My name is Jaina, I'm a librarian with the Westportal Branch Library, and this is a demonstration on Productivity Tools Trello and Air Table. But first, I wanted to talk about this land acknowledgement, so I'm just going to read this off. Welcome to the unceded land of the Ohlone tribal people. We acknowledge the many Ohlone tribal groups and families as the rightful stewards of the lands on which we reside. SFPL is committed to uplifting the name of these lands and community members from these nations with whom we live together. SFPL encourages you to learn more about first person culture and land rights, and are committed to hosting events and providing educational resources on these topics. So what are productivity tools? Let's see. Boost your higher ability with knowledge on common productivity tools like Trello and Air Table. Productivity tools are also good for small businesses looking to modernize and communicate seamlessly with their teams. So these are the two logos for Trello and Air Table. And what are they? They are again online productivity and collaboration tools. So here is a broad overview of Trello. This is what Trello looks like. We'll go over all of the components shortly, but this is just to show you what Trello looks like as the beginning. So here's a short video as well. Let's just play this. Okay, now let's dig a little bit deeper into Trello. So a Trello board has only four key components, boards, lists, cards, and the menu. So the board, which is what you'll primarily be looking at, it represents a project or a place to keep track of information. So you can use it to launch a website, plan a vacation.  So again, this is a Trello board. This houses all of the other components right here. A list is one of the components of the board, and it keeps cards organized in their different stages of progress. You can use to create a workflow where cards are moved across lists from start to finish, or simply act as a place to keep track of ideas and information. You can add as many lists as you like to a board and you can arrange them as in any form or pattern that you prefer. So for example, here, these lists show progress from to do to doing, and then done. So next we're going to talk about cards. Cards are the fundamental unit of a board, they represent the tasks that you need to be completed, so they can be anything from a depending on what you're using Trello for a blog post that can be that needs to be written, something that needs to be remembered, or just some activity that needs to be done. Again, so the board is the entire thing of Trello. The list is where you add cards. And within the cards, you can add due dates, descriptions, you can have your team members comments, you can add a checklist, you can add labels. So the card is really where you're doing most of your work. Now the menu, which is the top right of the board. This is where you manage members of your team. You can control settings. You can filter cards. And depending on which version of Trello you're using, whether it's the free or the business class, you can also add power ups, power ups are options you could tie to Trello. For example, you can add a calendar, you can add Google Drive, you can add Slack. These are all other programs you can use in conjunction with Trello. The menu also shows you the activity that's happening across your board. So see down here on the bottom right. It's as Brian Cervino marks the due date on book flight to Hawaii complete. So you can see what your team members have done on the menu. So I'm going to show you a sample Trello board and click through here. And again, let's go over the different components. So this entire thing is called a Trello board. And these things here are called lists. And within each list, you have cards. So this is a card. You can add votes, you can add description. You can see the activity that's happened on this card, whether a team member has completed a checklist or has done anything in relation to this card, you'll see the activity here. You can also attach picture files or links. You can see that here. You can add any kind of hyperlink, you can even add YouTube. So you can add any kinds of links to a card. You can also add checklists. This one doesn't have a checklist. Let's see. We're going to just call it checklists. And you can add different items to the checklist. So like laundry dishes. So for example, if you're keeping track of chores, garbage. So you can add and you can also assign due dates to each individual item on your checklist. So say I want to, well actually due dates is part of the business version of Trello. But you can still add checklists and mark them off.  You can also add color coded labels. So I've added an SFPL green label to this card. And you can make as many lists as you need to, depending on your project. So again, you can do a to-do list, a being done list, or a completed or done list. And then you can drag cards to any list that you've created. So for example, if you have something on the to-do, once you're done with it, you can move it to completed. So you can play around with Trello to see how you'd like to organize your information. Okay, let's go back to the presentation. Trello is also nice because it's available on Android phones, like Samsung or Google Pixel, and it's also available on Apple iOS. So your iPhones, your iPads, etc. It works in both apps work in real time. So anything you do on the desktop version of Trello will be reflected on the app that you have on your phone. And vice versa. Okay, let's move on to air table. Let's watch a little video of air table. Whether you're opening your own restaurant, producing a hit TV series, or designing a new clothing line, air table helps you create anything you can imagine. Unlike a traditional project management system, air table lets you connect your information and build the perfect workflow, all in one place. You can organize your information with rich field types like checkboxes, drop downs, and drag and drop file attachments. Your projects aren't one dimensional. Your tools shouldn't be either. With air table, create different tables for different information and easily connect them as necessary. Focus on the information you need when you need it. Filter group and sort to answer questions quickly or get a different perspective. In air table, you don't have to compromise to collaborate. Keep your whole team on the same page by creating different views for different needs. Switch seamlessly between grids calendars, con bond boards and galleries to interact with the same information in different ways. You can even collect new information for the custom form. If you mess something with your team, no need to switch apps. Send messages right where the work happens. In air table, and any changes that are made are instantly saved and saved across all devices. Supercharger workflow is apps you can mix and match. Create Gantt charts, custom documents, maps, and org charts all in air table. You can pick one of our ready to customize templates. Get inspired by the community in air table universe or create something from scratch. What you build is unique. And your tools should be to air table. Create your way. Okay, so that was an overview of air table. Now let's dig a little deeper again. So air table, air table has only two components. The two components of air table are the workspace and the base. The workspace is a collection of bases shared among a team of people. A base belongs to a workplace. And it's a database that contains all the information you need for a specific project stored in one or more tables. So this is what air table looks like. And the base, for example, would be on this example would be Hillwood hospitality group marketing and Hillwood hospitality group global operations. So these two are your workspaces. Within your workspaces, you'll have different bases, different tables. So under the marketing workspace, we have a marketing hub base, a digital video production base, a marketing org charge base, and so on. So again, the workspace is a collection of bases. So a collection of these things that contain the information you need for a project. Let's move on. Here's a table example. I'm going to click through so you can see it. So air table is a lot like a lot like a spreadsheet. You have different columns for different types of information. And then you have different rows for the information that's within those columns. You can make as many columns as you need to depending on your project. So this table, this base has all these different guides for air table. So you have five steps to get started in air table, meet air table and get started faster getting started in air table, how to create a form how to link records. So these are all different things you can do an air table and they're just listed under name. You can also add cover images, you can upload drag and drop cover images like this one. This list, or this column here shows you how you can label different options for different projects. This is also a different labeling system here. You can also have a description, and you can also include links. So, each column can be a variety of field types. So here if you click through, let me do that one more time. If you click the little arrow on a column, and click customize field type, you'll get a list of different field types that you can apply to this column. So there's link to another record, so you can add a link. Single line text for a short field of text, long text for a longer, longer text, an attachment checkbox multiple select some multiple choice single select one choice. You can add a column for all your collaborators all your team members can also do dates, phone numbers, emails, numbers, etc. There's a lot of different fields field types that you can use for your column. So any pretty much anything you can imagine. You can use as a field type for a column. What else is on here. So when you click through, you can expand a record to see all of the information for that record or for that row in one place. If you click through, I clicked that little arrow, a little double arrow here that says expand record. And then now you can see all of that information that's on the table in one place for this particular entry. It says here no comments or changes to this record yet, but any changes you make to this record will show up here in this right column under activity, so that you can keep track of any changes that have occurred for your entry here. So for example, I'm going to change the name five steps to get started in your table to six steps to get started in your table. And then once I click out of it and go back in. Now it shows you that I edited this record from five to six steps to get started in your table. The version of air table only keeps about two weeks of your revision history. So it only keeps about two weeks of any of the changes you've made to a record. But usually, that's more than enough. I mean if you wanted to upgrade and extend your history, you can do that by paying for like the premium version of air table. And just like a spreadsheet you can filter, you can group, you can sort, you can change colors, and you can share this view with anybody else, or create a form so that people can fill out. You can create a form so people would fill out information on it and then it would display in this table format. So what do you think about air tables that you can have different views. So you can create a view here on the bottom left, you can do a grid, which is what we're looking at right now, you can do a form. You can also do calendar view if you had due dates you would see the calendar view gallery view would show your records as visual cards. And it would show, for example, if I did a gallery view of this table, you would see the images, it would pull the images from each record. So you can see it in a gallery view so this is gallery view. Kanban looks a lot like Trello in a way. You can see each column of information divided visually. And then now we can go back to grid view which is the table view. And again you can add team members, you can do automation so for example, if one of these records has a particular status. Once you change it to that status, you would move that information to a different table and a different or a different base. So you can do automations to help you custom different views or different tables. Here are some suggested automations. So you can automate sending a weekly digest of the changes that have occurred on your table. You can post a Twitter you can send a Slack message when a record is updated a particular way. You can create a new record. If you add something to a different date, you can update records. Your event is changed up to the record in an air table as well. So the functionality of air table is pretty extensive. There's a lot you can do with it and a lot you can automate with it, which is really nice when you're working on a project. You can automate things so you don't have to think about moving information if you want, if you don't want to, you can have air table do it for you automatically with automations. Another nifty feature is history. So it's this little clock icon and you hover over it as history. You can take snapshots of a moment in time of your table. So that if somebody makes a mistake on the table and it's a big mistake you can revert back to a moment in time when you took a snapshot and air table saves it for you for up to two weeks. For example, I took a snapshot on May 8 and May 11. So if I click on one of these, it will revert the table back to what it was like at this point in time on May 11 at 117 p.m. It'll take you back to that time and you can start from there. Instead of having to go back and undo a bunch of different changes. Another nice feature of air table. Okay, let's go back to the presentation. Just like Trello air tables available on Apple iOS and on Android operating systems. Again, like Trello, any changes you make on the desktop or browser version of air table. And they will also reflect on the app versions of air table so you can always take Trello and air table with you and make any changes on the go.


What's shaken navigation nation happy Friday today is Friday February 8th. Welcome to this week's video update I don't know about you guys, but I actually don't like Fridays.  They hate. Well, I hate Fridays because that just means the markets are closing Can't trade for another two days. At least it's not a three-day weekend though. So I guess that's good Anyway, let's jump in before I get to the alerts a couple of housekeeping notes First of all, if you have not registered make sure you go to navigation trading calm slash small Exchange we're gonna be doing a web class with the man the myth the legend Tom Sausenoff from tasty trade To go over what the small exchange is how you can get involved What it's all about why they're creating it? It is February 12th. That is Tuesday of next week at 3 15 Central time make sure you register You know, this is an opportunity. They they've applied for approval of the small exchange So it's not even approved yet, but they're giving tasty works customers a chance to get in before it's even approved and and to get a seat or subscription on the small exchange now Back in the day back in the 50s 60 70s 80s, I guess 60 70s 80s When the exchanges first came about and people bought seats, you know, I mean they were they were trading for Around, you know a couple hundred thousand dollars at that time and people were late later Selling their seats on the exchanges for millions of dollars now I'm not saying that's gonna happen here, and I'm not even saying that this should be looked at as a investment opportunity by any means but being able to get it a seat on an exchange and Be able to get reduced fees for us as active traders could be a huge huge deal so anyway, check it out I want to learn more along with you guys and We'll have the we'll have Tom sauce off there. We can hear it straight from the horse's mouth and Look forward to seeing everybody there Next who got caught being hot this week each week in the community We like to recognize a member who is engaged and active and answering questions asking good questions This week goes to Big Willie Congrats Big Willie He actually was more active last week, but got a little overshadowed overshadowed by Starting to call him earnings Mike who's been posting his earnings trades, which are great. Keep that up Mike But congrats to you Big Willie you got caught being hot and As always I I'll send I send you a private link where you can grab some trade-hacker swag and enjoy that so congrats keep that up community is Booming and keeps getting better and better the more people we get in there and get engaged So really excited about where that's going. I think it's really gonna turn into you something special All right, let's jump into the alerts for this week starting on Monday the fourth First trade was a rolling adjusting trade that we did in natty gas. So we've rolled we had two Adjusted kind of inverted short strangles in natty gas and we rolled both of them this week the first one was on Monday and we rolled this from March to April and I know that the brokers do it a little bit differently. So just make sure you're paying attention to the days to expiration In toss March has 21 April has 50. I think it's a little bit different in I think It's a little bit different in tasty work. So just make sure you're you're paying attention to the days to expiration That's why I always post those in the alerts so we we adjusted both the the calls and the puts instead of just Rolling down our calls. We actually adjusted our puts to because they are getting too far in the money and And here let's go to the platform and I'll show you what I mean If we go to natty gas after the you know the massive move down we saw from the from the top If we go to the trade tab what you'll see is that we went ahead and rolled our puts down, too I mean look at what this 3.25 or where we rolled down to is it the 97 delta? And so, you know, we were at the whatever we're at for four points something But I mean look at it. Look at the open interest. I mean, it's just really sparse It's not very often that you get to the point of inversion that You're that far in the money And so we don't have to deal with this very often But in this case, this is one of the reasons I wanted to get out of being so in the money and roll it up And we you know, we wanted to choose a strike That had some good open interest both on that one and and this one here And that's why we chose the 3.25 and the 3.0 for for our other piece and so by by doing this, let me go back to the Platform what you'll see is that we we bought this back for 1.327 And then we re-entered so that when we re-entered we re-sold for 0.638 So you might be looking at saying, okay, you rolled for a net debit though You know, how is how is that a good thing? And the reason we did it is a implied volatility is still high So we want to have exposure in that gas and b when we do these roles We're playing the cyclicality of that market, you know So when we're rolling down rolling down rolling down, you know We're anticipating at some point prices are going to stabilize or bounce higher And that's still what we're that's still what we're playing for The other thing is keep in mind that when you roll in inverted positions position and You adjust those those tested strikes Even though you're you're not getting as much of a credit when you when you resell those We actually have a higher max profit and a higher theta So it's a little bit backwards when we're inverted and we will we adjust those pieces then if we were not inverted Okay, so I just I want to point that out because we don't do we don't have to do this very often because we usually don't have a situation with With this type of moves that we've seen in that gas, but it's important to understand Why I did what I did And to to make sure it understands to make sure it makes sense in your head and Makes sense logically from the mathematical standpoint Even though we rolled this and we got we did it for a net debit It's because a we're still bullish In playing the cyclicality in that gas so looking for a bounce higher And it gave us a higher max profit and more theta For for where price currently is so hope that makes sense If you have any other questions on that feel free to post in the community and I'll try to clarify But this is our 2.8 3.25 position So again, let's looking for a little bit of a bounce higher to get back into range there And then very similar with this piece here Where we're we're in range here, but also still bullish looking for a little bit upside To benefit that piece And again, like I said, if we look at u and g the corresponding etf Excuse me The ivy percentile 65, you know, so still good premium in those options So we still want to have that exposure in natty gas And if we could just get a little bit of up movement or some consolidation in price that would be extremely helpful for that position Next trade was rolling adjusting trade in iwm So we had our short call vertical in iwm from our iron condor That we went ahead and rolled to keep that short delta exposure and to extend duration on that trade So if we look at iwm We've got two pieces here. We've got our full iron condor, which you can see We've got a decent amount of profit in not quite enough to book yet But potentially next week If price stays stable there And then we've got this short call vertical from our other iron condor And so just looking for a little bit more downside before we do anything with that one Next trade was a closing trade in casco So this is a short call vertical that we originally put on for some short delta exposure We ended up booking a nice profit over 50 of max profit On that one if we take a look at a chart of casco You know we got into this thing way back here around this area And I mean this thing just traded sideways what felt like forever We finally got a little bit of downside enough to get out and book 50 of max profit So good hold and weight on that one Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in spy. So similar to iwm. We rolled our One of our short call verticals from feb to march And so let's take a look at spy very similar to Iwm so we've got so hang on. Here's the one that we rolled. We've got two pieces here This is the one we rolled. You can see the markets come down a little bit since we've done that So we've gotten some profits back in that one Our other piece is basically it at almost at max loss So we haven't done anything with that because you know, we could close it out where it is But really we're just holding on this and just in case there's a slight chance We make a huge move down and get back some of that some of that profit Otherwise next week this is still in feb. So next week is expiration week We've got uh, we're at seven days to expiration now And so we will definitely be managing that next week And depending on where we're at with short delta and everything We will either just close it out take a loss on that piece or we will look to roll If we if we need some more short delta or we may look elsewhere We'll just have to see where we're at with everything at that point My inclination would be to just probably just to close it kind of like we did with apple today Because it's so far at a range But we'll see We'll see what the numbers look like and where the market's at early next week before we do anything Next trade was a opening trade in snapchat snap snap And we did a post earnings short put Uh, short puts not not a vertical It's such a low price symbol that we went ahead and just did the short naked puts You can see uh after earnings they blew out earnings To the upside anytime. There's a move above and beyond the expected move. We anticipate the price is going to Stay steady to higher took a little bit of heat yesterday went down But then cranked right back up and it's it's on fire to the upside up almost five percent just today And so we've got some profit there looking for about 40 or 50 percent of max profit before we book that one Next trade was a it was the other piece of the natty gas already mentioned that already went over that And then we had a closing trade in four slash six b Which is the british pound booked over 25 of max profit on that piece of the trade after meaning after the roll It was almost a straddle. So, you know, we were looking to book that Uh pretty quickly we weren't waiting for 50 of that So we went ahead and booked that when we were a little over 25 of max profit on that piece Overall after the couple adjustments made a little over 500 bucks on the trade Now that one is I was looking to actually re enter that today If we look at fxb, which is the corresponding etf To get an idea We've just had such a a decent amount of contraction implied volatility the last couple days I'd rather i'm going to wait till early next week if it's still at this level we'll put it on but You know, hopefully we get a little bit of a pop higher get some better pricing on those options before we before we put that on But we'll see where it's at Early next week, but I'd like to get back into that one get some exposure in uh in the currencies The other currency that really is liquid enough to trade would be fxc or the euro And if we take a look at fxc, you can see the applied volatility is just next to nothing in that And I was actually looking at calendars in there, but the pricing they're just too low priced because Currencies are such a low volatility symbol Um, so nothing nothing going on in the euro at this point Next trade was an opening adjusting trade in smh the semiconductor etf And we so we've got two pieces on here in smh Uh implied volatility popped its head back up above that 50 level that we like to see before we sell premium So here's the one that we already had on this is an adjusted strangle You can see prices hanging out up here in the upper end of the range And then the piece that we just added let me close out this theoretical piece Is this one so we just added a new centered strangle out in march Both of these are in march you can see it's still very centered got a little bit of profit there But just waiting for some more before we do anything on that one Next trade was a closing trade in apple so I referenced this earlier But this one this was a long put vertical that we originally put on for short delta exposure We had just seven days to expiration on this one. It was way out of range So instead of rolling we just went ahead and took a loss on this one We've we've been rolling this for several cycles, but we just wanted to a reduce our short delta a little bit To help balance our portfolio and and with this one so far out of the range just made sense to close out instead of rolling So that we are out of apple Next trade was a rolling adjusting trade in eem So we rolled our short call vertical in eem kept the strikes the same We're able to collect a little bit of a credit on that roll And so if we take a look at eem You'll see this is this is what it looks like now So just looking for some downside to benefit that if we do get a pop in implied volatility Uh, I will probably enter a new iron condor kind of centered around Wherever price is but you can see implied volatility is contracting today And um, and so we're we're not looking to add to this at this point Next trade and lastly was an opening trade in netflix So again, just trying to balance our portfolio add a little bit reduce a little bit of the short short delta that we have Um, so in netflix we did a bullish position to add some long delta And what i'm looking at here is you know netflix had a big move up Drop down a little bit push up drop down a little bit. So anticipating another push higher Uh, and so nothing nothing magic about that But just looking at a good entry point to add some some long delta and with the market coming down the last couple days Looks like potentially a decent entry point for a continuation to the upside And so netflix just looks like a decent opportunity for that As far as where we're at on our ratio So we like to be between one to one and five to one on our short delta to theta ratio We are currently at uh, right at about three to one. So good spot We are getting closer to three and a half to four and so that's why we made some of those Uh portfolio delta adjustments with cutting loose our apple trade Adding this netflix trade and that helps balance us and we're back down to about three to one Which i think is is a great great spot to be For where we're at So those are all the alerts. Let's take a look at some of our other positions We've got oil. We've got two pieces on in oil So let's separate these and you can see we we got to a point now where We're over 50 of max profit on this piece of the trade, but in oil We've got we've still got 35 days left to expiration. So i'm not going to roll out to May Because we've still got a ton of time left once we get to a point where we've got about 60 days to expiration in the next cycle Of may Which is about seven days away Then we might then we'll potentially look to to lock that in and roll out to the next month But at this point we're just going to hold on to this still fairly centered um oops Still fairly centered So, you know, we're just going to play it if we get a little bit of upside That'll be good Just looking for some more time to pass some more theta to decay in that one And then we've got our other adjusted strangle, which is the 56 put 54 call pretty much same story Just hanging out here just waiting for some more time to pass before we do anything with that one So we'll spread out those those rolls and we're coming back really nicely in oil And and so hopefully within the next couple cycles we'll be back to profits Which will be awesome to see and and I can't wait I'm going to I'm going to do kind of a recap of both that both the nat gas and the oil trades once we close out of those to really Show you guys the power of of of what this what happens when you take a huge loser Out of the gate and you can turn it around into a winner what we're not out of the woods yet, but uh coming back very nicely Uh es we've got a long put vertical here, uh, which expires next week as well Yep, seven days to expiration And so we will look to we originally put on this as a short delta exposure We're going to continue to keep it on as part of our short delta And so we'll we'll look to roll this next week Uh, I mentioned that gas wheat we've got, uh Iron condor on here still in wheat and just waiting for a little bit more profit before we book that one di a Kind of a similar story as the es. We've got this short call vertical Uh, which is way out of range. Uh, hopefully we get a little bit more downside next week And we'll look to either close or roll that And then we've got our other piece on here, which is already in march Which you can see price is still within range here, but just looking for a little bit more downside To benefit that piece I mentioned e em e w w we've got this adjusted strangle price is hanging out right here Uh, we are at a point where we're back to profits in e w w I believe I'll have to double check the trade tracker to to see exactly where we're at But uh, we're at a point where I've got a little bit more downside movement a little more Um Little more theta decay We'll decide if we want to roll this one out in in extend duration or go ahead and book it But uh, hopefully next week we'll have that decision ability If it does continue to move higher, you know out out of range here, you know implied volatility has popped its head back up Now if it moves up, we'll probably get a little bit of a contraction But if we have decent premium, we may look to add to that one. Otherwise, we'll just manage as necessary E w z we've got a straddle which is has been adjusted from a strangle And you can see price has come back nicely into range here So just continuing to wait for a little bit more theta decay And some time to pass before we do anything on that one I mentioned i w m I E Y R. This is the real estate ETF So this is one I've I've tried to get filled on Several times you can see prices had breached the upside break even by a significant amount And there for a while, uh, there was still a decent amount of premium left in the puts Now that premium has decayed to a point where it makes sense to close this out But I had to order in almost all morning didn't get filled so I'm not going to chase it Obviously if it moves any higher, we'll go ahead and close out this untested side But at this point, we're just kind of holding on and and you know, see if we get a bounce back Even though it's it's well out of range And then we've got Our other one, which is another tight iron condor You can see right here still very centered. So just waiting for some more time to pass on that piece I mentioned netflix qqqs. We've got two sets of short call verticals here Uh, you can see prices just inside range on that one And then on this one similar just looking for some downside to benefit that SMH we've got already whenever smh snap spy xlk So we've got this that we uh originally put on for that long, uh, excuse me short delta exposure It's a long put vertical It's out of range here just looking for some downside to get back into range there We are in march with this one. So a lot of time nothing to do in that one yet And then xlv This is another one. I feel like we've been in forever And it's just been kind of hanging it get a little bit in range a little out of range a little in range Just kind of bouncing around so if we can just get a little bit of downside We will book that next week. If not, we will look to potentially Roll or close regardless of where it is. Uh, this is in feb with seven days So we're going to do something with that one early next week And xrt we've got an adjusted strangle here Which has come back nicely and just waiting for a little bit more profit before we do anything with that one So those are all the trades. Those are all the positions Everybody have a great weekend. Don't forget to register at navigation trading dot com for slash small exchange For that web class on tuesday. Have a good weekend everybody. See you monday


The National Broadcasting Company and its affiliated stations present the Pacific story. The drama of the millions of people who live around this greatest scene where the United States is now committed to a long-term policy of keeping the peace. This is a documentary account of the situation in the Pacific, of the men and events which are today influencing world affairs for generations to come. Powder keg of Asia. There's enough dynamite in Sinkiang to start another world war. To put it another way, Mr. Wilkie, Sinkiang here is the center of a political volcano which may blow off the top of the world. But even Wendell Wilkie did not realize how close the explosion was. A preview of what is in the wind came like a tornado. Hard-riding tribesmen of Central Asia are sweeping across the Turkestan border region in northwest Sinkiang, in open rebellion against the Chinese. After 10 years under the regime of Governor Cheng Xi, the Muslim Uyghurs and the Kazakhs are laying seeds to the border town of Inning, sometimes called Kulga. The tribesmen are armed with modern weapons and led by mysterious and competent leaders. Extent of the losses has not yet been determined, but it is expected that they will model... Put down the Chinese pirates! In the capital city of Diyuwa, 350 miles east of the defeat town of Inning, the tension was high. It is an outrage. You Chinese did not think it an outrage to suppress us under Governor Cheng for 10 years.  Is this true? You Kazakhs and Uyghurs have always resented us Chinese. Why should we bend our necks to you Chinese? Sinkiang is not Chinese. Sinkiang is Chinese. 200,000 of our population of four and a half million are Chinese. We made Diyuwa here, a modern city. You imposed Governor Shang on us for 10 years. Ask Palo Bai here. That is right. You Kazakhs and Uyghurs said yourself that you liked Governor Shang. When he stood for cultural autonomy for us? Yes. But when he sold us out to the Guomindang and tried to make Chinese of us, he ignored our racial difference from you Chinese, arrested and imprisoned and killed us by the tens of thousands. Then we no longer liked him. After all, 95% of us are Mohammedans. We removed Shang from the governorship, did we not? You removed him two months ago when you could do nothing else. And what did you do to him for his misdeeds? You did nothing. Worse than that, you tried to save his face by making him Minister of Agriculture and Forest in the Chongqing Cabinet. Shang is an able man. He should be brought to trial and punished. But why do you people rebel now after Governor Shang is gone? You have a new leader now. Yes. We have General Shang Chichung. But we still have the situation that Shang last year has been only a matter of weeks. We knew what it said of the uprising in Northwest Xinjiang. Three Uyghur tribesmen who had been imprisoned by the Chinese escaped. And soon the region was appired with rebellion. The Uyghurs, my people, the Kazakhs, the Tatars, the Turkis, and even white Russians wrote together against the Chinese with hand grenades, rifles, pistols, and with a torch they scourged the villages. Attacking with a fury of wild men, the rebelling tribesmen have captured the town of Sui Bing and are moving on the mountain stronghold of Air Dai. The mountain stronghold of Air Dai has fallen to the hard-bitten Muslim raiders. And reports have reached this outpost that more than 2,000 Tungans and Kazakhs are attacking the city of Changi, only 40 kilometers north of Tewa. And the capital city of Tewa, the tension grew. Military guards were everywhere. They watched us Kazakhs and Uyghurs and Turkis. What will they do to us to go by if Tewa is attacked? I can only guess. It is said the Chinese reinforcements are being crossed into Xinjiang. You can be sure that some of them will come here to defend the capital. There will be much more bloodshed before the fighting stops to lob us. Xinjiang is as precious as a jewel. Therefore the Chinese are fighting to hold it. In this great pasture land cut up by mountains, my people, the Kazakhs, have lived as nomads for centuries. When I was a boy, I heard of the sheep and the goats in the grasslands of the high country. My mother and the other women did the chores around our youth. When we moved, we took down our youth and struck them on our animals and carried them with us to our next spot. In our wanderings, we met the other people of Xinjiang. The Kalmukhs, the Kirgiz, the Turkmen. I remember the first time I saw a Chinese. You see, they are different from us to Lubai. My father explained them to me. They come from the land called China, far to the east. Here in Xinjiang, most of them live in the cities like Tiwa and Yaqang and Khazgar and Khotan and Aksu, as you see to Lubai. They are the magistrates and the merchants. Whenever I saw Chinese, I stopped and studied them. Now, that one you see, he is a pure bred Chinese. You see how different he is from me? We have the same blood as the people of Turkey. We are not Turks, but we are Bohamadans. When I was small, I wondered why the Chinese were so few in Xinjiang were the magistrates and the merchants. I used to watch those in charge of the camel caravans. They are carrying merchandise to trade my son. These caravans have been going over the silk roads of this country for thousands of years. As I grew up and became a hunter and a herder, I came to understand the caravans. The camel is carrying up to 600 pounds of freight across the sandy waste through the rushing streams of the mountain gorges, up through the rugged canyons and over the snow-covered passes of the Xinjiang mountains. Those goods they are carrying there my son, they will sell in the lands far, far beyond. In the summer, we rode our horses in the grazing country of the Xinjiang and when we went to the gardens outside Kashgar and to the country of the great Tulfan depression, we saw them using bullocks to draw plows that were made entirely of wood. I remember standing in the Tulfan depression country and listening to my father. Right here, where we stand my son, there's more than 900 feet below the level of the sea. If the sea should run in here, it would flood this entire countryside. But we did not fear, for the sea is nearly 2,000 miles to the east. I thought about that a long time. The Great Pacific Ocean is 2,000 miles to the east of us. I tried to imagine what an ocean was like. I stood there at the Tulfan depression and looked to the east. My father knew what I was thinking of. He said nothing about that but turned me to the south. Almost a thousand miles straight south of where we are standing here my son is the highest mountain in the world. They say it is more than 29,000 feet high and hundreds of miles south of that is another sea. The Bay of Bengal. That was the first time I realized where Sinkyang was, where I had been born and where I had grown up. And a year since then I have come to understand the relationship between Sinkyang and China to the south of us here in India and Tibet. To the north is Outer Mongolia. To the west Russian Turkestan. I remember when I learned that Sinkyang is also sometimes called Chinese Turkestan. That is because of the whole China has a pan-Sinkyang all about. But Sinkyang is not Chinese. It was a long time before I learned to make this distinction. And a long time before I learned why Sinkyang is so important. I'll tell you why it is, Tulubai. This was the American who had spent so much time in Sinkyang. You see, Sinkyang is right up against Russian Turkestan. That is against several of the Soviet republics in Russian Turkestan. That is one reason. In effect the British in India and the Russians in Turkestan are separated only by Sinkyang. Therefore both the Russians and the British are vitally interested in what happens in Sinkyang. The British and the Chinese, for example, would be very much concerned if the Russians had too much influence in Sinkyang. And of course the other way around, too. I learned the Russians had a special reason for concern. You see, the Russians have a great industrial empire in what they call the Urals-Kuznets Karaganda region. Because this region is so well screened from attack by the great distances of Russia, the Soviets are secure here except for one thing. Sinkyang. Should Sinkyang fall into hands unfriendly to Russia, then this entire Soviet industrial empire would be in danger. Conversely, should Sinkyang be lost to China, or to put it another way, fall into hands unfriendly to China, then China proper would be wide open to attack from the west. Poor boy. Yes, yes, what is it? The Chinese troops are pouring into the Oasis south of the Tianshan. How many? No one knows. But General Agrochi Chowoff is moving them in so fast that the rebels will have no chance in South Sinkyang. The fighting is going on in the north and the northwest. But how long can our people succeed in the north if the Chinese hold us out? Soon they will be coming north. Yes. We Muslims must make no false move here in Tiva, or we shall not live. Day by day reports came in of the Chinese troops moving into the Oasis around the Takyomakan Desert. An attackmen of troops has moved into Tartan. More Chinese troops are arriving in Aksu and Kashgar. A strong force of Chinese has arrived at Yankee Tower. The reinforcements are coming into your camp. The Chinese soldiers in great numbers are pouring into Tartan. Another detachment has arrived at Kucha. From the south came words which stir the Uyghurs of Tiva. The government troops have requisitioned the food raised by our people in the Oasis. The Uyghurs are supplying the Chinese troops. The troops have told them there is no other way of getting supplies. There are no trucks and almost no highways. They come to fight us and they requisition our food to see their prudence. My people raised this food to sell on the open market. Now the government takes it at its own price. In Tiva we watched. The Chinese were marching. They were in the mountains. They were moving toward the strategic centers. They were approaching the mountain stungle of Odai which only recently has been taken by our people. Odai has been recaptured by the Chinese. The fighting flares on the Soviet border region 300 miles to the west. The streets of Pihua echoed with the marching of the Chinese. All possible forces are being mobilized. You Chinese may need more troops than you think. It is foolishness for you people to continue to resist. Yes, yes. The number of troops China can send into think Yang is endless. Soon now even our civilians here will be conscripted. Yeah, you two had better get off the streets. Well, what has happened? New battles have been reported between Chinese troops and Turkey tribesmen. The outcome isn't known yet, but it may be bad here for the side that loses. Yes. The streets of Tihua cleared. Our blood brothers were fighting against the blood brothers of the Chinese who were in control of Tihua. Our Chinese guards were everywhere. We stayed undercover. Work filled up in on what was happening out in the border region. Our people have deceived the town of Yinning for nearly three months now. The Chinese guards are still holding out. They cannot hold out long. They are short on supplies. More than 300 miles of wasteland lay between Tihua and the fighting in the border region. To move Chinese troops across this barrier with almost no roads, in time to save the garrison at Yinning was almost impossible. We waited. On the 87th day of siege, Yinning fell. Tihua, Xinjiang, January 30th, 1945. The bloody fighting in the Ili Valley in northwest Xinjiang, Chinese-Turkistan, culminated today in the capture of the city of Yinning by the Turkey tribesmen. With hideous cries, the mounted Muslims of Central Asia rode into the doomed city, set fire to many parts of the town and massacred the Chinese garrison and all the Chinese residents they could lay their hands on. With this disaster, the Chinese had ruled in the outpost city of Yinning and autonomous government was set up. The Eastern Turkestan Republic. This is the first step to lobby. Yes, but that is all it is. Are people of this class the Chinese from the Ili region? There is no reason why we should not have lost them from all of Xinjiang? That is another thing. Xinjiang is large and the Chinese are bringing in more and more troops. There are many of us Kazakhs, many Uyghurs and many Kyrgyz and the other minority people of Xinjiang will help us too. Will they help? After all, they are all Mohammedans. Yes. Why should we not be eternists like Walter Mongolia? We are not Chinese. The fighting went on. It went on until General Chang Qichong got representatives of the three rebellious regions to come to Paris with him here in Tiwa. Our price is independence from China. I present here the 14 demands of the people of the border regions. General Chang won the respect of the delegates with his sincerity and with his earnestness. May you remember well the admonishments of Sun Yat-sen on fair and equal treatment for minority people. It is our wish to abide by the principles laid down by Sun Yat-sen. I therefore say to you that it is to your advantage to have self-government as a part of China rather than independence from China. My people listened. They agreed to the withdrawal of three of their demands and on January 2nd 1946 signed an agreement. The government shall give the people the power to elect local administrators. The government shall give the people freedom of religious beliefs. Both Chinese and local languages shall be official languages. The government shall give the people freedom of publication, assembly and expression. Years later the treaty was formally signed in Tiwa and soon after this more than 300 political prisoners my people who were connected with the inning incident were released. But the trouble was not settled. Important Chinese came to Tiwa became to smooth over the strained relations between the national government and us Muslims. People who knew about industry and about engineering. If we are to develop plans for the industrialization of Xinjiang we must at least have the use of the resources of Xinjiang. Yes, the petroleum of the Wu Hu oil fields and the minerals and the grain and flour and meats of the border region. That is one of the big problems. You refer to the military frontier on the Manfas River, General Chang? Under our agreement we cannot send out troops for civil administrators west of the Manfas River. That is what I mean, General Chang and that is an impossible arrangement. Yes, the Manfas River is only 70 miles west of Tiwa here and everything we need all the resources we need for the development of Xinjiang are beyond that. I know, certainly something can be done. It is ridiculous that there is gasoline only 150 miles west of here and we are almost without it and cannot get it. Let me remind you that we have just had a rebellion on our hands with hundreds of thousands of Muslims against us either actually fighting us or sympathizing with those who fought us. Yes, I know that. And let me remind you further that the Muslims at a well-equipped army trained and ready in the border region around Guinea both cavalry and infantry I will appreciate this, General Chang but if we are to solve this problem we must certainly find ways of access to the use of the resources of Xinjiang. It is not that the Muslims do not wish to use these resources. They are using them. You refer to the rumors of their trade over the border of Soviet Pakistan? Yes, and more information indicates that it is more than rumors, General Chang. So this almost open trading is going on across the border and not only that, but I have information that some of the Soviet goods are being smuggled right into Tiwak here and meantime we are languishing until profess given this report must be regarded as rumors. Yes? A message from General Chang? Message? From whom? From the Muslim? A petition. Bring it in. Excuse me gentlemen. It is from the Muslim author. Yes. Thank you. You're welcome. It is a petition, all right. Yes. Look at it. Yes. What is it about, General Chang? It asked the provincial assembly to try Chang Ji Cai bring him to trial. Yes. For what they say are his wrongs against minority people. They accuse him of confiscation of their properties of wholesale imprisonment and of unwarranted cruelties. Do I understand that they want to try here in Tiwak? Apparently. Yes. They brought in me and some of the other Kazakhs and boys of Tiwak. And asked us about Chang. They had lived for 10 years under his rule. He ruled us like a dust bus. The tax person took the best of all we had. He defied. He's a Chinese and we are not Chinese. But is it not true that Xinjiang has been regarded as a part of China and has been governed by China for centuries? We have always regarded you Chinese only as the ruling great. Yes. And 95% of us here in Xinjiang are Mohammedan. And you Chinese are not Mohammedan. Yes. And Chang closed our schools and opened Chinese schools to try to make us like you. And he permitted many Chinese immigrants to come into Xinjiang and crowd us in our cities and oases. For some years he prohibited immigration. In the beginning, yes. But then he changed. And he not only brought in many Chinese farmers but he also put many of us in prison. But the worst thing is that when it's last you removed Chang you removed him with honor as the what he had done here in Xinjiang was right. It was not right. It was wrong. And if you Chinese are to have peace here in Xinjiang Chang must be brought to justice. I should like to ask you as minority people's a vital question. It is a touchy question. Ask it. We will answer to the best of our knowledge. This dislike of Chang is more than dislike. Well, does this resentment of Chang arise out of your own experience with Chang out of what he did to you or has it been artificially promoted? It comes from people here wronged. What would you say? What do you mean when you say artificially promoted? Well, could someone possibly foreigners have an interest in finding this hate of Chang? That is not necessary.  Let me say this to you Chinese. China has escaped the consequences of failing to bring Chang to justice by trying to impute our resentment to him to foreign interest. As long as you take the position that Chang was right you Chinese will have trouble in Xinjiang. When trading with Russia was stopped in 1943 and no more consumer goods were brought in hoarding started at once prices went sky high and Xinjiang by its very nature must have trade with no adequate industries Xinjiang was unable to make for itself the things it needs and even with the commodities it had it was sorely put to get distribution for them without adequate transportation. And to this the resentment of the people of Xinjiang against the immigrant Chinese and their opposition to the Chinese central government. And he gets some idea of the situation in Xinjiang. And there were still other complications even though some machinery for Xinjiang was available in China proper it could not be brought in by air. The Russians hold a commercial aviation monopoly and Chinese commercial planes are not permitted to operate waste of homies which is 325 miles east of Fihong. In fact the Russians have a certain control of the economic development of Xinjiang. So when we see many Russian commercial planes we see no Chinese ones. Likewise we see many representatives of the Russian trading organizations here in Tewa but the greatest Chinese concern is for the three north-west regions which bore the Soviet Turkistan. Then in effect General Kang these three regions are under the dominance of the Russians they are still construed to be part of China. Russia has never questioned Chinese sovereignty in these regions and we have never implied that we would relinquish them. But we have no troops in these border regions we have no civil officials so in effect we have only the slightest theoretical hold on these regions which are more than 300 miles from us here. Everyone who has watched what has gone on in these last few years in Xinjiang knows why Russia wants a friendly provincial government in Xinjiang. Xinjiang is a keystone. Because of its strategic location the political tremors in Xinjiang are felt in every part of the world. What happens in Xinjiang concerns not only China but also Russia and Britain. High ranges of mountains stands as barriers between the British and Russians here at this point in Central Asia which is about as far from any ocean as any spot on the world. But nevertheless here at Xinjiang the British and Russian volunteers meet. The Americans have a consulate here in Tewa Britain has a consulate here with few Russians and French and people of many other nationalities besides the Chinese and we people of these deserts and mountains of Central Asia know why they are here. Yes, the powers will be interested in Xinjiang not only for where it is but for what it is for our minerals and for our petroleum and for all of our other resources but any nation that is to benefit by what we have or where we are must first deal with us 4,500,000 mountains. The shooting has stopped in Xinjiang but the problems have not been solved. We who have roamed these mountains and valleys these deserts and these oases for thousands of years are tied not to the political ways that come and go but to this soil of Central Asia and to the Mohammedism that is closest to our hearts. As my name is Tula Bai there is nothing more certain than what Wendell Wilkie totally said there is enough dynamite in Xinjiang to start another world war. We have been listening to the Pacific story presented by the national broadcasting company and its independent stations to clarify events in the Pacific and to make understandable the cross currents of life in the Pacific basin. 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Hello and welcome to the session. Let's discuss the following question. It says, solve the following system of inequalities graphically. Let us now move on to the solution. The first inequality given to us is x plus 2y less than equal to 10 and its corresponding equation of line is x plus 2y is equal to 10. Now to draw this line we need to have two points. So if x is 0 then y is equal to 5 and if y is equal to 0 then x is equal to 10. So we need to plot the ordered pairs 0 5 10 0 to draw the line x plus 2y is equal to 10. Let us now draw the line x plus 2y is equal to 10. For that we need to plot the ordered pairs 0 5 and 10 0. Now if y is 0 x is 10 and if x is 0 y is 5. Now we join these two points to get the line x plus 2y is equal to 10. Now we have to identify the region for the inequality x plus 2y less than equal to 10. For that we take any point not lying on the line x plus 2y is equal to 10 and we check whether that point satisfies this inequality or not. If that point satisfies this inequality we will shape the region which contains that point and if that point doesn't satisfy this inequality we will shape the region which doesn't contain that point and we know that 0 0 does not lie on the line x plus 2y is equal to 10. So we take that point to be 0 0. So if x is 0 y is 0 the inequality becomes x plus 2y that is 0 plus 2 into 0 is less than equal to 10 that is 0 is less than equal to 10 which is true. That means the point 0 0 satisfies the inequality x plus 2y less than equal to 10. So we will shape the region which contains the point 0 0 for the inequality x plus 2y less than equal to 10. Now this is the region which contains the point 0 0 for the inequality x plus 2y less than equal to 10 so we will shape this region. Also the inequality contains the less than equal to sign which shows that the line x plus 2y is also included in the solution region. So we need to darken this line to show that this line is also included in the solution region of the inequality x plus 2y less than equal to 10. Now the second inequality given to us is x plus y greater than equal to 1 and the corresponding equation of line is x plus y is equal to 1. Now if x is 0 then y is 1 and if y is 0 then x is equal to 1. So we need to plot the ordered pairs 0 1 and 1 0 to draw the line x plus y is equal to 1. Let us now draw the line x plus y is equal to 1. So if x is 0 y is 1 and if y is 0 x is 1. So we join these two points to get the line x plus y is equal to 1. Now to identify the region for the inequality x plus y greater than equal to 1 we take the point not lying on the line x plus y is equal to 1. 0 0 does not lie on the line x plus y is equal to 1. So if x is 0 y is 0 then inequality becomes 0 plus 0 greater than equal to 1 that is 0 greater than equal to 1 which is not true. That implies the point 0 0 does not satisfy the inequality x plus y greater than equal to 1. So we will shape the region which does not contain the point 0 0 for the inequality x plus y greater than equal to 1. Now this is the region which does not contain the point 0 0 for the inequality x plus y greater than equal to 1. That means the region above the line x plus y is equal to 1. So we shape this region. So the region above the line x plus y is equal to 1 is the solution region for the inequality x plus y greater than equal to 1 which also includes the line x plus y is equal to 1. So we darken this line. Now the third inequality given to us is x minus y less than equal to 0 and its corresponding equation of line is x minus y is equal to 0. That implies x is equal to y. So we need to draw the line x is equal to y and we know that this is the line passing through the region that is if x is 0 then y is also 0. If x is 1 then y is 1. Let us now draw the line x is equal to y. It passes through the region. So we draw the line x is equal to y. Now we have to identify the region for the inequality x minus y less than equal to 0. For that we take any point not line on the line x minus y is equal to 0. Now we know that the point 0 0 lies on the line x minus y is equal to 0 that is x is equal to y. So we take any other point let's say 0.12 and if x is 1 y is 2. So the inequality becomes 1 minus 2 less than equal to 0 that implies minus 1 is less than equal to 0. Which is true that means the point 1 2 satisfies inequality x minus y less than equal to 0. So we will shape the region which contains the point 1 2 so the inequality x minus y less than equal to 0. Now the point is 1 2 that is x is 1 y is 2 it is this point. So we will shape the region which contains this point. So let us now shape this region. Now we need to darken the line x is equal to y because the line is also included in the solution region. Now we are also given that x is greater than equal to 0 and y is greater than equal to 0. That is each point in the solution region lies in first quadrant and the line x is equal to 0 and y is equal to 0 also included in the solution region. Now we see that the region in dark green is common to all the solution regions and this is the required solution region. And this completes the question. Hope you enjoyed this session with Diane Take Care.