Almost time for the bell, how many options will you sell? Fire up your platform, get ready to enter But first let's get the mindset centered Let's go, we're here to trade, we follow the plan That's how we get paid, test and trade it Have success, find what works for you and forget the rest Stats and probabilities is what we're about Time to dismiss greed and doubt, focus on the process Not the money and the profits will flow like honey Power our lives, let's start the show Come on trade hackers, get ready to go Zero day options, time to make bank Get locked and loaded, then be ready to plank What's up everyone, welcome to Power Hour Live February 21st S&P down 24, NASDAQ down 215 Russell down 20, Dow down 170 Gold and silver, both red, notes and bonds red Ten year yield up 1%, oil up 1% Natty gas, big bounce up 12% Grains, lower Euro and the Pounds Slightly higher in Bitcoin down 2% VIX 15.85 Touched 16, got above 16 Did not like that Said the water's cold, going back where it's warm Down, so I will not be trading Power Hour, it's a normal day Which I have for this month Decided to either skip or be discretionary In, looks like Make it five wide If price holds here or it could be a straddle If it goes towards 50 or towards 55 I just put on a, one of my re-entry So that's one reason I'm not going to go in with Tronch 1 So that just entered here 50-55 So I didn't want to jump in with another 50-55 Right on top of it I also got a, one of my re-entries From a little bit earlier is on the Actually it filled in two different orders So part of it is on the 55-65 And part of it is on the 60-65 I'm real close to getting my revenge lunchtime Number one trade Filled at 20%, I was real close to getting stopped On it, which would have really been bad I just need a little more uptick So my zero DTE today My JSP's hit That was good for 14, I actually took some off before 50% I was watching price action so I closed some of them Some of them hit 50% My one DTE I ended up just closing out for a small loss My is 225, my 02 call calendar plus 400 I did my 945 AM trade One hit 40%, one got stopped for a profit Midday Tronch bot that I'm testing That was a manual entry that hit 40% And then my NDX Is currently up On my re-entries Booked a little over 4100 on one And then these got stopped after small profits Plus 810, plus 910 And then these are the ones that I'm currently in So good day so far Yeah, I've shared it, E. Allison It's not part of my plan yet It's not a back-tested trade It's simply just choosing the 25 deltas And having 10 wide wings with no stop That's it, nothing else to it Just entering it the open So here's what I got in today So I just let it expire either it's a winner or a loser Yeah, so far so good And what I'm looking at is It's covering essentially almost the entire expected move for the day You know, and so my risk reward will vary a little bit But like today, my max profit is 910 My max loss is 1090 So it's almost one-to-one A lot of times it'll be closer to like 150% risk versus max profit A little bit more risk but So essentially if price stays within the expected move It'll be a winner For the most part That was so much better now my revenge I should have never revenge traded but I did Uh, paid off Sometimes revenge pays Usually not Well, you know, I guess it's a wash now Because I should have never placed the one that I lost in That one that was a full loser I should have never placed that And I should have never placed this one And now it's paying off So you went in for the double revenge Uh, man Sometimes that revenge can spiral out of control You gotta be careful I know, I usually don't do it That's the one thing I've been very good at not doing on this strategy So I'm just in one power hour trade Sorry, go ahead Well, I was just saying I'm only in one power hour trade at the moment So if I were to jump in trunch one right now It would be, it looks like it'd be the 60-55s Yeah, trade scout, I thought about holding my 1DTE I was just like, man, I'm taking a lot of risk If this market starts to run Uh, for very, very little decay I'm just gonna, so I just cut it Didn't even think about NVIDIA earnings holding up premium I assume that's what it is NVIDIA after the bell It's got a overnight move of about plus or minus 65 points Oh, man Plus or minus 68 between now and Friday So about a 10% move And it's been coming down the last few days Yeah, it has From 746 down to 668 Other big movers today Coin base down 6% Robinhood down 4 Roku down 4 Shopify down 4 NVIDIA down 4 Lyft down almost 4 Just took a few days for that accounting error to fall through, I guess On the upside, biggest movers, BABA up 3% Baidu up 1 A lot more red than green Obviously Nasdaq down 1% I accidentally bit my tongue When I was eating lunch today So if I sound like I have a fat tongue today It's because I do Oh, man, I hate that By the way, if you are new here A couple housekeeping notes So in Discord The thing I would do is go to the 0DTE course channel Scroll up a little bit There is a new member 0DTE checklist You can check out It gives you kind of step by step of Kind of the best way to get started The zero live chat channel that you're in here This is what we use for during live streams There's another 0DTE channel Also in the trade plans channel This is where I post my updated trade plan each month So here in the next week I'll be posting my plan for March You can also see Chad's presentation To see exactly how he's trading As well as a bunch of our other Experienced trading members post their trade plans here as well No, I didn't close my 1, 2 No, I'll close that tomorrow morning like I always do That is taking some heat though Looks like it's down about 8 or 9% It's the chime AM number 3, 60% and out The old toss chime There's nothing like it that gives you a good feel I know man Especially when you're hitting 60% Unless it's when you're getting stopped out That's not a good sound Thank goodness I needed that one I think I'm going to do a power hour number 2 I still got two trades on When I put my power hour number 1 on I still had an AM on I just closed out and I still have my revenge lunchtime 1 on Has been some good fate at a K in the last 30, 45 minutes So discount, you liked how it managed it, huh? But what's the main issue with whisper trades? Do they not have the filters? Do you have to manually launch it? Yeah, I hold the NDX trade into the close VXX vertical Still hanging around where we got in Yeah, yes at 12%, but we're still Pretty decent shape in our short strangle Corns continued lower and has not decayed for us But still well in range Got a time fly and SPX So it gets up about About 3% Boom, there goes 40% Is that 40% on your revenge trade? Let me see, I think so, 6 to 45 Like Madame Butterfly said, you're just Rewarding your bad behavior Get out now Yes, 40% on my revenge trade Unreal Actually, no, that was my power hour number 1 That was not my revenge trade Power hour number 1, I got out of 40% So my 3-2 ratio Reentry needs a little bounce My 1 to 1 reentry Is nice and centered Got some short premium and MES Coming back to center The Wuga is not traded on Wednesday Is actually Bumblebee But not a bad day to paper trade it So we got the FOMC minutes came out First gave a little pop And then it's been all downhill Since We re-iterated No sign of a rate cut coming Let's see, I'm gonna look at a power hour number 2 At the 55-50s So, is anybody playing NVIDIA earnings? I feel like I need some action I need some action on NVIDIA I was gonna ask you that, actually What do you got, Madame Butterfly? So no risk to the upside? Broken wing to the upside? Something like that So expected moves Call it 65 And that would put us to the upside At about 720 Or not down You're gonna weigh up there 757.70 Or not down Something like this So 128 bucks Risk Or It's gonna have to go Well beyond its upside expected move Oh, I see Open it a couple weeks ago No, Ken, it's not My power hour 1 and 2 are not Both centered And even if they were, let me take a look I have one contract left In power hour number 1 So I've already booked 40% profit Or I'm sorry, I have 2 left So That position is already a winner So if I've already booked 40% And also another thing is That 2 is I'm I'm not sharing any strikes No, it's not at the same center point Because I'm not sharing strikes That's the reason I took it Is because I already booked 40% on my number 1 And this allowed me to not share any strikes Yeah, they are My number 1 My number 1 is the 4960 4945s And my number 2 is 4955, 4950 So they're not the same strikes That's pretty typical power hour trades Being 5 points off like that Alright, so here's what I'm doing for Nvidia A little broken wing upside Butterfly No risk to the upside Just for a little something to do Just for, you know, something to eat my popcorn To after the bell I definitely would not be buying a straddle Before earnings, MRP I don't like that kind of theta decay Working against me It's looking right now, honestly Not like price action Need a bounce Now Revenge trade got stopped So I'm not being pretty much a scratch trade Yeah, I used to do a lot of earnings, Mirage I just had to You know, I don't trade NTT anymore I don't do earnings I just, it became too much My little My little brain couldn't handle that much capacity Shucks So when I started focusing more On zero DTE And we're fully a margin And all the stuff that I'm trading now I just couldn't keep doing it all Alright, my little re-entries need a little bounce Yep, need a bounce I could actually Probably do a power hour number three Now that it's moved prices moved down On the 5045s Trunch two for power hour It's a few minutes past When I would enter, but Probably would have been the, probably would have been Five wide at that point Build on something Need a little bounce Need a little more bounce I'll be able to reduce my stops Got filled on 60% and out Power hour number one Let's see, what was that Oh, yeah those Part of my re-entry Need a little more bounce A little more bounce and I would have been Home free on my Re-entries Yeah, tried to bounce in that Lowes of day 49-47 Yeah, don't like this down movement Nope, get close to getting Stopped out, one of my pieces So close to Reducing my stop On that little bounce I just checked it, and you know it's more like 3% Remember it's of the max risk Not of the debit paid Debit pay is reflected in your upper risk But your downside to risk is really Your Buying power Get a little legs, get back up to 55 No, it's just a 121 Mukesh Mukesh, Capricorn Here it is again on my screen 690, 720, 745 121 My NDX has to stay above 320 My revenge trade That I did my lunchtime number one Was exactly a scratch trade $0 A little more bounce I gotta get to 30% on this Come on, Theta Reduce my stop A little bit more Just a little bit Discounts, I decided to go with This Pretty similar A little higher You're expecting a little more to the upside Yeah, Theta Let's just say that, Frank D He's got to eventually Decay here at some point Or NVIDIA old tank will both lose One of the two discounted I heard somebody say today that they On a business channel they were expecting NVIDIA To hit 900 At the end of the year There we go, SPX It might be a little too much Look at you We'll go too far now It's Theta decay here $463 million To the sell side as the early indication Yeah, I mean I think I would have Looked 20% here if we had some Theta Decay Gotta get it here in the next 10-15 minutes Alright, so I'm out of that piece I'm in the 55-60s And The 55-50s So 55 is the sweet spot Right where we're at NDX should have come up nicely There she goes She's pushing Wow 49-46 and Further than I wanted I need to simmer down now Wow Well, now I should have kept my 55-65s Yep, that's the second day in a row A big push like this in the last 30 minutes is Really went against me So stopped out of that one for Profits and now all I'm left with is the 55-60s Mm-mm-mm Be nice Madam Butterfly It's just learning It's still 26 minutes to go It's got to have been steamed today though 5-10 minute pushes that have been Pre-sizable 10 points or more Maybe there's a typo in the minutes Just kidding guys, we are cutting rates Next meeting Sorry about the typo And stopped out of Power Hour Number 2 Without booking any Profits Wow 28% That's not on my watch list 65s Wow Where did that come from? Well I am out of everything thanks to that push there So what was It's trying to It's trying to get the entire range of the day In 20 minutes here Yeah, that's been the theme today Maybe NVIDIA Earnings leaked Well now let's Let's get those longs worth something Might as well just Wow And that wiped out What was a nice green day for me That last Power Hour trade I think the chances of us getting back down to 60 are Doesn't look very promising Nope It stopped for a profit on that one So my final tally is 4400 on my Whatever you want to call them My back test bots And then on my re-entries Plus 7600 At 11 almost 12,000 On the day it was a nice day Could have been better without this little Thing but Can't complain Well we got 22 minutes to go my friends Yeah my longs Keep an eye on them right now and see if they get some value here Early indication MOC was little so I don't I mean there can always be a surprise At the end but don't anticipate it So I guess we will Shut down Power Hour a little early Yep because I'm completely out Grab your popcorn Wait for Nvidia earnings after the bell VIX is getting crushed too Alright so live stream tomorrow Tomorrow is February 22nd So Chad will be streaming live in the morning For the Mighty 90 and Runners And then we'll be back for Power Hour Alright all take care have a good night Talk to you soon


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In my opinion, a decent MIDI controller keyboard should have quality keys, transport controls, drum pads, lots of sliders and knobs for instrument control and for me, 88 keys. Hi folks, I'm Mike and I hope you're well. The hardest thing for me in terms of recommending MIDI controller keyboards that tick all of these boxes has been price. Yes, there's a few reasonably priced ones around but I'm not really convinced of the quality until now. I've been trying out this new Novation Launch Key 88 Key Controller keyboard and I've got to tell you, it ticks boxes. The Launch Key 88 has an 88 key semi-weighted keybed. It has transport controls to allow you to control playback and recording features of your door without needing to use your computer keyboard or mouse. Likewise, it's nine faders and fader buttons give you some control over the mixer in your door but can also be used to control various aspects of the instruments you're using. Further along and in the same spirit, the 16-velocity sensitive drum pads can of course trigger drums and other instruments but can be used also to control aspects of your door's mixer. Above these we see eight multi-function pots and to the left we see a number of buttons used to change settings, a display and our pitch and modulation wheels. At the rear we see connections for a sustain pedal, a MIDI out and the whole thing is powered and connected to your computer via a USB connection. So at the heart of any MIDI controller keyboard is of course the keyboard itself and this one has 88 keys. I think that may be a first for Novation. Let me know in the comments down below if I'm right about that but I think having 88 keys in your home studio, if you've got space, is a massive massive bonus. Of course if you are a piano player of any kind and I'm not any kind of piano player but if you do happen to be then of course it's great to have all of the keys that you would have on a piano available to you. But the second and sort of main reason for people like me is if you're using virtual instruments at all then having the full range of keys becomes a massive bonus because often they have things called key switches on them. So special keys that you don't actually play any notes on which change the sound of the virtual instrument in some way. And that just makes your performance much more expressive and much more natural sounding normally. Now if you have a smaller keyboard then sometimes you just don't have access to those keys without changing the octave or what have you and you can't really simply do that in the middle of a performance. So definitely having all of the keys available is a big bonus. Make sure you've got access to all of them. Now the next thing you want to know about this keyboard is that it's semi-weighted. Now a fully weighted keyboard would have the feel of a piano and if you've ever played a real piano you'll know it has a kind of a heavy feel to it and the keys return up kind of slowly if you like momentarily but slowly. Now the thing is if you go to the other extreme with something like a synthesizer key where they spring up really really quickly okay they've got a very light feel to them. This is somewhere in between. They're not completely light feeling. They do spring up reasonably quickly but yeah they don't have quite the same feel as a synthesizer. If you don't get a chance to play this before you buy it then I want your expectations to be realistic okay and I'm going to say it's more towards the synthesizer feel than the piano feel okay but it is semi-weighted so there's a little bit of a heavy-ish feeling to it. A little bit. So the next thing is is the quality of the keys themselves. Well a Novation have always made good quality keys on the keyboards. I've had a few Novation keyboards and the actual feel of the keys that you know they use reasonably nice plastics and things like that. It doesn't feel cheap okay and they're nice solid feeling keys as well. Kind of make a nice sound as you press them down if you like as well. How sensitive are they? Well it's I'm not a piano player did I say that already? Okay let's have a go. Be fairly gentle like that yeah. I know my G major scale. Be fairly hard with them as well yeah. They feel fine I mean they're nice and expressive and sort of natural feeling so I think everything is okay in terms of the keys. So another thing that's really important to me is transport controls. Transport controls are for the playback of your door. They're going to start playing, they're going to stop play, they're going to start recording and there's usually some other functions as well. For example with this one there is a button for turning the metronome off and on. There is a loop button. A few things like that is what we get with transport controls. It's really important I find with an 88 key keyboard especially because often because of the size of it you can't definitely get it close to your computer keyboard and mouse okay. So just to have while you're playing to have that your fingertips because you're going to make a lot of mistakes yeah there's going to be a lot of stopping and starting if you're like me then it's really handy to have those there. So you can see here if I press play on the transport controls it starts playing and then stop okay. So those are the sort of basic things and I could arm a track for recording. I can actually do that with one of these buttons over here. I'll show you that later so we'll just arm this one for recording and I could start recording by pressing the record button okay and then stop when I finish it. That's what I'm mainly going to be using transport controls for. Now in terms of compatibility I would double check the link in the description down below to look at the product page for this keyboard. I know that they definitely have compatibility with Cubase, with Logic and with Ableton and also I think they mentioned Studio One. Now I've used it with Studio One because it's one of the other doors I actually use in my studio and it was very good. I maybe found a couple of small things that didn't work but they were minor things that didn't really matter. Now I know a lot of you are going to ask me about Katewalk because most of the people who watch my channel are using Katewalk and as you can see it did work there. I was able to play and stop and you know start recording. Some of the other functionality doesn't work but I'll tell you later that lots of the other buttons like sort of faders and things like that actually do work muting so I don't know what kind of thing does work with Katewalk. So if you're a Katewalk viewer then you'll find overall it's pretty good but there are one or two buttons here and there that don't work. So I just wanted to touch upon the sort of multifunctional aspect of most of the controls on this keyboard and I'm primarily talking about the drum pads, the pots above them and the faders and the buttons below those. I mentioned earlier that these faders can be used to control the faders in your door if it's compatible. They can also be used to select tracks or even arm tracks as I'm doing there. The same goes with the drum pads of course they can be used as drum pads which we'll see in a moment. But when they're in session mode they can be used to mute and solo different tracks in your door and the pots above can be used for example as a pan control. Now a really important key on this keyboard if you buy one is the shift key because that gives you access to the ability to change these modes. So for example I'll hold down the shift key and then on the drum pads there's some labels below them. I can switch to drum mode by just clicking on this second one here because it says drum below it and these have now become drum pads okay so I can play the drums with them. If I hold shift again I can go back to using them as controls for mute and solo by hitting on session for example. So there is that sort of multifunctional aspect to the controls and the same of course for these faders and the pots you really often want to be using them to send what it called CC messages to your computer so that you can control instruments in different ways okay. So of course you've got lots of those there to be able to do that so you can get hands-on control of the instruments you're using from the keyboard itself. I think it's really really handy and again because you can record those movements and normally it means that you can really sort of record expression while you're actually playing a part. So for some instruments it's nice to play them on drum pads rather than on a piano keyboard not just drums but some other sort of more percussive instruments as well and we do have these 16 velocity sensitive pads which also have after touch as well and they've got a nice filter I mean in terms of a physical feel they've got this lovely sort of rubberised feel and yeah just feel nice and tactile and they're pretty sensitive as well so you can get some sort of light feel and then louder you know you play your drum parts on there but as I say they can be used for other things. So we've also got some arpeggiator and chord functions on here to sort of help you out if you're not a great player like me. So let's start off with just a quick overview of the arpeggio function so I'm just going to press the arpeggio button on here and we've got some different options of different types of arpeggios available. One thing I'm going to do is switch on latch okay. So latch means that I can just press the keys on my piano keyboard it's going to start to play the arpeggio but I can take my hands off it's just going to keep playing okay so I'll do that.  Now as I say we can we can actually change things about it so with the knobs first of all change the tempo we can change this swing yeah we can change the note length with the gate link lots of things in in that sort of way so look there's that's just sort of going up I think there we've got the option to change it so it goes up or it goes down in terms it goes down the chords as you press them goes up and down it goes as play it goes random etc. I'm not really doing it justice but there's lots of sort of arpeggiation or arpeggiation arpeggiator arpeggio features there for you to mess around with. The other thing that I really like is the chord features okay so I'll just switch our arpeggios off what I'm going to do is hold shift here and then on the drum pad I'm just going to go over to scale chord okay so this is where it's got a specific set of chords available within a specific scale and you can see when I press these it's sort of playing some chords there so I've just prepared a little something here I'm just going to arm my track for recording using one of these buttons up here under the photos and I'm going to press record to start recording so if you're not so great with your chord playing I mean that could be a bit of a lifesaver and gets the job done you can also I'll just stop that you can also program in user chords of course so you just hold shift down and then go over to user chords and then all of those drum pads are going to be blank now okay so if I hold one down then play a chord on my piano then that programs that chord into that pad so I've now got that G major chord in there of course I could go ahead and you know hold down the next pad play an A minor yeah and then we've got those two chords yeah and you can go ahead and program in the chords that you're going to need for your piece of music and then just play them there from the drum pads so before we talk about pricing I just want to quickly touch upon the quality of the hardware I've mentioned it a little bit but I think it's worth mentioning I've had novation keyboards before and they always do have a nice solid feel to them and this is really no exception at all the knobs for example they're all rubberized and they have that sort of nice bit of resistance in there you know when you're turning them so they feel really nice the same goes for the faders all the buttons are rubberized and just feel really nice and tactile to use I especially always like the mod wheel and the pitch wheel on novation keyboard something about them they are usually rubberized and they just have that nice really solid feeling about them so overall you are getting you know a good piece of hardware here but the price is also really really good they've told me that when this goes on sale it's going to be three hundred and ninety nine us dollars that's really a good price for an 88 key keyboard which is you know from a good brand and you know the quality is going to be there so definitely recommended by me now before you go if you're confused at all about how to connect things like controller keyboards or maybe synthesizers to your audio interface or to your computer at all then I definitely recommend you watch this video here where I give you a complete guide


I know I was because I lost my box. I don't know how you guys did but I was I had such good numbers too at seven seven I thought I was going to win but unfortunately not but you know what fortunately you got to go back to work and here we are today on a new day a lot of good news came out over the weekend we're going to talk a little bit about it but I mean we all know what's going on with the guy just went out there and he just went out there you know it's funny he was saying he was making those drop little comments on bitcoin right but we can see that for some of us that can't trade bitcoin there were a lot of stocks that are moving we'll talk about riot we'll talk about Mara and a bunch of them and also there's something out there that I noticed a pattern and you haven't heard it yet okay remember I was telling you that there's always going to be a new something new in the market that's going to make it move if it's a new presidency if it's a if it's you know somebody buying into bitcoin or if it's the ready guys there's something out there that's been out there and you haven't heard it yet you haven't people talking about it and you're going to hear it here first like I told you you heard here first we were talking about GameStop because I noticed some very unusual trading activity going on but I'm going to tell you one I'm going to tell you the next biggest move that I see that's going on that it's kind of weird and you guys in the cybergroup room you guys actually been seeing it and I just kind of made a comment this morning about it and I may I talked about it last week but we're going to get to it before we do that let's go back to the tape and let's just talk about what happened on Friday because there were a couple of good moving stocks on Friday I'm going to tell you a horror story to happen to me on Friday so anyway I did really well on a stock that went up and if you notice I had the run like the last 10 minutes apparently the brokerage firm that had it in account with locked me out of my position they let me buy it but I couldn't sell it so I had a huge winner in the position it was up about two bucks I ended up losing 50 cents on it I lost the two dollars plus an additional 50 cents on it because they locked me out I had been on the phone with them going off and screaming out you know what I don't listen you guys got to be careful these brokerage firms they got these algorithms that kick in and you guys know better knowing trading that sometimes they let you trade and sometimes they don't you know like they let you in a position and then you can't get out of it and you know you got to be really careful obviously the people that learned that with Robinhood they could change the rules whenever they want which obviously is completely wrong but just make sure you know your voice is being heard because I was livid livid on Friday livid I had such a huge winner and I ended up giving it back John from YouTube good morning good to see you alright so anyway let's talk about a couple of stocks that we traded on Friday because there were a couple of good movers out there want to start off with the OCGN trade so this stock obviously has not stopped okay it was a great mover not only for the last couple of days it's been a day trade but now it became a swing trade now if you look over there on the long-term chart on the right you can see right here that the stock obviously this was like a 25 cent stock could you believe it's $8 right now well obviously the news is obviously pretty good on it stock had this is the real deal that this is not like a typical short squeeze with the stock but because you could see the longer trades at a specific price the harder it is going to break it to go past that remember it goes up twice goes up fast comes down twice as hard but when you have a consistency like that the stock obviously held its weight right around that $253 price range you got a little bit of a Fausto flag right there and then bam the thing goes up right to about look at now it's at $860 so it was great on Friday and it was great overnighter and it was great today so anyway that was a pretty good day trade and now it became a very good swing trade a couple of stocks out here on my list and just bring them up here and show you that was good on Friday the CLVS trade all right by the way that stock OCGN going back on the watch list but I'm putting on the B list not on the A list this stock also was pretty good let me go back and change so you can see a little bit better here the CLVS was awesome $8 stock had a nice move early move and then right around $1030 it did his pop went up to about $920 and then had a nice little close right around the middle of the day and it kind of like died but it was good in the F hours but CLVS was also a pretty good moving stock she looks pretty decent right now too she's holding here pretty strong so she could probably become a swing trade you know and remember that's how we become swing traders day tradings become into swing trading all right so that one looks pretty decent too what else we got here what else that we got that move oh we have the MVIS that one also nice good day trade stock not only has been going to day trade has became a really good swing trade you can see Microvision stock was at $7 and every day just keeps going up going up going up going up remember that's how you learn how to swing trade it's a pattern you know that lead to it but she had a really good move in the morning but she's also been doing really good on a swing trade on that one and then we had the VI SL moved up really really nicely and that one's going back on my watch list okay so that one's going right back up here so we got VI SL all right that one's doing pretty good all right so obviously you guys know all about the new news Tesla is buying that you could buy a Tesla on Bitcoin and I'm telling you it's just a matter of time let me tell you be prepared for some regulation to come in okay do you really think the US government the Canadian government the European government are going to allow you to buy something on a on a on an electronic type of a currency where they can't regulate it where they can't watch it I would keep a close eye on that just a matter of time when everyone's just starting accepting Bitcoin you know because it's untraceable the money's untraceable the way knows where it can't tax you on it all right they can't bill you want it I mean you probably can't pay sales tax on it right I don't even know but I would be keep a very close eye on it but usually he's above above the curve and I'm you know it's just a matter of time I think they might they might do they might start looking into regulating it because like I said they want their piece right they want their piece so I'll be really really careful but the stocks are reacting very very well to them and you could see some of the blockchain stocks like riot when that news came out the thing did awesome thing just popped out of nowhere now the stock you could see is at 28 it's hovering right at a major resistance levels Mara is also doing good and remember these are all swing trades that we talked about you know here and we saw a consistency actually a consistency app happening you know since December but now but there's a couple other ones out there too so don't ever think it's always just you there's BTBT's another one and FTFT are also in the same business you know they're also gapped up pretty big themselves so keep a little stocks are going to go on the watch list all right now a couple of stocks on my on my list I want you to keep on but what the hell's going on zoom zoom has been unbelievable I've got to mention that earlier but zoom by the way this is not this is not the zoom platform and some I hope people still don't think this is it this ain't ZM all right this is not this is not ZM all right on with the video conferencing platform it's a different one actually some people thought it was at one point and the thing actually did take off but but stocks been doing really well shockingly and it's been great on not even a day trade but on a swing trade I want you to keep an eye on that another one that's moving pretty good this morning that's that's gapped up is a NXTM cheap stock it is a little bit of an algo stock you got some big iceberg orders out there you see 32,000 shares sitting at a buck 70 40,000 at a buck 75 it's not really going anywhere at 13 million shares this is a pretty good stock for somebody that actually is trading on very very small stocks you know very very inexpensive you can trade a lot of shares of it it's a good beginner stock to get your feet wet TN XP is another one that's moving it is a penny stock which you know I'm not always a fan of but listen you know if I can make money with it I'm not looking to long term but the stock also is gapped up pretty nice nice spread 14 million shares and what else that we got here that that that okay now let me tell you about the big secret that's going on here that that I found a you know a pattern going on right now okay so Chuck Chuck you made you made us 11 cents on on OCG and all right good for you nice all right what is going on with energy stocks okay you don't hear too much about them right but look at it look at the stock right here let me bring this one up here okay C L N E okay you're not hearing too much about it but look at this look at the stock this stock was $2 and 50 cents okay read the name clean energy fuels does this have anything to do about you know the canceling of the Keystone pipeline does it have anything to do about the Biden you know administration trying to do the Green New Deal all right remember I told you this by having a new administration you're gonna have new you have a whole new ideology of people on you know what they what they want to do what they don't want to do so they want to do they really big you know on the Green New Green New Deal and I'm seeing all these clean energy stocks are taking off you're not hearing too much of it I'm too much about it I know Michael and you and you know it moved up big this morning because I know somebody just posted that so one of the analysts posted to a $25 target this stock was $2 and 50 cents okay now there's a few other ones are REI look at look at the pattern 50 cent stock okay now it's already was hitting almost a high of 240 look at that long-term chart what else we got WP RT okay look at that chart right there look in November it was a $2 stock it went to eight it's already at 13 okay it's gapped up it's up 47% TLCH another one okay all these and I mean it's down right now you know but you could see it this thing was like literally 50 cents went up to $2 you know it's down a little bit well it's down 11% 18% but look at the pattern all these energy stocks are moving you're not here talking about TV on the financial stations yet whatever but I believe that you're going to start hearing it and when they do it they're going to start popping to me this looks like another trend of when Bitcoin start taking off there's going to be the trend of the red stocks the same trend pattern I'm seeing with the GameStop it could this could be the next biggest biggest move right here and you just got to follow the money remember just follow the money now how do I know this listen I'm not an analyst I don't pretend to be I don't have a crystal ball okay but when I look at my watch list and I one of the things I was always taught as a trader if you see a pattern of certain stocks in a certain industry and for some of you have been here a long time with me when we saw that I saw that happen with solar stocks and then Kramer started talking about them I mean like you see a pattern then all of a sudden with this smoke like they say there's fire fire so let's keep an eye on these stocks now it's Monday people are hung over today because due to Super Bowl on one of the big things I was looking for a look at the Super Bowl I look at what stocks I could trade going into the morning there are a couple of stocks that do them pretty well I know that we've been swing trading Uber and Uber obviously is testing all time highs right here so that we're doing as a swing trade if Uber breaks out here I mean they're doing great listen Uber's got you know first thing I saw on the on the on the was the commercials you know I'm looking at what are they preaching what are they pitching whatever it is so I don't that has something to do with it but it was doing pretty well on our swing trade also regarding about some of the other long-term trades that we had you know I'm still up in here with TLRY it's got a little bit of a Fausto flag right here we know that they want to legalize pot all over the country especially here in in New York and New Jersey they're holding pretty strong right here the pot stocks I'm still not giving up on I'm yet but if I see these things start getting around the twenty four twenty three dollar price range I'm out all right so those are big things I would look at those to bundle up on a clean energy maybe it can make some back run you got killed in the Obama well listen they're moving right now so maybe he didn't really do a great job on the clean energy pushed it at that agenda that much but it really looks like they're doing it right now so we keep an eye on that run all right all right guys so let's go let's go on dodge coin you don't want to know about dodge coin listen let's let's be careful of the open what do we notice at the open when you're here we notice that we have what's called a sling shot so we see it every day we wait the first five minutes you'll see the stocks back off we'll see how they open up and then you could probably make that that call right from there all right guys okay listen it's Monday be very careful it's not always the greatest days Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays always the best days of trade I notice like the most popular day that people call in sick I'm not you could do that when you're working from home but we might get some action going into this morning obviously you can see what's going on with all the with all the cryptocurrency stocks so we'll work on that and we'll keep an eye on these energy stocks all right now for everybody here the list of stocks that we have remember 80% of them not going to move but we always find new ones that will pop up when the market opens up so if you're watching us and you want to come and join our trading room just click on the bottom like us friend us get our alerts do a $9 trial and we'll get you in the trading room and for all you cyber traders out there like I said you see something you say something and remember don't look at us it's you guys have to make a call out that we will train what to do just remember just protect your losers your losers the ones you got to be careful of all right remember the 30 second role and remember the three strikes your out roll good luck everyone happy trading we'll see you back here at 230.


Ok, today we're going to be looking at animations with JavaScript and tween.js. If you enjoy my tutorials and would like to see more, please think about contributing to my Patreon account at patreon.com forward slash metal x1000. And here we have some very, very basic HTML, HTML tags, header tags, body, and inside a div tag that has an ID of target and we're going to give it some CSS styling just so it has a look to it with the words filmsbychris.com in it, which is a great website if you've never been there, I recommend it. And this is what it looks like when it's displayed. It's a box 200 pixels wide, 200 pixels high with the blue background and the words inside it with a little bit of padding. That's it. Very, very basic. Now, you might at this point, if you've been watching this in a series, you might be going, why is this inside the HTML5 3D series? And we're not going to be getting into 3D stuff today, but tween will be used in future tutorials within the 3D worlds we create. So I just wanted to show you it in a 2D example just to keep things simple. So at this point, let's go back to our code and that's actually the code from last tutorial. We can close that. There we go. This is what we're working on right now. We're going to save this and we're going to now import the tween.js code script. So I've already downloaded it. You can get it at either github, just search tween.js, we'll give you the code. And then the official site for it is createjs.com and they have some other packages that they create as well, but you'll see the link for tween.js right there that you can download. You can also follow the links in the descriptions to all the examples in this series, all the scripts I write and I'll have a link to the minimal tween.js code right there. So it's in the current folder, so all I have to do is say script, source and tell it where it is. Again, since it's in the current folder, all I have to do is give it the name of the script. If it's elsewhere, of course, you'll have to tell your code that, okay. So we've imported that. And now let's start writing out our portion of the script. So I'll say script, give it a script tag, we'll give it a closing script tag here. And we're going to create some functions. We're going to create an initial function in it. So we'll call that even though we're about to create it and an animate function. Now theoretically, if you watch this series, I kind of go back and forth. The animate function can be called within the initial function, either way, as long as it's called at some point. So let's create our initial function here. I'm going to say function and init. And I'll open and close the braces for that. And I'm going to create a variable. I'm going to say target. And we're going to look at the document, which is our HTML page. So when you see within JavaScript, it says document. Meaning this entire page, look at this entire page that we are creating right now. Look for and get an element. And this is case sensitive, so capital E there by ID, capital B, capital I. Okay, so what element are we going to look at? What do we want to be our target that we're looking for? Well, we created an element up here, a div tag. And we gave it an ID of target. You can give it an ID of anything. Just remember that when you call it down here, you're going to want to call it the same way. So we'll say target. And that will incorporate, since that's a div tag with stuff enclosed in it, everything inside that div tag as well. Now, we start working with tweens. Let's create a variable. We'll say, we'll call it tween. And we're going to say this tween object is a new and capital tween dot tween. By the way, tween is short for between. And basically, if you're creating animation, you can have a beginning point and an ending point. Well, tween will generate the points in between for you. Because if you tell an object, such as our little box right here, a little div tag, go 200 pixels to the right, it's just going to go boop and be over here. You're not going to see the animation. So you can write out code that says, OK, take this box, take its position, add one pixel to it, and loop that until you hit 200, which isn't that hard to do. But tween takes care of that and allows you to do a lot of other, as you'll see momentarily, smoother movements with that. Basically, it does the math for you. I want to make it clear that tween does not do any animating itself. All it does is generate numbers. And it will give you a curve of sight, depending on what type of curve you want to create. And it will generate the numbers for that. And then you take that and put it into anything that takes a number. And mostly, if you're doing animations, that's going to be the position. Either it's top left, so it's movement left and right, or it's top and from top to bottom. Well, no, top to bottom would be size. So it's position, top left, or its size, width and height, or its rotation. So anything that can take a number value, you can take tween, generate numbers, and put it in there. I want to make that clear that tween is not doing the animations for you. It's generating numbers for you. And hopefully, I'll show you better than I just explained it. So right now, I'm going to create some variables, x, y, and we'll have one that I'll call rotation. And I've given them values. We'll say x is 50. And let's just say, let's just start at 0. We'll say 0, 0, and 0 for all of those. Because our box is, we didn't give it a left and right, so it's defaulting to the top of our screen. So we're creating this new tween object. Now we're going to give it some parameters. And I'm just going to go to the new line just to keep it clean. I'm going to say 2. So this is it starting. So that's where our cube currently should be. It isn't rotated at all, and it hasn't been moved left or down. If it was, we'd want to set those to that. And we can also grab those from its current position. That's more than this tutorial is going to be getting into. So we're going to say tween, where do we want these numbers to go to? We'll say x, let's move x 400. So we're starting at 0 all the way to the left. And we're going to move 400 pixels to the right. In this case, we're saying 400, not necessarily 400 pixels. We tell that to our, with our JavaScript later on. And then we're going to say, OK, y is 0. Again, y is just a variable. And let's move that 50. Actually, let's leave that at 0 for right now, I think. Well, we'll play with that again momentarily. And then we're going to say rotation. Let's rotate it. In this case, we'll do degrees, 90 degrees, 200, or 2,000. I'll explain that in a moment that's timing. Then we'll say, on update, we're going to say function. OK, so it's going to be generating all these numbers from x, 0 to 400, but it's not going to go straight to 400. It's going to have a type of animation curve to it. Again, we'll explain that more in a minute. I'm just going to use the default for right now, which I believe is bounce out. So ease bounce out, you'll see what I'm talking about as we get further into this tutorial. Make sure I get that there. OK, this is where we take those numbers and actually put it to our target, our div tag. I'm going to say target. So that's what we created up here, which is our documents element with an ID of target, which is our div tag, that right there. So I say target, I'm talking about that. Then I'm going to say style, which is its CSS style. And we're going to set its top location. Actually, now let's just go left for right now, and then we'll add in top, since we didn't give a value for the top anyway. At this point, it goes from 0 to 0. We're going to change all that so you can see the differences. So this we're talking about because we're calling that within this function, within this tween object. You could call it separately, in which case you would point it to tween. But since we're within this, we're creating it and we're still telling it what this is. We can say this, this tween object. OK, so the left of our target is going to equal what x is. We also need to tell it x what, because when you're talking about left and right and size with CSS, you can also give percentage. We don't want percentage, we want pixels. So we're saying every time this updates, every time this tween object creates a new number, well, take this target style left and take the x value, which is going to be somewhere between 0 and 400. Actually, it could be a little bit less than that because of the animation, but you'll see momentarily. And move it that many pixels. I hope I'm not confusing you by talking about too much. In fact, we're going to go straight to that without any other, we're not going to mess with the rotation just yet because I just want to show you what we're creating here. And then we want to say here, start, at this point, everything's raised, so we'll say start. We're going to say function. I think I'm spending too much time explaining this and not enough time just doing it. Sorry if I'm boring you with this. Do two things. We're going to request animation frame, animate, and then we're going to say tween.update. So very, very simply, this is just saying, continue to animate. And each time we do animate this function here, we're going to tell tween to update. So on update. So this is going to continuously loop. Let's save that. Let's go in here. I can close this console, hit a five, and you can see our box moved. So very simply, you're like, oh, that was not very impressive. I could have done that without tween.js. Well, let's add in another part of tween.js that makes tween.js so cool. We will go here. So up here, when we create our tween object, we told it where we want it to start, where we want it to end, how fast we want it to go, and then what we want to do with those numbers. Let's add in another feature, which is the dot easing. And here, we're going to say, OK, use the tween JavaScript that we imported and use its easing function. And now we have lots of different options when it comes to this. Let's go back to our web browser here. And here's a website from the examples on tween.js that show a bunch of different curves. So we can have a linear, which is what we've got right now, quadratic in, quadratic out. So you can see how the animation is going to move. Do you want it to start off slow and then speed up? Do you want it to be smooth at both ends? So let's pick one of these. That's something very simple. We'll just pick this cubic in and out. Go back to our code here. And that's what I'm going to paste right there. Save that. Go back to our web browser here. Hit F5. And you see, instead of being a constant speed, it's starting off slow, speeding up and easing in at the end. So it eases in and up. So that's one option. Let's go to another one here. Some of these more fun ones. Let's do bounce out. So you can also have a bounce in and out. Let's just do bounce out. So basically they've done all the math for you to get these curves created. So we put that in there. We'll hit F5. Boom, boom, boom.  And of course, we're doing this on the page load. You can also do it when things are clicked. Click, then make it go boom, boom, boom. So that's another example right there. Let's go back in. So far, all we've done is animated the left to right. So let's just, real quick, copy this line and paste it here. And instead of left, let's do top. And I'm going to leave this as X right now to show you that it doesn't matter. X doesn't necessarily represent left and right. And Y is up and down. I mean, that's how you should think of it. But whatever we pass it here, it doesn't matter whether we say top here or left here. So did I save that? It did. OK. So now, boom, boom, boom. So if you wanted to go out of diagonal. So now, that's just using the X number. Let's go back in and change this to Y. Now, Y is going from 0 to 0. So we should not get any up and down movement, as you can see. Let's go back in here and change Y to 50. So you see it went down a little bit. Let's, really quick, let's just comment this out and add in something else. Two lines. And actually, you might need more. We're going to rotate. And different browsers handle rotation differently. I have notes on this somewhere. Here, I'm going to put in, well, let me just use this example. I'll say my target.style.mozilla transform equals. And then quote here, we're going to say rotate. And we're going to say in here, plus, we'll do some math. Floor this dot rotation plus degrees. OK. So what are we doing here? OK. So, moz transform, you can guess. Moz means for short from Mozilla. This is how Mozilla Firefox, or in this case, I'm using Ice Weasel, which is the same thing, will rotate an object. The floor math will make sure it rotates where we want it to rotate. But this and then degrees means number of degrees. This rotation, of course, we're going back to this object, which is our tween object that we're creating right now. And whatever the rotation value is, which is going to start at zero and go to 90. Now, if I typed everything properly and hit F5, it rotated 90 degrees and bounced, again, using the bounce. Now, of course, you can create a separate tween function that would use a different easing for the rotation if you wanted. But there we go. We have that. And of course, that's for Mozilla. I'm going to just say YIP to copy that. Instead of Mozilla, I can say WebKit. And that will work with WebKit browsers. And there's another one for Internet Explorer, I believe. I have notes on this somewhere. But that's just what I have ready for you today. But to make sure it's compatible with the majority of browsers, you're going to have to add in those extra lines. You always put them in a function and call them separately. That way you have one command you can call. And that's the great thing about programming is it's for taking tasks that you would do over and over again and simplifying it. So let's uncomment our line here. We'll go back to our browser, hit F5. So now it not only moved 400 to the right, it moved down 50 as it was going because you can see it's at the top and it moved down. And it rotated with the bounce out curve. Let's go back here for a second.  Save it and run it again a little bit slower. Because we want what we're saying there is the full animation should take 10 seconds. So again, it does the math for you. So theoretically, you could write this all out yourself, of course. It's just a JavaScript. But this library makes it easier for doing these different animations. I mean, again, any of these right here, as far as the animation, timing, you just put the number in. And again, it's not doing the animation. It's just creating the numbers for you. So you can equate these things to not only size and rotation, or sorry, position and rotation, but size as well. And since it's not manipulating the div tag itself, it's just outputting numbers. You can use it for, again, anything that has numbers, which brings us back to our original topic of 3D animation. Because we can take these same things and say, well, take the position of this cube we created and move it this much. Rotate it on the x, y, or z, because we're working in 3D there, the size of it. So tween is very useful in 3D stuff as well as 2D stuff, as you'll see in future tutorials, hopefully. And again, check out the links in the description. Filmsbychrist.com, that's Chris with the K. There should be a link there also to all the code from today's tutorial as well as the rest of the series. And as always, I hope that you have a great day. And it works as a HID device. For those of you who don't know, a HID device is that H-I-D. It stands for Human Interface Device, basically a plug system, and the computer text says a keyboard. So if your computer can accept a keyboard, this should work on it. So if you've been following this series since the beginning, originally this was going to be a weekly topic every Friday. I may have noticed that there hasn't been a video for the last, I think, two Fridays. I'm on a new schedule that isn't exactly set yet. But it's going to be what videos I make are going to be decided in part by my Patreon viewers. So I plan on continuing this series, but how quickly and when it happens, all depends on what my supporters want to see. So if you head over onto patreon.com forward slash metalx1000, there should be a link in the description, you can come one of my supporters, and you can be one of my patrons, and you will have a little more input and say on what videos are made. So I thank you for watching this. There will be more on this topic, but when and where it depends on what my supporters want to see. Thank you for watching. And again, I hope that you have a great day.


Everybody, it's Eric Johnson from Eritate Throws Nation and today we are just gonna go quick recap on the European men's shop put final and bring it in fourth place is Nick Ponziol of Italy. Nick is a Eritate Throws Nation alum, so we're super extra proud, great to see him going. You know, Nick has been looking strong. Over 24 competitions this year, this guy's been a machine and just put up a 2098 in round five that was going to secure the fourth place. He had a really good, you know, good solid series 2096 on the second throw that would have secured the fourth place finish, but punches 2098 in round five. Brown's muddlest goes to Thomas Stanek of the Czech Republic, 21-26 in round three, good solid series, but punched it out when he needed to and that would hold up for third place. And then we have the big Serbian, the national record holder, Armin Sinachevich of Serbia goes 21-39, had a big qualifying throw of 21-82, but again, solid series 21-39 to claim silver and bringing home the gold is Philip Mihayevich of Croatia. So this guy's had a great, you know, had a little bit of a rough qualifying got through, but put it together, hits 2037 on the opening round and then just a really nice series, everything else after that point over 21 meters. The fourth round throw of 21-53 would have secured the victory, but knowing he has it in the bag round six, pushes up a 21-88, six centimeters off his best, hits a season best and the national record holder for Croatia claims his first European championship title. So congrats to those men. Now rounding out fifth place, Michael Heretic of Poland goes 20-90. So in sixth place, we got Konrad Bukowiecki, he goes 20-74 and then bringing in seventh place, Leonardo Fabri of Italy 20-72. Rounding it out in eighth place, Asmire Kolasinac, he claims the eighth place with 2015. So congrats to the four-time Olympian, his first Olympic appearance in 2008. So this guy's been around a long time. So congrats to all the competitors in the men's shot, European shot results, always pretty exciting. So hopefully you guys enjoyed this video and we'll see you on the next one. Comment below on who you think has the best technique here. Take care.


This is Venice McMahon and welcome to Positively Vermont and today we are going to be speaking with Elizabeth Boudreau of the Vermont hand crafters about a very exciting event called craft Vermont Coming up on November 18 19 and 20 in South Burlington and To get started Elizabeth, please tell us a little bit about yourself Well, hi Want to say hello to everybody? I am a native Vermonter. I grew up in St. Albans, Vermont And I'm an artist. I'm also a member of Vermont hand crafters I'm a mother of three and Grandmother of three And I live in East Berkshire now. I've been here for the last 40 years in East Berkshire and I Started my My art career or my crafting career, but with paintings oil paintings and I moved into To do started doing shows with in the 90s with a Botanical Designs Reese swags some people Victorian touch it was called Some of our viewers may remember me from those days from the craft show days and I became a Vermont hand crafters crafter in 2002 And I became their director of events or show chair at what was originally my title in 2003 and I've been the director Slash oh chair ever since great. Well, this is The brochure of the poster for the events is celebrating 70 years History there isn't that amazing Years of the show. I gotta look at my notes just so I get the names right so in December of 1951 to women Mrs. Rita Longley of Pittsburgh and Mrs. Madeline Madeline spear of Rutland organized an exhibit now not a sale an exhibit of Vermont craftspeople and it was held at the Rutland Armory in Rutland Vermont and They had such so many people who wanted to exhibit there the exhibit had like a hundred displays But like I said, there was no sales So in 19, but it was so well received. So then the next year in 1952 was the first show and that was held at the Armory and I think You know it didn't have that they didn't have a hundred Exhibitors, but they had I don't know they had a fairly significant size I think you know of people who actually sold their crafts there and It was set up. I think you brought it in and people are you set up yourself up? But there was only one like register Can you imagine so you had to wait in line to check out where their stuff? So that's so that's the 70 years that was the first show the first and then in 1955 This group of artists Became Vermont hand crafters. They incorporated they named themselves So that's how that started and from there they had several shows. They had one in Rutland and then they had one in Barry and I think they might have had one Oh in Brandon and Brandon also, which is a great art community, too If you ever get a chance to go down and look down there and Brandon, but anyways and the one in Burlington was held at the Burlington Armory and for some of our viewers who are my vintage and younger of course you'll remember I don't know if you the brand the Burlington Armory was where hunts the nightclub was and then it became shun on the house after hunts closed and now It's a comedy club. That's the Burlington Armory. So I find that always so interesting and then in 1968 the show moved to memorial auditorium and they called it originally they called it the craft bazaar, but they changed the name to craft Fair or craft show just so they could distinguish themselves from you know Like church bazaars and you know to distinguish it a little bit and There it was until and I think most of our viewers would remember The memorial auditorium. That's where I remember it. I used to go with my grandmother and my My mother every year and my aunt and I remember saying to myself Someday I want to be a Vermont hand crafters. I didn't know that I would not only become a member but I would also Be the director of events for 19 years.  This is my 19th year. Yes Yeah, and it is a fabulous job. I mean and it is a fabulous group of people so then in 19 I'm really giving you the history and then in 1990 and uh They just they I think they might have taken a year off to regroup and then in 1991 They secured the double tree and our those days it was called Sheridan And it moved to the Sheridan where it's been ever since so It's like 30 years that we've been at the the Sheridan So are the oh excuse me the double tree Double tree by Hilton right by Hilton.  Yep In south burlington. Yes That's great. We got to get all the details down and it's going to be november 18th through november 20, right? Yes, uh friday the 18th. It'll be open from 10 to 8 at night For everyone who gets out of work. We always have a group that comes um Family group mother daughter grandmother aunts I they're from the st. Albans area and and around but they come every year. I see them every year I love those guys And then sunday it's from 10 to six and Monday, no monday sunday. It's from 10 to four That's great. Now. This is a jury event Uh, could you tell us what that means exactly jury's event? Yeah, and that's kind of one of the things that makes it I don't know special is that it is a jury event so Um, and we're a membership so in order to become a member you have to jury your products you're and so it's um, they take they all you bring your work and um set it set a little display up Um, we always have it. We have it at the double tree in one of the rooms there and then you um Uh, uh, we have a jury panel of of three to five depending upon You know what we have for work to look at And they review it they go through it. They you know make sure that it meets our standards and our criteria and um And that's how you become a member once you are juried in and you are offered membership in our organization and um I always want to say that for my hand crafters is inclusive. We're always looking for new people We you know young artists a lot of people, you know, there's people that retire and then they Everything they did as a hobby. They now want to do a little more full time So, uh, you know, it's a it's a great process We we have a jury chair and like I said, we have anywhere from well, we have a whole a panel of jurors and usually experts in their field so Um They got to have a good eye and but we are inclusive. That's great. Oh, this is one of the largest of the largest such show in new england Well It has been over the years um What it is is it's all vermonas and that you know, you have to be a vermont resident to be part of this show so I believe it's has been one of the largest Show of all vermont You know Vermont artists. Yes. That's great. Now. Tell us uh, how the pandemic which We've been going for has affected this. Oh, well This will be our first show and uh since 2019 which was a fabulous show and so excited But you know, we couldn't do an in-person show. We did them online for two years But it really changed You know a lot a lot for many artists They had to find other ways other than craft shows to get their work out there um A lot of you know, several of our members retired, you know, uh It's a lot for three years life changes and the pandemic changed a lot of things and other some of our artists also went to Wholesaling and finding, you know, really getting doing the online You know shops and stuff like that.  That's hard. Well, the pandemic was isolating and if you're an artist you It's isolating in itself and then you know, so yeah, it's really so we're excited everybody all the people that are going to be at the show are like Oh, I can't wait Can you give us an idea of what it's going to look like when people come in and What the setting is going to be well when you come I always think it's quite magical When you come in through the door, you know They'll be we're going to have we have an artist in the In in the lobby and then we're going to have a demonstration booth that is going to be running three all three days The first day we're going to have mags bottom and she is going to do her polymer clay demonstrations and she's Brilliant at it. So and then she'll be there from 10 to 4 the next On saturday, we're going to have I mean You know what I get doing this I get a little Oh on saturday, we're going to have angie Full fullsby hall. She is a paper artist. So she'll be showing how to make paper That's going to be really fun. And then on saturday sunday. Audrey limb will be demonstrating How she makes her sheepskin products. So You know, it's going to be great to see that and we'll have artists there And then when you walk into the big room right off that the exhibition hall That room will be full of artists and then upstairs. There's going to be the The the emerald room and that will be full of artists and the promenade that goes down to the emerald room Will be there'll be 90 90 artists and all will be at the show So it's really going to be a fun time And you know when you come to the show part of it is um That our customers come in and they They know a lot of these artists because they've been buying from them So, you know, and new people if you haven't been come you get to meet the artists see their process See how they work, you know, uh The attendees and the artists become friends It's really it's really it's really interesting and it's really fun Tell us a variety of crafts that are going to be on offer Oh, you'll be able to find everything. I have a few items here Right that are actually mine. That's how I thought. Oh, I'll show them This look at these glasses. These are hand-blown by matt seashells. Aren't they gorgeous? So he'll have Glasses ornaments.  Isn't this incredible? She has on our postcard. She has her doll there This is uh I love this. Wow. This this is um called It's a painting and it's called uh past the moon and this is by christin of Let's see chris christen richland. Isn't that cute? She'll be there. Um Look at this scarf. I love this Christine pratt Hand woven her colors are beautiful. Aren't they gorgeous? Um, so we'll have that also there We'll have jewelry all kinds of different jewelry. You can probably see I have earrings from daryl stores on Bracelets necklace. You can always find jewelry there. Um, we'll have wooden bowls. We'll have What else?  I said that wooden bowls already, but also like cutting boards things like that All kinds of weaving Oh my gosh, you name it. I said jewelry glass books handmade journals and um Let me see what else. Oh my gosh. I can't even think of all the things we'll have photographs beautiful photographs Um We'll have painting uh felting, uh, you know, just A beautiful right far out of your things Behind me tie dye Mary and see a mary and seashells. Look at that. Isn't that gorgeous? And look at this. This is a cape by sue meshner Isn't that beautiful? Um, the all that all the I mean you you name it. It'll be there we have, uh You know personal products like creams and lotions and um, so You it'll be it'll you'll find it all Uh, you know when you mentioned the knives and and and that kind of work. What about furniture any any furniture component to this? Um, yeah Jay Uh Jay's woodworking shop. He does beautiful tables with vermont marble on the top made out of cherry Um small I I could I have one of those too, but I'm not going to take it to my learner to show you but um, yep and But I I think that's oh also, um Metal work this year. We have another a new member who does beautiful iron work that um Some small pieces and you'll see those we're going to have those in the lobby also So Right. Yeah, what about the possibility of instruction? I know the networking component is important But suppose someone is is interested in learning how to do, uh, their own type of crafts is going to be any instruction type No, this is this isn't it's just truly, uh, I mean the demonstrations you can kind of learn from but It's truly just a craft show, you know a fine craft and art show And you can talk to the artists so you can get ideas and we always have a if you're interested in becoming a member At the front desk Where you'll often find me we have cards We have a sign-up sheet and we also have like cards that kind of tell how to become a member but That would be And how how this will one become of them other than so they have to have Uh, a demonstrated type of skill or is there a a process by which they they become a member? Yeah, it's about that. It's the jury process.  You have to also Give a description of your process so that we have a clear idea of You know, what it is you're doing and that you have a handle on what you're doing you You know, you know what I mean. So we like to know about the process And then you send that information and you'll get an invitation to come to a jury session They the next one will be probably april or may of this year After the first of the year our new jury sessions will be up on the listed on our website and And that's it and then hopefully you'll become a member great and uh In terms of the the way it is going to be presented. There'll be different stalls For the participants. There'll be 90 90 booths will be there. So and everybody has their own booth So it's like you're walking into their own little shop You know, they all have sides. They're all lit So and the artists themselves of course will be there So that you can learn about you can learn about their process and ask them questions if you so desire You know, so it's really It's really interactive. It's it's a fun show and I'll tell you Everybody's always so excited the people The the members that are doing the show are so excited To to talk about their art and their craft and you know, so it's a it's a great experience. It's a good It's a just a fun weekend. That's great. Yeah, I can imagine since this is going to be the first live one There's been a tremendous amount of work involved in this Tell us a little bit about that Everybody everybody the artists that are getting ready have been really getting ready, you know Um And having to re get all their booths together, you know Doing that and for me and um our office manager katie And the double tree, you know, I mean we've done it for years but it's almost like kind of reinventing the wheel because Everything stopped so Even myself just getting back in the swing of things. Of course now we're heavy into the swinging things But you know to get everything that we need to do together we make floor plans. Um, it's just It's it's a lot more work than one might think when you get there it seems Oh my you know You don't realize the hours. Yeah That go into it on thursday I have a team of Of artists that come in and help us mark the floors because every booth has to be marked out So that people know where they're going to be. They're all numbered. We have a program, of course Um, and then the electricians from the double tree have to come and put all the uh plugs for the lighting in it's really a process Wow Now how do you do this? Do you have volunteers or is this your members? How is this all accomplished and how can people help if you need them? It's member. It's members. It's really the members that do it. Um Uh, we reach out to a couple of our organizations to see if they want to volunteer to help With our admissions program and things like that But the members mark the floor, you know, they come in and mark the floors and um We You know the office manager katie is it really does a great job She does a lot of it. She also does the advertising now for the show, which is new We had another get we had a gal prior to the that did it for years also, but now katie's been doing it and um Yeah, and me great Let me ask you another interesting thing Before we conclude and that's door door prizes. Oh, what is that going to be? I forgot to tell you about the door prizes. So every year, um, and even when we were online Uh, the artists individual artists donate One of their items to our door to the uh, a table to our door price door price selection um, and what happens is when you come in And during the show you can register all we want is your name. We don't care about your phone number We're not this is not for gathering information And you put your name in a bucket and every hour on the hour about We draw one or two names and you get to choose your if you win you get to choose your own prize off the table and um, it's our way of saying thank you for supporting vermont hand crafters for You know 70 years I mean it really is and it's so it's really become a lot of fun Because you know people always say oh, they never win anything, but guess what they won prize at the show And the show is also, you know The local vermont Vermonters have really supported us And so it's it's important for us to give something back also Has is there anyone you want to mention that that may have been particularly helpful this year? Oh Well, I always talk about katie our office manager is always very helpful, but the list of volunteers We have a board and there are board. They know who they are and i'm going to send out there. They're a great group also And the double tree we've worked with the double tree for a long time and They're They are really Wonderful to work with they are really great to us and we're very appreciative of that all the people that and they know who they are They know who i'm talking about. That's great. Well, tell us about the website. There's a website Yep, you go to vermont hand crafters.com and you'll find our website and um, you can see all the artists Uh, you go to their their thing their whatever Uh, I not sure I sometimes we have the program up. I'm not sure if it is or not yet You know everything's A little changed But you can go right there Um, and you'll see all the artists and um, I think if you hit on different names, you'll see what booth they're in So it's it's a very good site. It's got that's where I do a lot of preparation from and it's got all the Different facts and history and everything else what we're summarizing and you know what else on I think on the main page There's also a taste of vermont of vermont hand crafters. It's a little short video But it gives you a feel of what our show that's the 2019 show that you're looking at So it really gives you a feel of what the show is about And the show is ten dollars And and that's good for all three days if you get coming on friday You can come saturday and sunday and if you only want to come on saturday sunday. I mean sunday only it's eight dollars That's very reasonable really It's a good value for you know, it's good value. You get to stop. I always think of it. I think our men are Our p our customers think of it as start kind of the starting of the holiday season. Yes. Yes And that's a very good video. Well, that's fantastic. I'm glad we're able to get all this information and We are at the end for now and uh, I want to You really did a great job As I always say our best guest is an enthusiastic guest. I mean certainly did a great job there So, uh, I just want to uh, thank elizabeth boudreau the director of events For vermont hand crafters for being with me today on positively vermont There's going to be the fine craft and art show at the double tree in south berlington November 18 19 and 20 This is venice mcman for positively vermont. Thank you for watching


Welcome back to another video. Today we're doing the next episode of Wrapped Up. So many of you will know Wrapped Up is a series I do on my channel where I have last year's releases that I still haven't read. My 2021 releases. I have them all wrapped up and we unwrap one in a vlog and we read it together. It's essentially a premise. Now I do let myself nowadays unwrap two if I want. If I unwrap the first one I'm like, I don't know. I can have another go and if I'm still not filling them I have to read one of them. But let's just let's just give it a go. Let's give it a go. Um, no one wants to send their presents. I think I'm just special. Special. I couldn't be bothered to move them out. This is where they live like and I usually move them out onto the bed to like film that clip but I can be bothered today. Like I got places to be.  This is always so hard. Um, think of these videos. I want something short because I always want something short but I don't want something too short because it has to hold a vlog on its own. So we fill like this paper bag. Looks like a good length. What do we think? Oh my god. Let's just unwrap it. Let's just unwrap it. Okay this is fun. This is Theatre of Marbles by it says Leanne Dillsworth on here. This is an arc I got sent. I believe the finished version it might be LM Dillsworth. Like the author name. But yeah this came out I think in May this month so I'm not too late everyone. We're following this girl who she's in a circus theatre essentially. She finds out I think it's set in like Victorian London which I love. I've been craving something actually. I was watching, okay you're gonna clown me for this.  Okay. I like watching Map Men or J4 Men. Not Map Men, he's J4 Men. That's his YouTube channel. I love watching him for years and he does. So he's doing a series in the moment of Bridges in London. And I want something set in London at the time that like ships were coming in and out of the Thames and it was like London was growing. I don't think this is a set a bit after that. But I'm interested in London as a location at the moment. Anyway she finds out that women like connected to the circus keep disappearing essentially. She tries to investigate it and I'm just very excited. I think this could definitely be my kind of thing. So I'm really happy we're going to be reading it because it's taken me a hot minute to get around to it. So I'm really, really excited to give this a go. So yeah, I'll probably read how long is my copy. My copy's about 400 pages. So I'll probably read the first 100 pages and then check in with you on what my initial thoughts are. Right. I actually filmed with a ring light. I haven't even got the ring light out for this clip because I'm, I'm, it were 100 pages in and the car got passed. I'm beyond caring. I'm being, this vlog is about to be a mess. I'm sorry in advance. I'm not enjoying this at all. Oh no. This has now gone downhill. And part of me is like Megan, DNF and choose another book. But this was sent to me. I feel like I was excited for such a long time. So we're going to stick it out and we're going to read the whole thing. Okay.  Let's like scooch that up a bit. Okay. Not enjoying it. So we are following Zilla who works as this kind of like, I think her name is like the Amazonia at this circus and she doesn't feel anything wrong with that. But there's some, a guy comes into her life. He comes to view the show who kind of wants to ask her to question her playing this like savage African queen in the circus.  I said what I do yada yada. She keeps saying to him, I was born free. I was born free.  I'm not like them. She's kind of courting this rich Viscount or maybe I'm just thinking that because his name is Vincent. Anyway, it's rich, dude.  So I already know this book is going to deal a lot with like, you know, racial identity, particularly in this time in Britain, when she's mixed race, and she views herself as different and almost better than, you know, the people that came over as slaves and stuff like that. But the thing I'm not enjoying about it is her voice. It's very voicey. What am I like the maid was very voicey that I read lately this. There's something I read lately. Like daggers.  Something I read lately that I didn't like that was voicey, because it was voicey. But I can't remember what, like, we are really in this protagonist's head as my mic on. Yeah, really this protagonist's head. And all of what moves the plot along is like their hopes and desires and opinions. There's not much like, inciting incidents, if they are, it's all to do with what they're going to think about and what they feel. And she just strikes me as like, the best way I can describe it is head in the clouds. Like, it's reading, but also things are happening in it, like her and her and her guy getting it on, getting it on. And but I mean, it's not like on page, but it's like, you know, we got into bed naked and after we made love and all this stuff, there's just parts of it that aren't gelling for me. If it's reading young, like for 13 year olds in my opinion, you wouldn't expect that to be in there. I felt like from like a writer publisher point of view, she's just like, so naive for the betterment of the plot, like to allow the plot to do what the author wants it to do. And I hate that in books.  I don't think I really like dumb, calling her dumb.  I'm correlating it with her like work perspective, her perspective with this guy, just like everything and the way she speaks is just very naive. And I'm just already not enjoying it. So yeah, that's a great, great update. I'm just gonna try to read it as quickly as possible, because I want June to be a great reading month and just to read loads and I feel like I need to love reading, you know? I, yeah. Anyway, I don't know, I'm just not feeling it. I'm not feeling it. And I should because I love the kind of Victorian London setting, the fact that it's subverting a lot of the issues we often see discussed. But um, my gal is annoying me. She's annoying me. I'm gonna try and read maybe like another 150 pages and then I'll get back to all my new thoughts. I really dislike this book. Like, I, I really dislike it predominantly how it's written. And here's the thing, I'm sitting here and I'm reading the book, right? The hair. And I'm thinking to myself, like, I don't want to rag on this book.  It's, you know, a debut woman of color author writing about mixed race identity and black identity in this time period.  But I don't enjoy it. So like, do we take out my beer and lie? And you know, if it was in a multiple book vlog, I could maybe like, gloss over my thoughts on it, not gloss over, but like, not highlight them as much. But this is, this vlog is it. So like, what am I supposed to say? It reminds me a lot of a book I read called, I can't even read it, I DNF'd it like 50 pages in The Court of Miracles by Kester Grant, where the writing just reads so dumb down, like so dumb down. Here's the thing, right? In the back, it's compared to fans, to authors, sorry, Jesse Burton, Bridget Collins, Stacey Halls, who are all adult historical fiction authors. So I feel like this is, it's supposed to be an adult. But it reads like, young YA, but with speaking of like, essay and, you know, adult matters happening in this book. I'm going to look on Waterstones and see what it shelved as. Fiction, general fiction. Is it an adult book? It's a conspiracy theory that I'm actually interested in. It's gotten so many good reviews, though. So like, is it just me? Let me look at a YA book. Let's look at Shadow and Bone. Yeah, it would show us like, children's teen and YA. If it was YA, this is adult. Is it? What? I don't understand what's going on. I truly do not understand what is going on. I just, it was pitched as well as a woman goes missing in London and our protagonist wants to get to the bottom of it. But she hasn't, right? She meets, she rags at the circus. The owner of the circus wants to show this new exhibit and it's a woman. I won't get into what it is for spoilers. It's a woman and she wants to speak to the woman and find out more about her. And she just doesn't know where the woman is, like, is living. So she's not missing. Girlie just doesn't know where she is. And so I thought it would be more, I thought a woman was killed. And I thought it was like, solving murders of girls in these positions, like positions of poverty or lack of social standing who are kind of getting killed. Like when Jack the Ripper's victims were killed, everyone was just like, oh, they're prostitutes, you know, when they won. Read the Five by Halle Reubenhold, check the facts, receipts, America. Yeah, I thought it was going to be about that, but it's not.  But like, it's not that deeper mystery because she's like, I just want to know where this girlie is. I don't know where my mate is, but like, whatever, whatever. On that breaking point. The examination, I will say, like I said, of mixed race identity, the information of her saying, you know, her examination of being born free is very interesting of how she's having to unpack how for many years she viewed herself as better because her mum instilled in her that she was born free and how she thought that made herself better than slaves or ex-slaves is interesting. I would say that's probably the most interesting part of the book. There's interesting themes being examined in this, but I'm just not enjoying the process or the writing or the character or any of that. I also think like the characters in it are very predictable, very, you know, you know what purpose they're going to serve in the story when they come into it. Like, she's got a thing with, this is why I count who I mentioned and you know how that's going to turn out. She meets this other man and you know how that's going to turn out. Like it's all just so predictable for me. She, this is my number one thing. One of one thing that I hate about books, she trusts characters that she barely knows to help her with important information that could like ruin her life if it gets out. She's going to them when the stakes aren't high enough to justify that. I hate in books when things that aren't realistic or haven't, haven't been set up right. The foundation for that has not been laid. You can't, it's like in law, you can't give me that argument. You can't give me that plot line if you haven't laid the foundation. The stakes are not high enough for her to risk everything by going to these people. She's just like, oh, I know what it is. Yeah, I'm really nervous about doing this, but let's just do it anyway. And like I said, like it's super voicey.  I'm sorry. And I don't want to say this. I don't want to be shitting on this book like I said for the reasons I said. And it's had pretty good reviews on Goodreads. I looked and there wasn't many negative reviews. So maybe it's just me, I don't know, but I really don't like it. This is where my blood starts to boil. Because at the moment it's like a two. It won't get a one because it's not offensive. I only really give ones to books that are like offensive to me or like, I feel no qualms about giving a one. But you know, morally, morally, I don't want to give this a one. Maybe a 1.5 because I gave the gilded ones a 1.5 and I feel similar. This one perhaps is even more egregious because it reads like it's written for 14, 13 year olds when it's being shelved by Waterstones as an adult book and being comped to adult authors. So what's the sitch? You know what I mean? So anyway, I'm going to go finish this tonight. Hopefully I want to just get it, you know, one and done. I want it out of my life. I'm barely reading it. I mean, I'm playing 2048 whilst I listen to the audiobook really fast. By the way, I just want you all to know, if anyone remember the game 2048, I'll put the the logo in. I'm in the top 8% in the world ever at that game. I got the 4096, 4096 I think, tile. I'm elite. So at least this book is helping me get my training in. We must be grateful for small mercies. Just as I literally started filming, just like set my ring light up my next one. So I'm playing music really loudly so if we can hear that. I can't wait to film because it's half five. This video is supposed to go up tonight so in like two hours. So I can't even just like wait to film because I need to film this straight away so I can edit this. Anyway, I finished Theatre of Marvels right at the last minute. But also hang on, I've edited the rest of this video. I kept calling it a circus. It's not, I knew it wasn't a circus. I don't know why that was coming out. The clue's in her name again. Theatre.  I think I was thinking of Circus of Wonders, Theatre of Marvel, Circus of Wonders and they're very similar, you know, Victorian. I'm gonna give it a one and a half star. I feel terrible. I feel sick to my core. I feel evil. I am sorry, right? I'm really sorry. I'm sorry to the publisher who sent me this book but I'm not about to lie. I will say I found the topic interesting. I have personally always found the lives of Black people in Victorian England a very interesting topic. I think it's something that's often glossed over or just the history of Black people in Britain all the way into Tudor times. King Henry VIII is off topic but King Henry VIII had like a trumpet here who was quite prominent, he was Black. So it's a topic I find really interesting but I just could not get over the writing. I just didn't like the writing and it's had good reviews but me and it weren't rubbing right. We weren't getting along and I'm sorry for that. I'm sorry. I apologize everyone. I'm sorry but it wasn't for me. I don't have much else to say to you that hasn't already been said. My feelings in this last part were pretty much the same. I feel like everything was too convenient once again. There's like insta love in this. I actually laughed at that.  I'm different and not like other insta loves. And I kind of just left the book feeling like I didn't have much resolution and not much happened and like what was all of this? I actually read all these words on pages but like what were those words? I personally don't recommend it but like I said there's been good reviews so like maybe I'm just the outlier. I don't know there's a lot of interesting thematic elements but the plot and the rioting itself didn't vibe with me. We clashed girly. We clashed. We weren't vezdy mates. We clashed. So that brings us to the end of this vlog. I'm like depressed.  Like I couldn't even like tear it apart with something like like survive the night we had as a wrapped up book and I feel like I could really rip into that because Ronny Sagan's fair game. Do you know what I mean? Like fair game. But this is a you know debut author and I just feel horrible. I feel like the worst person in existence. So um I hope you enjoyed the video of the vlog. Anyway if you've gotten to the end comment the dress emojis. A lot of mentions of dresses and petticoats and outfits in this book. So comment down below if you got to the end. Thank you so much for watching. I love ya and I'll see you soon. Love ya. Love ya. Um I love you very much and I'll see you very soon in another video. Bye!