Hi you guys, Lindsay here. Welcome back to my channel Inside the Hymn. So I haven't had a ton of time to research some favorites for you this month, especially not enough time to like get them in and try them. But I did come up with two things and then just one really cool fun thing. Can y'all hear the sirens? It's a lot louder here than it was in Charleston. I am on like a main road and there's lots of just traffic and cars and emergency vehicles all night. I'm getting used to it though. Like it's not New York by any means, but it's closer to New York than it is to Charleston. So anyways, okay so I did find two favorite sewing notions and then I also have a really cool story, something I just want to show you guys like a show and tell kind of thing that I think you all will think is really cool. So I'll save that for the end. The first thing you probably can barely even see it, but this is a serging needle threader.  We did that little tester video where you tie the knots off and run it through and honestly I've done that a couple of times since then and still had not great results despite all of the additional tips that you guys left in that video. I think I'm just like an old school girl and just want to thread my machine like you're supposed to. But getting the thread through the needle eye what I found was one of the things that took the longest for me, especially I mean I'm going to say as I get older I know that I'm not old, but my eyes are like I've never worn glasses, never worn contacts, never had an issue with like reading things far away, but I am noticing that my close-up vision is not as sharp as it used to be. Let's just call it that.  It works just like any other one would except it's really long. Can you see? Oh geez and I lost it. I'll probably never find, oh there it is. I'm gonna say I'll probably never find it again.  It comes with a pack of like three or five and I imagine that's because people keep losing them so they started selling them like in bulk. I keep mine like in the little tray of my sewing machine just like that and so it's always there nice and handy. Anyways it just makes the serging the threading of the serger a little bit easier. Coisonally it also works on your cover stitch machine if you have a cover stitch. I did try it on my regular sewing machine but because I don't know if it's because the needle is right in front of the shank so when you push that long needle threader through it you kind of had to go around a turn and it didn't like turning but on your serger the needles are like offset from the shank a little bit so it can go right through no problem. Speaking of sergers actually I didn't even realize this it's two serger favorites. I saw this and was instantly intrigued and like is that really going to help so my serger sits on an IKEA desk. It is not the most stable surface around and when I run my serger because it's one of the lower end sergers it's also like a little bit like chugging along. It's not a smooth ride if you know what I'm saying. So I saw these mats that they sell I think as serger mats but you can also use them for lots of other different things. Anywhere you want to like put a buffer between an appliance or a machine and the surface that it's on to prevent it from jumping around or bouncing or being really really loud. So I was like okay like make sense I can see why that would work um let me try and see if it works and I'll say that noise wise there's only a slight improvement but in terms of the machine like shaking the whole table and the machine itself kind of bouncing around that improved greatly. The machine is not going anywhere and it's just more steady and like before like sometimes things would like eventually fall off the desk from like the vibration it would move them and then they fall off the desk that's not happening anymore so it's reducing like the vibration on the desk which is nice um and like I said sound is only a little bit better but still better but the sound really wasn't what bothered me it was just that everything felt like an earthquake the whole time. So I'm going to get one of these for my cover stitch as well. They also sell one that's a little bit longer like this way for your sewing machine. So um if you want to get these kind of mats for your entire collection of machines they have them sized and ready to go um I really like it. Another benefit that I didn't realize is that when you have your tray and your sewing machine you know how it would never stay like up close to the machine this makes sure that when it goes in locked I don't know it stays locked maybe that has to do with the vibration I'm not sure but no matter how many times I click it into place it would never stay but this helps it stay a little bit so I thought that was also a neat little perk of the product. Both of these things the um needle threader and this are going to be linked in the description box of this video so check the description box down below for links direct links where you can go find these and then the third thing is my fun little show and tell so I have a friend Sarah from back in Charleston who you might have heard me talk about her she was actually with us um for the sewing retreat in Buford. We all started sewing at the same time took sewing classes together that's how we met and then she stopped sewing when she got pregnant with her first child and then had another child after that and has just recently gotten back into sewing so um she is our sewing friend and her dad is like super handy guy a craftsman kind of by his own right he doesn't sew but he makes like I think like wooden baskets or something like that anyways she had him make me and Amber um these seam rippers and the handle is made from a deer that I believe someone in their family killed but they are a nose to tail family like she regularly buys half cows and like uses up everything that they give her bone for the bone broth and of course all the meat and everything so no surprise to me that they found a way to use this part of the animal as well um so yeah it's really neat little gift obviously very unique there's only I think three of them Amber has one I have one and Sarah got one um but it's just really cool and very kind of like thoughtful of her to say hey you know dad it would be really neat if you could figure out a way to make a seam ripper I didn't even know that you could buy these things the little seam ripper part and like make your own handle I'd never even considered doing that but anyways it's really cool it's a very very special gift one that I will cherish for a long time um I told her that he could sell these but I don't think they're interested maybe it was a lot of work I don't know but anyways it's really cool I love it and I also love that it's like a little bit crooked because I can just stick it in to my mesh um or my wire shelving unit and it's like always right there by my sewing machine and it's little and kind of ergonomic you know with the little crooked it anyways I don't know I really love this and thought you guys would think the story was cool since her family you know this is like the dearest part of the family now you know what I'm saying all right so that is going to do it for my favorite things for December 2018 I am going to be doing a roundup of my 2018 top favorite things things that I discovered this year that are like the best of the best the things that I use regularly that have come become a regular part of my sewing um work um the best of the best of 2018 so look forward to that very soon um in the meantime let me know in the comments below if you found anything unique or special or fun or exciting um that you're using in your sewing room a lot I want to hear about it I will buy it I will test it out and maybe it'll get featured on a future favorite video uh thank you all so much for watching and I will see you all very soon bye


Thank you very much for the invitation. It's a big pleasure and honor for me to speak to you about Ukraine. I'm very happy that despite the weather and the mid of July, you all made it here. It says a lot to me that there is interest over my country. I think that I will talk a little bit about domestic developments in Ukraine and then go to foreign policy and then we'll conclude about elections that are coming in October in Ukraine. Speaking about today, today is a memorable day. The president, the first president of Ukraine is celebrating his 62nd birthday and it's a person who could become a hero of Ukraine as he could bring stability and also set the right course for the country. When President Yanukovych was coming to power, he actually promised stability and he said that he would unite east and west around a certain project. I think over the two years he did succeed in that. Unfortunately, the east and west are now united in his in the disliking of him rather than around certain other projects. And I will try to tell you basically to walk you through this last two years leading to today why Ukraine is a gray zone unfortunately and where it may go within the next few years. So in 2010 we had three presidential elections that brought to power Viktor Yanukovych and unfortunately very fast after that Ukraine started going the wrong direction. We see that Ukraine is not scoring well in international ratings be that the Freedom House nations and transit freedom index be that the World Bank ease of doing business before the visa transparency international where Ukraine is almost sadly sitting on the 152nd place out of 183 countries both in terms of corruption and in terms of ease of doing business. In 2010 in autumn we saw local elections that were not compliant with international norms. Later on we saw the constitutional overhaul which basically meant that Ukrainian constitution was Ukraine being more of a parliamentary public was returned to the constitution of the 90s was president gaining again more power. But that was done through the constitutional court which was under control of the president. The judiciary was also put under control of the presidential administration and we saw that president's people were put in key positions in the administration from central bank to ministry of interior and other ministries. We also saw very set development after the orange evolution that first time Ukrainian media started self-censorship just basically for owners being afraid of prosecution from the administration that were no direct demands from the administration as it was in the 90s but the self-censorship was in very new development. We also saw that the economy was not doing well as you probably know Ukraine was among the most hit economies of the crisis of 2008-2009. It did recover slowly with the help of IMF and the activities of the government but at the same time we saw that the reforms that were started they benefited mostly the big businesses the oligarchs close to the president and his family rather than ordinary people and for instance an interesting development that the president's family started in reaching itself over the last two years was for instance president's son growing his valves 18 times in just one year. And the last set development is that the police and security forces are gaining more power but also more budget and that raises a big question in Ukraine. The lucky the healthy development that you mentioned was the Euro 2012 which again was a lot of efforts from the government not always successful. I think that it was a good sign that it was successful because for me it was a sign of Ukrainians basically stepping in and being those hospitable people who welcomed the European fence and that was again about the people's power which I will talk a bit later. So while this set developments why Ukraine after the Orange Revolution hopeful of the European Union hopeful of the Western world why did it go this way. My reading of this is simple that basically the president's vision for Ukraine is not of a statesman but more of a clansman with his family being a center of his thinking. We saw that as I said that there was an enrichment of his family members and himself we saw this consolidation of power we saw the distribution of assets first for oligarchs close to him but now more to family and we saw tightening of control in almost all public spheres. I would not agree with those who say that Ukraine is now a Belarus or on the way to Belarus it's a very very much of a development of its own but it's quite a boring sign. Now I'll move to the foreign policy. As I said the title says Ukraine to an Eastern West and that Ukraine is a grey zone. That's basically where Ukraine again ended up with the with the help of administration when Yanukovych came to power he said that foreign policy will be pragmatic that it will be based on national interests and it will be not more no more about dreaming European dreams but building Europe at home. In reality at the beginning it was more about corporate interests which basically interests of the oligarchs close to him and now it's about family interests that are growing within the country. Again the grey zone is about reactionist foreign policy quite often and often misreading the partners. I will talk about three partners because the west the Ukrainians don't see the west as a homogeneous obviously actor the US would be perhaps the most important foreign policy partner and it's perhaps the most respected partner by the by the Ukrainian administration. Obviously there were a number of steps towards the US like Ukraine giving up enriched uranium or Ukraine was participating in NATO operations or US companies got access to extraction of gas on Ukrainian territory just recently and most of these actions were made to basically shut up the US on democracy on the problems with democracy in Ukraine and the belief in Kiev is such that when we give all the things to the US administration they will simply forget about values about their respect for democracy. Now moving to Russia it's the partner and competitor which has a very long history of difficult relations with Ukraine. Obviously it's perhaps the most feared partner by the administration and the initial desire when the coach came to power was to get to change the contract that was signed in 2009 on gas supplies from Russia and to get basically cheaper gas and on the other hand to be left alone. The talks continue for two years with very little result but we saw that the Ukrainian administration tried to give gifts to presence to the to the Russian administration first of all by declaring Ukraine as a non-block country which basically meant that we would not aspire to become a member of NATO and then the second was the extension of the Black Sea Fleet for the next few decades but again this concessions led to nowhere that the contracts are not revised and basically this the last one was what you mentioned the language law which was adopted by the parliament last week it's not the only reason Russia is not the only reason for the adoption of this law and I'll talk a little bit about that later but basically the assumption was that before the meeting of President Yanukovych and President Putin on July 12th again to discuss gas issues and other bilateral issues that would be a nice present my my reading is that it will not help to solve the gas problem but that's that that has been done on the bigger demands of Russia which is Ukrainian pipeline and and the storages for gas and the membership of Ukrainian the customs union I don't think that the Ukrainian administration is ready for that for very pragmatic reasons because it will not be good economically for oligarchs and the family in the short run and in the long run it will not be good politically for the president and his family so I would not I would perhaps come down those who are afraid to lose Ukraine to Russia I think that the the most scary situation is if we lose Ukraine to this grave zone than to to to Russia I would say that perhaps relations with Russia will always be difficult but with this particular administration they will not get easier despite all the hopes initially when Yanukovych came to power but again to remind that Russia is perhaps the only partner with which Ukrainians have real negotiations and it was the misinterpretation of Russia's intentions that desires we see that it leads nowhere because Russia doesn't want to agree with this small gift it wants a bigger a bigger gift now moving to the European Union for a long time the European Union was declared as an ultimate goal of every Ukrainian administration and as was mentioned here the Ukrainians started negotiations on the association agreement and deep and comprehensive free trade agreement in 2007-2008 the negotiations were quite painful basically for both sides first of all for the EU it was the first time when such a broad and comprehensive agreement was negotiated with a third country for Ukrainians it meant that if agreement is signed and implemented Ukraine would be politically associated and economically integrated with the European Union which meant taking on a lot of EUA key in various spheres and it wouldn't be only about just free trade in goods but it also basically freedom for movement of services and capital and lesser extent of mobility of people but still it would it would integrate Ukraine significantly significantly into the European Union in parallel there were also very positive developments on Ukraine joining energy community of the European Union with the Vulcan states it's been one year of Ukrainian membership but unfortunately Ukraine didn't move much on implementing its commitments Ukraine is negotiating an open sky agreement with the EU which would allow for more free travel for the people to and from Ukraine Ukraine got budget support for reform initiatives and obviously Ukraine started Ukraine signed visa facilitation agreement and started a visa free dialogue with the European Union I think that the the package that the EU offered to Ukraine was quite generous and it could work if the administration and the leadership would really want to use these tools that are offered but unfortunately neither those that are already given nor those that may be given will work and I think that the peer the problem is for the EU EU 27 is that the EU is basing its policy on the assumption that Ukraine is like us like Poland that it wants to integrate and unfortunately that's that's a wrong assumption people of Ukraine may want to be European may they want may want to be democratic but unfortunately the elite and the leadership do not want to give up today's pleasures for the sake of country becoming more close to the European Union so the problems with Ukraine started obviously not with the prosecution of opposition they started with the bad local elections constitutional overhaul and others but the reaction strong reaction came from the European Union as we saw once the opposition leaders started being prosecuted on political grounds I have to mention that last week there was a decision of European Court of Human Rights suggesting that the case against Yuri Lucenko former interior minister was politically motivated and that his arrest was not done according to to the law to international practices but the the fate of about 20 people from the previous administration is clear that they will probably remain in prison and new cases against them will be open and of course that causes a lot of reaction negative reaction from the European Union at the moment the use line and I would like to hear more more from you on this on the Irish position is to release to the the request of administration to release the opposition and hold the free and fair parliamentary elections also to conduct to organize the constitutional and judicial reform but I think that at this moment the messages that come from the EU to Kiev they are quite mixed mixed signals and part of the conditions that are put on Ukraine are difficult to implement again because for the administration it's too costly to release political prisoners for domestic reasons and to unclear what to do with constitutional reform and judicial reform because it's quite a comprehensive task and then can be interpreted in this or that way my fear is that the EU will have to revise its policy on Ukraine I'm not sure if the EU is ready for that because obviously we have very different views within the EU on what Ukraine is for the EU and what we want from the EU and I think the first question is to to discuss what do we want from Ukraine and to start building policy from there but at the moment unfortunately the agreement which has been negotiated for five years is put on the shelf and the likelihood of it being unfrozen is very little because obviously for the for the Ukrainian side whereas the elections may be free and fair and I'll talk about them in a minute if I still have time but the the fate of political prisoners is quite gloomy and I wouldn't see the Ukrainian administration making steps towards the solution of this problem so on the parliamentary elections Ukraine will have parliamentary elections in October this year there are two good news about these elections first of all that the law that was that will regulate the conduct of these elections was changed a year before the elections and that's a good news for Ukraine because we usually try to do just two or one week before the elections as it happened was the local elections in 2010 so the good news is that the rules are clear already for a year and that the OEC observers are already invited which was a big concern and a question for the Ukrainian administration but unfortunately there are many bad news or sad news first of all the return of this mixed system for the elections which means that 50% of the parliament will come through party lists closed party lists and 50% will come through single mandated constituencies as we call them in Ukraine and this system may work well in some member states in the EU but unfortunately the experience of Ukraine shows as Ukraine had that system in the 90s that it's a system that is open to many manipulations and that it's a possibility of rigging the elections unfortunately the way constituencies for these single mandated people were broken down do not correspond with international norms and raise many questions by domestic and international observers already there is certain pressure on the media as I said there is self censorship but also we will see that we see already that some media outlets are enjoying certain pressure and basically the last but not least bad news for Ukraine is that the opposition is pretty weak it's not that it's weak in terms of numbers or even public support but it's weak in terms of alternatives to the current administration and their connection with the public and I think that there are three key questions for the elections one is to which extent the administration will use the administrative resource basically pushing the local authorities to organize elections in a way that are comfortable for the or beneficial for the party of regions there was this funny development which which comes from Russia as we see to put CCTVs in every room where will be elections will be held that's something that Putin introduced before the last elections in Russia and again here while the day of elections itself or the voting may not be problematic because people may still come and express their their views but the problem is that the counting may be problematic and we are not sure how much both the domestic and international observers will be able to to guarantee that the count is fair the second question and concern perhaps is that can elections be free and fair if the key opposition leaders are not running even if their parties are participating in elections but can we can we consider this as free and fair elections and the third question which perhaps goes beyond the elections because the question is what will happen after the elections we may have more or less free and fair preparation more or less free and fair vote and even count and we may even have a lot of opposition people in the new parliament but then the question is what will happen next the there are rumors in Kiev in the presidential administration that the president wants to change the constitution and he tries to do that through quite legal means he changed the constitution through the constitutional court as I said in 2010 and now the plan is more to do it through the parliament so he needs a constitutional majority Ukrainian parliament is unfortunately known for people migrating between parties but also being bought by bigger parties so the question is will this parliament change the constitution to basically have the president be elected in the parliament which means no public won't know people's participation in elections with the same white competences and basically for lifetime so these are three questions that I think that important for to remember about the elections I think it's too early to say whether the elections will be free and fair and we rely on or see a report for that but elections are not everything in Ukrainian reality because they will not change whatever outcome is and whatever the process is they will not change the systemic problems basically Ukraine being in the great zone between east and west they will not go away just a few words on the people because obviously where are those Ukrainians who brought change in 2004-2005 I think they are tired of politicians they trusted too much to the orange team and they did think that they would just bring this new politicians or they sought new politicians to power and then they would retreat home and they would let the good politicians deliver on their promises which we all know didn't happen unfortunately the people both in the east and in the west they disapprove of the government actions and president's actions but at the same time they dislike the opposition so the support for both sides is quite low that may of course result also in the low turnout for the parliamentary elections and people don't trust in their own power anymore they did the the revolution once and they cannot go and protest every time and even if they go and protest as we saw over the last two years they will protest about something very important for them personally when the administration suggested to adopt a tax legislation that will that would influence negatively small and medium businesses they went out to the streets but they didn't go out to the streets for instance to protest when political opposition or when when the opposition was put behind the bars or other democratic problems appeared in Ukraine unfortunately the authorities are trying to radicalize the population and the language law is one of the one of the examples of bringing east against the west of Ukraine because there is certainly a divide between eastern western Ukraine not to the extent that that some people in the west think but obviously people have different culture different language different history different religion and it's just 20 years that they have been together and they're still trying to find their way towards each other but adoption of language law which basically is not really about the language but about making society more more radical and more negative against each other is not a good sign and the hope I think is obviously in the young people who are who are more believing in their power but I think that there is still no critical mass of them who would know what they want from their country and who would know how to take this country there and I think it will take time for us to go there and perhaps to to conclude I will say just about the the connection between Ukraine and Ireland because as we discussed over lunch Ireland is holding an OSEE chairmanship this year and Ukraine will take over next year which is perhaps a good news for Ukraine even if it may be a bit of a difficult case for the OSEE but I think that obviously Irish example of of chairmanship could be good for Ukraine however the the results of Ukrainian chairmanship are still a big question and the priorities are I think a bit


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Hey, here we go now. Hey everybody Lee Lowell here smart option seller comm today is Saturday September 26 2020 hey listen if you're put option seller and you're working with interactive brokers or you want to be a put option seller I've been getting some requests from people to show them exactly how I sell put options at Interactive brokers the actual mechanics that I use What's the steps involved? So I'm going to show you how I do that today? I'll also give you a little cheat sheet on how I actually pick put options to sell so stick around for that I'll show you that so welcome to another edition of the Saturday synopsis We like to take a look at the charts see how the market did over the last week and see what may come forward in The coming week, so let's dive right and take a look at the charts We always look at the SPY exchange traded fund for the SP 500 gives us a broad overview of the overall market What's been happening the last couple weeks? Well, we've had this move down the last few weeks after we had hit all-time highs We've got the 20-day moving average 50-day moving average the market has blown through the 20-day and has gone through the 50-day so that's sort of Telling let's been about a 10% move for most of the indexes and for a lot of stocks as well What happens is we've get this big down move the market has to digest that move does some sideways trading before it figure out Before it figures out where it wants to go next and that move was down through the 50-day moving average So this past week was a lot of up and down a lot of meandering We had the down up down up so we finish the week This was the whole week right here meandering again So the market needs to decide where it wants to go next and that's what happens when we get this Meandering type of movement will we move down to the 200-day moving average which is like a really big line in the sand I hope not because that means more selling is involved So what I'd like to see is more bottoming action here more sideways action And then the market could get back up to its upward trajectory We definitely need to see the market move above the 50-day moving average, you know falling below it is a pretty big deal And so it's still digesting this big move still trying to figure out where it wants to go So let's try to see if we can get some more meandering action and then movement to the upside Let's take a look at the NASDAQ The NASDAQ composite has been the strongest of all the indexes had the big move down a few weeks ago Did the meandering broke down through the 50-day moving average and spent this week meandering just like the S&P 500 The good thing is that it had a big move up on Friday close You know still below the move the 50-day moving average, but it's getting closer So I'd like to see some more meandering here 200-day moving down here still sloping upwards, which is good 50-day still sloping upwards We've got the 20-day that's curling over to the downside So that's a little bit telling but that's on the shorter end of the scale the 50-day is really what we want to concentrate on here So let's see if the market could you know find its footing meander a little bit and then move back higher That's what I'm hoping for for the next week and forward. Let's take a look at the Dow industrials Third index we always look at same thing got through the 20-day last week move through the 50-day this week Meandering action got the 200-day the flat flat flat 200-day moving average lurking down here It's not too far below it. So if it does come down, we should see some good support down here once again, I Probably guessing we're going to see some more sideways action still digesting the big down moves over the last few weeks It's got to find its footing maybe carve out like a curved bottom here That's how bottomings long-term bottom is using start get some meandering and then some curve bottom bottoming action So let's see if we could get back above the 50-day moving average as well over the the next week or so Take a look at the VIX. We always look at the VIX volatility indicator Moves inversely to the general market Had its meandering week as well. Here's the 50-day moving average this line right here So the VIX is above the 50-day just like the market is below the 50-day they move inversely to each other So not a lot going on here sideways action this week option premium still Lower than it was coming off the the big down move in the market, but still above its long-term average here I'd like to see volatility move back down. That would mean the market is going up Let's take a couple Let's look at a couple charts of nope some some big players in the market We always look at these to see what's happening Apple and most of these are the tech stocks Because these are the ones leading the market Apple everyone's favorite Good thing about Apple it was trading below the 50-day moving average line right here But it you can see it closed just above the 50-day moving average Let's see if we could expand this a little bit You can see the little dash on the right side of this bar and that means a closing price closing prices are very important Close just above the 50-day moving average, which is a good sign. So hopefully we can Apple kid Keep moving up next week and pull the rest of the market with it. Let's take a look at Amazon Of course another biggie Amazon's closed below the 50-day moving average for a while now Trying to move back up as well still below it Amazon's a little weaker than Apple, but let's hope that next week it either meanders or moves back up Let's take a look at what else we have Google as well Another big player Google has blown through all the moving averages and has landed right on support right on the 200-day moving average. This is critical right here We really don't want to see Google move down below it because that can drag everything else with it So let's see if the 200-day moving average holds got one two three about three or four days We're just bounced off this 200-day moving average. Let's see if it could move its way back up Microsoft another one Microsoft had a good day on Friday moving back up moving back towards the 20-day and the 50-day if it could blast through both These that would be a very good sign Facebook is You know same as the others came down through both moving averages sideways action here Let's see if it could kind of have a little bottoming action here and move back higher Tesla. Look at Tesla Tesla's been strong stronger the strongest of some of these stocks bounce right off the 50-day moving average On Thursday had a good bounce. So test is still pretty strong people like it So good bounce here. Let's see. Maybe Tesla could could lead the market higher come next week Couple other charts of note. I want to show you in the metals market gold and silver. I want to show you how these Patterns work very well Could give you an idea how how to play a market. Let's take a look at silver because that was very pronounced in silver Call the triangle pattern triangle pattern right here That means the market starts out wide and then the ranges get tighter and tighter and tighter until it reaches the apex here And it's got all this energy that's coiling up and wants to bust out Just not sure which way it's gonna bust out yet But when it finally busts out either higher or lower tends to keep moving in that direction for a number of days You can see how silver just blasted to the downside. It's just expanding all that energy Same thing with gold but not as pronounced take a look at gold. These are the futures. Just look at silver futures This is the gold futures for December December gold futures Same thing it's coiling up into the triangle pattern and then it blasts it out to the downside So these patterns work people if you know your chart patterns You can find these on charts all the time and they work pretty well We've talked about bull flags in the in the past. There's a triangle pattern So keep in keep a watch out for those kind of patterns. So that's it for the market assessment as I said next week Let's pull up the SPY one more time Market still digesting the down moves still trying to figure out what it wants to do Let's hope for some way more meandering sideways action and then the market could kind of find its footing and Move back up. So that's it for the market assessment. So let's talk about the options information today Put options on that is what we do here at the smart option seller We are put option sellers are bread and butter and people have asked me They want to know what the mechanics are of selling a put option at interactive brokers Interactive brokers is is a broker that you can trade through I use them a lot of people use them They want to know how to do it. So let's pull up our interactive brokers screens here This is the Classic TWS trader workstation down here. It says classic TWS that says our trader workstation and there's other tabs here You can configure the screens any way you like. This is options trading tab. There's something called mosaic I stick with the classic only because I've been using interactive brokers for so long I'm just so used to it now what you can do is you can You can pull up stocks and options you can type them in here and you get the quotes here So it seems like Saturday today interactive brokers is not showing the bid and ask left over from Friday They usually have the market quotes here. Let's take a look at the this is the options trader part of interactive brokers Another way you can look at option chains. This is what I really like about interactive brokers We got calls on the left puts on the right as I said, okay, so we've got the Last prices showing up, but typically they have the bid and ask prices left over from Friday session not showing up here, but that's okay. We're gonna look at We can go back to our charting package We're gonna look at e-signal and here's their option chain for e-signal and we're gonna Show you I'm gonna show you how I sell a put option pick a put option And then how I do it in interactive brokers But first let's take a look at my cheat sheet again I always have a cheat sheet for you on the steps to selling put options now remember if you're a put option seller What you're doing? You're actually obligating yourself to potentially buy stock in the future at a price of your choosing Which is a good thing. There's a stock that you want You don't want to buy it at its current price. You want to buy it at a potentially lower price You could do that by selling the put option. So here's my my four-step process for selling put on number one You want to pick a quality stock that you would like to buy at a reduced price from where the stock currently trades now So you're looking to potentially buy the stock later on at a lower price You're gonna choose an expiration date two to four months out in time shorter the better as option sells We always like shorter time from but that doesn't always mean it's better Let me take that back shorter is better Yes, but it has to it has to meet the other requirements for selling the proper Strike price. So we want to choose an expiration date in my opinion This is my sweet spot two to four months out in time if I can get the two month That's expiration. I will do it You're gonna choose an out-of-the-money strike price with a 20% cushion Below the current price of the stock when I go through the example I'll show you what that means and we're gonna look for a credit of 25 to 30 cents when we actually sell that put option So this is a very conservative strategy. We'd like to play in very safe. These are hitting singles We're not going for home runs here So we're playing very safe and these type of trades usually to probability of profit of 90% or greater Now when I say probability of profit, there's two things that could happen when you sell a put option You're either gonna have to buy the stock if the stock comes down to your strike price or the option will expire worthless So there's there's two ways that you can play Now typically the way we do it is most of the time We will buy the option back at a very cheap price and lock in our profits or the option will expire So that's what I mean when a probability of profit That means if you sell this the put option here and you buy it back here At a lower price you're gonna lock in your profit. So that's 90% of the time you're gonna lock in that profit that way On the off chance, you will get a signed meaning that you will have to buy the stock as long as you want to do that So here's your four-step process. We're gonna take a look at the charts and see what we want to do now We're talking about examples only. This is not a real recommendation This is not a real recommendation Just showing you examples. We're gonna look at Walmart. Here's a chart of Walmart Now if I was interested in potentially buying Walmart, you know, of course, I can go out and just buy it at its current stock price You buy it right at it closed at 137 27 on Friday yesterday, September 25th, 2020 I can go out and buy the shares But for me, I'm thinking, you know what? Maybe I want to try to buy Walmart Somewhere down here below the 200-day moving average. I really want to get it at a really cheap price I want to get at a discount and so what would I do? I could sell a put option at a strike price down here somewhere Which means Walmart would have to fall all the way down here before I would actually get a chance to buy the shares of stock now One of my rules is that I look for at least a 20% cushion below the current price of the stock So here's current price of stock 137 20 percent below that's about 26 27 dollars Below the current price. So we're looking at maybe 26 so maybe a hundred hundred and ten strike price at least hundred and ten strike price That'd be about twenty percent below so my first inkling would would be to look for a strike price at the hundred and ten level two to four months out in time and Receiving a twenty five to thirty cent credit. So let's go back to Our option chain here with a look at option and then we're gonna pull up interactive brokers and show you how we actually sell it Walmart now, so we want to go to two four two to four months out in time So let's take a look at we can look at November and December So that's roughly, you know within our time range And it'll pull up the options now here. I put options on the right now E signal has all the the prior days information bid as prices. So we got November you can see down here This is November 2020 and then a little further down We have The December options down here. So we want to see what the 110 puts are trading for In either November or December because that's our 20% cushion the November strike The 110's so we've got a couple different Same strike prices. These are for the different expiration dates within each month. We have weekly options that trade So we're looking at the the normal third Friday of the month expiration And that would be the November 110 puts right here So close at 48 cent bid at 55 cent offer now we can even go down to the 105 puts even get more Cushion that's 25 cent 45 cent offer So right there in the middle is where you always want to try to trade in between the bid nas 25 cent bid 45 cent offer So we could probably sell these 105 puts at 35 cents a contract that would meet our requirements Which is a good thing now Let's go to Interactive brokers and take a look at the option chain for Walmart got Walmart pulled up here. Here's November So the date would be November 20th 2020 the other date of November is November 6 So you get these weekly options that trade Weekly this is the art the normal Expiration you can do the drop-down and when it says regular that means the regular monthly Third Friday of the month expiration, but you can choose any one of these other Weekly expirations if you want so we're looking at November 20 55 days out and for Walmart We were looking at the 105 puts so they closed on Friday at 39 cents a contract Okay, the bid nas quotes are not shown here for Interactive brokers But we just saw it was a 25 cent bid 45 cent offer in our e-signal So if we wanted to actually sell these which would meet the requirements 105 puts has a nice cushion below the the last price of Walmart showing up here at 13670 And that's about the 105 is about a 31 dollar cushion below that so that's well over 20 percent That's maybe about 22 percent or so So if we were to sell these 105 puts there's two ways we can do it in Interactive brokers We're in the options trader tab what we would do is You know the the numbers aren't showing here, but we click on the bid price Okay, and that will bring up another screen right here So since you want to sell these you you click on the bid price and that will invoke a sell order And it'll bring up a trading ticket like this and it'll show you what you want to do before you do it You can check all the numbers it already defaults to the sell ticket It's got the little dot here if I was to buy it this black circle would be in the buy side So it already defaults to sell you can change the quantities Okay, you can use these up arrows down arrows change your quantities. It's a limit price So we're going to sell it at a limit price of 35 cents of contract. We're going to just type that in Okay, 35 cents and it's going to be the destination is smart. That means the the Software will choose the best option exchange to send the order And you if you want to have a good till canceled you can change that to good till canceled Now you click on preview right here preview button down here And it's going to tell you what you're about to do before you actually send the order We got a little warning here. Don't have to worry about that So it's telling you you're going to sell three contracts of a walmart november 20th 105 puts And your price is 35 cents of contract. That's what you're going to want to do And typically they would have the information down here how much you're going to collect And what the margin Your margin requirement would be but for whatever reason Interactive brokers is not showing this today So we're going to close it out because we're not going to actually Launch the trade now. We can also create That same trade in the main home screen here Now, let me go to a new screen here and actually go back to this one So if you want to follow quote, you would just type in the symbol you click in any any line here Okay, type in walmart W mt for walmart. We want to see the stock price at least Okay, now trading was active. We'd get the bid and ask prices and all that market is not open right now Now if we want to follow this the option contract type in walmart again At this time we choose options And it's going to bring up this window here and you're going to choose The option that we want to follow We're going to look at the november Contracts and the 105 puts just click on it and it'll bring up the it'll bring up the Contract right here. Okay, so now you have not only walmart stock, but you have the contract that you can follow It'll have the bid and ask quotes All day long. Here's where it closed yesterday on friday So during the day during market action you can see the bid and ask and if you wanted to invoke an order from this screen All you have to do is click on the bid price again Like I showed you and it will bring up the screen So you can actually invoke the order from the main screen here or you can invoke the order from The option trader screen here Like I said, you want you click on the bid price. Okay, if you want to sell you can see the little sell If I move it over to the ass, it'll change the blue for buy Sell is red. So you click on the bid price when there would be a bid price in there And it'll bring up the order screen here or the ticket So there you go. That's it's very simple. Okay, so interactive brokers you have a couple different ways You can use the option trader. You can use the main screen You can choose an options trading tab. So you can configure these windows You have the the options trader screen here and you can do a chart and all these other things or the mosaic You can you know change all these windows. So it's very configurable. Like I said, I Default to the classic tws just because I've been using it for so long. So that's what I do All right. So there you go. That's how you do it That's how I sell put options at interactive brokers. Let's go back to our cheat sheet here. Remember When you're selling put options, you need to stick with stocks that you have a genuine interest in Potentially buying you don't want to sell put options on stocks. Just just to get the premium. That's not how you do it You can get in trouble by doing that You choose an expiration date two to four months out in time Short of the better as long as you can still get the 20 cushion and a 25 to 30 cent credit when you sell Those put options. Okay, and those typically lead to a 90 percent or greater probability of profit now How do I know that? Well, another thing we could do is we can go up to our probability calculator and that tells us You know our chances of the stock moving to The expiration moving down to this the the level that we're interested in buying it So let's take let me see how many days we're left. So 55 days. So when we go into our probability calculator We i'm putting in the stock price of walmart. So 137 expiration date of november's 55 days ahead volatility for walmart's about 30 Now we will want to know is what are the chances of walmart Falling down to a hundred and five dollars because that's the strike price that we're choosing This will tell you what your chances are of that happening click on go So what the probability calculator is telling us is that there's only a 1.1% chance that walmart will fall from 137 Down to 105 in the next 55 days. So that's telling you You you only have a 1 chance that you're going to be able to buy Walmart at 105 conversely there's a 98.8 chance that walmart will stay above 105 over the next 55 days and if that happens, that's fine The option will just expire worthless and you'll keep the money You'll keep your 35 cents that you collected by selling that put option That's what I mean. We usually have a 90 percent or greater probability of profit We have in this case It's a 98.8 probability of profiting on that trade and by that I mean You're going to sell the option at 35 cents and most likely it's either going to expire worthless Or you can buy it back for nickel and lock in your 30 cent profit. That's 30 actual dollars for every contract that you sell So probability calculator a good thing To help you gauge that the the probability of a stock moving from point a To point b and in this case is only 1 chance of walmart falling that far So looks like you won't be able to buy a stock at 105, but at least you'll make 35 bucks per contract in the process Okay, so that's that is The information for today Looked at the charts. We looked at selling options at selling put-ons at interactive brokers That'll pretty much do it for me. Remember If you like this video, please please please give me a thumbs up Don't forget to hit the subscribe button in in the Bottom right corner of the screen you're watching hit that red subscribe button That way you'll be notified every time I put out a new video every week Send me a comment write a comment below as well Also Send me an email if you have any questions. 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So, welcome to this lecture. In the previous lecture we saw that G L and R plus is path connected. So, let us begin this lecture by showing that proposition G L and C is path connected. So, to show that G L and C is path connected. So, given a matrix A in G L and C we will find joining A to identity. So, we have to find path in G L and C. So, let us just look at this straight line path. So, let consider this gamma t this is t times identity plus 1 minus t times A ok. So, now note that if t is a complex number then gamma t is actually a matrix in. So, this i n is n times n identity matrix then gamma t is a matrix in M and C. It is an n cross n matrix with complex entries right. So, what we need? So, we need to find ok. So, note that gamma of 0 is equal to A and gamma of 1 is equal to identity. So, let p of t p equal to determinant of gamma of t ok. So, then this is a polynomial. So, this is a non-zero polynomial with coefficients complex numbers right and this polynomial is non-zero because non-zero as p of 0 is equal to determinant of gamma of ok. Let us look at 1 or even gamma of 0 is fine, but gamma of 0 we know is A which is not equal to 0 because A is in G L and C right. So, thus p of t has at most finitely many roots has finitely many roots has sorry has at most n roots right since degree of p of t is less than equal to n. So, if you make the complex plane then here we have 0 and here we have 1 and let us say the roots of p r lambda 1 up to some lambda r where r is less than equal to n right. So, this is lambda 1 lambda 2 lambda 3 up to lambda r ok and none of the lambda i's can be 0 or 1 because at p of 0 is determinant of A which is non-zero and p of 1 is determinant of identity is non-zero ok. So, we can simply take a path we can take a path joining 0 and 1 which misses all these lambda i's yeah in the complex plane. So, let us. So, let S from 0 1 to C be a continuous path such that S of 0 is equal to 0, S of 1 is equal to 1 and the gamma i's do not belong to the image of S ok. So, then gamma compose S this from 0 1 to m and C the image lands in G L and C because if for any t as 0 1 the determinant of gamma of S of t is non-zero as determinant of gamma of S of t is equal to p of S of t which is non-zero right p of p of a complex number p lambda is equal to 0 if and only if lambda is in the set lambda 1 up to lambda r and the image of S misses all these lambda i's. So, therefore, the determinant is never 0 yeah thus gamma compose S from 0 1 the image lands inside G L and C and clearly gamma compose S of 0 is equal to gamma of 0 which is equal to A and gamma compose S of 1 is equal to gamma of 1 is equal to identity right. So, thus every matrix A in G L and C can be joined to identity by a continuous path in G L and C. So, thus G L and C is path connected. So, therefore, using this nice trick we saw that G L and C is path connected and this much easier to prove than the case of G L and R plus ok. So, let us make this simple observation. So, this completes a proof let X be path connected let F from X to Y be a continuous map. So, then F of X contained in Y with the subspace topology. So, let us see this this is easy to prove. So, recall that we had seen and we have used it many times now if we view F as a map from X to F of X where F of X has a subspace topology from Y then F is continuous. So, now we want to show that F of X is path connected. So, if we choose. So, let F of X 1 and F of X 2 be any 2 points in F of X right.  So, since X is path connected there exists a path which joins X 2 X 1 and this F since X is path connected there exist gamma from 0 1 to X says that gamma of 0 is X 1 and gamma of 1 is X 2 right.  So, this implies that F of X is path connected ok. So, this completes the proof. So, as a corollary of this we have if X is path connected and F from X to Y is a surjective continuous path then Y is path connected right. This corollary is immediate because since F is surjective it follows that Y is equal to F of X and now we just use the previous lemma. So, as a corollary of this corollary we have these nice applications SL and R these n cross n matrices says that determinant of A is equal to 1 is path connected. So, in order to show that SL and R is path connected all that we have to do is we have to construct using the previous corollary a surjective map from a path connected space to SL and R. So, we will simply take this map to SL and R. So, this map is. So, if I take a matrix A yeah A gets map 2. So, this is A. So, we just divide all the entries in the first column with determinant of A and the other entries are as it is. So, let us call this map F yeah. So, clearly the image of F ok. So, determinant of F of A is equal to since the first column has been scaled by one upon determinant of A there is equal to one upon determinant of A into determinant of A which is 1 ok. Now SL and R is contained inside GL and R and here we have F GL and R plus sorry SL and R right and this composition is equal to identity right. So, this implies that F is surjective. So, it only remains to show that F is continuous, but that is easy to see because. So, SL and R has a subspace topology from M and R SL and R is a close subspace of M and R and it has a subspace topology and therefore, to show that F is continuous it is enough to show that continuous if and only if I compose F is continuous and to say that I compose F is continuous it is enough to show that the coordinate functions are continuous yeah, but so to show I compose F is continuous enough to show that the coordinate functions are continuous yeah, but what are the coordinate functions. So, if we start with A then the coordinate functions of I compose F of A. So, the first in the first column the entries are of this type A I 1 divided by determinant of A, but one upon determinant of A is once again a continuous function. So, since determinant does not vanish on zero naught plus is continuous and not 0 this implies the function A goes to one upon determinant of A is continuous right. So, this implies. So, if I take A and I send it to A I 1 divided by determinant of A this continuous right and similarly A goes to A I j where j is strictly greater than 1 is also continuous.  So, this is one application. So, similarly we can also show that s l and c this n cross n matrix with complex entries such that determinant of A is equal to 1 is path connected right. Again we use the same map from g l and c to s l and c where we just scale the first column by one upon determinant of A. Okay. So, we will end this lecture here and in the next lecture we will talk about compactness.


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As of June 9, 2020, the World Health Organization reported a total of 7,039,918 confirmed cases of COVID-19 globally, with 404,396 deaths. Within the region of the Americas, there was a total of 3,366,251 cases. On June 10, 2020, the Ministry of Health and Wellness received the results of the COVID-19 tests which were conducted this week. All of the 60 samples which returned were negative. To date, St. Lucia has recorded a total of 19 confirmed cases of COVID-19. 18 of those cases have fully recovered. The last case was a repatriated cruise national and was recorded on June 4, 2020. We have conducted a total of 1,264 tests to date. The Ministry of Health and Wellness caution St. Lucia not to become complacent as it relates to adhering to the physical distancing and the infection prevention and control measures. St. Lucia is asked to avoid participating in large social gatherings and to remain vigilant and continue taking the necessary precautions. By doing so, we can all play a significant part in protecting the lives of our families, friends and the most vulnerable population. The Ministry of Health and Wellness will remind the public that we anticipate new cases and therefore we must comply with the guidelines established in order to reduce any possible transmission of COVID-19. The support of every citizen is required in maintaining their recommended infection prevention and control and physical distancing measures. We encourage everyone to continue sanitizing your hands by hand washing and the use of alcohol-based hand sanitizer to wear your homemade mask while undertaking daily activities out of home and to maintain the required 6-foot distance. Also, be sure to cover your mouth and nose when coughing and sneezing. The Ministry of Health and Wellness will continue providing regular updates on COVID-19.


This year, the Navy made every effort to eliminate sexual assault. Leaders joined together to roll out initiatives promoting a culturally aware and informed Navy. The effort started this summer with SECDEF-Sapper stand-down, and the Navy followed up with Sapper Leadership and Sapper Fleet Training. The Navy also created the Victims' Legal Counsel Program, which provides legal advice and advocacy for eligible victims of sexual assault. To promote transparency and encourage reporting sexual assault, the Navy began releasing the results for Special and General Courts Marshal and weekly numbers for sexual assault reports. As we close up the year, SECNAB released 2013 sexual assault survey in October. There's still time for you to help meet the end-of-year goal of 65,000 surveys completed. Take the survey online and use the password 2013-survey. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Seaman Jennifer LeBron.


What challenges beyond availability do you see there being for the rolling out of COVID vaccines? Yeah, I think now, especially people working from home, people are on social media a lot more than they used to be. And there's so much misinformation and this also carries over within the black community, the experience of medical racism. A lot of people within that group get dismissed as, oh, they're anti-vax, they listen to conspiracy theories, they're crazy. So I think just sort of validating their concerns and giving them a safe space where they can discuss these things without being ridiculed. I think it would be really important to bring in community leaders, make it a holistic approach.


We have time to start new debates, so we're going to move to Member's Statement. I'll recognize the Member for Mark Amuninville. Thank you, Madam Speaker. Two years ago, I introduced a bill to recognize May 10th in each year as Lupus Awareness Day in Ontario, which later came into force. This is our second year observing this important day. This May 10th, I welcomed 21 members of Lupus Ontario to Queen's Park. For over 40 years, this amazing group has been providing education, awareness, advocacy and research to support those with Lupus to live longer, healthier and better lives. It is exciting to learn that this year, the group launched the light of Lupus for a campaign where 43 landmarks across Ontario were illuminated in purple on May 10th. Lupus is a chronic auto-emulted disease where the body attacks itself, causing inflammation and pain. It can also damage any organ or tissue. Currently, with our cure, one in every 1,000 Canadians is affected by this disease. Lupus affects more than just one person in the disease, but it also impacts their family, friends and work colleagues. By raising awareness of the disease, we also save lives. I would therefore like to commend Lupus Ontario on the important work they are doing in our province and encourage Ontario. Thank you. Next Member's statement. Member for Arshawa. At the Backdoor Mission, Project Mission United brings health care and service agencies under one roof to help those who are unhoused and struggling. People who come to the mission need very real help and are at different stages of healing or hurting. The work done there is tremendous and compassionate, and it helps people on their journey to get the help they need or to have support that they've never found before. I invited the Minister for Mental Health and Addictions to Arshawa, and I want to thank him for coming. I appreciate immeasurably that he came for hours to tour the mission, meet with and learn from frontline service providers and the medical team there. He saw the hub model in action. What he didn't see and couldn't have seen was what we don't have. We don't have a system that will help people without financial means get from hurting through recovery to stability. 18 months is the waitlist for a bed for treatment. The Minister of Mental Health and Addictions saw the value in the work done at the acute care clinic that treats folks on site so they don't have to go to emergency rooms. But Speaker, in our province, the Ministry for Mental Health can't pay for the health needs, and the doctors who serve so many homeless people without ID can't be paid salary so they can continue to provide street wound care and addiction support, and that doesn't make sense. We heard from victim services that survivors often have no affordable and supportive living opportunities because it doesn't exist and they're forced back into danger. CMHA Durham told us they have housing units available, but don't have the subsidy. So we could have housing for more people in need, but agencies can't afford it. Admission United, they have figured out how to work together to best support people living in poverty and on the streets. I wish this Premier would acknowledge the crisis we're facing and choose to heal and help our communities so people wouldn't have to live on the streets and in pain. Thank you. Next Member's Statement, the Member for Renfune, Bessing Pembroke. Thank you Speaker. Speaker, as everyone knows, June is Seniors Month. It's our annual opportunity to dedicate a month to that group of citizens that has reached the point in life where they can look back with a sense of pride on the many things they have accomplished. But let's be clear. The seniors of today aren't just looking back, they're looking forward. Our seniors, particularly those who still enjoy good health, are more active than any of their previous generations. Seniors are not sitting back with their feet up. They're continuously engaging in and around their communities in ways that not only benefit themselves socially, but also provide benefits to their communities. I know when I do voluntary service awards every year, the majority of those receiving those awards are in fact seniors, who after contributing so much through their working lives continue to be the driving forces in so many of our institutions, organizations and service clubs. I dare say that most of the service clubs that exist in our communities could not operate or contribute the way they do without the involvement of our seniors. I encourage everyone to visit one of the Senior Active Living Centers in the Ridings in the month of June and see what amazing things are taking place there to ensure that our seniors continue to be vital and engaged. In the month of June, as summer approaches, be sure not to just honor our seniors for what they have done for us, but celebrate them and celebrate with them and be grateful for the gift that they are. Thank you, Madame la Présidente. The beautiful community of Gauguin is located across the street from a new gold mine. In 2020, the Premier came to the groundbreaking ceremony. He said, and I quote, this gold mine will bring economic prosperity and change lives in Gauguin. I re-speaker.  The good news is, there are plenty of empty lots and empty homes located on paved roads with street lights, hydro, telephone, internet, water, sewage, everything a modern family or business needs. The bad news, none of them are available for sale or rent. You know who owns them all, Speaker? The Government of Ontario. Or as the locals call them, the worst slum lord in this province. Since 2020, my office has been relentless in trying to motivate this government to put them up for sale or at least to rent them out. I wrote and delivered letters to the Premier, to the Minister of Finance, Government and Consumer Services, Infrastructure, Natural Resources and Forests. And the answer for the last three years has been crickets. While over a dozen property are left to rot in Gauguin, they, like many other in our province, are facing a housing crisis. Gauguin is missing out on the prosperity, the Premier's promise. The people of Northern Ontario are tired of waiting. This government needs to put these home in lots up for sale right now. Member Stankman, the Member for Glanbroke, Flanbroke. Thank you and good morning, Madam Speaker. The return of summer also means the return of farmers markets right across Ontario. Visiting the market is a tradition that families across the province look forward to each and every year. In my riding of Flanbroke, Glanbroke, the watered-down farmers market kicked off the season last weekend with an exciting opening day featuring live entertainment and activities for children. The market will run from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. every Saturday until October 14th with over 20 vendors offering everything from fresh fruit and vegetables to baked goods, meat, wine and fresh cut flowers. The market is made possible by the dedicated volunteers who help with set up and tear down every week and ensure the market is accessible to all by helping customers carry heavy purchases to their vehicles. This year will be the market's 10th season since it reopened in its current location at the Water Down Legion. Farmers markets are an excellent opportunity for Ontarians to support our local farmers, growers and producers who work hard every season to put food on our tables. The province's agri-food sector is vital to our food security. It employs over thousands of people and contributes billions to the economy. I encourage everyone to visit a farmers market this summer to support local agriculture and enjoy some fresh and delicious Ontario grown produce. Thank you. Thank you. Last week the Ontario Health Coalition organized a referendum on the privatization of our publicly funded publicly-givered healthcare. People in my community came out to vote at the Douglas More Urgent Care and Fort Erie which the community is fighting to save at the GNGH in Niagara Falls and at the St. David's Fire Hall in Niagara and the Lake to send a clear message to the Premier that people of Niagara do not want privatized healthcare. We have a real crisis in our healthcare system from wait times to staffing shortages to emergency room closures. This government could choose to address this crisis but instead they're choosing to underfund publicly healthcare by 21 billion. That's with a B while they pursue an agenda of privatization. The legislature will recess for summer in less than two weeks. Instead of spending the necessary time to fix these problems the Premier is choosing to end the session while a healthcare system falls deeper into crisis. As a province we can choose to either follow the Premier's plan of unequal care, longer wait times and no transparency or we can choose to repeal Bill 124, repeal Bill 60, invest in publicly funded publicly delivered healthcare and finally end the disaster system of private for profit care and long-term care in the province of Ontario. I want to thank the volunteers in Niagara for organizing the vote. The people who came out to make their voices heard and I'm looking forward to learning the results later today. Thank you very much. Thank you. Next member's statement. The member for Agents. I rise today to highlight the outstanding work being carried out by the Durham Community Action Group in our community. Under the leadership of Premier Ford our government is dedicated to providing support to address the challenges faced by residents particularly around the rising cost of living. I'm thrilled to announce that the Durham Community Action Group has a remarkable team headed by Miss Gloria Small and has been granted 95,000 from the Resilience Communities Fund. This grant will be utilized over a period of 24 months to aid in their recovery and to strengthen the community programs being offered. Their primary focus will be on addressing mental health needs among seniors especially with the black seniors in Durham. Gloria Small-Clark and her team and countless other community leaders who selflessly devote themselves to supporting our communities in Durham Region deserve our utmost recognition and appreciation. Their commitment to providing vital services and programs is truly commendable. As the representative of AJAX I feel an immense sense of pride knowing that organizations at the Durham Action Community Action Group are working tirelessly to uplift our community. Together we can build a stronger more resilient community where no one has to face securities or mental health challenges alone. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member's statements. The Member for Guelph. Thank you Speaker. I want you to know I've had far too many gut-wrenching meetings with parents on the wait list for the Ontario Autism Programme. We know that under this government's watch the number of children with autism waiting to receive core services have more than doubled to over 60,000 children. These numbers, Speaker, have real-world consequences for children and families. One mother last week sat in my office in tears worried about losing her home to finance care for her child. She's had to pay out of pocket for services calling every week trying to figure out where her child is on the wait list. There's no answer and her daughter is becoming increasingly violent. The situation is so severe that the family finally secured urgent response service funding. But it's a 12-week Band-Aid and the funding is coming to an end. So I want members to imagine the frustration and fear about what comes next.  We can do better. We must do better. These kids cannot wait any longer. They need a needs-based program that works for everyone, regardless of age. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the member for Scarborough, Rouge Park. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm proud to raise today and celebrate a remarkable entrepreneur and a changemaker in Scarborough, Sam Ibrahim. Born and raised in Scarborough, Sam's roots traced back to Egypt, where his parents immigrated to Canada in the 80s. It was in the neighbourhoods of Scarborough, Sam found his inspiration and drive to reach for the stars. At the age of 26, Sam founded the Arrow Group of Companies, which has grown to become one of Canada's largest private corporations. Sam is also the co-founder of Scarborough's very own basketball team, the Scarborough Shooting Stars. Sam's contribution extends far beyond the basketball courts. It is Sam's philanthropic endeavours and his love for Scarborough that truly set him apart. It came as no surprise when Sam announced his plan to invest $25 million in the heart of Scarborough to build the Sam Ibrahim Centre for Inclusive Excellence in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Leadership at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campers. This centre will provide promising entrepreneurs with resources and connection to make their ideas a reality. Today, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to Sam Ibrahim for his exceptional leadership, his unwavering dedication and commitment to giving back to Scarborough. Sam, you are truly an inspiration to next generation to dream big. Thank you, Mr Speaker. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Mississauga Centre. Thank you very much, Speaker. Good morning. As we come to the conclusion of Polish Heritage Month, I'd like to acknowledge the 550th anniversary of the birthday of Polish mathematician and astronomer Nicholas Copernicus, Mikołaj Kopernik, often thought of as the father of modern astronomy. Copernicus would forever change our understanding of the cosmos, challenging long-held beliefs and ushering in a new era of scientific thought. During his time, the prevailing belief was that the earth was at the centre of the universe. But through his meticulous observations and bold intellect, he unveiled a revolutionary heliocentric model in 1543 that would send shockwaves throughout the scientific world. Supported by astronomical calculations, he proposed that the sun, not the earth, is at the centre of the solar system and that its planets revolve around it in circular orbits. He inspired future generations of astronomers, scientists and philosophers. Mr Speaker, Copernicus is an inspiration to the 600,000 people of Polish Heritage here in Ontario. And today we have the honour of having the Canadian Polish Congress, the Polish Canadian Business and Professional Association of Windsor and the Władysław Wremont Foundation here at Queen's Park, hosting our reception to commemorate the life and contributions of Nicholas Copernicus right after question period in room 228. I want to thank the organisers for commemorating this amazing day and wonderful month and invite all members and staff to join us as we conclude Polish Heritage Month in Ontario. Thank you. Thank you very much. That concludes our member's statements for this morning.


We've got just this weekend. You guys think differently than probably 990 out of 1,000 men. So I want to give you that a little bit more of an edge. How to approach a woman, how to keep the conversation going, how to read a woman, when to make the move, how this will affect your lifestyle. I'm going to try to go through all this stuff. And because it's very simple, I think we can get through a lot of it. Think. This is the first thing. We've been hearing this over and over and over. We've had some amazing speakers helping us change our thinking. So I think about this a lot different. I think about the process of meeting women and building confidence a lot different than I used to. And the first way I think about it is I talked about being a social genius before. But let's talk about what do you want? Do you want 10 girlfriends? Do you want to get married? Do you want three-day falling in love flings, traveling around the world?  The sky's the limit. You can really have anything you want. But if you don't know what you want, you won't know where to go. And this is key. I hear guys saying all the time, I've heard at this conference over and over, it makes me cringe. Yeah, let's go out to Dirty 6th Street. There's 18-year-old hotties there. And the guy would be like, a dude wearing a suit. They're like, these 18-year-old girls don't want you. They don't want the guy in the suit. They want the frat boy.  They don't want me. I'm pretty good with women. I go out to Dirty 6th Street. I'm not going to do so well. Why? I don't want those girls. They don't want me. I want women that hang out at the W. I want women that are shopping in the nice areas of the city. I live in New York. I go out in the West Village. I go out in the meat packing. I go out in Soho. I meet most of the women during the day. And I'll talk about that in a second. I go to women that are looking for me. And it makes my life so much easier. For years and years and years, I just went where the hot women were. And I always wondered why I would get shot down so often. It's because they're not looking for me. They're looking for the frat guy. They're looking for the biker dude. I used to go to this total biker bar because there were hot biker chicks. Do I look like a biker dude? Like this nerdy guy walking in, my little blazer. Hey, what up?  And she just looks at me and she's like, pfft. And I thought, oh, my opener wasn't any good. No. She doesn't want me.  It's so important. And you guys really got to think about that. Go where the women want you. Because you'll want them too. The same women you want also want you. And that's not a, what's the word, coincidence. It's not a coincidence.  If you have a guy who has zero game, but he's like an eye banker, he's got some money, he knows how to dress, and he goes out to a nice lounge, he's going to do OK. Because women are looking for him. Women will make his life easy. That guy goes to Dirty 6th Street. No good. So let's talk about approaching now. Tell you a quick story. I was walking down, I think, 34th Street in New York right when I moved there. This was probably four months ago, five months ago. And this was six o'clock in the evening, still light out. Walking home. And I see a girl in quiz nose. All I can see is her back sitting at a table. And she looked amazing from behind. I love Burnett's. I couldn't really see anything except her hair and that she was fit. And she looked like she was dressed like a girl I'd want. So it's like, hmm. All right. I'm really going to walk into quiz nose and check her out. So how am I going to do this? I figured, OK, well, I can't really see her face. So I'm going to go. I'm going to order a water. And then I'll be able to check her out while walking to fill up my water at the fountain. And then if she's cute, I'll hit on her. So that's what I did. I walked by and she was gorgeous. So I walked up to her. And I said, check this out. I was standing outside. I saw a really cute Burnett in quiz nose. But I didn't know what her face looked like. So I went to the cashier. I ordered a water.  Here I am. You're that girl. I'm Robbie. What do you think she did? She cracked up. She smiled.  Now, you guys can probably see a little bit of humor in there. But to a woman, that does not happen very often. You don't get a guy confidently walking up. It's not a pickup line. All I did was literally say what I was doing. There was nothing else there, except this is what I just did to meet you. And she cracked up. We talked for five minutes. She introduced me. She actually took me out of the quiz nose, introduced me to a group of friends. I was watching a movie next door. And she did that for a reason. She did that to see if I was a fake or not. She wanted to see how I would interact with her friends. And I ended up going on a date with her a few days later. Date was great. So let's talk about variables. When I first started going out, I didn't really think about what would be easy. I didn't think about if going out with a wingman was easier than going out without a wingman. I didn't really think about going out at night, going out a day. But if you look at most, I think, anything in life, when you minimize the variables, things become easier. Any equation with less variables is less complicated. So in my opinion, the absolute easiest place to meet women is one-on-one during the day she's sitting in a park with luggage doing absolutely nothing. Now this doesn't happen very often. It happens in New York quite a bit. You'll have a girl who's just there. She's just moved there. She's a tourist. She's in a park at 2 in the afternoon. She's obviously not working. She's not doing anything. And you know that there's no distractions. There's no competition. There's no flashy, shiny lights that are going to come and interrupt her, make her ADD.  Quasimodo, her friend, is not going to pull her away. So the variables are pretty much the least amount of variables, and it is the easiest approach. Now when I say easiest, I mean logistically easiest. It may not be the easiest for you because approaching women during the day, at least for me when I got started, was very nerve-wracking. It's not a social environment. You're not supposed to talk to people during the day. At a bar, at a lounge, this is a social environment. You can just walk up and say hi. No one's going to think you're weird because you're in a place to be social. During the day, it's not so much. So it was always really awkward for me at first to even think about approaching a girl during the day because it just didn't feel right to go up and use a routine. It didn't feel right to just say, hey, who lies more? Men or women?  Who are you? What do you want? This is the reaction.  What do you do? Blah, blah, blah. You're like, all right, buddy. Just ask me for my money. I know what you want. Stop wasting my time. So in a situation during the day, you've got to tell her why you're there. You've got to be direct. She already knows why you're there.  So either walking up and, like I said, saying exactly what you're doing, that's how I do it. I think that's the easiest way. And the best part about that is the act of actually doing it is so insanely good for your confidence because you're expressing what you want. You're facing your fear.  I'm going to go get it. So even if she says, I have a boyfriend or I'm not interested, you're really never going to get a harsh fuck-off rejection. The worst you're going to get is maybe ignored, maybe sorry I have a boyfriend. Most women are going to really appreciate the courage you have, the authenticity you're showing. And even if you don't get the number, you're going to build massive confidence from this. So why I call this merging in or out or game is the action you're taking is not only getting you results, hopefully, but it's also building you. So more variables at night. You have a wingman. There's more stuff going on. You've got to be able to interact with him. There's more girls.  So I'm not going to get into all of that right now because we don't have time. But let's talk real quick about direct versus indirect. I think every approach is technically a direct approach. Women are very smart. If you're chatting them up, they know what you want. I wouldn't try bothering to hide my intentions. That doesn't mean I have to say every single time that I want her. I don't have to voice that. But the way I look at her, the way I touch her, these things should all be congruent with what I want.