Welcome, traders. So, this week's live market and trade analysis session with me, Patrick Munley, we're going to get going here in just about 30 seconds. Okay, welcome once again to this weekly live market and trade analysis session with me, Patrick Munley, before we jump into today's charts. As always, we want to adhere to the risk disclaimer and most pertinent to today's presentation is the fact that the views and opinions expressed by me are solely mine, they're not indicative or representative of those held by Ticknell UK or Ticknell Europe Limited. So, for those of you who are here for the first time, a brief introduction to myself. After I graduated from university, I joined a city plc consulting firm, I left with some colleagues and went on to successfully co-found and exit a consulting startup, which was focused on C-suite executive search for technology businesses. Essentially, I had a front row seat to the dot-com bubble, witnessing people make and lose a fortune in the market, sometimes quite literally overnight. So, I decided to explore my curiosity for markets with some capitals play with and some time on my hands. I started day trading the S&P 500 or probably more appropriately at that stage, day gambling. After some early beginners luck, I racked up some pretty solid gains. However, as is often the case, my beginners luck went out and as the market phase and cycle changed, I began to average down into losing positions, eventually giving back all my gains and ultimately experiencing a significant six-figure hit to my personal capital. To say that was a gut wrenching and sobering experience is an understatement. So, I really had to stand back and figure out if it was feasible for me to make a living from the markets. So, I decided to get serious about trading and I sought out a mentor with an excellent trading track record. Working with my mentor for a period of 18 months to two years, it was a time during which I had not just my technical game in terms of researching, developing, extensively back and forward testing strategies that crucially suited my personality and all of which were underpinned by a rigorous risk management approach. But most importantly, during the period of mentorship, I significantly developed my mental game.  So, what does that mean? Well, it means I have to stop focusing on what I could make from the markets and start focusing solely on managing my mindset to allow me to consistently execute my trading strategy oftentimes in the face of negative feedback from the markets in the form of losing trades. But once you become process-orientated and you have a professional trading mindset, you understand the true nature of trading being a numbers game in which you're simply playing the probabilities, you really lose that emotional investment and that hellish emotional roller coaster of living and dying by the outcomes of individual trades. So, I'm no longer concerned with the outcome of an individual trader, even a small string of trades. My focus on the next 100 trades because I know if I focus on excellence in execution, my edge will demonstrate itself over an extended series of outcomes. My multi-strategy approach has delivered positive annual returns since 2008. Since 2013, I've also been managing investor capital through a manager counselor, so again delivering annual positive returns and currently responsible for managing a multimillion-dollar portfolio. Since 2010, I've mentored hundreds of private traders of all experience levels from complete novices to former CME floor traders in developing the technical and mental skills to meet consistent returns from the markets. In addition to my fund management and mentoring, I'm a resident market expert exclusively providing market and trade analysis to Ticknell clients. I provide an in-depth daily market outlook, breaking down the fundamental and technical drivers for the trading day ahead. I also provide daily technical trade setup videos for markets that I'm actively tracking and I share those through the Ticknell trading view accounts. What I'm going to do for you guys here is I'm going to post a link into the chat for those that are interested in following along with those daily trade setup videos. Just posted that into the chat for you. I also run Ticknell's rapidly growing evenly strategy Facebook group where I post a daily trade plan outlining my pre-market trading levels for the cash trading sessions, the S&P 500, giving my bias for the day ahead and specific action areas where I'm looking to engage the market. These pre-market plans have delivered over 4,000 points of profit since we launched the group last April. The second Ticknell strategy group I run is for traders who really want to take their trading to the next level. The Ticknell futures telegram trading group is a real-time environment. On a daily basis, I share in-depth insights analysis and real-time trades. I also provide live market commentary during the opening hour of the New York cash trading session where traders can essentially see in real time how I dissect the markets and identify asymmetric trading opportunities. These sessions act as a platform helping traders to develop a professional consistent approach to navigating the markets and importantly the mental mind games that must be mastered to make it as a profitable market operator. That gives you guys a flavour of where it is I'm coming from. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll put the link for the Facebook group into the chat as well. Anyone who wants to join me, you just simply send a request and I'll add you to the group and you can access my daily trade plan there for the S&P 500 or the E-Mini futures contract. Before we jump into the charts, just a little bit of housekeeping. If anyone has a question or you are looking for me to take a look at the chart that I don't cover in my deck here, then feel free to type any question into the chat box or type the instrument name into the chat box as well and ideally the timeframe we're looking at and I'll give you a view at the end of my presentation. Let's start with the S&P 500, the E-Mini futures contract and we are looking at a potential double bottom scenario here. For those who are here on a regular basis, you're probably aware that I was looking for one more new low in terms of the S&P 500, at least a new low below the June low. Statistically speaking, in down years when the market is in decline, it's very unusual from a statistic perspective for the markets to make a trading low during the summer months. So we're anticipating that as we head into the autumn we'd see a new low. We've got that now yesterday and we have got a pretty decent outside reversal pattern that developed yesterday as well, taking out prior two days of range and we are currently consolidating at about 50% of the tradesman of yesterday's range. So for me at this stage as I go into today's cash session, I'll be sharing the trade plan in the Facebook group but ultimately I'm going to be looking for long positions through yesterday's high, looking for a swing trade scenario, certainly thinking about a retest of this weekly trend line resistance from below, so that would take us back up into the 36-30 area. There is a gap that will likely be filled at 36-49, so that's another level I'm paying attention to, but I'm looking ultimately the three-way corrective move to take us back into test this internal trend line resistance into the 3,900 area as the next side objective in terms of the futures. Now if I get in today on this swing trade on a daily time frame, then in terms of invalidation for that trade, any new low today would take me out of that position and invalidate the idea that we're going to extend and we likely then are going to continue to the downside would be the thesis there, so I'm paying close attention to that 37-60 area today as we head into the New York cash session, moving to the NASDAQ similar scenario here, we have double bottom in play, NASDAQ traded actually into that equality objective and I talk about an equality objective, what I mean is equal legs in terms of market move, so from that 1,300 level we were looking for 11,200 as an equality objective, so equal legs, we got that and saw a nice outside reversal there, so similar story for the NASDAQ today, any move through yesterday's highs, I want to be on the long side, first target is going to be this high volume area 11,900 and then on to trading channel resistance 12,150, similar idea here, if we're playing this as a swing trade looking for a multi-day advance then the invalidation point or the stop for me would be below today's low, if we get traded in on the long side, looking at the Dow Jones, the Dow traded meaningfully below it's due low and similar to the other indexes we've seen a nice outside reversal yesterday, so we've got some nice momentum divergence as well, again for those who are here on a weekly basis you'll know that I don't trade counter-trend unless at a minimum we want to have a price pattern, we have price action confirming a potential reversal, but one of the key aspects for me in terms of playing counter-trend trades is this idea of momentum divergence adding an additional confirmation to the setup, so that outside reversal, so again with the Dow here any move through yesterday's highs, we want to be looking on the long side, we're going to be targeting a minimum three-wave corrected move that should see us up into trend channel resistance, 31,200 will be the initial upside objective that's high volume area here as well, so that's going to be the target if we can get through yesterday's high and again the invalidation point for that would be today's low at the point of entry. Russell, similar setup again, we're going to see common theme going through today with a bunch of outside reversals yesterday, so we have a potential double bottom in play and if we can get through yesterday's highs, so through that 1730 we're going to target trend channel resistance up to 1806 and again we use the days low if we get taken in on the long side during today's session. The DAX, DAX is a slightly different situation for me in terms of the setup here, we took out that support area that we talked about last week, now the DAX has a downside objective here, 11,150 and we have that 61.8% of the of the post pandemic advance, 11,220, so what I've been watching for here is any rejection now back into that price support area now to actors resistance would be a signal then to play the breakdown through 11,880 and the target there is that quality objective nearly S3 11,150 on the downside now on a weekly basis if we get a strong close back through this support area so back into the range here 12,400 area that would suggest a false downside break and likely to see a further extension up into the trend channel resistance moving to foreign exchange and we're a star of a dollar here. Dollar had a nice outside rejection yesterday from the ascending trend line resistance and a bunch of fib confluence there as well at 13113 70s so I'm I'm currently short the dollar and I'm looking to add to short positions on a break through the 112 40 area and what I'm looking for is a three wave move to at least challenge that prior high the before the upside extension at 110 70s if we can get through that area then I'm looking for further extension down into monthly projected range for and the ascending trend line support back into the 107 70s you'll note that we are seeing right about major weekly trend channel resistance as well we did obviously break through earlier in the week but interesting to see how we close if we close at or below current levels then we go a nice outside we've got a nice reversal pattern on the weekly timeframe and no we have that key momentum divergence in play as well so that would add encouragement to the idea that we could see a decent corrective swing in terms of the dollar note that I use the term correction at this stage that's all we can think in terms of what's happening in the price action it's corrected certainly has the potential to be a reversal but we wait for further clues and confirmations from price before we go down that route the euro dollar so we are sitting right at the trend channel support this is the trend channel we've been in all year in the euro and I'm looking to get long back through the 97 60s here and I'm looking to play a three-way of corrective move into the trend channel resistance and this prior support area prior to the breakdown here so let's just see us back into the 99 20 area then that's going to become a key decision point for the market are we going to hold trend channel resistance again and roll over or do we have a more meaningful corrective phase developing in terms of the euro again note the momentum divergence as we test the trend channel we get that outside reversal taking out the prior two days range and so that's that's sufficient to qualify for a drilling opportunity as per my trading strategy sterling under a huge amount of pressure obviously with the market's reaction to the UK's somewhat appears to be misguided a policy approach in terms of the the many budget markets certainly didn't like the idea of this this spending and borrowing unfunded and so with respect to sterling I think the balance of provinces to me suggest that we test parity I think the mark that's what the market is smells in terms of the downside so I'm looking at any three-way corrective move that terminates here the quality objective 110 80s bearish reversal patterns there I'm engaged on the short side and look for a move down to test parity dollar yen intervention last week and so we're actually trading just shy off the levels where they where the Bank of Japan intervenes and not hugely successful as as I noted last week these these interventions where they're orchestrated by a single central bank they have they don't really have a tendency to stick and and the market will press against them what you want to pay attention to and this is something we may get further down the track here this year or into next year is a coordinated central bank intervention so where we get the G3 or the G5 or the G7 central banks do coordinated intervention or some type of accord then those are certainly interventions you want to pay attention to and they often can be major pivots in the market so for me with the dollar yen I'm looking for any extension up into this 148 area as long as you maintain momentum divergence bearish reversal patterns there and I've been looking to engage on the short side certainly thinking about a move back down to 140 139 would be the immediate downside objectives we get through there and we've got that high volume mode and this is sending trend line support in this broadening top pattern which should see us testing to 135 years 10 year yields obviously on on everyone's radar at the moment driving the price action really um what we are looking at here is the potential for a wave for low to play out get that we look for another extension to the upside might be looking for a move up above 4 percent again 4.4.1 percent will be the target there and as long as you maintain momentum divergence I think then we should see some corrected move from there and obviously the yields trading pretty much in sync with the dollar yen at the moment so that's something to pay attention to that correlation so if the dollar yen is going to hold it's uh it's free uh sorry it's post-intervention sport area that 140 and we get that 148 and that would see the yields testing above that or up to that target zone of 4.1 percent euro yen this is one that I'm paying attention to we are sitting right at this provisional support zone in this wedge pattern so if we can get through or get a close back through 141 here and I think we've got the potential to to trade up and retest prior highs and break to the upside to get into the top side of this this wedge pattern and certainly I'd be paying close attention to any test towards 148 in terms of euro yen to get better traversal patterns there then I'm going to be looking on the on the short side and we could think about a move down into trend channel resistance coming in somewhere around 130 oz a yen similar setup really a nice outside reversal we're getting a nice bullish inside candle developing here so if that confirms and we take out that high then we can look for the oz a yen to extend up and again we'd be targeting a move into uh to test this ascending wedge resistance uh up into uh just shy of the of the hundredth level there in terms of the oz a yen and once again if we get up into that area paying close attention to the price section and watching for potential momentum divergence to play out and we look to engage on the short side then in terms of the oz a yen cad yen similar scenario really looking at this wedge pattern so if we can get a break through the pivot close through the pivot then we're going to look for an upside extension to develop I'm going to test up into 112 will be the target zone as long as we maintain momentum divergence there and I would suggest we will at this stage it looks like that and then certainly be thinking about fading that move if we're going to bearish reversal pattern from that zone moving to the dollar cad rejected at the 13760 this still looks like it has potential to to run a bit higher here in terms of the pattern we could see symmetry swing support here and look to complete a fifth wave up into that 140 zone so not not a clear trade set up there for me in terms of the dollar cad the oz a similar scenario really we are sitting right at some pivotal support here at the 64 area but unless we can get back inside this this descending wedge pattern then I'm not super constructive on the oz and I can see the potential for another leg to the downside to complete a five wave sequence here in terms of the oz so again we are building some nice momentum divergence and as long as that's maintained if we can get back into the the wedge there then I certainly would think about intraday long setups but any new low in the oz as long as you maintain that momentum divergence could be an opportunity on the long side the dollar you want sharp rejection from those prior highs interesting never at 719 talked about that last week so at this stage if this if the dollar one starts to roll over that's going to add some weight to the dollar index which is my preferred vehicle obviously for paying some near-term dollar weakness gold also interesting nice outside reversal yesterday and we get this nice bullish inside candle holding the mid of yesterday's range so again for gold I like this on the long side through yesterday's high so something through 1670s I'm going to be looking to engage on the long side using today's low as an invalidation point and the first target is going to be a move up into this trend channel resistance into the 17 2017 30 areas the target there note again some nice momentum divergence on this last push to the downside crude oil not much to to do here we are trading down into the 76 target area the next level I'm watching now for crude is actually going to be 73 60s on the downside I don't really like playing it to the long side unless we get a close through this trend channel resistance which appears pretty firm at the moment there isn't a setup for me as such I tell you one pattern I would watch here is if we can get a move through that resistance up into monthly range resistance again back into that 90 dollar zone then any pullback that holds support into that 80 more 81 into two area then we can have an inverse head and shoulder scenario and set up a move then back up into the late 90s but nothing for me to do there at the moment in terms of crude to wrap it up with bitcoin we still are seeking that 12185 downside objective any move into this trend channel resistance now and the interim 21000 which for bearish reversal patterns there as an opportunity to get in for that test down to the 12185 area like I say as we're holding this trend channel resistance can't get constructive on bitcoin personally unless we take out 25300 on the upside to suggest a more meaningful low in place so that completes this week's whistle stop tour of the markets in terms of the opportunities I'm looking at and paying really close attention to these outside reversals and some of the key instruments the equity markets the dollar gold the euro are all on my radar I'm also paying attention to that euro yen as well and the Aussie yen trip tend to trade in sync with risk sentiment so if we're going to get a push higher in terms of equities we anticipate the Aussie yen and the euro yen also would see a nice little pop in line with that move but waiting for that confirmation and for those in the Facebook group I'll be posting a pre-market trade plan shortly giving some intraday levels and paying attention to in terms of in terms of the S&P 500 and how you can you can use those to minimize your risk reward setup oh sorry to maximize your risk reward setup or for those swing traders like I say playing those daily breaks and using the days low as an invalidation of stop is another smart way to do it if you haven't got time to be at the screens so are there any questions or anyone like me to take a look at an instrument I haven't covered Steph US 30 H1 let's go here the CME provide order flow information for the indices Stephanie not not Tickman um get to our Jones so the YM here let's do this so the setup in terms of the the one hour chart here for me would be uh let me just draw this in for you so we have this range to the upside like so so another important factor is we get the PCE uh data tomorrow I think that's going to be the next catalyst in terms of a major directional driver for these markets um if that comes in on the light side I think we can see a rally in the markets however if it comes in on the hot side uh then I think we can see a meaningful sell-off so I'm anticipating today to be a bit of balancing type day consolidate and then like I said if we get favorable PCE data then I look for an extension up into this low volume area and weekly projected range resistance 30,500 in terms of the Dow Jones there obviously if we take out the low here 28,860 so if we get a hot number tomorrow then I'd anticipate we break down next downside targets will be weekly projected range for 28,200 and the weekly S2 just below 28,150 any other questions okay I can't see any other questions coming through at the moment so I'm going to uh hope that we are all on the same page no problem Steffi and um as always traders plan the trade trade the plan and most importantly manage all this until next week thanks very much


Our next talk, which will be held by Luk and it's about online elections at universities and how to prevent them. Luk is a student himself at the University of Göttingen and I'll give the floor to him right now, have fun. So, thank you for the introduction and thank you to all those who are interested in listening today. How to prevent online elections and why you should was an alternative title for this talk. But let's get started with the topic. I'm not going to go into too many details, also not about certain products. I am not a legal nor a political expert, I'm just a student of computer science. So thank you first of all to the speaker of the resolution for electronic elections of the key KIF 46.0 and many other individuals who have helped me create this presentation. So a few words about myself, I study in Göttingen and I'm also active in the student council and we've been seeing the first signs of online elections being introduced before the pandemic started and also you can contact me via my email address, which I've posted and I've also uploaded the slides. Let's start with articles in the German constitution and it says that all state authority is derived from the people. It shall be exercised by the people through elections and other votes and through specific legislative, executive and judicial bodies. This also means that if we have doubts that the election is running as it should, we have the right to make sure that it is and investigate and this is what my talk will be about because if the integrity of elections is lost, the whole democracy is threatened. Let's start with a relevant XKCD. I'll give you a minute to have a look at it and after that I'll continue with my presentation. So essentially what this comic is referencing is that software isn't trusted by software developers themselves often times and they often times express doubts about it themselves. So let's get into the history of online election at universities Wikipedia says that the first online election was conducted in 2000 at the University of Osnabrück. It was mandated by the federal government actually because they wanted to have a trial on whether online elections could be a viable option for federal elections in Germany. Other universities also started using online election but only in recent years, only the University of Jena is a bit of an earlier example with these 2011. Now let's look at the electoral principles which include that members of the German Bundestag shall be elected in general, direct, free, equal and secret elections. What does that mean? Secret should be relatively obvious. Actually the person voting should know their vote and the votes are cast in closed wallets and also there's a voting booth that is not to be seen from the outside and independent means free means that it's free of pressure so there shouldn't be electoral advertisements in the voting booth. General means that everyone has a right to vote actively and passively independently of their income, of their origin as long as they are citizens. All citizens have the vote to write generally and equal means that all ballots are equal but that also concerns passive election rights so that means that everyone who is eligible to be voted is equal as well. And then there is the publicity which is not in the constitution but was later introduced by the government which means that the voting process must be traceable and transparent basically. This means that for me if I vote or am voted I can always get insight into the process and keep track of how many people are voting and that everything is going according to the regulations. And I can also, anyone is able to help count the votes and can sign up as an election helper. Now let's continue with the advantages and disadvantages of online voting. I think it's obvious that during a pandemic organizing a vote is incredibly difficult so online voting has advantages there. So I totally get why you would want online voting in a pandemic. Also the participation will increase which I will come back to later than environmental protection because you save paper. So this is where online votes should have an advantage then temporal like you save time not just the ones who are voting but also the ones who are organizing the vote save a lot of time because voting booths are often staffed by volunteers that have to invest a lot of time and even if you do mail vote voting the envelopes have to be opened and that is a point in favor of online voting and then there's also cost savings which I will also come back to later. Of course you can vote from anywhere and a factor that is often forgotten. If I want to change my mind that isn't really easy to do in a paper wallet because crossing out has to be done a specific way and it's sometimes not easy to interpret whether when a person changed their mind they actually crossed out their vote or if the vote is invalid. Digital democracy I put that in brackets. It's an argument often used by advocates of online voting but I don't really see it as an advantage because if you wanted direct democracy you could change the electoral process as a whole and not just make it every four years but maybe every year or even more frequently. Accessibility is a very important argument in favor of online voting. It's easy to imagine that people with disabilities have advantages with online voting but because people with disabilities are also sometimes disadvantaged in paper ballets. Then the election period which may be extended and prestige because if this neoliberal block chain thought that you would want to have your elections online let's come to the disadvantages. The main disadvantages is security. No computer system is secure therefore no online voting system can be secure. Of course paper votes are also insecure but it gets so much worse with online voting because the responsibility in the end goes to the end users and end devices used to vote. That can't be a good thing because it adds so many attack vectors all at once. DDOS for example could hinder people from voting or sniffing would be an option even if the software is encrypted there is still the theoretical risk that network traffic could be infiltrated and sniffed in a way that you could find out who voted when and you could use those results to get further insights. Post scripting is also an option for example if QR codes are involved for voting for certain people of course log ins could be resets in the data center or Troy ins could be used to find out who is behind credentials and also very important wholesale fraud. The whole election process could be manipulated in offline elections especially in paper ballots. You have less possibilities of fraud of course you can corrupt people you can threaten people extort people but still it's not possible in the same way as in online elections. And also online voting attacks are less traceable in the end. Then we have phishing and should be obvious why that would be a risk. And also well if you don't trust the organizers of the vote. If the organizers of the vote are acting malicious it would also become possible to find out who voted. So now let's come back to publicity and elections being public online voting systems are black box essentially. It would be easier to have online votes if the concept of secrecy wasn't required. And there are a few problems that go along with that paper ballots with paper ballots you have each person has one vote and that makes it more traceable. And also election booths have usually more than one person and even if there is doubt I can recount the election there are several mechanisms that try to safeguard the election and with online votes sometimes they are they are not as effective. For example they say hey an IP address must not be must not be recorded because that might lead to some stability to figure out who was that. But there is no way to recount and the whole system is not transparent for new people. And usually there are certificates and the question is is everything configured and in the end some only specialists can understand it and why can't configure that there needs to be an IT security specialist in every vote action. So if a manipulation is hard to detect if it's if there might be a manipulation possible then there is a loss of trust into the election itself and that unimportant political argument it's very useful for to use online elections for corrupt systems because it's so easy to manipulate and at that point we have the lead back to the universities. I think universities can open doors to the society and it's very critical if universities do something that can be preferred by autocratic regimes then the usability might be more complicated with voting machines in northern Europe had to be repeated because some people did not click on OK. With our election there was a timeout and with the test election with data from last year you can see perhaps you can't see it. It's a long list and it's very hard to view several are several ballots one after the other that are only separated by this these white borders and you need to scroll down to the end because in the end you have to select to go forward and the end everybody scroll through everything once or they press the end button but it's not it's not easy to see what happens then there are another disadvantages it's it's hard to do an error correction in the president's election there usually people will there and in our English the English translation said test in the header but perhaps somebody sees that and says just a test election and they don't know whether that's the real election or not. So even with proper normal elections there might be errors but yeah it's with online election it's it's it's possible that there are local parties and you might get a post on social media and get and are influenced to vote for a specific group so the most important necessary requirement is trust and trust is we don't want to trust a person and we can't trust with a on an online election here are the opposition something that's required here the general selection letter voting by letter and online might be better the online election older persons might have problems the equality I had an issue with the online election because the lists are shown very differently with a paper vote of course there are also lists on the top at the bottom but you can see them all in one view and in this case it's not possible you can't have an overview who can be elected that was improved for this the real election but it was still quite complicated and the secret election is complicated because there are so many attack surfaces so again the online election it's a remote election not a presence presence is more connected with a voting by letter but it's it's it's a bit cheaper than voting by letter rather than with a paper ballot shortly for the law system the there was the requirement to the publicity and the pool liars the online election creator says that voting are not voting machines are not allowed but the all online elections are used to run on computers because you run it on your own computers and servers somewhere and in a server center are required to run the election so apart from this effect that it's done over a distance everything is means that it's still election computers and that the the the terrain again well the syringe in court had a decision in 2013 but it wasn't sufficiently it wasn't sufficient for online voting but prosecution said that they basically said that lay men and women would be able to count the election and will see what the courts will decide in the end so now let's advance a little bit quicker publicity is only for political elections that is what the courts said but I don't feel that way because I see university elections equally as democratically important than political large elections well let's compare online and offline voting offline voting as close source there is now it's about the online voting systems used in university and this is a we have a monopoly situation there because poli as is the only company offering this online voting system it uses a blockchain a local blockchain that is and of course they're saying that the election catalog and the ballot box are independent but they don't give any proof I basically have to trust them and I don't want to do that the contract elapsed in March 2021 and this is about the cost you have to use a certified software it costs about 20,000 euro per electing person so if you take into account that many people aren't even voting in universities this doesn't really make sense but because even if you paid people at the polling stations it would still be less than the cost of an online election I'll skip that there were a few issues with the university online election so there was one possibility to vote locally in person and there was a problem with the verification the counting took the time took too long it was announced that it would be 10 minutes but in fact it was hours it took hours and hours and the results were also a bit confusing because some of the electees were only had like two or three or one vote and of course there's no possibility to calculate who could have been that then there were some erase conditions in JavaScript concluding there's no prestige let's get back to the participation which actually increased but during the seven days where you could vote 24 hours a day participation increased after reminders were sent but also the number of invalid votes increased and if you watch this trend for a longer time for an institution that has been voting online for a long time you can see that it this trend only persists as long as the online voting system is new now I'll get to the end because I don't have much time left I'm really sorry for that concluding I don't want online voting at universities it might be an option long term but not short term so thank you very much for your attention and my opinion is obvious here no thank you now we can't hear drinks now we can she's reminding you about the pad where you can ask questions so we already have one question do you think there's a chance to prevent the law from declaring a system as secure well there is a catalogue with a very superficial rating and superficial conditions like for example a condition would be that one person can't vote multiple times so I think the German federal office for security in information systems would be the best organization to start with because it will be difficult to get our parliament and to get into this and I think I think that the government will be cautious about declaring certain systems as secure another question which approach do you find promising for preventing online elections I think being on time is critical if you want to prevent this from happening we should have been there and made contact earlier for example in Jena where they've been having online voting systems since 2011 also I think presentations online presentations like this one are very important and also baby steps ask for a proper process ask for a postponing of the system yeah that sounds good sorry technology is a bit against me this evening there's another question incoming and people are also typing still the question was posted in English why do you think universities can't just enforce for election systems to be open source or even have open source software and components because of the principal public money public code I'll respond in German so I would turn this around and say it's not good software just because it's open source and even if the software was open source it would be questionable still so I'd say it's similar then zoom and other issues just if you have a system it will be used people will resort to the most available option so certification will also be expensive yeah what can student councils do once online voting is introduced what we did is we were promised test elections in 2019 that never happened and that is when we as the student council decidedly spoke out against online elections because of the pandemic we were put under a lot of pressure by different sides and it's even more special in Göttingen because in Göttingen the elections are organized by the an academic committee and it really depends on whether the student body or the university as such conducts the elections and I'm never sure whether our arguments reach people or what people are motivated by but I think it's never wrong to just talk about it and get a discussion started there's we're at the end of our question rope so are you telling me to continue presenting well yeah time is also getting to an end which is sad because this is such a diverse topic where a lot still needs to be discussed so there's a lot of thank you messages coming into the pad one one last thing I posted our complaint online which you can find at the end of the announcement as a PDF so if you want to get inspired you can have a look at it perfect that would have been my last question whether you anything any last words to add so if you want you could also show a few more slides all right I have a five-step plan for a more detailed response but there's always the possibility to speak with people and also to include marginalized groups and minorities which is very important and there are a few organizations ready that are talking about this topic and also getting legal legal advice is very important and getting the student body to engage with the topic and also to veto such systems and also there's the option of suing or filing official complaints but I can't really say anything about that because I'm not a legal professional yeah that's really complex a complex legal issue because yeah you have to know which paragraphs and which articles of the Constitution are applicable and which laws and which pandemic extra conditions are applicable yeah and we already have concrete online elections coming up but and this is also legitimizing the online voting process this is a very good final conclusion thank you for being here


As of February 23, 2020, the World Health Organization reported a total of 78,811 confirmed cases of COVID-19 from China with 2,445 deaths. There are now 1,769 confirmed cases in 28 countries outside of China. There have been 17 deaths outside of China, and the cases on cruise ship liner in Japan has now gone to 634 with 2 deaths. We have no confirmed cases of coronavirus disease or COVID-19 in St. Lucia or the Caribbean region. On Saturday, February 22, 2020, authorities were alerted of two Chinese nationals with dual citizenship traveling to St. Lucia via the United Kingdom with a travel history of concern. Upon arrival, they were reviewed by the Port Health team as per protocol. One person is currently placed under isolation at a health care facility and the other under quarantine at another site in keeping with public health guidelines. Samples will be sent to the Caribbean Public Health Agency today for testing. Quarantine is used to separate and restrict the movement of persons who are well and may have been exposed to a communicable disease such as COVID-19. This is done to monitor and to see if they develop signs and symptoms over the incubation period of the particular disease. Isolation, however, is used to separate known ill persons who have a communicable disease from those who are healthy. Isolation restricts the movement of ill persons to help stop the spread of certain diseases. The Department of Health and Wellness has established systems at key institutions to ensure timely response and management of any issue of public health concern, which include our ports and our health care facilities. These systems are functioning and continue to detect and respond to issues of concern which arise. Despite this level of responsiveness, the Department of Health and Wellness, we continue to undertake constant review and strengthening of our preparedness plans to manage the threat of the coronavirus disease and other issues of public health concern. As such, in the interim, we continue to advise the public to continue practicing the standard recommendations to prevent the spread of respiratory infection.  We also advise the public to seek medical attention and to share your travel history with your health care provider if you have symptoms suggestive of respiratory illness, either during or after travel. The Department of Health and Wellness, we will continue informing the public of any updates with the recent case.


Right then in this step, we're going to talk about the interface that you can see on screen and what all the different windows and tabs and things are for So let's get straight into that Okay, so the name for this entire screen is the level editor So this is the main editor that you'll use to construct your levels It's where you'll create the space for the gameplay to take place and you can add different types of assets Which are known as actors in Unreal and that will help you to create your environment So up here you've got the tab bar and the menu bar Within the level editor a tab at the top of the screen displays the name of the level that you're working on You can also dock additional windows here to help keep your workspace organized To the far right of the tab bar you can see the name of your project that you're currently working on The menu bar is just below the tab bar on the left of the screen and your options here are file edit window and help Just below that you've got the toolbar and the toolbar section provides quick access to a range of commonly used commands and tools The big window with the level in it is called the viewport and that section is made up of one or more panels Which display the game environment that you're working on you can choose from a perspective view or one of three orthographic views so like top side or front Okay, over here. You've got a very important panel This is called the details panel and this contains and displays information about all of the actors in your level Editable properties are also displayed here and these can be changed within the details panel on the left side of the screen here You've got the modes panel and what this is is a range of tools known as modes that you can use within the engine so each mode when you put it into a mode changes the way the level editor functions and Helps you to perform a specific task. So these tasks could include placing actors or adding foliage or creating terrain or adding post-processing effects Okay, over here in the top corner, you've got the world outliner And in this part of the interface, you'll just find a list of all the actors that you've got within your level They're displayed in a hierarchy if you want to use it so that you can easily see any relationships between them Another really important panel is the content browser And this is really important because it's used for creating importing and organizing assets within the engine You can search for and interact with all of the different types of assets to perform actions such as renaming Duplicating and moving make sure you get comfortable with this panel Okay, so that concludes our quick tour of the Unreal Engine interface in the next video We are going to look at creating and saving levels. So I will see you in the next step for that Thanks for watching. If you want to take your learning further I recommend an introduction to Unreal Engine 4 by Andrew Sanders and Unreal Engine 4 game development essentials by a strategic PV Check them out using the links in the video description below Special thanks to my awesome patrons whose names are displayed on screen for supporting this video If you'd also like to support my channel then go to patreon.com forward slash Shane Whittington


being a Marine for 30 years in the Sardin Major. I kind of had a mindset that it was an Navy school and how hard could it be, but when I actually went through it, it really surprised me how difficult it really was. My name is Mike Tuttle. I'm a SIR instructor. The most important thing I do here in my phase, the field force phase, is to teach the service members here the skills that they're going to need to survive and the event they should find themselves is an isolated person and any mission that they might find themselves on. You're going to find yourself in a situation as an instructor here, particularly on the field force side where you're going to be out here possibly as the only instructor with a group of anywhere from eight to maybe as many as twelve young service members out here that are really counting on you to take care of them and teach them the things that they need to know, so you're going to have to have a lot of self-discipline and a lot of initiative in order to fill those big shoes to take care of these young men and women that are out here in your charge while you're training. The skills that we teach here, we teach them how to use them in what we call a non-permissive environment. That's an environment where you can be restricted in the things that you can do because of an enemy situation. So not only is it basic survival skills on such things as how to start fires, how to procure water, how to procure food, how to build shelters and how to navigate, but how to do that in a non-permissive environment. Not only is it physically challenging for them out here, but I would say that this probably just is much mentally challenging for them especially during the winter months here because not only are you dealing with the stressors of not eating, the physical exertion that takes place up here when we do a lot of movements, but the mental aspect of that is it's cold here. The nights are long. The weather up here can be very extreme and moody from one extreme to the other and that puts a lot of mental stress on the students. And then the thought of the unknown, they just don't know what's coming up next and that's part of the training here. This field force portion of training is really meant to, in certain ways, meant to debilitate them to prepare them to get ready for the next phase of training. So we do everything that we can, not only to teach them the really important things that they're really going to need to know, but at the same time, we put them in an environment that's going to put them in a condition physically and mentally that they're probably actually are an isolated person. So to sum it up, we try to teach the people that come through here if they do find themselves in a situation where they are captured to resist to their utmost, but in the end to return with honor, to do the right thing.


consistently to this day, have ultimate MK3 tournaments that have numbers that can trump a lot of other tournaments in the world. It is remarkable stuff, but I do believe now we the handshakes come through, we should be loading in real soon. But I mean, this is a this is a matchup where it's going to be defense versus lightning fast offense. And we're going to see who's going to come off better here. Rewind versus Foxy grandpa, losers action of this top eight for the world finals, final combat 2020. One will advance, one will be eliminated. The question is who is going to be who? Original big bad boss, the next generation, allow me to present my qualifications. That was a good intro, way more syllables than she did. Well, just say the older generation, my friend, but now this matchup is going to be upgraded. She is going to leap. She is going to want to have no part in this ground eruption zoning, but the escape failed already trying to go for the unpredictable grabs. Foxy goes for the forward grab because the reverse one in the corner was way more predictable. I mean, he literally builds his game around throws or strikes, right? He has like the epitome of that of that play style. It really kind of forced it to be as prominent as it is now. But I think we're seeing a lot of movement knowledge from Foxy, right? We're seeing every time Rewind is going for like leaps or whatever, that right there. He's going for that big boot that forward four because he's not trying to hit Rewind. He's just trying to move out of the way of the jump and it's working like three for three matchup knowledge right here. But a wonderful tech from Rewind getting clipped by the 1-1 though. And Foxy has to show so much discipline to not add to those chumpings because at any moment, she could blow you up for it. And it looks like now it's Rewind's turn, but now the back three connects all the same. And a breakaway breakaway, but with the fatal blow and play, all it would take really was a fatal blow to start the general momentum. Didn't quite land it, but round one is going to be Foxy's anyway. Round two fight. Now Rewind, you know, he's the kind of player that's going to adapt. We're seeing Foxy has that very obvious answer. Oh, okay. Foxy has that obvious answer for the leap. I'll be very surprised if Rewind doesn't try and figure out somewhere around it. Immediate leap gets the perfect time to go through the corpse drop. It is going to enforce Foxy to go for a lot more prediction corpse drops there. The close ones just in case the leap, but Grease kick as well. It's so many ways Jackie can get combos in this variation. It's right here, Mark will clipped again. Looks like some more Foxy. I think just going for the hard reads of the neutral duck and it's not working at all. Rewind is going to get the second round here. Rewind, that is exactly the round he needed after that first round being so controlling the Foxy. Oh, Foxy tries to get out of dodge by finishing the string, but Rewind chases him down nonetheless. Now this is the scary situation. You just have to wait for your moment to strike, but upgraded. She has a million and one ways to do it. The flawless block again. Really good trade for Foxy getting a little bit of his meter out to break away with punish on the 114. Here comes that ground eruption full screen back. You go for now Rewind. He's just looking for that magical leap. Foxy waits for it. Oh, the needle magic range is on the way for the crouch. Foxy breaks the jaw. See you later teeth, but it's not over. This is Jackie Briggs. We're talking about damage. Fatal blows and play. Oh, no clipped. Are we going to see a leap? Oh, wow, Foxy. I know you want to leave. How about that? You know, I'm going to say I'm on a jinx at first. Foxy normally having such a grab heavy game. He's normally the one that falls victim to the constant down twos. But it feels like today he's been the one dishing them out instead. I mean, that's actually one thing I've noticed is Foxy is known for playing very by the book. Very kind of like by the rules, right? It's very strict, very calculated. But today he's still playing that way, but he's willing to make these big decisions, right? These big wake up jump. These big just hold down and get that, that crushing blow. And I feel like that might be an element of why he's doing so well today, but does not mean that this is done by any means rewind more than capable of bringing this back. It's been one game and a first of three. We have plenty left to go in this set. Now, rare sight. You're going to see, I feel like we're going to see less grabs in this matchup purely because the chances of being absolute point blank, it's just less. Rewind doesn't want to put himself in a position to get grabbed here. He wants to be mobile. He wants to be airborne. Oh my Lord, the block on the dash punch will take it. And now commits to the forward two, four, two, because it just moves Shang Tsung so far away. Hard to win. And now the fresh up breakaway being used means you're kind of at the mercy of it. Rewind tries to be a little bit cute. The reverse grab again. More damage. And now fatal blow and play. Cannot count this character out, especially when fatal blows ready to go. Dash punches the start of it. Can't confirm every single hit here could be a confirm if he commits. Hang on a minute. Oh my God, cork struck. Oh, there we go. Fatal blow, the trigger is pulled and rewind. I should put that to enough. It took up hits first. This should kill right? Yeah, he's definitely dead. An early confirm means it's completely unscaled really. And I got to commend the patience there from Rewind where Foxy went in. Assumingly that was because I've been defensive the whole game. You're not expecting me to go in. That's exactly how the last game ended. Was it Rewind? I don't think was ready for the jump career. Oh, just clipped by the arse end of that. Ground eruption from this range. Foxy two forward dashes. You think you've caught the defensive flow? He just dashes in and grabs you. It really throws off your momentum. Wow, the perfect range Rewind. Recognizing you're punished there. Down one to interrupt, stealing a turn back. Shang Tsung getting a couple of percent of health back, but commits to a projectile and that's a jump in. Every time, every time Foxy does a single projectile, he is dancing with the devil here. The damage for upgraded is so insane and Rewind making the perfect reads. Oh my word. Speaking of which, the floor spot comes through again. The Foxy plus frames. Oh, short hop.  Oh, no, the counter hit. That was really smart because Rewind could see that Foxy had like very clearly mistimed that meeting for two. So he just woke up with the optimal punish. Wake up with a crushing low launcher. Absolutely. You're going to mistime it. You will pay the price. Rewind takes the game back. We might have a really good set on our hands here. You can see some adaptations. Rewind. He's not being as crazy offensive. He's just looking for the moment. He's trying to catch the rhythm of Foxy's projectiles. He's being wise to it quite a lot, but now the ball's in Foxy's court. He's making the little, what? Get back down here. Oh, that was such a quick micro duck. I would argue whether she actually entered the ducking state at all. You know what I mean? Where's the grab? That's going to be another one. The damage of these grabs on a perfect read. It looks like a matchup that's a little bit tricky here. She has the answers to the momentum. Should be a full combo. But Rewind definitely doesn't deem it worthy to go for a breakaway there. Might start now. It's crucial to get that health back here when you're this low. Every percent counts. Oh, hard, yeah. Hard dedication to just dash in and grab again. It is a big payout or a big disaster. You kind of just have to roll that dice and accept it. Rewind is playing out of his mind so far. He's just the way he's being so much. Yeah, like even though Foxy is like avoiding all the jumps, it's not deterring Rewind because like you're avoiding him. You're not punishing him. And if he hits that leap, he's doing like 300 damage. So of course, like there's no reason not to. You can see the care. Foxy's having to place a lot of care into every single projectile he throws here. Dash punch. High speed from Rewind so far. No flaws. Foxy's up there from Foxy. Has been quite successful with that so far with these leaps. Momentum is the magic word in this matchup. Reverse grab into a turn. Foxy has to hold it again. Tries to challenge it with a down two. Big mistake. And Rewind continuing the pressure. Foxy just wants to get out. But can he? It just feels like Rewind relentless. There's no getting away. Well, the thing is like it's one thing to just avoid the leap every time you're at a distance. But when she's point blank, you are just having to deal with it like the rest of us. Now, if you're in Foxy's shoes, do you stick with Shang? Or do you go to a Kung Lao or something else? I feel like the matchup just isn't working. It's hard to say whether it is clearly a matchup thing though. Because Foxy, he won the first game.  But the big question is can Foxy keep up? Because playing Shang-Stung in this matchup clearly requires you to be like absolutely playing at your perfection, right? You have no room for error.  And you get jumped in on and you take like 300 damage. You have to be flawless blocking. You have to be doing all this really difficult stuff. The question is, is there a character you can pick in his arsenal that maybe isn't as quite high maintenance but can still get the job done? But then Rewind plays many characters. So what's to stop him from just changing should Foxy manage to tie things up? You have so many questions to ask and not enough answers in the heat at the moment. Well, Foxy, he's going to ride the wave with Shang-Stung to the bitter end. And we'll see if he's going to be able to adapt to it anyway. But so far it's Rewind, who's just been in full control all the way through. And it looks like, again, history's just repeating itself. He's point blank and that's where he's going to stay. And the reaction says no way Rewind's off to get blocked on that overhead. Nice little micro dash doesn't need to jump in, but Rewind answering back with an immediate dash punch. Oh, hits him, but wasn't confident in the ground eruption. This is a scary position for Foxy. Going to be quite the miracle comeback to make. Has to hold all of this and grabs.  And now it's going to be either hit match point for Rewind and he's just riding all the momentum. This matchup is so heavily focused on Rewind looking for that one opening and just sticking to him like glue. He's playing the matchup perfectly so far. Foxy just has no room to breathe. Oh, just try to just raw jump from point blank Rewind. He wants to end this now. He's got somewhere to be. Oh, just a straight up slap on that forward too. Such a long range punch. If he can only just keep all that like a bait to me going. He did a short one. That was really smart. And he can't do the short leap and he canceled it immediately. He is wise to this plan, but no breakaway for Rewind means this one's going to hurt. 37% by Rewind. A leap, a dream and a fatal blow can totally win this round still. Foxy doesn't want to over commit. Oh, especially if he threads the needle and gets over the ground eruption. Here he goes. Scary times here if you're Foxy. The low Rewind risking it all, but all he needs now is one clean opening. Foxy defending for his life, but all it takes now is one clean hit. Oh, no, just like that. Wait, was that a trade combo? That looked like a trade combo. That was high. Is that actually might be it? I think Rewind's taking it. That was so clean Rewind. 31 eliminating Foxy ground by her in this top eight. Oh, a display of knowledge. It's just the fact that Foxy is spent today being so insanely fast to crack into with that defense. Rewind just fighting the magic over every chime. It's all over it. Decision making and playing the matchup perfectly at no point rigged that Foxy looked comfortable outside of game number one. Rewind found his rhythm and that was a win.