So much for joining us this afternoon. My name is Anya Wright. I am a youth activist in the state of Maine and I'm really excited to be your host this afternoon. Welcome to the first ever Future Focus webinar. We're so excited to have Anna Siegel here today. Future Focus is a new webinar series that is being brought to you by Maine Audubon, Maine Climate Action Now, Maine Youth for Justice, the Maine Environmental Education Association, Maine Environmental Changemakers, and Southern Maine Conservation Collaborative. And we all came together to start a youth-led monthly webinar series highlighting youth climate justice activists and their stories from across. So each, sorry, got muted for a second. Each one-hour session will focus on a different individual and the intersectional leadership work that they are doing in their community and beyond. And so we're so excited to have Anna as our first panelist. And please sign up for our future webinars. We have Amara Afiji on December 1st talking about using it to mobilize. And then we also have Sirohi Kumar coming on January to talk about climate emergency declarations. And so with that, I will pass it over to Anna to get started. Again, thank you all for being here. We're going to ask everyone to stay muted and to keep your videos off while Anna is speaking. And then we'll have some time after Anna's done her discussion and question and answer. And we'll let you all turn on your sound then. So sit tight. Anna, we're excited to have you. And I will pass it over to you. Awesome. Thanks, Anya. So as you guys know, my name is Anna Siegel. I'm a 14-year-old climate activist. And I'm currently a freshman at Weanfleet High School. I am the co-organizing director of Main Strikes, a core member of the statewide coalition, Maine Youth for Climate Justice, part of the Sierra Club Maine Political Team, and a member of the Emergency Management Working Group on the Maine Climate Council. I'm honored and excited to be speaking here now, especially because Maine Audubon is co-sponsoring this speaker series. I have so many amazing memories from the land that Audubon conserves. And a common refrain from when I was younger was, can we go to the Audubon? I was waiting girly until I was old enough to volunteer at the Scarborough Marsh Audubon Center, but then the pandemic hit. Along with being unable to volunteer, I couldn't attend the Hog Island Audubon camp for young birders off the coast of Maine. This familiar recounting of opportunities lost to COVID-19 also exposes my perspective on climate action. I first became interested in the climate crisis because of the ecological effect on wildlife. And I also come to the climate movement from a point of privilege. My home has never been flooded. My family's livelihood is not directly tied to a climate-impacted economy, such as tourism from skiing or lockstone. And I've never missed school because of bad air quality. As I'll describe later, I fell under activism with a blind enthusiasm and what you may call naivety, but now I'm conscious of the balancing act of using my privilege to fight for what's right and to make space on this platform for everyone's voice. One of the craziest things about my activism experience, which I'll spend most of this time explaining, is that people assume that I wanna be a professional organizer or a politician. And that sounds cool, but in truth, my dream is to become a conservation or mythologist. I spend my weekends on the ocean, in the woods or walking around, bundled on layers to find and photograph these little winged beauties, such as this Prothonitary Warbler in Hinkley Park. Prothonitary warblers are pretty rare, and so it was one of my first cautious outings amid the lockdown to go see it this spring. However, activism started as a hobby that has virtually immersed me in my time. So climate does often take precedent over birds. As mentioned, I started activism with an ecological viewpoint. I cared about animals and animals only. In sixth grade, I knew about the sixth mass extinction we are currently living in. I knew about the cutting down of the trees in the rainforest. I thought that I knew all there was to this, this being climate change, and that I was ready to wade into this world of policy and coalitions and everything that being part of a movement is. Sixth grade me believed that the solution to the climate crisis was electric cars, composting and reducing plastic. My very first action related to climate was a petition launch party where we gathered at City Hall in Portland to get signatures for a petition around emissions reductions that we submitted to the main department of environmental protection. I was incredibly nervous, but had encouraged to speak about birds by my teacher at the time, 350 main volunteers and lifelong activist, Lee Chisholm. I have a very distinct memory of the speaker before me talking about environmental racism. And I thought, what does that have to do with any of this? Why aren't we talking about devastation in the rainforest? Why are people involved? I wonder what I would tell my sixth grade self now. There's no way I could compress the years of learning about intersectionality, cross-issue activism and tokenization that have gained through experience and research into a tangible conversation with a younger self. However, I might be able to explain it here. It was the October 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that made me realize that climate crisis wasn't something happening to a polar bear in the Arctic or a tiger in Asia. It is immediate, urgent, and something that harmed a group I hadn't considered, people. And not people in a few decades, not future generations, people right now. That report, October 2018 report, was the report which stated that we have 12 years to put the brakes on greenhouse gas emissions or else we'll cross a threshold that we cannot return from. It is now 10 years. And once I drew an imaginary line in my head of climate effects from animals to people, it exploded from there. More dots became connected. Adverse drought conditions on subsistence farmers in Central America, that spread climate migration. How air quality is worse and is consistently hotter in low-income and black neighborhoods, that's environmental racism. How half of the world's population, women, are often not included in climate discussions, that's part of gender inequality and more. All of this formulated into the concept of climate justice, where social equity and climate action go hand in hand. So in our theoretical timeline, this is seventh grade, Anna.  It was only when I embarrassed myself in a discussion with some other organizers when I must have named the wrong candidate to support an important election, that I hit the books or Google on electoralism, what neoliberal men, capitalism, and all the terms I didn't understand that the activists I looked up to like to throw around. In a short order, I became a die-hard Bernie Sanders fan spouting off about leftism, systems of oppression and how we must tax the rich. That brings us to current me. I'm very grateful that I'm talking here. I was once speaking on another webinar and I sent them my draft, which said something along the lines of, to truly solve the climate crisis, lead to dismantle capitalism and all the systems which enable it. They didn't want me to even say the word capitalism. And believe me, my parents don't want to hear it from me anymore either. So what brought me from someone who declined plastic straws to a raging leftist? I would never say I'm done learning. Saying that now we're here, my present self doesn't mean I'm done here. I haven't read the theory or studied up on leftist icons such as Angela Davis and Malcolm X. I developed my radical stance from listening to those around me in the news in the current moment. It involves some self-education, but that's only part of it. For a long time, I was directly engaged in the national youth climate movement as the state lead for Maine with US youth climate strike. I started in March, 2019 and Maine strikes left US YCS a few months ago. There were a lot of ups and downs with the youth climate movement on the national stage, positives and negatives. It was only when being part of a national organization began to actively detract from the organizing experience here in Maine did we decide to leave. But before then, there was lots of benefits. The first of which was being in that space as a middle schooler and the rest of the organization largely had late high school to college activists. That gave me a crash course in tons of skills. I had to learn quickly. I learned how to manage press and traditional media, a passion I still hold. I learned how to be a confident public speaker much different from when I first spoke at City Hall when I was so scared and to be unafraid to ask questions to those who are more experienced. It was also a great base to operate from. Whenever I needed help or was unsure of what next steps to take I could turn to national organizers at US YCS or ask other state leads what they were doing for their local campaigns. I also became friends with other organizers and still talk to the old Ohio youth climate strike kids. Also, national organizing means national level opportunities including the chance to attend a youth climate convening in Iowa, August 2019. Along with cramming for the September 20th strikes we had workshops, brainstormed policy and demands and had lots of summer camp style fun. I met so many amazing activists including Jamie Merglin, Gia Berea and more. And then there were the downsides of organizing nationally. To be honest, it was incredibly stressful. Imagine high school but elevated to a national organization because many youth organizers went to college or were taking exams or needed a mental health break. There was a lot of turnover. That means we had to do a lot of elections and voting periods to elect new leaders in the organization. My guess is that everyone here on this webinar including myself are feeling very stressed about the November 3rd election. While that stress happened every other month to elect new leaders in US YCS albeit on a smaller scale of course because we weren't voting on the present in the United States. Sometimes there would be directives and those would be rolled back and replaced with new ideas. It was a constant state of flux and sorting it out was an absorbing all-encompassing endeavor. Being national was also less individualized. Often courses of action were recommended to us, Maine that were done successfully in states like Minnesota, Wisconsin or New York. But Maine isn't any of those places. By leaving US YCS, Maine Strikes and Maine Youth for Climate Justice organizers and I could focus on the campaigns that work right here in the namesake state in the place we are fighting to protect. More local activism has almost none of the issues that national had while retaining most of the benefits. That said, if I was given the opportunity to organize nationally again such as with the Sunrise Movement or another organization I would take it. It was fast paced and exciting and I believe I would now know how to handle its pitfalls better. In the past my main role as an activist, locally here in Maine, not on that national stage has been directing climate strikes across the state in accordance with global climate strikes. Although I've been an activist in sixth grade I wasn't actively organizing until right before the March 15th global climate strike. That was when I was thrown into the role of the Maine State lead for US Youth Climate Strikes in late February, barely a month before the strike. That strike was more of a general call for action, a declaration of sorts. The youth are here and we are angry. Those initial rallies stated that we wouldn't and refused to be silenced. That strike had around 1,500 youth involved across the state. The next one was April 23rd, the Youth Day of Action in Augusta. This was Maine Youth for Climate Justice's first official action as an integrated coalition. A couple hundred youth came to Augusta to lobby the legislators in demand that youth be involved in the Maine Climate Council because youth should be involved in every level of government. That is how I came to serve on the community resilience, public health and emergency management working group. And my facilitator on your right is on the council itself. After an inactive summer of organizing the next strike, September 20th was an explosion of energy. Over 2,000 people showed up at City Hall in Portland. In 1,500 more across the state, this picture is from Norway, Maine, asking for one thing, that the cities of Portland and South Portland declare a climate emergency. The climate emergency resolutions for the two cities passed left then two months later. The last in-person strike we held apart from the Earth Day webinars and virtual actions was March 3rd. On March 3rd, we endorsed Bernie Sanders for president and handed out climate justice scorecards on the presidential candidates to potential voters in various cities. Embarrassingly, Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klawisher dropped out of the race a few days before that strike. So we need to explain to every single person that no, we couldn't reprint 200 scorecards in time. They still had Pete and Amy on them. These climate strikes are more than just gathering a bunch of kids together and chanting. All of Maine strike's events are driven with intention, which means they are centered around a specific demand such as divestment, climate emergency or a certain piece of legislation. They also work to instigate climate action in local areas and develop our teams. They also provide certain frames of reference. You can tell from how I've been talking that activists tend to talk in terms of dates and numbers. Did we do this before or after September 20th? What was the fact of March 3rd? The last strike was April 23rd. That's how it always is. And often those numbers can get jumbled up. But of course, because of COVID-19, we have not been holding strikes statewide. Though some of our individual teams have done safe actions with low numbers. As exhilarating as climate strikes are, leading thousands of students in songs and rallying cries, I honestly prefer the quiet and steady satisfaction of climate emergency campaigns. Climate emergency is when a governing body, such as a college, municipality, state or country, officially recognizes the climate crisis as it is and commits to immediate and effective action. Depending on the resolution itself, the exact context can change. But here in Maine, the municipalities who pass a declaration typically commit to 100% net zero by 2030. Through youth and adult ally effort, five cities have passed climate emergency in Maine with many more in process and on their way. Just talking about climate emergency makes me really excited. As you can see here, these are headlines from different newspapers. Well, they're all from the Portland Press Hub but from the different towns. So we have the SACO students who declared climate emergency. Then we have the Brunswick. And then this was from, one of them was from December when we announced our intent for the state to do so. And then also for Portland. And so climate emergency makes me excited because now just talking about it, I'm thinking of how I have to see who can add public comment when the bank or city council votes on their resolution, touch base with the GARMA students to submit their resolution to our council meeting and ask them how fast what they need. I'm thinking of all these different campaigns. Each city or town takes a different process to declare a climate emergency from getting the Portland mayor to promise to do so under pressure from youth on camera to older activists educating middle schoolers on how local government works in SACO. Climate emergency looks a little different in other places. For example, in New York City, the resolution they passed about climate emergency banned all new fossil fuel infrastructure instead of asking the city to be 100% net zero by 2030. The reason for this, in Maine, we wouldn't do something like that except we don't really have fossil fuel infrastructure because there's not really fracking or drilling for oil in Maine. So instead of asking them to commit to these bold reduction goals. Even though I love climate emergency work, unfortunately we can't always do the work that we love. More and more I've become wrapped up in electoralism which is the strategy of trying to elect certain candidates to get what you want done politically. I've always denounced that as ineffective activism because I don't believe we can rely on putting so-so candidates in positions of power and hope they will actually care about the communities they trot on to get to their position. However, somehow I've become the go-to person in Maine Youth for Climate Justice when it comes to candidates and purely political efforts. I don't really mind, but it's quite odd. I didn't intend to be in this position. It really started with Bernie Ferber. I pushed Maine Youth for Climate Justice in main strikes to endorse him and ended up facilitating that vote. When Bernie dropped out of the race, I pretty much lost faith in national electoral politics. I declared the system broken and associated from the endless news about Biden and Trump, Biden and Trump, the infinite cycle. Then Maine Youth for Climate Justice endorsed Betsy's suite for US Senate and I got excited all over again. I thought, well, if Bernie couldn't win, at least we can create a more progressive Senate. When Betsy inevitably lost because of the out-of-state money Sarah could even receive from the start, I decided I'd had enough with electoralism, period. Never again, not my kind of activism. That didn't last very long. A sign in my town, Yarmouth, caught my eye. It said, Heather Abbott, her state representative. And there were more, Art Bell, Jennifer White. It occurred to me that the national battles that we are seeing in the news are also played out on a local scale. I had grown up seeing these signs but I always associated them more with the seasons than politics. In the fall, as the leaves fell down, the signs went up. They were gone by the time of the first snow, not this year, I don't know if you guys saw but it's gonna snow on Friday, which is insane. But this year I did some research. This was the year ballotpedia.com became my best friend and I discovered that local candidates are incredibly important. When Heather Abbott lost her primary, it didn't crush me the way Bernie and Betsy losing did. That's because I led a project for NYCJ who re-endorsed candidates across the state. So now I phone bank for candidates in Arizona and Vermont, wrote letters to the editor for every candidate we endorsed here in Maine and have become the impromptu youth spokesperson on Sarah Gideon. And I don't believe in or even like electoralism. I get a lot of questions about Joe Biden and Sarah Gideon. On an organization level, neither Maine Strikes or NYCJ will be endorsing them at this point because we previously endorsed candidates for both races. Personally, I don't feel comfortable directly advocating for either of them without critique. I understand that Donald Trump and Susan Collins are much worse, of course, but it is a sort of lesser of two evil situation that doesn't feel like democracy. Settle for Biden and vote blue no matter who rhetoric is incredibly harmful to the communities and individuals who are harmed and have been harmed by these candidates and the two-party system. That isn't to say, I'm not just as scared for the election as all of you are. Despite my hesitations, I will be tax banking and I have been tax banking for the Biden campaign. I have been speaking a little bit with the youth for Biden and Maine and more. I feel as though youth activists had to go around like old prophets with bells and gloomy hoods, hollering the end is near to get people to pay attention to us. Unfortunately, this only exacerbates the climate anxiety we already have. As I remarked on you the other day, anxiety practically comes in the youth activist starter pack. What we aren't able to do enough of is to envision a better future, the one we'd want to live in. I'd love to see some ideas in the chat.  Instead of the fear you flooded and divided world predicted, what would make the future bright and helpful? Drop what you think below from policy like the Green New Deal to something simple and wholesome like getting easily accessible, far and fresh food from a local market. Let's see some ideas. And if nobody has anything, it's okay too. Yeah, driving a lot of cars, transportation is a huge part of emissions, especially here in Maine. And but we also need more public transportation. Well, I understand why people may not have any ideas, especially because the news has been so dire recently and it's hard to envision a bright future when we've got the Supreme Court and we're on the risk about the election. But for me, if I had to pick a world, if I had to make a world, it would be where humans both respect and understand the natural world and wildlife but with the draw from it at the same time. We tighten up society into urban centers, leaving vast swaths of habitat for the earth to heal. A huge cause of ecological devastation is suburban sprawl. By rescinding from wild lands, the roads and development that chop up habitat and biomes into pieces would disappear. It has also been proven that denser cities which are rockable and have efficient and affordable public transportation, lower living costs and boost the overall well-being of the population. These urban centers would be green cities where farming occurs on the sides of buildings in a sustainable way, instead of big agriculture and monocropping that we have now. Light rail would connect these cities, eliminating the need for cars. Capitalism would be abolished and trade would be based on what real people need rather than gross domestic product, a system that would be similar to New Zealand's economic model of the global happiness index where economy is based not off of a number, but how people are feeling how they're doing what they need and if they can thrive. Without corporations and power, corruption and government would dwindle. Biodiversity would be revived as habitats preserved and large tracks to the ocean and land are set aside to be untouched. Increasing biodiversity would restore natural equilibrium of food webs in animal physiology. As for people, everyone would be given basic human rights to water, air, food and housing, as well as freedom of speech, gender expression, sexual orientation, the right to choose education, accessible voting and essential happiness. While no society is perfect enough to eliminate prejudice and hatred in my perfect society, principles of social justice would be taught to children at a young age so they can learn to appreciate everyone within the context of our painful history. This sounds idealistic, but that's the point of a vision. It's a dream to work towards. I get constantly told that my generation has the responsibility to fix prior mistakes. So why not try to reach a dream? If it's our job to create a better world, why is it better at the limit? Why can't it be the best world possible? That's why I get frustrated when the Green New Deal is written off as too ambitious or as the Green Dream, as Nancy Pelosi called it. Professional public speaker and former politician Les Brown once said, shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you'll land among the stars. So my vision for the future is multifaceted but still hinges on ecology in the animal perspective. As you all demonstrated, everyone has a different answer on what a perfect world looks like. And that's okay. No one organization can steer us onto the right path. As there is no right path and no organization's mission statement can encapsulate everything. Only everyone working together, raising their voice about various issues, reminding others of people that are underrepresented can reach that perfect world. It may be messy, arduous, and unsatisfyingly inefficient, but it's that kind of grassroots activism and gritty fight that is the core of democracy or what democracy should be. So now that I've talked at you for a sufficient amount of time, Anya here will ask me some questions and then we can both talk at you. As Anya and I are chatting, feel free to drop any questions you may have in the chat or when we're done, you can also unmute and directly ask. This could be about me personally, such as was I ever scared of public speaking or what is school like, about activism or politics or even about birds. Really anything. Part of the intention behind this webinar was to make it more personal and familiar instead of like an uptight business sort of thing, which is why this is a regular Zoom meeting instead of a Zoom webinar format where I can't see you and you can't speak. That's also why we are here in my bedroom. So ask away in the chat or speak up and Anya will start with some of our own questions to give you all some time to think. Thanks so much, Anna. Thanks so much for all your words and it's so fun. Anna and I have worked together for like almost two years now doing activism work, but it's not often that like we really share our real true like long in-depth stories with each other. And so, Anna, it's been a treat to just like sit and listen to you and hear more about how you got interested in activism and how you got involved. So thank you. And yeah, everyone feel free to start popping some questions in the chat if you want. Anna and I are gonna talk for like 10 minutes and then we'll just open up the floor for questions. But Anna, I'm curious. A lot of your talk was maybe a way of looking at climate action in a way that's different than sort of the traditional like conservation or big green organization or I guess how like environmentalism has looked in the past. And so I'm curious. I mean, you talked about your journey going from recycling to a more radical justice activist, but I'm wondering if you have any advice for folks or thoughts about how to, I guess like start that journey or start that understanding and that could be like if you have folks that you liked or webinars that you think are good, but just yeah. Yeah, definitely. I'd say apply your passion to the wider context of the world. For me, obviously it's birds. I'm looking out at my window. I'm seeing pine siskins. I'm seeing tufted tetanus. I'm seeing chickadees. And I did that for a while. And then when I was on these walks of all these birders, they'd be talking, they've seen many, many seasons of migration. They talk about how migration wasn't the same. They talk about how there's no boreal force anymore, how we aren't seeing the same numbers of diversity, how we're getting mid-Atlantic species because Maine is now warm enough that species from more southern states are coming here. And that really got me thinking when I was a little bit younger and wondering is this normal? Like is this just things to shift year to year or is this then reading about this and learning as part of this trend. So applying your passions, you could be really into gardening. You could be really into public health. And applying your passions and seeing how that fits into the way of the world because when it comes to public health, we're seeing Lyme disease marching in domain or seeing worse air quality. Actually, coronaviruses are more easily spread in the kind of world that climate change is creating. We're gonna be seeing more pandemics because of climate change. So that's just an example of it's never fun to do things you don't wanna do. So if you have something that you love doing and you want to get into activism and you don't know how, use the thing you love to get into it. And then as for books, I, Jamie Marvland just wrote a book called Youth to Power. It's specifically for youth activists, but I think it also was great lessons for adult allies. And I'd say anything by Bill McKibben is amazing. Thanks. Yeah, I like that thought of following your passions and following what you love. I think a lot about how like climate change affects all of us in some way. And figuring that out for ourselves is a really good way into climate activism. For me, it was a lot about like my love for the outdoors and being outside and realizing that those things were changing and going to change. And so yeah, thanks for that answer. Also, I haven't read Jamie Marvland's book yet, but it's on my list. So there's a question in the chat and it is about, it's probably a question that you get a lot, but how should folks get more, how should people learn about main strikes so that they can participate and let their friends know? Yeah, so as I said, we are currently doing climate strikes, but we will be in the future, hopefully when we can gather and people will start doing some safe strikes. And you can find out when they're happening, it's at climate strike ME on Instagram and Facebook. We post a lot of our events. Also, Main Youth for Climate Justice has a newsletter, which you can join by emailing mainyouth for, I'm putting this in the chat, Justice, and beyond the global climate strikes, we do other sorts of actions and they're all of demand space, so there could be actions to have a talented quite a client emergency and things like that. So all those updates come from there. Thanks, Anna. We had a question from Jess in the chat. Jess, would you be able to ask your question? Yeah, sure. Thank you, Anya, and thank you, Anna, for this great time with you and your sharing. This is really awesome. So my question for you, Anna, is why is it important that youth be involved and listen to and sort of what is the added value that the youth voice brings? And so sort of looking for like an articulation of what you see that being, so that just sort of like to change the frame and think about creating movements and systems that allow for that to amplify it and sort of support it. Yeah, so often the argument is that youth need to be engaged because it's their future they're growing up in. I don't always use that argument because it's not the future, it's the present. We're seeing these effects now with the thousands of acres burned in Oregon. We're seeing everything now with client migration already being stirred. So it's not just that we're in the future that we're gonna be growing up in this. It's that youth have to add a perspective of long ranging issues. And so you see these politicians, they're thinking in two years, they're thinking in four years, they may be thinking in eight years. That's how long their terms are. But youth are thinking about, we're thinking about college, we're thinking about 30 years, we're thinking about our lives way, way ahead than these politicians might be. So youth have that long ranging perspective and that's really why we need to be engaged in government. But also why we need to be engaged politically is that I believe that every kid going up in this world has almost a responsibility to learn about these things by being the news, by talking to your parents, by talking to your friends. I encourage every kid in school to learn something about politics because we need to know what we're dealing with and what we have to do. And it's people often say, oh, but I can't vote yet, like how can I help? But if you educate yourself, then you're able to do other things because I've been doing all this and I can't vote. And so I think that it goes beyond voting, especially if you're doing non electoral work. So yeah. Thanks for that question, Jess. I think we can just transition into opening it up to the group. And if people want to turn on their videos, you're welcome to. Lisa, I saw that there was a question from you in the chat and I don't know if you can turn on your audio, but you're welcome to ask it. I can't be seen very well, but there we are. Hi, Anna. Hi, Ani. So Anna, my question in the chat was, how did your education support you in your activism? Yeah, I love talking about this. So I went to friend schools from middle school. I went there from fourth grade to eighth grade. And I'm currently a weekly high school, but I haven't been there for a long, also been half online. But so in friend school, when it really started, it was, there was a lot of individual support. So as I mentioned, my teacher, Lee Chisholm, really got me into this without him. I don't think I ever would be here. I've always believed that I would be an activist in some sense, just because it's kind of, I'm very opinionated person. It's kind of how I'm geared. So I feel like I would be doing activism somewhere, maybe about gender equality, or LGBTQ rights, but maybe if Lee had never been in my life, I never would be where I am today, which is crazy to think about. So that was a huge source of individual support. But education overall, friend school is very nature-based and community-based, which I think was a perfect way to bring together these ideas of environmentalism and social justice, which creates climate justice. Because at friend school, we talk about integrity and community and equality and all these ideas of how we need to be working together. But then we'd also be outdoors all the time and you can't fight for something and let's see if a connection to it. So by getting all of us outside and getting us on these field trips, being outdoors, that really helps foster, I think I noticed all the younger kids were super, like they were these third graders, being like, we want to go into climate strike. And it's because friend school would take these kids outdoors. So that's super, super important. And it's part of what the main Environmental Education Association does. And then also, in terms of the administration, friend school was very relaxed with me in the sense that I went to school three or four days a week at some points, not COVID related. Even before then, I was going to lots of meetings in Augusta for the main climate council to do talks like these in person, to do training sessions. And it led to a lot of miss school time, especially in Augusta, so far away from me. And they were really calm about that. And I don't think, I can't think of another school that would just let me leave to go talk to legislatures. Like that's amazing. And my current education at Wayne Fleet, I'd say that they really foster dialogue around current events. They give a lot of space for that and they give a lot of space for healthy debate and discourse. But I haven't been there that long, so I can't comment too much about how that's fostered activism. Thanks, Anna and Lisa. David, I'm seeing your question next and I'm wondering if you wanna ask it out loud or I can also read it, but I'm not hearing David unmute it. Okay, go ahead. Should I start the video or ask it out loud? You can ask it out loud, that would be great. Well, it's kind of a too complicated to question in a way. The, what strikes me so often is that people are not satisfied with enough. And that's because we're brought up in a capitalist culture in which, which is built upon a desire that there is no end to what you should accumulate. In other words, it's a culture of excess and what do we need to do? And what could we do to try to change our culture so that it became a more balanced and satisfied way of living? That is an excellent question. And I'm so excited if one of older and I'm taking college courses about this and I can apply, like Lisa was saying, I can apply my education much more directly to these things by taking economics courses and taking courses in environmental policy. But from what I know now, it's really putting more emphasis on equity over equality. There is definitely not a quality in the United States today where many people believe there is because there is the potential for all sorts of people to be enough. There's the potential people to be enough, these opportunities, but they aren't for people to have these same things and to be able to get along in the same way. But there needs to be more focus on equity rather than equality because equality means everyone has the same thing. Equity means everyone gets what they needs. And that's what this is all about. We want everyone to be able to thrive in their own unique and individual way because when it comes down to the United States and the world at large, everyone is unique individual, finding their own way through life has their own historical baggage and context that they had to deal with and without the idea of equity that we cannot get through. And the good visual representation equity, which you may have seen is there's a fence and there's people's 30 different heights and equality, they're all given one box to stand on and one person can see and the other two can't. Equity is where first person doesn't need a box, second person needs one box and the third person needs two boxes and then they're all able to see over the fence. And so that's really what it comes down to is the idea of gearing an economic system towards what people need, what they need to have, how they can thrive and how they can live their best lives rather than what are we importing? What are we exporting? What are the numbers? How, what is the wavy line on the stock market look like? That shouldn't matter. That wavy line shouldn't matter. The fact that matters more than real lives is the problem. And again, I'm excited for when I can give a more specific answer about economic systems when I have taken those kinds of courses and I can do more self-education. Thanks, Anna. Juanita, I'm seeing a question from you in the chat wondering if you wanna ask it out loud. Sure, thank you, Anya. Anna, it's nice to meet you and I hope to see you at Hog Island next year. I just live up the road from Hog Island. But I was wondering, is the group that you're working with, working with the indigenous population who are the real masters or not masters, but the real knowers of how to value life, land and people? And they've been here for over 15,000 years so they have some experience. Yeah, that's an excellent point. As I was saying earlier in response to one question from Jess that you have the long-range perspective. Well, indigenous people of Maine often have the belief of seven generations so even a longer-ranging perspective. And yeah, so we collaborated with indigenous youth, indigenous people, especially the Wabanaki people a few times over with, we hosted a webinar with the Senate candidates including Betsy Sweet, Tiffany Bond and Lisa Savage and brought forward some questions from the indigenous community. And we partnered with them as a coalition to work on an effort and direct action to give Wabanaki people sovereignty. The state of Maine has not granted Wabanaki people sovereignty, which still makes my blood boil every time I talk about it. It's crazy to think that the Wabanaki people have been here as he said, over 15,000 years in the Don and then we're essentially almost driven out in a way and now live in Vermont's Northern Kingdom have not been given sovereignty. And I don't know if you've recently heard but a company in Bangor ended up thousands of gallons of chemical were being leaked into the Posenska River which the Posenska tribe can often relies on. So yes, we were working with the Wabanaki people to get sovereignty. That was an action plan for April. Obviously it didn't happen. We are waiting for the legislature to open again and waiting to hear from them if they will continue that fight and if they are, then we will definitely partner with them again. But we'd always love to work with them more. It can just be hard to make those connections. Thanks, Anna. There's another question in the chat from Amelia and Ollie. And the question is, how can I help even though I'm seven years old? What things can I learn about? This is a good question because I feel like I'd say my only advice applies about finding what we're interested in and looking into it. I'd say don't pressure yourself to feel like it's great to get involved and don't feel like you need to know everything earlier. I was saying that I was really only thought about composting things and plastic straws and polar bears instead of people and environmental racism in the intersectionality of all this. And I talked about it like that was a bad thing. And it was great that I learned more and understood more about what climate justice means. But that's where I was at the time. At that time, I was about composting and I was about plastic straws. And that's where I needed to be because I couldn't have understood all those things at this time. So don't feel any pressure to feel like you need to know all these things and to know everything about politics. It's just amazing that seven years old, you're listening to me and you've sat for almost an hour and listen, I honestly hate sitting on webinars. I would not sit in on this webinar if I wasn't speaking, to be honest. So that's amazing. And that's just a great first step. So if where you're at is composting and milk straws, that's great. If you want to become more involved, oh wait, what grade is seven years old? I feel old right now. I'm only 14, but like I don't know. I heard second grade. Second grade, okay. I was gonna, yeah, no, that's too good. I was gonna recommend something. But yeah, just to see what interests you if you're really into animals as well, read about animals and how they're doing and be at the end function at where you can be. So I don't know if that made any sense. No, I think that's a great answer, Anna. And I think something that you and I talk about a lot is that everybody's needed in addressing climate change. And so it doesn't really matter how old you are or how young you are, but as long as you're passionate about solving climate change and learning more, that's really what's important. So I think what Anna is saying about finding your passion and figuring out what really matters to you and then learning as much as you can is such a great way to go forward with it. And yeah, we're running a little low on time. And I just wanted to ask you one more sort of like discussion question and then maybe we could wrap up. And I'm seeing a couple other questions in the chat and I don't think that we're gonna have time to get to all of them unfortunately. But my question is like, what's next? What's next for you after the elections over? What do you think that main strikes and that you will be doing? Yeah, so this is a question that we have as well. Honestly, we are gonna, the week after the election we're planning a big reorientation call. What happened? Where are we going from here and what do we wanna focus on? I'd say just before that what I can think of is that we're gonna be working on a digressment bill because there, I don't know if I have time to explain this, it's a little complicated. But if you're interested in doing some research, there's an organization called MainPERS, Main, the P-E-R-S, all caps, which holds their retirement funds of public employees and teachers. And a huge amount of that money is invested in fossil fuels and banks that donate to fossil fuel corporations. And so one of our allies who we endorsed going into the main legislature, hopefully it all goes well in this election, going through the main legislature is gonna pose a bill to divest MainPERS. So we want to be working on that. We also wanna continue client emergency efforts. I just wanna do a little plug here. Anyone can do client emergency, anyone. It would be if you are interested as an adult ally in trying to do client emergency in your town, getting your town to promise to be 100% renewable by 2030, reach out to us. We'd love to hear from you. We'd love to help you work on it. What I do is I do one-on-one calls with individual people for client emergency. And that's a big part of my work. So definitely, if you're excited about that. So divestment, client emergency, depending on the results of the election, there might be some direct action striking, kind of make sure they vote to kind of properly don't, like that kind of thing. If things don't go in the direction that we hope, making sure that people are being heard and that there isn't corruption going on. Hopefully it doesn't come to that. And I'd say developing our teams. We have teams in Bangor, Portland, Bates College. We'd like to develop more around the state. If you have students interested, if you have kids interested, definitely let us know. We'd love to get more youth involved. And as on your scene earlier, we'd like to have anyone, some of our teams do education. Some of our teams are reading client emergency efforts. It's a spectrum. Some of the people involved are hand posters and some people involved are reading working groups. So anyone can be part of it. That was a very long way to answer the question Anya, but we really don't exactly know what we're doing because of the election. So. That's okay. I think a lot of people feel the same. And obviously there's just so much work to be done. And so also it makes sense that there's a billion different projects that you're working on. So, and I just wanna thank you again so much for taking the time to speak with us this evening. I'm gonna drop in the chat a link to sign up for future, for future focus talks in the future. Our next talk is on December 1st at 430 with Amara Fiji. And our next, our talk after that is in January with Sarohi Kumar. And they're both really fantastic youth activists working in the state of Maine. And the way that we're gonna do this series is that the next webinar is gonna be hosted by Anna. So it'll be Anna and Amara and you won't see me. But we're just so excited to have you here. We hope you'll come back next month. And thank you all and have a great night. And thank you, Anna. Thank you all. Also, this is being recorded. So it'll be viewable on Facebook and other in the future focus website. So, thank you.


China also opposes Russia's occupation policy. Chinese representatives participating in the negotiations on the final communique of the G-20 summit have changed their neutral position on the war in Ukraine to a more pro-Ukrainian one. Bloomberg reported this, citing a senior French official on condition of anonymity. China's past and neutral position had effectively benefited Moscow. However, Beijing takes a softer line compared to last year, the official says. This is important given the position of Western countries which called on China to put pressure on Russia to end the war, Bloomberg writes. The French official said that all G-20 countries have agreed on a common approach regarding the war in Ukraine, at the same time India, which hosts this year's G-20 summit, still refuses to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg emphasizes. The summit in New Delhi will be held on the 9th to the 10th of September. Ukraine was not included in the countries invited to the G-20 summit. The Russian President Vladimir Putin will not be at the summit either, instead the Russian Federation will be represented by Sergey Lavrov, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry.


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مرحباً جميعاً. مرحباً بكم في قناة. my name is Arin Aburman and my partner is ... I'm Musab Banat. I established education program in Jordan 2015 and also we both established the Jordanian digital Arabic content association that we will tell you in the next slide about it. Also I'm co-founder of the association. This association is a unique and one of the first association that specialized in the digital Arabic content in Jordan and the Arab world. Yes and also it belongs to the Ministry of Culture. It aims to increase digital Arabic content and to support Arabic language, our mother tongue and also to increase our ... to expand our work to the universities and schools. This is the logo and you can find some information about us. We abbreviate it as JADASA. This is a picture of the team. The team is as any organization content chair which is me and a vice chair Arin and we have a treasurer and a secretary and other three board members. Welcome to our BKBD education program for primary and secondary schools in Jordan where we empower the young girls to with knowledge and digital skills and transform them from learners to contributors. Exactly. So our objectives of our program is to provide introduction to the online resources to introduce primary school girls to online resources to teach them how to access and navigate information and how to edit Wikipedia for sure. And also we give them basic research skills because in Wikipedia usually we cite every sentence or every paragraph with that source. So we teach them the basic skills of research and how to gather information how to find reliable source and how to increase the credibility of the articles. Also we try to choose age convenient content in that we are talking about the primary school girls usually we choose very simple articles like colors, like numbers there are numbers and colors that are not in Arabic Wikipedia we give them to the students they have their supervisor that help them to translate and direct their efforts. Also we aim from our program to empower them and to bridge the agenda of GAB because this is a rhyme in school girls we want to empower girls to give them to contribute to Wikipedia because we always know that there is a gap between articles about women and articles or women participation and also male participation. Also we aim to provide collaborative learning to promote collaboration among girls engaging them in the projects and also to provide them with many experiences. As you might know also Wikipedia encouraged critical thinking so one of the skills that we teach our school girls is the development of critical thinking and giving them the chance to ask questions to analyze and also to interact with each other. Also we want them to engage in the community by introducing Wikipedia to them in that little age if we go to them after 3-4 years 5 years then they have idea about Wikipedia we implant this stub in their minds a stub of Wiki stub in their minds then when we go to them later on it's easier to teach them how to contribute effectively in Wikipedia and also for of course at this little age building confidence and self esteem has a major rule and we will show you next in the photos how they are influenced by our program So why Wikipedia as all of you know Wikipedia is a platform for global contribution wherever you are you can contribute and because it is offered access to vast knowledge resources learning through creating and editing content also posting confidence and digital confidence Okay also as you know school always about curriculum so we try to introduce Wikipedia and to make Wikipedia part of the curriculum and also editing Wikipedia article which is supported in our program as a participation for assessment of the teacher to the students in that we encourage students to explore their area of interest usually are very very basic concepts and also we try to to tell them how to collaborate with their beers Okay The benefits of our program is that it enhanced research skills it improve writing and communication abilities and there is an enhancement of a level of education by introducing Wikipedia to it also it is opportunity to contribute in the global community this give a value for our students and also self esteem and empowerment of the girls there is also a long term back because their skill they are acquiring in this in our program they will be used in the future when they contribute to Wikipedia again overall education program in primary schools in Jordan offers range of benefits also it supports academic progress and also digital growth of our students Program Implementation First of all we do teacher training then we make workshops for students to learn them to teach them how to edit Wikipedia and basics about Wikipedia and how to edit then we provide them with online resources and make some tutorials also after this stage this step we make regular monitoring with the teachers and offer them the support after in the final stage we make them engage with the community and other schools and make competition so encouraging diversity by encouraging school girls we have a diverse range of contribution because usually our main work was as a wiki club that I founded in 2015 that aims to increase Arabic content inside university so our main students were university students now we are going to primary and secondary schools so we encourage diversity we include topics in particular interest to the girls we ask them to go we give them category like general category they find what they love to translate and by this we address the gender gap by us and also we encourage balancing the representation of women in Wikipedia also we encourage parental involvement and I will move this to Arine the parent support is very important especially for girls if your parents support you and you feel that they are confident have a confidence of you it encourages you to learn more and create more articles so in our program we give a special special thanks and appreciate for parents in our association after the students as you see we publish their articles we publish the article on our association and right in Arabic it said in Arabic article from then by by Tala from the sixth grade so when we share it on Facebook their parents and someone share it on their Facebook pages and it encouraged them we notice the number of articles increased yes because it is kind of encouragement because these photos that you see is shared by their parents they give it to us, please post about us and then it start to be competitive between between students they want to be presented and they want to be shared and they want their relatives and beers to see what they contribute so our achievement is that we have engaging two private schools in Jordan and one governmental school and there is some particular thing about this governmental school that I will tell you in the coming slide we have created MOU with one of the prestigious universities it is called Al-Umaria school called Al-Umaria school it's a private school that has two branches one in the capital Amman and one in the Zarka it's mainly for girls and we had collaboration with this school we reached more than 60 students most of them are primary secondary school we created 200 different articles by those students and they are editing more than 500 articles so this is an overview about our partnership Areen, can you handle this yeah the Ammaria school for girls is a private school our hero monitor is Amani Zaiter another one private school ohad school it's our monitor and the governmental school our hero monitor is Hana Zaiter yes so the middle one is the governmental school Amani Zaiter and Hana Zaiter are our sisters we started with Amani and then it comes viral her sister would like to move it to the governmental school then we are like now working with two of them and this is the assigning of memorandum محمد القنة our wikipedia part of our association represents us in this signing memorandum of understanding and this is some photos from our participation with Omeria school you can see the certificates that has wikipedia logo Hashemite university logo our club logo and you can see the association logo in the background this is the Omeria private school that we told you about this is also in the ceremony of the Omeria school you can see the students and me and Arian also this is also part of the photos from the ceremony and if possible can you open the links the students are talking about their experience we want to show you hi my name is سايرا أسفور I participated in wikipedia competition to translate articles that is organized by the digital arabic content club initially I created a wikipedia account then I started picking the articles that I wanted to translate and since then I started translating them I have translated around 30 articles translating articles in this manner typically required a time of approximately 15 to 30 minutes the percentage of article and the internet was interpreted by the entity ultimately this campaign proved to be highly beneficial for both my self for my vocabulary and for my ability to expand my knowledge as well as for teaching me how to sign up and how to publish my material thank you all one please thank you thank you very much hello my name is I am from Omeria school and today I am going to talk about the alternative of translating articles our creative educator has put forward an alternative to translate articles from english with the goal of enriching the Arabic content and he taught us the basics and how to edit and publish our articles on the internet and we as Arabs we face a serious problem of the lack of websites in Arabic so this alternative has helped us to separate the Arabic knowledge and the Arabic culture and thanks for listening the next one please welcome to the conference of the best online encyclopedia in the world and until the next one I will soon start my journey at Omeria school and would like to present to you one of our most honorable achievements of this year which is translating Wikipedia's English articles that aren't translated yet into Arabic it all started when I saw a post on my school's page on Facebook talking about this whole thing I immediately knew this wouldn't be a chance that I will turn down so I started with booking my first articles to trying to translate as many of them as I could it isn't a competition between students but it makes you feel so when somebody reads you with a number of articles they have read with all the cheering from our teacher Mr. Manizated you know you couldn't stop competing besides improving your skills at both languages it's also the feeling of you becoming a member of Wikipedia moreover translating an article from one language to another for the upcoming generations makes your own name becomes a thing not around here this would be achieved today now you would see me now if it wasn't for teacher Manizated who cheered us the most helped us a lot checking in with us on every single article we finished taking our hands on every single step of the ladder of success she built arranged for me to be here now and who was is and will always be there for us thank you Mr. Manizated and thank you Wikipedia so as a conclusion our Wikipedia education program is a unique opportunity for primary school girls to excel, learn and make positive impact together we can empower the next generation of confident knowledgeable and digitally skilled girls you can find here my contacts you can find our social media pages that you can reach out and also you can see the pictures photos of the school girls thank you very much and the last thing that I want to mention thank you the last thing that I want to mention is a nice fact yesterday as some of my Arab friends know there was announcement of the 12th grade GPA which is like the finance step before going to university one of the students that were translating of us the photo just came yesterday so that I cannot present now but I can show it after the presentation she got the first rank all over the country she had like 99.8 she is participating with us yeah thank you very much if anyone have a question yes please raise your hand okay so I am working on the education in my country and also working in other places so I have three short questions the first one is when we work with students the students edit Wikipedia articles the quality is an issue so what are the it is in Arabic Wikipedia right so what are the community perspective towards this like the quality of the articles created by these primary school students and how do you maintain it there is the first one second one is they want to do these types of education programs they do low awareness about the countries the education institutions and teachers are very much reluctant at first so how do you tackle it because the situation is very much different from our South Asia and Middle East and the third question is since you are working with very young children safety is always an issue because Wikipedia is an open place how do you ensure safety with these young people do you have any special plan with that okay thank you for the question if I remember it correct it was about the quality of the articles okay quality of the articles is always an issue in all Wikipedia versions so for for this particular question the thing that we are trying to do is that two steps of quality assurance the first one is that we try to use the very very basic concept when giving articles together as I told you usually there are numbers because you know there is a wide range of numbers that is not articles on Arabic Wikipedia also there is about colors so usually it's very very basic concepts this is the first thing that we do also their instructor is actually has a master degree in biology she is very well qualified but because of lack of jobs in my country she is working at Brammer school so she is reviewing their articles and there is a third layer of review which is our part we review articles in Wikipedia before publishing this is how we can manage that quality but still you know when it is like sometimes it's we are talking now about Brammer schools we have also university school university history students so sometimes there is some you know some articles that can like that come through without very good quality review but this is not a big percentage of our education program for the second question which is like if I remember correct it was about the safety issue so that's why we encourage parental support and parental let's say monitor ship because they monitor what kind of articles the students are translating what is the extent of engagement in their online activities also they have their instructor as I told which also she is very careful this is a private school the private school also have very good administration give the best practice to the girls so in general we didn't think safety is an issue because even in our club we try to take the articles from their parents or the photo from their parents or the university administration not direct contact with the students for the third question you told me how we tackle the problems like with the university this is the longest story but to make the short story shorter it is that we approached this it was a long approach since 2015 I was speaking with the professors in my university until 2020 when I graduated then I established this association so it was a long journey I started convincing teachers starting convincing professors and also talking in the classrooms then the university administration got to to be persuaded by my thoughts and then they invited me to the dean council I gave a talk I got a decision from dean council to public to make my initiative public all over the university faculties around 18 faculties and then I invited the chief executive director of wikimide foundation Catherine Meyer she came to my university we signed a memorandum of understanding between wikimide foundation and Hashimite university in Jordan and it's actually will be expired by next October so we are thinking of renewing it in order to preserve our work because it is a common thing that in our part of the world if the administration of the university changes then the previous projects will be stopped that's why you don't want our projects to be stopped we want it to be expand I hope answer the question thank you very much for attending


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We have a very very special video for you guys today It's that time again about daily recaps So as you all know today was a very slow trading day and today we're gonna focus on slow trading days Bear market, perhaps max size rule Scalping how to squeeze some money out of a dead market your absolute max size max loss rule and tickers in question gene WKHS TBLT CLRB and TTNP Hey guys, welcome to the daily recap today is Monday May 13 2019 It's been a while since we did one of these, but I usually say the daily caps for Days that we have something to teach or something to learn or Days I lose and I want to teach or days, you know So it's we don't have a skitset schedule with daily caps Today was a very slow day for small caps. So I want to just Talk to you about that and how to trade these Markets man these markets been crazy How much is the the market down the day man? Is it down 600 points? 612 points That doesn't include last week's carnage tank as well so Those are asking How it feels like to trade in a bear market or a recession? This is it man People are scared.  How can I short this it goes down? So sometimes, you know, it's tough In my opinion for every type of trader Bear if you think it's easy to short in a small cap I mean in a recession or a bear market is think again It's it's even more difficult the reason why shorts work is over extension, right? You have to have meat you have to have stocks are like way like that's just parabolic up and it's on a multi-day run and all that stuff Right, so it makes shorting much easier, but if you have a stock that doesn't go up keeps going down How can you chase? You can chase I guess but You know it makes the meat is not there. It makes trading much more difficult Hey WKS, let me see I have a little bit order on this But but yeah, it makes trading much more difficult man everything you want stocks to go up. It's good for longs and is good for shorts volume's good guys so today I wanted to teach them some stuff like Do I wake up and there's like hardly anything that's moving? Okay, and then when things are moving like these two stocks right here guys These are the two ones. I really wanted to short I woke up. I mean this is all market time, right? It's like dude, there's hardly any chance the moment it broke 270 and just started taking down I'm just waiting for it to pop back up to 280 line to short It just does not do it so I'm like dude There's no trade and then my time the market opens. I'm like dude. It's already at Where I wanted to cover This is the ideal cover spot. This is the low pivot line 225 Look at the low 221 So I wanted to go back to 240 so I can short the 250 line didn't do it You know it went up here, but now we're during the zombie hour 1030. It's like do hardly any meat is I So today is pretty much like done for this and same thing for TTMP Once it broke the 185 never look back Nothing you can do man this welcome to the bear welcome to bear country, you know You want stocks to go up a little bit so you can you can have an inch good entry It's just how do you chase it man that the market this thing opened up at 930? It opened up at 177 I Mean you already at the first line where you want to cover some there's no meat left You some saying so this is how I use these pivots I use these pivots as an entry as a as also an exit So each one of these lines I could be skilling out so that's how I do that So but today's lesson is on dude What the hell do you do when when you wake up and every single day is like this right every single day? You're like dude, there's no opportunity for me as a long. There's no opportunity for me as a short Let's take a look at the only long that is still alive OPTT which has nine million volume I Mean look look at the range you have a 10 cent scalp For a short seller this is no play because the first thing you do is you remember what we talked about You have to go through your process figure out what the flow and all that stuff is so usually what I wake up every morning I look at my my scanner and then I see what's moving so today with OPTT I'm like dude this this float and I'm not touching this stuff, right? I'm gonna die And then everybody's logging into that everyone is longing to start because this is the hot chick of the day nine million volume It's like the highest floater guy.   I do a quick run through the filings to see if there's possible dilution I'll see you there's a new effective man So who knows are they selling this so you take a look at this effective There's an S1 This is pretty new.  You can read up on this and warrants and all that stuff and there's another one over here So you don't know man, it's like dude this this thing to me looks like someone's selling As much as they can but who knows the fact that it's One million float and then there's also dilution. I'm just trying to see hindsight the reason why it's not moving up right guys to me Um, I'm mainly a short seller. There's no play on this for me.  It's just barely doing anything. So welcome to bear country. Welcome to a recession This is how things look when we're we're in a bear market, right guys, which we haven't seen for like a decade. So This is what it is man.   So I mean, I'm gonna so I'm gonna show you what I did This so let's let's start with this.  I need to be in my process because I'm like, dude, I want to hit everything. I'm greedy Uh, so those days kind of screw me up too. So those days I see a ton of stuff running I have to remind myself that focus focus, but I'll focus on maybe three plays Focus at least nail one play Don't don't go around trying to nail 10 plays that you did not research So I I tend to make money on plays that I research pre-market Where I know the filings. I know the lines. I know the reason why it goes up. I I know the technical analysis I I I plan my trades. I put my fantasy orders out. I know what's going on Those are the the trades I make money the ones I pre-plan Not the ones I see on scanner.  That's what happens, man When you don't plan for things as a human As a human being you just kind of like panic and people panic differently. Some people panic the best way to panic is to do nothing Hey traders, this is tosh. I go by t bradley 90 in the my investing club chat Just wanted to reach out and say if you have any questions about m i c joining m i c Maybe you're a member already you have three ways to contact myself personally and through m i c you can hit our social media You can hit me through pms and chat or you can contact us through my email at tosh at my investing club dot com That's tosh at my investing club dot com I will get back to you in a timely manner and i'm saying this because i'm here to help and I don't want anybody to Be afraid to reach out and ask any question that they have we are here for you guys. All right. See you guys


Not a problem. Face bridge, with target set to 2 poly, lets you left click 2 faces together. Left click once, left click twice, and bam, you're connected. If target is set to connected poly, depending on what direction the arrow is pointing to on the face you're hovering over, when you left click drag, you will bridge those 2 faces together. Move the mouse left and right to expand the shape, and move up and down to increase the number of segments. The shape of the expansion is determined here, and in order they look like. Bezier curve, arcs, small round corners, spline, arcs and line, tight round corners, circle, round corners, and straight lines. Interactive curvature means you can left click drag horizontally to expand the shape. Specified curvature will automatically set the height of the expansion to whatever amount you set here. Interactive resolution means you can left click drag vertically to increase the edge loops in the expansion. If you set specified resolution to something like 8, it will automatically insert 8 edge loops into your shape. Align with tangent means it will shape the curve based on the direction of the faces you click. Aligned to normal means you'll always get the same default shape no matter what direction the face is oriented. Variable width means when 2 faces are different sizes, each segment will be allowed to have different sizes. Constant width means it will try its best to make sure that each segment is equal despite the two faces being different sizes. If you want the width of the rows created to be symmetrical, set that here. Otherwise, set it there. Polygroup rows will create new polygroup colors for the expansion. Flat will keep everything that happens in the same polygroup color. Tries and quads means ZBrush will decide when to use tries and when to use quads for the sides. If you set this to tries only the sides will always be triangles, and if you set it to quads only the sides will always be quads. Hope that helps and as always I hope you have a fantastic day and I'll see you around.


off the charts your coach said this week you were more confident you were in your rhythm what was the difference I think it's just you just got to keep going at it I mean we all believe in each other I'm blessed to have amazing teammates amazing coaches everyone here that's a part of the Philadelphia Eagles organization it's first class and we go to work every single day to improve and you know everyone was against us and just to come out here stick together and come away with an amazing victory against a great team I mean Minnesota Vikings have had an amazing year and they're great competitors happy birthday too is the other day a good look against the patient thank you thank you thank you thank you hello everybody I am Rachel banana and welcome to the visa Sunday live show you just heard from Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles who represent the NFC in Super Bowl 52 and on the other side of the field of course will be the New England Patriots who knocked off Jacksonville to win the AFC championship game but how did they do it let's get right to it with the visa speeder all things move fast with visa so pay attention are you ready let's do it starting things off in the AFC title game in Foxborough Blake Bortles and Jacksonville were the first half story Bortles was awesome in the opening frame 13 of 15 for 155 yards and a touchdown a squad led 14 to 3 until just before the break after a drive with several big penalties running back James White snuck in from a yard out New England trailed 14 to 10 at the half New England was without Rob Gronkowski in the second half out with a concussion after one of those penalties an unnecessary roughness call on Barry Church leaving Brady without his top receiving threat but guess what guys Tom led New England all the way back his fourth quarter touchdown pass Danny Amandulla his second of the quarter giving the Patriots a 24 to 20 lead and they did it 24 to 20 the final Tom Brady will go for his sixth career Super Bowl ring he's running out of fingers but what about the NFC who were Robert Kraft's boys going to play well it looked like Minnesota for a while until Patrick Robinson's 50 yard interception return for a touchdown that sparked a 24-point outburst as the Eagles led 24 to 7 at half time and they never looked back Nick Foles Alshon Jeffery and the Philadelphia offense was spectacular Minnesota was totally overmatched and the Eagles were moving on to face New England 38 to 7 the final now this was the scene at the site of Super Bowl 52 Minneapolis Minnesota the Viking fans were fired up early on but by the end of the NFC championship game the purple faithful were a little angry there's there's some sadness in those faces in just 14 days they will still be watching Super Bowl 52 it'll be at their home stadium they just won't be watching the Vikings meanwhile this was the scene on the streets of Philadelphia the bird gang is back in the Super Bowl for the first time in 13 years and something tells me the Philly faithful won't be shy about it for the next two weeks this looks insane and admitted okay you guys know you want to be there even if the temperature outside is only forecasted to be in the single digits okay the game is indoors so you don't have to worry about that even when it's frigid out there Minneapolis is a really cool city and I recently found out all about it I brought my warmest coat my visa card of course my phone and not much else and if you're going to Super Bowl 52 you'll want to take a look at this you want to check out the biggest sporting event of the year while we are taking you to Minneapolis the bold north and home of Super Bowl 52 because of the Super Bowl more than 100,000 people are expected to travel to the city of Minneapolis even without tickets to the game and hosting that many football fans takes an insane amount of planning good thing we found the right woman for the job Maureen you are from Minnesota so the Super Bowl is in your backyard what does that mean to you it is absolutely wonderful to showcase Minnesota to the world to show people how we live here in the winter that we don't hibernate that we have a heck of a lot of fun no trip to the Twin Cities would be complete without a stop at the Mall of America this place has over 520 shops 50 restaurants it has its own theme park plenty of Super Bowl 52 swag ooh so soft this may be a little small but I'm gonna get it anyways Minneapolis is also the birthplace of a culinary masterpiece the 5a club created a little something called the juicy Lucy burger you want cheese on top well not here the gooey good stuff is added right in the middle of the patty I consider the juicy Lucy our contribution to American cuisine you know like the Philly cheesesteak for Philly the juicy Lucy is for Minnesota all right we're gonna cut it oh my goodness gracious cheers to juicy Lucy the juicy Lucy what's your next stop in town I'm thinking I need some dessert and I've been hearing an awful lot about a five pound cookie so what goes into making a cookie that feeds 20 people four eggs and about a pound each of butter sugar and flour now it's time for the best part yes I'm gonna add caramel and chocolate you're so dainty about we're just gonna do this there we go mix it together for 10 minutes and drop it on the scale is it five pounds we are good now we go shape this thing and there's really only one thing that I think of all right how long is this going to take to bake about 45 minutes no pressure right 55 pound cookie we've got one stop left good thing I saved the best for last two weeks from tonight the NFL will be crowning its champion inside of this beautiful 70,000 seat stadium behind me now after more than four years of planning I am sure Minneapolis is more than ready to sadly it's time for me to go home I am heading back to the warmth Minneapolis is a lot of fun and there are a lot of food options juicy Lucy's are the truth okay it's that's just what it is for the guys playing in the game Super Bowl 52 is a business trip let's hear from some of the players and coaches going to Minnesota in a segment we are calling sound up and let's start in the city of brotherly love I can't get over the job that falls down I just can't get over that that's unbelievable the job he performed today in a game like this I'm so happy for Nick I'm so happy for the offense of the entire team you know but for Nick for everything that he's been through in battle he stayed the course he stayed true and we all believed in him and he had a performance tonight we still got one more to go one more good luck in Minneapolis coach I'll see you there I mean that's what we work all year we said it we never said it was gonna be easy we just said somehow we got to find a way to get it done you got a bunch of guys that work so hard I never give up with a leader and coach Bella check at Tom I mean it's just a bless you talk about a guy that's so relentless I mean you I'm you gonna have to cut his hand off for a guy like that not to play and with a leader like that leading us down the field up and no matter what's going on I mean that's all you can ask for it's it everybody's got a job to do we got to put the work in each week prepare and and we'll be ready so we're excited for the opportunity and we're gonna get out there and give it our best shot on the Minnesota congratulations thank you all right guys so who is your pick to win Super Bowl 52 is it New England or is it Philadelphia all you got to do is vote for Brady's crew by typing in New England in the comments or you can vote for Nick Foles and the birds by typing Philadelphia we've got oh shocker 75% say New England crew can I get a woo-woo if you think the Patriots are gonna win and what about Philadelphia okay so there you have it is that over yet keep your votes coming in by typing New England or Philadelphia in the comments if you were watching on Facebook moving on as you can imagine when we get to this stage in the postseason the pressure can be intense on and off the field recently my Fox Sports colleague Joy Taylor found out who has the edge those paying with visa or those paying with cash joy let's see which guy can make the fastest purchase in the middle of a press conference without losing their pool what do you have to say after the big game just happy to be a part of the team I couldn't have done it without my team and what was the key to your victory I'll leave it out there on the field we prepared and we brought our a game coach in a really great job oh what's a hot dog I'll take one you got this now that's how you pay thank you joy let's check in one last time to see who you guys think are going to win Super Bowl 52 went up just a smidge 68% are voting New England 32% Philadelphia hey crew you guys got it right yay for you no more they're very enthusiastic it's Sunday Philly fans they might not want they might not love that poll result but that's not gonna stop them from celebrating tonight's NFC championship win as you can see here I have a feeling these guys are probably going to be in that mosh pit all night long that is going to do it for the visa Sunday live show we want to give a special thank you to our sponsor visa for showing us that the payment process doesn't have to slow us down paying with visa makes things quicker easier and you can travel later and that will come in handy for those of you heading to Minneapolis I'm so jealous of you thank you guys so much for tuning in before you enjoy Super Bowl 52 here are a few of the lighter moments from our show I apologize in advance thanks for watching guys bye Charlotte Pittsburgh the city of Boston I'm thinking Minneapolis these people love their football but I've got unfortunately today I've got to work for my meal I was way heavier than I thought it's gonna be Minneapolis Minneapolis I'm pretty sure that many enough I'm thinking many an apple is doing