You thought the World Cup was exciting, Megan. Yeah, yeah, we tried to top that. You did. That was the whole mission, the whole night. Everybody who tuned in to the World Cup tuned in to our game. Well, if I had known that, we should have put that out there, but you guys definitely put on a show. To be down by 17 at halftime, what was your overall message to this group coming on that second half? Yeah, pretty unhappy with ourselves at halftime. Just the overall concentration level, which we talked about before the game, and so it wasn't where it needed to be. Luckily, we had another half to play. Again, another third quarter by that group. 25 points in the third, 25 points in the fourth, so to be able to hold them to 50 points in the half, turn the concentration level up, our want-up, our need-to, all the other above to get the win. And for Kevin Duran to have 26 of the 44 points in that third quarter, what did you see that allowed him to get going offensively? Yeah, he was really trying to get a pulse in the field. They were doing different things, whether they're not doubling on the post, sometimes doubling on the post, doubling in pick-and-roll coverage. So really just an efficient night of finding out where he was going to get his shots from. I think he was pretty patient overall, and then when the water started running, it started pouring, so it was really good to see. In your mind, I mean, what? Listen, we've seen Kevin kind of go off quickly and ignite fast, but I mean, what was it, I guess, that enabled him to do it tonight, to turn so abruptly? Yeah, Brian, I think of the mix of, you know, he turned the corner a couple of times. He didn't get it to go for him at the rim a few times, but he stayed with it. And so whether that was, I think, setting up the three-ball game, which, when that thing's going in, is extremely tough to guard him, because there's so much space around him, man. We tried to put more space around him throughout the course of the night, but I thought his early attacks to the rim, some successful, some unsuccessful, set up the threes, which got him going. And probably an even more glaring change, at least from the outside. Nick looked like he struggled defensively in the first half, but yet he came up big at the end. What was going wrong for him in the first half, and how did he change it to going right by end? Yeah, I think, overall, the concentration level that we tried to give the Bogdanovich and Berks at the beginning of the game, they made some adjustments, which had us thinking a little bit. Overall, we want this team to play with instincts and feel and not be thinking too much. When he gets back to just guarding and defending and jumping out at the basketball and wanting to guard, using his instincts, that's what he got back to in the second half. I know it's not something that you want to see, to have to come back a second game after being down by double figures, but what can you say just about the resiliency and the poise, as you always mentioned, that this group has shown you, especially when a gun's quarter-by-quarter or play-by-play? Well, it's interesting. You learn about your team in stretches like that also, whether who's talking in the huddle, what is the communication, what is the self-talk at that time from individuals. And so, all that, I'm trying to process at the same time. Who can I put into the game? Which buttons can we push? What units, which we had different ones out there tonight? So that piece of it allows me to really stress to this team that we're going to put a group out there who's playing hard and we're going to try to win every single night. However way we do it. Jock, a little bit more on Kevin. I mean, he had 20 points in three minutes or three minutes and three seconds. What's it like to have a guy like that can do that on your team? It was nice because the score was, you know, coming back in our favor a little bit and we were able to take the lead. And, you know, you're thinking that that part of the game is how are you going to climb back into it, without thinking too far ahead? And then he was able to string some possessions together. And you see the momentum piece of it. Guys were able to defend better. We got stops. We got rebounds at that time, just because the shots that he was making were going in. Jack, you've obviously been around him closely these last few years. You've watched him from a distance for those years before. Do you think this is the best top to bottom that you've seen him? You know, the teams throw everything at him. And so that piece of it, I think it warrants that conversation just because at the end of the night, and we talked about a little bit the other day, you look at the stats sheet and it's an extremely efficient night.  I love that he's doing it in multiple ways, whether it's passing the basketball, whether it's on the post, mid post, at the elbow, three ball. You're just seeing it in a variety of ways, which means his game is getting better still, which is pretty difficult to say, but some truth behind it. Jack, do you have an update on TJ? We saw him, it seemed like he got up slow right at the end of the half, yeah. No, nothing from the performance team. He was able to go back in, just use a different unit to finish the game. Thanks, Tom. Okay, Patty, when you get back. Yes, yes. So the update on Patty, man, non-COVID illness, which, you know, hit him pretty hard. I guess that's going around a little bit. And so, but the report back that he was feeling a lot better from the previous two days, for sure. Yeah.


The cast of A Little Folk Tale has been rehearsing enthusiastically for St. Lucia's biggest night at Carre Festa 14. It's an even bigger occasion for the play's two young St. Lucia writers, 20-year-old Monique Auguste and 19-year-old Jesse Meyers. Their masterpiece, A Little Folk Tale, started as a secondary school project highlighting St. Lucia's folk characters. It started off as an improv I did in secondary school in a theatre arts class and it was basically about this book that whatever direction of book it comes to life. The play brings into focus four famous St. Lucia folk characters. Their stories passed down from generation to generation. The background stories of St. Lucia folk characters, the Laja Bless, the Supuyo Kocma and Tibolo. A Little Folk Tale became a theatre production at the South Alois Community College when Monique was asked to write a play for the school. She reflected on the secondary school research project and the many folk tales that excited her imagination over the years. Growing up I heard stories about the theatre arts with my grandmother and I noticed we have not many people pass on these stories anymore so I thought it would have been a good topic to highlight. It was at this stage Monique teamed up with Jesse Meyers then a stage manager to write and produce the play now getting international attention at Carrie Festa 2019. We had a lot of fun writing the play like we mesh really well together. We have a very similar sense of humor, a similar writing style so sitting down with Monique was always fun. It's a very exciting experience I would say and complain because like Jesse said they started off as a very small project for Jammer Club. A lot of heart and effort was put into this and we didn't expect any, we didn't expect it to go so far. Monique Auguste and Jesse Meyers are hoping their exciting journey so far and the play itself will inspire young writers to explore their culture and to keep writing. One I would advise of the young artists and writers to go out there and create content because the reason why I think this play was so well received was that it was kind of written with a young voice but it also has it also bridges a gap between the older generation and I feel like sometimes we feel like we're not represented because you know of course our Nobel laureates and everyone before us plays but sometimes people find it difficult to identify so I would advise them to go out there, use your voice, don't give up. A little folk tale was commissioned by the Cultural Development Foundation after director Draenia Frederick spotted its potential and cross-generational appeal. From the Government Information Service I am Rajvaro Lawrence reporting from Cary Fester 14 in Trinidad and Tobago.


We're so delighted here at TechSoup to welcome you to our future of work conference. Our guest experts will show you the tools and techniques needed to create resilient and sustainable organizations for social change, as well as the methods we can use in order to create a more equitable sector. First of all, we'd like to thank our community partner Roundtable Technology, who are helping sponsor us for this event. And now the moment you've all been waiting for. The remote working is here to stay. So how might we still be effectively and creatively collaborate, even when we aren't in the same room? In this session, we will discuss how to reimagine collaboration in the virtual world. We'll dig into pro tips on how to develop a personal connection with your team, despite being across the screen. Lastly, we'll discuss tools and technologies, as well as the long-term benefits of remote collaboration. We're so happy here today to have Marty Grimnick, a global executive, business executive, social entrepreneur and futurist designer. As the founder and CEO of International Connector, Marty has developed innovation processes to help companies design for the future of work, education and community. With the background in entertainment, she's an expert on creating engaging virtual experiences and programs for the workplace. Without further ado, I'll give you Marty. Thank you.  So I am gonna kick the start. This is about virtual collaboration. So we're not just gonna sit here and you're not just gonna look at me, we're gonna actually collaborate together. So I'm gonna post up onto the screen a link and I think the team here is gonna help me out with this as well. This is to a mirror board, which I'll explain a little bit further, but I'd love for you to join me on there. And just a couple other things that I can mention as well is that when COVID hit and most of us started to go virtually, I was working with TechSoup to develop courses about this. So how can nonprofits worldwide digitize their work, their events, their community engagement? And so now we get to talk about how all of that kind of comes together with engaging with people. So let me also don't mind me looking at several different screens for a minute. I'm gonna share my screen and pull up the mirror board to entice you all to join me from there. And yay, I see people coming in from different parts of the world. I love that. All right, so you see this board? Can you see my mouse moving around? And cool, we've got a few people coming in there. Awesome. So I'm gonna zoom in. So for a second, here's the whole board that you're gonna see. We're gonna come up to here where it says, introduce yourself, zoom on in. I'd love to know who's here. You can copy and paste, control C, control V, what are these symbols? And you can then take it over to the board and pin yourself on the board. There I am over here in San Francisco. Let me know where you are in the world. Introduce yourself. You can tell all your name, your object. You can find, you can put a picture up if you want. Over to the side, you'll see there are these cool post-its. There are shapes that you can pull and you can pull those out and you can color them. Be as creative as you want. You can use different title links to say hi, whatever you wanna do. If you wanna just grab a post-it, if that's easier, you can just grab a post-it and put it on the board and put your name on it, do what you like. But I'm excited for you to join me and then I get to see where everybody is. And I love watching all the little tags and everything that are going through. So while you're doing that, I am gonna start a little bit. Also, I just wanna mention that I love answering questions. So please ask your questions throughout. Don't feel like you're ever interrupting me. I love to answer questions. It just helps reinforce and talk about what we're doing. And then if you do have other questions about how to use Mirol, just let us know. There's no wrong answer. Sometimes when you pull something up, it's really big and you might need to resize it. Okay. So now I'm just gonna move down to over here where I'm just talking about oh, why are we doing this? As you can see here, right? This is what we're used to. This is how we all used to be in a room together in some sort of format around this way. But now we've moved to this. So how can you collaborate specifically on this? Like how can you bring this stuff forward when you don't really necessarily want to, you can't just translate what was happening here in person to here, right? We need to really rethink what that looks like. And then what we also wanna talk about today is balancing that human experience with the technology. How does that interrupt or change or recreate what it is that we're doing? Obviously in the virtual world, technology is key but we can't 100% of the time depend on technology to do all the work or to magically solve all the issues, right? We have to remember that there's a human element behind it. So throughout this discussion, you're gonna hear me say a lot about balance, right? Balance is key, finding the right balance is absolutely essential. All right, let me just check and see how everybody's doing on these introduction spots. All right, people are putting things on. Yeah, you can also use comments. Those are another great tool, they're over here. You can just grab a comment, put it on the board and say hi or wherever you're from. I love it, thank you. You're making my day. Okay. Now, the main part of the board is over here. It's this realm, this like game over here and this is where we're all gonna collaborate together. Don't worry about my stuff on the numbers over there. That's just for me. I'm gonna bring those over. So here, start here. I've also laid out a few post-its if you need, if you're not sure where to grab something, you can always copy and paste. And then we're gonna zoom in on to number one. So how are you collaborating now and for what purpose? I would love to hear that. So I'm just gonna give people a minute to answer that. Right, one of the things, and I will actually move my little post-its over to start us off. See, these are my cheat sheets up here. But some of the stuff that people are using to collaborate with right now, a lot with like project management, social media or visual design, program design, volunteer client management. How else are you doing it? What are you doing? And also, how are you collaborating right now? I'm gonna give you all a few minutes to do that. Right, I'm collaborating with my team for daily coordination and project updates. I'm collaborating to keep things on track between time zones. Love to hear what people have to say on that. Oops, sorry, I'm moving things.  Project planning, using Mirrorboard templates, great. Oh, good. So we've got some experts on Mirrorboard here. Fantastic. I'll let a few more people write in. It's also helpful for me to know how you're collaborating right now and what you're looking for. I think one of my biggest starting points for everybody is just how do you get your team organized? So I use collaboration for almost everything, right? When we're in the office, sometimes we don't even realize we're collaborating because it's just so much around us and so much a part of what we're doing. So then when you go virtual, we've all had to spend this time getting ourselves organized and how can I show up to the office, quote unquote, or how can I work virtually? I had to set up my space, my routines, my communications, but now I am here and I have to do that with a whole team. How can we get organized? What are the daily routines that are needed? What time zone is everybody on? On my team, we average at least seven to eight time zones to balance. So that means that we're not all gonna be working at the same time. So thinking about how are you collaborating now? How can you get synced? Key times to meet, tools to support and manage the work, communication protocols, right? How do you communicate? What are the processes? Where are you storing your files and data? Those are all things, async communication, absolutely. And do you notice that you can zoom in and out? That's just another thing in mirror here. Support my team with tech, absolutely. Daily teens bringing resources, advocacy for US women veterans and their family, fantastic. Love all this answering. All right, we're gonna, as we continue to put things on but we're just gonna keep moving up. You can follow the little stone road up to our number two. And we're gonna talk a little bit about what misconceptions or mistakes are made about virtual collaboration. I think maybe some people are gonna have some stuff about mistakes. What's something that was just a mistake when you were doing this? And I'm gonna, again, sneak over and grab my little cheat sheets of what I was writing before. I have lots of things here. So I'm gonna start this one off with, we can't just do what we do in person online. We have to really think about the tools and think about how to translate to a screen and to a situation there, right? There's different dynamics. There's different energy levels when you're on a screen than when you're sitting in the room with people. So that quick translation to that is just, it's one of the easiest mistakes to make. Yeah, misconception. People think they need to be tech experts. You don't have to be a tech expert. That is another great misconception. So another one is that because I'm working, I always expect that everybody else is on the same schedule as me. And that is another big mistake. Everybody now that they're working in their different environments, they're not on the same location or like the same schedule as everybody else. So that is a huge one that comes up. Being online means being available. That's another great one. People need to be on video to be involved. Yes, my mistake is that it will be easy. These are so great. Not supporting asynchronous work. Not spending time to onboard and train people on tools. That is a huge one. Okay, we're going to talk about some of these, but this is fabulous. You guys are helping me do the whole presentation. Mistake that I can multitask when trying to pay attention on Zoom calls. I can always tell when I have a team member who's not paying attention on a call. Oh, I love the emoji. Thank you. You can also throw in pictures. I love this. Okay, what else did I put here? Oh, overdoing the let's get creative and add more excitement to the schedule. Sometimes we can overdo things and just add in too much because we're like, oh, we have to change this up. Let's just throw this in. And then let me see, what else did I say? Yeah, here is a real dichotomy that I find with people. I'm happier working from home in my own space or my mental health is suffering and not seeing people. So I don't really know which side that is, but we have, I hear both of those, right? That's a real like two things that really contradict each other, but yet we hear that all the time. This is awesome. Okay. Oh, and thinking people don't wanna collaborate digitally. These are great. All right. So as you can probably guess, let me see on my notes here, make sure we've covered everything on it to cover there. Okay. So now we're gonna work our little way over, follow the stone path and work our way to number three. What are the benefits of virtual collaboration? All right, collaboration is more than a connection point for my team. It's also, this is the source actually where we find efficiency, right? Faster results with creativity, new approaches, new ideas. I can bring in more diversity to the conversation through my team, through different ways of working just by efficiently and creatively doing this type of global collaboration. For example, here, right? We're all different types of learners and yet Miro, what's nice about this Ford and why I chose it is that there's different ways to respond, right? I can get all kind of cool shapes if I want. I can just add text if I want. I can throw up a post-it. There are templates that help me integrate things and bring up different types of wireframes, mind mapping, all sorts of stuff that help enhance the situation. And so that pulls an excitement in from lots of different types of speakers, participants, learners, et cetera. I'm gonna talk a little bit later about the storytelling but the visualization, the stories, again, they help, there's so much more that I can do than just throwing up one whiteboard where we're all working off of. Like how can you engage people? What are those benefits? All right, let me read some of these. The ability to work from anywhere, working from home or being able to work when somewhere else, absolutely. Totally agree that there's something for the introverts. I love working from home, yeah. I know introverts are so excited about all these different ways. Finally, something for introverts, so good. I love it too because as much as I do public speaking or talk and lead meetings, sometimes I don't wanna always answer in front of everybody and I love that I can throw up stickies or throw up something and put my answers forward onto different things.  My dog is sleeping next to me right now, I agree. People can work together on their own time, not just in the same place, work best at night and my coworkers best in the morning, that is great, right? You can pick up where somebody has left off. Easier screen sharing, note taking, meeting recordings, time to create, time to review and iterate, not as time or place found, amazing. These are such good answers. Can revisit and revise as needed. I hope everybody likes this mirror board, by the way. I don't know how to get emojis for thumbs up, but that's what we wanna see. So I also think that communication, there's improved in communications through an effective brainstorming collaboration, any types of these tools. Digital tools also help translate between in-person and virtual. So some people are dealing with hybrid work situations, right? And these tools can help bridge between that. So also some of the offices that are coming back together, you still need these same types of tools because our workplace is so flexible and fluid these days. So we need to think about something that helps support us no matter where we are and the type of work that we're doing. And my last thing is just it's easier to scale. It's easier to scale things when you're starting to work in these more digital spaces. Okay, so we are gonna head over here to number four. And now that we've spoken about where we are now, we're gonna journey into the next realms and I'm gonna break these down into two different sections. First about technology and then to the human experience. But we're gonna stop here at number four at the bridge. And we're gonna just talk about what technology platforms are you using for collaboration now, right? And this is an easy one, grab that posted note and throw them up there. While you're doing that, I will sneak down and show you on the screen, we have a little technology platform section. Now I could add so many to these sections for all of these categories. I just threw up a couple in each category, right? Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, Asana, for video conferencing, right? I just heard Zoom gather cosmos, a mural, mural, padlet, communication, Slack or Discord, volunteer learning management, crew for all.  Yeah, let's look at these as sets. Asana, Zoom, Slack, Riki, Great, Google Workspace, Zoom, iMessage, Google Hangouts, Chats, Google Meets, so many different ones. Canva, yep. I'll let you throw some of these up for a minute because that helps me see where everybody is working. And there are lots of tools for different reasons, right? I've posted a few of them below that were like from project management, communications, video conferencing, volunteer management, but I love to see that there's stuff up about design or CRM or files, right? Choosing the right tools for your team, they have to come together, right? You have to do some simple planning first, right? There's no shortage of great platforms out there, but not every platform works for every company. And each tool set, each platform offers different benefits and they have different looks and feels and ease of use depending on how you think and how you run things in your company. And they also have different price points, which is a really important thing to think about. So in general, what I wanna see you do if you're new to working on some of these tools or trying to get a more cohesive team together, I'd like you to start by thinking about your communications tools and your project management tools and then find a set of tools that work and integrate together. And we're gonna talk a little bit more about that. But let me look up here. Microsoft Teams and 365 Suite not well used currently. Okay, I'd love to know that is a big key area. So this is what I mean, ask me questions where I'm gonna riff off your answers from everybody. Establishing that plan, right?  That is super important, right? Once you've decided your set, sorry, I keep clicking on things, your set of tools, you need to have a plan and an organized way of establishing that with the team, right? Looking at how can, how do we communicate through these platforms? Where do we keep and file our information? How do we open up a collaboration? When do we use a mirror board or when do we use a tool that's in Microsoft Teams? Casual communications always goes through what channel, right? Thinking about how these things come together is a really interesting part of the scenario. And thinking about it as a puzzle, right? A puzzle piece has to come together in terms of where all these things fit together and so that you can map out exactly where this information lives, how you use these tools and then how the whole team agrees to do that. So Marty, we have one question here. So there are so many different tools out there. Where do we start when we're feeling overwhelmed? Where should people start? Absolutely. So there's a lot of different things that I can say about this and not to plug something, but we go into depth on this in some of the TechSoup courses. So I would definitely recommend taking some time if you really need to figure out those tool sets to zero in on some of the courses that really dive into remote working or event management or volunteer management depending on what your needs are with the company. But the two areas that I would start with, right, is communications and project management. So there's a couple of tools listed down here, like Microsoft Teams, Basecamp, Asana. There's a few others that exist out here. They have different looks and feels. That one's showing up blurry, sorry. This is what the dashboard looks like on Basecamp. This is Mondays.com, another one. This is Asana and this is Trello. Now, I'm not showing these to confuse you. I'm showing these because people think in different ways. And if I'm choosing a place, I need to pull into something that doesn't make me feel overwhelmed, but that works both in functionality, but also visually eases things for me. I think that's really an important tool and an important way to think about your tool set. I think price point is an important way to think about it. And a lot of these companies and platforms have integrations. They have free trials. They have free versions for limited numbers of people or projects. Those are good ways to get a feel for it, but establishing it. So right now our team uses Basecamp. We also use Teams because we do a lot of work with companies who use Teams. So we do bounce between the two and I use them for specific reasons because of the integration with communications tools. So for me, instead of going to have a Slack channel on top of a project management tool, I chose tool sets that integrate the two. For some people, they start with a Slack channel because that to them is the most important thing. They need communications going with a team. And so if you're starting with the Slack channel, then start to look at what integrates with Slack. So this moves us on actually into our next question set. Like how can you leverage or enhance your current tool set? So thinking about everything as a puzzle, right? I start, and this is continuing to answer that question, I really do map out in puzzle pieces every single functionality that I need with my team. So when I'm thinking about that, then I'm starting to have an understanding of how we're communicating, what types of things we need to communicate about or manage or collaborate on. And then I start to look at the platforms that exist and match a tool set to my needs. And that does help a lot. But these free trials that these programs offer are such great things because you get on them. And if you're really struggling with how to navigate through this, then maybe it's not the right platform for you. And you wanna try something else that maybe simplifies it for you. Okay, yeah, so if you are using certain platforms right now, how can you enhance that, right? Their platforms have everything from, I think most of us are familiar with Zoom. So let's talk about that, right? There's, we're in the middle of an event and you wanna throw up an emoji because you're excited, you're happy. There is, you wanna give that reaction point. Zoom allows you to play videos. You can do polls. They have a new whiteboard feature. There are other programs that you can integrate with it that allow ranking or voting. And so that integration with your apps, instead of coming and all of a sudden deciding, hey, we're gonna just change from Zoom to WebEx or we're gonna change to Gather or we're gonna change to Cosmos, which yes, offer lots of really different cool features, especially things like Cosmos and the Gather. But are there things that you can do that already exist on your current toolset? And learning that toolset more in depth can keep you in the same place but making changing up how you're doing your meeting. So we could break off into breakout groups and then come back together and think about adding that breakouts as now part of our way of collaborating, right? And we could vote on things through thumbs up and through emojis through, I think they even on teams have like gifts that you can put in just to be silly and have fun. So thinking about what tools are there and those integrations of the apps are really important.  Marty, there's another question. We were wondering if you would be able to discuss the integration, for example, with Slack with Outlook and Asana and how to use the different integrations with Slack and the apps? Absolutely. Most of the stuff, I did a little picture here if I zoom in and this is taken, this is actually from Teams, right? When you pull up integrations, they're app integrations and they have many more than this but these are just some of the ones that appear. And as you can see, there's a lot of things that you can add in to Teams to make it more functional for the stuff that you're doing. Sorry, so Asana, can you give me the integration again that you were asking about? Asana and Slack or Outlook and Slack. Okay, perfect. Yeah, they all, so Slack is great because it does integrate with a lot of things and you can pull, it will automatically pop up, right? So for example, I use Box for a lot of our files and I actually, we also do Google Drive and we do OneDrive ridiculous in terms of our projects but whatever cloud drive, like that's probably one of the easier ones to do it, Slack will always pop up an announcement to us to say, hey, you've just put up a file from here, do you wanna integrate this? And what happens is that these systems will then start talking to each other so that you can easily refer to and find files that you're looking for or send that information back and forth. The specific steps, if there is that you need to just click on their marketplace, sometimes it's called, sometimes it's called apps, sometimes it's called integrations depending on the platform, but what they do is they've set up these APIs that talk to each other and so once the things are connected then you can use them in coordination with each other. So depending on what feature it is that you wanted to connect, it will speak to each other. Another integration that I've used is something with Monday.com that I was tracking people through different status, right? If they submitted a document or once they finished something then they got an email sent to them. They have automations set up that if I change the status on somebody, if it green to red, it would automatically send out an email through say our Outlook system or our Gmail system. And so those types of integrations happen depending on again what you're looking to connect together. Okay. So now what I'm going to do is I am gonna move us up to number six. Now we're gonna start moving into some of my favorite stuff to talk about. I wanna talk a little bit about how are you, what are your current routines and meetings and how to enhance collaboration techniques within them? I think coming back to where we started with like misconceptions and mistakes is that a lot of times we try to create something new. We're gonna do this new system and this new system is gonna do X, Y, and Z. Let's work from where you are. When are you meeting together? How are you coming together? What is the routines like and what you do? So for example, I have a team meeting once a week with the entire team, which I tell you is a big feat with all the different time zones, but it's a really important meeting and we all come together to collaborate just to build awareness of what's going on across the company and different projects and just to see each other and build that connection. But in that meeting, I usually send out or a team member will send out an article ahead of time. Because we're all together, we like to use that time to discuss something. And yes, we're all across the screen, but what we do is we read the article, it's usually something related to our work or some really interesting thing that's happens in the world and we bring that to the meeting to discuss it. And that really builds a connection point between us. And so we're enhancing our meetings by doing that. So people know coming ahead of time that this is gonna spark something in them and that it makes the meeting something that they don't wanna miss. And then we can always throw out something fun within the meeting to change it up, right? We can put up a padlet if you haven't used that. It's a really easy tool to take a survey on or to do something similar to a Miro but a little bit faster in its setup. You can also have a minimeter or mini meter, whatever that's, I'm getting the name wrong, polling and voting that happens. And that just changes the dynamic of the meeting. So there are different ways. Like again, what are those things? Another thing that has changed up our routines lately is that we all, if we were all in an office, we would know when people were coming and going and it's just casually, I'm gonna go out for lunch or I've got a meeting, I'm doing this and doing that, whatever. And so what we've started as a routine is that our team signs in and out in a group chat. And it's not about micromanaging or how much time are you online? It's nothing about that. It's like, hey, I'm online now if you need me or I'm available or I'm here working on something. That type of routine has built a lot of connection points with our team. So let's see what we've got, making sure quiet people aren't left out. Yes, absolutely. Sorry, I'm just trying to read all these things, training and time schedules to lose people down in the other areas, come on over. Give me some, you can put up some more stuff. But yeah, like enhancing that. And you'll notice now that we're still in this technology section, right? This whole area, but you'll notice that I've moved quickly towards human connection. So this tells you how important this part is. The tech has to support that human connection. And it kind of pull all these pieces together. So as you're thinking about how do we know how, what routines you have that you can enhance with technology or enhance those meetings, let's move on to like how might we humanize the experience up here on this bridging area. I don't know if you can hear my dog in the background, but for those of you talking about a dog before, there she is. So humanizing the experience, right? We're all people and we don't want to stare at a screen all day. That Zoom fatigue as we've heard people say are utilizing it, it's not just Zoom, it's all this video conferencing. How might we change that up so that people are feeling the connection and not just feeling drained by staring at a screen? We just finished a card in a couple of minutes ago before the call where one of our teammates just had a baby and it's so exciting. So we all got together on a virtual program to create the card and sent that off. We're celebrating people's achievements, their birthdays, all the things you would do in an office that kind of break that up. When we have a new teammate joining the team, especially interns, right? We make sure that they set up one-to-one meetings with every single team member. And this basically helps bridge the gap when you're working together, right? That time getting to know each other. During different times that we've done, shared Spotify lists, recipe books around the holidays, right? Sharing these common experiences, like we want to take all the fun things that we would do in an office and figure out how to translate that to a virtual setting and utilizing, again, utilizing the tools that we already have to do that. All right, now I've lost a couple of things on my screen. We have another question. So what about for colleagues who are uncomfortable with constantly being on the screen? How do you still continue to have that human connection even though you're not necessarily seeing the person's face?  Am I understanding that? Like putting on their camera? Yes, that's the, okay. Yeah, that's a really good question.  We talk a lot about in our team, like being an active participant in the team and bringing stuff forward because we don't know what's going on in their, you know, home setting or how they're working or when they're working. We encourage people to bring that stuff forward. But I think you could create a time and place. Like my instinct is usually if people can't turn on their video, I might be making some misconceptions there that either there's a lot going on in the background for them or they're disengaged. And again, that may or may not be the reasons why, but those would be the reasons that I'm addressing. And so I would look to see if it's too many meetings that they have to be engaged on than maybe limiting or talking about it. This is the time that I really need you engaged and participating and talking in this meeting even if your camera's off and or to a type of collaboration or work process for project management that doesn't require that active participation in a meeting, right? Like you're all actively participating right now multitasking doing different things on the screen and that's fantastic. And that is still very valid way of working. So I would look for types of scenarios that allow that. But when possible and you can pull a group together and it's, you know, again, it's like, okay, I understand and not everybody loves to be on screen all the time for this team meeting once a week, we'd really like to have everybody there. And that may encourage others to start putting on their screen. And you know, thinking about it again over here at number eight, right? How do we add games, novelty, surprises, fun to the routine but without forcing socialization, right? That's a little bit of what we're talking about there, right? We don't want to force socialization. Like if you're having a happy hour every week people may not really want to do that, right? So just thinking about that thinking about how to have some fun but yet do it in a very mindful way, right? What are some visuals or storytelling that you can add to? We've added story into this just to jazz it up, make it more interesting. We're journeying through these different realms. We have the visualization. Those really do help to bring people's energy to something. It's not just your standard format in terms of, you know, like check the box here stick the post-it note up here, right? Giving somebody something to work off of that sparks their excitement to the whole thing. I am just reviewing my notes as when I'm looking for a second. Okay, so yeah, looking at these things I'm just mindful of the time as well and I wanna cover a couple more things. This is actually one of my favorite subjects like yes and we're gonna talk about. So as a leader, I need to establish a positive work atmosphere and in this positive culture for collaboration. And that is like one that celebrates diversity. It builds trust among the team. That's really important. It fosters creative ideas. It encourages open communication. It challenges the team to think bigger and to think bolder. And that applies whether it's project management collaboration or creative management and creative design. So think about these principles in a lot of different areas. So that's where yes and comes in. And this is a improvisation technique straight from theater and I have a theater background. And what we do is there's a one rule and when you're improvising and it's to say yes. So when you're on stage your partner may suggest something absolutely crazy. And instead of shutting down the flow, the dialogue and the storyline by saying no or pointing out something that's logical about the idea. Just say yes, yes and. So take that crazy idea and build upon their original idea. So what does this have to do with work? If your initial reaction to any conversation or idea is no, you actually will shut down the flow of ideas and the flow of the conversation. And it doesn't mean that you're saying yes, we're gonna go implement this. It just means we're gonna put all barriers aside right now on new ideas or opinions or building block. We're gonna open the door to these new ideas and to allow teammates to emerge and to build upon each other. And we, you know, typically you find in an initial discussion or an especially to create a brainstorm, the first ideas offered are often not brilliant ideas. They're rather safe ideas or safe opinions or they're off the wall, but that's okay. The ideas, they say yes, that's great. And we can add to this. And when you're thinking about collaboration and you're thinking about pulling all this stuff together, you wanna build trust in your team. And trust is really essential when you're working remote because we don't know people's situation. We don't know their productivity. We don't know all the ins and outs. And so this collaborative method and having that yes and culture really helps cultivate a cohesive, supportive creative team. And lastly, my last question for you, like what is something you can implement today with your team? You know, start small and continue to build. So what does that look like? And I think I can answer any more questions that are coming up. I love watching everybody. If you have questions, please feel free to put them in the Q&A section. Awesome. You can see again, like we started halfway through the technology talking about that human side, right? There's a lot of more questions and thoughts about that. So really thinking about it, like the platforms are really a small, super important part of it, but you need to start with that functionality first. So what are some of those things? And I do have, you know, just some takeaways that I can talk about, right? Finding the right mix of digital tools, keeping things consistent, but throw in some novelty and have some fun to change things up here and there. Don't 100% depend on the tech. Always add that human element. Don't force engagement or socialization, right? Leverage these tools, the meetings, the routines that you already have to find the right places to add in these connection points. Coming back to where I think you should start is be super organized with your team. Get in sync, talk about it. Talk about what works and doesn't work and communications. Now I didn't drone on about communications, but I will a little bit right now. It's just consistent, simplified, communicate everything. I don't know what's going on with all of you right now behind the computer. You don't know what's behind me here, right? So we need to remember that when we're working with the team, communicate, communicate. And yes, and build that creative environment, that open environment that allows for trust and builds that communication flow between team members. So my big takeaways for all of you today. So we have a question from Cara West. Do you have any recommendations for tools that are offered in multiple languages or tools that are easily translated? Absolutely. That's a good question. We deal a lot with different languages all the time. Most of the toolset that we're using is that like you can, it works in different languages. So I don't know if all the instructions are in different languages, but you can add things in and put things in that are all in different languages. So for example, Crew for All, which is our learning platform and our volunteer community management platform. We have our program in three languages right now, Arabic, English, and Spanish. And we're translating it to other languages. Slack and Discord, we have multiple channels that are supporting obviously whatever language people want to be on. And same if people want to communicate in different languages on base camp or Teams or Astana, that is all possible like through all of these. Miro, it's just a white board and you can set it up any way that you want. And they just give you templates but you can change out everything that's in them. I do feel most of these platforms are very helpful for that. Might just stop sharing for a minute. There we go. You have any tips on engaging and training those who are resistant of using? Start small. Baby steps, right? So find, it is hard if you're not used to communicating through technology, right? So figure out what they are doing. Tances are they're doing a lot more communications offline like in their personal lives, through different tools. So maybe they're using text messaging or they're using FaceTime or Slack or WhatsApp or not Slack, sorry, WhatsApp. So again, like figure out where they're at and then baby step it from there and then incorporate a tiny bit more and incorporate a tiny bit more. I think those are usually the best thing. If you throw it at people all at once and change everything all at once it's hard for them to digest and to effectively use it and to remember where to do it, right? Like I might set up a whole filing system and then I come back to it and I can't figure out what I've done let alone translate it to somebody else. Just remember the way you're thinking about something may not be as simple for somebody else. So baby steps and start where they're at. And what do you think about virtual workspaces like wonder.me? Yeah, so it depends on bandwidth. That is always a big thing, right? Figure out what your team's WiFi setups are and I would start there and then figure out what's going on and whether or not some of these platforms work. So we did, we work with youth all the time all over the world and we did a trial last week on Cosmos which was super fun and it basically mirrors like you're in an office and you can jump into little spaces and you can go to the water cooler and you can go to the, I don't know, badminton or pool table or whatever it was. You know, it is cute, but it takes a lot of bandwidth and it wasn't as great of an experience on mobile. Some people in that process. And yeah, the ones who were on, it had a very unique dynamic to the situation compared to what we can do on Zoom but it's not worth losing the people. So again, like Zoom has been optimized to help with some of these bandwidth issues. So think about that. And if you can, then yes, they're fun and but again, pick your tool and use a consistent set. It's fine to trial things here and there or make an event about it to bring in something else but the consistency of tools so people become familiar and you're not always having the like, those original moments where everybody was getting used to being on Zoom and going, I don't know how to put my camera on.  And we have time for one more question. How would you suggest creating a team schedule? So, you know at a glance when each team member's standard schedule is. That's awesome question. So we have a team calendar that we use and everybody has it on their calendar and it's just for when people are in the office, quote unquote, or out of the, you know, or it's blank when they're not on. So I can see my entire team schedule. I mean, I'm not dealing with hundreds of employees so that might get a little bit crazy but in that case, you might wanna do departmentalized groups like people who have to connect but in general, I can see at a glance when people are gonna be online and when they're working and that helps me. And then I do the routine where we're like, hey guys, I'm online.  And again, we don't make it a micromanagement thing. We make it more like, yeah, we are in different places. My entire team even before COVID has always been virtual but, you know, we've been on the road a lot. So managing people, it's hard to know when somebody is gonna be online unless we have these tools and then kind of understand and gauge how to connect all those dots. Hope that's helpful. Yes, that was very helpful. Thank you so much, Marty. That your presentation was really insightful and I hope that everyone has enjoyed it. One of the things I love the most, I'm also an improviser as well.  Thank you so much everyone for joining and thank you again, Marty.


This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two related cases that could potentially transform the way college admissions officers use race as a factor in considering students' applications, and potentially ban affirmative action altogether. The two lawsuits now pending before the Supreme Court, one against Harvard and one against University of North Carolina, question whether or not the court should overrule Grutter versus Bollinger, the 2003 case that allowed race to play a limited role in the college admissions process. Here's what some Boston University students have to say about the issue. So obviously it completely deconstructs a lot of how college admissions work in the first place, and I feel like that's going to cause a lot of chaos just because, I mean, a lot of college admissions are going to have to just build from the ground up again. If there's no one, they're just going to be racist. The overarching stakes of these arguments don't just end at college admissions. The plaintiffs argue a colorblind theory of the Constitution that would prohibit the government from considering race in virtually any context. Decisions such as Grutter have given the government limited authority to foster racial diversity so its overturn would have serious implications on racial representation in general. Here's what Sophie Ezrol, a freshman at Boston University, has to say about the notion of racial neutrality and colorblindness. As much as hypothetically we should live in a world where race doesn't exist and everyone's equal, that's not the world that we live in, and I think that we need to recognize that and accommodate for it and just, like, give everyone who may have not had a shot in the past a great shot, like, I think we're just rewriting wrongdoings. The court has supported the use of race in admissions for nearly 50 years, but what's different now is its new conservative supermajority. Decisions in each case most likely won't be released until the end of the court's term in spring 2023, but proponents fear that removing race from a student's application would erase an important part of an applicant's identity. Reporting from Boston, BUTV 10, I'm Hannah Bond.


All right, separatrators. Good morning and welcome on back here this Tuesday, April 19th, shortly after 9 a.m. Eastern Time. Of course, if you're on social media, Facebook Live or YouTube, you could tell likely that this is not the voice of one Fausto Puglisi. My name is Josh Leviten, the senior instructor here at C2. Great to see you, Ray, Andrea, all of us live inside Cyber Group. And hey, if you're joining us on social media, welcome on back. So folks, I'll tell you what, not as much on the docket this morning in terms of stocks actively moving in pre-market. There's been a couple, and we'll go over those in just a bit. We'll do a more thorough scan once more in just a bit. A couple of housekeeping notes to begin, though. First and foremost, just coming up later on this afternoon at 4 o'clock Eastern Time, Fausto will be on then. I know he had a couple of things to take care of at home. Everything's all right, but he had a couple of things to take care of. He'll be back later on this morning, though I believe. But he'll be on officially this afternoon at 4 p.m. Eastern Time doing a webinar and introductory to a day trading webinar, I believe with Marquet Latimer also. So that should actually be a pretty nice special event. I ended up doing the high yield crypto course with Marquet. And we ended up having a really nice couple of picks over the last few weeks if you've been following those alerts. But nonetheless, Fausto will be on at 4 p.m. Eastern Time with her later on this afternoon. If you wanted to register for that event, just go right down the link on the banner below. If you're on social media, if you're in the trading room, we'll post the link much later in the day for you folks there. But if you're not able to attend live, at least register. Go right down to that banner anyway, at least that way you could receive the recording once it's complete. All right. So that's the first piece of housekeeping, second piece of housekeeping. Today is Tuesday. For all of us exclusively in the trading room, what does that mean? For Leda, for Michael, of course, you folks know. Today is Tuesday. What does that mean, folks? Traders talk, right? Today is Traders Talk Tuesday. So it's a weekly live Q&A that I personally host inside the cybergroup room every Tuesday morning. If you wanted to join that, well, you have to be a part of our live trading room. So for Lewis, Bill, Leda, Grant, Michael, etc., all of us there, you folks know this already. But if you have any questions that you would want to go over with us as a group, get my insight on it or a trade entirely that you may have taken or a trade maybe that you didn't take and it ended up moving up and away without you, you know, well, let's go over that. So if you wanted anything to cover with us in Traders Talk this morning, that'll be taken place live inside Cybergroup at 11.05 Eastern time. Just send me a quick email. Just send it right to Josh at C2Trading.com and we'll cover it right at the 11 o'clock hour. All right. So without further ado, NAVB is on this screen right now. We'll scan the percent gainers and losers lists in just a bit. You know, listen, it's up 24%. It's more of a level one stock. So it really wouldn't harm us to put this stock on the main watch list. But I want to see if there's anything even looking a bit faster or more active than this even. So I'll likely put this on our watch list. Let me just go through a couple of the picks that we had from yesterday. These actually will likely cover inside Traders Talk later on this morning. So the Twitter trade from yesterday, we ended up seeing a melt right back on up. It ended up actually having a bit of a drop off once the market opened. You know, a bit of a slingshot ultimately where it pulled back towards 44.50ish, 44.25 perhaps that bottom is. But you know, from that point ended up making the real big pop above 45, took off from there, and then just it kept going, right? So really it's to say, though, we're going to cover this trade later on this morning.  I'll give you my entries and exits from the late morning it was. I didn't take this from the market open, but I ended up taking it later on around 10.45, 11 o'clock Eastern. And then later on in the afternoon prior to class beginning, I actually showed a few of us that were there early. I ended up getting out on a position and, you know, we've been over that trade as a group. So, you know, we'll do that once more at least in traders talk. The Twitter trade for this morning remains a great stock to at least keep on the side list. You know, speaking of class, the phase one stock horse, that was something that we had covered yesterday afternoon. You know, so in terms of developing a daily side list, Twitter is basically break even so far from yesterday's close, right? You know, maybe point down 0.8%. But it's, you know, a good side list stock at a minimum. So if we have a really shallow watch list heading into the open, I would have no problem just adding a Twitter if anything. You know what I mean? All right, the other one before I wanted to go, you know, scan around was the case of trade. CASA ended up making a pretty good move shortly after the market opened up. It ended up popping, of course, as you could see in pre-market there, shortly after 8 o'clock, but it ended up continuing to push up leading into the open. So, you know, generally speaking, and again, we'll cover this more in, you know, class this morning or trader stock, I should say. But, you know, the question you want to ask is for a stock that's trending up or down in any respective direction, what happens if history could repeat itself? So, you know, it's to say when the market opens for as much as this is going up, what happens if this continues to go up? What happens if it, you know, breaks above a major resistance more or less, right? So it took a little bit, it ended up, you know, consolidating, but it ended up getting the job done, ended up making a nice breakout shortly after the open, ran up from like 550 up towards just about 7, and then ended up providing that, like, last move up for us here heading into the close, which was pretty surprising. You know, for as much volume as this stock traded yesterday, you know, normally at 230, 245 Eastern time, if a stock like this is not literally near at the highs, I'm expecting more of a drop off, more of, you know, just consolidation or exhaustion. So, you know, pretty surprisingly enough, this one ended up giving us that last leg up from, like, you know, 580ish, 575 even, all the way up towards over 7, right? So for the open, it's actually on the losers list down over 8%. So I feel like this one's more likely to continue to drop off for as much as it ended up trading, you know, volume yesterday, and normally doesn't do that. So, and also for as much as it, you know, popped yesterday in terms of the percent move that it made. So I feel like today's more of a drop off day, more or less.  So I'll do just that. But, you know, for right now, let's just see what else we got across the gainers and losers list. We got Patrick inside Cyber Group really quickly first calling out PMCB number four, we'll get to that in a bit. So I'm sure that's, you know, a good call out perhaps popping even right now after we started this meeting. The STSS trade, though, to begin. So, you know, this one, still very active in pre-market, still can easily provide us a great opportunity upon the market opening up. You know, I just say that given the overall activity that it has on this intraday chart. This is an IPO though. It ended up opening up just yesterday, I think, right? So that took me by surprise for something so inexpensive. I normally, you know, wouldn't see this like as an IPO just with no real history from the daily chart. I had to like zoom out, adjust my chart, make sure that I was seeing the right thing. You know, like maybe I didn't have enough coffee made this morning. But no, this ended up just opening up yesterday as like a really cheap IPO. I think the opening bell print there was off 265, topped off at 270, completely tanked. All right. Well, today it ended up, you know, actually pushing above that high, not within the regular hours thus far. But, you know, I still feel like this could be a really good opportunity when the market opens up. You know, if it holds support pretty nicely, perhaps around that 270 level later on, you know, it's got to get back up there first. So, you know, with the direction it's going in, perhaps you might even see two or close to two before it perhaps makes that bounce for us later on going into the, you know, maybe even mid to late morning early afternoon type of play. But for right now, just given the overall activity, I'll definitely be interested in just putting this on the watch list so far, the STSS. All right. Little apples to oranges here because STSS relatively cheap, very liquid order book, AXSM, relatively expensive in comparison, you know, paper thin order book, that's the thing. This thing just has a really big spread, really thin volume on the order book. This makes it like yearly untradable. Right now, hopefully, you know, this order book will fill in when the market opens. This is not a level one or a level two or even level three type of stock. So, we covered that yesterday in class in the phase one stock course. But, you know, hey, right now it's very active. I don't know what news is out on it. You know, I think it's a therapeutics company. So, perhaps it's something to do with one of their drugs, maybe, you know, phase one, two or three, you know, completion or FDA approval. I actually got my Benzinga Pro here. Let me just check. I didn't think I had it up. All right. What do we got here? What is this? AXSM therapeutics. Trading hire, FD Company announced it received and agreed to post-marketing requirements slash commitments proposed by the FDA with respect to the NDA for its, you know, drug, whatever. I don't know if their drug is treating perhaps, but looks like they ended up getting some recognition from the FDA.  It actually is easy to borrow. So, that in hindsight, you know, could have been an opportunity really early in pre-market. But again, the order book is just so thin. So, it's like, that's a pure gamble more or less, right? Ended up dropping off though. It remains very active. So, it's hard to not put this at least on the main list so far. The AXSM. All right. We got Patrick's PMCB. There we go. Nice pop after nine o'clock. We'll jump back to Benzinga Pro for this at least. I'm not going to do that for every trade. But for this one, definitely, it just goes right away on our watch list. PMCB. Let's break up Benzinga. We'll go one last time here. How about that? I'm your newsman for this morning. Got traders dyslexia as your newsman. Let's say PMCB. All right. PMCB trading higher after the company announces results for its pancreatic cancer clinical trial product candidate to satisfy FDA requirements. All right. This might be the theme for today, perhaps. But nonetheless, another big pop here for this cheapy PMCB. We'll take a look on the daily chart. I don't think this is a new IPO. Might be stunned. Yeah. As soon as we've traded in the past, I don't know what the hell happened here. That led to that big drop off. Perhaps our stock split over time. Maybe it's had one over the last couple of years, but maybe a couple. I don't know if this was really a $250 stock back in 2017. But hey, with news out, if it is heavily shorted, if there has been a bunch of reverse stock splits in the past, we've seen these types of plays happen. And really recently, too, with stocks like INDO, ENSV, the nine trade, all of those energy oil stocks. But yeah, this one definitely looking great. Great call from Pat. Ricardo in the chat board. And Cybergroup, if you want to join us inside our live trading room folks on YouTube or Facebook Live, you got to join Norman and Ricardo and Patrick and Bill inside our live trading room to catch our chat here. Ricardo calling out the CRTX trade. Let me jump to that briefly. Is it CRXT? Ricardo, I see that on the gainers list. Both my debt traders dyslexia. But CRXT. Nice pop right now. Nonetheless, this actually looks pretty good. I was going to get to this as I was going down the gainers side. I was just catching the chat board from corner of my eye. But it looks good. I mean, hey, even as a pre-market trade, I'm happy. I jumped to this actually right now. So perhaps this could provide us a little bit more of a run up prior to the open. All right, let me keep it going. Let me keep it moving. Let me start back on the, we go back to the stock we started on here, the NAVB. See now at this point, we have four much better stocks so far compared to this. This is more of a level one stock. And a couple others that are relatively slow, more like one to two. This is like watching web paint dry. So in the grand scheme of things, between this and a YTU, both of which are not only inexpensive, that's not the downside. That's the upside. It's the fact that both are just really slow and have a ton of liquidity on the book for it to cut through and break over. We've seen AYC be a pop and drop type of stock for years now. I mean, literally look at the weekly chart. I didn't even intend to keep the weekly chart up, but it just goes to show the stock's been split over years of time. And aside from back in early 2020 when it popped, I mean, look what happened even after, but from that point it provided really a minimal opportunity. So NAVB, AYTU, honestly, I'm going to put them on the side list right now. Really not too thrilled with them just yet. If they end up popping after the open, I'll be thrilled to trade them. I'll be thrilled to call them out. Really. I'll cut it straight with you folks. I would love to. But right now, I mean, I don't know the direction is down for both of these. The STSS is a more compelling trade, in my opinion. And now it's also dropping. All right. Keep it going. CRXT from Ricardo, this one's going up, right? So this one looks a hell of a lot better. Cold is an ETF, I believe. So I know this one was really active in pre-market hours. It's moving on up pretty nicely here. So we don't really focus on the ETFs as much, right? You can't really use level three with much success on an ETF. That's just being, again, truthful about it. Like if you want to go against that, I mean, you could try it, but not going to have much success telling you. It's to say, though, that if you have your own strategies on successfully trading ETFs, whether it be moving averages in different indicators, just basic charting, perhaps, that could work. You know what? This one is very active this morning, right? So I'll put it on the watch list for any of our folks that specifically do well, either on this one or other ETFs using other strategies aside from level three. We just talked about that in class as well, folks, just in terms of scanning the market, tradable, not tradable. You can't apply really level three on this trade with much success. All right. We got plug here. Plug power. Certainly a stock you can. This is one that we've had really good success with over the years, really since I've been employed. Since back in 2014, we've been trading the stock. So this one is more of a no-brainer for us to at least put on our watch list. I'm not going to jump back to Benzinga Pro just to make use of good time, but this one, although it's dropping back down, is still very active and hopefully we could see this make a higher low over time and build another run back up higher after the open. Norman calling out the ATER trade. That one I called out in pre-market. That was one of the four I put on the pre-market watch list to begin. That was on more on the loser side actually as well. So I want to take a look at that before we finish up. So that could be a nice pre-market trade coming up here too as Norman's calling it out. Let me just jump over to the loser side here next and then we'll see what else is out there. All right. So this is how you get traders dyslexia. Really quick folks. I mean, if you think we joke about this and it's like a little ha ha, it is, but it's really true. Like the more you do this, you get this like traders dyslexia. You mix stocks up, different letters, different numbers. On the gainers list up 32.9%, you got the SDSS. Right. On the losers list down 28.6%, you got the SST.  I mean, this is how you end up tripping yourself up here. SST, STSS. Maybe that one's not as hard to trip up. I don't know. You'd be the judge of that, but then we got Sava here, a couple of S's, S-A-V-A. This one's dropping off quite a bit. Wow. You see how the mighty have fallen. I mean, the stock ran up back from the end of 20 from like, you know, five upwards to 140 plus. And then, you know, back in mid 21 began that peak and drop off from there.  So, you know, hey, right now, Sava, if you can get the shares to short this, looks pretty interesting. It's hard to borrow on trade stations. So that's where I say, if you can get the shares to short it, then, you know, give it a, give it a good shot or break there.  Otherwise, that is hard to borrow on top of the Sava. I don't want to, you know, put a lot of hard to borrow stocks on our list. Sava is really the only one I feel like you can potentially get shares of. I feel like all the others really would be worth the opportunity. You know, perhaps they can make pops and continue their moves up from yesterday, like all the oil stocks like ENSV, INDO, et cetera. But I'm not banking on it just yet. I'm not going to put my weight into that, you know, right before the market opens up. I like that SDSS a lot more. Patrick's PMCB, check out Norman's ATER. He just got out with 24 cent profit.  And John got about, you know, 40 or so cents on his catch. There we go, folks. So let me explain why I put this on the pre-market list to begin. You know, because normally, you know, you look at a stock that's down however many percent, it wasn't as compelling early on in pre-market looking at just the flat trends. But if you look basically at the five minute chart and where it, you know, was compared to yesterday, it was bouncing back up early and it was flat afterwards. But my thought was, and I'm happy it worked out at least this way, it doesn't always, but my thought was, what happens if this continues? What happens if history could repeat itself, right? So it looks like in this scenario it did. It ended up just making that pop. There could be a lot more left to this. We ended up doing really well with ATER back last year. I believe this is also Bitcoin mining affiliated, if I'm not mistaken. ATER could be wrong on that, but I think I'm right. But if that's the case, then, geez, then what about all the others that traded alongside with it or popped with it back, you know, in 21 then, you know, ANY it was, and then, you know, VBIG was another one. ANY was doing nothing really in. ATER, not really doing a whole lot yet either, but you might want to keep them on your side list. So ATER looking great. Definitely going to put on our main watch list near the top. Now, if we jump back to our side list, folks, just before we finish up, it's already 9.20 Eastern. Want to make sure all of our students have enough time to prep and get ready, get ready prior to the open. Twitter looks really good as a short right now. I mean, this thing just slammed below support off of $47.80. So, so long as it could remain under that price and really, you know, really from here and when the market opens up more than anything, if this continues to drop off, then I'll say it's going to be a great short. But, you know, otherwise, yeah, I mean, we ended up seeing this make a slingshot after it ended up breaking down at first. So just be wary of that. History may repeat itself and this may end up, you know, making a drop off and then the sling after the open. So, you know, that's what I'll be watching on this trade. So for Twitter, going back to this, it's hard to not put this at least on the main watch list right now. And then also the case of trade jumping back to that. See, the issue on this is that it's dropping down leading into the open. So that leads me to think it's going to continue to drop more. You know, it was really active yesterday, right? So there's a chance, of course, it can continue. But for right now, I'm going to hold off at the NAVB trade garbage, not really doing anything just yet. And then the AYT all the way back down to a dollar pop up to 130 all the way back down roundtrip. All right. Just checking the YouTube chat right now, RJF. My apologies, they're just seeing your chat right now. So it looks like you'd call that out at 914 also alongside Norman inside Cyber Group. So there we go. Nice catch. All right, folks, if you wanted to join us inside our live trading room for the Tradersalk workshop that's coming up at 11 o'clock Eastern time this morning, do yourself a favor, go right down to the link on the banner below. If you're on YouTube or Facebook Live, I just changed the banner right there. So if you wanted to join us actually inside our live trading room, go right to www.cybertradinguniversity.com forward slash trial just to join. And then from that point, I look forward to catching all of you folks there alongside Norman, alongside Leda, Grant, Michael, alongside all of our students inside the live trading room coming up later on this morning. Actually, for all of you folks, at least I'll be back on the mic coming up in just about eight or nine minutes. Got to refill up on water. Went pretty good throughout the morning here, but I know my voice. It's going to chop up heading into the 230 meeting. So if you don't join us inside our live trading room, if you want to catch us on YouTube or Facebook Live later on this afternoon, I'll be back on at 230, likely with a pretty scratchy voice. I'll talk to you folks soon. Take care.


welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food and I am here today with a Walmart fill-in haul. I have not been grocery shopping at Walmart since the pandemic began. I do have to go occasionally to get formula for Harrison and every time I would go the shelves were pretty empty. So I happened to go a few weeks ago to get Harrison some more formula and I noticed that their shelves looked a lot more full and so I decided to do a grocery haul from there. So let me jump in for you guys. I spent $111. So I grabbed three cans of these family size cut green beans. Now normally when I make green beans I usually use two cans for me and Howard. So these were actually cheaper. It was cheaper to get the family size than it was to get the single cans. So the single cans were 50 cents each and they were like 14 ounces and so this 28 ounce can of green beans was 94 cents. So I grabbed three of them. I was almost completely out of cream of mushroom soup. So I grabbed four cans of cream of mushroom soup. Now it was cheaper to get the individual cans of cream of mushroom soup because they did have a four-pack but it was more expensive to get the four-pack than it was these. So grabbed four of those. Grabbed a couple of boxes of Posteroni. I got chicken and then angel hair as well. I have a couple of recipes coming up that I'm going to be making that call for some ham pieces. So I just grabbed this. I haven't tried it before but I like that it was slices and pieces not just the ham steak. So it looked pretty good. It was 438. I also grabbed some frozen chopped collard greens. Two bags of seasoning blend. I grabbed a bag of seasoned potato wedges for Howard. Oh I forgot to mention the chopped collard greens and seasoning blends are for a recipe that I have coming up and so are the shredded hash browns and the southern hash browns. The difference between the two is that the southern hash browns are cute. Needed some more bisque. We also needed some more biscuits. So I grabbed the Mary beans. I used to buy these all the time then I switched to Pillsbury. So going back to Mary beans. I did not know that Walmart sold these fine green beans. Normally I get my skinny little green beans from Aldi or from Trader Joe's. But Trader, I'm sorry Aldi's, they have gone up on their prices of their fine green beans. I think there's our $1.75 last time I checked.  The ones that I got from Walmart today 12 ounces was $1.34. I also needed some mushrooms. I'm making some green onion and mushroom fried rice. Harrison needed some formula so I grabbed some for him. I needed some noodle soup for a recipe. I grabbed some of this secret sauce for Howard. He is the type of person that really likes a lot of sauces and things like that on his burgers and I've heard from a lot of people that this is really good. So I grabbed this for him. A couple of pouches of brown gravy for my Mississippi pot roast. Green onions for my fried rice and for anything else that I need it with. I kind of did miss or do miss the Aldi price on these green onions because it's a very small bunch and it was 50 cents. And at Aldi it's a lot cheaper and you get more green onions. I needed an onion for a recipe. Unfortunately I think D'Giorno is doing away with me and Howard's one of our favorite pizzas which is their deep dish pizza. I haven't really been able to find it in a lot of stores. The last place I found it they were clear and think it out. So I thought this might be a replacement. I haven't heard of this before. It's Motor City Pizza Company pepperoni deep dish style. It comes with its own pan that you bake it in. So we're gonna give that a try. I'm almost out of my Fritos dips and so I have not tried the great value dippers. These are supposed to be comparable to the scoops. I said Fritos dips. I'm at Fritos scoops. So I haven't tried these before but they were considerably cheaper than the scoops. These were 77 cents which is almost three times less than what the Fritos scoops are. So decided to give these a try. I needed some butter scotch for baking and also some pecans for baking. I just got this small bag because I do plan on going to Sam's and I'll get a larger bag of pecans but I just needed some right now. Also I love chai tea latte and I am almost done using the one that I picked up from Trader Joe's which is really good. So I wanted to give this Oregon chai a chance or a try and it's a very small container 10 ounces and it was almost four dollars and I feel like it used to be a lot cheaper and bigger than this but anyway gonna give that a try. We needed some hamburger buns for recipes and I have not tried great value knockoff version of the Gain so I wanted to give it a try. I think it was like a dollar 24 or something like that I don't remember and then I saw this apron and I could not resist it. It's a pantry apron and it says bakers gonna bake and I thought it was so cute because it has all of this baking stuff all over it and I love baking and I always love a good apron so I grabbed this it was 788 you can see all the baking stuff all over it. Turn it around a little bit. Got a measuring cup cupcakes a whisk it's so cute I couldn't resist it. Then we also needed some foil paper and then I just picked up this pair of pants for Harrison because he I don't think he really has any pants to wear so I just grabbed him a little pair of pants. So anyway this is it this is all that I picked up from my Walmart haul I hope you guys enjoyed this video if you did please make sure to give us a thumbs up and if you have not subscribed to our channel I certainly hope you'll do so. Thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time.


So for this little anthology that we're about to read, we're going to read a book from the Golden Age of Comics, Mystic No. 6. And the story that we're going to read from this is from Basil Wolverton, and his artwork is absolutely mind-boggling and is absolutely brilliant. His work is definitely sought-after, and if you have a chance, go online and have a look for it. And the story we're going to read is this one, The Eye of Doom. And it's the first story in this, and this series is actually one of the sought-after series from the Golden Age. These are pre-comic book code-approved, basically before censorship hit the comic book industry. And it's a long story and we'll get into it. But basically what happened was mainstream society got freaked out. Some people wrote some articles, actually one person wrote a book and said that comic books stories like this horror and you know, fear-based comic books and stuff like this, they were polluting the children's mind. And what happened was a lot of these types of stories got censored for a few decades soon after this. This book is from 1952, and I haven't read this story yet. I've checked out the artwork and I know Wolverton's work. I just like the craziness of it. It's a very trippy kind of work. And he was controversial at the time. Some people don't like it. Some people loved it. I'm on the love side of the whole thing of what this guy produced. And I do plan on slowly seeking out more of his work and collecting it. And what we're gonna do, we're gonna read this. I chose this one. Now I have a few other books like this. I actually have two copies of this one. They're both in good condition, but we're gonna read this one because this one has tape on it. So it's a little bit more sturdy than this one. And there was a few other books that I thought about reading to you guys from the same sort of genre, which is punch comics, and this is a sought after as well. Here's Mystic number 5. The Wolverton stuff is Mystic number 6. And definitely EC books, sci-fi fantasy EC books. And what we're about to read with Wolton is science fiction horror. But EC books, I have some EC books. These are the annuals, and these guys are amazing stuff. And at some point I'm gonna come back and create a series for EC books. I'm gonna read some EC fantasy and horror books. But right now I decided to read this one because I want to have a read through the story, and I want to start collecting Wolverton's materials. And we're not gonna touch this one because this one is rougher. There's no tape on it, so I don't know. Some people consider tape to be restoration. For me, tape is not restoration. Tape is just keeping the comic book together. It lowers the grade for sure, but I don't consider it to be restoration. And I love this stuff, like the artwork is absolutely magnificent, right? This is Mystic number 5, or Shadow in the Background. What is the terrifying mystery of the face? Fantastic stuff, fantastic stuff. And this beautiful color, I mean, look at this. And this is actually a sought after book as well, Punch number 14 from the same period. I think this is earlier, I think this is 1940s. I can't remember. Pull this out, read through the Eye of Doom. And this is a good, great comic in my book anyway. So I would rate this as a 2. It's appealing. You know, it's got some tape holding it together.  And the tape is here. But it's mostly intact. The pages are intact, the comic is intact, the story is intact, which is super important to me. January 6th, 10th Cents, Atlas. And this was published by Atlas, and Atlas was branched off into a marvel, or was marvel. I looked at the history of this stuff a long time ago, I can't remember. So what we'll do is, here's the advertisements and the fine print. Let's read the fine print. Mystic is published by Classic Syndicate, Incorporated. Office publication, they're based in New York. Second class of New York, active March. So they were incorporated, this company in 1879. Additional entry, published by Monthly Copyright 1951 actually. By Classic Syndicate, Incorporated, Fifth Avenue, New York. Subscription rate was $1.20 for 12 issues. So you got 12 issues for $1.20 and the price tag on this is $0.10, right? So that makes sense. $0.10 for 12 issues. So if you bought a subscription, you bought it for, it was published by Monthly. I'm not sure if this by Monthly means twice a month or once every two months. I think it would be once every two months. But it could be a two-year subscription or one-year subscription. No, it should be a two-year subscription, 12 issues. No similarity between printed in the United States, okay? Let's flip through this, like we've done with the other books, and then come back and read this story. I mean, take a look at the artwork. This is 1951 we're talking about, right? Absolutely brilliant. Color scheme is incredible. So this is a sci-fi horror story. I don't do the faces. Wolverton is known for this type of stuff. Trippy faces. Very trippy. Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. Polluting children's minds, eh? And that's the end of it. But we'll come back and read this. Get a closer look. I'll Shall Never Die. Little story. Continued after next page. Lectables. So I guess the little right up here is beautiful stuff. This is the story for the written. Continued. I shall never die. But I can read these maybe later. These are destroying gel in terms with Ward's formula. Save your hair. See, this thing was not geared. These books were not geared towards children. A lot of adults were reading these books, and censorship came in, fear, right? Fear took over, media took over, and the industry sort of had a fear. And business decisions. You know, superhero comic books weren't selling as much as these types of books were selling, right? To adults. This was amazing entertainment, right? Brilliant stories, intricate stories. Adult-oriented. And then when censorship kicked in, all of these books, you know, a tremendous amount of stuff was lost. They're staining on this. Anyone can learn to dance, see? The advertisement's not geared towards kids. She won't stay dead. Ah. Seen these in movies, haven't you? A lot of the sci-fi or horror shows, movies that have come out, were inspired by books like this. What's this? No, a little bank. See, this one's an advertisement for kids. A bank. $1.98. Oh my God, you could have bought 20 of these books. And these things are expensive. This book, this book is, if it's in mint condition, it runs a few thousand bucks. In this condition, it's worth somewhere around 100 bucks. A little bit less. Probably in the 70s. Just holding it together and advertisement. No, kid advertisements. Should we have a read through this? Let's have a read through what was in the eye of the... And the first thing I noticed, or the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this was in DC Comics in a series called Legion 89. And there's a character in Legion that is an eye and is super powerful. And as soon as I saw this, when I bought the book, I flipped through it and went away. And as soon as I saw this, I totally reminded me of that. So I'm curious to see what the similarities are. Okay. So, let's have a read through. The eye of deal. A classic suspense and terror from the mystic morgue. That is signed Basil Walburton. What had happened to Hoyt Gilpin and Lon Yulrich, the two men who two months previously who two months previously had taken off for Venus in their experimental spaceship. It was a mystery for at that time no one had attempted to travel beyond the moon. My thoughts kept staying to the possible fate of the Earthman as I sat alone in the weather station outpost and gazed into the darkening sky. Suddenly I noticed a peculiar flash of light against the stars. It must be some kind of ship and it's coming closer. It is a ship. The Gilpin Yulrich spaceship is going to land here. I raced out on into the chill night to meet the descending vehicle and by the time I reached it rocket smoke had cleared away and the outer airlock door was open. Out came a shockingly haggard figure. He stared strangely at me. Equally strange was his first remark. A welcoming committee of one unfortunate for you. You, you're Hoyt Gilpin. Your partner is he. Yulrich is still on Venus. I came back alone. Then you did reach Venus. Here, lean on me and we'll get up to the weather station building. Inside, Gilpin slept into a chair and nervously figured fingered the satchel he had brought from his ship. The whole world is waiting news of you. Do you want me to get you a connection with the new service? No, no. Don't call anyone. The world will soon soon enough know I'm back. Yes, it will be much too soon and I'm going, I'm going to tell you why. Glancing at me occasionally strangely glancing at me, glancing at me occasionally strangely menacing manner. Gilpin began, Gilpin began his story. We made it to Venus, he said, but we had trouble getting through the cloud blanket around the planet. Once we were inside the cloud, shell, we saw terrain similar to Earth but all was buried in a gloomy color. We've made it, this is Venus. The gauges indicate breathable air-hoid. Shall we land? We better, we better re-cointer first. If there are inhabitants, we'd be running a risk of ambush but there are birds here, I don't know. Expecting the peculiar Venetian flora, we saw no sign of any living thing. Then a few miles distance, we spotted something that looked habitable. It looked like a huge building we'll soon find out. It's a city hollowed out on a hill but it's deserted. We sped far over the planet's surface and viewed hundreds of cities with no sign of life in any of them. It's a mystery, it couldn't have been war or disease or deep evidence. It says though it didn't happen, it's just disintegrated. Obviously safe to land then we can have a closer look. We set the ship down by some old habitations and after a check of conditions we ventured outside. The first Earth meant to set food on the warm human surface of Venus. Let's explore that structure. This is like entering a tomb.  Those giant eyes, the eyes of doom. At long, urges cry, I wheeled to see several spherical objects floating over a ridge and coming straight for us. What are they, balloons? I don't know what we'd better get inside this building. As we ran into the structure there was a scurry, scurry under our feet and a rat-like creature raced out the door. Propelled by some mysterious force the round objects already were almost overhead. They were sickly white.  One of them, at least six feet wide, dipped down and pounced on the creature that had fled out the door like a bubble, the thing settled on its victim. Drawing it out, upside through its gelatinous surface and into its interior. It ate it. The other eye-like entities swarmed against the open door and windows. Their black orb directed balefully at us directed balefully at us and making ugly hissing sounds to our horror we could see them shrinking. If they get any smaller they'll get in. Shoot them. The bullets zipped harmlessly through the white photoplasmic parts but when hit in their pupil the eye-beings collapsed and fell to the ground. Soon it was littered with the gelatinous masses. I think that takes care of them. No, others in sight. Let's get out of here before more show up. Oh, we ran for the ship but the moment we were in the open one of the creatures concealed on the roof thudded down on Yulrich. I saw him sucked into the carnivorous interior.  Yulrich, there was nothing I could do but flee. The eye moved after me but I raced inside the ship and seized the controls that closed the airlock doors. I'm safe, but Paul Lawn Lawn is the guy's name. Sick with despair I fired the rockets and recklessly plunged plunged the ship up through the cloud shell without Yulrich I didn't care much whether or not I reached Earth as I turned to make further control adjustments a shocking sight met my eyes. No, no. The eye inside the ship with them there to my horror and dismay was an eye, obviously. Obviously it was slipped obviously had slipped into the ship while we were defending ourselves and having reduced itself to about the size of a basketball went unnoticed by me until now. As I reached for my gun green vapor spewed from the orb and into my face you devil, I'll blast you too. Something in an awful vapor paralyzed me instantly my gun fell to the floor I was helpless before the frightful entity but the eye didn't touch me it just floated there in the control cabin watching me constantly I want to smash the hideous thing but I lacked the strength miserable hours miserable hours passed like years the eye's will was greater than mine somehow it injected into my mind what I wanted what it wanted of me I became its servant feeding and watering it was evident these protoplasmic cannibals had overrun Venetian civilization devouring every human being now that particular one had shrewdly planned to travel to another world to prey upon other beings it wouldn't reach earth we're approaching the moon and I'll crash the ship there the eye must have discerned my purpose for when I tried to find myself powerless to act I can't move by now we're close to the close to earth by now we're close to earth my next plan was to deliberately crack crack up on my native planet I'll aim for an uninhabited area and that will be the end of the nightmare but again but again I was thwarted it was the eye's will to land safely and at the last minute I found myself exerting every effort to make a safe landing so here I am he says it was apparent that Gippon's Gippon's long stay in the ship ship had left his mind unbalanced his story was ridiculous I decided to humor him though until I could contact the proper authorities but the eye where is it now? don't ask that leave now while there's still time before it wills me to I in the bag check this out to open the satchel what the say if this is a gag all the eye is coming out to my horror the object in the satchel rose slowly toward me and began to expand it can't be behind the eye gulpin seemed temporarily free of the eyes eyes powers he seized a pair of shears from my table and rammed them into this clammy creature what happened next was terrible the eye rolled sharply back over gilpin I can't look and an instant later all I saw of him was a protruding hand still expanding it turned on me I was cornered I seized the phone and ripped it loose I would have hurled at the malignant pupil but a green vapor spewed out and I was powerless then I felt the horrible slimy touch of his proplasmic body pressing over me brilliant story absolutely fantastic and this is what was being published as a comic book in 1952 and this is what censorship destroyed in the united states basal wolverton fantastic story what we'll do is we'll leave it there these are I ended up grabbing six anthologies sort of collections of work and we've read six books so far and if this is the first one you're reading there's five other anthologies I've put together and there are three from the golden age one late early silver age late golden age from the 1940s 45 one from 1948 this one was 19 sorry one from 1945 one from this is 1952 one from 1958 and we got two books from 1982 and we got one book from 1990 and we'll read more golden age sci-fi or books but for now those are the readings that we've put together I hope you enjoy and I guess I'll see you guys in the next video bye for now