show my subscribers to my opening call, look at the 120 minute chart. I don't think I've ever seen as many. Now you need to spike above all these 26,600s, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 about seven or eight resistance points, but only two at 26,427 and 26,438 are the support levels. So this is going to be a very important maybe we might just go sideways. I don't know, but I'm thinking this is the most this way you can expect the most volatility and a peak D probably forming in the 120 minute chart, but it didn't go higher. It didn't go up above that arch formation. So that is good. And if I was to do a support levels 28, sorry, 26,006, what is that? Well faint, 26,583. Just watch that level on a very short 120 minute basis of break under that would say, oh, we're in for at least a pullback coming in. And that's really what I'm looking at. Okay, let's get on to our story. The weekly chart is still fabulous. The Magdi's good stochastic is flat at 97%. 97.2, it means a dollar each and you get to 100%, which you never get to. I've never seen 100% in the Magdi, sorry, in the stochastic. So this is flat and good. It just is could be a pullback, could be sideways, could go down to say the 26,310 level again, maybe even take a little more time. Another week, make another cup formation this time with the lower left, higher left side and lower right side instead of the lower left, higher right side, all these cup formations really important. One of the things I want you to look at here is that the monthly chart hasn't yet extended that leg being to May because May's only just begun today. So what happens in May is going to be very important. And today this afternoon could be it, that it goes to 26,696 and we've extended leg B, gray leg B still in the monthly chart. The S&P has made an all-time high. It did it again today. It's trading at 2949.07. This becomes a new leg D. Let me get rid of that because that was from yesterday. The G slash C has become another D. That is really good with a Chapman wave. I really don't have time to talk about it much better than I might. If I have a chance, I don't think I will. This is what I call a Chapman wave, flat base, unconventional restart. And it says that no matter how high you go, if you keep coming back towards the top of this bar right here at about 26, sorry, 29, 18, there's a good chance that when you make your top, you're coming right back into the 2900 area. I'll do it briefly. That's what I'd be looking at. If this is the pattern I'm thinking of, but the stochastic is at 93%, that's still good. And the magnetic is flat and good. It's going to take some bad news event. Just don't see it on the horizon right now to really smack it down below 2931 and then 2922. All right, here we go. Weekly chart still very strong new all-time high in leg C. That's very positive. And a V-shaped pattern with an all-time high on the right. I'm going to talk a lot more about these V-shaped patterns over the next few days, especially Friday in my technical hour with the Chapman Wave methodology being a little more elaborated on. QQQ, 100, the NDX100 trading right now hasn't taken out the high of 191.32 May three days ago, but definitely that Google smack to the downside tested the 14p moving out for the very first time since it broke above it back in late March. This is a hint to say we're getting a little bit of softness coming in. So just be a little careful here, fabulous leg C in the weekly, fabulous leg in the monthly. Let's go to the IWM. IWM is the Russell 2000. This is going to turn it count. This is stalling. This is really struggling a lot. Yes, it's gone to a leg C briefly above the peak B that was made at 5950 back in March, the first of March. It's gone to a high three days ago of 159.61. I want to do just as we're about to go to the break. I want to show you gold. Gold is down $3.50 at 1282. 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I want to get rid of my 20,000 bars. I don't know what it is but this is just a terrible chart just making lower lows under the 14 period moving average the black line there. This is terrible. So now do we have an inside bar like we always have after the big red candle tomorrow and start to move up or maybe today there's a turnaround. It better be because and that would say that the Fed is talking about higher rates, lower rates, lower rates and wow I don't know. All I can say is that this is daily, weekly, and monthly are looking just horrible. It's going to take a lot to repair it. Let me look at Platinum. Double top Chapman Wave C1, C2. It's a lovely technique if you learned how to use it. It makes the top and it's turning around. This could turn out to be more an E than a B over there in the weekly chart. Not good. Let me look at Palladium. This is the Palladium Aberdeen physical palladium trading at 126.24 down 4.47 and there's that square, that rectangle that I drew a while back. I said you trade within the range and we went just above it, went back in it. Now just below it will we go back in it. I don't know but the weekly chart is not good. Well let's go back now. We want to look at the Euro, EUR, USD, EUR a dollar currency pair trading at, oh up nicely 1.1243, up 0.02, 3 good candles after the nice turnaround green candle of the 26 at 1.111.121. I like it in terms of the weekly chart. Finally there's a little bit of a sign that says the MACD is holding well. The stochastic, oh it's still flat at 20%. I want to see it rally. I don't want to see it flat. That's like when you see the stochastic up at the 97, 98% level and just not turning down at all. Also I don't like this. This is when I see this, this is the yo-yo formation. This is the formation that reminds you of six flags. You've got the roller coaster. I, this sine wave zigzag is not the pattern that I like very much because it just means it's going to continue rotating with the price in the same volatile rolling, it looks like rolling hills and it just says options could fail again. So the Euro needs very quickly to get to 1.135, sorry 1.135 and I'll say quickly I mean the next couple of days even if it pulls back a little bit. Let's look at the USDJPY. That's the yen. Yep it's pulled back equal amount. Looks like the dollar after the peak D. Boy these peak Ds are absolutely fantastic in the Chapman wave methodology. There's your peak D in the dollar. It goes from 98.33 to today's level of 97 where we are now at about 97.29, 97.27. That area, this is look at the way you've turned down. I got to watch this closely because now we're back into the range of the 97.35 to maybe even 96.80 area. So what happens with the Fed today is it'll be really important. Peak D maybe in the weekly chart and look what happened the last time. You had quite a whole bunch of weeks before you broke out to the upside. 97.71 was the highest week of the 14th of December. It tested beautifully back on the week of the 8th of March. Couldn't break it. It went to 97.71, had it pulled back again and then boom goes right out of it. So this is going to be very important for the dollar. So that's that area. Now if you want to look at this, let's just do this dust width. That's the region itself is trading up at a quarter of at 435. That is after yesterday's low of 426, round number low. So that's a potential but the flat stochastic says, it's going to take a lot more than that. Soybeans down seven, three quarters at 846. We're out of that fund. We just got out. I'm not interested in messing around with agriculture right now. Maybe when they turn around and this is the corn. The corn was up a little bit before. Now it's up at 1.3 quarters at 364 round number. Yeah, just making a leg B. This is the one that's a little bit better. Not great. Oh, okay, we've done that. Now let's do this. Amazon trading. Remember yesterday we talked about Costco, Target. What was the other one? The question wasn't Costco decided to include Target and Walmart. So Amazon has just taken so much from everybody else but it hasn't made an all time high. 2050.50 was the high of September 2018. Plunges down to round number 1307 low in December. Had a spectacular move to 1939 right now. It hasn't quite taken it. What I think what the Fed does this afternoon is going to be really important. Everything I'm doing now is sensing that there's a tiredness now to the market. Even some of our positions have been very fabulous. A fabulous run to the upside. They're just starting to look a little bit tired. And I need to show you. I don't mind because you've got to get my newsletter to be able to get in the correct position. So we're going to peak here 242 in the IYT, the Transportation Index fund. And straight right now at $192.87. Down $7 from that high. Almost eight. But it still looks very good in the weekly chart. We'll see what happens there. IAI, which is the broker-dealer. Very sharp move to the downside. Down $7.8 cents at $6305. But it hit $64.12 with a two-bar, haven't we? Two-bar reversal yesterday. Bankies very good, but turning down. Stochastic's excellent at $90.80. So I'm watching this one very closely. But it's sad. It was getting a little bit tired. Look at that cup formation. Breaks out and then it can't hold the game. I'm a little worried. That's all I'm saying. Right now in the very short of leg D in the weekly chart, you can just go over these things one by one. Now, what I am looking at that I think is kind of intriguing is that Apple, look at this, Apple went to a leg D. Look at all this today. I wonder if I can find it. I'll try to find it. It's just so interesting in the Chapman Way methodology what these Ds can do and where they occur. So Apple spikes to a high today. All-time high, sorry, recovery high. All-time high is $230, $347, peak D in the monthly. So we've pulled back very sharply to $142, almost 100 points, and now it's running very sharply up to $213 after the news yesterday. So this is very good action. So this is a D. Let me see if I can find that list. I'll show you something very interesting. Let me see Dave Wright posted it earlier to the down. There we go. Let me just see. Maybe it's just anything to do, but it is fun. Who is the list? Okay, so SMG. SMG is Scott's Miracle Grove. It's in the right area. Seeds, gardens, cannabis. I mean, everything right. This is the shovels, the picks and shovels of what you really want to be buying, probably in that whole area. So it's trading at $90.47, $545, and a high of $9449 this morning. Any what? A gap up the D. I couldn't even tell you how many stocks have just come out with that same thing. LLL stock, I actually want you to put in my newsletter. Oh, it gaps up to an F. 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I think this is the first time you're looking at Boeing. I'd said this quite some time ago that I thought Boeing was likely to be making I don't know who knew anything about a crash. Come on let's face it but what a second crash. But I'd say that I think that Boeing has a serious problem in terms of the chart formation and that there was a really good chance as it was going to those highs around about the 440s that it would come back and retest the Chapman wave of the body the arch of the body at 394.28 and that if it took it out be careful because the longer it stays in that body the longer it's going to be consolidating. I would not be surprised if Boeing just goes nowhere for a while. I'm not sure it's going to break down and once again get close to the 363 200 premovie average but I do think there's enough bad news out there that it could really impact them and you know that there's some competition not all that much but enough to make I think Boeing pretty nervous. I think upside is limited I'd be watching it and that's going to be a part of what impacts the Dow as well. That's the one thing. The other thing is I want to look at you what was ITA, ITA. Is that ITA? Yeah that's the aerospace I prefer to go to PPA because that's the one I do all the time. That's gone to a leg E as we speak right there is D and now I'm going to put in the E. I don't think that now it's on instant resorts and E. So here again we're looking at extremely a beautiful beautiful set of chart patterns daily weekly monthly and this is the investor aerospace and defense remember it includes aerospace as well sorry defense as well. So this is saying it's at an all-time high just she's got to be a little careful here. Next question I had was right just go to the den question right here which is get rid of that. Let's just look at copper, HG, HG trading oh oh pain. What was it Elizabeth? Elizabeth oh you know who was the guy? Sanford? Sanford? Sanford yeah look at this copper is down 3.41% no this is not good oh what is the fed going to do today because I mean this is part of your inflationary aspect they need to get inflation they're off inflationary thing I mean you go to the supermarket there's inflation everywhere so what's the question? But isn't it interesting that from the time Trump began his presidency to present steel stocks have gone straight down do you think they're a buy? So I did this in my webinar I spoke about it I said not yet not yet not yet let's wait and we're still going to be waiting I'd still be waiting right now at 38.11 on the SLX the VATVector Steel ETF let's just hold it hold it hold off a little longer I do think it's going to be a buy in fact it has to become a buy in the big mega move that I'm anticipating later on but I'm not putting into that category just yet that's still now isn't that interesting so what you said that since Trump got in so Trump got in November the 6th 2016 wasn't it 16 17 16 I mean a time flies so 16 let's go to November yeah there it is okay so yeah it hasn't done very much has it that's gone from the 30 area to the 51 oh mine that was good 51 isn't it back down again to the 30s turning right now 38 11 yeah just have patience it'll get there now the other thing that I want to do a deal with right now is I want to talk about some of the look the IBB I had a question about the IBB recently and I say you know just lay off for now in fact a number of people who have actually talked to me about the stock market they say what's happening to the pharmaceuticals and the biotechs and I've said just as long as there's a political aspect to it just keep keep in mind that it's kind of had its day in the sun if you look at Kenmore Square here in Boston the whole MIT area messages in student technology where they kind of have combined programs etc with some of the biggest biojournal these others I think that they they they're paying for people that just it's unbelievable the prices that they're paying to get new people and what it costs them and to put them up and all that and build offices etc and if you go from 122 to the 80s and then you're ready back to 116 and now you're back at 106 I think just take it step aside for a little while it will be back but just in the meantime politically I think it's just expedient to stay away you look at the PPH that is the pharmaceutical ETF it is called the van where is it where is it oh what happened how many times do I have to notate this and I don't remember my my being pushed offline so I don't know why I've lost those charts they there it just moves from one folder to the other and I'm going to redo the darn things yes they made a PD in the pharmaceutical area the venect vectors pharmaceutical ETF made a PD at about 65 ish and now it's and we've pulled back sharply to the 54s and now it's trading at 58 just I I can just be careful there's so many other areas that's another question question I had about Ford Ford was doing very nicely recently it's just gone to a leg D right now gaps up on some other earnings news gone to a D maybe now it's going to pull back a little bit I love the fact that Ford is doing nicely I want to see make an automobile companies do well let's see what GM's doing GM Ford is trading at 10.37 down 9 oops that's what I wanted to do that is a plus sign so a GM right now so it's had a fabulous move from 748 ish up to today's high of 1050 wow that is really a very nice move general motors general motors is made a peak D in the chapel wave in the daily peak D in the weekly kind of consolidating but it has gone from the 35s to the 40 area and now it's trading at 38 for digesting against Syria I want to look at Syria because I mean I mean most of the cars these days I think I'm not sure but have a chance to have Siri just better embedded and then people will sign up and of course they've got this terrible bookkeeping I don't know what they do but they charge you all of a sudden they raise prices from the some six or seven bucks a month or 10 bucks a month to 9.95 I think it really was to 24 something other throwing in a whole bunch of stuff nobody wants and now you call them up and say I'm done I'm done with a serious XM satellite what can we do to keep you hold on hold a second I'll call my I'll call my supervisor and of course they put you on hold for about this couple of seconds not doing anything 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we had that cell signal at a peak f top in the two minute chart just before noon and then it just look it hasn't even gone back to the pink line the nine-period moving average it changes to pink on the way down and and that is at 294665 is at 294425 trying to find some support here peak d in the two-minute chart this is but anything can happen between now and one o'clock and two o'clock on an hour and a quarter to go and then the feds news comes out so this is what i'm looking at here the couple of questions came in and bev and bev you know i the reason why i'm kind of avoiding these guys right now is as individual stocks rather than just to have the etf is that i prefer just at this particular moment because you remember they this is like an ipo it's i mean let's face it this is a brand new sector in the stock market and even though this uh i'm talking about cannabis has been around i mean i remember back in south africa when i was growing up uh it was called dacha da gga it was evidently way more potent than uh most most countries i don't know why that's what they said i know i've never smoked in in my life i just i was an athlete not just have never had any desire whatsoever to take even a puff of anything so that maybe it's my my problem but it doesn't matter i'm just talking about this as if i'm an outsider looking in so new age beverage corporation 518 right now down 22 cents uh so the question is high battle four days ago in their gap up to date gap down what is your opinion on how to play this through the next few months i have a stopping place at 4.87 you know i don't disagree with you um i don't i know that you got in it you got in pretty well i can't remember now you don't say what you got in that i think you got in around about the 470 area 480 i'm just i agree with everything you've said now if you're looking at in nbev new age beverage because you know something about it on a fundamental level i can't even go there i know nothing about it on a fundamental level but on a purely technical level what i'd mentioned a little while back is if i was looking at this and i thought what is this i would have said this looks like the old biotechs in the old days where they just this is if they there's a news they put out news report every once in a while and the stock spirals up and usually that news report when you're going to in depth you find out that you know they had to pay their uh their ceo or their whatever it is salesperson and the way to do it was to give stock and have the stock really skyrocket probably the person sells it gets out and gets a salary for that particular three months i have no idea i'm just saying that's that's the way it looked anyway and this looks the same so this is news related and i suspect at some point the 9.99 all-time high that was made back in um september i think it was of last year i think that's going to be hit what are you doing in the interim period well you've got to stop it at 4.80 i would probably say you know what i take a slightly i'd have two positions one is your 4.80 stop but i'd have a little position it just says you know i'd put it into a draw and just wake me up in six months or a year just wait have a little bell go off and it's 10 $10 and 50 cents and that's just the only way i can do it but if you're looking at me saying what what do i expect i think this trading range is starting to get smaller and smaller and the big the big gap that you had from the 4.80 area all the way to the 6.63 or so level now smaller now the range is the five dollars to about 5.60 and the moment you see the start to trade above if you have not been stopped out you see a trading at 5.68 or 5.72 i would immediately say some part of that position has to have a profit motive in it and i would raise the stop i'd raise the stop and say if i get taken out of that i can always put it back at a lower price i just don't want to go through the ripiness again but some part of it then because you like to obviously like this particular stock i keep it i think it's going to one day i can tell you now based on the chapter of methodology it's a little late in the in the cycle but at any point if this is trading at a halfway point at $7.30 on a weekly basis if it closes any week at $7.30 there's a real good chance it's going up to the nines and even higher that's that's just the way i have to look at it but you i don't know how you trade it short term it's really tough all of these well i was asked about gwph which is gw pharmaceuticals look at that on a smaller basis it's had the same thing for the last uh nine ten weeks it's just been in a trading range big trading range 150 to 180 hey but think of that as 1.5 to 1.8 it's almost the same you know you're trading even bigger percentages so um that's all i can say now the next thing i had was okay yep the semiconductor index said advanced micro devices has a great move it said now the the estimation is at 160.64 the hike today is 117.88 all-time high is 120.71 it is 113.49 the other day it bounced AMD comes out with earnings yesterday great everything seemed to be just wonderful it gaps up it gaps up and it goes today the high is 29.15 but actually i can tell you now so yesterday it closed at 27.63 i did see it up with dollar 80 inch a day into evening after the bell and it spiraled so great you know it's not it's up 17 cents it's the exact opposite of what you're looking at uh in that um in bav look now you've got a trading range this trading range it's gone even smaller now and i'm just saying to you right now if advanced micro devices which i think it's going to do starts to trade under 26.80 i should say closes under 26.80 there's a good chance it's just made a short-term top and it's going to have to digest the peak e gains in the weekly chart so i'm looking at this and what the Fed does today i if it wasn't the Fed i would say very confidently right now i think that there's a tremendous amount of resistance upside and that resistance could in fact impact the upside but you never know because if the Fed comes out and says we're going to drop the rates a half point i'm not sure why they would want to do that but everything's on on what what do you want to need to do it for right now i mean everything's working i'm not so sure why they would do that but if they did say there's a possibility but we want further data we data influence like janet yen and you used to always say i'm data influence um let's wait for that i i just i this is something here just tells me to be a little cautious not something's telling me to be a little cautious but if the Dow closes the whole market is often instead of being up 150 in the Dow 20 points in the evening if there's a reversal to the day's lows then i think it's going to put i think it's going to put a damper on the market at this particular point remember rectangle formations last a lot longer than you anticipate and if it happens so it was the upper end of a range usually you break to the downside so it makes it really important that advanced micro devices goes to over 29 95 goes to the 30 area and it does it within a couple of days and that would be very positive i would admit immediately so we've got one more break and then we've got the end of the show remember check my opening calls my daily newsletter very comprehensive um this is a very important moment we've at right now you're going to be even looking at the xlf in a moment to come back and talk about the xlf leg e this is where you expect some kind of a pullback i'll be back i'm certain you are or strive to be one of the best of the best at everything you do in life it's the most common trait that we tigers and tigers share if you're looking to become the best of the best when it comes to managing your money let me teach you to do what most wealth managers tell you can't be done which is how to time the markets i'm steve rhodes author of mastering probability 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little overbought on a short term basis and all it said to the question is that if it closes under 180 i suspect it's going to make the h pattern do a retest of the of the mid 170s it needs very quickly to get to the 184 80 185 30 area really needs to get there so you can try to test the 200 period moving average this is yeah again it's very important um so i i just think it needs more time that's really what i'm looking at for nvidia akamayo's question is akamai trading at akamai technologies there again look at that huge spiral to the upside goes to piki all time high at 86.19 except the trading right now at 82.13 up two i think that a lot of these gap ups are going to they're going to have to take a little breather that's my thinking regardless of what the fed does but it is a leg e in the monthly and that is very good uh techniques have improved a lot there are a lot of stocks like this so let me just make it real clear i've got the fed coming out in just over an hour that's going to be very important is how i think what they say it's how the market reacts keep in mind if the tlt the lemond 20 or t-bond fund trading at 124 15 by the end of the day is up in the near 124 80 or 125 that's going to suggest that rates yeah the rates will be lower but i'm not sure it's because the fed says anything about that i think they're going to try to mutilate all that they're going to be trying to show that they're very fair they're not listening to the president they are listening to the president they're not listening to the market they are listening they don't know what they don't know what's going on so i suspect they're going to try to say data dependent and we're going to see what happens next no change uh but there's a chance we might lower rates that might say something like that but i don't think they'll do anything maybe not maybe they do six points who knows anyway back in the ranch that's what i'd be watching the tlt stars to drop back to 123 45 from the 124 15 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We're having another episode of the Genesis of U32, the Union High School District Number 32, which serves seventh through 12th graders and opened in the fall of 1971. I'm Betty Keller. I entered as an eighth grader when the school opened, and I have with me here as a guest, Alice Blatchley. She is the parent of one of my friends at school, and is, of course, a taxpayer and citizen, as well as a voter and a mother, and she also served on the school board. She was not on the school board when it first opened, and I do want to pay tribute to the people who were on the board when it first opened. And the board of directors initially was Paul Andrews, Robert Wells, Claude Magnant, Rosendo Cuero, who went by Rosie, Houghton Kate, George Pittman, and O. Richard Clark. And I think he went by Dick. What's that? O. Richard Clark, I think he went by Dick. We went by Dick, yeah. And so we should stick a picture up this that you can all see more easily. But as my husband would say, looking at this picture, how did this group of middle-aged men in the middle of Vermont come up with this idea, this middle of rural Vermont come up with this idea of starting such a progressive school? Where did that come from? So I'm very glad to have Alice Flatchley with me here today, talking about the beginning of the school. We had a previous episode talking about the very beginning of the school board going out and visiting other schools, and had just gotten to where we were talking about Alice's actual time on the board and why she started serving. So Alice, thank you for being here today. And if we could just kind of pick up a little bit. So those were the original members of the board. And of course the school board members, they have one and two year terms and they get voted in and more people replace them. And so at the time that you were asked by community members to join the board, to run for board, I should say, at that time two women from Berlin had replaced a couple of the men on the board. And that was Mary Anderson and Ruth Town. So if you could pick up the story from there a little bit, that would be great. Yeah, well, Ruth, I was kind of warned. You know, you're gonna find Ruth Town difficult to work with probably. She's very, very termined and very concerned about, they really don't, she and Mary Anderson don't like the school as they want it changed. They really actually want the, well, Bill Grady actually had already resigned. So when I got on, Jim Dawson was, he had been the assistant principal, so he took over. So it really became a real fight. It was an embattled school, you might say. I mean, there were factions, there were two. There was the sort of liberal faction and the, and became more so until it got better simply by what? I'm sorry, could you actually, we skipped over that little bit of when Bill left. So on our previous episode, Bill Grady was the first principal, Jim Dawson was the vice principal of the time. Bill had been involved in the actual design of the school. We had a school architect, had laid out the plan and he had taken them off and visited some schools without walls and wanted to do some of the same. So tell me about Bill Grady's tenure there and why he chose to leave.  That's too, that's too mild a term. I mean, all of the anger and stuff just, he was at the cross currents of it and he just felt that as long as he was there, it was always going to center on his, school wouldn't, couldn't really function properly because so much attention was gonna have to be on just trying to defend himself in this school and. So can you tell us a little bit about James Dawson now? So then he did leave and some people very much regret that just didn't think maybe he wished that he hadn't because I think, I think he would, the school would have survived very well if he'd stayed but in any case, he was such a strong personality, was such and so articulate that he had certainly made an impression on Jim Dawson who came on as assistant principal but then endorsed Bill's ideas and learned a great deal. So Jim did his best to carry this on but unfortunately, all the anger that had been centered on Bill now centered on Jim Dawson and there were people who wanted him to resign as if somehow or other that would resolve all these issues and make everything all right. He did a really great job of holding on to his ideas and yet being very, you know, listening to everybody, caring about the kids. I mean, this was a huge job. I don't know how anybody does it and he did it very well, I thought. And he became a very good friend. I mean, I really, I had great respect for him. Well, so but the others on the board I was really, I mean, I think ultimately what happened was that the people who liked this school, who loved it, who thought it was doing wonderful things with their kids, outnumbered actually in the towns, the ones who were. Right, so just for history in case somebody isn't familiar with how we do our public schools in Vermont, the school board is voted, each town gets to vote in one, two or three people depending on their population. So the towns vote them in. The school board makes a decision about who to hire for the principal and the vice principal. So the fact that they chose the school board selected by the citizens chose to keep Jim Dawson knowing that he shared Bill Grady's philosophy and make him be the principal means that that was what the towns overall wanted but there were some people who were concerned that this style of school was not serving all of the children and those children who could benefit from more structure who had different learning styles and needed some of the kind of traditional supports that the parents were used to, at least that's what the parents' perception was, they were voting people on the board too. So you had to negotiate. That's right, we had to negotiate. We had to work this out and I'm not sure that the, actually once I was off the board and I didn't have children in the school, I've kind of lost touch with how they tried to resolve this issue of this children who were used to a lot more structure and were having trouble getting all of the program and doing something with it, being able to function. And I don't know whether there's still a problem there or whether they, through, I know they worked very hard at it so I believe they found a way for the meet both needs. You, there should be able to do it through, or maybe just time and the fact that the school, one thing that helped a lot was that the school started having very successful sports teams and that, you know, that's important. You started winning games and that was very, very good. So the first year was pretty interesting on that score. You took these kids, some of them had gone to Montpeliers, some had gone to Spalding, Hardwick, Plainfield, and then you put them in this school together. Essentially, none of your kids had really played, they may have played little league for baseball, for instance, but they weren't typically actually playing for those high schools because they couldn't stay after school because they didn't have a right home. Good point. And so all these kids come together and they might have some raw talent, but they have very little skill, a lot of them, and no training for like, what is teamwork? So the first year or two were pretty fun and funny. We didn't have a lot of wins, except actually gymnastics did very well, not the first year, but the second year and thereon because it was new all around the state. So all the teams were in that struggling area. And the girls teams might have tended to do a little bit better too because I think it was pretty new for Title IX, so the idea that if you had a field hockey team, there might not be that many field hockey teams with a ton of experience either. So I can't remember exactly which teams did better, but the boys' basketball and the boys' baseball teams took a little time and we had no football because it cost too much and those parents who wanted their sons to be football players, some of them were pretty angry. Okay, now see, I didn't even know about that. That's very good, yeah. Yeah, and so they do have a football team now. I'm not sure how long it took, but they put their money into soccer, which is so much cheaper, so they had more money for the academics. But that was... Okay, so you know, and that's really interesting. But after a few years, by the time you get into your fourth year, you're on the same boat as everybody else and that you all got in there at freshman year. So by the time, for instance, Tommy was graduating, then you could have more likely to have winning teams. Yeah, so I remember that I had changed my mind a bit too because I felt that it was disproportionate to be putting so much of the school's budget into sports which could only benefit a rather small number of them because not everybody was suitable certainly for the competing teams. But the argument had been, this is traditional really in American high schools for years. Well, but if you don't have these sports teams, there are kids who wouldn't even, they'd drop out of school if it weren't for sports. That's the thing that keeps them. So, all right, so you have to deal with that, yeah. That can be a motivator for a kid. I mean, to keep them... So at first I said, yeah, but you need dramatics. But I focused on dramatics because I thought that can be, there's something for everybody in drama and everybody can be in a play or do tech or something, the stage you were in. And I mean, the question is how educational is it? We actually discussed educational, the school board, which was great.  It was, well, what is the educational value of this particular activity? Right. And that was very good. I mean, we had to keep asking that because the tendency for school boards is to get bogged down and administrative stuff. Right. So, but in any case, I think I did come to see that, yes, sports is good.  Setting goals, working toward them, sticking with them. That was good. But it shouldn't be, I mean, you should give equal opportunity for other things. And that worked out because I think most, I think, I remember having to write a letter to the editor of the Times-Argus about, because the school was in danger of practically just putting no money at all into dramatics and arts. They were gonna cut way down on that. And that would really surprise our listeners. I remember arguing something about how you don't lop off. I used a metaphor about trees. You don't attack a tree. If you want to prune a tree, you prune it, the branch is not at the roots. Well, somebody wrote me a letter and she said, I was good for you. You argued for that. Oh, wonderful. Somebody in Cali. But anyway, so, but we had to write that through, but I do see that.  It was Bill Sholdais who argued about that. So Bill Sholdais was another board member. But then, you know, I had to concede that. And that was good. But anyway, the school started having fabulous drama anyway. So that was great. The first thing they did to a musical, it was a funny thing happened all the way to the forum. Yes. They were really good. For one thing, the school, that's another thing. Bill Grady felt very strongly about drama. So he had a really beautiful theater there with all the latest in lighting and all these huge stage. He thought that was very important and very comfortable seating for the audience. That was smart because that sold a lot of people on the school. They saw these kids were doing these drama. And in doing it well. And one thing that the school was very interested in having, parents get involved. And my husband at that time wanted to do, put on a Shakespeare play. That was the first thing that, when my son entered there, he suggested that. And Bill Dawson enthusiastically, that's a great idea to do it. So he did it. Do you remember what the first one was? 12th night. And it was wonderful. Well, a lot of the kids that were kids that from the school that my son had been going to the new school. So they had been used to drama. I remember the Witherspoons were twins and they were in it. Yes, that's right, because that involved twins. Right, right. I was trying to remember which year they got there, but yes. 12th night was. So it'd be Kathy and Christie, right. Anyway, or was, oh well. It was very exciting. Well, Jim thought it was exciting. He said, this is our exciting play. And it was. And so that helped, but that wasn't, also it had very good drama people and that theater was very good to start with and it would have happened anyway. But I think that helped because the kids could see and hey, they can do Shakespeare. Right. And it's good. And I can understand it. It's not hard at all. And they didn't use the bridged versions. They used the real thing. Oh no. Right, so I was actually pretty active in theater. I did the sports too, but remember my sister was in, was there a darkness at noon or something? There was some really a dark classical kind of a thing that she was in. And then I was in Midsummer Night's Dream with Tommy. Oh, you were. I was to Tania. He was bottom. Oh, for goodness sakes, I've forgotten that. And then Thurber-Carnival, Thurber-Carnival. And the thing about Drama U32 is that it drew people, it included the jocks, and it included everybody. They worked out the schedule so that you could do both and they would do it between sports and stuff. And I remember Doug Singleton had one of the big parts in Thurber-Carnival and Doug Singleton is like this big, lovable, cuddly bearer of a guy, huge guy, you'd think he would be playing football and he's like, you went theater, you know? It was so cute. Yes. I guess that's what you do when there's no football team. Then the arts, remember, Phil Stimmel was the first musical director there. Oh, yes, Phil Stimmel, yeah. And then they recruited Carlton Doctor and he taught modern dance, which was our first dance class at school. Oh, who was that again? Carlton Doctor. Okay. He recruited the chorus and the camaraderie. He went to the hockey team to recruit male singers because they didn't have enough men. So see, that's so great. All of these things together. Right, and so you had groups of friends, but they were all interconnected. Nobody was excluded. Good. Yeah, I'm very glad to hear that. I mean, you're looking at a large enough group if somebody wanted to be isolated or felt too awkward of themselves to put themselves out then they might have not felt included, but pretty much people could find a niche somewhere and a lot of these niches were just really interconnected. Oh, that's very good to hear. It was pretty exciting that way. It was just something when you're watching movies about the mean girls or the huge cliques and stuff, it's like, yeah, yeah, we didn't have that. Very good, because that was a concern in the beginning is we didn't want that to happen. Right, right. Hope it would not happen. Yeah, it was pretty cool. I mean, that they would isolate themselves. No. That's good. Was there anything else you want to talk about on the arts while we're on the arts? Yeah, well, the idea, Bill Gray's idea was the arts should be central to the school and even visually, you know, they had, the arts were sort of, certainly, he had the, there was a beautiful little courtyard in the center of the school with big glass windows and wherever you want, you could see the changing of the seasons, the fruit trees in blue and that sort of thing. Another perspective on the courtyard is that I've seen this in other courtyards in Vermont too, is that how many months out of the year do we have snow? Well, it's true. And how hard is it to get in there with a lawn mower? So both places that I'm familiar with, both U32 and the Medical Center at the, you know, UVM Medical Center, filled in their courtyards, the buildings, the rooms, extending the library, whatever. But it's not that practical when the best part of the year in Vermont, you know, schools actually shut. I just remember, on Spring Arts Weekend, people were playing something, the gamelan, and then we were, the backdrop was these little petals falling. Yeah, the first year or two, it was more exciting. And then as time passed, it seems like if you cut maintenance schedule, then in one place it gets cut out of as mowing that place. That's true. And you had to figure out about seating, and, you know, it just, it didn't work out as practically as one might have dreamed. Well, as you know, they did have to make some modifications after a while. I was all sold on the idea, and so was the board on open classrooms and, you know, no walls and so on. They thought, as kids wondered about from one classroom, they might hear something that would be interesting and so on. But they did find, even the most progressive teacher, even the ones that were sold on it, ultimately they started putting up walls. Let's talk about the walls in just a minute, but while we're still talking about the arts, we've talked about drama, we've talked about theater. But I remember when you went in the building, it'd be the area that was over the cafeteria and a little bit closer to the parking lot. That area of the school was where they had the arts.  So remember that stepped room that, they had expository writing and they would show movies in that room, that's where Driver's Ed was taught so you could watch the movies of people killing each other. But that's also where they showed the art history class because you could show the slides of the history around the world of art history. But it was very easy to fit in a quarter of the year, just take a little quarter of pottery. So a lot of people could just dabble in just something. They'd never done it before, it was access. They had a little dark room. Yes, everybody. I remember once going on a tour of the place with some other people with Bill Grady and he stopped and he was discussing some mats that this girl was weaving for his family. And I thought, well, that's pretty good. This guy's the principal of the school. Right, we talked about the class in basket weaving, literally. Every child by name. I got, I'm pretty sure he would be, I think he knew the name of every single student in that school. Yeah, I think that adds so much. So when it was integrated, the idea that she's not just weaving them, she's weaving them out for his family to use. It's all so much more integrated. Homework too, it wasn't a homework, it was... Living arts. Living arts. Right, right. That had Jean Peterson, she was very, very fine teacher. And Claire Ladd, yep. And that's too, you don't make these artificial distinctions. Right, it's all part of life that all is... Right, so when the school first opened, I think that the ninth graders had something different going on, but the seventh and eighth graders had what they called tech education. And you had tech one, two, three, and four. So I don't remember which one was exactly which, but the general idea was that tech one might be a combination of geometry and pre-algebra and physics or something. And then tech two might be the living arts, the homec you know, and you might be sewing and do mathematics and do interactions because you're sewing seam allowances and whatever. And then they would have tech three would be the living arts with the cooking. And you'd be measuring. Why do we have metric versus the standard measurements? And so it was all integrated into the, instead of going to a homec class and going to physics class. And you were doing it for specific purposes. I remember in geometry building a stellar dihe, I saw Sahidran, I still remember the name of the thing. It was like cutting up straws and stringing threads through it so that you could build into a star structure. To make things, to be used more. And at one time they were building a, well they built a log cabin outside. It was, what was that? It was industrial arts. To be used, not just to build a log cabin. I think it had some function, wasn't it? Were they making maple serpents? I'm telling you, he was the, and he had that idea. Right, right. It was all different now. I mean, I wish I'd gone to school at a place like that. I mean, I could have learned at least some manual arts.  And you know, just good, useful household things. I knew nothing about it. And in fact, I couldn't do anything because that was all for boys. So thank goodness all that's changed. I'll tell you, given there was only one, I forget if it was one quarter of the year or like for the whole year you did these four texts, but they changed all the time, these, you know, eighth graders had their little teams of four or five people, each building a structure that was about this wide and, you know, the length of a two by four, I guess, you know, seven feet or something. So you build this little house that had the electrical outlets and you're, yeah. Eighth grade girl, we were pretty bound up in our expectations of gender behaviors at that time. Like this is what my dad does. I have no idea what I'm doing. And yeah, I think that the, and typically you chose your own team.  So yeah, I would say I'm still not competent at wiring a lamp. I depend on my husband, but anyway.  The idea was that it's not just for, you know, it's not artificially. But some girls may have found that they loved it and had the opportunity to become more skilled at it or at least be open to the idea. Right, right. Because something goes wrong and you learn how to fix it rather than, I mean, the whole, all of it, there's so many changes now and you can't, there's no reason why you have to expect it.  Right. Right. And you had better, you have to learn these things and it's good too, because then you can rely on yourself. You feel more competent. I mean, that's good, isn't it? That is good, that is good. So thank you very much for joining us today. Well, I've had so much fun. Covered a little bit about the art, a little bit about the working on a school board and we didn't get actually too much to the classroom with Wallace, but we should do that with pictures on another day. There's so much to talk about about that school and about the, well, what's happening in education today and the schools. I do think Vermont school has very good schools. I do think it does and I think that we don't appreciate how good our schools are compared to a lot of parts of the country. Really? But we can talk about that on another show, but thank you very much for joining us. This was the conversation on the Genesis of U32 in the middle of Vermont with Betty Keller and Alice Blatchley. I had mentioned some of the school board members and I know that several of them have passed, but some of them we don't actually know about them. And if anybody has information they would like to share about the history of the school, including the whereabouts and health of some of the early board members or early teachers, you can reach out to U32HistoryProject at gmail.com That's U32HistoryProject at gmail.com. Thank you. This program is part of a public access television series to get the ball rolling for history project, an experiment in public education, a cooperative history of U32, a rural junior senior high school in Vermont. The co-producers are Betty Keller and Woden Teachout and they're recorded at Orca Studio with much appreciation to the Orca staff for their assistance. The hope is that people associated with U32 during its development and during its early years will record additional audio, video, or written materials to share their experience. If you wish to assist in this project, please send an email to U32HistoryProject at gmail.com. That's U32HistoryProject at gmail.com. Thank you.


In this video, I will describe the overall result in terms of molecules produced in the breakdown of glucose by cellular respiration, describe how electrons move through the electron transport chain, explain how a proton gradient is established and maintained by the electron transport chain, and define oxidative phosphorylation and explain the chemiosmotic mechanism for the production of ATP. In aerobic cellular respiration, following glycolysis, pyruvate will enter the mitochondria, where the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex will convert pyruvate to acetylcoenzyme A, and acetylcoenzyme A will then enter the citric acid cycle, which is also known as the Krebs cycle. Then following the citric acid cycle, high energy electrons will be transferred into oxidative phosphorylation and provide the energy required for ATP synthesis. So the mitochondria are the locations where aerobic cellular respiration will proceed following glycolysis. The pyruvate dehydrogenase complex located in the mitochondria will catalyze oxidation of pyruvate forming acetylcoenzyme A. High energy electrons are transferred from pyruvate onto the oxidizing agent NAD+, producing NADH, and one of the three carbons of pyruvate is released as a carbon dioxide molecule. Following the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, acetylcoenzyme A, which is commonly abbreviated acetylcoA, enters into the Krebs cycle, which is more commonly known as the citric acid cycle. There are eight steps in the citric acid cycle, each catalyzed by a distinct enzyme. The first step in the citric acid cycle is catalyzed by citric synthase, where acetylcoA and oxaloacetate are converted into citrate. The second step of the citric acid cycle is an isomerization reaction, converting citrate to isocitrate, which is catalyzed by a connotase. The third step of the citric acid cycle is the first redox reaction, where isocitrate dehydrogenase catalyzes the oxidation of isocitrate and the reduction of NAD+, forming alpha-ketoglutarate carbon dioxide and NADH as products. Then the fourth step of the citric acid cycle is catalyzed by alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase, which catalyzes the oxidation of alpha-ketoglutarate, forming succinyl-CoA, while NAD+, is reduced, forming NADH, and another carbon dioxide molecule is produced. Notice, at this step, two carbon dioxide molecules have been generated in the citric acid cycle, corresponding to the two carbon atoms that entered the citric acid cycle as acetyl-CoA. Next, succinyl-CoA dehydrogenase converts succinyl-CoA into succinate and forms a high-energy GTP molecule. This GTP molecule can then transfer a phosphate to ADP, producing an ATP. The sixth step of the citric acid cycle, catalyzed by succinate dehydrogenase, will oxidize succinate, producing fumarate, and transferring electrons onto an electron carrier, known as FAD, forming FADH2. The seventh step of the citric acid cycle, which is catalyzed by the enzyme fumarase, converts fumarate to malate. Then the eighth and final step of the citric acid cycle, where malate dehydrogenase, catalyzes the oxidation of malate, forming oxaloacetate, and transferring electrons to NAD+, forming another NADH molecule. To summarize, at this point in aerobic cellular respiration, one molecule of glucose entered glycolysis and was converted into two molecules of pyruvate. In the process, two molecules of ATP were generated, and two molecules of NADH were generated. Then each molecule of pyruvate entered the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, which produced two more molecules of NADH, and converted pyruvate to acetyl-coenzyme A. Then the citric acid cycle generated three molecules of NADH, as well as a molecule of FADH2, for every acetyl-coA that entered. From one glucose, there would be two molecules of acetyl-coA that entered the citric acid cycle, so we would have six molecules of NADH and two molecules of FADH2. There was also a GTP that was produced in the citric acid cycle that can be converted to ATP. However, NADH needs to be transported into the mitochondria in order to be used in oxidative phosphorylation after the citric acid cycle to complete aerobic cellular respiration. And the transport of NADH into the mitochondria will consume one ATP per NADH. The two molecules of NADH produced in glycolysis will cost two ATP to transport into the mitochondria. Therefore, we lose the two molecules of ATP from glycolysis in order to get those two molecules of NADH into the mitochondria, giving us an overall net two ATP that came from the citric acid cycle directly, plus 10 NADH, six from the citric acid cycle directly, two from the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex, and two that were transported into the mitochondria from glycolysis. And then we have our two molecules of FADH2 that are produced directly in the citric acid cycle. Now, the high energy electrons that have been stored as NADH and FADH2 will be used in oxidative phosphorylation to produce ATP. Energy which has been released from glucose oxidation will be stored in chemical bonds as the endergonic reaction of ATP synthesis is fueled by glucose oxidation. Oxidative phosphorylation occurs in the mitochondria following the citric acid cycle in aerobic cellular respiration. Oxidative phosphorylation is a metabolic pathway that uses oxygen and will release the energy stored in electron carrier molecules NADH and FADH2 in order to produce a large amount of ATP and as oxygen becomes reduced, it will be converted to water. There are two parts of oxidative phosphorylation. The first part known as the electron transport chain is where electron carrier molecules NADH and FADH2 will be oxidized and oxygen will function as the final electron acceptor that becomes reduced forming water. Then the second part of oxidative phosphorylation is the chemiosmotic mechanism of ATP synthesis which is catalyzed by the enzyme ATP synthase. The electron transport chain is a series of four enzymes that will oxidize the electron carrier molecules NADH and FADH2. Complex one of the electron transport chain is also known as NADH ubiquinone oxido reductase and it catalyzes the oxidation of NADH and the reduction of ubiquinone forming the products NAD plus and ubiquinol. In the process, four hydrogen ions are pumped from the mitochondrial matrix to the intermembrane space. As these hydrogen ions which are also known as protons accumulate in the intermembrane space, this will create a potential energy source that will fuel ATP synthesis. Complex two of the electron transport chain is also known as succinate dehydrogenase and is one of the enzymes of the citric acid cycle that oxidizes succinate to produce fumarate and FADH2. This enzyme will then oxidize FADH2, transferring the high energy electrons to the oxidizing agent ubiquinone, producing ubiquinol. So the ubiquinol from complex one and complex two will enter into complex three of the electron transport chain which is also known as ubiquinol cytochrome C oxido reductase, which catalyzes the oxidation of ubiquinol forming ubiquinone and reduces a molecule known as cytochrome C. The fourth and final enzyme in the electron transport chain will then accept electrons from cytochrome C, and this is known as cytochrome C oxidase. And the electrons that are transferred from cytochrome C will be accepted by oxygen. And so oxygen is the oxidizing agent that accepts the electrons as cytochrome C becomes oxidized. Oxygen will be reduced producing water. Complex three of the electron transport chain pumps four hydrogen ions into the intermembrane space, and then complex four pumps two hydrogen ions into the intermembrane space. This accumulation of hydrogen ions in the intermembrane space is a potential energy source that will drive the final step of oxidative phosphorylation, where ADP is phosphorylated to produce ATP in the mechanism of chemiosmosis. Chemiosmosis is where protons, also known as hydrogen ions, move by facilitated diffusion through the enzyme ATP synthase. As those hydrogen ions move down their concentration gradient through ATP synthase, they create kinetic energy that will then be converted into the chemical potential energy of the bonds in ATP. Three hydrogen ions enter the mitochondrial matrix through ATP synthase for every ATP that's generated by ATP synthase. However, most of the ATP produced in the mitochondria will need to be transported out of the mitochondria to be used for sustaining life, being used by a variety of proteins throughout the cell that are going to need ATP in order to fuel the work that they have to do. And ATP is too large of a molecule to be able to simply diffuse out of the mitochondria. The antiporter that transports ATP out will require one hydrogen ion to move into the mitochondrial matrix for every ATP molecule that's transported out, and one molecule of ADP and one inorganic phosphate will also enter the mitochondrial membrane, providing the reagents necessary to synthesize another molecule of ATP. This means that four hydrogen ions will be removed from the intermembrane space and enter the mitochondrial matrix for every one molecule of ATP that's synthesized and transported out of the mitochondria. And so to summarize oxidative phosphorylation, high-energy electron carriers NADH and FADH2 enter the electron transport chain from the citric acid cycle. And as those high-energy electron carriers become oxidized, electrons are transferred through the electron transport chain, and as those high-energy electrons are passed down the electron transport chain, energy released is used to pump hydrogen ions out of the mitochondrial matrix into the intermembrane space. That high concentration of hydrogen ions in the intermembrane space then is the potential energy that will fuel ATP synthesis as hydrogen ions move down their concentration gradient by facilitated diffusion through ATP synthase. They're converting the potential energy of the concentration gradient to the kinetic energy of motion through ATP synthase, and then ATP synthase will convert that kinetic energy into the chemical potential energy of ATP as the bond is formed between inorganic phosphate and ADP. So chemiosmosis is specifically the synthesis of ATP by ATP synthase, which is fueled by the facilitated diffusion of hydrogen ions into the mitochondrial matrix from the intermembrane space. And the concentration gradient for chemiosmosis is generated in the electron transport chain, the other half of oxidative phosphorylation. To summarize, the overall maximum yield of ATP produced by aerobic cellular respiration of glucose is around 36 ATP. Now, how do we get to that number? There's two ATPs that are produced from the process of glycolysis and the citric acid cycle overall. Although two ATPs were generated from glycolysis, those two ATPs were spent to transport NADH into the mitochondria where it would need to be transported in order to enter the electron transport chain. And so we get the overall two ATP from the citric acid cycle. Then oxidative phosphorylation generates another 28 to 34 ATP, 28 ATP if those ATPs need to be transported out of the mitochondria and 34 if the ATP is used locally within the mitochondria. This is because the oxidation of NADH by the electron transport chain can pump 10 hydrogen ions across the inner mitochondrial matrix, and it will require three hydrogen ions to pass into the matrix for every ATP synthesized. Then if that ATP is going to be used outside of the mitochondria, another hydrogen ion will enter the matrix to transport that ATP out. For every FADH, six hydrogen ions will be pumped across the inner mitochondrial membrane, and so those six hydrogen ions could be used to generate two ATPs that are used inside of the mitochondria or one and a half if the ATPs transported out of the mitochondria. So overall if we have 10 NADH molecules that get oxidized and we can transport that ATP out of the mitochondria, we'll have 25 ATP generated from NADH, and then for our two molecules of FADH we'll be able to transport three molecules of ATP out of the mitochondria. That gives us the total 28 ATP from oxidative phosphorylation and two ATP from the citric acid cycle. So a net of about 30 ATP is a realistic estimate for the maximum ATP production by cellular respiration of glucose. However, it's unlikely that cells actually achieve that theoretical maximum. Efficiency can vary from cell to cell based on a variety of factors. As I pointed out, one of those factors has to do with the transport of ATP in and out of the mitochondria or the transport of NADH in and out of the mitochondria.


Hi I'm Janice Hall with the Alabama Extension. Today we're going to be learning how to decorate cupcakes. We're going to learn how to do emoji cupcakes, swirl cupcakes with sprinkles, and I'm going to show you how to make a rose out of fondant. But before we start, we're going to learn a little bit about food safety and how you can start a business at home. So let's talk about some food safety tips. So some people would say, why food safety?  So there are a few things that you can put into practice to help prevent that from happening. The first thing is you want to make sure that you wash your hands. Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. And some people like to sing a happy birthday song or twinkle twinkle little star. Make sure that you're using a paper towel to dry your hands. That way you don't contaminate them.  So we're going to be practicing that today. And lastly, I know it's hard. That icing smells delicious and we get so tempted to try to taste it. But try to resist that because if you're licking your fingers and then you're touching a cupcake, you could be contaminated at that cupcake or that other food that you're preparing with your salava. So make sure that you are practicing those tips. Now there's one other thing I want to tell you about and it's the Alabama Cottage Food Law. It was put into place about six years ago and it allows people to bake and sell cakes, candy, cookies, things like that from your home. You can make up to $20,000 by starting in that home business under the Alabama Cottage Food Law. If you're interested, go to our website at aces.edu slash go slash cottage food business for more information. Okay, now it's time to have some fun. We're going to start with our first cupcake. It's going to be a happy face emoji cupcake. So to decorate our cupcakes you need cupcakes and icing and fondant. Now what is fondant? Fondant is an elastic type of icing that you can actually roll out and sculpt and cut and make all kinds of shapes. And it's going to be so easy to do this. So let's get started. Okay, now notice that I've already put my gloves on to kind of remember that's very important when you're handling food that is ready to eat. And then I have a cutting board. The cutting board I've covered with pressing seal and you can also use plastic wrap, saran wrap, just to give it an extra layer of protection. So here we have our fondant. You want to work your fondant to kind of get it nice and elastic so you can see how it's nice and stretchy. And this tastes really good. This one, this flavor is vanilla. So this tastes really good. Now if your fondant feels a little bit sticky, you can take a little bit of powdered sugar or corn starch and rub it on the surface in order to keep it from sticking.  Now you want to make sure that you roll it to be at least about an eighth of an inch thick. Okay, now that's big enough. You can see it's not that thick.   So we're going to use this dessert cup in order to cut the circle. Now we have a nice round circle. Now how do you get the fondant to stick to the cupcake? You're going to just take a little bit of icing and you're going to put it on that cupcake. And you're going to take yellow fondant and place it on top like that. Now the next step is to make our happy face. So what you want to do, always remember when you're not working with your fondant to take the leftover fondant and put it back in a bag so that you can keep it nice and elastic because it will dry out if you leave it out in the air for a long period of time. So now we're going to take our black fondant and we're going to work it a little bit to kind of get it elastic. And then we're going to take our rolling pin and we're going to roll about an eighth of an inch thick, roll our fondant out, pick it up, adjust it. Then you want to take it kind of smooth it out a little bit. You may have a few wrinkles so you can kind of take your hands and smooth it. And then using your circle cutter, this is a tip, but you can use this end as a circle. You're going to cut, you can take your finger and pop it out. Then you're going to cut another circle. That one stayed and that's fine. So you want to take these and you're going to just place them on the cupcake like this. So now we have our eyes and I'll show you how to make them stick. I like to put mine in position and then go back and glue them down as we would say. Now to do the mouth, we're going to smooth it out to kind of get those wrinkles out. We're going to take the other part of our circle cutter and we're going to cut a circle. So now we have our circle but we want to make a little happy face. So we're going to take this part of our tip and we're going to cut kind of a crescent out of that to make the happy face. Pick up your little happy face and put it on there like that. You can kind of tuck it a little bit and play with it to get it to look the way you want to. And now you've already made a happy face emoji cupcake. Now to get the happy face to stick to the fondant, we're going to take a little bit of water. Just a little, you don't want a lot but just a little bit and you're going to just stick those decorations back on that cupcake.  Now let's take a look at our next cupcake. This is going to be our heart emoji cupcake. Again you're going to take your fondant, you're going to work it, take you a little bit of icing, spread it on that cupcake and now we're going to roll our fondant out.  Okay, take your dessert cup and we're going to cut our circle and then we're going to take our cupcake, take that fondant and lay it on top like so. Okay, then the leftover fondant you want to take it and place it back in the bag to keep it from drying out. Now to do our hearts that's going to be super easy. Let's set that to the side and we're going to get our red fondant and we're going to roll out about an eighth of an inch. Then we're going to take our heart cutter and we're going to cut our hearts out. Now sometimes I like to use a toothpick to pick up those hearts or any decoration. We're putting a little bit of water on our fondant. We're going to take our little hearts and place them on the cupcake like so. Kind of position them so we got our hearts. Now we need to do the smile. So let's take our black fondant.  We're going to roll it out just like we did for our happy face emoji cupcake. We're going to take our circle cutter and we're going to cut that circle.  Sometimes you can kind of clip the edges just a little bit and you have your happy face heart emoji. Now we're going to make a rose to go on the top of our cupcake and we're going to be making a pink rose. Of course you can make any color that you like but we're going to use pink fondant today. So you want to take your fondant and you want to roll it out. Now when making flowers you want to try to get your fondant as thin as possible to start because the thinner it is the more realistic it looks.  Of course if you want it to be bigger you can just cut out more circles. Now we're going to start by just rolling our fondant out and then cutting out our circles. That one's trying to get away. So we've got nine circles cut. We're going to take our excess fondant and we're going to put it back in the bag. Now we have circles but we want to get those circles as thin as we possibly can. So you can take a plastic bag or you can use wax paper whatever you have at home. I've taken a bag, a gallon size bag and I just cut the ends off to kind of open it up. And I'm going to take those fondant circles and place them inside the bag. You can make a rose so many different ways. This is an easy way that I've learned to do it. But whatever works for you is absolutely fine. Kind of spread them out a little bit so you'll have a little room. And then we're going to close it down like this. And then now we're going to use our thumb to smooth out those edges so you can take your thumb and just kind of smooth out those edges a little bit. Try to get it as thin as you can. Now the reason for using a plastic bag is to keep the fondant from sticking. It's an easy way to kind of smooth out. Now they have all kinds of fondant tools that you can use to do this. But I can just use my finger. You can see how the circles are getting a little bit bigger as you smooth them out. Which means your rose, you're making rose petals right now. So you just kind of keep going. Just kind of smooth it out with your thumb. You got to press down a little hard too to kind of get it to smooth out for you. Awesome. So now we're going to take those open the bag up. Now we're going to take each one of those petals. We're going to start first by making the rose bud. So you're going to take that first petal and you're going to just wrap it around. Try to get it as tight as you can. Okay. Now you're going to take that next petal and starting right here. You're going to wrap that petal around that first rose bud. Then you take that next circle. Starting about a third of the way back. You're going to wrap it around. And you just keep going with those petals. Take your next one and then just wrap it. Come about a third of the way back and wrap it around. Now don't worry about the bottom getting really thick.  Come in a third of the way and you're going to wrap that petal around like that. And just keep going. Come back a third of the way and wrap that next petal. You can kind of fan it out a little bit if you need to. Feel like you got to kind of play with it. Then you take that next petal and third of the way and wrap it. And then take that next petal. Find the thinnest part. Come around and you're going to wrap it again. And the last petal.  And then kind of fluff it out a little bit to make it look realistic. And you have a rose that was made out of circles. How cool is that? Now the bottom is really big. So guess what? I just take it and pinch the bottom off like that. You've got your beautiful little rose.  That's your rose. Now I'm going to show you how to put it on the cupcake. Now to prepare our cupcake to put our rose we're going to cut a white circle so that that pink can show up really nicely. So we're just going to take some white fondant.  It's a little bit sticky. So I'm just going to take a little corn of powdered sugar or you can use corn starch.  Cut your circle just like we did with our emojis. And then preparing our cupcake we're going to take a little bit of icing. Put it on the cupcake to get that fondant to stick. And then place our white fondant on the cupcake. Now to get our fondant rose to stick to our cupcake we're just going to take a little bit of water and place it on the cupcake like this. And you have your rose cupcake just like that. So the last cupcake that we're going to learn how to do is a swirl cupcake using icing. And to do that you'll need a pastry bag, a star tip. Now a star tip they're all different kinds made by different companies but a star tip basically has these little spikes on it. And when you squeeze the icing out it makes a design. So I'm going to show you how to do that. And we're going to do a couple of designs using this star tip.  And then you want to push it down as much as you can until it stops. And then you want to mark it off about right there at the end of that little triangle.   So that's how you get your tip inside the bag. Now this is a little trick that may help you. So you take that cup and then you're going to take your icing and put it in the cup inside the bag. This kind of helps to keep your bag nice and clean and we're good to go. So now we're going to take that bag, pull it out of the cup and press that icing down. Let's move the glass out of the way.  To do a swirl. Let's get our cupcake and then we're going to start from the outside and we're going to squeeze and swirl the icing around until we come to the middle of the cupcake. So let's start from the outside and we're going to squeeze and wrap and then squeeze and build on top and then continue and then you get to the top, you stop squeezing and you pull away and you have your swirl cupcake.  So we're just going to dab it with some sprinkles and they're all over the table. And then we have our swirl cupcake. So today we've learned how to make emoji cupcakes. We learned how to make a rose on a cupcake and how to swirl icing on a cupcake.  If you did, you will have all of the tools that you need to make the cupcakes that we made today. If you were not able to sign up to get a cupcake kit, it's okay. You can go to your local craft store or department store and buy all of the supplies that you would need to create these decorations that we did today. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your local extension office or visit our website at www.aces.edu.