The Power Trading Hour with your host, David White. Call now, toll free at 1-877-927-6648, or internationally at<PHONE_NUMBER>. Now, David White. And welcome all to another excellent edition of The Power Trading Hour. Everything okay? It sounds like some rocks in the trunk or something in there. It's quieted off now. Anyway, as always, another great day to listen to The Power Trading Hour. And of course we always come at the sacred and anointed time. How did we know that something had to be problematic today? Let's go ahead and do this. Okay. Oh, that's right. Okay. Let's do this and do that. And go back to what we were going to do to begin with the anointed time. The following takes place between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. And we're up 31 points. I thought maybe we'd be a little weaker today and run up in the morning tomorrow. It looks like we're running up today. So maybe we're a little weaker going into the Chairman Powell notes at 10 a.m. tomorrow morning. Of course, generally they leak, I don't know, it leaks not the right word. They do publish somewhere around 10 to 15 minutes early the speech. So we'll probably see some action right after the open depending on what he says. I'm pretty good at predicting what a lot of people are going to do. Kind of always got hooked on that. Sherlock Holmes saying of a individual is always a mystery, but a bunch of them are almost a certainty. So don't know what one guy is going to do or what one guy is going to say. So I tend to try to stay out of binary outcomes depending on what one person is going to say. Like a CEO in a conference call. Mostly you can tell what some are going to say. You know they're not going to rock the boat. You don't know whether or not old Chairman Jay Powell. When they say that I always think it's like Jay Perry Powell, like Jay Peterson and what was that, Steinfeld, Jay Peterson. I think it was Jay Perry. Maybe, maybe not. Who knows. Anyway, with Jay you never know. Is it an abbreviation? Is it the first name? Is the whole name unclear unless you go research it out? And of course I've got too many things to do to find out whether it's a Jay Perry or a Jay A Y. I think it's a Jay A Y. But it will not change my life. So I am not going to investigate that further. As I said though, what's going to happen? My guess is that they're holding it up now. If we sell off a little bit into the close, I won't be surprised to see a little week going into those numbers. Probably somewhere around 9.45 in the morning. So, other than that, what do we have going on? Well, incredibly light volume. And I mean incredibly light volume. We dipped under and let me see. I think I have it up and saved it if I can find it here. Okay, there's my library. There's my videos. There's my videos. Okay, that's what I wanted to get up here. I did want to talk about volume. I think I can zoom in on this a little bit too. We dipped under, yesterday, dipped under $400 billion. We got $380 billion. This barely touched $900 billion shares on the day yesterday. So, volume is waning, total market dollars waning fairly significantly too. So, there is kind of a lot of evidence that we've got a little bit building in the short interest part of the market. I think that as we started to have lighter volume this week, the old chestnut in the market do not stay short. A quiet market is probably a good plan to take. But then we move on. Of course, tomorrow is the 26th. That sets up fund buying, which really starts about mid next week on the 31st. And that's going to be on very light volume at the same time. Almost everybody on Wall Street is going to be leaving for the Hamptons. And I will call my nephew and get the straight scoop, because he can look out from his giant hospital in Long Island. And watch the traffic and give me almost a helicopter eyes view of how crowded it is going out there. So, I know when they're actually headed out there. But we'll see. But anyway, I'm going to guess about the 31st. They're probably heading out there. It's the last big raw for the Titans of Wall Street. They control the world. We just live in it as our humble peons that we are. Anyway, they'll be headed out to the Long Beach. And it'll just be quiet. The problem is, if you're heavily short, prime, prime, prime activity for running the shorts out of the market. Not only that, you're going to have light volume. You also got fund buying coming back on the 6th. You can do it the last three days, training days of the forward month. So literally they could come back and buy on the 6th and they'll be within the charter for their ETFs and funds. So don't be surprised that we see a little bit of that movement. And then, of course, historically September is actually fairly weak. At least the first couple of weeks of September tends to be weak. Where they look for faster horses. And generally that means that some of the old horses are put out to the glue factory. And that tends to be the first couple of weeks of September. And the funds come back in and start to putting the whip to it. As Rodney Dangerfield said, I can still see the marks on it where the jockey was whipping it. I think that was about a steak. What movie was that in? Don't know. Anyway, a great movie probably if I can remember which one. So we've got that set up. Anyway, we'll be back with Tim Ord here in a moment. There's not much else to really talk about. Probably maybe we have no action. Maybe we have a lot. But 945, the balloon goes up or the balloon drops. Which one is that supposed to be on New Year's night? I think they dropped the balloon. Why would they drop it? Wouldn't they let it up? Doesn't make more sense. Anyway, sad and confused and waiting for Fed action tomorrow is kind of the way you color me. Tim Ord will be on. We've got a couple of questions for him already. 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Good. How are you doing? Sorry, a little bit late, but not too bad. Now you're still snuck in under the wire. Okay. All right. Send some charts over. I guess we'll go through them real quick. We can do that one the guy had a question on. Yeah, I wanted to do that one first if you want to. All right. I mess with it and I got tilt here, which is what the 20-year bond or something. Yeah, it's an amalgam of bonds, but yeah. Yeah, you can use junk or, you know, there's several different ones. They all kind of work similar. And what I did, I did a ratio of the SPX tilt ratio. And the only thing I really was useful for the top window is a 14, normally you use a 14 RSI. I used 11 because it kind of pushes up to more extreme, so they're a little bit easier to identify. So I use 11 period RSI instead of a 14. And that seemed to work okay when you get above, you know, when the ratio RSI of this ratio, which is the SPX tilt ratio, it's above 70. A lot of times you're near at least a short-term consolidation. And the blue lines are the ones that the RSI was above 70. And the red lines are when those blow 30. And, you know, last week we did get above the RSI of this ratio, did get above 70. And you did have a short-term high. This chart goes back about two years to maybe three years. And there's something to watch. This is another indicator. And, you know, ideally, you know, to really do it right, I guess, to try to find highs and lows, the more indicators you get that suggest the high or low, the higher probability that the market will turn at that time. So using one indicator a lot of times doesn't work out on a long term. But so this is kind of another indicator I watch that I put on. And so right now we're still, as I wrote, I updated this chart this morning, it says 61 in the RSI. So it's not bullish. Ideally, you'd like to see a blow 30 to really get a low going.  So I guess you're saying right now is there's not really a good, even though we had an RSI above 70 here, you know, probably about a week ago, it hasn't really gone down enough to really suggest that we're near a short term low, at least not yet. So and also we're in the third quarter. The third quarter, historically, is up as much as is down. I think 50% were up and 50% were down. And this is the worst quarter of the year. So a lot of times this is not a great time to make, you know, big investments, I guess you might say quarter ends around the September 30th. And from there, usually going to year end, that's usually pretty good. And right before you get these big runs up, usually you get a pretty good scare, sometime probably the next six weeks, where you get kind of panic readings, a lot of different end cares. And that's a good sign that you're nearing a low. I always tell my subscribers that if you don't have panic, you don't have a bottom. And so I'm kind of looking for a bottom probably not here where we are right now, even though there may be a minor bottom here. It's nothing significant, I don't think.  And nine out of 10 times usually you have a good outcome. So anyhow, this is a pretty good indicator for that. So if the RSI gets down around 30, the late September, you know, I'd probably call that a pretty good signal that Marcus probably getting close to a low. But now that's how I use the bond comment indicator. I use a ratio on RSI for that ratio. Anyway, we didn't get to the actual question we started. So I wanted to get to that, which just so everybody knows what we're talking about here. But well, I sent it to you and now I'm trying to find it. Please ask Mr. Ward if he sees any value in monitoring bonds that constitute ETFs such as J and K, L and Q, H, Y, G to use as parameters and market direction to stocks. So that was kind of the answer to that. I guess the answer is yes. Well, yeah, I do because if I don't use, I use a ratio, that's my point on it. I do use bonds. I use it as a ratio against the SPX and I use the RSI to determine, you know, what it depends what the bonds and the SPX is doing at any particular time. And with that said, so bonds do have an effect on the market, but you have to put your relationship to what the SPX is doing. So that's, that's tried to answer in that, yeah, I use, they do have a, bonds do have an effect on the market. And the best solution I could find to help, you know, trading, you know, for trading signals is use the ratio and of that ratio use the RSI. Does that make any sense or not? No, it makes lots of sense. I think a lot of people that are new to trading really don't understand the size of the market of the bond market compared to the equity market. The bond market is about nine times bigger as far as market cap than the equity market is. So it is one of those things where a lot of people pay attention to the equities because they tend to move a lot, a lot more. There's a lot more stories on a daily basis. But the bond market tends to get in a big trend and stay in it for a long time. So it's one of those things if you can catch it, it tends to go on for a long time, doesn't tend to vary. So you can hang on to those trades probably better. I don't know what your opinion is, but they do, it does seem to trend for a very long time. Okay. Yeah. The bottom window in that chart kind of shows you it is a pretty trending market either kind of trends up or down for, you know, months at a time. Yeah. Or the S&P's fly back and forth a lot of times trading ranges. Okay, we'll be back with the Tim Ord from the Ord Dash Oracle in just a minute. If you want to take advantage of this sector, now is the time to subscribe to my Gold Report. 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You want to go to chart one now? Yeah, let's go to chart one. I'm kind of a big fan of panic. The VIX is another thing that majors panic in the market. So when it goes up fast, it's usually you get panic. And what the top window is, is the two-day rate of change of the VIX. And so the faster the VIX goes up, that implies everybody just panicked toward the exit door. And normally you get the two-day VIX or the rate of change of the VIX over a two-day period up around 30. Normally, you get enough panic to at least a short-term low. And all those blue lines there are times when the rate of change of the VIX two-day was at 30 or higher. And this last, the point I'm trying to make here, the last ring we had, it got up to high ball right here. It looks like about 20, 20, I don't know, 27 or so. Didn't get quite to 30 on that decline. We had, well, actually, you know, Monday and Tuesday. So it really didn't hit a lot of panic. And to me, that suggests that even though it may be a minor short-term low, it's probably not a final low, I'll put it that way. So, and we did gap down on Monday, so now we're trying to fill the gap, which we're getting today, Monday's gap. And it looks like we're probably going to test it on a lighter volume and that gap's going to be resistance. But, you know, as a decent indicator, there's one failure back in, looks like about February, that, you know, the VIX, the rate of change of the VIX did get above 30 and the market still went down. So, not, you know, not a perfect indicator. But a lot of times, it seems to work better than an uptrend. As a trend, market's going up. Every time you get a little bit of correction, everybody's has to see the exit door. But going in a down market, it doesn't work quite as well. If you notice, they come close to lows or at least consolidations. And sometimes they're a little bit too early. So, but anyhow, this is, I'm thinking, you know, for the next six weeks here or so, we're just going to have a garbage market.  I think the low in June was the low of the year. And I don't think we'll test that low. I could be wrong, been wrong before. But we had quite a bit of panic at that June low. And a lot of different type indicators, even the VIX today, rate of change of the VIX did get to 30 there. But also the, I don't have it shown here, but the Tix and Trend at that started in May and actually lasted until about July, there were just drops of closes on the trend around two or better, a lot of different days. And so the more days you have of panic, the more solid that bottom will be. So I think we have a really good solid bottom, but on a certain basis here, it's more of a trading market. You know, you get a decent, you know, if you get a decent profit, I'd just take it because I think the market will just turn right back at you again. So I have a question here and I'm going to, it's kind of ill, ill worded. So I'll probably put it in my language here. But when you said I've been wrong before, there needs to be at least probably some level of humility for a stock trader. And what do you think about that? I've always felt that if I went and believed that something would happen with a 95% probability, I was probably wrong. If I thought maybe 80, I could be right. But if I was absolutely darn sure, then generally I was wrong. Yeah, there's some truth to that. I mean, usually the hardest trades to take are the ones you think you're wrong on. You know, if you're looking at your indicator and all the indicators are really blowing out because the masses are all on one side of the fence.  You know, you got to get everybody on one side of the fence and you really got to get on the other side of the fence to make the right call because, you know, just like at bottoms everybody, you know, we're sure this market was going to go down a lot more after that June low. And but even a part of that rally, there were still on the rally, even there were some panic readings and some of my indicators, even though the market was going up, that's a real good indication that the trend may continue higher. So I don't know, I'm not sure I'm answering your question, but no, it was pretty good. It was that that was what I was kind of saying that generally the best trades are when no one will give you a second look and says you're all wet and you have to kind of stick with your convictions, but you're not feeling 100% that you're on the right side. You always have a little humidity and you have a bit of that I could be wrong. The people that say they can't be wrong generally are wrong. You got to know that there is a chance to be wrong. So that was part of it. I want to get into the other charts after the break. I do want to talk to you a little bit about going into next week. We've got a little bit of fun buying starting about mid next week. Then of course we've got a long three day weekend. This particular week has a statistical very high statistical correlation with extremely light volume. In fact, we had that yesterday too. The day before we've really been going down for about five days in volume fairly significantly. So we're going to go into that next weekend. I've always heard, well, I heard you early on when I was starting to learn to trade back around 1999 and 2000 waiting for the big three day weekend. Of course this is the last big three day summer weekend. So you're going to hang out and maybe see some real changes when we come back the 6th or 7th or 8th of September after Labor Day? Well, a lot of times I kind of found out that if you know, especially July 4th period seems to be working pretty well. But a lot of times what I found out, if you're going up into a holiday, you use the volume drops out because traders take off early and whatever. And so the volume just kind of drops out. A lot of times those turns into highs. If you're going down into a holiday and volumes dropping out because of a three day weekend or whatever, a lot of times those are lows. So can the market hang up here for another week from this coming Monday is when the markets are closed. So the market trading wise has what six more trading days. You know, to me, if the market kind of just hangs here into next Friday, you know, we're testing a gap in lighter volume. To me, that would be a real buried sign. So yeah, I think there's a lot of times these holidays are kind of reversal markets. If you're going down, usually a low, if you're going up, it's usually a high. We'll be back in a minute. 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This program is brought to you by Vista Gold, traded on the NYSE American and TSX under the symbol VGZ. We're coming back. We've got some questions coming in, and they may be answered in this chart. So why wait a day for some clarification from the questioner? Why don't we get into chart two, Tim? All right. This is the SPY, and I got a trend line drawn around 415, and we popped above that with a gap. So we had an open gap. I forgot what day that was. It looks like about August 9th or 10th or somewhere in there.  If you look at the volume chart, the second panel up from the bottom, you tested that gap on higher volume. That's usually not a good... If the gap's going to have support, you should test it on lighter volume. And if you have a gap that's tested on higher volume, normally you still can bounce, but ultimately you'll probably go down lower. Well, here's another thing, too. On Monday, we gaped down and tested the gap of the first gap back in early August or the first week of August, and today we tested that Monday's gap down most likely. I'm eyeballing it here, but today's volume most likely will be lighter than Monday's volume. So you got quite a few things to suggest here that decline is probably not done yet. And because you tested the August 9th gap on higher volume, and you're testing Monday's down gap on lighter volume, so you got resistance at the gap. So anyhow, it doesn't look good. You don't really have... And also at this low here, over the last four days, you don't have a trend reading of any near panic level. I think the highest one we had was on Monday, and that was 117 on the close, which is a little bit of panic, but not much. Preferably, we'd like to see 1.3 preferably a lot higher. And so you don't have any panics in the trend. And we did look at a VIX chart here on chart number one, I think it was, and you didn't really have the rate of change of the VIX. It's just a lot of panic. So you don't have panic, you don't have a bottom. You got a minor panic. So that to me, it's just probably got a consolidation going on here at best. But the final lows, according to the charts I'm looking at, haven't been seen yet. How low can we go? I don't know. It's kind of hard to say here. If we're still here next Friday, going into the three-day weekend, then the sideways consolidation could be the halfway point down.  That'd be a possibility. And that 390 area is also those previous highs of June and July in that vicinity. Perhaps the possible we could go down there. So that's how I'm reading it. So my opinion, there's no bottom of any consequence right here. So any questions on that? No, I was trying to get something about an island top, but I don't see one. So I can see, yeah, what are you saying there is you got a gap up, was it the ninth there or 10th, whatever? Then you got a gap down on Monday. And so you got an island gap, your island there. So you got two gaps that are close to each other. They don't quite, they don't overlap or, you know, they're, if you look at that window to the right there, you see that gap up in that gap. Yeah. I was just, I always did the NISTN definition of that, which was one day, right?  I kind of see if you don't, if you counted is about six or seven trading days, then you kind of have an island up there. I was just looking at the kind of the NISTN version of it. Oh, NISTN, you can have more days, you can actually have a kind of a month, you know, and the gaps are usually pretty close to the same spot. This one's not, I mean, it's close, but yeah, I can see there's sort of an island gap there, but I don't think it's a hugely bearish situation, but, you know, 390 is a possibility, and I think that's what we're kind of lining up for. So, I don't know, it's a messy market. Again, we're in the third quarter, and of all the quarters there are, this is the worst one to really step in and hold your long or short.  We're going to need some trend readings up around, excuse me, trend reading, the proverbially VIX readings up in extreme levels, and so I'm thinking that's going to come in probably about four or five weeks from now when you get all the fear and everybody's yelling, you know, jumping out windows and stuff, so between now and then it's going to be garbage. Well, I always love that story of everybody jumping out windows, because I actually investigated it. You know, nobody really jumped out of windows in 1929. Fake news, fake news, like all the people that killed themselves listening to the war of the worlds, it was one car accident. Yeah, that was another one. There's a lot of those things kind of get a life of their own after that. We've got a little bit of time left here, and then I want you to come back after the break and look at the XLE for me, but let's go to chart three here. You got two minutes. No, the chart three, let's do chart three, and then I'll do XLE. When you get a break, you can bring it up and do all that. All right, but you know, this is kind of a long-term chart. It kind of helps you just find if the market's really made a bottom. And the bottom window is a NYSE summation index. It's a pretty good indicator to really define if you made or hear me a term low. It doesn't catch the low. What it does is determines that you're probably in a bull phase again. And the ratios normally get below minus 700 or 750. And within two months, you rally back up to above plus 1,000. You're usually at an ear-minute term low. You can go back further as you want to go. But we did hit a, you know, below 750 here. We hit about 700, I think it was, in the mid-June low. Actually, that was the May low. And so within two months, so that'd be July 15th, you're looking for the summation index to get above plus 1,000.  And we never did reach plus 1,000. So that kind of tells me that the market still can back and fill here before, I think, you know, a bigger worthwhile ear-minute term rally begins. So I don't think there's probably a worthwhile low is formed. But I don't think, according to this statistic anyhow, the bull market has not started yet. I'll put it that way. Okay, we'll be back with Tim in a little bit. We'll look at the XLE on the way out. I've sent out a ton of Tim's charts. So if you want them, pass at P-A-T-H at tfnn.com. You might think that if you want to be successful at trading in a stock market, you're going to need a crystal ball. 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I got the chart up. All right. To me, it's bullish. You made a bottom in 2020 and we broke the multi-year highs. And you had a sign of strength with volume, you know, account. This is a monthly chart. So it's not a weekly or a daily chart. This chart goes back to 2005 and you broke out on a multi decade to new highs. So nothing bearish about this. So how high is high is hard to say. But if you notice, the market traded sideways from 2008 to 2021. There's kind of a trading range there. And so we broke out of that 10-year or 15-year trading range to the upside. To me, that's, we're going higher. So how much higher? Yeah, I don't know. You know, if it's called that a trading range, a 15-year trading range, breaking out to the upside, we could be going up for quite a few years, I would say, according to this chart. Thanks for Tim for being on, as always. Sell when you can, not when you have to. We'll see you here tomorrow. Same bat channel, same bat time.


Nurturing Digital Responsible Parenting marked the inaugural installment of a seminar series aimed at enlightening and empowering parents and guardians of students attending District 3's 4 secondary schools, namely Bocache, Entrepôt, Leonhurst Comprehensive, and the St. Joseph's Convent Secondary Schools. This event's primary objective was to furnish parents with actionable insights, constructive strategies, and practical advice for effective digital parenting in an ever-evolving, tech-centric world. In a rapidly shifting digital landscape, those tools are intended to help parents strike a harmonious balance in guiding their children's digital experience. Sister Rufina Donato is the principal of the St. Joseph's Convent, disclosed at the seminar commenced by engaging first- and second-year secondary students from District 3 in structured dialogues and hands-on activities meant to cultivate a shared set of values, promoting responsible digital technology usage. Parents who are active participants in this transformative experience, joining interactive discussions with the Zoom platform. Many of them just look at the apps, the social media apps, but we want to say to them that it is more than that. It is not the virtual reality. There is augmented learning, and these are the things that can enhance their understanding, the curriculum, so we want to present that to them, so that they go beyond what they do. We also open for all the students to how they see themselves as individuals and not just go about posting videos or posting nude photos about themselves. One of the facilitators, Jacqueline Holden-Hunt, says each of the four secondary schools were presented with reliable topics such as being safe online and using digital tools for academic success. The Parenting Seminar Series is premised on a community-based approach, the goal of which is to initiate joint responsibility in building resilient digital citizenship. It's very important for the parents to be digitally knowledgeable. The kids will always be more knowledgeable than us because that's the environment that's what they grew up in and that's what they've always been exposed to, so they're going to be more knowledgeable. But it's to allow the parents, it's to guide the parents and tell them to go and learn, find out about things, put protection mechanisms in for young kids. When they get older, it's a waste of time because the kids are going to find ways of getting around the protection mechanisms you put in place. But to get the parents away of what is out there, the threats and how to speak to your children and guide them, so it's not about restricting your children, it's about educating them. Principal of the Antripo Secondary School, Arthur Scord, is of the view that although instruction within the classroom is increasingly utilizing technology, he says there should be a measure of caution whilst leveraging those new technologies. Technology is just part of our world and we have to embrace it. We have to encourage our children to use it but to use it discreetly. We know that there are challenges with a lot of our parents in terms of how they're able to manage and discipline their kids but we want to know that we can partner with them in looking at what are the best practices and so I welcome this initiative. The planning and implementation of the event was beheaded primarily by the Board of Management of the St. Joseph's Convent. The inaugural Parenting Seminar Series culminated over the weekend with a face-to-face breakfast event for parents of the St. Joseph's Convent Secondary School. Organizers are also looking closely at at-risk students in primary schools within District 3 and hopes the initiative can be replicated in the various education districts on the island. From the Communications Unit of the Department of Education, Innovation and Vocational Training, I am Chris Satney reporting.


My name is Christelle Ergoual, I'm a scientist at C4 looking at how land use change and degradation is affecting the emissions of greenhouse gases. Peru is the second country in the tropics in terms of peatland area, and the current estimated surface is 50,000 km2. But this estimate is the best assessment which would need rigorous ground thrusting. Besides, this estimate considers only lowland peatlands of the Amazon basin, while we know peat formation also occurs in the highlands. The peat is formed by the organic matter decomposing, coming from the palms, the other trees and also from the roots. And given the water load conditions, this organic matter decomposes very very slowly and it accumulates. And this is how peat forms over time. It has also been demonstrated that Peruvian peatlands store considerable amounts of carbon. In Indonesia we've been working also on the carbon stock changes and trace gas emissions in undisturbed and converted lands. There there's a lot of degradation, a lot of shrapnel on peat, but also plantations such as all palm plantations and acacia plantations which require drainage, deep drainage for the cultivation. So there we have a complete shift in the balance of the greenhouse gases and we have very strong emissions of CO2. Here in Peru the major threat identified is the over harvesting of this palm. The female palms are slashed for collecting their fruits and left to decompose on the ground. As a consequence the canopy cover of the forest decreases. The inputs of organic matter which builds the peat over time decrease and you also have a change in the microclimate in the ecosystem. If the canopy is more open you have more sun getting inside so you have a change in the air temperature, in the soil temperature, in the soil moisture. You have more evaporation and so you reduce the flooding conditions of the ecosystem so you accelerate the decomposition of the organic matter. Then we can expect reduced carbon stocks in the vegetation but also in the peat and the soil emissions of carbon dioxide may increase while the fluxes of methane and nitrous oxide may also be altered. We need to know what is the exchange of greenhouse gases between the system and the atmosphere in undisturbed conditions but also after disturbance. So in undisturbed conditions you have an exchange of CO2 because the system is respiring but it's also photosynthesizing. But when you disturb the system you will have more CO2 coming from the soil because the peat or the carbon which is there is going to be transformed into CO2 and be emitted. We need to improve the accuracy of the inventory of tropical peatlands in order to determine the magnitude of the carbon pool to estimate the scale of the transfer of peat derived greenhouse gases emissions to the atmosphere resulting from degradation and land use change to support greenhouse gas emission reduction policies. The blue is water. We don't know what will be the future if there is a willing to really to conserve these ecosystems or if potentially they could end up being drained as well as in Indonesia.


Good morning, everyone, and thank you very much for being here. My name is Andrej Kildad, Dean of the Faculty of Public Affairs. And thank you very much for joining us here today to learn a little bit more about how to be and what it means to be a Carleton FPA students. And to give you some insight into those issues, we have three students here to talk to you about their experiences and answer questions that you may have. So I will introduce all the students first and then turn it over to them. So first, please, I'd like to introduce Crystal, who is a fourth year Bachelor of Communication Media Studies student. Crystal is the incoming president of the Carleton University Filipino Students Association. Eddie is a third year student in the Bachelor of Media Production and Design, and he actually runs a sports blog called 613 Sports. And finally, Ben is also a third year student in the Media and Production and Design program. Ben is co-captain of the Carleton Men's Ultimate Frisbee Team. So with that in mind, I'll turn it over to Crystal. All right, hi, everyone. My name is Crystal. I'm going to talk about three points that would be helpful for you guys to know when coming to Carleton in your first year. So something that I learned in my first year that I found was interesting is that in the program of comms, Communication Media Studies, I found it interesting how there's so many paths of comms that you can pursue in the future. So for example, some paths may be like digital marketing, human resources, public relations, media law, advertising, I've done a list of journalism, broadcasting, public policy, or even game or web development. Like the possibilities are endless. That's why I really thought that comms was a really interesting program. And because it's really broad, I think it's really beneficial for especially first years to explore these different paths and to take courses in different topics or specialties just to know what you find interesting and what, oh, maybe broadcasting is something that I want to pursue in the future. And then because our program has so many electives, I think it's really great that we have all of these options and so many paths that we can go pursue in the future. Another thing that I found interesting was that our program has the co-op option. So you probably already know through high school. But yeah, it's just getting that hands-on experience within your program and to have that designation when you graduate as well. So right now I'm in my first co-op work term. I'm with Health Canada.  So it's just important to, I guess, show your potential. And then another point that I wanted to bring up is my favorite extracurricular. So as Andre already mentioned, I'm the incoming president of the Filipino Student Association at Carleton. So you don't have to be Filipino to join our club. But it is encouraged that you join just like any club in general. You meet so many people. There's actually a lot of opportunities for networking as well. And it's nice to, I guess, as a Filipino, it's nice to see my culture represented on campus. And yeah, I would just still encourage you to attend or participate in club events, whether it be online or it most likely will be. Sorry about that. And then the one thing that I wish I knew when I started university was all of the available resources that are on campus. I didn't know that Kisa had free printing of 250 pages for the whole year. I figured that out halfway through my second year. And I was like, oh my gosh, I really paid money for printing. But yeah, resources like that or even the counseling services for mental health, it's really important to have that and to just self-care and just check up on yourself. And as well as the career services, which is really important for your career and developing your skill sets. And for resume writing and cover letter building, I find those resources the most helpful for me when I thought I wish I knew when I started university. And with that, I can pass it on to Ben and Eddie for their session. Yeah, so my name's Eddie, and I'm a media production and design third year. And really the first thing you should know about media production design is that it's such an interesting new program, basically, only three years of it. It basically takes all forms of media creation. Not three years of it, but there's only been three years. There's only been three years of it. But it takes all forms of media production of journalism or photography or even just drawing and brings them all together as a new kind of narrative. So in the first year, what you're going to do, you're going to end up actually, I don't know, how with COVID, but you will be ending up working with the Natural Museum of History using the nature in Ottawa, working with stuff like augmented reality. And that's the journalism side. So you're going to learn about how different kinds of medias, pictures, and even writing plays a part in this new kind of world. And that's why we're going to learn some computer stuff. We're going to learn how to create a website through HTML, which is pretty fun, actually. So you're going to be a lot of people with different kinds of backgrounds. What I noticed really fast was that there are people who are good at drawing, photography, writing. And we all came together as one to help each other. And it's been really, really fun. And as for extracurriculars, obviously, try to do as many clubs. But for sure, if you're heading to this, you have some kind of hobby related to creation, anything, music. Try to see if you can link up what you learn in the program into what your hobby is. So for example, me, I liked writing. And I created a blog in 2017. And once I got into this program, I was able to increase the volume more by learning how to make my website look nicer or learning how to write better or learning how to use graphs or pictures. So if you're able to connect what you learn with something that you like, you can have so many career options moving up. And one thing I wish I knew, heading into university, was how much free time you actually have. Compared to high school, where your whole day is just basically classes. In university, your schedule is all over the place. You could have some days we're in class all day, and some days you have one class. So finding time to make sure you do your work, but also have some fun, have free time. You're in university, try different things. You don't have to do work all the time. And you're going to have a lot of time to do both. So just make sure you find that balance and learn how to work. And university would be the best place for you. I'm Ben. Cool. Yeah, I'm Ben. I'm also third year in media production. Going into the program, there are a couple of things that I wish I had understood about it before going into it. And they're not things that made it difficult or hard, but just it would have been nice to know. Especially just outside the program, I'm doing a minor in film studies. I didn't know really much about how minors worked at Carleton. And with media production, I'm not sure how many of the students in here are in media production. But if you are looking into things like minors, our program has 12 required credits, and most minors require four. So if you're looking for doing a double minor, which I know a lot of journalism and comm students do, that's something you need to look into pretty much as soon as you start, because minors will take up four credits and 20 credits is the amount of courses you have during four years unless you take extra. So it's difficult to take a double minor if you come into that late. But yeah, so Eddie mentioned some of the things we do in first year in the program. It's such a diverse program in itself. There are so many different things we learn. In second year, we go from web design in the programming to focusing more on data analysis and data presentation. And you learn a lot about how to use data and graphs to tell stories as well as learning how to make sure you aren't being as much like showing any bias in what you're presenting in your writing or studies. And we went from working with the Natural History Museum to doing projects for the National Art Center across from the Parliament building. And each group in our program got to select a piece of art or just a piece of it. It's very obscure things that they have presented there, but we all had to create a project based on that. And yeah, at Carleton, obviously, there's many, many things that students do and use the skills that we learn in our program for clubs. We have two students who do the illustrations and drawings for the Charlton newspaper. And they're very talented artists and I've worked with them on projects. And they've been amazing. And just so many different skills that students have are used all over Carleton, not just in our program. Students create, there are graphic designers who create logos and jerseys for teams on campus. And then outside of that, we have students who have already created their own businesses. There's media freelancers that have started business this summer, as Eddie has his blog and works with. What is it, Eddie? What's the soccer team in Ottawa that you work with? Aletico Ottawa. Aletico Ottawa. And yeah, it's a very small program. So getting to know everybody is very, it's a lot easier than, say, I don't know, comms has a lot more students. And you're not in as much of a confined space with just a few people. But yeah, it's a great program to utilize the different skills that everybody has because everyone comes into it for a different reason. And yeah, that's all I have to say. Yeah, but I'm a group chat. Try to make a group chat and get to know people. Because I know it's going to be harder with online. But if you get to know them, you can actually make a lot of your friends. And they can help you with different stuff. You'll never know when. Yeah. I think that's all from us. Fantastic. Thank you guys so much. I really appreciate it.  I'm the event assistant for the Faculty of Public Affairs and the Office of the Dean. I was the one sending you all the emails with regards to registration and things like that. I will also be sending you an email for your feedback and with the link to the recording of this session. So if it cut out or you missed something or if we have questions at the end that we can't get to, then we'll be able to look at that script and answer those questions with the email. OK, without further ado, we are going to enter our question and answer section. So anybody who would like to ask a question can write it in the chat function. I will read it out. And one of our ambassadors will answer the question. You can ask all the ambassadors or you can single out an ambassador based on what they said in their experiences or based on their program. So just to recap, Crystal is in communications and Ben and Eddie are in media production and design. I'd like to also mention that you please keep the questions to experiences and what you think about transitioning to university. Any questions about getting into specific courses or what courses would fit you best would be good for an academic advisor. Everybody's experiences are different for university. So definitely utilize your academic advisors on campus. You can find them based on going to the Carleton website and being able to go from there to look at online appointments with them. All right, so in the chat right now, we don't have any questions. However, we did have some questions in a previous session that I feel were good for everybody to know. So I'm going to ask a couple of questions to start it off to all of our ambassadors here today. So how do you find the workload in person versus online? I mean, I can take it from my experience doing summer courses this year and comparing it to how it felt just during the semester and how that was and the end of second semester. It's, for me, it really depends on the environment I create for myself. Going into class is very similar to what you're used to in high school, not in the timing, but you're in class. You're doing your work there. That's how it works. And then when you're home, it's just I find it really important that you create an environment that allows you to feel like you're in a place where you need to get work done. For instance, when I had to go home to my family home back in Niagara and I felt it was very difficult for me to get anything done unless I was closed off in a room by myself. And now that I'm back in Ottawa, I feel like I have my own space that I can get work done. So as long as you have the ability to create that environment for yourself, it's doable. And the workload isn't too much. But it's very, very, you have to work on managing it a lot more than you do when it's going into class. Yeah, for online, I would say it's kind of the workload kind of user to go into class. Because you have transportation and actually sitting in class. We're just actually doing the work you're given and stuff. Like Ben says, though, you need to find a place where you can actually do it. Because it's very easy to still lay it off. Because it might seem easy. But once you start doing it, like, all right, I might need to put some time.   Yeah, and then just to build on Ben and Eddie, it's just really important to, I guess, have a set schedule. I guess you'll have to, yeah. I guess for me, I usually like working in the library, like the fifth floor, the silent floor.  And then I have my set schedules of, OK, I'll do work from this time to this time. And then I'll take a break. It's really important to take breaks, too. You don't want to stress yourself out or just overwhelm yourself with all the things that you have to do. So it's just really important to, again, take care of yourself, too. And self-care is really important, as well. Go ahead, Ben. I just haven't mentioned that. I don't know how to answer the question, but I think Crystal might not answer the question. The question in the chat? So for those who can't see the chat, just in case, Moon is asking, other than communicator position in government jobs, would you give me more ideas which part of government job I can do after graduating? Begins slash communication and media. Is that like a double major? Like begins and comes? There is a world communication specialization within Begins. We've had a few students coming out of the Begins program last year who kind of did those types of issues. So somebody now working, for example, for Heritage Canada. There's somebody working in indigenous relations, doing both research and some more communication stuff. And of course, there are other people who are more tied close to what foreign affairs is doing. And so those are the kind of the basic areas where people in government, where some Begins students have found employment in government after the degree over the last few years. Yeah, I didn't know. But I know that, well, from my experience, I'm working with Health Canada right now. So it is related to communication specifically, but the work that you're doing can definitely transfer the skills that you've been developing throughout your undergrad. And you can easily transfer those skills into that department. I know some of my friends, they work in, I think, yeah, what Andre mentioned, as well as immigration and policy. There's also public affairs, HR as well. There's so many different departments and branches within those departments that would probably best fit the intertwined well with Begins and communication and media studies. And QSA, yeah, QSA means the, oh, sorry. That was me, sorry. In one of your session experiences, I think it was actually Crystal, you said QSA about the printing of the pages. And just in case some of you don't know that acronym, QSA does mean Carleton University Students Association. So you could find them on the web. And if slash when, we're all on campus. They're on the fourth floor at the university center. And also, if we when we're back on campus, Crystal also mentioned that the fifth floor of the university is a quiet floor. For those of you who want that bit of insight and a quiet place to study, that is the place to be. Oh, sorry. It's the fifth floor of the library. Oh, did I say university center? Yeah. I meant the library. Thank you. It's a really nice floor. Lots of sunlight. Oh, yes. All right, so we don't have any more questions in the chat. But I do have another one for you guys. What are the differences between a lecture, tutorial, and discussion class? For us, in MPAD, we have our lectures and tutorials, which are normally combined into a 3 and 1 half hour of class with a little break in the middle. So the lectures are where we'll have the prof at the front of the class and they'll be going through their slideshow or whatever content they have for us at that point. And you learn. And then you take a little break. And then the tutorials are when we do the hands-on things based on what we were taught, because our program is so applicable to them hands-on with most of what we're learning, we do a lot more tutorials than lectures for our programming courses. Most of what we have is going through code and going through our content with the prof as he's teaching us. So it's strange for our program because our lectures aren't really, we don't really have lectures. It's almost all tutorial-based. We're learning hands-on as we're learning the content right away. And discussion groups, we don't have discussion groups for courses in our program, but for electives and most other courses, like for anything I'm doing with my minor, discussion groups are separate classes that are normally shorter with less students where you can have one-on-one interaction with the TA and talk about things that you learned in the class that week. And I find those actually probably are the most helpful to learning. They reinforce the important things that the prof goes over in the lecture. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, lectures usually are like, you're taking electives, like business or film. You'll notice that lecturers are in big lecture halls with a lot of people there. And it's just really you listening to the prof and taking notes versus tutorials which is more hands-on. You can actually talk to the prof, they can come help you. So for media production, like Ben said, because we're such a small program, most of our lectures turn into tutorials because we can just ask a question and we can actually apply, especially with the computer part where we do have a lecture where the prof teaching us coding and tutorial, we actually get to practice it and the prof can come and help us. You can talk to your friends or try to figure out. So tutorials are a lot more beneficial, I feel, for hands-on. But lectures are more for the theory kind of lessons where you just take notes and have to memorize stuff. For comms, the lectures, I would say you get more of them in your first two years. And then going in, well, I'm going into my fourth year. But once I hit third year, most of my courses, they became tutorials, just smaller classes, which I prefer because that way you'll be able to interact more with the prof and with your other classmates. There's more, I guess, activities. And it's just more engaging that way, whereas lectures in your first two years, you're just kind of taking notes, not as interactive because there's one prof and then more than 100 of you, all in the sitting in this giant lecture room. And then our program has more discussion groups, which are, I guess, very similar to tutorials. But I guess you guys, Ben and Eddie, have more tutorials than discussion groups. We mainly have discussion groups where there are smaller groups where we basically go over the lecture content. So usually it's the lecture first. And then the discussion group is either right after the lecture. Or it depends which times you choose your discussion group for. And then, yeah, I think it's like 15 minutes, a small group of students in your program. And then you'll be able to go over the lecture content in case you miss something or if you want to seek any clarification on the content. So it's really helpful, especially in your first few years of the program. And Stephanie, is it OK that I answered the question? So Abigail is asking, Crystal, what are exams like for communications and media? Yeah, so I guess this is similar to what I said about the first and second year of comms. Like it's very, I guess, theoretical. It's very, I guess, content heavy. So the exams are mostly multiple choice. You do get your short answer, long answer. But I feel like as you go into your second and third year, it gets more open-ended. You'll be able to elaborate more on the short answers and short answers, long answers, and essay questions. You'll be able to score more points that way by further elaborating your points. Whereas in first year, a lot of the exams were just multiple choice. There was no room to elaborate and explain your ideas. So personally, I find that a lot easier to write more, just because once you have it in your head and you've studied, you've done what you can. And then once you have it in your head and it's time for the exam, it all spills out. So I find that really, yeah, I guess, yeah, it's just personal preference, but I enjoy the upper year courses more, but definitely the first and second year courses are fundamental to build upon that. Thank you, Crystal. I also have a question from Luca. So most of the comms courses will be online in fall 2020 due to current situation. Yes, all of them will be. All courses on campus are to be online last that I heard and knew. So that actually leads into my next question for the ambassadors. And that is what is the best way to contact a professor and to have communications with them in the online environment and with time zones in the back of your mind? Well, they normally set times that they have for office hours where it's really confusing because what are office hours when you're not going into their office? But that's when they set times where you know that they'll be available if you need to email them. But from my experience, most profs, all the profs that I've had for online courses have just been totally fine with you sending them email saying, hey, can we talk at some point tomorrow about this project? Can you just give them a little brief explanation of what you want to talk about? And most of them will find 15, 30 minutes during their day where they'll be able to talk to you or just send them an email during their office hours and they get back to you as soon as possible. Yeah, from my experience, professors really answer emails really quickly. Like whenever we've had questions or projects, we just email them and usually within like 30 minutes an hour they have an answer. And if we need to talk more, you can like bence their schedule like an online meeting through Zoom or something and you can discuss. So it's really easy. They're really easy people to talk to and they can really help you. It's honestly easier now that we're online to talk to them. And always remember that professors are people. They're there to help you. They don't mind answering questions. They are fantastic. I had another question in the chat. Just Oswin asked if there's any news in terms of the winter term? As far as we know, not yet, but you will receive an email when it is determined. So just remember that your emails are your best friends. That's where you're gonna get a lot of the communications about club expos, orientation and about what's going on with the current world situation and the university. I just want to add to that that we have made arrangements in the faculty of public affairs so that any student in first year in a program offered by the faculty of public affairs will be able to do their first year completely online if that's what they want. So that essentially we're already planning for winter 2021 to make sure that first year students can do the courses and complete and stay up in their program by reining online for that period. I can answer Roshani's question. So Roshani's question is what should I prepare or expect before classes begin in media production and design? So personally, because it's such a broad program, many like most of us come in with a main interest in like one or two of the four things that were being taught for the majority of the year. The way I prepare myself is I didn't know anything about programming whatsoever before coming into the program. So I learned and got just a basic understanding for what we were learning HTML, which is just web design. So I didn't teach myself how to do web design, but I taught myself how like just kind of the general idea of what coding is, because I really did not know. But if you do know coding, obviously don't do that. I'd say the main thing is just be ready to do a couple of things that you weren't or that you don't really know or didn't exactly expect from exactly what you're learning because it's so broad and you're learning so many different things in the first semester, especially that it's just got to be open to a very wide array of things. And there is, Eddie, there isn't animation, I don't believe. Yeah, there's IMD in first year where you learn like some general ideas about character design and story design in games and things like that. But no, we don't actually learn how to animate 3D characters or anything like that. No, yeah, basically come in with an open mind because you're gonna be doing anything you could think of really related to media production. We ended up doing augmented reality, none of us knew what to do, but it was fun. You end up writing, you're coding.  I was coming in like, I wanna do writing. And now I'm like, you know, like video creations from the I learned now and this is something pretty cool. So just have an open mind and just have fun trying new things. Perfect. So actually the next question to chat was basically answered in that first question. So Victor asked, is there any course that teaches animation? And Ben said not currently, but you could talk to an academic advisor and see what- There are courses we have with the IMD program in first year where you learn basics, but the IMD program is the one that students actually do learn about animation. There you go. I hope that helps Victor. So Abigail has another question for Crystal. So were the multiple choice exams in first year the ones where all the responses are somewhat correct and you have to choose the best answer, just like similar to the AP classes in high school or are they not that tough? Also what are you looking to do after you graduate from college? Yeah, so with the multiple choice exams you will have those answers where it's like, oh, B and C, A and D, none of the above. So it's really important to build your confidence and to be confident in your answers, especially in, I think my second year it was communication theory course.  We had, what is it, I think every like two, three weeks we had like a quiz and then, yeah, they were all multiple choice and then our prof, like, yeah, we had options like those and it was really, really tough, but it's, yeah, it's important to know what you're studying, see clarification when you need it, go to your prof's office hours, they will help so much. Like I don't know how I would have, what the result would have been if I wouldn't have like asked all those questions and it's also good to ask questions, like no matter like how many questions, like I'm one of those people who just boom, boom, boom, like I think that's really important to just be confident in knowing your content material. And for the second question that you had, what am I looking to do after I graduate? I'm really interested in like digital marketing. I'm really interested in wanting to like help a company like grow. And just to, I'm really interested in like the, I guess like the background work of how, I guess like clients or like consumers, like engage with the websites, like for example, if it's like a service, like how many people like engaged with or like clicked on certain things where these people are accessing the website from, like I'm really interested in like, like the Google analytics, like the AdWords, digital marketing stuff like that. So I guess that's something that I'm, yeah, I'm wanting to pursue in the future. You have to talk about a task space. The best strategy really is study with other people because everyone has different perspectives of the lessons and that they have different ideas.  So if you study a lot of people, you're gonna get a lot of ideas and you can all make a study sheet and it will really help you. Fantastic, thank you so much. So in the chat, we had a question that was answered by the Dean also in the chat. So Kelsey asked, can you have a minor of film studies while studying global international studies? And the Dean has answered, yes, it is possible to do a minor in film studies while studying in global and international studies program. Kelsey has also asked after that how she's able to do that because she tried and it didn't seem to work. So that can happen as well. So the Dean has also written, you can only enroll in the minor once you've started your program. You cannot apply for admission to a minor from high school. So once you're in the program, say partway through your first year, you can talk to an academic advisor and get into the film studies minor. So this is due to the fact that in order to get to a minor, you have to have a certain CGPA at the university and you can't have a CGPA until you have grades. So partway through, halfway through your first year, that first semester you will have grades. So just to give a reason behind that. From my experience, because I am doing a film minor, I'm not in global international studies, but I knew I wanted to do a film minor. So if you take film 1001 in your first semester, if you can, that's what I would say to do. And then you can take second year film courses in your second semester and applying for a minor super simply, just like change program elements or something on Carlton Central. It's just like a couple of clicks and you apply. And I went, I did it. They came back with a response within a day or two. Yes. You done? Yeah, that's it. Yeah, so for whatever minor you wanna do, you can always look up the list of courses you need to take. So even if you have to wait till your grades come in to officially apply for the minor, if you take those classes right away, once you apply for minor, it'll count. So if you're wanna be in film studies, if you take film studies right away, once you do apply for the minor, that film studies credit will count for your thing. Yeah. Fantastic, thank you both. All right, so we do have about six minutes left. There are no questions in the chat right now, but I do have another question. We probably have enough time for one or two medium questions left. So with regards to textbooks, how will I know what textbook I need and do I need a soft copy, hard copy or both? Well, I can't remember what the site's called, but there is a like your syllabus will tell you what textbooks you need when the syllabus is released for your course.  If you can find an online copy or digital copy, which is normally a lot cheaper, and you're fine with that, go for it if you want a hard copy and wanna spend money on that, then go for it, it's just as long as you have it and you're able to read it, it's all you really need. And yeah, it'll say in the syllabus for what you need to purchase. I think the website, is it called, is it Slug Books? Is that it? I have no idea. I'll just look at the syllabus and then look up the textbook. Okay, okay. Yeah, cause I think Slug Books is like a cheaper alternative that you can find textbooks on cause textbooks can be really expensive. But what I do, or what I am glad someone told me in my first year, is even like Facebook Marketplace or even like the Facebook groups for like the Carlton books, there's so many of them there. And then you'll be able, you can literally like search up like the textbook you're looking for and then the results will show up and then you'll be able to coordinate with someone, meet up on campus and then you'll be able to do the like exchange there. Also, I prefer getting like just, I mean, I don't mind using like already used textbooks just because they are cheaper and if I'm able to like read them, if I'm able to like still like extract the content from those textbooks, then that'll work like perfectly. Sometimes in the syllabus, profs will have the books, like the textbooks available on the, what is it, the library reserves desk. I'm not sure if that will be available for this. Yeah, they have curbside pickup still for that. Okay. Yeah. Okay, good. Some profs are for us and for my like elective courses. If they say, like make sure you like wait until like, if they post the syllabus like late-ish or even when they do, I would say email them and ask them what they do in regards to the readings because I've had a lot of profs and it happened in first year where I purchased textbooks and the profs just ended up posting all of the required readings from the textbooks in PDF form on CU learn. And I spent $60 on something that I just could have clicked on for free. So just ask your profs if it's mandatory to purchase it because it'll say it's a mandatory reading and it's a textbook, but they might just post it for you to read. It's still mandatory to read, but you don't need to purchase it. Mm-hmm. Also our textbooks, if you want to use ones, there is a store in your campus called Havens bookstore. Basically it's all the used textbooks, a lot cheaper than you. I just, they're still got a copy, like they're not like broke or anything, but yeah, you can get them for pretty cheap prices. And another thing with textbooks is once you're done with them, you can always sell to someone. There's always people looking for textbooks, like Facebook, Marketplace, or even friends you know who might be taking class. You can always sell it, so you won't be really losing money. Mm-hmm. Fantastic, that is all wonderful advice. Advice that I wish I knew in my first year back in the day for sure. I spent far too much on new textbooks in my first semester and then found out about the different marketplaces and everything. Just a reminder to anybody making any trades, make sure that the trade is legit, is safe and make sure you stay healthy in social distance. So another student in the chat, Oswin, asked if there's any suggestions where to find the PDFs. So we did get a few answers to that. Miranda in the chat also mentioned that some of the course materials will be posted online or through library reserves. So again, your professors will have those in the syllabus. If they've got a PDF version, they will share it. Don't you worry. And a lot of them also give you links to where to look on the library's website. You will get used to using it for sure. And once you get used to it, it's a lot easier. So don't get too intimidated by how many resources are available on there. And Ben also mentioned that if the professors send out the syllabus late-ish, that would be end of August, early September. The CU Learn courses will be opening up and you should be receiving syllabus. That was a question from yesterday as well. So he kind of answered that for me. So that's perfect. Erica in the chat, for media production and design, what kind of devices and software are needed for the program? And this is our last question of the day. First thing I know is if you have a MacBook, I'm not sure it's quite good for the programming part of the courses. I know I've had friends who had MacBooks in there. I have MacBook, yeah. Did it work? It works. It's just for programming because it's a lot simpler on Windows just in regards to the programs you have. Like notepad, like it's easier. Oh, like I don't think there's anything you need. I know that- Adobe Creative Cloud. You need Creative Cloud for second year for sure. But I know that the profs have been working with Adobe and with the school to figure out how they can get like everybody access to it during class time. I know that while we were in class there, we used, for students who didn't want to purchase it, used free trials and used school codes to access it for a short period of time. I did purchase it. I don't regret it. We don't have textbooks for our media production classes. So paying the student fee for that wasn't a big deal to me. But I know we are looking into like having the programs available for students. But other than that, you just need a computer that has access to and any computer really does have access to programming software like Notepad, which is free. I have a Mac. I used Rackets, which is also free. Anything really works. You should get an email before like a couple of weeks before it basically will tell you like all like the computer details you need to and programs you might need to download. But once school starts, if the teacher tells you to download something, that's usually when. Like we really didn't know what to download. The teacher said, all right, next week we'll be doing this. So make sure to download this program. Also for computer, we all work in computer labs. So if your laptop doesn't work or even if you don't want to use a laptop, you have computers to use to have all the programs already. And- It'll be weird this year, but hopefully. Yeah. So for this one, yeah. But you should be getting an email telling all its specifics of programs and computer specs you should need. And the school has access to everything. Like in second year, we used a lot of cameras and panoramic photo things, but they're the, I don't know if it's the journalism school or what actually runs it, but the school will give you access to almost anything you need. Fantastic. There was a few other questions within the chat about Syllabus's will be released again, end of August, beginning September. They'll be available on C-Learn. Classes will be through C-Learn and various video conferencing software like Zoom, Microsoft Teams and Big Blue Button. It just depends on what the professor is using. So with those last questions, I would like to thank you all for joining us today and sticking around for those final three minutes over time. But it was very helpful for me as I hope it was very helpful for you. And I wish you all the best in your coming academic year. Great. Thank you very much everybody. Thanks for being here. See you in different ways in September. Take care.


friends, you know, while I was gone and using my Sonos Rome, my friends at Sonos let me know that there was a new version of the Sonos Rome that came out. So the Sonos Rome is their, you know, I'll call it pill shaped speaker. And it it's absolutely my favorite travel speaker, you know, bar none. Like they they know exactly how to make things sound good. I don't understand how they do what they do with this speaker, because I have other speakers of the same size. And the Rome is like has the best roundest sound that I've ever seen on any of these. They released the Rome SL. Now, the Rome and the Rome SL are normal Sonos speakers. They connect to your Wi Fi when you're at home, and they participate in your Sonos network, just like you would expect them to. When you travel, though, the Rome has Bluetooth functionality. And so it can just be, you know, your normal Bluetooth speaker, if you will. And it's fantastic. It works super easily. It's my favorite travel speaker. The Rome SL now drops the price to 159 bucks. I don't know why the website that keeps coming up for me here, even though I'm in, you know, New Hampshire USA is giving me prices in. I don't even know what those prices are. Anyway, doesn't matter. It's 159 bucks. It still has Wi Fi and Bluetooth, but it doesn't have any microphones. So the normal Rome has microphones that are used for being a smart speaker at home, you know, the Amazon A lady or the Google assistant. And also the microphones provide the speaker with the ability to do automatic true play, which is Sonos's way of tuning the speaker to sound right in its environment without microphones. I can't do that. So there's no microphones and so therefore, you know, no automatic true play, but lower price for travel speaker. That's what I would get the Rome SL. So I was I was I was going to talk about it anyway. But then they announced the new one. So it was like, well, perfect.


Britain's London Luton Airport suspended all flights until 1400 GMT on Wednesday after a car fire set off a wider blaze that led to the partial collapse of one of its multi-story car parks. Luton is Britain's fifth busiest airport after Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted and Manchester, and it had 13.3 million passengers in 2022, according to the Civil Aviation Authority. There were no fatalities in the fire, reported to emergency services late on Tuesday. Each flames swept through the structure located a short distance from the airport terminal .4 firefighters and a member of airport staff were taken to hospital to be treated for mild smoke inhalation but have since been discharged.


Hello, and welcome to another episode of Frightfully Forgotten Horror Movies, but before we get started, what are we drinking? Today we are drinking Life Force. It's a galaxy smash, an APA. Alright. Today we're going to bring to you a Patreon request by John Adano, and this one is 1995's Ice Cream Man. You don't want to play with Ice Cream Man? This movie stars Clint Howard, who of course is like an icon in these B movies. He was in Evil Speak, which we covered a while back. He was also Balak in Star Trek. The original Star Trek is a kid, a little kid. And now the Tron, yeah. Olivia Hussie, who's he? Who's he? Hussie. Hussie. Is in this. She was in the Canadian classic Black Christmas. She was also in the Cat in the Canary, which we covered. And she's in Psycho Four, which we covered as well. David Nottin's in this. He's famously in American Werewolf in London. He's also in John Carpenter's Body Bags, which we covered. David Warner's in this, who just recently passed away. He is in Waxwork, which we covered. Tons of movies. The guy's filmography is huge. He's basically a legend. So the movie starts off. You see an ice cream truck kind of rolling by.  What does the ice cream man do?  And then they just take off.  Who's going to bring the ice cream? That's like probably one of the best openings of a movie. So it fast-forces to the present day and we get introduced to Gregory and now he's the ice cream man. Or the ice cream prince to be more precise. And he's taken over the truck in the business from the ice cream king. I just painted over a king and writes prince. Everyone remembers when the ice cream man came around as a kid. Ice cream!  There's a group of four kids and they come around. They all want ice cream. The one kid, an orange push pop please. And the other one kid wants a hard pack. Yeah, I've never heard of a hard pack before. I've heard of hard ice cream, but a hard pack.  Gregory when he goes to reach in and get all that ice cream there's all these bugs. Cockroaches and mice. So you know something's going on right away with Gregory here. Tuna when they get onto the playground he all trips and his ice cream lands in the sand. He just kind of wipes it off a bit and starts to eat still eats them.  There's the pick it up and you put it in the bag. And there's another kid who stays behind and all the other kids go home and the ice cream man pulls up and so the kid figures well it'll go and get an ice cream. He doesn't come home.  Meanwhile there's two detectives that start coming around wanting to know about this kid who went missing.  Small Paul is his nickname. That Macaulay Culkin. The Macaulay Culkin page master. He sees the ice cream man parked in his parking lines like oh he's going to go get some ice cream.  So they kind of like start bonding. Small Paul sees that groundskeeper stick roll out of the ice cream truck and it's all covered in blood. The ice cream man just snatches him up up to an assault and goes home and the ice cream man he kidnapped small Paul while no one believes him. Police actually get a warrant and go to Gregory's plant. He shows him the warrant. Can I keep that officer? They don't do as much searching as they do smashing.  He's like ice cream factory. But they can't find him. Gregory goes in and there's like a secret compartment that he opens up and small Paul's stashed in there showing small Paul how to make the ice cream and how it's done and the special ingredient that he puts in. Yeah, yeah. Gregory goes to make a home delivery. This kind of milfy kind of woman. Do you do home delivery? Yeah, I'll take a canister of your hard pack. Yeah. So Gregory goes to deliver some hard pack. She's having a affair with one of the kids' dads and Gregory parks in front of his car. He can't get out. He's like, ah, ice cream man. Get out of here, ice cream man. Gregory kills him in his waffle iron. This giant ssss. He goes up in the woman's house with this big giant cone with David Notton's head on it. It's all crazy. And he kills her. So at this point the kids know well, two of their friends have gone missing.  Yeah. They want to take pictures of the ice cream man in the act to show to the police that he is doing these things. And that's where we're going to end the plot. If you want to find out if they catch the ice cream man or if the ice cream man catches them. Yeah. Finish watching the movie. But why should you watch the ice cream man? Well, one of the biggest reasons is Clint Howard. I think he was almost tailor made for the role here for God's sakes. Let's face it, Clint Howard kind of looks a tad odd, right? He's a weird looking guy. Yeah, he's a bit of a weird looking guy. So the role sort of suits him perfectly. Ice cream men can be scary. I remember when I was a kid, all the ice cream men that came around were kind of creepy weird guys. Yeah, like these carny guys. Carny type guys, especially we had what was called the Dickie D guys in our neck of the woods who had drive the bike. Yeah, with those bells. Ding, ding, ding. And one of them actually stalked my dad. True story. Once my dad bought a whole box of ice cream sandwiches from the ice cream man. He was thinking, you know, I'll just buy a box and I don't have to worry about buying anymore, right? Well, the ice cream man who like thought my dad's going to buy a box every day or every time.  And I remember like wanting to go out to play and my dad's like, no, no, no, don't go outside. Don't go outside. I'm like, why? Ice cream man, I'll know I'm home. Ice cream man, I'll know I'm home. He's got all the curtains closed and peeking out the sliver. Ice cream man's out there. And if you don't think it's true, I got a picture of me and my dad in the nineties not even by my dad's house or elsewhere. Yeah, some other part of the scene. That ice cream man is in the background of that picture on that bike.  All Starcats. Yeah, like, you'd never expect it. And everybody does a good job in it too. You believe the roles they're playing. Even the kids are good. Yeah. And kids can wreck movies as we've talked about in previous reviews. The Shining. Yeah. New Nightmare.  Well, these kids are actually pretty decent. All the adults are crazy. There's that weird religious family where that mom's all speaking in tongues and foaming in there.   Like it's basically taking the piss out of all these things.  Yeah.  You're not supposed to really believe their world. You're supposed to believe the kids' world, right? The kids are the smart ones, really. Very self-aware. It knows what it is. It knows it's a campy, dark comedy, basically. And it's legitimately funny. It's not funny because it's bad or because the acting's bad or this is cheesy. There's legitimately funny parts in this movie. They take pictures of the ice cream man on the brother's camera and he finds out, he's like, where's my camera? We took the film to get developed and he's like, oh no!  Oh no!  That'll be...  The kills are pretty good in this movie for what it is, too, right? And they're all ice cream related. He uses ice cream utensils to kill people with that waffle iron and those scoops. The effects are quite good, especially the fake heads that they use. And he's got David Norton's head on that giant ice cream cone. It looks really good. It looks really good. And same thing when he's got those cops. He kills the two cops and puts them on those... The scoops? Yeah, and he's all using them as puppets. And then he all throws the one head away. It looks really good. It's lit really well. A lot of shadows. It's colorful, but dark at the same time, which is kind of neat. It doesn't look cheap, even though it's a straight to video movie. It has a little bit of that look, but it looks better than most straight to video movies. The only thing that really gives it away is the fact that the music is pretty generic. It's got that straight to video music. Yeah, they didn't really put that money into the budget there, you know? Creepy shots. Like when he pulls up to the house, lit from the inside of the truck, and the kids are looking out the window and he's just kind of staring at them. The settings for this movie are pretty good. The ice cream truck, too, right? Like the ice cream truck is a setting. Almost a character on its own, too, right? Because a lot of stuff happens in the truck. It's creepy in there. Yeah, it's lit really well. He's always putting people in the freezer, places like the mental asylum, which is pretty crazy.  And the fact that it just takes place in like this kind of suburban middle America, it kind of takes the piss out of suburban middle America, which is kind of neat. I like that. Where it's like, oh, this is all supposed to be perfect, but really, everyone is insane. Everybody should be safe, right? But they're not. But they're not, right?  And one thing about this movie, too, is they could have went two directions. They could have went legitimately scary or the direction they did go, which is kind of fun and campy. I think this movie also would have worked really well if they went the scary route. I'd like to see a scary version of this movie. So if you're looking for a legitimately good movie with Clint... Ice cream and beer? Not a very good combo. No. Basically, Ice Cream Man is just a really fun, dark comedy that doesn't take itself too seriously. It's legitimately a fun, funny movie. And it's actually quite a good movie for kids. It's a good gateway for kids into horror movies, because it's essentially a kids movie. So if you're looking for a good, fun movie to watch, you can eat some ice cream with. Check out Ice Cream Man. And until then, keep drinking.