All right, good morning, cyber traders. Welcome back, good to see you all.  What a nice little pop right here. Josh made a nice, nice call out Josh on that trade.  So hopefully some of you guys caught some wind on it. We'll talk a little bit more about it. Ah, John, oh my God, John's bringing up the Jets last night. Well, I don't know how, how, I don't want to go crazy. And Josh wouldn't want to talk a little bit more about me, but yeah, it was a good win yesterday, but it was, it was a big test of radio all over again, pulling his killy seal. I mean, I think we're, I think we're a little jinxed. I really think, I think we're really jinxed. But I don't know what to expect that four plays. I mean, at least being test very play a couple more plays than that, but we'll have a little fun about that later. Let's get right into the mark and let's talk about what happened yesterday. A lot of good stocks. I made some big, big runs. You know, it's funny, I'm not hearing too much about it, but it seems like all the Canobie stocks are moving really, really well. We've done, we've done very well with all. I want to start off with Tilray, TLRY. So here you look on a long-term trade right here. Tilray had a really nice pop. It's been doing very well. Just let the ending of August, right around that 230. Stocks already at 340. We had a little bit of a correction yesterday on the stock, but let me just bring up Tilray from yesterday on the long-term chart. So Tilray had a nice little move rate here. Lot of support right at that $3 price range. Now, the, the, when you look at it, it doesn't look like a move that much. It's, it was more of a swing trade. You could see Tilray went from like 306, 08 about 340. Once again, mouse pad, best time, worst time to trade, first hour. But we had a little good move there. And that's really basically where it came about. But there were a lot of other stocks that moved along with it. ACB, another Canobie stock. MCOS, another Canobie stock. Look at this one. I mean, $5 stock went all the way to nine. CGC, another one. I mean, every single one, 50 cent stock up to $2 yesterday, 90 cents to a buck, 70.  These things like CGC was a $60 stock, Tilray, $70 stock, ACB, $20 stock, MSOS. I mean, you're talking all the way up to about $60 stock. So they were big back then. And not to listen, not saying they go back there, but one thing you learn when it comes to trading the import of CGC is that they're always going to be an industry. What was the other big industry that moved everybody? What was it? AI, AI stocks, they all moved. There's always something. If it's not oil, if it's not your metals, if it's not vaccine stocks, you know what I mean? You having all that stuff moving. But there were a couple of other stocks that did move. It just wasn't those stocks I want to talk about. There were a couple of other ones. Obviously, some of them took big hits, but I really thought that that was probably the best. We also had a good move in Tesla yesterday. We don't trade Tesla, but we'll trade the ETF, TSSL. That one moved pretty well. NVACs, obviously with the news on NVACs, they didn't get the approval for the vaccine booster. So that one took a little bit of a hit right there. It was a good little short. And what was the other one that we had? Nouveau moved up really nice yesterday. That thing ran from 195 up to about 202. It's taking a big hit right now, but the problem with Nouveau, I just want to let you everybody know, I have a swing trade on this stock, a big fan of it, but I say it all the time with every single stock. The worst thing that could happen is it moves too fast. You don't want a stock to move very fast. When they move very fast and they go up pretty quickly, they're going to come down twice as fast. It causes a lot of attention to the stock. Everybody's like, Hey, what's going on? Why was the stock moving? And then that's when you get like everybody jump on a bandwagon and you start getting algorithms. And that's what happens. So hopefully, I don't mind that stock being down a little bit because doing pretty well. All right. So let's talk about what's moving this morning. So we got the Cosmo stock, the COSM moving up pretty nicely. This stock was a hundred dollar stock. You can see from last year, a lot of you remember, we traded it the year before right back in December. The stock, yes, it did move from 280 to $23 in one day. It also did this in November. It ran from $3 up to about, you know, as a swing trade back to 21. We don't, we've got to be very careful with the stock. We don't want to see the same action, but we know the stock does move. We did really well with it. It's on our watch list. As iceberg orders go, you know, I'm looking over here, but bring this over here for everybody to see right here. Like I said, there was that big order that we saw earlier, but we got some resistance levels here. I'm going to zoom out a little bit. Nothing really spectacular. Got a couple of iceberg order right here. He looks like cancels order at about 50. But you know what? Nice move. And with what we got going on and what we're trailing today, it looks a lot better than what I expect because I was actually doing some watching and shopping around. I didn't really see that much out there. ACTI, reverse stock split. You can see the stock, $0.05. Wow, would they do a, $0.05, would they do a 500 to one stock split? How do they have a 101 stock split right there? That thing is, ooh, ouch. That's pretty bad. Echo getting worse on my computers. Everybody else having an Echo, Michael? This is just you. I don't know if everybody else because you hear it. You're probably watching on two different, you're probably watching on two different, our YouTube and our live one. That's what it is. All right, that's usually a good Echo. Let's look at a couple of stocks that are moving right here. This stock is moving 55,000 shares. Nothing that great. A-S-T-I, we just talked about that one. L-Y-R-A. I had this one over here on my level four. Yeah, a couple orders sitting here right around here, around the 525. I mean, it's okay.  I'm not really impressed. If it wasn't that desperate for stocks, looking for something in pre-market, it wouldn't even be on my list. Gern is the one I called out earlier. And for some of you here, right around that 830 timeframe, I don't know if you guys logged in and listened, but I talked about a little Fausto flag. There was a Fausto flag on that stock. It did a little sling shot right here. And then obviously did push up. It's not a fast-moving stock. It's okay. But I do like this. This is what really tracked me to the stock. Look at these orders right here. 10,000, 9,000, 10,000, 10,000. That's what you wanna see right there.  So as much as a COSM looks a lot better, that's what we wanna see, all right?  Just be careful of the spread. Everything else was garbage. I mean, I didn't see anything.  I don't remember the last time I even considered trading it, but Oracle take a little bit of hits here today. So Oracle, you can see right here, it sure looks like news to me on earnings, but that stock was at 128. It had a really nice run since March from $80 to 125, coming up to some pretty big support levels here. You can see it right there. Got big support levels. And I do got a level four here on the stock. Got a couple orders out here, 10,000, 10,000. So we got some orders limited to game plan. Only issue to have an Oracle, it's 100 all-stock. You rarely trade 100 all-stocks. But you can always maybe even day trade the option on it. So I'll probably go by that, but not that much out there in pre-market. So anyway, that Gern though is moving up pretty decently. Get up over here. Got a nice little push on there. Like I said, the stock does move. And if we get that good move, it'll look great. And once again, the Cosmo, the COSM. We saw what happened. We traded last year. Could that happen? A lot of volume going on.  Do pretty well on that one. All right. Anything else we're missing? We did not call out? No, it's really kind of quiet day. It really, the pre-market is not super excited, but same thing happened yesterday. And what happened yesterday, we did benefit from a lot of the pot stocks. Now moving this morning, we don't have on our watch list, but overall, we're kind of flat. Oh, one of the stock I've got to mention, Mara. Okay. So Mara, let's just do something a little educational for some of you here. Just don't know that we're just not a trading school. We're not a big thing as we teach. Mara yesterday had a huge, beautiful iceberg border at $10. You can see here on long-term and you can see here over the course of the day, right around that, we saw it, we were there. That stock was an easy picking at that $10 and a thing popped about 25, 10, 25, 25 cent move. Not a huge winner, okay? But it did it. It got there in a good about 10, 15 minutes. Decent days pay was an expensive stock. So once again, that was one of the things that we noticed and that's what we hear. So even though the stock took a big hit yesterday from 10.75 to $10, which I'm very happy because I got out of that stock, we had a really good swing trade on that one.  But big buy right there and that's all that matters. All right, Grant saying the GERN, you got a little bit of a move on that. Yeah, GERN, listen, one last thing I wanna point out. You guys notice what we got going on right there in GERN? That was still flag, the FF flags right there. And there we go, there's our little pop. There's our pop and there's our buyers. So all right, so let's get ready for the market opened up. Just let everybody know, if you are logged in on YouTube and Instagram or Facebook, don't go anywhere. Today is your lucky day. It's the day we're gonna run all day in Cyber Group. So we're gonna still gonna continue to broadcast live basically just take the 15 minute break. I know we had a lot of people that did register from Canada, like, God, look at this GERN going up. Is that nice? Oh, look at that, that's what we trained for. But anyway, make sure you talk to education advisor and traders. Once again, Cyber Traders, you see something, you say something. We'll be back, don't go anywhere. We'll pick up the audio once the market opens up. And so let's get ready for the market to open up and go back to 15 minutes. Good luck, everyone. Happy trading. All right, let's see what we can get here, Fausta. There we go, I can hear you now. All right, and Tesla off to a nice pop to begin. I'm gonna go over that trade Fausto and Traders talk this morning, later on. You got a good pop on the IONQ, a lot percentage wise, but I just had it on my screen to start. Just had a big pop, 45 cents, 40 cents. Michael says CGC hit. Yeah, pot stocks dropping off a bit. I would be a little careful on those trades today, given how much they ran up yesterday. Just if they're not breaking out right away, then let's see support builds. Cosmo is looking pretty good. COSM, as I said that, gave the kiss of death there. It was holding 135, or it was holding around 135, just failed to break higher, then splat, big drop. Yeah, wait on that, I think. I don't know if that's a halt. Looks like a halt, right? So the CGC trade potentially could have support at 140. If it breaks under that again, though, coming up, then I'd say then, you know, just move on. Oh, look at Cosmo right now, Fausto. COSM popped right back up to 135. That is a nasty shake there, man. I'm flipping through, I'm like, what the heck? How'd that get back up there so fast? Where, oh, the Cosmo? Yeah, if it could hold over 134, that needs to hold its support now. That was like, or 135 even, I'd say. A ton of ask volume filled to 35 here. This could be a head fake still. It's gotta re-break over in 135. And of course, 140 is that iceberg. Gives me vibes that lira trade that just tanked at the open, but that's like a crazier stock in terms of the spread and volume. This Cosmo is a really nice one. So it looks like CGC is starting to hold support at 140. It's moving up to 146. Tesla just tanked, ended up holding 272. And just a nasty shake down, like about like $2, $3. Yeah, I'll do that too. Really quick, I actually had a question from one of our students right now, just private chat to me asking, hey Josh, can you tell me when phase one courses will start again in September? Very good question. I always love when that gets asked. Next week actually, next week, beginning on Monday the 18th. So Monday, then Wednesday, and then Thursday, Friday is actually the phase two stock course. That goes for all of our students. Anyone that has Cyber Group Plus, any of our bronze, silver, gold, platinum, diamond, et cetera, all of you folks there. That I'm really looking forward to. It's gonna be nice to be back, and it's gonna be beautiful weather in September, late September there, and a couple of things right quick. So the Cosmo held under the iceberg, held under that 135, like perfectly as well, and just tanked. So that's where you had to be careful there. CGC is still holding over 140, but it's sluggish, it's gotta go soon, otherwise, you know, scrap it. And right now, CGC just listened to me there. Nice little squeeze back up for a few more cents, so it's actually a pretty fast moving stock or as cheap as it is, but it's gotta keep going. CGC now, let's keep the train moving now. The return of the emails. Yeah, gotta close that out if you can. I forgot about that one. Yeah, it's a nice trade so far. It's on thin volume, I feel like, but it's pushing up well, a nice chart. It did, I forgot about that there. We did well on We yesterday. So the CGC testing, it's actually 151 right now. 151 is the big level to watch. Had that big dot right at the market open on Bookmap on level four. We'll talk a bit about that today as well in Trader's Talk. Yeah, one of the crypto stocks, that is some matters getting a nice pop. As soon as you said BTBT, I'm like, ooh, Mara. Yeah, look, I don't know what happened.  And so we got some big reports coming out this week too, right, we got the CPI report, which is like the inflation, and then PPI I think the day after. Yeah, tiny little, well, nice double bottom on Bitcoin, looking at like the one minute chart. For what it's worth, it's making a nice move back up. So Mara, and like you said, BTBT, good call and pushing up pretty well. CGC is holding over 150 right now, pretty damn nicely. It's gotta keep pushing up. I'll tell you what, this is pretty cool, Fausto, and this has to be like, it has to be dark cool prints. I say that, and I'll go over this more in Trader's Talk later on this morning, but CGC yesterday did not hit the price 194. It didn't even get close there, right? Yeah, well, if you look at like just the regular chart, CGC, it only topped off at like 179. This morning at eight o'clock, I saw prints on time and sales at 194. How? Why? This hasn't been around 194 at all. You know, it was a 40 cent stock the other day. It gets me to think if we can see this make the right type of move here, breaking above resistance, which it's starting to do. I got a feel where this can potentially make that type of pop, but it's a lot to ask for though, like given how much it's already moved. Oh, wow, I'm sorry, one second. Tesla is making a freaking sling shot right now. Really nice pop right back up. Must have heard me talk some smack about it, and absolutely. Side list trade, it's on Richard's screen right now. The IONQ new HOD, but Richard, turn back to just, we'll cycle through those trades. So go back to Tesla for a second, just to show that sling shot. It's a hell of a move back up there, I'd say. You know, we're after 9.35, so we really should be seeing better direction all around. So I'll take a look at that faster, which is showing AMC right now on the screen. Yeah, and maybe it's just like a meme stock type of day, and I'll tell you what, that was years ago at this point, which is crazy to me, time flies, but they have like 12 million people on that channel back then. They're talking about every stock that's making a move. So hopefully the more one stock pumps, more eyes catch onto it. That's all. Michael says, my charts are going bonkers. Huge moves up and down on the option side of things. Well, yeah, you know that too, and which is pretty interesting because, you know, hey, CGC is cheap enough. Don't get me wrong. It's a dollar 50 stock, whatever. It actually has options. So you can trade the options on CGC, or Tilray, whatever it like, you know, the pot stocks that we were doing this week, or like we've been saying Tesla and definitely. Nice pop on IU and Q, finally hitting 20. Getting a whole nice move up right now on a bunch of trades, really nice morning right now. Like I don't want to overwhelm all of us, and us included, Fausto. Like, geez, we got like everything moving up right now. It seems we works. Your we trade is pushing. I'll tell you what, I'll tell you what, actually first, the market hasn't exactly made like a great new high yet. It's still kind of holding on under the pre-market highs so far, but you're getting a great reaction all around. So I got to say with all those reports coming out this week, I'm pretty surprised with the start that we've had. Gary says, spy and NVIDIA both moving up as well. Yep, absolutely. Chris saying one of the pot stocks, ACB also popping. Yeah, that goes with, it's been going with Tilray. CGC. Man, Tilray is such a donkey right now. It is insane how slow that trade has been compared to everything else. I, hey, I'm always transparent, right? We always have to be, but it's to say, I was damn right about the pot stock squeezing up even back from the beginning of August. Boy, was I wrong with Tilray being the leader of the pack though. Oh my God.  And it's barely. When you have a stock like, yeah, ACB, CGC. You got the other ones out there too. Actually one starting to inch up nicely right now, SNDL, nice like level one side list stock. Yeah, you know, one of our students is asking about riot and pre-market. We always say, hey, start and stick with what we have on the watch list. And the reason I didn't have riot on the list, but Mara, you know, it's because Mara was up a little bit more percentage wise at the time.  Both are very tradable. If you know what you're doing out there and know what levels to watch, then it makes it a lot easier for you to just, you know, focus on that trade. Not stopping right now. I don't know if you could hear that. It's me knocking on my desk. I got my water delivery guy coming today. I screwed myself yesterday. I miscalculated my days. So I've been drinking bottled water since. I get my giant big gallon jugs, five gallon jugs coming today. So I was gonna say, there is resistance. I do have at 169 for the CGC trade. It's a pretty big resistance. So it wouldn't shock me if it, you know, hits that, has a little turbulence. If it blasts over it here, I'll be so happy. We're getting a hell of a pop on that CGC right now. It broke right over my line, which I am very happy to say. Oh, and the AI trade took off today again. Nice, okay. Oh, that's beautiful. Ryan, you called that out, or Brian, you did? Nice. I still have those calls I took back last week when we were talking about that $25.88 price. So really quick, I just wanna mention, like for our new members here, new students, and actually any of us on social right now. You haven't heard us talk about Cosmo in the last 15 minutes, right? Like really since the market opened up first three to five minutes at Tanked. And that's it, right? Well, there's other fish out there in the sea to catch. So, you know, Fausto's main role, and of course, mine, as he trained me, is to steer the ship and find new movers out there once the ones we're looking at don't make the moves that we wanna see. Like once that Cosmo trade Tanked, we're ditching it. We're moving on to, you know, greener pastures. And it's been great since. Don't get stuck holding on to a trade that we were calling out 10 minutes ago or 15 minutes ago, there's other stocks out there that are gonna look better over time.  IoNQ is flying, that's a great trade. That's a, I do see a lot of, yeah, it's gotta hold over 176 here or 175 here. Doesn't look, I feel like it's gonna shake down though. It looks like it's gonna, yeah, wanna see what happens here. It's only 9.48 in the morning though. Starting to hit him though a little bit. 100,000, just got filled. Oh, he popped it. Yeah, ah, it's gotta still hold over 175, but that does not look pretty now. If it holds over 175 from this point, then I would be so impressed with CGC, but it definitely is more doubtful now. Dude, it's still holding here though. I think this is gonna snap under 175 soon, so I'm not gonna be surprised if it breaks under it. I'm gonna be really surprised if it holds here, but also be really happy. So yeah, look at this. Oh my God, it went back up again Fausta. Let's see, does this have enough? I can't touch 75 again though. Now it's gotta make the higher lows and keep going, come on. I had 194 in mind for that target I'd referenced. I'll go over that in Trader's Talk for all of our students here. And members on YouTube right now as well. Just make sure that you're subscribed right to our YouTube channel. Scan that QR code in the top left. 194 is my magic number. Whoa, come on, let's get one more. One more for the good guys out there. One more pop. Oh my God, this is insane. Yup, come on buddy. I am so close to closing out of trade right now and options trade actually on CGC. Very cheap, right now up 115% right now. I wouldn't be complaining about a 30% move though if he traded the stock or a 40% move. I wish I had a bell here finally. Ring the bell. 194 though is still my magic number on the stock. So if it pops there and then tops I'll be impressed.  That was, he pulled about 500,000 shares worth. It was near, it was 700, oh no, no, no. So he pulled, it was 704 and now it's about 165. So yeah, it pulled like over 500,000 worth. So it's a big ceiling that just got pulled. It's gonna top off at 194 I think. I think it was meant to be that price I set out. That is freaking insane. I have the chat too, Fausta, like the text to Rich in this morning.  It's weird how that happens and I don't always look for that type of stuff. I just, I saw it on time and sales just popped up.  I'm like, what the heck is that? It popped off at 192, it hit at 826, I chatted Rich. I said to him in private chat, getting CGC Prince 195, it was actually, that's freaking awesome. Take the money and run and AI also, that the game stop trade hitting that iceberg that you had called up before right now. Rich, keep it on GME just where that, I see it just because Fausta's been head on with that early and that's been a really nice trade. So Brian made some good money on AI, John made some money on CGC, Lewis on the IO and Q, there you go Lewis. And Ryan before on CGC too, I'm sorry, I'm reading the chat just bottom to top. Look at Tilray compared to CGC. I called it a donkey before, I mean. I mean, look at it. Oh man, it's a great feel at least. What's that quote from an A team? Got a love when a plan comes together? Oh my God, and the AI trade is like, if that swing from last week, that's really pushing up nice off the highs. Yeah, oh actually right now CGC, it'd be funny if 169 right now becomes support. That was the level I was calling out initially for support. Yeah, so the CGC trade, I'm looking to find support at 169, that's my magic number right now. Dude, this AI trade's on fire. I think I might be getting out of this swing, this trade soon.  There could definitely be more room left on it, I just don't want to get greedy. There's an iceberg of 30 bucks for the AI trade, it's about 24,000 shares. Yep, oh yeah, that too. That just popped up about a few minutes ago, right? Oh yeah, I do see that, wow, good call. I gotta adjust my settings here probably too deep. Yeah, let's see, oh wow. So Louis made some more money on the Neo trade, there you go, it's been like a nice sideless stock day for Louis, Jeth making some money on CGC, in and out before the drop. Michael on some Cosmo puts, wow, spread's gotta be crazy on that one, Michael. Geez, I only say that because the, probably doesn't trade a lot of liquidity on the options order book at stock. Oh, oh, you're saying you didn't, oh my apologies, okay, Michael was saying, actually, so it actually confirms what I was thinking and I just didn't read it as such, Michael. Michael literally just said it's a $3.40 spread on the Cosmo puts. Okay, that definitely makes sense. I thought he made $3.40 on puts, I was like, wow, that's a damn good trade, Mike. Chuck on Carvana in and out, that's his bread and butter stock, I know that. He does well on that trade pretty frequently. Dude, you got so many good setups right now, you got AI at 30, CGC's bouncing off 169. That's been good so far. IONQ I completely missed out on, just only because there were other trades that were moving, but that's looking really sharp still.  Otherwise, yeah, it just broke right over 30. I mean, it pretty much filled the gap that it had back from its earnings drop, the AI trade. Be careful on the CGC trade, yeah, it's beginning to break a little bit lower from that 169 price. So at first it held, but then it just made a lower high. Gotta claim that as support for another move back up, 169 on CGC. IONQ is still pushing up though, that's been a really nice run this whole morning. Ah, it's nice to know Gary. Gary says I was in Toronto. I know Fausto just jumped off the mic just for a second, but he says that's where I learned about Fausto at the Money Show. There you go. Fausto has been going around Toronto for a long time now. I've been with him since 2014, Gary. So he was doing it for a little while before I started with him there. He's been going around for a long time now.  All right, CGC still has a chance. It's got to reclaim 169 as support. It's back there now. Keep an eye on Mara. I think Mara has a chance to try and go back up towards 11. Got a 66,000 share order on the S there at 11 bucks. All right, so Tesla pulled back a little bit. Not surprising given how much it made this slingshot once again today.  So on a Tesla pullback, I would say, I mean, a deep pullback for right now to me would be like 273.50 in change, but otherwise like 275. One of our members here says Fausto flag on Mara. That was a little earlier. Yeah, Mara's doing pretty well though right now. Chuck on the IONQ. All right, folks, quick reminder, just really quick. Just if you have any questions, just do me a favor, send over a quick email, email over Josh at C2 Trading, just like I wrote in the chat there. We have our weekly traders talk workshop lined up at 11 o'clock this morning, top of this upcoming hour. So that goes across the board. All of our students like Chuck and John and Gary, anything that you wanna go over, just email me, email me, and then we'll be able to go over. But again, that will start at 11 o'clock. You don't need to click any links as long as you're inside our live trading room.  And then I'll be back on here for all of us live. Yeah, it looks like things are starting to fall off right now, pot stacks breaking lower. 169 held as resistance there. IONQ still doing pretty nice, holding over 21. Yeah, big drop on MJ, pot stack ETF. It looks like a Christmas tree, that thing, up and down. So I would definitely write off the pot stocks right now, like CGC, ACB, all those. AI I think is gonna make another ladder coming up here. The iceberg order on the bid for AI just got pulled at 29. So just keep your eyes peeled on the bid right now for the AI trade. IONQ still holding here, pushing up pretty well. It's got a great long-term chart. The only thing is that it's gone up so much that you might think over time it's gonna like just shake back down pretty quick. The quantum computing sector, all that, I think is pretty hot. Just over time I think that we're gonna see these stocks continue. So to what level right now?  But long-term I think there's definitely more to go. That's all. Both on after 10 o'clock right now, just gotta be inside our live trading room for this question here, folks. But for Wayne, Kathleen, Barbara, Grant, Chuck, let me know right now, up down flat or did you not trade? If you didn't trade, that's A-OK. No news is not bad news, but it's been a great morning. So, hey, all together, hopefully there was something that you jumped into that we had called out that made some good money. I'm gonna give everyone like 30 seconds a minute just for everyone to kind of write back right now or answer the poll question it is. Should have had a poll question pop up if you're inside our live trading room. But just let us know. Good time for a water break, too. IONQ is a machine right now. This thing is really going up pretty nicely. I had some historical levels, but it broke over them. I mean, it's gonna be tough to gauge the next long-term level on the IONQ. I was going over that on a coaching call yesterday with one of our traders here. And I was saying, yeah, you don't need to see one in order to feel good about a trade. It's just nice to have a target in mind, but you don't really see anything that's like sticking, anything that's holding really that nicely. So what do we got here, folks? Got most of us saying up, but then a number of us saying, hey, didn't trade, and that say okay, right?  Just asking, how about CGNT, any chance of a breakout after 580? If it's got a giant spread, I'd probably pass on it, considering we've had a great morning so far. It's got a thin book. You know, it's trying to inch up a little bit here. So there's potential, it's at the highs, don't get me wrong. Rich, if you wanna turn to it, CGNT, Tesla really doing a good job. Looks like a Fausto flag building. You have huge resistance up top at 280 for that trade. Really plot anything between 75 and 80. So it goes to show I really didn't expect Tesla to continue this well right now at this time. John, really quick, man, it's hard for me to write back on those, just private chat me, or just in the main chat that you see there. So please, helps the brother out. AI still holding here, but we gotta get some support showing on the bid. Otherwise, hey, reversal time is kind of coming soon. Take a look at a few different trades here. Gonna mute my chat right now. There we go. All right, so FFIE, Rich, turn to FFIE. Taking a nice little move there. There we go, much better. All right, so let's see if this can go. This stock has some thin volume that I'd be a little care, or at least a spread at times. It's known to have a bit of a spread. It's had a few different reverse stock splits in its years. Also go back to Wii, FFIE and then the Wii trade. Then Wii's trying to go back up again. You got a big iceberg on the bid there. I like that. At $363, just keep your eye on that price. Don't draw a line just right now, Rich, but there might be a ladder coming in. Should've checked level two to see what ECN. Yep, there we go. There's the ladder. You see it there. And it seems to be, let me get this right.  EDGX, NASDAQ, NYSE. You actually see it there on the level two screen. It's crazy. They're all the same size. 3,400 shares of pop. I don't know if everyone sees that on level two. Once that iceberg order shows up again in full. So I think that we're going to start to see a ladder here coming up. Just make sure that that volume still shows there. Yeah, it's at 370 right now for this trade. All right, let's get that iceberg showing for AI. One more time. One more time and we'll be happy there. The IONQ trade moving back up towards 2135, where we had a nice resistance earlier. How fast are you back? There we go. Yeah, definitely. That was from early on. You know, the AI trade, it's pulled back a bit. But A, I still think there's a chance to see a new iceberg pop up and a new ladder over time. But if not, then it wouldn't shock me if it builds support off of like 29, drop a little bit more, then maybe move back up again. I was really hoping to see, because there was time for a new order to pop up. Like if you see the difference in time there, you had about like three minutes before it broke lower. I was really hoping for a new iceberg to show up. I was like, come on, buddy, we got it. One more, one more. Let's see what happens. And it's still possible it could show up, but you don't want to hold your breath waiting for that now. Because obviously it made a little bit of a, it's like a bearish fowstow flag that built there. You guys, I'm going to throw it one second. Yeah, that really dropped off in the after hours yesterday. Damn, I didn't even notice that. I mean, obviously, I saw you had it on the list, but I was more occupied mentally. Like, I knew I was going to be more focused on CGC, the Cosmo trade, absolutely. And the first entry on it was once it broke back over 150, 151, so that 50 cent price moving up to the whole number price. And we're not trying, like you say all the time, you say it every day, but like, great traders never buy at the bottom, sell at the top. As long as we get enough meat off the bone to be happy with, and that gave us a lot of meat to take off the bone there. That was for a dollar stock to make 30 cents even. That's a home run, I think. So I'd be pretty happy with yourself if you got a good trade off on that CGC. Speaking of whole numbers, just it's still a little early. I know you just called it out, the Oracle. At 110, at 110 is potentially a psychological level to keep an eye on, but it's got to make a convincing hold back above that price, or if it just slingshots right from there. It's still a little early, it's like 10.13 in the morning. A little more time to go. Yeah, yeah, exactly, if it can't make that move, you're right, like 105, definitely, I feel it could be the next psychological price to keep an eye on there. Good timing there. Bet you Chuck's a happy camper with that stock. That's his bread and butter that he trades. When you think about Carvana, I remember you were talking about it when it was tanking back last year or, yeah, last year at the time.   Day trading, hey, if you can get a lot of profits doing that, then we'll take it. Chuck, he says right now, yes, go baby, Carvana, he says in our chat board. I remember a long time, students Chuck, Wayne says better to be conservative than broke, definitely.  Yeah, I know the CGC hasn't had a big split since. So, I don't know, I mean, maybe they've done common stock offerings over the years. That could always be the case. I know Tora has done that actually. I looked up that up recently. No split, but they've done offerings. Amaya, geez, that's like what Mara looked like the other week on the bid side. It wouldn't shock me if it fills all of that than tanks, or most of it than tanks. At Carvana's off to a great run though. I just had that up on my book map right now. That AI bounced a little bit, but I'm still skeptical of seeing it break a new high today. I think that we'll see this continue to kind of chop around right now. For the IONQ stock, it's gotta continue to hold over 2134. If it can't do that, then we're gonna get a lower low. It did make a nice little pop earlier today, Coinbase. I think that, well, I don't have a thought exactly on it, it's just to say, I think that it's a good idea to be patient until the CPI report comes out tomorrow and then kind of react, like, see like for swing trades, that is. I really wanna jump in on Mara's swing again over time, but I think that Bitcoin's gonna drop off more. And if that's the case, then I feel like Coinbase will pull back over time, but that's even without talking about tomorrow's CPI report coming out, so it's gonna be interesting here. It's next week or two, I feel. Brian says, plus, which one? Oh yeah, yeah, that one died off and all of them really did before. Brian got some good money on the PLTR trade, 34 cents, AI's still kind of lingering. Just, it's going sideways. Higher lows are a good thing, but gotta see it continue to pop. That might be for later on today. I even queue back to support that I was looking for it to hold, but it just made a lower high now, so that I think is more of a telltale sign to stay away on that trade right now. Oh, as I say that, it just broke. Lower high. And now a big iceberg order on that trade actually showed up, but on the ask side, so no bueno. Doesn't seem at least by beginning to inch down a little bit. Lower highs on that too, like very clean lower highs throughout the morning. I mean, lower highs hasn't gone really much of anywhere, but the trend I think is pretty telling. And the sweet works is really going. Just zoom it on the long-term chart just a bit. And yeah, you can call five a psychological level. Five is half of 10, but the way this is pushing, you do want to respect it, so don't just chase it at five, but wouldn't shock me looking at that long-term like you've been bringing up. It's got a long ways to go. Rich, if you want to check, maybe there's earnings on top with it. That AI trade pulled back. It ended up snapping under the VWOP line. It's at that 29 now, so I'd be interested in seeing if we can get a bounce coming up, but I will say if the markets continue to stumble off right now, then would not shock me to have everything keep dropping. So yeah, the spy, I was alluding to this just before I said it. I'm like, the spy hasn't gone anywhere, but it's making clear lower highs. Like the trend is very, very there. And then bam, big drop. Yeah, Mara got cooked there, about 30 cent drop-off. I went Q, my AI as I said. The AI, if it can't hold that 29, it's got a ways to go, I think.


Good afternoon to all of you who are joining us today on this webinar and in Dublin and I hope that you are all keeping well and that you are enjoying the lovely weather that we are having at the moment. And we are very honored today to have an incredible speaker with us talking about a topic that is quite new to most of us we haven't really had much experience of it. I want to just give some housekeeping rules first. And please, if you want to send in questions you can do it using the Q&A button on your computer during the talk or after the talk. And the questions and answers and the speech is all on the record. You can also use you can tweet or is it X something on the on the X by at I. And we will ask you if you're sending in a question or a comment, would you please at least give your name and if you're part of an association or a group, it would be good if you could tell us that as well. And our topic today is whistleblowing, and it's a relatively new concept, and up to the 70s we really didn't know about it. And there was very little protection for people who decided to whistle blow. As you all know this means that somebody who realized something was going wrong in the company they were working with or the union, or the organization university that they went and made a complaint about those errors. And it remained fragmented is remained a curious, and it was very unequal in different countries and around the world as to how whistleblowers were dealt with in 2016 only the French parliament brought in legislation to define a whistleblower. And then in 2019, the whistleblower protection directive was passed by the EU institutions, and has been hailed as a global standard setter in the field. Doesn't mean that every country has brought their own legislation right up to date, but at least the directive is there now. Our speaker today is Maureen Carney. And in her speech she's going to discuss her experiences as a whistleblower. She'll tell us about the current state of whistleblowing protection in France and the EU, and the role of trade unions in which of which she was a longtime member. And Maureen is like us all were watching probably a native of Ireland native of Castle bar. She moved to Paris in 19 in the mid 1980s to work as a teacher in the nuclear industry for a subsidiary of what later would become known as a rave. She joined the trade union confédération français démocratique du travail CFD T in the 1990s after seeing her students threatened with redundancy and progressively becoming a leading trade union activists. In 2004, she was elected as the general secretary of the ARAVA European Worlds Council. In 2012, she then decided to become a blowing the whistle on a ravers plant technology transfers to China. She talked to us about that. And she had really terrible experiences as a whistleblower, where she was sexually abused, where she was threatened, where her family was threatened and terrible things happened to her. And she subsequently documented this in a book and a film called la syndical syndicalist released in English as the sitting duck, which literally she became when she whistle blew. This book was released in 2019 and 2023. Now Maureen will outline and discuss her experiences as a whistleblower. She talked to us as I say about the legal protections. And I really do want to welcome Maureen having having listened to her podcast some months ago, maybe a year ago. I was really struck by her courage, her resilience and her willingness to be somebody who would blow the whistle on wrongdoing major wrongdoing. So Maureen, I'm going to hand the floor over to you now. And after that, we will maybe have some questions and comments to make to you. Good afternoon to you. Good afternoon. I feel very honored today to be here. I'd be totally honest. I'm a bit nervous, but I do my best. So Maureen, can I just tell you there are really nice bunch of people who are listening and we're very gentle. We will try not to make you any more nervous. Okay, thank you very much. What can I say? I worked in a rave up in the middle of the 80s until 2015, where I was left the books. And when I was teaching as a teacher, some of my students started breaking down in class. You know, I couldn't believe it engineers and so I eventually got to the bottom of it. And they were being threatened with redundancy. And I thought this couldn't be possible in the way it was done. So I went to see the unions, read up on what, you know, could be done. So I went to see the unions. And they said to me instead of kind of shouting at us, why don't you join, which I did. So I did junior work. I always continued to teach and never I was never a permanent union person, because I felt was important to be on the ground with the people that you were representing as well. So in 2004, somebody said to me would you like to run as a candidate for the array by your European works council. And my first reaction as a woman was, no, I don't have the skills to do anything like that. I don't know anything about Europe besides what I read in the papers. So I was told what you just want as a candidate and we train you up and so on. So I ran as a candidate and I was elected by, I think it was 12 or 14 countries, I can't remember. It was to go to a French person, the general secretary, and the fact I was Irish living in France. The other nationalities were very happy about that. So we began working at a European level for years and years, things were really good. We did a lot of projects with the European Commission were financed by the European Commission on gender equality, insertion of differently able people in the workplace, forecasting needs and skills for the next five years within the nuclear industry in Europe, projects like that. In 2011, there was a change of CEO and the new CEO, obviously, I don't, I shouldn't say obviously, but he didn't, we didn't get on, let's say. So after about six months or a year, I went to the human resources manager and said, listen, I want to I want somebody else to take over for me. It's not good for the company. It's not good for the employees that I don't get on with the CEO. So that was taken on board and so on. And I was meant to officially leave the my mandate on the 31st of December 2012. And they asked me to stay on for another few months. So I said, okay. In 2011, it's quite complicated what I'm going to say. So I'm sorry. In 2011, November, December, I was sent a copy of a contract between EDF electricity, the France and CG and PC, which was a state run Chinese nuclear industry. And in this contract, there was a massive transfer of technology, but it was a ravers technology. It didn't belong to EDF. So I found this very, very strange. So I showed it to a few top engineers because I'm not an engineer. And I wanted to make sure that it was real and that I wasn't being led up the garden path. And they were totally shocked the engineers when they read it. So I went along to see some politicians that was quite close to a lot of politicians because we work very well together on the nuclear industry. So they were, it was two members of the Socialist Party, Jean-Marc Iro and Bernard Casnop. And both of them became prime ministers then afterwards in the socialist government. So they wrote to the then Prime Minister, François Fillon, and said, what is this all about? It's unacceptable. And so the contract was stopped. The Socialists got into power in, I can't remember, May, June 2012. And Bernard Casnop, who was then Minister of European Affairs, called me and said, listen, I've got to see you. It's urgent. So I went along to see him with the head of my union. I never went to see a politician of my own, just in case I got something wrong. And there was always two of us. And there we were told that EDF had continued on with the negotiations. That there was another contract out there and that for ARAVA it was going to be disastrous from a civil affair, know-how point of view, from a work point of view, we would lose lots of jobs. And our core, the heart of our industry was being transferred. And as I said before, it didn't belong to EDF. So I went looking for the contract. Again, got a copy in the post. It showed it to a lot of, again, engineers who I knew, whom I was close to. Again, they couldn't believe it, what was written into it. So I went to our CEO. He denied everything. He said there was no contract. You know, I was talking, excuse BS, that I didn't know what I was on about. Anyway, I was only an English teacher. So I decided with the European Works Council, we worked very, very well together, all the different nationalities. So we sent off about 300, 400 letters to the different MPs, to the Senate, saying we wanted to meet and we wanted to know what they were going to do about this contract. So all in all, we met about 40 MPs and several ministers and they all told us there was no contract and that the government wouldn't allow a contract. So we were very, very confused at the time. And then I got a photo, it was in October, November 2012, of the signature of the contract where you had the CEO of EDF, the CEO of ARAVA, the CEO of the Chinese company and a couple of vice presidents of EDF and ARAVA in the photo, but no politicians. And when you sign a contract like that with France, you always have politicians in the photo. So then we started sending the photo off and I had ministers, assistants calling me up saying, we knew nothing about it, we didn't know, it's not true, it couldn't be possible. So this went on and on and on for a month, month and a half.  And I kept trying to get the, at the time I remember, I kept trying to get the discussion back on to the employees and the know-how. And he was very, very personal with me, very negative. So I left that meeting, I remember, it wasn't long before the, I was attacked. Four or five days before the attack, I had been to see a lawyer who came to see the whole of the European Works Council and we've all voted unanimously to bring the CEO to court. So I don't know on the Thursday or the Friday was attacked on the Monday the 17th. On the Thursday or Friday, he got the letter and blew his top, which I knew he would. On the Saturday, two days before the attack, I contacted two ministers and I said, you know, this is crazy. What's going on in the company? Can I meet with you? And so one of the ministers who later became Prime Minister said, of course, no problem. Give me a call on Monday and we meet then. And I was attacked on the Monday. It was very early in the morning. I used to leave for work at about seven, half past seven. My husband used to leave at six. And I was in the house on my own. We never locked the doors. And somebody came in and attacked me, tortured me, raped me and left me tied up to a chair. And so hours later, my cleaning lady came and I was in total state of shock. And so she untied me. I didn't want her to call the police because the person that said to me it's your second morning. There won't be a third. And I was thinking of my children, my grandchildren. So I wanted her to bring my husband and I couldn't remember my husband's phone number. Took me 15 minutes to get her right. And he said to her immediately call the police. So the police were called. I was taken into hospital. I was examined intimately that evening by a doctor without any sort of permission. And over the next two or three days, I was examined intimately four times. And that once was I asked for my permission. So that was awful. It was terrible. I couldn't sleep. I couldn't eat. I couldn't do anything. I was in a state of constant alert. Scared. Scared for the family. Scared for myself. And then a few weeks later I was arrested. And I was taken into the police station. And they told me they didn't believe a word I said that I was crazy. That I had made the whole thing up. Things like this didn't happen in France. And that they had information that I was totally unstable. So I couldn't talk again. I couldn't answer their questions correctly. But they kept putting pressure on me to say I had made it up and I refused. I couldn't do that. There was one thing in our family at home. We didn't lie ever, ever. I was considered an awful thing to lie. So I wouldn't, I wouldn't make something up. But after about 10 or 11 hours of being arrested. I was left to when they, when they saw that there was no way I was going to make a story up. They left me on my own in a room. And this guy whom I'd never seen before came in. And he said to me, I don't like people like you. Unless you say you made everything up. You and your family will never get over this. And we make sure of that. So he left. And I was shaking by this time. I didn't know what to do. So they came back in. And I said, I made it all up. So then they asked me how I made it all up. And I wasn't able to invent a story there and then. So it didn't make any sense. What I said whatsoever. The so-called confession. And then a few weeks later. In France, you have a preliminary hearing with judges. There were four judges appointed to the preliminary hearing. I only saw one. Never saw the others. And five years later, I was taken to court. And in court. The judge was a woman. Was absolutely horrible to me. She was more dignitary, totally humiliation. So I was convicted. And the things I was convicted on were. They only found three traces of DNA. My husband's on the cleaning lady. My fingerprints were supposedly found on the tape. The sound of the television. I said the television was very loud. The cleaning lady when she came in, I'd been there for hours. So it was normal sound. So it was obviously lying. And the other thing that they really went to turn on. Was I wasn't wearing panties under my tights. And any respectful woman. Would wear panties under her tights. So that was in 2017. So I was really completely broken. I didn't know what to do. And, but I couldn't give up. There was no way I could give up. So I decided to appeal. I changed lawyers. And I was very, very lucky. Because I got one of the top lawyers in France. He was voted the best lawyer by the American Bar Association in Europe. And he said, give me the file. I'll go through it. So himself and another. I mean, they went through the whole file. There was no DNA whatsoever. They'd made it up. My fingerprints were never found on the tape. That tied me up. The appeals court said the inquiry was. Beyond ridiculous. There was no confession. It was quite obvious the confession was coerced. And I was acquitted. And the. You don't get the results immediately. So it was six or eight weeks later. And I was at home here. My husband and lots of friends were here. My daughter was here. And we were waiting for the phone call from my lawyer. To say whether I had been acquitted. So I went down to the court. As it's called. And I was acquitted. And everybody started jumping for joy. And I looked at them and I said, I'm destroyed. I've been saying this for the past six years. And we're all jumping for joy today. Because the truth has come out. But from then onwards, I really started to. Build myself up. I worked with a lot of therapy. I met a wonderful military psychiatrist. Who's a specialist in trauma post traumatic stress syndrome. And I worked with him for a year. And he really got me back together again. And it wasn't me actually who wrote the book. There was a journalist from. Magazine called ups. Business magazine in France. So that came out in 2019. And everything that was in that book. It was so lovely. It was so nice. I couldn't believe it. Because the police joined the arrest told me I was hopeless at my job. That everybody said I was hopeless at my job. That I was unstable. I was this. I was that. And that's somewhere. I was so confused. I was so. In such a traumatic state. That these little things kind of went into my head. And so maybe I was awful for the past 20 years. Maybe I didn't. Wasn't as good as I thought I was. And thanks to the therapy. Little by little. The confidence started to come back. The myself esteem started to come back. My lawyer actually did something that was really great. He asked my 10 years of my annual. My 10 years of my interviews. To see if I was supposedly so unstable, so crazy. I had done more than my objectives. In the 10 years leading up to the attack. I was considered an excellent member of staff. Very truthful, very lot of integrity. To actually get those 10 years of annual reports. That's what the police had said to me. And what the first trial had said to me. Wasn't true. That brought me up. Really, really brought me up. And from, I'd say 2019 onwards. I just started coming back to myself. And like people who know me today. And who have known me for, let's say 30, 40, 50 years. Are saying to your back. You're back to the morning that we used to know. So, so that's brilliant. So the movie was another thing. I mean, I never expected. I still can hardly believe it. That there was a book and there was a movie about the whole thing. So I have lots of whistleblowers who actually contact me now. Most of them from France, a few from Ireland, actually. And then some from over Europe. And the problem is there is a law. It's there. But how does anybody know if it's applied correctly in the different countries? Only 10 countries have ratified the European whistleblower, including France. But the problem in France is we also have another law called. So great that there, which is states. Business secrets. You cannot go to the press. If you find out there's something wrong in your company. If it brings out publicly. Business secret. So I've been trying to find out how these two work together. And some of the specialists like lawyers and different people I've spoken to said they don't know how it's going to work. Because both are there. The secret or the business secret thing can always be applied. So it can stop people from talking. So I don't know what's going to happen with this. I'd also like to say so I completely forgot something that's extremely important. I was totally supported by my family. All of my friends. My union was there from beginning to end. Over 400 of the staff or to me. And said they were behind me. They had no doubt I was attacked. So all of that, that support was so important. It was. I don't know what I would have gotten through or not. Because the majority of whistleblowers that I know today are broken. Totally broken. And I have to say this. After having gone through what I went through. I couldn't say to anybody. Go ahead. Do it. Okay.   You know, you can't ask somebody to do that. I never, I never knew I was obviously blower. I just thought I was doing my job as general secretary of the European works council. For the different countries I work for. So. Whistleblowers don't calculate. There's no calculation. In what we do. It's it comes from its integrity. You see something that's corrupt. You can't let it go. But I know I couldn't anyway. And that was the way I was brought up. My mom, for example, I also have to tell the story about my mom. My mom was a Nelson Mandela. Fan. And I remember in the 60s when he was put into jail. That she bought poor kids. We all had to wear these three Nelson Mandela. We were in Castle Barker and to Mayo.  I was wearing a big, big afro hairstyle. Was put onto our school uniform coats. Every time you change coats. We had to put the badge onto a new one. And a couple of times I'd be coming back from school. And I'd see my mom sitting outside a shop. Who was trading with South Africa. With her friends. And I would die of embarrassment. In front of my girlfriends. So, you know, it was in the family. And when he was released. In the 90s, in the beginning of the 90s, she ran me. And she said, look, he's been released. And she said to me, more things take time. Never give up. And, you know, the way I just kept going. Was thanks to my Irishness. Thanks to our history, the history of Ireland. That we always, no matter how many times we were beaten. We went out again and we fought for our independence. It maybe took 800 years, but we got there. And that's, that's really huge impact on me. And I think that's about it. I don't know whether there's anything else.


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During your second pass, you'll normally repeat the process outlined in the first pass, except that you drive on the other side of the road. Again, move the windrow material to the road's centerline. Subsequent passes should spread the surface materials from the windrow back over the traveled way. Adjust the mold board angle to spread half of the surfacing material in one length, leaving the remainder for the opposite length. With the mold board in a forward position, adjust the cutting edge to match the desired template and proceed spreading the material evenly across the road. Then, gradually raising the mold board, spread the surfacing material as evenly as possible to a uniform thickness. The actual number of passes needed will depend on the width of the road. Once you've smoothed the entire traveled way, add a small amount of water. Finish by compacting the road surface and shoulders with a roller, a water truck, or a greater mounted roller. When the smoothing operation is complete, remove the traffic control devices and safety signs. Reshaping is used to correct severe surface irregularities in the traveled way, such as deep ruts, washboards, or potholes. Unlike smoothing, reshaping cuts through the surfacing down to the bottom of all surface irregularities and redefines the template of the road. Reshaping also mixes and reprocesses surface materials to improve the stability of the road surface. If you encounter damage that extends deep into the subgrade, the road probably needs repair that can't be performed by a grader alone. As in any road work, before reshaping a road, place your traffic control devices and safety signs. In addition to watering, you may need to scarify the traveled way. Scarification and adequate moisture content will facilitate cutting, control of dust, and compaction. Details of the scarification and watering process may vary from region to region, but the actual reshaping procedure remains the same no matter where you are. Your first pass is a cutting pass, typically starting on the ditch side of the road. Angle the mold board in a position slightly back from vertical to facilitate a cutting action. The horizontal angle should be approximately 30 to 45 degrees from the motor grader's axis. Cut deep enough to remove all surface imperfections and restore the crown template. Move the surfacing material from the ditch side to a point just across the centerline of the road. Accomplishing this may require more than one pass. Retrieve any lost surfacing material on the outside road shoulder, blading it toward the center of the roadway to be incorporated with the material being cut from the traveled way. The windrow you leave should be larger than the one left during a smoothing operation. Subsequent passes are also cutting passes. Cut from the outside edge of the road toward the centerline. Again, this may require more than one pass depending on the width of the road. Be careful to protect the crown. Do not cut the crown with the mold board. Multiple cutting passes may be needed to correct more serious problems, like potholes, washboards, or gullies. Another way to fix problem areas is to scarify deep imperfections rather than making additional cutting passes. Once cutting is complete, begin mixing the surface material. Capture all of the loosened surface material and move it towards the ditch. The surfacing material should be rolling and mixing throughout this operation, adjusting the pitch of the mold board forward may facilitate optimum mixing action. The angle of the mold board should allow placement of the mixed windrow approximately one foot from the ditch. This spacing will allow tracking room for the inside wheels of the grater during subsequent layout passes and prevent the material from falling into the ditch during the next pass. Keep all wheels off the windrow as it is forming. Driving over the windrow would alter the mold board position, creating irregularities in the reshaping and making it harder to later spread the windrow material evenly over the road. The mixed windrow should be consistent in size throughout its length to ensure even distribution of surface thickness in the layout process. Now begin the layout process. Normally, you'll need to adjust the mold board position so that it tilts fully forward. However, if your grater is equipped with a carbide bit system, it must remain in the vertical position in accordance with the manufacturer's recommendations. Lay out half of the mixed surface material on the ditch side of the road, spreading it in an even mat following the established road template. As you do this, place the remainder of the material in a windrow just across the crown. Depending on the width of the road, this may require multiple passes. Remember to keep your speed slow and steady to prevent the grater from hopping and to minimize irregularities. Spread the remaining windrow to the opposite side of the crown over the remaining traveled way. It's important to maintain the design width of the traveled way, being careful not to widen the road or lose surfacing over the side of the road. If you have excess surfacing, spread it on the roadway or place it in an area where it can later be reclaimed. Your work shouldn't leave any unplanned berms that might disrupt the road's drainage systems. When you've finished your last layout pass, water the surface. Compact the damp surface, including the shoulder. This will assist in bonding the fine particles to larger ones.  Begin by placing traffic control devices and safety signs. Water and scarify as needed prior to beginning work. The first pass is a cutting pass, typically starting on the inside of the road. Cut through the surface layer and reestablish the original road template. Move the resulting windrow towards the outside of the road. Typically on the second pass, the operator will cut from the outside towards the inside. Depending on road width, you may combine the new windrow with the windrow from the previous pass. It may be necessary to make multiple cutting passes or scarify the road to correct more serious problems, like potholes, washboards, or gullies. Next, combine the windrows, mixing and moving them toward the inside of the road. Adjust the vertical pitch of the moldboard to obtain a maximum mixing and rolling action. The mixed windrow should be consistent in size throughout its length to ensure even surface thickness in the layout process. Place the mixed windrow about one foot from the edge of the traveled way, allowing tracking room for the greater tire. Begin the layout procedure on the inside of the road, spreading the surface material toward the outside edge. Adjust the moldboard in a full forward position. If your grater is equipped with a carbide bit system, keep the tips in a vertical position. Leave enough surface material in the windrow to complete the next pass. Keep your speed slow and steady. In the final pass, spread the remaining surface material towards the outside of the road. For proper drainage, the completed surface should be in slope or out slope. Spread any remaining material evenly over the traveled way or place it in an area where it can later be reclaimed. Best results can be achieved through some form of surface and shoulder compaction. Occasionally, you'll need to maintain roads that include a combination of in-sloped, out-sloped, and crowned segments. In this situation, take special care with the transition sections between the different segments. Decrease your speed to allow smooth, accurate transitions and prevent irregularities. To ensure driver safety, the length of the transition must be maintained to the design speed of the road. By correctly and promptly smoothing and reshaping roads as their condition requires, you not only fix imperfections in the traveled way, but you actually design longevity into the road. Being vigilant and selective in the upkeep of the roads assures their durability and usefulness while protecting the surrounding ecosystems.