Yep, alright, well let's, let's go.  I need you. Here you go. Alright. Oh, we've done that, it's basic. We're all happy to do this one. Wow, wow. No, I'm getting a waste. Yes? No? Wait, who to die? Alright, what an afternoon we've had. It's been very, very excited. Some of the sessions we attended were so amazing that there was standing or carpet room only. And everyone, I look forward to chatting with everyone further tonight when we have the dinner and the dancing and the music and the... Yeah. You know what though, guys? It's now an absolute pleasure for me to introduce our special keynote speaker. We're going to be speaking, Dan Mooney is going to come in a moment. Dan was a really big highlight at last year's ATHAC conference and we're really lucky that he was available for us for this weekend. He's flown all the way over from Wellington in New Zealand to join us and he's going to talk to us about enhanced community resilience and also about what emergency management can learn from the vanilla ice. So please give a warm welcome and CFA and SES type welcome to our presenter Dan Milly. Thank you very much. Thank you for that introduction. And thank you to CFA and SES for bringing me out here. It is really a real honor. And thank you to Francis and Lee for organizing everything. Today has just been really inspirational from my point of view. I start off with Craig's vision of how we need to be moving more progressively in this community engagement collaborative space to Francis' presentation and I got to see around how we can better use data to evolve our sector to Gwyn's presentation on the importance of vulnerable communities and Tom and Tammy right now to talk about different models that we could use and different approaches. So I think that's been really great to see so many topics being presented but what's amazing right now is when I look at and see 500 plus faces from people all over Victoria who are really interested in working with communities really quite amazing. I think there's more people invested in emergency management here than in all of New Zealand so what I want to do is hopefully share a little bit of our journey because I think that's what we're all on is this journey of how in this kind of emergency management space do we start engaging with our communities a little bit more better more properly. So my presentation is really what can we learn from emergency management sorry what can we learn from vanilla ice and I'll get to that in a second. A few years ago we amalgamated all of the local councils in Wellington region there are nine of them and after the question of earthquakes our mayors realized maybe we should have a shared approach because what we had were nine emergency management offices doing things ten different ways and so we started amalgamating a body so we have one shared vision of one shared approach and our new manager at the time he said if we're going to really invest in this community resilience idea that we need to invest in the capacity of this organization and so he took a really unprecedented approach and put a third of the organization in this community space. The question I had when I became the manager of this team was how as emergency managers do we enhance the resilience in our communities because there's a lot of what's out there that community resilience should be this and that but there aren't a lot of hows and in New Zealand that piece in the yellow of a resilient New Zealand community's understanding of their hazards that was actually our national legislation back in 2002 which was quite progressive a long time ago because they're talking about resilience they're talking about communities understanding managing their hazards we might change that to risks nowadays but it's quite a progressive piece of legislation that's what 13, 14 years old now but there aren't any real guidelines on how we go about that I think as a sector we have a tendency to focus a bit still in that response space and so when my team and I started the first thing we thought is maybe what we need to do is actually map out what does a resilient community look like and that's what we did so we came up with kind of a few criteria written in the present tense the first of those is that our communities are connected and work together towards shared goals that idea of connectedness and working together is really fundamental in the research and it's really fundamental in our approach individuals in existing social structures are engaged in how to make a difference to link the resources before during and after emergency they have realistic expectations about the levels of support available during an event I think one of the things that we've done unintentionally in our field to a degree is almost create a dependency on the communities relying on that so if we look at something like a large scale event the data shows that we're not going to be there 15 minutes after the earthquake happened so we really want to start reframing our community's expectations our private, public and community sectors are prepared to respond to an emergency and return business quickly our communities have strong and trusting partnerships and that's a real fundamental for us our communities are able to reduce the impacts that idea of disaster risk reduction and importantly our people feel a sense of place and belonging in their community when an event does happen they want to fight to stay in their community that is kind of a real baseline for us so when we look at what is a resilient community these are kind of our starting points but what it doesn't do is answer the how for us so how do we go about getting to this point and I think as kind of a pivot to giving us a think about this a few years ago I came across this quote in Time Magazine Nancy Gibbs the editor wrote this we are living through the most immense transfer of power from institution to individuals in history and this quote really resonates with me because I was a former history student and I think we are living in one of those pieces of history right now where we can look back maybe 2005 with the kind of invention of Facebook and the melding of the internet being on people's phones to I don't know where we are going when this is going to end or I'm sure it will never end but where you can kind of draw some lines but probably a few more years in the future with things like Airbnb and the shared economy where people are bypassing the middle man is everybody familiar with Airbnb right like Airbnb has a greater valuation than Hotel Hilton and they own properties around the world but Airbnb is worth more and they've only been around a few years so when you look at how these dynamics are changing in emergency management effectively I think we are the middle man and these communities are starting to effectively work around us and that was no clearer for us than in February 22nd, 2011 when we had a big earthquake the story of student volunteer armies are you familiar with that so if you look like none of these students in this picture had any emergency management training right nobody had any interest in emergency management yet when the event happened they were able to self-organize on a Facebook page with thousands and thousands of people in a day and start proactively doing things with their communities they weren't actually connected initially to the emergency management structure this guy took all these pictures this guy was an accountant from Auckland who drove down and helped set up a welfare center in the community had no emergency management experience never went through a welfare training program he just did what he thought was right loaded up his trailer with a bunch of food and a barbecue and went to go help people this lady was working in the community center before the event she was helping her community every day and when the event happened what did she end up doing helped her community every day as best as she knew how she would go back to that community center and hug and that's what she was doing and so I think the reason is because all these things were happening without us and they were doing great things that brings us back to the question of how how does the command control model and training and mindset help us enhance the resilience of our community one of what we're trained to do and we're trained to be responsible and that's a big important red basket of our work program but if we're going to get serious about the communities in this idea I don't think we're actually given a lot of that training so I want to tell you a little quick story about my past on American right and I was a Peace Corps volunteer has anybody ever heard of Peace Corps so I was a Peace Corps volunteer John F. Kennedy started in the 60s takes young idealistic Americans and sends off to developing countries to help out so I got really quite lucky and I landed in this little village in Honduras and it's pretty much about Honduras it is the second poorest country in the western hemisphere right after Haiti it currently has the world's highest murder rate above Afghanistan and Iraq and right before I arrived Hurricane Mitch had blown into town and taken lives of 20,000 people and displaced a million and that was kind of my introduction to Peace Corps you go through a little training program and they teach you a little Spanish and they teach you some community development and they're like high five and seeing two years and they put you on a little bus and you end up in this little village and you're young and enthusiastic and idealistic and you start wanting to work with these communities and so when I looked around I saw all this trash trash everywhere people take the trash, they dump it in the river people take the trash, they dump it around the community and there's a fair bit of trash around and so being young and excited I was like okay I see the problem the problem is this trash that's something I can do to affect positive change and so I came with this idea what do you need? are some trash cans so I found some small funding to get these trash cans built and identify the problem and identify the solution identify the work program and I even painted those trash cans the lettering you see is the stencils that I made and I did all that work and it was great, to this day I maintained it was a really good project unfortunately the community didn't see it as a fairly valid project and this is a picture of a dog crapping next to my trash bin and I took that at the time because I thought it was a really nice metaphor for how badly this project failed and I still keep this picture in my office because I just think this really summed it up in so many ways the problem is the community didn't use the trash cans why didn't the community use the trash cans? any ideas? because trash wasn't a problem in their eyes guess who never even bothered to ask the community what they thought I identified that problem and this is when the light really started going off for me that maybe there's something around how I engage at the outset which might impact the outcomes downstream so I was a little bummed out for a while and the community for some reason they said hey Daniel do you want to get involved in our mango festival and I was like yeah so they've got this big thing called the mango festival every year and what they wanted to do is use this mango festival as a way to kind of grow publicity about their little village so people would come visit and spend some money and it was all cool I said yeah absolutely so rather than run into this with all kinds of ideas which I had I actually looked at some of the community development stuff that Peace Corps had given us and said we should use this I actually looked at it and took it seriously a little bit more for the tourist time and I came across a thing called asset based community development which is you start when working with communities you start with what they have not what they need these need more stuff you go and go and okay what do you guys need to solve this problem there's a list of things that they will come up with that they need we turn that question around and say what do you have to solve this problem it actually changes the way that people start thinking about it so I sat in this community group and they're coming up with all these ideas and I kept asking the questions I didn't say okay you guys let's do that I said okay start asking questions what do we have for this festival and they came up with mangoes which is great a lot of mangoes that's a good starting point we had a lot of sugar cane which is the core ingredient for rum and rum is always good for parties so we were already off to a good start and the other bit that we had a lot of is donkeys we had a lot of donkeys in my village has anybody ever hung out with donkeys before they're the worst animals you all know man the term ass right there an ass like it comes from this animal and so we were sitting around eating mangoes and rum and we came up with it like what can we do with these donkeys and we kind of came up with this idea wouldn't it be funny if we had a game where the gringos could play the Hondurans on donkeys and we were like yeah man that'd be rad because Hondurans grew up riding these donkeys so they know how to do it so we came up with this idea of donkey pole and it was a total hit it was a total hit the news from around Central America were coming and actually filming this with a straight face 14 years later it's the only project that I had that's still going strong two years of my life I spent it in this little village right and it's the only project that's still going strong 14 years later and why is it going strong because at the outset I started asking what is that we can do together what do we have to solve this challenge not what we need and I didn't start throwing things out I just kept asking questions I think that's a really good metaphor on the importance of how we engage because are we going to go out there and build trash cans or are we going to come up and do donkey pole up because really how we engage matters and I just can't stress that enough I've been failing in community development now for 20 years I'm a community development person who just happens to work in emergency management by the way I've worked in disasters around the world but I still consider myself a person-former as a community development person and so that was one of the things in this sector we've got all this training around Aims we guys call Aims what we call Sims what the Americans call Nims a lot of good stuff I'm not discounting it but how does this training help us create a resilient New Zealand where communities are understanding managing their hazards I think there's a big disconnect because that's the vision of our legislation and yet all the training we receive is like kind of rambo stuff each of community development comes into play you guys remember Vanilla Ice he's kind of popular like 25 years ago he had one song, what was it and what was the opening line to Ice Ice Baby there it is, right there stop, collaborate and listen that's it that's all you need to know when you want to go work with communities seriously, that's it Vanilla Ice, he pretty much nailed it I probably would have turned that around and said he's from Texas, he can so what we've done in our team in the community resilience team in Wellington is we kind of come up with this communicate and collaborate model for community resilience so it kind of runs in parallel with command and control it's not trying to supplant command control command control is great 1% of the time but communicate and collaborate it's kind of a more effective model 99% of the time we're a university manager in the red dress she's out there working with communities and what she's doing is we're spending time just hanging out with our community and bouncing around and listening to their ideas and they get good ideas and what they do and this is theory a few years ago by the way and it's actually working quite well is these people go you know what you should meet Bob over here because he's got a good idea he's got some connections and they keep introducing us to more and more people they're pretty well connected by just going out and listening and getting to know our communities and building on their ideas and I represent this a bit squiggly because I think you know it's communicate and collaborate is more like a plate of spaghetti than it is a nice clean orb charge sometimes there's dead ends, it's winding it's frustrating at times but you know also I think it builds good outcomes and that's kind of our really professional approach in Wellington so I think you know as a starting point resilient communities if that's the goal one of the things we really need to start doing is building community development principles and tools and methodologies into the emergency management engagement process so once we kind of once we start developing this strategic approach we put some guiding principles in place and I think this is kind of an important point you take away anything out of this presentation it's probably this slide you know some of the things that we're doing first and foremost in capital letters is listen first we don't want to go build trash cans unless that's what your community wants to do but you don't want to just charge out there and say I've got a great idea we're going to do this to communities because it generally doesn't probably get a whole bunch of traction and so the next one is really supporting local ideas I know downtown Melbourne is going to be way different than Creswick and the factors and all the drivers behind those communities are going to be different and we need a range of opportunities and a range of solutions and we need to be able to encourage ownership so 14 years later two years of my life dedicated to that community the only thing that they're doing is don't be cold but you know what they own it they own it and it's become like part of the core identity of that town but most importantly no matter what we do if you can't walk away from that and have that kind of sustainability going I would pause that there's not a lot of value in that we need to be focusing on end users what matters to them we need to be informed by evidence I've already heard some great presentations today I don't think that's something our sector particularly does at least we're getting better about it but there's a whole bunch of great research out there that we can be drawing upon particularly in this community development space where we'll be drawing on years and years of research and good solid methodologies that work I think we need to be more collaborative across sectors so we're trying to work more with our urban planners our community development teams our partners it's not just out of the emergency management sector that will work we want to really focus on strong, healthy communities I think that's one of the things Craig was talking about this morning that allows us to innovate and go weird and that's one of our team models is go weird because that helps capture people's attention and imagination and these other ones 8 through 12 that's all about building trust I've already heard that a few times today one of the most important things with communities is the fact that they trust you and they trust each other so if we're aiming for all that stuff that's pretty good and then number 13 of course is have fun and that's another I think growth area for our sector we're a little bit dismal at times and so what we're doing is really trying to find ways to be a little bit irreverent and fun because people would rather go to a party than they would a funeral even if we're talking about sad stuff you can turn that stuff into a party so our model kind of works a little bit like this we came with this term community-driven emergency management because in New Zealand we're still hanging on to that civil defense term which is like in 1957 so we're just kind of prod that along a little bit with a new way of looking at it so we're calling it community-driven emergency management and where in the past I think we've done a lot at the household and individual level we've tried to expand our scope and put more energy into working with community leaders so that's principles of schools and people that can affect change so we still have a range of things that we do at the household level but we're trying to put more emphasis with the change makers and at the top it's also part of that creating a mindset shift within the top levels of our organizations that we're here to support communities we're not here to do things to them when the response actually happens so our approach is really built around there's only strategy that's built capacity increased connectionness and foster cooperation and what I'd like to do is kind of walk you through some of the theory behind what we're doing and some of the tools that support that so the very first one is built capacity if you look at any kind of community development strategy anywhere built capacity is always in there and like I said we're a community development team working through the emergency management lens so that's about improving knowledge and skills and resources to help out before and after emergency and some examples of that is emergency management training in the past we used to call this our civil defense volunteer training what we've done though is over the years when we first started putting this together it was very club kind of approach very team focused and what we were found is we were turning people away they weren't committed enough to our cause and philosophically we should never ever ever turn anybody away if they have the energy to come and want to help be part of our solution so what we've done is started an opportunity stripping back the barriers for people to get involved and now what we do is we actually do that emergency management training it's more akin to a first aid class it's kind of like capacity building we're teaching people skills on how they can help out in their community and at the end of that process we go okay does anybody want to be a volunteer so we're turning that around so we can create touch points because one of the things we were also doing is we were turning people away like we had criminal records in our community and they're going to be they've got energy to help out so what we're trying to do is every time somebody comes to us we're able to channel that energy instead of turning it away and I'll just touch on one other point if you look in this the diversity that we've had improved from this approach has been remarkable so the guy on the bottom right hand corner he's from the Philippines the lady in the far left corner Fijian Indian, Dutch student in the back English guy and I think the lady in the middle of New Zealander but it actually speaks volumes to our approach because 60% of the people that come through this training have a foreign board which is really quite game changing for us right we're really engaging with those communities that have been increasingly part of the engagement and getting them boarded and they're kind of owning what we're doing another thing is we're starting to work with the private sector a lot more so we know people want these grabbing you know these emergency get away kits they're really expensive so we went and partnered with an organization to make them use our branding and they went from 180 bucks to now they sell these for 75 bucks and we sold 25,000 of these in the last four years so in the same view of these water tanks it was plus 265 dollars we partnered with another company and now we'll sell those for like 100 bucks and we've sold 6 or 7,000 of those which is really from an earthquake resilience point of view that's really quite game changing and moves the needle a lot of ways so I would urge you to where possible to the private sector to help you solve some of these problems we have a big tsunami risk in Wellington has anybody heard of our tsunami blue lawns so it kind of went like this one of my community actually my son approached us and he said hey what are we going to do about this tsunami what are you going to do about this tsunami risk we got and I was like not much I'm not going to go out and stop tsunami I'm not going to do that well we should be raising awareness about the tsunami risk I was like okay that's cool how do you guys want to do that well here's what we can do we can put signs up I can nail signs up I can do that tomorrow for you we know where the maximum run up height roughly is going to be we've had all this computer modeling we know where the rough maximum run up height is going to be we can do that or we can do something else because I told them there's a bit of an evidence base that type of signage gets lost in the background after a while and people don't see it so if you guys want we can try and develop something entirely new your choice and I said let's go with the weird approach alright let's go with the weird approach so over the course of a few months we meet in our in our suburb over drinks and we come up with a lot of ideas we came up with a lot of bad ideas bad ideas at no point did I ever say that's a bad idea I always said that's cool how are we going to do it and they kind of go oh we can't do that in the end somebody said wouldn't it be cool a line around the whole suburb that showed where the maximum run up height is we can do that because I work for the company that paints lines on roads into city council and so we treat it as a pilot project I've always treated always treating it as a pilot project it's less scary to the people of the boat it's a pilot it's a good try so we tried it we painted blue lines on the road and there was Ben Pollard members this there was huge uproar and we knew that we couldn't buy that kind of marketing for a bazillion dollars couldn't buy it people to this day go what a dumb idea all I have to do is get right behind the line and the water is going to tickle my toes and you know I just have to run into the tamer street and like I'll be fun but what they're doing is telling me whoops they're telling me exactly the action that I want them to do and that's the game changing component of that so again we've done studies on this and the tsunami awareness of where people need to go it's through the roofs in cities or in the suburbs where these are at and now after Japan these actually went into place one month before Japan everybody was like we didn't even know where to go now they're seeing this kind of value add thing and so it's been a really effective tool but the thing I'm stressed here but here is it wasn't my idea I could've never I'm nowhere here created to come up with this what I did is just create the white space for me to come up with these types of solutions and I just kind of kept people at bay by saying it's a pilot project and so that's how we treated it so anyway we still have a lot of public education materials we try to use good behavioral psychology where possible so if you look on the we have one for neighbors this one's for households and this one's for businesses the biggest words here are not get prepared for the emergency are they we're saying the biggest words are it's easy right so we're stressing we're trying to use good behavioral psychology in the way that we approach things instead of trying to say get prepared so anybody can pick this up and work through in this little action plan template that you can work through what we try to do is create something that we don't have to spend as much time at the household level as we did in the past we try to create some tools that people can use so that we can kind of free up more time to work with community leaders and we have another one with resilient schools so we've created an online system for our schools to enter in their emergency plans and we're working a lot more with the principals and I heard some talk about this earlier around training trainers and teachers so we still go to the schools and do a lot of great work what we're trying to do is leverage a little bit more ownership at the principal level so the principal can drive the muscle memory of doing evacuation drills and again this idea that we don't hold all the answers one of the tools that we have is that our communities have better ideas than we do and that is a tool in and of itself just having the white spaces of tools and this idea of yes and that is a philosophy we've taken out of improvisational comedy so I'm going to talk a little bit about the methodology we've been trained but I've put my staff and we're doing it right now we've put them through improvisational comedy training as emergency managers why? remember there was a TV show in the 90s it's called whose line is it anyways remember that? so the idea is you can never say no people throw stuff at you you just have to roll with it that's what emergency management is what we're taught is process but what emergency management really is is improvisational comedy and this idea of yes and I say that literally and figuratively but so is community development so my team it's not like they're not allowed to say no really putting the forefront of when somebody says I want to do this well yes and this is how we might go about it or there's another idea it changes the framing so we're always trying to work with people so the other two around this idea of social capital I think everybody's probably familiar with it social capital is the ties that bind us and this is really fundamental to our approach so when we kind of as emergency managers got into this emergency management sorry community development space we really wanted to frame it as we are partners of other people doing community development I don't want to become a community development team by itself and so there's a whole bunch of things that we can do to support other people because all those other community development activities build resilient communities so these are the things that support that we can create strength through relationships of our diverse communities one of them is the idea that we are a network community connector so minimum two hours a week my team are required to go out and hang with community members different organizations, private businesses with no emergency management agenda they're not allowed to really I was gonna say they're not allowed but like they shouldn't be talking about emergency management all we want to do is go and hang out and understand what drives our community so not long ago we went to one of the Buddhist temples we did a meditation exercise so all these emergency managers rocked into the Buddhist temple and were like oh we're gonna learn her meditation because we want to understand what is the Buddhist community all about and so they fed us and we've broken bread with our Muslim community and we actually we spend time out in the communities without any agenda focusing on what drives them not just trying to push our agenda I think it's really important so coffee, drink coffee we support a lot of community events so neighbors day we had this thing here's one where we ended up blowing a bunch of radios to one of our festivals they needed radios we're like Rambo headquarters in the back we got all this kind of crazy stuff and they need some radios and I was like yeah take some radios man go for it my boss was like I don't know what that's such a good idea they're just sitting in a box might as well use them for something might as well help this community use them for something these guys are big champions of us now they love us another one is this is a good representation the two groups in public education that we have the hardest time connecting with are youth and called communities so I think one of the things that we do in emergency management like we need to get more excited about preparedness and I think what we need to be looking at is actually we need to get more excited about what the communities are doing and so one of this is a bunch of university students organize a downhill cardboard race right kind of falls on deaf ears falls on deaf ears with me a little bit as well right it's not really my game but if that's what if that is what brings hundreds of people together then that is what I'm going to get excited about so they approach us and hey we throw some advertising on your Facebook page because we put a lot of community stuff on our Facebook page and we're like hell yeah we will and so if you look that's my organization at the top of the heap they're out there you know they actually were passing out some of our material to youth who when a university student who's going to influence a university student more the emergency manager or another university student right who who do you trust more your friends or somebody that tells you to do something that you don't know right even with the uniform which carries the care of it away there's a lot of evidence that says your friends have a lot more influence over you than somebody that you don't know and so here's our community here's our community doing our work for us at a downhill cardboard race I just can't stress that enough how important it is for us to realign ourselves with what the community is excited about not trying to get the community necessarily excited about what we're trying to approach and there's a combination in the middle but I think there's a lot more room for us to grow into getting excited about downhill cardboard racing we use social media quite a bit this is kind of an old slide but we actually have I think now 48,000 people following us which makes us as untold we have the largest facebook following for an emergency management office in the world or at least one of them 10% of the entire Wellington region is following us on facebook every day we're engaged we have a direct line with 10% of our entire community and we post stuff like this which has nothing to do with emergency management requests or whatever right it's about going out closing off a section of town and riding a bicycle on the streets when we started doing this a lot of we got a lot of critique we're like that's not what emergency management facebook page is about and I said what we try to do is build strong communities so anything that builds strong communities is what we're going to put on this page and if you look 184 shares 516 lights has nothing to do with emergency management compared that to what was not long previously one of the biggest earthquakes we had 113 shares 400 lights right so people actually like a lot of this kind of strong community stuff and I think there's a place for us to be in that space which we kind of nutted out for better people another thing we did whoops we signed our name to everything so the community knows us and I think that's really important because we're not just this we're not just this kind of government organization people know us and we it's because Wellington everybody knows everybody people have started to come to us and say oh you know you're Dan from the emergency management page and different staff members people know our different kind of way we post cool and spooky at the same time this and then again for each one of these we have that tool of yes and the last one is foster cooperation so the first one that other one increased connectedness that's the stuff that we support right we don't need any of those activities we support those activities this one this is stuff that we bring people together and we lead that build you know good emergency management social capital and incapacity and the thing I'm most excited about of all the tools that I'm going to talk about this is the one I think is most exciting for us we've been iterating this concept for the last oh god over four years now and it's this idea of community response and resilience planning it started off very much focused it's just on response but we've actually drawn a golden thread all the way through to we're bringing these community leaders in communities that are you know from three to twelve thousand people and we bring the community leaders together and we are working through a process with them that not only helps them respond to a large scale event on their own but we're also looking and starting to do a bunch of community building activities across the recovery environments you know the social built natural and economic environments of their suburb we're going to bring our mayors along they're signing off and it becomes a partnership and I can yak about this for hours but this I think is the most exciting tool that we have and we've developed a whole toolkit and we're very happy to share it if anybody's interested another one we're doing and I talk about this a little bit with Gwen's presentation earlier we work very closely with social agencies right the people that are going to be looking after your most vulnerable communities are probably going to be the people in the organizations that are going to be looking after those communities post-event and what we do is build up their capacity and their capability so some of that is DCP planning and so on and so forth we work really closely with our universities I think that's a really huge resource for us we are really blessed to have the Joint Center for Disaster Research located in our community in our city and again yes and right the last tool rather methodology and I'll just kind of close if I don't have this in my presentation but this whole like this whole how piece it's really how we engage right what we try to do is create a way for people to engage across a whole bunch of levels if all people want to do is like our Facebook page I think that they are 100% right I think they're totally I don't want to say totally prepared you know they're a lot more prepared than I think what we traditionally give them credit for so what we're doing is really employing good community development principles tools and methodologies when we work with our communities and what's not in my presentation maybe I think this is maybe one other thing that's worth maybe five community development methodologies that I would encourage you to look into and the first one is appreciative inquiry and that is a that idea of asset-based community development appreciative inquiry is a methodology that if you follow that methodology it's really inspiring for people and just like the name implies like you start from what you appreciate what is already taking place right and you inquire you ask like how do we go forward and it's a really really powerful tool appreciative inquiry another one is design thinking I don't know if anybody has ever heard of that comes out of the Stanford design school in many respects design thinking is kind of the opposite of project management what people do in project management you come up with an idea you kind of build a project plan and you get to the end point and then what happens often is then that is delivered to a end user and the end user goes this is not what I wanted to do right you see a lot of companies doing that and so design thinking he turns that around you actually start to understand your audience before you if you're going to develop a product or service design thinking is really good because it helps you understand who your audience is and what drives them and you involve them in a very good iterative process and so you're constantly kind of fail quickly methodology the third one is facilitation training I really encourage if you're going to be working with communities go through some facilitation training it really might it's probably the thing my team has benefited from the most that they'll say it's actually going through a structured process on how do you facilitate well another one which starts to get into the real hippie space and we've done it and done a few courses on it is storytelling right sounds like what storytelling but like when you look at great speeches and we look at what motivates people's stories and it's a really great way to help show why you want to do something so there's good structures on storytelling and that last one which I already talked about is improvisational comedy that whole yes and methodology is really really powerful by learning we've been working through it you're not allowed to say no you're not allowed to say but you have to you have to always say yes doesn't have to like immediately jump to oh my gosh we're over committed it just it helps bring people along in a positive way so that I just want to touch on I think those are five methodologies on the how that we found really beneficial so we've written a community resilience strategy a lot of this stuff is in that we've written a community resilience strategy it's online we've been really fortunate that the IRDR which is the integrated can never remember what it stands for integrated research for disaster risk reduction as part of the UN they've recognized this as an international center of excellence so that you know that's kind of cool we've also developed the resilience toolbox.org which is still in a beta version at the moment but what we really recognize is that I've been reinforced today everybody here is doing really cool things I want to learn from you guys I really want to but I've heard already a bunch of cool tools that you guys are doing the flood safe program that I've heard Francis talking about earlier like these are things that I think we can all learn from each other because what's happening is we're all trying to learn this stuff right where it's kind of we're all learning together and the less we have to reinvent the wheel the better and that is me oh that's a it's actually a photo shop version of me on the middle ice space I don't know how much time I'm going to come over time or under time so there's a few minutes for questions five minutes for questions I'm sorry I haven't been back I've been back to Honduras for about ten years but I still talk to people and yeah I still run Power Facebook it doesn't like that it's a challenge and I think we the question was how do we do with the bureaucracy that doesn't like this stuff I think you need some of those catalysts like a big fire or a big earthquake to help shift that that mindset a little bit it certainly helps I don't think you need to have it but I think the sectors are evolving I've been here in this sector now for six to seven odd years and I'm seeing it turn very quickly so I think I think it's happening just not as quickly as a lot of everybody in this room is increasing the choir so you guys all see the value of this any other question thank you guys very much it's been a real honour very much Dan for that fantastic presentation another round of applause for Daniel transformed into something spectacular because you are with Ben who takes us for dinner so shortly we're going to be we're going to meet the journey there will be three breakout sessions sorry that'll be on there's some really great sessions so make sure you tick off those but you need to check into your room so either now or after the optional breakouts you should go back to your accommodation whether it's here on-site or off-site and check in but be back here for dinner at seven now there's heaps of information so don't move and listen carefully for those that are staying in Ballarat the address for your motel is on your briefing pack if you don't have that then please sing out if you plan to have a drink tonight then there will be buses that will leave if you're not drinking you don't feel like driving you can use the bus there'll be two buses the two Ballarat motels will be at 6.30pm and they'll be leaving from those hotels so it'll be back to Ballarat for now or soon then if you want the bus back here the motel at 6.30pm does that make sense? right and don't forget to bring your sparkle i.e. c.s.a s.e.s oh that's right righty oh alright so all the drinks tonight are at bar prices and he's cash only but there is an ATM in the foyer but a reminder consider your drinking options well is a very early start tomorrow we need to be


Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is meeting with the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Felix Tsishakidi, on the latest development of the grand Ethiopian Renaissance dam, GERD. During the meeting, Tsisi noted Egypt's appreciation of the Congolese President's relevant efforts and confidence in his ability to deal with the GERD issue. Both downstream countries seek the formation of an international quartet of the African Union, the United States, the European Union and the United Nations to maximise chances of reaching the desired agreement, but upstream Ethiopia is opposed to this proposal.


Oh over here just down the road from the Iowa 80 in Iowa on the I-80 That's the Volvo dealership. I Have gotten air compressor issue. I'll show you here one sec So we're here on the driver's side of the engine Keep it simple for you. You see this green hose Right here. It popped out of there It hadn't completely popped out of there before but I guess just as I was pulling in here just popped right out of the air compressor that's what that big block is right there and That goes to here governor up here and That's in short and to keep it simple like I said That's what causes the truck to go and it's not going now the air compressors just continually running and And It's not good Not good. Let's go inside and talk to the good people. I hope they're good people. I really hope they are Apparently they got 17 bays here Hope they got one for me She's still tracking me here Google I thought I told you to stop stop that So this is called twin bridges truck city. It's in Davenport, Iowa Close to Davenport anyway, not quite in town, but We'll see the Volvo dealership in Winnipeg really really gave me a bad impression So hopefully this Volvo dealership is better because I don't have any other option The part I need is a Volvo specific part What I could do is pick up the part from them and go back to TA if I can get back there Get them to install it there or See if I have the right tools, I don't think I have the right tools to get that off of there If I could get access to the tools I could do it myself It's always cheaper just to buy tools than to pay someone to use their tools And then you got tools So my dad always says it's always cheaper to buy the tools you need to fix it fix it yourself And then in the end you save money and you got new tools smart Okay Let's see see what we got a day here This is the source of my problem. This is the fix for my problem This the fix for the source of my problem I was gonna say it's the source of my problem, but this is actually gonna fix it 20 bucks. That's it And all I need is a adjustable wrench Pop the other one off pop this one back on stick the hose in there boom Problem solved So I can actually fix it myself. Oh Boy eight hundred dollars later, and we're out of the shop starting our day We're not late at least at least we're still on time so we got a new airline connection that connects my governor my air governor to my air compressor That'll get out of here. So there's a new airline connection that had to be picked up at Volvo and I figured well, why not get a full service right away, right? So I brought the truck back here to TA to get a full service because it needed it And then In the shop my air purge valve Decides to go to put At least it happened in the shop, right? But yeah, so we had to get the air purge Valve replaced right away as well. It's all in all with the service service was the most expensive part I mean I went with the premium. It was the middle option There's one better and one not as good, but I went with the middle one This truck is good to go again Hopefully we won't have any more of these little issues Dracula's for donkeys you know that The labor in these shops here is a hundred and twenty dollars an hour and at Volvo it was a hundred and fifty five dollars an hour if You want them to do work on your truck American That's close to two hundred dollars an hour Canadian like probably around a hundred and seventy five or so hundred and eighty dollars an hour That's a Volvo dealership. Wow, what do you need that much money for? Must be expensive overhead there something six wires turn left on 60th Avenue CRI 40 I can still remember when labor was 60 bucks an hour at all the shops And we all got mad when it went up to like 80 and suddenly it was at a hundred and everyone was just right mad And now it's at a hundred and fifty five US dollars per hour Crazy because the freight rates aren't going up, but the the shop rates sure are so is the fuel 300 meters turn left on CRI 40 so those extra expenses aren't being carried on to the customer like in most businesses So you guys aren't paying for these shop visits. We are All of this extra cost comes from the truckers We're not getting paid anymore, but we're paying more. It's not the end of the world. It's not terrible, but it is bad and Can I turn left here? What's going on here? Let's construct Hi, yeah, I'm good But I mean it's it's worth calling out, right? If you're gonna raise the shop rates to astronomical numbers like that you got to start raising freight rates then too And you know what that means that means that they've got to raise the price of all the goods That you guys have around you and nobody wants that so maybe we should just keep everything the same Wonder how much those mechanics are making apparently. I'm in the wrong line of business Apparently that should be a mechanic Loaded our trailer and I brought the empty trailer over to my shipper. They only want to load me in the morning But I was allowed to park there or I'm allowed to park there overnight And I they allowed me to drop my trailer there go out for supper So we're Bob tailing right now. No trailer behind us This is Davenport, Iowa. This feels like as America. I mean then again every state is about as America as it gets Iowa I guess it's sort of like right in the middle the heartland and Iowa reminds me a lot of home too Iowa the terrain in Iowa is very similar to the train in southern Manitoba where I'm from You know it's flat a lot of agriculture a lot of a lot of forested area of the state like this Because they have a longer growing season I don't know Iowa's always sort of felt a little bit like home Reminds me of home. I guess nice people here too going to I'm actually going to flying Jay I want to fuel my tanks up tonight because it's supposed to get a little bit cold overnight and I don't want to Have a low fuel winterizer gel Anti-gel in my fuel yet either and I want to do that because at home right now It's minus 40 with the windshield. It got cold again as a cold snap So I want to make sure that all the fuel I have in my tanks when I get back up north is ready for it Think worse than throwing your money away into a tow Just for your truck to sit in a shop to thaw out all that money away just because you didn't prepare I actually have to correct myself. I lied to you I'm sorry, but I'm an honest man, and I'll admit when I realize I lied didn't do it on purpose Davenport and Iowa are on the other side of the river just to our left. We are in Illinois So I guess Illinois reminds me of home a little bit as well some parts of it other parts are kind of scary Other parts being Chicago and anywhere around the lake. It's kind of scary there. Yeah, we are what's the city on? The Illinois side then it's like a staff works right on the border We're about to go over the bridge right a ways here anyway and cross back into Iowa, so we're close enough You knew what I meant these are These are They're not gonna load us today man So unfortunate They don't know that you're making the Lord of the weasels wait today. I Don't think they know diesel How dare they how dare they well I'm gonna go back there and grab some sleep because I did not have a very good night last night But thank God everything is fixed and good to go on the truck Huh got here an hour after they finished loading apparently Let's be nice to go home early You're here, so that makes me feel good You want to make me feel real good you can hit that subscribe button join the TJV crew here We make a new video pretty much every day every day while we're on the road anyway and tomorrow's another day We've got to load up this farm equipment first thing in the morning and start heading home Well, we're actually heading towards the sketch one But I think we're gonna Weasel our way past the house like what I did there diesel no comment Okay sneak past the house for a night because uh I'm gonna leave here on Thursday and I don't have to deliver in Saskatchewan two days away till Monday So I'll leave here tomorrow I'll be home Friday sometime. So it's Wednesday today Uh load tomorrow be home Friday sometime and I'll probably leave the little going to estivants of Saskatchewan It's about five six hours from home. So, uh, I'll probably leave Sunday to deliver Monday morning So get some more stuff done at home And then hopefully the rest of the month will be busy busy busy because I've had some time at home now and I'm ready to work but We do what we can we do what we can I can't complain can't complain. I got it good Have a good night everybody I'll see you tomorrow. Click any of the boxes around here with videos in it They'll take you to other videos of mine including yesterday's if you missed it Gotta stay caught up


All right, separate traders welcome on back here this Friday final day of the week final day of the month final day of our calendar year Great to see all of us here live inside the cyber group trading room Chuck Leda Ari who's been having a fantastic day himself We have Leda. We have Michelle. We have Norman Patrick K. Lewis Ron Ray all of us still joining us here live inside the cyber group room Great to see you all and hey if you're joining us back here live on social media Facebook live or YouTube welcome on back So we got a lot to talk about here folks. Normally, you know, it'd be a pretty slow day here heading into the close heading into the end of the new Heading into the end of the year that is Not a whole lot of opportunities out there and at times today That's been the case, you know, at least the early after afternoon was a bit of a snooze fest But with the markets beginning to pull back at least heading into the early afternoon We had a couple of interesting opportunities on the way down Then otherwise we did have a really nice runner in the NTRB trade right now on the screen to begin is the NYMX stock I'll be honest. This is one of the stocks that ended up acting so slow here at least going into this meeting Just the last minute before we started. There wasn't a single single print filled on the tape I thought this was halted. I was about to start off this meeting by saying folks I think this is halted off of news That's not the case but nonetheless the NYMX ended up making a really nice pop for us actually heading into the late morning Really the early afternoon as it broke out from like 125 130 as you could see pushed up towards over 150 You know 25 cent move for a dollar stock. That's a nice trade You know, we see some stocks make these hundred percent moves at times and those are the true home runs But you know, this is a home run to this is a really good trade at least this NYMX from earlier You know, it was trying to go back up right around 215 220 Eastern and that's what I was mentioning just before in the trading room trying to inch back up to 150 It kind of stalled out right from there though. So listen, it's not a High risk putting this on our watch list. It's like slow as molasses here But I would rather us follow something a little bit more lively something that has more momentum in either direction Up or down heading into the afternoon, you know, hey if this pops during our meeting that I would love to put this on our list Alright, but the real runner that we ended up catching here today. It's number one still on the gainer's list So no better place to start than right from the top. We got the NTRB trade So NTRB, I'll take a little time folks. No coaching no class later on today. It's the final day of the year So I want to make sure that I have enough time to at least spend with you folks and with that the NTRB We'll do a full review of this trade. It was to say this throughout pre-market We ended up seeing two big buying levels early before the market opened up That means that we ended up seeing big orders from the ask of level three getting filled That was at seven bucks and a 690 the two lines on the bottom of my one-minute chart there So it's to say that within the first few minutes this ended up having a little bit of a chopfest It had a tough time really trying to make that run Right first three to five minutes pretty difficult. Don't be trading the first three to five minutes We always say that myself in Fausto. Well nonetheless once this broke above 690 It holds above 690 from there and from that point the rest was history You know just as far as this stocks run It's the same that we talk about and traders talk every Tuesday, you know the more stock goes up and up You'd like to think the first test of a major resistance that it would fail So what I mean by that nine bucks. I'll just throw the nut throw the line there You know just once it broke over nine false breakout the first attempt. All right Well, what happened the next attempt? Much better run right popped over nine I think for like, you know ten seconds a little shake But ended up pushing right back up and same thing happened here from ten false broke ten the first attempt came back down Second attempt off and running now you just I can't keep going up like that forever You know at some point we're gonna see a true top form a true false breakout or you know legitimate reversal So hey, look what happened in first test of 12 false breakout Second test of 12 though and now is the end of the road on this trade at least up until now, right? So, you know this trade right now is trying to make the push back up once again ended up finding support at 10 and Actually, it ended up moving back up to 12 actually heading into the early afternoon but failed to break higher For right now still in a bit of a channel, right? You don't know if it's going to move back up to 12 at all or make a lower high here and slam right back down So I'll put this on our watch list just because hey It's you know relatively close to its highs especially in relation to where it started from today, right? So for right now, we'll put this on our list the NTRB But hey, I mean even on this if this one by the end of the meeting if this completely Crashes back down or if it gets halted down, you know as I'm going through this meeting then I'll take it off the list simple as that You got the warrants number two Fausto talked about that earlier during our audio commentary live inside our trading room For all this live inside live on social media Facebook live YouTube last month I'll say it for the whole year if you want to join us live Go right down to the link on the banner below the stream Just click the link there to get yourself started but for all of us there right now later Patrick Lewis Ron Michael etc You know, we know what happens with the warrant here a warrant will move off in times It at a bigger percentage compared to the equity But the warrant is much less liquid, you know much bigger spread almost impossible to trade at times Based off of level three so it ended up making a really nice You know pop parabolic move for the most part from like two all the way up to 450, but this is tough This is just untratable. So the NTRB is trying to go back up actually or it was But the second we turned away from this Wasn't even at the end of the meeting as soon as we turned away from this thing this thing ended up just crapping back down I'll keep it on our list. I'll keep it on there for right now I really mean like a true slam below 10 and you'll get hold to going down All right, so what we'll do folks is just continue. We'll keep going down the percent gainers and losers list We'll see what else we got We'll skip over age that's below a buck And we'll keep it going UCL actually let me expand the volume column here. I wouldn't have clicked this just it's trading less than half a million shares So just not really tradable based on our criteria SYTA could be but it's trending down So there's not much really to it to write home about right now the stock did make a pretty good move from earlier today Took off it took off after after the market opened up from basically 320 up towards four Had a tough time breaking over four ended up doing so going into the mid morning You know ended up making a really nice slingshot actually from 350 up to up over a buck to 450 there But right now not a whole lot happening here. I guess I skipped over MDRR I'm not really much happening right now as well and that might be the case You know across the board at this point folks We had a good morning and again a couple of the other movers perhaps the X ERS will cover briefly This is the exact platform that I ended up trading off of from today So I have all my crazy lines for all this that I do coaching with You know, I have these lines up still so the X ERS trade ended up making a nice bounce after the open from 280 That was a huge iceberg level from what I recall heading into the market open Ended up taking its time and finally made a nice pop over three However, it ended up having a tough time breaking over 315 315 it was a really strong level from the after hours yesterday This ended up, you know opening up off of some hull and what I did this morning with my preparation folks I ended up looking at on on level four technically the book map You know, I ended up looking at the cvp column and showing for all the volume traded throughout the after hours yesterday We had more volume filled At 315 so with that I ended up putting a line at 315 on my chart Look what became the top So right now this trade right now not a whole lot happening, but I've wanted to at least, you know go over why I have these lines here All right now. I'm just going to kind of skim. We got the ux in which I mean talk about slow as molasses I'm just going to zoom in on the chart here for a bit. It's only trading about 7 to 6 000 shares per minute And looking at the orders that are out there on the order book This really needs to kick in the pants if it wants to go I guess it was trading a lot more than that just earlier perhaps by like, you know Two o'clock a little bit after two o'clock. It was trading a little bit more volume than what it's what it's doing right now Uh, you know, it's at the highs. I like that, but it's just super slow So I guess I have to put this on our list with the way it looks on the chart, right? And it's very low risk for me to put this stock on our watch list It's really as level one. It's as it gets ux a entry bbio has been a really nice runner from earlier today, but the issue on this stock There's no issue on it right now just as long as it's shortable This is a really nice short at least from the lower high it made off of 17 But from earlier ended up making a really nice run from from the morning this stock We've grown to become pretty familiar with We know that we can't watch this stock every day because not every day It's going to be trading, you know 15 25 40 million shares day to day You know ended up making a big drop for us earlier this week or I believe that could have even been Just over just about a week ago friday, right? But nonetheless ended up making a beautiful dead cat bounce once again today tried to continue to push But on this stock it had a really thin volume out there on level three I mean much thinner than even what you're seeing right now It's on like a five or so sent spread currently and the orders out there are pretty small They were even smaller and the spread was much bigger throughout the morning So for right now this stock is actually more tradable to me now than what it was earlier And it's shortable. So if it's not going to break any higher, perhaps this could be a good short heading into the afternoon here. So Don't mind if I do. I'll put bbi on a watch list. Keep it going EVCT familiar name. I don't mind looking at it This one's also like really slow, right? I mean at least UXIN had a cleaner trend smoother smoother trend throughout the morning into the afternoon You know, we know the abct trade that Technically wouldn't hurt us putting this on our watch list, but I want to see if there's anything moving just a little bit faster here Boils an etf. I'm not too particular about the etfs in general CELZ I thought this had been volume just earlier.  We'll talk a little bit about bitcoin at least before we finish up Uh, ended up dropping off a little bit more which as of right now I'm a fan of so talk about that in a bit where I'm looking to buy maybe a coin or so that I'll introduce you to if I haven't already Uh, but we'll keep going on the loser side first. Not a whole lot. That's down big Everything it's it is hard to borrow So that pretty much eliminates all those stocks to be honest with you Unless if there's something that's making a much bigger push that I don't know about In that case, let me know, but I I think that otherwise Sheesh Folks it is slim pickings out there on the loser's list Anything that is easy to borrow is either too cheap or too expensive. That's it Like I'm not going to trade end backs. I'm I'm not going to try and short a $2 stock Normally it wouldn't at least All right, so folks I need your help here. Let me know if there's anything else up down left right more than 5% Just before we finish up I'll talk a little bit about bitcoin type everything on the chat board first or as I go through And I'll come back to the chat board here at the end All right, we're dropping dropping dropping today on bitcoin, which again, I'm a bit of a fan of right now I'll explain what had happened at least, you know from the last time we talked about this from wednesday's meeting Uh, so we ended up seeing continuation on the way down after wednesday's meeting in the afternoon dropped down towards just around 46 and then from there made a nice recovery And actually ended up making a much bigger recovery last night here I thought we would end up seeing a bit of a drop last night and it ended up popping going into the Morning at least this is the morning. Uh, this is actually a five-minute chart So I wanted to show this I normally don't show like a one or a five-minute chart that often But you know, I want to show you how fast this drop is at least and with that I ended up building this line at some point over the last day or so I don't think I had shown this line officially from the last meeting here Or at least from the one on wednesday But it ended up building pretty nicely off the lows and then over time we had our big snap from here Well, this line ended up technically acting as resistance for a bit Little head fake here where it broke above it snapped down and that's where I thought we would see a further drop But uh, you know overnight we ended up seeing a really big pop back up I reckon at this point now we can call this another head fake to where it didn't continue running up higher It actually used this line beautifully. Like I you know, I swear to you I put this line up like 24 hours ago at least, you know 24 to 48 hours ago But it's to say look how well this line held as support I guess you could also say the 100 EMA on my five minute was you know using Support too, but once it broke below this these Big drop right back down again, and it's the drop that I was anticipating off the set fake But let me go back now. I'm going to jump back to my six hour graph here This is normally what I like to show And I have a couple of other things to mention here So, you know, it was building a pretty steady trend to off the highs and I could probably redraw redraw this going into next week Uh, you know, maybe off certain lows even but nonetheless These highs were holding pretty slick. So I put a trend line here Wouldn't shock me if we happen to see this over time Drop down at least a little bit lower and come close to this trend line again And that could be as low as around even 43 or so I told you folks a week ago two weeks ago. I was looking to try and buy around 44 45 And I really haven't since so At least at this point this could provide a really good buying opportunity Uh, not just for me but for anyone else that may have been watching this meeting over the last Many months and thought that bitcoin was up too high You know, you see this drop off as much as it has from 69,000 All right. Well, this could be a very good buying opportunity here coming up as it was at least, you know Off this big shake and you know, so forth But if it's not going to break higher if it's not going to you know Begin to hold support off of these moving averages or the hundred here at least then I'd like to think Well, eventually it's going to break lower, right? And that's what I'd mentioned at least last week here I said that we were going to have turbulence here at this point off the 2 and 500 So, you know, I'm looking to add I'm going to wait a little bit longer Or maybe over the weekend I will if it drops off that much further. Let's see what happens Now one coin I do want to introduce you to I probably made mention of this back when it was like below a dollar Uh, months ago and I haven't really since I trade this more than anything But ftm phantom this is pretty close to all-time highs again, or at least it was from the last week or so when it pushed back up A lot of bullish sentiment on ftm. So if you're looking at an alt coin to try and dip into I'm not in this yet I'm just you know telling you that firsthand. I'm not in it currently. I'm looking to I am looking to so You know, I'm not giving you something that I'm in from like 90 cents or you know, whatever trying to get out at No, I'm very bullish on this, but let me bring you to the uh Ftm to bitcoin chart. This is called phantom phantom. So ftm I ended up using a fib retracement here from top to bottom And for right now if we happen to see the alt coins begin to crash further I'm looking at this chart and I would like to see this I can extend these lines, I think I would love to see it pull back either towards the 50 and if we have a really Fast drop on bitcoin and the other alts then it wouldn't shock me if we drop down to the 38 So, you know, I'm very excited to jump into this I hope I don't get in too quick and it ends up pulling back further with bitcoin But you know, I'm looking forward to seeing a continued drop at least on bitcoin Which should carry pretty much everything else. You know, I'm sure that there will be you know one or two or a few that you know That will go against the grain and outperform really well But most will drop off further than bitcoin will to be honest. So that's one to watch Phantom not tradable on coinbase. Ah, that's a shame. I'm on KU coin. That's one of the ones that I'm on John says ethereum seems to hold up and outperform bitcoin Ah the last week or so and I don't have my ethereum chart right now of john But the last week or so it didn't look too good It needed to kind of hold a little bit higher and it hasn't It was for a while. It was it was outperforming for a little while But I think that it may Be over. Well, we'll go into ethereum on monday. How about that? If you want to remind me ethereum on monday will do all right All right, folks But if there is anything else in stock land at least here in the cyber group or for all of us social media facebook Live or youtube one more time before the end of the year. Let me know. Oh, I'm sorry scott from before I'm looking at the chat. We're going from bottom to top. I missed out on scott's comment ENSC near the high of the day Too spotty too spotty of a chart right now just points of inactivity Not a whole lot happening there Oh, let me bring it to the spy really quickly. So I was commenting on this in the cyber group room earlier today And you know, I don't really comment on the spy too often. So you may have looked at that I was like, why is it calling out the spy? You know, obviously we're not trading the spy. It is $476 ETF But this of course is going to be our guide for the market, you know You could also look at the s and p itself or you know the dow You know, I I personally like to focus on the spy that was probably just from years ago and you know Just never really focused on much else since that's okay But it's to say at least in terms of volume and in terms of our strategy of following the big money All right. Well, I have this line here at 476 16 and trust me I don't expect this line to be a perfectly strong Support resistance line not every level is going to hold perfectly But it's to say that this is yesterday's closing bell print So if we're going to see continuation in the market in any direction It has to break off of that line and run off of it. So for as much volume as we had at the close yesterday It ended up beginning to pull back below the 476 line 476 16 to be exact right here And I thought we were going to have a bit of a drop at that point Well, ended up pushing back up made a nice pop back up and Well failed failed to continue right now We're still seeing lower highs being built if this happens to hold perfectly here and then begins It's much bigger drop. Don't be surprised if a lot of stocks go with it, of course, right and then bitcoin too likely All right bitcoin officially just broke under 46,000 a happy camper here I think that's just about it folks. We got two stocks on our watch list. Uh, oh, no I'm sorry three. We got three stocks now at this point on our watch list I forgot about the ux i n but this I mean This is tough to watch here right for right now. This is as slow as it gets for the meantime All right, so hey for all of us on facebook live youtube I'll speak to you folks first because I'll be talking to all this in the cyber group room coming up in the next few Or so minutes But uh, hey if you're joining this meeting for the first time if you're a returning member to this afternoon broadcast on our social Feeds, I appreciate you joining us and I sincerely mean that I mean I say I have to sign off each and every day I know each and every day each and every afternoon. I appreciate you sticking with me and that's true You know for you to put in the effort to learn a strategy Uh, it takes a lot of time it takes a lot of effort, you know for all of us inside the cyber group room You folks know that exponentially more right, but you know Hey for all this joining us today on social media If you have any questions any comments any thoughts anything that you would like to chat with us about If you're more than free to send it right on over to my email address josh at c2 trading com And I'll be more than happy to help All right, uh, if you're not sticking around inside the inside the trading room if you're dipping out early I wouldn't expect many to be at this point, but I hope that you have the happiest and healthiest of new years ahead But of course, I'll be back on the uh, mic folks at 3 30 eastern time. All right, I'll talk to most of us coming up pretty shortly Take care


Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30-minute program from the Voice of America. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak. This program is designed for English learners, so we speak a little slower, and we use words and phrases, especially written for people learning English. Coming up on the program, John Russell and Anna Matteo have a story on new research into the genetics of Neanderthals and Denisovans. Brian Lin has this week's science report about the de-orbiting of the International Space Station. Later, Andrew Smith and Jill Robbins present the English lesson of the day. Neanderthals live on within us. These ancient human relatives, and others, called Denisovans, once lived alongside our early Homo sapiens ancestors. The groups mixed and had children. As a result, some of the Neanderthals and Denisovans live on in our genes. And science is starting to show just how much that shapes us. Mary Prendergast, a Rice University archaeologist, said, we're now carrying the genetic legacies and learning about what that means for our bodies and our health. In the past few months, researchers have linked Neanderthal DNA to a serious hand disease. The shape of people's noses and other human traits. They even placed a gene carried by Neanderthals and Denisovans into mice to investigate its effects on biology. The researchers found that the gene gave the mice larger heads and an extra rib. Research of the human story remains a mystery. But Dr. Hugo Zieberg of the Karlinska Institute in Sweden, said new technologies and research are helping scientists begin to answer the questions. Who are we? Where did we come from? And the answers point to a deep reality. We have far more in common with our ancient cousins than we ever thought. Until recently, the genetic legacy from ancient humans was invisible. But there has been a number of discoveries from ancient DNA, an area of study developed by Nobel Prize winner Svante Pebo. He was first in creating a Neanderthal genome. Research shows some African populations have almost no Neanderthal DNA, while those from European or Asian backgrounds have up to 2%. Denisovan DNA is rarely found in most parts of the world, but makes up 4 to 6% of the DNA of people in Melanesia. This Pacific Ocean area extends from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. That may not sound like much, but it adds up. Even though only 100,000 Neanderthals ever lived, half of the Neanderthal genome is still around, in small pieces scattered around modern humans, said Zeeberg, who works closely with Pebo. It is also enough to affect us in very real ways. Scientists studying the subject say the DNA can be both helpful and harmful. For example, Neanderthal DNA has been linked to autoimmune diseases, like Graves disease and Rheumatoid arthritis. When Homo sapiens came out of Africa, they had no immunity to diseases in Europe and Asia. But Neanderthals and Denisovans already living there did. Chris Stringer is a human evolution researcher at the Natural History Museum in London. Stringer said that by mating with Neanderthals and Denisovans, Homo sapiens got a quick fix to our immune systems, which was good news 50,000 years ago. Stringer added, the result today is, for some people, that our immune systems are oversensitive and sometimes they turn on themselves. In 2020, research by Zeeberg and Pebo found that a major genetic risk factor for severe COVID-19 came from Neanderthals. We compared it to the Neanderthal genome and it was a perfect match, Zeeberg said. The next year, they found a set of DNA variants along a single chromosome inherited from Neanderthals had the opposite effect, protecting people from severe COVID. Much less is known about our genetic legacy from Denisovans. Although some research has linked genes from them to fat processing and better performance at high altitudes. Manasa Raghavan, a human genetics expert at the University of Chicago, said Tibetans carry an amount of Denisovan DNA. She noted that the population continues to live and do well in low oxygen environments today. John Hawks of the University of Wisconsin-Madison said that human evolution was not about survival of the fittest and extinction. Instead, he suggested, it is about interaction and mixture. Researchers expect to learn more as the science continues to develop. Even when ancient bones are not available, scientists today can get DNA from soil where ancient humans once lived. And there are less explored places in the world where researchers hope to learn more. Zeeberg said biobanks that collect biological materials will likely be established in more countries. As researchers go deeper into humanity's genetic legacy, scientists expect to find even more evidence of how much we mixed with our ancient cousins and all they left us. Perhaps, Zeeberg said, we should not see them as so different. I'm John Russell. And I'm Anna Mateo. VOA Learning English has launched a new program for children. It is called Let's Learn English with Anna. The new course aims to teach children American English through asking and answering questions and experiencing fun situations. For more information, visit our website learningenglish.voanews.com. The American Space Agency, NASA, has a new plan for de-orbiting the International Space Station, or ISS. The plan involves developing a new spacecraft to safely guide the ISS during its final reentry through Earth's atmosphere. NASA cooperates with four other space agencies on the station. These include the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, Japan's Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Russia's Roscosmos. The ISS began serving as a space research center more than 22 years ago. It has been widely praised as a scientific success, but NASA and its international partners say the ISS has a limited technical lifetime. NASA has said it will keep operating and sending astronauts to the ISS until 2030. After that, the U.S. Space Agency plans to use privately developed space laboratories for its space research needs. NASA says this will permit it to pay space station operators only for the goods and services it needs. NASA has already chosen several American companies to develop future space stations. These privately operated stations will aim to serve the science needs of NASA as well as other nations, space agencies, and other organizations. In a report to the U.S. Congress last year, NASA established its plans for the ISS. The report said the agency aims to make the station's final years its most productive. Among the goals NASA declared to support deep space exploration and continue to return medical and environmental benefits to humanity. The agency recently announced its new de-orbiting plan for the ISS after considering other options to retire it. A past plan or option involved the use of several Russian spacecraft, but NASA officials rejected that plan and decided a new specially designed spacecraft would better serve the needs of the de-orbiting operation. Other options included a plan to take apart the space station in space and transport its pieces back to Earth. Another plan would have seen the ISS sent to a higher orbit where it would remain out of service. A third option involved a non-controlled re-entry operation. NASA said none of these met its requirements for safety and effectiveness. The agency recently released a request for proposals to companies interested in building the new spacecraft. NASA calls it the U.S. de-orbit vehicle, or USDV. It says it can be a completely new vehicle or an existing design that is changed to meet all needs of the de-orbiting process. The agency said it is seeking proposals now because the effort will take years to develop, test, and certify. NASA has said when it is time to retire the ISS it will begin taking the first steps to slowly lower its operating altitude. This part of the process can likely be carried out by the ISS and its systems without the need for additional spacecraft. But the final part of the operation, re-entry, will center on guiding the ISS through Earth's atmosphere to a pre-chosen target in an unpopulated area in the ocean. NASA says this final part is expected to require a new or modified spacecraft using a large amount of propellant. The targeted landing spot has been identified as a place called Point Nemo in the South Pacific Ocean. This is a stretch of open water between New Zealand and the southernmost part of South America. The U.S. National Ocean Service identifies Point Nemo as the point in the ocean that is farthest from land. NASA predicts that most ISS equipment will burn up or vaporize during the intense heating that happens during atmospheric re-entry. But it says some denser or more heat-resistant elements are expected to survive and land in the targeted ocean area. I'm Brian Lin. Brian Lin joins me now to talk more about his science report. Thanks for being here, Brian. Sure, Dan. Glad to be here. In this week's report, you looked at a new plan NASA has for de-orbiting the International Space Station. The space station is, of course, currently fully operational and seems to be busier than ever. So why does NASA think it is necessary to retire it? Yes, you're correct about the current status. And as noted in the report, NASA plans on still operating the space lab until 2030. But agency officials have said they knew when the space station was launched more than 22 years ago, it would not last forever. And there are technical systems that simply cannot be replaced at this point. And even if they could, a so-called remodel of the station would also not be possible in space. We know from the report that NASA has decided to turn over the development and operation of a new space station to private companies. What can you tell us about that? So yes, NASA has already chosen three American companies to develop future space stations. And agency officials have said the plan is to have multiple orbiting labs in the years to come. So the idea is that NASA itself would pay for use of these stations for its scientific research along with space agencies from other countries and other organizations. And there are also expected to be more visits by non-astronauts to these future stations. And do we know when those new stations are expected to be completed? Well, at least one team working on a station it calls Starlab says it plans on it being fully operational as soon as 2027, so in plenty of time to replace the current one. Very interesting. Thanks again for being here, Brian. You're welcome. Thank you, Dan. Name is Anna Matteo. And my name is Jill Robbins. And I'm Andrew Smith. We're listening to the Lesson of the Day on the Learning English podcast. Welcome to the part of the show where we help you do more with our series Let's Learn English. This series shows Anna Matteo in her work in life in Washington, DC. Let's jump right in with a short clip from Lesson 20 of the series. We'll play the clip three times in a row. Listen to Anna ask a question and then make a statement. And listen for how she pronounces the small word can. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. There's a difference between how she pronounces the word can when she asks the question. Can you teach? And how she pronounces it when she makes a statement. Listen one more time. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. With her statement, you can be a teacher in a school. She says the word can a bit faster. And the vowel sound changes from a like an apple to the schwa a. This change of vowel sound is something that happens when we talk faster. That's a funny word schwa, isn't it? When English speakers do not put any stress on a vowel, it sounds like this, a. We write it with the upside down e. Why do you think we have a special word for this sound, Jill? I think we need a special word for it because it can be written using a, e, i, o, u, or y in words. It is the most common vowel sound in English because it represents unstressed vowels. Lesson 20 of Let's Learn English has a pronunciation practice video that explains this change of vowel sound. Let's listen. In slow speech, can sounds like can. In fast speech, it often sounds like can. Listen to Anna talking to Pete about being a teacher. Can you teach? You can be a teacher in a school. But now let's listen to the negative forms of the verb can. These of course are the words cannot and can't. Well it might seem simple. We want you to know how and when native speakers use each form. When we want people to clearly understand that we are unable to do something, we sometimes use the longer form cannot. For example, when you talk on the phone and you have to explain a problem, you want to be sure that the other person understands you. So you might choose to use the form cannot. For example, if you are locked out of a room or locked out of a building, you might say, I've tried the key over and over and I cannot open the door. Yeah, cannot gives emphasis to the meaning.  It means extra importance and is similar to the word stress. Another reason we might choose to say cannot when speaking on the phone is because there is only a small difference in pronunciation between the positive form can and the negative form can't. Sometimes you can hear the letter T when we say can't, but other times it is harder to hear and it just sounds like this, can't. In American English, we call that a held T. Instead of pronouncing the T, your tongue just comes to a stop against the hard part of the roof of your mouth just behind the upper front teeth. Maybe we'd better say that location one more time. Good idea. I'll repeat that. The tongue comes to a stop against the hard part of the roof of your mouth just behind the upper front teeth. In the pronunciation video of lesson 20, you can hear Pete first pronounce can't with the letter T. And then the next time you hear him pronounce it with the held T, can't. Let's listen. No, I can't code. I can't teach. I can't cook. Anna, I can't do anything. I noticed that when people send text messages, they often send a message saying I can when I'm sure they mean I can't. I think that's because they're using their voice to write or dictating, you know. The text and the phone software cannot tell the difference between the two words. How can we help our listeners hear and say the forms correctly? Listen to these examples. I can, I can't. I can, I can't. When we say the positive form, we pronounce the letter N longer. The N sound, N, N, N, N, lasts longer than in the negative form. In fact, in the negative form, because the tongue and voice stop, there is almost no sound of the letter N. Can't. So again, listen to the difference. I can, I can't. I can, I can't. There is a difference, but it is small. If you cannot hear the difference, don't worry. Usually, you will know that it's the negative form, just from the situation. From all the other information you'll get from the conversation. And if you are speaking and want to be very clear, simply pronounce the letter T like can't. I'm Jill Robbins and you're listening to the Lesson of the Day on the Learning English Podcast. Andrew, earlier in the lesson, you said you were going to give the listeners more examples. That's right. We're going to give examples of how we pronounce the verb can when we speak quickly. Jill. You can just ask me a question and I'll answer it. That sounds pretty easy. Are you ready? Ready. Can you do it? Yeah, I can do it. Can you see it? Yeah, I can see it. Can you come over? Yeah, I can come over. Can you send it to me? Yeah, I can send it to you. Can you hear a difference? Yeah, I can hear a difference. Can you smell it? I can smell it. Can you put it in the oven? I can put it in the oven. Can you open the door? I can open the door. Can you give me a hand? I can give you a hand. Can you give me a minute? I can give you a minute. Can you give me all your money? I don't think so. I cannot give you all of my money. Let's check to see if you were really listening. What can you give me? Hmm, good question. I can give you, let's see, I can give you free advice. Advice? You mean you can give me suggestions for how to fix a problem. Sure. Well, I don't have any problems. You don't have any problems? Not today. Well, lucky you. I think maybe you should give me advice. So how about this? I can thank you for helping me and our listeners with the Learning English podcast. It's the high point of my day. But I can't believe we spent the whole lesson talking about this one little word. I can. Getting all the details of American pronunciation takes time and people need lots of examples. And there's much more our listeners can learn from lesson 20 of Let's Learn English. In our next lesson of the day, we'll talk about an important topic from lesson 20, having skills and knowing how to use them. That is a great topic. I look forward to speaking with you about it. Until then, thanks for listening to the lesson of the day on the Learning English podcast. I'm Andrew Smith. And I'm Jill Robbins. And that's our program for today. Join us again tomorrow to keep learning English through stories from around the world. I'm Ashley Thompson. And I'm Dan Novak.