Hear everything that I'm saying You can't hear what I'm saying right Margie Can you hear me now Margie?  We really enjoyed it. So hopefully you come to more of them We put these banner bunches on once a month, but this is like the seventh one that we've done We're gonna do it just like November. We've got a lot of great feedback on them So I'm gonna get started We're in the banner bunch I'm gonna mix this all up here I'll quickly go over some introductions of the team that is actually here We'll cover some banner basics today This will be a training that typically you might get on the first day of the job But for people that have been here for a long time, you may actually get something that you either forgot or missed or whatever So this is actually a lot of fun And then after we're done with that, it should take about 15 minutes or so Once we're done, the rest of the hour is up to you guys Ask any question you have and we'll do our best to answer it And if you can't answer it, we'll at least point it all in the right direction and we'll follow it So we are the banner bunch We're the applications and systems programming team We have Kimmy here Mark Tyler's out sick today And so is Carl Teresa's down on the end Lori's birthday is today I'm betting she didn't want us to sing to her so she avoided this I can't see anyone We didn't tell them that she's sick so at least we kept that for the secret I wouldn't say it I know better Lena is our administrative ninja I'm Gabriel, Gabriel Lawrence And our CIO of the college, the micro pointer So we're going to just dive right in Everything that I cover today is actually available at some banner documentation And near the end I'll show you where that's at But we're basically going to cover real basic information One of the things that's always mysterious to people that first start using banner Is what the heck these acronyms are What are these names? A lot of you might notice that I've put spading up here on the screen This is one of the most common forms you may go into Here in H.I. League we keep adding another flavor of this form All of these forms have this seven-letter acronym And it's probably as old as banner itself The banner is an old system that started in the early 90s, late 80s And it's evolved over the years But every letter in this actually means something Which not everybody realizes And once you've learned how to speak banner and then read these characters You can pretty much understand what you're getting into when you go to a form Just by looking at the name Or if you don't know if the name is for a form, you can almost guess what it would be So let's dive through this That first character there, the S for spading Is the system that you're in We have different pieces of our ERP here Our banner system And the pieces that you'll typically run into S is for students, but we also have finance You typically start with an F G starts with general Payroll and HR usually starts with a P or an N I have no idea where some of these letters came from But this is the acronym that we use Financial aid starts with an R And it counts receivable or some of the more accounting forms Start with a T The second character is what module you're in This is actually context specific So depending on which area of banner you're in You can see a different set of letters And they all mean different things I've chosen to point out the student ones Because that's an example of a walk-through here But if you know what that second character means You can kind of guess what piece of functionality May be in this form The P in spaden is a person So it's the person information screen So we already know that we're in a student screen And a person information screen There's other ones out there A for admissions, C for catalog H for academic history There's many more for student even I couldn't put them all on the same screen here There's a lot of them in there The third character is the form type And it kind of tells you what the functionality Is going to be in that form What you can expect to be able to do In this form and banner In spaden A stands for application It means that we can enter information We can change information We can work with some of the functionality And banner At other schools I've heard them refer to the A As administrative What sort of form that is There's other forms Some of them start with an I or a Q Those means that you can look up information In those forms, you can't change anything there I don't know why they ended up With two different sorts of Actions for query or inquiry But they're both in there R stands for rules So different areas Allow you to set up ways that the banner System will function And V is for validation table Most of you won't actually see validation tables Right off the bat But you may notice that occasionally Those are where we set up our codes Those are very specific to the way The banner works here Usually that's a more technical level Of banner In spaden we already know we're in student There's a person screen It's an administrative screen That can change information for students All their personal information The last four characters tells us It's more of an abbreviation Of what that form actually is It's more of the form's name So IDEN is actually Identification It's just sort of that We're able to change the Identification information For a person, for a student We can enter information there Some of the other examples that we have Are Through a validation table up here GTV is zip-c That's where we set up our code for the entire system It's a general form It's a validation form The T stands for table Employee Their main forms is PMPL PEA Payroll, Employee, Administrative Employee form Sodoms is a typical one for admissions It's a student form It's the application Administrative form So once you can start reading these You can start telling Where you're at in banner Tell if you're looking at student information Or accounting information If I'm in this form I can change anything Or if I'm just looking stuff up Then often you can just Guess what the form is by that last four characters A lot of schools End up coming up with their own ways To pronounce this as well And for those of us that Have worked at many different institutions Every school has a different dialect of Spanish You never know what that sounds like So we all say suspension So chat chicken All the other crazy forms What do we call it Chat Tater Chat Tater Any questions on this I kind of raced through that But it's fairly straightforward Once you understand what those characters are Eventually the future versions of banner I think they're going to start moving away from the system They'll start becoming a little bit more descriptive You'll be able to almost Google What form you're looking for What for person information They'll start hiding these actions But for now, knowing these actions Is very important So I'm going to dive into the toolbar And just kind of the layout of a banner screen I've got a couple slides on it here That give you a couple of images and whatnot But I'm actually going to dive out into the banner So we can walk through it together Alright, so this is our typical banner screen I'm going to develop an instance here Detest and I'll be using my own personal information here Hope you don't mind If you see anything Private, you're started by And all that other stuff But this is when we come into banner We're at a main menu We've got all the icons at the top And most of them are grayed out This works kind of like a sitemask Like old school web pages Where we can drill down And find the different areas of banner But most people don't typically use that Most people just dive right into this go to feel And they either know exactly The form that they need to go to They type in spade in Or you may not have known You can actually search through these fields as well If you click this Icon here It'll pop up a query form And I can actually search For any of the IDIN forms I'm going to use the hockey It's control f11 Does that work? Hockey is not allowed Let's try this Well, that's lovely The screen is not really set up for hockey very well The f11 would have run a search And I would have gotten spade and pp There's a few other IDIN forms Out there You can also search Off the name You can look for person information And use your wild cards I understand that the description is actually case sensitive But you don't remember Whether or not it's up to case or lower case Try a lower case Or try a weekend off Let's try this One other thing to notice Is down here at the bottom Right now it's telling me function key not allowed I don't fully understand what that means on this But whatever I'm hitting To try to get the search to run Isn't really happy with me Typically the hockey is control f11 Right? That means that hockey is not bad Whatever you're trying to do Interesting So this is a good screen to Search from You work very well Knowing that you can get out there And search for forms usually helps out There's a lot of times I know I'm looking for Some sort of code Or some sort of validation table Or what not to make you go there And search very quickly And try to narrow down what I'm looking for It doesn't work in that screen The icons don't work on that I don't know why Up here at the top now Some of those icons are turned on And some of them are self explanatory Some of them not so much Just like any other system Whether you're in Microsoft or what not You can just hover over any of these And a little message will pop up A tool tip that will tell you what it is Most of them make sense Especially if you've been in there for a while But the first time you're in there That might be a little correct answer I'm going to put in some information here This is myself When I put in an ID up there For a confidential person You get this warning up here And that's a great indication of this information Shouldn't be just stuffing an email And mailed out or giving out to just Anywhere in person If you're a student this is a great indicator You need to keep that information quiet I'm sure you have policies and procedures On how to handle that when that happens This top section that I put my information into Is often referred to as a key block Key blocks for gathering information And then when you go to our next block It'll pull all that out of the database And allow you to do things with it That icon that I would use For going to a next block Is right here Next block There's also a hot key for it Control push down Going to our next block Pulls up all of my information That's me I can navigate through this form by tab Occasionally some forms have other strings behind That you might not see right away Again we're calling those blocks Control push down to go to the next block And more information will come up A lot of times if you don't feel like You're seeing everything you need to be saying Or you know that there's something else It's always worth trying the next block Here we can go through here There's different functionality You'll notice at the bottom as I click It's actually giving me information About what I'm looking at So say I made changes here I'd want to save that The very first icon right here to save And for those of us that have been around a while We recognize this icon because it's used everywhere It's a three and a quarter floppy disk Which no longer makes sense in today's world But that icon's become the international standard for saving The next button here is rollback And rollback might not be very intuitive But what that means is that we can get out of this block here And go back towards the block We can go in and put in somebody else's information here There's an icon for inserting a record So if I wanted to insert something I can click that and it'll give me a nice blank line Of blank information to start typing in I can delete a record or remove a record So I can delete information that exists on someone We've talked a little bit about blocks Or I'm sorry these are next record And previous record Those don't do a whole lot in some forms It's very context specific More like when you have a big list of information You can go up and down the list A lot of people just use up and down other people Here are the blocks Previous block and next block That take you to the next tab Or the next screen of information That I just exposed by SSN Now there's query information Queries are really important for data They're very important for large bits of data We actually go to a query screen where we can search And it'll show a little bit more about that This may not be the best screen How would you try a TVS VGI? That's a bunch of colleges That's a good one That'll give us a different screen too we can look at STVS VGI So I know that this is a validation channel Because it would be student information These colleges with student system And STVS VGI stands for source and background information I don't even look at it I know from reading data all the time Exactly what that means up there That's a great idea Yeah because you can insert it When I come in here It actually says I'm in query mode So I don't have to enter a query I'm already in a query right now And I can just type something So I want to see if we have any information From our client because that's what it's got So I can put an NT code there And then execute my query And it'll go out to the database To find any information that starts with NT Except with our wildcard on there Here's a question that I hadn't thought of before Everybody knows what the wildcards are right? We're searching Raise your hand if you don't And I'm going to single you out I have one There are percent symbols Which means Let me do that example again I'll enter a query I'll put an NT percent here What that means is that it's going to grab Every code that starts with NT And any number of characters after that Whatever they are it'll just work as a wildcard If I run that There are only two codes in our system NT Montana College MT Which is my alum Or MTH000 Montana High School If I wanted to Find just a specific one And I didn't know what the characters were in the middle But I knew it ended with a one The other wildcard you can use is underscore And that means it's a wildcard For one character So I'll put NT underscore underscore underscore one And I'll get that one row Does that make sense? Those are pretty much the two wildcards you can use Percent and underscore I don't know if there are any others So that's what those are Enter a query that allows me to start over Execute a query that will find me If I don't put it in anything It will bring back everything Cancel a query If I come into this form Let me go back out And I'll come in STB, SPGI It's not really an intuitive button But right now I'm in a query I can cancel it And this is query cancel And that's how it does for you A lot of people think that if I'm running a query And it's taken forever I can get a cancel query And it'll stop it That's not the functionality it's provided It just gets you out of query mode in your form Alright Well see I just learned something Did you learn that? Yes Because I thought it would stop my query And save me my life from being And a lot of times if you're In a form and it's not the way you expect Look down there at the bottom If you might be in query mode or you might be out of it If you expect to be in there And then you're oh I've got Enter a query at that chance And it'll start to even the way I expect The next icon in here is view send message That doesn't do anything for us So there's a messaging system Inside banner it's like instant messaging Like your Google Hangouts Or an innocent messenger It's ancient It doesn't work very well I don't even know if we've got pieces of it turned on We all use Google Hangouts though Yeah We have a print button I'm not sure how many people use this It basically does a print screen It'll send that screen to a printer And just spin it out There's probably other ways nowadays That you can meet that functionality With a snip tool or windows Or a print screen Or copy or screen it to a word document But if you really want a paper copy Of what you're looking at on this You can click that There's two more icons That are grayed out They refer to BDM Who knows what BDM stands for Banner document management It's basically a paperless office Sort of tool that we don't have We use laser for sure So that's the same sort of tool There's an icon again for messaging That we don't use One for fine grade access control That's not really going to do anything for us here One for multi entity processing That's more for schools Or for states to have many, many different schools In the same banner instance Like Texas has 22 schools All using the same version of banner All the same database I think Colorado's a similar one They call it multi entity processing We're the only institution Inside this instance of banner So that button really doesn't do anything for us either Online help is very useful If I click online help What it's going to do I've got to make sure I'm sharing this screen Is take us to the elucid hub I'll talk a little bit more about this in a few minutes But what you want to know Is that this is a great place for help And I'll dive into those when we're done with the icons Let's go back to Oracle Where's it at We're all up here for supplemental data As we go through our back to base And I project and start using supplemental Data engine more This might become more informational But really all it does is tell you If there's information on here It's not delivered functionality It's something that we're supporting here And then there's exit Which does exactly what it sounds like It exits you out of the form And if you click it again It'll actually exit you out of the banner Or not you actually want to exit And you can see yes or no So the cool thing with all that Functionality up across the top Is that it's also duplicated In the menus at the top Whoops, I got a typo there So all this functionality Is also available through the file And view sort of information There's a few pieces I want to mention though That you won't get through icons The first one is in file You'll notice that I've been to three screens You actually keep some history there So if you know that I went to a form about three forms You know what I can't remember what that is You can go here. It's also a nice shortcut To date to forms You can go very quickly from form to form What's up Dave? Did you know you can scroll back and forth Between the forms you've been in In the go-to as well Can you? Dave, I'll show you that Up and down arrow How cool is that? I didn't even know that Inside the go-to You'll also scroll through those Does that save across sections Or everything you start from? The file I know Has a limit of ten Then it will keep track of the last ten forms I don't know about this This might be the same Hopefully that's something That we didn't build here Another thing to note Edit copy paste view Just like you would see anywhere else The options are context specific When I'm in a form It'll give me different options They're often related to this If I'm in an application There's often one for making a decision And taking this to that form Or going to work with their high school information Or that sort of information A lot of times it's worth looking at What those options are Because you've highlighted functionality And you realize you're missing Block, you've got those buttons All these existing buttons Tools This is also the way To get to that document management And workflow We don't have document management But we do have workflow We just haven't ever turned it on yet Workflow is a great tool For automating the way A business process works So if I know that James is step number one For an application Then he's going to manage the family Financial aid office We can build workflows That control that flow of information And make sure people are aware of what's happening We've never really used it here But it's something I'm always willing to look into It's a perfect tool We seem to really believe in this product We're starting to build more and more Of it into everything across the planet There's also help Help has a couple of features in here That are kind of cool For those of you who are more technical And more information about the field that you're in Most people would never use that though Help all fields is similar It tells you more about the database Behind this screen You've got a calendar And a calculator which Is hopefully useful to you Maybe I don't know And some forms allow you to extract data But I don't always recommend that It's in this situation We're going to go along here And extract the data But it does have its time in this place And there's also about just like everywhere else And this will tell you the different versions of banner That we're on This is good information though When you're looking for documentation I need a user guide for banner But I don't know which user guide we use For students I would go to 8.9.3 user guide Just like we're using anything in Windows Or Microsoft or programs in general The About gives you good information about it One other thing to know about all these All this functionality that we just went over Is that we've got a set of hotkeys So there are about 35 different Hotkeys out there in banner Many of them Have been used over the years Who uses hotkeys? A few people I think over the years we've kind of shifted The training people to use the icons A quick sort of method to get to this But just like with Windows With ctrl v and ctrl c And ctrl x This has functionality as well There's about 35 hotkeys That are out there I'm not going to go through all of them But I do want to show you where you can get All of that information It's out here on the band docs And I'll cover what this is in a minute here There are banner user guides And Theresa is actually Built a nice cheat sheet here That tells you what every Icon is And it does Probably a little more descriptive than I've come over here It also lets you know what the hotkey is For those I'm not sharing the screen I'm not sharing this There it is So these are all Of the cool functionality that's out there And on the second page It's just a nice little cheat sheet Of what all the hotkeys are The thing to know about this List of information here For those of us that have been here a while And really like our hotkeys We've found about two-thirds of our hotkeys Are the way that they're actually delivered by a lucian But a third of them, for whatever reason Over the years, we decided to change We're kicking off A back to baseline project When we have kicked off a back to baseline project And we're going to start taking a lot of the functionality We've built over the years And start changing that back to the way That it's delivered by a lucian A lot of times we've provided that functionality And assistance to the system Over the years and it has developed that functionality So this is one of the very first things That we're going to take on We're going to take this list of hotkeys Back to baseline So for a third of these hotkeys If your brain is used to hit and shift f6 To duplicate a record We won't do that after Saturday Saturday we're going to go back to baseline On this list and the hotkeys will change Another example Is people that are used to hitting f4 The baseline way to do that is People queued Very different So for those of you that like hotkeys Print this off, put it next to your desk And be prepared to be very angry at us Next week Because it will break your brain I know when I came from another institution To use baseline hotkeys I came here I couldn't use banner for a few schools My fingers knew the buttons But they no longer matched up with the system Hopefully this isn't too playful So we covered the toolbar Covered the hotkeys Again they do produce the same thing All the buttons do And they will be changing on Saturday Now I'd like to cover for a couple of minutes Where you can find more information About the answer Because everybody is constantly Asking us questions and I love answering your questions A lot of times There's more than one right answer That's not the right answer There's more than one right way to find the answer And I want to make sure that everybody Has all the tools that they need To get as proficient as possible On banner So our banner homepage You can find information on that About our maintenance weekends About once a month we have a maintenance weekend Where banner may not be available Saturday morning Or even longer For real big upgrades There's information on who the experts are Across campus There's information on What else is out there? What version of Java one That sort of thing The Band-Ox Which I just kind of glossed over a second ago Is a great place for information To go back here Out on the groups The G drive There's a folder called Band-Ox If you don't have access to the Band-Ox Let me know We need access to this as long as you're Set up as a banner user Out here there's not a whole lot Of secret information We keep all the documentation On the current versions of banner We try to keep this up to date But occasionally we fall out of date We keep information on here On the next versions of banner That are coming out for release guides We also build some of our own user guides We have information on the banner bunch All of these presentations that we've done Are available on here To be a walkthrough PowerPoints again We also ask our steering committee If we keep all our meeting minutes out here This is a great place to go The Basically the training that I'm giving right now Is actually the banner general getting started You can actually come out here And I'll share the screen And you can walk through all the information About banner Getting started Out here in all about forms It talks about the different acronyms And it gives every single Permutation of those characters That you could want to know about So for those areas that we're covering In the slide like the HR one You can see what all those characters mean It talks about the hot keys It talks about Some of the tips and tricks That they've learned over the years On how to use banner This is a good document If you're getting started with banner Or sometimes it's a good document It's a separate It's like 3WCR manual But it is one of the data that you occasionally Especially if you've got a correction This is often where you have to see The source of every expertise Is out there on the system The other place that I'd like to show you Is the Ellucian hub So I had clicked on the online hub In the banner And it brought me straight to the Ellucian hub I want to show you what that is And what you can get out of it I still have it up here So this is provided by Ellucian This is really a place For all the information that you would ever want On their products If you have not been out here Or set up a user account You can sign up for one They send me an email asking if you're an employee And I said yes and they let you Once you're set up Oh man I don't think I know what user name You can get in here You can get in here And go to information On one of the areas we drive people to Is the e-communities The e-communities is A user form It's a place where you can go And interact with the banner users across the world And it's actually Become a very vibrant form For those of you who've been around With a banner for a while That used to be the Ellucian Commons If you remember that It wasn't usable It was hard to search for information It's really tough to use The e-communities is very different from that It's super easy to use There's tons of information that's easy to find In there And there's a lot of people in there Interacting on a daily basis There's even a bit of gamification That you can get points on Yeah, can do it I used last house I don't know what it is You want to sign the package? Come on up Thank you Another cool thing to know about the e-communities Is that recently I've become a little more active in that community I've become part of their customer advisory board So I have a direct line to the top Out there So if you have feedback on how the e-communities Will work better, let me know I can let Elluci know directly And a lot of our feedbacks Actually didn't make any of that So when you go in here Most of you are just going to end up wanting To have one thing in the e-communities And you can request different apps Out there You click on this It allows you to get access to the e-communities Maybe the support center Maybe downloading information That sort of thing But most of you Are only going to use the e-communities Maybe the support center If you want to really dig into the way the banner works This is taking a while, isn't it I don't think it's real happy with me There we go Kevin doesn't get any access Kevin's not allowed to have a lot of this The support center There's ethos, there's software documentation When you first log in here You'll have to ask for The e-communities And that's the one that I want to drive everybody to So it's misbehaving So you can see in here My buddy Jamie Batten Is putting out a lot of information about Whether you know about things or not You can search for anything So if I live in HR And I'm just concerned about ACA I can just search for ACA And it'll bring up every conversation people have had About ACA This is a great example because When I was first getting into the e-communities HR asked me a question and I said ACA and their answer was In the top three That's pretty amazing Any questions about this This is really cool, I'm trying to drive a lot of people to it It's really useful here I was having problems With the Secure process So I went in here and just searched for Both the error message that I was getting On an alpha file and then also Just the actual Prompt that you put in to run the process And then there was tons of information Tons of information Other people that had the exact same error How they solved it That kind of thing And even though almost every school that has Banner use is in a little bit different way Most of us run into the same issues Every day And everybody had to start doing that So we're not alone out there In the banner community it's really funny They're all willing to share information A lot of times they're even willing to share code Or tips and tricks they've learned over the years This is where you find all that Out on elucian.com There's also A link to that, that support center If you go this way There's also a lot of training That's available out here They've got all sorts of training On everything you could think of We can sign up Kevin for things They have webinars And you can watch anytime A lot of times if you start getting an email You'll find out when you're actually going to have to participate In that Whatever you want to learn We're also getting access To what we call the ODSL The online demands subscription library That'll give us There's free access to any training that we want I don't know if there are limitations to that just yet We're just getting it set up right now But I want to start using that a lot more So we're exploring different ways that we could have Maybe weekly boot camps Classrooms Or hand out the user names As much as possible Get people in and training And making time for training as much as we can Especially if we do this back to baseline project And we start trying to get back to a lot of Baseline functionality or user functionality It's not being used currently I think that training is going to be really useful There's conferences I haven't touched on that Elucian Live is a global conference That just happened in April A lot of people from across campus I recommend that to anybody Who's using banner It's a giant conference It's a little expensive On the lower end of the spectrum Is the Northwest Elucian users group That's a conference that's actually going to be In July July 13th through 15th I'd say lower end as far as cost As far as value Yeah That's actually going to be a forced growth So there's a driving distance to here this year And the registration is 100 bucks And I believe they've even got on-campus It's at Pacific University And they'll have on-campus housing Yeah, you can stay in a dorm Like when you're in college Put that little ticket below Is that right? Anybody that's interested In the Northwest Elucian users group Ask us Michael and I are actually Trying to post it next year That may or may not happen Let you know as it develops There's also a conference That Elucian puts on called Elucian Learn or Elucian Training Days A lot of times those are a little more technical But if there's something that's attractive That makes sense for you, I'd recommend it Absolutely, I can't emphasize training enough And of course the banner bunch We are always available For any questions you have There's a lot of staff across campus That have expertise in any areas We're not afraid to ask questions In any issue here We're all in this here You can get a hold of us, we have an email address That I'll put up at the end of this You can call our main member You can just pop into our office I'll put up that too Alright So now this is open to you guys I went a little longer But we've covered a lot of information We've got probably about 5-10 minutes That's a few things we'd like to ask Feel free Okay, how do you print a class list Other than print screen And then scroll down a little bit more From the rest of the screen How to print a class list So I'm assuming that You're doing this for me Being an instructor or an industry If I need to cancel a class Or if an instructor pops his head In my office And real quick I need a class list So I'm not really set up to demo this But I can show you if you come back to my office Okay There is in banner self-service Does everyone know the difference between self-service And what I just showed you, IMB I'll cover that really quick If you have questions IMB Or Internet Native Banner Is what we've been training on today So this administrative interface Is very Kind of clunky Maybe not so intuitive But it's very administrative The focus of admissions is heavily The focus of any training system Faculty will never know A student will never be in the system Because this phase of the database Is meant more for the functionality That the administration provides The other phase of banner Is what we refer to as self-service Or you may know it as WebRudder If I go out to linbadge.edu Yep, there we go And I go to WebRudder This is more the public Face of banner There's a lot of information out here But there's not a ton of functionality This is meant more For people that need to go into the system Without any training It's a little more intuitive Hopefully This is meant for students This is meant for faculty Who want to get a class list That sort of thing In here If you have access to faculty self-service You can go To grab a class list And actually print that out You can copy and paste it to an Excel spreadsheet If you wanted to, but be careful of FERPA Or you can actually click the link To email every student in that class Or you can email people in the picture You can drill down to the students' information And see their phone number So this is where you would want to do that So I can do a little bit more training on that After this Now that's your question This is a great spider Any other questions? Yes, sir We're going to see how it has been Sometimes we get Students will call in Again, log in to the email And then we can discover That there's something wrong So then we look at the banner And so It's also a wrong banner Then My response is They should call admissions So that Admissions Would initiate I feel a Workflow That all things Further Would appear to be changed So is that It's either to go by or Your question is If you get a call at the help desk And you find that somebody has incorrect information On their record Where to send that to Like a birthday Instead of me Making the change in the banner And then Maybe even making Well sending emails To the IES department To change the email database Better just to Notify or have them Contact your admissions All the Processes So I'm looking around to make sure I know who's from admissions here Jane is here, Debbie's not behind She's here as well I don't know the exact business process But I think that's a great assumption I believe that's probably true Because we could change it Debbie would take care of it So I think that's probably a correct assumption But you also need to take it Considerationally might be different So that's why she probably asked Because I think She knows how to handle it That's my feeling as well that this needs to go to the Correct person to change the information This is probably a way that they verify That the information is correct Which we now have it right in the system And also to make sure that maybe We don't have another John Smith With very similar birthday or something like that Or they would touch their correct information And now I have some main recent Processes and certain cases We do not know that With those admissions That's a great point Is that we understand The functionality a lot of times But we don't own the data in the system We just make sure that it's available For who is the right people To own the data across the system So it's the right person and admissions To get to that sort of thing So you can always ask us If that's the right case We'll go to the correct person Also John The email database that you mentioned The SQL database That is something that I just maintained That changes to birthdays Not a fan of these Not you folks It's burned I think it was in terms of that And I don't think the birthday changes Will not affect email accurately So you have to comment too With centers We can change the birthday banner Then we have to Burn and ask if we can change the email Of course Of the program So it limits So we can get mannered correct But it doesn't affect The email aspect It doesn't have to change that There's something you have to be careful with Changing information across banner If you're not sure who owns the field It might affect somebody else So it's always best to ask the question And see if there's a proper way To do it or the right workflow To go through to get something changed That all those pieces can be caught You want to make sure the people's email addresses Don't change on them Or their passwords don't get messed up Or their passwords Or their dates of birth Actually do change And then those other systems They don't necessarily always They have births kind of a unique thing And that we use it for Default passwords here Which technically is a purple violation But we're going to move away from that eventually We've been at a compliance for about 10 years Any other questions We've got maybe another minute or two One more question Anyone I really want to ask a question So kind of detailing On that I've been Look up information Is there a way To just look up And not be able to change Anything Like I noticed that The A means applications And you can enter fields Which you use a different letter To find the same information But not be able to change it So let me kind of repeat Back to what you just said Most people Have access to forms Like spaden Or swine But your access You can have two different types Of access to that form You can either have query access Where you can see the information in that form That you can not be able to change it Or you can modify access Where you can't get in Changing the information Those are two different types of access And not always know what kind of access You have to a form If you're trying to get into a form Where you need to be able to change the information That's part of your job And you have the information You'll need to know and all of that But you're not able to We can run that up through To reset just to check What your security is Your access And if it needs to be escalated To modify access or something like that But there's a process for that To answer your question Sort of I think it's more about I don't think I need to Change anything And then frequently I need to Do you have access to that form Where that's just the same Yeah I mean that doesn't That certainly means you have a data Anybody can save You just might not 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Hi friends! Welcome back to my channel and welcome to the worst books of 2021! I'll be chatting about my worst books that I've read this year. I'm hoping that we're safe to kind of put it up a little bit earlier than the end of the year because I'm hoping I'm not gonna read any books of the worst of these ones. What would I hope? But yeah, we're gonna be chatting about all of the books that I did not enjoy this year at all. And what's worse, she's on her way to a special audience she hates. This year in 2021, I had three one-star books and ten two-star books. This is all one-star books and then some of the two-star books. I also like, I feel like when I hate a book, it's so traumatic to me that I kind of erase it from my memory. I'm kind of like, get out, we're not dwelling on the negativity anymore so I'm gonna try my best to describe these books to you. But who knows? But first, before we get into the video, I want to thank the sponsor for today's video which is Skillshare. 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Right, this is one of one of the books that's in contention for my most disappointing of the year, Hairprune Bridge by Taylor Adams. Now, if you know me, you will know that No Exit by Taylor Adams, probably my favorite thriller of all time. This is a masterpiece.  I don't know. Like, it is historical. She's history. She is a moment, honestly. Like, how can you go from that to this? It genuinely boggles the mind. I don't understand. It's incorrect. It doesn't fit on my fantasy. I'm sorry, it's not happening. Thing is, this has a very similar vibe to No Exit, where it is a cat and mouse game. That's what Taylor Adams seems to write. Shame it wasn't done well in this book. So essentially, our main character whose perspective we're reading from, her sister jumped to her death three months ago off of this bridge. And she is going to kind of investigate the situation.  She meets the guy who last saw her sister alive.     So it is basically a cat and mouse game between these two characters. But we're also like, apparently she's written the story of what she's pretty sure happened to her sister. And it interspersed with that. But like, it's not like you're reading what happened to her sister. You're reading what Cambry thinks happened to her sister. So like, what is the truth? What is a lie? I don't know. This was just hella boring. It was so boring. There was a lot of standing around. There was a lot of like, let's drive here. Let's drive here. Let's drive here without much happening. And I just think it was very well written. I don't really understand what's happened with this book. Like, why was this allowed to happen when No Exit is a masterpiece? My mom has a conspiracy theory. She has a conspiracy theory that this was written before No Exit and has kind of just been rushed out as like another release from Taylor Adams. But really it's like an old book, like from the backlogs that he wrote years ago that's been dredged up. I don't know what anyone else thinks about that conspiracy theory, but my mom's pretty sure. It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. It's just not it. It was very bad. It was very boring. And I was so disappointed because No Exit, again, like I said, probably my favorite thriller of all time. Another one that is in contention for most disappointing is The Islanders by Esfi Leonard. I hyped this book up. I'm so sorry. Before I read it, I was like showing it in every list. I got loads of you to read it and it just, it was not for me. So basically, this is like Love Island, right? If you know the show Love Island, our main character is going on it. She's an ex-police woman, which why is that always a thing? Why is that why? Why in thrillers are they always an ex-police woman? Like excuse me? She goes on a dating show and then one of the contestants dies and they find out that one of the Islanders is going to die like every hour until our main character figures out who the killer is. So it's very and then there were none vibes and I've just decided that doesn't work for me. Here's the thing. Here's the thing. In and then there were none by Ergotha Christie and this. You know when another death is going to happen, right? Listen, they're isolated mysteries.  But I don't like knowing a murder's going to happen in an hour. It does a real suspense for me.  What's going to happen? But I'm just like, well then I'm not surprised. If I'm being honest, I'm a bit pissed off about it. However, one by one by Ruth Wehr is inspired by Anand and there were none. But the murders that they don't, they don't know when they're going to happen. They're a shock. You're shocked. You gooped, you gagged. You don't know when they're going to happen. So that works for me. But the scheduled deaths? And this book, I just felt like the perspective was a bit weird. I think, was it like a first person present tense? Yeah, it was. I don't think that works for me in thrillers. I've been struggling a lot with first person in general lately. I just don't think I like it that much. I don't think I really like first person. But especially first person present tense, weird, weird perspective. This, I just felt promised a lot and didn't deliver a lot. Next, a crowd favorite. The crowd loves it. The crowd loves it. I didn't. And then we're in the ashes by Salvador here. Sorry, sorry. I'm so sorry. You've got to be shitting me. You lied to me several times.  Anyway, this is one that was like, because I'm going against the grain, I've kind of blurred it from my memory. But I just didn't really feel like this was written very well. Leia and Elias' little romance situation didn't work for me. I just can't remember anything about this, but it is it felt forgettable when reading it. I was disinterested. I was not entertained. I struggle. I've said this before. This is part of my awakening and realizing I don't really like dual timeline stories. I like dual perspective stories if we're following the same story. But like, I just don't get interested enough in either storyline. There's one that's obviously better. But the fact that we don't spend enough time with either of them, I get bored. And it just didn't work. Didn't work. Didn't like it. And I can't remember anything about it. I think this next one was my first two star of the year. It was Supernother by Marissa Mayer. Lovely hardcover, beautiful gowns, beautiful gowns. This is the final in the renegade trilogy, so I can't really tell you much about what it's about. But basically in the renegade trilogy, it's like superheroes. And Nova grew up with the villains, but she's masquerading as one of the superheroes. Here's the thing. They're easy reads, but they're not very good. Like, this trilogy is not good. As someone who when I was like 13 loved the Lunar Chronicles, I just felt like, okay, maybe me and Marissa Mayer could have something. I think I gave the first one three stars. I gave the second one four stars. But bear in mind the context around that, I'd injured my foot that day. I just read the entire book in one day. And I feel like when you're injured your foot, you're a bit sad.  So I feel like it fit the vibe I was in. This one, two stars.   I'm sorry. No.  I'm sorry. It just felt like Marissa Mayer did not know how to end this story. She dug herself into too many holes and didn't fix any of them. So it was very disappointing. And I'm, to be honest, I don't know how I'm going to read any more Marissa Mayer ever, because I just feel like she was an author for younger me and is not an author for present me, and I can just accept that and I can move on with my life. Okay, one that we're not going to spend a lot of time talking about because I barely even know the title. The Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller. No. Nothing to say. Nothing to say about the game at all. Nothing to say.  I'm sorry. I'm very sorry to any of you that studied this back in the day.  And oh, it's very sad, very, very sad, very, very sad. We're so sad. Listen, I just talked my eyes to read across the page. This next one I was warned, right? Because I'd heard some bad reviews for it. I'd heard some pretty piss-poor reviews for it. And I still read it. I read it for a thousand dollars readathon, the weekend one, hoping for the best. Didn't happen. If I disappear by Eliza Jean-Bresier. Our main character loves true crime podcast.  And then the podcaster goes missing and she's like, well, how can I fix this? I'm gonna go move into her home and try and figure out. It's crazy. It's crazy. I think this is crazy. So she turns up at this, her parents' home, this podcast's parents' home. And she's like, I'm gonna work on your farm. And um, is that cool? Listen, it's a case of an unreliable narrator not done well. Unreliable narrator is risky business, because it can make the whole story feel like a waste. And that's kind of what this felt like. It kind of all felt like, what was that all for? I didn't really like the writing the whole way throughout. I was bored as hell. I remember I was up in my office. I was listening along to the audio bitgrass, reading it physically. And like every 10 minutes, I was up in that speed by one decimal point trying to get through it faster. And then my last two star that's on this list, one of the most exciting murder mysteries for me this year was Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder. So this is kind of like adult steampunk Harry Potter. But like, we don't like that. But like, that's kind of vibe that she's trying to, it's trying to play off of that essentially, where these like these private magical detectives who live underground in London and solve these cases like basically, yeah, and they use magic and they're underground. That's the whole book. That's the whole book. It's set in the 1950s, first off, okay, in London. If you're going to be historical, you've got to give me some good historical atmosphere. If a book is set in Victorian times, if it's the 1920s, whenever that's got to be an element of the book, this book could have been set today. It could, there was no reason this book couldn't have been set today. So then I ask you, what is the point? Like it's not the vibe. Stop. This was a book for me where it seemed like the author. I think it's a debut. The author had a great idea. It didn't go anywhere, right? Like books need lots, particularly like murder mysteries, still is, things like that, need lots of twists and turns, need lots of layers where you're constantly like facing different directions and thinking different things. This was a straight line. It was a straight line. We had no diversions throughout the plot. Murder mystery book needs to be like a tree. You need to have so many like diverging elements to the book. This was a branch. And then we get into my three one-star book. I felt like I had more one-stars, but I'm kind of lucky I only had these three. First off, we have got The Fever Dream that is Only Love is Real by Dr. Brian Vice. So I read this for Kylie Jenner's favorite books video that I did like yonks ago. This man believes, what did he believe? I've blurred my memory. I don't remember love. I don't remember at all. I really don't. It was an awful long time ago. Oh, oh, oh, this is like, okay, yeah, yeah, I remember now. Let's take me a moment. It's like past life meditation. So he believes that he can like have sessions of people where they remember their past lives and like he guides them to this meditation and suddenly they can remember everything. And it's about how soulmates reunite.  And they were roommates.  It's about how we always with our soulmates in all our different lives. Not only do I not personally agree or like necessarily believe in what he is saying, but like, he needed a ghostwriter. He just needed a ghostwriter. He could not write. We went off on so many tangents for like a 160 page book. This did not need to happen. It was wild. It got one star because it was one of the most painful reading experience I had this year. I just had to like force myself through it. I hate when I have to read books like this for celebrities' favorite books.   And why are you putting me through it? I just, I just, okay, no. The other two were actually books I was personally excited to read. Firstly, we've got Fable by Adrienne Young. I always thought this was a little mermaid retelling because of the cover, but apparently not. It's about this girl called Fable who is the daughter of like one of the most powerful men in this place called the Narrows. And like he abandoned her when she was a kid and now she's like going to try and find him. And she enlists the help of a young trader named West. So we all know where this is going. This gave me nothing. I was so bored. The writing? Not for me. Oh, not for me. No characterization. Oh my god. There was like a whole cast of characters in this book outside of Fable and West who were the lovers. Also, no chemistry. Zero, zilch chemistry. Nothing, nothing there. Don't know what happened. Yeah, there's a whole cast of characters. Even when I was reading it, I could not tell you one characteristic of any of them. Who were they? Like gent, and I got them all confused. I did not know who any of these people were. I was bored as hell. Like it was so bad. I could not believe how bad this was. It was also like there was no plot. This book did not follow like the kind of story structure a book needs to have in order to keep you interested. We were just coasting on one level, like at least Marron Lane in the Midnight Murder. We had, you know, a mystery we're working towards. We had some exciting moments. We are, we are one note, girlies. We are one note. The sprayed edges has more excitement in this than the book does. Here's the thing. This is like, I feel like a lot of people are quite like this. So I generally don't understand what is going on. Did we read different books? Did I have a malfunctioning copy? Like I don't understand. But yeah, it gave me nothing. Nothing happened. There's nothing to talk about because nothing happened. And then my final one star that I read this year was The Big Four by Agatha Christie. Now we all know I love Agatha Christie sometimes. We have a mixed relationship. I've given her five stars. I've given her one star. This was bad. This was the first book published after Agatha Christie went missing and she wasn't really able to write. And so this is a collation of short stories that have been published like in newspapers and magazines and stuff of this storyline repurposed into a book. And you can tell this was never meant to be a book. Agatha Christie probably never wanted to publish this because it was bad. Like I didn't again have that story structure that you need to keep you interested because it wasn't meant to be a book. Like this was supposed to be kind of short interesting short stories but made the reader want to like pick up the newspaper or whatever again next week or whenever the next story was published. So kind of each chapter was like its own little scene like almost like a five minute episode of something on YouTube. I don't know how to describe it. That had at the end a moment where it was like but that just doesn't make for a great book. And to be honest it could have been two stars but basically there's four villains in this and one of them is what the book calls a sinister china man. And just the racism in this book made it impossible for me to enjoy. I think sometimes with Agatha Christie there are elements like little elements in her books that are of their time right? That you're kind of you know able to recognize as being an attitude or a little slip of a sign of what the attitudes were at the time but it's not pervading throughout the whole book. But in this case with this character I really felt like it was and it stopped me from enjoying the book at all. Like I was just not I was just not capable of enjoying it at all.  So there we have it. That is my worst books of 2021. A mixed list I feel like. Some books on here that other people kind of agreed with me on and like we're kind of universally disliked this year but some that people loved. I just don't understand but anyway let me know if you've read any of these and what you thought of them. If you've got onto the end of this video comment a water emoji for fable. Comment that down below and yeah let me know if we thought of any of these or if they're on your tbr and what you kind of think of them. I feel like maybe ember and the ashes is going to be the most controversial. I just didn't like it. I'm sorry guys. But yeah thank you so much for watching this video. Thank you so much for all of your support and engagement on all of my December content. I'm having literally the most fun. This is my favorite content to make. So thank you so much and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!


The one group that continues to be very good.  Matter of fact, the last one. Welcome to Access a Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good evening everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access a Trader dot com nightly slash weekend update. Hope everybody is doing well, three day weekend. I think I can speak for everybody, right?   Market starting the year off on a negative note. Two weeks in a row, now negative readings for the indexes. Again, I personally don't believe in the whole wives tale of first couple of weeks are gonna set the tone for the whole year. This is the stock market. It's been completely different now for the last five, seven years. It was for the first 22, 23 years of my career. Markets are disconnected. Okay, so this is very, very obvious. And if you look at the indexes, you're probably going to see a lot of neutral imbalances in a lot of names. A lot of, I'm sure for all you guys who are investors, you're gonna notice a lot of your stocks kind of not really doing anything.  If you're an index observer, and again I use the indexes for guides, you're gonna realize that a lot of indexes, the S&P, the NASDAQ 100, right? The SPY, the QQQs, they're kind of in the middle of the range. They're just floating down. And then just when they're about to get big technical damage, they kind of spike back up and everybody gets excited again. And then two days later, they start drifting lower. So when you look at your favorite stocks, you're probably gonna see middle of the range delta neutral towards negative bias. And that's kind of where we are going into the new week. That's kind of where we are for the first two weeks of the year. But the most important part is again, just keep a level ahead. Again, the word chop, right? The word chop factor comes in only if you're expecting one side of the market to succeed and you get your balloon popped. When you know everything's in the middle of the range, you really have no expectations. That's your first clue to kind of scale back a little bit, right? You don't need to go full throttle. Again, when you look at your favorite stocks, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Amazon, right? It's been kind of drifting lower than right when it's about to break down, spikes back up again. You got your Microsoft defending the bottom of the range here three times in a row and you get excited again. Oh, it's about to go up triple bottom and rolls back over again. Tesla has been a really phenomenal trader for a long, long time.  Then you have a lot of days that are rebounding then engulfing two days worth of selling only to break down, only to recover. So it's kind of a mess out, right? Mess solid with a lot of names as well. Netflix just looks like, you know, for the exception of that rebound on Friday, it looks just drifting and drifting and drifting again. They kick off earnings on the 20th of this month. It's going to start kind of the tech earnings for the first quarter. Last week, we had the Banks report. They really did nothing. You know, you had Wells Fargo reporting. Stock has been really, really good, but the earnings are really nothing, right?  You had some a little bit had positive reactions, some had negative reactions, but there's nothing to really turn to in the forecast of the economy and say, all right, the banks start the difference if the market goes up or down. That stock hasn't been the case for a long time.  You know how important the NASDAQ 100 is, and the question is, do they rally ahead of their earnings going into this week? Again, to be determined, there's nothing in the charts that will turn around and say, yes, you have to be long Tesla ahead of earnings. Maybe it's good, maybe it's not. There's nothing that turn around says you have to be a long Apple ahead of its quarter. You have to be long Amazon. Remember, Amazon now has disappointed two quarters of an a row. So it's very, very important to kind of take the market right now at phase value. The first thing I've learned many, many moons ago when I first started trading, number one, the market doesn't make sense. Good news is bad. Sometimes bad news is good and vice versa. So expect the unexpected and take everything for phase value. If something comes out with good news and they sell the stock, the news doesn't matter anymore. The stock becomes bad. So it's very, very important to kind of going into this week or kind of going into the next week to always have that neutral balance of thinking that anything could happen, that anything will happen, that the Fed will continue to give us headline after headline after headline and say absolutely nothing. I think we could all understand that. And again, if I was a drinker and every single time there was a headline with the Fed and it feels like there's a headline with the Fed now every 30 seconds. If I had to take literally a shot of vodka, I'd be drunk by the open. So it's too much information, not enough movement, not enough action with the Fed. So the market is kind of stuck in Delta neutral right now. I think if you're going into this week with a bias, I think you can be very, very disappointed that again, most of the stocks are in the middle of the ranges. The semiconductors, if you look at any kind of guiding light, because the semis have led us up and they have led us down. There's some names that look very, very good. When you look at the semiconductor space, you had some pretty good numbers come out of Taiwan Semi. AMAT looks like it wants to go. You have CLAC, it looks like it wants to go. You have Micron, it looks like it's about to go. But the stocks that we trade, right? The stocks that have really, really aggressive day-to-day average ranges. Like NVIDIA, NVIDIA is like a, it's really like an oddity right now. It just doesn't know what it wants to do. It's really, really big run and it's really big down. It's now it's lagging the rest of the semiconductor group. You look at AMD, right? Kind of the same thing. AMD had this monster, monster run with NVIDIA, now came back in with NVIDIA and kind of just sitting there trying to figure out what's next. And you see all this cluster, whether it's a chart on AMD or whether it's a chart on NVIDIA, you see all these trees in the forest. You see all the supply. So the bulls are not getting enough aggression for them to start reclaiming the 50-day moving average and the bears are not getting enough fear or not enough control for them to have technical damage below rising support. So we're kind of in again, in a mismatched solid. We're kind of in all over the place.  Like for example, Thursday night's video, if you guys remember Thursday night's video, I was sold by, I said, where are you gonna find such really, really good value on the upside? So we gapped out on everything, the Dow closed down 200 points.  So any short that I wanted from the previous day, it was already down 30. So nice reversal back to the upside. But again, it's kind of stuck in Delta Neutral, not here, not there. But I think that technology space, if it's not the semiconductor space with like an MU that looks pretty good, if the semiconductor's continue, looks like a AMAT or CLAC or LRCX, I think you have to kind of leave the other names just kind of alone. And when you look at all other groups, you're seeing weird symbols showing a lot of strength. Matter of fact, if you guys remember on Thursday, we saw really good moves in names like Ford, names like AT&T, right? Look at the Xerox chart. Look at the Xerox chart, right? What year is this? Ford, Xerox, right? AT&T, the dividend stocks are waking up. The one group that continues to be very good.  Matter of fact, the last one, it's still an active swing was this Amgen, right? If you guys remember, we talked about Amgen for a couple of weeks and now it's just finally starting to expand to the upside, finally accumulating and confirming this 231 level. I think the value in a weird way for all you guys who are swinging these biotech names, there are some good looking charts. Let me give you a couple of plays. Look at this BMRN, right? Look at this BMRN, long distribution. This is gonna be like VRTX. This is gonna be like Amgen. It's not gonna be a day trade.  You're gonna be down $2 in the stock. As long as it doesn't close below the previous day's range, you're going to be okay. You have to stay in these things for weeks, but when they finally do confirm and they start going, there's gonna be a lot of value in this thing. So keep an eye on this thing for this week. BMRN, long channel, going back to November 22nd. If it finally closes above it, hey, maybe this thing could start waking up. Look at a name like NC as well, right? Look at NC. It looks like, if you look at Amgen's chart, right? Take a quick mental snapshot of this, right? You see all this supply here, right? It's underneath supply. Look at Amgen's chart, right?  So look at NC, right? Same thing. You know, you're sitting there. Again, it's gonna be, it's gonna take weeks to finally for this thing to play out. It's not going to be a day trade. But for all you guys who've traded the VRTX, or swung the VRTX and swinging the Amgen, watch NC, watch BMRN. That's where kind of the value is right now with most of technology sitting in the middle of the rages.  It's either gonna come out of a channel or it's not. So you have to be very, very patient with technology. I am kind of bullish on the semiconductor space. Again, like we talked about the Microns, the Amats of the world. But in a weird way, if that is not your niche, if that's not your sweet spot, you almost have to be almost pedestrian-like to kind of sit there and wait for your sweet spot. Because again, the hardest part about trading the Tesla, trading the Vidya, if they don't give you clean channels, if they give you clean channels, those are the best stocks to trade. If they just sit there and channels bouncing up and down, up and down, like a ping pong game, right? You're not gonna get any value and that's kind of where we are right now. Look at, talk about old school. Look at Goodyear Tire, right? Talk about AT&T, Ford breaking out. Look at Goodyear Tire. This is a long, long distribution. Again, this is not gonna be a day trade. But for all you guys who are daily swinging charts, look how long the distribution is. The longer the distribution, the better the higher probability it's gonna come out of its channel. So, you know, keep an eye on this thing for this week. Looks pretty good. Even a name like UNVR, that I have no idea what this thing is, Universe Solutions, I've never heard of this thing. Look how long the distribution is. It's going back all the way back to November the 8th. So there are channels, there are daily charts that have a lot of really good value. They're just not really technology-based right now.  Matter of fact, I was so patient on Friday. I didn't even trade on Friday, right? Everything, once we gapped down and I just couldn't find any value back to the downside, back to the upside, there was no value for me. But again, that is the discipline. Okay, you're not gonna get cake every single time for dinner. And the most important part is put yourself in a situation that you are in control. Markets open, that's cool. Market stocks are moving, that's cool. Remember, every stock moves, okay? Every stock goes up and goes down. But most stocks are not tradable. So when you have absolutely no edge, it's not a sign of weakness, right? It's not a sign of weakness. I'm gonna say, look, this is kind of a big mess. It's Friday ahead of a long three-day weekend. It's a sign of maturity. And that's exactly what you want.  Let's sit on your hands. Okay, you try sitting on your hands for two, three months. That's a sign of I can't trade both sides of the market. But when you have a day that you could clearly see that your initial game plan, for example, for Friday, my initial game plan was downside channels. We gapped down so heavy that there wasn't enough meat on the bones. And a lot of these stocks kind of started bouncing in the middle of the day. It's okay to sit it out, okay? It's not a big deal. Remember, it's your money, guys. You don't need to sit there and trying to convince yourself to pacify your ego, to put your feet into the fire. If there's no edge, there's no advantage. Who cares? Leave it alone. Forget about FOMO. It's JOMO. It's the joy of missing out. You don't care what happens in the market. If you're not getting a 95 mile an hour fastball straight down the middle, you're not swinging for the curve ball, the screw ball, the slider and the dirt. You're waiting for that slow pitch right in the middle. And again, you might not get it today. You might not get it tomorrow, but you will get it. And if you are disciplined enough to get it, wait for it and you sit there.  You're gonna have a long, long, really, really fruitful career.  There's a party here and there's a party there. You're gonna do everything possible to sabotage your career because you know, right? You know subconsciously you are doing things outside of your comfort zone. That's what happens when you start justifying the means because the market's open. Again, we don't trade the market because the market's open. We trade because we have value. So going into this week, I wanna see which way technology blends. I'm obviously gonna watch some of the semiconductors, especially for early dips into rising 60 minutes support. But I kinda wanna get a feel. Do they wanna run up technology ahead of earnings? Remember, Netflix reports on the 20th, right? I tell you it's the 17th, we're off today. So they report on the 20th. It's gonna kick off earning season. It's gonna start setting in the tone. And the following week, obviously, we got the Super Bowl of Earnings, Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft and everything in between. So we're gonna get a good sense of where we are going into the second month of the year. But for now, we're kind of in a holding pattern. But that's okay. Remember, just say to yourself, that's okay. It's my hard-earned money. I'm not gonna play just because the market is open. I'm gonna wait for my spot and don't deviate. In the meantime, you got some pretty attractive swing potentials here with BMRN, with NC, with GT, with UNVR, even Boeing. Even Boeing looks really, really good. Like look at Boeing, right? Boeing looks really good. Had a big, big run here. It got rejected at supply right over here. If it starts putting in a base above supply, maybe it could wake up and go into the 230s, right? So again, not everything is right for everybody. Not one size does not fit all. Everybody has different niches. Everybody niches, niches, niches.  But everybody has different areas of comfortability. And that's the most important part of this business, being comfortable in your skin. Not in mine, not in somebody else's, be comfortable in your skin. Guys, God bless, stay patient. If you feel value, again, allocate your money with extreme confidence. If there is no value, there's nothing wrong with waiting. Guys, have a great day. Have a great, great week. Oh, God bless, and I'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


Hey guys, it's EJ from iDesign.com with a quick tip. I'm going to be showing you how you can use effectors to drive the transparency of your objects. In this case, I'm going to show you how you can use an effectors falloff to fade on text. So first things first, we're actually going to use a plane effector because we just need to affect it linearly. And we're going to change the falloff to linear, change the orientation to positive x. And so we have our effector as it passes through affecting that text from left to right, letter by letter. We actually don't need to change the position data. But what we do need to do is make it so this plane effector is driving the grayscale value and applying a grayscale value of 100% white to 0% white or black to be used as a matte. So we're going to use black and white values to adjust the opacity so we can use the alpha channel of a material and apply that to this mo-text object. So how are we going to get this plane effector to apply grayscale values for a matte? How are you going to actually do that? If you go to this color option, change the color mode to on, you can see right when I do that, it changes whatever has been affected by the plane effectors falloff, changes to 100% white. So we got the 100% white value, but we still have this gray value. And the gray value is not going to work because if we want it to be 0% opacity or black going to full on opacity or white, we need this to be black. The way you do that, if you go into your mo-text object, go to your letters, you can see this color value down here of the letters is that gray. You need to change that gray value, 80% gray value, to black. And once I do that, you can see we have what we want when we're going to work with a matte is once you're going to have this black value, 0% opacity. And when the effector comes through, it's going to apply that white, which is going to change the opacity to 100%. So how do we get that value to affect the alpha channel? We're going to make a material, and go into our alpha, let's change the color first to say an orange, and go into the alpha, turn it on. So we need to pump in the gray scale value that's being applied by the plane effector to the text. We need to have that value be pumped in the alpha channel of this material. The way we do that is if you go to your mo-graph channel or mo-graph option, go to color shader, choose that. If you go into this option, the channel is set to color, which is what we want. So this is going to tell, this is going to pull the mo-graph color that's being applied by the plane effector, that gray scale value, and is going to pump it through that alpha. So now once we change, or once we apply this material to the mo-text object, we're getting exactly what we want.  So if I render this out, you can see that it's fading the text on. It's exactly what we want. So it's pretty fairly simple. You just have to understand what a color shader does by pulling that gray scale value from the plane effector and making that apply to the alpha channel here. And you have to make sure that you change that default color in here to black because if we have it at that gray, as it was by default, this effect falls apart. You need that to be black so you have that 0% opacity. Once you've got that down, you're good to go.  It's as easy as going into your plane effector's falloff and just inverting it. So you can have this text fade off letter by letter. You can also invert the orientation so you can have it fade off from left to right as well. So pretty easy concept. Again you can use this for cloner objects as well, but the one got you is the same as the mo-text object where you have to go and make sure that cloner object's default color is from that gray and set it to black. So then you have that matte working fine. And that's all there is to it. So thanks for watching.


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