Hi, I'm Sally Snyder, and I'm standing in for Krista today and we are I'm gonna go ahead and get started on our Encompass live and with me is Laura England Bigs from oh It's not three months. It's keen Memorial Library. That's right. Oh gosh that was hard in full of it's up there on the screen Well, that makes it easier one thing we can do for you to make things better. It's just Oh Very good, because now we have things running Of course you probably want to see this other side and then we have People muted from here But if you want to ask a question using your microphone Just type into the question box and I'm going to be monitoring that so I'll see that you want to ask a question And I'll tell Laura we have a question and I'll unmute you for that and then we will Let you have your question and discussion Otherwise, you can just type questions into the question box and add it appropriate times during the presentation If you don't mind being absolutely all interrupt and say we have a question about what you just said So it'll be more timely, but I'm going to go ahead and turn things over to Laura because she knows what she's talking about Well, thank you Sally I am Laura England Biggs. I'm with Keen Memorial Library, which is not in Keen, but in Fremont, Nebraska It's about 35 miles north and west of Omaha Can everyone hear me okay? If not, I don't know how you'll let me know Well, they could and let's see if we Click on that orange arrow to bring things back out And that side there up a little bit.  I thought there should be a place. Yeah, where is that? Well, we'll just keep going. Okay. The microphone is pretty cool. Here we go. I'll carry you nicely some. Oh wonder if I can Type that in there. So yeah, thank you for letting us know Okay, we'll put that away and We'll bring that back up perfect So I'm talking about picture book City, which I've presented before It's how I used my ILS or integrated library system to reorganize our picture books by subjects There's some technical stuff and there's a lot of not technical stuff So we'll get into the meat of it I mentioned that we are a medium-sized public library in Fremont, Nebraska Our service population is around twenty six thousand seven hundred Our collection size when we started all of this Was about a hundred and six thousand items with ten thousand picture books and we use Cersei Dynex horizon for our ILS we have since Gosh, I think the 90s before I worked at the library my background I came from a community college library where I was An administrative assistant. I started out as the assistant director Became the head of technical services and the horizon sys admin all in August of 2005 Graduated with my MLS from University of Missouri at Columbia in December 2006 I've been the interim director several times people always ask. Why don't you just apply for it? The answer is I don't want it. I enjoy my job Especially now that it involves being the youth services librarian as well as all of those other things That is a lot, but it's a lot of fun So before picture book city, this is what our children's section looks like all of our picture books were arranged by the author's last name You had to wander the aisles we have Five sets of bookshelves that are two shelves high Then it graduates to four shelves high and then back to two shelves high And it wiggles around and it was really kind of difficult to explain where things were We had to do a lot of walking people to where the esses were especially after we shifted in January of 2016 we had what I call the hurricane director She blew in January 4th and there was a Lot of storm a lot of eye of the hurricane calm and then a lot of storm and she left on February 4th so While she was there. She had an idea for a favorites wall. She had seen in another library We had three stipulations. We had to do it in six months with no service disruption and Get it right That gives you an idea of what the hurricane was like So I hit the internet because I had never thought about doing anything like this. It was a new concept to me During that hurricane we discovered picture book city Came from a very trusted resource a lot of you out there in youth services land probably no Storytime Katie she has her flannel Friday She has storybook themes or storytime themes that she's put up on the internet She had already done picture book city. She's in a an urban library in Illinois She's never named her library online, so I can't tell you where she's from But the URL is on there and I will share the slides with the commission so that they can post them for everyone Great It's it's really what I used to design the system. We're using We had to go through a lot of steps to create our picture book city first. We had to define what categories we were going to use Once we decided those we needed a labeling system How were we going to communicate the sections to people? So then I created a list of books in my item reporting function in Horizon exported that to excel and went through it and Assigned categories to the books that I knew off the top of my head curious George goes in favorites Pete the cat goes in favorites Thomas the tank engine goes in things that go things like that where I knew specifically what I wanted to put things in Then we pulled out those books. I would Filter the report by each section pull the books in those smaller sections apply the labels Which was a time consuming process? I think it took us almost 18 months to label everything We didn't do it consistently every day, which is probably something I would change Then we resheld everything by author while we waited to finish and finally we did a massive reorganization of pull everything off the shelf Change the collection codes put it back on the shelf in its smaller sections So we're going to go through a little bit more detail on those Katie had ten neighborhoods in her picture book city and as you can see from the lists here Concept neighborhood had several streets where she identified smaller sections within the concept also growing up and nature stories We chose a different route. We did not go as far as making streets part of the reason for that was I Didn't have enough colors on my labels Because we chose to do Both words and colors to designate our 13 neighborhoods. We have animals bedtime concepts dinosaurs favorite feelings Issues which is kind of a catch-all for things about growing up But it was shorter to put on a label nature our world Rhymes which also includes songs, but that didn't fit on the label sparkly which covers princesses pirates and unicorns Stories is the catch-all for where the heck does this go and things that go We ended up using as I said words and colors the chart on the left is What's posted around our library and in the back room to help the shelvers remember what order things go in We use the sp1 spine labels for most healthy that print 40 to a sheet on a laser printer and Just do one letter per line for eight characters For each of the word labels We've discovered that size 10 bold works best 12 bold on the smaller shorter words is even better just for easier readability And we worked with Demco for the color labels They had 13 available in the size we use which is a three-quarter by one inch color coding label and I'd be happy to share Specific part numbers with anyone who needs them. I didn't bring them with me There are two greens on there. You'll notice concepts and our world They're pretty close in color So I separated them by quite a bit in the physical plant when we reshelf But we had to do that to get 13 categories. I could not figure out how to condense it into 12 So then we created the list in item report all of our picture books were in what we called J. Oh for oversized So we just pulled up J. Oh books displayed barcode title author and I think that's all we used to create the list because those were the only things I needed For people to be able to pull the books And this is an example of what the spreadsheet looked like I guess I did use the item status, but it wasn't terribly helpful. Oh and call number. Yes Call number is good So on the very far right, I assigned categories using the 13 that we've already talked about and Did the filtering to print out lists for people That process we used volunteers to pull and label I'll talk a little bit about why that was a bad idea later Pulling is not a big problem labeling was a problem Then we applied all the labels our choice was to put the color label just above the call number and The word label just above the color so that it says animals black label J. Oh Brett J for any Jan Brett animal books Most of the time they stayed pretty even across the books Depending on the placement of the call number label It's a little iffy, but for the most part you can follow it all across The books then we reshells the books Which everybody said why are we doing it this way? Why aren't we putting them where they belong? well Because we haven't finished Pulling everything in that section. It's really hard to say to people well this one's over here But that one's over there So we just went with leaving everything where it started our labeling was done We started this all in 2016 We were done November 18th of 2018 So we closed on Sunday So that we could shift picture book city we had Sonia myself Elisa Dan Sarah and Dorlyssa So I think that's six Six or seven of us that worked together Moving shifting putting things in the computer Keeping things in order was the biggest challenge that day for everybody But it also allowed us to do some shelf reading which was nice So they started pulling the animal books Keeping them in order gave the carts to Dorlyssa and myself we scanned them all into the computer One card at a time We have an item group editor that we can use in Horizon So we weren't having to do book by book by book that would be crazy But my director thought that's what we were doing So she wondered if we'd really finish in eight hours Then we would give the cart back so they could start placing the books on the shelf in that order the longest part was the pulling off the shelves in order on carts Then we ran out of carts and places to store things that we were waiting to pull We didn't use a lot of cars We used every cart we had plus some stationary shelving that was movable and Then we just prayed That we wouldn't need more We did not finish on Sunday. We actually needed four hours on Monday so whenever your budgeting time I always advise add 50% Because I Estimated based on how far we had gotten that it would take us four hours. It took three hours and 45 minutes That was a good estimate This is what I was talking about before I forgot I had this slide in there we scanned everything in We have the ability to make groups so we could do one shelf at a time Edit everything at once the collection code in our system has a description line which allowed us to say animal picture books or Bedtime picture books so that that's how it shows up in the pack in the Online catalog so people know where to go on the shelves We ended up having to double check every picture book that was returned for the next two months Because there were a large number of picture books checked out. They're kind of our bread and butter So we had to put them all on a wooden cart Check them to make sure they had gotten moved and if they didn't move them It was two two and a half months before we said okay the wooden cart can go away That got us through the majority of the circulation cycle There were 29 books That were in long-lost Status, I think 27 of those eventually came back so I count that as pretty lucky. That's great So drum roll, please We are pleased to show you animals Our collection code is joe a We ended up with 13 collection codes now well 14 We kept the the standard joe for ordering some my vendors don't have to do all the extra work And we do the picture book city labeling in-house It's our largest collection Animals is with at least 2,800 books we've added to some to it since then But you can see kind of what I'm talking about where you have the colors going along in a semi Ordinary regular line Then comes bedtime Which is a lovely blue shade We just Had to move some books into bedtime that I discovered we're in the wrong section that was an interesting challenge I'll explain that in a few more slides. I was going to ask you that if you made decisions to move things Yes, that'll be part of the tips and tricks perfect. Thanks Concepts we have about 450 I need to add some there I'm discovering because some of these are falling apart they get so much use So that was a good thing We tried not to pay attention to condition as we put things into picture book city I said, you know, we did that when we were inventorying people started paying attention to the condition of the books and That's not the purpose. Just get it where it needs to go. We'll catch it later when we shelf read Dinosaurs 116 I thought I had more than that as popular as dinosaurs are so I'm going to be doing some looking for that section I know I've added at least 10 since this picture was taken Favorites your mileage may vary your collection may vary because of what your patrons considered their favorite We have as you can see where's Waldo Pinkalicious skippy John Jones He has to be in there because he's missed Laura's favorite Pete the cat curious George, I can't remember who else is in there And I quite honestly have to look up from time to time to remember Did I put them in favorites or are they an animal and there may be a time when we rotate somebody out? If they don't circulate well there. I don't know yet. I went too far Feelings I discovered I need more books on feelings to help kids deal with those only a hundred and seven is not enough So I've really been looking for books about that and really looking more critically at where did I put that? issues covers things like adoption that wedding going to school Bullying and I've also put a lot of my lgbt qia in here because a lot of kids may be questioning and I didn't think it belonged in regular stories. I thought it was more of a life issue that people might need a little assistance with So a lot of things they're trying to work through go in this section I love this section because I love to take parents there to say you want to work with your kid on Bed wedding I've got a book about that Great and Exactly, it's no longer one in the middle of ten thousand books. It's in the middle of five hundred and I can find it a lot faster Nature includes my science my planets Anything about the seasons It seems kind of to go hand in hand It's a little confusing to people that science goes under nature, but I think it makes sense. We have a question. Oh She was too good. Oh, is this for fiction only? What about nonfiction is a question at this time? It is fiction only at some point I do intend to go back to my nonfiction books and pull out some of the easier nonfiction that would possibly double as a picture book level reading and Incorporated into this I don't Intend to storybook or picture book city The whole nonfiction because I I I'm old school. I think that's what Dewey does for us But yes, I do want to put some of the lower level nonfiction into this to expose kids to that level of book So something like Clayton Anderson's a is for astronauts that has the alphabet story in it in bigger type But also in smaller type has some nonfiction information on each page Could fit in in the picture book city because of the Design of the book and also you can just read the story and you can read more of the nonfiction sections. Absolutely Absolutely a lot of the DK readers Yeah, are good for It's nonfiction, but it can cross over into this collection now that it's been broken into sections We could put it in the nature if it's the book on Dolphins say Well, dolphins would go in animals. Oh true. Anyway, I'd have to think long and hard about that one Our world I love this section. This section is also An example of some bad practice for us this section covers biographies anything geographical and anything historical You can see in about the middle of the picture the colored labels show up on top of the words That's where I was talking about having volunteers do the labeling wasn't necessarily a good idea We did not monitor them as well as we should have in the labeling process and They got away from us and did not follow directions I have a very particular way. I want the label oriented. They put it the one inch side going tall vertical I like it the one inch going horizontal So that it saves more of my spine and I don't cover as much of the title So note to self Monitor volunteers closer Rhymes and songs is myth fairy tales and things like the wheels on the bus Because that's more of a song than anything and I don't consider it a thing that goes I consider it a song for the wheels on the bus. I don't know why I just do But a lot of ASAPs fable The retelling of the three little pigs I just relabeled six different varieties of the three little pig The three horde pigs the three habalinas The three little alligators all of these are retellings of the story and got put in the wrong sections And then there's my sparkly the pirates are offended by the light pink label But the princesses and the uniforms love it Well, they out voted the pirates again. That's right And I have fewer pirate books than I thought I did So or then there's the princess and the pirate Sometimes you have to make a decision Aliens go in stories Monsters go in animals When it's dinosaurs and aliens Does it go in stories for aliens or in dinosaurs for aliens love dino pants? Interesting call we went with the dinosaurs because the dinosaur was on the cover good call stories Second largest collection surprisingly, it's not the largest But it's where everything else goes and I listen to my staff I listen to my patrons if they come up to me and say I don't know why you put this here It belongs in just it up. I will listen to them and I will say, you know what you're right I probably should have put it there. I wasn't familiar with the books. I didn't read it very well And it's white so it's a little hard to tell in the picture, but it's stories white label call lumber And then there's my last things that go Some of Thomas the tank engines snuck into favorites some of them are here We're trying our best to move them into the things that go because that's where my kiddos go when they want their trains But anything planes trains automobiles boats Anything you can drive horse and buggy see how I'm causing your trouble. Oh, that's a Yeah, I would have to think long and hard on that one. It could be animals because of the horse Just trying to cause trouble you are I pointed these out before it's a bigger shot of the laminated signs I had to use the actual stickers to create them because of some CMYK RGB conflict That's designer speak for the color resolution between the screen and the printer You can't create the exact color you want unless you just use the label So I sat there making 13 of these and then we laminated them so they wouldn't get destroyed They're used in our third-grade tours So that's miss Sonia can say okay What if you wanted a book on and she holds it up and asks from what color it would be? It's wonderful. So tips and tricks Weed weed weed before you begin and Then clean what you keep because we often found that the covers were disgusting Dear and you don't like to apply labels over schmutz Because you're keeping the schmutz forever It's very important to have one person decide what goes where the Decision-making process is sometimes a Little discombobulated up here, but most of the time I remembered why I was putting it where I wanted I Would have one person do the training on the labeling and watch them closely Make them show you before you turn them loose that they know what they're doing Make sure you have that final plan for the shifting and understand that you will never have enough carts. I Don't think anybody will own enough carts because you never need to move your entire collection at once until you do something like this Definitely close to the public and Allow that 50% more time We worked for eight hours. We were supposed to take an hour long lunch We took a half hour and everybody looked at each other and said let's get back to it We had two people scanning four people shifting and then somebody else came in and relieved somebody It's hard work shifting. I really I Applaud those folks who did that work. That was Elisa and Sonia and Dan and Sarah and one other person who I can't remember now Might have been Susan those folks Did the hardest work ever? Up and down and on their knees Their hands were sore their shoulders were sore, but they didn't complain They just kept going Mark edit is your friend if you're not a cataloger. You've never heard of it It's a wonderful piece of freeware created by Terry Reese. It helps you edit the local call number in all of your mark records One thing to do is make sure you have a bib number or a match point That's consistent among your records because if you don't Once you make the edit to the call number to insert The wording if you go that route so that instead of J. Oh subfield B Brett J It's J. Oh animals subfield B Brett J. Sorry for the catalogs B If you finish all of your inserting which you can do in regular expressions, they tell me I did it the hard way When you re-import those mark records without a match point it creates a duplicate record Which has no items attached over here and you have to go through by hand Title by title through all of your collection to merge all of those bids This is a good thing to know ahead of time It's a very good thing to know ahead of time because I literally touched all 9,800 and whatever records we had and Darlisa helped me with about three 400 but I did most of them myself because it was just busy work while I was on the desk and I could be interrupted and We just finished that We started it in December of 2018 and finished it last week So that's a lot of work We used our item group editor function to update the call numbers in the item record and As I said we used it for the collection code We maintain that generic collection code for all of our EDI ordering We label the product when it comes into the library We don't make the vendors do that labeling for us. It would be too much to ask them to keep those labels in stock and Do that much work Plus when I order I don't always know where I'm going to put it. Well, you haven't read the book I haven't read it yet exactly And check your statistical Setup we discovered too late that all of our picture books went into a generic J fiction collection For Statistical purposes, so I can't tell you whether or not moving the picture book city has made any difference in my circulation That's too bad I can look at my J fix statistics and I can tell you they did go up, but I can't attribute it to anything in particular We have since moved everything to its own picture books collection For statistical record keeping so I can tell you from November 18 To November 19, I'll be able to tell you if there's an increase but Unfortunately that historical statistics is just lost to me That's a shame it is So well speaking of that and since it says questions Do you have some parents and children making comments about the new arrangement? We do Anecdotally people have been giving us very positive feedback. They like not having to sort through all the shelves to find what they want the The mothers who are home school and just want books on nature and science Really like knowing I go to purple And I can browse it even if I don't want to go to the catalog The kids love going straight to things that go in that back corner Overall the reaction has been very positive. I would go right for animals every time. Yeah, I My girl kid if I had more colors, I would break animals down into dogs and cats and horses and rabbits But I didn't have any more colors Limited by colors. Yes So if you have questions for Laura, you can type them into the questions section on the go-to-webinar little Icons of things there and ask a question or you can type in there Please unmute me and I will do that. It will take me longer, but we can do it We've actually decided to take some of picture book city and apply it to our first grade second grade third grade Readers, we're going to put colored labels on those to help with sorting Because they're so skinny on the shelf the the leveled readers the early readers so we're going to use Striped labels with the stripes going horizontally So that they're not exactly the same as picture book city. I was just going to ask that Some circle labels that have the horizontal stripes and then we can have red blue and green and are those Three sections already pulled out separately. Yeah, so you know they are already separate. I've got about a thousand in grade one and Two and then grade three has about 1,400. Are those sections used a lot? I can only heavily I Just looked at grade one to try and weed it before we do this based on no check out since May 1st of 2016 There were 16 books that I could weed out of almost a thousand. Wow Well Not much at all. That's not much to weed and it also tells me I need to add more to that section to refresh it It's hard though because I've got my own chart. I don't know if you realize this But every publisher uses a different system to number their level books. Yes, they did anyone who's ever tried I Have a chart which I'm happy to share with anyone I would love a copy of your chart. I would love to do that And I've gone through and looked at it based on my own criteria Is it a picture book? Is it grade one grade two grade three or does it go all the way up to our what we call J? fiction great So I'm happy to share that for that because that would be very helpful Oh, I have another question. It'll come back to me. Okay. Oh I Can only assume that your staff was behind this After you explained the idea because it sounds like they worked so hard to help get this all Absolutely, the the head of circulation Was a little skeptical because she thought it was going to be a little harder for the shelvers but she saw the practicality for the users and Has come to see that it really is easier because it does break things down in smaller sections and you can sort by color and Within except session Section you were saying is the blue or has the main word and then the color and then the And then the column number so it's still alphabetical by author within each section. Oh We have another question. Yay. Could you put that publisher leveling chart with the slides another presentation? collateral Absolutely, we can have that happen too. That's a great idea than anybody who's Looking at the show can just download it and say thank you very much. I would be happy to do that I'll email it when I get back. Thank you now you Your library director now because it's all kind of got started with the hurricane Director and then you have a different director. Yes, we have a wonderful director who came in and what I assume is the Little level of this happened being that worked on it and being done and her support Tina Walker is our director. Sorry. I could not she is Super super supportive. She's the one who helped us close for a day to get this done. She brought us lunch She made sure that we have everything we needed. She has been Uber supportive of all of the initiatives that we've taken up to try and make things better for the patrons That's really her Her strength is seeing that it's better for the patrons. It works well for us in new services It works for the Shelvers so So now I'm not I'm gonna make you backtrack a minute because okay, you were talking this was First suggested to do a favorite Shelf just a favorites wall wall wall so This has actually made it so much Seems like much better organized for your users who come in and the kids who run for the things that go or the dinosaurs Absolutely, it went beyond the favorites wall to Really categorizing everything so that it wasn't just Here's the picture books and here's curious George and whatever the favorites are And it really helps me when I'm ordering because I think do I need another animals book? Do I need another no, I need more dinosaur books. What am I looking for in this catalog? good point and You have a much better idea of The topics you're looking for and I really know my collection now. Oh, yeah, I mean Lots better Here we go based on your experience. Do you think this would scale up for a larger collection? I Know it does when I was at Kosugi, which is the customers of Cersei dynex users group incorporated Conference back in March there was another library that had done this it was a ten branch library nine branches and a bookmobile They did it using Cersei dynex symphony, which is the sister software to Horizon and I went to their presentation They followed many of the same steps. I did had some of the same pitfall But they were able to apply They actually changed their whole call number label So it would say concepts and then their call number underneath it They did not use color coding as I recall So that made it so that you have to read the label to sort it And then another question is does your library float its Jail collection? We do not we're a single site So we don't have that Particular issue to deal with it would be It would be intriguing if you had a branch somewhere and you were it was whether everything went back to the starting point or if they could Yeah, I know they had several conversations about that during the other presentation. I went to at Kosugi getting nine children's librarians to agree what this book would be and Figuring out how to float their collections was a whole separate issue. I Didn't honestly pay attention to that part of it because I don't do it Making sure there's I'm going to move on to the next slide. So if you have questions, there's my contact information Thank you If something comes up later Now I'm going to ask this isn't fair, but I can do this Everything you told us this morning. What is your number one recommendation for someone considering this? Just one thing or is there like seven Number one would be weed Make sure that you go through your collection We didn't and I ended up weeding a lot of things that we took the time to label and put a label protector on and Just the time it took to decide where it would go in the first place And then when I ran the weeding list I discovered I didn't need to touch that book and it would have saved me so much time good point Cleaning books is probably the second We didn't clean the first batch. I didn't have the same youth services assistant My first youth services assistant had to leave the library for health reasons and my current assistant Sonya is I won't say OCD, but if I did she would understand she likes the books clean and fresh and Really takes good care of the collection that way great. We have a thank you Laura You're welcome and as you said if anybody has questions after you After we sign off here and you just want to send a message to Laura You can use her email there. We will also make sure that that's available. We'll have the slides. So absolutely there And I would also like to thank you. This has been very interesting and I have to confess I have not heard of picture book cities really I've been well I don't they were 12. I know about those and other things But I'm really happy to have learned so much just today. I'm glad to share And I'm going to go look up some stuff now when they get back to my office very good and we like to thank everybody who Signed up for today who are here with us live and also of course that's we'll go into our archive So you can come back later and check on it or for those who signed up but couldn't come for whatever reason they can watch this at their convenience. So that's nice and We have an encompass live every Wednesday almost every Wednesday As starts at 10 o'clock central time the only time we don't have one It's when the Nebraska Library Association and Nebraska School Librarians Association this year were with Iowa Iowa every association conference happens because Wednesday is the Pre-session day, right? So we don't have an income like that day or if it falls on Mike I think the only data could possibly fall on would be Christmas It's for July 4th or not this year. Yeah, not this year. So check our calendar on our Nebraska Library Commission webpage and you can look and see what's coming up and you can look through the archive too and see what Recently been recorded that you might be interested in Thank you again, Laura, and I bet you you'll get a few more questions. Wonderful in the next week or so Really appreciate you coming to Lincoln Spending some time with us. Thank you for having me Thank you everybody and now we'll end the the income The fly and see you next week. I have to buy everybody


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Hello and welcome to this session in which we will discuss steps in the system development life cycle. So what is the system development life cycle known as SDLC and that is a process used to design develop and maintain a software. So from the beginning design it basically draw it put it together then once it's working you want to maintain. This cycle involved a series of phases steps or stages that follow a sequential order each with its own sets of objectives deliverable and activities. So we're going to have a series of steps and usually they include seven steps and there is planning analysis design implementation or development testing deployment and maintenance. Now there are two strategies to manage to manage the system development life cycle and those are those are the traditional method and the agile method. Now in this session we're going to be covering the steps or the stages or the phases for the system development life cycle. We would look at the strategies in the front session. Before we proceed any further I have a public announcement about my company farhatlectures.com. Farhat accounting lectures is a supplemental educational tool that's going to help you with your CPA exam preparation as well as your accounting courses. My CPA material is aligned with your CPA review course such as Becker, Roger, Wiley, Gleam, Miles. My accounting courses are aligned with your accounting courses broken down by chapter and topics. My resources consist of lectures multiple choice questions true false questions as well as exercises. Go ahead start your free trial today no obligation no credit card required. Starting with the planning phase I'm going to be using an example for a for an application that's a mobile application that allow users to order food from local restaurants. So this is the thing this is the software this is the mobile app that we are developing. So the company would typically follow the steps in the process. The first step is planning in the planning stage we would identify the project's goal. What is the project goal is to build a mobile app that allow customers to order foods from local restaurants you know we we set the objective the scope local restaurants we want to know what are the requirements and include the features that the app should have and here the company would assess the project feasibility is it a good project in terms of budget do we have enough money do we have enough time do we have enough resources do we have enough staff to go ahead and develop this this is the planning stage. After the planning stage comes the analysis stage the company would perform a detailed analysis now we go a little bit more into detail involving consultation now we talk to people to stakeholders users or potential users for example customers of local restaurants restaurants owners themselves would this app be useful for you we need delivery drivers well the app is not good if we if there's not enough delivery drivers in the area so we need to talk to stakeholders and maybe survey and them see what's going on then the company will create a list of the requirement for the mobile app such as you know we need user registration we need to have restaurant search menu browsing order placement payment processing and delivery tracking those are the requirement for this app at this point we have a clear understanding of the big picture we didn't do anything yet we'll just analyze now once we have the big picture we are going to design it we're going to put it on paper or on a phone for that matter the company will design the mobile app architect and users interface which include wireframe user stories and flowchart here you are drawing it the company would also create a database schema and we talked about database schema and the prior session and defines the app integration points with other system where do they connect those databases such as payment gateways and delivery platform usually the design stage would involve the conceptual design the logical design and the physical design if you don't know what these are go to the database lessons and you will know what they are but in the design stage this is where we build the database schema which would involve those steps after we design it what do we do now it's time to develop the company will start developing or implementing what we designed developing the mobile app following the design specification here we will use programming language because we are programming the system libraries to develop the app's front and back end so what you see is the front end this is the app what's in the back you don't see it's it's the magic behind the scene that's what that's what the back end it is the company would also create a web-based dashboard for restaurant owners and delivery drivers to manage their orders and deliveries here you are just basically finalizing what you designed then you test it you test it and we're going to talk a lot about testing later on the company would test the mobile app to ensure it meets the requirement and performs as expected so the company would use testing tools and techniques such as manual testing automated testing user acceptance testing we'll talk about more about testing later on that's an important topic on the CPA exam just testing the company would also test the app's compatibility with different mobile devices and operating system is it good on google google app app google app store so on and so forth then after we test it we're done we're ready to deploy it once the mobile passed the testing well we're good now it's it works as expected assume and it did company would deploy the app at the app store or the google play store or the microsoft store this would involve submitting the app for review complying with the app store guidelines and making it available to users basically we're deploying it now how do you deploy an app or a software or a system now we're going to talk about deployment deployment of systems plunge or a big bank deployment in this deployment method the software or update are released all at once replacing the existing software entirely this strategy rolling it all at once to everyone can be risky because any issues can affect the whole system and there's no fallback option so the alternative to this is to do a gradual rolling or the ramped conversion so gradually rolling out the new software or update to a subset of users or systems so you don't have to make it available to all users a group of users to test it just to see how it works first gradually roll it then or if it's a system you know new software or system that's why you have to do it gradually roll it test test those new systems for issues and then roll them out to more users or systems over time so don't do it all at once what is the logic behind this is to detect problems and provide a fallback option if issues arise you don't want to expose yourself altogether just go naked okay so slowly but step by step you will do what you will you know you would let 500 users use it get the feedback see what the issues are no issues you maybe add a new update and you roll it to a thousand so on and so forth then you roll it all at once for example right now google google is rolling the artificial intelligence to only employees at google this is called ramped conversion the rolling out the new system only the selected number of people which is employee at google google employees ab testing where is ab testing it's releasing two different version of the software or update to different users and guess what comparing the performance and user satisfaction ab testing i'm going to give you this option and this option then which one is going to be better this approach allow organization to collect data or user preference and make informed decision about which version to release more widely this ab testing is very common when you are doing social media marketing like marketing you'll have to add add one and add two you draw both of them and you will see how many people are clicking on add one versus how many people are clicking on add two so if add two is working you will follow add two strategy not add one this is called ab testing you can do the same thing with the software you can do it and maybe testing then we have the blue green shadow deployment the new software or update are released to a separate environment blue while the existing system remain in the green so the old system green and the new system is built then you would start to release gradually redirect from the green environment to the blue environment once the new software or update are tested and deemed deemed stable so for example i have it i have an old old learning management system and i have a new one and what i would do i would not take all my students from the old to the new i will gradually release students from the old to the new as i am testing making sure it's working i don't want to do it all at once this is gradually also it's called the blue green shadow this approach provides a fallback option and reduce downtime so if i migrated you to the new learning management system and if it's not working the old still working i can take you back there now bear in mind we have not three one two three we have four don't forget about the big bang deployment which is the riskiest one once the software the system the app has been deployed the company would maintain the app by providing ongoing support including bug fixes update and upgrades and the reason i use this example mobile app because you all are familiar with this and you guys get all you need to update your app well this is what's happening the creators are updating fixing bugs or upgrading if you click on that update it will tell you it's all about it could be an update bug fixes or some sort of an upgrade so the company would also monitor the app performance and user feedback and make improvements you guys see when you use an app they'll say okay do you like this app give us your you know give us your feedback like three stars or five stars this is what they're looking for this is part of the maintenance to collect feedback to see what's working what's not the customers might tell you sometimes working or not working so therefore you collect the feedback and you make adjustments to comply with market trend and market trend is the most important you want to stay with your market you want to comply with what your customers are telling what should you do now go to farhat 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Maurice Torda is professor at Oxford Brookes University and the director of its Center for Medical Humanities. His main research interests include History of Eugenics, Scientific Racism, History of Anthropology, and the History of Medicine. He has published a number of books on the history of eugenics, including Modernism and Eugenics, Latin Eugenics in Comparative Perspectives, and the History of East-Central European Eugenics, Texts, and Commentaries. He also produced a podcast series on the current relevance of eugenics and is the curator of two exhibitions on the history of eugenics. My name is Maurice Torda. I am a professor of history at Oxford Brookes University, where I teach courses on the history of eugenics and racism. I'm also the curator of a new exhibition on the history and contemporary relevance of eugenics entitled We Are Not Alone, Legacies of Eugenics, which is on display at the Vina Holocaust Library between the 21st and the 30th of September 2021, marking a century since the influential Second International Eugenics Congress was organized at the American Museum of Racial History in New York. This centenary presents us with a critical moment to review our myriad assumptions and attitudes, rooted in eugenics, continue to affect our world in ways both obvious and hidden, engaging with and contributing to a global anti-eugenic movement of reckoning with the past. The exhibition, We Are Not Alone, the Legacies of Eugenics, reveals the shifting and fluid meanings which characterized ideas of human betterment in different national and international contexts. In a much circulated poster, Nazi propagandists claimed that their program of compulsory sterilization was in no way different from other similar legislation introducing countries such as the United States of America in Sweden and planned in Japan and in other European countries such as Britain, Hungary and Poland. We're not the only ones planning to eliminate defectives from society, they said. This message was conveyed by way of an image of a man protecting his wife and child by holding a shield with the inscription, the law for the prevention of a relatively diseased offspring, 14th of July, 1933. This is a powerful image and it is particularly powerful because it simplifies a very complex story and presents us with an uncomfortable truth. The good guys were equally bad. There is no such thing as bad eugenics and good eugenics. It is this claim that I explore in the exhibition, aiming to reveal the transnational character of eugenics across the 20th century and beyond. In the following, I would like to briefly describe the main components of the exhibition. It consists of 10 sections and several artefacts from the science collection and the Galton Archive and University College London. We begin by looking at British eugenics and the First International Congress of Eugenics convened in London in 1912. The British scientist Francis Galton coined the term eugenics in 1883 from the Greek expression world of war. He defined it as the study of agencies under social control, the main proof or impair the racial qualities of future generation, either physically or mentally. At the end of the 19th century, many people from across the political spectrum and from various scientific positions were attracted by the prospect of improving the human race through eugenics. Eugenics was also seen as a solution to social problems as diverse as crime, alcoholism and poverty. By the time the First International Congress of Eugenics convened in London in 1912, eugenics societies had been established in Germany, Britain, Sweden and the United States of America. It had become a truly global phenomenon. We then look at marriage, family and children, two important topics discussed biogenesis worldwide. Eugenicists were avid communicators. Across the world, they sought to engage with the public through lectures, fairs, writings, plays, art and design, radio talks, films and of course, exhibitions. They were keenly aware that complex scientific ideas about human eredity and its role in shaping our lives could be most easily disseminated when visualized at public fairs, for instance, or in the press. Popular culture was the most efficient way to bridge the gap between specialized knowledge about eugenics and the interests of the public around a number of issues from marriage and family to the well-being of future generation. In the next section, we look at education. Education was of paramount importance to eugenics. From its inception, the Eugenics Education Society in Britain aspired to further eugenic teaching at home in the school and elsewhere. In turn, eugenics appealed to educationalists, school reformers and feminists who advocated teaching children and the use of the nation sound morals alongside physical education and modern ideas of hygiene. They were considered essential to maintaining a healthy body and mind and in society's advancement towards the eugenic future. The general unpreparedness of teachers in matters of eugenic education was, however, one major obstacle. Hence, the involvement of the Eugenics Society in the training of teachers, social and care workers in the basic knowledge of eredity and eugenics so they could identify the intellectual and physical needs of those under their supervision and act accordingly. In the fourth section, we look at feeble mindedness and mental deficiency. Eugenics asserted the supremacy of eredity. Notions of cultural progress, intellectual achievement, racial protectionism, biological decline, social pathology and criminal behavior were all infused with the belief that it was the quality of a person's eredity that determined their destiny. To correct the outcome of the sexist generation of unfortunate mating choices through education and environmental improvement was deemed to costly and rather ineffectual. Instead, the solutions preferred by the eugenicists such as sterilization, segregation, legislation against immigration and miscegenation were seen as more practical and imagined to have an immediate effect on society. The term feeble minded was first used in 1876. The Royal College of Physicians in London defined a feeble minded person to be one who is capable of earning his living under favorable circumstance but is incapable from mental defect existing from birth or from an early age of A, competing on equal terms with his normal fellows or B, of managing himself and his affairs with ordinary prudence. Feeble mindedness and his corollary mental deficiency was one of the major issues that brought together and also divided scientists, politicians, health reformers and educators. Eugenicists were constantly alarmed by the growing number of people they called feeble minded. In their scientific publications, political speeches, newspaper articles and public lectures, they constantly used terms that we recognize today as exceptionally offensive. Feeble mindedness was believed to be hereditary and a threat to the future of the race. We then look at American eugenics and the second International Congress of Eugenics organized in York in 1921. The organized eugenic movement in the United States sprang from many theoretical sources. This included anarchism, modern approaches to hygiene and health, political efforts to restrict immigration and prevent miscegenation and of course, Mendelian genetics. The American Breeders Association was the first national organization to promote eugenics and genetic research. Its committee on eugenics was established in 1906 and led by the botanist Luther Burbank. In the same year, nutritionist John Kellogg founded the Race Betterment Foundation in Butler Creek, Michigan. The eugenics record office at Cold Spring Harbor, New York was, however, the leading organization attracting some of the nation's major scientists. The world's first realization law was enacted in 1907 in Indiana, establishing a tradition of punitive and negative eugenic practices whose outcomes are felt to this day. Two international congresses, eugenics, were organized at the National History Museum in New York in 1921 and 1932 respectively, confirming United States leadership in global eugenics. From America, we cross back into Europe and we look at German and Nazi racial hygiene. Eugenic ideas of race improvement travel fast and wide across Germany during the 80s. Physician Wilhelm Schalmeyer was amongst the first to formulate a theory of eugenics based on the idea of Fererbums Hygiene Hereditary Hygiene. Another complementary concept, Tönn Rassenhygiene, racial hygiene, was formulated by Physician Alfred Plutz. The latter term expressed both the scope and the intentions of German eugenics, which became fixated on the protection of the hereditary qualities of the race. There was, however, a diversity of opinion on every eugenic issue of importance. For instance, some German eugenicists endorsed ideas of Aryan supremacy, Nordicism and Anti-Semitism, while others were critical of them. Many feminists and eugenicists on the left endorsed eugenics realisation, but Catholic conservatives often opposed it. Aided by several political factors, including the defeat in World War I and the rise of Nazism, racial hygiene movement in Germany became the world's most successful. Its consequences were devastating, however. After 1933, it has mixed deeply with racism and anti-Semitism, leading to the murder of thousands of people with disability through the T4 euthanasia programme and then to the extermination of millions of people in the Holocaust. We then look at how broadly, geographically, and conceptually eugenics became during the interwar period. We look at its internationalisation. Between the 80s and the 1950s, eugenic movements developed across Europe, North, Central and South America, as well as India, Japan, China and Australasia. National eugenics societies had been established before World War I. During the interwar period, they thrived and some, such as the Greek eugenics society, for instance, only developed during the early 1950s. Some of these societies collaborated within the International Federation of eugenics organisations, while others acted regionally, such as those organising the Pan-American office of eugenics and homiculture. Others still decided to establish an alternative International Federation of Latin eugenics societies. The nationalisation of eugenics and its internationalisation, when hand in hand, both in practice and in rhetoric, each national context had its own model of eugenics. But eugenics learned how to communicate efficiently across borders, to exchange views and inspire one another. With this idea in mind, we move to the next panel, which looked at the scientists, which looked at the experts. For almost a century, eugenics influenced and transformed social realities and the scientific explanations that accompanied them. It also weaponised politics and radicalised culture, promoting discrimination and inequality. As it dehumanised the human subject, eugenics killfully manoeuvred its way into a position of power and authority by associating itself with a host of concerns, from human rights, reproductive or otherwise, to environmentalism and ecology. Importantly, eugenics was constantly sustained by expert knowledge and bolstered by scientific research that pour out of institutes, universities, private and state organisations and various government agencies. In turn, eugenics were considered experts and they advised and knowledge widely praised as beneficial to society. We then turn to those targeted by eugenic policies. We turn to the victims. Eugenics targeted people in society were considered to be substandard, either due to their physical or mental disabilities, or because their social and racial non-white origins positioned them in less privileged positions in society. In his 1951 Cavendish lecture to the West London Medical Chirurgical Society Ernst Barnes, Bishop of Birmingham, described his people as inferior human strains. Discriminatory eugenic arguments were used against these individuals, targeting them irrespective of age and gender.  Indigenous people across the world were subjected to humiliating racial research to assume their, to evidence their assume inferiority. A practice also extended to ethnic minorities such as the Roma in Europe. Racial, social and cultural boundaries between eugenically valuable individuals and those considered otherwise have been repeatedly reinforced through racist legislation, medical institutionalisation and state sanctioned policies of segregation and annihilation. In the last panel of the exhibition, we turn to the ways we can employ to fight back. We turn to confronting eugenics. Healing the deep wounds caused by a century of eugenics requires public recognition of those wronged in the past and of those who continue to be mistreated in the present. It is a slow process, but progress is being made. Victims of sterilisation in Japan, the Czech Republic, Peru, the United States and elsewhere are finally being issued official apologies and provided with financial compensation. Human reproductive rights everywhere must be respected and know eugenic discrimination against people belonging to religious, ethnic and sexual minorities or of those living with disabilities should be allowed to happen again. Historically disenfranchised groups such as the Roma must be empowered and racism rejected and hesitating. The stories of those women and men who've been harmed by eugenics must be told in their lives, respected. The Skita Saburo, a Japanese victim of sterilisation, so poignantly put it, I just want the authorities to apologise for the injustice. If we act alone, they can break us like disposable chopsticks but if you unite, we will become a large tree and no one can break us. A tree speaks of hope, togetherness. It speaks of dedication and collective and personal healing. It also allows us to turn to one of the most familiar images associated with eugenics, that of a large tree with strong roots each representing a scientific discipline. This include biology, anthropology, genetics, medicine, psychiatry, sociology, education and politics. The accompanying note is clear. Like a tree, eugenics draws its materials from many sources and organises them into an harmonious entity. As the official logo of two international congresses on eugenics held in 1921 and 1932, this tree captured the attention of scientists and participants attending these major events. That it was represented as a synthesis of all scientific, social, religious, culture and political activities is only one of the signs explaining the longevity of eugenics. The other is the credibility of the Western scientific tradition into which eugenics was planted by Francis Gorton during the 80s, 60s and 80s, 70s. Nurtured by scientists devoted to race improvement, the tree of eugenics grew stronger and stronger, reaching maturity during the 1930s. After the Holocaust, the tree was denuded of its branches, but its roots remained very deep, embedded in our society, culture and politics. They continued to provide sustenance to various social, economic and educational policies across the world. The time has come to cut down this tree and remove its global roots. We must plant another tree, one that reflects our collective reckoning with the legacies of eugenics. Judy Dow, an Arbenati French-Canadian educator and artist created a witness tree to capture this anti-eugenic movement, which we included in the exhibition. Her message and the one which I want to share with our visitors is this, like a tree, anti-eugenics draws from many sources and transforms them into a one mind and one heart way of being. Such, in confusing brevity, are the main lines of the historically informed account of our eugenic past, present and future, which this exhibition seeks to describe balancing various elements of continuity and discontinuity of idiosyncrasy and similarity. Continuing education about and engagement with eugenics, as well as its public condemnation, are essential components of our efforts to understand a hidden and unpleasant past, while at the same time continuing work towards a fair and just society. A century later, since the second International Eugenics Congress, we invite visitors to engage with the legacies of eugenics across time and space and to reflect on what eugenics means for us today. This remains a very sensitive and emotional issue for many people, not least because for so long eugenics has reinforced discriminatory practices based on race, class, gender, disability and age. A global reckoning with the legacies of eugenics is essential for a broader social, gender and racial justice project to succeed. Thank you.


All right separate traders welcome on back here this Friday, August 20th shortly after 2 30 p.m Eastern time and to wrap up the end of the week here, right? I mean it is slow out here in the market, but great to see all of our students and members otherwise Norman John Tony skip. That's all I got chatting me so far at least but I saw Michael and Chuck Z chatting earlier Chuck actually took off you said he had posted just before actually you ended up doing pretty well on the FLGC trade Mara and riot as well. So hey, it's not to say that we didn't make money or couldn't have made money from the morning We did all right. I'm personally. I'm up a little bit mostly that was from right from the market open I was in and out of a couple trades just now I'm actually in one position currently and I'll talk about that in a moment, but you know, hey This is like kind of what we work for right? I mean these types of days in order to you know make this type of money consistently Hey, you can take off on slower days and just kick back enjoy life. I sure know That's what Fausto did earlier today. You know, I'm with that in mind. Hey, I mean by the end of the day today I'm looking to go to the beach. So no, let's try and zip through this afternoon meeting quick We'll see if there's any good opportunities to work with here heading into the final hour and 30 minutes Today is Friday. So I will recap Bitcoin here pretty briefly also quick producers note here If there's any background noise here during this meeting, I apologize It's like hottest can be in my home office right now. Just turn on my AC drops down to like 63 So hopefully I'll be good to go there But otherwise HYZN year up eight and a half plus percent right now You know, hey at the time that Norman called it out. It was a good call, right? Obviously, you know pushing up at the time breaking a new HOD the stock had a bit of a thin Thin order book and bit of a spread. So, you know at that you saw a sharper drop-off here instead of the continuation But hopefully there's more to go on the stock I don't mind at least, you know putting this on our main list to begin if we have plenty of better Opportunities maybe I'll give this to the boot, but otherwise it's nice to start off with this one for the meantime the HYZN trade Hylm Hylm Alright, so I'll tell you I mean hey for any of the stocks that we ended up calling out doing well on again FLGC one of them right here We'll go over it pretty briefly.  Ended up making this big pop off really light volume going into like 11 30 12 o'clock You could see all the gaps on my one-minute chart even just goes to show how many times the stock got halted So I'm quickly looking this up on Benzinga Pro. I didn't even care to look it up earlier Just our is it RGC again. I'm writing the wrong ticker RGP All right, andrade did ball on the stock he picked up like a dollar 75 cents I want to scroll up to his post a five time. He ended up getting in on a half-sized position I don't think he posted his entry, but he said it was an in-and-out quick entry posted right at 135 eastern time Then that is the time. All right, so RGC. What's the news on the stock? It doesn't show that there really is much of any news to be honest with you Don't really see much of anything just says halted on a circuit breaker The the trade resumes halted again on circuit breaker. That's it might just be a super thinly traded stock Super low float stock for the most part that has higher short interest looking at the daily chart I don't even know is this a new IPO even our new listing I mean, there's obviously days here dating back to late July and going into this month But you know the stock was trading what 11,000 shares across the whole day on the July 23rd You know this day here a thousand twelve hundred shares. Are you kidding me? So, you know, I don't know what's going on with this stock. I don't know if it's like a brand-new ticker that started getting listed today Skip with the news right here skip rejoining us doing pretty well on Cardano earlier So I'll go over that for a skip and all this coming up pretty shortly crypto That is but RGC limited announces partial exercise of underwriters over allotment option All right, Brian says yes a new IPO from $7.16, but I don't know though I mean it didn't really show much on my Benzinga. Otherwise, I saw a skips post though You know, hey it goes to show we don't really need to know the news in order to trade the stock But you know in this in this case and in this specific example It popped up so fast and got halted so quickly and for every time it you know reopened off a halt I got halted again so quickly Made the stock untradable So unfortunately unless if you were able to get in like very quickly and on good timing perhaps like Andrea You know and get in and out fast the last thing that you want to do Is get stuck in it stuck in this trade on a downhaul, right? I say I said it yesterday I said at the day before you know almost every day here, but when a stock gets halted on the way down Game over that's a wrap. So you know last thing you want to do is get stuck in this and then have it reopen up You know two and a half points lower Probably dump back down lower heading into the afternoon probably gap, you know lower going into Monday next week All right So the FOGC trader so Charles Zee comments on this earlier asking if anyone was trading with him at least going into the Run-up off 1125 1130 ish But once it ended up popping off of 12 it started to get a little shaky, right ended up popping up to a high of like Nearly 1250 then from there came back down So you would have hoped to have seen a higher or low build Started to have seen it and then it shook down. I guess you could say it still hasn't truly broken You know lower it held off 1150 support, you know pushing back up right now the FLG C trade You know, it's one that we are starting to become pretty familiar with just from the last, you know Really two and a half weeks worth of trading from late July going into, you know present, right? So pumped up from five all the way up towards, you know, 20 or near 20 ended up dumping all the way all the way back down I guess a little push-up here today I would be really careful around 12 started to see a lot of volume getting filled off of 12 or under 12 Just a moment ago So I would like to see not only break over 12th But to see it, you know really show volume on the bid off of 12 and for it to not get filled You know if we happen to see big volume getting filled off the bid Off the bid, you know we count that as selling. So if you're a little unfamiliar with what we're discussing here I mean, hey, we cover that in our phase one class just this week We'll talk more about that going into next week in the phase two stock course But yeah for right now again, it's kind of like the same to be said on the HYZN stock I'll put it on the main list for the meantime, you know for as Slow and stagnant of a day as we're having right now. I really don't want to have too big of a list at all I'm probably gonna cap myself off at like six if I can Why six I don't really know that was just off the top of my head, but you know GOVX here as we go through hey, this one was shaky leading into the market open here So unfortunately it only continued to remain shaky and choppy after the market Open so ended up dropping off after ended up continuing to break lower as you could see so I don't know I mean I ended up getting it on Getting in in the straight off of six and I left a ton of money on the table I ended up pushing up towards a high of 650 then much higher later on I took like what like 16 or 13 cents something of that nature You know just earlier, but now this thing is a sinking ship. So if this thing short of all I mean then this would be your best bet seemingly so, you know teach the road if this is short of all for you Then I'd put it on your personal watch list, but it's hard to borrow for us here I'd imagine it's hard to borrow for most but All right, so PXLW I got to say I mean for as flat as this thing is right now This is the one stock of it. I hate to say it not really hate to say it I'm in from 434. So I saw this thing start to shake up. It was like right. I think it was right here Actually, I just started to pop back up suddenly and I jumped in it was on a normal position size Nothing crazy and again, you know end of the week. It's you know dog days of summer So the thing that led me to stay in the trade is the fact that we ended up seeing a big iceberg order on the bid Right off of $4 and 30 cents I mean the guy had to have popped up as soon as I ended up getting into the trade I guess that was like fortunate timing But actually as I'm checking my level four right now And you could see it on the trade station matrix on level three on the far right side of my screen That guy that guy is not there anymore. You know that 23,000 share order on the bid at 430 That's not there anymore. So, you know, I'm a little timid I still have my stop set, you know right under where I got in so it's a low low risk You know scenario for me at least but it's so flat right now I was hopeful to put this on our main list for you folks But now at this point, I don't want to make you you know like watch the grass grow watch the paint dry So, you know, I say it all the time just because I'm in a stock doesn't mean I'm gonna put it on the list You know this thing now is flat the iceberg order on the bids polled. So you got to be careful. I know my you know risk with that Damn, alright, so let me ask you folks really quick the GR at Q trades. Is this Romagna of anything? From this week, maybe from yesterday, perhaps Norman in the meantime says HYZN tank. That's not good One of the two stocks I have on our watch list so far What is the stock remind you of at least from yesterday? Perhaps if you dig back into our watch list, maybe Norman says SNO way and honestly that that could be a good answer because the stock only continues to drop off too, right? I mean, there's a pretty good answer Norman. Yeah, I mean, this is a very good one that you can go with I mean, you know shortly after the open dropped off continued to break down later on. I mean, this is very similar to the GOV x-trade if anything this one the SNO way That's a good good call at least but the I was thinking more the Sunstock So and then from James F inside the live trading were yeah, I mean, I mean, you know just in the fact It's cheap, but the stock ended up Dropping off going into the market close It ended up providing for a nice little bounce opportunity after the market opened up But then from there fell flat right and then look what happened later on just completely dropped off going into today I don't know what the news was on it could have been more of a common stock offering perhaps I could be wrong on that either way just stock is that 48% it's our, you know, one of our top percent losers right now So for the GR and Q trade going back to this Maybe not carbon copy, but fairly similar So, you know, that's where I said before at least here when it ended up making a bit of a bounce And then it got halting on the way down That's it game over You know, it's as simple as that this got halted on the way up Which was great and then when it reopened up I was looking for an entry and I was looking for an entry right off of 134 135 here That was the opening bell print price and then you know got halted on the way down before that point even so You know at this point once it got halted on the way down I knew that it was it was a wrap game over last thing you want to do is get stuck holding on to a bag like that, right? Look at where it is now My pxlw trade actually just dropped off and I might be getting stopped out if it drops one more penny That'll be a minus two so it's negligible, but I just want to let you folks know at least View at least for the meantime, I mean it's near the highs But this reminds me of like Wednesday's trading if you go back to Wednesday's afternoon meeting You know, I was saying very similar for a lot of the stocks that I even put on the list They weren't really trading a whole lot of volume per minute the stocks trading about three four thousand shares per minute right now That's nothing especially compared to some of the orders that you happen to see on the book right now So I pass on this trade So Kathleen do well on the KXIN. Wow. Yeah KXIN is pushing up right now. Yeah, great So this one definitely our best bet for the meantime KXIN beautiful needless to be said This is on our list. You got an iceberg order on the ask at 375 1415 thousand share orders sitting there also got one sitting here 369 perhaps fleshing in and out actually That's a decent Distribution of the volume between the Nasdaq the arca and the bad even you know just you know So about 12,000 shares on the book, but it's not really one particular ECN or exchange that's showing more volume than another No, we talk about that again inside the phase one stock course We dig further into it and we will next week in the phase two course at least the more intermediate-based classes that I teach But you know certainly at least on this KXIN stock right now the trend looks great trading a lot of volume per minute I know that's you know largely based off this spike, but Even before that it was trading about 12 13,000. So, you know, that's a little bit more than the others All right, so I was looking at AMRS AMRS earlier And I was saying it was you know holding strong still at the time and you could still say that right now I mean just dropped off from making a new high a moment ago and pushing back up right now So yeah, AMRS will put on our list with the KXIN I told myself six year at four so I might end up kicking one of the stocks off Maybe the HYZN that ended up really tanking right we're not really too interested in a stock That's tanking at this point off the highs unless it you know just Moves right back up insta and that doesn't really happen too often So, you know, we'll keep it going, but we'll go back to the HYZN at the end at least Skinner's refreshed there. All right, so let's see if there's any other familiar names like MRI and I saw this You know earlier. I called it out, you know off the 523 support level and that was the low from earlier in the morning So I was hopeful to see a higher low I took the damn trade myself and well, I ended up stop ended up just getting out I just hit the clothes, but you know get outbreak even I just didn't think it was going anywhere shortly after I got in and Lo and behold popped up. So should have trusted my first instinct there, but yeah right now It's not really doing much for us. Otherwise, right like I wanted a much sharper pop at least at the time that I was looking at it Cara that's at the highs, right? I mean you love you love to see it, but not really trading a whole lot of volume per minute not really a big fan of that All right, so that's just that's just about all I see on the gainer side folks If there's any other familiar name that you see that's up down or that's up so far more than 5% Type it in the chat board. Let me know in advance. I'll hop over to the loser's list here next So Jeff, you know call out before also the AMC trade So we'll go to that actually coming up pretty shortly So the END P trade and the losers here first, but yeah END P end over familiar with the stocks when dropped off big-time in pre-market Ended up continuing to squeeze up after the open, but from that point topped off around 275 It's actually a great short throughout the late morning early afternoon I missed out on it, but it's just easy to say that hindsight with it being shortable good spreads good liquidity No for a stock coming off of bad news You figure, you know if it's not down extreme amount if it's not at ground zero if it's not at literally zero bucks Or like just pennies like the SES entry then, you know, perhaps there's still some opportunity to get on the way down, right? I mean, I wouldn't mind trying to short this stock even with it even with it down, you know 30 35% But right now it's pretty flat. It was more of a morning move if anything, you know Once it rebroke below 250 seemingly that's when it ended up building the downtrend again.  They're not really trading a whole lot of volume They're hard to borrow. They're not down enough for a dead cap bounce, you know, maybe RLX. I'll look at here That's a stock I'm familiar with Jack All right, folks, let me know if there's anything that you would want me to check out I'm gonna check out AMC from Jeffrey or Jeff. I should say Yeah, it's at the highs.  We're familiar with the stock. It's tradable You might happen to say that for a couple of trades here But I want to deal with the stock that's more volatile than anything else like, you know, express Listen, if you do well on express if you've done well done well more often than not on express Then I'm sure that you'll focus on it more But this isn't really like showing as much momentum on the way up compared to AMC. I mean granted AMC is more expensive My trade a bigger range. It seems this is like trading a hell of a lot more volume per minute So I'd rather focus on this if anything, you know, you put it more expensive All right, partial credit goes to Mitch, Mitch Connor on YouTube there There we go Mitch RJF with the FLGC trade. So that was on our list already I semi-reluctantly put it on our list, but for right now it hasn't tanked if anything It's been pushing up a little bit more over 12 So, you know, really, let's see. Let's see this get going Let's see a support off of 12 for not for it to not break or get filled But you know, let's see an order on the bid showing some sort of support here It's got to get, you know, really pushing right now, but yeah, it's on our list for the meantime RJF From Dan the OUST trade oused. We'll call it. I mean Got thin tier sizes bit of a spread right now not too big, but I Don't really feel I need to put it on our list You know, I love the trend to it if it's right within our price range So, you know in terms of a tradable stock, don't get me wrong. It's tradable, but you know I might happen to say that for a bunch of stocks at this point But it doesn't mean I need to put it on the watch list just yet I'd rather focus on an AMC right now to be honest as that's more of like a well-known stock like You know, if that's getting pumped up on Reddit Wall Street bets, you know That's something that I'd rather focus on is we have pretty good success with with AMC and those conditions From RGF also, which I'll get to Bitcoin coming up next. I reckon with BTBT here But RGF asking you think there's gonna be a bounce probably not today For as much as it dropped off. It started to bounce yesterday And then it just you know got crushed again here today So you really got to watch out going into Monday and Tuesday of next week I'd imagine the early parts of next week If we happen to see a break towards 10, you know, that would be a critical support level to watch if you're you know on a swing trade Alright, so folks, I think that's just about it. I think I did a pretty pretty good job at keeping the list simple here I got to get through Bitcoin. I want to jump back to the HYZN also Norman said it tanked. That's not good So, you know what I'm even gonna do. I'm gonna scratch this HYZN off our list Not really looking that great now for us. All right, let's see if I could do this in one shot Please tell me I can't oh, okay. That's not good Son of a Let's see here. There we go. All right Couple a couple tries there. We're good to go now though All right So we'll go over Bitcoin will go over Cardano because that's the one otherwise that I've been mentioning more of and I know A lot of our students live inside cyber group have been in Cardano based off what I had said about a week ago Really for the last few months, right? I've been all over Cardano for over a year now at this point But live inside the trading room here in this afternoon meeting really talking about that one for quite a bit But obviously the bread and butter Bitcoin here for the meantime, you know We ended up seeing it begin to pull back and I told you that there is a great chance We would see it come back down towards my EMA lines It ended up holding so far and getting a nice healthy push back up. So, you know, hey, I love to see it I'm always more worried about a sharper drop more than anything, but You know what at the same time as I say that I've been wondering for so long now at this point Because I've been saying this for a number of months and I've been patiently waiting, you know Since Elon and Tesla, you know, when's the next major company going to announce that they've made a major stake in putting Bitcoin on their balance sheet You know who did that recently? Does anybody know, you know, which company did did that as recent as yesterday? And it has more so to do with some of the other cryptos not even as much to do with Bitcoin But it's a good sign for things to come and you may have thought they've already done it Coinbase, Coinbase ended up putting a 500 million dollar investment into Ethereum proof of stake assets and others I believe Bitcoin as well But you know, otherwise just you're going to see more and more major name brand companies fortune 500 companies Nasdaq 100 companies Look to make that announcement soon. How do I know that because I've been wrong for a little while on that So, you know, it's coming folks. It has to right like, you know, I'll be wrong But at some point I'm gonna be right on that and when that happens It's gonna make for a giant pop just like when a Elon announced, right? That's what led to Bitcoin breaking out from 35,000 pushing up to breaking all-time highs up to 65 All right, P trader on YouTube saying Bitcoin looks really strong not really weakness on the long-term chart. So great segue. I Mean perfect segue. Thank you because here's my weekly chart So if you recall and I don't show this line as often I haven't of late But from last week I showed a couple of different horizontal price levels that I was monitoring on my Twitter feed 49,000 was the one I was talking about 49 and going into this week Bitcoin was pushing up there It hasn't hit that price yet, or it didn't up until today So why 49,000? Why not 50,000 50,000? It's a psychological level you'd imagine and it is but 49,000 because there's a couple of different point points of inflection here and with swing trading and investing you definitely have to Keep concerned with the opens and closing prices on longer-term charts like weeklies and monthly so and dailies But you know for me a weekly and monthly chart even more, you know 49,000 generally it held underneath here going back into February once it broke higher and closed above 49,000 here that's when it ended up moving up a little bit higher But at that time perhaps it was more overbought across the board, you know from the whole run-up from 39 or from 35,000 and even before that so we ended up seeing a big exhaustion point ended up pulling back, but before tanked Look what happens here. This is your second point of inflection inflection here ended up closing just over 49,000 and then from that point broke lower and then really dropped off. So This week it had just broken over 49 right now today I think the talking point will be to see it close above 49,000 and then really blast over 50 I think that'll be the big talking point for things to come here on Bitcoin. Alright, so That's that looking at Cardano though and really quickly just going back to Cardano I brought this up a week and a half ago again on my Twitter feed I made this comment just talking about the hundreds of 500 crossover here and at the time it was at 142 Since is not only moved up, but as of overnight into today Cardano broke a new all-time high It broke the all-time high that has set back from Maytime here. So Up up and away we go on this, you know, who knows where we'll you know find the next local top I don't think it will be necessarily three exactly it might be maybe 282 Maybe if it blasts over three will top around 315 320 then drop those are numbers I'm just shooting right from the hip, but otherwise though for the meantime we're looking great on Cardano at least otherwise Looking at some of the long and short interest across the board on Bitcoin Cardano, Ethereum You know not a whole lot of really, you know activity across the last couple of days granted Cardano has been taken off I would have thought that we would have seen more short positions open up across the last 12 to 18 hours But we haven't so Maybe people are starting to really believe But otherwise we'll kind of show the same data for Ethereum, you know Very flat just looking at the red and green lines. They're not a whole lot to really talk about No major drops no major spikes in a long or short activity just over the last seven days on crypto So if that's the case and Cardano is pumping up that much Imagine what happens once we start really seeing some whales, you know jump in that That's my food for thought for you folks today. All right, but otherwise I'll do one more round up because I was flapping my gums for the last five minutes on crypto Let me know if there's anything up down left right more than a five percent that you would want me to check out here quickly Lastly jumping through my Benzinga pro here as we wrap up, but I got nothing And express it's at the high still but again, you know, hey, it's not on the main list But still very tradable stock on you No problem at all folks on the crypto On the crypto stuff there. All right. 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