Rydw i'n gweithio'r cyfnodau, a'r next item of business is one that we would all prefer not to be holding—a motion of condolence following the death of our former Presiding Officer and colleague Sir Alex Ferguson. Alex and I started together both of us enjoying the privilege of being elected to Parliament as part of the first intake of MSPs in 1999. He came to this place having lived a life outside of politics and he never lost that real world take on the issues before us. Alex was both impassioned and knowledgeable on matters relating to rural Scotland and, in particular, on issues affecting the south-west of this country. Allied to his natural good humour, his intelligence and approachability, when Alex spoke, people listened. That is still a relatively young Parliament, but when we look back at events of significance in its development, among them will undoubtedly be Alex's election as Presiding Officer in 2007. It was a year when the people of Scotland decided to elect our first-ever minority Government, a situation that gave rise to new political challenges to match that changing political dynamic. In those unchartered waters, the Parliament needed someone who could be trusted, who was fair and balanced, someone who was liked and respected across the parties and, of course, we turned to Alex. However, as I alluded to earlier, Alex was not a career politician. He did not seek high office. He got into politics later than most out of a sense of duty and service and gave voice to the issues and causes that he believed in. At Westminster, MPs play out a little scene on the election of their chosen speaker when the successful candidate is dragged reluctantly from the green benches to the speaker's chair. With Alex, that was no metaphorical enactment or political playlet, but the reality of his sense of duty winning out over his own political priorities. With Parliament at an impasse, Alex agreed to accept the role of Presiding Officer thrust upon him. As the evidence of the time in office reveals, the Parliament demonstrated its wisdom in electing him. It takes a special talent, after all, to navigate the Parliament's first minority Government, to vote down a £33 billion budget bill, to notoriously mix up a football semifinal cup draw, and to constantly break the disappointing news to uninformed correspondence that he was not responsible for picking the Manchester United First team. Many of us not only admired Alex's many qualities and talents. We would be proud to emulate his example and end up leaving this place with more friends than when we were first elected. When news came of Alex's untimely death, I was struck not only by the kind words of fellow MSPs but by the fondness with which he was remembered by the parliamentary staff. From those who worked alongside him in private office, to the clerks, researchers, IT and other support staff, it was apparent that the feelings of shock and sadness were not exclusive. Kind words for a man who always had a kind word to those whom he met—a true gentleman. In saying goodbye to Alex, Parliament is saying goodbye to a good friend who made a great mark on this place. Our thoughts and prayers are very much with his wife, Meryn, and the wider family who we are honoured to have with us in the public gallery today. Goodbye, Presiding Officer. Goodbye, Alex. Thank you very much for your service and friendship. I will call on Ruth Davidson to move the motion of condolence. Thank you, Presiding Officer. In August memorial service for Sir Alex Ferguson that you attended along with your predecessors, the Deputy First Minister and many others here today, we came together to commemorate a life well lived, a life of public service, of duty and of profound decency. Today we come together again and it is right and fitting that this Parliament meets to remember one of its own. Our third Presiding Officer, the first that we have lost, a politician who served here for 17 years and I think it is fair to say he was not just respected but loved too. That remarkable memorial service in Kecwbry Parish Church six weeks ago, it was impossible not to be so moved by the stories that came flooding forward from those whose lives had been touched by Alex. From David Mundell, the Scottish Secretary, who described him as the most thoroughly decent man that he had the good fortune to meet, to befriend and to have instruct him in the way of sheep farming. From Alex's brother John, whose wonderful eulogy captured not just the panic of Manchester United fans on social media at the announcement of Alex's passing but also all the humour and the humanity and the truly terrible driving habits of the man. We heard from Alex himself telling us in his own words to belt out the hymns that he had chosen for the service and how in his final days he was without regret or bitterness. He had gone but his humanity breathed on on that day gloriously. For me the most telling contribution was the comment that was relayed from one of Alex's medical staff who said that they'd watched the family around him in his final days and what a closeness and a love he saw between them. What a legacy. We are so pleased today to be able to welcome his wife Meryn, his mother Oriole, brother JG, sister Henrietta and youngest son Christopher to the Parliament. We thank you for lending Alex to us even for a short time. It was time well spent. For the Scottish Conservatives, Alex's death has left a huge hole but it is right to say today that he was first and foremost a parliamentarian and it is this Parliament which mourns him together today. It's fitting too that today we welcome 60 pupils from Dalbeetie High School in Alex's patch. As a champion of the region and of young people's interest in politics, he would have loved to have seen you all here. Alex was not a career politician. He was a farmer taking over management of the family farm in Bar and Carrick in 1971. He was soon getting involved in life beyond the farm gate. As the former MSP Murray Tosh, his close colleague and friend, has observed, he felt that his own beloved south-west of Scotland had its own distinct interests, which needed to be represented more effectively. It was from his own lived experience that his political career began. Characteristically for us Scottish Conservatives, his first attempt to get into politics failed. When he stood for the South Carrick ward in 1995, but he had got the bug and when, in 1997, the devolution referendum was passed, he decided to stand for this new Parliament. He was always a committed devolutionist, something that he was to pursue all his career, including as a member of the Party Strathclyde commission, which in 2014 recommended a series of wide-ranging increases in the Parliament's powers. In the 1999 election, he did not win his constituency, but he was elected on the party list. As one of 129 new MSPs, he soon stood out. The Scotsman Dyrus drab McNeill coined him Hercules, thanks to his fine public bearing and his star turn alongside Alex Johnson in the annual tug of war. The ribbing was always affectionate, and when Alex retired in 2016, Rob was to declare, it's a great shame that he's retiring, because for a Tory, he came heavily disguised as a human being, and I couldn't possibly comment. But Alex stood out in other ways, too. He didn't go in for personal attacks and had fine relations with Alasdair Morgan, the SNP MSP, who'd beaten him to the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale constituency. People soon learned not to mistake his personal courtesy for weakness. On the issues that mattered to him, he was tough and uncompromising. As David Mundell said last month, when Foot and Mouth hit in 2001, Alex emerged as the most dogged and best informed challenger of the Scottish executive's handling of the crisis. That was because, in private, he was every day speaking to individual farmers and businesses from all over Scotland, listening to their concerns, offering support and connecting them to people in power. In 2003, that hard work paid off when he won the Galloway and Upper Nithsdale seat, and four years later, after another term, putting the interests of his constituents first, he increased his majority from 99 to 3,333. In 2007, the SNP had just won the election by a single seat, and neither SNP nor Labour were able to give up an MSP for the vacant post of Presiding Officer, so Alex was sounded out. His first concern was whether, in that job, he would still be able to represent his constituents, having been assured that that was the case, he took it on. Faced with the unprecedented nature of minority government, his courtesy, his wise judgment and steeliness were to stand him in good stead. Whether in reprimanding the former Labour MSP George Fawkes for unparlamentary behaviour, because there are always small pleasures in politics, or in dealing with SNP ministers to ensure that the business of government kept going. He was a fine representative of Parliament outside of it, too. In 2009, he took a delegation of MSPs to New Zealand. During the visit, the group was informed that they were due to go to Amari, which is a sacred place in Maori culture, where it is a standard practice for the Maori host to sing to their guests and for the guests to respond in turn. As a man of music and a folk singer of some renown, Alex was not going to let that challenge go missing. I am told that he therefore hustled Ted Brocklebank, Ross Finney, Rhoda Grant and Sandra White into a kind of Scotland's Got Talent outfit, with Alex demanding that they spent the entire evening practising how to sing Sam 23, because he always did like a shepherd. I am told that the Scottish Parliament's choirs rendition the following day was indeed spectacular. Typically, Alex did not see the role of Presiding Officer as a full stop, so in 2011 he insisted on staying on as a constituency MSP. It was his personal connection and affinity with the south-west, which assured that in an election when the SNP swept the board, Alex was re-elected for a third time. A former head of the Blackface Sheepreaders Association, he was appointed as president of the Royal Highland Agricultural Society in 2012, something that I know he took immense pride in. Two years ago, fittingly, he was knighted in the Queen's birthday honours for a life of unceasing public service. Even as he was falling ill earlier this summer, that service continued. As a patron of the Galloway National Park Association, he continued to campaign for Scotland's third national park, and I hope very much that, with the campaign continuing, the creation of such a park in Galloway may just be a legacy for him. Three weeks before he died, he was still commentating when two of our Scottish Conservative group wrote a joint piece from opposite sides of the debate, backing a compromise deal on Brexit, Alex took to Twitter to declare what a welcome and sensible dose of straight-up no-nonsense common sense, more pleas. He knew full well at that point that he wouldn't see Brexit negotiations conclude, but he was still engaged, still passionate, still urging the practical, realistic way forward. And my words couldn't be due with more Alex Ferguson's right now. For all his titles and honours and appointments, Alex was simply a good man, a lover of sport, of music, of burns, of a decent meal of a glass of wine and a whiskey, of family and of friends of his community. A man who knew that we are nothing unless we uphold the ties that bind us, who understood that common courtesy is important, that passionate debate is vital, that politics is about service to others and not to oneself. And at that wonderful memorial service in August, we were all reminded too that he was a family man who was so proud of his three sons and the wider family, a family who gave him a send-off to remember. The example on the humanity of Sir Alex Ferguson will stay in our hearts for some time to come. We offer his family our deepest condolences and their loss, and I move the motion in my name. Thank you, and I now call the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. On behalf of the SNP and the Scottish Government, let me join in supporting the motion from Ruth Davidson. Like all of us across this Parliament, I was so very saddened to hear of Sir Alex Ferguson's passing, and I'm very glad that his family are able to join us today to hear us pay tribute to a very special human being. As we've heard already, Frontline politics did come to Alex relatively late in his life before his election. He had a long, distinguished and successful career as a farmer, and that experience of farming and land issues undoubtedly contributed to his decision to enter politics. In 1999, he of course became one of the initial intake of MSPs to the Scottish Parliament. Those of us who were privileged to be elected to that first Parliament were all acutely aware that whatever our differing political views, we had a duty to ensure that we helped to create a Parliament that lived up to the expectations of all those who had campaigned for it, but also a Parliament that was able to prove the sceptics wrong. A few members of that first Scottish Parliament, in my view, embodied that spirit better than Alex. My personal memories of Alex, when I first got to know him, were of someone who was just as concerned about upholding the reputation of this Parliament as he was about advancing his own political beliefs. He had the particular gift of being able to argue his own case with rigor, and he did argue it with rigor, while remaining on the friendliest of terms with political opponents across the chamber. That of course served him extremely well during the early years of the Parliament when he was a distinguished convener of the Rural Development Committee. His period as chair of that committee coincided with the aftermath of the Food and Mouth outbreak in 2001 and the passage of the protection of wild mammals act on hunting. It says a huge amount that his handling of those and other sensitive issues only served to enhance his reputation. Colleagues on the committee recall how he was always willing to take on and off his political hat, reminding different parties of the bigger picture and highlighting to MSPs that being political opponents did not have to mean becoming political enemies. Perhaps all of us would do well to remember that in the times that we live in today. Those traits received fitting recognition in 2007, when Alex became the Scottish Parliament's third Presiding Officer. At the time of his election, his predecessor George Reid said that, and I quote, you have just elected a decent and honourable man to head this house. George's remark was borne out completely by Alex's time in office. Alex, of course, as you have noted, was the first Presiding Officer to serve during a period of minority government. As I am sure you recognise, that is not always a straightforward task. However, he was highly effective in his role. Those on the SNP benches who sat in the Parliament's business bureau during those years talked about the important role that Alex played, banging heads together behind the scenes when that was necessary. Above all, he fostered trust between the party's business managers, enabling them in turn to chart a way forward in which everyone had a voice. In public in this chamber, Alex always chaired proceedings with calm authority and scrupulous fairness. That meant that, even in circumstances that could have been contentious—for example, when he used his casting vote to defeat a budget bill—all sides understood and respected the reasons for his decision. Even if I may say that it might have taken the then finance secretary some time to realise that he understood and respected the decision of the Presiding Officer. However, that approach that Alex took was a major factor in the success of that third Parliament. Alex also ensured that back benches were given as much of a voice in proceedings as possible, and he was not afraid to put his foot down when that was needed. I am sure that I am not the only front-bencher here today who can remember developing a strange sixth sense if I had perhaps gone on a bit too long in my answer, which of course I rarely do, that Alex was peering over his glasses at me and telling me to get on with it. Alex was also a fine ambassador for Scotland, as Ruth Davidson has noted. For example, playing a really important role in supporting and strengthening this Parliament's relationship with the Malawi Parliament. In Alex's final speech in this chamber, he said that being Presiding Officer was a privilege and an honour. I am quoting him here when he said that it came close to that of serving the people first of the south of Scotland, then of Galloway and Upper Nitsdale and laterally of Galloway and West Dumfries. The order of priorities there is telling. Alex's sense of duty to his constituents ran right throughout his parliamentary career. In 2011, he of course became the first Presiding Officer to stand for re-election, and the fact that he won the redraw on Galloway and West Dumfries constituency says so much about the effectiveness with which he served as constituents and about the affection and respect that he earned as a result. Of course, even after stepping down from this Parliament, Alex continued to campaign on issues such as creating a new national park in the Galloway forest. Sir Alex Ferguson made a major contribution to Scotland as a whole, but there is no doubt that he was a particular champion of the south-west. It is often said that political parties are like big extended families. That is certainly how I feel about my own. In that spirit, we all recognise that those in the Scottish Conservative benches today have lost one of their most revered and respected family members. Across the chamber, we have all lost a colleague and a friend, someone who will be noted in future years as having played a pivotal role in the early period of the Scottish Parliament. No one will feel his loss more than his family. Today, as we mourn Alex Passing and as we mark his many achievements, we also offer our condolences to Meryn, Ian, Dougal and Christopher and, of course, to Alex's mother and brother who join us today. I hope that the tributes that they hear today from across the chamber will give them not only some comfort but also a justifiable feeling of immense pride. I rise on behalf of the Scottish Labour Party to pay tribute to Sir Alex Ferguson and to support this motion. A son of the man, he made his mark in the first days of this Parliament by moving a motion to introduce a time for reflection. I went back to look at his inaugural speech in that debate. I strongly believe, he said, that with the new Parliament we have a new beginning. I see no reason why we should not have a new all-embracing form of contemplative thought or prayer as part of our parliamentary procedure. The Ferguson motion was duly passed by 69 votes to 37 with 15 abstentions. He began in Parliament as he meant to go on, making a great impression and making a great difference. On 24 November, in that first year of Parliament, upon the mound in a debate on land reform, he began by declaring four interests. I am a landowner, a landlord, a farmer and a member of the Scottish Landowners Federation. Extraordinarily, he then went on to agree with a young, radical extra-parliamentary land reformer called Andy Wightman, who had condemned the proposed legislation for not going far enough. In that same speech, Alex went on to disagree profoundly with one, Roseanna Cunningham, who has assertioned the year before in the House of Commons that what was needed was, and I quote, the ultimate ownership of land by and for the people of Scotland was lampooned by Alex. That system, he said, was tried by the communists and look what happened to them. I also read his final contribution to Parliament, which was on 16 March 2016, in the debate on stage 3 of the land reform bill, now the act, in which he said that he supported, and I quote him, greater openness and transparency to land ownership. I reflect that a few days after Alex Ferguson's death, Colin Smyth and I visited the Mull of Galloway. It was a beautiful day, and we went to the Mull of Galloway experience, climbing up the lighthouse with its magnificent views of Ireland, the Isle of Man, but also back over the rinds of Galloway. That land is now in community ownership, which has brought with it a new energy and a new purpose. I couldn't help thinking the fact that it had transferred to community ownership from state ownership, which was formally owned by the Northern Lighthouse Board, would no doubt have pleased Alex. He was a greatly respected member of this Parliament, demonstrated by the widespread support that he received when he put his name forward for the position of Presiding Officer. A position, as others have said, he did not covet but took on out of a sense of public duty. In fact, when Holyrood magazine asked about why he wanted to become Presiding Officer, he replied and I quote, I didn't. I had gone into the election in 2007, defending a majority of 99 against a strong SNP challenge. Having taken myself off the list, I was just relieved to be returned to Parliament with a significantly increased majority. I had no thoughts of anything other than being the MSP for Galloway and Upper Nithsdale, so the role of Presiding Officer came and found me, not the other way around. In that same interview, he noted that he didn't find it difficult to put to one side his party politics in taking up the role of Presiding Officer. In fact, he said that not attending party conferences was, for me, one of the bonuses of the role. Of all the Labour MSPs, I've asked past and present, they all say the same. He was good-humoured. He was a gentleman, decent. If you were under fire from the media, which occasionally happens, he would offer words of encouragement and support. If he thought that you had made a good speech, he would make a point of saying so, and he was described by one former MSP as collegiate. One told me that, to some on the left of the Labour Party in those early days of the Parliament, the idea of joining a cross-party group founded by an old Etonian Tory was not an immediately obvious move to make, but as the new Parliament settled down, that cross-party approach gained in preeminence and remains a feature of this Parliament today. Since leaving Parliament in 2016, he kept himself busy, including being the president of the Scottish campaign for national parks. He was particularly excited to be involved in making Galloway, Scotland's next national park, and, Presiding Officer, a Galloway national park would be a fitting legacy to Alex Ferguson. His retirement was too short-lived. There was much more he wanted to do, much more that he could have done, but this was a life well lived. On behalf of the whole Scottish Labour Party, I extend our deepest condolences to his wife, Meryn, his three sons Ian Doogle and Christopher and their families, his mother, Oriel, his sister, Henrietta, his brother John and, to them, we say, thank you for sharing this gentle man with us. Thank you. I now call on Patrick Harvie. Thank you, Presiding Officer. There have been a number of these occasions over the years when we gather together to discuss a motion of condolence for one of our members, one of our colleagues who we've lost. These are always sad moments, but I think that they are also moments of warmth, and they certainly should be because they recognise, ultimately, at the end of the day, that we are all human beings. Alex Ferguson was someone whose humanity and warmth were always evident in the way that he did the job. Hostility, tribal point scoring, those were simply never his style. However, there is also a particular meaning for us as we gather together to mark the death of a former Presiding Officer. It is the first time that has happened. The role of Presiding Officer is a particular service to the whole of Parliament and a service that I think was probably enhanced in Alex Ferguson's case because he hadn't craved the role. Every session of Parliament has been different. The beginnings of devolution and coalition, a rainbow Parliament, a minority Government, a majority single party Government are now a session dominated by constitutional change. The challenges for the person in that chair, the challenges for the Presiding Officer, are different on every occasion—new dynamics, new expectations. However, what is the same each time is the requirement for one of our number to set aside their political commitments and make that wider contribution to politics, that wider service to Parliament as a whole. Alex Ferguson faced those challenges in the first minority Government session. As a result, one of the most powerful memories that I will have of this place, one of the moments that I will never forget, is one that I suspect that he never forgot either. As has already been remarked by others, perhaps the most dramatic moment handled by our Presiding Officer sitting in the chair your end today, Presiding Officer, because it might be that, back in 2009, some had made the assumption that inter-party negotiations would all be stitched up in advance and the debates in the chamber were mere performance. However, when the budget votes that year were tied, a perfect draw, and Alex Ferguson sitting there, where you are today, Presiding Officer, forced to place the casting vote to strike down the budget, I saw the colour drain several shades from his face and a moment that I think neither of us will ever have forgotten. I want to thank him therefore for his service to Parliament, but more than anything I want to hope for goodness that he forgave me for the palpitations that I caused him that day. I give, on behalf of the Scottish Green Party, my deepest condolences to Alex Ferguson's family, friends and community. Alex Ferguson was a Conservative of that, there is no doubt. He was also a one nation Conservative, a caring Conservative, a Conservative who really believed in devolution. On those benches, we saw a Conservative as close to featherism as it was possible to be. We think that he was ahead of his time. Alex was in 1999, like most new MSPs, new to front-line politics too. As Dave Mundell endearingly described at his memorial service, the press release was a new phenomenon for Alex, but he took well to political life. For him, the cheerful discussion about the news of politics, the travails of a Government or the scrapes of a political friend were all part of what made him special. He was a servant to his constituents. In those earlier terms, first as a regional representative and then as a constituency MSP, he put rural issues on the front page. He was a voice for farmers at the height of that tragedy that was foot and mouth. Few in rural Scotland, especially in the south of the country, were not affected. He pressed the then rural affairs minister, my colleague, Ross Finlay, on measures that the Government must take at the most difficult times. As a Presiding Officer, he was a champion when farmers needed champions. As a Presiding Officer, he was an ambassador not just for this Parliament but for Scotland too. Wherever Alex led overseas, Scotland benefited with his immaculate manners, his personal skills and his sense of humour. Perhaps his fondest visit was when he returned to New Zealand with a delegation returning to a country where he once lived and worked. He stayed close to colleagues of all persuasions, as Presiding Officer. He said that his time was all the richer for the deeper friendships that were built during that time. He was conscious in 2007-11 that the Parliament was no majority, so all the more need to take the mood of members good, bad or indifferent. Alex was a force of stability for the Parliament, at least at that time, of great political instability. He ensured that, even when the opposition did not like what had happened, they might do so with a little smile on their face. He loved cricket, and who would be better than a former Presiding Officer to umpire the MSPs versus press cricket match? Like all good umpires and Presiding Officers, he was not above the observation of the quality of the MSP attack. When he retired as Presiding Officer, he won his seat again, the first time any Presiding Officer had done so. No mean achievement after four years of having to be impartial. In a world where too many take themselves all too seriously, a sense of humour is a notable asset, an ability to poke fun at each other, laugh at one's own misfortune and at one's party. Alex had won, and many of the reasons to mourn his passing above all else are what we will really miss. Our thoughts are with Alex's family. He was one of us, but much more than that, he was yours, and we were just lucky to know him. Thank you very much colleagues. Before moving on to the next business, we'll just take a short pause.


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Dan saya menggunakan, hanya untuk informasi anda, saya menggunakan menggunakan beberapa jams, tapi saya tidak menggunakan jams ini, tapi saya tidak menggunakan jams. Tetapi ia memperkenalkan pilihan jams yang digunakan. Jadi bagaimana ia berlaku adalah, ia menggunakan platform yang anda menggunakan. Jadi apabila anda menggunakan jams, anda akan menggunakan pilihan untuk menggunakan pilihan untuk menggunakan pilihan. Jadi bagaimana ini adalah pilihan jams. Jadi ia menunjukkan jams micro-s dan pilihan platform. Dan juga pilihan jams yang digunakan. Jadi ia akan menggunakan apabila anda menggunakan pilihan atau jams. Jadi yang ini adalah pilihan jams. Pilihan jams, saya menggunakan pilihan atau klin, ia adalah pilihan jams yang menggunakan platform. Dan juga, tanpa menggunakan pilihan platform yang menggunakan pilihan, saya mengambil informasi supaya anda dapat menggunakan pilihan jams. Jadi perkara yang paling penting di jams ini adalah pilihan jams. Jadi saya tahu apabila saya beritahu, apabila kita mempunyai pilihan jams, mereka menggunakan pilihan jams. Jadi anda dapat melihat pilihan jams bersama-sama. Dan jika anda mempunyai pilihan jams yang spesifik, anda akan mahu berkongsi. Saya menghargai semua orang yang mungkin untuk menggantikan pilihan jams ini. Tapi jika anda tidak mahu, anda dapat melihat dari pilihan jams anda, pilihan pilihan jams yang digunakan untuk pilihan jams ini. Ia adalah pilihan jams. Dan anda dapat melihat di sini. Ia sangat mudah-mudah berkongsi. Saya memulakan dengan pilihan jams. Ia adalah pilihan jams. Dan ini adalah pilihan jams. Pilihan jams. Dan di sini anda dapat pilihan jams. Dan ini adalah pilihan pilihan jams. Pilihan pilihan jams. Maaf. Pilihan pilihan jams. Pilihan platform. Jadi, pada platform yang berkongsi, kita dapat membuat pilihan jams. Ia menghargai pilihan jams. Jadi, untuk pilihan jams di sini, untuk app-cat, untuk pilihan jams. Kerana app-cat mempunyai lebih daripada satu platform, untuk pilihan pilihan jams, untuk pilihan jams. Jadi, mungkin untuk pilihan jams, untuk semua app, untuk pilihan jams, kita perlukan ini. Pilihan pilihan pilihan jams. Untuk pilihan jams, kita akan membuat pilihan jams ini. Kami dapat menggunakan pilihan camellian saya. Untuk mengenai apa yang kita perlukan. Masalah yang kita boleh bercinta dengan terbaik. Masalah yang kita boleh bercinta dengan perbincangan air dan air. Dan juga untuk biberkan hidup차�at. Jadi, So, ini, kemudian setelah itu saya sedar, kita dapat menggunakan ini untuk cadalog general perusahaan. So imagine that Node.js, if we use npm, you can specify a npm catalog. So in the command line tool, I provide a flag there, the catalog. So you can just choose, so it choose based on this main object. So if you say you have a catalog for npm, you can use that to specify. And basically you can do whatever you want. You can specify whatever you want. It's not limited to Node.js. So currently it's still made up already. But it's working. So it slides under the right page. So if you want to feel free to think back to the class, it works well. And of course currently the catalog is very short. So if anyone interested, I think if you find it useful, you want to use it. Feel free to patch it. So this is my account. It's made up under GitHub, TOHPAC, Natives. If you're interested, you can take a look. So maybe I'll talk about a few things I learned. So the first one, do one thing. So this was the first version. I was thinking like, oh, what if, because this project initially I was inspired by a Chef project. So you think Chef can install basically anything on a platform. So I was thinking like, why don't I just reduce everything in Chef's name? So this was the first version I used, Native install and specify the JS. And it will, internally it will run Chef solo. And it will ship with, it's going to ship with Chef cookbooks. But it ended up with too many dependencies. Imagine if you want to install this on a fresh server. There are too many dependencies in Chef. So then I decided, why don't I just do one thing, do one thing wrong. Just do this thing, then we can use it in different resources. The other thing, probably fancy, just know I tried a few ways to try to pass the jam for parsing. I started with the JavaScript final show. So it will list all the jams and print out all the jams. Then I tried to get it from inside the app. But it's too cumbersome. It's just error problem. Then I found out that there is one of the specs. This is not working very well. If you are running already a copy of, if you are running this jam in one level, exact quality. So it won't behave great. So in the end I don't use this one. So it's good. It doesn't consume any network effort. Just look for the log file and then pass it. List all the jams. What at least it will return you jams version? It returns the spec object. It's similar to this one. It returns the full spec object. Inside there you can get the jams version and dependencies. But this is also when I started, I can mention, I borrowed a lot of things from Chef. So the kind of format is basically copy one. If anyone here familiar with Chef will notice there is one option called dsl or value for platform. Basically it will take this part and then it will detect the platform first and then return the correct value. So this was the first proof of concept that I was working on at this time. And then I realised for my macOS if someone is using macOS but I'm in a musical group, then how do I do that? So I just had it through and I had one slash into the memory. Then recently I found maybe it's better just to put it out. So you can describe a case like this is useful for AppCad. For AppCad, maybe all the platforms like Ubuntu, AMD, we all use one before package. But maybe for Ubuntu specific one we need to if there is a specific package So this format is able to handle that case. So for this one, catalog. So I also started working on very simple testing framework to verify the interface in my catalog. So basically this is what I do for each gem and return in the catalog file. I will launch a platform in virtual machine and install the native packages which you maybe haven't installed yet and then after that try to install it again. If it works, then I consider it success. So currently I have been working for a timeout in ship together with the gem as well. It's running using vapor, bus docker. We use the loop parallel to make it faster but in two tests that time. So it will take a while to finish the test. What I try to do next is maybe try out test teaching. It's another project shared for Ubuntu to run that stuff to test that stuff parallel in virtual machine. So this setup or docker setup I recommend if you are interested I recommend this docker as it's created by they had a hackathon to basically convert their development environment into docker in 24 hours. So they have a lot of information and also they publish the code the source code so it's available on Ubuntu. So what's next? So what I plan to do is probably first thing is try to get people contribute to this catalog if anyone interested. We also think about our colleague is thinking about is there a better way to collaborate maybe I think the easiest way is to do a request if anyone has an idea for example sharing of request sheet and then confed it to the younger heart so we'll test that out and the second one probably I want to work on kind of a test scenario. So yeah, so let's start now. Is there like for example for gems like Kebibara range today specify not that like in their project today in written page only in written page. I'm not sure about the gem spec so far I don't think there's a feel that because I'm thinking if they specify it somewhere then maybe you can prove it for the modern gems reading it out from trying to check out the model spec I'm not sure if it's in gem but if it's in machine or something then we can pass it and it's a big point in fact if there's but I'm not sure then we'll check wouldn't it be better to have one file per gem and stuff like that wouldn't it be better than having one customer that's got all the gems and to have one file per gem yeah one file per gem just as simple as this because I'm thinking if I want the most public request for their cash like this what do you mean do you mean like you have multiple catalogs for just have it directly for the ammo file so it's got the one phrase of the gem stick and for the each list because I don't remember you just talk about the catalog okay if you can talk about this format I mean the catalog format is still pretty much we can change it if there's a better way to what are those like sentos require it yeah this I also notice other cases where you need to like provide extra flex so this one currently it doesn't handle it so I try to be simple first like 80% of the case you can use this but I'm thinking like one of my idea was is it possible to expand this instead of one stream we make it into maybe a hash like to provide extra this is the package name and then extra flex or compile options and the ammo gets weirdo that you get depot oh yeah it's true yeah this is something to think about if you want to bring this like you got file fix your catalog because it's not it's very little it's just less than 10 i guess it's all the gems that I actively use it in projects capybara, kerb you know probably need T3 right now drinking and that's kind of like so yeah anyone interested who request is most welcome nope it's not thank you so much okay so now we have Benjamin we're talking to us so let's welcome Benjamin my name is Benjamin this is the second time I'm giving a ruby talk this happens to be my also my second ruby alright so today I've went up to you by elixir is this new programming language it came out in 2011 it was invented by josef ali so in case you don't know who he is he's a real parameter so anyone using device over here yeah he's responsible for that also so let's begin so in 15 minutes hopefully I can give you a brief introduction to elixir I'll give you a very boring tour of elixir and also we'll look at some code we'll see how to implement map and also we'll look at how to implement parallel map you all know what's map right it will be the same way the ruby map works so elixir elixir is a functional metaprogramming aware language built on top of the urlang virtual machine this means that elixir code when it compounds down it is essentially urlang by code so what's urlang all the things are all the so it's concurrent garbage functional it's distributed for software time non-stop application all the passwords elixir is a functional programming language so it supports higher order functions so over here with a reasonable function we can define a square function assign it to a variable and then we call it numMap on a range 1.10 which really looks like ruby ranges and then we can pass in the square function so it also has list comprehension really it looks like python's list comprehension and again it gives you exactly what you expect it also has streaming so if you have done any Haskell before, you'll know that Haskell supports in finite streams so it elixes the same thing so they are essentially lazy streams so over here what we have is this piece over here generate an endless stream of random ones and zeros but if you just run that alone you essentially crash a computer because we will just go on and on and on but over here we can pipe it to a this is the pipe operator we can take over here we can take 5 elements from this finite stream okay so far so let's talk about the pipe operator i think this is one of the coolest features in excel so look at this function over here essentially we have a list so you can see the embedded 1,2,3,4,5 we want to flatten the list so we call list of flatten so it's actually just 1,2,3,4,5 flatten list and then what we want to do we want to map it over a certain function in this case we run a queue so we get the result that sucks we have a better way so this is essentially what the pipe function gives us we have the list of this we pipe it to list of flatten what the pipe operator does is it takes in whatever was before and puts it as the first argument so same thing once we have the flatten list we can pass it through the enam.map function so over here will be our flatten list and then we'll have our function and again this was the same result as with erlang elixir it has this motion of concurrency and it's called the actor concurrency model so what this means is each actor is a process so you can imagine like one of these little bubbles is an actor and a process at the same time each process performs a very specific task and each process communicates with each other using message passing each process is designed to just receive a particular kind of message so if you are process and you receive a message you don't understand you simply ignore it processes do not share information with each other so essentially we eliminate things like race conditions so here's some code I'll walk you through it so this is how we define a module in elixir so we have dev module and return so the next line we define a function so this is how in elixir and erlang also how we receive messages we define it within a receive block so what follows are the patterns of messages we can receive so for example I can spawn out an editor process and I pass it this message in this pattern once I receive it I will just simply output hello whatever message in ruby also there's this notion of underscore operator it's quite a don't care operator if you ever iterate through key value hash sometimes you don't care what the key value is you just put an underscore common value so essentially this is the same thing so notice that when I call if I will receive this message English common name notice once it prints out the message it calls grid again that's because if I don't have this the process will simply exit so I have to have a recursive call in order to prepare myself to receive more messages so let's see this so over here this is the way I spawn off a process in elixir which is the variable so the first parameter is the module name the second parameter is the function name and the third parameter is any arguments I wish to pass it so in this case there's nothing so if I will type this in the interpreter what I will get is the process ID of the process so now assuming okay this is the way we send messages to the process so now greeter is already my process it contains the process ID I can send it a message using this operator so once I send send it the message greeter understands what English common name it just responds L-O-A-E so same thing with the Chinese greeting so if I put pass in Chinese common pair and it will just say me how pair but if I pass it something nonsensical it will fall through all the way to the last case it will match the underscore and then it will just give me I don't understand but hello anyway okay so far in elixir alang we like to do a lot of recursion because as you know functional programming languages are essentially immutable so you don't have any follow-ups so the only way for us to loop around is recursion so here's a very simple map function so same thing we define the base case first the base case is empty list so if I give you an empty list or rather if I map over an empty list I should get back empty list on the other hand if I have a non-empty list what I'll do is I'll break the list up into head and tail so they all know what this operator is called so essentially this is the const operator what it does if I give you a list let's say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 this will take the value of 1 and this will be a list of 2, 3, 4, 5 so what we have over here is that we take in a list and a function we apply the function to each element and then we recursively call map from the rest of the list okay but now let's take it a notch further now we implement parallel map so in Ruby, most of the time when we do map it's just very sequential but in Elixir and Alang we have a way of mapping stuff parallel what I mean for example I have 1 million I want to map over 1 to 1 million i.e. 1 million so what this parallel map does is it spawns off 1 million processes 1 million processes will go out and do their thing and then when they're done, they'll return and once every single process returns how you get the rest of the list okay so let me take you through it so imagine that now we have a collection let's say 1 to 1 million for here we pipe it to map and what this function does essentially the interesting thing is here we spawn off for each element, we spawn off a separate process so that's what the spawning here is for after that we keep a reference to the process which is spawn okay and then we calculate what the function we apply the function to the element so essentially we go and do the complex calculation so at this point once this operation completes we have a map list of process IDs okay so now we're going to do the next transformation the next transformation essentially converts each of these process IDs and teaches it to receive the result so how does it know how does it know that all the elements come in order so this is what this operator does so recall that each time I map process ID so let's say I have a process ID 10, 20, 30, 40 and so on once this process spawns off gets back its result it will send back a message to itself over here it will send back a message to itself say hey I have completed give me back my result and this is essentially what it does over here so once that message matches it returns the result over here sorry what did that do because your processes return at different times yes so they are not in order which is the point anyway so like the first element might take very long but your second element might take very fast so it doesn't matter but the point is you just spawn multiple processors 4 cores and just use 4 cores once it's done, they'll just gather everyone back together so basically that was a very very quick run through if you want to learn more there are a couple of resources the first two there are two elixir books written already I recommend Programming Elixir if I Dave Thomas, it's pretty good Meet Elixir is a screencast it's recorded with Josie Balin the author of Elixir the bottom two books are great if you want to learn more about Elixir so I'm done thank you very much I have stickers I have Erlang stickers and I have Elixir stickers yes so in order to be a legit programmer you have to have stickers so I'll just leave them with you I'll leave them with Winston I have more Erlang stickers than Elixir once so what if you sing Elixir in Erlang or now? nothing much I'm trying to find an excuse to use it but essentially I'm just starting out because if you read dig deeper into Elixir you realise that actually Erlang is huge there's this thing in Erlang called OTP which stands for Open Telecom Protocol which is used to build punky servers but if you use Facebook and chat the backend of that is essentially Erlang so there's still a lot of stuff that is interesting and still haven't come to Erlang what would you like to do? I want to start on a script but hasn't been terribly successful yet a dream project unwrite Erlang I mean simple one because I think one thing in school that I did learn was writing concurrent programs parallel programs so that's something we are missing out on I mean seriously a lot before I'm missing out so I think Elixir might be just a gateway drug can I spawn it's not always spawn in a process not as spawn in a track so the processes in Elixir and Erlang are not the same as property system ones so the processes are actually really small I think they measured it once before like in the order of nanoseconds to spawn a process in Erlang so everything is controlled within the Erlang virtual machine so it's not the same as i think a jawa one i think a jawa thread or process maps to a property system one if not, thank you thank you Jimmy stickers so I must apologize to Ming and Benjamin because they weren't here last month but for those who were here last month you'll know that actually I got some goodies from Enjin Yat I have t-shirts for the speakers so I gave out two for the last two speakers and I should be giving you guys one each as well but I'm going to bring them today so I'll bring them in the December meet up so that's why you're going to get me as well you too and I'll give you the sorry about that sure so now we have Chong Yi he'll be going through 5 random meeting tips please forgive me this is my first ever tech talk and I'm also suffering from jet lag so I think worse for me than for you I'm just going to go through 5 quick meeting tips there are sort of varying degrees of advancement some of you I see maybe begin as Ruby so I hope you're trying to make out the first one is if you're working on regular expressions this is a great website I don't know whether you've come across it it's called Ruvular, urlsruvular.com and what you can do is you can type in your regular expression out there and you can type in your test string there are many matchers plus all the match groups which is wonderful for if you're testing out regular expressions one tip I learned recently is that there is a Nick Herman link button there and it will give you a URL which you can type in as a comment in your code so you can always refer back to this site with everything filled out Ruvular.com and of course there's a quick reference the second tip is using bundler the current version of bundler does everything sequentially so it goes through every gem and installs it in all dependencies the new version of bundler 1.4 which is in pre-release right now has an option to do it parallel installs so if you want to try it out to install bundler gem the pre-release version using that command there the way to invoke parallel install is bundler install minus j4 so j is for jobs and the 4 is the number number 21 to go into and the idea is we should use either the number of calls or n minus 1 and a couple of links to blogs first is pre-release blog which highlighted this first and the second URL is to let you know that Haroku has got experiment to build back that will allow you to run that so it's actually bundler 1.5 last year already so it's j1.4 because they say that there's too many things in 1.4 that decided just to go straight to 1.5 but it's a 1.5 rc okay, read that as 1.5 thanks another tip is bundler console and this is great if you're doing gem development what it does is that if you type in bundler console you just load IRB with all your environment and it's great if you're testing for doing gem so bundler console the next tip is tweaking rootdgc settings this is slightly advanced but when I did this I had amazing results so there's an example for example while tweaking those settings it took 2.5 minit after that it's 1 minit less okay so it's about 45% increase so what you can do is there's 3 settings in there I won't go through the means of each of them go to that blog post he'll explain everything that you need to tweak this doesn't require you to compile groovy all it does is you can just change the environment settings the environment variables in your RC file whatever shall you use so if you just change those in this blog it gives you some example settings but it's great because it really speeds up tests is this specific to a groovy version or... but is it 1.9 minit or 2 as well? I don't know I know what it works in 2 I know it works in 1.93 minit I don't know what it works in before but it's somewhere between 1.8 and 1.9 but this is great okay the comment is that some of these variable names may have changed between 1.8 and 1.9 so these are 1.9 and 2.0 names the last tip I think Winston can be very happy because when I'm so much around groovy I just make little notes myself in Evernote and I tighten random groovy tips so I suggest that you do that as well and volunteer for the next talk thank you okay so that's the end for today's meetup please feel free to comment to stay here and linger around as I've mentioned in December we'll have NG Art Talk and NG Art Talk NG Art Talk will actually be remote it's away in the US they are sponsor for Ibiza so we'd like to give a talk as well sorry no PJ Angerty so if you're doing a remote thing I still need to figure out how to set it up Kid Hub Michael Harris will be here from Australia so I'm sure you'll have some free news to keep away we'll be talking about Kid Hub so that will be on a Tuesday December 17 and on a Thursday from what I've heard he'll be organising a Kid Hub drinks session somewhere so I don't know where maybe he will only keep up the dream coupons if you come to the meetup I'm not sure but in any case so stay tuned for the further updates for the December to be meetup so for helping to do the video recording please go and ask him what's up with engineers.sg I think it's a very brilliant idea so thank you so much thank you oh before I forget I always forget so just now that people wanted to take and they were hiring do you guys want to give a 2 minute speech for your company I'll just give a couple of seconds and for Maxis we've built prototypes we've built prototypes we've built prototypes based on Arduino we've built vistas we've built visualisations on the platforms such as Ruby Ruby and Rails also there's a little bit of integration between enterprise so if you're interested in any of that in the capacity of being a freelancer please let me know it's a great place to work you can do anything from hardware to software even open source to integration enterprise level Microsoft technologies so I'll just be here after the talk to me if you have some free time yeah thanks anyone else? me actually I've only been to Singapore for a week so I'm the managing director at NEO I'm working at Karl actually so everyone from engineers developers well not just great engineers but amazing makers I am actually blown away by this team and we've got a heap of clients so we've got projects that can be starting we've got some going on in Indonesia of course and a couple prospects in Hong Kong and Australia so we build in Rails preferentially javascript java if we have to and yeah so best way to get a hold of us we actually have a process for going through people jobs.sg at NEO.com or just come and speak to me directly thanks or do you want to get hired or do you want to pitch yourself? okay it's not desperately the end I hope I didn't forget anything nothing right okay thank you so much I think that's the one thing sorry just in case anyone else there's actually an arm need of tomorrow so if any of you guys are data scientists I know that my original foray in terms of what I already came from doing a lot of large warehousing and data science crunching there's going to be an arm need of that we're hosting at NEO tomorrow at 7 o'clock so if you'd like to go along to that there's usually a lot also if you fight for it you actually want to show up as well sorry so go if you want to be a okay alright thank you bye bye


Hey everyone welcome to this week's video update today's Friday March 22nd We will be reviewing all of our trades and positions For the week but before we do that just wanted to jump into our community Each week we like to recognize a member of the community for helping other traders We call it who got caught being hot in this case This week I want to do something a little bit different instead of recognizing one person Just wanted to point out that You know our friend serenity posted earlier this week that a close family member is in a vicious battle with cancer And you know, I think cancer has affected everyone's life here at some point with a family member a friend or Hopefully not yourself But I just I just wanted to applaud our community for jumping in to really support serenity You know, it's not like there's a whole lot that we can do as a community compared to the Devastating situation that he's finding that him and his family are finding themselves in with this tragic event But hopefully our community serenity can provide just a little bit of normalcy during this During this time for you and your family So just wanted to applaud everyone for jumping in and kind of supporting serenity during this during this situation so Thanks everyone for doing that and serenity are you know our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family So hopefully things do get better. Although I know it sounds like you said that that it may not but Anyway, that's I just wanted to recognize that and and make mention of it again so thoughts and prayers are with you my friend and You know, we're here to do whatever we can to help With that let's let's jump into the alerts for the week We had probably a fewer number of trades than we've had Just you know based on our current portfolio and where implied volatility was But starting with the 18th on Monday Our first trade was a closing trade where we bought back our strangle in EA ended up booking a nice profit booked over 45% of max profit and And got out of that one nicely So if we take a look at EA the chart, you know, we got in back here when implied volatility was high as you can see price Just kind of stabilized and we got that contraction in implied volatility that we were looking for Got out earlier this week on Monday right here on the 18th and booked a nice profit 45% of max profit So shout out to big willy in the community for Bringing that trade to our attention and that's just the the power of our community. There's been great trade ideas Just a lot of good engagement. So keep up the good work everyone Next trade was a rolling adjusting Adjusting trade in 6 B, which is the British pound And so we just simply roll this out from April to May and we adjusted our puts up from 1.2 Floor up to 1.3 There's just 18 days to expiration as you know when we get down to under that 21 days to expiration that gamma risk Starts to accelerate in the last few weeks. So we want to roll out to the next expiration cycle And so that's what we did here in 6 B So if we take a look at At our platform here, you can see price is still pretty centered After the roll and so we're just waiting for some more and actually implied volatility is expanded So that's why you see there our profit line actually below the zero at this point But we're just waiting for time to pass waiting for some more theta 2 to k in our favor Next trade was an opening trade in J&J. So we jumped into a pre earnings long straddle They don't announce until April 16th. So we've got some time In this trade. We're targeting at least 20 profit on the trade I know this one kind of ran away after we got filled and sent the alert out The price kind of ran away on this one. So you had to be quick to get in here Or you know, you could have you didn't obviously need to get filled at the exact price we did I think you know implied volatility popped up. So we're up about 90 bucks on the trade Remember with these pre earnings long straddles We want, you know, the bigger the price move the better And of course implied volatility expanding helps our trade as well So we've gotten a little bit of a pop in implied volatility even though price hasn't moved much But if we can get a nice price move, hopefully we can book a nice profit on this trade Next we did a closing trade in MU. So kind of a similar trade. We had a pre earnings long straddle in Micron technology took a small loss on this trade. We had to get out before the earnings announcement We were hoping for a decent price move, but stock price stayed pretty flat So never got a chance to book a good profit in there and implied volatility This was interesting because you know a lot of times before earnings Implied volatility will expand and that's what we're playing for but in this case I mean implied volatility is contracted contracted contracted leading up to that earnings announcement And then of course you see the crush after they announced But we were out of the trade the day before right here But we just never got that implied volatility expansion and not enough of a price move To make that trade profitable. So lost under a hundred dollars. So small loss there Closing trade in BA. So this is a Boeing. You know, there's a lot of headlines around Boeing and the planes that they had to ground and a couple crashes. So Implied volatility spiked in there, but we jumped in and as I mentioned in the community You know in specific kind of isolated situations like this Fear and implied volatility is almost always overstated and so by doing this We're just taking advantage of that situation Put on an iron condor booked over 30% of max profit in just nine days. So nice trade there in BA if we take a look at the chart You know it opened on a this was on a monday after the weekend and dropped after the headlines about the the Boeing planes being grounded and then Obviously, you know implied volatility spiked and then it looked like things kind of Digested and price kind of stabilized implied volatility contracted nicely And so we were able to book that profit in just nine days Now price now implied volatility is popping back up today and price is going lower But so is the rest of the market too. I mean the s&p's at this point are down 46 It's 11 central a.m. In the morning when i'm recording this So we'll see what happens the remainder of the day. Hopefully this Market stays down That's definitely going to help a lot of our positions and give us a pop and implied volatility to enter new positions. So We will see what happens Next trade opening trade in disney. So we put on a short strangle in disney In in the may cycle iv percentile jumped up to 82 I mentioned iron condors can also be considered the the price is high enough. You know, this is a Over $100 stock and so buying those wings Is is definitely something you could have done could have done Earnings are a couple months away. So hopefully we can get out of this trade before we have to deal with earnings But let's take a look at disney And what you'll see here is you can see price Price came down which popped up that implied volatility We put on a strangle and implied volatility has actually increased since we put this on So, you know, we're still very centered. We're down just a tiny bit on the trade So just waiting for some time to pass See, you know, if we can get that Contraction in implied volatility and price to kind of stabilize in between our range here. That's what we're looking for Next trade a rolling adjusting trade in zn, which is the notes So price breached our upside strike and there's very little left Very little value left in the in the put. So we went ahead and rolled those closer to price Uh in these options in may there's still 35 days to expiration. So we're not rolling out to june We just rolled up our puts within the same cycle So if we take a look at that trade now We rolled that up to the same strike. So we are at the uh, 123 and a half strikes So basically a straddle now price has moved up even more since we since we did this roll and I wanted to mention this because Make sure you understand. So the fed came out on wednesday the the federal reserve Powell came out and mentioned that they were not raising rates during this meeting and Gave some very dovish language meaning They don't they don't uh, it doesn't sound like they're gonna raise rates at all anymore throughout the year of 2019 Now obviously things can change And they could still do that, but that's kind of the stance that they're taking at this point and so interest rates have a an inverse correlation to Notes and bonds. Okay, so if interest rates go down typically bonds go up And and vice versa. So what we're seeing with with notes and bonds. They're all going up because You know, so wednesday was was this day here. So after they announced that Uh bonds and notes went up then the next day it kind of took a breath and now up big again today so You know, we'll we'll see what happens, you know, this could be an overreaction prices could retrace Um, but we'll see what happens But just wanted to kind of give that that thought process and kind of why or Give those thoughts on kind of why this is is spiking because with it with interest rates not going up They didn't even necessarily Go down at the federal level But uh by staying steady that look that's a bullish for for notes and bonds. And so that's why we're seeing that spike there So what we're seeing here is is prices moved out of our range here But what we're going to look to do is see if see if price does settle down and if this wasn't overreaction Then price could move back down into range The other thing we'll look to do is potentially add another piece to this now In z n so we've got 35 days to expiration in the may cycle. So we got a ton of time In the on that trade in that cycle and then june is 63 days to expiration So next week we'll be getting under that that kind of our wheelhouse of 30 to 60 days So we may look to add another piece in june Take advantage of this spike in implied volatility kind of widen out our break evens overall on the trade and add a new Piece in june. So that's kind of the plan assuming implied volatility stays high Next trade was rolling adjusting trade in qqq. So we had two sets of short call vertical spreads Originally part of iron condors that we've just been rolling to keep that short delta exposure in our portfolio With the with with stocks moving higher until today Price had kind of really moved out of our range. And so You know, there's a very low likelihood that price was going to get back into range Although now with today's price move it looks a little bit more likely But what I did is is this was so far out of range that we were in a negative theta position So we went ahead and just rolled that to get back into a positive theta also keeps that short delta in our Exposure in our portfolio. So if we take a look, we've got two sets of short call verticals We just rolled one and this is the one we rolled out to may and you can see price has already moved down a decent amount Giving us a little bit of profit since the roll and then we're still holding our other piece in april Where you can see it's just barely out of range. So that's why we didn't roll this one And just hoping for a little bit of more down move to get back into range there So that's where we're at on the cues And then lastly we opened a trade in ewz Open this out in may with 56 days And implied volatility popped like it is in a lot of things today ewz popped up to 63 on the ivy percentile So we went ahead and sold some premium there You can see implied volatility has expanded even more. So if you didn't get in this trade You can actually get in for better prices at this point and you can see ewz down almost 5 percent today, which is causing that that spike And and so we're just selling some premium to try to take advantage of that situation So those are all the trades. Let's take a look at Some of the other positions oil big move down today down almost two and a half percent, which is helping our position We've got two pieces in our oil trades still This is our inverted strangle. You can see price coming back down Into our range. So getting back some profits on that piece. And then this is our 56 straddle So again price moving down is helping us in our trade Obviously, we would love to have this price come down right at 56 is our sweet spot And we'd be at a point where we're we're looking to get close to if it does that we're getting back to Close to break even on this trade after that massive move that we've been working out of in oil Yes, we've got a long put vertical that we've been holding for that short delta exposure Price had moved up out of range now it's coming back. I need a little bit more down movement to get back into range there Natty gas Natty gas is not moving in our favor today. We've got two pieces on here We actually need a little bit of an up move in that gas but still within range of our inverted strangle on this piece and then on this one here You know starting to Come down close to out of range here, but you can see if we look at just the calls You know, we've still got plenty of room to go there before we would need to make an adjustment So just holding steady in Nat gas at this point and we've still got 34 days to expiration in that cycle So a lot of time before we do anything in Nat gas I mentioned ZN ZW we've got two different iron condors on here one has four contracts one has three Anytime when the same cycle I like to vary those number of contracts really just for the purpose of Making it easier to keep track, but you can see price is pretty centered in this one hanging up kind of in the lower Quadrant of our range and then this one here Let's check these off and check those on you can see this one's hanging out in the upper end of this range So if we can just get a little ping-pong action going on in wheat that would be best and hopefully we can book a winner on both of these DIA we've got this short call vertical and DIA now with the down move today price is hanging out within our range back into our range So just holding that for that short delta exposure. I mentioned Disney EEM Down almost 3% today coming back into range for us And so just looking for some more downside to benefit that So we're we're about break even to up a little bit on this trade. So just holding that Hoping to get some more down move. I mentioned EWZ FXI We've got this tight iron condor which has come back into Back into range here. So just waiting for some more time to pass in FXI IWM I was actually hoping to get out of this one when price was way up here But price has run down with us. And so we you know, we'll we're so well within range nothing to do here But if applied volatility stays high and price does continue lower We may look to add Another iron condor out in the May cycle centered around where price is at that point IYR we've got this tight iron condor here price is coming back into range a little bit here So just playing the waiting game in IYR J&J. I mentioned NVIDIA man, this has been a crazy crazy move in NVIDIA Um, you know, it was kind of bouncing around here. We uh, we almost got out But waiting for a little more profit and then price just ran away from us to the upside now It's coming back down today. So it's back in range here We're almost to a point of making an adjustment when price was out here But patience paid off a little bit here So price back into range if we can get a little bit of continuation to the downside Hopefully we can get out of that one for profit I mentioned the cues SMH So we've got two pieces on here. This one we're looking at is an inverted strangle You can see price is way out here. So it's out of range However, if we look at the value of the puts remember after you make an adjustment Really, you've got to look at the untested side to determine if you're going to make another adjustment You can see we've got plenty of premium here still to go So not looking to make an adjustment on that piece at this time And then our other piece, which is a another strangle, which is has not been adjusted Uh, it was close to it as well, but price has kind of come back now And looking for a little bit more downside to benefit that piece. So just holding steady in SMH SPY We've got an iron condor on here prices back in well within range here after today's down move So just holding steady on SPY TLT did not treat us well We were looking for this one actually to add a little bit of long delta As we beta weight it to SPY And even when the market was going up We did not get the down move in bonds that we wanted and then of course after the feds announcement On wednesday that they're holding steady on rates TLT has that inverse correlation to interest rates as I mentioned So price has jumped up on us We're going to deal with this next week We're either going to roll it to get us back into a positive theta position Or we may just close it and take the take the loss You know if uh, you know if if uh, the feds stance on interest rates does hold true And we don't get a fairly quicker retracement It might just bode well to get out of this trade If if bonds do look like they're gonna tend to head higher You know, I don't I don't like to play trades based on news and announcements and things like that But you also got to be smart about kind of where we're at Overall from a from a cycle from a market cycle standpoint and kind of what You know, we want to be on the side of the trade that with with the least wind resistance, right? So we'll deal with that next week and and uh, either get back into a positive theta situation Where we'll roll adjust our strikes or we'll just close it out and take a loss on that one XL K Need some downside to get back into range on our XL K position Just holding that for that short delta exposure And then XRT we are we're in the profits on this trade by a little bit after adjustments I think we're up less than a hundred bucks, but uh, we're gonna let this one hold over the weekend If we get some more theta decay and maybe even a little bit more down movement We'll go ahead and close out of this one Our other option would be to roll out Uh, now implied volatility is popping up today But before today, I mean implied volatility is so low. So my preference would be to just close this one out Uh, see if implied volatility can pop even higher before we re-enter in the next cycle Uh, but we'll see where we're at next week and we'll either close or roll that one Now even even though, um, you know our XRT april position Um has well over 21 days to expiration if uh If we get this to catch up, I think we've got um, what do we got in april? We got 27 days So we're we're not to the point where we're getting down to 21 where we have to roll But uh, you know, we're definitely in our wheelhouse in may So if we wanted to roll this XRT position out to that point, uh, we could do so Uh, but we'll we'll more than likely just close it out if price kind of stabilize and uh an implied volatility contracts into next week All right, that is all the alerts. Those are all the positions. Hope everybody has a great weekend and we'll see you on monday


A new door to space opens, the space shuttle, everything that has gone before in space. This magnificent treasure is Prologue. We are beginning a new and exciting age, signaled by the flight of Columbia into Earth orbit. Columbia is the first of a fleet of ships of the space transportation system. The others to follow, names which evoke the spirit of our purpose on this new ocean. Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis. And the monitors are all set up. The working environment aboard will be quite ordinary. Yet the meaning of all this to us is far from ordinary. Okay Joe, I think I'm about done here. I'm gonna hit them downstairs and fix something. Space shuttle, taking as many as four satellites into orbit, has the capability of retrieving orbiting satellites, repairing them in space or bringing them back to Earth. Okay Houston, Columbia, we had a good eye and new alignment. Time was four, 55, 57, and numbers are on the tape. And we did get the verification. Roger, we copy. Historian James A. Mitchner in an address to Congress said, there are moments in history when challenges occur of such a compelling nature that to miss them is to miss the whole meaning of an epic. Space is such a challenge. I'm James Mitchner. For most of my working years on this planet, I've been chronicling the rise and fall of human systems. If there is one thing I'm convinced of from years of studying history, it's that enemies do not destroy nations. Time and the loss of will brings them down. To see that this does not happen to this nation of ours, the United States cannot retreat from the challenge of our age. Each era of human history progresses to a point at which it is eligible to wrestle with the great problem of that period. For the ancient Greeks, it was the organization of society. For the medievalists, the spelling out of their relationship to God. For the men of the 15th and 16th centuries, the mastery of the oceans. 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Astronaut Bob Crippen space shuttle pilot on the first flight. Both of these men experienced high performance aircraft pilots. Young and Crippen the specialists analyze everything the procedure of a good test pilot. Each step is questioned tested. Solutions are tried rehearsed and the emergency is again simulated. This is the lesson we have learned in over 20 years of manned space flight. In the cockpit or the cabin of the shuttle a pressure suit is not necessary. Work outside in the near vacuum of space requires a pressure suit. The astronauts flying in a military jet transport are given brief moments of weightlessness as the pilot maneuvers the aircraft. Bob Crippen experiences this as he works in his pressure suit. He must learn to use tools. The problem of handling things with his gloves on is compounded by weightless flight. Astronauts, mission specialists and payload specialists have a preview of the exhilaration and joy of spaceflight. Survival school taught by the Air Force. 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The role of the mission specialist really starts once the orbiter gets on orbit and at that time it's the mission specialist who's really in charge of the orbiter's mission. The mission specialist's role could could be anything from opening the payload bay doors to using the remote manipulator system which is a big 50 foot long arm that's made by the Canadians to deploy a satellite which we carry up in the cargo bay or retrieve a satellite that might already be in orbit. If there's an experiment that's being carried along by the shuttle on this mission it'd be the mission specialist that would operate the experiment. Anything that the orbiter might be asked to do on that particular mission the mission specialist will be asked to carry that out. Science places the creation of the universe 14 billion years ago. Okay Joe the cameras zoomed in so if he could go to free drift. This shuttle launched telescope may see galaxies at the very time they were formed. 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Hey everybody, Dr. O here. So I want to talk about spinal nerves a little bit here, but I really want to talk about peripheral nerves. So spinal nerves are the ones that come directly from the spinal cord. The dorsal root being sensory, ventral root being motor form those mixed spinal nerves that then leave your spinal column and travel out toward your body. And as they take this long convoluted path, many of them fuse together to form the peripheral nerves, the actual nerves that innervate different structures. So for example, like you see sciatic nerve down there. The sciatic nerve is a massive nerve. It comes from L4 to S3. So from the spinal nerves from L4 to S3 fuse together to form the sciatic nerve. So the typical, again we talked about the typical spinal nerve becoming these peripheral nerves. I'm not asking you to memorize the whole list of them, I just want you to get the gist of it. Let me give you a few examples. The phrenic nerve controls the diaphragm. So if you damage the spinal cord above the level of the spinal roots that make the phrenic nerve, you wouldn't be able to breathe. The radial nerve controls the triceps and then all the posterior forearm wrist extensor muscles. The median nerve will come back and talk about that one and then the sciatic nerve controls basically the entire back of the leg. If you're looking at monitoring the health and function of peripheral nerves, let's say you're worried about a herniated disc or something, there are three main simple clinical tools you can use. First being the dermatomes, which you see here. So a dermatome is an area of skin monitored by a specific spinal nerve. So if someone has a nerve being impinged, then you would typically see a loss of sensation to a given area. So maybe their fingers are going numb, there's some numbness on the front of the leg, wherever that might be. That's one of the three first signs that I would look for. So if someone says that they're feeling pins and needles or numbness or tingling or a loss of sensation in a patch of their skin, then I would look at the dermatomes and try to see if that spinal nerve is the problem. So the dermatome will be one way to do that. The other two pieces to that clinical evaluation will be your reflexes and then just muscle testing.  Well, if that reflex is working properly and you're always testing side to side, you compare the dermatomes to the other side, compare the reflexes to the other side.  But you can do that in other parts of the body as well. You can do the same reflex with the biceps tendon, the brachioradialis tendon, and the triceps tendon. Those would monitor C5, C6, and C7. You can do the same thing with the achilles tendon, pretty much any tendon, but that's going to be how you can use reflexes to make sure that certain spinal segments are working as well. So you've tested their dermatomes, you've tested these key reflex areas. Then you can just do muscle testing. If a nerve that controls a muscle is working well, then we know that it's getting the nerve innervation that it needs. So for example, if you have someone flex their elbow using the biceps, that would be testing C6, elbow extension would be testing C7, flexing the fingers would be testing C8, knee extensions, just having somebody stand up would test spinal segments L3 and L4. And then dorsiflexion of the ankle. So having someone walk on their heels would test L4 and L5. I'm not asking you to know these. This is not a clinical course, but I'm just showing you that you can learn a lot about the nervous system with something as simple as a handful of muscle tests, some reflex testing, and then monitoring these dermatomes using just a pinwheel or something like that. All right. So I want to do one more specific example of why it's so important to know where a nerve comes from and where there could potentially be problems. And that is the median nerve, which you see here, which is associated with the carpal tunnel syndrome. So carpal tunnel syndrome, the carpal tunnel is your wrist bones there with that flexor retinaculum on top of it. And if there's problems at that tunnel, inflammation or some sort of obstruction, it can impinge the median nerve and lead to pain or numbness and weakness in the area. But, and I'll show you the kind of pattern here, but a lot of people think they have carpal tunnel, think they have problems there. But remember, anywhere that median nerve is traveling or where those spinal nerve roots are coming from could be the problem. So someone could have a herniated disc that looks a little bit like carpal tunnel syndrome. I've seen many patients where they have just really tight forearm muscles, and the median nerve runs under a muscle called the pronator teres in most people, but in about 10% of people that runs through the pronator teres. So it could be a tight forearm that's irritating the same median nerve and causing those symptoms. So it's very important to do a complete and thorough evaluation with a patient like that just to make sure that before you do carpal tunnel surgery that the actual carpal tunnel is the problem. Reason I wanted to show you this image is because just generic numbness in the hand is not an issue with the median nerve. The median nerve would only be these blue areas. So like the fingers, the tops of the fingers there is called the exclusive area because it's the only place where the median nerve is only innovating it. So if you have numbness and tingling in those areas, then you probably have a problem with the median nerve. But notice if you're having numbness down the side of your hand, that's a completely different nerve that controls that. All right, so again, this is not a clinical course. I just wanted to give you some examples of why peripheral nerves are so important and knowing how to monitor their function. OK, I hope this helps. Have a wonderful day. Be blessed.