Yeah, everything looks incredible. So yeah, and you are already start So Again, hi everyone for those who just joined my name is marching and today I'm gonna talk about building graph QL in Python and Django So my talk is called real world graph in lessons learned from building graphical API on top of Django up Yeah, so to quickly introduce myself, my name is marching as I said I come from road sof in Poland I Work as a Python developer here at company called Mirumi software. We are a software house Specializing in e-commerce, but we also do other web apps with graph QL and react We use Python as a backend mostly And for the last two years, I had the pleasure to be a lead developer at projects called sailor Which is like one of our most important projects right now Yeah, so what's also important here in road sof we are doing a graph QL road sof as well I Didn't mention that before but this is also something that you might be interested in Every anyone listening to this to this event. So yeah, we have our own meetup here as well We have quite many members there like on every meetup. We have like 150 people so it's it's really big community of developers here in road sof in Poland. So If there is anybody else like interested in joining us and speaking at our event, it would be great. Just contact me yeah, so I Want to introduce you to sailor because this is pretty important in the context of my presentation because like This this project is where we start the journey graph QL So sailor is basically an e-commerce platform. It's open source. So we can find it on github and Well, I am it's you know, it depends how much familiar you are with e-commerce But I'm sure that's many people heard about Shopify or Magento who commerce stuff like this. So sailor is something similar you can think about sailor as Shopify but open source or for example Magento, but Built with a little bit different technology because like we use Python Which is at the very core of our platform We believe that this makes our product like better in terms of Code quality for example because this is open source product. So it's it's really important to have good code quality there So this this entire platform consists of few parts. So this is a screenshot of the dashboard application So this is where you manage your shop. Basically, this is a front end up built-in react It's using graph QL underneath Here we have the storefront application So this is a kind of template of a shop that you can take from github as well and build your shop using using this template And few facts about our API because all of that is powered by GraphQL API, so we have now about 50 queries 200 mutations and 500 types So this is like few statistics to give you an overview about size of the API currently We have JSON web tokens based authentication and permissions system From like the more cool features we have service accounts and webhooks So this means that you can not only use that API for your front-end apps, but you can also build integrations like other services that can authenticate in our API and fetch some data or get some notification by webhooks so this is really cool and What we really like about our API is also that we have pretty unified way of filtering sorting and search in all top-level queries, so These are a few facts Actually, I have Like they're running up on my machine So I I think it can be interesting to see how it looks like. So this is the dashboard application This is where you manage your shop Here's for example the list of your products you can go to product details and do some kind of Management here. We have orders management customers management and all kinds of features that you might need in e-commerce What might be interesting for you is that as I said It's all running on GraphQL. So if I reload this Then you can see that there are some GraphQL requests underneath Like for example here. Yes, that's that's data from our e-commerce API So in this case we are getting for example customers data Yeah, so this is pretty exciting. This is like huge huge react app that works really well here with GraphQL Here is our storefront application. So as I said before This is just a template of the shop that you can customize and it's also a single page up It's using GraphQL underneath and Here we have also the playground. So if you don't need any front end You can just use this API for example to get data of your products. So for example, here is a query to get products from my shop So for example, I have apple juice and here I have a bunch of variants of that product So yeah, so this API gives you access to all kinds of e-commerce operations that you might need So you can use it standalone or you can integrate that with your existing solutions. So if you are interested We have so this is all open source as I said So go to github.com slash mirumi slash sailor if you are interested in using this We also have public demo. So if you want to just try out without installing it locally then Use that demo to play with with the platform. So I'm talking about this entire application because that's where our journey with graphql has started So this entire app was initially built as Django like purely Django project. So for those who are not familiar with Django, this is like classic Framework where like you have model Model view controller pattern. So it's all a huge monolith where like both front end and back and lifts in the same code base So that was fine for us for for a few years at the beginning But at some point you start to realize that if you want to introduce some interest in sorry Extensions like integrations with other services, then you might need API and we had no API before adding graphql and also you will notice that maybe those static templates that you have in Django are not enough to build first-class user interface with you know dynamic features and Like modern apps have really complex UI and this is not achievable with static HTML templates So after having this Django based architecture for many years, we decided to add graphql layer on top So this is what we've actually ended up with so on top of our Django ORM logic and all the Python logic that does the business stuff we've added graphql layer So it's built with graph in and we've moved all of our like two of our front-end apps Outside of the project of the core and now they are separate apps built-in react and Apollo and they they use graphql As you've seen in this short demo before So this is like the new headless architecture, which also allows us to build external integrations around the platform. So this is a really great benefit of having API and especially graphql API here so Yeah, as I said, we are using Django for the back-end and when we started doing this transit transition it was like two years ago or something like that the only framework that was available was graphin and It's still the most popular framework for for doing graphql in Python. So we are using that currently Yeah, it's it's a code first framework. So We are building graphql with Python classes Python functions and the schema is generated from that and Yeah, graphin has support for popular Python web frameworks such as Django or flask and but you can also use its standalone, let's say If that's your use case. So in this matter, this is a pretty flexible framework So, yeah Basically now I'd like to share a few lessons that we've learned over those two years of using Graphin that sailor that you won't necessarily learn from the dogs or you wouldn't necessarily know after, you know, a few months of playing with the framework Yeah, so Let's let's start with like maybe one of the most one of the biggest benefits of graphin in my opinion So the first lesson is that Django plus plus graphin let's you rapidly build APIs So it means that this this this duo of Django and graphin is really powerful if you want to prototype Something very quickly or if you have large existing code base and you need to add graphql on top of that So, let's see. Let's see why why it's like that in graphin. So Yeah, so let's look at how we define data in Django So this is a simple class that represents our user Yeah, so so I think that it's it's pretty similar in in many other frameworks as well We have a bunch of fields here. We are using Django or ORM here to use some Fields like emails, booleans or datetime So so this this class would be later transformed to a database table, right? So this is how most frameworks work as I suppose that support ORM solution So we had a lot of models like this in our code base and now if you want to represent that In graphql, what would you do in graphin? In this framework, we are building simple classes like this one. So again, this is called user this class and This is very simple because here in this meta class we are saying that We want to map fields from the user model and by using this Django object type here. This class would magically Like use those fields from our model in our type Here we can specify which fields exactly we want to map. So this reduces the risk of accidentally leaking some private fields for example, so you need to make sure that you have only the field that you want here and Basically, that's it That would out of the box also generate all the field resolvers for us. So this is pretty pretty convenient To bind this type to the schema we need a query. So this is how we define queries in graphin again We are using object types and here We define this is it's using the user type and we also have the result users function Which just takes all data from from the database and returns that in this query So this this few these few lines of Python code would result in in this schema So that's that's how the code first approach works in graphin It's as I said, it's pretty convenient if you have existing API Sorry existing code base and you are adding graphql on top of that. So that was exactly what's what? That's what was our case For for using that so to summarize that Bapping models to types in graphin is effective if you are building on top of existing code base You have full control over the field resolvers like they are mapped automatically, but you still can control what? Like how they behave if you want to add some permissions for example to a particular resolver you can do that Easily and what's also important here is that graph in uses syntax like Style of programming that is declarative which is very similar to to what you do in Django So if your team is starting with graph graphql and uses graph in then It's it's really easy to dive in because you you have the same programming style the same patterns Patterns used in both frameworks. So this is really convenient to use So that's the first lesson about building types So Now let's let's talk about mutations. So it seems that after building all of these mutations in our API It turns out that mutations are a bit more tricky in graphin And this is not so obvious how to do that right when you start doing this So so let's see how you build mutations by default in graphin Yeah, because I'm talking about sailor which is a commerce platform. I have examples here here like this one So for example creating a product So what is going on here we have a class called create product What is important in graphin every mutation is is a class in in this framework? So here we specify the input data in the class arguments Here we specify the output of the mutation so Fields that would be returned as a result in this case we want to result a new product and Here is the actual body of the mutations. So so the resolver so here we say what should happen when this mutation is called and in this case, we are just getting data from our input we are passing that to the Model instance and saving that in the database. So this is like very very simple example of how a mutation would look like But in real life, if you have a lot of operations like this and many business rules, this is usually more complex so first of all There is no common pattern for input data validation. So like Pretty often you want to have some some business rules on on the input that you are passing to the mutation There are some constraints that you want that you need to check before saving data So there is no like easy way to do that in graphine or maybe let's say not ob it's not obvious how to do that. Well when you are starting second problem is that there is no Also, no established pattern to return errors in graphin So if we have some validation errors during the mutation execution, there is like You as a developer have to figure out how to return those errors efficiently and you have to establish your own patterns it's it's not given by by graphine like So this is kind of problematic at the beginning and if you have a lot of mutations like this And you add all of this business logic here This would result in in pretty large classes. So you would end up with a lot of boilerplate code So we had to fix this somehow and What we did is we introduced few abstractions. So these abstractions are not provided by graphine by default I mean, there are some abstractions that for example allows you to migrate from Django rest framework Which was like most popular framework for building rest APIs, but not if you are starting with pure Django app. So Here I want to show few patterns that we've developed over the last two years. So let's start with unified errors handling in mutations So we have this little abstraction called base mutation and Yeah, so here here are a few things going on first of all like We've added our own for that mutation, which is called perform mutation And as you can see here, we are calling this resolver inside the default resolver provided by graphine. So and and this this perform mutation function is wrapped with try accept log which basically looks for any validation error that could happen during Execution of that mutation and it does some job to format it nicely So we don't have to care at this point what what it does, but like this is like one of the responsibilities of of this Base mutation class and here as you can see we have the errors field So now every mutation that extends this one this base mutation pattern would get this error fields filled as One of the output fields. So if we use that constantly across our code base We have unified error handling because now every mutation has like very similar shape Which is what we want to have Yeah So for example If we take again this product create mutations as an example So you can see what we have here. We have some input data and Below we have the errors field and for every error. We are returning field message and code So field tells us which input field Resulted in in an error message is actually meant for the developer It's not to be displayed in the front end and that's what we used to do But actually it doesn't work in the long run because usually you have your Translations in the front end code and not in the back end code So you cannot show those messages in the front end simply so for that we have those error codes so front end is supposed to interpret those codes and because these are Announce so for example, here is the response the error response so for example, we have codes like unique and and some some field name There is constraint that it must be unique and now if you have a bunch of codes like this And they are in arms. So they are defined in the schema front end front end developer can handle that Easily and and display proper message in the front end. So having those base mutations allows us to do that In every mutation that we have In cellar. So this is pretty cool. And that's something that wasn't available in graphene by default Yeah, in our case you've seen we have this dashboard application, which is basically large crude up Because there is like a lot of views where where you have just, you know, create new products create new Categories and stuff like this. It's just a lot of Mutations that create and edit stuff. So And if you are building these mutations, you will quickly find out that they all follow the same pattern So first you want to clean the input data because you have some validation rules If if the if this data is is fine Then you want to create the model instance from that data Then you want to validate it validate it again, maybe and lastly you save that to the database So every like we had a lot of mutations that for followed exactly these four steps So what can we do to make it easier to add these mutations? So we've developed another abstraction called model mutation I'm not gonna show the source code of that because that would be maybe too difficult to understand on such short talk, but This is just to give you idea how it looks and how it works so we only say that this mutation uses the product model and Inside it knows how to yeah, and it also takes the input object as an argument and Inside it knows how to clean the object because we have the Validation rules defined on the model level in Django, and it does all the magic to generate this simple product create mutation And it's very powerful because if you want to override particular step of For example, this this flow that you like that we've seen on the slide before There are just a bunch of methods that you can override and customize this flow So we have types we have mutations. So what about subscriptions, which are one of the most powerful features of GraphQL? So it seems that if you are using Django, there is no native support for subscriptions unfortunately So the thing is that Django as I said is kind of classical MVC framework and it was also designed for this request response pattern So it doesn't handle very well asynchronous connections such as for example Sorry, I I lost the word Not web hooks Yeah, anyway asynchronous connections. So this is a synchronous framework basically and for example database access is synchronous and there is no way to to change that currently so that's Huge blocker. So we cannot have subscriptions because of that by default, but there is a solution called Django channels, which wraps entire Django application with additional layer that is able to process async requests and This is still pretty new thing. It's not so common to use. So not many people use that actually and Yeah, so technically it would be possible to have subscriptions with Django We haven't tried that because we yet haven't like used case for subscriptions in our application, but That's how it looks like currently in Django and graphene Yeah, so this is Database sync to async is kind of one of the tools you have to use with Django channels to have access to the database So so this is kind of possible, but it's also a third-party library. It's something unusual So, yeah, it's kind of problematic in Django to support subscriptions currently So this brings us to the fourth lesson That we've learned that if you are building fully fledged api in Graphene and Django, you need a bunch of additional libraries So for example, I said before that we support json web tokens For authentication and that's true, but it's not provided by graphene By default you need additional library for that Also to have permissions management based on json web tokens. You also need like it's the same library basically Which is fine because you can have this feature But there is always a risk with using third-party libraries because you will never know if they will be maintained because very often they are maintained by one person and or very small team and Yeah, it was problem for us a few times already that we have to be dependent on some kind of library that it's not supported The same is for apollo federation It's also not built into graphene by default, but there is one library that can give give you this this feature Also file upload, I know that file upload is kind of There is no agreement on how to do that. Well in in graphql. There are a few patterns For us we wanted to have the basic file upload through a mutation and It is possible to do that through multi-part requests in in graphql But again to support that you need another small third-party library in in your stack to to have this feature Some features are actually not implemented at all So for example query cost analysis, which is A feature available in apollo server for example, but in graphene. It's it's not not available yet And there are some open issues about that And and actually i'm not sure what's what's the state of those issues And that would be pretty useful in our case because you can use our api in the like headless solution So we need to support query cost analysis at some point and probably we will have to build support for that ourselves So, uh, these are like the four lessons that that i've prepared There would be much more stuff, but I think these are the most important ones So you've seen that there are some benefits of graphene, but there are also some downsides. So you may be wondering Why do you guys use python? Because there are some some really well solutions on the market such as apollo server, which is probably one of the best graphql servers out there um So why don't you just migrate to apollo server since you've had to migrate your entire architecture? Yeah, that's a really good question and we've been asking this question ourselves And the answer is pretty simple for us So the answer is that we are huge fans of python and basically we decided to invest more time in this, uh language and graphql support in this language and that's why we started using graphene and now we are actually developing our own framework um Yeah, and what I want to show here is also how the modern python looks like. So for example, um, this is python 2.8 so the In this version, you know, uh, so you have async await Support in python so you can do all of the asynchronous stuff right now So it wasn't available when when jango was created, for example, but now it's it's totally doable so we believe that python is is growing and Actually, there are proofs that python is growing because that's that's how it looks like compared to other languages um Because of data science machine learning stuff where python is very popular and also web development python is growing really strong Nowadays, so this makes us believe believe that it's really worth investing time in in developing developing solutions for for graphql in python so, uh Last thing that I want to show you is uh, ariadne So this is our own server for graphql that was inspired by apollo server Is a schema first framework and it has all the async features plus subscriptions It's it's still Quite early for that framework like early days because for example, there is There is only very basic integrations with jango So probably adding support for that is on our roadmap But you can use that already to build for example federations and we use that as well and Yeah, it's it's really cool Framework and we want to invest a lot of time in this so We believe that it's really worth to do in in the python uh community So that's that's all I have. Um Thanks for listening. Uh I'll be happy to answer any questions if if you if you want to know more about uh about this Um Thanks. Thanks so much martin. It was incredible incredible talk a I really liked how do you have to describe a lot of like different features about rough go with python And that's great because I do know There are not so many people that they can touch different topics In the api architecture and a like give that information to to to to us to all of us So that's that's great and thank thank you so much. So, um, we don't have a question in judo so three Sorry for the names like if I can if I can a person like correct me street ready He is asking about He has two questions or one is a how we can handle file Our bloods via graph code in jango that I think that you have Uh discuss a bit about it. But then he also has another question, which is uh, that he's using the jungle graph kill gwt for authentication How he can use the same gwt for normal jungle views of the integration I'm not sure if I I totally you can totally understand the question, but I You can give a like a general overview about your experience with file our bloods and dwt authentication So, uh, okay, let me So there is basically one library, uh for, uh file upload in Graphene, which I need to check, uh, out the name because I don't remember now It's called Probably Okay, I don't have it right now, but um If you google graphene file upload Uh, there is one library. Uh, yeah, it's basically called graphene file upload and What it does it it defines, uh, one mutation which you can use to upload files it also provides the GraphQL type Which is called upload and you can use that, uh to represent your files It's a little bit complicated to test because, uh, you need to build this multi-part request somehow And it's hard to do in Tools for like it's not possible to test in playground. For example, unfortunately um, uh, I think you can use insomnia or postman to test that or, uh You can do that in in the in the shell in console if you like but Probably people use insomnia or something like that and there you can test those multi-part requests If can I share the link somewhere here? Yeah, sure. Yeah, you might feel free to share it in youtube and also if you want to in twitter But yeah, I also zoom here. Yeah, so Because I'm not on youtube. I'm only here on zoom Yeah, I can send it so so that's the library and There are also examples of how to actually build this Sorry not in this repository, but okay, so I'll post another link Which is graphql multi-part request specification and This is a specification of how the Multi-part request should should look like Um, yeah, so so that's the problem. Yeah, like, uh, it's it's not so easy to use But it works for us for example, uh in our dashboard applications We have upload of product images and that works perfectly well The other approach of of handling Um file uploads is uploading directly to your storage for example, uh amazon s s3 So you you are not doing this through your api through your graphql api, but in some other way That that's the other approach that I know, but we haven't used that Uh in our project yet And there was also second question about json web tokens, but um I don't remember exactly what was it about But I can quickly share just one more link. Um for, uh for a library And this again if you use this, uh, it gives you access to few mutations like token create for example Uh, which creates a token based on credentials that we provided. Uh, there are also mutations to refresh the token. Um So here's the link Um And yeah, we we use use just this this library for that Awesome. Yeah, that's that sounds great. So like really good a Uh resources so I send all the links to youtube So you might link later with that person that he asked you the question And I don't know you can just have a quick chat about a python graph in a graphql, which is great. So Um, yeah, marcin. Thanks. Thanks so much for joining us from all of us at poland and a Yeah, I'm looking forward to to to knowing more about what you are doing in the community Like even talks like what you are guys are doing with eternal libraries in Solvers of that that looks super promising. So I hopefully hopefully we're gonna know Uh soon more stuff about that about that. So thanks so much for joining Okay


Our next speaker is Gus Cher, who has given us the title Music Mind and Machine, Expressive Collaborative Music Performance via Machine Learning. In a music ensemble, musicians collaborate with each other to achieve a common musical goal. The art for every musician is not only to interpret music on their own, but also to keep in concert with each other by continuously adjusting all the musical expressions, such as channel, rubato, and dynamics, and in this case, we call it an expressive collaborative music performance. So, one question natural wise, how do musicians achieve this both important and difficult interaction? The answer is actually quite simple. They practice together, they spend a lot of time practicing together, and in music we call it rehearsal. It is the rehearsal that the musicians get familiar with the interpretation of each other while using their own expressive response. So, this particular procedure of training expressive collaboration while rehearsal actually suggests that we use machine learning algorithms to train an artificial performer in a very similar way. Now, imagine you've got a music band and you need an extra player. Wouldn't that be great if you can just download one from the web? And this is exactly the goal of my research. To be more specific, I seek to answer the following research question. How can we build an artificial performance that with rehearsal experience automatically improves this ability to collaborate with human musicians expressively? And to solve this problem, I conduct my research in three steps. First, I collect data from real rehearsals, which gives the expressive collaboration between humans. The second step is the most important, in which I design different functional approximations to reveal the relationship between the interpretation of different performers. In particular, they are modeled as co-evolving time series. So, the very difficult part is at each time point through a piece of music, the model considers not only the correspondence between different performers, but also the correspondence between performance history and performance history. The final step is just to train the model, get parameters, and based on that, an artificial performer will be able to synthesize a performance by interacting with human musicians. Our concrete dial shows that, by using four to eight rehearsals, we can create a fairly expressive and collaborative artificial performance. And I believe that in the near future, we will see music walls use this technology to serve professional music bands. Thanks.


Thank you for joining us for this episode of Fort Worth Forward. We're here at Mick Ortho, and we're going to interview Dr. David Mickincheck, as well as CJ Evans, Fort Worth ISD Board Trustee, and Laura Wessinger with The Mindful Project and Lauren Yoga. Let's go. Welcome to this episode of Fort Worth Forward. I'm here with Dr. David Mickincheck of Mick Ortho. Welcome, David. Thank you. Welcome for having me. You're welcome. So it's really honored to be a part of your ribbon cutting today. It was great. You had your office staff and everything out there. Thanks for letting me participate in that, and I'm really happy for you to get this building open. No, thank you. I appreciate you coming out. We just wanted to have the people important in our community, along with our builders and reps and things like that, just so we could kind of identify everybody that's helped us through this process. That's great. Thank you. That's, yeah, awesome. Tell us a little bit about the building, how it came together, how you got here. Yeah, I love it. We kind of, you know, had been at the same spot in Tengwood Village for 14 years, and we had just kind of slowly outgrown it, and, you know, our lease was coming to an end last month, and we started this process with Fort Denil, probably about three years ago. And finally, after all the planning and then the COVID delays and all that, we finally got to this position where we're at today, and we're able to move into our new building with that group. And it's been wonderful so far. So that group is Fort Denil. Correct. You're kind of sharing a space here. We are. We are. Tell us a little about the services. Yeah. We also were orthodontics specialists, so we just provide orthodontic services.  Also in Fort Worth, they were located up by kind of Healing Mall, and so, like I said, we just kind of, we were both looking for new spots, kind of outrun our current areas, and this was, we love Ryan Urban, we love this area, and we decided this would be a great new home. That's great. Well, we have a lot of viewers that look at, like, professions, what they want to do. Are you interested in orthodontics and dentistry in general? Right. I grew up, my father was a periodontist, actually, and so I kind of grew up a little bit, kind of in the dental field. I just got to kind of see, you know, growing up in Temple. What's a periodontist? Periodontist is gum disease, gum surgery, things like that. So growing up in Temple, Texas, a little bit smaller than Fort Worth, you know, just kind of getting to see him interact with patients, the community in a smaller environment, being able to, you know, pick a schedule, and all that kind of stuff. He was just, he enjoyed going to work, he liked being around people, and so it was kind of one of those things that I was kind of naturally drawn to, and then once I got into dental school, just kind of really figured out that I liked the cosmetic component of orthodontics a little bit better, and kind of went down that road. So you knew going into college that this was going to be the career path? Pretty much, pretty much yes, I did, you know, and then once, once I got into dental school, kind of really figured out that orthodontics is where I wanted to be, I worked for a couple of, you know, different orthodontics growing up, and I kind of really liked how that worked, and so I just thought this would be a great profession, and enjoy working with people and, you know, being around and helping others. Yeah, so what was your undergrad major at TCU, right? Correct, yes. And what was that got you, and that sort of...  That's pretty typical. It is, very, you know, very, very typical. Some people do business and things like that, but you have to take so many prerequisites for dental school that you basically earn your degree doing all those prereqs, and so once again, then you get into dental school, and it's kind of repeat of all those sciences all over again. Right, right. But TCU, you know, definitely earned me for it. That's great. Well, one of the things we're talking about lately are small businesses. I've created the Small Business Task Force just to help small businesses maneuver through city bureaucracies of somewhat, our permitting process, other aspects, and then that might morph into services or other things that we offer through our Business Assistance Center.  We are, we are. I mean, we open from scratch, you know. So tell us a little bit about that process, like how that worked, what that did, what was going through your mind, the stresses that came with it probably. Yeah, I lost a lot of hair during those times, you know. At that point, you know, we opened on Cinco de Mayo of 2008.  My wife was pregnant. You know, we just went out there and hung our shingle, as they say, and just kind of figured out where we wanted to be. We both went to Fort Worth, met each other, you know, at TCU. So we knew Fort Worth was going to be home. And so then it was a matter of finding the right spot of where we wanted to be. And then you just, you just take a leap of faith, you go, you know. And obviously, the community supported us. It's been awesome. You know, we obviously love living in Fort Worth, raising our kids here. So it's a natural fit for home. And then once again, having the TCU connections definitely helped. And it's just, it's a big city with a small town feel. And so that, once again, just being active in the community, having our kids go to the Tanglewood and just being engaged in the community just made it so much easier for us to naturally grow. And because it's a word of mouth. You've been very philanthropic too.  You've been friends with your wife for a long period of time too through that process. You know, she's, I'm sure a big part of this process too. Absolutely, that's what we wanted.  So we wanted to be involved in the community. That's, once again, it's not for everybody, but that's how we wanted to do it and how we wanted to be. And so I really, we've really enjoyed that. And like I said, the community's embraced us. It's been great and it's fun. It works both ways. You know, we support the community. They support us and it's wonderful. That's great. What advice would you have for someone that's going to start a small business? What would be the first sort of thing you tell them?  And number two, be prepared to work hard, you know. And, you know, having great connections helps as well. But, I mean, you know, it's what you want to make of it, you know. But it's going to take some hard work. And, but that's, you can't. But if you love what you're doing. Exactly. And it, but that's more of the planning.  And how many cups of coffee does it start the morning? Oh my gosh, at least two. Yeah. So we're, it's definitely, I kind of ramp down a little bit later in the day. But yeah, it's, no, it's been fun. That's great. That's great. Well, I appreciate you being here. I appreciate being able to participate in your ribbon cutting today. I wish you the best of luck with the business. I know you'll do well. So we love it. Thanks for coming out and supporting us. Thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate it. Thank you. Now I'm here with CJ Evans, 4th Independent School District, trustee district five. Welcome CJ. Thanks for having me. Yeah. Excited to have you here. We've been friends for a long time. Excited for you. Tell our audience what a trustee for the 4th ISD does. Okay. A trustee holds a superintendent accountable. Passes a budget and represents the vision and values of the community. In representing the vision and values of the community, I take my job of listening to parents, teachers, stakeholders really carefully and to always hear how they feel the district can continually improve. That's great. That's great. Tell us about district five. So for years that don't know how your districts are set up, tell us a little bit where it runs, what schools you cover. Right. 4th ISD is made up of nine single-member districts. And 4th took kind of a big growth population-wise westward and southward in the Bimberg area. So all the districts took a big westward-southward step. So now not only do I represent the west side, Arlington Heights area, Como, Tanglewood, Overton Park, I also represent parts of Ridgely. Okay, that's great. One thing I love about district five is what I really love about Fort Worth and that's the people. We really have the best people which at its core makes it one of the great places to live. Yeah, well our districts overlap a whole lot and those schools and that's great. And I know those neighborhoods well and that's awesome. What motivated you? So you were elected what year? Nineteen. Nineteen. So about four or five years at four and four years into it? Yes, about four years into it. What motivated you to run for school board and just get involved in education? Great question. Well my mom and mother-in-law are retired educators. So I guess it's in my blood. I have seen how a teacher can change a life. And teachers really just need a few basic things to do that. Fiscal-y sound employer, safe work environment, tools to do their job. And the right trustee can help ensure and facilitate those things at the district level. One of the things you brought up as one of your charges is superintendent and oversight of the superintendent. So ISD is now going through a superintendent search and I don't know where it sits in that process. Tell us a little bit about that and what you're looking for in a new superintendent. Okay, well because Fort Worth has the best people, I feel like Fort Worth ISD can be the best large urban school district in Texas. I really believe that. And how many students now? We have about 74,000.  One of the things that we have is a very diverse population, 46% of our students. English is not the primary language at home, that just gives you an indication of the diversity within the student population and their parents. But in terms of what I'm looking for in a superintendent is somebody who can help us become that best district that we can become. And in listening to the vision and values of the community, we've been doing that in specific listening sessions for the superintendent's search, we're going to be discussing it at our next meeting, June 14th. But there's an overwhelming vision that is surfacing and that is everyone wants all our kids reading on grade level. So we're looking for a superintendent who can do that. That's great. What is the percentage now that read on grade level? It is lower than 40%. Lower than 40%. And really that metric is third grade, right? That's correct. Third grade, do you know off the top of your head how many percentage of third grade or on grade level it's lower than 40% which for our audience that doesn't know, that's an indicator if you're going to finish high school, if you're going to go on and do other things, right? Right. So broad educational goals, early literacy, middle school math and college and career readiness. And the reason those goals are shaped that way is because if a child can read in elementary school, then they're going to be equipped to learn math in middle school, then they're going to be college and career ready. Right, right. So that's why we really focus in on that third grade number. Doesn't mean that that kindergarten reading teacher isn't important or that second grade reading teacher, but it really comes to fruition to let us see what is happening at that point. Well, I guess the overall is from kindergarten to third, you're learning to read. Right. And third on, you're reading to learn. That's it. And make that jump there, so. Exactly. Great. Well, I'm glad that's a goal that's important for all of our kids to really embrace education and understand that it is the pathway for their future. Right, right. So I've had a chance in my district to visit 14 of the 16 public schools in my district, which has been great and see the upgrades that are happening in them and in particular schools. And I know we're trying to do all the schools and we'll get there as part of that. But what are some major projects that the school district is working on right now? Well, something that we started right before COVID and we're just now starting to see the positive effects of is the work our parental engagement department is doing. Okay. Parents are their students, first teachers. That's right. First and foremost. And so as a district, we are trying to engage and empower those parents to do so. We have some campuses that have been the model for parental engagement and we're learning from those. But we're also learning that parental engagement looks differently on each campus. That's right. And so our principals are working closely with our parental engagement specialist to engage and recruit parents. Okay. That's great. That's great. Well, what's been a favorite moment in this job you've had? Well, it's been recently. Did you hear that our girls had a flag football season? In this past spring? I did not. I did not. Okay. So it's really exciting. Which girls? All our high school girls. Okay. Every single comprehensive high school had a flag football team for girls. Okay. They started this season off in February practicing at Cowboys Stadium and then the games were at our various high schools from March to May and the finals ended up back at Cowboys Stadium. It was a really neat experience to see our girls finish so strong. This has been a hard year for all our students and to see them across the district finish so strong and to be at that final game at Cowboys Stadium, it meant a lot to so many students on so many different levels and it was neat as a community to come together. That's wonderful. Why? As a father of three daughters, I think that's exciting and fun for those. Yeah. And a daughter that's in 4th IC at Overton Park right now. So that's in the other two attended Tanglewood. So very familiar with the ISD itself and the schools and what's going on. But also for you, this is not your full-time job. It might feel like a full-time job. Sometimes. It does from the council perspective, but having people understand it's not a full-time job, it probably takes a significant amount of time each week to make sure that you're on top of it. What else do you do? I think you volunteer in a clinic or you help in a clinic, right? I do. Even before I got elected, I worked at the Women's Center volunteering in their legal clinic just because I feel it's important to volunteer and give back according to your skills and ability. Sure.  And I am a lawyer by trade. And in serving some of those adults, I have seen adults who can't read on grade level. Some adults who can't read at all. And when I say adults reading on grade level, adults who are like at a 6th grade or 8th grade reading level. And it's, I just, as I'm helping them with various legal aspects, sometimes it's as simple as reading a lease for them because they just need help doing that. But I think, you know, what if that person's teacher in 2nd grade had adjusted? What if that person's teacher in 4th grade had done this? And so I just sit back and think, what if? And how can we, as Fort Worth ISD, as a system do it differently? What can each principal, teacher, paraprofessional do differently? So Fort Worth kids have the best education. That's great. Well, thank you for being here today. Thank you for having me. I know in the last sort of year, two years or so, it's been hard to be a school board trustee here across the country. I've seen what you've gone through. I appreciate you when I've reached out, which I try not to bother too much. But sometimes things sort of come into my world that is really part of your world that you've been responsive. And I know you will be helpful because I know where your heart is. You want to help the kids. Thanks. And ultimately, that's what we're trying to do here. All about the kids. Yeah. That's right. Well, thanks for being here today. I appreciate it. Thank you. Now I'm here with Laura Wessinger, who is head of the Mindful Project and Lauren Yoga. Welcome, Lauren. Thank you so much. Glad to have you here. Yes. So I don't do yoga. I don't have the body. No, I'm just kidding. Tell us a little bit about what got you into yoga, what that's like. Yeah, I started practicing yoga in the mid 90s, believe it or not. I was in high school. And I had a lot of corporate careers, long story short, arrived in Fort Worth and started yoga teacher training. And Fort Worth was the first place I ever taught in 2009 and continued today. And there's different types of yoga. What do you teach? What is it? Tell our honest little bit about it. There are so many lineages and types. I mean, the saying I practice yoga is like saying I do sports. OK. You know, there's so much underneath that umbrella. And so for me, I pull from a lot of different styles. And my main goal is to help people manage chronic stress in their body. We know now that almost 80% of chronic disease is rooted in stress that has been unmanaged. And so my whole goal, my whole passion is helping people mitigate that. Mitigate their pain, stress, outside influences. What's it like to teach yoga here in Fort Worth? It's great, you know, surprisingly in a town like Fort Worth where yoga took a little longer to kind of come on the scene. When I got here, there was two or three studios. Of course, it exploded to like 20. And then COVID kind of trimmed that down. But there are so many fantastic teachers in Fort Worth. It is wonderful. We have a great community here. Yeah, I feel like every time I open my social media, another friend has gotten certified. Right. And part of it, my hairdresser actually is certified. Yeah. Yeah, it's wonderful. We have a really rich offering here. We're lucky. That's great. Where is the studio? Where is it? So my studio was called Soul Space. And it was over on the West 7th. Yeah, over in the Michaels Shopping Center, Chukotsky Shopping Center. And then we closed right before COVID. And I took everything online. So my business is virtual and then going to people. OK. So they're private homes or businesses? Businesses, mostly. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Do you do until you just use solo or do people sometimes bring friends over as part of it? Both, both. Yeah, I mean, if you would have told me three years ago that I was doing this online and had an app, I have a Lorne Yoga app on the app store. OK, there you go. I would not have believed you. OK. But COVID kind of changed a lot of people's businesses. And it sounds like you just sort of adapted and moved forward. Yes. And it's been great, I have to say. Well, it's great. I mean, we'll explore that for just a second. I've started this small business task force. And it's really, we have a design on looking at what the city processes are, how they might hinder or hurt, help small businesses, what we can do from there.  Totally. So some processes, you obviously adapted during COVID from what the business that you had or business model that you had to this new model. Tell us a little about that process. What went through your mind? What were you thinking? You know, we hadn't closed because of COVID. We closed right before as a conscious decision on purpose. We were just done. The yoga business model, yoga studio business model is challenging, and I think needs to be revamped. It's not that sustainable for most studios. OK. Is that because people getting them there, et cetera, and people want?  Membership prices are so competitive. Unless you have a teacher training program and charge several thousand per student for that, it's not sustainable. So there's room to grow there, right? With how that business works. But I started teaching over Zoom during the pandemic.  And I switched it all to an OTT platform, which is like Netflix. Netflix is OTT. It means over the top of cable. OK, OK. And so it's just been a way to surprisingly have me get more out into the community, even though it's virtual, because I have a contract with Fort Worth ISD, for example, Cook Children's. And so I'm teaching to all these people who before I never would have reached in my actual bricks and mortar business. Yeah, that sort of problem of getting there versus being to do it on your own time. If you're already stressed, it's another stress that's added about how do I get there and you can't work for that. Yes, the time, money, and energy involved to go to a studio doesn't work for all people. That's right. Interesting, interesting concept. I want to talk to a little bit now about the Mindful Project. Yeah. That's how really you and I kind of first met. We've been friends for a while, but really connected through that. Tell us about the Mindful Project, how it came about, what you're trying to do with it. Yeah, so at the studio, at Soul Space, we had a corporate wellness arm of the business. And so when we closed, I kept that, because it was still thriving. We had manufacturing companies. We were teaching chair yoga for safety reasons. We were teaching mindfulness. So I rebranded that to be the Mindful Project. So really, that's been around since 2015 or so. OK, OK. And I just kind of follow where the need is. And I have fallen into this realm of frontline workers and first responders with the contract, with the school district, with childrens, with some of the stuff I'm doing with Arlington PD. I'm finding the need for shorter, stronger, more potent practices available all the time is where it's at for a lot of these people. Explain that. What does that mean? So don't get me wrong. I love going into a yoga studio and taking a 90-minute class. I love it more than anything. But the people I just described don't have 90 minutes. They don't have a lot of time to waste. They need a tool that's going to work now in the next five minutes to help them come down from a stressful event or to help them, I call it, inhabit their body a little more. Stress kind of takes us out of ourself. And so even the yoga classes, there's 15-minute classes there. There's five-minute meditations. There's five-minute breathing exercises. I want it to be just really accessible for people. OK, that's a great thing to have, great goal. You mentioned first responders. And I'm a big supporter of our first responders with the job that I do where I can support them. Because I know they're the people rushing in when others are rushing out. And I know the stress every time they put on that uniform. And sometimes they only have the uniform on. But they know things that they know that are going on. So to my talks with some of them, it's a constant stress. Even when they're at home, they're also just aware of things that you and I just as normal citizens aren't. So talk about your work with specifically police officers and what that's look like for you. Yeah, I'm learning a lot. I'm learning a lot. So this summer, we have five four-hour training scheduled where I'm going into different departments with an Arlington Police Department. And I'm teaching a half-day course called Mindfulness for Job-Related Stress and Trauma. And it's what you just said. I mean, what I'm starting to learn is the 24-7 hypervigilance. And a lot of them don't know that there's another way to be. And so the whole point of the course is to help them start to realize that they have a little bit of choice and a little bit of agency and when to turn it on and when to actually turn it off for a little bit. Because that sense of hypervigilance and trauma isn't something you can just decide, like, oh, I'm going to be unhypervigilant now. It doesn't work that way because it's lodged in the survival brain. And so the whole course is showing them different techniques through breathing, mindfulness, and some trauma-informed practices to help them. It's called NeuroCEPT, NeuroCEPT safety in the body so they can then practice mindfulness or breathing or one of the other exercises. Yeah, it has to create a lot of stress in the family. A lot of stress with their spouses or their kids. Have you seen some of that? And in your work with them, being able to release that a little bit and maybe have healthier marriages, healthier family lives?  I mean, the downward effect, the cascading effect of dealing with everyday stress trickles down into relationships, into heart health, into weight. I mean, it touches everything. And in my research, I'm starting to learn how so many people retire from the department and just don't have the health. They don't make it that long for a second life, a second career, I mean, where they want to serve or what they want to do. They have a lot of time after they retire. And so it just really- Some of that started in the 18, 19, 20, 21, they retire when they're 42, 43. So they've got 20 years on the other side at least. Yes. It just, it tugs on my heart, you know, these, not just in that field, but in all fields, people that serve our community who are really struggling. And so I just feel a lot of passion about helping them. And, you know- It's amazing. Yeah. I think one of the things that we're getting to too, it's more acceptable now to talk about mental health. Yes. And I love what you're doing. Talk a little bit about that, maybe changes you've seen and why it's important that it's okay that we, all of us, all of us have had issues. All of us have baggage or things that we bring into every situation. Yeah. But I love that we're more and more, as a society saying, it's okay for us to talk about what's in our head, someone else is probably going through it too. Absolutely. I think what you said is so key. What I always try to express in different ways in my teaching is that whatever you're feeling or thinking or going through, you are never the only one. Right. Ever. Right. In fact, there's probably thousands of people right now feeling the same way. Yes.  You know, we, in this day of social media and having to show up and do our thing, whatever our thing is, there's an element of vulnerability that's missing sometimes. But we are complex people. We are complex beings and we have feelings and emotions and that adds to who we are. And to be able to talk about that between two people is deeply healing. Yes. And honest. Yes. So I know also too as part of my mindful project, we're talking with city of Fort Worth. Yes. You mentioned Arlington, but I know we're talking about bringing it here and I'm very excited about us seeing how that works out because I do know from dealing with our first responders that they are under amount of stress. Where does that sit in the process? What are your thoughts there? Yeah. So we've had very initial conversations with Fort Worth PD and you and I have talked about it. And what I'm doing in Arlington right now, I feel like this summer is almost information gathering. You know, I'm getting in there refining the program. We're hoping to get some data around it. And then I need to bring that to the right people with in Fort Worth PD and have those conversations. But they're receptive and I think they're ready and it's just getting the information to the right people. Okay. Well, let me know how it can help with that. Happy to do it. What can just normal people, everyday people, everybody else do to de-stress their environments? Yes. Yeah. Yes. That's a really important question. If they can't get to your class or get on the app, what else can they do in their life to de-stress? You know, I'll start with super simple neuroscience of why your question is so important. Because we're mammals, we have a limbic system in our brain. And in the limbic system, emotions are- I'm getting all this science. I love it. I know, right? I love it. I love it. Emotions are contagious, like literally contagious. So if I came in this room today and you were cranky and distracted and just having a bad day and I would pick that up and that would be what we shared today. Yes. The kind of base feeling of that. So in a group, you know, say you're in a team of 10 people, six of the people are overwhelmed, overworked, under-resourced. That whole group is going to be pretty dysregulated and not function well. Yes.  A little anxious, okay. So I had my feet on the ground and I took a deep breath and then I imagined that I was running the exhale through my body down into my feet. Okay. And that grounded any sense of like anxiety or that live wire feeling.  Calm and blended. Yes. I'm not as scary as it sounds. No. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that's great. Well, where can people find you? Yes. Website, et cetera. So the website for the Mindful Project is themindfulproject.co. Okay. Not .com, but CO. And I'm reachable through there. And there's- And you have an app too. What's that called? Yes, the Lauren Yoga app. Lauren Yoga app. Okay, great. Well, thanks for being here. Thank you so much. That has been very informative and I love the work that you're doing. Thank you, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for joining us for this episode of Fort Worth Ford. It's been great to be out here with Dr. Mick, Mick Ortho, as part of their ribbon cutting ceremony. If you have great people that you would think would make great guests for Fort Worth Ford, send them our way, district3atfortworthtexas.gov. Again, thank you and I'm gonna get some work done now. Thank you.


from RichTVLive and richpicksdaily.com. And we have a brand new pick for you today. M-U-R on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange, Merchison Minerals. That's right, Merchison Minerals. So put it on your watch list, put it on your radar. Could be a big winner. And a track record kind of speaks for itself. And we've got a track record bringing you winners and bringing them to you first. I'd love to know what you think of this new pick, Merchison Minerals. We're gonna go through it this morning. Hope you're all having a great morning.  The last trading week of September, October is right around the corner. Friday, we start October. And once we get through September, which is the worst month of the year for the markets, historically, we then get into the best time of the year for the markets because historically, November is the best time of the year of the markets. So we're kind of getting close to that right now. So get your popcorn ready. Got a new pick for you today, Merchison Minerals. Let's get right into it right now. All right, I hope you all having a great trading day.  And we'd love to bring you winners and we'd love to bring them to you first. So I wanna show you guys this. Here we go. We're gonna get into the company deck first and foremost. Here we go. All right. All right. Now, I'm going to show you guys a couple things here about Merchison Minerals. Merchison Minerals. All right, it's gonna make some changes here on YouTube. I don't know why YouTube is not updating this video information. We'll get that fixed. Just gonna get that fixed right now. Here we go. That's, no, not Caboo Mining this morning. Not Caboo Mining this morning. I don't know why it's not uploading properly here on YouTube Merchison Minerals. Merchison Minerals is on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange under the symbol M-U-R. Merchison Minerals on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange under the symbol M-U-R. All right. On the TSXV under the symbol M-U-R. All right, Merchison Minerals Limited, LTD, LTD. All right, let's go back there. Okay. Should be on all destinations under the symbol Merchison Minerals. And we're gonna go through the entire company deck right now. All right, Merchison Minerals. Championing a green energy revolution through high grade, C-U-N-I-C-O-Z-N projects in the world's best mining jurisdiction. So it looks like these guys are mining for some really amazing properties. This is the Merchison Minerals Corporate Presentation and the website is merchisonminerals.com, which I'll go take a look at as well. Merchison Minerals. All right, there it is. The website pops right up, merchisonminerals.com. We'll take a look at that as well. Okay, here we go. And let's get into the deck here. All right. All right, good to see that it actually is correct right now. Merchison Minerals, here we go. All right, so let's talk about the investment highlights. Obviously, when we look at these companies, we always wanna break them down. So investment highlights, experience management and board with proven success record, president and CEO sold Pangia Goldfields, Inc. to Bear Gold Corporation for Canadian 204 million in 2000 and arranged US 220 million in funding for the Kuala Mineral Sands Project in Kenya. Project located in two of the best mining jurisdictions in the world, Saskatchewan and Quebec, surrounded by excellent infrastructure. Merchison positions itself as a key mining player in the Green Energy Revolution, with projects that provide exposure to critical minerals, including cobalt, copper, nickel, silver, graphite and zinc. So those are some very key areas of focus and those are all key elements that are needed right now every single day. So I really like what these guys are drilling and I like the price, this is a seven cents stock guys. Brabent McKenzie located in a similar geological environment as the Flynn-Flawn-Laylor Lake, Lin Lake and Snow Lake deposits is a high grade VMS deposit hosting an NI 43-101 compliant resource of 2.1 MT at 10% ZNEQ indicated and 7.6 MT at 6.3% ZNEQ inferred. The project also has significant exploration upsides and remains open to expansion. The best assays of the HPM project shows high grade drill intercepts, including 1.74% NI, which is nickel, 0.9% CU, which is copper and 0.09% CO, which is cobalt, over 43.2 meters at bare to fair significant tonnage potential also exists on the PYC target. 139 kilometer project has numerous mineralized targets requiring follow-up, 3,500 meter drilling program is planned on the 1,700 meter long PYC target. Huge land package in Saskatchewan covering an area of 626.9 kilometers, highly perspective for VMS type deposits and the potential to identify high grade strata-bound meta-cidimentary gold deposits resembling the Grewecki North Lake and numerous other known gold deposits in the region, the newly acquired properties located in the Barraulte Laudrian mining camp in Quebec only two kilometers away from this 15.7 MTZN-AG Abcourt-Barve deposit are believed to host some of the best untested geological geophysical base metal targets in the area. All the targets are drill ready. Merchison has a close and supportive relationship with local communities and governments. I've told you guys before, that is key if you wanna build a successful company. You have to have a relationship with the people who own the lands that you are working and drilling on. You also have to have a relationship with the people that are working around the lands that you're working on and drilling on, okay? All right, so let's take a look at Merchison Minerals, Acid Base and Share Structure. Now you guys know I'm a fundamental trader. I love to break down the fundamentals of every company we talk about here in Rich TV Live. This is a company whose fundamentals look pretty strong. So right off the bat, if you look on the right-hand side, you'll see the share structure. So the share price, only at 7 cents. The issue in outstanding, 108 million shares. It's a pretty tight flow for a company that's only at 7 cents. Current market, capitalization in Canadian, 8.7 million market cap. That's a baby market cap in American. Only a 6.9 million market cap. It's absolutely a baby market cap. You can see they have 300,000 in working capital. This is the Acid Base and Share Structure. Best drill assays at Bar de Ferre. 10 nickel copper cobalt go-send areas identified. Excellent infrastructure. 8 kilometers to railroad. About 225 kilometers to the port of Sept. Isles and 100% owned. The Brabent McKenzie VMS project resource base inferred and indicated. Entire property package covered by VTEM surveys. Excellent established infrastructure and 100% owned. And you can see the areas are in Quebec. You can see in the map, the areas in Quebec. And the focus in Saskatchewan. So you can see the HPM NICU CO project. Nickel, copper and cobalt. And the Barraut, Laudrian base metals project. And the Brabent McKenzie VMS project. So three projects for a company with a tight flow. I'm going to show you guys they just raised $4 million as well. And they've got a reasonably tight share structure with a really small share price and a baby market cap. You guys know what I look for, right? And you can see the Barraut, Laudrian base metals project. Option to earn 100% in 75 mineral claims. Belief to host some of the best untested drill targets in the area. Two kilometers away from the 15.7 MTZN-AG Abcourt Barraut deposit. So the Quebec HPM NICU CO project. You can see the active railroad. And it's a 100% owned HPM NICU CO project. Now what I want to do is while we're looking at this project, I want to go through the share structure. Amanda says we'll be watching closely for sure. We know these elements will have huge demand in the near future. Well, you know, we love to bring you guys winners and we love to bring them to first, especially when we see something this cheap. We have to bring it to everyone's attention because everybody loves small cap stocks that have a chance to grow. Obviously the lower the price, the more risky the stock. I must remind you guys at Rich TV Live is strictly for information education purposes. Please do your due diligence, do your research before you invest in anything that we talk about or discuss here on Rich TV Live. Have interviewed the CEO, stay tuned to that interview. Today we're going to go through the deal and break down all the fundamentals. We're going to go through the price. Take a look at the price of the stock as well. Let's actually do that right now. And we'll go and see what the chart analysis is telling us. Because charts do talk to us, believe me or not. Believe me, the charts do speak to us. So we're going to look at the price here. All right. So we're on Webull and you can see the price is only at 7 cents. This is the one-year chart. You can see that the low-low is 5 cents. The high-high is 11 cents. So I'm going to mark those two areas. I'm going to mark the low-low of 5.5 cents. And we're going to mark the high-high of 11. So as a trader, you need to know what the low-low is. You need to know what the high-high is. The low-low is 5.5 cents. We're at 7. We're pretty close to the bottom, right, based on where it's been previously. Based on chart analysis and historical chart patterns, it's previously been as low as 5.5 cents. It's been as high as 11 and it's currently at 7. So as a trader, that tells you something, right? Now let's just take off the Bollinger Bands for a second. So this is not as messy. So you can see right now sitting at 7. Been as low as 5.5. Been as high as 11. And right now sitting right at 7. So a little bit of downside potentially to get to the low-low. Some good upside to get to its high-high. And the reality is this is a company nobody even knows about. It's just getting started. You can see the average volume is 92,000 shares. Traded 180,000 shares yesterday, which is double its average daily volume. So something's happening here, right? Something's going on. So you need to be aware of that. And typically when we bring you these picks, what I'd like for you to do, put on your watch list, put on your radar, and let me know what you think. Do you like this pick? You can see that it's only listed right now in Canada. You'll see a U.S. and Frankfurt listing. Hopefully the U.S. and Frankfurt listing are coming soon. But it goes to show that this is literally just getting started, okay? And as an investor, that's really the advantage for you, is to get into something before everyone else knows about it, and before it explodes. And we have a track record of doing that, of bringing picks before anybody else in the universe. You know, I know we do these videos early. People are still sleeping. People are not even awake to even hear about it. But once this video goes, once we've done this video, and we put it all over social media, people will start to open up this video, watch this video, learn about this company, and then start to put it on its watch list and put it on its radar. So the question is, as an investor, do you want to get in before that? Because that's what the best investors to make money. That's how they do it. They get in before everybody knows, and then by the time everybody knows and starts getting into stock, they're ready up and they're ready making money. So as you can see, only at seven cents and just getting started for the day. Now let's take a look at its website. Now go to their website. All right, so now we're on their website, merchisonminerals.com. You guys can follow us at home, put them on your watches, put them on your radar. Go to their website, merchisonminerals.com, M-U-R on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange, championing a green energy revolution through high grade C-U, just copper, N-I, which is nickel, C-O, which is cobalt, and Z-N, which is zinc projects in the world's best mining jurisdictions, and their focus is in Quebec and in Saskatchewan. So you can see here, merchisonminerals on the Toronto Stock Venture Exchange and they... I'm going to break down this news right here. Let's break down this news. So they just announced a $4 million non-brokered private placement today. They literally just announced this today. merchison announces $4 million non-brokered private placement. merchisonminerals today announced that subject to regulatory approvals. It intends to raise $4 million in a non-brokered private placement with the net proceeds directly directed towards drilling. So they're talking about drilling here at 7 cents. The H-P-M, nickel, copper, cobalt property in eastern Quebec, working capital and administrative expenses. John Charles Potvin, president and CEO, we've interviewed, stay tuned for that interview. With excellent exploration results of the H-P-M reconnaissance program this summer, we believe that the 1,700 meter long PYC nickel, copper, cobalt bearing mineralized zone needs to be drill tested immediately. Private placement will enable the company to complete approximately 18 holes totaling 3,550 meters. Company intends to issue units at a price of $0.08 per unit and flow-through units at a price of $0.09.5 per flow-through unit in any combination to raise aggregate proceeds of $4 million. So this is good. They're raising money at a higher price than where it's currently trading right now. To me, that's bullish. Each unit will be comprised of one common share of the company and one half of a common share purchase warrant. Each hole warrant and each flow-through unit will be comprised of one flow-through common share of the company and one half of a warrant. Each hole warrant shall be exercisable to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.12 for a period of 12 months from the date of issuance thereof. Finders fee may apply to a portion of the proceeds raised under the private placement in the amount of 6% cash and 6% finders' warrants. All securities issued pursuant to the private placement are subject to a 4-month hold period from the date of issuance. It is anticipated that David K. Johnson, the director and control person of the company will acquire a certain number of units under the private placement to maintain his current ownership at around 30%. Any such participation is considered to be a related party transaction as defined under Metilateral Instrument 61-101 MI 61-101. The transaction will be exempt from the formal valuation and minority shareholder approval requirements of MI 61-101 based on the determination that the securities of the private company of the company are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, TSXV, clearly not a private company, a public company. Now that the fair market value of the private placement insofar as it involves interested parties does not exceed $2.5 million or 25% of the market capitalization of the company. The private placement was approved by all independent directors of the company. About Murchison Minerals Murchison is a Canadian based exploration company focused on the exploration and development of the 100% owned Brabant McKenzie Zinc Copper Silver VMS deposit in northern central Saskatchewan. Company also owns 100% of the HPM Nickel Copper Cobalt project in Quebec and holds an option to earn 100% interest in the Barat VMS exploration project also located in Quebec, north of Val d'Or. Murchison currently has 100.8 108.9 million shares issued in outstanding which is pretty good considering it's only at 7 cents. So that's the press release that was right on the website and they had some previous news on September 1st and August 16th so feel free to read their news right on their website at MurchisonMinerals.com You can find out who they are, their mission and values, leadership, governance, corporate directory and sustainability find out about their assets Brabant McKenzie, HPM Barat, Laudrine, reserves and resources and technical reports get investor information, stock information news releases, financials and filings everything you need to know about the company and you can contact them directly through the website as well. Alright so that was the press release where they've raised $4 million. Let's just see if there's any movement in the stock yet this morning. I don't see much movement in stock yet this morning Let's refresh that real quickly See if there's any change Okay I don't see any movement in the stock this morning Now we had a big red day yesterday in the markets and it looks as though we're having a much nicer greener day so far today in the markets If you guys have any questions about this pick, please put it in the chat I'll do my best to answer your guys questions Good morning Mike And if you guys have questions about Merchison Minerals Please let me know Let's continue to go through the company deck Alright Well you know it just raised $4 million It's got a tight float They're drilling for a lot of elements that are very much needed And they're at $0.07 And nobody knows them yet So I mean yeah it's at $0.07 Anything under a dollar It's a penny stock it's super risky But if you're looking for a risky penny stock That has huge upside A baby market cap, tight float Money in the bank and the potential to grow This could be it And we love to bring you winners And we love to bring them to you first So at the very least I wanted you to be aware of this company Because if it does explode We want to make sure you know who they are Right So you can see here the 100% Owned HPM NI NICL CU CO Cobalt Project And you can see here the potential to outline both Opencast And underground Sulfide Deposits 3550 Meter Drill Program Planned for the 1700 meter long PYC target That is up to 59 meters Wide on surface 32 drill holes 6469 meters In 2001 2002 And 2008 confirmed the presence of high grade NICL Copper Cobalt Mineralization At the HPM property And you can see right on the photo On the right the HPM project area Numerous other exploration targets Including over 10 Gossens Merchants claims cover 139 kilometers Of highly perspective geology Excellent infrastructure With close proximity to 35 Megawatts Hydro power And rail lines So they're literally ready To go You can see the core from the whole HPM-8-03 At Bard Affair The mineralization visually looks Identical to Sudbury and Voisie Bay's drill core So you guys can see what it looks like 43.2 meters Acid 1.74% NICL 0.9% Copper And 904 ppm parts per millions And Cobalt This is the HPM claim map Geology And mineralized showings In the Merchants Minerals properties You can see numerous EM features Show close correlation with Known Gossens Located via past and ongoing Ground exploration programs As well as historical NICL Copper and Cobalt mineralized Grab samples Identified during previous Prospecting field programs So you can see in the Bard Affair High-grade historic assays Including 43.3 meter grating 1.74% NICL 0.90% Copper And 904 ppm cobalt Only 25 holes drilled Highly underexplored And prospective So you can see that there's a lot of Potential on these properties And these guys are just getting Started HPM numerous untested EM conductors So you guys can see all the areas of focus A lot of the work is already done So as an investor You're literally just Buying the stock and sitting back And watching the ride A lot of work is already done And this is a company that seems To be on top of a lot of Different areas of focus So you can see previous work That's been done And what the work that they're Planning to do looks like And historical drilling On the Bard Affair So this is all very technical For more technical investors Merchison Minerals MUR is a symbol in Canada The Bard Affair Modelled Sulfide Mineralization Early Conceptional Modeling Indicates the potential for 4-6 million tons Using a cutoff of $30 One metal content Canadian So huge huge huge potential The model currently lacks Geological controls And is not NI-43-101 compliant More drilling is required Since the mineralization is open In multiple directions with several holes Terminating In potentially economic Level mineralization Proximal EM conductors Remain untested Drilling This is the Cyra conductor Which is untested An NI bearing Sulfide mineralization on surface 500 plus meter long Strong EM conductor Only one historical drill hole Historical hole oriented Parallel to the conductor Use same orientation As at Bard Affair Proximal To the Bard Affair Body The EM channel 45 The presence of massive Sulfides strong conductors And expanded claim Block And priority airborne Anomalies So you guys can see Everything is Layed out there So the HPM summary Property consists of 260 contiguous claims 139 kilometers Location is 225 kilometers North northeast of Port Cartier 135 kilometers south of Firmont Ownership It is 100% owned Infrastructure Close access via all weather Provincial road, gravel road HPM property Is about 8 kilometers to a railroad 30 kilometers to 35 Megawatts Hydro generator Geology Regionally Manicuragen Metaphoric complex Mineralization Massive and semi-massive sulfide Pyro-Rite site Pentlendite And Cal Copyright Best results occur in whole HPM08-03 Or 43.2 million Assays 1.74% 0.90% Copper And 0.1% Cobalt 5.5% CuEQ 43.2 meters Passed work Mapping, geochem, geophysics And trenching So you can see all the work that they've done previously And what is the next steps Prospecting And exploration And drill program So what is the blue sky potential So you can see here The potential is huge What is completed and what is next So what's completed Mapping, geochem, geophysics And trenching Drilling 32 holes Intersecting numerous High-grade nickel, copper And cobalt intervals Initial deposit is defined at the bear defer Open in all directions Wide interval of disseminated sulfide May have sustained Substantial tonnage potential And warrant Assessment for high-volume Low-cost open mining potential Prospecting Identified numerous Nickel, copper And cobalt mineralized showings Numerous underexplored, unexplored Airborne EM anomalies Required follow-up VTEM plus Airborne survey completed Field prospecting including Mapping, sampling And backpack drilling Already completed on several targets What's next Chem scan Metallurgical evaluation Of NICU-CO Nickel, copper Cobalt bearing sulfide Mineralization from PYC Initiated 3550 meter Diamond drilling program Planned on the PYC Target fall of 2021 The Brabant-McKenzie High-grade zinc, copper Silver deposits Looks like this And you can see the specifics So this is a company that is very organized Has lots of properties Has a baby market cap Has some money that they are now raising $4 million And has a tight-share structure And has still a baby baby share price And baby market cap at $0.07 Because nobody knows So Love to know what you guys think If you like these videos please smash the like button Comment down below Share the video everywhere And subscribe if you're alive Because like usual We're bringing you the winners And we're bringing them to you first Haven't heard anyone talk about this company before But I promise you that after this video Goes viral, we will not be the last ones To talk about this company That's the beauty of Rich TV Live And Rich Pigs Daily We bring you winners and we put them on the map So that the rest of the world Can learn about these early-stage companies And we love to bring you winners And we love to bring them to you first We have a tracker to bring in companies first I believe we've done it better than anyone else in the world I think we've done about 2700 Videos on YouTube so far 2700 2700 Videos on YouTube With companies just like this That we brought first No one ever knew about And then you look back years later And it absolutely exploded So Maybe this might do it as well You just never know You absolutely never know Alright And looking at Webull to see any movement I don't see any movement yet Alright Stock information Okay, going through everything here I don't see any change in price yet Or any change in volume yet today Alright So this is the Brabant Mackenzie High Grade Zinc Copper Silver Deposit Prime Location 1 km from established Infrastructure The Brabant Mackenzie Deposit Entire 627 km Land Package Covered with Modern Airborne Geophysical Survey Highly Perspected For VMS type Base Metal Deposits Graphite As well as for Gold Current Resource Estimated Indicated 2.1 Empty at Metric Tons At 10.97% ZNEQ Inferred at 6.6 metric tons At 6.92% ZNEQ Year round access via Existing Roads 1 km From Provincial Highway Power Water 2 km from Brabant Lake Community And the Brabant Mackenzie Geology has robust dimensions This is the Geological Model Foot Wall View on the right Geological Model Is based on 138 Diamond Drill Holes Including 19 holes 9000m from 2018 Diamond Drill Program Deposit Outcrops At Surface Dip Averages 51°N Mineralization Tentatively Correlative Over 1100m Strike 2 Mineralized Zones Defined You can see the Upper Mineralized Zone Upper Mineralized Zone UMZ is defined Over Strike and Dip Length Of 1 km at 50 m depth Maximum Thickness of 16 m Averages 5.3 m Lower Mineralized Zone LMZ Up to 25-30 m Below UMZ Defined Over Strike and Dip Length Of 800 m From Surface Maximum Width to 18 m Averaging 6.7 m The Deposit Remains Open At Depth Laterally The Brabent Mackenzie Has Big Exploration Upside Potential Hanging Wall View Upper Mineralized Zone Details Brabent Mackenzie Foot Wall View Lower Mineralized Zone So, a lot of properties here With huge potential And Further on the Brabent Mackenzie Mineralogy And Expansion Potential And you can see that It has enormous potential The Deposit is defined as a high-grade Metamorphosed Cidimentary Hosted VMS Deposit Similar to the Willroy Willecos Nama Creek Deposits Satellite Deposits To the 54 million tons That's big Gecko Deposit in Ontario Or the Sheridan Deposit in Manitoba So these can be just Absolutely massive Massive Deposits And you can see the 2020 field Prospecting Results The Winter 2021 Drill Program So you can see exactly What it looks like And looking ahead to the Brabent Mackenzie Deposit There is ongoing Metrological test work And the goal is an imminent Zinc or Copper Mine Huge Huge Huge So a desktop study Shows and suggests mining rate In the 1500 TD Range is most likely For this deposit based on currently defined 10 metric ton Resources both indicated And inferred Project will likely produce A Zinc Concentrate With significant Copper, Gold Silver and PB Credits Continued Resource Definition And Expansion And the Quebec Barot Ladrian Base Metals Project With a Strategic Location 75 Mineral Claims Covering 2377 Hectares 60km North of Val d'Or And about 4km Northwest Of the Municipality of Barot In Quebec Potentially Hose some of the best Untested Geological Geophysical Base Metals Targets in the Area And the Barot Ladrian Base Metals Project Expiration Upsides So you can see all the Specifics of Property And the Drill Target You can see what's next Brabant Mackenzie High Grade Zinc Copper Silver Project And the Barot Ladrian Base Metals Project And the HPM Copper Cobalt Project So guys These guys are on the verge of some Big, big, big drilling results Potentially And we're talking about a 7 cent stock With a baby market cap And a tight share structure And they've got all of this work Ready to go With some of the key elements And metals that are needed More than any other metals Right now I mean nickel There's a huge Huge shortage of nickel Copper Can never have enough copper Cobalt We're talking about 3 huge elements That is needed more than ever Now in 2021 and beyond This is all their contact details Feel free to contact the company Through their Twitter, Facebook Or LinkedIn And this is their management and board So I have interviewed John Charles Pontven Who is the president and CEO And chairman, co-founder of the company President and CEO of Pangaea Goldfields Inc. Acquired by Barot Gold Corporation For 204 million in 2000 So this is a man who's already had a successful Exit, just saying You know If you've got experience with success Chances are if you've done it before You can do it again So basically director, vice president And top-ranked equity research gold analyst With burns, fry, slash BMO, Nespit Burns Very highly touted And currently a director of Azamut Exploration Inc. Golden Sun Resources And Merchison Minerals So feel free to look at The VP of exploration Chief financial officer And independent director And the management and board of the directors continued You can see some other directors Independent directors, strategic advisors And independent directors Some of their findings and VMS mineral deposits Ground prospecting and geophysics Airborne data collection And the VMS Or body Formation So you guys can see The copper massive sulfides Zinc Massive sulfides Copper football Stockwork Stringer zone So just to give you For more technical investors An idea of Where they are finding All of these elements and metals And the geophysics modeling example Of the Brabant South area Multiple targets The south area is immediately southwest Of TOM2 Brabant south is a complex Grouping modeling using VTEM With multiple individual plates Conductivities Range from moderate to high So you can see south A South B South C and south D And main lake High grades on surface So what the pits look like And the massive Spholarite of zinc And the 4 channeled one of 120 targets And significant Gold potential We've seen gold really take a tough Turn for the last year I think now We're starting to see for the most part Gold stocks right around 52 week lows I think now is the time to start really looking At gold Gold, silver Mining stocks, metals I think everyone needs to look at them right now And you have to think that That's the time to buy So potential To identify high grade stratabound Meta Sedimentary gold deposits Such as the Grey Wacky and North Lake deposit Mergerson control 17 kilometers of the same Favorable geological Horizon Numerous other gold deposits in the region Julu, Jasper B, Santoy, Fork Lake Mallard Lake And Komiya So the entire 627 kilometer Land package has been covered with modern Airborne geophysical surveys The package is highly prospective For VMS type Base metal deposits Brabant Mackenzie deposit As well as for gold Julu, CB Santoy gold mines And the North Lake Grey Wacky All right, so that's what we got I mean Put it on your radar, put it on your watch list Mergerson, Minerals M-U-R Thank you guys for watching If you're not winning, you're not watching Like usual, we bring you the winners And we bring them to you first If you liked the video, smash the like button Comment down below, share the video everywhere And subscribe if you're alive This is your boy Rich from Rich TV Live And I'm out