We uh We got rid of the monthly which is really nice guys. Oh man. No more We had so I mean We're focused on quality and not Quantity Because it really takes more than a month to learn to trade guys So those that don't have an opportunity to join the mothering will all save up for when you can't afford it. So Market is crazy guys Okay, let's start some Give me a minute or so All right, guys. The first thing we do is this we want to talk about the map So I'm gonna bring Alex on and he's gonna announce the map winners. So what the map? So let me let me bring Alex on while I explain what's going on with the map So we are loving we are loving the fact that there's no more Because hey, what's up, bro? What's up?  I am back from back in paradise Good. So how's your trip man? You want to tell me? It was good, bro. It was good. It was nice small therapy trip to Miami. I had a friend's birthday But you were talking about the map program, bro You want to explain that while I kind of pull up the winners. Yep. So we have this so we started around What man has long been the thousand almost four years now? Three and a half years like that. It feels like 30 years So we started we wanted to Create a different environment than everybody else We're this is not a dictatorship where we stop people from talking the whole intent is to create a true trading community Where members help other members because there's no way that Anybody can police thousands of people in a chat room You have to police yourself. You have to be a good system same concept as Society right like America is not chaotic. You need policing Unfortunately, you need policing but for us we like to police ourselves and this is why we only want good quality people in MIC that's why we we actually kicked out a lot of people lately and that's what Started us to get rid of the monthly because the people that were troublemakers were the guys that got in on the $99 and they just Where's the Lambo? I'm here.  You know, they just cause trouble They are not serious guys and so the members didn't like it. We didn't like it So we said screw this so we said we got rid of the monthly which worked out great We may have less members, but it doesn't matter, right? It's all about the quality. So Every quarter we'd like you to give back being nominate To give appreciation to our members because there's no way we can ever run a community this big without True members helping other members including moderators. We have like how many moderators now 22. Yeah over 20 moderators So how many other rooms out there has 22 moderators guys? I mean other rooms actually answers your questions. I seriously do how many rooms are doing these lives every week Sometimes we how many webinars we have a week now? Oh my god We have oh we have Monday Alex YouTube video Tuesday about Instagram Tuesday large-cap webinar Wednesday new member webinar Thursday strategy webinar and then Saturday's weekend mentoring Yeah, people want to say we have options a large cap too. So well as you can see man What was it in this big you remember Alice when we started out like we have to have a ratio between moderators and Yep, so it works out nice, right? So so we wanted to give back to our members and part of it is called the math the member appreciation program So we started this way back three and a half years ago and it's still running strong. We do this around every quarter Yeah, but sure get the matter. Yeah, actually, I do have a game. Listen. Let me go into my closet. Let me grab it Pretty cool guys. I mean we we we love our members. I mean our members are based. We are members That's that's the whole thing. This is not dictatorship guys Are members of the same community that you guys are in so this is our Map shirt it says MIC member appreciation program with like charts and lines and everything and Usually what we do is on the shoulder here We put your MIC on the shoulder We put your MIC username so every single shirt is custom not one shirt will be like the other and we like to do Especially so that when the people are wearing these shirts that is special and unique So basically guys what we do with this member appreciation programs every quarter We like to reward members that are helping other members which entices our community to get better We nominate about 20 to 25 people every single quarter and if you Didn't get nominated it doesn't mean that we didn't recognize you it doesn't mean that we don't like you It doesn't mean anything like that It just means that you know, you're gonna probably do recognize on the next map So this map guys, I'm gonna post it in MIC right now These winners of the member appreciation program be on a lookout for a DM from our moderator Oliver Tann He's gonna get your information and send you a bunch of Map shirts for free. So let me just kind of post this here. These are the map winners guys It's girls trade to Xander Christopher Lee a Keem, ALA Joe, Angelo J trigger trade archer Twin one twin two Tyler Brock sly Selena Pima two-way trader Poldo Tony Tony S FOMO sapien Investored Steven Tay an edge trader guys So every single quarter guys, we like to reward members and these are nominated by the members themselves So the members help to nominate other members because you know, we don't see what happens in the DMs We don't see what happens in the private messages. So Oftentimes there's moderators and members helping each other and you know, it kind of just makes the overall environment good So that is basically our map program. That is our member appreciation program in the past other people Try to copy this they did it one time and no surprise They never did it again because they don't care guys. We do this because we care We don't make money on clothing We lose money on this stuff and any residual money we donate to charity but this is kind of our way of rewarding our members and our way of You know helping our community get better, you know, we have a bunch of members in our family We our team is big our moderators are big and it takes an army to run this thing guys So we just want to be able to help those people. If you didn't get it means you might have gotten in the past Correct. So we might have staged out otherwise the same guys will get it every time, right? and um And so does it doesn't mean that we don't appreciate you that it just means that you know man, you might get it next time You know exactly and if you think there's someone that should be nominated that wasn't to send me a DM I will review it with our moderators and if it does make sense. We will make an exception guys Did we give out total balance how many let me actually just count real quick 21 Not bad. Okay.   You want to talk about the two guys? Yeah, so we have chris league that was nominated for a junior moderator and joe angelo these guys are Really exemplary examples of just helping members every single day guys, you know we For all the moderators and our entire team that we have and how big we do, you know Bow and I I swear to god we do is 24 seven and we do is so much that I have no time to Hang out with my friends. I have no time to hang out with my family If I am not training or if I'm not doing m i c I'm probably asleep guys So there's only so much that we could do ourselves. There's only so much time in the day and having our moderators having our junior moderators having their members be able to contribute from the Lessons they've learned and send the elevator back down is almost priceless guys, you know, we are trying to build a community We're trying to build a family, you know, covet through down our meetups We haven't been able to have a meetup in a very long time and you know, once things kind of ease over You know, we plan on having meetups again. We plan on doing everything You know training is a very lonely business. It's a very lonely job And we started m i c to kind of meet traders and connect with traders and You know, here we are three and a half years later still doing what we sought out to do on our very first day Correct. So I think so thank you. We want to thank all the members that make this possible because Where else can you start as a member that know nothing about training and then all of a sudden now you're a moderator We actually have a lot of them as moderators. So that's that was the whole concept The whole concept is members helping members We have a lot of people that started training with no knowledge of training right alex and now become a moderator So, yeah, I mean it's it's crazy because I remember james joins on day one of m i c And you know three years later. He's now a full-blown moderator. He's making a thousand dollars a day He is trading part-time, you know If someone like james that had no prior experience If someone like tom diesel that used to drive an uber Someone like me that used to work at starbucks could do it It is possible but have realistic standards guys Don't think that you could get rich quick in a month or a week If you are joining m i c and you're not watching the videos If you are not participating you will not make money Just because you join doesn't mean you're entitled to make money. You still have to work You are getting a gym membership if you have a gym membership and you don't show up You will not improve This is a tool to help you guys improve guys. So that's kind of the main things we want to talk about I know bow had a Rent that he wanted to go on about pumpers and manipulators and all that stuff He kind of wanted to expose some guys So i'm going to let him do his thing and I will coordinate with the map winners To make sure that you guys get your customized t-shirts ASAP All right. Thanks alex man You got a good luck getting back to work even his vacations. He's working guys I mean, I love when we do guys.  I love the fact that there's no more monthly. There's there's I we are done selling. I told you guys and we're gonna we're gonna wake up one day And I'm gonna be done And so that's what we did man. We woke up and say, you know what I mean I was woke up like I'm tired of this stuff guys I we we know our value We know all that so I so you're gonna notice a different type of msc now we're done selling man If you want to join you join us as a As an annual or lifetime.  So this so members. How do you like the new environment mic? That once we got rid of the monthly There's a lot of members are watching now I'll let them them tell them feel excited. I mean I feel so much more relief But you know, we are still doing these lives One day we may just stop doing the lives of the public people and just do it for Internal mic guys. So Enjoy it while it lasts we warned you I warned you that monthly might be gone I warned you that one day will wake up and maybe not even not even Want to do this anymore. So ig live youtube live those things may come to an end as well So We have so much free content on the youtube channel guys that Man, we have so many people learning from the youtube So if you find value youtube you learn you make money that you join that that was our whole intention I've been doing this for a long time in terms of Helping others to learn to trade for free trading fish has been around for a decade a lot of the A lot of the strategies techniques Trading ideas came from the trading fish and that's why you know, we have the trading fish academy within mic. So that's the whole thing so Let me see some of these guys Yep, so let's so let's get back to you with the pumping this guys. So I don't give you pumping anymore today. Today's your free day to pump But whatever you want man, pump it up guys by agris. Yeah, let's pump it up. So As you know, it's market always shifts. Okay, so a few weeks ago. I was all shorting people crying. I can't make money Blah blah blah. You see all these guru Expert guru guys want to give up on trading want to give up on life. I can't do this anymore, man I'm the manipulators the outgoes. There's nothing moving. Oh my god. If you see any motherfuckers cry Hold on guys.   You know trading is not supposed to be easy It was easy would be all big billionaires Okay, so market goes in cycles guys. So what happens is this People are crying and so, you know short sellers. We're having a field day. So now what happens is this as so when when things are crowded meaning when When everything If everybody is a short seller, you know things how how they say this When things are least likely to happen it happens in trading and so everyone's crying about how the markets were shitty and all that Things couldn't go up. There are no runners even even our friends are like hands are joking yesterday, man I put trading if there's no new runners there and then we woke up to there's like 10 new runners Things are running all over the freaking place. It's insane right guys and and where they come from pumpers I'm not blaming pumpers. I love pumpers guys. So this is a day for you guys to pump up Okay, but I'm gonna explain you how to make money pumping I'm gonna explain how to make money pumping and also how to make money When the pumps are dead So I have I have so many friends guys. I bought some of these stocks and they're up tons I even know they're up tons right like cei It was like four or five dollars and they're in like a like three dollars right so from a three dollar and you're up You're up like 50 percent You're like there's no way I can lose and then you're up a hundred percent You're like there's no way I lose but guess what guys Everybody I did not sell on the way up ci got their butt kicked because it went all the way back down to 90 cents And when he goes down to 90 cents the first instinct is like, oh my god There's a couple things you do it didn't just go straight for four or five bucks down to 90 cents It did it in a couple of days and so what happens it traps more and more and more Average down guys. So if you're in let's say you're in a three bucks You're up like almost a hundred percent on ci now it takes back down. You're like, yes I'm going to buy more and so you're buying a 350 because the guy's like to the moon No, it's all gravy. It's all good. It's going 10. Oh good, dude And so what happens the anatomy of a pump works like this guys This is how I went broke before and I'm telling you this is how you will go broke If you pump it if you play the pump the way that normal people play it, right Because what happens like you're in you don't believe it. You're like, okay, this thing was on a dollar I'm gonna wait.  Is that two bucks? Oh it's topped up. It's like three bucks and you're like, oh my god Finally got foam for some reason we always buy at the top, right? We don't want to buy another dollar We don't want to buy two bucks because we're like, dude, it's too high But then when those three bucks, man, I mean, I mean, I'm all in.  I believe I missed I think it's gonna go to $10.   You know go give blood transfusions to get more money to put in and so you're praying that goes down So I'm in at three bucks and that suckers at four fifths or something right and you're like, please please Dip so I can add more so when it dips you're like, yes, I'm adding more and what happens Oh shit, it didn't hold it dipped more.  I'm down. Okay. Then what happens?     Everything's okay. Everything's okay. Next, you know, boom, you're dead Okay, guys, so take a look at cei. It's been a long time so the stock Did that but that happens every single week on every single pump of dump It just happens to be cei rent for a longer period of time with bigger volume cei Was the catalyst that launched all these plays guys Okay, and so now but the thing is that the pump has got a lot of money They got a lot of power because they're was looking They're was looking for the next for the next cei. And so now they have Dates I don't know where DTS is going to go But they're pumping it and now not only are they pumping it other people are pumping it It's insane guys. Hold on This is crazy Marcus right now guys.     That was 90 cents.    It's them is them bidding it up them as an algo and institutional whatever Pumps happen because of low flow.   It will go back down below where you bought it If you don't believe me check out cei. How many how many guys actually made money in cei Only the guys that sold The rest of them got punished 90 cents we went to guys. Okay, so What is the next pump? We don't know We all look at this. It's like whoa D T A T S and take a look at the guys.  They're talking about so There's a buyout Microsoft's gonna buy them out.  Microsoft's gonna buy them out.  But you know what man?  Why would this stock keep going up like this? Microsoft would want a cheap valuation It'd be the most quiet thing in the world for a buyout if I wanted to buy a company out I saw this company go 300 percent. I'm not touching it anymore.   Same thing as bitcoin. You know what happened bitcoin? It's going 100,000 and went all the way up to 20,000. So the ones I've sold and had a plan So this is part of what we teach all the time guys. I'm not here to pump MIC But you need some sort of proper education.  You want to learn how to shortstop? He comes to us, but I mean Raise your hand. Anybody want to come on? All I see are these weird languages. What's going on here? first we had those Middle eastern Iranian Iranian and then So I don't know what's going on guys Anybody want to get on as much as we'll end it's fine. I'm giving you opportunity to pump your stock. So let's let's um Let's have fun and and bring someone to pump their stock. Let's come up Talk about prod Yeah, probably from 140 to 270 today Probably not big enough to be pumped guys There's no so I'll tell you how these guys get pumped. Okay. They have 500,000 followers 200,000 followers They have rooms full of guys if guys just buy 1,000 shares each it can go up and usually these are all smaller float that's gained by the whole entire float with So like see I started at 50 cents. So you know, you can pretty buy a lot of shares of 50 cents Dates is gonna be a little difficult because it's $13 right now So when it dies, it's going to die hard But you know what meant until then so the anatomy of pump is the early shorts get killed and then It's always the same way.  I'm so sorry And you don't want to get on is everybody is this all boss real? What do you guys want to talk about today?  Who's real because I don't even understand this language that's coming out guys All sorts of weird language GW age is not a short.   I can't I can't I can't bring run on Some of these are just bots. I guess I was like, who the heck's going on Guys, you need to use the right broker as well. We use cobra mentioned m-i-c for discount Because with the right broker you can do is max data loss things like that On ameratran stuff.  I don't I'm gonna end it. I thought it'd be more fun But I don't know these are bots. I don't understand what's going on um I want to run run christianne, but it doesn't work. I try to get you off them on you want I don't know what platform you're using but it doesn't work All right guys, that's it. I guess um I thought it'd be more fun today, but uh, I don't know what's going on here Instagram is getting weird man. Maybe we'll switch about because this is uh I don't know who's real or not Go to my investment club calm guys. I'm not here to sell membership. How does it work? You text hoshtay. You want to know Okay, go live with christie here Hello Hey pal, how are you? How are you doing? Great. I'm a member. I've been with you for about four months. Really? What's your name in misc? um My full name is christine. The last name starts with the n. I'm not going to say it No, but uh in misc your member name is christine and My last name Is that with a k or c. I'm so sorry. Yes with a k. Okay, great. So tell us everybody um Where you're from and how you found us and your your spirits were trading so far um, well I'm from north carolina and I just uh got my mba and I decided to take like the summer off to um Learn how to day trade again. I did it like years ago before all these tools were available before all these youtube Pumps and I saw alex's video on how he made, you know, half a million dollars on amc And I was going Okay, how the hell do you do that because all these people are waiting for this, you know moa asked, right? um, so that just sparked my interest and actually I never even heard of a A platform like you guys have um, so I got really lucky that I found you first um So, what are you studying right now? How how things going because you you are, um This is a very good example of how how you you are pretty pretty much new to trading essentially It's been a long time. So consider yourself like starting over right? Yeah, and so it's been four months So tell us what you can a lot of people wondering like okay They're in your position like yourself. I want to get started, but it's so overwhelming. I don't even know where to begin, right? Yeah, so when you join what happened I will say this The accelerator course is I wish I would have done it four months ago. I upgraded to annual About a month ago and got access to it And that was just because I'm like a You know, I'm a student, you know, I like things in that kind of order And so that really it answered a lot of questions that I had So So you can have a toss for that guys Uh, we we actually still selling that on for other people too, but I think I we may just make it for m. I see but uh, but that that really jump started, right? It cut the learning curve tremendously Yeah, I really wish I would have done it. Um months ago months ago. It would have been great. Um, But I wanted to I'm sorry how many times did you watch it? I've been like Rewatching certain certain parts of it. Like I just take my time because it's like eight hours and I'm taking notes Correct. Um And I don't want to get like burned out on it where I just want to get through with it So I'm I'm just I'm taking my time That that is exactly correct because a lot of people go through there like what the heck Because these things it you need like in anything right to be proficient something has to keep doing over and over and over And so that's that's what makes it great People understand like just because you watch it one time doesn't make you the master trader No, and I think um another uh person that you had come on instagram said the same thing Like if I get to a part that I was like, uh, I want to know a little bit more about that Then I go and find the video that talks about it But the video library is pretty extensive and that can be overwhelming when you're new Um, even though, you know Tay has her, you know her little cheat sheet for going through that Um, it can be a lot because those videos are long. I mean some of them are over an hour We're so the ones the ones are over an hour the ones I made a long time ago They're the trading fish academy So so the way it is is we have the fake study guide which you saw So like I said trading is very difficult when you start it's like a foreign language It's like it's definitely a different language, right? And so you have to learn grammar you have to learn a syntax you have to learn all this stuff so it's overwhelming and It's like where do you begin to be honest the best honestly was Like when I started I was like I just didn't understand the lingo and it was like hot chick What the hell's that? And I explained to my husband. Well, I said I get it now. It's like the stock would go straight up, right? It's it's the it's the one that ever the shiny object that everyone's looking at for the day because everybody wants to be in the accident Yeah, yeah, and so the accelerator really did help um So in keeping with your topic the question I wanted to ask was Like it seems like the trend is sure that everybody's talking about the short squeeze like everything's a freaking short squeeze You know these days, you know, this is the next short squeeze Can you speak to that like I mean, yeah So so what happens is this so it's been it was as you've been there for a month So you see like, you know for for a few months for a couple months. Actually there was no movers, right? Things would pop up. It'll pop down.   That's that was one of the biggest Any cares about you determine who's upside down on the stock, right? And that's in the accelerator. So V-wap tells you the volume weighted average price Like that's the price that the average so if you have the v-waps that let's say two bucks And the stock at 250 that means like shorts without 50 cents Because the average price is that That means if average person buys at two dollars at 250 They're up people are up and so if you're up, you're not going to sell the stock You're just going to hold it tell your friends and so the more he goes Deviated over the v-wap the more shorts are dead And so they're fighting fighting to cover on every dip same as the reverse If you're long if the inverse is long, so let's say the top it's not going to two dollars You buy at two dollars. That's like one dollar 50 cents.  I am trying to put it A sell order in so you're fighting right so So that's the magical line guys. So in so the best trades are the trades that That deviate so much work, you know what so see I by god people are in from like a dollar, right? They're dollars and they added two dollars three dollars and now it's like at four bucks five bucks They're not going to sell There's no way so shorts are dead The only and then also you turn around the stock dumps. That's because they've blown away all the shorts So you see when the pair of ball comes up. Who is by the parabolic? It's not the longs The longs are are not selling They're holding that thing They may be selling but who's buying So so if you a long buys trader your natural instinct because you already bought you you're looking to sell And short sellers do the opposite. So this is against intuition So in order for a short scheme to happen you need to have a lot of shorts in order to have a lot of shorts You need to have a lot of locates. That's why we always talk in the club easy to borrow If it's something's easy to borrow, oh man, we be very careful shorting because there's too much people shorting it It's too crowded And so you see these stocks go straight up, but there's no shorts It's very difficult to sustain it and that's why It gets pumped and it gets dumped but cei is a different monster cei ran for a week two weeks three weeks And you saw the blowout you can see so if everybody take a look at cei That's the two anatomy of a big time pumping dump It gets you know, you get accumulated you get fight and the next, you know It starts going up and then when it deviates too much from the the VWAP the shorts get blown out of the water and the top came When it went all the way up to near five bucks and it Death candle down And so the death candle we always talk in the club you take a look at the lingo in the club death candle is a signal That's what we call a death candle. It means like Okay, something has changed that created that that crazy movement it means that They blew out they blew out the shorts the shorts got artificial bump and then there's when there's when they all covered There's no buyers left And just dunked down And so that means whoa The buying has been exhausted Because they bought it all the way up already. There's nobody buying all the way down And so when you see that it's time So i'm giving a good advice for everybody out there that's playing a pump and dump look for these death candles The moment you see a death candle look to exit some because Why did the death candle it's called a death candle for a reason it ran all the way up Because it was buy buy buy buy buy buy and then when there's no more buyers It exhausted dumps because no one's bidding anymore, right? Yeah, it's like the craze is over So but on the way up there's constantly buyers buyer buyer That's why it's a little but when it starts to ramp up and speed up it means like dude someone's panicking Um Margined out or whatever they ran out money to de force it Max pain they can't take it no more things like that And so the so there's a couple concepts is the death candle is a huge huge signal Okay, if you're looking for a signal to get the hell out it's that death candle Yeah, I've learned that it when you see something like that and you start praying the minute you start praying That's your second signal to get the hell out when when I when you find religion All of a sudden And then start praying and then find different gods to pray that's when uh Put a heart rate monitor on yourself when you're making money you're happy, right? But then you just if you have at home just be very interesting Put it on your a heart rate monitor and see the anatomy of your trade When you're looking at the stock and forget it is calm. I think what it is like And so when it beats too much, then he's like dude, maybe it's a good not a good trader Yeah, and you know, you know guys let everyone listen to this I I'm more comfortable trading longs. I'm trying to learn how to short because I found over the summer I would have made a lot of money doing that. Um But what about who's just explained to us is It's important to learn both sides because that's what gives you an edge if you understand the mentality of Of somebody that's trying to sell short Then that gives you an edge In longs like you wouldn't sit there and hold when it got to the top thinking it's going to go up more So that that's another big takeaway that I've gotten from um my membership as well. It's really just Learning both sides of it Be exactly we always say like, you know, alice and I always warn right like do not Short there's a nice shortness And then when when you hear as a long buyer's prayer that do not short this that should Like hey, maybe it's a good time to go along And for the TTS there's a lot of these that we wore not to short like gwh All this stuff like do avoid avoid avoid and so that's what happens and so Be in the community of all Pumpers is bad. That's what ti died because you imagine that that room where everybody Everybody is a short seller. I mean everybody's a long, right? There's nobody telling you the short sell. Do you don't know it was like long When it dies, it's all gravy add more add more. That's how they go broke, right? And so To have an equal balance you need both sides short since so so the moment I look into short The longs your head means it peeps out nothing goes up forever, right? So we don't tell you to sell everything But just those are the areas of resistance that you should look into Yeah, and you guys also are really careful about If you know that it's not a good long set up either. You say it's not good for long So harry and we have harry have a bunch of long Moderators that that that are equally as good as that we are on the long side And so that's why it makes a unique balance. That's why I was like And all these all these members you saw they they they become moderators our moderators were our members, right? And it's a really one day you become proficient. That's what Nancy didn't that Nancy came with no Hardly any knowledge and she studies. She's a professor as well.  She has like three degrees or something Well, what's your MBA in? Um, actually, I have two master's degrees I have the MBA and then I have also a master's in microbial biotechnology So my love is biotech So you should talk to Nancy. Have you talked to her? She's a The nurse practitioner too. So I think she studied a lot of that stuff Yeah, yeah, so I get really interested in all these biotech stocks, but you know, when I see A stock getting pumped on preclinical news.  That means that I mean preclinical is animal studies They haven't gotten humans yet. They're like they're like 12 years away from a product and oh, I could talk all day on But a long shot trade that would be See that's very smart. So I love so back in the day before before m. I see House trade the biggest thing that we usually short was the FDA fast track phase one preclinical Oh, yeah, what happens is they need to pump it to get the money to do the clinical And so these are the key words.  They're like, whoa, right?  But they know that right, you know, and that's why people don't know that We don't know that they put the pr out because they know that Well, because they have experts like you in the company Writing it to convince their pumping those prs From the research companies. Those are still like way early research, right? They uh, they they need to raise money because they these not cheap, right? These clinicals are not cheap. So And they have no revenue. They have to pay their expenses sciences like yourself So they they need to sell paper paper is dilution of shares of the company. They issue more shares That's what's called an offering And so that's what you know is that a lot of the fda's Early clinical stuff They pump it up and they they run it run it and next you know what this will offer and come back Boom death because it's a big scam. This is part of the pump. So there's legal pumps and there's illegal pumps Illegal pump is making up fake news like oh the buyout news, right? The legal news is called investment banking the legal pump is investment banking. I talked about this a lot Okay, uh back in my day. I as you can see my twitter is like investment banking. This is the legal pump This is how they do it pump the stock up so that they can raise The price of the offering. So if the company's I'll say a dollar It's a pre it's a there's no revenue, right? So there's a research company It's like a dollar and they're running out of money because they need to do clinical whatever, right? They need to pay the doctors. So they're almost going to buy A dollar they need to give someone a discount. So they run the stock of a dollar to two dollars So it's a pump and dump because they put a pr as a hey, we cure cancer on the rat's left toe, you know Something ridiculous, but the key word is cancer. It's all about hype And big market exposure. And so that's why I keep telling the room like oh, it was if it's an earnings release Okay, I'm not scared that's short. But that would if I see the word cancer I'm scared to sort it because or cove it or vaccine, right?  It's always about the story And so I don't really hard time because I'm a fundamental and you know, analyst That's what I do. Um, I work with equities And I I had a hard time understanding that day trading is not about fundamental analysis like the Yeah Oops, you were losing you know Yeah Yeah, so it's kind of like Yeah, the news is there just to pump the stock Oops, oops, we're losing Oops, is it my wi-fi? I think it's your wi-fi. But but yeah, so yeah, I think you're It's on my wi-fi. I went there but um, but yeah So that's a legal pump that's called investment banking when they pump up the stock So that they can raise the price so that they can sell the shares to some institution So so there's a pump and dumps happen all the time guys. So You know, it doesn't mean it's good bad. It's just that's the way stock market works And that's why they call it rigged is a rig market. But in fact, that's rigged. We know the end game And so you buy the pump early You set your stock and you get the hell out and that's what we call the three-day rule in m i c as well Because stocks usually die on the third day Uh, it's these days stocks is tough for stock to go to the third day But it's good. But but now it would see I moving up is like, wow lost off the pump So so be careful on those fundamentals. Don't meet anything where you're talking about a company with no revenues Right. So Well, thanks Christine. So Oops, it's dying. So I'm I think when I Ended here and then a very positive note. I don't know you guys can still hear me Can can anybody hear me? Is my wi-fi dead or is it? Is my wi-fi working So, um So is it uh christy that went her wi-fi went under? Okay. So christy is okay. All right. No problem. Yeah We'll see you back in the room. Don't end it because there's wi-fi having some All right. Thanks. Thanks. We'll see you in the room. Appreciate it all right guys, well That that was a good. Thank you for coming. Uh, we talked about pumps and and now you see, you know There's pumps on institutional side, which is legal as well. So there's pumps everywhere. How do you make money? You don't you have to understand the reason the cow is the big picture why they're pumping The moment you understand why they're pumping it you will make money And so you will anticipate you will sell before the dump. All right guys. Thanks. We'll see you back in the room


I am Captain Heath Williams. I go by Shady. I'm an F-35 pilot here with the 495th Fighter Squadron out of the 48th Fighter Wing and Lincoln Heath, RAF Lincoln Heath in the UK. To support the mission here from Estonia specifically, we as a U.S. Air Force, the 48th Fighter Wing, and specifically the 495th Fighter Squadron Valkyries, are here to strengthen the relationship between us and NATO countries. We recognize that it's a difficult time of conflict between some other local countries here, and we're just here to mainly bolster the relationship with all NATO allies and show our support from a U.S. Air Force aspect side of things. We also recognize that the airspace here over the Baltic-NATO countries is very important, specifically Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and so that is why we are here as well as another location down south to ensure stability and freedom of maneuver for NATO countries and their allies in the airspace. We are flying multiple times each day, mainly as much as we can. As you can kind of see, we only have three jets here in the north side of Estonia on the ramp. So maintenance has been doing a phenomenal job, allowing us to fly as much as we do here. So we are flying through the Baltic countries, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania. We're doing close air support exercises with the Belgians and some other NATO JTACs in Lithuania, so that was pretty neat. And then we're also just flying along the border of some other allied countries. We've worked with the Belgians that they've been awesome to work with, and from their ground liaison officers, anytime we do some air-to-ground aspects and stuff, as well as their pilots and all their support staff have been phenomenal in allowing us to get in the air and work with them as well as the host nation of Estonia has been, I have nothing but good things to say for them hosting us here and all the support and welcoming that they have brought when we showed up here to Estonia. It's the first time I've ever been up here personally. I know some other guys, some of the other guys have been here in different airframes, but from my perspective it's been pretty neat to be able to look over the rail of the jet and sea. You're that close to other countries, specifically Russia, has been pretty awesome to see. We're not necessarily flying any combat missions here, so we're just doing kind of air patrols and just being a presence in the air. The fact that we can do that every day has been fun and a unique experience.


Hi, this is Jack Lyfton and today I have the pleasure of speaking with Rowena Smith, who is the Managing Director of ASM, Australian Strategic Materials. And Rowena, I have an immediate question for you and I'm not expecting you to really answer what I'm hoping. You have an arrangement or a joint venture or you have some corporate relationship with the Korean company Kairon, is that correct? No, no, I'm not familiar with Kairon. What's the name of the Korean company you're involved with in the metal making business? Our metal making business is actually 100% equity ourselves, it's not a joint venture. Yeah, it is. What I think perhaps you're referring to is that we've got a research and development team in Korea as well that is co-located there with our metals facility and we're developing our own innovative technology to do metallization in a very low carbon way. And that did originate as a joint venture with one of the professors at one of the universities there in Korea. So we started that as a joint venture about 10 years ago but three years ago we actually purchased that joint venture and that's now a fully owned entity. We have all the IP, we have all of the personnel and as I say they're co-located with the metals plant but then off the back of that technology innovation we committed to doing the metals plant ourselves. So yep, that's a fully owned entity ourselves. Having said that, Jake, we did get significant support from the Korean government both at the local level, the Cheungbukdo Province gave us a lot of support with identifying property and helping us with permits and we got assistance from the Korean Development Bank with a loan to help us get started. So we've certainly had support from Korea but yep, that business is ours. So is there a metallizing plant in Korea at this point? There is. We're up and going, not only is it there but it's producing and it's delivering to customers. We've got neodymium-presidentium metal that is being supplied to a Korean magnet producer. First delivery started in September of last year and then more recently we've commissioned the stripcaster that makes that specialist alloy, the ND FEB that goes into the permanent magnets that are used for the wind turbines and the electric vehicles and we've got two customers now both in the States for those alloys which is really exciting but we're very focused at the moment there on building that customer base so we can ramp that production up. I would call reading and correctly if I'm wrong that Novion in Texas is going to be a customer of yours for alloy. Yes, Novion Magnetics was our first alloy customer. We've we signed an initial agreement to produce 100 ton of product for them between now and March but we've been in discussions with them for some time. We're certainly intending for that to be a long-term partnership and we're working with them at the moment on that long-term agreement but then the second customer that we announced is USA Rare Earths and that one we have already announced the long-term arrangement which is a five-year deal that we did with them to be able to provide them with 60% of the feedstock that they need for their still water facility in Oklahoma. As far as I know I don't know of any other company outside of China that's doing this. Let's eliminate Japan for the moment and when I do that ASM is the only company I'm aware of in the rare earth sector that's already shipping metal and alloy I assume. The interesting thing is very few people know about this here you realize that and we talk endlessly about we've got to vertically integrate blah blah blah and that's all nonsense here because we have no idea how to do it okay. So here's my question out of the blue are you do you have any interest in licensing your metal making technology outside of yes. Lots of opportunities for how we can create value from the IP that we have both the technologies that we have and the know-how that we've established and because you're right we are in a very unique position it's not just that we are metallizing and alloying which as you say is very unusual but also that we've actually established an end-to-end supply chain that doesn't at any point in that supply chain go through China. We've got the raw materials set up to be able to come from Vietnam going into Korean metals plant and then going on into domestic customers there in the States. So I'm certainly not aware of anybody who has either by themselves or through partnership created that end-to-end alternate supply chain. I am the repository of such information there isn't anyone else take my word for it. Now I would ask you a question which you will not answer but I'm hoping always hoping. Can you describe the metal making technology to me if it's not electrolysis of molten salts or if it's not metal thermal reduction? Yeah I think you know just at a high level what we're doing with the light rare earth the neodymium prasadenium is an enhancement of established technologies. So that's not where the focus for our innovation is and similarly for the stripcaster you know that's technology that we've purchased. The area that we're really focused on that you know that innovation work is currently in process development using titanium. We're focusing on titanium first just because it's a more commercially ready material rather than commissioning it on the heavy rare earths that are a lot more expensive and a lot harder to get hold of but that technology is the technology we're intending to use to metalize the dysprosium and the terbium and also some of the other critical minerals that we have in the double resource the zirconia the hafnia etc. So yeah that's what we're doing the technology. You said that you were getting seromaterials from Vietnam are you also planning to bring your Australian properties into production of these raw materials? Exactly so in the short term we're looking to purchase materials again through a strategic partnership in Vietnam which we're building that so that it can provide materials between now and our double resource coming online but you know one of the big projects that we're working on the primary project for ASM is getting our double resource in New South Wales Australia into production. We've been working on this for many years so it's very advanced. We have all of the engineering work done we've got all the environmental approvals in place we've got Hyundai engineering doing the final EPC definition work for us at the moment and we're really at the point now where we're talking to off-take partners and we're aiming to secure those key off takes for the materials between now and the end of this calendar year so that we can go into the final round of funding discussions aiming for final investment decision at the end of next year. Do you have any feeling for where you'll be competitively in pricing with the let's say Chinese suppliers? Look I think this is one of the challenges for the industry is to establish what the pricing is for that alternate supply chain and not just you know relative to China per se but also where the margin actually sits across that supply chain because you know when you're in the position as they are in China where you know that supply chain is pretty much owned by the one entity you can move the margin around along that supply chain but when each piece is owned by a discrete business you've got to have a lot more maturity in the way that you share that margin through each of the different processes so I think you know their conversations that we're having at the moment with our partners and it's why I speak about partners rather than customers because I think as we are in this early phase of setting up this alternative supply chain you know we are actually standing up a new industry and if we don't do that in a in a collaborative manner if we don't do it in a way that sensibly thinks about how we ensure that there is margin at each step in that supply chain you know there's no point in having one business without the rest of the supply chain around it so you know that they are live conversations that are happening at the moment thank thank you very much this has been very enlightening and I have to think about this now well I've been very pleased to chat with you and you're right it's a super exciting time and you know what we're we're doing is is groundbreaking so yep I'd be more than happy to chat with you again thanks Jack thank you Rowena thank you very much


All right, thank you all very much for attending today. My name is Daniel Nermy. I'm the CTO co-founder of a company called Anchor. We've been working in the security space for a bit. Largely we work with customers to add security tooling into their development processes. And today I was going to focus in a little bit on this intersection between discussion that's been going on, you know, with more focus over the last half year so even really between supply chain security and the concept of S-bombs. We see these things talked about a lot and I was going to explore a little bit the relationships between these things. And so first of all, you know, we did an interesting survey where we went out to a number of larger enterprises, not anybody but very large enterprises and actually asked quite a few questions, some of them focused specifically on supply chain security. And I thought I'd share a couple of these results, pretty interesting stuff in our opinion. And one of them was asking about the past, you know, over the last 12 months, how many large enterprise respondents were affected by something you identify specifically as a software supply chain attack. And, you know, overwhelmingly, a lot of respondents came back with yep, yes indeed, some form of yes, whether it's a minor impact based on the fact that something happened and we had to spend a lot of time on it or a major impact that was significantly impacted, probably actually hacked, you know, that kind of thing. And the second question we asked was actually more about the future. You know, now, given where we are, are you focused, do you have a specific focus on improving your supply chain security stance? And again, you know, we were a little bit surprised to find over 50%, you know, closer to 60% of our respondents came back and said this is a significant area of focus for us in the next 12 months. Just a little bit of context, kind of, you know, putting some facts and a little bit of evidence towards a lot of the discussion that's been going on about improving supply chain security. Now, I think a lot of folks in this room probably have something in mind when it comes to what a supply chain is. And I think, you know, Operation Salsa can get it out for us a little bit. But, you know, another way to just sort of ground this discussion, we kind of think of a supply chain more like a graph, right? When it comes to software, there's open source projects, there's vendor projects, all of this stuff is related, there's cycles in this graph. But at the end of the day, it's in kind of a, you look at it this way, from a malicious actor's perspective, you can see some obvious ways to influence what ultimately ends up running in production. You can find anywhere in this complex graph to come in and make a problem happen. But if we kind of look closely at one of those boxes, everybody that's trying to infiltrate a supply chain is looking for the weakest link in the chain or the graph. And if we kind of look closely at this stuff, this is a depiction of kind of a standard, left-hand side, we've got a bunch of external software coming in from earlier in the supply chain. On the right-hand side, we're publishing or running some software, that's kind of the other side of the chain. In between, you know, nowadays we've got a fairly modern setup, a lot of automation containers are in here, a lot of software builds. A lot of things are happening automatically and very quickly. There's a lot of dynamic stuff happening. And at any point in this process of left to right for any given software project, there are opportunities to come in and either get some credentials leaked or insert some malicious code. So a lot of opportunity in here, which is why this is a significant problem, something worth all of us thinking, thinking about how to improve. Now I'm gonna jump over to the S-bomb. So we look at that previous picture and there's a lot of places where we can have problems. How do S-bombs actually help? Like what is this? You know, what do we do with an S-bomb and how does it apply to this problem? Well, there's a couple of ways of thinking about it. One way is probably a little bit more obvious based on existing tooling and the kind of technology that's been out there, which is to say if we do a software bill of materials, if we generate an S-bomb for all of the artifacts in this software development process, you know, we can think of it as a manifest, right? It's a list of software, right? It's our dependencies, it's our application software, it's names and versions of things. And just by itself, that's really useful. A lot of times folks that aren't necessarily in this space don't realize that one way or another, that piece of information is an important input to tooling that does vulnerability scans, it does license checks, it does things like provenance checks to figure out what dependencies do you have so that I can do something in a security or compliance function on top of that. So S-bombs already have been used for a very long time as one of the inputs to some of the standard security tool we tend to build into these development processes. But now, moving forward, I think there's some additional opportunities to kind of extend the definition of an S-bomb from being, you know, something that's a list of dependencies to add a lot more context. You know, when we go in and start looking at source code or container images or binaries, we can generate lists of dependencies, but we also have access to a lot of other information. We have access to the files, we have access to their checksums, we can look at configuration files inside of containers that define how things might operate in their execute. We can look at all sorts of information, and one perspective here is to say, we can add that additional information to an S-bomb, and if we start to do that, we start to unlock some additional security functions is our prediction. For example, if we go in and generate this richer S-bomb document against a bunch of these artifacts being generated, we can codify that one of them as an intention. This is something that we can review, we can run our vulnerability scans on, we're okay with this S-bomb. We have that codified now in our development automated process. We can start to observe everything else that's happening and generate a comparable S-bomb start to compare them, and that gives us a notion of, say, drift, right? We can look at, this is what it's supposed to be, we can generate a new S-bomb for what actually is and start to compare them. This is an interesting function that we can start to look at as well between all of the artifacts generated by these stages. So now if we start to do this, we have our vulnerability scanning and our license checks, and then we start to add some more advanced comparison functions all based on software bill of materials coming into a system, then ultimately we can start to improve as any one element of a software supply chain, global software supply chain, our stance. And we think, one thing that's likely to happen if we all start to kind of orient around this kind of tooling, especially off of the back of some new regulations, like from the US executive order, for example, specifying S-bombs and other types of security tooling proof being required for various regulated industries and projects to use software. We predict the world's gonna start to look something like this, where not only do we use the software bill of materials and other tooling within our development process, but we can start to generate them and share them across organizational boundaries. And that's easier said than done, but if we can figure that out, then the global supply chain starts to improve substantially because we don't have to inspect things necessarily anymore. We can take what's given, prove that that's valid, and then move on from there. Use those to trust but verify what we... Thank you very much. If you'd like to learn more, we've got a booth here, encore at KubeCon, and we've got a couple of events. But I just thought I'd say, thank you again for attending. It's great to see everybody in person. Thank you.


Ang karunungan ay kapangyarihan. Let's put that power to the test today here on KCHECK! Hello everyone! Iwakupo si Anthony Gaff conception with another season of teaching and learning here on KCHECK. Batuloy pa rin ang paghanap natin ng magustong sanayin at palawakin ang brain power nila through competition. Alami natin kung kaya nila ang brain workout na inihanda natin for them this season. Samahan nyo comment on the final week of competition which will reveal our newest KCHECK champion. Ang apat natin daily winners ang dadaan sa ating karunungan check sa araw na ito. Having earned a daily score of 240 points, SAD is taking BSED English Language Education, TSA member of UP Tabletop, an organization in Deleman that promotes board gaming as a hobby. Coming in with a KCHECK all-time high score of 380 points is Drake. This geography student likes to cook, take photos, play the ukulele, and explore random places. Next, scoring 210 points, Rope is a student filmmaker, theater collaborator, science enthusiast, and mintanawan hailing from Surigao City. His interests include sound for film and theater, as well as performance on stage, on screen, and on the streets and most recently. With a score of 140 points is Hart, a nursing student from our Lady of Fatima University who loves competing in cordial groups. In her spare time, she reads, sings, and watches medical dramas. These four will be competing under the watchful eyes of today's KCHECK panel of experts. First, we have Professor Marian Roque, Professor of Mathematics at UP Deleman. We also have Assistant Professor Bernard Kaslib from the Department of Social Sciences, College of Arts and Sciences of UP Manila. And last but not least, multimedia artist and Professor Emeritus who teaches film at the UP College of Mass Communication Film Institute and communication at the UP Open University. We have Professor Grace Javier Alfonso. At ngayon contestants, narito na ang first round, which is also your first opportunity to earn points. Buzz in, but wait till you're acknowledged before you answer para di sayang ang efforts. Correct answers are 10.6. Kaya naman! Let's begin! Question number one. The NIA is a government agency task to develop all available water resources in the country, primarily for agriculture. What does NIA stand for? Roque, National Irrigation Authority. National Irrigation Authority is wrong. Anyone can steal. The correct answer is National Irrigation Administration. Question number two. What is the name of the smallest of the world's oceans, centering approximately on the North Pole? Rick, Arctic Ocean. Arctic Ocean is correct. Gate check. Question number three. In mental math, what is the arithmetic mean of 28 and 48? Roque, 76. 76 is wrong. Sad. 38. 38 is correct. Gate check. Question number four. Who was named athlete of the year by the Philippine Sports Writers Association for 2023 after being dubbed as the undisputed pole vault king in Asia? Rick. E.J. Obiena. E.J. Obiena or Ernest John Obiena is correct. Gate check. Question number five. What is the 2023 hit song by Taylor Swift and Ice Pies has a one-word title that may describe a person's actions that determine whether good or bad things will happen to them? Drake. Karma. Karma is correct. Gate check. Question number six. In 2023, what Northern European country was named the world's happiest country for the sixth time by the SDSN? Drake. Denmark. Denmark is wrong. Road. Finland. Finland is correct. Gate check. Question number seven. If banana is sagging, what is star fruit in Filipino? Art. Kymito. Kymito is wrong. Drake. Balimbing. Balimbing is correct. Gate check. Question number eight. What term refers to a member of a feudal Japanese society of mercenary agents who are highly trained in martial arts and stealth? Samurai. Samurai is wrong that you proceed and now is the nickname of MMA fighter Murilo Rua. Drake. Ronin. Ronin is wrong. Anyone can see it between sad or heart? The correct answer is ninja. Question number nine. What word may mean a gift or the time that is now? Road. Present. Present is correct. Gate check. Question number ten. What is the name of playing cards used since the 15th century and traditionally a pack of 78 with five suits is read for fortune-telling? Tarot is correct. Gate check. Question number 11. One of the year-end global music chart hits is Cuff It, which was recorded by which female singer of irreplaceable fame? Road. Beyonce. Beyonce is correct. Gate check. Last question for this round. Number 12. In January 2024, which Filipino-American basketball player registered the first triple-double for the NBA's Utah Jazz since 2008? Drake. Jordan Clarkson. Jordan Clarkson is correct. Gate check. And that ends round number one. And after that round, we have Drake in the lead with 50 points followed by Robe with 30 points, Sad with 20 points, and Hart with a lot of catching up to do. That's right. At this point, we really cannot tell, even if we have somebody in the lead, we cannot tell at which point or who our winner will be. Kasi manami pa tayong rounds at mas malalaki ang scores na susunod ng mga rounds. So we're midway in the competition at susunod na ang round two sa pagbabalik na Gate check. And welcome back to Gate check. Point three ka po na tayo. Drake is leading with 50 points, followed by Robe with 30 points, Sad with 20 points, and Hart, kayo mo pang humabol sa susunod natin round. And now it's time for round two contestants. Remember, there is a twist in this round. As always, wait to be acknowledged before answering. Otherwise, you might not get any credit even if it's a correct answer. Each correct answer is worth 20 points, but you lose 10 points if you answer incorrectly. Let's begin. This is round two, and this is question number one. What name is given to the region in northern Europe, containing Norway, Sweden and Denmark? Drake? Scandinavia. Scandinavia is the correct answer. Question number two. The Philippines won the gold medal in men's basketball at the 2023 Asian Games after a 61-year drought. Which American coached the Philippine team to the gold at the 2023 Asia? Sabagwin. The answer is incorrect. The correct answer is Tim Cohn. Question number three. What do you call the neurological disorder marked by difficulty to learn to read or spell? Especially a tendency. Yes, sad? Dyslexia. A tendency to read words and letters in mixed sequences. The correct answer is dyslexia. K-check. Question number four. According to U.S. copyright law, the copyright to a character expires after 95 years from the publication of the original work. Which iconic cartoon character robe? Mickey Mouse. Yes, the copyright to Mickey Mouse, which was in the original Steamboat Willie movie. Enter the public domain in January 1, 2024. The answer is correct. K-check. Question number five. What is the Spanish or Filipino name of the waterway used as a drainage canal in populated districts? Drake. Estero. Estero is the correct word. K-check. Question number six. Osiris was ruler of the underworld and god of the dead. In what country's mythology? Drake. Egypt. Egypt is the correct answer. K-check. Question number seven. What is the title of the global number three hit song for 2023 by Siza? That is also the title of a 2003 film starring Uma Thurman. Hart. Snooze. The answer is incorrect. Drake. Kill Bill. Kill Bill is the correct answer. K-check. Question number eight. Claim this the most popular waltz piece in history. Is what composition of Johann Strauss Jr.? I can hear it in my head. The answer is The Blue Danube. Question number nine. In astronomy. What dwarf planet is the largest asteroid in the solar system and was named after the Roman goddess of agriculture? Rogue. Pluto. Pluto is wrong. Drake. Ceres. Ceres is the correct answer. K-check. Question number ten. Which former president of the Philippines later became a member of Congress in 2010? Rogue. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is the correct answer. K-check. Question number eleven. This is the change in frequency of a wave produced by a moving source. Approaching sources have a higher frequency and retreating sources have a lower frequency. What do you call this effect? What is the Doppler effect? Question number twelve and the last question for this round. What do you call the prophet Mohammed's migration from Mecca to Medina in AD 622, marking the consolidation of the first Muslim community? Rogue. Crusades. The answer is incorrect. The correct answer is hijra. And that's it for round two. And points. Rogue. Drake is leading with 150 points. Followed by Rogue with 50 points. Sad with 40 points. And heart, nero patang isang round para makahabul ka. Our ultimate pagaligan round is next. Here on K-check. And welcome back everyone. Points. Rika punatayo. Drake is leading with 150 points. Followed by Rogue with 50 points. Sad with 40 points. And heart, meron pang isang round para makahabul ka. The race to finish on top continues with our ultimate pagaligan round. Remember sa ating panel of experts mang gagaling ang mga katanuman. Here, correct answers are worth 30 points each. At my 15-point deduction for wrong answers. Let's begin. Let's start the ultimate pagaligan round with a question from Prof. Marion. Which part of the flower can we find its female reproductive organ? A. Petal. B. Pistil. C. Receptacle. D. Sepul. Or E. Stamen. E. Stamen. Malik. B. Pistol. Ang stamen yung male reproductive organ. The other parts are part of the flowers, pero ang naglalaman ng ovary and ovule ng bulaklak, na stigma, style, at ovary or ovule, these are collectively called petistil. K. Okay, so this one is on gender studies. Which feminist philosopher and author of the work The Second Sex argued that one is not born? Simon de Beauvoir. Okay, let me finish the question. One is not born, but rather becomes a woman in exploring the construction of gender identity. That's correct. It's Simon de Beauvoir. K. Impressive. My question is, Shempre, art, what is the term for art that does not attempt to represent an accurate depiction of visual reality and kept room, abstract. Art. Let me then say and explain that abstract art can be geometric such as works of Mondrian or more fluid like Kadinsky. So, K. Metal strength is one factor considered when metal is used and strength depends on several properties. Which strength refers to the maximum amount of stress, stretching, or pulling? Root. Torch. Malek. Let me finish the question. Stretching or pulling, a metal can withstand before it is permanently damaged. A, tensile strength. B, impact strength. C, compressive strength. D, specific strength. Or E, maliability. Maliability, E. Malek. E, tensile strength. Okay, maliability is more of the softness of the metal. So, for the strength na materials resistance to breaking under tension, this is called a tensile strength. K, check. Rock Bernard. This one is from ancient philosophy. Which is the English translation of the Greek word psyche, which is thought to be the seat of thoughts, feelings, and life in general. A, happiness. B, soul. C, practical wisdom. D, habit. Or E, ultimate principle. B, soul. Psyche literally means soul. And eventually was translated in Latin as anima. So it moves. Correct. K, check. This art movement emphasizes the expression of imagination and subconscious. Free from constraints of reason. Surrealism. Surrealism is a movement aimed to challenge traditional notions of reality. Optionality. C, surrealism. K, check. Okay, let's go to our favorite subject, mathematics. What is the diameter of the circle with equation x squared plus y squared equals 9? A, 3. B, 6. C, 9. D, 15. Or E, 18. Walang nakasagot. Given the circle x squared plus y squared equals 9, it's radius is 3. The diameter is twice the radius. So the correct answer is B, 6. Thank you very much, Prof Bernard. Okay, this one is a question on economics. What economic theory suggests that the government should play a minimal role in the economy. And that free markets will efficiently allocate resources. A, kishanism. B, mercantilism. C, lazy fare. B, protectionism. Or E, socialism. Sa'y. C, lazy fare. Lazy fare, correct. K, check. What is the retelling of the passion of Christ through readings and performances of the text that is widespread in the Philippines? Passion. Passion is structured as having stanzas of five lines of eight syllables each and are interwoven with a colorful, dramatic theme. The answer is C, passion. K, check. We now enter the last round. Last question for me. Which is the most abundant product in our bodies? A, albumin. B, collagen. C, hemoglobin. D, keratin. Or E, mayosin. C, hemoglobin. Malik. Not B, collagen. Pag tumatanda ka na, iniisip mo na ito. This protein is a building block of skin, muscles, ligaments and other connective tissues in the human body. It makes up 25 to 35% of the protein content of the body. The correct answer is B, collagen. Rock Bernard. So this is my last question. So grandele. Kayang-kayang masagot. Who authored the important philosophical work? The Republic. Plato. Sabi ko na na, napakatalik. So the correct answer is Plato. K, check. What is the German school style and artistic movement which lasted from 1919 to 1933 trying to merge all... Ro, German expressionism. Malik. Let me finish by my question. So it's trying to merge all artistic mediums into one unified approach that of combining an individual's artistry with mass production and function. So ito yung choices natin. A, Gothic, B, Rococo. C, Art Deco. D, Bauhaus. E, German Renaissance. D, Bauhaus. Bauhaus design is often abstract, angular and geometric with little ornamentation. More specially, importantly, functional and mass produced. So, B, Bauhaus. K, check. And we have a winner. This is it for K, check. Ultimate pagaling and round. Congratulations to Greg. Our K, check weekly winner with a final score of 270 points. We'll see Drake again in the semi-finals when he competes with our other weekly winners. First, thank you also to Saad, to Rob and to Hart. And to the members for final of experts, Professor Marian, Professor Bernard and Professor Gigi. Marami salamat po ako po si Jules Gia. Ako naman po, si ether ni Gabby Concepcion. Join us again on Monday for another round of K, check.


They all go back to center, and they're making contact on the skin of my forearms. And while you're slicing the skin, this actually helps you to condition your forearms to become stronger and harder. This is called two-cell or stripping hand technique. Alright, so continue at this space. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.  Same technique.


This year's winner in the Action Line, Access to Information and Knowledge comes from Bangladesh. Mr. Chowdhury will tell us more about the winning project Daisy. Thanks, Vladimir. It's the accessible reading material for visual and print disabled students. We have about 100,000 visual disabled students and print disabled students in the system in Bangladesh. And this system, which has digitized all our textbooks, about 100 textbooks, into an easily accessible format, which is navigable, just like a regular textbook for visually disabled students. So on the first of every year, the Underworld Prime Minister actually distributes textbooks to millions of children, students across the country. So starting now, this daily formatted reading materials will also be distributed to the visually disabled students, empowering them and giving them equal opportunities in the education and job world. So this is pretty much a revolution in Bangladesh starting this year. Prime Minister's office of Bangladesh has been much involved with this process and this prizes. Yes. Already winning awards in 2014-15, a champion in 2016, now coming back as a winner in 2017. Could you please tell us what is behind the success of so many awards from the WISIS prizes? WISIS actually creates a lot of excitement in Bangladesh, starting from the selection process for submitting projects, which starts pretty much towards the end of the year before and the beginning of the year, creates a lot of competition, creates a lot of excitement for finding the best projects for WISIS. Then comes the voting. If we get prioritized screened into the process, comes the voting, that involves the entire country, schools, government offices across the board get involved. And then if we win, last year we did not win, last year we actually had four champion awards, but this year we had three champion and one winner. It creates a huge enthusiasm at that point. So it creates conviction that we need to do better next year, but also it creates the recognition, creates new opportunities for new innovators within the country. And the Prime Minister's Office A2I program actually works with tons of innovators with our innovation fund, with our empathy training, with our service process simplification. Many programs that we have across the country that involves hundreds of innovators across the country. We also feel very much recognized and we appreciate all your support in the previous years. We hope to see you again next year, but before that would you please tell us a bit more how do your projects help advance the Sustainable Development Goals? The winner this year actually have direct impact on goal four, which is education, and goal eight, which is decent jobs. The three champions, one that works on social media to advance strong institutions to address citizens' grievances, that's goal 16, and also creates a lot of innovation through social media in the country, that's goal nine. Other champion category, which is e-filing, creates a government ERP system for about 19,000 officers of the government that also contributes to SDG 16. And the final one, the fourth one that we won this year is a telediagnostic system developed by a university in the country with financial support from A2I that advances goal three, which is health. Congratulations again, thank you very much for your time, and again hope to see you next year. Thank you Mr. Chaudhuri for the intents. Thanks very much. Thank you.


Over the weekend, and it started last week as we talked about this on, I think it was on Friday's show, but over the last week we saw the continuation of what has come to be known as the plagiarism wars. As you, just let me give you some background. Bill Ackerman, Ackerman, Ackerman, Ackerman, there's no ER. For some reason, I think there's an Ackerman, but it's Ackman. Bill Ackman, who is an incredibly successful hedge fund manager, a billionaire, and has been in the hedge fund business since, what, the early 2000s, I think, and it has an amazing track record. Anyway, actually, he's been in the investment business since 1982. Ackerman became kind of the leader of, I think, many voices, but somebody because he's such a successful hedge fund manager. He's not just a successful hedge fund manager. Over the years, he has made money and been involved in some pretty contentious battles within corporate America. So, and I think has gained a voice and a following as a consequence of that. And he has quite an active Twitter account, and he has expressed himself about corporate America, about his investments on that Twitter account in the past. So he's also a donor of Harvard University and alumni of Harvard University. And he became, if you will, the leader of, at least in terms of vocally, the leader of the group of donors, supporters of Harvard University, who were horrified by Gay's testimony in front of the House and were calling for her resignation. And then he magnified, significantly magnified the concerns about the plagiarism, the plagiarism that Gay had clearly committed, and was, I think, a real power behind all the different alumni who were drawing funds from Harvard. Some people have said that Ackerman drew a billion dollars of donations from Harvard. That's not true. The speculation is that Ackerman and others together basically are withholding a billion dollars from Harvard, and that was part of what ultimately led to, you know, Gay's, the pressure on Gay to ultimately resign. Ackerman, yes, I got it, Ackman. So Bill Ackman was at the forefront of calling for resignation, of highlighting and amplifying the cause for resignation and amplifying the issue of plagiarism. Now let me remind you, Gay's plagiarism involved over half of her academic papers. It involved major, major issues of plagiarism. This is not, you know, this is not something, you know, this is not something trivial. It was not a sentence here, a sentence there. It was whole paragraphs. It was whole paragraphs where there was no attribution. Anyway, I think it was Thursday or Friday. Business Insider decided to go after Ackman's wife. Ackman's wife is Neri Ackman. Neri Ackman, I think is Israeli. I read somewhere she's Israeli. Anyway, she is a scientist. She worked, I think for many years at MIT and was an academic at MIT, but now has a startup. I don't exactly understand what she does. But I've been told that the interview with, she has an interview with Lex Friedman. It's quite extraordinary and definitely worth watching. So I'm planning on watching her interview with Lex and understand a little bit more about what she does. Anyway, they came out and said in a dissertation written, I don't know, 2010, a long time ago, she committed plagiarism. And I talked about this Friday, these are minor cases of plagiarism. She didn't put the quotation marks even though she gave the attribution and a few other things that were relatively minor and could easily be viewed as errors, mistakes, but not copy-paste. I'm just going to ignore it. And she gives clear attribution for these things. Anyway, over the weekend, Business Insider clearly motivated by revenge, clearly motivated by going after the guy you called out gay for plagiarism, as if his wife is in the same status as the president of Harvard, as somebody who claims to have that position because of her academic accomplishments. I mean, whatever Neri Oxman's status is, she's not president of Harvard. She's not in a public position like that. She's not in a position of leadership. She's got a startup. She runs a company, her company. Anyway, it's clearly, Akron, you went after the president of Harvard. We're going after you. But who's the we? Right? So this is a business insider, most other or every other major mainstream media publication. Here's a shout out to the mainstream media who approached with the story of Oxman's supposed plagiarism turned it down. Business Insider ran with it. Anyway, over the weekend, Ackman got a, what is it, a 6,000 word, you know, a long, long, long article, 7,000 word plagiarism allegation that they sent. They basically gave him and his wife, I don't even know if they're married. He calls it his partner for life, but I don't know if they're technically married. Anyway, it's partner for life. They gave him 90 minutes to respond, 90 minutes to respond. Of course, they didn't, you know, you can't respond to 90 minutes and accusation like this. And so they don't care. They don't care about facts. They don't care about reality. They don't care about, you know, what exactly, what she actually did or didn't do. They don't want her input on this. Remember, Claude and Gay had weeks, you know, plagiarism, the accusation of plagiarism being around for months. She had weeks to comment on them, to offer a defense, to offer a counter. Ackman's wife has given 90 minutes. But why is she even in the public eye? Why does anybody care? I mean, why should anybody care?  Just unbelievable. Anyway, Ackman is active on Twitter, defending himself, defending his wife, as I think he should be. But what I find interesting as part of this is, you know, Ackman is not somebody you want to mess with. As many corporate leaders I think have found out, he's going to, he is not going to let this go. He is demanding that business insider, you know, explain itself, why it's going after them, why allowing them 90 minutes to comment and so on. What is this other than a vendetta? What exactly are the interests involved? Ackman will use his significant financial resources, I think, to go after these people, right? And he now is, I think, awakened. Maybe he's woke. Is this the meaning of woke? When you awaken to a reality, he's now awakened to the real challenges and real problems that our media has and the way it operates, the ideological take that they have. And of course the ideological take our educational system has and discrimination that our educational system has and the fact that free speech is constrained on American campuses. He's going to take all this on. So he's a fighter and he has the resources to do it. And he has the platform to do it. So this is again another way in which I think beware if you're woke left who and what you wake up, who and what you offend and the kind of resources they're going to be thrown at you. I mean, my guess is that Bill Ackman is probably, I don't know, politically left of center. Maybe center right, but he's not, he's not crazy right. He's not, I don't think he's a Trumpist, I don't think he's, I think he probably voted for Biden. I don't know. But that's my impression. You're waking these people up, these people who have not really been involved, these people who maybe have not really figured out where you are and what you've done to the institutions and you're waking people up with a lot of influence, with a lot of money and with a lot of ability, right. And he's not the only one. There's a bunch of moderate Democrats, many of them Jewish, who have woken up to what the left is doing to what they're doing at our universities and how they're using the media to attack and slander and just orient the world in a direction by dishonest means. So he's after them. He is ready. I mean, he's also committed to real reform at Harvard, which I think is quite exciting. This is just a fact, I just, he just posted this on his Twitter account. He says, the ideological takeover of Harvard is nearly complete. We are all stepping in just in time to save it, but it's going to be a fight. And he's citing here a tweet from Nicholas Christakis, and again, Nicholas Christakis is, yeah, he's a professor of social and natural sciences at Yale. I don't know what his affiliation is. Again, anyway, Christakis writes, Harvard Online Course Catalog has a search box. Type in decolonize. That word is in the titles of seven courses and the descriptions of 18 more. Type in oppression and liberation. They're in the description of more than 80 courses. Books of justice in more than a hundred courses. That's a takeover of Harvard that now people like Ackman have a focusing their efforts on fixing, on straightening out, straightening out. So this is going to be interesting. It's going to be a real fight. The fight at the end of the day for Harvard is the fight for American academia. It's probably a losing fight. Harvard is probably lost, but that fight will resonate in other universities. Harvard sets the tone. Things happening at Harvard set the tone. If Harvard is under attack, other universities will pay attention. They'll be afraid. They'll pivot. They'll change. This could be a moment where you start seeing positive changes in American academia and we'll see. It's going to take more than Ackman because he doesn't have the intellectual resources to win this ultimately. He doesn't have the philosophical, I think, context to win this. Many of the other big financiers who've gone after, particularly University of Pennsylvania, the people who've withdrawn from UPan, most of the people who made the press about their withdrawing funding from UPan are people I know as Ayn Rand fans. Ackman I don't know one way or the other. UPan, definitely. Maybe you could say this is one more way in which Ayn Rand is having an impact on the culture. There are a lot of billionaires today in the world, a lot of billionaires today in the world who are not objectivists but who are heavily influenced by Ayn Rand and therefore heavily influencing the response to the insanity on the campuses of our universities. Now primarily because of the response to October 7th but I think as a result it is opening their eyes to the rest of the world insanity, the DEI insanity that's happening out there.


Welcome folks, we have the down industrial closed down 18, Nasdaq up 29, S&Ps up 10.5, Gold contract up $13.70 trading at 2065 an ounce, Silver down 14 cents, $24.44 an ounce, Lateswee crude down 34 cents, $73.75 a barrel, notes and bonds, a 10-year note, flat 112.21, a 30-year down two at $123.29 a King dollar, King dollars down 132 ticks trading $101.711, Euro 110, yen 142, British pound 127 to one US dollar. Market wise out here folks, you know, this is before the holiday no doubt, but you have the spy as well as the cues in an ABC structure up and I expect they're gonna get them. Right now the cues, the spy closed at $24.73, $502 is the number. We go into the NDX100, the three cues, the ABC up is $4.34 and we're at $4.08, you know, so you get some time to go before that is happening. We go into the note and bond market, right now they want higher price, lower yield, we're at $3.85 on the 10-year, you know, the bottom of this consolidation is $3.24 and I expect that's exactly where we're gonna go. We take a look at the good old dollar and the dollars and the bonds and notes of its forcing this and you can see, you know, I mean, we've come way off the highs on the dollar. I mean, the dollar's top dollar is that, what is that September, the end of September and you can see you broke down about a week ago, you broke that level today and there's nothing now to get to this 99 level. And, you know, the 99 level, all that means is that that's gonna give the market more breathing room and, you know, we'll see where this shakes out after the 99 level. Because on a longer term basis, it has some support at 99. That's the real bottom line. 99 to about 98, 98, 98, 99 has some support and you break that, man. And then you're talking a whole different ball game. I think even just when we get to that 99 level, that's when you're gonna see those ABC structures up at finish. Have a great Christmas, great weekend, safe weekend. Come back and visit Tommy Monday, Tuesday morning, Tuesday morning, nine o'clock. Well, get them, folks.


Ladies and gentlemen, it's a great day, isn't it? It's a... Inaz, come up here. Come up here. Get Inaz up here. Right here. Ladies and gentlemen, four days ago, the first lady of the land started a historic trip in Virginia, and for four days she has been visiting Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and now Florida. She's here. She's a southerner, bred and born. She knows and loves the South. She's here. It's a historic occasion for us, come on Inaz, it's a historic occasion for us to have a great lady in her own right, a gracious, lovely and talented lady. We are proud that she can be here, and I am proud indeed to present to my home county the vivacious, the lovely, the wonderful first lady of the land, the wife of the President of the United States for a historic trip which you will always remember, Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson. Thank you, Congressman Bob Sykes. I've had a wonderful time traveling through the state of Florida this morning with your Governor, Faris Bryant, your Senator George Smathers, many members of your delegation, and especially your own Congressman, Bob Sykes, who is a, he's a wonderful guide to this part of the country. And there's no need to tell you how hard he works for this, this district because Eglin Air Force Base and your five military installations speak for his work, for his people. I'm glad to say my husband Lyndon Johnson has been able to help him on all of those. He's also told me about your blueberry butchers and your beautiful miracle strip, where I would like to go and have a nice restful time, but that'll have to come sometime later on. My main reason for coming on this trip, my friends of the South, is to say to you that we value you, we appreciate you, we need your help, and I wanted to say that all of you who have been with us, my heartfelt thanks, 10 months ago on a most awful day that all of us remember, my husband became your President. And since then, his thoughts have been mainly three, to try to keep this country at peace based on firm strength because that's what means the most to every mother and father and all the children here. His second thought has been to try to keep us on a course of stable prosperity. And I think all of us can say that these last four years of a democratic administration have been years of prosperity. And his third thought is to seek with a compassionate, practical plans to help those Americans still in need. I remember the wonderful welcome you gave Lyndon and me four years ago when we came to your city. I want to thank the bands, I want to thank all the children, and I want to introduce to you my own little girl, Lucy Baines. For one reason I'm a southerner among southerners, but for more than that, for the fact that I've seen so many young people taking an active interest in this campaign and this election because I realize, as I know you all realize, that soon, probably sooner than we would like, we are going to have to take up the reins of government on our own. And what we learn now will make the kind of government we will lead. I have one plea, one thing, one hope that means so much to me. And this hope is that although we have the right to disagree, that our reason and our intellect that we have been able to achieve in a nation such as ours may guide us so that we may not be disagreeable. Thank you very much. And now some gifts, some gifts for the First Lady. And first of all, my wife and his, I want you to say hello to, now some gifts for Mrs. Johnson, first from the Billy Bull eggs group, a chest, a treasure chest of sand from the Miracle Strip. Mrs. Johnson, next, next a quilt, a quilt, next a quilt, handmade quilt selected from a countywide contest for the First Lady. And now a beautiful bouquet of flowers from Okaloosa County, and a gift from Crestview High School. George Smellers, Governor Farris Bryant, Farris, where are you? Come up here and take a bow. Farris Bryant, say a word. It's wonderful to be here in Crestview and have the warmth and hospitality of this great area of Florida demonstrated to the First Lady of the United States. Congressman, it's a pleasure and a privilege to be with you. Now a word from your senator, George Smellers. I know we're all pleased and happy to welcome into this state the gracious wife of a great president who's doing so much for our state and the nation. We're happy to have you. Thank you. Good to see you all. Secretary of Commerce, Luther Hodges. I want to bring you greetings from North Carolina, where we're going to vote Democratic because we're $1,200 a year better off than we were four years ago. Your former senator, now Congressman Claude Pepper, I know we're all honored to have here today the gracious First Lady of the Land, the wife of our president, and the wife of our great next president of the United States, President Johnson. Also on the train, Governor Buford Ellington, Congressman and Mrs. Bennett, Congressman and Mrs. Matthews, Commissioner of Agriculture and Mrs. Connor, Mrs. Tom Bailey, and Mrs. Paul Rogers, good to see all of you.