Good morning, Hank. It's Tuesday. I've said those words on video something like 1200 times in the last 17 years And you've said good morning John even more often because you've taken fewer vacations But just to state the obvious I'm not always going to be saying good morning Hank. It's Tuesday because Everything ends or at least everything that we've observed seems to end I'm gonna look at this through two metaphorical lenses that of the professional athlete But first that of the television show most TV shows last for like one or two seasons Grey's Anatomy has been around for 19 years making it about a year and a half older than vlogbrothers Law and Order SVU has been on the air for 25 years, but those are exceptions Even very successful shows often don't last that long friends lasted 10 seasons the office 9 the West Wing 8 Everything ends and not only that I would argue Everything should end so there's been a lot of attention on youtuber retirements this year Which I think is basically good news like in a very new medium We need to figure out how people say goodbye or at least how they say goodbye to this or how they say goodbye For a while, but thank you and I've been on YouTube long enough to know this isn't exactly new like most Successful creators of their moment move on from making YouTube videos in fact of the crop of featured creators at the first ever VidCon in 2010 almost none of them today make their living on YouTube people move on from the platform to other Opportunities or their audiences shrink to the point where it's no longer fulfilling to make videos or whatever else things end and having a show That runs for seven or eight seasons is not some failure or tragedy It's a tremendous success in the comments of Tom Scott's last video I wrote congrats Tom and a lot of people replied. Why would you congratulate him on stopping making videos? I guess I wanted to congratulate him because of course it was a carefully considered decision and the right decision for him but also because He finished he finished his run of ten years of weekly videos He completed the project and this brings me to my second metaphor professional athletics So most pro athletes play between one and four seasons before retiring a few get ten Very few end up like Tom Brady playing for 23 seasons Hank in this metaphor You and I are in that lucky few who are able to hang around for many years in the league But of course just to state the obvious we are not Tom Brady Mr. Beast is Tom Brady and I wish him so much luck with that. It seems like a very very stressful job We are like second string offensive linemen who are kind of personality hires like we're good in the locker room And so we're allowed to hang around but we've managed to stay in the league since 2007 which is amazing and most amazing of all We still love it here. I do think a lot about how vlogbrothers will end I mean, maybe it will end in death And I guess I would be okay with that if this became like an archive of what two people were thinking and Experiencing while they were both here that said I'm not convinced that vlogbrothers ideal ending would would be death I think the ideal ending is that like Tom Scott we complete the project I just don't know exactly what completing the project looks like. I used to think it looked like finishing Brotherhood 2.0 on December 31st 2007 I used to think that it looked like finishing the maternal center of excellence, but I didn't feel finished on December 31st 2007 and frankly I don't feel finished now because I do think and worry about this a lot I talk with my friends a lot about it and I have a friend who's a recently retired professional athlete And so I asked him like how did you know it was time and he told me the game tells you when you're done I love the game so much and I respect it And it told me when I was done Hank We're in our 18th season of vlogbrothers and I would be lying if I told you I thought this was the first half of the project But I love this youtube game. I respect it And it hasn't told me I'm done yet. It seems to me like the game still has a use for us So I'll see you on Friday


Are you able to hear me guys? Okay, if you can hear my voice, please type voice in the chat. All right, good to see all of you. I can see some of you are really watching, but I just want to make sure that voice, everything is functioning. Let me just also, yeah, I can see, I can hear the music. Can you guys hear my voice as well? Okay, if you can hear my voice, please type voice in the chat. Good to see all of you here. Hi, good to see, long time no see, hi guys. All right, so tonight it's gonna be a very, very free and easy night. I actually prepared some questions and answers for you all because I actually opened these Q&A style to my people in my telegram channel. So I asked them, hey, do you have any questions that you wanna ask me? Do you have any questions? Just put it in a form that I'll be able to answer along the way. So purposely I decided to choose today as well to answer most of the questions. So if you are one of my long term followers inside my telegram channel, then I hope that I will be able to answer your question tonight as well. Hi everyone, hi, Abril. Hi, hello, Mi-Chia. Hi, I've been good to see all of you. All right, so I can see that you guys can hear me. Now, let's get started, right? And tonight, right? Of course, apart from the few questions that I have prepared for you all, feel free to also along the way anything is related to investing, related to wealth management for yourself, for your family, for your portfolio. Yeah, you can ask me in the chat as well. I will try to answer as much as possible within this session, all right? So I hope you guys will enjoy and still learn a lot from this, all right? So now, let's get started. The first thing that I received a couple of questions, right? From the people who submitted their questions into the form. And one of the questions I felt that it's very, very important for everyone, okay? In fact, these five questions I'm going to answer tonight, right? It's actually applicable to most people. And that's why I purposely chose them so that you can also learn even though you may not be the person who asked those questions, all right? So the first question is from Santi, all right? So Santi is asking, he actually, oh, I think it's a he, okay? Maybe I could be wrong, maybe a she as well. So Santi actually has a portfolio of 100K, right? So if you have a big portfolio like Santi right now, maybe you can type 100K in the chat, then these questions, whatever things I have to share with you will be relevant to you as well, all right? So he's asking, hey, so should I be, how should I divide my portfolio into stocks, into ETF, into options? What is the best strategy, all right? So I think this is really relevant for people who have just started investing, I believe. Santi just started investing. And that's why he's wondering what is the best way to allocate his capital, all right? So if you also are looking for how can you allocate your capital better, please type allocate in the chat as well. So in this sharing, I'm also going to share with you, how can you allocate your capital better so that you learn how to invest safely and diversify at the same time, all right? So before you talk about allocation, your 100K into ETF stocks and options, right? You firstly have to ask yourself this question, right? What kind of investor are you, right? And because everyone can be different, your 100K, the way that you use it will be very different from how Chloe used my 100K as well. So how can we determine what is the best use for each other as to really understand yourself more, right? You have to understand, like, what is your risk tolerance level, right? If you are someone who are very, very low risk, that means you really want to be very risk averse, you can type risk averse in the chat, okay? On the other hand, if you're someone that, hey, don't mind actually having more risk so that your growth can be faster and your ROI can be higher, you can type high risk in the chat as well. So I can say, Yifeng also want to learn about how to allocate, right? So now you have to ask yourself, which type of investor, what kind of investor are you? And depending on your risk appetite, right? The way of you allocating your portfolio will be very different, according to different style, right? Different personality, right? So those risk averse people, their primary goal is to really preserve the capital at the same time having some, yeah, like average return. They don't mind average return because all they want is, hey, I want to preserve my capital safely and in the meantime, maybe my return as long as it can beat inflation, it can give me a good decent payout, you know, every single year. And then I think you are relatively conservative type of people, right? So the way that you will be investing will be more towards I think the stable kind of, maybe ETF or maybe more stable companies, right? On the other hand, very extreme and are people who are very aggressive, right? And you really want your primary goal is to really grow your portfolio as soon as possible. So if that's the case, the strategies that you will be using or the stocks that you will be choosing will also be very different from people who are very conservative, right? So let's say you will be probably going for more high-growth company, destructive company, be it Tesla, be it Plantier and all this, right? And maybe you can even use option strategy to supercharge your return, right? But at the end of the day, I think this question, right? There's really no one size fit all, right? It's not like a cookie cutter. Everyone is different, right? So your portfolio will be very different from how I allocate my portfolio. But I also want to be very, very upfront with you. I want to share with you how I allocate my portfolio so that you can also use it as a reference. But once again, whatever things that we are sharing here, okay, including tonight as well, it's never about a buy or sell recommendation. It's really giving you the investment education so that you can make a proper decision, all right? So everybody, please type D-Y-O-D-D in the chat, okay? Do your deal diligence, right? Whatever things that I'm sharing with you tonight, it's just my personal opinion, okay? It doesn't represent anyone. You just take it with a pinch of salt. It's always good, you know, you have your own thinking, right? So for myself, this is how I allocate my own portfolio, right? So I am relatively a moderately aggressive investor. So I am not 100% conservative. I really not satisfied with an average return, right? I want my portfolio to be growing. At the same time, I also don't want to be, like, subject myself to too much volatility and too much risk. So what I do is I actually allocate 60% in stocks. That means, like, really companies that I personally pick and I invest, right? 60% of them, right? And then 10% in ETF. Because the beautiful part about being an ETF is, you immediately diversify your risk and you invest in multiple good companies at the same time, right? So I always advocate starting with an ETF if you don't know how to do investing, right? I can see a lot of you are typing, D-Y-O-D-D, very good, right? So if you can see these two portions add up together, about 70% of my portfolio. So one good thing about having this moderately aggressive type of style is, I don't see my portfolio dropping a lot, especially during recent time, you know, like the past one to two months, the tech sector has been correcting itself. At the same time, my portfolio is still up, like, about 15% year to date, right? So I don't see a lot of sharp drop because I am only 30% in options, okay? So, and of course, on the side, on the other side of the coin is, my portfolio definitely will not grow as quickly as people who go in 100% options, right? So for example, 2020, right? That was a brilliant year to really grow your wealth because that's when a lot of stocks just keep on running up like drastically, right? So there were some of our mentees, some of them are really aggressive, like they really don't mind, right? Their goal is to really grow their portfolio exponentially and they grow in like the 100% option. And that is how they also like had amazing return, like amazing return last year, right? Because it was a very great market and they went in 100% option. That's when their ROI is like super charged, right? But for myself, I cannot take this kind of volatility, I cannot take this kind of risk. So I am okay with 30% option because if you also know how to do options, right? It's a very, very powerful tool to increase your return, right? Even with a smaller capital. So even with 30% of my capital, I go in option when the gain is a lot, then my portfolio will also move, right? Accordingly, right? It will be a much better gain than just investing in stocks itself. But I cannot go in 100% option because I cannot take it, right? So that's why this is my way of investing, right? Let me know if you're already investing in stocks, investing in options, or what is your percentage allocation? And there is no right or wrong answer, right? I can't say that people who go in 100% options is wrong, right? Because they actually had amazing return last year. And in fact, one of our mentee, Hadi, right? Last year, he grew 200K into $1.3 million. And then because of the recent correction, he lost certain profits because his portfolio was very much in option. But still, he has still a lot up because he went in last year, right? He's still a millionaire, right? So from 200K, he's still a millionaire even after the recent tech correction. So, but he has to be the one who is willing to take the volatility, right? So for each other, it's different. That is why it's very important for you to ask yourself this question. Are you someone who is reservoirs or are you someone who don't mind stomach more risk, right? Because that will help you to sleep peacefully even during volatile time like this, right? Now, let's go to the next two questions, right? The second question is asked by Kai. So Kai is asking, hey, is it true that every single month of, you know, every single year, like March, September, the market will do, we have correction, right? And then Joey is asking, when will the tech stock start going up again, right?  And then he's asking some particular stock like AMD and PayPal, right? So let me answer the first question first, right? So what do you guys think? Do you, before I give you my answer, right? Do you think that every single year, like March and September month is generally the south of month? What do you guys think? If you think March and September is the south of month, right, please type south of, which we did see last year, there was a short job due to COVID-19. And this year, there was a slight correction as well. The tech was down a little bit before it kind of pick up, you know, the recent, the past one week or so. So what do you think? Is it, is it a south of month for March? And how about September? Okay, a called south of, right? Anthony said it's south of, right? So now, let me show you, when I search for answer on the internet, asking my best friend, Google, right? Actually, March is usually a pretty good month. You can see that, okay? When I say, when I'm searching for this question, is March a good month for stocks? Then Investopedia said that actually March is a pretty good month, right? And then according to historical track record, it's kind of like a pretty, like it's a third best month to invest. Yeah, out of like 12 months, this is the third best month to invest, okay? And historically, they have seen the how much performs as a market in general. And then how about September? So for September, right? Say September is traditionally a down month, right? So on the other hand, October is historically positive. So what should we do, guys? What should we do, guys? So when March, should we invest or not? Because historically, it has been going up. And then for September, what should we do, right? When you see September, generally is a down month. That means like most of the time, the stock will definitely correct itself, you know? What should we do during September month, right? Okay, now, this is what the internet shows us, right? But you also have to look at things in a longer term, because when you are looking things in terms of month, month, month timeframe, this is a very short term timeframe, right? So when it's short term, definitely when you are investing, you know, with a such narrow horizon, the probability of you making mistakes is gonna be a lot more. That is why I will always ask my students as well to always think long term, right? If that been following me, you know the importance of really long term thinking and investing in solid, good company, long term. Why? Because let me show you this chart. Tom Tom Tom. This is past five years, all right? Of S&P 500, the top 500, you know, companies in the U.S. And this is how the market has been performing, okay? For the past five years, right? If you see 10 years, it's even more obvious. It's definitely an uptrend, right? But can you see? Can you see like when is March and when is September? Can you see from this? Like, when is the March month that it's like performing very well? And then when is the September month that it's performing very badly? And that's why you should sell off, right? Because this is what the market say most of the time. But if you stretch your horizon long enough, can you guys see when is March and when is September? If you can see, right, please point for me, all right? Or maybe you can draw for me, right? If you cannot see, please type cannot see, right? Because there is no way that you can really point out when is exactly March, when is exactly September if you really stretch your horizon very, very long enough. And of course, if you want to be a very, very exact, I can point out one of the March lights here, right? Because this is the recent COVID-19 drop, right? This one is very obvious, right? But most of the time, other time, can you point out when is March? Can you point out when is September? Cannot, right? So that is the beauty, right? Just like what Yifeng said, we should be collecting stocks, right? Actually, it's not just in September. We should be collecting stock, continue to invest regardless because long term, if you are investing in great businesses, right? This is what your performance is going to be like, right? This is how the market will keep on going up because the company make more money. How? Our economy is developing, our population is growing, you know? We always want to improve our standard of living. That's how the company make more money, the stock price go up if you give it time. So instead of looking month, month, month, let's look at year over year, right? Everybody please type year over year in the chat, right? It's very important to think long term. And when you think long term, you won't be asking these questions already because hey, even though this year, maybe the tech stock is not doing well, but how about long term? Long term, hey, if you look at long term enough, any year will be a good time to get started, right? Any year is a good time to start investing, right? So the key lesson I want you to take away is start now, but of course, start learning how to do it first, don't going blindly. Make sure you educate yourself and that's how you can start to invest safely as well, very important year over year. Thank you so much, Yvonne. Now, the next questions that I have actually Cindy, she asked two questions. What is your opinion for year 201? Bullish or bearish? So once again, this is pretty similar to the answer I just gave. I wouldn't know because nobody has a crystal ball, right? So, and we don't need a crystal ball to invest well, right? All we need to do is to invest long term, invest in solid businesses, right? So the second question that she is asking is, since the market is having some correction right now, is it a good time to buy call or should I just accumulate stocks? I think this is a very, very good question because I believe she had attended OMI before, which is our flagship program. So she understand the power of options, right? And that's why buy call is one of the option strategy that we teach, okay, which is called strategy X, okay? But I don't have time to explain right now, but she is really asking, how can I use whatever things I have learned in OMI to really profit, you know, better in this even volatile condition like this, right? So my answer to you, Cindy, if you are watching, right? If you have conviction in this company and you really follow through what we taught you in OMI, you know, find out is this a good company? Is this a good price going? And then based on the technical analysis, is it a support, is it a resistance, right? Everything is step by step. If everything in line, then you can actually do both at the same time, right? Why not do both if you have conviction into that stock, right? But at the end of the day, you also have to make sure you know exactly what are you doing, right? And you have to make sure you also portfolio position size, your portfolio wisely, okay? Let's say like this is one of the stocks that I personally invest in is Facebook, right? Of course, no matter how bullish I am on Facebook, I won't go in 100% Facebook, right? My portfolio is not just about Facebook. It's always about diversification. So that's why you can see that I have ETF, I have stocks, and I also have options, right? So for Facebook itself, okay, this stock itself, I do both, okay? I do both options, and I also do stocks just by stocks. And in fact, during the recent correction, okay? Facebook have picked up quite a fair bit already since the last corrected time, right? And I went in, right? Because this is such a beautiful company, brilliant company, undervalued finally when it finally come down and actually touch a very nice support, right? This is exactly what we taught you in OMI. You have conviction in the stock and you study it enough, and you also do position sizing, your portfolio sizing. You do both, right? Because you can see that when I buy the stocks and I also initiated the buy call, which is the strategy X, right? Which we taught in OMI, both of them are giving me decent return. And of course, if you learn options before, you will know that this is even more powerful because the 17, close to 18% ROI, okay? Which I just initiated this position like about one month ago, right? My initial capital required is so much lesser, right? Compared to me having to buy a lot of stocks, okay? So you can see that I have 60 stocks into Facebook, but this amount I spend definitely is way more, way more than doing this strategy X, right? But why do I have to want to do both? It's because once again, I cannot stomach my portfolio to be 100% options. I always like to collect stocks as well. And I don't mind my portfolio to be growing slower, but I know it's growing so easily as well. And I want to be a collector of this wonderful business. And that's why I decided to buy no matter what. So, okay, Mandy is watching, thanks, thanks. Second half buy call, yes, yes. So what do I mean by buy call? Mandy, oh, I think Payphone is answering your question. So if you don't understand why it's buy call, basically it's one of the option strategy that we teach during OMI. We teach you step by step, how can you profit, okay, by owning a piece of the option contract while the stock price go up, you can also enjoy the profit at the same time. And this is exactly what you are seeing right now in one of my position, which is Facebook, right? Later on, I can show you more, right? But for those who are interested in options and you have never learned anything about it before, yeah, later on, just stay all the way to the end. I can share with you some additional resources to learn that, all right? So this is what I did. If you have confidence, condition, go in both, right? But make sure you know what you're doing and make sure you do position sizing very, very important, okay? Don't go in 100% Facebook, no matter how much you like it, okay? This is my advice for you because anything can go wrong, right? Anything can go wrong. You can never be 100% sure what will happen to Facebook in the next one to two years or maybe bad news come in and everything just like recently, bada, right? Also went down quite a fair bit, right? It really went down a lot because of the regulations or also because Jack Ma previously, he said something that was unpleasant to the Chinese government and that's why there was a lot of regulation coming in and then recently the delisting talk got coming once again, right? And that's how the Chinese stock got beaten down so badly. So if your portfolio is in very, very Chinese stock centric, you will also have that risk as well. So that's why at the end of the day, don't go in 100% into one to two stocks or one to two sector because that's how you're also running yourself into the risk shoot. The market is not in your favor, all right? Now, the next question is from Wong. So just now, Santi, he had the 100K portfolio, right? Which is a very, very good portfolio size to begin with, right? Because with 100K, he can definitely do a lot of things, a lot of planning onto his allocation. But on the other hand, Wong is someone that only had 20K, right? And that's why he's asking, what would I recommend so that he can grow his two 20K much quickly, but at the same time, safely as well, right? This is the whole objective is how can we invest safely but at the same time profitably, right? So what stock should I buy? What option strategy should I use? So I believe Wong have also attended OMI before, right? So at the end of the day, if you already have the tools, right? You learn exactly how to find good stock, you learn exactly what are the powerful option strategies, what you need to do as, what do you need to do? You already have the tools. Guys, if you have the tool, what will you do next? In order to really start to grow your work, what will you do next? Okay, even the tools already, if you just chunk it aside, put it in your wardrobe, don't look at it. There is no way, right? There's no way that you're gonna grow your wealth, right? But instead, you really start to use your tool, right? And polish your skillset from there. That's how, yes, okay, Cal also said, right? You need to start applying, right? You need to start applying and you follow exactly what we are gonna teach you. We taught you in OMI as well, right? And this is also one of the position that I just initiated a couple weeks ago because TSM was a fantastic company, right? Those who are in the semiconductor industry, you know that semiconductor is in a great demand and TSM is definitely one of the best, right? The leading semiconductor company in the world. And in my opinion, at that time when the tech came down, I thought that it was really good support, good valuation, and that's how I decided to initiate another strategy X, right? Which you also learned, right? So won't, if you are watching, you learn it, then go and apply, right? You need to apply what you learn. And just in a few weeks time, it's already 18% up, okay? So am I going to close this position not so soon because based on the technical analysis, it still has more room to run as well. So I'm going to leave it for a while more and before I decide to close the position and take profit. So at the end of the day, 18% in like a couple of weeks, do I think it's good? I think it's pretty decent, but do I think that it can have more room for growth? Definitely, right? So at the end of the day, if your 20K portfolio, yeah, allocate using whatever strategies that we taught you, what stock to choose, we also taught you, right? The OMI checklist, make sure you just follow through and start, build your own confidence, build your own conviction and start to invest, right? You need to decide which tool is the best for you, right? In fact, we taught you four strategies by doing OMI. You don't have to necessarily use them, right? All together, just start implementing the field that you are comfortable with, right? Let's say, boss strategy you are familiar with. Let's start with boss, right? This boss is such a brilliant strategy to use right now because this is a volatile time. That's how you can collect much more premium than usual, right? Now, right? If you just sell put, which is doing your boss strategy, you can collect like 3% to sometimes 4% per month, very on solid companies, right? So that's how you can also generate very consistent return, just using one of the most simple yet powerful option strategy that even Warren Buffett is using, right? So if you are selling more of us, you can use like strategy acts like what I'm showing you right now, right? So Nelson is asking, is SQY ETF good to buy in stages? Yes, Nelson, why not, right? So if you can see this, right, which is the chart I show you just now, you will not be able to tell when is the high, what is the, what should I say? When is the lowest point going, right? Because nobody can time the market. What you can do is, if you want to invest long term and in a very, very passive manner, because once you buy an ETF, it's very passive. And basically you're just buying the whole market and you just buy every single month, you can set a certain amount of money to do dollar cost averaging. And that's how over time you will accumulate more and more units of S&P 500. And that's how your wealth will also start to compound over time. And this is a very, very decent growth about 10 to 15% per year, right? If you analyze it, give it long enough, five years, 10 years, you are definitely having a much more decent return compared to you putting money in, let's say you need trust or in a bank, okay? So using ETF is a very great way to get started and just buy in batches, right? Dollar cost averaging. Now, all right, so this is what I mentioned about follow the OMI rules.  You have not attended OMI before or you don't even know what is options. So I just want to give you some additional resources for you to learn further before I continue to answer more questions, all right? So this is the workshop that I personally will be conducting next Friday on 16th of April. And it's gonna be an evening workshop about two hours. And I'm gonna share with you four proven strategies that I personally use to have consistent return even during volatile time like this. So the four proven strategies, some of the strategies, even Warren Buffett is actually doing it. So which is including options strategy as well. So for those who are very, very new, you don't know how to know, hey, is this a good company to invest? What is options? How can I get started? Then do join me for this free webinar and just come and learn two hours. And I hope that you can also take away something from there as well. So all you need to do is go to this link bit.ly, all right? Slash four strategies, 2021. And I don't conduct this workshop often. So actually in fact, last Friday I was supposed to conduct it, but I had an eye infection. So I have recovered from my infection but I have to postpone it. And that is why I postponed to this day. So for those who didn't manage to know that I'm conducting this workshop, this is the best time to register because after that I'm not sure when is the next time I'm doing that, all right? So just go to apply, I will be sending you a Zoom link. Basically it will be conducted via Zoom and you can also ask me questions as well, all right? So next let's move on. Okay, now the next question is from Sam himself, all right? So Sam is saying that I always pick the wrong stop, okay? And I couldn't build my portfolio properly and I have problems that I listened to too many people and so many people have given me opinions, give me comments and eventually I still cannot invest properly and how do I get rid of all of this, all right? So how many of you are facing maybe similar situation before or maybe you are facing the same situation like Sam right now, maybe you can type Sam in the chat, all right? And I know definitely this is not the first time that I listened to this. I heard it again and again from so many investors who have actually struggled for years, right? And still they couldn't do well in your own investment. And this is, in fact, this is exactly what happened to me in the past as well. I don't wanna share my own story today but basically I know this is a common problem and that's why I want to give you my advice because I personally also have been through that I'm a go-alive right now, okay? If you know Chinese, I also been through that. So at the end of the day, right? You need to ask yourself these questions, okay? So firstly, why do you think that you always pick the wrong stop? When you, when you mention when you pick the wrong stop is it because, hey, you wanna buy it? Wow, the next day maybe you start falling, right? And maybe you feel like you are very swayed, right? Well, immediately buy it go down, right? How come I'm so swayed, right? Then you need to ask yourself, how come you're so swayed? How come you are always picking the wrong stop, right? And second thing is, did you actually do any homework or any research on your own before you decide to invest in a particular company, right? And if this is something that people give you advice on, then who are you listening to, right? So are you listening to, let's say, maybe coffee shop chat, like with your colleagues, with uncle, auntie nearby, or, then if you're listening to them, right? Then you have to ask yourself, hey, are they good investors in the first place? If they are good investors, they have been really having consistent track record, like for many years, right? Then I think, yeah, by all means, right? I believe they will definitely be able to impart with you certain wisdom that help you to become a better investor. But let's say you are listening to people who also like probably like you same right now, struggling, and you listen to them, of course, it's the blind leading the blind. That is why it's very important, who do you choose to listen to? Because at the end of the day, this is your own money, this is your own portfolio, you have to be very, very responsible to who do you choose to listen to? And it's very, very important that you need to start doing your own homework. Because like just now, I can give you some of the stocks that I am personally investing, like let's say Facebook, let's say TSM, but I can give you the stock, the tip, right? The stock tip is there, but if you don't have your own analysis, if you don't do your own homework, you can never have conviction, right? So when you don't have conviction, what will happen is when the stock is falling, when Facebook was falling, my past month, TSM also had a sharp job, you will start to feel very shaken and you would start to do a lot of ceiling mistakes or maybe like, hey, I think it's dropping even more, I better sell off before it's too late, right? That's how you decide to do a lot of reckless decision and that make you lose money, right? But at the end of the day, when I bought a TSM, actually the next day it also start to drop. I was like, oh, okay, okay, but is it, I'm okay with that? Because firstly, I follow the OMI rules, I bought a very long-term call, and secondly is I really believe that this is just a short-term correction. Give it time, TSM is such a solid company that will increase in value, right? That's how I don't worry and that's why I give it a little bit of time. In fact, in a few weeks time, phew, it went up already 18%, right? So at the end of the day, there are definitely moments that when you buy, the stock will start dropping, right? It's very common. I also face that, right? Even nowadays, right? But the thing is what give me the confidence as well as the assurance to sleep soundly at night, knowing that my portfolio would be intact, in fact it has been growing, is because I am willing to work on myself, right? I'm willing to really spend time to do homework, to do research. Instead of just listening to others, I still listen to people for advice, okay? I still listen to, right? Let's say I listen from Sean, from Pete, from Felicia, I definitely listen to them because they are great investors, right? So you have to be very sure who are you listening to. Don't anyhow listen. You really have to make sure people have been there, done that. They are good people, they are good investors, then you listen, right? Then after that, from their advice, you need to do your homework, okay? It's very important. This final component, you cannot miss that out. If you miss that out, you will never have conviction, right? And conviction is so important, right? So thank you so much. Yeah, Baskaran, I hope that you find this useful as well. So at the end of the day, I think, yeah, if you are willing to work on yourself, and for example, right? If you see that you are someone like, hey, you've been like struggling for so many years, and you still couldn't figure out by yourself, and a lot of time you have a lot of spline spots, then go and seek help, right? If you can get a mentor, go and get a mentor to help you because at the end of the day, yeah, you must be willing, but even with the mentor is there, you need to be willing to leave the way, right? Just like you go to gym, you hire a professional coach to be there. The coach can give you all the guidance, but you must be someone who is willing to work on your muscle, and that's how you will grow. So at the end of the day, it's still a voice out to, are you willing to work on yourself?  So I hope that inspire you a little bit, and I really hope, Sam, don't give up and continue to work on it, work on yourself, right? Stop chasing for short-term profits, start think long-term, and start really choosing the right company, the great company, and study it to invest, right? That's very important, right? So for those who are still watching right now, I hope that you find this session, it's already like past half an hour, I hope that you find this useful, and for those who want to submit your questions, right? Like some of you may be wondering, hey, how did Sam submit your questions to me? How did, like, Warren submitted the questions? I actually posted a link inside my Telegram channel. So if you do want me to answer some of your questions as well, just join my Telegram channel and later on, I will also post the link for you to submit your questions, and sometimes I will do live like this so that I can answer more people's questions at one go, but sometimes I will actually just post my answers directly into the Telegram channel. So make sure you go and follow it, and yeah, that's how we continue to improve each other as an investor as well. So Palantir lost 80%, wait for increasing. So Payphone, at the end of the day, right, you have to ask yourself, right? In the first place, I personally don't buy call for Palantir because it's a very, very new company. Okay, Dan, this is something that you also have to learn for yourself. It's not every stock is suitable for option, in my opinion, especially for disruptive company like Palantir. If you do strategy X on Palantir, you are basically paying quite a lot of money in terms of premium, and this is not to your advantage as a buyer of the call option contract, right? And secondly, it probably takes some time, right? It may take some time for Palantir to really start to appreciate in value. I also believe that it's a very, very solid company, but would I say that, hey, in one year time, the stock will spike up like crazy? I cannot say for sure. In two years time, I also cannot say for sure. So for myself, I invested in Palantir, but I buy stocks, okay? Because I can never be sure what will happen to Palantir in one to two years time, but I believe, give it its current economic mode and its continued innovation and everything, give it years, like five years, 10 years. I believe this is one of the very, very good company to invest. But once again, I don't do options on that, I just buy stocks, right? So that's also another reason why I do both because stocks give me holding power. They give me option to hold on, right? Despite of the recent drop. So during the recent drop, my Palantir position is also suffering, but I'm totally okay because firstly, my suffer will not be as much as like 80%. It's like about 20% drop and I believe long-term it's okay. So should you close it or not? This one I really cannot give you advice because I don't see your whole portfolio, right? Because if it's just like a small position into your portfolio, then maybe you can consider to leave it there, but at the end of the day, I cannot just give you advice like this because I don't see a whole picture, right? So it's very important that you have to re-study your portfolio again and de-suffer yourself, all right? So do you think about art funds? Okay, oh, Matthew, fantastic. So I think art is a very, very, in my opinion, it's a very powerful ETF that invests in a lot of disruptive companies like Palantir, in like Tesla, in Loku and all this. So I personally think that this is one of the very, very powerful ETF that if you want to consider investing in disruptive sector without you having to go through layers of layers of study into multiple companies, I think, yeah, by all means, okay? You can buy art during the dip, okay? I personally am actually thinking of investing in art because I personally think that, hey, disruptive companies are great. It can be bringing a lot of profit, but sometimes I may not be able to understand them as better as I wanted to be. So I am also in the midst of thinking of re-shuffling my portfolio so that maybe I sell off some of the disruptive companies that I have already, and then probably just buy art investor, right? So I think it's a great way to grow your portfolio exponentially as well because at the end of the day, this ETF, it's also about exponential growth of disruptive sector. So I think it's a great investment decision. But once again, a portfolio size properly, okay? Don't go in 100% art unless you really have the risk to stomach the volatility, right? Because it's disruptive sector at the end of the day, right? So, all right, thank you so much, Pafer. Hope you guys learned something. And at the end of the day, so for those who are interested to learn, it's very, very good for beginners. If you want to learn, just come for my free workshop next Friday and I will be sending you a Zoom link. So once you register that, maybe in the next few days or so, I will schedule a Zoom because I just decided today. So I will schedule a Zoom and I will send it to your email address. So all you need to do is to go to the form and I will be sending you the details later on. So that's all I have to share today and thanks everyone for tuning in. I hope you guys learned something. Thank you, Matthew. Thank you, Howei as well. All right, so we will see you guys very soon as well. And for those who have already joined us in OMI, and I really look forward to really seeing you guys grow as investor. I think like, if you ask me, hey, it's 2021 like a very, very risky year to invest. I really don't think so because even though the market has gone up a lot, but the economy situation is actually intact, right? So actually any year is a great year to start investing. So I really hope that you guys equip yourself properly and really start taking action as soon as possible. So hi, James as well. And thank you everyone for tuning in and we will see you, all right? For those who are coming for the workshop, I will see you next Friday as well. See you guys. Bye-bye.


Hey survivors, please like, comment, share and subscribe, click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my paypal link is in the video description. If you are interested in what I'm on coaching, you can email me at naksvivercoaching.com. The best you will ever get from the narcissist is an illusion. All you will get from the narcissist are deceptive appearances or impressions, false ideas or beliefs. They have nothing real to offer you. They might imitate you or what you're about or appeal to your own ideals. But really they're not about any of that. Everything they do is designed to deceive you. It is designed to make you believe something that is not true. For their own personal gain, narcissists are con artists. They cheat or trick you by persuading you to believe something that is not true. From the moment they first met you, they shaped your perception. They altered the way in which you interpreted sensory information to change the way in which you saw them or the environment. They managed to sell you a dream or a fantasy and trick you into seeing them as something different than what they really are. They made you believe that they were about something and got you to trust them. You became attached to the image of what they first displayed to you. When they shaped your perception and altered the way in which you interpreted sensory information, from the beginning none of it was ever real. It was all an illusion but they shaped your perception in a way that you could only see what they wanted you to see. You validated their false self and their illusion and that's the only reason why the love bombing phase lasted as long as it did. It was regulating their emotions and boosting their self-esteem. It made them feel as though they were something valuable or significant but really none of that had anything to do with them.   None of it had anything to do with them. They were just using it to get attention and admiration from you. You may have a feeling of disappointment or loss from the failed expectation which the narcissist never delivered on. They may have made promises of something beneficial or favorable for you in the future. But this was only designed to keep you engaged with them, to keep giving them what they need from you.  You have trust or confidence that they are going to deliver on their false promises. You put in so much time and effort to make it work with them, assuming that you will eventually see the fruits of your labour. But one day you wake up and realise that you're putting in all of this work but you're not getting anything in return. It creates this feeling of disappointment or loss. When you realise that the narcissist never delivered on their false promise and probably never will, you are misled, tricked, deceived. They never delivered on their false promises because they never had it in them to begin with. Everything they did was designed to make you believe that they had something to offer you or they had something of value or significance. But this was only to keep you engaged with them so they could extract whatever they needed from you which may have been your attention and admiration, time, energy, money, goods or services. Anything that the narcissist did deliver on was a simulation of value or significance and it was only designed to buy time for them. It was designed to keep you around for a certain amount of time. As the narcissist knew it wasn't what you really wanted from them but whatever they do deliver on is usually something that they will exaggerate or claim to be something so much greater than what it actually is. Narcissists do not possess anything of real value or significance. They can only create the illusion of this. They know how to orchestrate the elements of a situation to produce the desired effect or to induce the desired emotion within you. They know how to trick or deceive people and make them believe something that is not true or not real. They want you to stay engaged with them so they can extract whatever they need from you but they will act as though something is wrong with you or what you're giving to them isn't good enough or isn't up to their standards. This is designed to keep you looking at yourself instead of realizing that they are the ones who have nothing to offer you and they know that they have nothing to offer you. The game is to make you believe that you are the one who has nothing to offer them which is an illusion in itself. It's designed to keep you putting in the effort to prove yourself to them while they're sitting back and constantly moving the goalposts because they knew all along that you were something great. That's why they targeted you but by invalidating you and making you believe that you're not good enough or you have nothing to offer them. It keeps you putting in maximum effort and trying to prove yourself to them when no matter how much effort you put in to please them they will never appreciate it. The Nazis can never be satisfied. They create these false problems or arguments and act as though everything is going wrong or you can't do anything right.  Nazis are never direct. The real issue is something they are too embarrassed or ashamed to even talk about because they would put them in an inferior position. They do not have your best interests in mind. They do not want to work anything out. They do not want a resolution. There is no point trying to work anything out with them anyway. They have nothing to offer you. There is no value there. The best they have to offer you is illusions. Other than that they are not about anything. They are all talk or false displays. There is nothing of value there and you are wasting your time arguing with them when you could be using that time for yourself and creating something of real value. Thank you for watching. I hope this video resonated with you. Please like, comment, share and subscribe. Click the bell icon to receive notifications for my future videos. If you would like to donate, my PayPal link is in the video description. Coaching Inquiries you can email me at nazfavicoaching at jumo.com We have a private Reddit community where survivors and survivors can share their experiences and knowledge. If you are interested in being a part of this community you can sign up for our Patreon page, the link is in the video description. Check out the Nazfavimoushdai store where you can purchase your own Nazfavitecia or mug. We have a variety of designs and it is a great way to support the channel. The link to our Nazfavimoushdai store is in the video description. 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Hey everybody, E here. Welcome back to another book review. Today we are talking about The Chill by Scott Carson. I went to tap the book and completely missed. If you don't know, I have been informed over and over and over again. I do know now. Thank you so much to everyone who destroyed my mentions trying to tell me that Scott Carson is Michael Corita. Is that how you pronounce the last name? I'm not sure. David, let me know if I'm saying that right. Corita, Corita, I don't know. I have never read any of Michael's work and the only reason I'm calling him Michael is because I don't want to keep on screwing up his last name if I am. I haven't read anything. I've heard of Michael. I just haven't read anything from him. I had one book sitting around here. I have no idea where it went to. I guess he's a thriller author and he wanted to do something different. He wanted to write a horror novel set around a dam in, is it New York? I'm pretty sure it's New York. But you know what? Let me try something out real quick. I've been working out some bugs here. But let's go to my new friend, Ebert. Ebert! In this terrifying thriller, a supernatural force set in motion a century ago threatens to devastate New York City. Far upstate, in New York's ancient forests, a drowned village lays beneath the dark, still waters of the Chilwalki Reservoir. Early in the 20th century, the town was destroyed for the greater good, bringing water to the millions living downstate. Or at least that's what the politicians from Manhattan insisted at the time. The local families settled there since America's founding were forced from their land, but they didn't move far and some didn't move at all. Now a century later, the repercussions of human arrogance are finally making themselves known. An inspector assigned to oversee the dam dangerously neglected for decades witnesses something inexplicable. It turns out that more than the village was left behind in the waters of the Chil when it was abandoned. The townspeople didn't evacuate without a fight. A dark prophecy remained too and the time has come for it to be fulfilled. Those who remember must ask themselves, who will be next? For sacrifices must be made and as the dark waters begin to inexorably rise, the demand for a fresh sacrifice emerges from the deep. Alright so now that we are up to date on the synopsis, let's jump in to the review. First things first, I got this book for free from Atria Publishing for review. There was no monetary I'm not being paid for this review. I have been brutally honest about some of their work. I do love the publisher as a whole but there are books from them that I have not absolutely loved. Some of them I absolutely hated. This one I absolutely loved and there's gonna be a lot of people going but it's got a Stephen King blurb on it. I know it had a Stephen King blurb on it but this copy doesn't. What I'm getting at is, if you don't know what I'm saying that is, I tend to stay away from books that Stephen King, yes I'm a huge fan boy but I think his taste in books is it's not my taste in books. I love the guy's writing but he tends to have suspect tastes in books maybe even ulterior motives as to why he gives some books praise. This is the one time a broken clock is right twice a day. This is one of those times where I agree with Steve this is a fantastic book. The main the main reason I feel that it's a fantastic book is for the character of Aaron Ellsworth that it was so so well written as far as the addiction side and him trying to live up to this this huge shadow or trying to pull himself out of a shadow or whatever you want to put it. The relationship between him and his father was terrific. I was so upset for certain sections where I was just like just give him a chance just pay attention because as the reader we know what is going on we know what's happening. Luckily Carson does not does not focus in on those elements too much as far as the dragging you along making you think that there's going to be this huge misunderstanding that's going to ruin this relationship between his father and son but it's always he does just enough just enough to keep you on the edge whether or not you're you're not sure whether or not this is going to turn out all right for these for these two characters. There are other characters in the book they are fine they're dandy. I don't remember the names of those but it's been it's been a while since I read the book because the the PR team coordinated with me and wanted to do a live unboxing for the book and I wanted to wait until then so I will upload this video around that time that I do that with them. The other characters did not stick with me as well as Aaron Ellsworth. There was a lot of love and attention poured into that character and the other characters felt like I guess if you've read me Bentley Little this feels like a Bentley Little book but maybe a little no it's not even it's not even more on this on the end of like literary side it is a straight up horror novel. You don't see too many books like this from big companies like Atria and I really really wish we would see more especially from this company. If they can find more authors pumping out quality like this in the horror genre we could have another resurgence of literate not not really literary but big pub horror. If we could if we could harness that energy and get back to that place that would be great and I would probably read more horror. Right now everybody says the indie market is where to go to for horror and for the most part they're correct you got your Malermans you got your Tremblay's you got your pin bros you got you got you have these people but I mean there there's only so many of them that was a time when you know every single publishing house had three or four authors now they might be on the literary side of things but at three or four authors that were deep into the horror genre that was pumping out books you even had you know the highly I guess she would call it the highly literate side for the Anne Rice people and then you had people that some might say the bottom of the barrel like you know you're Stephen King's but with this one this is like a a Bentley Little Book it reads like a Bentley Little Book it feels like a Bentley Little Book and that's not to discount the author to discount Carson it's when I said I loved Bentley Little maybe there's a little more character development in this because that's what I was lacking so much why I stopped reading little also we got repetitive there's a little more character development in this than you would get I do remember one book very specifically from Little's catalog the ignored that had great character development but other than that I didn't really catch too much so if you're looking for a Bentley Little experience with deeper characters and you know deeper character interactions I would say definitely check this out but what we all want to know is the story any good I've been rambling on and on about all this the story in my opinion is fantastic it's nothing you haven't seen before there's not a whole lot of originality here but what Carson does in his own voice with his own story is a lot of fun to read now I don't know if there were I don't know if this was on purpose but there are a lot of illusions to Stephen King's the shining in this book a lot of interactions with I don't want to there there are two characters one might not be there it reminded me very much of Jack and Lloyd that there's several several things that really got me there's even a point where I think one of the maintenance men says of the dam something about pressure it creeps or it'll creep up on you or whatever and in the shining there was you know it creeps now I want to talk about just very very briefly about a horror novel I didn't like from atria publishing and that was the mansion the mansion was too on the nose with with all of its illusions to the shining I mean you had twins you had you know house in the in the winter you had isolation all that stuff with this one this one feels like there are elements of the shining in there but it does something completely new with the scenario and about I would say the three-quarter mark I want to say maybe it's the halfway mark something huge happens and I was not expecting the author to go there there's some character deaths that I didn't that I did not anticipate which really it really it's really hard these days to find a mainstream or a traditionally published author that is willing to take risks with with characters that have been built up other than like George R. R. Martin the the characters that have been built up and Stephen King characters that have been built up they they kind of stay away from damaging or harming those characters the authors do and I don't I don't agree with that I like I like I like a high body count and this this definitely has one um it's one of the only town drowned drowned town stories that I've ever really liked there's the movie in dreams with uh not Lewis Gossett Jr. oh my god what did I just say Robert Downey Jr. there's in dreams with I think it was a net bending and and Robert Downey Jr. there's Mailerman's the House of the Bible I mean it's a premise that's been that's been done a lot uh but I do I did enjoy Carson's version I enjoyed Carson's world building his characters all that stuff and I'm gonna give this a full five stars I I've thought about it long enough and the character of Aaron Ellsworth alone has pushed me past I was gonna say a high four four point five that that kind of deal but I think I'm gonna go with the full five because I really can't fault the book in any way shape or form uh so if you are a fan of Bentley Little if you are a horror fan in general I highly suggest you check out the chill by uh Scott Carson or Michael Corita I want to say Corita if I'm screwing up that name I apologize but until next time I have been E you've been you this has been another book review I'll talk to you guys later bye


Hello and welcome to the Windows Server Summit. My name is Anatham De and I am a Cloud Solutions Architect at Intel. In today's summit, we're going to talk about Accelerating Microsoft SQL Server Performance using Intel QAT, which stands for Quick Assist Technology. In today's agenda, we're also going to cover what is Intel's in-built accelerators and how to use Intel QAT with Microsoft SQL Server led by a demo. Intel Accelerators on Xeon. Intel has recently launched its FibGen CPUs, designed for AI analytics with optimized workloads, performance, and improve energy with data security. With FibGen Accelerator, we basically get four different types of accelerators with Intel Advanced Metrics Extension with AMX and AMX Advanced Intel Data Streaming Accelerator called DSA, Intel In-Memory Analytics that are known as IAA and Intel Quick Assist Technology called QAT. With AMX, definitely this is designed for mostly AI workloads where we can get up to 99x performance increase with AMX Advanced up to 7x depending for what workload we are running. Intel Data Streaming Accelerator, mostly designed for network storage and memory copy. In-Memory Accelerator using databases like ROXDB and Cassandra, all in-memory database up to 3.x performance, and we're also going to cover about QAT which provides higher compression rate and decompression rate for Microsoft SQL Server. This is a quick brief architecture, how basically it works. With QAT technology, what we can do is we can basically offload CPU tasks to a device, so that device is called QAT, and that device is not a PCI device, it's basically a device that is part of the CPU, which means that additionally you don't have to go and add on-card into your systems, and this task can be completely performed by the device. Definitely it provides the hardware acceleration by offloading the task from CPU to the device. The best use case is the system performs best when the underlying system is quite high or the CPU utilization is getting very higher. With this, we basically see there is a speed-up in database backup time, which is around 2.3 percent, and definitely we're going to talk about a little bit more when we actually go and conclude the demo. These are some performance benchmarks that we have done with all the new instructions set and all the accelerators that we have, and today's focus is since on QAT, and we're going to deep dive more on QAT as we go through Microsoft SQL Server configuration and to see how backup is performed through QAT with Microsoft Express and also a full backup. And what is the reduction in TCO, in OPEX, and KPEX, okay? And let's go back to the demo. So in this demo, we have taken a database size of around 100 GB, 110 GB, and we have named the database called QAT benchmark. And in this benchmark activity, we're going to run a couple of benchmarks simulating kind of a production environment, right? Before doing that, I want to also highlight that once you have a system enabled with QAT, you basically see that the QAT is not being configured although it is present in the system, right? So if you select parse this command in SQL Server, you should be able to see the QAT is available in the hardware or not, right? And now we're going to do hardware offloading. So we just know enabling the hardware offloading to QAT for SQL Server. Once we do it, we need to restart the SQL servers and on the hardware offload, right? So right now we are just making sure that the SQL configuration is set correctly to use QAT and we can alter the server configuration. And as you can see, without any error, we are able to alter server configuration and we just need to restart SQL Server. When the SQL Server is restarted, we should be able to see QAT in active state, right? So let's wait and see if the QAT is now enabled. Yes, it is now enabled. As you can see, QAT is now enabled and configuration state is in one, right? And it has also picked up the hardware enterprise addition. And right now this system is configured with one QAT device. So you can go up to four QAT devices each socket and depending on your system configuration, you can have multiple QAT devices. This is basically what we're also trying to simulate here is a kind of a production environment where we will be creating multiple warehouse and creating some transactions using HammerDB. For this demonstration, we have taken only nine virtual users and then we're also going to start the transactions and if you can see the transaction is now started and the CPU usage is quite low. So in order to simulate, for example, if you have other application is consuming more and more and more amount of CPU, right? So at that point of time, if you perform a backup operation, what we see is that the backup operation really gets low, right? And during that case, what happens to either end up restarting the SQL services or taking a backup or restarting the server, which basically includes all the downtime that has been involved throughout this activity. So in order to simulate such kind of environment, what we're doing, we are basically running some background jobs to load the CPU. In this situation, we load the CPU and we're going to keep some struggling happening in the CPU itself, right? But we'll keep the CPU load up to 85% to 90%. We are just keeping some headroom just in case something spikes up and we will be able to demonstrate that how fast in a peak environment, right? You should be able to take faster backup, right? So faster backup reduces time. At the same time, since it's a compressed backup with hardware QAT, what we'll also notice is that the compressed backup size has also been reduced. And as you can see right now, we loaded the CPU roughly around 87 to 85% in the system and we're going to perform some of the backups. So the first backup use case that we have taken here is basically to take a full backup of the database, right? And the second use case would be, you know, taking a backup using MS Express, which is kind of a compressed backup using Microsoft Express software backup. And then we're going to take a backup using QAT hardware which will basically use QAT deflate, right? To initiate backup. So this is the first backup that we are going to initiate here. And as we initiate the first backup, let's wait and see how much time the full backup takes without any compression and no formatting of the database. So we have taken the backup and we have mentioned basically without QAT and the backup name, right? And it's a full backup. Let's run this. And we'll wait here for some time to see how much time it takes to actually backup the whole database. And meanwhile, what is also happening in the backend is that we are not stopping the transaction. So assuming that your system is still going to transactions of all insert, update, delete, and all the operation in your SQL server is continuously running, right? So CPU utilization is still high. We are still ballparked at around 87 to 90% in the CPU, pretty much 85 to 87% of the users, we are not spiking it up. And as you can see, we have completed 40% of the backup. We wait for some time to see how much time it takes for a full backup to be get completed here. Yeah, the backup is still running, we are at 90% and it should be completed in couple of seconds. So the backup is now completed and it can tell you how much time it took to process all the pages. It took around roughly two minute 49 or you can, we can consider around two minutes, 50 seconds to come for the full backup to be processed, right? But just let's keep in mind, the full backup will always consume almost the near the same capacity of the transaction that is happening in the database, right? So if I'm taking a backup of 100 GB, 110 GB is going to be approximately 100 GB of storage space, right, for every full backup. And then the remaining one would be, you can take all this transactional backups every time when we are running this. So the next backup we're going to use is using Microsoft SQL Server Compression, basically using an MX Express method, right? Which also helps in using space. But what we've observed through this process, right? The compressed backup is that the time it takes, right? It's a little bit higher than a full backup, okay? Since the data is being compressed and I think everybody is, everyone today takes a compressed backup in order to save storage and other networking cost. So this is where we execute and take a compressed backup. And here we can see pretty much from 87 to 89%, right? So almost like 2% of CPU increment using the software that we see here because it's now right now trying to consume more and more CPU cycles. Although this system has a larger number of cores, 224 cores, but even though if you consider around 2% of 224 is roughly around like 4 to 8 cores it's been consuming, right? So when it goes to cloud we talk about all the CPUs and not. So the consumption would definitely come down and we can have the right sizing of the right instance in the cloud. While this has been processed, we'll just give it some time to complete the full backup throughout this. And so we are now at around 80% and we'll wait a couple of seconds to see how much time it took for a compressed backup. Okay, so it's been done. So the backup just got completed. We're just waiting for the process data. So it took roughly around four minutes and 24 seconds, right? So four minutes. And also the throughput that we see is pretty much less right now because it's compressing a lot of data around it. Now the transaction is still running, right? So we have not touched this hammered EV yet, right? We have not stopped transactions of the database, right? Because right now we want to take up another last backup within the hardware Q&A team. And we also may want to make sure the CPUs are up to around 85 to 87% here, right? And while we run this, okay? I will wait, we'll give it a minute to initiate the backup sequence once again. And for each backup files, what we've also taken the snapshot, we will be able to see how much of storage has been saved, how much of storage is basically being processed, right? And saved into the disk. So we are at 50%. So we are almost done processing the backup. We'll see how much time it took using Intel hardware Q&A team. Okay, so it took roughly around one minute, 59 seconds, right? So definitely we see the improvement around 2.23% of the increment. And as you can see, the storage has really been reduced, right? And per GB cost also matters for larger infrastructure. So with Q&A team, it was around roughly 55 GB and without Q&A team, it compressed it to 56 GB and the full backup was around roughly 90 GB. So in this case, we're gonna stop the transactions, right? So the thing is the backup is successful, but the thing is we also wanted to showcase one more capability is that we wanted to restore the backup, right? And we want to make sure the restore is completely successful because it was taken on a hardware outside of the C2 cycles, okay? So for this demonstration, we'll be only backing up the file which has been backed up using Intel Q&A team. So the blue Q&A team stands for with Q&A team and we're gonna initiate the backup process or initiated the backup process and we'll give it some time to process the whole backup. Okay, so roughly we are here and we can see that the backup is getting successfully restored. With this, there's one more thing we really want to talk about is about data resiliency, right? Data, you know, how good the data is all up after this. So we're gonna, after the restore, we're gonna do a sandwich test, basically, you know, querying top 1,000 customers from the restored backup. And we can see that there is no data corruptions. All the header files has been retrieved successfully into this. Yeah, I think that's all I had in the demo. And definitely we'd like the team, you know, to work more with us to basically, you know, drive more of accelerations in the cloud, in on-prem, basically to have Microsoft SQL so it will also help customers to reduce space and accelerate all the backups. Thank you for attending the summit.


What's up guys and welcome to trendy updates up our SPM birds now onto the trending news today is gospel singer Hope Kidd who has come out to claim that the scandal that he was allegedly involved in in 2019 together with the artist DK Equiny beat was a false now of course Hope Kidd has come to clarify this issue that happened in 2019 during this kiss a firm interview that he was doing doing a media tour of his new song with a guardian angel now of course Hope Kidd has spoken about this publicly and said that those were lies it was just stories that were cooked up to mess up his career and his brand now just to take you back on a backstory of this happened in 2019 Hope Kidd was allegedly named to be involved in a scandal together with his fellow singer DK Equiny beat and they were accused of infecting a college student with an STI after a Louis summer now of course the holiday hit maker came out even then that's to say it was not true but he wasn't really able to speak on it much as they say that they signed an MGA or rather non disclosure document and they were limited to say much about the issue but he was able to say that there was no case and nobody was infected with harpies now today he was able to confirm that they went tested and there was nothing of assault that had happened for sure of course when this kind of went viral Hope Kidd submitted this whole issue to his bishop who's known as Wally O'Dendo of life of Pula Church and he says this is a person that was able to help him go through this issue and he gave him a very wise perspective on how to go about it now of course right now Hope Kidd says that he kind of regrets he should have gone all out of the time and even revealed the identity of these college students that we really never got to know about and he says I wish of course he says that because Wally Paul is known to say it as it is and Hope Kidd wishes he went ahead and even revealed that these ladies a picture just to show that indeed it was a lie but also he says that I mean at the time the lady was by societal because they were they were friends and of course he did not want anything to happen to the lady and of course if anything had happened he would have been blamed and that is why he chose to keep quiet I don't know what are your thoughts about this story about DK Konyabita and Hope Kidd that they were involved in this kendo in 2019 and they've come out to say Hope Kidd has rather clarified that it was not a true let us know down on the comment section of course there are Kenyans who are saying you won't go others are saying and then of course there are Kenyans who are saying they could believe him and others are saying it could be true that they were involved in those allegations I don't know what are your thoughts let us know down on the comment section but in the meantime keep it trendy updates


Item number SCP-2063 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-2063 should be mounted on a stand when not being tested, and stored in a secure enclosure no smaller than 3 meter by 3 meter by 3 meter. The stand itself should be securely mounted atop a 1.5 meter tall pedestal affixed to the floor, or otherwise securely fixed in the center of the room. Other than during approved testing, no object or obstruction other than the plastic stand is to come within a 1 meter spherical radius, centered on the point of contact between the ship and the stand, unless that object directly supports the stand itself. At least once every 60 days, SCP-2063 is to be removed from its plastic stand, carried around the enclosure for a period of 5 minutes, and then placed back onto its stand. This procedure has been demonstrated to prevent SCP-2063 from acting autonomously. However, in the event that SCP-2063 spontaneously attacks personnel or raises its shields, personnel are advised to immediately put down any tools or weapons, move more than 2 meters away from SCP-2063, and wait for SCP-2063 to lower its shields. This typically occurs after 5 minutes of inactivity. When its shield are down, SCP-2063 is generally considered safe to approach and can be manually retrieved. SCP-2063 should be continually monitored by electronic means for EM and radio transmissions, as well as movement and any unscheduled autonomous activities should be logged. All tests involving landing events must be scheduled in advance and approved by site management a level 3 or higher, and should only be attempted within SCP-2063's secure enclosure. More testing is expressly prohibited. Landing events involving maps, globes, and other depictions of real locations are forbidden except as required by O5 command. Destructive materials testing is currently prohibited. See Addendum 1 below. Deliberate observation of SCP-2063's autonomous behavior requires prior written approval from the site's security director. Description SCP-2063 is a resident model of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701, resembling the ship of the same name from the 1966 American television show Star Trek. It measures approximately 28 cm in length at its longest point. It includes a battery enclosure currently empty, with a removable cover and a black plastic display stand. This testing has revealed the main bulk of the model is a solid mass of polyoxymethylene, laced with trace amounts of various heavy metals, including some radioactive isotopes, which have not been observed to lose mass of the decay, as well as traces of cyprochron F, scarlet dye, and human DNA. SCP-2063's primary anomalous effect occurs when the ship is removed from its stand. Subjects handling the ship report auditory hallucinations consistent with the main theme of the original Star Trek television series, as well as various iconic sound effects reminiscent of the show. If the ship is then placed onto any object in the room other than its stand, the room containing SCP-2063 undergoes a landing event as outlined below. In an SCP-2063 landing event, the room containing SCP-2063 becomes separated from the facility, appearing black and impenetrable and emitting no radiation except for a constant surface temperature of 20 degrees Celsius and radio waves which propagate normally between the interior of the room and the surrounding area. This makes it possible for researchers to communicate with test subjects inside the room during a landing event. Subjects in the room with SCP-2063 during a landing event likewise no longer perceives the outside world, other than the aforementioned behavior of radio waves. Instead, beyond the door and any windows, subject reports vistas of alien worlds, often corresponding either visually or thematically with the object SCP-2063 was placed upon. Furthermore, placing SCP-2063 on similar objects often results in the room visiting the same world in successive tests. Examples of worlds that can be reliably accessed in this manner include Experiment ID number SCP-2063 placed upon and resulting in escape LE-003 Standard Conference Table A grey cityscape devoid of life LE-005 Balsa Wood Dresser A series of flat mesas apparently made out of balsa wood. Constant pecky noises were audible, coming from underground LE-018 Pepperoni Pizza, hot. A series of vast underground chasms lined with pulsating, apparently organic masses, molten lava visible at the bottom of the largest chamber. LE-019 Pepperoni Pizza, cooled. Same as previous tests except lava replaced with volcanic rock and wall growth dead and decaying. Applied by test subjects in LE-018 was still present but appeared chewed. LE-023 Poster depicting an annotated map of Earth's moon. Room connected to Earth's actual moon. D-class were immediately sucked out of the room by explosive decompression. Later, Mayor Ibrahim Outpost personnel confirmed the presence of human remains initiated cleanup. Containment procedures updated to preclude the use of maps without O5 approval. Subjects refer to document 2063-LE-L for a comprehensive list of worlds visited today. Subjects within a room during a landing event can exit the room normally, walk around on the extraterrestrial landscape, and even retrieve objects and artifacts. However, all foreign objects so retrieved is solved without trace within 20 seconds after the termination of the landing event. A landing event terminated when SCP-2063 is picked up again by a human subject or when all subjects affected by the landing event have been terminated. Upon termination of a landing event, the room is again visible and physically accessible from its original location on Earth. It should be noted that D-class personnel tend to have a high mortality rate during landing events. For reasons that are not well understood, but which have been heavily speculated upon by researchers, D-class personnel are invariably the first to be terminated by dangers present. Mixed groups comprise exclusively of researchers tend to fare better, although fatalities can still occur. It has been noted that when a mixed group of researchers in D-class participate in the same landing event, subjects other than D-class usually emerge unscathed. For this reason, it is recommended that at least one D-class personnel accompany any researcher or group of researchers wishing to study a landing event firsthand. SCP-2063's secondary anomalous properties manifest when approximately 70 days have elapsed without the object being handled, or when SCP-2063 proceeds a threat to itself. In these situations, SCP-2063 becomes autonomous, and will detach from the stand of its own volition. It behaves in a manner similar to spaceships depicted on the show, flying around the room without apparent regard to gravity or momentum, emitting sweeps of radiation out the two meters and what is presumed to be active scanning, projecting a visible shield around the ship, and discharging energy weapons at threats, out to a maximum range of one meter. Targets have included a pair of wire cutters held by a researcher, a Rockwell-type hardness tester, the emitter of a 4,000 watt CO2 cutting laser, and most of a D-class personnel who, unprompted, attempted to unscrew the main sensor array. The intelligence of SCP-2063 is a subject of ongoing study, but at this point appears to be quite limited. It does not seem to associate existing threats, such as destructive testing tools, with the individuals holding or operating those tools. In general, it will raise its shields immediately when it detects a threat, vaporize any part of that threat coming within one meter of it, and then lower its shield after the threat has been neutralized or has been out of scanning range for approximately five minutes. It will fly around the inside of its enclosure, but will generally not attempt to pass through open doors, exhibiting behavior similar to that observed in some species of fish when a glass partition is removed from their tank. However, it is emphasized that the Foundation first became aware of SCP-2063's Atoms behavior when it used its energy weapons to cut its way out of the high-value material storage locker in which it had been stored for more than 70 days. Refer to Incident Report 2063-02 for details. Up until this point, SCP-2063 has been classified as safe. Due to the projected difficulty of re-establishing containment should SCP-2063 ever seriously attempt to breach, current containment procedures are designed to reduce the likelihood of any unscheduled autonomous activity manifesting in the first place. On September 8, 2012, SCP-2063 began transmitting the Fibonacci sequence. It has not, however, responded to any Foundation attempts to communicate. The resurgence of this transmission is often one of the first signs of autonomous activity when the object had not been handled for more than 70 days. Addendum 1 Following Destructive Materials Test 2063-002 in which researchers attempted to remove a small portion of the main sensor dish, SCP-2063 has resisted all subsequent attempts at destructive testing with overwhelming, sometimes lethal force. Special Containment Procedures have been updated to establish best practices for its contingency. Congratulations! By reading this message, you have just told an alien piece of hardware what to do. Oh, don't worry, it's not in your workstation. We've got it at the other end of a secure wired connection in sub-basement-03. Ever since one of the lab boys figured out how to make it talk, we've left this message here, both as a calling card and as a sort of aptitude test. By accessing this file, you just pass that test. You see, sometimes the objects retrieved from SCP-2063 don't melt away after you end the landing event. Sometimes we connect to really weird places that are nonetheless real. It's not just the moon. We've found computers, trinkets, clothing, creatures have followed us home. We get an occasional SCP object, but most of it is just… stuff. And we never seem to find the people who created the stuff. There is one test that we performed early on, which was completely expunged from the records. Even the numbering system was changed to suppress awareness of it. Since then, we have been quietly moving key people around. We need as many people as we can get who can do what you've just done. You are hereby ordered to report to SCP-2063's enclosure at 0500 hours tomorrow. Ignore the testing procedures you are given at that time. Once the chamber door closes behind you, you will hear a buzzer. That sound is your indication that the cameras are no longer recording. Retrieve the ship from its stand, remove the ship's battery cover, place the battery cover on the floor exterior side down, and sit the ship down on top of it. Then step through the door. You will receive further instructions on the other side. Suffice it to say that you are about to embark upon what may be the most important experiment this institution has ever conducted. Welcome aboard. O5-9


The CSOL library contains a variety of ready to assign activities that can be easily integrated into various instructional routines or practices in your classroom. Let's learn how to integrate the lessons from this library into your classroom routines. We know how important research-based standards-aligned high-quality instruction is. It ensures students are supported in meeting their individual learning needs. We also know that repeated exposure to concepts through purposeful practice over multiple days builds mastery of key foundational skills that students need the most. In this training, you will learn how to integrate the standards-aligned high-quality content from the CSOL library into any instructional routine. Using lessons with your whole class is a great way to get started with lessons and gradually release the learning into the hands of students. Let's take a look at the SEL Stories collection to start. In this collection, students explore social-emotional learning through interactive read-alouds. This is a great collection to use for whole class instruction. You can tap Present to Class to complete the interactive read-aloud together as a class. The purple pages contain the story you will read with your students. On the green slides, you will stop the read-aloud and discuss the question on the slide as a whole class, providing students with the opportunity to share their thoughts about what might happen in each story. As a whole class, you will facilitate a discussion related to the skill and practice using the multimodal tools to respond. Another way you can use lessons whole class is to use the instructional content as an introduction to a new topic or unit of study. For example, the STEAM Design Thinking Collection includes an engaging video that introduces students to a topic. In the video, students are invited to join Gerald and engineer in his work to solve problems. Tap Present to Class to watch the instructional video as a whole class. After watching the video whole class, teachers engage students in a discussion to assess understanding of the concepts taught in the video. After the discussion, students go deeper with an informational text to learn new vocabulary and develop their knowledge on the topic. Then, teachers can choose between three STEAM challenges for students to complete using the design thinking process. These can be done independently, with partners, or in a small group over the course of the week. Throughout this lesson, students are exploring the content in multi-dimensional ways, which deepens the learning and creates a more transferable understanding. Centers and stations are a deliberate time for students to engage in purposeful practice of a skill at their own level. Teachers that integrate lessons from the CESA library into their centers or stations routines increase agency and engagement while ensuring students' needs are met. CESA lessons are flexible and allow teachers to easily differentiate instruction. To use lessons in centers or stations, start by teaching a whole class or small group lesson. Then, designate one or more stations as CESA lessons stations for students to practice or reinforce the skill type. The Numbers in Space Collection promotes flexible thinking and builds confidence in math. Students build numbers since by identifying, writing, composing, and counting with numbers 0 through 20 in multi-dimensional ways. In centers or stations, students can complete one or more activities each day and end the week with a connect and show what you know activities. Simply schedule each activity to be assigned on the day you would like students to complete it. Don't forget, when assigning a lesson, you can select certain students or groups of students to assign it to, making differentiation during centers and stations easy. If students only complete some of the practice pages within an activity, they can save the activity as a draft and easily return to their work the following day. To continue working on a lesson, students tap on the to-do section of their activities tab and tap finish response to continue working. When all of the pages of an activity within the lesson have been completed at the center or station, students tap the green check to submit the activity to their teacher. Lessons make planning for centers and stations easy. CESA lessons are built to supplement and reinforce learning that is taking place in the classroom and can be used to provide students with purposeful practice during independent work time. To use lessons for independent practice, start with a whole class or small group mini lesson and then assign a lesson from the CESA library to your students to complete independently while you support small groups or meet with students one-on-one. In the fund phonemes collection, students have multiple opportunities to practice phonemic awareness by following the soundhound to practice the consonant phonemes in the English language. This collection includes instructional content to support them independently on the skills they will need to complete this lesson. Begin by having the whole class watch teacher barns and soundhound model how to make sounds with their mouths in the introduction video. Then assign the practice activity of this lesson. There is another instructional video within the practice activity so students can watch this to be reminded of how to make the sound when they are working independently. Make sure to schedule the apply activity to be assigned after students have completed the practice activity and remind students they can rewatch the introduction video as well. Then schedule the connect activity to be assigned after students have completed the apply activity and finally schedule the show what you know activity that can be used as an assessment to be assigned at the end of the week. After watching the instructional video within the practice activity, students get repeated opportunities to practice the skill independently. They listen to, make, identify, see examples, and match the sound that they are learning about. Everything they need to independently practice the skill is included in the activity of this lesson. Scaffolds are built into each lesson to support learning independently. Each page contains audio directions in both English and Spanish to ensure students know what they are supposed to do. Lessons contain instructional content that allows students to learn important foundational skills and when students use CSOLs multimodal learning tools, they can make their thinking visible. Lessons guarantee that all students get purposeful practice of key foundational skills during independent practice time. You did it! You learn how to integrate high quality standards aligned lessons from the CSOL library into your daily classroom routines. Thank you for learning with us today. You can find more free trainings in our learning hub at learn.csol.me or at web.csol.me for its slash training.