The following is a presentation of TFNN, The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes, toll-free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. The Trader's Edge. Now, Steve Rhodes. Good morning, folks. Welcome to the August 29th, the magnificent Monday edition of today's Trader's Edge Show. I'm your host, Steve E. Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day. And let's make sure we have an extraordinary one. The easiest way to do that, well, it's to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right. When you and I make that one little two-by-four shift means we can finally give them every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. Now, today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. 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The lowest percentage moved to the downside right now is in the New York Stock Exchange. That's up about 6-10%. The highest moved down percentage-wise is the Semi's up nearly 2%. You've got gold trading out at 17-52. That's up $2. Soberdown 10 cents at 18-72. Like to recruit up $2.34. $95.35 is the print there. Lead the charge dollar-wise the upside. You've got Pinduoduo up $11.00 in change. Nearly 20%. Sprout Uranium miners URNM up $6.00 to $5.60 or 8%. Diamondback Energy, $5.00, 3.00 and 7.10%. To the downside, you've got monolithic power systems off $13.00, 2.8%.  Snowflake down 13 or nearly 7%. Domino's Pizza up $10. That's 2.5% to the downside. So we've got some movers and we have some shakers. We do not have any requests at the moment. So let's just go take a look at the charts. Which charts are the ones we want to take a look at? So let's do this here. Let's start by taking a look at the daily timeframe charts. Let's do this daily timeframe chart, set of timeframe charts here. Here are the four equity future contracts. Friday's action took out B points of an A to B equal CD to the downside. So if you take a look at the upper left-hand corner, you've got the ES mini. The one-to-one price projection level, $4,050. The way that price came off of that C point that's a wide-ranging bar that suggests more than a one-to-one move to the downside. We can see that price along the left side of that C to D leg. That suggests more than a one-to-one A to B equal CD to the downside. That price projection, the one-to-one is at $4,000, the one-to-one .272, $39.41, and $1.620 at $38.66. Those are the areas that are in play out there. Now what you want to do is watch for regardless of what those targets are, watch for some type of bullish reversal candle. Not to one of those forms will you have any kind of potential bottom. Same pattern really for the NQ. Now it has not made its way down to the one-to-one price projection level. That's at $1,202, $1.272, $1,050, $1.618, $1,735. Again, each of those are targets in play. We can see a short-term rising trend line, which is right around the one-to-one A to B equal CD pattern out there. Again, you need a bullish reversal candle to confirm a Gartley buy pattern or a buy the D point. The Dow equity future contract has attained the one-to-one level. The one-to-one level is at $31,951. Next level to the downside, $31,544, and below that $31,028. Same game plan here, whether it's the ES, the NQ, the Russell, or the Dow equity future contract. In the case of the Russell, it's one-to-one price projection, needs to get down to about the 1846-60 level. You're down in 1884 right now. Below that, you'd be looking at 1812 and below that 1768. So A to B equal CD patterns to the downside for each of the daily timeframe charts out there. What else do we have for the daily timeframe? Excellent question. As we go take a look at the white background charts, we will see a few TD-9 count patterns that could be forming. Today will become bar number seven for the ES mini on its daily timeframe. In order for a TD-9 count bottom to form, first, you have to have nine bars that meet the conditions. Second, the bottom or the low, I should say, needs to occur on bars eight, nine, or the bar following bar number nine. So that says if there's going to be a TD-9 count bottom that's going to form, there's going to be lower price between tomorrow and Thursday out there. This is only bar number seven. Tomorrow would be bar number eight on Tuesday. So that says a TD-9 count pattern can form between Tuesday and Thursday out there. So that suggestion with regard to that pattern, we would see lower price than where we're at today. That is the same pattern set up for the NQ. Today will become, though, I take that back. Do the quick reverse there. That is not the same pattern as inside the NQ. The same in the NQ today becomes bar number eight. So this could be today inside the NQ could be the bottom or it could occur from the TD-9 count pattern. Bar number nine starts to complete out there. In order for that to occur, tomorrow's close needs to be below, let me give you that number out here, 12, 929.75. The price is below that tomorrow. Then you'll have bar number nine. You'll effectively have a TD-9 count bottom, but that could complete on the bar following bar number nine, which would be Wednesday. If we take a look at the Dow Equity Future Contract, that is very similar to the ESMini. Today will become bar number seven. That says it'll be tomorrow through Thursday, where that low could come in to identify a TD-9 count bottom pattern. And the Russell 2000 is in a world of its own. It's got that A to B equal CD pattern. It's got TD-9 count breakout support at 180680. So in summary with regard to the daily charts, you've got the A to B equal CD patterns. You've got the ES and the Dow that have made it very close to their one to one price projection level. You need lower to go in the NQ and the Russell 2000. You've got potential TD-9 count bottom patterns forming the ESNQ and Dow. They would form sometime this week out here. So that's what we're looking at on the daily timeframe. What else do we want to look at? Let's go take a look at the two timeframes that, in essence, are kind of controlling the equity future contracts. They are the five-hour timeframe chart. I believe we looked at that on Friday. The reason being, if we take a look at the five-hour timeframe chart for the ESMini, well, actually for all four equity future contracts, you have Rosamund Dominicator signals that have been triggered. These patterns, much like an A to B equal CD, they also need bullish or bearish, in this case here, bullish reversal candles to complete the pattern. We do not have that in the ESMini, at least not just yet. What we do have is price getting up to the gap down, the gap down from last night. If we take a look at that, that's those blue lines on my screen out there. In fact, each of, well, I can't say each of them, three of the four have gotten up to that gap to the downside and have closed lower. So you want to watch those gaps today. If price closes above those areas, that suggests a run for the oscillator and change lines. So Rosamund Dominicator signals inside each of the five-hour timeframe charts, the one that has a confirmed bottom signal, is the Russell 2000. But again, it's gap down, which is at the price level of, I'll give that to you for the Russell out here. That's $1889.90. You get a close above that, price would head up to $1905. Hope you're right back. Of blooming inflation, we are purchasing powers eroded. There's no better place to protect your hard-earned money than in gold. Vista Gold's flagship asset is the Monk Todd Gold Project in the Northern Territory of Australia. 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The second pattern is and here we've got TD9 count bottoms for each of the equity future contracts for their 60-minute time frame. So those have led to tests of resistance, the bottom of the current profile. So for example, in the last hour in the ESMini price got right up to 40-49. The actual high actually got up to I think a quarter tick out there. The high was, oh I take that back, the high was 40-50-50 out there but that's resistance at 40-49. That held price pulled back. Now support has not been taken out. Support would be the bottom of its TD9 count pattern out there and that's at 4,950. So we're just consolidating sideways. Resistance has not failed. Support has not failed. Something to think about. That's really the same set of patterns we have inside the NQ. Now the support area to be watching here is going to be the low of that TD9 count pattern. A close blow 12-406 is going to suggest lower price. Now we took a look at the daily time frame charts. They really helped us understand the A to B equal CD price levels out there. So if you jetted those down on your pad of paper then you can understand where price is likely headed to. Now price did not make its way all the way up to the bottom of the current profile 12-652. It got up to a high of 12-610. In the case of the Dow equity future contract, its TD9 count took price up to resistance, the bottom of its profile and it did that at 4 o'clock this morning. Didn't get up there during that last hour. There is a roadsman dominicator signal here that is being triggered and if we get a bullish reversal candle at noon, that's what we showed 11-20, doesn't matter 11-20 and at least suggest making another run for 32-150. Price can get above 32-150. Then it will certainly repair that window. That was a gap from last night and suggest a further move higher. Now the further move higher would be at 32-375 and 32-599. Again, you want to watch the low of the TD9 count pattern. If price close blow 31-943, that's suggesting lower price. In the Russell 2000, the level to watch the downside is at the 1872-60. Price to the upside to watch the bottom of its profile at 1891-60. We saw the last two hours, both the one at 111-10, price got up to that level, found resistance and backed off. So we've got support holding here or TD9 count bottom patterns holding and we also have resistance holding. So we're kind of in a stalemate as we speak right now. The 5-hour and the 60-minute time frame, I believe are the two best charts to be looking at to give you a feel for what the message of the markets is. Of course, we took a look at the daily time frame to give us a little bit bigger picture out there. So let's go to our first question out here. The only question that we have, and this is from Alan D. And Alan wants to take a look at ticker symbol CCJ. I've seen a little bit of chatter inside the tiger's den about this as well. That is Comico CCJ, Comico Corp. Trading out at $2892. And it has a confirmed A to B equal C D to the upside. So let's draw in that pattern, the A to B. And we'll just simply move the A to B level. We'll move this over to the C to D leg out here. I think we took a look at this on Friday. You can see it has now exceeded the 1 to 1 area. All this means is to be on the lookout for a bearish reversal candle. If we don't get that, price should continue to move higher. On the A to B equal C D, I'm going to have to do this on my other screen out here. So I'll do that here. And I'll give you those price projections, the 1 to 1.272, 1 to 1.618 areas to the upside. The 1.272 is $2993. The 1.618, $3210 out there. You can see it $3177 out here. Well, when was your actual question? Please give me a daily, weekly, and monthly analysis on CCJ. I'm along this equity and looking for support and resistance for all three timeframes. So support is going to be on the daily timeframe, $2604. Resistance, $3177. $3177 is a TD9 count breakdown level out there. With regard to the weekly timeframes, support is at $2554. That's its oscillator and change. I'm resistance at $3147, top of the weekly profile. In the case of the monthly timeframe, resistance is the high of its dark cloud cover candle. That is the price point of $3249, and support is at $2539. So again, CCJ, you've got a nice A to B equal C D to the upside. Price is on the left-hand side of that C to D. Like I remember, I kept the exact same angle from A to B that we have from C to D. This was telling us that it wants to do more than a 1 to 1 A to B equal C. Very much like we've looked at the ESNQ Dow and the Russell 2000, a similar kind of a setup up here. So it does look like Alan just wants to go ahead up into that $3177 level. You just simply know the weekly timeframe, this is bar number eight on a weekly basis. So Alan, this suggests that a top could form between this week and two more weeks from now. Right now, I would say, based upon the chart patterns out here, that price should make its run for that $3147, $3177, or maybe that high out there that we took a look at. So I hope that that helps you out, and best of luck to you and all the dinners that are in that long CCJ trade out there. No other requests at the moment. Let me just make sure. Nothing that I see inside the Tiger's Den either. So a quiet morning here. Let's go figure out what we want to take a look at next. I think what we'll look at next will be the weekly A to B equal CD patterns for the indices out here. So let's go give you that information. We'll switch over, take a look at the cash-indici charts out here. So the Dow, the one-to-one price projection out there is $3191, the $1127231516. In the case of the S&P 500, the one-to-one is at $3997, the $112723941, the $618 is $387085. In the case of the NDX100, one-to-one, $12297, $1127215059, $6181755. In the case of the Russell, $1846 is the one-to-one, $1814, the $1.272, $1773, the $1.618. The semis, $2722 basically is the one-to-one, $2654 is the $1.272, and $2567 is the $1.618. And finally, the trainees out here, the one-to-one target, $14154, $1.272 is down at the $139.31 level, and the $1.618 gets us down into the $13648 level. So those are all the A to B equals CD patterns. What you want to be looking at there is you want to be looking for some type of bullish reversal candle as price gets down into those areas that would then confirm a buy the D point pattern out there. Nancy wants to go take a look at Amazon AMZN, and Nancy says, could you look at Amazon for next week? Where is it on your TD9 count chart? Thank you. So let's go ahead and switch back to the white background charts to answer those questions for Nancy. And bar number eight, Nancy, is where we're at inside of the daily timeframe for Amazon. So very much like we took a look at inside the NDX100 or the NQ out here, this suggests that Amazon could or should, so it's got an A to B equal CD to the downside, let's put in both the patterns. So the first question was, you were asking about the TD9 count, bar number eight. That suggests Amazon should form some type of bottom between today and Wednesday. Now just because it should does not mean it will. When a TD9 count pattern forms, if the first couple of bars, if all it is, sideways move or a hiccup out there, or you take out the pattern, that's the more important thing that would tell you about a strong momentum move to the downside. The one to one price projection for Amazon would get you to about the 12340 ish area out there. So again, Amazon could or should form a TD9 count bottom between today and Wednesday. See broads with TFNN, we'll be right back to finish off Amazon for Nancy and the Tigers. 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I believe we've provided her with what she's looking for. Now, on Friday, Amazon stopped found support, I should say, at the bottom of its weekly profile. That was at $130.35. Price is trading below that right now. So that favors as long as price, Nancy, remains below that error. We're talking about bar number eight of a teeny-nine count. It really suggests to me that price will go target the $122.95 level. So perhaps that happens between now and Wednesday. We get down to that support. If it's weekly, I said earn change on, we get a teeny-nine count bottom. Now, because you have a teeny-nine count bottom and you've got an A to B equals CD, if it can get to that one to one level out there, then what we would be taking a look at is you'd be looking for a bullish reversal candle to confirm at least some type of bounce that you would take, that would take place inside of Amazon. So I think the daily and the weekly are the ones to really focus in on out here, Nancy. I do hope that helps you out. Thanks so much for the request out there. We've got a request to take a look at Bitcoin for Inno inside the Tigerston. So Bitcoin would be trading what? If I can figure out real quickly, what's the current contract for Bitcoin? Let's see. That might still be September. So let's put this in here, BTC09-22. And so what we're taking a look at is Bitcoin futures out there versus Bitcoin cash. So if we take a look at Bitcoin futures out here, and I'm looking at the September contract, what I see here is an A to B equals CD to the downside as well. So let's go type that in. So I'll put in the A to B leg out there. Looks like it's probably like that. We'll just move that over to the C to D leg. There we go. And so what that's giving you is a price projection, A to B, a one-to-one of the 17-225 area. Let's pull this back just a tad. So what we know that we have inside here is a confirmed rogement of indicator bottom. And that price projection will unfold if we see a close below the low of that pattern, which is $18,790. So $18,790 is likely where price is headed to if it takes that level out, then it will go ahead and complete that A to B equals CD to the downside. Now I'm not saying that we'll only do a one-to-one, but it will go do at least that one-to-one A to B equals CD to the downside. I don't have any, well, I do have a rogement to indicator bottom signal in the weekly, but that's not what I, that's likely not the pattern. In fact, if we do BTC, and we just simply go to the continuous contracts out here, let's see what populates for the weekly and the monthly time frames out there. Yes. So on a monthly time frame, what you can see out here, this shows the price is below its red oscillator and change line out there. However, what has been triggered is a rogement of indicator signal. So if Bitcoin, on a weekly basis, were to form some type of bullish reversal candle and close above its red oscillator and change line, that would be at least suggesting getting back to its recent highs or maybe into the 28, 326 level out there.  All it needs to do is spike that level. If price can spike below that level, then what you will have is a TD9 count bottom pattern out there. Now, remember, on a TD9 count bottom, that low can form or has to form, or is eight, nine, or the bar following nine. So that still opens that up for on a monthly basis for next month, even being a lower low, getting back to the bar following bar number nine, if that were to occur, has not occurred just yet. If bar number, and that would give you a price target of 12, 535. So how do we summarize this? There's an A to B equal CD to the downside. Gets us into that 17,000, 16,000, 17,000 area. That's not going to come to fruition unless price takes out that roadsman to indicator bottom. That's an 18,575. So that's the first key level you're looking at. If that gets taken out, then you're likely headed lower. 12, 535 could even be a price target to the downside that's coming from your monthly TD9 count breakout level. And on the weekly, you'd be watching for a bullish reversal candle to confirm a roadsman to indicator bottom there. So I hope that helps you out, you know, with regard to Bitcoin. Let's go to our next request. This one coming in by email. This is from Alton. And Alton wants to take a look at Google support and resistance levels. Let's get the Google charts up on our screen out here. We'll provide that to Alton. We'll do that for the daily, the weekly, and the monthly time frames out here. Google also, I'm sure in an A to B equal CD to the downside, but momentarily, well, yeah, so you've got an A to B equal CD to the downside. You're in bar number eight. That says a bottom could form between today and Wednesday out there. So very similar pattern. Price is trading below the bottom of its weekly profile, which is 111.43. It's really Google's just been in the nice sideways consolidation that began back in May, May 27th out there. What else do we have for Google? So you're looking for support and resistance out here. So support. Wow. So for support, for support, what are we going to use? So in the case of the daily time frame, there really isn't any support, other than getting all the way back down to its hammer candle bottom from May 24th out there. In other words, we're below profile, we're below the oscillator and change sign. There's no TD nine cal breakout level. So then I've just just simply got to resort to the last pattern, bottom pattern that was out here in that form began on May the 24th out there. So that level of support, just so you know, is at 10221. We're below the bottom of the weekly profile. So you've got the hammer candle from May as well. Again, that's the same figure 10221. That's really your support level in on the monthly time frame. Support could be a 10883, 100.50 or 9797. So Google, like the NQ, like a couple other instruments, you've got TD nine cal bottom patterns that are potentially going to form here. In the case of Google, that could be between today and Wednesday of this week out there. So thanks so much for the request. You're welcome and Nancy on Amazon. Steve Rhodes, please look at Apple. If you haven't done it, it looks like it is below its A to B equal CD pattern that is from a muck m UK. So let's go take a look at a APL and try to answer that question. See what Apple is doing out there with regard to its price projection. In fact, what I probably need to do we'll do that here momentarily is let me get that up on the black background screens because there it's much easier. Oh, I put a m UK. There's no ticker symbol that says m UK. That just shows you, Stevie cannot do two things at once out there. Looking at that, thinking I'm typing an apple and instead I'm typing in m UK. We're going to go switch over to the white background charts out here or the black background charts momentarily because you specifically asked about the A to B equal CD pattern. So let's go take a look at it and you are absolutely correct. Price has already hit the one to one price target level. That was 161.15. We're trading at 161.06 as we speak right now. The one to 1.272 price expansion is 158.45. The 1.628 is 155.02. So what you want to watch for here is again, you'd be looking for some type of bullish reversal candle. If you got that, then what you would have is a Gertley buy pattern. If you don't get that, then price should continue to head lower. Now, even though I gave you these price targets, they're really used as guidelines. They're not used as price needs to hit that to the tick or anything along those lines. We do need price to at least get down to the one to one area to then at least establish the potential for a buy the D point pattern. But so this is where price will continue to head lower until we see some type of bullish reversal candle. That's typically the way that it works out there. So apple, the next price target looks like 158.45. If we switch back and take a look at the white background, price is also at support though. I should mention this. Price is at support, Muck, at the bottom of its weekly profile. So 160.46 is really a key level to watch. Why? Because if price gets below that, it's really signaling to you and I that it wants to head lower. Real quickly here, we'll change back to that white background screen. What you will see here is apple is going to form bar number seven today. That says that its TD nine count could not form until tomorrow through Thursday out there. So I'm UK. I hope that helps you out and now you know, there is no ticker symbol with those initials. 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So when we take a look at the Apple Charter just to finish them off, you'll see that there still shows a TD9 count pattern out there. Now, that's not a TD9 count top, the high there is on bar number seven. And bar number nine is only going to complete if Apple closes below, I'm sorry, closes above, closes above 165.35 at week's end. Now, this would be bar number nine. Of course, it can be a higher, higher the following week, but that's not a likely pattern. But what we do know about Apple on a weekly basis, as I mentioned earlier, price is sitting at support, the bottom of its weekly profile, and that's at the 160.46 level. And below that, you've got the oscillator and change line at 159.49. You get below that, that's the signal that Apple wants to move lower. I defer back to the daily A to B equal CD patents in place as well as the potential for a TD9 count bottom out there. So I hope that helps you out with regard to Apple. Let's go to our next request out here. Next request coming in from Hector and Patty. Hector says, Happy Marvellous Monday, COP. So let's get that up on our screen here, that is ConocoPhillips. COP resistance support and the oscillator and change line. A weekly AB equal CD up target would be appreciated as well. So let's go take a look at these patterns here. So you asked about, first is resistance support and the oscillator and change line. Resistance very easily. From a daily perspective, it's 1,1964. That's the TD9 count breakdown level. You can see where an A to B equal CD to the upside. No bearish reversal candles have formed out there. You're only in bar number six. So 1,1964 is the next projection level out there. With regard to the weekly time frame, you asked about an A to B, you also wanted an oscillator and change line. That's at 107.80. So that would really be your support for the daily time frame. For the weekly time frame, it's 106.45. That's the oscillator and change line. And resistance is its prior high. That prior high from June 24th out there, that's at 1,2408. On a monthly basis, you have a TD9 count top. That would get negated with a close above 117.99. If that were to occur by, today's the 29th, the 30th, right? September 30th, by tomorrow out there. So that would, don't know that that will happen. But even if it doesn't happen, the signal for the monthly time frame is neutral. Why? You're above the top of the weekly profile, which is at 1,1248. Old resistance could become new support. We won't know that till the end of tomorrow. And you're above the oscillator and change line at 93.62. So you're asking about the A to B equal CD to the upside for conical Phillips. So for that, what we're going to do is switch over to the black background charts because it's much easier for me to draw that A to B equal CD pattern for you.  So from a weekly perspective for conical Phillips, boy, the question is, where do you start with your A point for this A to B equal CD? My preference here is what? I would say, let me see. Yeah. I'll give you the smaller A to B equal CD. I like the daily time frame chart for your A to B equal CD out here, Patty and Hector. It shows your next price target in the 1,1974. Remember 1,1964 was a TD-9 count breakdown level because what are you going to use for the A point on the weekly chart? You're going to come all the way back down to the lows of 2020. And then what are you going to use for the B point? Because there's multiple A to B equal CD patterns out here. So this probably ends up giving us the same as the daily time frame. In other words, I'll do the conservative one and start down here at the December 2021 lows, the high out here from June of 2022. And then that retracement looks up 0.786. And that would give us the 1 to 1 at 1.30. So now it's a different A to B equal CD, 1.3632. But price is not above the B point, the current B point, that swing point from June 6. The volume there was 35 million shares. Last week, as price was moving into it, it did volume of 32 million shares. So at least you're rising with volume.  Congrats to you. Yes, you should be proud. And you should be bragging about that. Of course, you don't want to be bragging about the bill, but that is going to cost. So but for the guard of the A to B equal CD patterns out there, stay with the daily out here. And I do hope that that helps you out. Thanks much for, as always, for taking the time to go ahead and write in. No other requests that I see here can just making sure. See, perfect on the OUL. Okay. Here you go. GSM. GSM. Oh, you were at Dan, you asked about GSM. Don't think we got to that. Did we? Did I forget about that? Am I having old brain farts this quickly? I don't think we took a look at GSM. So let's pull this up for Dan. And his question, I've got to find the question. Steve, I was trying to go deeper into GSM at your price. He had a standing order at $6.55. It had $6.63. So did I miss it based on the profiles? No, not necessarily. So the daily profiles, you've got that nice TD9 count top out here. I think you need just perhaps a little bit more patience perhaps out here, price below that green oscillator and change line. So the actual buy zone out here is between $6.28 and $6.43. And that's where the bullish structure profiles. Now, the weekly timeframe shows what? The weekly timeframe shows that price basically hit its green oscillator and change line. That was priced at $662. Not sure where it was earlier in the day, but right around that $662 level. And you were saying he had hit $663. So from a profile standpoint, no. From an oscillator and change standpoint, yeah, this morning could have been the buy there. But now let's go take a look at an intraday chart. Let's pull over the 30-minute timeframe chart here for GSM. And what do we have? What do we have? You know, we have Dan, it's simply the chart is stuck. Oh, geez, I'm on the wrong screen. Sorry about that. How did I do that? Here we go. So now let's pull this back. Dan, well here, I'll stick with the 30-minute chart, Dan, and now we'll go. So do I have a bottom pattern? You know, there's probably an A to B equals CD pattern that confirmed out here at about three o'clock yesterday, Friday afternoon. And now price is above the top of its profile, your bar number seven. Looks like price is going to go target the 713 area, but you may get a TD9 count top on the 30-minute timeframe chart that would then give you another signal to move to the downside out there. Because what you've got is lower highs and lower lows on the 30-minute timeframe chart out there. So I'm not sure that you missed it. Back to the daily timeframe. Sorry that I was not showing this to you. Here you can see the bottom of the bottom incentives, bullish structure, daily profile, 628 to 643. That's the buy zone, a TD9 count top out here. As long as price remains below 698, that is still a possibility. Here you can see the 662 from the weekly timeframe out here, Dan. That was the weekly oscillator and change line. So that's what we see when we take a look at GSM. And so I don't know that you've totally missed it. You might have missed it for this morning, but maybe not. So I hope that helps you out. Mr. Bill, thanks for letting me know that I didn't have the charts up there. Dan, you as well. And sorry about that. It wasn't the chart that was stuck. It was Stevie that didn't do what he was supposed to do out there. So we're about 15 seconds or so away from the next break. Let's go take a look at just the overview of the markets out here. See what they're doing right now. So we're well off of the lows. As we can see, got the Dow down 149, the S&P 23, the Nasdaq 127 out there. So what we should do here as we cut out for the next breakout here is let's go back to take a look at those 60-minute time frame charts. 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The reason that we're doing that is Stevie's got this cool ATAS market profile tool that shows us a 30-minute timeframe. It's called the EDGE out there. And for the 30-minute timeframe, it's the only one that is bullish, by the way. So I've got four or five different time frames that we can look at, 30, 60, four hour daily and weekly. So the shortest time period that I've got is a 30-minute chart. What I mean by that, a 30-minute chart that shows me how many instruments are traded above profile for this timeframe and how many below. Well, we have 199 that are above profile, 67 below. Why is that helpful? Well, because now what we're going to do is look at the 30-minute timeframe chart and we see that we've got a bullish structured profile. Price should be able to make it since it's above the center at 4029. It should be able to make its run to resistance. That's at 40, 50, 50. That would be or could be the next sell point. If price closes above that, then likely price heads higher. Let's take a look at the NQ for the same timeframe out here. See what it is doing in relationship to its profile. So price is right now dealing with the center of its bullish structured profile. If price can close above 12468, that's the center of its profile, that would suggest move to 12610. Now let's go back to the 30-minute timeframe. That was the ESMini that we were looking at or the S&P. Now let's take a look at the NQ. What do its market profiles for its 30-minute timeframe tell us? You've got the kissing cousins technique right now. If you take a look at the lines on the right hand side, you'll see both the green and red lines are touching each other. You have 37 instruments trading above the top, 29 trading below. If it maintains this, and I don't have anything to suggest that it won't, but if it maintains this positive TAS market, I think it gets better. And what the NQ is telling you is it wants to make a run for 12610 and a quarter. Folks, thanks much for being here on Magical Monday. Please stay tuned. We've got great programming up next. I'll be back with you tomorrow at 11 o'clock sharp. And have a great day. We'll see you again soon.


So we had the ID Tech Act show and who are you? I'm Rodja Erchert. I'm Munching director of Flick UK. We're a subsidiary of Flick from Silicon Valley So what is Flick? Okay, and it's felt like with a C and a Q. Yeah The founder is a keen cricketer and he originally had the idea of putting monitoring into sports equipment, but he rapidly concluded that Industrial IoT would be a more interesting area to concentrate on so we focus on Industrial IoT specifically condition monitoring in different industries. So where are you in these pictures? Okay We can be in different areas. The three main things we focus on are smart wireless sensors with edge intelligence Also algorithms and analytics so we can be involved in monitoring things like vibration Acoustics current so our sensors can be more be used to monitor assets generally large mechanical assets our Wireless sensors are Operate off batteries. Is that what it looks like? That's that's how one of our models looks like. Yes, you have them working now. Yes I've got it. I've got a demo version here. This is a vibration sensor So what do you have in this box? There are there are some MEMS based sensors which are used for undertaking the measurements There's a micro powerful microcontroller memory and firmware on the system and there is in this case a Wi-Fi link So you could do Wi-Fi or Laura or what would you do? We try to be agnostic as far as wireless interfaces are concerned We we we offer today Wi-Fi Laura and we will shortly offer narrow band IOT And that's using the 5g or it could eventually use 5g We there's nothing to stop 5g being used in the future at the moment What we're we do focused on is 4g cellular Wi-Fi Laura one So is this a right kind of product for this kind of market? They like having this kind of because it's It cannot go in any weather It's it's going to work for a long time or the enclosures have to work And to be protected against moisture and against dust So in this for example, this is a monitor being installed on a wastewater pump And it's been used to get insights into the health of the pump This can allow you to detect when perhaps a potential failure is about to happen or Alternatively, you can use it to introduce condition-based maintenance plans Does it have a battery inside or where does it get a power? These are battery operated. Yes, so inside this box. There's like a battery This is a demo model and there isn't it could be a battery in there and it could be a battery how long It depends on the settings you have The battery life will depend on a number of things like the duty cycle the sampling rates You're using that generally speaking our clients are wanting things to run for years rather than days So like five years maybe or ten years. It'll depend on the setting. I think I think since some of the Applications we have have a fairly high sampling rate for things like vibration or acoustics It'd be more likely to be two two years But if you're doing environmental monitoring you could have a much lower sampling rate and your batteries could last a lot longer So 10 years it's possible if we install it like on a huge ship on a train or in a bridge or something You might want to have solar or no, so you don't have to go and change the batteries There are a number of possibilities clearly if you've got a constant source of power like a solar panel or Or even if you have access to mains power, there's no reason why you shouldn't use these other sources So What's the latest and what are you showing here? Is this a part of your solution? That is showing the mic. Yeah, that is showing vibration monitoring So this part of your solution where people have like a back-end or guess we we transmit data to the cloud so we have Back-end analysis and we also have visualization for for our clients, which is customizable And it's so it's industrial IOT solutions. Where are you based and and what's the status of the company? Okay, the the the company is based in Silicon Valley in San Jose We have two subsidiary operations one is in Western Australia And we're based in Aberdeen in Scotland covering the Europe Middle East market Are you a startup or yes? We start up. We start up. We started in 2015 We opened our office in Australia two years ago, and we opened our office in Scotland in December. Are you shipping these? Is it we have clients? So so we have we have a number of projects running in different industries. The industries include I've mentioned waste water pump monitoring. We've had cases monitoring transport systems including Ground power units at airports and also we've had Monitoring in the maritime environment monitoring the impacts of ships when they're docking and also providing data analysis to shipyards All right, and what's next? What's next? Well, we're anticipating further use cases. We've got some interest in the electrical utility market monitoring distribution networks But basically any Mechanical or electrical resource In industry is potentially going to make gains from understanding the condition and Introducing appropriate maintenance This is definitely the future of the industrial IOT right but what makes you different from the other solutions? Maybe out there for the last 10 years most people talking about IOT have been talking about Having relatively simple computations on the sensor node and transmitting a lot of data to the cloud Now in the industrial context if you're wanting to use a narrow band network such as Laura one or narrow band IOT You can't transmit vast amounts of data which might be Generated by monitoring vibrations for example because you just don't have a big enough data pipe So what we've done is what differentiates us is we've put Intelligence on the sensor nodes themselves, so we have a powerful microcontroller and firmware to process the raw data Then this means that we can send More meaningful information at a high level over a communications link things like data features Alarms and alerts and this means we need to transmit far less data than traditional IOT solutions So you have a it's not just compression is it's like you have it's extracting features from the data You have kind of AI on the edge or something we have we have We process the data and extract features from it. Yes, and then we have the higher The more complex algorithms of course run in the cloud All right, so looking forward to a more efficient world right hopefully that's that's our goal with with Mechanical assets being better looked after and better utilized


Hey you guys so it's time for another video and today I'm going to be showing you all of my hair products That I have Currently now those of you who've been following for a while and watch my vlogs You know that my family moved into an apartment. God. It's been Working on three months now. Yay In preparation to move back to Texas. So in the midst of all of that I had to do some major decluttering I mean major. So being a natural hair youtuber, I accumulated me adjust the camera Being a natural hair youtuber, I accumulated quite a bit of products and at one point I had 300 plus I brought that down to like a hundred between a hundred and fifty hundred seventy five products and I bought over to the apartment About a hundred and fifty products Within a month of being here I gotta give it to this stuff because there is no way I'm going to Take all this stuff to Texas. This is just too much. So I got rid of About a hundred products I have here a little under 50 so we're gonna go over everything that I kept Okay, we're gonna try to do this in order of I'm gonna try to put them in categories like Cleansing products deep conditioning styling products and I'm going to be including Everything in the description box because I like to go when I'm looking at a video and especially if it's a hair video You're talking about products. I want to know what they are So I'm gonna take the time in this everything that I'm going over and the description box I get 90% of the products you're gonna see I have an actual formal review on okay? Let's get started. So we have or s olive oil creamy alloy shampoo Okay, mate with Lavera now, I think I have a complete wash day video on using products from the or s line, alright Next up we have eating body works peppermint tea tree natural shampoo I don't have a review on this and this is actually very the very first time that I've used this particular product and It's alright. We have Cream of nature's Pure honey moisturizing dry defense shampoo. I got this and I know this is not like there we go So I got this at Sally's. I was acting a fool online at Sally's who just purchased a bunch of products And this was one of them Pure honey rich coconut oil now see why I didn't I see that and see that Coconut oil. I'm trying to steal away from coconut oil you guys so Pure honey rich coconut oil creamy shade butter, but that's got mixed reviews So I'm gonna go ahead and try it. Okay moving on. We have the cream of nature With Oregon oil from Morocco the moisture and shine shampoo Absolutely love. Okay, trust some maze flawless curls. We have the Shampoo and the conditioner this conditioner is bomb calm I actually did like a complete series of comparing drugstore Conditioners, I'm gonna be linking that in the car so that you guys can check that out. Okay, we have swabs Daily clarifying shampoo. This is my go-to Clarifying shampoo less if that is a man. What's why I look like that's what I was undergoing some changes with their packaging So I was really excited when I went into Walmart the other day I'm gonna swap that a lot of new products. No, they don't girl. I just change the packaging I guess you've got some money now. So they should let me stop continuing on with swap We have their tropical coconut nourishing conditioner whenever I go into the dollar tree, which is like once a week I just grabbed one of these because I use this to prep my hair detangle by hair Which is basically pre point for me and I will go through an entire jar of this on wash day. So yeah Um, I have two new products by swal. They're from their luscious curl slime We have their sulfate free shampoo and we have their conditioner Let's see if that is zoom in Alright, I will be doing a former review on these. These are quite big. What are the 16.5 ounces? Moving on to VO5 from their moisture milk. Is this moisture milk? No, it's not The strawberries and cream with soy milk Moisturizing conditioner now. I know some of you guys can't get VO5 in certain countries and I'm so sorry girl All right, so we have that. Let's move these all down the line Let's jump to deep conditioners and mask. Okay, we have African prides Moroccan clay and shea butter detox and softened heat activated mass Yeah, this was part of the Stuff I got from Sally's because it was on sale. So I was like, why not? We have ORS hair mayonnaise at least one hair maids hair mayonnaise on Dick and I prefer the wine by ORS as opposed to the African pride one for me personally We have eaten body works natural Deep conditioner you guys saw me use this recently in my last hair related video and then we have another Cholesterol I love cholesterol We have blue magic cholesterol conditioning blue magic cholesterol conditioning rinse now I saw my girl and Nancy now. I'm sorry something fell. I saw my girl and Nancy now use this product and I was like, oh Me won't I won't so yeah, I got this yes Yes, yes, so review of this is coming fairly soon. Okay So let's go into leave-in conditioners or leave-ins and then we have stylers, which is necessary That's the most over there. Yeah We have Camille Rolls, honey hydrate now. This is a sticky sticky. It's like honey To the point where my husband was upset why I had honey in the bathroom. I'm gonna chop first. Okay So this is great for for me personally I only use this on my twist meaning my hair is already in twist because it could be like a sticky mess if you use too much Okay, we have an oldie, but goodie the can-to-shade moisture Leave-in conditioning repair cream We have the blue magic or an oil herbal complex. I have a formal review on this leather I went back to this I don't know why I Neglected you all this time Giovanni. I'm so sorry Giovanni direct leave-in weightless moisture conditioner one of me. Let me tell you something. This is a little pricier Out of all the conditioners I use But it is definitely worth it I'm going back to the tried but true products and the Giovanni Direct leave-in condition which I do purchase on Amazon is it for me? Okay? Love this stuff olive oil Ors olive oil Hair lotion made with castor oil.  I will say that. Okay, let's let that zoom in some sorry y'all All right, and last but not least we have girl Product right here y'all this product.   Yeah, that's what this is. So I give this to JV.  Whatever so all right you guys so Let's go into My styling products and just random other products and this is the most Sorry y'all that I have all right So we have look I was not playing when it came to this particular product They have this continued which I may write a letter to Sally's. This is the generic curl defining cream Which was just basically the dupe for shade monsters curl enhancing smoothie But to be honest, this is better than the curl enhancing smoothie in my opinion. And so this is from Sally's part of their generic value product line They just continue this and they started selling it for like four dollars and then I started for like Two for five. Oh I went in there almost every day and just I just got all of them at one point. I had like five of them And now after my last one, but that's okay We have Apigee's Carrington angry tea Reconstructors spray, which I absolutely love this is one of the few products that I used to use while relax That I still use now that I am Natural let me go ahead and spray some of this on I haven't used this in like Two weeks We have these nonics design essentials sent me a couple of products like a while back and I kept it So we have their honey curl forming custard We have their almond and avocado curl enhancing mousse I mean, it's not like yeah, it's okay. It's Basically, I have another mousse that I prefer over that. All right, we have Eden body works curl defining cream And you know what I don't think I've ever reviewed this product. So let me know if you're into I don't maybe I have by Eden body works and Like it's okay. I feel like for 4b if you're for type you're gonna need a little bit more hold Am I thinking okay? You may need this to go with it echo style You already know what it is that you said to achieve this wash and go that I have now I don't know what I use for leaving For this particular I use can too.  Thank you. Oh, yeah All right, so we have the moisture milk African pride Hydrate and strengthen leaving cream this cheap I'm gonna say what it is it makes you question how great the products are but not bad But these are actually not bad at all everything from the African pride Line this particular line has been pretty good Proclaim glossing polish whenever I'm brave enough to flat out my hair. This is what I use as a serum We have the curls cream brulee with cold cream. I don't know why I have this I clearly don't use it. I don't know why I have it quite a bit of this is in here and To be honest There's not a lot of products that I care from the curls line But every now and then I see it if it's like $4 I'll get it because put it like this It works, but I have other products that work even better. So, okay Wonder girl. She's the owner of wonder girl wonder girl sent me some products. We have her Sealing her hair butter. I love them in packaging scarlet and we have the get set hair jelly So I use these products together for a twist out and I really think next I want to do a braid out Like a curly braid out using these products. Maybe if it gets cool if it finally can cool down here in Phoenix, we'll see Kinky tresses we have her hair butter. Absolutely love this stuff some of the best best best styling butter that I've used Okay, this is bad. This is it. This was her old Packaging and this is the new packaging We have mangoes even anything in here girl. Oh, it's a little bit. So by cry of botanicals Let's get what we have from that line What is this? Okay, Vivian So apparently I have three Characters by Kinky Tresses. Hey, clearly I support her so by crying of botanicals We have room mango twist and braid again. I believe this is for low porosity mostly Not a lot is left in here Is this the same between the mango twist and braid and the mango twist and coal? Mango twist and curl y'all. I'm talking to myself This was a product that Walgreens used to sell Locally and it was bang. We have the curling curl cream and I do a lot that you can purchase this Locally, okay, and I do have a separate video on this. So by the curls ID line that sold exclusively at Sally's beauty. We have the twist butter Now y'all I am pretty sure that they have came out with other Collections I actually had about five products. So I take sure ID and I ended up I did end up giving those away So my go-to wrap me when I want to go to bed with a hundred Permanents in my head is by a lot of body lot about it. Where's my curling spell milk? I gave that away. Oh Yeah, we should never have done that. So yeah, I'm talking to myself So yeah, I had the curling style milk So I must have been feeling very generous that day and I gave that away with a lot of other stuff clearly, but The wrap me foaming moves is to me one of the best moves to products or by Tgian my girl Chris Tia We have the Tgian buttercream daily moisturizer and then we have the Tgian twist and define Cream the thing about the Tgian products you guys a little bit goes a long way I know that some people either hate it or love it for me personally I prefer the buttercream over the twist and define cream But I always support my girl because when she first came out I Was One of the few YouTubers that was actually reviewing her products that is it you guys those are all the products that I am keeping I'm not I would say the only thing that I have coming in and it's one of y'all's fault It's one of y'all's fault because I use the idiom body works Deep conditioner and one of you know who you are. Okay, so that is it you guys Thank you so much for watching and thank you as always to all of my subscribers. Take care


Okay. Thank you. Good afternoon. This is the afternoon of January 10th and a meeting of the house appropriations committee. We are convened here to hear from to conduct a public hearing so that we can hear from Vermonters and their represent and folks who bring their interests to us of the needs of Vermont today. Let me just remind people that we are looking at the FY 22 budget adjustment is what is under consideration right now. This is the mid-year adjustment of the state's budget and normally is designed to just be kind of a mechanical tinkering to attend to the needs to make the system work. We're also considering any urgent pandemic associated needs as part of the budget adjustment and so we look forward to hearing our guests in their observation of what the needs of Vermonters are. Before I begin let me just ask people to introduce themselves around the table so you know who you're speaking with and we are pretending we're sitting at our table and so I'll go to the gentleman on my left. Thank you. Good afternoon. Peter Fagan, Rutland City. Welcome to everyone. Made of Townsend, South Burlington. Good afternoon. Tristan Trellino, Bredeboro. Good afternoon. This is Marty Theltis from London. Good afternoon. I'm Dave Yacoboni. I represent Elmore, Morristown, Woodbury and Worcester. Hello. Jim Harrison from Chittenden, Bridgewater, Killington and Menden District. Thank you. Hello. Robinshye from Middlebury. Good afternoon. Trevor Squirrel, representing Underhill and Jericho. I've known it's representative Bob Helm, representing Fairhaven, Castleton, Westhaven and Hoverton. And I'm Mary Hooper and I represent Montpelier. Not with us is representative Kimberly Jessup of East Montpelier and Middlesex and she is attending the second all-day meeting of the Judicial Nominating Committee and I am sure she will watch this Zoom recording when she is able. So with that, we have a number of folks who are scheduled to speak with us. We have a two-minute limitation on presentations. At about 30 seconds, Representative Fagan will give a reminder of the time and at two minutes we ask people if they have not completed their thoughts to complete them to bring it to an end. We have received quite a bit of written testimony and we always welcome your written testimony. I assure you that we read every piece of testimony that we receive. So with that, I'll invite Carol Schultz-Perkins to be up and on deck is Grace Keller. So and that's how I'll call it. I'll try to ask for the first person and then give the second person a heads up that they're on. So Miss Schultz-Perkins, please go ahead when you're able. Thank you. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. Hi. Hi, I'm Carol Schultz-Perkins from Berlin and the Executive Director of Central Vermont Adult Basic Education. We serve Washington, Orange and Lamoille counties and are one of the four statewide nonprofit organizations in the Adult Education and Literacy Network. I'm here to ask you to support our network's request for an additional appropriation of $350,000 for fiscal year 2022 to address the budget deficits we are facing because of COVID. Our network serves Vermont's most vulnerable adults and teens who need help with basic skills and obtaining a high school credential in order to be ready to access other education and career opportunities. Despite our requests, our network has not received any additional funding from the state during the pandemic. When those we serve increase their skills in reading, speaking, writing, math and computer literacy. Greater opportunities are opened up, including acquisition of employment skills, obtaining a job, gaining career advancement, accessing further education and better quality of life. Martha, one of our students enrolled in our program as a single mother from Honduras with a sixth grade education. While enrolled, she learned to speak English, improved her literacy, attained citizenship and at age 39 obtained a high school diploma and the career specific skills she needed to accomplish her dream of owning her own hair salon. Martha has a successful business in Central Vermont. There are thousands of Vermonters who need our services every year in order to improve their lives. Please provide an additional 350,000 for fiscal year 22 to stabilize our programs and ensure that all Vermonters have access to the education services needed to live more successful lives and to thrive in our communities. And I thank you very much for your time this afternoon. Thank you for yours. Grace Keller and then following Grace Keller, we have Lauren Glenn Davidian. Hello. Thank you so much for having me. My name is Grace Keller. I'm the program coordinator at Howard Center Safe Recovery. I'm here today as the head of Vermont's oldest and largest and only full-time Syringe Service program. We have over 5,000 members and we have members that come from every county in the state. So we're really a statewide agency. Sometimes as high as 30% of our clients come from outside of Chittenden County, we're based in Burlington. And recently we also acquired some funding to do mobile syringe exchange and we'll be looking at Franklin and Grand Isle counties also. And we are also Vermont's first and largest Narcan and Naloxone distribution site, which is the Overdose Rescue medication. We've distributed over 32,000 doses, which represents about 67% of the state's Narcan total distribution. And we've had 1,700 people come back to say that they've used it to save a life. We've been working very hard on the front lines of the opioid epidemic, but through COVID we've seen large spikes in overdoses. We have about a 54% spike in between May of 2020 and May of 2021, which is the highest in the country. So we've also trained about 2,000 providers in overdose prevention from all over the state, libraries, schools, colleges, drug treatment centers. And most recently we opened one of the first in the country low barrier buprenorphine access treatment access at a syringe service program. So we offer treatment on demand to people so they can have treatment the same day they request it. And we find this is really important because anytime somebody takes buprenorphine is a day that they are protected from overdose. So we are really on the front lines of the overdose epidemic and have access to the most vulnerable people in the state. Thank you so much for having me today. I appreciate it. Thank you. Next up is Lauren Glendividian and following her is Carrie Stoller. Good afternoon and thank you, Madam Chair and members of the committee. My name is Lauren Glendividian and I'm the executive director of CCTV Center for Media and Democracy based in Burlington. And today I'm representing Vermont Access Network, my 23 fellow community media centers in a request for $300,000 for the Budget Adjustment Act for FY22. You've heard from our other colleagues and members of the public at last week's meeting about the value and importance of community media and the legislature has acknowledged the work we do as an essential service. We have anticipated the decline of cable revenue for many years which is our primary source of support by augmenting it with other kinds of revenue including municipal subscriptions and fees for service. But the fact is is that the decline of cable revenue is happening so quickly and so swiftly not only in Vermont but across the country that there is no amount of revenue augmenting that we can do to maintain continuity of operations. Looking ahead we see that the revenue is going to drop at least by 2% and the expenses for the work we do are going to increase by at least 3% not including inflation and other effects. And our request predates COVID in 2019 the legislature acknowledged the work that we're doing with the PEG study committee and the following year with some CRF funds and the funding of a PEG study which shows that long-term change of telecommunications revenue policy needs to happen in order for PEG and community media to have a firm footing. We know that that will not happen this session which is why we've created a bridge request for the next three to five years and this would be the first year of that request for $300,000. So thank you very much for your consideration and we have more detail in our written testimony. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next up is Carrie Stahler and following her is Anor Horton. There we go. Here we go. Sorry that took a second. Good afternoon. My name is Carrie Stahler. I live in Linden and I'm the government and public affairs officer at the Vermont food bank. I'm here today to ask you to support the work of the food bank and our 300 statewide partners with a $6 million one-time fund adjustment from the fiscal year 22 budget adjustment to address ongoing increased food insecurity due to the pandemic. Last session we requested $8 million and received $1 million which was used to purchase food so thank you for that. The pandemic continues to disrupt the lives of our neighbors across the state. It has had a direct impact on people's ability to access enough food for themselves and their families. The contrast between the pre-pandemic rate of food insecurity of 9.6% and the current rate of 27% is stark. This increase is reflected in our own data. In 2021 we distributed 17.6 million pounds of food compared to roughly 11 million pounds pre-pandemic. We've seen a 46% increase in households visiting our veggie van go event since 2019. Several events had record attendance in November and December. A clear sign that food insecurity is not improving. While recovery has begun many people were set back financially by the pandemic. A majority of people using food assistance are working for monitors. Even with steady work many of our neighbors cannot afford increased housing heat and food costs driven up by inflation that is quickly outpacing wages. While pandemic relief programs made a huge difference many of them have ended. Without them people are again struggling to put food on the table. Please support the work of the food bank with an appropriation of $6 million to ensure that the basic need of providing food to our neighbors is fulfilled while this pandemic continues to challenge our communities. This request does meet the requirements for ARPA funds by both responding to the public health crisis and addressing the negative economic impacts of the pandemic. Thank you all so much for your time and your consideration. Thank you Ms. Stoller and next up is Anor Horton and following is Sarah Kinney. We just lost her. No okay so see if you can bring her back in and we'll move on to here she comes again she is yeah there hi please go ahead thank you all so much good afternoon my name is Anor Horton I live in Williston and I am the executive director at Hunger Free Vermont. Hunger Free Vermont asks you to support the work of the Vermont food bank and their 300 network partners and to support their $6 million request for one-time funds from the FY22 budget adjustment. This funding is critically needed to address the ongoing increased food insecurity and hunger that Vermonters are experiencing right now. Many of the special federal COVID-19 pandemic support programs have ended including expanded unemployment, extra food distributions and the expanded child tax credit to name just three that very directly have been affecting the ability of Vermont families and individuals to both afford enough food and also to access and acquire enough food during the pandemic. Hunger and food insecurity are tragically very quickly on the rise again across our state and I think that's directly tied to the ending of these programs and therefore additional funding for hunger relief is sadly urgently needed right now. While Three Squares Vermont, WIC expanded meals on wheels are all still available for Vermonters and thankfully school meal programs are still operating universally under temporary federal waivers. The extended crisis of this pandemic is revealing just how many people in Vermont are not eligible for these federal nutrition programs but are still experiencing hunger. This hunger crisis is much too great and long lasting for charitable organizations and private philanthropy to solve without government assistance. Only government can solve this problem and it is necessary for you to shoulder this obligation so please support the work of the Vermont Food Bank and their request for $6 million in FY22 budget adjustment. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you. Next up is Sarah Kenny and following her is David Martins. Hi, thank you all. I'm Sarah Kenny from Let's Grow Kids. Excuse me. I'm not going to belabor the crisis that the state faces in child care. It's dire and I know you all have heard about that. The resources that you and the administration have directed toward child care during the pandemic have made a difference and yet things are worse now than they've ever been. We have a desperately acute staffing shortage in child care in Vermont. We are losing people to go to work in virtually any other sector where they can find higher pay and benefits but families cannot afford to pay higher tuition in order to raise compensation for early educators. We need a systemic solution and we urgently need an immediate lifeline to the field. We know the governor appreciates the importance of investing in child care but his BAA proposal doesn't direct any additional ARPA funds to support these essential workers. In fact, the proposal before you from the administration includes an underspend of over $800,000 in child care financial assistance because the expansions that you and the administration approved last year have still not been implemented. Instead of reverting funding from child care, we strongly encourage your committee to do the opposite. There is a critical need for supports for people working in child care programs and additional ARPA funds must be leveraged for this now. Programs and families cannot wait until July when programs may have already closed. This emergency is clearly related to the pandemic which has created very difficult working conditions in child care programs. You have the opportunity to fund immediate supports for these skilled undervalued professionals. $6 million in the BAA could fund one initial round of workforce stabilization bonuses of $1,000 each to all staff working with young children in regulated child care programs. In addition, in last year's child care bill, you created a financing study that now needs to be funded so please support the JFO's request for funding so they can get rolling to hire a consultant who will help us define a long term systemic system problem. And specific dollar amounts and more detail about all of this are in our written testimony and I thank you so much. Thank you. So next up is David Martins and following him is Jordan Giaconia. I think David might have stepped away from his computer. He's not accepted. Come in. Okay. So if he comes back, we can put him, move him to the bottom and bring him up then. So Jordan Giaconia. Here's Jordan. Yeah. Howdy all. Apologies I may have missed. I came in and out. Your audio cut off as I joined in as a panelist. But pleasure to be here and appreciate the opportunity to offer comments. So ready to go whenever you are. Please do. Go ahead. Thank you all again. It's lovely to see you all. Welcome back to the 2022 session and appreciate the opportunity to offer comments on behalf of Vermont businesses for social responsibilities. I'm Jordan Giaconia, public policy manager, quick refresher, VBSR. We're a statewide nonprofit of roughly 700 member businesses really looking to leverage the power of businesses for positive social and environmental impact. For the purposes of today's discussion, really want to draw folks' attention to two key areas that have been major challenges for Vermont's employers, namely lack of access to childcare and lack of access to affordable housing. So it's not a secret as many others have discussed that Vermont's in a difficult moment in our history. We're certainly feeling that both families but as business owners as well. And in our most recent membership survey, availability of affordable housing ranked as the top barrier to success for VBSR businesses followed closely by cost of health care. And then also accessible and affordable high quality childcare. So firstly, I want to echo my colleague Sarah Kennedy's remarks from Let's Grow Kids that relates to investments in our early childhood education workforce. We really want to see us enact H171 but also offer additional workforce stabilization grants to ensure our childcare providers are feel valued and are looking for a more long-term work situation. Also, looking at the housing components, want to draw your attention to three proposals which we're supportive of in this particular space. One, of course, I think is a key concern of ours is the missing middle home ownership development pilot program, the $5 million request, which would allow for the construction of new homes for the quickly growing missing middle of Vermonters. This has been one of the key upfront issues again for us. However, as you all know, VBSR employers are really strong advocates for what we call livable jobs, which means providing livable benefits, high competitive wages. And even so, many of our employees have not been able to close that housing gap. So really want to take this opportunity. I know that this program is in sort of its early phases, but want to encourage this committee to support that investment and invest in stronger middle income housing stock. So let the rest be a writing and appreciate the opportunity as always. All right. Thank you. And I believe is David Martin's back with us now? Looks, yes. Okay. Mr. Martins, why don't you go ahead then, please? Good afternoon. My name is David Martin, and I'm the director of the Montefuertable Housing Coalition. We are a partnership of 90 organizations committed to every Vermont are having access to safe, affordable, decent, perpetually affordable housing. Thank you for giving me the time today to offer a word. Obviously, VAHC is particularly attentive to the allocation of funds in the area of housing. And we always look at those investments in terms of free legged stool of capital investments, housing related financial assistance and supportive services. So we really want to encourage you to support that increase of $50 million in funding for Vermont Housing Conservation Board. It's essential work of developing more affordable housing in Vermont is additional dollars bolster and support the pipeline of projects in development will include an important priority for folks transitioning from homelessness, increases, increasing shelter capacity, developing supportive housing, additional $20 million in funding for Vermont Housing Improvement Program will allow hundreds of units online, providing safe, decent, affordable housing for Monters who need it most. Finally, we're very excited at VAHC about conversation around developing and supporting a pilot program designed to make home ownership more accessible for the missing middle. The housing problem here in Vermont is complicated and intersectional. It impacts everyone. So we have to chip away at the ice from as many different angles as possible. When it comes to housing, any solution to have to be permanently affordable, sustainable, safe. We have to think outside the box. Thank you so much for your time and for your support. Thank you. I'm afraid I didn't give a heads up to Patricia Tedesco, but thank you. I see that you're coming and following Ms. Tedesco. I believe we do not have my own a Cornell so it'll be Susan Sumner. Ms. Tedesco, please go ahead. Okay. Now, can you hear me? Yes, we can. Thank you. All right. Thank you so much. My name is Patricia Tedesco. Clicking yes to all the different boxes that are popping up on the laptop. Patricia Tedesco. Program Services Manager at the Vermont Center for Independent Living, which most of you know is a statewide nonprofit organization to help folks with disabilities. The Home Access Program is primarily funded through the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board allocations. So we are here to thank you for your past support of the program and continued support of both VHCB and also the Home Access Program at VCIL. I've supplied written testimony somewhere through Theresa, and that has some specific stories and photos of projects that we have accomplished this past fiscal year. Really, I wanted to also share with you that we've experienced delays because of supply lines. It's taking now about three months to order a shower. We've experienced delays with contractors not being available. So we have continued applicants coming in. We get about 12 applications a month, and we're working as hard as we can with other partners and other funding sources. But this program is so valuable to the folks we serve. We do about 50 projects a year, and it's life-changing for them, and we are trying to help everybody age in place. So I'm available if you have any follow-up questions later on, or if you have questions throughout the year, you need help with anything to do with accessibility. We are the folks to help out. Thank you for your time this afternoon. Terrific. Thank you very much. And as I said, it's my understanding that my only Cornell is not here, and so the next person up is Susan Sumner, and following her is Patrick Flood. Please go ahead. Thank you. Hello, everybody. My name is Susan Summer. I'm the Executive Director with Bennington County Habitat for Humanity. I'm here today representing all of our Vermont Habitat for Humanity affiliates. There are seven affiliates and three chapters in the state of Vermont. We want to make sure that you support the full funding and additional funding for the Vermont Housing Conservation Board. We want to make sure you support that in relation to home ownership. What we do as Habitat affiliates is we build houses and we repair houses. We don't do apartments, and a lot of the VHCB funding goes to apartments. I understand the reason for that, but home ownership is critical. We're kidding ourselves if we think that it's the pandemic that caused a missing middle group of us in Vermont who can't afford to be homeowners. And I do not distinguish between anybody who's hardworking in our state and needs that opportunity to become a homeowner or to stay in their home safely through a home repair program. So those of us earning between 30 and 80% of the area median income, which are the folks that are helped through Habitat for Humanity, need home ownership opportunities just like any of the rest of us who might be earning between 80 and 125% of the area median income. This is a crisis and it has been before the pandemic. We gratefully appreciate everything you've done to support the VHCB. We request that you continue to do that for the Vermont Housing Conservation Board and that you encourage them to put their funding toward home ownership. Thank you very much for the opportunity to share with you today. Thank you. And next up is Patrick Flood and following him is Margaret Dominsky. There we go. Can you hear me? Yes, we can. And we can see part of your face. Sorry about that, Mike. Can you see more of my face now? Yes, it's fine. Thank you. All right, thank you. Good afternoon, Madam Chair and committee members, and thank you for the opportunity to testify. In my two minutes today, I want to register an objection and I want to make a suggestion. I don't know how familiar all the members of the committee are, but one care of Vermont, our ACO under the all-payer agreement, is scheduled to get $15 million in budget adjustment. It's section B307 of the bill. And my objection is that I don't think they should get that money. They did nothing to earn that money. There was overspending in 2020, but the reason there was overspending was because both providers and patients postponed care. They postponed care because of the pandemic. But according to the way the contract is written, there was underspending and therefore the difference goes to the ACO. And I say, as I sat here listening and waiting for my turn to speak and listened to the needs that we have in this state for housing, for childcare, for the food bank, it just seems unconscionable to me that we're going to give that kind of money to the ACO when they did nothing to earn it. So my suggestion is because you may feel that you have no recourse, but to appropriate that money, I think you should look forward to the next year's budget. And when they come in for their budget for next year, you should simply not fund the $15 million in their administration and swap it out because it's a huge windfall for the ACO, as I said, that they didn't earn. And I think that they don't need that money in the coming year. And you can use that money for a lot of other things, as you all too well know, better than I do. So that's my objection and my suggestion. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next up is Margaret Dubinsky. And following her is Michelle Bolesky. Hello, hello, officers and representatives. Thank you for the opportunity. Hi, my name is Margaret Dubinsky. I'm a citizen of Vermont. I have lived here almost my entire life. I bought and sold a home before the pandemic. I've seen the home prices triple. I'm also a small business owner. I found out about this through VBSR email and I would like to speak up in support of the three housing improvement programs, the Housing Conservation Board, the Housing Improvement Program, and especially the Housing Finance Agency to support the funding of new homes. And I see this as being so important as I also am anticipating an influx of people to continue in Vermont due to things like the climate crisis and expanding, you know, the workforce changing directions to remote and alternative systems. So I really believe the housing crisis is not going to get smaller. It's going to get bigger. And I work as my small business is I'm a healer and a guide. And I pay attention to whatever mantras are going through and most of them have issues related to the housing costs increasing and feeling like they may have to leave the state because of housing. So I just hope that these initiatives will be funded. I'd like to support them and add that. I believe there are a lot of opportunities for very alternative methods of housing that could be researched and developed. And some of those funds could possibly go through that things such as building geodesic dome homes, building the ADU units. I think that's so incredibly valuable, but there are just so many opportunities for creative housing that I think could also be researched and the problem is not going to get smaller. It's going to get bigger. So thank you for your time. Thank you for your time. It's my understanding that Michelle Bolesky is not with us. And so we now have Mickey Wiles and correct me if I'm mispronouncing your name please. That's correct. Thank you. My name is Mickey Wiles. I'm the CEO and founder of Working Fields. I'm also a VBSR board member. Working Fields is a mission driven staffing agency. We work with employers throughout the state. We work to place and support individuals with barriers to employment who are generally in early recovery or have past convictions. The main barriers they face are employment, housing, and transportation. Along with the big three, there are other challenges such as basic needs, childcare, mental health, dental, and more. Housing rises to the top. People cannot find housing. When they do, it's not affordable. If by chance they can afford it, many times their credit or background gets in the way and they get turned down for the lease. And the question I ask is how does one hold the job without a place to live? Additionally, sober living is difficult to find. There's not enough of it. We've made some progress in the state, but there is just a lack for people who are starting their lives over again and they need a place to live. Community living in a supportive environment is an ideal solution for those in transition. Also, there are many people who are in transition who have families and traditional sober living does not provide for that. We need more family living situations. 28 seconds, Mr. Wiles. I'm sorry? 28 seconds, sir. Okay. Therefore, I am here to support the additional provisions for the housing in this bill predominantly, the housing that's provide more funding to provide the temporary housing. I appreciate your time today and thank you for your service. Thanks. Thank you. Committee or members of the public, we have no one else signed up to testify. And so with that, I will conclude the public hearing on the FY 23, 22 budget adjustment committee. If you would take 15 minutes, so it's two, let's call it 240 right now. If you would join us back in committee, I think using the link the same link. So use the same new link from our noontime meeting. Join us back in committee at five of three and we will take up our work there. So with that, please take us off live.


And the motivation for this panel was really a project that we did at UNU Wider about five years ago looking at aid in democracy and how that has manifested in sub-Saharan Africa. It culminated in an edited book volume with Nicholas Vandeval on democratic trajectories in Africa unraveling the impact of foreign aid. And quite a few of our panelists today were part of that project. And so we're revisiting some of the assumptions we had in that project and the kind of framework that we had at that time looking at the role that both democracy assistance and development assistance plays in the democratic process in Africa. At that time we had this framework looking at different elements of democratic consolidation and the potential theoretical entry points in which donors could engage in the democratic process. One was kind of avoiding democratic breakdown on this kind of left side of the spectrum, so kind of preventing return to one party regime or kind of a cessation of elections. In the middle we had this idea about avoiding erosion, at least preventing a deterioration in civil liberties or human rights. And then on the kind of right hand side, the kind of positive pull of the spectrum, deepening democracy, strengthening vertical accountability, reinforcing institutions that provide horizontal accountability like parliaments, and creating or reinforcing competitive party systems. And so we're kind of going to revisit whether some of these entry points are still valid. What we found in the project is of course it's a complex process. One of the key things was that we found a lot of contradictions between development and democracy assistance, often undermining each other in the democratic arena. But to kick us off we're going to start with Lisa Rackner. She's a professor of politics at the University of Bergen. She was a participant in the original project, particularly looking at the case of Zambia. And I think today she's going to focus on the kind of backlash against democracy in the region and the role donors have played there.