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The following is a presentation of TFNN The Trader's Edge with Steve Rhodes toll free at 1-877-927-6648 or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER> The Trader's Edge now Steve Rhodes Good afternoon folks, welcome to the February 11th, the fantastic Friday edition of today's Trader's Edge show. I'm your host, Steve Perseverance Rhodes, who absolutely knows that each of us should always be pioneers of our future versus prisoners of our past. Hope everyone out there is having a great day and let's make sure we have an extraordinary one of the easiest way to do that is to always remember that life is happening for us, not to us. That's right, we do not make that one little two-by-four shift. Well, it means we can find the gift in every set of circumstance that life is going to toss at us. And today, you and I, we're going to go check on the circumstance of these markets. We'll go figure out what those bulls and bears, what those buyers and sellers are communicating to you and I just passed one o'clock in the afternoon. I do want you to know I'm absolutely grateful for your presence here, but more important than that and that's this. During this next 60 minutes, I'm here to serve you. So feel free to pick up that phone. You can dial on in<PHONE_NUMBER> if you can't call and we've got you covered there too. You can always send me an email, send it to Steve at tfnn.com. Inside the subjectating, please put radio show question, of course, in our Tigers General, any and every ping will do. So let's go ahead and get this show started on fantastic Friday. Of course, this is Tiger, Financial News Network. I'm Steve Rhodes. Welcome to Lush Show right now. We've got a mixed bag out here. You've got the Russell Trading Hire and the New York Stock Exchange, both up by five points. So basically they're flat. The Dow is off 41, one-tenth percent. S&P 21, five-tenth percent. Nasdaq 100, one and a half percent, one and one-tenth percent, let's say 167 points to the downside. S&P is off nearly two percent or 67. Gold is up four bucks. Silver is down 15 cents. S&P is up two bucks. Lead the charge dollar-wise the upside. Monolithic power systems up 30 bucks or seven percent. Regeneron Pharmaceuticals 23 bucks, nearly four percent. Hubspot 23, four and three-tenths percent. To the downside, Amazon's off 66 bucks. That's two percent. Zebra Technologies, five and a half percent, 25. Google's off 20. That's less than one percent. Service now down three and a half percent. That would be 21 bucks to the downside. So let's do this here. What are the markets doing? We've got a bunch of questions that have already come in. So I'm already behind the game and we just started the show. So let's do this here with regard to what to be watching and observing today. And that's going to take a look at the four equity futures contract. So on the upper left you've got the ES mini. We can see that right now price is trading into its red oscillator and change line. So we're trading at 44.78. The oscillator and change line is 44.7750. If price closed below 44.7750, at a minimum you should expect and anticipate a move to 43.96 and below that 42.58 and below that would be the low or the hammer candle from January 24th. The same routine for the NQ, price is sitting right on its oscillator and change line. The oscillator and change line is 14.539. We're at 14.539. If price closes though in this case here, not just below the oscillator and change line, but below the 14.484 mark, then that's going to signal we revisit the bottom of that profile, which means we're really going back in testing the January 24th low. The Dow, the same playbook out here. Now price is trading just slightly above its oscillator and change line, which is printed at 35.040. So that's the key level. If price closed below 35.040, you would expect a move to 34.466 or 33.605. In the case of the Russell 2000, it's stronger than the other three, stronger from the standpoint of where it's trading relationship to its oscillator and change line. So you need to see it close here below 2,000, even Stephen, and then that suggests to move to 1977 or 1913. So watch these daily numbers, the red oscillator and change line numbers. They will give us a signal as to really what the intent of the market is, perhaps beginning on Sunday evening out there. Now, what happens if these things hold? Well, if these things hold, it can make another move to the upside. You've got profile resistance in some instances where we don't have profile resistance, such as in the case of the Dow. We'd be looking at 36.390. However, there is, let me see, I'm not going to change the screen, so I'm just going to go check to see. Now, so the Dow was attempting to form a new profile earlier. Subscribers saw that this morning. It has since vanished. Doesn't mean that's not where buyers and sellers are. It just means they don't have that new profile as we speak. So that is pretty much what I would be looking at here. And let's start to get to some of our questions. So the initial, the first question, I'm going to go inside the tiger's den. We've got call-hand seating here. And the question is for Mr. Bill wants to take a look at Illumina. Now, Mr. Bill posted something inside the den, pretty intuitive, I would say, in that he has a tool. This is a tool that I believe is on the Thinkorswim application. Is that correct, Mr. Bill? Where he's able to take a look at some seasonals in a pretty simple way. Now, I wasn't able to look at your chart. Sometimes I have problems as a host looking at charts that subscriber or individuals in the den post out there. But what I can say, man is running. Oh, yeah. Sorry about that. I know you don't want. All right. We'll be back live on the air. So one of the ways you get rid of that man running on the beach, folks, is you just simply shut down the system. That was not my intent. But, you know, Stevie just simply hit the wrong button out there. So we were talking about Illumina, I-L-M-N. So I-L-M-N. That was for Mr. Bill. And I was saying he's run a seasonal pattern. I believe he said that in most February, Mr. Bill, that Illumina trades to the downside. I think that's what he said, but I don't want to mistake that. And in this case here, if we just take a look at Illumina with regard to key areas to be observing, you've got Price Consolidating with Insighted's daily profile right now. So you're supporting resistance levels, support at 325.75, 360.412. You don't see the chart. Son of a gun. And where did that? So that's on the wrong screen. Wow, Stevie. Stevie's having some difficulties, folks. Do not let me drive. I haven't been doing any drinking. There's the 2x4. Thank you. All right, so now we're back to Illumina. Everybody can see support and resistance on the daily support again is at 325.75 resistance, 360.412. You're trading below the bottom of a bowler-structured weekly profile out here. So that's not good news. That really supports what Mr. Bill's been looking at from a February standpoint. And you're trading below the bottom of its monthly profile. Let me just get ILMN. By the way, those support levels, those resistance levels now, the bottom of those profiles, weekly 357.82, monthly 383.39. So I'll just pull over the daily timeframe chart here for Illumina for us. And Price is also trading below its red oscillator and change line. So Mr. Bill, this suggests to both you and I, Illumina is going to go make a run for that January 24th. Is it January 24th? No, January 28th low out there. That TD9 count bottom. Now Price should find support at 325.74, the bottom of that daily profile. But check out the volume. Should that unfold? Check out the volume as it's moving into that January 28th level. It's moving in with volume out there. Then it may actually take that out and you get another A to B equal CD to the downside. So that's what I see, Mr. Bill. We take care of Illumina and thanks so much for the request. We're going to a hard break here, but I can tell you we're going to look at SoFi for Mike P. We're going to, for Michael M previously in Sarasota. We're going to look at Microsoft and Apple. Brent wants to take a look at Zillow. A Hector wants to take a look at the XLE and the XLF. So we got plenty to look at out here and we'll begin doing that as soon as we get back from the spring. Steve Rhodes started his trading career as a student almost 20 years ago and the student has now become the master. Steve won the prestigious Timer of the Year award in 2018 and barely missed that mark again in 2019, finishing at number two for the year, an amazing accomplishment. 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And if so, and if a decline under those January 24th lows, could you show your chart work that brings up those quick tools that gives us the expansion targets down lower? I'd just like to have those numbers in the back of my pocket in case an accelerated decline with wide price spread in Tamil Bryant and having those lower targets to shoot against. Sure, absolutely. So, folks, on this set of charts that we're looking at, in the upper left-hand corner, you've got the S&P cash index. And in the upper right-hand corner, you've got the March contract for the ESMini. Lower left is going to be NASDAQ 100. Lower right is going to be the NQ. So in the case of the S&P 500, the high out here was at 48 1862, that was on January 4th. It forms that B point, which is January 24th that John had mentioned, for the S&P cash, that's 42 2262. Makes a retracement. So far, it's been a little bit above a 0.618 retracement, 62.53% to be exact. So it's met that mark out there. And John, if this is the beginning of the next leg lower, the one to one area would give you a price projection of $39.99. The $1.272 would be $38.37. The $618, $1.618, would be $36.30. And the $1 to 2 would take you down to $3403. From an ESMini standpoint, your A points at $4808.25. The Bs at $4212.75. So, folks, that's the level that the ESMini would have to take out to suggest an A to B equal CD to the downside. And the C point, again, a 0.618 retracement, $45.86. So the first target here would be $39.90. Second, $38.28. Third would be $36.22. Third being the $1.618 expansion, folks. And then the $2.0 level, $33.95. That's on the ESMini. In the case of the NASDAQ 100, the actual high, the date that we're using, takes us back to the trading day of November 22nd. And that was at $16.764. Our B point still is at $24. And that's at the $13.724 level. Now, the retracement here is less than a 50% retracement. So if you do less, so let's say that this is a signal that the move is headed lower. When you do less than a 0.618 retracement, you typically have a lot of pent up energy. And you'll do more than a 1 to 1 A to B equal CD. The 1 to 1 price projection level is $12.156. The 1.272 is $11.329. And the 1.618 is at $10.277. For the NQ, we're using the same high, the same date, I should say. And that high was at $16.768. So the 1 to 1, John, that would get you to $12.198, the 1 to 1.272, $11.365, and the 1.618 will be $10.305. Does that give you the information that you're looking for? Perfect, Steve. I love your charting tools. They come up so quickly, so easily. Kudos to you for constructing all those tools to give us those answers at a glance. So thanks so much. You bet. I'll be listening to your follow-up calls. Sounds great. Thanks so much for calling. That was John Claude Keely in Philadelphia. Hey, I love the winter Olympics. I don't know, John, are you still on the line? Don't think so. But we'll call him John Claude Keely, who was the, he commanded the slopes out there, didn't he? And I say John and Philly, he commands the slopes inside of the markets out here. Let's go to our next question. This one coming in by email. So we've had a couple of requests here to take a look at Apple. One was from Eddie from yesterday in Boca, and the other is from Mike, who formerly was from Sarasota, and now is taking up residence in Portugal. So let's go take a look at Apple and try to go through this in detail. AAPL obviously is the ticker symbol, and I believe it's trading now back inside its daily profile. Yeah, just back inside its daily profile. So the first level of reason, and so one question, I think really they're both the same question here, but Mike's question specifically is wondering whether or not price will trade higher. And if Apple closes below the top of its daily profile, 171.87, you only have one consecutive day right now below that level. But if you had a second consecutive day, Mike, then what the signal would be is price should pull back to maybe the 162.33 or 156.61 level. That's a bullish structure daily profile. Price is just consolidating with inside its weekly profile. So any pullback should find support at its rising trend line, maybe around 158 or so. So really lining up at the bottom of that daily profile there. And on a monthly basis, there's no profile levels here for us to take a look at. Let's pull over the white background charts and see what they say. And the white background chart in the daily timeframe, not only are we beginning to trade below the bottom, the top of the daily profile, we're also finding resistance at the oscillator and change line. Now, I don't know what the retracement was from top to bottom out here, and we could go measure that pretty quickly. And as far as topping signals are concerned, the only topping signal that I have, and it's a valid topping signal, I believe Basil did a show earlier. Those of you that listen to a Basil show, you know that when an instrument gets to wave number four, oftentimes something else will happen, not always, but sometimes. And so Apple did that fourth wave, that letter D, that took place. That was confirmed. That was not confirmed until the 10th. So that was yesterday out there. So you do have that going for you. And so, Mike, it looks to me, at least as a 124 in the afternoon, that Apple's more likely to head lower than it is to head higher. And again, that close below the top of that profile out there is going to give you that signal that we couldn't see a move back in those 156, 162 level on a weekly timeframe. Price is also below its red, I'm sorry, it's oscillator and change line. It's green out there, but still below that level. And from a counter trend to move, we know we had that roadsman to indicator top. We had that TD9 count top. We're staring those in the face. That took price back towards support, meaning the bottom of the monthly profile, which is 150.95 didn't get down there. But the rally has stopped, has failed to be able to clear that green oscillator and change line. So that's an area where a counter trend moves. So really, Mike, that supports what we're taking a look at. Now, look, if price closes above the oscillator and change line, 174, 25, we'd have a different interpretation. We're going with the interpretation at 125. You've got a TD9 count top that is likely to complete in the month of February out there. This says that support is at 160, 660 or right around that level. So the answer to the question, what is Apple communicating to us? It really depends on the close today. But if it is a close below 171.87, I would say prepare for a further move lower inside of Apple. Your second question. Now, this was not any second question, but this was a second question for Mike was to take a look at Microsoft. MSFT is the ticker symbol. But as we take a look at it, it's consolidating with inside its daily profile 313.91 as resistance 291.19 as support. Brand new weekly profile is formed. So real key level to be watching the downside is 296.53. We've already received a change in trend signal from Microsoft with a close below its first, the bottom of its first weekly profile that was on the week of January 3rd. New profile that's forming bullish in structure. Nothing more bearish than a failed bullish pattern. And that would say a close below 296.53 would suggest lower price. We don't have that just yet. And that lower price then would take us into the 264 to 285 level on the white background charts out here real quickly. What do we have on the daily timeframe? Same kind of a thing. Prices below the red oscillator and change line right now. 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The yearly chart shows what? It shows a TD9 count top. The last time Microsoft on the yearly base at a TD9 count top was the 1999-2000 high, and that led to a move below the prior year's low out there. Well, in the case of Microsoft, that says prepare potentially for something in the 200-area. So, the yearly chart here, Mike, is bearish right now. Not bearish from the standpoint that you don't get bullish on an annual basis until you begin trading above the prior year's high. We don't have that pattern as we speak right now. The monthly chart out here, we're below the oscillator and change line. That says you can have a further pull back. The weekly, as they confirm, sell the D-point pattern out here. You're below the oscillator and change line. That new profile that we took a look at or explored is really important. So, watch that 296.53 level, I believe it is. The daily time frame below the red oscillator and change line says you at least pull back to 291.19. So, that's what it looks like as we speak right now for both Microsoft and Apple. And thanks for reaching out to me, and I hope you enjoy Portugal out there. Eddie had asked about Nvidia yesterday. He had asked about Apple and Nvidia out here, and that's one of his favorite stocks. And so, right now, what you've got in Nvidia, Eddie, now this is the, I've got the monthly chart up here. Well, hey, on the monthly chart, let's take a look at the monthly chart. You've got a TD9 count top and price of trading below that green oscillator and change line. That suggests that you could get a pullback. And that pullback could even take you to 134.59 out there. Now, let me go to the daily time frame chart, because I think what Eddie really wanted was the play-by-play version here. And so, monthly is a little bit too long. So, on the daily time frame for Nvidia, what do we have? What do we have? We have price likely targeting 240, 247. And Eddie, if price close below 242.47 or thereabouts, that's the oscillator and change line, you should then see a move back to the 215 to 227 level. As price is moving back there, you're going to want to see what the volume is, because that's that January 24th swing low. If you're accelerating into it, you go test the bottom. If you really accelerated it, you could, in fact, take it out and form a new pattern to the downside. And to the downside, again, what we'd be looking at here, I'm sorry, that's Microsoft. Let me get Nvidia, NVDA up on the screen out here. So, you've got that. And come on. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Just so I don't know why the system is slow. I think I've got a couple of things that I probably shouldn't have running. So that downside target area, 215, 227. And below that, you'd be looking at 177, 78. So guys, thanks so much for waiting a extra day to get to those. Let me get to the next request out here. I probably have to speed things up. This one's coming from Mike P, who wants to take a look at the SoFi. So let's take a look at SoFi. I kind of feel like when I look at my emails out here in the Quest, maybe this is our TFNN Trucker group out here. I love it. So Mike wants to take a look at SoFi. Please look at it. I think it's a good sector. It's in a good sector banking. Well, here's what you've got going on with SoFi on the daily timeframe. You've got a confirmed Roadsman Diminicator bottom that took place on January 28th with that bullish hamburger candle was followed up the next day when price closed above the oscillator and changed on you created that three river morning star pattern. So what price is doing is finding some resistance. So you've got this little cell zone. It is a slightly bearish structured daily profile, Mike. So your resistance zone is 1349 to 1528 out there. In fact, yesterday shooting star candle is just another indication of that key resistance at 1349 level. That doesn't mean sell it. It just means that's where your battle is at. You know, this is the front line, the offensive line against the defensive line. And that's sitting at 1349. If the offense can take those guys out, then it's going to get to the safeties. And the safeties are at 1528.  How's that for a Super Bowl Friday edition of SoFi since they are playing, I believe, in the SoFi stadium. Ha, Stevie's pretty quick, eh? Yeah, probably not. If we take a look at the weekly chart for SoFi, we've got the TD9 count top price below its breakout level 1438. So not really looking great here as we take a look at that. So that's the only timeframes that I've got here for you, Mike. So I hope that helps you out as well. You've got the battle between the buyers and the sellers in there at the 1349 level. The next request coming in from, let's see who we have here, this one is coming up with some Mike. We've got, oh, Brent, who wanted to take a look at Zillow. So let's get Zillow up on our screen out here. He went long from 48 yesterday for his earnings play. So Brent could very easily be out of this. I don't know. But Brent, here's what Zillow has done today.  You've got big, talk about why price bread accelerated volume. Well, you've got it. Now, some people would look at that and they'd say, I can't see the price bread. You've got to take into consideration the gap here. But what price has been able to do inside of Zillow is with that accelerated volume, get above the top of its daily profile. That's at the 5445 level. But price, why did price stop where it did? Excellent question. And Stevie can answer that just simply by narrating the chart. Why did it stop where it did? Well, because price was trading below the bottom of its weekly profile, which was bullish in structure. So the resistance zone here is between 57, 72 and 62, 87. So Brent, if you'd exit the position here, because it was just a quick trade, I totally get that because Zillow hasn't really proven itself to you from an intermediate term standpoint. Now, maybe it has if we look at the white background charts. And so let's find out if the white background chart says something else when we look at the weekly timeframe. And we put this up on the screen. It doesn't say anything else. It does not. It does not. So right now it's got potential, but it has to close above 62, 87. If it can do that, then it gets to those safeties at 73, 16 and above 73, 16. It gets to the home run touchdown zone at 116, 79 out there. That's the daily, a weekly chart, the daily chart out here, again showing that rose meant to mitigate her bottom if price can continue to move higher. It says, you'll forget about those sellers that are at the bottom of the weekly profile. Well, then you have another round of sellers potentially at 59, 33, the TD9 breakdown level. Now price can get above that, your next TD9 count breakdown level is at 67 bucks, even Stephen. And then the monthly timeframe chart. So on the monthly timeframe chart, interesting, last month was bar number nine of a TD9 count. So you're going to get a TD9 count, this top with a TD9 count, it did on the bar following bar number nine, the breakout level is 40, 81. So if in fact, this is just a counter trend move inside of Zillow, don't take it off of your charts in your list or anything out there, because what you'd want to do is let's take a look at this again, towards the end of the month, that's if it doesn't break out out here, because then maybe we've got some setups on the daily on the monthly, which we know we would have or we should have, maybe we get some type of setup on the weekly chart as well, that would match some type of bottom signal on the daily timeframe. So that's what's going on with Zillow Brent. Thanks so much for your request this week, as well as calling in always like to speak to anyone that's willing to speak to me. And so thanks so much for doing that. We've got a request out here from Hector and the fuel injector, that would be Patty out here and happy, fabulous frosty Friday. Now, this will be a weekend. So it's interesting, I started on my long haul COVID protocol about a week ago. And there's one medication that is another wonder drug, which didn't come in for me until two, three days ago, two days ago. Yesterday was the second day that I took this, took this medication. And I have, and I have not felt this good. It really began yesterday, almost, almost within hours of taking this other medication out there. I don't know if it's because of that or some of the other things that I was taking. Why am I even talking about this? Well, because I'm starting to get my taste back. 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Are you holding? How are you doing today? Thanks for taking my call. I'm just looking at Tesla and seeing that it's huge retrace up near its highs. And I'd like your input on a safe entry point or a better entry point where you think it's going to go from here. Well, so my system is somewhat frozen. I got my white background charts here moving. You mentioned the word safe and there is no such thing when it comes. But you kind of caught that too. But let me tell you what Tesla is doing as we speak right now, which is it's trading below the bottom of its profile. That's a level where there should be support. And that level out here is at 895-33. We're at 871 right now. So what this is telling us, Mike, is that price is going to go and test or should test the swing point from January 28. Now, I'll switch back to my other screen. Yeah, that looks like around $800, a little bit under $800. Yeah, what I was really interested in is the volume on that candle session because if, let's see if it's not still not up on my screen here. The volume, 44 million shares on that day. Perfect. So we're going to, this is going to be a team effort here. So 44 million shares on that day. What kind of volume does it have right now for you in today's rating? Right now it's 15 million. 15. So we're light. And if this doesn't hit, it does not hit the high of January 28, which is 857-50 and stops really kind of right before that. Maybe it's just building cause, as Tom likes to say over the weekend, to try to take that out. As far as where was or is a place to sell into, one place would be resistance. And that would have been the high that was attacked yesterday, the day before, two days before that, which was the top of the profile. Yeah, at the 939, I guess 1070 is actually the top of a profile. I see that also as the breakdown area. But because price had moved below the bottom of this bullish structure profile, countertrend rallies typically resolve themselves at the center, which is at that 939-20 area. So that really, it's easy for you and I to make that call now. But you've heard, if you listen to the show, you know what you've heard me say many times when you close below the bottom of bullish structure profile, countertrend moves usually find resistance at the center of that level. And that is exactly how things have played out here in Tesla. Now, I don't know if it's going to break out the lows, but it sure looks like it's going to go target those lows. And if it does, and it takes that January 28th session out, then you probably have a new A to B equal CD to the downside. So does that help you? Does that help you with what you're looking for? Yeah, it really does. Thank you very much. If you have another second, you could take a look at the Russell index. As far as the Russell from the high, which is 2460 down to the low 1892, we're at the Fibonacci just below the 382 retracement. It went up to the 0.50 or 50% retracement. It's a little bit above that. And then it's coming down now. Obviously, like everything's coming down now. Yeah. So in the case of the IWM, and assuming that my system here is still a little bit frozen, but I had about 20 million shares. And again, I don't know where the IWM is printing right now, but the IWM. 20109. And it looks like 20 million shares today. Okay. So the swing point that it's going to deal with here, Mike, or should deal with is the one from February 4th, which was the potential of a C point of an A to B equal CD to the upside. So that's the swing. And that has the low on that date. The low on that date is 194.92. Okay, great. And the high on that date is 200.10. So again, my system price hasn't gotten back there. But if price does get inside that swing point, and it gets inside that swing point with more than 34 million shares, then that suggests at least the low gets tested. 194.92. Okay. If the low fails to hold, then that gets us back into the swing point from January 28th. And if volume is coming down in there with more than 65 million shares, then that low should get tested at 1809. So the interesting thing here is that yesterday, there was a volume push and it was both to the upside and to the downside. And it wasn't really clear to me which side it was yesterday, like a doji, almost almost, but you know, really more like it's more like a shooting star. But yeah, you know, similar to a doji, doji style candle out there. I would say the real key level to be watching here for the IWM is that if it's red oscillator and change line fails, which I have right now, Mike, at about 198 and change 198 31 or so. If you were to see a close below, if you're to see a close below that, we're going to go back and retest those highs. Maybe it's the high of the low swing point. Maybe it's a low of the swing point, but we should go back and test that. So watch that area for information. Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you for taking the time and I really appreciate your input. My pleasure. Let's go to our next question out here, folks. And okay, that was from Hector. So let's go back to the XLE out here. And again, the system is really pretty clogged out here. Let's see if the XLE will pop up on the screen. And if not, do I have a game plan B for it? The answer is I don't. We're going to let this do its work on XLE. Here's my game plan B. I have XLF. So we're going to go to XLF. And I'm really not sure. Well, that's a long note. I can't read that. I'll read that later and respond if I need to for you, Hector. Just I've got a minute left here and it might take me a minute to read. So if we take a look at the daily timeframe chart for the XLE, it's got a TD9 count top that formed out here on February 9th.  All that really tells us is price is going to go back and test support. Well, the XLF right now, Hector, is testing this key level of support. It's at $40.10. The actual low so far today has been $40.11. You've got to love that. Now, if price is close below $40.10, what that really suggests to you, Hector, is price should move back to the next support level. That would be the bullish structured area of its daily profile. That would be between $39.16 and $39.65. So watch this $40.11-ish area. Price close below that. Anticipate and expect lower price. You've got price below the weekly oscillator and change line. So that suggests a further retracement. Don't have anything out here other than support is at $38.58 for the monthly timeframe. 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This is the daily timeframe out here. Hector, you've got a TD9 count top that formed on the trading day of February 7th. All that's led to is a little consolidation with inside its daily profile. Price right now is trading above. This is the XLE above the top of the profile. That's at $69.81. But the level that price needs to close above to get back to its bullish ways is $70.43. I believe we're at about $69.96 right now. So close above $70.43, and the XLE is back to its merry way. It doesn't have to close above that today. It could do that on Monday. But if it doesn't do it today, you've negated the sell signals for the energy sector. Gary, what is this asking for? QuadM solutions. Let me just take this. Well, it doesn't matter which screen I'm on right now, because I had to shut down the main systems. Let me try three, four M's out here and see what pops up on the screen. This is for Gary a new Buffalo. So when we take a look at this, what we have is we've got a confirmed A to be equal CD to downs. That was confirmed with this bull sash candle on February 3rd. Makes a rally, gets above the top of its profile, does it for three days until yesterday, gets back below. You've got a new profile that's forming. It's below price. So this is really a bullish message. When a new profile forms below price, that is a bullish signal. Doesn't mean that price won't go tested, which is $0.26 out there. Price get down to $0.24 or $0.23 or even $0.20. Those are other support levels out here. But this may be just setting up the C point of an A to B equals CD to the upside that we take it to the next resistance level. And that would be at the $0.39 mark. And that's the TD9 count breakdown area. So folks, sorry about a couple of these technical problems. Have a fantastic weekend. Thanks much for joining us as always. And I look forward to seeing you on Valentine's Day. Will you be my Valentine? I hope so. And we'll see you at one o'clock on Monday. Take care. Be safe out there. Have fun.


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Good morning. My name is Dan Kahn. I'm the executive director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation and very happy to be back again at the Open Networking Summit. I've been attending this now in both the US and Europe for the last couple years and it is really, I find, one of the most productive events. I like the sessions. I like the keynotes, but just the hallway track that I have here, the people that I run into from around the world who are using Kubernetes and other cloud-native technologies or eager to use them and looking for a little bit of guidance on it, has been extremely productive for me. CNCF is part of the Linux Foundation. We are a sister organization of LF Networking and LF Edge, and Arpit and I have had a really productive collaboration over the last few years as these different worlds merge together. We're best known for our project Kubernetes, which is one of the largest and fastest growing open source projects ever. We actually now have six graduated projects and 16 incubating. These are different levels of maturity and our recommendations for the world. Kubernetes sort of has a gravitational force around it, but in order to have a complete solution, a lot of these other projects are really quite valuable for things like connectivity and observability and storage and a lot of other areas. And then you can see here the 18 Platinum members that help back our cloud-native ecosystem. We were very pleased to add Apple as an end-user Platinum member this summer. So raise your hand for me if you've seen this cloud-native landscape before. Yeah, about half. So you can pick this up in the CNCF booth outside and the URL at the very top, l.cncf.io, lets you download it and actually interact with an interactive version of it. This document has been called helpful. It's been called overwhelming. It's been described as the hellscape. And this is legitimately an absurdly complicated and detailed document. I do feel like we get a lot of criticism for, oh, why are you making things so complicated? And it's sort of like, oh, this trail is really rocky. I'm going to go blame the map maker. What we're doing here is legitimately trying to map out all of the different options for the different aspects of the ecosystem. But actually, we like to have this document be the backside and the front side, we like to have the cloud-native trail map. And again, this is available at l.cncf.io and you can pick it up at our booth. This is our recommended path for enterprises to adopt a cloud native where the very first step is to containerize normally with Docker containers. The second step is to implement continuous integration, continuous delivery that you need to be able to rebuild all of your software from source constantly at any time. And then only step three is orchestration with Kubernetes. And then you get into the more complicated areas. So observability and analysis using things like Prometheus for monitoring, fluency for logging, the new open telemetry project and Yeager for tracing, and it keeps going from there. So this is the path that a number of enterprises have adopted over time. And you can really see that in terms of Kubernetes and the search trends on Google Trends where this has just been a spectacular level of engagement and adoption and interest over time. When we started CNCF less than four years ago, it was really one of many orchestration platforms and people were a little unclear around how big containerization, how big cloud native was going to be. I don't think there's a lot of confusion at this point. Another really great piece of evidence of this is that when we started less than four years ago, we had three companies in our end user community. And we really appreciated their support. They're still with us as NCSoft from Korea, eBay and Goldman Sachs. But wow, we have 115 now. And so if you look at Adidas and Amadeus here in Europe, all the way up to Zolando and Zendesk and tons of pretty exciting folks in between. Now we did define the end user community as people who are making use of cloud native technologies internally but are not selling them to their customers. So folks like Apple will sell you an iPhone but they're not selling you a hosted Kubernetes service. And so we do explicitly exclude telcos from taking part in our end user community. And this was almost just kind of a definitional issue. Which is why we were very excited earlier this year to launch our CNF testbed. And the idea here is to compare the performance and the capabilities of virtual network functions, VNFs to what we call cloud native network functions or CNFs. And so to do this we partnered with LF Networking and we in particular took some code, some open source code out of ONAP, the VB and G use case that's part of the VCPE. And we packaged it as a virtual machine and ran it on OpenStack and then ran it on bare metal servers from our great member and supporter of CNCF, the bare metal hosting company packet. Then we took the identical networking code and we packaged it as a container, ran it on Kubernetes on the identical bare metal servers. But one of the key thoughts here is that we didn't just do this once and then publish the results. We actually created an entire open source project and have all of this available on GitHub today under an Apache 2.0 license that anyone is able to go replicate these results. And what we've been able to show are some performance improvements and some latency improvements in terms of the time it takes to spin up and how many network functions you can run simultaneously on a whole variety of different measures. And then at the bottom, I want to point out this URL, github.com slash cncf slash telecom hyphen user hyphen group. This is our telecom user group or Tug that Cheryl hung our director of ecosystem runs. And this was our way to engage with the networking and telecoms communities where unlike the end user community, we wanted to bring together both the vendors and the telco operators and have them collaborate together. And so this has just really gotten kicked off over the last couple months, but I would love to encourage you to engage with us and participate. It is open. We have the first Monday of every month, a call that's friendlier for the West Coast of the U.S. in Europe and the third Monday we have a time that's friendlier for Europe and Asia. And we are working to extend the CNF test bed and try and make these use cases more practical. So this is just a quick look and you can download these slides later from Schedge and take a look at it. But it's showing this summer that we've been adding a number of use cases and functionality to the test bed. I'll give a quick shout out to a sandbox project that's part of CNCF called the Network Service Mesh that's been adding some additional functionality on top of Kubernetes that's particularly valuable for these kinds of telco applications. And here are our rough plans for the next four months where we have a lot of additional functionality that we're adding in. But at the big picture, if you look at really what we're aiming for with the CNF test bed over the next six months or so, there's two big pieces. One is that we would like to evolve it to become actually a development platform for cloud-native network functions, for CNFs, so that as you're looking at taking your existing networking code, porting your VNF to be a CNF, that rather than just running it on your own environment, both telcos and their vendors would be running it on the CNF test bed. And what's great is that you can get an API key from packet and you can replicate our whole environment, or you're also welcome to run this on your own bare metal infrastructure that we would love to support with you with it. And then over time, we are talking with the OPNFV verification program, OVP, that's part of ELF networking, to explore using the CNF test bed as a platform for certification, where we do have an aspiration here that CNFs can actually be even more interoperable than I think a lot of the goals were with VNFs that you should be able to have CNFs from multiple different vendors running on platforms from other vendors. So I'll finish by saying if you are interested in cloud-native and adopting some of these technologies, looking at how they can be valued to you, this is a good conference. Please also consider coming to KubeCon Cloud-NativeCon. We are going to be in San Diego on November 18th, and we are going to actually have the largest open-source developer conference ever. We're expecting more than 12,000 people to attend that. We're then going to be back here in Europe in Amsterdam, short train ride away on March 30th. We'll be back in China in Shanghai July 28th for KubeCon Cloud-NativeCon open-source summit, and then Boston. I'll just finish with a look at the, when you talk about the level of engagement and excitement around Cloud-Native, four years ago we had just about 500 people at the first KubeCon event in San Francisco, and that's grown to now be 23,000 developers from across our three different events here in 2019. And at some point we're going to hit KubeCon and go down, but we don't think we're quite there yet, and there's no sign yet that 2020 will be that point. So I hope many of you and your colleagues will be able to attend our events either in U.S. or Europe or China. And please do feel free to grab me at the break, and I would love to talk about any of these areas. Thank you very much.


Do you want to learn how to improve your footwork in soccer? In this video I'll show you 29 of the best soccer footwork drills and a simple strategy you can use to improve your footwork faster than you ever have before. Let's go! Even though I started playing soccer later than most of my peers, I was always one of the most technically skilled, especially when it came to my footwork. That wasn't because I was naturally talented. It was just because I spent more time with the ball at my feet. I used to do footwork drills just like these in my basement and backyard every single day. You can improve your footwork extremely fast if you're consistent with your training and you follow the advice I'm about to share with you. Watch this entire video because I will show you 29 of the best soccer footwork drills, some helpful tips to help you improve your skills faster, and a simple strategy you can use to guarantee results. If you don't know about me, I used to be a huge underachiever, but through obsessive self-improvement, I found my success. Earned a college scholarship, played for my national football team, a YouTube channel with over 100 million views. I've helped players worldwide and I'd love to help you improve faster and achieve more. I want you to have incredibly fast and flashy feet, but you have to be effective on the field. For that reason, all of these drills will help you develop real skills that will help you get out of tight situations and beat defenders on the pitch. The drills progress from beginner to advanced, but never think you're too good for a basic drill. Even professionals practice the basics. In fact, what makes them so good is the quality at which they perform basic skills. At the end of the video, I'll give you a routine you can follow to get the most out of these drills, improve your skills as fast as possible, make your feet stand out in games, but most importantly, make you a more effective player on match day. Enjoy the video and please remember to hit that like button and share this on social media so we can inspire more players to improve faster and achieve more. Here are a few tips to help you get more out of these drills and improve at a faster speed. First, I want to talk about frustration. If you struggle with a specific skill, don't lose your cool. Realize frustration does not make you better. In fact, it makes you worse. Just as much as you're practicing technical skills, you need to be practicing mental skills in your training. Your ability to control your emotions and channel that energy positively is something you need to master if you want to improve and succeed in this game. Instead of getting frustrated, breathe, compose yourself, remain focused, be persistent, never give up, tell yourself to keep going and eventually you will get it. Always practice with both feet. You may find that your weaker foot doesn't feel the same as your stronger foot when you're performing these drills. Instead of giving up on your weaker foot, try to compare it to your strong foot. How do you hold it differently? Flex it, move it, where do you touch the ball? In the beginning, it will feel weird, but by comparing your feet and trying to replicate the same movements in your weaker foot, over time, both of your feet will feel the same. When performing these drills, don't just focus on the quality of your touches. Also focus on the quality of your body movement. If you look at the best driblers in the world, yes, they have great skills, but what makes them extremely effective is usually their ability to control their body, keep balance, and change direction efficiently.  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So don't let other people get faster feet while you sit there on the couch. It's time to put in the work. It'll only take you a few minutes a day, but you'll get great results. If you truly want to improve faster and achieve more, go to my website, progressivesoccertraining.com, and sign up for the free crash course. If you find this video helpful, please remember to like and share on social media. If you like this content, check out the Soccer Success Planner. You can download it for free. There's a link in the description below. And for advanced training, check out the Online Soccer Academy.


Hi, I'm Michael Morris, superintendent of schools in Amherst, and this is the latest episode of Window into Arps. And for today's episode, I'm thrilled to be welcoming to Molliston, a teacher at Fort River School, and Kira, one of our students, to talk about the civic literacy and organizing project and more generally about how students are getting very involved, both locally and beyond locally, to make our world a better place. So thank you both for being here. You're welcome. I appreciate it. And we've scheduled this a couple of times. Weather got in the way. The illness got in the way once, so I'm so glad to be finally sitting down and talking about this. And we're taping this on a day where there's a primary election today in New Hampshire, and so a great day to be talking about civic organizing and being involved in our communities. So perfect timing for us, so thank you so much for being here. You're welcome. And Tim, you want to tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? Sure. I have been teaching at Fort River since 2008, except for a short stint teaching third grade in South Deerfield. And prior to that, I worked as an organizer in the nonprofit sector, basically teaching college students how to make an impact on things that they cared about. And so that, in part, is sort of what led me to develop this project. Fantastic. Thank you. And Kira, you tell us a little bit about yourself. I'm a seventh grader, and I like participating in this, and I feel like I kind of went a little bit above and beyond and took over a little bit. Fantastic. And you tell us a little, did you go to Fort River for? I went to Fort River all seven years. Seven years, and now you're in seventh grade. Fantastic. Thank you for being here. It's really nice. Last year we had a couple opportunities to have students involved, and your voice is incredibly important. So thank you for doing this. And so I could start with either of you, but maybe on this one actually start with Mr. Austin. Can you share a little bit about the civic literacy and organizing project more generally, and then we'll get into the kind of nitty gritty of what happened last year and the work that was happening, the work that had occurred. Sure. So the project was sort of born out of some work that the sixth grade team had been doing at Fort River for a number of years. And back then we just called it the Civic Literacy Project, and we started with students writing to elected officials about issues that they cared about. And then eventually students were working in small groups to develop proposals that they then made to those elected officials in miniature lobbying meetings. So students had some really excellent experiences meeting with people like Representative Ellen Story, Congressman Jim McGovern. But the team always wanted to take things to the next step and really teach students how to organize for social change. And so during the, or sorry, before the 2018-2019 school year, we applied for a grant from a magazine called Teaching Tolerance, and we won the grant and were able to partner with two people that we hired as organizers in residence. And so they actually supported students and teachers in developing meaningful campaigns around the issues that students cared about. And it was all kind of a big experiment because we, you know, we just came up with this idea of organizers in residence, no one had really done it before. And we also couldn't plan for what the students would eventually choose. So it was a little bit scary, but it turned out a really amazing way. We're really proud of the work that all the students did. Yeah. And I think, you know, when I think about that term, it's often you hear more frequently artists in residence or someone who is supporting it. Right. And I think we have to plan words that think about, you know, what organizing is and how it's in our art form as well as being practical on and of itself. Yeah. We actually got the idea from working with Enchanted Circle Theater as an artist in residence. We'd done that several years back, and so just came up with this new idea. Yeah, I like it. And I'll say as someone who's gotten letters and interviewed by students over, of yours over the past couple years, I mean, I definitely felt like, including last year, you could definitely see the difference that before and after in terms of the collective impact was clearly on the minds of students in a little bit of a different way this past year. Good. Yeah. So, Kira, why don't we go to you? What was your role in the project? We, it started off like everyone had their own separate projects. We would write like a letter to someone about something that was important to us. And we had like all of these different topics, and I'm pretty sure like there was three kids per thing at most. And most of it was like one person or two people. And then the organizers came in, read all of our letters, picked the things that the most people and organized it into those and made groups. Then we would like make videos and stuff and we all got to choose which one we wanted. But I feel like it was kind of fun writing to like town officials and state officials and just like over the nation, like people who are like in charge and everyone getting to talk to them and say like what they want to and talk about these issues that they want to change.  Do you remember? I wrote about homelessness. Homelessness in our community or more generally? Both. Mainly in our community, but also kind of more generally. Yeah. And I think that's just a good tangible example to go back to Mr. Ross. And how did you see your role in the project because you have students coming up with these ideas that are really passionate for you. Organizers and residents and what's the role of the educator in this kind of really rich moment? Well, I felt like I had to wear a lot of hats. The most important one was working with the students and really facilitating this process that Kira was describing of starting off with student writing and then bringing that to the point where you eventually had a campaign that the class had come to consensus around. And then from there, the work sort of shifted once the campaign started into teaching students the skills that it would take to get the job done and really affect change on the issues they cared about. But then I also had this role of kind of working with other teachers and because, you know, for most teachers this was a totally new concept, not the idea of project-based learning, but more the idea of organizing for change and what that looks like. And that's expanded this year because now we have, starting in the next couple of weeks, we'll have three other schools launching the program. So I'm doing more coaching now. Just exciting for me. That is neat. And for you, Kira, as a student, what did it feel like the goal of the project was? I feel like overall we were kind of answering, which we heard a lot, is answering this one big question, how did social change happen? And so like it wasn't just like we thought about it and we figured out answers, we actually got to make social change happen and organize these big projects, which turned into a whole like big fair thing. We'll get to that in a second, I think. No, that's helpful. And can you share, I mean, so you talked about homelessness being something you advocated for. Did that end up once the organizers had all the letters in? Is that something that the class took on? Yes. I feel like it was either second or third place, like out of all of the things. We had like I think six or seven issues and like the top ones were homelessness, climate change, and like the school strike for climate slash sunrise movement. Fantastic. And then your class ended up going with the campaign to prevent deforestation. Yes. Deforestation in Massachusetts. There was a bill going around at that time. And yeah, I was curious to hear from you, Kira, how did you come up with the concept of homelessness and then what was the dialogue that got to the deforestation? Well, me and my friend, because once we figured out this unit, we actually started talking about it and discussing all the problems in the world. And then we realized homelessness is a big issue and there's all these things that connect to it. So we were thinking, oh, maybe that would be a good thing. So me and a couple of my friends decided to write about that. And how did the deforestation one, how did that kind of evolve with the dialogue in your class? Well, at first... I know this was about nine months ago, so I know I'm... At first, a lot of people, I feel like we're kind of more against it. And they were like, well, I really don't want to do this one and I would rather do this one because we narrowed it down to two and people got pretty frustrated after voting because it was tied and they were like, oh, I don't want to do this one, and I don't want to do this one. So they kind of had to choose the one they wanted to do more or the one that their friends were voting for. So that's kind of how we ended up doing that, which also kind of tied into most of the other classes we're doing and linked directly to what one of the other classes were doing, so that was kind of fun. We also joined classes and we... And it was like, because the classes were with our friends, they were different quads, so we would switch off some days and kids from that class would come to our class and vice versa. That's neat. I think you've actually described the political process really well for adults, let alone kids. So I think that's really helpful and I think one of, you know, something that I see is just when we think about advocacy and being involved, it is that sometimes you have to work with others to make choices about what has the most impact at any given time. So I appreciate your description and I also appreciate that it wasn't easy. And when you're making a choice, it's, you know, it's somewhat binary, right? You choose A, you choose B for this project and there's some truth to that, even, you know, outside the specific project. But who else was involved? So I know the students were involved, the artists and residents, excuse me, the organizers and residents were involved. Who else became involved in the work? I feel like me and another kid, Trey, called a bunch of different businesses and got trees from the Amherst Tree Warden, had the Garden Center, Amherst Nurseries and the Home Depot Garden. And then the kids and teachers from Jackson Street School in Northampton also got involved. And we made this giant tree out of cardboard and they gave in leaves and it was like a Mr. Austin High and a Student Wide were the measurements. Your first word, anything you'd add about other folks who were involved? There ended up being a lot of people involved and I thought about this in preparation for this taping and there were, Kara mentioned a couple of local businesses that had helped out, but in addition to that there ended up being students from at least three other schools, some very local, some farther field that were involved in the campaigns, there were elected officials, there were other organizations that were coalition partners of ours, there were members of the media that got involved. So it ended up being hard to keep track of at some point because there was so much going on amongst the four different classes. And as the primary instructor in the setting, how did you manage what Kara talked about, that there was perhaps some disagreement amongst students about how to focus the energy and how to focus the work, because I used to teach fifth and sixth grade at Fort River and I know Fort River fifth and sixth grade students can be incredibly passionate and we want that, that's a good thing, but it does lead to a challenge around how to make sure that everyone's still on board and still supportive moving forward. I think that was actually one thing that made that task easier was working with Steph and Lindsay, our organizers and residents, because they have a lot of expertise around social movements and actually did a lot of work with the students and the teachers talking about sort of the intersectionality of the different issues that were at play. And I think from my perspective that ended up building probably more flexibility in the students' minds as the project went on. Because I think when students started with their writing, they had kind of one issue in mind, but over the course of the next couple of weeks they started to see the connections that there were between their issue and a friend's issue. It ended up going, that part ended up going a lot more smoothly than I expected. That's a good thing and I secure it out of your head. Yeah, it kind of went more smoothly than I did because kids will get into fights over what math problem is right in the answer to a question. I got along a lot better than most people were expecting, I feel like, because we were like, I see how this connects to my issue. I guess I can agree to this. Or they found something they wanted to do in the project because there were so many different parts and so many new pieces and groups. And there was building a tree. There was organizing how to get the seedlings and saplings. There was reaching out to other schools and to family members and to people. And there was just writing stuff. You didn't even have to be part of a public face. There was also calling news people and getting them to come. Everyone kind of found something they wanted to do and most people got to do that thing. Yeah, that's helpful. Before we get a little more into details of the outcomes of the project and how it stayed with you, Kira, we talked before the taping and clearly that activism is only contributing to your work you're doing now at the middle school. Use the term before project-based learning and I'm just wondering if you could, in a nutshell anyway, for our viewers, maybe a term that they're unfamiliar with. Well, project-based learning is something we've been talking about a lot at Fort River and I know other schools in the district and other places are thinking about it a lot. It's not something new necessarily, but it's just this idea that students learn best most of the time by doing the things that we're trying to teach them rather than simply learning about them. And there's a whole sort of movement about project-based learning and it wasn't something that we consciously thought about in developing this project, but in kind of learning about it more this year what we're doing fits pretty squarely with that. I agree. Thank you. I think that's really helpful. So now we get to outcomes. What were some of the outcomes of the project and I'll start with Kira. What do you feel like you learned through the process? I feel like a lot of students kind of got their confidence boosted and they can make changes happen and that usually it's not just them who does this thing and especially with all of the other school strikes for climate and Greta Thunberg, all that stuff. A lot of students were like oh, it can be just me and then a bunch of people can add on. So I feel like that helps a lot. And with our teachers this year kind of adding on and we do a thing every day one out of our seven day jobs. Where we will work on something of our choice and those teachers will give us like four or five choices and each student can choose one of those things. A lot of times there's something to do with climate and there's clubs that will help with that so then I feel like kids from who's done that project get a lot more involved with that kind of thing and I've noticed that we organized a school strike earlier this year and I noticed a lot of people who are working on that project with me like we're coming in doing that and I don't want to be part of it. Fantastic. Thanks. From your perspective in terms of outcomes? I mean I was thrilled with how the project turned out. Like I said it was kind of an experiment and some of the outcomes that Kira mentioned I would totally agree with. I think having students see themselves as agents of change is really the best thing to come out of this. But then also some of the some of the specific tactical outcomes that happened within a given campaign were pretty exciting and unique and the six foot tree that Kira mentioned it was made basically all the leaves on it were signed by different students from Fort River and then also Jackson Street School and a small group of students delivered that to the state house to some of the sponsors of the bill as like a thank you. We had students working to change the Massachusetts state flag who gained a lot of media attention around the issue both locally and even in the Boston Globe. So just to see sixth graders do those things that I used to teach college students about and see the sixth graders have a pretty similar level of success sometimes exceeding what I saw with college students was just marvelous. I'm so happy with it. Thanks and I'll stay with you Tim if you could talk a little bit about how the project's expanding you sort of you touched on it earlier about how the project's expanding this year. So we again have support from teaching tolerance we won another grant another round of funding from them so our organizers and residents are working with us again this year and the teaching team at Fort River last year had a goal of recruiting at least one other school to be doing this type of work so we're really excited that there are three additional schools in our district now that are going to be doing the project and actually this week we're going to be kicking that work off and so we had a couple of professional development days one in November and then one just a couple of weeks ago where teachers sort of learned about the work and what we did at Fort River last year and then spent a good deal of time planning together and with our organizers and residents to make it happen. So hopefully we'll have not only the chance for more students to do that type of work but also to make connections across schools. I think that's going to be probably easier than it was last year. You all worked really hard to recruit and it worked but it was you know it's a tough task. Students in the class were reaching out to step-sillings cousins, people all over the place so friends even in other states and stuff and yeah tell your school about this or other teachers yeah. And most of the schools who are involved actually all of the schools who are now getting involved this year were schools that students reached out to last year and got involved in the projects in one way or another. Yeah and it's nice that you're going to build momentum year after year. Do you mind mentioning which are the schools in the district that are competing with you? So the sixth grades at Pelham and Crocker Farm are also going to be working on this and then the seventh grade social studies teachers at the Amherst Regional Middle School are doing a slightly different version of the project. I don't know if they've told you about it yet Kira but that'll be I feel like students have been picking up on stuff like that because we're like ending a unit now. They've been hinting about some big projects. Awesome, cat's out of the bag I suppose Kira but that's okay. We're one of the really exciting things to come out of the professional development series that we did is we've now sort of developed this idea of a civic engagement arc we're calling it starting in sixth grade going through seventh and then eventually into eighth grade where the state is now requiring a civic engagement project and eventually high school we haven't gotten there yet but that's the plan. Yeah, no it's fantastic and I think it's also just such a fit developmentally for students like yourself we're entering that kind of early adolescent phase and they want to own learning and they want to be leaders and sometimes it's hard for schools to figure out the structures to harness that positive energy and do what you're talking about Kira and be a leader for social change so I love that this is now expanding beyond where it started and thank you for applying for that grant again not only on behalf of Fort River and the other schools in the district we're getting close to the end of our time here but for either of you what lessons did you learn that you can apply in other situations or what are things that you took out of the experience I'll start with you Kira. A lot of more talking skills and how to convince people I feel like I'm more persuasive and kind of convince people of things more often also I feel like a lot of people know more about this issue now I was mentioning earlier we did a fair where all the students planned it was entirely student planned and organized and so that freedom I feel like a lot of students got a certain freedom they don't usually have and there was like all these stations and we invited representatives and I think it was Mindy Dom actually came and got a sapling and we got a picture we think picture is whatever and their saplings and so that was fun and that got the whole school involved I'm pretty sure the students liked that we were like 15, 20 minutes and then there was a giant basketball game so that was fun with the prize being do you remember a tree to plant at your school and who won that? us by far Mr. Ross anything else you'd like to share about you know things that you know lessons you learned or how the projects developed over time and what it's like as the instructor I think for me one of the biggest lessons has been one of the things we're trying to teach the students is that social change happens on a very long scale that it's this thing that is not one in a week it's not one in a six week project or anything like that it's something that takes a really long time and that's almost for me that also feels like it applies to developing work like this as a teacher and this is something that's taken I think we first did the old Civic Literacy Unit five, six years ago and now we're at this point where it looks very different and so just for me I think the value of working with a team over a long period of time because Tammy Sullivan Daily and Tori Weed and I have been working at this for years and now it's to the point where we feel that we can invite other teachers in and really try to build the work beyond what we've done so I think that long view is what I'm thinking about a lot I think it's a good lesson actually for the students as well because it's thinking back about my childhood and some of the activism that I witnessed it was very temporal in nature and that climate deforestation those things aren't solved very quickly and to have that long view instructionally but also for the students is incredibly important so a whole lot of people working in New Hampshire today for lots of different candidates with really different viewpoints and the reality is today is one stop on their journey leading to Tuesday a couple weeks from now which would be a bigger stop and then all the way down to an election and all the way down to making decisions in the future and I think that's hard but I think having students like yourself Kira can just learn that it's a long process but learn that you're in it for the process and you're in it for the long haul there's nothing more important than we can do for our students and affect the world that way so thank you both and thank you both for coming on the show and sharing your opinions I know it's not in your normal daily experience to be in a television studio but Amherst Media is such a welcoming host so thank you and thank you very much for viewing this latest episode of Window Into Arms thank you


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