My thanks to the organisers for arranging this video. Over 25 years ago, I accepted an invitation to be part of the Building Regulation Review Task Force. And as a direct result, I'm making this presentation today. Be careful of what you wish for. Now, it's always tricky to look back on what you've done a long time ago. I've been around long enough for some of my projects to have now been demolished in the interest of progress. So looking back can be a challenge. But the question I think we have to ask today is, have we, the Australian building industry, because we're in this together, have we missed the point of performance-based approaches to building regulations? To answer that question, we need to be clear what the point is. So indeed, what was or indeed what still is the point? To gain some insight, I googled performance-based codes. And I'd have to say that what I read online, and this wasn't necessarily Australian, certainly misses the point. I'm not going to repeat that nonsense here. Nor am I saying that what was written there was wrong. It just misses the point of what is possible with performance-based regulations if one takes a different perspective. So what is the point? From my perspective, the point of performance-based codes is to achieve a quantified outcome by logical and repeatable processes while allowing the outcomes to be achieved with increasingly innovative skills, techniques and materials, or dealing with the changed circumstances as they evolve. Prior to putting performance-based approaches into place, most, maybe all, codes were based on often quite painful experiences of what worked and indeed often what did not work, methods and techniques derived from that experience. These often constitute the so-called deemed-to-satisfied provisions of our current regulations. Very often, but not always, these were part of knee-jerk reactions to disasters. Moreover, while these responses may have been logical and testable when they were first applied, there is no way of knowing whether they remain overly conservative or indeed even safe as circumstances change over time. I will come back to that point a little later. I think the first point to be made about performance-based regulations, there are not just about one aspect of what is really quite a complex process. It is a system of components that are interdependent, a system of components that will either break down or perform poorly if any one of those parts is missing or doesn't quite fit. The parts may be technical or they might be processed or they might be administered. It is a partnership or collaboration of governments, including the regulators and the private sectors. At times, those collaborations will be adversarial. At times, they will be quite collaborative. Frankly, I think we need more collaboration than adversarial behavior in formulating what is the best way to proceed. Moreover, it involves people and their organizations with their own objectives and their own agendas, often which are malaligned. At a detail level, performance-based systems usually involve some of the following. Explicitly stated performance requirements, often but not solely the technical part. It should be noted that in the building regulations we have, those performance requirements are mandatory. It includes details of how the system will be run or administered. We clearly also need to educate all the parties, particularly as the system changes and evolves. This is very much a cultural change of our industry and indeed of our organizations and ourselves. We need a process for accrediting those involved in the building regulations, both in the private and the public sector. We need processes to check out and to credit new and innovative systems. And we need supporting and complimentary insurance products. Interestingly, I did not mention deemed to satisfy requirements. I will come back to that a little later. If we look at the Australian building regulatory system, the components of the system are provided by a number of key players. The ABCB, government and industry, with an independent chair, the regulators, also usually from government, the educators, mostly in the private sector, those that accredit the industry players, the regulators, those that provide insurance products, which are usually the private sector and those involved in product accreditation, a mixture of all three. No doubt you could argue with my distribution of accountability, but that would merely reinforce my point that it's a system and the components are interdependent. Above all else, I would suggest we need leadership. That is why one of the reasons you delegates have given up three days of your lives to be here, and I thank you for that level of interest, and I wish you well in your deliberations. Now, as you no doubt know, and probably better than I, in the period up to 1997, building regulations and most particularly fire safety design in Australia, like elsewhere in the world, had largely been based on compliance with prescriptive or deemed to satisfy requirements. Even then, a limited number of projects used performance-based design through variations, modifications to deemed to satisfy provisions for those specific projects. However, from the end of the 1980s, there was a growing interest in performance-based building codes as part of the various government's microeconomic reform agendas. The Warren Centre in 1989 suggested that a risk and engineering-based approach to fire safety design should be adopted to allow for more cost-effective design. From 1989 to 1991, the Building Regulation Review Task Force reviewed and then reported on building regulations in Australia. In 1991, we had the creation of a draft national building fire safety code using a risk-assessment-based methodology. In 1994, we had the establishment of the Not-For-Profit Fire Code Reform Centre, coordinating fire research in support of a performance-based building code of Australia and use of risk assessment for fire engineering analysis. As it happens, I wrote the first business plan for the fire reform centre. In 1994, we had the creation of the Australian Building Codes Board to develop the first performance-based building code of Australia. 1997 through 1998, we had the adoption of the Building Code of Australia into legislation in states and territories. And in parallel, we had the introduction of private certification for building approvals in building regulations of some states in Australia. But I'm getting ahead of myself. The Building Regulation Review Task Force was established by the 1989 Special Premiers Conference to review technical regulations affecting buildings and to recommend improvement to those regulations. There was, at the time, a clearly recognised need to reform the system for regulating land development and building activity in Australia. This photo, taken at a very early task force meeting, is black and white, showing just how long ago it was. At least it seemed a long time ago. My role was Deputy Chair of the Task Force. At the time, I was head of public works in the ACT. I was invited by Dr John Knutt, who chaired the task force, to join as his deputy for a range of reasons. They included not only my background as a consulting engineer, but also to provide some understanding of the likely political and public-served mindsets that we're likely to encounter. As it happened by the time the task force reported in 1991, I had rejoined Aaron. The need for reform of building regulations was defined in terms of a range of problems that were perceived with those existing regulations. Those problems included a lack of a clear objective for building regulations and the transparent link to social goals. That regulations appeared to restrict industry from applying the latest design skills and construction techniques. That there was a clear lack of uniformity of administration of the building regulations and application between the states and territories and indeed within local government areas in various states. That the approvals process was complex and non-transparent. That there was a lack of predictability for applicants under the approvals processes. That many regulations were outdated and not related to current social goals. That there was a lack of incentives for approving bodies to improve efficiencies. That there was a lack of any incentive to introduce quality assurance programs. And at the end of all, end of it all, there was the potential for significant cost savings without the reduction or indeed perhaps with the improvement of the social outcomes that we were seeking. Now as far as I can recall, no one thought that reform was unnecessary. On the other hand, if they did, they remain silent. At the time in 1991, it was estimated that some $1 billion was wasted on unnecessary regulation. And that of that, at least $250 million could be saved through the reform of technical regulations alone. That was in 1991 dollars. Probably a lot more today, but I'll leave that to others and more qualified than I to say. The building regulation review task force carried out an extensive work program and research program to review and investigate our building regulations. I probably spent more than half my time on building regulation review task force activities. Included in those activities was an extensive consultation process, a national industry survey, building regulation reform forum in all capital cities, circulation of some 5,000 copies of our draft report in March 1991 and the analysis of all the submissions, the many submissions that we received. The key point that derived from all this was the need to reform not just the parts of the system, but that we needed to reform the whole system of development approval. A narrow focus on a particular element was not seen, not seen to realize the benefits that we were seeking. We suggested a strategic approach to reform building regulations within a five year program to say 1996, 97 and the review after that for further actions. I'm not sure that all of that in fact happened. The task force key recommendations were for the establishment of a national body, the Australian Building Regulation Corporation, for management of building regulations and a council of relevant ministers to drive the process. The ABRC, as it was called, to be owned by the federal, state and territory governments as management shareholders and funding from a levy collected by each state and government. That state and territory governments agree to a set of principles to promote consistency in building control, including adoption of the BCA nationally, adoption of national, consistent dispute resolution processes, a national system of accreditation for building products, system and techniques, a 10 year liability limitation, that the crown be bound by the building code of Australia, uniformity and transferability of qualifications. Further recommendations included the creation of a model administrative code to promote nationally consistent administration of building regulations, the provision of private certification of design, construction and occupancy of buildings, the provision of support to achieve the technical reform of building fire regulations based on an appropriate fire risk modeling and including the development of a national building fire safety system code. And in housing, the development of a separate system of construction, including a national housing code, a national housing standard and a national home building manual, provision of streamlined buildings approval process through a one stop shop approach whilst maintaining quality safeguards and consumer protection and the licensing of home builders and subcontract tradies. There were a range of further recommendations. So how have we done? The establishment of a national body essentially achieved the Australian Building Code Board. Although, as I understand it, ministerial oversight remains ad hoc at the very least. The ownership and funding of that body, I think only Victoria has a building levy. In terms of the principles that we were seeking to adopt, the adoption of the BCA nationally, that's been achieved. The Building Code of Australia, the BCA 96 and the National Construction Code, although state and territory variations remain. Really? Why? Nationally consistent dispute resolution procedures? No progress. A national system of accreditation for building products, systems and techniques achieved although state systems remain. Really? Why? A 10 year liability limitation. Initially achieved, but not in all jurisdictions and now understood generally to be unavailable. Binding of the crown. Sort of, although there are ministerial waivers still in place. And the uniformity and transferability of qualifications, no real progress. On the remaining key objectives, a model administrative code, not achieved. Independent private certification, generally achieved, although I think the application of it is problematic and the role of, for example, the fire brigades remains problematic. Technical reform of the Building Fire Safety Regulations. Real progress made here. The fire engineering guidelines were published by the Fire Code Reform Centre in April 96 and were later revised in 2001. In 2005, these guidelines became the international fire engineering guidelines through a partnership with Canada, New Zealand and the USA. In terms of housing, the national housing code, standard and building manual, only the code was developed as volume two of the BCA. In terms of streamlined building approvals, partly achieved. In terms of licensing home builders and subbies, there is no national system in place. So how have we done overall? I would give it a three out of 10 and that's probably generous. But we have introduced performance codes, particularly the fire safety engineering and the national construction trade. All major achievements, so all is not lost. In looking back at what we did as a task force, what would I change? The big thing for me is probably the deem to satisfy requirements. I know why we did it. I think it's called real politic. We did it so as not to alienate those wedded to existing deem to satisfy requirements. We retain the emphasis on the deem to satisfy because to jump to straight to performance based codes with adequate quantification would have been a great deal of work, particularly as most, maybe all, deem to satisfy requirements have no quantifiable justification. But of course that has its downside with unquantified deem to satisfy requirements. We don't know where we are. We don't know whether we're safe or unsafe. We don't know if we're conservative. How conservative? And then if something goes wrong, we have the very real threat of a knee-jerk political reaction. Perhaps we should have been braver. On the other hand, there have of course been very many notable successes. Most notably, successful projects. One, Shelly Street in Sydney. Fire engineering on this project enabled a large open atria through the building that in turn gave connectivity within the business and also enabled the building to achieve six star green star performance rating. It also reduced the extent of passive fire protection to the building, allowing extended travel distances to an exit that enabled greater building efficiency. The North Shore Hospital, the Royal North Shore Hospital is a building over 25 meters, which means it needs both sprinklers and zone smoke control system under prescriptive requirements. Zone smoke control systems are highly complex in a hospital as the building is broken down into many fire and smoke compartments. The result is a very expensive system that are also very hard to commission, expensive to maintain and unreliable due to their complexity. This project developed a rationalised smoke control system designed around evacuation and firefighting approaches. That saved New South Wales health many millions of dollars, dollars that can be used on a wider distribution of our healthcare. It also allowed compartment sizes based around the functionality to assist the staff with staff efficiency and better health outcomes for patients. The WaterCube in Beijing, completed for the 2008 Olympic Games, highlighted Australia's innovative architecture and engineering skills to the world. Its design used a performance-based approach to allow the use of ETFE facade and unprotected structural steel. It also avoided a firewall down the centre of the main pool, which while innovative would have probably made a great episode of the Games for those of you who are old enough to remember it. Even the Sydney Opera House, renewal projects since 2003 have been undertaken using performance-based fire engineering, allowing safe design without the need to try and make the building comply with prescriptive provisions that would have ruined the iconic building. So that's where we are, many successes and some challenges. There are many remaining concerns. Private certification. Is it really working? How do we resolve the potential conflicts of interest? What are the clarity of the roles and how do we enforce those rules? Fire Safety Engineering Standards, which started out so well, seem to be falling back. We need to change that. The lack of fire safety engineering accreditation, which is an essential component of a proper regulatory system, is not keeping up. The BCA, Lacking Measurable Performance Requirements, this remains a major problem. Refer also to my regrets. Limited hazard analysis and risk assessment, also an essential component of a performance-based system. And little audit or enforcement of professional practice. This is clearly an issue that requires attention. Further concerns surround major fires, primarily losses with deemed-to-satisfied designs. Despite the general falling of the number of incidents and specifically the loss of life incidents, there remains major building fires generally associated with deemed-to-satisfied solutions. Issues around sprinkler and detection systems, poor inspection regimes and inadequate maintenance to serve attention. The conflicts between the building code objectives and the fire brigade legislation conflicts, that exists. And there is a misalignment that continues to be a major political failure. The fire brigade's lack of fire safety engineering resources, most fire brigades are under-resourced, but particularly as far as fire safety engineers go. And the lack of accreditation, audit, and enforcement. There also proceed to be many barriers to these. The risk of not obtaining an approval. Delays due to lack of resources and lack of understanding costing many millions of dollars. Design costs of alternative designs are seen to be prohibitive. Design, delays and costs due to referral to the fire services are problematic. Many regulators are seen to have a poor opinion of alternative solutions, which are certainly related to the education of proponents and of regulators. Risk averse certifiers and the whole issue of insurance cover for building remains a problem. And of course the lack of quantified performance requirements remains an issue. So there's a lot to be done. The ABCB needs and I believe has a strategy to enable performance-based designs to become the first choice in the processes. The ABCB strategy comprises four components. A recommitment to performance-based national construction code. The quantification of the performance requirements that we wish to have. Resolution of the role of other institutions, including their objectives. For example, the fibregarde and building capacity of practitioners. That recommitment must come from the whole of our industry. The government, the regulators and the private sectors. Recommitment from the delegates to this conference will be a great start. I urge you to recommit. To be successful, we need to promote flexibility and innovation. We must ensure that alternative designs achieve and are seen to achieve the necessary performance. This would also deal with the unquantified deemed to satisfy requirements. One example of the institutional impediments is the role of the fibregarde. Together with the appropriate resourcing and skills to fulfill that role. This remains an objective. This doesn't mean that the fibregarde's objectives are wrong. Just misaligned with building regulations. And it requires a political decision to align those two. Lastly, but perhaps most importantly, we need to improve the capacity and capability of all the practitioners involved in the process. So to conclude, in the 25 years since the Building Regulation Review Task Force, we have done some things very well. Setting up the Australian Building Construction Board, introducing and refining the Building Code of Australia and the National Construction Code, the advances in fire safety engineering and the related performance-based codes. But there are still many things that we get to achieve. And our regulatory system is limited by its weak links, especially the education of all practitioners, the quantifying the deemed to satisfy provisions and resolving the misalignment of building regulations and other institutions. I commend to you the pursuit of those weakest links. Once again, my apologies for not being with you and all the very best for the conference. Thank you.


Hi, and welcome to the second video in the introduction to QGIS, which is part of the DHS2 GIS Academy. So in this video, we will show you how easy you can download boundary and facility data from the maps application in DHS2. So let's open the maps application from the dashboard, and then we will add a new boundaries layer. So you can download the boundaries you like or for your own country. For this demo, I will select the chief DOM level in one of the districts in Sierra Leone, Kenima. Click Add Layer after you have made your selection. So here you will see all the chief domes on the map, and if you want to download these, you can select the More Action button in the layer card to the left. Select Download Data. The data will be downloaded in the GeoJSON format, which is supported by most, if not all, GIS application, including QGIS, which we will use later in this series. Click the Download button. This will download the file. So if you go to your download folder, you should see the file. I recommend to rename it so you know where the boundaries are from. So I will call this Kenima. Well, and then instead of boundaries, I will say chiefdoms, and then I will add a file to my training folder. Next, we also want to download some locations for health facilities. So I will create a new map and then add a facility layer. Again, you decide yourself which facilities you want to download on your own DHS-2 instance. Select a groupset for your facilities, and then I will download the facilities in one chiefdom within Kenima District. So I will select DAMA. And then add layer. You should now see the facilities on the map. So within this chiefdom, there are six health facilities. Then we will download this. Download data again. Click Download. Go to your download folder and you will see the facilities GOJSON file. Again, I will rename this so I will call DAMA facilities. And then move the same file to my training folder. So if I enter this folder, you will see that you now have two GOJSON files together with the population data from WorldPop.


Okay, so let's take a look at another measure of center. And this is the mean, which is what most people think about when they talk about a representative and average data value. But the mean is just one way of representing a set of data. And again, we looked at the representativeness of a value for a set in terms of the deviation of the data values from that value. And so we might take a look at a different representative, which is the square deviation. And this is introduced for the following reason. If I imagine two different data sets, so here's a data set 558, 1111, 888, 820, both of these data sets have median of 8. But on the other hand, if you look at the data values in these two sets, 8 in some sense seems to be a better representative for this set than it is for this set. And part of the issue here is that the second set, all of our deviations really are concentrated in this single value, which is way, way, way out here. Whereas with this set, our deviations are spread out among a bunch of different values. And so in some sense, because both sets have the same median, both sets will have the same sum of the absolute deviations from the median. But in whatever reason, in whatever sense we want, this oddball value here, 20, makes the second set a little bit more dispersed. And we can remedy this problem of finding the difference between the two sets by looking at the sum of the squared deviations. So as before, that's going to be the deviations from a given value. And this time we'll be looking at the sum of the squares of those values. So for example, we might take a look at the sum of the squared deviations from the median, x equals 8. So for our first set, my sum of the squared deviations, again that's going to be data value minus my representative center, 5 minus 8 squared, again 5 minus 8 squared, 8 minus 8 squared, 11 minus 8 squared, 11 minus 8 squared, and I find the sum of the squared deviations is going to be 36. For the other set, if I look at the sum of the squared deviations, again that's going to be 8 minus 8 squared, 8 minus 8 squared, 8 minus 8 squared, 8 minus 8 squared, 8 minus 8 squared, 20 minus 8 squared. And so I look at the sum of the squared deviations here and I get 144 and because the sum of the squared deviations here is significantly greater than the sum of the squared deviations here, in some sense we can view this set as being a little bit more dispersed. And again as with the median, I might ask the question, well, what is going to minimize this sum of the squared deviations? And we can now introduce this following concept. The mean of a set of numbers is the sum of the set of numbers divided by the number of numbers. And again, this is what we often think about when we talk about averages, but it's a very specific measure of center. And based on this theorem, based on this definition we can prove the following theorem. If you want to find a value that minimizes the sum of the squared deviations, choose the mean. In other words, the sum of the squared deviations to the mean is going to be less than or possibly equal to the sum of the squared deviations to any other number that you could think about as a possible representative. Well there's another property of the mean that is in some sense more important than this property of minimizing the sum of the squared deviation. And again, this emerges from the basic definitions of arithmetic as follows. Suppose I have my data values, x1 through xn, then, well, I'm going to calculate the mean as follows. Again, the mean is the sum of those data values divided by the number of data values. And I'm going to do a little bit of algebra. Any division corresponds to a multiplication that says n times the mean. And again, multiplication is just a repeated addition. So by my definition of multiplication, and since n is necessarily a whole number, I have the following, this n times x bar, well that's the sum of x bar, the mean, n times. Now the thing to notice here is that there are as many copies of the mean on the left as there are data values on the right hand side. And what this suggests is the following conclusion. If I imagine my data values to represent some finite quantity that's initially distributed among however many recipients I have over here, so my data value is maybe a weight of cereal in n boxes, maybe the points given on an exam to n students, maybe the heights of n people, and I can imagine those quantities being distributed to a number of recipients. The mean corresponds to the values that each of these recipients would get if we were to redistribute the total amount we have here equally among our recipients. Now for heights of people, that doesn't work out so well, but again if I imagine these to be weights of cereal in a bunch of different boxes, if I imagine redistributing the cereal so that every box has the same amount of weight in it, well the amount of weight that each box would get would be the mean. Or if I imagine these to be scores of n different students, if I imagine the students sharing the points so that every student gets the same grade on the exam, so the students who get lower grades will receive some points, the students who get higher grades will give away some points, then the mean corresponds to the grade that everybody would receive if we got an equality of all the grades. And so for example we might take a look at this, Adam Beyoncé, Carrie Diana and Evan M are scheduled to play at a concert and Adam wants to play 5 songs, Beyoncé 3, Carrie 6, Diana 2 and Evan M decides he wants to do 14 songs. And so let's determine first off the mean number of songs the artists wish to perform and let's interpret the significance of that value. So finding the mean is pretty easy, we're just going to take the numbers that we have, it's 5, 3, 6, 2 and 14 and we'll add those up and then we'll divide by the number of numbers that we have. So we have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 different numbers, 5 numbers, doesn't matter if they're different or not, so we're going to divide by 5 and we get 30 over 5, the mean number is going to be 6. Now again the significance is that if we imagine these to be some finite quantity that can be redistributed, then if each of these artists plays 6 songs, the total number of songs being performed is going to be the same. And that's the significance of the mean, if we equalize the amounts given to each one of the recipients, the equal amount that we'd give would be equal to whatever the mean value is. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.


We're playing Mordy versus again because Mordy versus themselves begged me. No, I'm not really Asked me to play again now that Rick and Morty is out. So this video is sponsored by Warner Brothers games We actually have Justin Rowland here with us to do the voice of Morty today So how you doing if you can hit me back in the Morty voice Justin, how are you? Oh, I'm really nervous about this game. I don't want to embarrass myself in front of all your viewers Scoot you're way too good at that actually speaking of scoot being good at things Did you know that scoot and I were in twitch rivals for this game and we played competitively? Don't worry we lost in the first round, you know what my favorite thing is about Mordy versus everybody The fact that it's an all-new free-to-play platform fighter featuring team matchups from ever expanding universes Like you can play as Arya Stark versus Rick versus a black Adam. That's coming and even stripe is coming from gremlins from the gremlins Biscuits, can I get your reaction to this? Oh my god. All right. Ham it up. Come on. Come on. Take it serious Sorry, I'm so glad we're playing this. You know why why because of the all-new battle pass I can finally unlock and level up the premium path.  Oh geez. Also, we're seal team Rick and business Morty. The other Mick Morty does not stand a chance I don't know biscuits. We got this. I think I feel it. I I don't know what's happened. Are you going?  Get off that. Get off I'm trying. I'm trying. I'm trying. I was trying to get off of it. Not you biscuits Not you. No, we like you exactly where you were the twitch rival team of scooter mups is back. So cute. Everyone missed it Hey, hey other Morty you stop this My god, look at us go. There's so many portals. I don't even know which one's mine Oh I got someone you did great now. I'm gonna get you. No. No. No. No. It wasn't me. It was it was the other Morty How no I I'm sorry miss click. I bingled it. It's all right, man.  It's all right You really bingled it up, my friend. I'm gonna try morty this time. Miss clicky one team of scooty Biscuits, I need you to focus up. I'm trying. Biscuits. I want you to treat these two sob's Like your books in new york and drop them They're getting dropped. I'm just happy to be here. You know Bingo, how do I play this? I have no idea. I just mash buttons fire It's like I need help. I know man. I'm sorry. No, no, no. He's good. He's fine. He's fine. He's fine. Leave him.  Oh, I know what you did. Thank you. I'm just a king somehow have not been knocked yet All right, there it is. There it is I'm calling bs on that one.  I don't have a ps5 Oh, you're on the xbox. No, I'm on pc. Oh, I just was confused because it has cross play and cross progression across all platforms What? What? I know Oh my god, tell me this isn't the best character in the game Let me back in Yeah I was gonna do this all game. Oh my god. This is too much fun This is so hard I'm doing a wheelie. I am batman and I'm getting beaten by a little furball.  Oh, yeah, you're right. You're right. Oh my the platform This is baxter Slam dunk slam dunk baby.  Oh my god. Am I riding you? He takes this game very seriously. All right, scooty. You want a team with me? Get a quick dub.  Oh my god. She's golden That was his winning secret to the twitch tournament that we didn't win The color of the skin blocks out the outlines for when he's charging his attacks That seems a little Hey, hey, hey, it worked to our advantage until it did Oh Oh Scoot you would hit a little guy in a box. Yeah, I would that's so mean. Yep. I'm a mean guy car time No, oh, oh, is it is it car time? I'm trying.   What what did I do? You pushed them away from where my alt was. I don't know what your alt is like Why you want a car? Biscuits, please for the love of god land ahead. I am landing ahead. Oh my god. Oh my god Come on, we can do this I'm trying here and I died That car was going hot though. Do you want to keep trying to beat us or do a couple of free throws? I want to get a win Does seem that way. Oh, what the what are you? Yes, nay-nay I don't know what your special does. Oh Biscuits, you've gotta help me and keep them off me, but I'm trying to get a kill. I'm trying but I got knocked off Hey, I gotta kill how about that? Oh biscuits.  Okay Oh, we finally did it. We did it. Biscuits are finally not cringe. Wow. See I got two knockouts Biscuits was doing fine the whole time, but scoot always likes to blame someone When he's losing last game, I did more damage. Didn't you do be fair? Superman is a tank character.  I'm banning you from my kids chat That's all right. I'm I'm Whoa, I'm just trying to figure out this character right now. I can hear scooters breathing He wants to win. I don't win anything you won last time. No, but I had to share with biscuits What's wrong with sharing with me?  We couldn't make me just got deleted into last month Biscuits you edgeguarding I love a happy biscuits No Oh, no, there I go Damn it. There I go.  All right This one is for all the marbles winner gets $100. Okay, can't wait $100 $100 biscuits. What could you do with $100 a lot? I can get a lot of biscuits with those Yeah, all right.  I'd buy pokemon cards. What would you buy miss click? Probably legal help for my mover situations. You're in the running. You're in the running. Don't worry biscuits.  Yeah, I like cookies and stuff cookies are pretty good cookies are pretty good My gosh scoots won. He's on 14. I've been trying to get scoot this whole game. I have no points I oh Hey, I got them dang I just think it's uh, what we call the scootish difference. Oh You've heard of it. You've heard of it. 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I was going to go with the Schrodinger-Heisenberg joke, but we'll have to keep it for next time. So my name is Jean-Claude Sincluson. I am the director of the TCGA program office at NCI. And me and Caroline, we get to have the pleasure once a year to tell you what you all have been doing and what we have been achieving. And so let's see. We have the timeline of TCGA is something that you all probably are familiar, but there may be some new faces in the room. We started as a pilot project in 2006 with GBM and over in Carcinoma, 500 cases each. It was funny. Last week, somebody asked me, what was the power calculation that you did in order to get to 500? And the answer was none whatsoever. We didn't know what was the rate of discovery. We didn't know what was the rate of mutations. We didn't know anything about this. So we just said, how many do we have money for? And how many do we think that we can get? And then magic number was 500. Obviously, since then, now we have actual power calculations. You all know the Lawrence paper. And it will be more on that later on. In 2010, we expanded to 25 regular tumors, non-rare tumors, plus 10 rare tumor types. We ended up doing nine of those tumor types. We got better at doing things. We got the pipeline down to a T, and we could generate data that with some batches here and there. But they're mostly non-batched. And we can do the analysis in a clean fashion. While the phase that we are at right now is the completion of the analysis, TCGA will end effectively sometime in the spring 2016. This is the last symposium that we have here at Nature. Next symposium is going to be a longer and larger affair. We are planning on a big bung to go with some fireworks. It's going to be a three-four day event, which we will present all the findings, one AWG1 analysis working group at the time, and then the PUNCAN analysis. And then we're going to have a lot of people invited that are using the data that are not part of the team.  Stay tuned for that one. We are negotiating with some association, which will remain nameless until they say yes. We're trying to make it a big joint meeting. It's going to happen in DC. It's still the federal government. They don't like us to travel that much. So it's still going to be here. So you are all going to be welcome to DC once again. We'll announce it when we have more details, obviously. This is the tumor project progress. As you can see, the red bars are manuscripts submitted or published. We are past the midpoint here. All of the tumor types that were selected for analysis except for diffuse large resale informas were actually analyzed. We have the data. And we have, as you see, all that C of green there is all the analysis working groups that are active at the moment. And this is for primary analysis. We have some other analysis working groups that are for secondary papers, things like the combination between LGG and GBMs, recurrence LGs, lobular risk cancer, which is submitting a manuscript very, very soon. So we have other things that are not represented here. But as you can see, we are nearing the end of our task. This is the data that we have available. We don't expect too much more data to come in. There are some samples that had needed some sequencing top off that will appear soon. But basically, we have gotten 12,550 cases that were qualified. Our goal was 10,000. So we did well there. A bunch of them were received at the end of December. In fact, one eighth of them, probably because we were closing the doors and people tried to put the food inside. We have, at the moment, 10,849 with minimum clinical data set, meaning the enrollment data. And we have 8,404 with at least one year follow up. And as you can see, the higher year numbers are filling up. Last time I gave this talk, we had two cases with four years. Now we have 19. People keep giving the clinical data, and we will accept it. We will move all this data, both TCGA target CGCI to a new system called the NCI Genomics Data Commons, GDC for short. And the GDC will keep accepting clinical data if you have it and you want to submit it. Obviously, the contracts are done for the tissue source sites that are sitting in the audience. The contracts are done. So all the data that you provide will be for the good of humanity. No checks will be cut on that data. We are done with the payments. 155,000 plus samples of RNA and DNA protein were shipped to date. And all but 9,429 samples have data return, which means that we have 99.8% of all samples with data. And 94% of the cases have at least some level one data publicly available. The samples, these aliquots that don't have data are probably never going to have data. These are aliquots that were destroyed. They were not good. They dried out. Things happen in transit. And so this is basically a fairly good track record if you look at it. Almost 100% of cases, just 0.2% of cases did not get to be processed, which looking at the size of this project is short of a miracle. So I think the data generators did very well. The BCR did splendid. No complaints here. So what analysis working groups we have going, you can read the list. I'm not going to read it for you. Some of them are, as I said, for example, LGG-GBM, they are secondary efforts. We are going to have more of those secondary efforts. Obviously, the level of support that we can give to the secondary effort is a lot less than we give to the primary papers. Reason is we have 13 primaries that are still active. This is really the most active time in the analysis. And so we don't have much bandwidth left for anybody. But we'll support you as much as we can. These are our recent publications, recent being year, year and a half. Some were recently accepted, skin and low grade glioma, accepted to sell, and New England Journal of Medicine. Adenocortical is in the process of being reviewed in nature genetics. And there are at least four others that are very close to be submitted. So our production, our manuscript production has come into gear too as the analysis has continued. And in fact, one of the things that we're seeing is that the rare tumor types, because they have all the data upfront before the AWG starts working, they're moving extremely fast. That also happens because we have some very eager co-chairs that are pushing for this to be done on time and fast. But the fact to have all the data ahead of time helps a lot. It also helps that the number of tumors is smaller. So all the data gets analyzed faster. Oh, I'm sorry. There will be no TCGA 2.0. Those four letters are great for sequencing. They're not too good for programs anymore, OK? Programs should have a sunset. When we have sunsets in program, we have goals that can be achieved. We don't want to produce a program that is an entitlement, OK? So TCGA reaches goal, all the things that we set up to do and more. We can all put ourselves in the back. We will be done next year, and that's the end. That's not the end of cancer genomics. Of course, not. NCI is committed to it. And we have several different projects that are already launched or about to be launched. Some of them have more of a discovery face to it, like CDDP, the Cancer Driver Discovery Project. Some of them have more of a clinical bias to them, like Alchemist, which is a lung trial that we are basically characterizing about 7,000 cases that are coming through it. Exceptional responders is something similar. As it says, there's people that responded exceptionally to drugs that were not, they were not approved by FDA, and the trial was not successful. But still, we want to see why these people actually had a good response, and we do it through sequencing. And the CTSP, which is the Clinical Trial Sequencing Program, which is open right now for applications, and it's a program that is a joint program between the Center for Cancer Genomics and the Division for Cancer Treatment and Diagnostic. Basically, it will take probably two clinical trials that are well done and have enough samples, and the samples are of good shape, and we'll sequence them up to figure out what their results were. The bias that we're going to have for all future cancer genomic programs is a bias towards explaining what happens at the clinic. TCGA was great as discovery. We were not so good at clinical. We were not meant to be so good at clinical. These projects are going to be focused on clinical sample sets that have good outcomes. So we can ask clinical questions that we were not able to ask in TCGA. So if you want more about that, you can see me at the breaks and then we can discuss them. CDDP is focused on lung, colon, and ovarian. We have identified lung and colon cohorts. We can always use more ovarian cohorts. So if you have them, you have even a small trial, 100, 150 cases will take them if they have all the requirements. Don't come and tell me I have two patients, because that's not good enough. We need to have numbers, and we need to have numbers that were collected consistently. The message basically is that cancer genomics is here to stay, but in the context of helping figure out how to better treat the patient, not just in the context of, I have this other mutation. On the road of doing that, we are going to get to the, I have this other mutation that I had not identified before, because we're going to have more cases. But that's not the focus of these programs. OK, and with that, I invite Caroline to come up. And if you can get her first slide, I'll stay around. 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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 follow the plan, that's how we 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 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 blank What's up everyone, welcome to Power Hour Live Today is Tuesday, April 16th VIX is down 6.5%, just under 18 S&P pretty unchanged, NASDAQ Slightly green, Russell slightly red Dow a little bit green, Gold up 1%, Silver down 1% Notes and bonds a little bit red Ten year yield up 1.5%, oil unchanged Natural gas up 3.5%, grains red Euro and the pound pretty flat, Bitcoin slightly red A lot of Fed Speakers and J-Pow And then Premium got crushed And we haven't really moved much except for those little Dog and pony dances So let's see, for today So I disabled the bot on my rut hedge I'll go over what I did there That's a winner I did a discretionary 1DTE trade Didn't do it right at the open I did it after we had that initial flush So about 20 minutes in, just did a couple contracts Discretionary, that hit 45% All of my quiet tranches hit 35% I'm still in RIC, it's not doing so hot NDX is looking good so far Put on a new rut hedge I just entered my quad 1DTE Quad 40 and then the WUGA And we're bouncing again Yeah, these 30 and 40 point moves in 20 minutes are tough I mean I'm lucky to be green, honestly Yeah, I did do 1 price action trade 60 or 6 lots Hit 20, 40, and 80 So I'm up about 6 And then depending on what happens with RIC I wouldn't be surprised if there's just some wild price Movement here at the end based on What's going on today Yeah, that's kind of what I anticipate Just because a lot of times The market after J-PAL speaks for whatever reason It's kind of a delayed move So I'm just sticking with WUGA for power hour Yeah, I'm out of my lunchtime number one AM number one I got out of 20% of power hour number one But now it's getting close to being Stopped, if this push up doesn't stop And I put on a power hour number two Because I was off-center a little bit But with my power number one And it also needs a pullback Hey, I booked some quick profits there After J-P was done though Yeah, that's a nice crush And then it took off And a lot of people didn't survive that push up I luckily survived it Because I had a 55-point wide iron condor I love the high IV I don't like the 40-points moves In 15 minutes Christian, I'm on the 70s, 60s And the 50s, 40s For WUGA My RIC needs to move Needs to get above 50, 81 To the upside Or below 50, 30 to the downside I think you're still on play, to be honest Not counting RIC out Yeah, I wouldn't doubt it Never counting RIC out You don't know which way it's going to go Is it going to go up or down Or discount, we could Hit profits in WUGA And then RIC can rip And we can profit on both It's been a while since I've seen 40-point move up and a 40-point move down In that short of time I kind of thought after that push up And then head fake I thought we were done I thought we were look out below And then she bounced right back AMC up 13% Up to a whopping $2.80 SMCI up 7% All the chips up, AMD, NVIDIA On the red side, DJT Falling off a cliff Coinbase down 3 Need a pullback Dark Avenger, are you on here? So I saw your question on the VXX vertical On the May 3rd one Obviously implied volatility has spiked Since we put that on, so I haven't decided Exactly when I'm going to take that off yet I mean, we're obviously getting a big contraction today 4.5% in VXX If it gets down to, I mean If it gets profitable We'll probably just take that one off The other one will be at 50% of max profit At that point as well And on the flip side If that doesn't happen, if we do If we spike I'm just going to have to decide when to cut losses on that So I haven't 100% decided On that I want to give it time In case this little Flush on stocks Is over, but I don't want to take a max loss on it either So we'll see And I was stopped on power hour number one I almost just Didn't even take a power hour trade Because I just didn't like the price movement It's been all over the place Yeah, I mean it's kind of It's kind of acting like Post FOMC, right? Like after J-PAL speaks Yeah, it's just Not the same extent, but Mauro, are you on here? There he is Guess what I did my friend Guess what I did? I opened up an interactive broker's account I'm going to do a little dabbling with TAT I want to, well Hey, I just, I needed In quotes, I needed another account To Just do some test trades And things to free up some strikes And so I was like, you know what Let's do a little IB account And Utilize TAT with it I've been going through the TAT documentation And Setting up some templates and stuff And Definitely no trade steward But it is There's some cool stuff I like about it too Oh, I was going to show you guys what I did on my RET So here is Here's my RET 1DTE hedge That I put on yesterday So We were down here And I, you know At the What is that, the 1970 Yeah, my short put strike My lower put strike And I was like Man, this thing could You know, we started to bounce as this thing could rip I don't want to end back up in the valley So instead, I could have closed it For like $16 or $1700 But instead of doing that I just So this hedge is essentially I bought an iron fly, right? So what I did is Instead of closing it I sold an iron condor against it I got filled at $40 credit And so now I have this So essentially I locked in A profit of $1,655 And If it Pushes above $19,72 I can make up to And it expires up there I can make up to $2,155 So I gave up a little bit of profit To the downside So if this thing just Falls and expires Up here, that would have made $2,155 So I'm giving that up But I'm taking away all this Risk if we bounce By doing that And so That's what it looks like So I've got a few different little Transforming Things that I've been working on Along the lines of the Mahomes deal Along the lines of What I just did here That I'll be Showing in more detail here at some point Oh yeah, and then the other Actually probably the main reason I opened up that IB account was I've got a good friend Who has Built some Automated stuff Around Not using TAT, it's kind of the Their own Automated system Kind of like their own version Of TAT, and then they've done All kinds of different things with it And so I'm going to Utilize that here at some point I'll tell you guys more about it No more, I really don't know much about it yet Hit 20% in my power hour number two Yeah, that's what this guy did Tomorrow He knows the IB API Inside out So I did my In my IB account And then I forgot to disable My trade stirred bot and it fired But it only filled one contract And then I guess it didn't get filled on the rest So it was trying to cancel and replace I had some Some strike conflicts So I only got filled in one here But I've got Four, I did a four lot in my IB account So the at the money 50-70 fly Only trading For maybe 65 cents Some wild swings, but a pretty Tight little range, I mean look at that daily chart Especially compared to the last couple It's been nothing I don't really know exactly what I like about TAT completely yet Just going through the I'm just now starting to set up some Templates, but just some of the I guess some of the logic Makes sense So the expected move on the option chain Yeah, it's showing about 16 Wuga But I always For the zero day, I always refer more To this market maker move here Which is plus or minus 12 because you'll notice There's always a few points left Even at the end of the day once we expire So this is actually A little bit more accurate When you get down to this point Yeah, that market maker move it's basically The I used to always use it for earnings place Because it was it's basically The End of the current expiration Or if I'm doing earnings the night Before that was Kind of the expected move because You know if you're trading a stock for example That doesn't have everyday expirations Look at Apple for example You know you've got Three day options and it has the expected move for that But this is the one day Expected move and then it works For SPX zero, zero DTE as well And there's 40% power Number two Nice A little pullback helped you Yup, my dead center's About 5065 Got a really nice green day going Two winners one loser My loser's room scratch trade minus 300 That's the one I got lucky on Yeah as soon as Powell got done speaking and we had that push right there I hit Six profit targets I hit my five Quiet lunches And my remaining Price action iron counter just like Boom, boom, boom Wow I had to feel nice Be very happy but just Sat where it's at I don't think I'm going to put on a third Come on Man that would be getting pretty greedy That would be getting Pretty greedy I think You can still do 15 15 wide It's true I can still wipe my good Profit loss too I just talked myself into it Yeah which one are you doing I'm going to do the 80s I'm going to do the 80s And the 55s 10, 25 wide No 15 wide, 75s, 60s 675 Yeah I've been doing my price action ones With the cost order templates Instead of bots just because Gives me those longs A little bit of long Protection if We have a move I get stopped out and it keeps going That's the one thing I don't like about the bots Is they take the longs away Alright I did it Same thing Unless you do two bots With just the longs and just the shorts But I haven't done that No you can't Davis Yep only the bid list exactly Alright so I did my Wuga in the IB account now I got to figure out how to close That trade I haven't gotten that far with IB yet So that's probably something I should figure out Yeah that's probably a good idea Let's see where's my position at Exactly I did a B&B 1, 2 DTE In there as well I see that one on my Tomorrow do you use the classic View or the mosaic Classic okay That's what I'm on Okay so Here's This is my 1, 2 DTE So that's from an API from TAT So Where do I find my current position Here it is on the option Option trader There we go okay So it's this one here So right click Trade Close Right click 60% power hour number one Okay so I'm on my portfolio right This is where I want to be Let's right click on this Create a new tab Current Positions Just hit okay Okay go to my portfolio Copy Paste Right click Order entry Like a child Treat me like a child I feel like a child dealing with this software Alright We'll get rid of this This is the wrong thing apparently 20% on my power hour Really I have not hit it yet I have a little bit I didn't enter this one on my API So that wouldn't be it This is a This is a double calendar that I'm looking at And that's what's on the API I got you I got a little push up I don't want this thing taking off at all Stay where you're at Stay where you're at Okay here's mosaic Okay so this is it right here It's the 7565 5040s That's too much Hang on So let's start over Alright so I'm in the classic TWS Current positions But that's my Double calendar How do I get my Wooga Delete this okay Cut Alright it's gone Then in mosaic This is it right here Okay monitor I don't have a monitor Oh portfolio Monitor That's not it This one Yes okay this is it Copy I'm sure this is just exhilarating for everyone Alright then I go back To classic Paste Boom Thanks JT Boom Alright so now So I'm down 180 bucks On the Wooga right now So to close it I'm going to right click And Trade Close 100% Pick my limit price Get back down there That was exhausting God bless you IB users What did you open one up for I don't know if you didn't hear me earlier Basically I've got a guy who Created some automated strategies Connects to IB And then I wanted to Try out their Trade automation toolbox Which is a kind of a bot trading Platform Gotcha that's high enough Alright so one more question here So I got Where do I see where I got filled Average trade price So I got filled at 540 So 270 would be my I gotta do a negative number I guess Sell at 270 Alright I got my 50% Profit target in there I think I'm good Trade history Alright my 40% Is at $4 And it's trading at 475 That is a good boy NDX is currently sitting pretty Oh I got a camera I got a picture on your property just now The wind blew my The wind blew my Blind over Can you fix that tonight? Well I've got Baseball if it's Not going to rain Yeah I'll make sure I get down there He's restaked I need it dime to go 80% and out of Power Hour 2 And fill I'm going to fly trading for about 60, 70, 80 cents I'm out of Power Hour Number 2 at 80% and out Nice You had to ask that I gotta get back to remember how to look at that again It's up 379 bucks There you go Yep I got that on Cody It is currently slightly green A little down move here Yeah that's far enough Getting more down moves like that That's far enough I knew it was going to happen one way Or the other Oh Thiago you would hit 50% Wow What a move So I got stopped out of the rest of my Power Hour Yep I got stopped as well Wiped a bunch of profits Wow Just can't have nice things I guess Stopped out of everything Thiago did you put your I assume you put yours on earlier right I had to guess probably right around 230 Eastern 230, 240 Stopped me out and then bounced It's really amazing 232 There you go NDX sitting pretty nice and centered We are just back and forth Red to green, red to green today It's right around the unchanged level Man it would have been so nice Just to stay Where it was Need about 50 more cents out of Wuga A little over 20 minutes to go And Israel Reportedly finalizes plans For Counter-Strike Against Iran Way to let everybody know Yeah I definitely Need to do that Maro Not given the time to do that yet Power Hour 300 Being a $375 loss Thought it was going to be a big winner Still a very nice green day today Yeah I shouldn't have I'm up about 60 cents On that one Nice My order disappeared All good on the IB front Trade history looks good 50% yeah Although the one lot they got filled in Trade Stewards only at 35 But I was on different strikes 5 minutes till MOC Man it would have been I would have been sitting dead center One got stopped This little bounce up All right Around 60 Looks like it might Settle in Unless we have a big MOC number Rick is probably toast We don't have no more positions on Plus $6,540 today Listening for MOC In about a minute My Wuga in Trade Stewards My one lot still hasn't hit On the 60s, 70s Listening for MOC number here In about 10 seconds 850 million sell side Nothing D65 fly Was only trading for a buck 20 maybe So my one DTE quad 40s at about a dollar Profit No love for Rick today I had high hopes With some of this movement But never found a direction Just back and forth My one two And my one three are up over 10% I'm going to go ahead and close those Closed out my Wuga for 30% My one lot I just posted my one two exit My one three Is bouncing around 10% I'm going to leave that one on till tomorrow My six seven is up About 10% Five seven is up about 5% So both come off tomorrow as well My quad 40 Will make about 6% It'll be closing here shortly About three minutes to go Or excuse me five minutes to go Built at 2025 In at 2150 at 2025 So almost 6% So tomorrow is Wednesday We've got the beige book 1pm And then the two FOMC members Don't speak until after the markets close So really not a lot going on tomorrow Scheduled anyway We're going to get a quick flush New lows of day Scheduled missile strike Alright two and a half minutes Rick just needs to move down below 5030 Just 20 25 points Come on down Keep her coming Low of day was 10 points away We've got less than a minute NDX and Dow still slightly green Turn red Yeah I agree Hopefully get a little overnight VIX Pop Get some more trades on tomorrow There she blows 5051.33 Madam Butterfly you are a magic Mahomes magician Nice Alright so Tomorrow Livestream 17th Wednesday Chad will be streaming live in the morning for mighty 90 and runners And we'll be back for power hour Alright all Have a good night take care


Gudetama is a cute little egg character conceptualized in 2013 by a company called Sanrio. You know, the guys that made Hello Kitty, my melody and uh, the rest of them. While the Sanrio characters are all super cutesy, Gudetama is...different. Don't get me wrong, it's super cute as well, but just not in the same way. It's like if you compare a Golden Retriever puppy with a little Chihuahua. Completely different vibes. Gudetama is known primarily for a miserable personality and lazy appearance, and popular for having an indifferent attitude towards life's many responsibilities. The mother hen, Sanrio. Sanrio is a Japanese company known for creating and licensing a wide range of cute and adorable characters. You know what you need? Some good luck! Wow, thanks! The company was founded in 1960 by Shintaro Suji in Tokyo, Japan. The characters are famous globally and appeal to people of all ages. So they're literally just characters not from a show or from a product, or from their own brand. Just characters under the Sanrio umbrella. Normally, iconic characters that get merchandise to hell come from some form of larger work. I'm pickle rich! Coming out of the shelf. We can all tell it's clearly an egg, but what exactly is a Gudetama? Gudegud in Japan is on a matapio for lazy and sluggishness. And Tama is Japanese for egg from Tamago, and then altogether it literally translates to lazy egg. Sanrio are kinda shady in that they don't like to publicly share who actually designed the character, but rather just say it's a character by Sanrio. However, a quick google search will show that Gudetama was created by a 26-year-old designer in a company called Emi or Emi Nagashima, simply inspired by an egg she saw whilst cooking dinner after a long day of work. This was part of a company-wide design competition to create a character based on food and the egg lost to a piece of salmon called Kirimi- Tudu, Tudu. Needless to say, the salmon didn't take off and Sanrio was super lucky that they also released some Gudetama stuff at the same time because that popped off. Its design is so simple yet portrays a no-can-do attitude so expressively and relatably. We are the egg. It's often seen laying around looking half asleep and just being generally disinterested in life. Surprisingly, sometimes it dips into some much darker commentary on life's everyday struggles. In fact, Gudetama's creation can be seen as a response to the stress and pressures of modern-day life overall. Particularly in Japanese society where work-related stress is a serious and sometimes life-threatening issue. Hello Kitty Couldn't Ever. The Eggs Crack One of the stranger details you may notice about the character design are these little booty cheeks. Why are these here? It feels like when the Crazy Frog was such a popular thing and we all had to look at his little I will say though, and I mean this in the least creepy way possible, I think they are a good addition to its design. Yeah, I probably should have kept that one to myself. But hear me out. The inclusion of a butt adds an element of humour into the design, which I believe helps to counteract some of the serious and miserable things being expressed. For example, Gudetama says and we can feel sad and have a bad time or… Wait, what gender is Gudetama? A lot of non-human characters from children's media have their gender left ambiguous intentionally. Presumably so that as many kids as possible can relate to the character they're viewing. However, the reason behind Gudetama's unknown gender actually makes perfect sense. Gudetama has no gender at all because it's literally an unfertilized egg and therefore can't have one. As far as pronouns go though, Gudetama is typically referred to as it. However, it should be noted that for some reason the Hello Kitty YouTube channel refers to it as him. Don't listen to her, go go! He him, he him, he him. Someone's getting fired? An egg hard to beat. Other than merch, which I'll get into shortly, Gudetama has made quite a splash worldwide through a bunch of different mediums. A few noteworthy examples include the Gudetama animated shorts. Yeah, I'm not too sure either, but listen to that voice. It's crazy. There's even a puzzle mobile game called Gudetama TAC. This little egg has made guest appearances in comics and web comics and in typical Japanese fashion there's Gudetama cafes where you can drink or eat all things Gudetama. It's a popular choice for conventions and a top tier Netflix show to top it off. I even found a Spotify account. But we'll ignore that one. Gudetama merch!  And I am not ashamed to say I own quite a lot myself, but my collection barely scratches the surface. I just bought this off Facebook marketplace. Literally the same day I'm recording this Gudetama video and I just picked up a little cool bag for five bucks. What a bargain. I went to the door and then the old man answers and I was like, oh you're selling the Gudetama bag? He's like, do I look like I'm selling? Um, it was his daughters. But anyway, super cute bag.  Oh and now a cooler bag. As you would expect, there's a billion plushies, various pieces of clothing, accessories, stationary figures and key chains. But no, there's so much more. For some reason there's home decor, kitchenware, electronics, jewelry, beauty products, food, books, footwear, board games and party supplies. This level of merchandise makes Gudetama a super visible brand and allows Sanrio to collab with other brands to create even further reaching appeal. Just some of them I've noticed here in Australia recently are in Taipo, Black Milk and even Big W. Out of all places, Big W? Also, have a look at this. It's a Gudetama Hot Wheel. Gudetama is unsurprisingly Sanrio's third most profitable character just under Hello Kitty, of course, and my melody. Gudetama's message. Gudetama works as a character despite having a negative attitude because it's relatable. It's all about embracing imperfections and using humour to get through the tougher times. It represents the idea that sometimes it's so okay to feel lazy, unmotivated or indifferent and that these feelings are universal and part of what it means to be alive. We're not machines programmed to work all day and recharge overnight just to do it all over on repeat. We have emotions, interests and relationships with one another. Sometimes juggling all these things can really wear us down and the best possible thing for us to do in those moments is to simply be.


Welcome to Testing Business Critical Features with Behat. Thanks for coming back after lunch. I appreciate you being here and in on time. My name is Andrew Taylor. I'm a Developer Programs Engineer at Pantheon. So I consult with our agency partners on complex projects and workflows and a lot of automated testing. So happy to be able to share some of that with you here today. I'm A. Taylor Emmy on GitHub and Twitter. I tweeted out a link to the slides. So if you want to follow along or download them for later, there's some resources and stuff and things linked throughout. You can go ahead and grab those. I'm from Portland, Oregon. I love being outdoors and just away from the computer after being in front of it all day long for work. In traveling, good food, good beer, I'm going to check out, I think, Elvez tonight. I heard that's pretty good in Philly. If people know other spots, let me know. I'm here until Monday, so I'd love to check some stuff out. But more than all of these things, I am a maintainer of websites. And really, that's kind of what all of us are. That's why we're here. Whether it's personal or professional projects, I actually have my dad needed a website for his business and he goes, can you refer me to an agency knowing full well that I'm going to be like, no, I'm just going to build it for you, right? That's what happens. So we all maintain websites. And sometimes they're to help friends and family out. And mostly, hopefully, sometimes, we also get paid for that work, right? And they're for clients. And so we're maintaining websites that maybe if my dad's site for his company goes down, it's not the end of the world. I built it for free.  But when we're doing client work and we're maintaining websites that we're getting paid to do, it really is more important that we do a good job and we really maintain those to a high standard. And when we're working on these projects, especially client projects, changes happen frequently. So we're going to get client requests. We have to run updates all the time, right? Like WordPress updates, plugin updates. We're fixing bugs, developing new features. All this work is happening. But how do you decide kind of what's business critical and what do we really need to make sure we're taking care of and maintaining well and what is maybe okay that if a bug gets out there? And for me, business critical is whatever you're gonna get that phone call at 2 a.m. if it goes down. So that could be a donation form for a nonprofit. If they stop taking donations, they're gonna call you. If there's a little bug in the menu, they might send you an email and say like, hey, can you fix this like broken icon or something? That's not a big deal. That's not business critical. A shopping cart for e-commerce, most definitely business critical. If people can add stuff from their cart and they've read reviews and everything's great and then they go to check out and it doesn't work, bummer. So we all know what these business critical things are for our projects. You need to define them. And they're really an important part of your QA. They're things that need to be checked, right? We probably have a QA checklist or something that don't forget to check this donation form. This is what I'm gonna use as an example throughout the talk here, right? Don't forget to check the donation form during our QA because that's really important. They're things that just can't break in production. That's not acceptable. That's the type of thing you're gonna get that phone call and you know what?  Or a lawsuit or who knows what? So business critical testing is more than I see people when they do automated testing, and they do kind of some cool stuff with visual testing or I'm gonna run a performance test and I'm gonna make sure we bake that into our QA process. Well, a visual test and a performance test aren't gonna tell you if the card's broken or if someone can't submit the donation form, right? Or if the payment gateway's down, whatever it is. You need to actually test against a full copy of the site and ideally a full copy that's like a clone of production. So we're not just testing on, oh, I have something locally that has a few dummy posts. No, you need to test the real site and make sure these things are working. So who uses a staging server, right? It's part of your QA, hopefully everyone. We know we shouldn't be cowboy coding and running plug-in updates, right, on the live site. When I'm working with agencies, a lot of what I see is this kind of staging server workflow where maybe we get a bunch of client requests, we have a new feature, we gotta update some plug-ins, somebody else is working on a bug fix, we made all of these changes and they're up on the staging server and now we're gonna have this round of review where our team does internal QA, we're gonna send the staging server to the client, they're gonna hopefully sign off on everything and after that we're gonna roll it out to production. And so this is, hopefully everything works, like all your internal you go through, make sure the checkout works, the donation form, whatever it is, you're doing all your QA, you're doing your browser checks, the client says things look good and it goes out to production. And so we might have a list, right? If you're running through QA, you have written this stuff down, we need to go to the donation form, I need to fill out the info, I need to submit the form, I need to verify that I get a confirmation, I need to log in to WordPress and verify that a new donation post is created and that the status is complete and that it actually processed. Maybe I need to verify that the correct user role can log into the back end and manage this form in the admin that they can update the donation amounts and that's gonna show up on the front end. But QA doesn't always go well, right? Like sometimes it's a big hot mess and you get to that point where you have all these bug fixes or plugin updates and all of this work and now you have to find and fix the issue when maybe you have changes from multiple developers or multiple pieces of work all on the staging server and you have to kind of untangle this mess. You have to find the issue, you have to fix the issue and it's kind of holding up all of this other stuff from launching. If there's like an issue with the donation form, I can't roll out the security update. Well, what if the site gets hacked in that time, right? So it's really not an ideal situation and when I see a lot of people working with a staging server, they kind of have that we have this every two weeks sprint or we're gonna have everyone push up their changes and go through this process and it really is stressful for not just you but for the client, right? Because you're probably out of time. By time you get to that cycle where you have plugin updates, bug fixes, new templates, everything's up there and you're doing this QA, it's kind of like, we hope it goes right, right? You're crossing your fingers and you're at the end of the deadline, like you need to get those security updates out or this feature needs to launch, you don't have time to go back and untangle this mess. There's gotta be a better way, right? So ideally, you wanna test whatever these critical features are every single time you make a change. So I run plugin updates, I test the donation form. We saw before, like actually writing down those steps and making sure you do that. I make a fix to the menu that the client reported. I check the donation form. I develop a new template. I go in and check the donation form and you do that every single time because if you check as you go, I kind of think it's like cleaning your house, right? You let the dirt go for a month and then you're gonna be on your hands and knees scrubbing the floors but if you kind of keep up on things, it's not that bad. You can kind of make sure that things are working as they should as you go. And so you get to more of this consistent testing workflow where you're building that new feature and then you're testing it and you're running through your list of QA and then you go in and you test the next thing and maybe you have multiple staging servers where you're testing these things and then you're bringing them all together, doing a final run of QA and getting clients sign off but that process is much smoother and less stressful because you've been testing as you go.  But the problem is that's kind of boring to do, right? If I'm doing a menu fix or developing a new template, I wanna have fun with like some animations, some new CSS3 stuff. I'm like developing this new template, this landing page looks great or whatever. I don't wanna go check the donation form, right? I just did this little bug fix that took me five minutes. Why am I gonna spend 10 or 15 minutes running through this QA checklist? I have other stuff to move on to. I need to go do the next task. It's really time consuming to sit there and do that every single time you make a change. And if we're being honest with ourselves, you could have this big QA checklist and give it to developers on your team and say, you need to run through this every time you commit a line of code. Are they really gonna do it? Like if we're being honest, it probably doesn't happen because of these reasons, right? It's not something we wanna do. I really like the difference between checking and testing. So checking is like, I'm gonna check the work that I do and make sure that's okay.


It makes you eager. It makes you eager. You want to learn why, right? If you're one of those folks that sit there and go, why was I not selected? Again, we just talked about how do you find out the answers or how do you get some more data on that reason? And you know what I'm going to say, right? What's the first thing you should do? Talk to your leadership. Talk to your leadership. Challenge your leadership and say, you know what? Let's sit down and do a CDB. And let's look at it all. Let's look full spectrum at your career and let's talk about some stops. But like I said, our military does great things. Our Navy does great things in providing resources. And one of them I really want to talk about, I don't know if a lot of people really leverage it enough for access to information, is military one source. It's full spectrum of all the moving parts that affect a significant move, right? When you PCS from one organization to another into a different geographical area. But it's important for leaders to go on there and make sure that if I'm going to ask a sailor to go look on these things, I need to make sure that it's valid and what's available to them.


The difference between providing and being used Yes Kwa wana jwefizuri sana Kuna time si siu provide ni kawana hube Always Nakuna time tuna tumi wa Yonu wupuli Kwa wana tema Nizi tuna jkulia vibaya Watan kwa mbe Kuski zamade muki skia wama kuleta kutukama iho Yo wana naku set up Eh? Eh? That's a setup, it's a trap It's a trap How is it a trap? The trap What do you need a man to provide? What I need? What? See whichever Anything I need for me to survive Eji Eji Um You know it depends with how our You know our relationship is So for example if you're providing my rent So you're paying for my food Or you know First of all rent You cannot Rent cannot be provided You have to stay Ka mone si kuangu dali parendiangu But no si kuako S S S S S S S S S Yes Mami mimi nama buwana Karibu katika Espion bars Fred's Vibre Today we're going to have Good conversation And to go na chibukizia pa Chibukizi thanks for sparing time for us Hey my guy Thanks for sparing time Yes thanks for using that one We appreciate Off your busy schedule Thank you so much Thank you so much guys For this work on Amaliza Chai Fid your body guys Fid your body guys Fid your body Taka kuskua kama ala wazili Wazili bi Wazili bi wazili wa na Ok ok ok ok ok ok Ok grafiki tujumu Amaliza Ha na'kuja na mtungiyano Ha na'kutini pikuwa pike Na shikulu bana pro Hema chana kwa za mpikonanya nasaapa Na isana beti Wana kuhilata gaba jubika Sisu wana wana Whom sjuistu lunu ako seyanini Kamatumi ma kuna argument Si po sana the difference between providing And being used Yes Kwa wana jwa vizuri sana, kuna time sisi wu provide nika wana hube Always Na kuna time tuna tumiwa Unu ukweli Awa na tema, desi wu na jikulia vibaya Wata nkwa mbe Muki skizama demo, kuki skia wama kulite kitu kama iho Yawana na kusetap That's a setup, it's a trap It's a trap How is it a trap? What do you need a man to provide? What I need See, whichever, anything I need for me to survive Um, you know, it depends with how our, you know, our relationship is So for example if you're providing my rent or you're paying for my food Or, you know, all the kind of things that rents provide Rent cannot be provided We have to stay Kama nesikwamu daliparenti amu But nesikwako But tuna tumiwa Kama atu jawa wana And you know we have an intention of commitment in the future And I pay in your rent Yes That's provided So you want to live Kwa wana tumiwa Kwa wana tuwana lipa Kwa kwa kwa tuwana lipa Kwa kwa kwa kwa kwa Girlfriend allowance Girlfriend allowance Yes Nana perewa ya kutu Girlfriend allowance Iko Kwa niya ni ni? E Manthli allowance Kwa ni pocket money niya ni? Yandu ya kuenda ni tengenezwe ma Kata Kama mi mi ni me kwa nesikwetu Nesikwetu wama baka mkwaki npprovidea And then we start dating It starts getting serious Na uwe mo nyoma mo nanda kuni pprovidea Ndiya mi ni babayako Wata ni wambia Rudi kwa babayako Amaliza kazi anapa kufanya kasi pprovidea Na umuambia Na umbia Na umuambia Tuna panga kwa wana mi mi nawe So in the meantime Udaka apu mbaka ni kueshua Apuana paka you show him You have to show the intention You have to show that you can take care of me I can show you that In the meantime You are expecting me to do Wifely deed in your house Wait, what are the basic needs? Food, shelter and clothing Unikazi amuzae ringa apu kwanza Clothing is part of that Yaa Ula kaka Ula kaka ukuza uni Oka kuna vacation Eee Sosa bro kama you can afford vacation Bono usini pelike Una duwa shidani If you cannot afford That's a problem But if you can afford Why shouldn't we live a good life? But pay ono duwa kama ni vacation Pay ono ni consider Dua kama na kupu provide dia Consider pay emotions Skiya ni kwa mbie Kama ni vacation Niza afford But nao Juna kuded na na raka kukua Nii provide Mi mi monye nawe Twengini toende vacation Ama Skiya Skiya ni kwa mbie Nii enda mombasa Nii kwa na kupu provide dia Food, shelter na badu na raka niene nawe Mombasa Kwe po ho utaki kwa ena na mi mi Skiya ni utaki kwa ena na mi mi Ama ni kwa toa pesa What is the problem? The problem is Because it's an investment It's an investment Ia kwa siye emergency Wew kwa saawa Pa na sii kwa saawa Na takapia mi kwa enjoy Bona wew enjoy Enjoy yama kumunitu mi ya Niki ni ni wa say Kwa ni wew if there is a sense of marriage Kwa ni kwa lizi Bona takapia kwa na mi Bona takapia nawe vacation Mi pi anjili pi ekibi ango Honest opinion Mama kwa moi pere kwa dubai Mama anguna Mama kwa pere kwa dubai Bona takapia wupati e Bona umu tuza Bro, kwa sabapu mi mi siyo mama yangu And I'm sorry mam I'm not you Ni mi mi ni mi mi This is what I want for me They brought up So apart from you people using us You are new No we are not We are telling you the real thing But you have to understand some things If I am Umeni pata Umeni pata Umeni pata Uwe wuku wuku kachia I was at a different level Like you could clearly see I'm at a different level Alas usu wun takatina mi mi While you are dancing Now I have to calm down Calm down to your level To your level That is wrong happening So see you are cutting Tata tata us chana ma skini Tuna wongatuna kwa seya Lakin ni siyo ni decisionia po bro What is your decision? Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product Umeni jifanya product We are the prize We men are supposed to be chased Atabibi liye inasema Muwanaume anafa apende bibi ake Then muwanamke Asubmit So submona nini munataka kwondo kia Kita buchamu Yeah we cry Wait wait what submission Submission is taking care of your man How? Una provide needs Zaki ambazo anafa Unam shubuli tia Tia Tia Tisi ni watua Tenyunataka Tenyunataka Tenyunataka Azaman We are the one you are We serve you Azaman Asi ni kwanbi azebitu Una kuja home Una kuji tu Una kuja nimi Buja kwaza Uti to na kawangwadi amali Buja kwaza nimi Kusabizuji Yes Niku nani piyana kwebizu Ya ni ni mefungo hotel ni kwa yumba Ni nabanya ni kubeleke mombaza Yiyosini restaurant We have a problem We have a problem We really have a problem Because marriage is of emotional support Companionship Naile submissiveness Kwaibu sasa ni ni mnangalia Kwaza kumatiroli Kwaza kumatiroli Kama mimi nagecholia Kwaima sema vacation Mba sema kwanza waka maut japanda matatu Miskupandise matatu Sasa wu wana shuwali Sinashida You are very specific Unataka ni kunu liage ma gumzuri Niku peregesa loli Ya pesa mingi Eizu ni zaku Nini me uliza tu Wew na nifania ni Wew na unataka kufania wa ni ni Urejo ni atamjuangi kaji na ataka Ni ni muna ataka ni ni Niki sema na nakaizama matatu Na ni That is provision Mimi mone ni kanda kujitolea tisu na debt Mimi na jili piya ni ni na jili piya kila kitura Nabi nifania kila kitura Jili utaka na kibunisa na Uta ni kitu Uta inia miya kitu ni kakufania ma ni ni Kwa ni iri hu trafi liukiburi Niku sa pa unataka niku na bunafania niku Uta fiyami na jisi Apaana Anaji shubuliki wewe u shubuliki Ni naka k�u oliza suwa Uniza No, unataka kufania Unataka kufu nyamaze kwenyumba Na get Ni nkise yungesana sayi Na get Unyamaze tu Na get That is what I want Are you going to submit like that? Kwanine ni ntapili kabu4ne ni kama ni niki Na just say If that's what I want, whenever I say I want Qikeja, I provide anything I want to ask God. So contact me, it's ok. So if they say that K 같a, we'll provide. IfBut already the same thing, we can exchange the upgraded one together. So you are clever in my word? Clevari Modern age clever Ken wajis keki na nasa Amonu kiki ki kuwadwe isa ana Iho it's not a issue Because if we get a job that we'll do Why do we submit? Submit rea ni But submit kwa yung huma Kutii Kuti ya ni Why we submit? You know Kiki kujo wana ni wana ni kia imagine Sini na hona ni you want the next? Oni pika kakulm ni po Nga wajin mili ki takata trip Singapua... So how this thing works? No no no no no no guys Before to puthoshi want nine chi so kして matakafu ulyza Next year So kitu ni me get Uta ni iekievous ni ken brake Uta ni iபurnikumib Produク漆aa atiego kitu Ute Nizang nifu조, hini isлей So that's a value to me now doing everything that you want. That's what I'm getting in return. Why are you guys being unappreciative? Let me tell you, taking care of a house or anything. You know you guys, muna kwa mga mechkulia, bitutuna faina ni kama, ni kitu ibure sana. Sipu, na uje yo, how ita kwanani ni? Ita kwanani, uta komendi ka house helper. Not necessarily, not necessarily. Naki di piya, anawa nomemba wa taketa mabibi zawa teseke. One hour gil, one hour giri house managers. What is the problem with your queen living a soft life? Okia onli ya kodige ha ni komisya. Bin yo companion. Bin my companion. I'm very emotional. Aka ni gaba yazana, aka dey maha. I am very emotional. Laka merebu. Laka merebu ye. One hour gira naki, wuza hapa story. He want to change me now. We are just asking bro na amtam jibu. What is amtam jibu? No, as we are just clear. Nye mma sema kuna bitutuna faina ni fanya. And as we feel that is being used. Then we ask the simple question. If we do those things, what is there in return? Ati muna ni ami uta ni chemshia maji ya kuoga. Ati yo ati yubi ya companion. Ati uta ni sheka ibitu kiwa na movie. If you want us to reverse roles. Ni ni mna takani ni ebu wa twambia mna takani ni.  Let me ask you a question. What if I provide for you by there. I take you to Dubai. I give you the best life you can. And then in return we agree that babe if you are going to do this to me I am going to give you everything that you want. Na ni mma merebu mga nga liya ni kawana manze. Sia zi kwa na familiar ya mga manze. Nataka wuana de mingini. So na naka wuana ni alau. Do you know that is the easiest thing you can ever do? Let me tell you. As long as you are providing. Now if you are going to do this to me then I offer you the best life you can. Second floor, second wife. If you want to make sure that you don't get hurt. It is not about comfort. Upwa muna. Kwa wuana. Let's make sure your sister gets loose. Howna? Oh. Respect. Respect. Respect. Nisha na ni uchukwe wa willi ala sasatu na wili So it's not cheating it's big growth Eh?  Enojio mizu supports nii kikikwa mii na kupenda nani, mii niya tamja tuwambia, what do you want? ebu tuwambia nii sasa Kwa chang nikuwambia kwa aa na kwa na butita... Yes, what do you expect in return? kwa nani nobu an kuwansa butita e mii muhama dei mwa duwe eeeeeee tuzei mii iu kitu ii wak kwa nii kiku tuwambia kutuna taka nii kitu ii wak badehuei nii ku provide environment tu kona wa tuwoi wa willi wana raka kupela kuwa school fees wana raka kwa na zile xiulezen nii awuna taka tazaka na mapesesaka wana raka ngu mpiya wana raka wana raka life So, would you...sa sa nakuana provide ya kwa toto na na rudi bada na na ku provide ya bada? That is logic. Bona mli zalisha wa toto kama you cannot provide for them. Tuwambi eni ni ninajaka, stop to deviet the story bana. Mli. But also this thing is not... We're a baby. Yes, mli amua. Bona mli pata wa toto eni ya mwezi shkulikia. Which brings me to a good question. Why do people work? When you work and you get money, what is the purpose of that money? You're an individual.  Why did you hit on me, bro? Why did you accept me? Leave me alone if you cannot provide for me. Not actually. Tuwambi eni ni ninajaka. No, ami hetu kima liza. Mata mga kuwambia, mia kai na kuji kamaivi, tanu, kumi na tanu. Mota batana aba na mabo inu mota juwa jikia. Duwambia na taka nini, muki-provide. Mind. How do you want us to achieve that? Wacha tu nila ku wapu na kia ni ku pahio. Miki, kiki, ni ku pahio. Ni ku pahio. Wacha tu. Uki filiu Uki filiu, naka ku chi. Uki filiu raka. Uki filiu raka ku pahio. Iku pre-provide. Aki, taka... Uki filiu, naka kuwa nya wapu, Bwacha kutupea Bwacha, ni kupea peace of mind Anki chaka arudisa kumi Misawa No, no, no, but let me finish Naki ni mimi na tesega kwae yon yumba Peace of mind ya kwae it does not bother my sister One's a knee knee No, no, one's a two knee knee We are a representation of so many Nge kwae ni mafanya investment Nge kwae na pidi yama lawyer already Una jua Peace of mind Do me so that I can make you happy Don't tell me how to make you happy So idea ni Kama ni matatu unapanda Tu mesama we are here for the long run Aima ni suda panda yo matatu for one man So I'm thinking about it When you're not talking to me, it's in my mind That I need to provide better to you So ni pay time Usini pigi e kelele, kama tu na ishi bed-sita Kwae yon jua tu kwaakiliyangu Bed-sita ni na panga Air for now na panganda kumovisha So ni kwaresa kwae nini milan Nge kupiataha uru dina change Nge kupiataha uru dina change Nge mihi saa Nge kwa ufisite na nike na nise mesa Sanga Kwae ikwa kwa mikoita master Nge kuka professional language Bro, handa hiyadu ni professional Guna bagi Nge kwa kazi Kwae mikoitu amezu na nili kwaqim shahara Tukifunga Naisa, last words about providing and being used I mean, kwa katia tum tum naiza na, wacha kwa katia mtu, andoka hundana na expecta kuji waku, anda wu act Katia tum naiza If her looking good is not on your budget, she's not yours Thank you If her looking good is not on your budget, it doesn't matter bro There is nothing like providing or taking care of each other If her looking good is not on your budget, it doesn't matter If her looking good is not on your budget, it doesn't matter