Hi everyone! Marianne Espresso Press Design. Thank you for stopping by. I hope you're all doing well. Prayers to the Southern Mississippi and Tennessee and anyone else experiencing turmoil this pre-Easter season. It's been distressing. Today I have been played around with someone asked about can you print with wax paper and I was in my mind I wanted to try to see if I could do some boutique techniques and full disclosure you see the good in the fails. So today I'm going to do some the only fairly effective treatment I thought you could manage to transfer from wax paper and the best part about it is the beautiful prints that you can get on wax paper itself. I'm going to go over some of the things I've been doing with wax paper. This is one of the this technique I'm going to show you just glued onto a tag. I think it's lovely and of course you can't feel the texture. This is similar tissue paper watercolor tissue glued onto wax paper embossed and then ink over the tissue to capture the ink. Excuse my hands I've been rubbing over ink all morning. This is another one where you can prevent the bleed and keep the color and not have the ink transfer off the wax paper but I'll show you another way you can do that. A couple other ways you can avoid that problem. Here's another envelope tissue glued onto wax paper and then I lost my scores and was just trying to square it up so I wouldn't say that was actually a success but it's just been busy, busy, busy. I'm sorry it's just been busy around here. I have done this laminated some labels very cool. You can poke a hole in there without having to worry about it tearing. Very cute. They actually bend kind of like vinyl so that's another thing I did that I don't a few of these things I just don't think for another video so that's one of them and then I doubled and tripled some wax paper and did some die cuts. They're similar to vellum but they're also different. Double layer is better. You can get a completely different effect whether you crinkle the paper or not.  The birds are crinkled. It's probably not going to show up white on white but the uncrinkled wax paper actually looks pearlescent. Very pretty. The crinkled paper looks a little more matte but to give them enough strength to go through the die cut and pop out easily you definitely want to double or triple and again it's just a matter of making sure you use the right glue. So I'm going to just demonstrate the transfer. I truthfully don't think you can. I'm going to include the link from Gina K on transferring with an iron and then some other things I think you could try to transfer design with an iron using die cuts or the embossing folder but I do not think you can get a true batique effect just a basic transfer and like I said the best thing that comes out is this beautiful patterned see-through paper and that would make I think that would make a really nice flip or something like that. So you'll need some embossing folders. Your choice. It's better to try not to get tears if you want to use this type of thing instead of a transfer so it's definitely better to double it if you don't want tears but minimal tears will work for this technique. So you're going to run it through your embossing folder.  You can also just do a crinkle paper and transfer the texture if you wanted to try something like that and then I just have some white sheets here and I'm going to try it on phone to see if I can get a better transfer. That's one thing I didn't try yet so I have my foam. I have my paper. I have my embossed image. I have some ink and for your benefit I'm going to use my most juicy colors and dark colors. Now I'm going to go over the embossed side. I personally think that worked better if you play around and do what you want and I'm just going to go over this a couple times. If you are more comfortable taping this down be my guest because you're going to want to make sure it stays in place. Flip it over get your brayer and spur. I'm just doing that on white. I'm sure you could probably get another off there but see even with the iron it's going to transfer the wax. Here's another ghost print. This is also a good way to pattern the back of your digitals. With the iron you're going to get something similar except this is going to be wax. The design is going to be wax and then you're going to go over it with ink and your design will be resists. It will be a resists. So that's the effect when you use, when you flip this over and then iron. Surprisingly it doesn't iron out the embossed but that's the effect you're going to get except the blue flowers will be white and then you'll go over it with ink and they will pop out. So I'm just going to do another one here and my embossing folders. Embossing folders are probably about the biggest bang for your buck you're going to get. I use them for printing. I use them for I can put them in my stamping foam and make stamps. I can make metal effects. I can make painting effects. I can transfer. I can print. I can laminate. My embossing machine and embossing folders are money well spent in my humble opinion and it's always gratifying. It's always gratifying especially while that one that one shifted a little. That's okay. Yes I do think you get a better transfer if you put some foam in the back. Definitely. So there's that one. I got a new embossing folder. Oh I love it. Absolutely love it. I don't do that one next. I'm going to be doing so much with this embossing folder. It's right up my alley as far as design. Oops I got a tear and I'm catching that tear a little bit. So again if you don't want a tear, double it up before you emboss. Very pretty. Very pretty. I think it depends on the folder and the design. What kind of effect you're going to get. Let me go over. This leaf one is pretty. Let me try that with a blue so you can see it. Make sure I get my right right side here. Let me try purple. Some of my oops see I got a tear. Some of my inks are more juicy than others. These these are colors I rarely use. Got another tear but that's okay. Again if you don't want this to shift and you want a more perfect transfer, tape it down, hinge tape it, and hinge tape your paper. So moving on. If you want to keep this paper and not have the ink coming back off just take another piece and glue it on top. That is this one. This one. You can see it kept the white. It didn't smear. That's that one. It has another layer glued on top and actually another layer glued on the back for strength. So that's a triple layer and the this colored one is sandwiched in between them basically. So for the ironing technique one thing you might try.  Transfer the die cut design to the paper. Go over it with ink. I didn't have time to try that. If you want this effect which is beautiful, I mean I'll be keeping all of these and sealing them and I'm going to seal them. I didn't bring it with me. I forgot. I'm going to seal it with acrylic gloss. I have one little piece left here and that's what I did.  I mean I just don't doubt about it but you know it's going to have its limitations but again if you use stays on if you want to use it for an envelope pocket you're definitely going to have to strengthen it in some way in my opinion. I mean okay I've seen people make wax. I've made them myself and I've seen people make wax paper bags but they do not they do not live up to wear and tear. Eventually they just wrinkle and the more they wrinkle the weaker they get the weaker they get the more they're likely to tear. So that's about it. Oh I think I think I've explored the wax paper. I love wax paper but I think I've explored it about as much as I'm capable of exploring it this time unless I think of something else and I think that'll probably be it for the wax paper series for the time being but I've come up with a lot of little things that I am definitely going to keep using in the future and how Solve is sitting right here beside me for one use or another in the craft room. So I'm always lived with wax paper scraps and whatnot so I don't I don't foresee that it's um I don't foresee it leaving the craft room any time soon and if I can find a way to use up the scraps of it and create something let's see what I mean I'm still sitting here with a pile and another pile so okay everyone have a great day have a great week keep exploring keep creating I'll see you next time bye


Hello, my name is Sandra Rivera, and I'm the Chief People Officer of Intel. Prior to this role, I was the general manager of the Network Platforms Group, and also had the honor of being a founding member of the O'Pennethy Board, and I led the Marketing Committee way back in 2014. It's been wonderful to look back on the progress made these past six years across our connected communities as the telecom industry transforms itself with the rollout of 5G. Accelerating the virtualization of the communications infrastructure to the next generation telco cloud based on a nimble and scalable cloud-native architecture. On a ket, the merging of O'Pennethy and the cloud infrastructure telco task force represents the latest phase in this transformation to dramatically improve the predictability and efficiency of rolling out new services. I'm excited to see the next generation of network transformation come to life with on a ket, and I'm wishing all of you involved in this community the very best.


I'm supposed to be the moderator, but I did not get the information on the change of schedule, so I'm late. But at least I can preside over pointing to people who want to question our two excellent speakers. Hello, I am President of the Marocan Institute of International Relations, and I was very interested in this panel because we have very little information on the problem of religion in China. So I thank the panelists for giving us this opportunity. My question is the following. Does China suffer from the influence, particularly from the Vatican, for what concerns Catholicism, and from the part of the Islamic Cooperation Organization, or from Turkey, regarding Islam? Thank you. If I can answer this, I don't think China has received its influence. It is rather a fear, rather the rejection of any possibility of interference in sovereign affairs that motivates them to this type of measure. We have seen this with the negotiation with the Vatican, which took a very long time. There is certainly no question of subduing the influences. The question is rather how to share, for example, the authority on the election of the electors. And it is a real sharing. The Holy Church will approve the choice of the electors, but most likely selected by the Communist Party. So, it is a compromise, etc. I think that the influence of the Islamic movement was very little at the beginning. As Jean-Pierre said, the Uyghur communities were very little connected with the world, very little connected to a terrorist activity. This has changed, and it will continue to change under this pressure, I think, because it is typically this victimisation that pushes groups like this towards extreme responses. And at that moment, it has taken contact with the counter-party elsewhere in the Uyghur region. I may add two words about Catholicism. The current link between the Vatican Catholic Church and Beijing is a long and complicated process. It is contested by a certain Chinese Catholic. I think of the tribune that you may have seen in New York Times, yesterday, which is a very anti-communist, very reticent and very worried about the current approach. I think that, however, there is no ideal solution. A bit like Vietnam. For Vietnam, the Vatican will have to find a form of compromise so that both the Catholic Church remains autonomous, but above all, it will be linked to the Vatican, while obviously operating in a system where each religious organisation is controlled by the state or by the party. So it is this type of compromise that we are going to, and what is called the Church of Silence, the underground Church and the official Church is in fact very mixed, superimposed. They have a lot of relations with it, so there will not be a margination of one relation to the other. I think that both will merge into an organisation that will be strongly supervised by the government. Now, for what is Islam and Turkey, you mentioned Turkey. What is true is that there are Uyghur communities all over the world, mainly in Turkey, in Germany, in the United States, and that are communities that originally were rather secular, the IK, which had an eventual and essentially political claim, and which now are much more eclat. But if you take what is called the World Uyghur Congress, the World Uyghur Congress, it is an organisation that does not want to be religious, that wants to be political, which now has officially abandoned the claim of independence but which wishes a political autonomy and this organisation that intends to represent the majority of the Uyghurs distinguishes from the most extremist movements, which are linked to extremist movements in Uzbekistan, northern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan. In my opinion, we talked about the East Turkistan Islamic Movement, which appeared after 9-11, after September 11, which is a movement that remains in the context of the content and which remains, in my opinion, a minority in the panorama. The only religion they did not include in the discussion was the ideologues in the Communist Party of China. And that is a system of faith just like many other religions. I don't know if it includes Xi Jinping, but it includes many ideologues in the Communist Party and they have their own faith which they want to promulgate throughout China. So, we'll close off that remark.


So I'm going to talk about standard operating procedures and testing procedures, and then Olaf will discuss the implementation tool kits a little bit as well and give some demonstrations. All right, so we're just going to go over these, and in particular my presentation will be quite quick. I'll give Olaf more time. So we're going to describe what a standard operating procedure should be, some of the procedures involved in testing, and different types of testing that are available. And some of this actually builds on what the team showed you. They had some testing stuff. Actually, we have different recommendations, but we'll discuss that in a moment. Okay, so the first thing we're going to do is just try to differentiate between a standard operating procedure and training or learning material, because these are often used interchangeably, where we say an SOP is actually a learning material. Okay, we're going to discuss the difference, and I'm going to show some examples. So standard operating procedures, they're not just learning material, they outline a specific procedure, right? Activities required to complete a task based on some type of internal best practice that you have developed, right? They can reference additional resources, okay, like step-by-step guidance. The Palestine team quickly showed a user manual, for example. So you can reference those materials, but that is not a procedure, okay? So just quickly, and I'll show some examples in a moment. So I'm just going to compare on the left side, I have the training material, the right side's the SOP, right? So the training material, it describes this step-by-step process of performing a specific function, whether that's a user manual, whether this is a manual for configuring something in the system, whether it's a manual for analyzing data or reviewing data quality, okay? The SOP can link to the training material, but it describes processes, procedures, roles, functions, and other such tasks, where people have to know how to perform that task already, okay? So you can't implement the SOP if people don't know how to do the task, but at the same time, the SOP is not a description necessarily, just of small tasks, okay? And I'll show some examples to compare in a moment, okay? So there's kind of a general process here that I discuss with SOPs, and it might not be what you're used to necessarily. Maybe if you do have SOPs, maybe you just write them and share them with people, and then you kind of expect people to follow them, but in practice I found this does not work very well, okay? So the first step here is reviewing the topic, and by this I mean actually understanding what it is that you need to do, right? So whether you're reviewing data quality, whether you're learning how to make a new tracker or case-based program, or whether you're implementing something else, okay? You need to actually understand how that's done. You also need to review best practices, guidance, etc., and you need to kind of bring this together. You have to also in parallel, even though an SOP is not a training material, you have to train people how to do the task at some point, right? You can't have an SOP that describes specific functions without the user's understanding how to perform those functions, okay? As you're kind of gathering all this information, you draft the SOPs, and then you perform training on the SOP, okay? But the people have to know what they're doing beforehand, but there should be a separate training on actually implementing those procedures. You don't just print them out or send them by email or, you know, do whatever, share them by PDF. Maybe people read them, maybe they're kind of halfway implemented, but chances are you're not going to be able to scale that process up. You probably won't be very happy with the overall outcome, okay? And then the last thing is monitoring their implementation, okay? You have to check that these are working, follow up with staff to make sure they're performing the functions that you've requested, okay? And for this, you need to develop some type of framework to actually evaluate them, and I have an example of this as well, okay? So I'll try to show examples in a moment, okay? So I've described some of this, this first part in particular I've described, right? But the whole idea is if you're implementing some type of procedure and someone doesn't know about the concept, then you're not going to be able to kind of make it work in practice. The example I have is from data quality. If you say to people, find outliers in my system every month, and they have no idea what an outlier is, or you've not shown them how to identify outliers, chances are that procedure is not going to work very well, right? The second part on training about the tasks, this ties into this, right? So if they don't know what it is, how will they actually perform that task? So even though they're separate pieces of material, they are closely tied together, okay? So when you're writing the SOP, you kind of have to take all this information you've gained. It's a bit of an internal research project, right? You have to know, locally, how are things actually done? Because you don't want to write a procedure that's completely out of touch with the reality of the situation, okay? You also have to understand some best practices. So what are some global principles that may improve your current workflow, you know? What is realistic to actually modify?  That won't work, okay? But it needs to be kind of this marriage between the two, okay? And then you also need to think about those specific skills you're focusing on and how you can explain them in a kind of very systematic way to people to make sure they can implement them. And then once you kind of write them up, try to test them internally just to see if they make sense, right? Because sometimes the first draft in particular, it's kind of disjointed, it doesn't have a good flow, you're not able to identify who's responsible for doing specific operations, and it doesn't really work well, okay? So then once you've kind of developed and tested them, you train on the specific procedure, okay? And training on this procedure is not the same as training on the task. People involved in the procedure should already know how to perform those tasks that you are describing. If you are saying that there are specific procedures for making a new dataset, they should already know how to make a dataset, but they have to apply the procedures that you're introducing to dataset creation, okay? It also tends to be useful during this process then to inform people what their role will be, right? So if you have different levels of your system that will be responsible for different functions, this might be a good time to discuss this with them as well, okay?  It's much more of a collaborative exercise, right? So you want to understand where they're having trouble, support them, and make sure things are kind of progressing the way you want. And there are some tools, I'll show you an example of one that we can use to kind of monitor their progress, okay? So in Moodle, I've actually just put in a couple of different documents here, and I'm just going to pull them up, okay? Oops, sorry, it's logged me out. So this is one example of an SOP, and actually I wanted to use this as something to differentiate between kind of the SOPs I'm describing and maybe SOPs that are in the health system, right? So this was provided by our colleague from Rwanda, it's about the Ministry of Health, and I'm just going to scroll to the table of contents real quick, okay? Okay, so these are kind of non-specific procedures, right? It's just kind of saying this is how we report our data, how we collect our data, this is kind of, you know, it's describing the system overall. And that is good, that is needed, okay? But what we're actually talking about is kind of very specific procedures for managing the DHIs to implementation, looking at specific tasks, looking at specific functionality, looking at specific roles and responsibility, right? So how we differentiate that, and I'll just pull up the second one. Here's an example. This is an example of creating aggregate data inside of DHIs to, okay? And you can see it's not really like a training manual. So I'll pull up the training manual too, so we can compare the two in just a moment, okay? It doesn't describe in great detail what these are, but it describes what to do when you're actually making them, right? And it's not just a matter of clicking on an item and saying, okay, I've made it, I'm happy, let's move on, or however you happen to configure these items in the system, okay? I have like very explicit instructions at this stage, if you find this, don't do this, okay? If you find that there's nothing, then proceed, okay? You can see here these kind of bolder areas on this, right? So the whole idea is to kind of identify who can do this, at what time they can do it, and the reason that, for example, this SOP exists, I mentioned yesterday this example where we had many users in the system who had access to do this kind of thing, and without the proper communication and coordination, it created a lot of trouble. So in DHIs too, in general, it is very easy to kind of configure, okay? The problem comes with the sustainable portion of it, three years from now, four years from now, whatever, okay? As your implementation matures, if there is no coordination, if there's no proper procedures, the system can become very challenging to manage, right? So those people who were trained initially and may have some basic skills on configuration will get lost in this sea of kind of randomness in the system where it will be kind of very heavy and difficult to manage. So if I'm looking at this, this just outlines for various items. These are various objects in DHIs too that a person can create. It kind of describes the procedure for creating each one. This is very different than the training material that's associated with that specific concept. So we'll scroll down a bit where it actually starts, okay? So here we describe kind of the step by step procedure. It's the same item, the same object I'm describing, but now I show the user interface. I show kind of where to click in the system. I give very detailed descriptions of where to go and what to do, okay? And then we contrast this with this, which is just kind of a bunch of quick bullet points, right? It's not a very long document. It's like three pages long, I think, okay? Because user manuals can be very long. Obviously, there's lots of screenshots and explanations, okay? These are not meant to be long. They're meant to be digestible, right? Something that can be easily read, all right? But very clear instructions on what to do, right? And there is some extra information just about general procedures and processes, okay? So that's kind of the idea and the differentiating factor here. So that kind of five-step process that I was describing, it takes a little bit of work, but you end up with something that's brief and to the point, right? That people might actually read. Your chances of success are a little higher this way, right? And I mentioned this kind of idea of monitoring their implementation, because that is also very important after you draft everything and train people on this stuff. You have to check if it's working, right? And there are various ways you might do this. Maybe if it's something specific inside of DHIs too, you know, you can check the actual configuration or something. There's various tools. But it's always a good idea to come up with some kind of framework to evaluate if behavior is actually changing, if things are actually being done. The example I have here is for data quality. So for example, if I develop some type of procedure on data quality, I might just run through this checklist, maybe in a month or two's time and just check with this person. Are they performing the actions that I've outlined in the procedure or not? And if they're not, what do I do? What kind of support do they need to kind of make this happen? All right? So we don't want to kind of forget this monitoring part because it helps us kind of determine if things are actually working the way we expect and not just this assumption. I've made the SOP. I've given it to everybody. Everyone's going to follow it, right? In reality, that's probably not the case. Okay. So I'll just move on to testing. I just wanted to give some basic background on the SOPs and I'll do the same for testing. So similar to the SOPs, we kind of have a little bit of a process for testing. We review, we plan, design, execute and report. So the first part reviewing, it's very similar to what I described when discussing the standard operating procedures, okay? In order to test something, whether it's in the field or internally, you need to know how it works, right? So if you're familiar with the topic, maybe you're okay, right? You don't need to just kind of refresh your skills all the time every day. But if you're not as sure, especially maybe if it's a new feature, if it's a new public health program, if it's a new type of visualization or report, especially anything new, make sure you know how it works before you come up with some type of procedure for testing it, okay? Then I would suggest to prepare it. So the second point is plan. So that means to prepare some type of timeline for testing. And this should match with the goals within your implementation, right? You might be under a lot of pressure. Make this work in two weeks. Make this work in one week, right? So your testing phase can't be five days long if you have a training, you know, in six days from now, right? That's probably not going to work well for you. So you need to kind of, yes, create a plan, but also be realistic and marry this kind of with this concept of how much time you actually have in reality, all right? A good idea is also to develop specific test cases for what you want to test. So you just kind of list them out, okay? For example, if I'm doing a DHIs to upgrade, I might have specific items that I want to test, or maybe if I'm implementing DHIs to for the first time, can I enter data? Can I create a report? Can I delete an event, right? It seemed very simplistic, but you just run through these simplistic operations and check if everything's working, right? Okay. So the fourth point is execute. So this is where you actually take all those test cases and you perform them, right? But you just need to make sure that you're aware of how the feature should function, right? Because you don't want to kind of think that something's not working, even though it is, and maybe it's a problem with the configuration, or you're kind of having to differentiate between the software itself and kind of the configuration that you've made. And then of course reporting this, right? So you want to document any issues that you find. But try to be specific with this, because sometimes, for example, maybe in the future, you will use the community of practice. People will click on an app and say, I can't enter data, right? And we don't really know what that means. In your own setting, it will also be kind of a little difficult to interpret that, right? So you want to be as specific as possible. I put a couple of steps that you can use to kind of report each of these issues and that you can follow. Okay. So just real quickly, we have three types of testing that we recommend you go through when you're kind of working with programs, okay? The whole basis of this is to get feedback on what you're working on, right? So if I receive feedback, whether it be good or bad, don't take this as something critical. Don't take this as something that's kind of negative towards you. The whole idea is improving the ability of staff in the field to interact with whatever it is that you've made, okay? So we recommend first internal testing, okay? User acceptance and field testing. And I'll just describe these quickly. Okay. So internal testing is kind of performed by the internal team. So you have a core team, let's say, and they're very familiar with whatever they've configured, okay? So they know the ins and outs and they're kind of laser focused on making that work, right? This is a very small team probably, you know, four to eight people perhaps, right? And at that time, if you find anything wrong, you should make some changes if you can, right? We also might want to test our infrastructure, okay? So I'm not going to get into all the specifics here necessarily, okay? But there's two types of testing you might want to consider. One is load testing, right? So for example, if you have an estimate of how many people will be logging into your system and interacting with it for the first time. Let's say you're implementing DHIs too, and to begin with, you're piloting this in 100 facilities. There are two users in each facility. So you think on a normal day, there may be 250 people logging in. The facilities, plus the province, plus the national team, okay? So you might want to create some test cases around that, right? Around 250 people or so interacting with the system. We then have this second type of testing, which is stress testing. And this basically pushes your system to its maximum limit, right? It's its maximum theoretical limit, right? So maybe even though you think at the beginning, you only have 250 users login, you've created this infrastructure and it can handle 10,000 users before it crashes. Now you know that, right? So the whole idea is to give you some idea of how you can plan your infrastructure needs, right? If you know that it's only going to crash at 10,000 users and you don't see that happening for another three years, you know, then you might be able to kind of say, well, my infrastructure is okay for now. I can add as much as I want. I can add users. I can do what I need to do. The system will be fine. And I've linked to a couple of technical tools that help us create these tests for those of you who are more, have a more of an IT background. So, did I skip? I skipped one slide, I think. So after the internal testing, we do something called user acceptance testing, okay? You increase the pool of people outside of the core team, basically, maybe to not just at the national level. You still want to make this easy to manage, okay? But you do allow more people involved in this. And ideally, you want program people who are familiar with the data. But these people might not be very familiar, either with DHIs too, or with the configuration. Because generally, a lot of the users, you will train whatever it is that you're making, this also might be new to them, right? So it's a bit of a kind of good exercise to use people that aren't very familiar with what you're doing, okay? Now, here, you're kind of more testing the user experience, right? Do things look nice? Is it easy for people to do things? Does it take too long, right? Are people getting frustrated just by using the thing? Are they giving feedback on modifications, okay? That type of stuff is important to gather, more so than kind of thinking, well, I've made something, and it works. Therefore, you have to use it, right? That's not really how we want to operate, okay? So this last one then is field testing. This is where we actually go out, and we make sure things are working. Now, some people get stuck in this stage, so just advising you to have a plan here, right? Give yourself enough time to plan this phase. Don't get stuck in the piloting phase forever, or you don't get stuck in a state where you don't have enough money to scale if things are successful, right? So Anna talked about budget. It's important to kind of consider this when planning this phase. And here you're testing a number of different things, maybe standard operating procedures like I mentioned, the infrastructure, the devices, training materials, maybe the configuration aspects of that, okay? And there's a number of ways in which you can perform this testing, right? You can go out into the field physically, okay?  You can also ask them questions, and this can be a little unstructured to begin with in particular, right? You just want a good feeling for does this work or not with those people, right? If you're just guiding them the whole time, then you know, maybe it works in that specific way that you've outlined for them. But when they start poking around, maybe things break. And that's good to know before you scale up the system, because people have a tendency to go where they shouldn't. And that's fine because they should be allowed to in some sense, okay? But we just want to make sure that when you have maybe, you know, thousands of people doing that, that's not the case, right? It's okay with a smaller group of people, especially when you're gathering that feedback, okay? You can also do very specific types of testing. So you can come with like specific cases, sit down with a small group and say, okay, we're going to work through case one, two, three together, give me your feedback on case one, give me your feedback on case two, right? This is a very structured way of doing testing. It was very costly, though, I would say, out of all the methods, right? So just be careful in terms of managing that. And then you can do remote testing. And, you know, maybe during COVID, we had to do a lot of this. It's efficacy, I'm not exactly sure of necessarily, but it can allow you to support those that are kind of far out in the field, right? So you can kind of make sure, though, however, that if you're doing stuff remotely, people are always available for those staff that are kind of involved in the testing, right?  So at the least, when you do this remote testing, make sure there are people always available, okay? So, yeah, in brief, okay? So SOPs are complementary to trading material, right? They're not one in the same, but they work together. There are five kind of basic principles that I've outlined when making this SOP. Understand what it is that you're talking about before you write it up, okay? Train people on the specific tasks that are there, draft and test the SOPs, train on the SOPs, and make sure you monitor their implementation, okay? And then for our testing procedures, we outlined five principles as well. Review the subject matter, make sure you know how it works, plan for the testing, design your testing cases, perform the testing, and report kind of enough information to make sure people understand what's actually wrong when you find something that is wrong, okay? There are three types of testing, internal testing, user acceptance testing and field testing, and then there's different types of testing methods, basically. You can observe them, you can talk to them, you can have specific cases and questions, and you can support them remotely, all right?


This video is sponsored by Brilliant.org. Almost 30 years ago in 1995, an astronomer named Jeff Hester pointed the Hubble Space Telescope at the Eagle Nebula because he was interested in studying photo evaporation by looking at the nebula through different narrowband filters. And as part of his research process, he made a visualization, a full color image mapping the narrowband data according to the wavelength of each gas. And since S2 had the longest wavelength at 672 nanometers, that went into the red. H alpha at 656 nanometers went into the green. And O3 at 500 nanometers went into the blue channel. And he showed this resulting photo around to his colleagues, and they all agreed it was breathtaking. And of course, this became one of the most iconic space photos of all time and really helped boost the Hubble Space Telescope's reputation. Because it got good press and all the major newspapers and magazines all over the world. And I think NASA also did some brilliant marketing by calling it the Pillars of Creation, which is just a very cool name. It also popularized the use of mapping filtered data in chromatic order. This is sometimes called the Hubble Palate. Well, now, as you all know, there's a new space telescope, the JWST, which has captured its own version of the Pillars of Creation. But an infrared light. And just like the Hubble, the JWST's primary mission is of course science. It's figuring out the mysteries of the universe, looking at things like extremely red-shifted galaxies or analyzing the spectra of an exoplanet. But also just like Hubble, the JWST can produce amazing space photographs. And there are very talented staff at the Space Telescope Science Institute that make that happen because they edit the Stage 3 data for the JWST into these beautiful full-color visualizations that are then shared with the public. But what many people don't know is that you can download most of the data yourself from MAST, the Mikulsky Archive for Space Telescopes. I did a previous video on just this, but in that video I used the paid software PIX Insight and Photoshop to process. And I've always wanted to do a follow-up with completely free software. And so that's what I'm going to be showing today. My name is Nico Carver, and I invite you to edit along with me on the Pillars of Creation. Now the biggest challenges I ran into were very large downloads. Some of them were more than 2 gigabytes per filter. And as well as the different filters having different image dimensions and also not being perfectly aligned. So what I've done for this tutorial is I've taken care of all of the boring hard stuff for you. These three fits files at tinyurl.com slash jwst-pillars have already been resampled to the smallest size. So that allows us to have smaller file sizes and then they've already been aligned on the star patterns. So that's going to be a lot easier for you to work with the data. If you do want to explore the JWST data straight from MAST yourself in free software, there is good news because the I2D files are now open just fine in the new 1.2 version of SIRL. They didn't before, but now they do. And again, if you're new to all of this, it's going to be easier to start with the fits files I've already prepared because they've already been resampled and aligned. Anyways, let's get going with the tutorial. Okay, as I mentioned, all the software I'm going to be using is free, but let me just show you first where to get it. The first piece of software is called SIRIL, and it's available at sirl.org. It is cross-platform, so you can download it for whichever system you have. It is currently on version 1.2.0 beta 2, and I would recommend getting that most recent version for this. The next program is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, available at gimp.org. It is currently on version 2.10.34, and again, it's cross-platform. Three fits files that I've prepared and put on Google Drive here to follow along with the tutorial. And so to download these, just hover over one and click the download button and say download anyway, and do that for each one. They're each about 100 megabytes. That's about as small as I could make them. And like I said, some of these were over two gigabytes before, because they were just really big image dimensions, and also there was a lot of extra stuff included in the download that we don't need for this tutorial, which is just sort of about making a pretty picture, an aesthetic picture. Okay, those are now downloaded, the fits files. One thing interesting to keep in mind is Cyril only likes to open up fits files if they end in .fit, no s. So if you're downloading the original JWST data, I think it ends in .fits. So just, you can just redo the file extension and then they'll open up fine in Cyril. But again, these are the ones that I've already resized and aligned. Let's go ahead and open this with Cyril, just opening one at random. This one is the F187N filter. Okay, and you can see when you open it, it just looks completely black. And that's because we are in a linear display mode, meaning all of the data is bunched up over on the left-hand side and we're not seeing anything. So if you just go down here and you want to just sort of see what the data looks like, you can switch it to the autostretch mode. And there we go, isn't that beautiful? So that's the pillars of creation in a particular passband of infrared light. And this one is what we're going to use for blue, if I remember right, because you can see that it looks really strong, it looks like it has a really strong blue background. So very nice. The only thing that we have to do really before we bring it into the GNU image manipulation program and colorize it is stretch it. And stretching it just means taking it from this linear space to a non-linear space. So we apply what's called a non-linear stretch, meaning we're not just going to stretch all of the values linearly, like we're not just going to multiply them, we're going to apply basically a curve instead. And my favorite way to apply this curve is with the generalized hyperbolic stretch transformation. I know that's a mouthful, but we just call it GHS for short now. This is a really cool way to stretch your data with a really nice curve. And I'll show you the way that they recommend to use it and the way I use it for this first stretch. We're going to turn on the autostretch here and just find a dark part of the image in the sky background and just click and drag to make a little selection box there. And then over here, we're going to click on the eyedropper. And what it will do is it'll sample inside that selection box and tell you the value associated with the pixels in there. And that's what is called the symmetry point, where it's going to balance that curve and where it's going to add the most contrast to your picture. So now I'm going to switch it back to linear mode. And I'm going to increase this local stretch intensity, let's say to, I usually like somewhere around like 12 to 15 for this first stretch, something pretty high. And then start pulling up the stretch factor and you'll start seeing that the image starts to come alive. If we start seeing more and more of the image as we stretch more and more with this stretch factor. And one thing that they tell you in the instructions for this tool is to maybe initially do a stretch like this. So it's not showing much, but we can now see the data over here and go ahead and apply that. And then we'll move this selection box to something a little bit brighter, something a little bit more in right in the mid or lower section of this data right here. So we'll set the symmetry point again.  And we'll start stretching this out again. Okay. And at this point, I think that looks really good. I'm not, I don't want to at this point go too far. Something like this is fine. I like to keep it a little bit more subdued because we can always add more contrast later. But if we add too much contrast now, it's hard to sort of undo that contrast, if you know what I mean. So I like to just add a good amount of contrast now, but not too much. So something like this, I'm just saying something like this based on how it looks. And just from doing this enough times. Okay, I'll go ahead and apply that and go ahead and close this. And so that's all I'm going to do with this image at this point. So I want to go ahead and save it because I'm going to next open it up into the GNU image manipulation program. So I'll save it to my desktop as a TIFF file, just like that. Just so I remember, you know, this is a new file and TIFF usually works well. So I'll go ahead and click save. And then I'm just going to do that whole same process we just did with the other two files. And then let's open up our GNU image manipulation program. And I'll try open as layers and I'll open our three TIFF files. Okay, so we have our three TIFF files here. And remember, we're going to go in chromatic order with colorizing them. So what I'm going to do is actually put the smallest number, the 187 here on the bottom and the 335 in the middle and the 444 on top. And then I'll start and turn off the visibility of these first two and I'll start with this one.  And it's grayed out, of course it is, because we haven't told the GNU image manipulation program that we want to work in an RGB color space. So we just have to go to the image menu and go down to mode and change it to RGB. Click convert and now it's in RGB. So now if we go to the colors menu and go down to colorize, it will colorize that layer. Okay, now, how do you pick the colors? This is a big question. If you go to the JWST processing guide website, I'm sure I'll link it in the description, there are documents about how they have mapped the colors. So you can just follow that. If you want to just follow what they did. If you want to play around and do it your own way. Again, chromatic order is the most common way to do this. So starting with this 187, I'm going to map it to blue. And then I'll turn on the next layer and I'll map this to a green. Okay, and with that done, you can see that the, right now the green layer is completely covering up the blue layer. The blue layer is hidden. And this is just the way that these Photoshop type programs work when you have the layers. Right now it's on the normal mode with opacity set to 100%. So it's completely covering up the layer below. If we change the blending mode from normal to something else, we can then get a blend of the two layers. So I just changed it to addition. And then let's do the same thing with this last layer. We'll turn that one on and go to colors, color eyes, and click on the color here and change it to a, actually I'm going to do a sort of orangey red. And again, I'll change the mode from normal to addition. Okay. And so with that, we have our first sort of full color version here. But if you don't like how these colors came out, here's the cool thing. You can go in here and just recolorize. So now that we have this all set up, I could just go back in and open up color eyes again and pick a different color and live. I can see what that change, you know, what's happening with that change. And what I always find really interesting about this colorizing process is just through the intensity of the color, you can get very different final results. So for instance, if I make this middle layer, the 335M filter, this intense green, right, I get this very green result. But watch what happens if I just desaturate that layer a little bit. Ooh, now that's looking really cool, right? It's bringing out some of those blues underneath and getting us a better mix with the reds to see a little bit more than we were before. And honestly, I can do this all day. You know, it's just a lot of fun for me just to play around with this until I get a result that I think is interesting. You know, I know others aren't like me and don't just like spending hours just sort of staring at colors. But for me, it's a lot of fun. So anyways, but let's just go over the basic process. You're going to colorize these three layers in some kind of chromatic order. So the bigger numbers are on the red side. The smaller numbers are going to be on your blue side. And then your median numbers are in between in the greens and yellows. After you've done some kind of colorization, you can make a new from visible layer. And on this visible layer, you can, which is just a combination of what you have so far, you can apply filters like unsharp mask or continue playing with the colors. So one way to do that is with this tool, the hue slash saturation tool. So for instance, if I pick cyan, I can change the hue of just the cyan in the picture make it a little bit more blue. I can make it more saturated, if that's what I'm going for. But be careful with this. It's very easy to abuse this tool and get what we call posturization. If you're not careful, because there's not enough. A lot of times there's not enough data in between two colors to really fill in if you're going wild with changing the hues. So this is a dangerous tool, but it can be fun for playing around with the colors. Okay, and then I'm going from one powerful tool that's easy to use right to another. If you go to colors curves, this is another very powerful tool that can completely change the look and color balance in your picture. Because what you can do is go and go up here to channel and just target, for instance, the red channel. And I think right now it's a little bit low on red, so I can take that red channel up like that. But of course, that's very easy then just to start washing out all this blue stuff that we got in our background. So what you can do is you can apply a curve to the red channel like I just did there, something like that. And then we could do the same in green. We could see if taking out a little bit of the green in the picture helps with the colors that we want to get. And I think this is starting to look really interesting. So you can see that just by playing around with these color channels, you can do a lot with playing around with the colors in the image. Now that we have everything balanced somewhat between the three filters. Okay, I basically ran out of time with this tutorial, so let's go ahead and call it a day. To share your creation here with the world, you can export it and the way that this program works, a new image manipulation program. You just type in the file ending you want. So I can just do combined.jpeg and click export to get a jpeg file that I could share online. So I'd be glad to see what you come up with. This has just been a quick tutorial to show that this is indeed possible with free software. And I hope that others will try it out. In this video, I just focused on the more artistic side of astrophotography, but I'm guessing if you're watching a video about data from a space telescope, you're into science and will love Brilliant. Brilliant.org offers interactive lessons on science and math so you can learn about physics, writing your own home in a really fun way through problem solving on their website. 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So in this video, I'm going to share with you a very powerful option strategy called Kuli Kaishi Strategy and how you can actually use that to turn your $5,000 capital to more than $2 million in about 10 years time. So if having an exponential return in a very safe manner is what you are looking for, then keep on watching. This is Chloe and welcome back to my channel, the all-in-one place to learn about options, stocks, SLS investing. Before I begin, let me explain to you what is called options, which is the key option strategy that I will be using behind this powerful Kuli Kaishi Strategy. Many times when people decide to buy stocks, it's because they believe that long-term the stock price is going to go up. So right now, if they buy the stock at the cheaper price right now, eventually when the stock price goes up, that's how they are going to make money. But one limitation about stocks is if you want to buy 100 shares of stock, then your original capital outlay will be quite huge. However, with the power of call options and you being the buyer of call options, all you need to do is to fork out a little bit of money upfront in order to lock in the stock price at a lower price. And eventually, when the stock price goes up, you can choose to sell away your call option and still make the amount of profits that you will be making as if you are controlling 100 shares. In other words, call options are financial contracts that give the option buyer the right to buy a stock at a specific price within a specific time frame. I personally came up with this investment strategy called Kuli Kaishi because I was inspired by my mentor Sean when he talked about his strategy called Paracoupa. And using Paracoupa and S&P 500, literally you can actually have a 40% year on year return in a very, very safe manner. In fact, when we share about this strategy to Mary Buffett, who was a former daughter-in-law of Warren Buffett, she was completely wowed by this, and so are so many of our students. So if you want to learn the foundation strategy to my Kuli Kaishi strategy, do check out Sean's video right there. For those who already know what is S&P 500 and what is Paracoupa strategy, do continue to stay right here because right now I'm going to explain to you how can you increase your return even further and in a very safe manner. Now, let me ask you this question and do leave it in the comment below. Which sector do you think out of so many other sectors will continue to grow in a very, very fast fit? And in my opinion, that is none other than technology. We basically need to live and breathe technology every single day. And in the next 10 years time, our technology will definitely continue to advance. And so will all these companies. So instead of investing in S&P 500 via options, you can choose to invest in QQQ instead, which is a technology focused ETF that is able to give you much more return. What I like most about QQQ is if you see the portfolio construction, over 50% of them are in very, very great tech companies, including your Apple, your Tesla, Facebook, Microsoft, and so many more. And on top of that, this is not a pure tech ETF. It's also tracking other sectors, such as your healthcare, consumer cyclicals. So in a way, it's still balanced and you can still grow your portfolio in a diversified manner. If you look at QQQ stock price, just by buying and holding on to the stock alone, in the past 10 years, your portfolio will have grown more than 500% over. For those who want to learn how to invest in ETF in a very safe manner and generate about 10 to 20% return every single year, then do check out my free e-cost where you will be able to find it in my YouTube banner over there. So right now, you may be thinking that, well, Chloe, if I invest in QQQ as an ETF, then my return will have been just 500% for the past 10 years. And how can I turn my $5,000 into a $2 million portfolio in about 10 years time? And that is why my Kuli-Kaeshi strategy comes into play. Right now, I'm going to do a share screen and demonstrate to you step by step. How can you use Kuli-Kaeshi strategy to your advantage to exponentially increase your return? I know this video is a little bit long, but do watch till the very end because I promise you that you'll be rewarded tremendously once you really implement and execute this strategy on your own portfolio. Now, let me log into my think-or-swing platform, which is the trading platform that I personally use for my all my trades as well. And right now, if we actually back test the day all the way to 2011 May 31, which is about 10 years ago, this is where what's going to happen right now. I want to show you the process of how I do back testing and so that you can also see it in front of your eyes how this strategy is so amazing to increase your wealth. Right now, if you look at QQQ back then about 2011, that was about $58 per stock price. If I just shift this to let's say one year down the road, let me just shift to like 2012 and let me show you like the first of May 2012, then QQQ stock price increased to $62. So all I need to do is I actually input all the numbers for you so that you can see how QQQ stock price has actually increased over the past 10 to 11 years time. Now let's go to the Excel sheet right now and you can actually see that I already inputted all the numbers over here and you can see that 2011 that was 58 that you just saw and it's 2012 that's 62 and along the years over the time okay you can see that every single year right on the first of May the stock price of QQQ is shown actually here right. So this year 2021 QQQ stock price was 32. So in this case if I initially started with $5,000 capital and I just buy the stocks alright just don't don't do option just I simply buy and hold on to the stocks my $5,000 I could have buy like 85 units okay because 5,000 divided by 58 you will get above 85.68 so in this case I buy 85 units of stocks and in this case I will have like I will have used up about $4,960 and I still have about $39 left so what's going to happen to this $4,960 alright 11 years later from 2011 all the way to 2021 May this year so your portfolio if you just buy and hold the stocks it will have grown alright from originally $858 to this year May you have grown one share to $332 so right now your stock okay times your stock amount which is 85 units times $332 it would be about $28,000 so in that case your original $4,000 which is about $5,000 will have grown to $28,000 and that is more than 464% return alright in about 11 years time in fact if you look at the today's date right now QQQ stock price has actually increased and have become more than $332 so you just buy and hold down to it your return would be about 500% alright but the thing is how can we use Kulikaishi strategy which is a very very powerful technique okay all the way from this long-term thinking from the Japanese culture right because I actually spent a lot of time in Japan studying and working as well and I really feel that there's a lot of wisdom behind how Japanese people do things and that is why uh rinse and repeat okay Kulikaishi actually means rinse and repeat and how do we actually Kulikaishi this strategy rinse and repeat it to increase our wealth exponentially via options now let's go to the right-hand side alright this is where I actually start to buy QQQ call option remember why do we want to buy call option it's because right now we just pay a little bit of money to lock in at the original low price and even though eventually when stock price continue to increase we can still buy the stock 100 shares at the lower price right so this is what is about call options okay so you can see that if I go back to them think or swim how much was it if I decided to initiate my first option contract back in 2011 May now let's go back to think or swim and I want to show you the difference between options and buying stocks as well so you will also be able to see the power if you decide to start investing in options so now let me go to May go back to May 2011 and I go back to 31st of May and you can see that okay back then $58 was a share price but if you go down to below this is where you get to see all the different kind of dates and this is definitely this is about options because options it's always about an agreement within a specific time frame so you can choose different time frame so in our Kulikaishi strategy we always buy the longest all right longest call option inside okay because we do want to have more time on our side and we want time to decay to be as slow as possible so in options there are actually two types of options you can do one is the call option and one is the put option and of course in Kulikaishi strategy we are talking about we buying call options and that's why we look at calls and on top of that we are looking at minus one strike so what does minus one strike actually mean it actually means that you can see that current stock price is 58.36 we want to buy it slightly okay minus one below 58.36 and that is why you have 58 all right so you go to buy call option at $58 and you mouse over there are actually two kind of price that you will need to figure out what is it so what does that mean is you know meet because option is a contract there's always buyer and seller and that is what in this case we want to buy and that's why you mouse over to the ask column which is a buyer site and you want to click it and you can see that actually right here there is there's a price of $6 and 0.75 okay what does that mean is you are actually investing in order to buy this call option you spend about $607.50 in order to buy call option on QQQ for the next 598 days at the strike price of 58 and that is why you if you remember this number let's go back to our calculator and you will see that exact same number actually key in inside the spreadsheet which is 6.075 now let's go back to the spreadsheet and you can see that okay I have already key in 6.075 over here so if with $5,000 capital how much unit of $6.00 and 0.75 and in this case because one option is always hundred shares so in this case you do need to spend about $608 alright so if I round it up your $5,000 you can buy how many contracts you can buy eight contracts okay so in the end you invested about $4,860 and one year later that is magic you want to see what is going to happen to our call option one year down the road so remember originally you spend about $4,860 to buy eight option contracts and right now one year later let's check out QQQ stock price remember it has actually increased by a few dollars right so right now let's check out one year down the road what is going to happen to the option price so let's go back to think of swing so right now it's 31st of May 2021 so let's check out one year down the road alright what will happen and let's go back to 2012 May 31st okay so if you go back to May 31st you can see that alright your originally your expiration date it's a January 2000 or January 2013 and if I go back to the same call option contract which is January 2013 now it's only left with 232 days because one year has passed right so that is why 232 days what you need to do is if I decide to sell away my call option that I bought it one year ago where can I sell it can you see that we actually lock in the price at $58 so I find back the same contract at $58 and right now I go back to my call option again and if I click the sell button alright can you see that when I decide to sell this exact contract away one year down the road I will have collected back $703 alright I invested $600 to buy one option right now when I sell it away I will have actually made back $700 so in this case you are in profit alright so remember $7.03 now let's go back to our excel spreadsheet and let me show you I also came the same number inside here you can you can see it's $703 right so because you bought eight option contracts so in this case your total profit alright after selling off all your 800 all your eight contracts you will make $764 alright which is not a lot of money but remember this is a 10-year game plan this is about rinsing and repeating the same strategy again and again and that's why when we close off this option contract our capital will have drawn to $5,764 alright and right now we use the exact amount that we have which is $5,764 we repeat this process and we buy another QQQ call option at the current strike price minus one okay remember the same process and let's see right now how much do we need to spend so I already gave you calculated it's actually one contract it's $10.55 but let's go back to my think or swim and see where do I actually get this $10.55 alright now if you go back to the trading platform and one year down the road because we have already closed off this contract that means now we are starting anew and remember when we are starting anew we want to reinitiate another call contract which is Kulikaishi strategy and you want to open the longest one so that's why you choose $932 which is available over here and right now the stock price is $62.06 and I want to do strike minus one and that's why it's $60 and all I need to do is to buy this and can you see $10.55 which is the exact number that you saw in my spreadsheet just now so with the amount of money which is $5,000 over dollars you can actually buy about five contracts so buy five contracts again and one year later close off this five contract so what's going to happen one year down the road let's check out 2013 May 31st okay what's happening right so now it's one year down the road your original 900 over days of options now left with 567 days so all you need to do is to close off all right close off these options again sell it back to the market and remember our original buy price which is a strike price is $60 so if I go back to the $60 contract right now when I sell it back to the market I am selling one contract at 1474 all right remember I buy one contract with $1,055 right now I sell back it's $1,474 all right so if I go back to my spreadsheet I want to show you this is the magic where it starts to happen it's really about compounding effect so remember I buy five option contract I invested about $5,275 and right now one year later one option become $1,474 and my 500 when I sell it off I will have gotten back $7,370 and my net profit is $2,000 in two years time still not a lot yet but guys this is about reins and repeat so that's why you use whatever profits that you have with your original capital $5,000 just continue to invest now let me show you the magic of it right if you continue to invest all right right now with $7,800 and the third year when you continue to do that you will have able to gotten one contract at 638 and within this time frame all right in one year's time $7,859 is the amount that you you choose to buy 12 contracts all right 12 contracts of call option all right using Kulikai Shichai G on QQQ and one year down the road all right your profit grow to $14,000 previously was only $2,000 right now it's $14,000 and your portfolio will have grown from $5,000 in three years time turn to $22,000 guys all right and you once again rinse and repeat this strategy next year your profit is $37,000 and your portfolio grow to $60,000 but I know some of you may be thinking that Chloe but the stock price can't be moving out all the time what happened when the stock price actually plummet actually during the fifth year time the stock price didn't move up it actually actually start to go down and that is why for the first time you saw losses in your account okay instead of making $37,000 again you actually lost about $26,000 that year but guys remember you need to trust this process and just rinse and repeat because when you do that okay firstly you think that because even though you lost $26,000 that year you will have already made so much capital all right your capital will have grown to $60,000 in four years time so even despite losing $26,000 your capital will still be $33,000 which is way more than your original $5,000 remember we started with 5k and now five year down the road it grow to $33,000 you are already in a very handsome profit all right and all you need to do is trust the process rinse and repeat it use your balance amount which is $33,000 to continue to re-initiate another position in QQQ strategy using Kuli Kaishi and next year your profit guys I want you to see this all right next year your profit will have grown to $66,000 this is net net profit your capital will have grown to more than 100 close to $100,000 and you repeat this process again next year your profit is $149,000 and your capital is close to a $250,000 mark with a 5k portfolio without topping out any single set and this is only in one two three four five six seven seven years time all right so then some years you will lose money but again if you just rinse and repeat this process eventually guys this year in 2021 all right in 2021 this year your profit guys I want to show you this in 2021 this year your profit if you just continue to rinse and repeat this strategy your capital will have grown to more than $2 million all right and that is the power of using options to really supercharge your return and when you are doing on the right stock on the right QQQ ETF in this case then you are really giving yourself a high margin of safety so here's the summary of the five steps that you need to do step one make sure you have enough money to initiate your first contract step two buy the longest expiration date so that to avoid time decay step three buy at the strike price minus one set four close your buy call option contract one year later regardless of profit or loss step five repeat from step number one all you need to do is to rinse and repeat this and you will be rewarded financially just trust the process I've back tested for more than 11 years and I'm very very sure that technology will continue to improve over time if you are wondering can this strategy be executed on to individual companies such as Facebook your Microsoft your Tesla I do personally believe that this strategy is very powerful and should only be executed on the good companies but you do need to understand way more about the businesses because right now you are investing in individual businesses rather than an ETF as a portfolio if you want to find out more investing insights actually share them very very frequently in my telegram channel so do join my channel if you want to stay up to date last but not least if you find this video helpful do remember to give it a thumbs up as well as to subscribe to my channel so that you will be immediately notified when I release a new options video before you go I also want to let you know that this is not an investment advice make sure you do your due diligence to really understand what exactly is options so that you can really execute your strategies in a very very safe manner so I personally have been doing options for a couple of years and I really see my portfolio growing tremendously and that is why I want to share with you this very very safe and proven strategy that you can do it on your own portfolio as well so that we can all grow wealthier together so with that I wish you have a great weekend ahead a great day and happy investing I will see you in the next video bye


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Good morning, everyone, and thanks for coming this morning. September is prepared this month here in Vermont. So we want to make sure we take the time to encourage Vermonters to take action in order to protect themselves, their family, their home, and their friends and neighbors during a disaster. Vermont has dedicated, has many dedicated, and well-trained emergency response community members. But during a widespread event, it helps them when communities, businesses, and families are prepared. The first thing you should do is make a plan for you and your family. Figure out where you and your family will reunite if separated, and how your family will communicate during a disaster. And make sure everyone knows the plan because you can help reduce anxiety if kids know where there is a plan to keep them safe. Stock essential supplies like canned food and water, as well as medications, in case you are ever homebounded and lack essential services like water or electricity. Folks with functional needs who would need to assistance during an emergency should sign up for Citizens Assistance Registry for Emergencies, also known as CARE. This registry allows emergency response agencies to identify and aid those who might need special help during an event. This includes Vermonters who use special medical equipment or need help with transportation during a disaster. You can let local responders know of your situation right now by registering for the CARE program at E911.vermont.gov.ca. I'm pleased to have Barb Neal with us from E911 to answer any questions you might have on this CARE program. We also know the more informed you are about an emergency, the more prepared you are. So we encourage all Vermonters to register for Vermont Alert at vermontalert.gov. Vermont Alert provides real-time information on pending emergencies, weather, and information on things like road closures, boil water notices, and other important public notices. There are also many state resources on social media. On Facebook and Twitter, you can follow Vermont Emergency Management, Vermont Department of Health, National Weather Service, and the Vermont Agency of Transportation. As we all know, while we can plan for disasters, they can happen at any time, including during the school day. We've made a lot of progress, making sure we have emergency plans in place to protect kids, both at school and during events outside the school. Heather Boucher, Deputy Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Education, will share more on that at this time. Thanks, Heather. Thank you, Governor. I'd first like to thank Governor Scott and my colleagues at the Department of Public Safety for highlighting September as Preparedness Month. As we all know, there are a few things more important than ensuring Vermonters can safely live, work, play, and learn across our wonderful state. I'd like to speak today about the importance of strong emergency plans in our schools and education facilities. Specifically, we all need to make sure we're creating, updating, and exercising strong emergency plans in these settings. School districts and education systems face many complex security risks today. From severe weather to interpersonal threats, there are many challenges schools must be able to tackle to keep our youngest Vermonters safe. It is critical that our schools and our pre-K facilities have strong, well-developed, and regularly updated emergency plans. It is also critical that all staff are familiar with plans, understand the various scenarios or possible events that could occur, and are ready to take action to protect their students and their colleagues. At the State of Vermont and specifically at the Agency of Education, we recognize the importance and complexity of these local responsibilities. We're collaborating with our colleagues at the Department of Public Safety to work with school districts, helping them design and update these emergency plans. This summer, we engaged in an outreach process to school districts and independent schools to assess their needs and challenges. Our agencies, in collaboration with contracted vendor Margolis Healy of South Burlington, analyzed and identified several areas where we can help schools. Our next step is to offer a series of two-day planning workshops around the state where designated school emergency contact personnel in high-need districts can learn best practices, can get help developing or updating their school's plans, and can get to know and share information and resources with colleagues from other districts. These workshops will start in October and will help schools align their emergency plans to both national best practices and federal school safety recommendations. In the final phase of the project, we will be offering 60 shorter training sessions paired with voluntary emergency response exercises open to all schools. Again, to all entities across our cradle to career education system, making sure you have solid up-to-date emergency plans is critical to ensuring our state facilities can best respond to emergencies. We're urging all school districts and education systems to develop a plan now if they have not yet done so. Review existing plans and make sure they're up-to-date and based on best practice and ensure that all staff members are familiar with your plan and what to do in various situations. We're also committed to providing resources and assistance to schools that need it to help make sure all Vermont learners are safe in any emergency. Another great concern for Vermonters is the impact of disasters on their property. The best defense against costly losses is flood insurance. And now, Vermont Emergency Management Director Erica Bornman will speak to that. Thank you. Thank you, and thank you, Governor. Thank you, Deputy Commissioner. Thank you to Commissioner Sherling as we highlight preparedness month at the Division of Emergency Management. It's truly our holiday month of the year as our day-to-day responsibility is to ensure that all Vermonters are prepared for what disasters might bring us. So I wanna highlight a really important topic today. When we experienced a catastrophic disaster like we did in 2011 with Tropical Storm Irene, there are programs through FEMA that can aid homeowners in recovering from damage to their homes. Those programs are capped at $33,000 per home, and really the average program grant is about $8,000 per homeowner. Now, that is not going to make you whole. The only thing that can do that is flood insurance. Bear in mind, one inch of water in your home can cause as much as $25,000 in damage. So again, flood insurance is really your best method for ensuring that you don't have to rely on your own resources to recover from a disaster. Yet, only 16%, 1.6% of Vermonters in special high-risk flood areas in Vermont are covered by flood insurance. That means over 10,000 structures in Vermont are not insured against our number one hazard, which is flooding. Flooding also occurs outside of these special flood hazard areas. About 20% of all flood insurance claims or damage from flooding actually occurs outside of these special flood hazard areas. Yet, only 1.5% of all Vermonters are covered with flood insurance outside a special flood hazard area. So, what can homeowners do? First, check with your town to see if your home is located in a special flood hazard area. Your towns have that information. Then, you should check with their insurance agent. Often, depending on the elevation of your home, the value of your home, there are relatively inexpensive and or affordable ways to insure yourself against floods. It's very dependent on where you are and where your structure is located, but like I said, as we all know in Vermont, if it can rain at your house, it can flood at your house, and flood insurance is the best way to prepare yourself and your family for Vermont's number one hazard. You can get more information at floodsmart.gov or you can go to floodready.vermont.gov. And of course, anytime that you have any questions, feel free to contact any one of us at Vermont Emergency Management and we'd be happy to point you in the right direction. With that, that concludes our remarks and I would like to hand it back over to Governor Scott. Well, thank you, Erica. And we'll open it up for questions on the topic at this time. Do you think this has become more important with climate change that we're just getting more and more storms that are more violent and this is gonna be a continuing if not growing problem in the future? I do believe that's going to be the case. I mean, these weather patterns we're seeing throughout the winter as well. We see extreme temperature changes, shifts. And then we see snow, then we see rain, which can lead to ice jams and so forth, which can lead to flooding. So I think a lot of what we're seeing today in terms of weather is due to climate change. So we need to better prepare, become more resilient in a lot of respects. And we've taken a lot of steps in that direction here in Vermont. We're ranked as one of the leading states in resiliency, I believe. So we have a lot to be proud of, but there's more we can do. And there's a lot of things we can do individually as well. And that's what we're here to highlight and just make sure that people don't take things for granted. Since Irene, we obviously haven't seen anything as dramatic as that is like a singular instance, but is there, is the statement tracking claims that have been made for damage or has in some way tracking, I guess the flooding damage that we've seen since then and how it's changed over time? Yeah, I would be happy to get to that. So since Irene, or actually since 2011, the state of Vermont has experienced 11 declared major disasters. And that is over $250 million in public infrastructure damage, which includes the damage from Irene. Irene, we had about $23 to $24 million that was issued to homeowners. And since Irene, through the Hazard Mitigation Grant program and various other mitigation grants, we've actually spent about $53 million in mitigating future disasters, which is a huge success for Vermont. To your point, Bob, I'm not sure that we probably have kept track and there probably is a way to get the data from the previous decades to see if it's escalating in many respects. That number of events, it'd be interesting to see. Other questions on emergency preparedness? Be happy to answer any other questions you might have. Governor Scott, initially you were supposed to head to the arrival of the F-35s. Why did that change? Well, I don't know if it's changed. And we weren't sure exactly when it was going to be. We put my schedule together long in advance of that. And when we can't get a specific date, then I'm not able to attend. I have to make choices. But there are more aircraft to arrive. This is only two of the number of F-35s that are coming. We'll have other events when all the aircraft arrive in Vermont. Looking forward to it, I've been a support of the F-35 and continue to be. It's a big day for the Air National Guard. In light of the allegations that came forward last year with misconduct and all that, how far have we come in the dialogue and public discussion about the Air National Guard and relating to the F-35 too? Well, I think in terms of transparency, we've come a long ways. We have a long ways to go. But I think the policies that have been put into place, the way we've tried to handle this and learning from mistakes of the past are something that we can always improve on. But again, I value the Vermont National Guard, the Green Mountain Boys, and all that they offer and bring to Vermont has been something that's been essential to our economy as well as the defense of our country. You said you were a big supporter of the F-35. Is that wise? Is it an economic consideration? It's all the above from my standpoint again, I'm very, very proud of our history in terms of defense and what we can do as a state and as we've evolved as a National Guard, we've taken steps in trying to protect our national security. So I'm proud from that standpoint but also from an economic standpoint, it means a lot to Vermont. The facility that we have in the Burlington area has become upgraded, employs a lot of people, and again is vital to what we're doing. We're trying to attract more people to the state as well and we want to make sure that we continue to protect those we have here and the economic resources we have. Do you share any of the concerns about quality of life issues, the noise that this could create and obviously the protests? Yeah, well we've had this. There's a lot of history with the aviation in Vermont. I remember I grew up in nearby Berry and remember some of the sonic booms from the F-4s and that was when I was just a kid 40, 50 years ago. So this is nothing new but I share the concerns. I know the guard is taking this seriously and doing everything they can to alleviate any disruption in the lives of Vermonters. We want to be good neighbors. You were talking earlier about climate change and emergency preparedness. Seems like there's going to be a lot of students out on the street tomorrow. High school students, college students, climate strike. What are your thoughts about this approach to raising awareness about the issue? Well, I value this public dialogue. I think it's good for students to get involved and I think we, again, as long as it's civil and respectful, it's the way we learn and it's the way we evolve. So we'll see what happens tomorrow but I know there are many that are going to participate throughout the country, I believe and we'll see how many come to Montpelier. Last session, legislation relating to climate change and passing meaningful legislation kind of fizzled out on the floor, didn't really get passed. What can your office do and are you looking at anything going into the upcoming session as well? Well, I think we've taken a lot of steps over the years. First of all, we have a goal in the state of 90% renewables by 2050. I believe that that is doable and we're taking steps in order to achieve that. We've also, as we migrate towards electric vehicles, I think that's part of the answer. I believe a major, large percentage of carbon emissions are transportation related so the sooner we can get to electric vehicles, the better off we're going to be and the better off we're going to be in terms of attaining our 90% renewable goal by 2050. And I believe, again, I believe we can do that. We put together an infrastructure, a charging infrastructure that we're going to be able to put in place along our I-89 and I-91 corridors and that's something that we passed last year and utilizing some of the money from the Volkswagen settlement. So we're taking steps in this area as well as trying to walk the talk, so to speak and we're taking some steps to put some more electric vehicles in the state fleet as well. Do you think our statutory emissions reduction requirements are at all realistic in any way that we're going to be able to meet those? Well, again, I think what we're going to see is not linear, it's not going to be a steady transition from start to finish. I believe it's going to go because technology changes and advances and the more we acclimate ourselves to electric vehicles, so to speak, we're going to see a ramp up at that point. So that's what I'm looking forward to and it takes a while to change people's viewpoints and again, we're seeing this right before our eyes how quickly I believe that we'll get to electric vehicles very quick once we, better battery storage and that's being engineered as we speak, all wheel vehicles and electric vehicles and again, we're just seeing so much advancement and acceptance in that area, so I believe we'll see it in the next decade. Huge swing. Are there any climate change policies or proposals that you plan on pushing for in January? We haven't put our packages all together at this point but we'll see where we can make some gains. And we think we should generally be going whether it's more investments in EVs. Yeah, we have a long ways to go in terms of EVs. We have a long ways to go in terms of charging infrastructure. We've taken some steps but we need to do more and get behind that and focus on areas. I don't want us to take off on another initiative but we haven't completed the one right before us. What are there about 5,000 EVs now in the state and the goal is to hit 50,000? Yeah, I'm not sure that, I don't even know if there's 5,000 that may be fewer. I mean, is that a realistic goal? I do, I believe so. Again, if you look at the number maybe in the last year or two and start to see the uptick and again, when you see, I've used this example before, when you see companies like Harley Davidson for instance, come out with a line of electric motorcycles, you know things are changing, right? You see Ford going to come forward with an F-150 that's going to be electric. And when you start to see pickups and other types of vehicles using electric propulsion, then you're going to see an acceptance and a ramp up. And so Lamborghini came out with one, Bugatti has one too. I mean, it's just amazing what's happening right now in the electric world. It really is exciting in a lot of respects. Is there a protocol for state employees when it comes to these protests tomorrow? Are they allowed to participate? They're so choose? I haven't heard of anyone asking at this point in time what they do on their personal time if they want to take the time off to do so. It would be just like any other event. But I haven't heard of a widespread case where people want to, but maybe there is. Have you heard of anybody? No, I was just wondering if there's any policy for state employees. I think the governor nailed it. It's basically personal time. Individuals want to take personal time to testify under personal capacity of the legislature or take part in a demonstration. That's between them and their supervisors that it's available on auction. We don't discourage that at all. You know, with all the health concerns about they being in e-cigarettes, I know the legislature addressed that by raising the age and taxing it, but do you think Vermont should follow the lead of some other cities and perhaps states and just ban these things? We'll see where the federal government goes. I mean, the president made some statements. We'll see if he follows through on those statements. And it would be better if we did it nationally rather than individually, but I believe in states' rights. And I think that if the feds don't take action that you see more and more states in Vermont might be one of them that might take some steps in trying to curtail this because it is, as I highlighted in my state of the state budget address, we see the number of kids and it's really something that we need to pay attention to that are becoming more addicted to vaping. Would you like to see the federal government do? Yes, yeah. I would like to see the federal government follow through on something that we know is becoming an epidemic. Vermont State College's trustees announced yesterday that they want to keep the Linden campus open. Is that something that you're gonna support? We'll see what they come forward with, the state colleges. I know that our colleges and universities are under enormous stress. Most of that due to enrollment or the downturn in enrollment, our state colleges suffer from the demographics that we have in the state. I've talked about this a lot. 30,000 fewer kids in our schools than 20 years ago. We have, and that equates to fewer students going on to higher institutions and our state colleges has a 90% enrollment rate of Vermont kids. So this is affecting us and we need to do something about that which we're trying to do, attract more people to the state and taking a lot of measures and trying to do so. But the state colleges, I know they're contemplating what actions they can take to keep their rates lower and also attract more people. Because that's what we need, we need the enrollment to grow to the infrastructure that we have. Speaking of demographics, as well, there's a group of senators that are traveling across the state right now sort of hearing from people about affordable housing, looking into potentially another pond like we saw last session. I guess what are your thoughts in terms of growing affordable housing to accommodate for these demographics that we know of? Well, first of all, I think it's really healthy that the legislators get out throughout the state to see in real time what's happening. We do this with our capital for a day where we take the entire cabinet and go out and visit a different county. And we've heard a lot about this. In fact, when I was Lieutenant Governor, I went out on a Vermont everyday jobs tour. And that's where I learned about the need for housing, safe, efficient, and affordable housing. And that's what we desperately need for the workforce and others. So that's why we passed the $37 million housing bond, worked with the legislature to do so. We know we have other steps to take, but we haven't seen all the effects of the $37 million at this point. There's still many that haven't broken ground, but we're working towards that, but we need to look further. We have a couple of things in mind in terms of renovating existing stock. I talked about this last year. I'm hopeful that we can do something. Many communities have dilapidated housing stock that need to be renovated. And there may need to be some tax credits or something to incentivize that. So we're looking at trying to, we have the same goal and we'll do whatever we can. The problem is in just using another bond is that we can't, it's not an infinite amount of money that we can borrow. We have, our rating was downgraded this past year. It's a concern and we have limits. We have a debt affordability committee that takes a look at that to make sure that we don't borrow more than we should and we're at the cap. So we have to consider a lot before we move forward with this, but the bottom line is we share the goal of more affordable housing for remoders. Thank you very much for coming in. Appreciate it. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you.