The following is a presentation of TFNN. Of the Power Trading Hour. Here? Oh, on and on and on. Oh, again, huh? Okay, give it up. Thanks. And welcome to another excellent edition of the Power Trading Hour. And it's always the same thing. It doesn't matter where you're at. What you're doing? What position you are in. It is time to be here. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. Let's put some lipstick on this pig. No, I don't think so, dude. That may be my day. I'm just guessing. Oh, I forgot to do that, too. Didn't I? Okay. And sometimes you got to remind me out there. So we'll go live with our chart out here. And the thought for the day. The swordfish has no natural predators to be afraid of except the penfish, which is thought to be mightier. I like that one. Anyway, we got a market and it's no real surprise. Is it kind of a one-note Johnny out here until we go out and test low 4100s on the S&P cash or 410 on the spies? I do not think we could possibly have a low end. A ton of earnings. Some good, some bad. And what else do we have? What are the spies at right now? 417. So not that far, much farther. Only seven points lower. And again, at that point, maybe you get it. So first thing to do, we want to do is start looking at the volume. And it's Friday a little lighter, but not light enough. If we had 5 billion here, I'd be looking for a bounce before the end of the day. Maybe we get a little one, but I don't think there's a whole lot. We've got 6.8 billion shares on the CBOE consolidated tape. If you are unfamiliar with this, I'll give you a link to it. Just email me at path at tfnn.com. And of course, what else do we have out here? The volume is a little lighter, but not light enough. As I said, you get this close to a previous low. It's kind of like a magnet. It's going to come back and get it, especially if you came down there with a lot of volume. Your odds are that much better. But I don't understand. I had a lot of folks send me some emails over the last, I don't know, four or five hours. One was, you didn't like the way that Amazon and Apple ran into earnings? You know, a long time ago, I think previous to maybe 2005 or six before they changed the laws. If you released data, there wasn't a lot of blowback. If you were the CEO, if you gave the heads up to some people in the hedge fund community that you liked and bought some favors from them, now you can end up in jail. So there aren't a lot of people that know a lot of stuff. Because if you're CEO and you're making 100 million a year, you really want to throw that away for a little bit of good faith from some fund manager? Not anymore. Back in the olden days, if you were making a million dollars a year, maybe back in 2005, maybe you could make an extra couple hundred grand on the side, giving a little nod to the head, a little thumb of the nose to somebody and let them know the jig is up or that they should be going long. That didn't happen much anymore, if at all. I remember they caught so many of those folks in the quote-quote expert game. The one guy, I guess, is back trading now.  Oh, for job applications.   But to actually get inside information by going after folks with phony job ads with something else, I think a handful of those folks went to jail. One guy lost a lot of his cash but he's back now, wasn't out. But you put a few people behind bars and, you know, does it still happen probably a little bit? But not that much. So if everybody starts selling off, I tend to think that someone believes something that someone told them by somebody else that it didn't originate with, the old telephone trick. So I didn't like that because there aren't a lot of leaks these days. If the, now the whole market went with it, got everybody sucked in. But am I predicting the end of the world? No. Am I predicting a break of 4100? No. This is one of the times where I talk about you should drive like, you should trade like you drive in fog. And that is just assume that you can't see as far as you think you can. You see about 25% as far in fog as you can in actual clear air. The problem, everybody believes in fog that they can still see the 100% that they can in clear air. So I don't have to make a decision until we see 4100 or 410 or so in the S&P cash. You got a lot of volume there that's going to take a lot to break it. Could we exceed it very shortly? And I think the answer is true. Now, we got a lot of confluence of events. On Monday, we really have kind of the first day of fun buying. You may even see a little bit of a markup. As I said before the end of the day, that's not uncommon. I'm not thinking you get a great deal. Let's keep an eye on it here. 417.11 is what I see, which is off to an half percent. But you get this close to a low. Just think of it as magnet or gravity. Can you put enough rockets on enough motors on a rocket to get it to go to the moon? You can. It's a lot tougher than to just go into orbit. So can you get a bounce on Monday? You can. But there's a great deal of things out there that I've had in my newsletter that suggests that we probably don't find a very credible low, I mean more than 24 hours, until maybe late next week.  I like all three allegories. But that's not it. Anyway, we've got a lot of emails here. We'll go through as many as we can. I haven't looked in the den here. Is there anything here? Sound breaking up. Hopefully sound is better now. Don't know. Nobody in the den saying much of anything. When we come back, we'll do a little history. We'll get into some charts. Look at what I've seen. That'll be when we return like a bad rat. Are you grinding in the market but seeing little to no return?  Learn to take the path of least resistance with David White's powerful trading newsletter. 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Down 2%, is that a real big deal? Are they still kind of the class in the field? Yes. Are they immune to especially what they have, and we talked about going into this, which is supply constraints and labor production constraints. Could you go below and bust 160 today? It depends on how ugly it gets, but they're going to hold it to 160, I think, as long as they can. That's on the downside. Could you see a lot of people covering their short positions? Yes, Apple probably has too many shorts in it already. One of the things I did see that made me not want to buy puts for today and not go a lot farther into something else was huge short selling in the last 15 minutes of the day yesterday. Generally, when you see that, you're going to get a bounce. The downside is, if you don't get a bounce, you're in real trouble. That means that you probably had a lot of people that were spot-on in shorting. It's going to be hard to get those folks to hop off of that anytime soon. I'm not seeing a whole lot out here until maybe Monday. Maybe you get a little bit of a tail out here into the close. You're probably going to get some kind of bounce on Monday, maybe Tuesday, but my guess is it's going to be a little bit. Then, we're going to go really attack that 410-4400 area on the S&P cash. Give me call today<PHONE_NUMBER>. Did I get everything out here? Okay, hopefully we got it. Why does it say something now? I've got something really weird going. There we go. Okay, hopefully we've got everything taken care of. See anything else? Okay. Okay. Yeah, I took the 287-50 puts this morning. What else did we have here? Great call holding tight on a bear stance against the bounce in the markets. Yesterday, I'm about holding puts. Okay. Do you have any information to show this is false? Please let me know. I've seen this kind of floating around. My guess is you're going to have to wait to know whether it's true or false into next year with some congressional investigations. But yeah, China is buying a huge amount of lithium and other rare earths in Afghanistan. And of course, our friends there in the Taliban will be spending that money. How much of that is corruption in the government? I do not know. But who knows? Maybe we'll know sooner than I think. Okay. Questions about other things going on? Let's do a little bit of history and then we'll move on. Yep, it's still short the rips and cover the dips. And I think that as long as the market continues to move lower, it's doing the job of the Fed and maybe a little less chance today that the Fed comes in and does a Pearl Harbor attack with higher interest rates. In 2004, the World War II Memorial opens up in Washington, D.C. to thousands of visitors providing overdue recognition for those 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the Second World War. The memorial is located at 7.4 acres on the former side of the Rainbow Pool, the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. The capital zone is seen to the east. Arlington Cemetery is just across the Potomac to the west. And of course, you've got to probably give a little tip of the hat to, of course, saving Private Ryan to kind of getting everybody to remember that just what everybody gave us and how weak and worthless we are today. But still a lot of great people in the military, even though they're trying to be forced off. But okay, what else out here? Let's get to the emails. First is natural gas. Do we have a double repo pattern that would set this up for a pullback into the summer and maybe a rebuy later on? You know, you've got a pretty good indication that this could come back to 15. What you don't have today is a lot of volume. Yesterday had 7.4 million shares today. You got about five. You need to close below the three by three. We don't have it. So this is not a prediction. You want to watch, but if you do close back below it. Pretty good indication that you're going to go back where it started. And my guess is that support comes in at about 1750 across the summer. No matter how much everybody yells and screams about natural gas. There's too much of it. A little bit too less now. But I think that's probably, I'm going to say August or September. Back there at $18 is probably where the next big run could get. And that next big run could go way above that next winter. Got an amber alert here. I can't turn those off. Bringing up XOM. I looked at that earlier this morning. I didn't see a lot of stuff. 85 was kind of looking at the low. What are we at here now? 85.72. So yeah. 85 on the close. I don't see a whole lot. You had a fairly nice setup in ExxonMobil with a garly pattern. Gave it up all fairly quickly. Came right back down to a gap. Attracted to support. You've got the bounce. A garly pattern, but it's an awful amount. 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No. But it's one of the few times we've had this in the last 10 years. Generally, the downsides have been on lighter volume if they've been on a lower amount of time. If you get a bounce, the problem you have to worry about is that it just jumps the creek and goes through and you finally get a lot of volume. What I would love is it come down, go through that number, break it, and then come back up and close above it and see some folks in there. Now, even that means that you're not going to be off to a V bottom. Generally, if you come down on any more energy or even the same energy, you probably want to hope for the best. And in that, you're thinking about maybe some consolidation and once that consolidation is in, you move higher. If this came back down on much lighter volume in this leg from March 29th into April 27th, I would be thinking a lot more of a V than a U bottom. So, yeah. I'm trying to remember what it was. Let me find it here. Because when you talk about hope, it always, there's not a day that goes by that I don't think about three or four times in trading about about Jesse Livermore's saying it's not that one. It's this one from Jesse Livermore. The successful trader must fight these two deep-seated instincts. He must reverse what you might call his natural impulses. Instead of hoping, he must fear. Instead of fearing, he must hope. He must fear his loss may develop into a much bigger loss and hope that his profit may become a much bigger profit. And that's kind of it. You've always got to have your emotions on the opposite side of the market to really protect yourself and be sure enough to be unsure. If you're 100% sure, you're probably on the wrong side. If you're not nervous a little bit, you're probably on the wrong side. So, just keep an eye on that. So, we've got that. Okay. A question on Disney. Is there any pie out here? The problem I'd have with Disney is the same problem I had years ago with Facebook and Google and the rest of these guys, and that is they've hitched their wagon to China and China's done the pretty much the Chinese Communists have done the same thing, which is they figure out everything these guys do and then put them on their way because at some point even though all these companies have horribly prostated themselves and done horrible things like Google and Facebook to try to stay in China eventually there is a bridge too far that even these folks won't do for the almighty dollar and that's it. So, you know what I'd love to see in Walt Disney and that is them getting kicked out of China then they probably would may find some kind of low but it doesn't matter what it is there's only a couple companies out there and I don't think Tesla is any different. These guys are all over there it is the proverbial scorpion on the back of the frog. Everybody wants to pretend that Russia is the big problem and it's not a small one but we have to know that more people are dying in slavery and everything else in China than they are in Ukraine but it's easy for us to focus on signs of war signs of evil especially in China a lot harder to see but all these companies at one time or another have covered for extreme wrongdoing and evil by China and have all eventually left China with their tail between their legs I think at least on Disney's part what I'm looking for is that everybody doesn't believe that there's some kind of huge 500 million subscriber share market that they're going to get from these guys that as soon as they got that successful China would find some way to do it and again the proverbial scorpion on the back of the frog why do you do it and it's because it's in my nature and I think a lot of people think especially smart reminds me of Die Hard remember the kind of oily guy with the beard who thought he could negotiate with the terrorists they all think that they're real smart much smarter than everybody else and the reality is you're dealing with pretty much the equivalent of the mob and just like another good movie reference out here that was good fellas they'll make you sign lots of papers for huge amounts of insurance and then fire bomb your place and make you give them money probably the best description of dealing with communists China as I can say Chinese people great people Chinese communists no different than Stalin's communists or Putin's communism or any of the rest of these places that are nothing more than thinly veiled mob hangouts across the country and and I'm more of a I'm somebody in the den brought up issues with Florida I think it's a pebble I think the big long term thing is do they have people leaving their subscription service the answer is yes and a lot of them lately there are no different than the rest of these folks that made a bunch of money in streaming during the lockdown and that's going lower they've got at least from the folks that look at this stuff which is mostly looking at internet traffic data it's fairly significantly down over the last month and it may have nothing to do with what's in the news headlines it may just be more of an issue with people seeing most of what's out there I think somebody else pointed out a pretty good they're wanting good stuff to watch and the one big thing that made Disney in streaming was of course the Mandalorian and the executives couldn't wait to get in there and screw it up and the question is is it third season we'll be back in a minute are you in the market for buying or selling real estate in the bay area including the surrounding St. Petersburg Tampa and Clearwater markets Tiger Real Estate LLC is a firm that has extensive experience in the Tampa Bay area whether you're looking to sell your current property for maximum value or you're in the market for a second home or investment property Tiger Realty has the experience across all areas of real estate in the Tampa Bay area to help buyers and sellers make the most informed decisions across all price levels from the price you should be paying per square foot in certain up and coming areas to the type of cash flow investment properties are capable of creating Tiger Real Estate can help you make the best decision when it comes to all areas of the market before you make one of the biggest decisions of your financial future call Tiger Real Estate LLC today at<PHONE_NUMBER> or email us at tiger at tfnn.com that's<PHONE_NUMBER> call us today the technology around us is changing every day with so much happening it can seem impossible to keep up with all the information David White's investment newsletter the Technology Insider is designed to give you all the information you need to understand the technology that shapes today's markets and tomorrow's future David White has made his living edge of technology his weekly newsletter will give you specific recommendations for value tech stocks as well as entry prices, target prices and stops to set for each trade Dave delivers his weekly newsletters every Friday with updates throughout the week you can get the Technology Insider at tfnn.com for only $37.50 Sign up for David's newsletter the Technology Insider and get an inside look at everything the technology sector has to offer try it risk free today with our 30-day money back guarantee tfnn educating investors Are China A shares hot or not? 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they hear 5 points away 6 points away from where I think we're going to find at least the first buyable low I do like headlines if you look at the dredge report first it went after the dollar yesterday today it's going after the markets and amazon and netflix and the rest generally we start seeing those headlines it didn't instantly I give it a couple of days but I got some other questions out here what do I think on amazon I think I said this earlier in the den I didn't like of course the way it was rolling up into earnings yesterday generally they're in the big leak out there I don't think it's a big surprise that both apple and amazon are having supply problems we've talked about it for a while generally in the stock market it doesn't matter until it matters and then it's the only thing that matters so we're probably going to see it we're also I've got a lot of stuff in my newsletter that says we're pretty close to low generally the last of the move is 20% of it it's about not quite 20% but almost double the losses in the last bit of a move than you would normally have so look for that I think we're going to have some big kind of push maybe it happens today maybe we could clean the decks off for monday which would be fine but just expect that you're going to have a big move you're going to have everybody do the wrong thing they're going to sell they're going to do everything else that's wrong and that's how you make money in the stock market by just looking at the mistakes that people have made the past because they're going to make the same mistakes in the future so that's it now another question out here about this would I be out at 280 on microsoft yes I've already got buys in for my puts to get out of them I don't want to be I'm not waiting for the last five minutes another excellent trade I know I'm always just one away from another one but as I say at the end of every show to remind myself sell when you can but that also means even when you're on the right side we're not playing chicken here you make a bunch of money take it don't be a pig as they always say there's those old chestnuts around the market are there for a reason they stand the test of time bulls make money bears make money and pigs get slaughtered so take your cash especially in the last week how many of these things have you sure that the bottom was in and that is the basis of a bear market and that is it's always offering the bulls something some little bit of scrap of hope until they get crushed in which case they lose their hope and their will and they sell and a bottom is in so let's look for that look for signs of people capitulating looking for signs of everybody wanting to go short I couldn't really get it in fact somebody brought it up in the den I couldn't find anybody or let me put it this way I couldn't find but a few people thinking about shorting and when everybody starts shorting generally it's time to reflect stop and reflect Mark Twain when everybody tends to agree with you it's time to stop and reflect but again we're probably going to have one of the first bear bottoms sounds bad we're going to have probably a bottom in a bear market for the first time and we've seen the kind of rips that you get in the top you're probably going to have a couple of opportunities to buy the low the first one is going to make you sick because it's going to go back and retest it the second one maybe on lighter volume in consolidation you're going to have your opportunity but as I've been saying for probably two or three or four weeks more than likely that first week of May comes with some level of either a lower high put into the market consolidation into the three day weekend taking you into Memorial Day is that right I always hate mixing up Memorial Day and Labor Day at the end of May anyway so we'll see that but yes we've got a bunch of questions out here yes I'd be out at 280 I'm not going to get greedy on the puts on Microsoft and no a lot of times there just isn't anything that I can do in a newsletter then tell you exactly where I'm headed before the market ever opens by the time 15 minutes goes by that's an eternity on options that expire on Friday what else do we have here I've got a couple more emails David I'm along the SQQQ and SDS would you close those now no you don't have to worry about them expiring really at the end of the day but would I close them at the close yes and I may close them I'd watch for the last 15 minutes of the day and if you kind of get in and you're real low that's probably good if you bounce before that you're probably going to get yet another sell off into the close and then I take the money at the close and neither one of those is going to give you 100% right but that's generally the way I trade it if it bounces early I stick with it if it bounces late and if it doesn't bounce until like a quarter till the close is generally well I close them out but yes I would be on the side of closing those out into fund buying on Monday you're going to get a bounce I don't know how big it's going to be and then my guess is everybody's going to reshort it but there's a long history if you go back and look in the charts of going into fund buying and getting everybody bearish right before they pop it for fund buying so yeah could we have another 100 points up on Monday in the S&Ps or Tuesday between the two yes and then I just suspect everybody's going to if we don't hit and test those lows first I think we're probably going to see everybody just reshort the market and you're going to get one more retest but you need a retest of that 4100 410 area 411 area on the S&P wise okay that got a couple more emails let's take a look wow I didn't know I can still get insurance on my 25 year old car okay bear bottom blue moon blue moon bottom the only thing you get from picking bottoms yeah yeah yeah safe nor hygienic okay lots of bear stuff in here so everybody's getting bearish and as I said at the very 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about trying to buy Amazon out here I think I covered it maybe I did earlier in the show and that is I suspect a great deal of people were chasing profits and probably hugely levered up in the hedge fund community on a dip down on a gap down like this with volume I would never consider about buying just you might be right this time but I doubt it the odds are against you that buying within three days of a big gap down is a smart idea you know if you're talking about a 15 minute chart and you're talking about getting a few bucks out of it I don't understand why you would go after Amazon there's probably easier trades out there but at the same time as I said wait for the margins to go through wait for three days I kind of always think of it as this way and that is what's a wait for it to tell tell you what to do and and I just don't touch them I don't do it I don't do it I don't do it and I paid a lot of money to learn to not do it so I'm not going to learn that lesson once again 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The way librarians work, the way our roles. I am a teacher so as a teacher as you know it's just an amazing and exciting time to be you know dealing with any kind of information and knowledge. So I'd like you to think for a moment at the library or resource center you work at what are your main roles? Can you just add to the text chat area please? What do you have to do? What are your main roles there? Can you just feel out to my the blank space there? I have two I do like and I get some answers from you oh so yes I can see 30 uh-huh what else uh-huh so web designer what kind of roles do you have like uh the audio is terrible if I get closer here is it better now? Okay so um if you think of libraries nowadays and in resource centers we have to consider that reference work for sure yeah so um librarians today have so many different oh you can't hear that with everybody guys can you just tell me about the the audio because it seems to be working fine but some people are saying oh okay yeah so you might some of you might have problems with your own computers maybe if you put like uh your phones it might help okay so um librarians in fact if you consider what they have to do there there are so many things like and so many things that go beyond uh you know cataloging books and referencing and all that so you have to participate in webinars you we are designing connecting we are uh encouraging and and also um a key word here is curating yeah we are all the time uh selecting materials few filtering materials for um our users and all besides that the main thing is learning yes we are in a time that our roles change all the time and we really need to consider not just that our users are learning with us at the libraries but we are learning all the time and um in this sense yes people are talking in this sense more than ever before uh libraries become a space for connections they've always been a place for connections but I think nowadays these connections go to the next level yeah it's not just connecting people it's connecting ideas it's connecting the brain yeah because the kind of activities that we can develop at a library or at a resource center are so um engaging there are so many possibilities that uh we need to consider that it's not just a place for physical connections but it's a place where we are connecting our brains we are uh the digital part as well has become a strong part of it and there is a researcher that mentioned that the library can multiply the entry points and pathways for kids to find enrichment opportunities of all types based on their interests so we are the guides for them uh to really invest in their own interests yeah and there are so many ways we can do that one of the ways we found here is um by adding ipads to our uh libraries and in this project our main point was not only to uh have more students coming into the library so that through the the ipads and alluring them uh through the use of ipads they would certainly be interested what was around them not just in the ipad so it is a chance it is like an entry point we realized that the ipad mainly if we are talking about kids and teenagers it could be an entry point for them to be interested in reading in getting a physical book and all that besides all the excitement we have through the digital media so here at uh Kazasomas Jefferson we um created this project called the smart station and we now have ipads and you can see here that our kids and we have those ipads in the classroom and then um it's not just you know it's going beyond the classroom to the smart stations that they can find in the library so it is like an extension of what the teacher is doing in the classroom and uh what we uh in the beginning what we felt was that some librarians were really worried about the implementation because they said oh it's too dangerous because you know they're gonna break the ipad or they are gonna need to use the ipad and what we see here um in fact is that uh students are collaborating they're playing together and they are discovering things through the apps in the ipad uh all the time they are discovering a whole new world through the digital media that we offer in in the resource centers there so uh the the main points that uh the librarians uh the main issue that they were concerned about didn't really come true and in fact one issue that we faced during the implementation stage that we didn't consider was um was the the security of the students because when they had break time or after class or or you know just before their classes they would run through the school to get to the resource center so this was something that we haven't considered when we were implementing so we need to ask them to calm down to walk instead of running you know in our ales and and all that now how did we start the process in fact we were already using uh ipad in the classroom so we didn't even consider the the issue about being you know ios or android uh tablet but this is something you might consider in our case our main issue was the kind of ipad we were going to get and one thing that we always considered consider um one thing that we considered for this project was that we needed the one that had the most space available so nowadays we have the ones with 128 um gig yet why because of the apps that we are going to add and they they tend to become uh you know they tend to use more and more space another point that we have to take into account is the security of the ipad or any tablet that to decide to use so how are you gonna if we if we go back you are gonna see that can you see that there are some cables there what we decided to do is to have a case that it has a security lock through the table so we had to make a hole in the tables so that it could run properly yeah and the fun part is to choose the apps this is something that it took me a while we have many references and you you were going to get all of those you can check our own ipad directory so feel free to use if you are considering uh implementing uh this kind of project in your school so um in terms of apps what we considered there was to have you know the same kind of thing that we have for the american space the same framework so the main idea was to have um play collaboration reference yeah so these were the kinds of apps that we were looking for in production as well so um reading so books um think that students could create things uh like iMovie and so creative apps apps for production and also apps for reference yeah so these were the main things that we we decided to use and then we divided in different folders okay and you can have our directory with all the apps that we installed in our um ipads here another part of the implementation an important one is to establish the routine and uh in establishing the routine some librarians tended to have a more uh you know controlling attitude like saying that oh students couldn't open this or that we went for a more open framework in this sense we had social media apps as well because this is also reference we had all kinds of uh we had games uh because we we don't consider our place to be a silent place anymore uh in the past like libraries should really be a very silent quiet place this is not the concept that we have here anymore the library the reason that's why we also moved from the idea of a library to a resource center so this space that we have just below me here is a place for uh you know interaction and community so we can't expect that to be silent all the time yeah now another big issue in the in the implementation of this project was a training library test this is one of the the one thing that we really need to consider and librarians should feel comfortable in playing around with the apps and you know giving suggestions to students and you know interacting with the the the device and the human part of it yeah and another big point was observing and adapting so I went around the school branches because we are divided we have many schools we have different schools around town around brazilia so I went around and observed and and also I can see downstairs the kids here what they are doing so from this observation then we could notice the things that we needed to adapt in terms of you know routines and rules and all that another point was that we realized that we needed uh not only the ipad but also the the headset as well and the headset stays in the count uh staying the counter with the librarians and the students ask for them and they they sign like a paper and then hand it back to to the librarian so from observing uh how things work we could really manage to normalize this routine for for the project and the program another point in relation to that is in in this still in the implementation area is making librarians become part of the project it's not just training them but making them feel comfortable with with this this part of you know all this change in mindset really because it's a change in paradigm it's not that you're going to have like uh you know a quiet room you need to walk around much more than you did in the past because you need to know what the kids are doing and one big thing also is to have the like to uh you need to have the metrics so one important part of the project is also to check the the app that the students are using like knowing which one is really popular which one is being underused so that you can offer to them so that they can they can check it out checking the levels a proficiency level of the student to uh you know to refer for example to a book or or maybe an adult user yes showing the adult user like some of the productivity apps that we have so all of that is part of the implementation and mainly part of the observation part to adapt to this new reality now of course that's any new project any new program comes with uh some challenges yeah but before I move on to the challenges we have been facing and we face I'd like to ask you in the chat area if you have any questions about the implementation part do you have any questions can you write them down in the in the text chat box there it would be more than glad to answer any questions about this part like uh you know anything you want to ask about uh I don't know from choosing the iPad models to you know the app very clear yeah you have any questions in relation to any of the the points there about the implementation another point that I want to make and this is uh hard well I I'll go through the challenges but if you have any questions please feel free to uh ask them in the text chat box and and I'll be glad to answer you but in terms of challenges um of course you uh the training part is we have different degrees of and levels of digital proficiency in terms of our uh librarians and like the staff so it's always a challenge training is never enough it needs to be ongoing um and it's not easy to have like those sessions uh another point is uh breaking old parada and also in in relation to training I I would like to make a point in the sense that it's not just training but multiplying these new skills that we we need to develop through the the the staff yes in a way that everybody knows what he or she is doing um this is of course a challenge in any human resource program uh but it's something we need to really um have this and it's not only training but but developing the the the leadership in terms of multiplying these ideas throughout the the the staff through uh within the staff not throughout within the staff now another point is uh breaking old paradigms um we need to rethink our roles and as I was pointing out it's not just about landing books anymore it it's really like you have so many other roles that uh with this digital era that is sometimes overwhelming and it's not easy to adapt of course uh we need some time to let it sink in um together with all that um team involvement is an issue because we really need to work with them and by breaking old paradigms and then you know having everybody together and understanding this bigger project because um this ipad project um we started because of uh the american space here um at the school branch that I work at uh this this building became a role model which is the the american space and then um it is a bigger it is this ipad project fits it's within this framework of the american space of collaboration surprise community yeah and uh one another aspect of this of this whole project and I think it's great it uh to have the team thinking outside the box what can I do with those ipads it's not just you know uh putting them there and letting them the users use can I do something different would you do something different that's the main point so um within this breaking the paradigm issue what we really want is going from just users of the the resource center space to smart users this is a space where students and and this is our main goal now is to help students develop their 21st century skills in the libraries and um it it then we need to connect uh the classroom the teachers even more to the libraries we need to work together with teachers and this is still breaking the paradigm uh we are a language school I know that in in in schools in general this relationship is closer but generally when we think about um libraries uh in a in a language school I have the feeling that it works differently uh in the sense that um you know librarians are there to give support to the teachers and to the work that they do in class but sometimes there is this distance so it's a matter of making the relationship even stronger and closer and to for a main purpose which is to turn our students into smart users of the resource centers yes and the resources that they have at the libraries this is the main thing um I think as I as I told you in the beginning of the session I think this is a very exciting time to be uh working at any library around the world and there it is full of opportunities for anybody there as and for even for me yeah I would never imagine that being a teacher I would be so involved in projects related to to the libraries and this is really exciting so um the main opportunity here is that we can repurpose and we can reinvent our own professions as librarians for example yes and I think this is really uh fantastic because then it's it's an exciting job you can do you can you know use your creativity you can see the results in the students and in what they can do in their interest and all that another thing in relation to opportunities it's that the library is more and more they become a space for production rather than just consumption kids can go there now we've always we've always done that like uh having uh librarians preparing like workshops and you know fun shops and all that but now it is even more exciting because it's production not just handcraft and uh but also like digital production uh students can create tons of things just by using the ipad yeah they can be dj's movie makers and all kinds of exciting things that they want to be and they want to try out um and of course there is the main point of having more visitors in in our libraries and resource centers uh it means that we are going to bring even more of this community to our spaces because they become like lively exciting places to be this is the place imagine when i was younger i i loved the library and it was just filled up with books and now i have books i have librarians that can help me and they did in the past but now like with other things that i couldn't even imagine some years ago so it's really exciting and then you can have more visits to the resource centers and uh there is this opportunity of engaging with the resources because i'm talking here about ipad but it could be games it could be you know all kinds of resources that we can dream of and we can have in our libraries um libraries become a space of play and discovery and fun and one opportunity we have is to get closer to teachers and work in partnership as i mentioned before to develop this 21st century skills another point and related to what i said before in terms of rethinking uh librarian roles is really a new opportunity for professional development and now we have so many webinars just like this one here and um we can be learning new things every single day through you know online courses and webinars and self-driven learning based on our interests yeah because uh we have the books and we have a limit a physical limit of how many books we can add to a library but now with the digital part we can add as many resources we can dream of and we can really enhance and spark students curiosity and work on their own interests and all that in many different ways now in terms of the next step the next steps like what the future holds we are now in this moving transitioning from this period of adaptation for everybody there is this moment where it's new everything is new for everybody and it's still normalizing we are still uh like librarians are getting used to all the apps that we have to all the movements and all that but the next step is really going beyond just you know leaving leaving the ipad there for the students to use we need to be more proactive in the sense that we can offer students workshops related to the digital tools so one thing that we started developing and it's really really cool is going from users to smart users but these smart users they are producers they are makers and in this sense we started with this app and we we the tendency now is to move on and try out other apps but the idea is that uh librarians are going to help the students to become producers and in this sense here we have this app called TinyTap yeah i just wrote in the in the fact set area and TinyTap is an app and it's also web based so you can go uh to the web their website and you'll find lots of games the fun part now in that the students can create the games and we have made some like for younger students now the point is the opposite not we doing the things but students doing uh and and producing and making their own games yeah so it's really making them uh produce things and enhance their digital skills and in this sense librarians are helping a lot yes they are partnering up with the students with the students now with the teachers and they are starting to uh make games this is just the beginning it's like a seed but it's already starts starting to happen and we plan to move on in terms of uh having the resource center as a space for creation so um another point is that we started uh with uh some ipads we are increasing the number of ipads we had only four in every school library now it's going to be more here at the school that i work at because it's an american space and uh with the increased number of ipads it's not about the device really it's about deepening this library experience like having the students love to be at the library that's the main point yes and making a space for learning all kinds of learning it has always been like that but i think now it's amplified with all these digital tools that we have so what i feel is that more and more students and younger ones are visiting our library and um i hope to see soon the the statistics for that and this is very important the metrics because we can only manage what we measure and um and then i can see that there is this excitement around in terms of what the libraries can really become and what this library experience can become yeah so this is our main thing according to the idea book for the american spaces library should be a place for exploration collaboration and surprises yes and this is what we need to uh aim for yeah how can we surprise how how can it be a place for discovery how can uh students feel like oh no i need to be there at the library yeah and uh i'm sharing here a site that we created for our staff and where we share resources for them and with them yeah and in the future we really want them to even contribute to the place so we talk about many different things here and uh you might want to check it out i'm writing it in the text chat area and we have just started this blog and this is the place where we are keeping our uh our journey yeah like the resources and uh you know uh cool things that we find around you'll see that uh some things are written in portuguese others in english yeah but um i think you can get an idea of what you can do so in terms of next steps we need to deepen this library experience we need to keep training and it's not just training it's some ongoing professional development thing and in this sense uh the blog can really help us yeah and um that's what we are really looking for and something that i really um agree with is the fact that the more we embed ourselves in the learning process like in the learning process of getting this you know moving getting this idea going you know the the ipad idea in the in the resource sentences and we are learning together really because uh we had no idea a year ago that we would have this kind of situation is that um the more we learn from the process the more relevant the library will be um books will not disappear i think uh what is exciting now is to have the physical world together with the digital world to make learning even more powerful and to make uh those spaces even more exciting for our users and our students to be so um i'm sharing with you there uh this reference bitly.com slash cpj library and there you will find the resources that we've been sharing around and the apps directory yeah i think it might be a good start if you are considering something like that in your schools now i'm open to any questions you might have if you have some questions you can write in the text chat area or i don't know nita if they can use their microphone so i'll be here waiting for your questions and you know any comments you want to make and if you i don't know maybe you could tell us a little bit about your own experience so you have this kind of situation in your libraries like the ipad or tablets what kind of digital resources you you have besides you know computers for example oh that's a great question about kindle uh kindle they're great and well i didn't mention that because the focus was uh uh the focus was on ipad for this presentation but we have just acquired some some uh kindles and they're great uh i mean uh having kindles and and giving them like lending them to uh to to the the public in general is just uh fantastic i think it's it's just great um kindles are much cheaper um and uh well i have a kindle and an ipad and i feel that reading in a kindle the experience of reading in a kindle is even better yes in terms of your eyesight it's not so we don't get so tired and all that but um um what we are now deciding in relation to kindles is how we are going to feed them in terms of books there uh because there is a limitation in terms it depends on the the publisher and for example with the ipad what we do we mirror all the ipads in one account so we mirror all the apps and folders in every single ipad with kindles what we notice is that we are going to feed them with um books but then probably we are going to have different kindles with different books that's what we are figuring out and i think it's going to work and then for every kindle we are going to have a different directory of books that they hold yeah so uh i think they're great and i think uh students will love that we love to have the kindle experience but now of course that in this case the kindle would be a different experience because then they would take home yeah any other questions comments and uh i'll leave oh you have my contact there uh if you have any questions how many ebooks that's a great question how many ebooks do i have i have no idea uh the point is um we have what what we have is um we have kids we try to cater for our public and we have kids, teenagers and adults so what we did we we had many ebooks for kids many of those cute ebooks for kids you know and there is a series it's called the crowd the crowds uh it's it's um nosy crowd yes thank you fabrice is just beside me and he is the one who helps me a lot and nosy crowd if you search for that in your ipads you'll see that their ebooks are just amazing amazing they're more expensive than they generally tend to be but they are worth every dime and um so this is one case so i don't know how many books we have we have many now another thing that we have in the ipad is we loaded some free ebooks in the the shelves in the i book area okay so we have some books there in the i book area also we we have a subscription for the tag talk books i don't know if you know uh do you know uh tag which is like uh those talks that we have those 18 15 18 minute talks yes the tag dot com the talks there some of the talks become books and they are very thin books and very easy to read books so what we did we had a subscription for these books we have a special app for that and we can with this subscription we can download all the books for all ipad so um this is really uh good yeah um and i think yeah and well we have kindle in the kindle app in our um ipad so we can also download books from from amazon so the ones that are in the kindle set we can add to um our kindle account as well so there are many what we try to do in relation to the money we try to uh have some budget for like for six months and we plan uh in terms of buying ebooks and apps that will make available for the users any other questions so if there are no more questions i think uh we can move on and keep working i don't know what time it is for you guys but i still have some hours here to work and uh well as i mentioned before feel free to contact me i'm around if you are thinking of implementing your ipad or tablet program or you know any questions we are around i'm glad to help you okay thank you for the opportunity here that you gave me the people at the irc in brazilia they were very helpful um great to have people from costa rica i've seen some from colombia that's amazing so thank you for for the opportunity and and i hope to hear from you what you are doing in your countries and in your library thank you ecuador mexico oh fun colitiba that's fun people from all over that's great thank you nika for the support okay so bye bye and have a great day bye nika


Wow thanks for showing up here. I like to present you a project. It came out after doing many one-off projects, so in a way it's like an attempt to make the ultimate framework. But first let's have a look at what people in DIY audio are doing. When you look around here and people do audio they make analog circuits or they modify existing circuits called circuit bending like you have to speak and spell they modify it and two different things or they make MIDI controllers as an extension of their laptop to have a new way to control it. That's our really nice one. We did MIDI controller yesterday around here and then there is people doing sound with 8-bit microcontrollers I mean like going like sort of hybrid topology making like digital pulses from software and using the pulses as sound and then there is real embedded digital single processing that means you're not dealing with just pulses but accurate measurements and time domain processing in a digital world that could create just any waveform not limited to square waves or chiptunes. There's very few digital single processing in DIY happening because it needs quite a setup. This is what digital single processing is about so you have sound inputs you convert it from analog from a continuous waveform to digital numbers at certain at the regular time intervals and then you have a processor which runs some sort of software can be controlled from MIDI or from the front panel with knobs and dials and at some point it can go back to analog sound. A computer can do this actually very well. There's lots of software around open source close source for every taste and it's sort of crowded in this field so there's software synthesizer that emulates old analog machines or new things that were impossible to recreate to create with analog machines. It's very crowded. Apparently if you go to a music instrument store there's still a lot of dedicated hardware. People like to play a dedicated instrument because it's plug-and-play you just turn it on and it always works. It's not designed for office work and it will not show you email notifications. It's really quite distracting if you do a jam session with friends and you work with laptops often something that sort of pops up or you updated something and you start like testing things rather than playing. So I designed some hardware. That is exactly this analog to digital converter and digital to analog and a processor. So you see like stereo input stereo output, headphone jack, a USB port for computer connection, a slot for SD card and MIDI inputs, MIDI outputs. It's like it's very similar as what is inside the things you can buy in a music instrument store because if you would take these things apart you will see that the inside is sort of similar. It just makes a lot of products differentiated by the shape, the number of knobs and the color of the plastic and the firmware running on it. And I didn't do the knobs and the plastic. So there's front side connectors and then on the back end there is like general purpose inputs and outputs that allow you to connect almost anything. A bit similar like Arduino. It's really not limited to knobs and dials. You can also do servo motors or accelerometers or lights and series, whatever you can think of. It's more like circuit bending as a goal than as an afterthought or as a not. So to get this thing talking we need to develop some digital single processing firmware that breaks apart sort of in an audio input-output driver, a MIDI input-output driver, other input outputs for front panel knobs and dials. And then you make any combination of digital single processing algorithms like oscillators, filters, envelopes and then you have to map the parameters to control it somehow and some bookkeeping to load new presets or things. It's not the first time that open source embedded ESP solutions have been developed. But they didn't really reach critical mass. I think programming DSP can be sort of complex. There is not mathematics involved. For example you have to make trade-offs between execution speed and quality. For instance the standard CMAT library is for sort of limited use. It's made for mathematical precision and sometimes you really want to go much faster than that. It's not because you could edit or add DSP algorithms to firmware that someone will do so. Now I'm going to make a little switch to what's out there in software, in pure software without going to hardware. There is several data flow oriented programming languages. The open source, the main open source one is pure data. So there's a program where you select objects, you put them on the screen, you configure them and you put wires between inputs and outputs and this turns into a program. You document as a program, so it's a sort of programming language. There's a commercial friend called Max and they have a similar syntax and grammar. The nice thing about graphical programming is that you don't need to, you can't make errors against syntax or grammar because you choose your objects. You don't have to really type code. You can only make errors against logic. The punishment of making an error is much smaller. You don't get a compiler saying like I don't understand that. It will just do something and it's up to you to make it to the right thing. So with this low punishment of experiments it's very accessible to artists and musicians. So around both languages there is quite a field of, quite a community of artists developing all sort of things. It's a graphical programming language. It's not, I wouldn't say it's a complete graphic, it's not a complete programming language. I wouldn't implement a quick sort in any of these by patching things around. That really gets awkward. But single processing is really about regular data, regular intervals and then the execution part of the code is really boring. It's really linear. Both environments depend on objects already are loaded as dynamic loaded libraries. So at runtime it needs to dispatch function calls from to DLLs. Which implies a huge overhead if an object just needs to add to inputs together. So the processor needs to make an indirect jump, save the context, add and then restore the context. While this probably could have been one instruction in optimal code. So let's try to make editing firmware similarly as easy as possible. So I wanted to make a graphical dataflow programming environment for firmware that does not expose command line tools, does not expose C++ code unless you would want to and ease in the compile, upload and run cycle. So that was the first version of the sort of the architecture. So on your computer you would run a program, the axlotypatcher. This one has like a library of objects you could put on the screen, wire them up and now the software would generate code, compile it and upload it. And then this is the axlotycore, that's the board. Yeah, we have the camera at the wrong place. Could someone put the camera over here? So after uploading you have the axlotycore program to the right firmware, you can do sound IO, MIDI IO and turn on purpose IO and after flashing you just turn it on and you can play.  So this is an empty document and I double click I get the object library. I have like a linear catalog, an alphabetic catalog of objects. We also have like a hierarchy of categories which makes it easier to search. You can also start typing a name until like find the best match. So I start with, as an example, with saututwafe. This selects saututwafe oscillator, saututwafe is like a linear ramp, periodically repeated. So let's have a look at the anatomy of this object. It has like an input on the left. The blue color is a data type. This means it's from modulation, control voltage. Like it's for slow changes, not suitable for audio quality, but good enough for changes over time. And then there is a red data type, an output on the right. Both have indication plus minus means that they're like bipolar. And then there's a dial where you can adjust the frequency. I tried to make it as user-friendly as possible. So at the zero position it would give a certain value in hertz. Musicians want to read the name of the note. That's one click away and you also get the factor compared to the middle value. So if I would put the dial on at 12, I can just type 12, you see that the ratio is times two. So 12 semitones in music corresponds with a double frequency. And at the same time you can also wonder if with seven semitones corresponds with almost one and a half, which almost directly shows how harmony works in music. So to listen to the oscillator, I have to add... I take a volume control just to be safe with the sound system. I have a multiply object here, multiply with a constant. So this is a dial to adjust the constant. But I created a blue object, I mean blue input, blue output. But similar like you have function overloading in C++, this object will upgrade to a red one. Because it sees, oh, you give me red input and there is a red implementation of this object as well.  So the first version was this, you press a button and it will generate C++ code and it would be uploaded to the target. And if everything works, can you turn the volume up a bit? Oh, I unplugged something. Turn it down first, please, the external input. Okay, so here you see that you already get a working system. I'm actually jumping in my presentation. Because version one was just you make a chart with your program and it would run that. Version two was about making the changes interactive. So after generating C++ code, compiling it doing the upload, make it also instrumented that you can change parameters on the fly. So that you don't need to go to recompile and re-upload cycle for just adjusting a number. And it also goes the other way around. So you see two level meters here that will also read back from the code and show you the actual volume level. So no critical audio computation is going on on my laptop. It's the firmware that is compiled and uploaded that is talking with the user interface after it's running. Okay, we have a little loss later and I can turn this very easily into a music keyboard. If I take a keyboard object and the keyboard object has an output for the note that's being played and there's a gate output that will indicate when a key is pressed or not. It's very similar in reasoning as old, well they still made analog synthesizers, analog model synthesizers. You have like machines where you have like, it's a bit similar to this but every every object is like a circuit and you interconnect them with patch cables. To grow up to a playable thing I have to modify the volume depending on the gate. The yellow cable type is a bullion on or off but that also can convert into a blue one. That doesn't need to be a substitution object that has a yellow input because there's a conversion rule from yellow to blue. So I turn that on and I take a virtual keyboard. Oh volume is still at zero. So we have a playable system. I thought five objects would be a better minimum to get a playable system. But it can grow quite a bit. Let's go into, I'll take a little organ patch, organ, organ, organ. Just like a sort of, one of the problems if you want to play music you don't want to be limited to one key because well some instruments do for some instruments it's reasonable but for an organ it's not reasonable. But if you want to express that in a patch it's sort of awkward. If you would have to wire up 12 or 16 different oscillators and parts for if you want to play different keys. So I made a way to use one document as an object into another one. So actually this object comes from this patch. This document has like magic objects. It's called an outlet object that represents an output on the generated object that corresponds with it. Also here there's a little, the red output and inside it just uses a keyboard object like I showed in the beginning. So that's the child patch. And then on top I asked, now give me 12 voices of that and just arrange it. But I also wanted to show that inside this object some parameters have like an attribute. It's called parameter on parent. So the parameters with this flag set there are promoted to the object corresponding with the inside object. So that's 12 voices of a certain architecture to play one organ pipe or something. So this is just a matter of combining elements and adding objects to the library up to currently I think there's over 400 objects serving different purposes. And it seems to be that's like the critical minimum, critical minimum sort of being reached that you can start doing stuff without having to write another object for a certain purpose. Let me show you something that if you're used to Arduino or things that might give it a different look. What I did on this setup is wire a potentiometer to analog input. So it's just a regular voltage divider. So yeah, like this. So it takes power supply, ground and fits that into the potentiometer and gets back the analog input. So instead of an Arduino people learn to write like a function call called analog read. In my environment is called GPIO in slash analog. And I select the channel where it is connected to. And in Arduino people learn how to print numbers to a console and read the numbers that fly over there. Here I can have a little chart plotter or a dial or or a numerical readout. No, it's already in the dial. I don't need that. So I turn it up. You see it's instrumented. You don't have to watch the flying numbers. You can just fly the oscilloscope on screen. So I think that's more, that's quite a bit more learnable than writing the same thing in C and getting a terminal with numbers flying by. In the same world you can also do PWM to drive a stepper motor or dim LEDs or to SPI or I2C. As a final demo I take a bit of, well I'm not really, I'm not really a musician, although I sometimes enjoy playing something. So on top there is like a little, this is a metronome, a square wave generated at one at five hertz. That means 240 bpm and it's divided in steps. So it's not really 240 bpm. And then like a counter that counts to 16. If the counter does a carry, it does not count. That will count to four. When that does a carry, also something else will happen. And then there are steps and patterns and oscillators and generators and stuff. But at all I would like to make a modification to this document, otherwise it's so boring. I take this GPIO in analog objects and I have like this little two-channel mixer to recombine influences. Quickly, no I just skip the analog inputs just for the time and I press live.  These are no samples, no samples involved, it's just all algorithms. That means you have a lot of flexibility. It's a very nice demo. I'm afraid we don't have time for questions and answers right now, but if you're interested in Johannes' work then just come up to him right after the talk and maybe find a place to meet somewhere. So please give him a round of applause.


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