Hi. So I'm glad to be able to join you all today. My name is Steve Newell. I'm from the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which is the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society, where I'm project director at the Center for Scientific Evidence and Public Issues, usually referred to as the EPI Center. The EPI Center works to provide accurate, concise, and actionable scientific information to everyone from policymakers to parents to help ensure that science is a part of the decision-making process. Election Security has been one of our major initiatives since founding of the Center. I'm sure many of you are already familiar with it, but Susan Greenhall is currently a senior advisor on election security, a free speech for people. He's well known in the election security space for tireless work advocating for secure election protocols, paper ballot voting systems, and post-election audits. Susan and I are here today to talk about leveraging electronic ballot options safely and securely during the COVID-19 pandemic. This presentation is based on a white paper with additional detail on these issues that will also be available. As I'm sure all of you here are well aware, COVID has scrambled existing policies and procedures in every area of the country, and election security is of course no exception. COVID has provided additional challenge to ensuring election security and ballot access during this critical time. Currently, five states vote primarily by mail. However, during the past few months, we've seen states across the country working to scale up their vote by mail options and capabilities as we head toward the November elections. These steps have taken a variety of different forms between states. For example, an emergency executive order in Delaware includes a measure that allows voters concerned about COVID to qualify as sick or physically disabled, allowing them to vote absentee. Just to make sure the evidence is known, researchers have found that universal vote by mail has no impact on partisan turnout or vote share. So vote by mail is really a non-partisan solution to ballot access concerns. Work by Amber McReynolds and Charles Stewart highlighted 204 cases of absentee ballot-related fraud in a quarter of a billion votes cast over the past two decades. As is the case across the election space, fraud is exceedingly rare with vote by mail. Alongside this expansion of vote by mail, states are examining various solutions for remote voting, such as remote accessible ballot marking, which allows voters to receive and, if necessary, mark their ballots electronically before printing the ballot and returning it to their local office. UACAVA was expanded significantly in 2009 when Congress passed the MOVE Act to provide greater protections for service members, their families, and other overseas citizens. Among other provisions, the MOVE Act requires states to transmit validly requested absentee ballots to UACAVA voters no later than 45 days before a federal election. However, remote accessible ballot marking is also essential for individuals with disabilities or those who encounter barriers to marking a paper ballot by hand. We know that there is still a disability gap in voting with roughly 5% lower turnout in the 2018 midterm election, equivalent to roughly 2.4 million votes from individuals with disabilities, according to research by the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. So we know that there is an ongoing equity gap in ballot access, which is essential to address. Further, electronic ballot delivery can help fill in the gaps from when traditional mail and voting is either not possible or appropriate. However, it is important to remember that electronic return of March ballots is an incredibly risky endeavor. The National Academy has warned against it in its 2018 systematic review of voting security. Also in 2018, our report Susan co-authored with the Common Cause Education Fund, the R Street Institute, and the U.S. Technology Policy Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery provided additional warnings against internet voting. In April, from the EpiCenter, we sent an open letter to state voting officials assigned to by more than 70 internet pioneers, scientists, security experts, and voting groups urging those officials not to allow electronic return of March ballots due to the scientific evidence demonstrating these votes cannot be secured. Importantly, there is no way to conduct a valid audit of the results due to the lack of meaningful voter-verified paper records for electronically returned to March ballots. In May, the Department of Homeland Security, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission shared similar guidance at going these concerns. Even with the tools and applications available, this activity is still high risk. To be clear to the state, there is still no known technology that can secure electronic ballot return. So, with that background, this brings us to remote ballot markings. Specifically, what factors should election officials keep in mind about these systems, particularly in terms of safeguarding voters' privacy and security? At this point, I'll go ahead and hand things off to Susan to tell you a little more about these systems. Thank you, Steve. And I just have to say, it's great to be presenting here at DEF CON, but it's certainly bittersweet to not be able to be in Las Vegas with everybody and at the voting village and seeing all the great work firsthand. So, I'm really pleased to be able to present what Steve and I have worked on together with this paper and the findings, even though it's unfortunate that we're not actually there in person. And I just want to preface this by saying that this paper is really geared towards all the election officials that are participating more and more in DEF CON. We're trying to highlight some of the known security and privacy risks of these systems and how election officials can become aware of them and then make choices to mitigate those risks. So, back into the presentation, as we're seeing these states expand their vote by mail options, it's really important that there also be an option for disabled voters to mark a ballot privately and independently if they're choosing vote by mail and that they have assistive technology if they need it. So, what we're seeing is that there are several systems available in the commercial market which will deliver a blank ballot to the voter in line and then allow the voter to mark that ballot using the assistive tech that they're familiar with on their own device, print the ballot for the voter to return either by mail or a dropbox. So, we're not talking about online voting here. We're talking about a way to assistively mark that paper ballot, but what we're seeing is that there is architecture, even though you might assume that it doesn't do this, that actually sends the vote choices back over the internet. The devil is in the details and the way these systems are designed and created. Many of the commercially available systems keep all of the information resident on a remote server so that each time the voter makes the selections on their own computer that vote choice is transmitted back to the remote server. Now, that remote server has already identified who the voter is because they've had to authenticate the voter when the ballot was pulled up and given to the voter. So, this creates a set of records on that remote server of both the voter's identity and their vote selections which now can enable all sorts of secrecy and privacy of vulnerabilities or compromises if anyone gains access to that server, either the state, the vendor, or somebody who compromises it remotely. Furthermore, each time those vote choices are going back and forth over the internet, they're vulnerable to eavesdropping and spyware. So, it's really not advisable from a security and privacy standpoint. And even if that remote ballot marking system isn't designed to send these vote choices back over the internet, the ballot secrecy and the vote choice secrecy can still be compromised when marked online. So, we really want to minimize the number of voters that are marking their ballots online to minimize these security risks because those vote selections are going to be recorded in temporarily in memory on the on the voter's device as well as their printer. And for these reasons, we want to highlight that issue and encourage election officials to speak to vendors and require that the system zero out the vote data upon closing the application when they're making these systems. Furthermore, voters should be encouraged to mark their ballots on their own devices if at all possible and to not use their work computers or any publicly available computers which could also invite other opportunities for secrecy violations. Furthermore, it's also always important to know that there's a risk that the ballot marking system might not report the votes correctly. There can be bugs, there can be malware. For these reasons, voters should always be instructed that if they can to mark the ballot by hand to mitigate these privacy and integrity risks. And if they need to use the accessible technology and mark the ballot by their device that they should always be encouraged to check the vote choices carefully and election officials are encouraged to disable the barcode feature on the ballot marking system and remake the ballots directly from the voter selection so that you don't have any issues that maybe the barcode is is reporting vote correct vote choices incorrectly. This issue has been looked at years ago by National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Center for Civic Design which does a lot of work with voters with disabilities and providing accessibility. Both have provided clear recommendations that any remote accessible ballot marking system should not transmit the vote choices back over the internet to remote server and they should be designed so that all the vote data remains local to the voter's computer state in a stateless state, I guess. It's important to note that the accessibility of these remote accessible ballot marking devices isn't not impacted by the configuration in either way. Meaning you're not giving up any accessibility to provide a more secure and private remote accessible ballot marking system that keeps all the information local to the voter's computer. So there's no advantage to introducing these security and privacy risks. It's only upside to to to look for these devices that make these that that are right here to this design best practice. So California is a good state to look at that looked at these issues and put the policy into practice. In 2012 in California it was moving to largely a vote by mail state. It wanted to make sure that there was accessible remote ballot marking options looked at these recommendations from NIST and others and passed a law that prohibited the use of any remote ballot marking device that or system that transmitted the vote choices over the internet. And as a result they have certified three systems that are currently commercially available and that meet this design best practice. So their system is out there right now today that can be adopted and and will protect the the voter's secrecy. So just to to give a quick summary of what we've just covered. State should be encouraged to adopt offline accessible remote ballot marking systems for all voters as they expand or for voters that need it that they need it when expanding vote by mail. The voters should also be instructed to carefully check printed ballots for errors. States should be required states should require the vendors to offer systems that delete vote choices from all the memory when the application is closed. Voters should be encouraged to avoid using networked or public devices if possible and election officials should consider disabling the bar pit feature and remaking ballots directly from the voters choices. So now we're going to look at the risks of online blank ballot delivery and I'm turning it back over to Steve. Thanks Susan. So as Susan mentioned how do we minimize risk with online blank ballot delivery. The National Academy's report in 2018 described online blank ballot delivery is acceptable and the recent DHS guidance described it as low risk. However it's important to remember that low risk is not no risk. So the risk with blank ballot delivery systems are those that would impact the integrity and or availability of the ballots such as altering or removing vote choices. Some electronic ballot delivery systems perform functions to verify a voter's identity before presenting them their signed ballot. The identification process can use personal identifying information such as name and driver's license number or biometrics. While when this verification isn't properly configured remote electronic ballot delivery systems can prevent present additional privacy risk such as the loss or theft of the voter's personal and or biometric identity information. Voters who have had their information stolen or harvested previously could have their ballots at risk especially automated attacks. Speed and efficiency of automated attacks can increase the impact of these attacks considerably. Further many ballot scanners cannot read ballots printed from voters home printers because the paper weight and size are incompatible. So vote so the voter selections must be hand copied onto traditional paper ballot stock that can be read by those scanners. This can be a time and resource consuming process that burdens already limited election staff and volunteers. The copying process also presents a potential source of inaccuracy as even an incredibly low copying error rate could impact elections if the volume of copied ballots is sufficiently high. Importantly the original returned ballots should be kept for auditing purposes. Finally this may also create a health risk for election workers who are typically directed to sit in pairs in order to prevent manipulation or fraud. Without transparent oversight or strict security protocols this process introduces opportunities for error or tampering. So here I'll go ahead and turn things back over Susan to go through some of the best practices and recommendations to keep in mind as officials prepare for the upcoming election. Thanks Steve. So we're just going to summarize the takeaways. We urge election officials to follow the best practices of NIST to only adopt and certify remote accessible ballot marking systems that can find the vote selections data to the voters devices and remove the choices from all memory when the application is closed. To limit the use of electronic ballot delivery only to the voters that can't get a mailed pre-printed ballot so that you're limiting the risks of that online blank ballot delivery that Steve just talked about or limited to voters that may need an electronic ballot to mark the ballot with a remote accessible system. To urge election officials to make printing the blank ballot the default action of any ballot downloaded to encourage the voters to fill out the blank ballot with a pen before mailing it. We also encourage voters who must use an accessible remote ballot marking system to use their own personal devices networks and printers if at all possible rather than others infrastructure unless they may have some private privacy concerns at home. I recommend that no voter should ever enter vote choices into device that's connected to the internet and maybe we skipped over that but it's ideal that the device should be disconnected from the internet once the ballot is downloaded when the marking process is being executed. Instruct voters who do not mark their ballot with a computer device to carefully check and verify that their vote choices were recorded correctly. To election officials we also encourage that they them to disable the barcode feature and to remake the ballots directly from the voter selections retain that original ballot and use the human readable part for all audits and recounts so that you have the original record of voter intent when doing an audit or recount not from the remade ballot and consider electronically delivered ballots to be at higher risk for unauthorized application and consider authentication of the voter's identity and eligibility when looking at those ballots. So I think we can wrap up with that. Any final words Steve? No I think he covered it all Susan. Great thank you all so much. It was great to be able to present this information. The paper is on both of our websites if you're looking to to get more information and thank you very much. Thank you all. Hope to see you in Vegas next year.


Hello aspirants, welcome to Shankara SA Academy's YouTube channel. This is a short video and in this video we are going to see one of the most asked questions by the UPSC aspirants. How do you know or how do you find out whether your studying is effective or not? See we all want to know whether a studying process is effective or not because if it is not effective then what is the point, right? So today I am here to address this question and share with you some of the tips that I know to evaluate yourself and to increase the efficiency of your studying process. See the first tip is try teaching the topic that you study to someone else. See how do we study a topic? We read it once or twice, we revise it again and we move on to the next topic, right? But when you try and teach that particular topic to someone else you will find out that you will get a lot of doubts. What does this indicate? It indicates that there are gaps in your understanding. See only when you understand the topic better you will be able to teach the other person in the way that they understand, right? So obviously this is an indicator of the effectiveness of your studying process. See sometimes you can try and teach other people also. Other people in the sense people who are not preparing for UPSC. This is because the doubts asked by them will be entirely different from the doubts asked by the UPSC aspirants. Now let us take the topic Gawana. What all we have in that? We have the constitutional provisions, functions, powers, appointment, eligibility criteria and so on, right? So when you try and teach this topic to a common person they will get a lot of doubts which are entirely different from the doubts asked by the UPSC aspirants. So by the way of addressing those doubts you will have a clear understanding about the topic Gawana. But be careful here because our aim is to have a clear understanding about the topic Gawana and not the teaching. So do not indulge too much in it. Use this only as an indicator to evaluate the effectiveness of your study process. Okay now let us move on to the next step. The next step is solve as many question papers as possible. You can solve previous question papers and you can get mock test from different institutes also. See solving question papers will help you in two ways. One is you are revising the topic again and again. The other one is you are assessing yourself. What are you assessing here?  You are assessing your level of knowledge. And there is this one more thing. Have you ever felt the difference of reading a particular topic in a book and solving that particular topic through questions? There definitely exists a difference right? Because when you read it in book it feels like you have covered everything. But only when you attempt a question you will realize that you have missed that one particular aspect of that topic. So to bridge this gap solve as many question papers as possible and get a suggestion from a qualified mentor for further improvement also. The next step is try and come up with different perspective questions. What do I mean by this? I will tell you. See while solving question papers what you have to do is you should not just solve the question additionally you have to try and come up with different sets of questions that can be asked related to that topic. By doing this you will have a holistic approach. Let us take an example here. We all know that in the year 2021 there was a question related to preamble. The question was what are all the provisions added to the preamble through 42nd Amendment Act. So while solving such a question what you have to do is you have to try and come up with different questions related to preamble other than this particular one. So in that way you will cover everything about preamble and it will be a exercise for your problems also. So this will increase the effectiveness of your study. This is one another tip. Now let us move on to the next one. The next tip is discussion with your peers. See we all know that each and everybody is different right and in turn their viewpoint about everything will also be different. Let us say you are discussing some topic with your friends. You will realize their viewpoint about that particular topic is entirely different from yours. See only after you start discussing with your friends you will find out what all you are missing while studying and it also serves as an opportunity for you to learn about different perceptions that are there. See it is very important here because we have to cover a lot of perceptions while writing mains especially the essay paper. We have to cover the social perspective, economic perspective, political perspective, environmental perspective and in some cases we have to cover the legal perspective also. So to cover all these perspectives discussion with your peers helps a lot. It helps in critical thinking and even in problem solving also. So slowly start discussing with your friends and find out what all you are missing and fill those gaps with the perspectives that you learnt from them. See discussing with your peers will serve as an indicator for you to identify where you are standing and evaluate yourself and even to improve the efficiency of your studying process. Now let us move on to the next step. The next step is analyze the counter facts. Analyzing counter facts here means let us say an issue or event has happened. What we usually do will study the event will study the consequences of it. Instead of just doing that we should analyze the probability of the event not happening in the first place or even better we should analyze the consequences of the event happening in some other way. Let us see an example here. We all know our constitution makers opted for the parliamentary form of government. Here instead of just studying the characteristics of the parliamentary form of government you should try and come up with questions like compare between parliamentary form of government and presidential form of government or even questions like is it the right time to shift from parliamentary form of government to presidential form of government in India or even questions like what are the reasons behind our constitution makers opting for parliamentary form of government. By doing this we are covering each and every aspect of this topic so that if such a question is asked in mains it will be easy for you to attempt that question. So that is all for this step. In this short video we saw five tips. The first one is teach someone else the topic that you are studying to have a better understanding about that topic. The second tip is solve as many question papers as possible to evaluate yourself to assess where you are standing to assess the level of your knowledge. The third tip is try and come up with different perspective questions so that you do not miss out anything on that particular topic. The fourth tip is start discussion with your peers so that you will bridge the gap that you leave while studying and the fifth tip is analyze the counter facts. So that is all for this short video. I hope this helps. If it does subscribe to Shankar Iyer's Academy's YouTube channel. I will see you in another short video like this. Until then it's me signing off. Stay tuned for more short videos like this.


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My name is Sanvatne. I am the author of Maliglan's self-love, Narcissism Revisited. Narcissists are addicted to being famous. This is by far a predominant drive. Being famous encompasses a few important functions for the narcissist. It endows him with power, provides him with a constant source of narcissistic supply, admiration, adoration, approval, all attention, and fulfills important ego functions. The image that the narcissist projects is hurled back at him, reflected by those exposed to his celebrity or fame and, of course, by the media. This way, the narcissist feels alive. His very existence is affirmed and he acquires a sensation of clear boundaries where the narcissist ends and the world begins. There is a set of narcissistic behaviors typical to the pursuit of celebrity and fame. There is almost nothing that the narcissist refrains from doing, almost no borders that he hesitates to cross in order to achieve renown or infamy. To the narcissist, there is no such thing as bad publicity. What matters is to be in the public eye and in the limelight. Because the narcissist equally enjoys all types of attention and likes as much to be feared as to be loved, for instance, he doesn't mind if what is published about him is wrong. He says, as long as they spell my name correctly, I'm content. The narcissist's only bad emotional stretches are during periods of lack of attention, publicity or exposure. The narcissist hates to be ignored. The narcissist then, when ignored, feels empty, hollowed out, negligible, humiliated, wrathful, discriminated against, deprived, neglected, treated unjustly, and so on. At first, the narcissist tries to obtain attention from an ever-nearrowing group of reference. We call it supply scale down. The feeling that he is compromising, the feeling that he is not getting the best quality narcissistic supply, knows that he is anyhow fragile self-esteem. Sooner or later, the spring bursts. The narcissist plots, contrives, plans, conspires, thinks, analyzes, synthesizes. He does whatever else is necessary to regain the lost exposure and attention in the public eye to be again in the limelight. The more the narcissist fails to secure the attention of the target group, always the largest, most prosperous, most qualitative. The more he fails to gain their attention, the more daring, eccentric, and outlandish the narcissist becomes. A firm decision to become known is transformed into resolute action and then to a panicky pattern of attention-seeking behaviors. It may end badly. Some narcissists would even murder to be noticed. The narcissist is not really interested in publicity per se. Narcissists are rather misleading in this sense as well. The narcissist appears to love himself, and really, he abhors himself. Similarly, he appears to be interested in becoming a celebrity and in reality is concerned with the reactions to his fame and celebrity, not with the celebrity or fame itself, but the reactions to his fame and celebrity. He wants people to watch him, to notice him, to talk about him, to debate his actions. If they do, he exists. The narcissist goes around hunting and collecting all the expressions on people's faces and how they change when they notice him. He places himself at the center of attention, or even as a figure of controversy and hatred. He constantly and recurrently pesters those nearest and dearest to him in a bid to reassure himself that he is not losing his touch, his fame, his magic touch, the attention of his social milieu. He keeps saying, am I still famous? Did they notice me? My arrival, my departure? Truly, the narcissist is not choosing. If he can become famous as a writer, he writes. If he can become notorious as a businessman, he conducts business or shady dealings. He switches from one field to another with ease and without remorse because in all of them he is present without conviction. Barred the conviction that he must and deserves to get famous. He doesn't really love what he does. He loves the outcomes of what he does. The narcissist grades activities, hobbies and people not according to the pleasure that they give him, but according to their utility. Can they or can't they make him known? And if so, to what extent? The narcissist is one track-minded, not to say obsessive or compulsive. The narcissist world is a world of black being unknown and deprived of attention and white being famous and celebrated.


Hey! Don't film me! Don't film me! What are you doing? Get out of this area! I know! Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh! Hello, I'm Daud Kim. Nowadays, it's really sensitive about the Palestinian issue. It's a little bit hard to say, but I really want to say something while I turn the camera. So, I need your help. It's about building a mosque in Korea. As you know, we are already funding and raising the money to make a mosque in Daegu. So, it's already delivered to Daegu Mosque for the construction and also it will be used for the new mosque in Korea. But, of course, there were many difficulties. So, today I will talk about the details about this. So, a few months ago, I studied in Bandung University in Indonesia. And meanwhile, I heard a shocking news. The construction of Daegu Mosque is suddenly suspended because of the small construction mistake. Of course, the construction fixing the mistake is really important, but I think there is some reason for this. Because the situation of the construction is not very good right now.    So, the equipment can't go inside of the construction place. So, look at this picture. Currently, this truck is blocking the construction site. And I don't even understand why there is a Israel flex. They said, Islam out. We are scared. Do you want terrorism, violence? We have to protect Korea. Kick out of the illegal immigrants. Kick out of the refugees. So, yeah, the construction is also important, but it's not easy to expose about this kind of discrimination too. So, at that time, I really shocked. Even we are permitted. I can't build a mosque. I mean, it's not easy. So, actually I really couldn't sleep well for a while. So, I consider for couple of days. And then I make the conclusion. What if I can build the mosque? And then maybe the situation can change. If I have knowledge about the construction and have the experience and can participate about the construction, then even if they disturb us, I can't lead the construction. Then I can build a mosque that I dreamed by myself. I think about this so suddenly, though this thought just popped into my head. And I said, Masha'Allah. So, I returned to Korea and I found a job in construction place. Maybe if you're a follower in my Instagram, maybe you already saw that. So, I have been working in construction place over two months instead of YouTube. It doesn't mean that I quit YouTube, but I focus on my work in construction place right now. So, that's one of the reason I don't post a lot of videos. So, I'm sorry about this. But anyway, so actually it's not easy for me because I have never worked this kind of works before. But it's quite really good for me. So, I woke up at 5 am and washed a little bit. And wear the clothes and go to work. I can't take a video inside but I work hard. There are so many people inside. And I ate lunch in there. I usually eat gimbap because there's no halal foods, but it's good. And then go back home at like 6 pm. I moved heavy equipment and learning about the basic of the construction. Of course, it's not easy and sometimes it's dangerous. But through this work, I think I can reach my goal, my dream, to build a masjid in Korea and spread the true religion Islam in Korea. So, I have so much positive energy and work happily. Really. A wake-up fibering is not easy, but I can do it. I believe that I have duty to spread our religion to people who need help. And I truly believe that Koreans need Islam. It's not because I'm famous or influencer or something. It's because I'm Muslim. So, that's why I also ask you to help. Because we need more financial help to build a new mosque in Korea. I think from now on, Daegu Masjid is okay because the construction is going right now. And we already paid the whole money for the construction. But building a new masjid now requires more amount of money and time. And also, there is a legal issue too. So, I need more financial help. Even a small amount of money is okay. If you want help, Islam in Korea. If you want help, please donate. I will do my best. And there is one more thing I want to say about the issue in Palestine. It's not issue. It's like totally one-side-genocide. But I want to ask you, have you ever seen any Korean Muslim organization groups or even Korean Muslim influencers talk about this situation? Nobody. No one. It's because Korean government don't want to help Palestine. So, nobody say about this. So, I understand they don't want to lose their job. But I follow Allah, not the government. And I feel Allah, not the government. I don't think I'm different or like better Muslim. But as a Muslim, I should do what I think this is right as a Muslim. So, this is why I think we need to make a new Muslim community in Korea. Muslims who are afraid of the government, I think there is no future anymore. So, I hope someday I want to make Korean Muslim community along with the project to build a market in Korea. A community where we can raise our voice for those in need without worrying about what the government thinks. That's my real goal. And that's my jihad in Korea. Not with fight. So, if it's possible, I think we can do proper Dawah in Korea too. I'm sure about this. Of course, I could lose my job and can face a lot of disadvantages. I have only to lose many jobs because of this but but I think we should do it. And for this, I need your help. It's difficult for me alone but I can do with you guys. I would like to spread Islam in Korea for your help and I want to know they realize the beauty of Islam. No matter how much is difficult, it's nothing compared to the difficulties of our Prophet Muhammad sallallahu alayhi wa sallam, right? So, the last thing I want to say, my life totally changed when I know about Islam. I came out of the deep depression and found the light after I embraced Islam. For some people, driving an expensive car or living an expensive house can be a goal of their life. But for me, the purpose of life is joy of Allah. So, through the building of Masjid in Korea, inshallah, I hope there will be a lot of Korean Muslims someday and they realize the beauty of Islam and embrace Islam from their heart. For Allah and for our Muslim ummah, I will do my best. So, please help. Okay, then thank you so much for watching my video. Take care and be safe. Alhamdulillah. Masalama. Thank you. Bye.


Hello everybody welcome back to another adobe photoshop cc 2021 tutorial in this one I'm gonna show you how to take an image and make it into a caricature Just like you're seeing here. I've extended his face I've increased the size of his nose as you can see here. It's a little wonky looking But I've got the underlying image right here. This is the original image. This is a pexels image It's just a stock image and then I've gone ahead and I've made it into a caricature But I've done it using only one tool and that is the split warp tool There are multiple ways to make Curricatures I'm just gonna delete this because I'm gonna start from scratch you can use a liquefied tool You can use other warps, but I'm gonna show you how to use the split warp tool and get some very very granular Curricature action. Alright, let's go the first step here We've got an image loaded in just like I've done here if you're following along the second step Take that image drag and drop it and drop it on that plus icon at the bottom right You've got a duplicate layer now and let's work on the top layer So make sure you're selected on top layer gonna go up to the top here go to edit We're gonna go to transform and we're gonna go to warp. You will see here the split warp Functionality is grayed out. You actually got a hit warp like I just did there and that gives you standard warp ability So you can like pull on an edge or something like that But it doesn't it's not good for Curricature. You actually have to go to edit Transform warp and then you got to go to edit transform Split warp. Yeah, crazy. I know so in this one I'm gonna show you how to split warp horizontally and vertically you can also do crosswise But I like horizontally and vertically it's a little bit more of my style So I'm gonna go with the horizontal warps first left clicking on that and you're gonna see that I've got a line Now I'm gonna go ahead and let's say I'm gonna Section off his forehead. I'm gonna drop it there. I'm gonna left click now I'm gonna hold down the alt key or the option key if you're on a Mac Okay, well, let me do it right here I'm gonna left click and now I'm holding down the alt or the option key part of me and I'm gonna pull down a Second line that's gonna go right to the bottom of his nose And then I'm gonna pull down a third line that's gonna go right under his chin And I got those by holding down the alt or the option key You can also do it multiple times by going edit transform warp Split warp split warp split warp, but I did it that I did it the fast way now I'm gonna go to edit warp split warp vertically. I'm gonna create some vertical split warps We've got one right down the center I'm gonna create another one right here at the edge of his head Got a left click on it, and then I'm gonna hold down the alt or the option key Well, let me left click on it first left clicking and then I'm gonna hold down the alt or the option key And I'm gonna pull another one out to right about here on his edge of his ear So you'll see here. We've got a whole bunch of vertical and Horizontal split warps, and if you ever want to add more just go to edit transform warp and then select which one you want Horizontal vertical, okay, you're following along with me Hopefully now you're gonna see here all of these different points now. I'm gonna show you how I did it I want to increase the size of his forehead So let's go ahead and make it big like this again.  Okay, cool. I'm liking this. Maybe let's see here. What else do I like? Do I want to do any work on that?  What do you think? Yeah, you're liking that. I'm liking that Pull his nose down a little more and also keep in mind that when you click on one of these points There are also handles that you can pull like you can distort and wobble the handles depending on what you're looking to do but this is the gist of split warping and by just doing that and adding in some horizontal and vertical Lines we've gone and I'm gonna click out of it And let's see what it looks like. This is the caricature and it takes a few seconds to load This is an example and this is the image and we made that caricature in a minute or two guys So please let me know if there's any videos you want to see. I hope this tutorial helped you be back soon with some more content Thanks for watching


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Coming up on DTNS. How bad was that attack on Ukraine's websites? We'll tell you an important change comes to the Chrome browser and we look over the new legal revelations regarding Google and Facebook's ad deals DTNS starts now This is the Daily Tech news for Friday, January 14th, 2022 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio Redwood I'm Sarah Lane and from Columbus, Ohio. I'm Rob Dunwood And I'm the show's producer Roger Chang. We were just having a good time talking about all of our old tech Some of the old computers we had whatever tech we had in reach Mobile device wise if you want to hear what we had and what we thought about it get good day internet the longer version of This show available at patreon.com slash DTNS speaking of that big thanks to our top patrons today They include Kevin Paul Thiessen and Allison Javi. Let's start with a few tech things you should know The Russian Federal Security Service or FSB announced that it raided the operations of the Reval ransomware Organization targeting 14 suspected members the FSB said the raids were conducted at the request of US authorities Reval is believed to be behind recent high-profile attacks against colonial pipeline JBS foods and US technology firm Kaseya Block which you may remember as Square Announced it's developing an open Bitcoin mining system designed to quote make mining more distributed and efficient in every way The system will focus on making buying a mining rig easier simplifying heat dissipation and key Improving power efficiency block is evaluating technology and partners for the platform including possibly developing its own new ASIC The Electronic Frontier Foundation spotted a new Android 12 option that lets users disable 2g connections to avoid privacy and security problems Exploited by cell site simulators also known as string rays or IMSI catchers The devices can masquerade as a cell tower then make cell phones in their range connect to them and intercept personal data use and Information although Android users have the option not to allow 2g cellular connections on their devices The setting is turned on by default. So that's good to know also a phones modem also needs to support the 1.6 radio. How? Humble the humble bundle software bundle service you you've heard of it It's gonna shift to a new $12 a month subscription model for the humble bundle subscription on February 1st And after that date humble will require a windows only launcher to access humble choice humble trove and Humble games collections going forward Users have until the end of the January to download any macro Linux versions of games using the existing website Bloomberg reports that development challenges related to overheating cameras and software may delay Apple's AR VR headset reveal Previously still rumored but rumored to happen at WWDC in a few months The headset reveal reportedly may now not happen now until the end of the year Possibly later with the headset going on sale in 2023. All right, let's talk about that Ukrainian attack It was on the BBC World Service this morning. It's been all over the place If you hadn't heard Friday morning about 70 Ukrainian government websites stopped functioning after a massive attack Many of them were attacked and stopped functioning Some of them were taken down by the government as a preventative measure But most of them were attacked targets included the websites of the state treasury and the DEA electronic publishing services platform That's where vaccination certificates and electronic passports are stored But it doesn't seem like they got to those just to the website The deputy head of Ukraine state agency in charge of special communication and information protection Victor Jorah Called it the most powerful attack in four years Doesn't make it the most powerful of all time because remember Ukraine had its power grid attacked more than four years ago He did add that personal data had not been quote distorted Important data had not been leaked and site content had not been damaged Ukraine's SBU state security service said preliminary information indicates the personal data was not leaked So it backs up what the minister was saying and site content was not changed Ukraine has not assigned blame for the attacks. That's important diplomatically I think Ukraine's not out there pointing the finger to the east which you might expect them to do They haven't done that messages from the attackers were left in Ukrainian Russian and Polish Toby Lewis head of threat analysis for dark trace told threat posts that government sites are quote Typically built on common software which explains the domino effect of website shutdowns that we saw And it was too early to call it a sophisticated attack. So far they look like simple defacements In fact Johan Ulrich Dean of research for sands technology institute told threat post quote This may very well be the work of hacktivists Emboldened by current propaganda the defaced websites were only informational and likely did not hold Sensitive information. However dark traces Lewis did raise the possibility that sophisticated attacks Be Happening while these less sophisticated attacks distract everyone So it it may it may be a situation Where these 70 websites going down are not the serious part and something else happened But that's just speculation that it could be used for that. That doesn't mean we have any evidence That something like that has happened. So big attack big splash Lots of headlines, but it doesn't seem to be that serious it doesn't sound like That there was a lot of damage necessarily done. It seems like Yeah, we yeah, we need to go in You know firewall this block this off and we'll be back up and going by next week Is what this is was what this kind of sounded like Um, it's just interesting that they were very specific This is the you know, but you know a huge attack in the last four years because we know that they have had some Much more egregious stuff that has happened Taking their power grid down these as you said, they're more just vandalism on public facing government websites. Yeah Yeah, I guess what they're saying is like, man, we had a nice four-year break there. Oh, well I mean, it's interesting that it is being presented as very serious doesn't seem all that serious, but the possibility that this is a distraction, you know, based on a group many groups individual whatever it is actually doing more damage and Skating under the radar a little bit more because this is getting more attention That could have some legs. Yeah, and even if that's not the case Technologically, it's not serious politically it is And I I think that's why it's it's Important to note that Ukraine has not blamed Russia You're going to see Russia blamed in so many headlines and so many stories about this and I don't know Maybe some Russians did this Maybe or maybe not at the direction of the Russian government, but Ukraine isn't taking the bait for that yet Uh, and and the fact that it's in polish could be misdirection to try to make it seem like oh, everybody's after Ukraine Obviously the point of these attacks if you look at the messages is to get people upset to get people to feel afraid Feel disconcerted feel threatened Whoever's behind it and that's where the damage comes the the damage comes not from the technology or You know personal data being exfiltrated the damage comes from propaganda purposes Be my opinion that and the fact that uh, just from a pr standpoint It just doesn't look good when a government website is hacked in goes down. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely All right, we got some we got some news about chrome rob tell us about this Absolutely. So google wants to prevent chrome from being used as a beachhead For accessing routers and other sensitive devices inside of private networks But wants to make sure that it doesn't break the internet by doing so and a spec known as private network access google's Chrome will start requiring public websites to get explicit permission from browsers before accessing internal network resources This will help prevent cross-site requests for dreary or csrf A csrf was used back in 2014 to change dns server settings or more than 300 000 Wireless routers. I actually remember that that was a it was a huge deal I don't think it happened to anybody that I knew or anywhere where I worked But that was that was a pretty big deal when routers were going not down But they were changing where you were being sent to It was used to redirect browsing to malicious dummy sites that looked legitimate like fake google.com That could steal your data up until now unless a router or printer locked off the browser somehow The default would be to allow the browser to access any resource on the network with private network access Such requests will only be allowed if the device on the other end explicitly allows it starting in chrome 98 Pre a pre flight request will be sent to the device, but a final connection will not be prevented However, a warning will be logged and the dev tools issues panel This is done to let legitimate sites test how their system will work starting around chrome 101 It will be mandatory for public sites to have explicit permission before they can access endpoints behind the browser So when I read this actually I threw this story in a rundown and I guess it's better late than never That that thing that happened back in 2014. It was huge.  So I was kind of shocked that it took Google this long to actually, you know, fix this in their browser because Every, you know, I would say legitimate or every respectable Endpoint devices inside of a network they basically have had to put things in place to mitigate this Some some of them don't even allow you to connect directly through a website You've got to use an app sometimes now depending on the device So, um, you know, google fixed it, but did they really fix it? Is is my question and I'm asking because it's like, you know, who is this still affecting? Yeah, I was thinking about this. Um, and and I feel like the reason this ever you might even wonder like Why was it ever like this? Uh, the reason it was like this is I remember when that router Breach happened everybody reported on it As this is why it's important to update your router firmware because the routers should have been locked off They didn't point to the browser Because the reason browsers were not seen as important is how many devices did you have on a home network? We're not talking about enterprise networks here, right? We're talking about a home network printer and a router and Your computer maybe a couple others maybe a phone, right? So it was easy to lock those off and not worry about the browser and leaving the browser able to reach endpoints Made it so that it was a lot easier for sites to do legitimate things without having to put in extra code and extra work What has changed since then? Uh, since the early days of browsers Is we have so many more devices on our network and internet of things is making it Exponentially more to the point where it'd be irresponsible for chrome to allow endpoints to be accessed that way because that means your doorbell Your alarm your blocks your TVs, you know, like it's crazy So I don't know that that answers your question of why it took so long because it's not like internet of things just showed up this year But it does it it does explain to me like why it wasn't Shut off in the first place and why it it took a some moment for people to go. Oh conditions have changed We got to change that Well back in december of 2020 the attorneys general of several us states led by texas filed an antitrust lawsuit against google That filing was updated in november 2021 but heavily redacted A new york drug a new york judge then ruled that additional details could be made public And the case was refiled friday So let's talk about this suit in the newly public portions of the suit The attorneys general alleged that facebook ceo mark zuckerberg Would be meta at this point Well, it was facebook at the time and google ceo sundar perchai Approved the jedi blue deal in november of 2018 that gave facebook an advantage in google's online advertising auctions facebook ceo o's charles sandberg allegedly Negotiated that deal. You may have heard of jedi blue. We've talked about it on the show before. It's an agreement Allegedly gave facebook an incentive to use google's advertising exchange Google allegedly guaranteed facebook would win a certain number of auctions When using the program a little bit of a handshake deal here And the two companies connected software to speed up the delivery of ad tracking data between the two systems when facebook Did use google's exchange? There were also detailed allegations about three other programs called project bernanke reserve price optimization And dynamic revenue share The suit alleges that project bernanke charged advertisers a higher bid price than it paid publishers And then used the difference to boost the bids of other advertisers to ensure that they'd win an auction that they otherwise Would not have won another version directed these funds to publishers if they gave google preferential access to ad inventory Google says that the project was made to increase competition and make ads more effective That's what it would say as for the other two newly revealed projects the reserve price optimization program set a minimum price for advertisers based on previous bids Dynamic revenue share Changed the fee that google took in order to help advertisers use google's tool to win more auctions In google's other tools google said that the program helped publishers maximize ad sales Also something it would say both companies denied that jedi blue is an illegal deal at all And google called the lawsuit full of inaccuracies Google spokesperson peter schottenfelds said that the company will move to dismiss the case next week as baseless and lacking legal merits He also denied that patchai approved the jedi blue deal at all Uh, yeah, so jedi blue. I have always felt is doesn't sound that controversial Uh, big companies often make uh big deals with each other to say like, hey, uh, you give me a little access to your thing I'll give you a little access to my thing I get why it's worth scrutiny to say, you know, these two dominate the ad market But the deal itself on the face of it doesn't sound that unusual or illegal to me So i'll buy the fact that facebook and google might be able to or google because they're the only one subject to the lawsuit Would be able to prove in court that this deal is not illegal project Bernanke the reserve price optimization the dynamic revenue share On the one hand you could look at those and say Okay, this is just like a loyalty program for customers like oh if you do this we'll we'll help you know make sure That you get a little boost from us. We'll help you out We'll give you some bonus points in the bids, which is fine unless you also run the auction house Right because now you're now you're fixing the price for the person who's using your other tool Remember google owns every part of the chain. They own the bidding. They own the placement They you know they they own the whole thing so they can say We're going to help out people who use our tool for bidding to beat out people who are using other tools for bidding In our auction house means we get to keep more of the money That starts to smell to me a little more like antitrust.  Um That just doesn't look good google. It just it just doesn't look good Well, and I mean the idea of you know loyalty programs, you know me as a consumer If this was something that you know either I was working with facebook or google directly on Not even in a business sense, but just a oh well if you do this then you get these fun perks We're all very used to that but two companies of the size having some you know Backroom deals Yeah, I mean it it may not end up being an antitrust issue, but it definitely seems that way Like imagine if google was an auction house, right and you walk in and they're like you can use any paddle you want But if you buy a paddle from us the auction house people We will add a hundred dollars to every one of your bids automatically You're gonna you're gonna buy the paddle. You're not gonna get the paddle from the other makers, right? But they're overcharging the other bidders to give you the hundred dollars. Yeah, they're making the money every day We're getting the hundred dollars some of the other bidders by the way, but you don't need to worry about that That's a whole separate thing Uh, yeah, uh, that's that's gonna be an interesting one I I have I've been more bullish on the federal case than the the states one until this and I'm like, okay There's a lot of things in here. I don't think are gonna pass muster in corporate Well, let's see. Let's see if google can defend that one Hey, I'm really excited this weekend is the kickoff of the scientist and tech series Dr. Nikki Ackerman's will be chatting with different scientists a different scientist every week about What they do in the world of technology where science and tech intersect you can find that in your dTNS feed this weekend I got some bipartisan news for you us legislators across the political parties are supporting a bill called wait for it terms of service labeling design and readability act that's t L d r the tldr act this bill would require websites to give a summary statement At the top of the terms of service that you could read before you opt into the entire terms of service That would include an estimate on how long it would take you to read the complete terms of service Details of any sensitive data types the site collects Guidance on what of that sensitive data is required for the service to function as well as methods for you to delete Your sensitive data later in addition to summarizing the terms in in non-legal language It would also disclose any data breaches from the past three years in that summary. So human readable machine readable also language at the top to say this is what our terms say And here's some other details that you might want to know the bill would exempt smaller websites from this It would be targeted at larger websites and be enforced by the us federal trade commission as well as the state's attorney general Who could seek civil actions for breaches of the act? i'm glad to see That this is truly a bipartisan, uh, you know deal here And it just makes sense I understand that we're all supposed to read those very very long legalese type to as I get that we're supposed to But people generally don't Um, and one of the things that government is supposed to do Is make our lives better make things better for you know constituents and this goes I think a little way to help with that It's it's how long is it going to take to read this? You know, you know, it's the cliffnotes version Of the of the super long to s that I think in many cases are written to be You know as vague and ambiguous as possible just so you don't really know what you are giving up What you are agreeing to what you are agreeing not to do I mean as somebody who has skipped many terms of services just like yeah, whatever, you know Like I it's not that I don't care. I do care, but it's just not gonna happen Not gonna read this whole thing and I just hope that there's not something hidden in there that I didn't know about Um, I I appreciate this I I I think that you know for a lot of folks. It's not that people don't care about legalities It's just that the way that it's presented is so hard to digest. You just end up going Well, the company isn't really gonna screw me over, right? But that doesn't always happen Yeah, my gut reaction is to agree with y'all that it would be nice to have some of this data up at the top Especially data breaches and all that sort of thing There's a lot of open room in this bill for Who gets to write the summary? Which is the company in question how they get to write the summary? The ftc is the judge of whether the summary meets the the criteria or not and and as we know heads of ftc change with every administration So those things make me a little unsettled the other thing that makes me less excited about this is You still have a yes or no acceptance When you get that summary and you read it if you read it You still have to say okay if you want to keep using the site like it's it's not like you can you can negotiate here So I wonder just how many people are going to even pay attention to the summary because It's not just about how long those yulas are. It's about the fact They're like well, I kind of have no choice if I want to use this thing Yeah, I mean you could just not install this program and that's fine But maybe it's a program that all your friends are using or you know family members or that sort of thing Yeah, this is not going to work if it's instagram or You know, what's that messenger? You're going to just install and start using those tools Yeah, yulalizer is a is a plugin out out there that's pretty good at Alerting you at that stuff. I'm not sure that this means that don't need yulalizer anymore All right, netflix tried to sneak in some news on the weekend before we think we wouldn't notice but we noticed didn't we rob? We absolutely did netflix announced it will raise prices on its canadian and us plans netflix standard plan with two streams goes up $1.50 to 1549 the 4k plan goes up $2 to 20 a month And the basic plan which it doesn't have hd goes up $1 to $10 a month The new prices are in effect now for subscribers Existing subscribers will get an email 30 days before the other price increase affects them and this will roll out gradually This last domestic price increase for netflix was in october of 2020. So it's been Little over a year was it was the 2020 increased the 1499 because that's what I always think of netflix That was 1499 right all right. So yeah, so it hasn't even really been that long and that seemed I don't know. I mean this is this is the sort of thing where it's like they're not huge increases But for anybody who's who's you know making sure that they're taking taking Taking stock of all of the cord cutting Options that they have and many of us have five six different options This is you know, it's it's not great If you like netflix originals and of course their back library then Maybe this doesn't matter too much to you, but um, it might be harder for them to onboard new folks Well, they've hit saturation in the domestic market They don't have as much room to grow so they don't need to fuel new subscribers as much as monetize them Yeah, so my advice to folks is don't get mad unsubscribe Unless it's worth it or stay subscribe stay subscribed. Yeah My gut tells me people are going to complain But they're probably not going to go out and cancel Their netflix subscriptions in mass clearly not beyond the point that while we're charging folks on average $1.75 more We're going to make more money by doing that than the number of people who actually drop off Yeah, I think the cable companies though. They're kind of saying yeah, uh, okay Well, netflix you did it hulu.  Can you raise you know raise prime up?  So yeah You know from people saying you know the cable subscriptions sometimes don't look so bad But it all depends on what you want to watch. I also think That netflix, you know, this is just this is just my take The time of year it's cold people are indoors Uh, the pandemic, you know Unsafe out there people are indoors This is a good time to do something like this because you're going to have less complainers. Yeah, that's true I think the cable companies want you to pay them for the netflix subscription all in one bill is what they're hoping So maybe they can just get you back for all of it Well researchers at northwestern university developed something called facebit An open source project described as fitbit for the face Facebit is a sensor that's designed to attach to an n95 face mask Able to monitor respiratory and heart rate and also check if a mask is fitted correctly Maybe you're not wearing it quite right in your face and you could do better The mask is designed for medical workers Could be designed for anybody but certainly for frontline type type folks works up to 11 days on a charge It will need further clinical trials before proceeding So this is not something that you can just go up and buy right this second But it also has been open sourced So if you're interested could be kind of something to build upon you can DIY it I mean these are scientists Definitely not marketers because it's just a chip that sits in front of your face It's not it doesn't have a nice design look Also, they called it facebit Which is you know, probably not the best way to market it out there because it sounds like my face Just got bit But if you get past that Well something between facebook and fitbit Yeah, it's great. It's great technology. It's good stuff. I like I was actually kind of As a fitbit user and a loyalist, you know with their software, you know Kind of track all sorts of stuff for myself. I was like wow fitbit for the face. That's not really what this This is something that you know a mask wearer can get some more information about health and safety And that's pretty much it but it's still cool Yeah, and very good for health care workers because fit is important You want to know if it got knocked out of place and you didn't realize it and and you know ongoing monitoring of like Hey, you're maybe starting to show some some signs of of something you might want to go get that pcr test Right now, which is good, you know, I'm wearing a mask while I'm working out in the gym now This would actually be kind of cool for that to kind of just give me some different numbers than Then I'm getting off of the other trackers that I've got connected to my body So yeah for this if they can get a small enough and inexpensive enough to make it make sense All right, let's check out the mail bag Let's do it. This one comes in from Jeremy who said you talked about the average price in cars being higher than before For new and used cars based on kelly blue book numbers I've heard that a lot, but no one seems to say why that's happening If there is a limited number of chips it makes sense to build vehicles with the best Read highest price options So even the normal vehicles aren't the ones that dealers would have advertised at low prices to get people on the door But the ones that got sold when a customer figured out what the inexpensive vehicle had four features So I responded to Jeremy about this because uh Supply and demand could be enough to explain it Right, there's there's a low supply and there's people who really need a car and that's going to drive a price up But it's a fair point. It's a fair point that If I have a low supply and I'm a auto manufacturer or a car dealer I might want to make that supply be the most expensive supply it has so that I can I can get a few extra dollars out of it Wouldn't put that past automobile companies. They're used to making ginormous amounts of money so anything they can do to make a little bit more You know, I wouldn't I wouldn't put them past especially with sales down Like if sales were at the normal price, uh, companies car dealerships would be losing money But they're not because they're able to sell it for higher And then matt writes in I've listened to dts for a few years now And I'm always hunting for those nuggets that put concepts into focus for the average user But I don't usually expect to find real life lessons on a tech podcast That is until yesterday Dts episode 4190 on the topic of monetization of wordle You tom merit said you don't have to be rich to not be desperate Not sure if that's your original But it is absolutely true and an indispensable life principle that will be passed along to my kids and fingers crossed to many other people in their lives Like it or not the attribution will always go to tom merit Well, I'm not sure I felt like I was making sense when I said it, but I'm glad you found wisdom in it matt. Thank you Oh, yeah, a good reminder to all of us, uh, who identify as not rich You know, you don't you you could still not be desperate. Yeah. Yeah, okay You know, you just you have your convictions, you know, stick with them That's that's what makes you you reading it back makes me feel like yogi bear up, but I don't know maybe it's worth Well, we well we uh, we we love the responses from everybody who emails us all the time feedback at daily tech news show Dot com is where to keep those emails coming Thank you so much to everybody who does give us feedback every day and ideas for future shows All those good things We also have a brand new boss to thank and that boss's name is chris hutz chris just started backing us on patreon Thank you chris Uh, we loved we'd love to get a new boss and we've we've had a nice long run of streak of them So thank you chris for keeping the streak alive. You rock You do rock. 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Hi guys, welcome back to my youtube channel. So those of you who are here for the first time read about me in the description box You can also get in touch with me. The link is in the description box I am a lawyer in Ontario Canada and today I'm back with Mr. Shah Rukh Zuhib Abbas Who is also a barista in solicitor in Canada and we have a form called ace law. The link is in the description box You guys can get in touch with us We deal with all kind of legal related matters But in today's vlog we are back with business immigration series 2. In series 2 We are going to discuss about intra-company transfer, which is again a very interesting and a little bit complicated stream for business immigration So what is the legibility? What is the criteria? We are going to discuss in today's vlog with him Also, if you haven't watched the series one, which was about owner operator, you can go and see if the link is in the description box So without wasting much time, let's go ahead and listen to what he has to say Yes, we are back with the business immigration series 2 and today We have a very interesting topic as I told my viewers that it is about the intra-company transfer Which is also a stream of business immigration and which is not much talked about So we I wanted to discuss this with you for the viewers that what kind of stream is this? What is intra-company transfer and what is the C12? Okay, so thank you for introducing and bringing this topic power Today we are going to talk about the intra-company transfer. It's a very different and unique kind of work permit Why it's unique because there is no LMI required For applying for such work permit. If you remember in last meeting, there was my discussion with you We discussed a program owner operator LMI and it has to go through service Canada and other stages This is another work permit It's a bit more quick in time. It will take less time In this, you can provide that with little requirements that you can fulfill on qualifications In short time, you can have a work permit I will go into specifications. Generally, let me brief you a little bit Tell me a little bit about the basic finger tips This is an available high journal and I want to talk about general information and specific things I will discuss For refreshing the memory The basic thing is that you have been transferred by a foreign company to Canada For setting up a business or doing some special unique task for a certain period of time And that company should have a qualifying company here through which you can be transferred So you can issue a work permit For that, the requirements are complete For that, you get a specific portal where you get an exempt code Then you will submit the same code to CIC for your work permit issuance They will match the code and then they will issue you a work permit This is a simple procedure What are the, how can anyone, it seems very simple Everyone can do like you have a company in Dubai or India or Pakistan Or in Qatar and you can do it It's not for every company In the beginning, I would like to be very much clear that if you say that you have a company in UAE Or you have a company in India or Pakistan for the last 5 years and you can do it So this is not just the requirement, it's a basic Apart from this, if you look at the CIC website and their guidance manuals This is not the criteria to judge a company Whether this is eligible for ICT or not Criteria is much more broader and it has more requirements As compared to simply giving you information If you have a company somewhere 2 years old and you have a 1 year work experience Then you can do it, it's not like that The financial or network of your company Or its social presence, it matters a lot And without that, it might not be possible for you to do all the procedures And still you will not be getting through Because I would say that you don't need to ask anyone to submit the file The result will come when the file has been submitted for your work permit And that's time it will be a problem But the advantage of this is that this is an exam You will get your work permit in a short period Ideally for those who are running their businesses in some way They are very successful in any part of the world And now they want to expand their business And if they want to expand their business, they want to come to Canada So for that, they have this way Rather than going to business migrations In which you want to have investment commitments You want to do it At that time, it will take a lot of time And even after spending a lot of money, you are not sure it's going to happen So this is ideally for a business person You want to move here eventually But initially with this business as well So first you want to test this place for your business It's a good route for them They can come through this work permit Apply if your financial network is good Again, I am insisting that if your financial network position It's not like you can support this work permit in the future So it's just will be a waste You need to make sure that your financial position And your company's structure are well in place So that there is no problem in the future So we have so many queries In which people share their assessments Or turn over You also know that not every company qualifies for the intra company transfer There are a few companies that qualify So there are challenges in this So I think if you can tell us through the light What are the challenges and which companies are eligible And which type of companies are eligible for this stream Yes We have to discuss the company on two stages Foreign company and sister concern in Canada Sister concern is not a big issue for Canada It will be a simple incorporation We just need the documents We can do it with that But your main Madhura company Where all this information is going on Its incorporation should be well founded Same shareholder He is the foreign company And the same shareholder is the local company If you want to keep a shareholder If you want to incorporate it into its branch That's also possible But it's very important to create a qualifying relationship If you qualify They will insist a lot on that That both of your companies should have the same qualifying relationship If you read their manuals How they qualify If there are three shareholders in a company A, B, C, R, 3% shareholder With 33% share up each Sorry All these three persons should be also a partner And shareholder in the same company in Canada With the same shareholding If your shareholding structure is changed And it's very important In the past, we have seen that Some places have been overshoot That only one person is coming In the Middle East, there is a problem That in your company There are some structures Where your local partner is a 51% shareholder And your partner doesn't need to be a part here And when they did UAE Or Saudi's company In Dubai Canada has incorporated They only made the actual owner as a shareholder But it reflects not qualifying relationship And its sole after although company was qualified Person was qualified But there is no qualifying relationship established This is a challenge Now talk about the company which is In other part of the world If you read in the general guidelines Usually how this 2-7-1 works The company which you want They want to sponsor They will mention the word it should be a multinational company Which has a broader presence There is an As you usually know very well There is no definition anywhere about What is called multinational In every jurisdiction It has a different presumption The jurisdiction in which a company Which is usually a multinational Sometime only a public Joint stock company is declared as a multinational But there are jurisdictions Where a private owned company is also It can be a multinational company Depend upon the price Generally You need to see against the jurisdiction In case jurisdiction If you tell me that I have sole establishment In my own name Not as a corporation But as a single owner Which is all over the India It may be difficult for me to prove this As a multinational company Because firstly it may not become And the definition of company Because for that you have no incorporation You are just doing There is a sole establishment As sole provider You might have a difficulty Although your financials Social media presence Everything is well placed So company structure documents are very important How are the documents In how many jurisdictions you are submitting You may have operation all over the India But you are only submitting Your tax returns for the one branch And other one you have neglected That can impact into your case And sometime people are smart They have a jurisdiction For companies in Middle East And in India under one holding So if you have a main holding company And then you have a structure placed Well advanced anywhere As I am sure if we have time today We will discuss one case scenario Which we have done in the past We will discuss it By looking into specifications So one more thing Which is very important If the company becomes illegible Then who is the employer Who qualifies Yes So three kinds of people are qualified Actually Either you are from senior management Or you are an executive Or you are a Especially skilled person I will talk about Especially skilled person later Usually your clients are here In cases like that They are business owners They are directors They are GMs Senior management people Who want to move and come here Initially for start up expenses And then especially in some cases Like you are a really good corporation And you have businesses already And now you want to send your CPA Chartered accountant or running one For running that case for some time So for that it is extreme But let's talk about focusing on start up businesses Usually People call their Senior management They are actors They are also the shareholders They are CEOs These kind of people usually are The thing is that you should have Qualifying employee relationship with that company Very crucial In some cases people are shareholders People are shareholders But they don't have a qualifying relationship with the company As an employee I'll let you know There is an IABC company Someone is a shareholder of it He owns 99% shares Although he is managing all the Pares for a long period of time But on the record Neither of the tax returns Our company's employees He has been never shown as an employee Or someone who is working for the company But he has other people Like he has another chief operating officer Someone else is a counter Someone else is GM So they might have a difficulty In proving their qualifying relationship With that company So there are two qualifying relationships We need to prove First qualifying relationship Second qualifying relationship Employee Who you want to move to Canada With that employee's foreign company And the basic requirement for that He must have worked one consecutive year With the company last two years He worked for a year Continuous Ideally you should be still working with the company Otherwise it's difficult If you applied two years ago And then you need to show How you have resumed your operation in that company So let's assume as a general scenario We are working in that company for the last one year How How to prove that I am working in that company Although I am its owner, Sherhold The guidelines People who are working in immigration Officers and officers They have a certain guidelines And unfortunately they only go by the book In some cases Like their situation But usually in first instance they go by the book How they will prove you will be on the payroll You have a salary slip You have a tax number You have been submitting tax in your home jurisdiction As an employee or even as a director You must have an employee chart there And then you are withdrawing salary And they specifically ask If you are withdrawing salary Show us in your bank account that you are depositing Generally a director will not draw A minimum salary You would have a good salary there in the company And it should be deposited into account To make it more legitimate I mean I am not saying if there is no bank deposit And that can lead into another investigation And another investigation Anything can happen in this scenario So if you need to place All these document valid ones And if you don't have this information in place You need to prepare for it And you should make sure That you are submitting an application Without preparation Anyone with whom you are dealing You should discuss with them Show them the documents and then take advice Whether I have a case or not It's your case and right now It's not a fair case for you So don't take any chances Without any documentation And write it out If a lawyer says Rather preferable Than through doing it by yourself Or maybe through a consultant Or maybe through somebody who is not experienced Maybe somebody can be experienced But what is the importance of a lawyer To get this work permit Can you please share that And I think I need to address this situation Certainly Many people came to ask After submitting and doing the paperwork And then they realized It has not been done properly I'll talk about very few basic things If you see its documentary requirements Then there is no specific Documentary requirement Which is very extraordinary difficult Or you have a problem In making it Except business plan and other things Then you need to ask a question To yourself or your lawyer or consultant How you are going to prove these things for me I mean how you prove my Qualifying relationship with the company How will you prove that I am bringing a 60% benefits to Canada And what are my challenges Of course if I am trying to run a business here What are my intents There are certain things which you do With every file for Such kind of work permit CSE Every file And they ask us to do it We submit a letter It's called a submission letter That submission letter is basically The crux of your entire file And accept that someone is not aware Of the technicalities or he has not done previously It can be a do or like setup Situations for your case You don't have any proof That you will actually do everything But the story of your lawyer Or if you have a CSE Or lawyer That is your story And how he will rate events for you How he will describe your situation That is what is going to impact This is from where Abhisar Kisar will make his opinion You will think about all this Let me talk about few parts of this submission letter Why I am insisting it's very important Let's talk about What are your future plans In Canada All qualifications are complete You have everything You can do it Obviously you cannot use this work permit As a source to go for PR This is a work permit to just an establish a business And maybe you can use another way This is the same business You can convert it into an intrapreneur program Or any other program for getting PR However it's not a program Which is meant for the PR While every visa officer See these files with a suspicion That there will be a program which has been used to take The benefit of the situation Your lawyer He will in a submission letter He will clearly demonstrate What is your intent for coming to Canada And those intent should be reflected through your documentation He will narrate Your intention in the document Your plans As a director But you don't have a power director For everything you have to go back In your business plan Go back and ask the mother company in India This is not going to work for you They will ask you The position for which you want to come here It doesn't give you an authority to do those things by your own So technically You are not doing this job by your own But taking the disease from India And let's do it from there while you are coming here He will challenge this thing in the part He will describe it We have a board resolution in the part He has a full authority Full mandate with the convincing arguments From our side reflecting to the relevant regulations Copying all the relevant legislations If we delete this You will benefit He will bring a significant benefit to the Canadian community And Canadian social and economical Structure by bringing more jobs And then we will describe in the same Ledger What are his staffing and payroll plans When we will start the structure Your staffing plan How many employees you want to hire The very core thing Which came and I think it's One of the important things To make more sense than any other That you are bringing skills to Canada Because obviously you are claiming That by bringing this job And this business in Canada I am bringing special skills And through coming as a senior position And you want to transfer your company skills In Canada apart from being an investment How you are planning to transfer Those skills to the new employees For that you will do the workshop You will maintain the education programs How your transition will be In the future For your position How you will hire people from the local community It's a very comprehensive challenge That comes in the submission ladder And I also felt the same challenge That you have a lot of information That you need to bring into two pages Inside Your special skills Your drafting skills Your ability to see files from a long period of time And again the business structure Everything will count Very important document I would say Yeah So the last question Is that in practical circumstances When you have a case Can you explain to us How we have overcome the challenges And how we have dealt With the whole file And the facts of the situation Like recently There was a company I can't disclose its name But They are actually A travel agency They have been in travel agency Obviously it's a pre-college So It was a travel agency Which want to move its CEO It was doing good in Middle East And they have So many branches there In UAE and Now it's senior executive We want to move it Because intent was basically The client want to come to Canada He want to understand the market And do start a business here Because he was seeing a lot of tourism potential Between Canada and Middle East So start may As I told you The same kind of situation In Middle East You have a 51% shareholder Smith There was a local partner was there And then we have He was 49 He didn't agree to come And be part of the Canadian organization He said I don't have any set liabilities I don't want to do it So then I based on understanding That jurisdiction My challenge was How to qualify for the company And prove it So I requested him To make a memorandum Usually the company has a memorandum Of understanding and association And in the association With a local shareholder And then with a certain draft Which we have reviewed again and again And then that guy He made a new memorandum In which it was declared that Local partner is only because It's a regulatory requirement And he has no beneficiary Or other interest in the company Except waging few basic salaries Like annual 10,000-15,000 In Middle East The problem in companies Is that they have usually A fixed for 15% to 20% Profit margin in the company If it's 51 And they'll say we're only concerned about 10% It still makes them a Shareholder Because if you benefit 10% You are still a shareholder And you have a qualified relationship with them So we declared him as an employee Who has just been there for regulatory requirements And then I Asked him to put him on the payroll To make it more appropriate Because he's on my payroll He was on his board payroll But as we have a qualified relationship Then he was his wife and they both Are shareholder here in Canadian company And this is how we were able to Challenge that structure Because this is the core If we would have come alone by that one And by the way His office would ask these questions He then reviewed those documents And in second review he realized He understood that The documentary are Legislative requirements of UE are different So then they come on it again But what happened Sometime Immigration officers may not agree With those things Sometime these arrangements work Sometime they don't If he or she has never worked on Middle East file And if something new for him or her It's difficult to prove That this is our intent To do it Because they see things in their own way Normally why would someone be 51% shareholder In their company If he has no interest in that I mean it doesn't make no sense But generally they believe in these things Alright Thank you for all the information and insight That you've given us today I hope it was useful for everybody That's my player ma'am And I'm sure you would have a good response In last video too And share our thoughts with the people Because we are generally here We don't need to deliver basic information Everyone has a lot of videos People should be aware What is happening in the file And they should make your mind After getting it But in the end I would like to warn That there is no specific legal advice For any case You just simply cannot rely on it If you have a specific situation Contact us Please don't treat it as a legal advice Thank you So guys I hope that whole information Which is not easily available in the market And especially through the lawyer's mouth It is easily available for you here And it was useful for you guys If you have any question for your concern Put in the comment section You can get in touch with us The link is in the description box I will keep posting about the business immigration series And you can Subscribe to my channel to watch it Thank you, bye-bye and have a good night And save yourself from all the Immigration scams and frauds that are happening