All right, good morning, cyber trainers. Welcome on this lovely Friday, the 12th. It is Lincoln's birthday. Well, happy birthday, Mr. Lincoln. Actually, happy birthday to my mom. Wish her a very happy birthday. It's been two years. She's basically been gone, but wish your mom. Love you. With that said, everyone, it is Friday. A couple of things that are moving. We got a busy, busy week. You got Valentine's Day, it's on the 14th. And what does that mean? Got President's Day, it's on the 15th. I believe the markets closed on Monday. Kids were off here, where we're from, from all week. I don't even know why they were off. They've been off all year with COVID. But with that said, I know a lot of people are going to probably go away. Kids are going to probably, there's not going to be a lot of action next week. So I would be a little cautious of what you're doing and what's going to happen. But today, this morning, we got a nice little run-up on the CLEU for all you cyber traders that were here. Remember, Early Bird gets the money. We say it all the time. So you could see that CLEU would talk a little bit more about it. Look at this beautiful stock. Literally, we went from $6 to $10, $4 in less than an hour. You guys cashed out. You didn't need $4. You actually at least got a dollar on that trade. And we called it out. It was one of the stocks I basically went out there. You know what kills me about this stock? I'm looking at the name. Because whenever I see a stock, I always check it out. Do you notice a lot of Chinese stocks are starting to move again? I don't know what's up with that. But look at the name, China Liberal Education. What does that mean? What actually does that mean? I know what it means to me. Somebody liked it. They ran up the stock at 8 o'clock this morning, and it went from $6 to $10. Thank you very much. That's all I know. That's why you got to love this job. Try not to take it personal. Try not to go out there and do something on the stock regarding about whatever pro-China hate China. I don't care what it is. But at the end of the day, we're all at the same party, and the same party is we're traders. Now, there are a couple of stocks out there. A couple of quick little announcements I just want to make. First of all, guys, I did put a link up there. I was going to share it again with you. So don't forget. The Cyber Trading Expo has been launched. We got our new Cyber Expo event that's going on this week. We got a lot of great speakers. I hope everyone gets registered. We got Benzinga there. You got myself. You got Trading Out Loud. You got Traders Coach. You got Ahima out there. You got some great presenters, some of the top of the industry, great education out there. So it is going to start on February 18th. Please don't miss this opportunity. If you register and you can't make it, don't worry, it's going to be recorded and will be sent out to you. We put that link in there. You can see it's showing up on your screen. I'll just take that down again so you guys can basically register for that. Couple of things before we also go through everything. So I want to talk about three things. First of all, today is the anniversary of Bitcoin. 10 years ago, the stock was a dollar. What's it now? 47,000, 10 years on the day. Did a lot better than Amazon. I can tell you that. 10 years on the day, it hit a dollar. Wow, that's amazing. I was quite amazed on that. What does that lead to? How does that help us? I don't know. Riot is obviously doing pretty good. R-I-O-T, you can see that thing just literally has been on a tear lately. And now a lot of cryptocurrencies, they start getting pretty volatile now. So you gotta be very careful on some of those stocks. But like I said, if you missed on it, you could do it. Let me tell you, I've been listening to a couple of people out there and remember I was talking the last couple of days regarding about the retic stocks out there. Well, the thing that really has gotta get me a little, what I told you about what happened, you can't beat the banks. You can't beat the banks. And the banks find a way, they got more money than God. They could take down countries if they want to. Now, I don't know if they're gonna get around this cryptocurrency thing, okay? Because the way banks make most of their money, I don't know if you know this, but it's all forex, it's all currency, okay? Think about it. You come from one country, you go to another country and the spread's like, why is the spread so big? And some of you trade forex, you know what I'm talking about? That's how they make their money by moving like, BMW's sending cars from here to US. That's why they build in certain countries because to send the money back, it's not even just the taxes, it's also, it's the conversion. Cryptocurrency's changed all that, okay?  They're not gonna like it, you know? And I think they're gonna see a little pressure going on. I don't know if President Biden's gonna deal with this. The United States are gonna deal with this because it is getting, now there, I'm just hearing more and more people, our state starting to take cryptocurrency, you know, for certain things. I mean, we take them for courses.  I don't know how they're gonna deal with it. I would be really cautious on it. I'm really looking forward to seeing what's gonna happen in the next three months, three to six months. But I think it's gonna probably sooner than later.  Remember, banks control everything. You like it or not. If you were around the financial district, a financial crash, you could see how everybody was freaking out when that happened. Couple of other things I wanna talk about. TRLY, okay, typed in the wrong window. So I told you this the other day. Two days ago, it was going up too fast. It was going up way too fast.  I got out finally half my position yesterday in pre-market. Thank God I got out of it. Got out somewhere around like, I think it was like around, wasn't a great price. I got out right around like, yeah, right around here, I was writing it down, right around 55. Okay, looking pretty good at 29. I'm still ticked off. I sold half my position at 26, you know? But that's part of being trading. But guess what? Look where it is today. You gotta understand, they don't go up this fast for a reason. It was a Reddit stock. They were talking about it. You gotta know how to play the game. Trust me, I think banks are starting to troll on these people, you know, and seeing what they're doing and they're running it up, they're trying to sucker everybody out there.   It's the order flow. They're seeing you order flow. They're seeing where people are hitting their buttons and they're trading against you. It's part of the game. You gotta know how to play the game and make sure, I spent a very specific amount of time yesterday on Open House yesterday. If you haven't watched it, make sure you watch the recording. I talked a little bit more about it because I think people are gonna start to realize if you can't beat them, you gotta join them, but you gotta join them in a very careful way. So you could see it, but listen, there's a lot more out there. Don't question it. They're there every day. So we got that going on. Now a couple of stocks before I go through the watch list, we had a pretty decent day on certain stocks. I wanna start off with HYLN, that one yesterday, I don't know what happened in the middle of the day, but this thing just went up huge and went from basically 15, shot up to 22. That was something that if you guys were not here, you missed out. That one moved up pretty well. Another stock that did really well too, BRQS, stock went from $2 to $3, very cheap. Yesterday people were asking me, in the event, how much do you really need to trade? How much money do you need to buy? 500 shares in the stock, $1,000? Okay. You don't need a lot of money. That's a misconception that people think. So, and don't think like, well, I can't afford to stock. Let me trade the option.  Do not do that. SOS was actually my biggest winner. I don't know what happened to this thing. I'm watching and I'm trading it. I was actually down yesterday. Not a lot, because yesterday I traded a lot. I mean, I probably did, maybe probably 30 to 50 trades yesterday. I think I probably basically did. And I was turning my wheels and finally I killed it on this one right here. So ticked off because I had about 5,000, I had like 5,000 shares in the stock and I had it at five. I'm looking at the Falstow flag and I'm like, look at this bad boy. And bam, I ran to stock up. It killed it. Actually, no, I'm sorry. I bought it at like 430. It started moving and it got out right above five and then it did a little shake right here. You can see it right there. It did a little shake and then boom, it ran to seven but it came right back down. And then obviously you went into, you can see where it went to. Listen, great traders. You gotta remember, great traders, we never buy at the bottom, we sell top. We always buy in between. If you focus on your days pay, you made it's one thing. I was just wanting to get to even and I made more than that and that was your SOS obviously helped me out with that. I was very happy. Can was another one that really moved pretty nicely. I'm gonna put this on the B list.  It's gapped up a little bit. You could see on the swing trade, stock was right above $4. It's already at 11. Remember, you wanna be a good swing trader. You damn well better know how to find them in the day trader first. All right, so that's what we traded yesterday. Now, what do we got going on for today? Okay, so we got a couple of things. Yeah, Normans has said, you know, in the side group room, it did had some nasty shakes and all of a sudden started getting pretty volatile but that was a pretty fun stock.  All right, so we know about the CLEU. You could see that bad boy did a little bit of shake in pre-market. It just popped right now. Listen, when you guys blogged in now, was it 8.50, look where it is now. It's at $10. If you bought 50 cents, it made, if you just bought, I don't know, 500 shares of that stock, you made yourself 50 cents on it. You made 250, some of you would be happy making 50,000 a year. Okay, don't buy the hype about showing these people making, you know, 3,000, 5,000, 10,000. Listen, most people would just be happy just to pay their bills, you know, and that's it. And that's why people love this job. And anyway, good stock. It's pretty damn strong going to the closed door. I don't know what's up with that. Back in the end of August, the stock is testing some major resistances. You could see it right here. I wanna be focused on this high right here, what's going on. Now, if you look right here, I wanna bring over also, level four, let me just blow this up really quick right now, because everybody's always asking me, what is your level four, your level threes? Well, you could see right here, it's starting to build, you could see it's starting to build a heads and shoulders right here, but there was a big huge iceberg order right here. This guy's been out there, literally, since 8.30 in the morning. And you could see how it hit it, it came back down, it hit it. He's not there, but now it's a 13,000 share buyer right here at 9.50. I don't know if you guys could see that. Let's see if he gets executed. If it does, it looks like he's adding to the position, I'll be honest with you. If it holds, it should pop, but the big thing is, the big seller at 10 bucks is not there anymore. Remember, follow the money, follow the money, follow the money. That's what you gotta do, all right? Couple of the stocks I'm throwing on the watch list that are also moving this morning, a RTL. Here's another one that's got a nice post, very cheap stock, nice little trend right here, we're from 240 to 320. When I popped over here on the level three on the right-hand side, if you look right there, the level three, you could see that there's, it looks more like an algo stock, okay? When I looked over at the level four, when I was looking at previous orders, there was a big guy right here, right around three bucks. It looked like it took him out, but he's not there anymore. I wanna see if it does a pushback up there, but that three is obviously a pretty substantial resistance levels. Once again, follow the money, follow the money, follow the money, all right? Don't sit there and try to be analyzed and go check your 200 moving average. CLSN, once again, the stock has been a really good swing trade for us. How do we know it turned into a day trade, to a swing trade? Stock from a buck 50, went already to almost like $4. She took a little bit, she took a little reversal, but she does got resistance levels from yesterday. She's starting to trend down a little bit. She's cheap. I know, listen, some of you here wanna trade something a little bit on the slower side.  This might be up your alley. Norman in the cyber group room, it says OCG just popped. You know what? I didn't get to that one. That was actually on my B list. Okay, Norman. I'm gonna put it, I'm gonna jump this over to my A list now. The OCG, okay? Nice little push right there. Somebody to remember this stock. We trade this stock was last year. The stock went from $6 to $24. She started to trend up. So we'll keep a close eye on this one, but she does look pretty damn strong. Thanks for sharing that, Norman. That's what teamwork is all about. Now, NBTX, another one that came up on my radar. Nice little cheap stock, level one. Stock traded a million shares already. Doesn't look like an Algo stock. You got some iceberg orders right there. You got a 13,000 share seller right now at 318. That looks like Wyatt. You could see right below, right around. We change the slide here so you can see, yeah. So you can see right there, right around 845. It kind of like hit there and it backed right off. Looks like this guy's kind of holding it down. Don't see a lot of buyers out there. So that kind of turns me off a little bit. Might back off. Once again, it's just a cheap stock. Now on the B list, SFET is another one that had a really huge pop early this morning. It went from 220 to 340. It backed right off. It's holding pretty strong. It is a 9,000 share buyer that's sitting there right around 250. Kind of makes sense why it's kind of holding here. Let's see if that guy holds it. Resistance-wise, you got a 9,000 share seller at 279. Not terrible. At least we know the trading range. Another nice little cheap level one stock for you beginners out there. This one might be pretty decent. DNN, the stock was a 70 cent stock. Went to 90, $1,020. You know, that hit almost $1.42. Nice level one stock. If you're an advanced trader, this is a stock like I would trade 5,000, 10,000 shares of it. I can get in and out of it. No problems, no issues. Just remember, when you trade more shares, the brokerage firms will charge you more money. So you got to be careful of that regarding. And you don't have to make a lot to move up to make that short move. Chuck says the FSR is popping. Wow, that is a really nice pop right there. Way to go. What was this, Fisker? Isn't that that car company? That electric car company? FSR? If that's moving then we want to check probably NKLA. Nikola, not really going anywhere. But we're going to throw the FSR on that watch list. All right. We got a YouTuber that says, Fousa, could you check out the SFET stock? Like I said, it was on there. Sorry, I just mentioned it. Just saw you, I just saw your chat right there. Like I said, let's see what happens at that big support level. Spread looks kind of ugly. Tier sizes don't look too good on it. That kind of like turns me off. But it did trade 2.3 million shares in pre-market. All right, Cyber Traders. Anything I'm missing, I did not call out. Reddit's going after EVs. Is that what they're doing now, Jeff? All right, listen. Teamwork, teamwork, teamwork. Let's keep an eye and look at it. Jose just made 11 cents on ARTL. Excellent trade right there. I'm just, by the way, I had some people here on my, let me just share it right here as you guys can see. Oops, sorry about that. That's not really working too well because I'm sharing on two screens. But yeah, that was a good trade. I just wanted to share it on YouTube but I apparently can't show it. It kind of like does that crazy thing on the computer. But yeah, nice little stock, nice little movement right there. And that was what? Second one on the list. Let's see if it gets past its major resistance levels at 320, okay? All right, Cyber Traders, anything we're missing? Is that it? All right, so we got about 10 minutes.  Make sure you're subscribed on YouTube. We'll post those, the watch list on there.  And don't forget, this week, market is closed on the 15th, am I right? I think the market is closed, it's President's Day. I don't know if everybody knows. I haven't checked, if I remember correctly, it is closed. I don't know if everybody knows off the top of their head to share it. But I'll put it in the chat room. Yeah, it is, right, Wendy? Okay, so I've got to mark my calendar. All right, good. So with that said, be careful, it's Friday.  So I think it's gonna be, you know, pick your money and run, all right? Good luck, everyone, happy trading, be safe. We'll be back here at 230.


All right. So I'm Kalea, Kalea Livingston. I am the chair of the board of directors here at the peace and justice center. I have been on the board for about a year. So now a little over a year. It's been a lot of fun, definitely a pleasure. We have a very short agenda today. However, I think it'll be filled with lots of good information and updates. We're just going to start with having you all do introductions in the chat. Just give us your name and your pronouns. Maybe something you're excited to hear today or your affiliation to PJC whatever you feel is most pertinent. So from there, we will move into staff updates and introductions, and then we'll move into updates from some of our allied groups who are joining us today. And from there, the board will introduce ourselves and we'll vote on board positions and then we'll end the meeting with some questions and comments from all of you. Hi, I'm Grace Garcia here who will be moderating the chat, which is awesome. Thank you, Aris. Oh, we're already seeing some introductions awesome. Hi, Wendy. Okay, I think we should just get right into staff updates. So we'll start off with Rachel, our executive director. Really nice to see you all. We were all in a room together in snacks, drinking tea. But here we are, and it's nice that people could show up and didn't have to leave their houses every now and then that is nice. I see Kristen's got her tea so nice. We thought that the big news this year was going to be that Wendy, one of our founders and on staff as the operations director for 41 years retired, and that there would be a new ED and that I'd be moving on. Those were going to be the biggest news of the year. Wendy did leave and that is big news. It's been a big adjustment, but I didn't leave because COVID hit as we were starting the transition process and it just wasn't the right time and I said I'll stay and write out this storm and then we were like wait how long is this storm. And they have restarted the process to move toward a transition so it's still happening it's just delayed and I'm happy that I could be here and that it was supportive for people to have me stay and I was glad to have the flexibility to do that. So the beginning of the year it's sometimes hard to remember, but it was a, you know, sort of regular busy time for us where there was lots of work to do lots of people in Vermont, doing different organizing and action work that we were supporting in small ways and in bigger more official ways with fiscal sponsorship and more. We were doing all of our regular educational programs for the public and also by contract for different groups. The activist development work that we do largely with interns and volunteers, and we were running our store. And, you know, we were cruising along sort of bumping along things are not easy doing this work. And then COVID hit, you know, we transitioned. Wendy left which was a huge transition.  We did lots of sort of internal self education work cleanup projects website cleanup. And then the thought pricings against the police murder of black people started after George Floyd murder. And suddenly our work went from like zero to 100. Over the course of a couple of days, and we were in high demand for support for, for protests that were happening immediately we started getting an unprecedented amount of requests for educational programs on racial justice. We started trying to figure out how to sell things again. So, we've been in fast motion and I have to say that the stress of COVID and of the, of the, you know, the world, and specifically the racism that has become, you know, even more obvious yet again as if it could get more obvious. Had an impact on the staff that we had some hard times and we were really fortunate to be able to work with Catherine Caden and Jesse Wiens who run an organization called Bob Bobetry International. And they did a circle process with us that brought us much closer together and to a new place with agreements about power and relationships so that we can build much more trust and understanding amongst ourselves which is really exciting to think about. Again, as I transition out that were that we've created this really beautiful space to welcome someone into. So, I think that's my update if people have questions later I can share more, but I will share a little bit on Kina's behalf Kina Thorpe is not able to be with us this weekend but she is our programming manager who oversees all of our educational programming. And like I said there's been an unprecedented number of requests for programs by contract and they are from nonprofits like feeding Chittenden and CBOEO businesses for social responsibility and they're from schools like the Waldorf school and I should have written myself a list because of course I can't think of them now but there's like 40 of them in the last three months it's wild. And then also our public programs which have been just filling up an unbelievable rate once we list them publicly. It's really exciting. So, she has also been working really hard Kina to develop new facilitators to work with and has created more systems to hold people accountable and to really fully train people and onboard them and it's great to be a growing group. That's what I'll say on Kina's behalf and you'll hear from her she writes the E news every two weeks so hopefully you get a chance to see that and keep up with us that way it's, it's a labor of love for her and it's just packed with information and we do get a really high open rate and I hope some of you are also checking it out and if you ever have things that you'd like us to put in it please let us know. And that's what I'll say for now. Thanks. Hi everyone. I'm eris I'm the volunteer coordinator and the assistant store manager. And the coven was intense, clearly, but the year for the store and for volunteers was pretty solid. Aside from having to close. Right before coven we had updated the store we were in the process of renovating. We thought new floors installed donated, which was even better. And when coven happened. Amy, who is our store manager and won't be able to join us today. Amy was able to take that time during coven to be able to focus on. Sorry, my cat is trying to try to say hi. Try to focus on managing our inventory in a way that would be sustainable for the organization. We have a lot of products in our store and we're really proud of all the vendors that we support but the things that we have just are not sustainable so we we took the time to be able to go through everything and now because of coven we have kind of shifted gears and decided to launch an e-commerce and online platform store that you'll be able to access come November. Excuse me October 30th next week. It will be launching. So that's really exciting. Rachel did you want me to screen share now. Do you guys want to see the store. I can show you what the store is going to look like you get a sneak peek preview. Nobody else has seen it yet so just give me one second. So you can be the first and if you have any quick feedback or anything pop it in the chat. And I will take that into consideration as we get ready to launch. So anything. If you love it, you hate it. All feedback is good feedback, especially right now before we launch. So you should be able to see our beautiful store. Everybody see the storefront. This is actually these little stones here are soapstone and they're key see stones from one of our vendors. And so what you'll do is you'll be able to go directly to our website. The pjcbt.org and there will be a link that will bring you to this platform. So everything is all in one place so be super easy to start off with we are launching our top 25 SKUs and all of our perishables. We are being really cognizant of making sure that we can support the vendors and artisans who have products that expire. We want to make sure that we continue to be an integrity when we are acting and selling things through and under a fair trade label. And so being able to maintain a sustainable relationship with these vendors is really important to us. So you see divine chocolate here with higher coffee from Pierre Bay. People will also be able to pick up like that matter signs which was a huge deal. In the middle of COVID at the beginning of summer, we did open for a short time in the store to be able to offer those to the community, which was a huge success we brought in over. I think we sold something over 150 signs and people donated in a range from $10 all the way to hundreds of dollars, just for BLM signs which was really quite beautiful. So you'll just see that we have it all set up here and these are all the different things you'll be able to buy right now. And we will be extending our offerings, as soon as we can figure out what is going to be the best for us. So that's pretty exciting. Everyone who is here is going to get a one time 30% off coupon. That's right. So I will be sending you will have a list of everybody who's joined today. So you will get a coupon for the store, which will be like Rachel said 30% off for our launch will only be for a month so you'll definitely want to make sure you use it. As soon as you get it, and you will be open for curbside pickup, or we will be doing some chipping for folks who don't live in the Burlington area, and who need to get their pride flags their BLM signs their coffee, whatever else it may be so it'll be super easy and user friendly. And we're very excited Amy has worked really hard on the background on the back and to be able to put all of these things in here. And this is a huge labor that we are really excited to be able to offer, not only to you as our members, but especially as our community members. And it will allow us to have sustainable relationships which is really the key to all of this. A little bit. That was for Amy, a little bit about volunteers. COVID was really hard but it was also actually really beautiful volunteers gathering started to be done online and I see quite a few faces here who have been coming regular to the gathers and having some beautiful conversations in our gatherings we've been learning about the details because we are all online we have new needs. So being able to have people host zoom meetings for us and be our back end support. Those kind of volunteer needs are new for us. And I really appreciate the volunteers who have stepped up and taken on those extra responsibilities and really been there for us. So a big thank you to you and then also if anybody's interested, go ahead and go to the website and fill out the volunteer form. And I can get you started with a new task, because there's plenty to do from home right now. And if you are feeling comfortable, you can help us with the launch of the store there's things to be done in the center, and we definitely will need help with those things also. Something else that I personally am really proud of that I did this year. We were very lucky to have time donated from a place called Noel Farm, and we hosted our first ever by Poc retreat for all of the folks who are on our board who are by Poc our staff and our racial justice advisory committee. And hopefully we have cultivated an amazing relationship to be able to continue that program every year. So we're already in the talks about how to get one going for this coming year, which is really been amazing having that time to get to know each other in a safe environment that was quarantined was really special, I think to all of us and really re energized us the by Poc that helped run this organization, especially during this time coven and the racial uprisings and we just, it was really nice to have that time to be really excited about to be able to offer and to participate in guide. So thank you for those who were able to come and also thank you to those who are going to support next year's by Poc retreat will be fundraising to make that happen. So definitely look out for that in a future e news from Tina. So, other than that I think that's everything to have on behalf of Amy and myself. I appreciate all of you being here. I'll just pass it along to Josh. My name is Joshua use he him pronouns. The newest member to the CJC is so honored to be here. And it's a pleasure to meet all of you. I've had communications with quite a few of you so, and I wrote in text to others so it's been like nice to put a face to it. And thank you for all your contributions and donations everything really is meaningful and it's like as you've heard already, a lot of it's been going towards really wonderful causes and things that we've been doing this year. Hi, so since I took over, there's been a lot of backlog of information so one of the main things that I've been doing is just making sure that all of our documents, our paper and digital records from last year are just being updated. Aside from that one of the projects that I've been a part of that's been really exciting and engaging for me was, we've been trying to update our server. We currently have a older server in the office and we are trying to decommission this and switch transition into a more online cloud based platform. This would allow us to upgrade our house security and make sure that establish a new firewall and just things like that that'll just make all of our finances and all of our records just be a little bit more private and protected. Another thing that we're kind of working on here would be. A lot of different things and just trying to work on trying to transition things a little bit more efficiently so another item would be the pay data we're working with this new company to start our payroll. So we're just trying to start, you know, tighten up some areas, take some of the, the tasks that I've been in charge of or what Wendy was doing before me. And I just try to streamline some of these things in a way that will make a little more efficient, essentially, but it's been wonderful, and I'm glad to be here. And that's all I have. Thank you. Thanks so much, Josh, and to the rest of staff for those great introductions. Now I'd like to move into updates from allied groups and I really. Sorry, before you do that, since some people came late, maybe reintroduce yourself. So would you do you mind? Sure, I'm Kulia. I'm the chair of the board of directors here at PJC. You'll hear a little more about me when the board introduces ourselves in a few agenda items. So next, I would like to move into updates from allied groups. Ideally, if people could keep their introductions to about a minute or so. That would be awesome. So we have time for everybody to speak. And I cut in again. I'm sorry. Sure. We didn't talk about this when we were setting the agenda that it probably makes sense just to say a sentence or two about what the allied groups are, because it's a huge part of what we do. We offer fiscal sponsorship to other groups all around the state if they're doing work that's mission aligned and the fiscal sponsorships a huge part we do while they're bookkeeping and then there's other infrastructure that we're also able to share and there's more than active groups right now. So you'll hear from a few. Sorry to cut you off again. That's okay. I think that was important. Thank you, Rachel. So to start, let me just make sure Lydia is here. We have Lydia diamond from Brooklyn Strong here to give us some updates and a brief introduction. Lydia, are you here? I see her. I see. So, I'll wait and we'll move to the next group. Kathy Shapiro from Vermonters for justice in Palestine. Hi. Yeah, I'm Kathy Shapiro. Vermonters for justice in Palestine has been a group. I've been around for over 20 years. I've been with them for about 10. Also, Wafiq Fawar is is here from our group and I'd like him to add anything that I forget. We, we support our actions are largely education informing people about Palestinian rights and particularly the right of return and their struggle for human rights and for self determination and and for the right of return and and and and to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, and we work with various other groups to educate some of our current ongoing activities despite COVID are a television program on public TV which can be accessed through Vimeo or your public TV channel called Salam Shalom which Mark Hage does. And as we started that he shows films and interviews people on various aspects of Palestine and their and the Palestinian struggle for rights, and the BDS movement the boycott divestment and sanctions movement. So, which also contributes, and some of us have some others of us have contributed every two weeks to the peace and justice center bi-weekly newsletter. So you should see something in every newsletter, usually by Mark about what's going on with Palestinian rights what's going on right now with Palestine. We have been hampered, obviously, by COVID and things that we normally do on an annual basis. And we have a campaign against Ben and Jerry's the the Ben and Jerry's finest the company in based in Burlington, which is, which is in some ways, it is part of Unilever, but it is a Vermont company. And we are campaign is to get Ben and Jerry's to withdraw the franchise that they have in Israel which sells their ice cream in illegal Jewish settlements in Palestinian occupied territory.  It's part of, it's part of the BDS campaign and we're very happy to say that I think a couple of years ago, the peace and justice center also endorsed the boycott divestment and sanctions campaign. Other issues were constantly fighting with our legislation against the right of students to organize for Palestinian solidarity and accusations of anti Semitism that any criticism of Israel equals anti Semitism, which it does not. And, and these issues pop up all the time at UVM and elsewhere, and, and we're engaged in letter writing or anyway those those are just not to go on and on a few of the issues that we deal with, and we're not very many people and once again it's, it's, it's hard to do this work in the time of COVID and if it's possible maybe what he can can say something about the work that he does on behalf of VTJP with other organizations. Kathy, we actually have to move on to the next group limit how much time each group. Thank you so much for that introduction. Lydia, I see you're back on the call. Are you ready to give us an introduction and brief updates. We're hoping to keep each introduction to about a minute or a minute and a half or so. She and you. Yeah, we can hear you, we can hear at the park with the people's kitchen we about to serve food, but I'm Lydia diamond. And Brooklyn strong is my organization, or our organization so to speak, Brooklyn strong is named after my granddaughter, she just turned on last Sunday, and she was diagnosed with chronic my leoid leukemia. In the brief time that I've been with you guys. I've been through a lot, and I need more assistance from all of you. I don't know you all, but I would like to get to know you better. And I would like more hands on assistance with certain things like Rachel you mentioned that you guys do our bookkeeping. I didn't know that I need to know that. So I'm, I'm just gonna stop it right there. I really appreciate y'all. And I want this childhood cancer society, Brooklyn strong to be successful, because we have children in our own community that need us. They need our support, they need our love, they need all that they are entitled to. And that's it. Thank you for listening. Thank you, Lydia. Thanks Lydia, I just want to say, I will send you an email and we can kind of set a time to have further conversations about what we can do for you to support the system, so that'd be wonderful to set up. I would greatly appreciate it. What's your name again. I'm Joshua. I'm the operations manager so we could definitely. Joshua. Nice to officially meet you. Thank you so much for your time. Thank you, Lydia. All right. Moving into hearing from Heather from from to creative community. Yeah, you're here you have there you're unmuted, but you should turn up your phone maybe volume on your phone, or hold it closer to your mouth. A little bit just speak loudly to create a community which is to see for short, and it means to to see to understand the need to design with our planet in mind and teach these techniques to all. We're an arts organization, and we just moved from when you ski, which was our studio to Milton Vermont, where right now we're on 18 acres so hoping to have some artists residency is starting and trying to start a BIPOC artist residency. And, and hopefully you start a sculpture park with performances and markets happening through whenever COVID could allow for things like that but since we have all this acreage right now. It seems like a good thing, rather than being in a building itself. So, thank you so much for being our allied group. We look forward to some more online programming and more arts for everybody. Thank you so much. Thank you, Heather. Next we have coach Christie from the social equity caucus and task force. Hello everybody. Beautiful day in Vermont. I, I'm going to keep this brief. I've, I put a description letter together for, I'm going to, I'll share that with Joshua and he can maybe share it with with everyone. But to very briefly start. The social equity caucus is a very unique entity. It's made up of legislators community members community organizations. And, and I humbly have to say that if it wasn't for the hard work that Rachel and the number of the other board members put in, we probably wouldn't exist. When you get a chance to read the letter I think it'll make a little more, more sense. It's a one pager. I think it is a synopsis of what we do. And this is something that everybody on this call can be proud of the legislation that was passed this session. And that involved racial justice was the result of your involvement with this caucus.  No, but what is, but did it make some very serious inroads in the where areas that we needed to. Use of force. Civilian oversight. Training. Mental health services all recovered. So I just want to thank you. Again, so much because I know it was difficult for the board to understand the unique nature of this group. Just to understand and we live with it. But that being said, I really am humbled and honored that you guys decided to, to help us out, because it is helping for monitors around the state. So thank you again so much. Thank you. I appreciate that great description. And we have Maria Rinaldi from the choir for peace and justice. Hi everyone. I'm very pleased to be here today and especially to go after my very good friend coach Christie nice to see you. I'm coming to speak to you today about the chorus I formed. It's a piece in justice chorus where every voice is welcome with a lot of people actively working to divide us up. The goal of the chorus is to provide a safe space for its members and to bring people and audiences together through music. Again, we met. We began in the fall of 2019, which was about the same time I reached out to the peace and justice center to be our fiscal agent. We were doing very good things we were we split rehearsals up between Colchester and Jericho where I live to try to reach as many people as possible to participate and I was very excited when our membership got up to 60 people. We had a lot of fun learning the music together and planning for upcoming performances. And then COVID hit and everything was shut down and eventually canceled. So singing is one of the most high risk activities out there during the pandemic because you aspirate smaller articles from your lungs when you sing. So we had to stop meeting in person in March of 2020, realizing that the shutdown was going to last a while. A couple months into I set up my house so that I could host zoom rehearsals online. But unfortunately, there was a huge reduction in participants. We had problems that stemming from either internet connectivity, parents trying to homeschool their children dealing with that or just folks not liking the zoom experience. But there was still a core 10 to 15 members who really craved the community of meeting each week. So I continue to work with them. It's not the ideal way to rehearse. There's latency in the internet which creates sound delays. So we cannot sing at the same time. Otherwise it results in what I like to call a cacophony of chaos. So sadly, I have to mute everyone and play their parts and sing to them on my end. But all I can see is their mouths moving. And I can't tell if they're singing in tune. But given the fact that COVID is surging surging again. And it looks like we're going to have to stay home longer. Much longer than I was anticipating. I'd like to rebuild the organization and focus on the online community aspect of it as much as possible. Who knows, we might even be able to recruit some people who are feeling isolated at home. So our next steps are to update the website to reflect the new environment we're working in, make virtual recordings. Form a planning committee to come up with ideas, develop initiatives, plan events, fundraising, etc. Create an online Facebook group for members to share what they're doing with each other. And when this is all over, we begin to return to normal activities. I'm hoping your organizations will consider having a sing for your events. We have a repertoire of songs that will work for any event to celebrate women, black lives matter, LGBTQ lives, disability community, etc. And we're happy to learn new music as well to fit your needs. As we begin to make virtual recordings, we would even be happy to work with you. Perhaps with upcoming virtual events, you may be holding. So that's us in a nutshell. Thank you, Maria. I appreciate that. Next we have Morgan from people for peace and security. Thank you. I am also known as Jennifer Decker. Many folks know me that way I just decided to go through a name change. Recently, so I appreciate everyone just making an effort on that. And I am here from people for peace and security and I just want to invite everyone who would like to come to a virtual screening of two short five minute films called get the f 35 out parts one and two. On Tuesday night, we're going to, we have a zoom setup and if you're interested, you can just message me your email and I'll send you the information. Thank you for that Rachel so our group has been working to end the basing of the f 35. And I would say over the last few months that we as a movement have been reckoning more and continuing to reckon with the intersectional nature of the work that we're doing in terms of militarism and the proper emphasis of that work. And in terms of the impact on people's lives in countries where us imperialism and other forms of imperialism are strong, as well as the negative impact in terms of ongoing colonialism, the use of oil on the impact of climate change. And also the influence of different state actors in terms of militarized power so that would include police brutality, and the importance for our group of standing an alliance with immigrant rights and people seeking asylum in this country. And so there's a lot of shifting, I think, and, you know, recently in terms of current local events, the, you know, people for peace and security has been able to ally with groups to make our movement more intersectional. So, right now there's a campaign going on with a letter to the inspector general about the basing, and we're continuing to oppose the environmentally unjust impact in terms of the social justice issues with the communities that are the most affected by the basing of the plane. I don't know about the rest of you, but my ears are ringing. I was trying to record an F 35 over when you ski about three weeks ago and my ears have simply not stopped ringing. And we do know that the planes are harming children's development. Attention spans and all of that and yet the flights continue to take off and we all know now just how horrific it is but the local impacts are nothing compared with what the use the planned use of the planes, including the retrofitting with nuclear weapons being really horrifying. So we have launched a boycott of the Burlington airport, which we invite people to sign on to and it's voluntary because we know not everyone is in a position to be able to avoid flying. And we have a Facebook page which is people for peace and security cancel the F 35. And again I just want to invite everyone to see and if you can't come see the films you can contact us and you can get the YouTube links. If you can't come to the event but please feel free to share the event and you can do that by coming to our Facebook page as well or feel free to message me. Thank you. Thanks Morgan. All right. So thanks again to all of our allied groups. I appreciate those updates and I see people are plugging certain events in the chat which is awesome. I hope everybody who's willing to participate actively does so. So first on our agenda, we have introductions from the board which I will start and introduce myself again my name is Kalia Livingston I've been on the board for a little over a year now. I'm the chairperson. And one thing that I've been involved in recently in regard to the board. I actually just was a juror for the Lawrence debate, sorry, the Lawrence debate union. My apologies. I was a juror for the Lawrence debate union in which this year their topic was in regards to social justice more specifically about police abolition it was a very insightful experience and I think I learned a lot which I will take back to the board and hopefully we can utilize in our future efforts to move forward towards police abolition. I don't want to volunteer to go next or should I start calling names from the board I'm seeing Jen here. So we can start with Jen. Hi, I'm Jennifer Charlo patchlack I she her pronouns. I am an attorney and live in Waterbury Center. I've served on the board for three years. I'm the secretary. I have organized the auction the last couple of years that we usually do at our award ceremony at the end of March and well as we all know unfortunately we weren't able to go forward with that. I'm excited this year but I'm really excited to be again working with some volunteers in the office to launch an online auction with all of the wonderful items that we gathered. We've just you know had stored hoping that at some point we would be able to hold the auction so keep your eyes out for that and we have some great stuff and thank you. Thanks Jen. Next I'm seeing David. I'm David Shiman. He is him. And I've been on the board since seems the beginning of time but I think it's seven years. I'm really interested right now and working in South Burlington on a fair and impartial policing policy and trying to work with the South Burlington chief police to revise their policy to particularly with respect to lack of collaboration with ice. And so we're working on that and it's a slow process. I guess that's it for now. Thanks Jen. Jaina you're up next.  I've been on the board for about nine months now. We just had this really great monthly volunteer gathering clear and I actually hosted it with Eric. It was a great opportunity for community building, and it reminded me why we do all this. So that was something that I'm really inspired about from being on the board so far. But yeah, thank you. Thanks Jaina. TJ our newest board member is here so let's hear an intro from him. Hi everyone. It's great to see you all. My name is TJ Sengare. I use he him pronouns. I'm a sophomore at St. Michael's College and I've been on the board for about a month now. And despite my short time on the board I really enjoyed being a part of the PJC and contributing to the liberation of all marginalized folk. I've been involved with recently I've been in contact with a woman in Milton Vermont who's been experiencing a lot of really awful and violent racism. So I've been focusing on different ways that we can help get her story out, as well as ways we can help keep her safe. And you know, she's in a horrible situation that no one should be in but I'm glad that I've had the opportunity to join the PJC and offer as much support as possible. And so thank you all for joining us, supporting us and helping build the loving and inclusive world that we all envision. Thanks TJ. And last but not least we have Nathan here. Hi, I'm Nathan Souter I use he him pronouns live in Montpelier. I'm a organizational consultant organizational development consultant, and I've been on the board since 2011, which is a long time. I really love the dynamics of this board in this organization, and most recently participated in a bystander intervention training put on by PJC which had something like, you know, 75 people on a zoom training, which is just so awesome. You know, I had the pleasure of have the pleasure of working, most recently, a bunch with Joshua on some of the financial stuff. I'm the treasure of the board, and really impressed with his work to pull that all together so thank you Joshua. And that's it. Thanks you guys for coming today. It's really cool to see so many people here. Thank you, Nathan. And we have two more members who are absent today, Emma Schoenberg as well as Chuck Brewer. So I just wanted to bring them into the space, even though they're not here. I could speak for a second on what each of them have been working on. I don't know what they would say they're most excited about, but some of the things they're involved with that I'm excited about Emma does a lot of organizing nationally in addition to her work with Peace and Justice Center and she's involved with a whole lot of stuff right now around post election shenanigans. And she's representing the Peace and Justice Center on some of the local groups meeting around that. She also has helped develop and present some of our non violence educational programs. And Chuck Brewer I know is serving on the hiring committee and has been an important voice there. He also has worked as a co facilitator for our people color affinity group that meets monthly. So there's a couple things about them and sorry that you don't get to meet them. There you have it. All right, so now we're going to move into voting for board positions that are up for reelection, which Rachel is going to bring up the polls and kind of describe the voting process via zoom, since this is all new for us. Yeah. So, when we are bylaws state that we do our people serve to your terms, and that we present a slate of board members for people to vote on so you don't vote on individuals you'll just vote on the full slate. And six of our board members are actually up for election right now. And so I'm going to set up a poll that shows you their eight names. Oh sorry there's six names, and you'll get to vote yes no or abstain. Anybody have any questions before I go ahead and open up the poll. If you haven't done a poll on Facebook it's it's very simple it'll pop up on your screen and you just click your answer. Maybe just in case for those who don't know. I mean, abstain means that you're not going to vote. And if you're not on Facebook. Oh, did I say Facebook I meant zoom it's going to pop up on zoom. In this meeting right now. Yeah sorry. And everybody who's here can vote as my understanding that was a question. Everyone who's here can vote in terms of you'll have access to the poll. However, the people according to our bylaws who can vote our members. So, some of you here aren't actually dues paying members so please don't vote. Anybody who volunteers is a member and anybody who pays starting at $15 a year as a member so if you don't fall into one of those categories. Please go to our website and become a member as soon as you can or you can send a check and Joshua will take care of that. But I'll go ahead and open up the poll.  Just send me a note, and I will try to answer you quickly. Kristen did I answer your question. Let's see if this is the first time I've done polls. So, my gosh, I just realized Chuck's not listed there. Lawyer Jen, can you tell me should I make a new poll with Chuck's name or can we just tell people to include Chuck. Is it going to take a long time to make a new poll, maybe 30 seconds. Okay, why don't we just do that so we have an official ballot that does include Chuck. Sorry, let's see. So if we're not a member do we abstain or just stop bother vote. Just don't bother I think are the affiliates members, not unless they're also a member. I got a check. I could say that groups aren't members only individuals. So that's another way to explain it. So if anybody wants to be able to vote next year, and definitely become a member, you can either do monthly donations or monthly payments or you can do a yearly payment, whatever is best for you. And Josh will be the one that helps after you submit your request online. So I have a question so there's like blocks of people to vote for how many times, like how many. I don't understand how it's working. Well here comes the poll again, you can vote for the slate, or you can vote against the slate. It's presented as a slate by the board. So this, this is the only slate. Yes, this is. Sorry, I was thinking something different. Thank you. Oh, sorry, it wasn't more clear. Oh, we can't vote for individuals. That's correct. You vote just for a slate. That's how it's set up in our bylaws. We've actually done it incorrectly previously and allowed people to vote for individuals, but it's supposed to be the full slate. Okay. Give it another 30 seconds in case anybody's having any problems with that and then I will publish the results. Unmute yourself and let me know if you need more time. I'm going to end the poll, and I'm going to share the results. Can you all see the share. Yeah, cool. So there you have it. Our board is confirmed. Yay, thank you. We love our board. So thank you. I'm happy to continue doing the work that I've been doing. Great. So the last agenda item is up to you all to ask your questions and comments. If you would like to. Speak then go ahead and use the raise hand feature. However, feel free to just write questions in the chat and errors will keep up with those. And let me know when questions come up. I'm not seeing any questions so far. Are there any comments? I'll just say that I'm really excited about the store and about the online store and. I'm just really excited and want to get in there and do something to help that process. All right, your name down Leslie. And I guess if people do have comments or questions go ahead and take a moment to say who you are because Leslie is one of our volunteers and a member and it's so wonderful to have your, you know, have you as part of our team. I'm Shelly Bramilia. Am I next or. Yeah, okay, thanks. I don't have time to be a facilitator right this moment, but I've been taking the talking to kids about racism and just did the bystander intervention it's really amazing what we can accomplish on zoom so I'm really grateful to be able to participate in that. I'm facilitating all kinds of other things in my life so I'm with the work, and I'm really grateful to be part of this community. Thank you. Go DJ. I'm raising my hand because I don't know. I haven't had to use the hand raising feature in this zoom stuff I've been doing. I just want to say, I've been helping Joshua and I'm really happy he's there and he's really smart and it's a great addition to the staff and the whole organization. Thank you Joshua and it's so fun to see your whole face now, because we've always been wearing masks so. Susan I see your hand up. Yeah, thanks. Susan Sean father I do some facilitating with the racial justice program. I just have been want to say how much and I have been and how much appreciation I have for everything that the staff has done this year for Rachel for willing around and changing her projected future in order to, you know, to keep things going for everybody on the staff's ability to, you know, take on everything it's meant in their personal lives to be dealing with the pandemic and the economic insecurity and the, you know, racial justice crisis that we don't have been there but it's become, you know, it's like took us and shook us around and threw us on the ground. And I just have been so impressed with everything everybody's done and the good work and the to see you all smiling and bringing us together like this. I just want to thank you and say how much I appreciate it. George, you can go ahead. Yes, thank you. This is George cloak. I'm in Middlebury. And I have been happy to support the peace and justice center for a number of years. My question is about what's happening after the election. There are people in middlebury and of course, everywhere in the country I think ready to stand up and demonstrate a protest. The things may happen right after the election I wonder if the peace and justice center is organizing or attached to any of that effort. Yes, we are definitely involved in some of the efforts helping to connect people who are working in coalition with each other. I've actually been working closely for the last couple of days George with Spence and Dorothy Mammon, who both live in your area you probably know them on the count every boat pledge I think you were on those initial counts that I was on. Well, the three of us have now been working on that there's a pledge that we're trying to get all state legislators to take so that then Vermont could say all of our state legislators have signed on to say that every vote needs to be counted and and that that can then, you know that we can take the lead in this country so that if our current president does any of the things that he's hinted at in terms of not leaving office that that we're in a good position to to have already made the decision and be able to push some of the other legislators around the country. There's also the petition going around specifically just for the governor that is being presented tomorrow and we didn't start that we haven't been a big part of organizing it but we've helped amplify it. So, there's that and then there's the coalition work that we've been part of with be perg and with rights and democracy and then another group that's being spearheaded by 350 Vermont. Richard Ziplinski is on this call from veterans for peace we started meeting a while back about it so there's not any one singular plan but there's lots of groups helping to train people up for nonviolent direct action. And we are involved more as a supporter and as a part of coalitions and less taking the lead on things around this issue. Is that helpful. Yeah, okay. Any last remarks from anyone. Not seeing any updates in the chat or any hands being raised. All right well thank you so much, all of you for coming and participating here at this event. I hope that you've taken some solid information home with you and hopefully we can have you all participating in more PJC events as well as some of the other allied groups shared here today as well. Thank you so much for coming everyone.


Welcome back everyone. Today we're going to be looking at the ultra block kits and we've already done the unboxing. I'm going to show all three external right blockers and how you set them up and then how you do the imaging. So we're going to start with one of the easiest and that is the USB right blocker. So we have the USB external right blocker here out of the kit. I already have our blue cable connected to our forensic workstation and then I have our power cable connected obviously to power. Remove the right blocker from the pack and then we have a connection to our forensic workstation and then the connection for our USB device and then the power connection on the back. So the instructions say you connect the source device first then connect the bridge to the host computer your forensic workstation then connect the power supply to the bridge then press the power button to begin operation and your workstation should detect the USB device. So we have our suspect data here this is going to be our source that we want to image connect that into the USB port. Now imaging will go as fast as your slowest connection so if you have a very slow drive or an older USB style then it will be slower here you want to make sure that you're connecting in your forensic workstation as USB 3.0 and not using like a 2.0 port otherwise it will be very slow whenever it's trying to image. Connect the bridge to our forensic workstation now we can connect the power once everything is connected we can turn our power on we already have DC power light this light indicates power on we want to be able to see the light detected for host and the device we have right block connected host was detected we're now getting some power to our to our target disk we have our host we have our device we have right block and we saw some activity here so we have some information about our target device flashing on the display here but really what you need to check is that host was detected and actually heard it connect to our forensic workstation we have the device detected and right block is enabled so make sure always that that right block is checked whenever we are testing our right blockers we would be using a disk that we don't care if we actually have to write to and then we would test whether we can write to the disk after that so let's go over to our forensic workstation in our forensics workstation let's go ahead and open up fdk imager now we have the evidence tree we need to add a device we can go file add evidence item and then it is a physical drive and we can select the physical drive we want and we detected the toshiba external usb 3.0 usb device let's drive one so if we select that we can click finish and now we have direct access to the physical drive itself some people like to analyze the drive directly to see if it's related to their case but i prefer to do imaging first it does take a little bit longer but if our suspect drive happens to go bad while i'm doing my analysis then i've already lost my image i'd rather be creating our disk image now so go to file and go to create disk image we want to image a physical drive select our drive that we want which is drive one the toshiba external 3.0 and then click finish now we can do image destinations where do we want to save to and the format that we want to save in raw dd smart e01 or a ff if you want compression you really should choose e01 or a ff i'll choose a ff click next give it a case number give it your evidence number and then where do we want to save this to what compression we want if at zero it's no compression one is the fastest the imaging will go quite faster if we have nine it will be the smallest but it will take a long time to compress let's do about a six and click finish we could set up our destination we can say whether we're going to verify the images after they're created go ahead and click start the red led activity light is flashing because we are reading from the suspect disk what i want to show you the view in windows i'm in the disk management console and we can see disk one it's set to read only windows detected it as read only and then i have an efi partition and then i have another partition and some unallocated space if any of these partitions were formatted with a file system that windows could understand like ntfs then they would have automatically been mounted by windows now because they're read only windows wouldn't be able to write anything to them but my point here is that whenever you plug in a drive into windows with an external write blocker it usually shows up as a normal disk so windows will understand it as a normal disk if it can understand the file system then it will automatically mount any file systems that it understands and then you could get direct access to that file system this is an ext formatted partition which is basically a linux file system so windows cannot mount it by default but windows can see the entire disk and all of the partitioning information and it can do all the imaging so again whenever you're connecting a disk with an external write blocker the disk will show up as normal it will just be read only so if you have auto mounting enabled it will auto mount it so just be aware of that and this is why we want to test our write blockers to make sure that they actually are right blocking because we don't necessarily know what's on the disk whenever we're plugging it into our forensic workstation if auto mount happens then we want to make sure that write blocking is working as expected so that's it for this disk one USB disks are relatively easy so let's go ahead and move to another disk type so next for the suspect disk we have a SATA laptop hard drive we have the SATA connections here so this has been removed from the laptop so we can actually use the external imager we have some SATA cables and this is the cable for power and then this is the cable for data included in the ultra block kit we also have our SATA slash IDE bridge and then we also have the quick reference guy as well so go ahead and remove it from the packaging get started we connect our source drive connect the bridge to the host computer with our blue cable again connect the power from our power cable again and then press the power button so pretty much all of them are the same connect the source device then connect it to the forensic workstation then connect it to power so always use that procedure now we have our power and we have our SATA connector here and then we have our connection to our forensic workstation on the back and we have our power connector there so I'm going to go ahead and connect up the suspect disk first we connect our power connect our data connect our forensic workstation and connect our power once you have everything set up again we have our power button we have the power indicator that it is getting power but it's not turned on we have IDE detected SATA detected host detected that's our forensic workstation and then right block and activities the activity is the red light that's flashing again we always want to see the right block turned on and whenever we turn this on we should see host detected okay so the first thing right block the right block led comes on with power I can hear the disk starting to spin up we have host detected and SATA detected so both of those look good and then we had some activity so that's the kind of thing we would expect to see with the right blocker now let's go over to our forensic workstation if we check our disk management console again then we can see disk one again is almost one terabyte it's also set to read only it was unallocated which means that it's been cleaned off or whatever okay so we can go now into f2k imager or whatever imager you're using go to file create disk image we want to create a physical drive every time we can try to make a physical drive if we can't make a physical drive then try it for logical like next we want to choose physical drive one again and it's detected as hd st hts and then this is us and then usb so we know that that's our disk let's go ahead and click finish and then we add our imaging information just like before let's go ahead and do a ff the case number destination let's say temp file name i'll do 002 click finish okay while that's imaging i would normally just leave it to image and maybe go do something else this is why it's nice to have a separate computer from your analysis system that way you can do your imaging um and then analyze on another disk but what i'm going to do now is go to file and add evidence item because i want to actually see if there's anything on that disk click fit next physical drive one finish so i can see that some data was found and i'm just going to scroll through the text editor it's hard to say whether this is actually structured data it's hard to say whether this data is structured or not or whether it's random it looks like it's fairly random so maybe a you know somebody z wrote it maybe somebody wrote random data to the disk so it'd be hard to recover something just like with the usb stick whenever we connect a sata drive through here we always want to check for right block and whenever we detect it on our forensic workstation in windows or linux or mac os it's going to show up as a normal drive and if there's a file system that the operating system can mount again it'll mount it we again didn't have a operating or a file system on here for windows to mount so let's go ahead and look at the final external right blocker so for our third suspect drive we have this m2 drive that we're going to try to image just like before we're connecting the source to the t8u then we're connecting to the forensic workstation then power connect the power and then turn the power on so let's go ahead and get set up so we need an adapter and it has been included here so that's what the adapter looks like so that just slides in and clips okay and then we have our m2 adapter our drive slots in there and then we can use this pin to hold it in where it needs to go okay so we just slide it in there hold that down and then make sure you screw it down at the end okay your drive shouldn't be able to wiggle around now we can just connect directly to our right blocker and it clips next we need to connect the forensic workstation and then we connect the power we now have everything set up all we have to do is hit the power button i can see power in the adapter dc power we have host device right block activity just like all the others so one final thing i wanted to show the sata 3 to m2 ngff connector and that is this little box here and basically it looks like a sata hard drive but whenever we open it up inside you have a place where you can connect either m2 or m sata i have this m2 card i'm going to slip it into there and then we have a small screw to hold it down once you've got the drive in there then you can close this up to protect it and we have just a normal sata connector so that we can connect it to our sata bridge like we did before once everything's hooked up just hit the power button we see right blocks that's what we expect see a power indicator on the drive we have host detected we have sata detected and we saw some activity so now we have access to that disk so let's go take a look at our forensic workstation so on our forensic workstation we have disk number one detected and it did have an ntfs partition on e drive so it's now mounted as e drive we have a couple other partitions and then some unallocated space here so if i open up a folder so we have local disk and this is partition for e drive this ntfs partition 100 gigabytes and right now if i try to write something so let's try to move this temp folder in and whenever we're asked if we want to copy something in there we can't because it's right protected so if you have a disk and windows detects all the partitions and then you have a file system installed on one of those partitions then windows will automatically mount it if auto mount is enabled and then whenever you try to write anything to that partition you won't be able to because it is read only so it is still detected as read only with the disk just like before if we're using fdk imager create disk image physical drive next and then choose drive one and we see it's an intel ss usb device okay and then we select that click finish and then just keep imaging like we did all the other ones we've gone through hooking up the three different types of external hardware right blockers these are very flexible obviously because depending on the media that you get into your lab you can just grab the single uh right blocker that you want to use they're very easy to hook up and they have a lot of adapters we did end up using one of the m2 to sata adapters and it's working as expected so um what i really wanted to show you here is first off how flexible these are how to hook them up and also that windows or whatever system you're using will detect the source disk that you're trying to image it'll detect that source disk just like a regular disk in windows the only difference will be that it will be detected as read only plug in a test disk with your external right blocker and then try to write data directly to the disk now it could be to the partition but trying to write directly to the disk is actually a little bit better for testing because you're skipping the file system level and going directly for the lowest level rights so these are external hardware right blockers i like them because they're flexible and then if you're imaging just a couple disks at a time it's very nice and if you're also trying to do a quick analysis and you don't need the image then they work for that too because it's just going to show up like a normal disk you can then import it into most forensic software and then just start your analysis so that's it for these ultra block kits and some of the adapters i hope it was interesting thank you very much


If you read Laura Bush's memoir, you will realize that she was here when President Johnson, late in state in January of 1973, lined up with the thousands of people who filed past President Johnson's flag-draped coffin. And you met Lady Bird Johnson that day. What was, what do you recall? That's right. I was in graduate school here, in library school, when President Johnson died. In fact, one of my library school professors wept in class because he felt like he, his education really, that President Johnson had made possible for him with legislation that he had done for education. And then you, Linda and Lucy and your mother stood in line as thousands of people lined up to walk through the library here as President Johnson, late in state. And so I was one of them.  And of course, never expecting ever that we would share anything in common, really, except that we were Texans and that we had been together that one moment. But then also I got to entertain Lady Bird Johnson at the White House. Really, when George was governor and we lived here, we saw Mrs. Johnson fairly often. We hosted the opening luncheon on the Governor's Mansion lawn for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and then went that evening to the opening gala at the Wildflower Center. And so I saw her some during those years. But what I really remember was before that, when your dad was president and how proud I was of a Texas first lady who thought our state was beautiful.


Hello and welcome to this session in which we will discuss foreign currency exchange risk now Why do we have foreign currency exchange risk because companies or entities or individuals? They sell and they buy goods and services and currencies other than their home currency. What does that mean? Let's take a look for example a US companies US companies will sell to European customers when you sell to European customer You might have an account receivable in a foreign currency because you sell them the goods They're gonna pay you in euros. Well, you have an account receivable that account receivable is dominated in foreign currency Also, the same US company might buy supplies from Europe Well, they have an account spayable and that account spayable Is dominated in a foreign currency? So when I abbreviate AR in this session, it means accounts receivable AP and account spayable and FC and foreign currency Well, this the US companies now they might have receivable They might have payable and the foreign currency could go up the foreign the foreign currency could go down in value It might fluctuate and this is what will create the risk So the foreign currency fluctuates there's a volatility in the value Which give rise to either gains and or losses from the AP and the AR So what do we have to do companies will have to find a way to reduce or minimize or even eliminate that risk First we're gonna see what factors influence the exchange risk Before we proceed any further. 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No credit card required Here are the factors that influence the exchange risk for the CPA exam They break them into two categories trade factors and financial factors and we're gonna look at each one separately Trade factors could include inflation income government policies Financial factors would include interest rate ease of capital flow Let's take a look at each one of them separately real briefly just to understand that we can answer a multiple choice Questions about these easy questions The first one is a trade factor relative rate inflation or simply inflation What happened is this in an inflation the value of the currency goes down? Well, if the value of the currency is reduced Well, think about it. You might think well, guess what more people would buy it. That's not the case If the value of the of your currency is being reduced because of inflation What's gonna happen the people hold in that currency They are going to try to convert it into another currency. They're gonna run away from it So simply put think of the Turkish lira in Turkey when the Turkish lira goes down in value What do holders of the Turkish lira do they exchange it? They exchange their local currency for example to us dollar Why because they want to maintain their currency simply put if they have a million Turkish lira And today let's assume the rate is a dollar They can get a million us dollar The fear is if they still have that one million Turkish lira And the rate of the dollar becomes Dollar 50 then they're not gonna get they are not going to get the million dollar They are going to lose value therefore what they do they exchange it because if it becomes dollar 50 Their value of their currency is only 666,000 so if they have a million of Turkish lira and inflation is going up They will exchange quickly because if they keep that one million of Turkish lira and the us dollar increases The value of their money goes down. That's why you switch Relative income factor. Well, if an income rises in a certain country, that's gonna create a demand for foreign currency Why because the people living in that country generally speaking they have a purchasing power their income rises Therefore the foreign currency should rise. Why because you are creating a demand buying more goods and services Government policies and intervention government plays a huge role in foreign currencies. For example We could have a monetary policy. What is a monetary policy? It's when the federal reserve Bank of that country either dump more money into the market or take out more money When they dump more money when they print more money It's called expansionary policy Lead to the depreciation in the currency generally speaking now in the real world that Sometimes the opposite could happen. But if you supply more money The the the the currency should go down in value. Why because supply and demand you you bring more Money into the market more us dollar. For example, when the federal reserve prints more money The expectation is the us dollar will weakened and the opposite is true If the federal reserve is being restrictive, it means taking money away from the market How would they do that they will buy back the dollar through bonds then it would lead to appreciation of the us dollar The fiscal policy could lead to appreciation or depreciation depending on how it's being done Generally speaking when the when the government spends more money, they have expansionary They could have an appreciation generally speaking or if they are going through a restrictive They could have a depreciation but it all depends on the situation Also, the government could set a fixed exchange rate where they control the exchange rate If they're helping subsidizing a certain product, they could influence the exchange rate If they are encouraging export or they are encouraging import because certain countries they do try to encourage export Well, what they do if they want to encourage export They would weakened their currency if they want to encourage import They will strengthen their currency The government could also place trade barrier, which is basically not allowing foreign product to come in or make it Costly to bring in foreign foreign product, which would reduce the demand for the foreign currency So the government could intervene and make those changes or influence the exchange rate We have financial factors Generally speaking interest rate is the higher one If you increase your interest rate if the federal government increases their interest rate Generally speaking, they should bring more money to earn a higher return Generally speaking and the opposite is true When you want to attract less money, you would lower the interest rate and you would attract less money Also ease of capital flow how easy to bring money in and out Generally speaking The currency should rise if it if there's an ease of movement in and out without any restriction Why because the currency would be considered less risky Which which should be considered a safe haven. That's why it's less risky. It should appreciate because less risk is better That's the general concept Now let's start with a simple example to illustrate the concept how exchange risk is being utilized So let's assume we have adam international in a us-based company And adam buys raw material from canada. So they buy from a canadian supplier. The current exposure is one million canadian dollar So right now adam company will have an ap of a million dollar and that ap is the Denominated in canadian dollar And it's due in 60 days from now today. The spot rate is 1.35. So simply put if adam today decided to pay this bill So we'll take a million divided by 1.35 And adam will have to pay 700 And 40 740 dollars. This is how we compute this one million divided by 1.35 to satisfy this obligation But this obligation is not due today adam will have 90 days to pay So here's what could happen adam could fear and adam that could happen that the canadian dollar might strengthen And expect it to be one dollar to 120 canadian in the next 60 days. What can adam do? Well, let's assume adam fear are realized if adam fear Are realized what's going to happen is this? Adam if they want to buy the one million canadian one million divided by 1.2 adam will have to pay 883,333 Why because adam will have to take the million dollar canadian divided by 1.2 because i can only now buy 1.2 with my dollar not dollar 35 So the canadian dollar strengthened. It means the u.s. Dollar weakened So what happened i can lose adam can lose 92,593 because right now if adam can buy the currency now But adam may not be able to buy the currency now And if he waits and indeed the currents the the canadian currency strengthened How does it strengthen the u.s. Dollar was able to buy you dollar 35? The expectation is the u.s. Dollar would only buy you dollar 20 Now also the opposite could happen rather than strengthening The u.s. Currency could weaken further, but that's not my risk if it weakened Adam will be happy if it weakened further for example if the u.s. Dollar start to buy you dollar 50 canadian Adam is happy because adam will have an account spable to pay So what i want you to do is copy this data down because we're going to be using this example as i am illustrating various scenarios So we have a u.s. Company adam company. They have an account spable for a million dollar for a canadian supplier Now what are my risk exposure? Let's look real quick if you are an exporter if you are an exporter It means you are selling when you are selling you have an account receivable account receivable is an asset well When you have an account receivable account receivable Denominated in a foreign currency you have an asset well think about it Do you want your asset to weaken or strengthen you want your asset to strengthen? There's therefore if you have an account receivable your risk is the foreign currency weakening Simply put you want the foreign currency to strengthen. Why? Because you are expecting to receive money in that foreign currency It's the opposite of the previous example in the previous example Adam was an importer adam was buying from canada Well, if you have if you're an imp if you're a net importer you have an account spable You have an exposure to an account spable your risk now is the foreign currency Is strengthening your risk is the canadian dollar strengthened? That's your risk well of the canadian dollar weakened. That's good if you're an importer So this is a summary now. Let's look at various exposures big little bit more into the risks So we're we're thinking about a u.s company versus europe So the home currency is the u.s dollar and and think of it the foreign currency is european Now if the domestic currency appreciates, so if the u.s dollar goes up It's gonna benefit any u.s Company buying stuff from europe so it will benefit my ip If the u.s currency goes up it will benefit my account spable Why because i can buy more of the foreign currency with the same token It becomes more expensive for european to buy u.s goods So if you're an exporter it's gonna hurt you why because it's gonna be more expensive for them to buy Your goods with the same token if the domestic currency appreciate I just told you it's gonna harm my account receivable Why because less people will buy my goods because my goods are more expensive now with the same token Cheaper for u.s consumers and companies to buy foreign goods so and when the when the Domestic currency appreciate it will be cheaper for u.s companies and consumers for that matter to go to europe Go on vacation to europe. Why because you can buy more more euros now Those two statements are saying the same thing one from A liability perspective one from an asset perspective now if the domestic currency depreciates it if the u.s dollar weakened As an exporter it benefits my account receivable. I'm gonna be happy if i'm an exporter net exporter It's gonna be less expensive for european to buy us goods. That's good Bring them on If it's if it's less expensive they're gonna buy i'm an exporter i'm gonna be happy You're gonna see more europeans tourists in new york city Why because now the european they feel rich Why because their euros buy more us dollars and i still remember In the in the uh during 2008 through 2010 The us dollar weakened and if you go to new york city you would see a lot of europeans Why because the u.s currency was depreciated after the financial crisis The federal reserve print a lot of money remember what i told you earlier that if you put more money into the market that the currency will Will depreciate well if the currency depreciate it's gonna benefit the europeans because they can buy more us dollars So they are happy The flip side of this if the domestic currency depreciate It's gonna harm my account's payable. So if i have an account's payable and a foreign currency Well and my currency depreciate now i need more of my currency to satisfy the obligation. So i'm not gonna like this So it's and it's gonna become more expensive for us consumer to buy foreign goods Why because it's more expensive i have to use more us dollar To buy the goods why because my currency depreciate therefore i buy less from europe And then the european will buy more from me because it becomes less expensive for the european So i just want to show it to you from both ends make sure you understand it because you could see multiple multiple mcqs about this topic What is the exposure who would benefit and who would be harmed so make sure you're aware Comfortable and understanding what i have on this slide. This is a good summary Let's see if we can apply what we just learned If the u.s company has a net cash outflow because sometimes they give you this information in this language net cash outflow It means what it means they have to pay if they have a net cash outflow. It means they have an accounts Payable that's their exposure overall an account's payable and a foreign currency Which of the following is correct simply put if they do have an account's payable and a foreign currency What would they like let's start with the Appreciation or depreciation of the foreign currency would be irrelevant. That's not true Depreciation or appreciation will be relevant if you have an exposure to a foreign currency So this is an easy elimination The u.s company would suffer a loss from a decrease in the value of the foreign currency Well, if the foreign currency goes down, are they going to be happy or not happy?  Therefore the u.s company would benefit Would benefit would benefit from a decrease in the value of the foreign currency not suffer Why because they have to exchange their money into that foreign currency? That's out The u.s company would benefit from an increase in the value of the foreign currency. No the u.s company would suffer From an increase if it becomes more expensive They're gonna have to use more u.s dollar. Well by the process of elimination. We have a is the answer The u.s company would benefit from a drop in the value of the foreign currency Yes, they want the foreign currency to weakened. Why? Because they have to buy their currency one of their currency is weakened They will need to they will need to put out less money In the next session, we would look at how to mitigate the foreign currency risk If you have a net cash outflow the net cash inflow an ap exposure an ar exposure What instrument do we need? What should you do now go to far hat lectures and look at additional mcq's multiple choice through false That's going to help you understand this topic because in the next session We would look at your exposure and how to mitigate how to reduce the risk of that exposure. Good luck Study hard. This concept is important on the cpa exam