OK, this is the session. This is just a demo. It may not take the whole half hour, but we'll see how we go. What I'm going to do, what I'm going to show you, is how OpenRefine works, how you can use it. And some things I've done, I've been using it heavily over the past few months for some cleaning up of some institutional data that we have. So this is the main home page of OpenRefine. It's open source software. You can go to openrefine.org and get it there. There is a official release. If you go to the download page, you'll see that. That doesn't have all the features that I'm going to show you today. So I'm actually going to, and you might be interested in using the latest GitHub version, which is available from their GitHub site. And if you ever use GitHub, it's the very straightforward procedure of cloning the Git thing. And I have it in a little window over here. So one thing about OpenRefine that I should mention is, which is different from some other tools that you may use, it runs locally on your own computer. It's not some central service. I don't think it's anybody's installed it that way. It probably could be used that way if you want to. But it's very easy to set it up on your own if you have some of the development tools like Git or even at least Java installed on your system, then you can use it locally, as I'm going to do on this laptop. So you can do a Git clone. That takes a few minutes. I'm not going to do it here. And then you just do a build. Just do outside refined build. And that just takes a few seconds. And I'm actually going to run it. Another window, which is lost here. Window's moved around. Here it is. OK. So to run it, all you have to do is dot slash refine in the directory where it was built. And it will start the project running. And it brings up a web browser pointed at the OpenRefine interface. So the interface itself is a web interface. And what you see here is it's actually got some projects that I've already been working on. One of them is a copy of what I'm going to demo to you today. So it says demo test on it. But I'm going to actually start from the beginning, which is just creating a project. You just have to find the file, which is, I can't demo. Demo accounts, right? You open the file. It shows what's in the file. It can take all sorts of different formats. This is just a plain CSV file. And you'll see what it has on it is a number of institutions in our data with an account ID, which is an internal ID of some sort. Name, display name, which is a variant of the name, address city. So this is typical data that you might have either with institutions or people or something else that you're trying to clean up and link to stuff. So this is the project creation page. And it just gives you a chance to, if there's anything wrong with the way it's formatted, but everything worked perfectly here. So we're just going to create the project. And oh, no, update the preview. I'll create a project, yeah. And there it is. So it shows that same information in a project format. And you'll notice it has the data over here. And then it has some things over here for filtering and also an undo, redo log. We'll look at that in a minute. But basically, it keeps track of everything you do to your data.  And you can also export that log of changes so you can apply the same changes to other data if that is something that you need to do. All right, what we're going to do here is their very basic reconciliation, which is actually very nice because built into OpenRefine is a Wiki data reconciliation piece. So what that's doing is it's looking at the names of the things in my list here. It's actually finding what kinds of things they are in Wiki data. And it can tell these are institutions of some sort. There's some universities, high schools, libraries. I'm going to have it reconciled against instead of just one of those types. I'm going to use the whole organization, not organic chemistry organization. And we're going to reconcile them. And this, of course, depends on it'll take some time, depending on how much data you have. If you have thousands of entries, it's going to take maybe an hour to do with a dozen. It just takes a few seconds. And you'll see that it's linked up most of them with Wiki data records. In fact, on the left, you'll see it's created two filters, or facets. One with the judgment, which is a little covered by the Tuggish Spiegel here. But you'll see it says matches. Actually, it didn't match most of them. It matched five of them automatically. And then seven are not matched. We can look at the seven that are not matched here. If I just click on here. And then we can work on figuring out why they didn't match and finding a Wiki data match for them. So first one here is a Max Planck thing. And it's got a candidate match, which is library. But we actually want to match to the real institution, not to the library. So I'm going to click on here to bring up the link from Wiki data. And you'll see it says it's part of this thing. So we'll just take the QID here. And so you can either match every cell that has that same name, or just match one cell. I typically just match the one cell because I know that my data usually has just one record for institutions. But if you have many records for the same institution, you can do it all at once here with the same label. And so that's going to match that. So now we have Max Planck Institute linked in that case. And so there's some other examples here. Let's see. Actually, I'm going to cancel this right now. We're going to cut and paste. So this is something that's in an institute. So the name didn't match partly because of the extra bits in the name that probably aren't part of the, let's see, I think it was Mechanics, right? OK, we want the institute. And there it is. So you have to know something about the thing that you're trying to link to. But if you can find it, you can match it. You can see that with just a piece of the name in Wikidata. OK, there's some other ones. So sometimes you're not going to be able to find enough in your data to match things. The Logan High School here, my data set just has absolutely nothing, no other information about it, just the name. And there's plenty of them in Wikidata. So it's obviously not going to match. Let's see. University of Latvia. This isn't the odd one. But the reason it didn't quite match up is because the name in my data says the University of Latvia. But it has actually University of Latvia. It's clearly the right thing there. So we're just going to link that up. You can just click on a checkbox to link it directly. So this would have matched one of the wonderful things about Wikidata, of course, is the multilinguality. So we can look up for this Polish name. And you'll find that there it is, the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the first thing there. That's clearly the one we want. So we can link that up. All right, so we've linked most of them. And I could do the other ones, too. The FHI for integrita sheltering in is just misspelled in our records. It should be an extra R in that name. And so you can do a search on Wikidata to find that's a Fraunhofer Institute. So anyway, so those are the ways you can match. So the interesting thing here is to, so let's go look at the ones that are now matched. We're going to look at all the matched ones. And OpenFind actually comes with a facility to add data to your data set based on Wikidata information. So I can go here, again, to these names that have been reconciled. I'm going to remove the Logan High School one as well. Wait. I don't know that one. Wait a second. Oh, yeah, I'm going to include these ones. Here we go. Can't quite read my screen here. OK, we're going to add columns based on reconciled data. So we can do that with edit column, add columns based on reconciled data. And then it comes up with a list of, it's actually come up with a list of typical Wikidata properties that are associated with these institutions in my list here, or maybe associated with these types of institutions, these types of Wikidata entities. So let's add headquarters location if we have that. We can add located in the administrative. Some of them have that instead of headquarters location. And it shows up. So you can add multiple columns at once. You can also add things based on the labels in Wikipedia. So P17 is country. You can actually follow paths. P17, P2A gives the three letter country code. And that's the same code as normally my data set was using there, so we can add these. If there's external identifiers you want to add or other things you can just add them to the list. And it's going to pull those in as new columns in my data set. So I can export this data and compare things. So if we do a, I can export it, but I can also compare things right here. So I can do a comparison between this country code and the country code that was in my original data and see if they match. Sorry, add a facet, custom facet. And this has a whole expression language, which is pretty similar to some programming languages. And it has a help that helps you figure out how to do this. But here I'm just doing a comparison between the value on that column and the value in the country column, which was the original one. And it shows three of them did not match. So why didn't they match? Three different reasons. One is because even though our data set was supposedly using the three-letter country codes, in fact, for the United States they put in the United States instead of USA. Second one is somebody seems to be very confused about what the country code is for Switzerland. It's not Swaziland, I think is what that is. And then the third one is there seems to be some conflict between, so somehow it has University of Latvia, but it also has it in Warsaw, Poland. So that might be something to look into the data and see what's going on there or figure out what you're doing. One of the nice things about OpenRefine, though, is you can edit your own data as well and fix up problems like this. So I can just change USA, United States to USA, and I can apply it to all the data in my spreadsheet, in my data, and then that problem goes away. So that is actually pretty much everything I had. I wanted to show. I'm going to remove these filters and just go back to the original data here and see if you guys had any questions. That's it. Nobody. It's very easy. There's a lot more stuff. I should mention that Antonin Delpoit, who is a Wikidata contributor, couldn't be here, but he's worked a lot on this, and he's actually working on an export to Quick Statements. So you could take data like this, run it through OpenRefine, link it to Wikidata items, and then export updates. So like if you had an ID in here that wasn't in Wikidata, you could export that as a Quick Statements list and update Wikidata almost directly from OpenRefine. So it's very nice and integrated. In the meantime, I've got a question for you in the room. Would I already use it or at least heard about it OpenRefine? Yeah, not bad. Good. I have a question when you are searching for the name. You have there just labels and no descriptions. So it's sometimes very uneasy. For example, if you can choose new match, you can try. Yeah, for example, this open. Right, this one here. Yeah. For example. Oh, sorry. You can write there, for example, PROC, and you will see what is problem. Yeah, it doesn't show descriptions. Yeah, no, that is true. That would probably be nice. So that depends on this is using this Wikidata reconciliation for OpenRefine interface. I think I'm not sure who wrote that. Anybody in this room? But that's an API that obviously can be modified to do better on that kind of thing, I guess. And you can write those, if you have another data source or another Wikibase instance, you could write a reconciliation interface for that and link to that instead of Wikidata. So regarding this reconciliation, so I see it works quite well for names, but it will work like for any properties. For example, I have a database of some stuff I want to upload to Wikidata, but so it looks perfect to match, for example, IDs that we have currently on Wikidata from some database and our database. So we can clearly and super quickly remove all the data that we already have on Wikidata. So we make sure that we don't have any duplicates, right? Yes. Yeah, one of the things I forgot to show you when you're doing the reconcile. So what I've done here is I've stepped back to before I did reconciliation, but when you bring this up, you can actually add additional properties. So you see the other things in here I could have added, I think I can add p17 slash p298 here, for example. And it would try to reconcile that with the country code to make sure that it only matched where that was matching or if I had another ID and that was an ID in Wikidata, it would try to match that ID directly to the Wikidata records. So you can enhance the matching process and adjust it a bit. Anyway, it's worth using. All right. Any more questions? You're sure? Last word? One, two, three. Catch me later if you need to. All right. Thank you. What do you mean?


Well, hi there, it's Sandy Allnock, and while there are bunnies in this, I'm calling it Color Acopic Arbor. I'm using the Arbor and the bunnies from Art Impressions. The bunnies was from a year or two ago, I think they came out, but the Arbor is new. So first I'm going to color the bunnies the way I ended up stamping them. There's four in the little set, and I only had to mask one of the bunnies so that I could have one bunny behind and I'm going to be coloring them in four different types of grays just so you can get an idea of how different they can feel. Now I don't know if these Dutch marking bunnies, which I think I talked about that in yesterday's video, these Dutch bunnies may or may not hang out with all the other breeds of bunnies. I don't know how bunnies get along or whether they just hang out with their own kind of bunnies, but they're all going to be different bunnies because I felt like it and it's piece of art so I can do what I want. So my bunnies are all universally getting along with all other bunnies. They are very tolerant and kind and loving to all other bunnies of the world. This little bunny has a tail on the side. I'm not really sure how his tail is like off to the wrong direction. It feels like it should be moved to the back farther. Maybe I'm just seeing something that isn't a thing and that sort of thing. Maybe that tail is really where it should be, but we're just going to call him Broken Tail Bunny, so we'll give him his own little name. Little pet peeve I have is the second side of ears. If you've got any pink inside of an ear and opening in the ear, then the opposite ear opens the opposite direction. So if it's opening toward the back, it wouldn't be pink in there. So that's my little tip for you when you have the second ear. Usually you don't see the insides of both of them unless it's the bunny in the middle. The bunny in the middle has both of his ears pointing forward so he can hear. So he would have the opening for both of his little ears coming that way. So we had the neutrals. The bunny on the right was the warm grays. The one in the back is the cool grays, and this is the toner grays. You do not need them all. If you are trying to buy Copic Markers, I would get some worms and some coolers and call it done. The toners and the neutrals, I'm not sure that I use them enough to call them worthwhile. I mean, I use them because I'm using them because they're inked up and my other grays may run out of ink, but that's really all I use them for. It's not like I sit there and think, I totally need a toner gray for this particular thing. I don't ever have that thought. It's usually just grabbing whichever one is nearest when it comes time to figuring out what colors I'm going to use. So don't sweat the T's and the N's. So I put a little bit of color down here at the base because my plan was to cut the bunnies out and to fussy cut them. What I do is cut off that giant chunk at the top because it makes it a little easier to get scissors into this little section to cut out the little bits and I turn the scissors kind of and turn the paper not in a way that is going to twist my wrist off, but usually the paper goes around a little bit more and the scissor hand stays a little bit more still and you can see it makes a pretty decent little line. So I have them all cut out and I'm going to start preparing to put my arbor in the back. So I took some double stick score sheet. It's like score tape but on a sheet and these are some of the dies and you can see the elegant shapes that they have. They're very detailed and these are from Art Impressions and they're intended to be used for watercolor but I'm going to use them for this Copic card and I'm also, since I have a little room on this one, I also cut out the fence and the little bird bath or the bird bath, the little bird on a on a wire, whatever that thing is, that little hanging bird cage and also one of the just plain old bird cages. There's a couple other sets that they have with these dies now. Some of them come with stamps and dies and some of them are just the dies, so pay attention to what you're buying. I'll have them all linked in the do we do even though I don't have all of them done as samples to show you, but for this I wanted to indicate for myself where the arbor is so I decided to put a sky in the back and I airbrushed a little sky over top. You could also do this with some inks if you would like, you know if you have inking techniques you can do just don't press the sticker down because when you die cut this with the sticky on the back it makes a sticker out of it and you don't want it stuck down yet because the first coloring is better done underneath of the die before you get that part going and what I started off with was making kind of a wacky s so that I was making a vine that would just translate all around the different sections of the arbor itself and it would look like it's winding front and back and all the way around etc. You generally wouldn't have flowers maybe on every single bit of it so it's kind of nice to let some of that detail show through. I did check that my bunnies were going to fit where they needed to at the bottom and made sure that the grass was going to work there. The top section the light green color that I used I ended up with just making a really loose kind of kind of swag shape and then took a darker color and used smaller marker lines to do this and just made my own little flowers. Now you could look at the other art impression stamps and make marks that look like those in order to create flowers. You could also if you've taken my Copic Wildflowers classes there's all kinds of wildflower shapes that you could use for this but really it doesn't matter a whole lot I'm just making dots in a bunch of cases I'm just clustering them so that they look like flowers instead of making it look like just a cacophony of color and just different kinds of colors a couple pinks do a chunk of yellow because everything has to have yellow in it because that's how I roll put some lighter smaller flowers down at the bottom and then stick the the actual sticker down there and I went in with some of the darker colors I guess the darker green to fill in some areas and squinted at it to see if there were places that needed to have some darkness like underneath where the arch curves over look like it needed to look like there was a shadow there and then I could glue my little body's panel in the front and just use some dimensional adhesive to pop that up I did trim it down a little bit trim down the edges so that it's going to get a little bit smaller and since I knew I was going to be trimming it down I didn't have to color all the way to the edge so here I finished off that coloring that I started with I wasn't sure whether I was going to add flowers and grasses in the front or whether I wanted to retain that neutral color at the bottom so I did decide the neutral would be better but here's some of the other dies you can see they they come out kind of cool there's a chair there's also a whole gazebo that has a die you can cut this thing out with but I made these three sample cards with a couple of these the ones that I had cut out from that one piece of brown paper while I had it all glued up with that score tape and uh yeah my finished little bunny card for bunny week I've got more bunny videos all week long so make sure you stay tuned and I will see you again very soon like tomorrow with more bunnies and if not if you're watching this at another time I'll see you in a couple of days because I usually do Monday, Wednesday, Friday videos all right guys I'll see you later, bye


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I can believe that some of my monitors are also vest-amounted and it is nice that you don't need to pay for something that you won't actually be using. If you do get the stand, it is very solid and very minimalist as well. The spectrum also doesn't come with any cables, no HDMI, no display port. Again, very apple-like in its aesthetic. This was an annoyance. You do expect your monitor to come with the cables that it needs for you to be able to use it out of the box. But I very quickly found an extra display port cable so it is just a minor annoyance rather than a game stopper. And I am in favor of these things that lets us cut back on our tech waist. The monitor itself is slim, compact, and unobtrusive. Again, it sort of just melts into the background instead of being a look at me kind of display. Even the unboxing experience is very apple with its pull out compartments and it's designed for you triumphalism. And to be clear, I am not an apple fan but the whole minimalist thing works for me and it does give the spectrum a very premium feel. Finally, I also appreciated how the spectrum settings weren't cluttered with a lot of options that a lot of users won't use. I feel that monitor manufacturers are kind of insecure where they're like, I need to cram different features that need to be enabled in the setting via a very hard to use menu that maybe 80% of users won't bother with. Walang gano na kalokohan sa spectrum. It just has the basic settings like brightness, contrast, which I feel is all you really need if the monitor quality is good. That said, I did have to adjust the spectrum settings for my personal taste. I make a big deal out of monitors that I really like because they come out of the box with settings that are just right for the average user. That wasn't my experience with the spectrum, I did need to make it brighter, maybe pump up the contrast a little bit to get it right for my taste. But because the menu was so simple, that was easy to do. Assembly was easy, settings were easy, so finally how did this thing perform?  It actually lives up to the hype that its specs generate. Gaming was smooth and tear-free. I tried it out first on older games like Left 4 Dead 2, which don't support 4K, but would allow me to see that blistering refresh rate. And the spectrum was able to keep its display silky smooth. Again, no tearing, no jagged screen cuts, no nothing. How it's like in real life to move your head around is what it was like playing FPS on the Eve spectrum. Like Warrior V mercenaries, a much newer game was very pretty with the associated explosions and particle projection cannons. Everything looked great. Everything looked very vivid. For gaming, I really don't have any complaints with this monitor. All of the specs came together for a very satisfying experience. And the same is true for editing and video-watching. Images were so crisp and clear that in 4K, you could really see all of the sad imperfections of the guy on camera. Every little detail is disturbingly noticeable. All of this quality is doubly impressive because Eve is a young company with a crowdfunding background. It's a new kid on the block which doesn't have the same name as let's say Samsung, LG, or ASOS. Which makes this very quality product quite an achievement really. And it's really nice to see young blood pushing specs forward. All of the good things being said, I do have to note that the color on the spectrum didn't pop quite as much as some of the other 4K 240Hz monitors that I've tried. The color gamut on the spectrum just seemed a little bit duller in comparison. Now this is actually good for professional photographers or video editors who don't want a lot of processing in their image. They want the color as natural as possible so that they can be the ones to apply their color correction. But primarily as a gamer, I was just looking for a bit more oomph in the display. I am in the minority with this opinion and again MechWarrior 5 mercenaries in particular displayed beautifully. But to my eyes, the display was just a tad bit less lustrous, a bit dimmer, a bit less pop compared to some of the other monitors with similar specs that I've tried. Price-wise, it is a little heavy for this monitor at around 48,000 for the monitor than another 5,000 or so for the stand. Although you'd be hard pressed to find a monitor with these specs for that price, so actually for what you get, it's already quite good. And the spectrum is readily available. We don't carry it on stock at present, but you can custom order it from us if you're interested. Bottom line, this is a very capable monitor which amazingly does all of the specs it has on the side of its box. It's an especially good choice for content creators that spend a lot of time editing but want to game as well or if your content is gaming, then this monitor will slot in perfectly into your workflow. God wanted us to have the best of both worlds and now we do with the EVE spectrum. Thanks for watching. And thank you to our top fans na affordo namin to kapua na ito, ande jok lang. Thank you to Leah Magnaya, Ian Meru, Richard Ongkinko, ITX addict, John Ruben Otsha, Christian Espinoza, and Raphael James. Thank you for supporting the channel.


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i'm not too sure what's going on in the world right now because well let me explain I have just taken a short flight two and a half hours from the UK into one of the Balearic Islands this one being New Yorker to Pooler Gulf resort looks absolutely incredible and the plan was quite simple of the weather in the UK right now is fairly grim so we'll fly off to somewhere warm. We'll create a load of content over a three or four day period. We'll have a look yn gyfnod y gelfrydg, beth yn gofyn yn y dyn, gweithio ar y gwrdd, yn edrych ac ystod o gwaith yn llwyddo i'r llwyng hwn. Mae hynny'n gwybod o'r ddechrau hynny yma ar gyfer y gweithi, ond mae'n gweithio ar y gweithio ar hierr yma yma ar gyfer hwn. Wrth gwrth i'r gwaith, mae'n gweithio ar gwaith gyda'r gweithi. Mae'n gweithio ar gyfer hwn, ond mae'n gweithio ar gyfer hwn ar gyfer eich cyfnod請i gwybod yn gweithio ar gyfer 400 yn gweithio ar gyfer hwn. Mae cyfain, mae'n sicrhau morfio, mae'n dweud i gyllid, mae'r gwein wedyn yn y pryd mae'r gwein yn gweithio ac mae'r gwein yn 50 a 60 oes o'r gwein. Yr tyfnwyr. Cymru yn datblygu'r gwahanol a'r cyfwiliadau yn eisgfeydd ar amlwg o ran oedraedd ac mae'n gofio yna i'n byw i'r gwympwn i'ch gwein wedyn yn direm y direryddol. Mae'r gwein yn geirloedd. Mae hynny'nbod ramio yw ei fod i'n gwein bod yn amlwg ar y gwein, I don't think I'm going to get out on the golf course today so it could be a few hours editing back in the hotel room which thank god is very nice and then just fingers crossed for tomorrow morning which I'm pretty sure the storm is passing it's just whether or not the water drains from the course because it's rained for the past 48 hours I would say so it's going to be some impressive drainage to get rid of all that but anyway we shall see never did I expect to be in a monsoon in Mallorca right so before I go back into lockdown into my room I'm staying in what you call an apartment I suppose which is as you've seen got kitchen area bathroom living space but behind me is the main hotel building which I think judging by that sign I've just took a little bit of a glimpse that dates back to 1581 I know this is a golf channel but this is seriously pretty lineup of buildings and estates here and I'm sure there's lots of history that surrounds it unfortunately I'm here for the golf and although we've definitely taken a little bit of cover down here at the moment there's still no sign of things changing there but it's such a shame because just with a bit of sunshine this place would look pretty gorgeous I think and I've only ever seen visuals of the golf course itself which again are pretty stunning to be fair right back into lockdown well what a difference a day makes they say and the sun is shining and I'm pleased to report we're finally going to get onto this golf course but it looks oh so different in some nice sunshine now if I'm stood here looking at that golf hole apart from the fact I think it looks incredible I want a club in my hand that I think I can hit the ferry with is this the one we're certainly going left with cut that's left cutting towards the water be positive and oh my word this could be the one that to me looks like it's the middle of the ferry the question is what is it what do you know what this is right on it as well go oh well that's gone up the bunker and it's not new from the bunker so that's an interesting one it's done exactly what I wanted it to in terms of the line that I chose it didn't move but it certainly didn't cut and one thing I'd like to check before I go any further is if this is in fact they draw bias in terms of that head profile and it's waiting right good news again is that we've got a well what looks to be another sunny day ahead so it's back onto the first tee and I've got a few more products to review and have a better look round of pooler today which is looking even better than yesterday right okay so as you've seen quite a few shots from on the course so my whole week here has been about product testing got lots of content filmed in the last two days and I cannot believe how well this course has drained when you consider that kind of almost hurricane that we've had over the last 48 hours prior it was unreal but it's also a shame that I'm not able to sort of show this course off to its full sort of potential there's a lot of water features around this golf course a lot of interesting layouts in terms of the design of the holes and hopefully I've showed you a little bit of that along the way but perhaps not like I'd want to do and it's the same really with the accommodation the whole thing I think it's absolutely stunning I love a modern hotel don't get me wrong but it's nice to come to a place like this where there's also so much character in these buildings as well the food has been good the staff have been super friendly as well which is always nice so everybody in the restaurants of an evening is really friendly um help me out in terms of my Spanish is horrendous their English is far better than my Spanish and like I said we've had a bit of a laugh of an evening as well so it's been good and just off to do a little bit of putting practice before I go back out on the course so there's a little bit of an update for you I'll film a little bit more out on the course this afternoon and maybe catch up and speak to you again a little bit later on turnball turnball nearly yeah the other good thing to mention here or worth mentioning at least is the fact that the practice facilities are superb that's trackman range that they've got on every bay behind me some nice uh putting greens all we need is that wind to die down a little before we go out on that first tee because as you can see from their flags the breeze has picked up again a little bit cold there you go at the bunker really solid ball I'm going to say at the bunker slightly left of the bunker it's gone a whole long way so inside left of the bunker is the line that's bang on again I mean it's to be honest with you oh wow that's almost too long oh my word I think that's got to go a bit go a bit more oh don't spin that has gotten over by literally a couple of feet and I've no idea what the yardage was didn't get one that wedge by the way interestingly enough is a mizzuno s23 super soft I played a 56 clearly not the right wedge but nice little golf ball hadn't it right so that's it my final morning at pool of golf resorts um of course a couple of days have really stormy weather but seen enough of that golf course to uh well to make me want to come back to be honest with you some great holes out there hopefully it's give you a little bit of an insight into what this place is like and what it certainly can be like it's it's been a pleasure to be honest with you to stay here and uh if that sun was shining it'd have been all the more better anyway as ever I always like to bring you along for the ride thanks for watching I'm about to get a plane home and I'll see you all tomorrow night


Good evening everybody. Good evening traders, investors and everyone attending the second webinar in the future series with Tick Mill. I want to welcome everybody. I hope everybody's had a good week since our last webinar last week. Today we're going to be touching up on how the futures are used in the capital markets, but just to give some newcomers that weren't able to join last week a little brief on myself. My name is Ali Hamedi. I am a consultant working with Tick Mill regarding the webinar series for futures and how they're used. And at the same time, I have been in the markets for 18 years. I've worked with Merrill Lynch on Wall Street, private investment banks and other financial firms. And I'm bringing my experience and knowledge and helping educate and the listeners understand and have a better understanding of what futures are and how they can be used to help them within their portfolios and their strategies moving forward. That being said, the title of today's webinar. As I mentioned last week. I don't like to necessarily read straight off of what each one of the slides are I like to explain I like to discuss I like to get in detail conversationally. I like to keep it informal and keep it conversational. In retrospective, how futures are used as a recap from last week, they are a derivative futures, basically obligate a buyer and or a seller to to sell or buy that predetermined asset at a future date at a predetermined price. In the future. In most cases, particularly with Tick Mill, these are settled on a cast settlement basis not on a physical delivery basis. Getting into what we're discussing tonight. We're going to be discussing how they're used in the capital markets specifically from a hedging perspective, and from a speculation perspective. By definition, what hedging is hedging is against investment risk, meaning strategically using financial instruments or market strategies to offset the risk of any adverse price movements under the for the underlying asset. Investors hedge one investment by making a trade and another when it comes to speculation speculation is a trading strategy that often involves very quick pace buying and selling. And it's based on hunches, educational guesses and or theories on price moves as opposed to fundamentals about the financial asset or the investment or the underlying investment. As such the timing of entry and exit is very crucial and designed to achieve fast profits and speculation involves a significant amount of risk. Now, getting the definitions out of the way. I want to jump straight into one of the hottest topics that's taking place in the markets, currently at the moment right now, and that is with crude oil based on the geopolitically and the sea of pain, Russia, or Ukraine. It's turned into a global geopolitical platform that nobody really knows how it's going to turn out how long it's going to last, and what the ramifications are will be for either party, or either country, either, let's say, alliance at the end of the day. Now, what I've done here is taken a screenshot from yesterday's price from trading view of what crude oils spot price, spot price was, let me see if I can magnify this for you so that we can give you a better view of the screen. One second here. Apologies. With the screen it's not working. Anyway, to get to give you a better example. If you're able on your screen to enlarge what I want to focus in on here is this is the spot price to where crude was trading yesterday the current crude prices trading at 127 60 it's up eight points today, as I'm speaking right now. If you look at the graph at the beginning. That has been the traditional trading range between 60 to $80. And then as you see the uptrend start to take place. You see the increase in the geopolitical tension with the increase of the geopolitical tension. You see investors you see institutional corporations and institutional investors, starting to take positions include oil, due to the increase in price and then you can see, obviously the spike, the definitive spike in March, once the actual crisis took place. Now, when this happened, you see a huge price fluctuation and how we're able to use this within the futures market. I'm going to give you an example on this is a snapshot of from trading view, what a may 2022 contract futures contract costs. It was trading at 118 at the time, I took the snapshot yesterday, oil was trading around 122 123 and the May futures contract is trading at $118. And if I take you to the next slide. You're going to see the December 2022 crude oil from trading view for trade 2022 December futures contract trading around $97 98. What do these mean. Obviously, with the spot price trading at in the range that it's at now between 122 to 127 today's current price. Yesterday at this particular time of this particular snapshot. One would have been able to engage in a may, which means it expires in the third Friday of May at 122. Sorry, at $118 and change. That's saying that by the time this contract expires cash settlement would be determined, whether profit or lost on the investor side in their portfolio depending on the price of oil. By the time the expiry comes in the third by the third Friday in May. What is your price discrepancy. Why is maze price 118 when the December contract is 97 and the current prices trading above both of those prices. For example, you're talking about speculation, and you're talking about time value of money, and you're talking about the uncertainty of what's taking place within this particular commodity. Before to take the December 2022 contract that ends expiry third Friday of December at $97, and you take into effect what analyst what the what Wall Street is saying what a specific oil analyst across the globe are saying what oil oil could reach I just read a report earlier this morning that Goldman Sachs is saying their price target for crude is 135 I've seen targets as high as 150 I even saw one as crude oil, possibly even reaching $200 by the end of the year. What I know means is an investment advice. This is not advice to tell you where food is moving. This is pure. Let's say information and data that's coming across all spectrums within the financial markets that I come across and do my due diligence on. This provides a prime opportunity to get involved with tick mill to get involved in futures specifically so that you can understand how you can profit from them one, but to understand how to use them in order to profit from them. So, this is going to go back to you as an investor. This is going to go back to you as to what you're doing within your particular portfolio. This is also available across the spectrum of indices within the S&P 500 within gold, within other commodities as well I'm just using crude oil, due to its flashpoint due to its hot topic of the day, if you will, due to what's happening in the current events. Now, how do businesses and corporations to protect themselves businesses and corporations use futures from a hedging perspective, meaning, if a particular company or corporation on any particular underlying asset needs to deliver. Okay, that means they have to give they have to provide this specific commodity at a specific to a specific customer, and they want to lock in a price due to the volatility. In the future's market and they'll find the contract that suits their price based on their own analytics their own due diligence and find the contract that best suits the price for their cost benefit analysis, and they will engage in this particular futures contract to lock in that price in that particular contract. And what this does, regardless of what happens, and the price movement during the course of whether it's one month, two months, six months or more. They know that they have locked in their price, and they also know that they're running the risk that the price could move against them, and at the same time it could move for them, neither here nor there, they're going to provide that particular asset at that particular price. Now this company organization institution, whatever you want to call it, is now able to manage their business, accordingly, knowing that they have locked in a specific price under for that underlying asset. Now, most of the time, it comes out as a net net, they don't get into hedging purposes to make money, sometimes they end up making money on the particular future contract, and sometimes they end up losing money on the particular hedging contract. This is mainly used to lock in a specific price at a future date, knowing that they are able to manage their business accordingly. This is how they use hedging. A very simple sample example, just like I said, if a company called a company X, they know that within six months they have to purchase 20,000 ounces of silver in order to fulfill a specific order. What are they going to do, if assuming that the current price for silver at the time of decision is at $12 per ounce, and a six month contract for silver is at $11 an ounce, they know that by purchasing this particular contract. Once from now, they will be able to fulfill this order at $11 per ounce, regardless of what the price of silver is at that current point in time. If the company decides to not partake in risk management and not partake in the futures market and engage in a futures contract, they still, regardless of time, know that in six months time, they have to deliver 20,000 ounces of silver. If the company decides to not partake in the futures contract, they will have to pay $14 an ounce at that point in time of delivery to fulfill their obligation if they don't have a futures contract in place. If a company has a contract in place, and they have a contract in hand that allows them to purchase it at $11 or obligates them to purchase it at $11 per ounce, thus hedging or risk managing their risk against the market volatility. This graph here is very simple as this particular example with company X regarding silver moving up and down in value. They purchased the contract at $11 deliverable in six months throughout the course of that six months, you're going to see the fluctuation in price. Now, as the price of silver moves up in value, so does the value of the contract. That means if they wanted to close the contract for profitability and engage in a new contract, they can do so. If they're happy with the contract they have in place, they leave it in place, and they let the fluctuation of the price and value of silver throughout the course of that six months, take its course, and then they deliver it at $11 per ounce. Now you can see as the price moves up, the contract becomes more profitable as the price of silver comes down, the value of the contract loses value. And in this particular example, if it ends up at $14 within six months, the contract is profitable, they're still delivering silver at $11 per ounce. Now, for investors, when an investor uses futures contracts as part of their hedging strategy, the goal is to reduce the likelihood that they will experience a loss due to an unfavorable change in the market value of the underlying asset. Usually a security or another financial instrument, meaning a commodity. In this example, it could be silver, oil, naphat, fiatkundahab, fiatkundamah, fiatkundra, fiatkund, any of the commodities. If the security or the financial instrument experiences a lot of volatility, the investor may be more likely to purchase the futures contract. So then it goes back to what's taking place with the overall market, what's taking place within the specific sector that they are involved in. And what's taking place with that particular price volatility in that particular commodity or investment that they are interested in. Now we move into speculation. Speculation is a whole different ballgame. We've now discussed the hedging part or the hedging use of how futures can be used for businesses that have to deliver physical delivery, whether receive and or deliver themselves, how they can manage their business risk, their cost benefit analysis and business strategy. Now, when we flip over to the speculation side, we're talking about individual investors, like myself, maybe some of you as listeners as well, where, how can we use it when we're not even a business and we're not even worried about physical delivery of large sums of whatever commodity we may be engaged in. This is where the cash settlement based on what she was talking about money cash settlement basis. And then again we have the broad spectrum we have indices and we have commodities in a broad range of commodities that we can get engaged in to speculate on. Now, getting back to the hot topic on what's taking place in recent current events. Right now, crude oil is very, very crude oil is very. One second here. There we go. Okay. So crude oil is the hot topic of the day. So let's say someone wants to speculate on crude oil. And I, I gave you an example earlier in the discussion this evening that we have some articles you have some analysts coming from Wall Street, it's going to hit 135 it's going to hit 150 it's going to hit 200. And at the end of the day, from the end of the day. It's impossible. But now as an individual investor and we can go in and we can look at the price. I gave you an example of yesterday's snapshot the cost of a December 2022 crude oil futures contract being at plus or minus $97 knowing that the price of oil. Currently at that point time was trading at 121. If the price of oil continues to increase like it is today, and continues to be volatile but in an upward trend throughout the year, and you were to engage or invest into the December 2022 crude oil contract in the course of the year between now in December, that contract value will only increase. Now here as an investor, you have the ability to decide where you want to pick and choose your profitability rate. Are you happy with the profitability at a specific point in time before the expiry date. Sakura and take the profit off the table, and then take a look at where the market is, and then continue engaging in assessing what other future contracts may be attractive for your specific portfolio. If the market is moved against you in the first few months, you still know that you have until December for the market to do what it does and fluctuate, but just know that at the end of December. Third Friday of December that X that contract expires. And regardless of what the price is at that point in time will this will depend on what the cash settlement basis will be. Yeah. Now, this is a very simple table of the key takeaways when we're talking about hedging and speculation. Understand that futures require a higher degree or higher level of knowledge and information. And understanding before one takes their first step into this particular domain. I'm not trying to scare anybody there is, there's nothing to be scared about as long as you understand how they operate. What they're used for, and how to use them from a hedging perspective, even if you're an individual investor and you're not even a conglomerate a corporation shirkie that is required to either receive or deliver physical goods. You can still hedge your portfolio if you find yourself overweight in a particular, let's say, investment or sector that you're not comfortable in wanting to, let's say shave down you want to hold on to your positions. But due to the volatility, how can you protect yourself and let's come out with let's say a zero some some situation where you keep your positions, and you know you're protected. Then let's look at what hedging can do for you to strategies to protect the investment from future adverse price movement. The objective of hedging is to reduce risk risk for risk averse investors are the ones that are opting for the hedging strategies hedgers protect themselves from this volatility. And you need to know at the end of the day that there could be no or very minimum profit potential. Now, crossing over speculation. It's a completely different ballgame. On it's a strategy that's designed specifically to help you make profit on these assets or these underlying assets. The objective is to make profit. The use of the price movement of the underlying asset is to help you make profit. The investors who love to take these types of risks are the ones that opt into speculative futures contracts. Speculators use this price volatility to make a profit, meaning they don't necessarily hold on to the contract until it's expiry, unless they really really feel that the market is moving and trending in their way all the way through the duration of the contract. Otherwise, they can pick and choose their comfort zone of profitability close out the contract move on to the next reassess where the market is and take another speculative position. The potential for earnings is a mess back to how they operate, which will be coming up in the future webinar on how to calculate the profitability or the valuation of these contracts within the markets. It's a point value. Each point has a value, but this value is different across each different specific investment item or asset class one point in crude oil, the value of that is different than one point for gold. It's also one different for the S&P 500 and it's different for all of the other underlying asset classes as well. We'll be able to go into the valuation of what one point versus one tick, the valuation, how to calculate it, how to look for how to set price targets, how to minimize your risk, even if you're speculating how to minimize your risk when you partake in speculative futures contracts. And I want to end before I take questions and open up the floor for questions and answers from Jeff Bezos. I'm sure many of you have heard who he is he's an American entrepreneur media proprietor investor and computer engineer, most famously known for founding Amazon, he is the executive chairman of Amazon, and basically here's a quote from him given a 10% chance of 100 times the payoff, you should take that bet every time. That's coming from a billionaire. That's coming from someone who's established, but if you take his quote in context, and you understand what the futures markets can offer you as an individual investor, regardless of size, understanding how to use them, understanding market trends. Like I said last week, it's a perfect storm at the moment you have so many, let's say variable elements that are affecting the markets in different ways, aside from the oil crisis that's taking place. We're going to be raising rates according to the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell. This week, probably 25 basis points is what he iterated last week. That's what's the market expecting. They could come in with a 50 basis point rate hike, but the market's pricing in a 25% or 25 basis point, sorry 25 basis point rate hike. But aside from that, the volatility within the stock market itself. I'm inshuf iqtiyash shariqat pulling out of Russia, due to the geopolitical tension. You're seeing a lot of corporations pulling out of Russia, how is that going to affect their business, their business model their business strategies their earnings per share when it comes to their quarterly earnings report that will be coming up. There are a lot of them reporting March and April and so forth. Will it affect them severely will affect them positively. Time will tell. Another one, gold, gold now has crossed over $2,000 gold currently right now as I speak is trading at 2000, according to Yahoo Finance. It's going to be $4046 an ounce. It's crossed the 2000 barrier for the first time in a while. This is another prime example of the volatility that the market is providing, based on many elements, not just one. You should be aware of the overall market view, not just narrowing in and focusing on while crude oil is going up and it's going to continue going up and it's going to make me rich and and not be aware of the surrounding elements that's taking place. Now, with that being said, I want to thank you for listening. I've given you now the two ways how you can use via tick mill the futures from a hedging perspective to protect minimize your risk and minimize minimize possible losses to the speculation perspective of being able to go in and say, you know what hey I think oil is going to go do this or oil gold is going to do this. And you can pick and choose an array of expiry date contracts that are available on the platform and be able to pick and choose the price that you find suitable that you're willing to engage in. You pay that margin, and then you let it play out. Like I said, you need to know what you're doing. This is a little more. I shouldn't say a little more. This is more advanced than the traditional trading of specific assets if it goes up. You make a profit. If it goes down. You lose some money. This is a different ball game. But if you understand how it works and how to intertwine it and weave it in to your overall portfolio, then you will be able to find a positive outcome and a positive use for futures. That being said, I'm opening up the floor now to see if we have any questions, and I can answer what I can. Is there a courting of last week's webinar tick mill will be putting up each of these webinars on their YouTube channel. I don't know exactly when they will be uploading one of the webinars on on their YouTube channel, but they will be doing so on on their YouTube channel each and every single one of the webinars within this series. Any other questions here. Can you provide us the direct YouTube link to your webinar I cannot find it. What, what I can do. This is coming from Jennifer if Jennifer if you could please send me your email address. I will send it to tick mill, and I will have them send you directly the link and all of their social media platform outlets, so that I can have them send it to you thank you I see it now. I will get it to you. I'll make sure that they send it out to you so that you can have access to not only this recording but the one that we started with last week. And then the next time that I will be with you will be within two weeks on March 22. Like I said we'll start getting into the details and the semantics of valuation. Understanding the point value, the tick value of, of, of how fast and how big these contracts can move and swing either way. Let me just one second here. Any other questions here we do have. Here a demo account for the tick mill ladder platform. This if you, this is coming from Christopher Christopher please send me your email address as well. And I'll get them to send you all of the demo accounts they do have demo accounts that are available for everyone to access. Your email address please. While I'm talking to you now, and I will also send that to tick mill so that they can send you all of the demo accounts available for you to pick and choose which one is suitable for which one you want to engage in. See others here. Any other questions. Anybody else out there wanting to send anything specifically or directly to me. Going once going twice. I wish everyone happy trading. Let me see if anyone else came in. Thank you Christopher I got your email. And perfect. I wish everybody happy trading stay focused on what's going on. If you're invested in the markets it's extremely volatile and try to pay attention and and not just be careful but be aware and understand what's what's taking place. I appreciate everybody's attention I appreciate your time this evening it's been a pleasure. Once again my name is Ali Hmedi consultant working directly with tick mill to happen in what's happening within the futures market. Question and Arabic. Let me see here. I'm going to have to translate this one. Hang on one second. If you're able to send me. I apologize. The risk related to hedging. Okay, there we go. Thank you Ali. So, the risks related to hedging. There are risks related to hedging. First of all, you need to understand. Hedge is protection. My net what are you protecting yourself from. You may have an overweight position in a specific fx position or specific gold, silver, other commodity, any other underlying asset, meaning exposure, you have a lot of exposure. So when you have this exposure, and this volatility is hitting the market and you're seeing your portfolio go down in price very quickly, or value go down in value very quickly. You can partake in a futures contract from a hedging perspective, the other side, you take the other side so if you're long a specific commodity or a specific asset. And the volatility is hitting the markets like it is now and this particular asset of yours in your portfolio is losing value it's going down when you're long, and it's going down. You can partake in a futures contract, where you can either buy or sell a futures contract based on a price that is relative to your position within your portfolio, depending on the size of your position that you want to protect. So then, can it be successful. Yes, it can be successful but like I said hedging, if it's done properly, it's not done to make immense profits. It's done with minimal to zero profit, but it's also done to protect to the position, the core position that you want to protect that you don't want to let go of because it may be losing. Or it could be the flip side, it could have so much profit in it that you don't want to take the profit because you feel it's going to go up more but the volatility has brought it down some. And how can you protect it. So, when you take a hedging position you just need to understand that it's there designed to protect a specific position or positions, knowing that you could have zero to very minimal profit from that particular contract that futures contract because you're using it to go basically the opposite of what you are long or short, so that you can hold on to your positions without further losses and and protect yourself. It's time to close the hedge that depends on your portfolio size that depends on the position that you're protecting. Is it an extremely large position that you just don't want to let go of. And when the hedge does become profitable or could become profitable. Sure, you can close it. Investment advice this is understanding the reality of how it's how it's used how the possibilities are endless when it comes to futures contracts you can close the hedge at any time you want, when you find it feasible. Let's say, you've hedged your position, and this particular position that you've hedged, whatever your position is whether it's commodities, indices, effects, etc.  If you decide at that point in time do you want to hold on to your core position that you hedge to protect, or do you want to close out that position as well, and then start over, or get back in the market, depending on what you fancy. So the time to close depends on the size of your portfolio and the timing of what's happening in the markets. Can they be successful, extremely successful. That's, that's what they're used for originally. Hedging is the first and foremost purpose of futures contracts. Investors then come in. The speculators end up providing the volume and the depth, which means liquidity, easy to get in and easy to get out of futures contracts. That's a yin and a yang. Hedgers need the speculators and the speculators need the hedgers, because the speculators are providing the volume and the depth to for the liquidity within the market, and the hedgers. They're using the futures for their primary purpose, whether it's for physical delivery, and lock in and price so that they can manage their business or structure their business and cost benefit analysis, productively, and or at the same time, minimize their losses if they're over exposed into a public sector or not. Let me see if we have any more questions. All right. No more questions have come in. Once again, my name is Ali Hmede, but the shaker con, on the way to go to the lady. Happy trading. Good luck with with what you're doing. If you're familiar with tick mill. That's wonderful. If you're not, please go to their website. Check out and see what they have they do have demo accounts for the ones that sent me their email address.  And I look forward to catching up with you. Sorry, I'll be able to follow up with you again in two weeks time on March 22 is our next scheduled webinar series within the futures series and we'll be talking about the valuation at that point in time. Last question coming in from us and before I let you guys know how can be perfect and soybean future soybean is also a commodity. It just depends. I'm not a soybean expert. It just depends on the season soybean is a agricultural commodity just like wheat and corn. You have to be able to do your due diligence. Let's see how the the the agricultural harvesting season, the forecast for how it's look, look and see where the volume is within the futures contracts on the actual physical delivery side from the companies that aggregate the farmers, where are they protecting themselves at what price point are they protecting themselves versus where the actual price of soybean is right now, then it will give you a better indication of okay. I see farmers, they're predicting, or they're hoping to have this particular price for the commodity that they are farming and producing. Then you can say okay well soybean is trading at this particular price today X, they're forecasting, or they are happy with locking in price, why. Then you can basically see okay it could be a productive season it can be a high demand low demand season. You can calculate the price volatility as it moves. And then, from that point on, you can make your own decision as to what type of contract, you would want to engage in, when it comes to soybean in this particular example or question. That's to give a couple more minutes to prepare questions. Before I conclude I have no problem my time is your time I'm here to help you that's what I'm doing that's what I'm here for. I think that tick mill is providing the best possible education and information so that you can make the best informed decisions, regarding this particular sector, so that you can use it efficiently within your own portfolio and investment strategy. I'm scrolling through the questions. Any other questions. How to connect with me. I want to ask tick mill to provide my information. As I said I am a, a exclusive consultant for for tick mill. They will be able to provide direct contact for me via email, and I'll be able to help at that point in time. Send me awesome your email as well as I'm taking down emails here, so that I can ask them also to send you how to connect with me, and we can have further discussions about what you have going on. If you don't mind, you're more than welcome. I just gave you the invite so just send me send me your, your email address awesome. Okay, let me write it down. Send me your email Jennifer so that they'll be able to send you the links to their social media platforms and YouTube channel. Anybody else want to share their email address on the board with a specific request. Now's the time to do so. Yep. I got you Jennifer and the recording for the recording. Yes, Andy. I'm writing yours now as well. Perfect. Ali, I got yours. Ali, can you please give me your specific request so that when they send you an email, they'll be sending you what you want. Okay. Ali, what's your specific request please. Alright, there's a question from, from someone asking about, as a beginner trader is it good to follow channels on telegram for signals. When it comes to signals, I'm going to give you my opinion. I cannot give investment advice and signals coming from random places, like telegram, it can be, it can be a well known form. But at the end of the day, you may or may not know exactly who's behind that particular forum. They may have a big following. They may have provided a signal or two or a few that ended up, let's say being spot on or working, and it ended up trending. Once you get into this type of, let's say, element of waiting on people to provide you signals, and you follow them blindly. The way that I manage money and the way that I work with clients and the way that I have dealt with managing money throughout my financial career. I don't depend on anybody's signals. It's about doing my own due diligence being able to understand why I'm taking a specific position. And what's my target? What's my objective? Is it speculative? Is it to hedge? Is it for growth? Meaning, is it a long term position? If it's a day trading? Day trading, it's a specific type of mentality versus long term investing. So, following signals on Telegram, I can't give you an answer saying, yes, it's great or no, it's horrible. And the Anna, I can't give you the answer you're looking for other than it's best to trust yourself first. Do your own due diligence on a specific investment that you're interested in, or better yet, see what signal that they are offering that within the Telegram chat or board that you're part of when they come out with a specific signal saying now is the time to do this or time to do that. Take the time before doing what they say that you should do, do your due diligence and look and see what it is that they are predicting and or forecasting based on your own knowledge and research and how it fits in with your portfolio strategy or your trading strategy. That's the best way. That's the best answer I can give you. Okay, you're not a beginner and you're interested in the Elliott Wave. Now you're getting into the technical side versus the fundamental side and there's different parts of the technical elements. All right, let me put it this way. Has Elliott Wave predicted what's happening now within the current crisis within the markets, period, with the S&P 500 dropping the way that it's dropped and then swinging back up the way that it's swinging the volatile swings. Has Elliott Wave been able to predict what's happening within the oil crisis at the moment? Now I shouldn't say crisis but the oil movement or the crude oil movement due to the crisis. Has the Elliott Wave been able to forecast and give you an indication of what's going to happen when the 25 basis points or more rate hike comes in when the Federal Reserve does that this week? Personally, then again, I'm telling you personally, I'm not, I don't manage money on a technical analysis strictly only. You have to understand what you're doing. Elliott Wave, you get in, you're talking about day trading and you're dealing right now with extreme, volatile, perfect storm situations all coming together at once that are all isolated happening at the same time. So Elliott Wave under normal circumstances, Fibonacci under normal circumstances, they can give you some of the results that you're looking for. But to solely depend on technical analysis on Elliott Wave or Fibonacci or any others, whether it's the relative strength index or any other type of indicator that you strictly follow, you got to be careful. So you got to take all those into consideration, Mr. Ali. Any other questions? Okay. Thanks again. Thanks again for lending me your ear this evening. It's been a pleasure. Thank you to Tick Mill and happy trading. Good luck. Be careful. And I look forward to speaking with everyone again in two weeks time on March 22. When we get into more in depth analysis on valuations based on knowing now what we know what futures are, how they're used in speculation and hedging. Now we're going to get into the valuation side, and we'll go from there. Everybody have a great evening. Thank you for all the thank yous. It's been a pleasure. And I will talk to everybody in two weeks time. Everybody stay safe, stay healthy, and be diligent with what you're doing. Take care and have a good evening.


This Bitcoin thing is taking over the news. I gotta tell you the craziest true story. You need to know this. This is the story of somebody who missed out on the biggest thing in Bitcoin. In fact, it's about these two pizzas right here. Or two pizzas like this. And a lot of cash. So, in 2010, somebody offered to pay for two pizzas, they'd give 10,000 Bitcoin. And someone took them off on that offer and they paid 10,000 Bitcoin for one pizza, two pizzas. So, the question is, how much cash would that now be worth? If instead of the pizzas, he had kept the Bitcoin. There was a guy named Lazlo. $170 million. He lost out. He missed out. And all he got was two pizzas and not $170 million. So, you might be asking, is it too late to get in this Bitcoin thing? It's gone up. Is it a bubble? Is it going to crash? What I want to say to you is that I've been traveling around the United States meeting up with the best experts in the world on Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. So, these are what you call the whales. These are people who have made 10 million, 100 million, even some of them a billion or more in Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.  I'm going to put a link below or above here. Click that link. It's absolutely free. Watch this free presentation because here's the deal. One of my mentors told me, Ty, never be the first or the last to try a new idea, a new trend. For a lot of people, they're going, oh, this is a scam, this Bitcoin thing's not real, these cryptocurrencies. Remember that story in 2010? Somebody lost $170 million, literally $170 million because they were skeptical. They didn't see the future trends. They waited too long.   You can make $170 million bucks. I'm just telling you a true story that nobody can argue with. So what I've been doing is traveling the world, traveling around the United States, and I've been meeting up with people. I've been in the business and finance game for a long time, but this crypto thing is new. Part of the reason there's big profits in it is not everybody understands it. So I've been meeting up with these people and I want to share with you in the spirit of me paying it forward, you've probably seen I've given away 10 cars in the last year paying forward. I'm thankful for my blessings financially and just in life in general. This is me paying it forward. These are people that don't really like to speak publicly. Some of them are kind of mystery, Mr. X people. They've made $100 million bucks and they don't want to really share publicly on a video, but they'll share with me because we're friends and I'm paying it forward by creating this little presentation for you. You need to know this stuff. In fact, yesterday I did a live call if you're watching my Instagram or my Facebook live and I brought in one of the top crypto experts in the world and he recommended one small cryptocurrency and it's doubled in the last 24 hours. It's crazy world out there. The world's changing. It's disrupting everything you know. Your kids, your grandkids will look back and go, you know, Grandpa, you didn't see this coming? Don't be like the pizza people. The pizza guy, Lazlo. Don't miss out for two pizzas today on $170 million like he did. So click the link. Like I said, it's either below or somewhere here. Head over to my website. You don't have to put a credit card in. You don't have to pay up any. Okay, this is me paying forward. Real solid information you can use to start investing or just learning about it or how to buy it, where to buy it. Is it a bubble? Will it go up? Will it go down? Is it too late to get in? All those questions I'm going to answer for you straight out of the words of some of the smartest people in this industry, the people that are advising banks and presidents.  So learn from the best mentors. It's changed my life. 19 years old, I found a mentor in business. I went from having no money in my bank account figuring out how to make $100,000 a year. Then I figured out how to make 100 grand a month and 100 grand a week and now I know how to make 100 grand a day. And that's because of the mentors I found. The quality of your life pretty much is determined by two things. Whether you can overcome procrastination and laziness and actually do stuff. And second is who you learn from. The reason we're all trapped financially, you know, I did not grow up, this is Beverly Hills. I didn't grow up in a house like this. In fact, most of my teenage years, I grew up in a mobile home in Clayton, North Carolina. So, you know, my bathroom now in this house is bigger than my entire mobile home that I lived in. So what's changed my life is really understanding that I got to get off my butt and some of you are sleeping on this stuff and you're missing out on opportunities left and right. It's not just this 2010 opportunity. That was wave one, you missed out on that one but wave two is here. So don't miss this. And then secondly, learn from the best. A lot of people are learning about Bitcoin cryptocurrency from Fox News or MSNBC. These people don't know. Go learn from the people who developed the technology that really understand that I've been early adopters and that's what I want to do. So click that link, game changing material and yeah, I'll see you over on my website in just a second.


So a great farm for high stat armor or the new soul and weapons, deep dive keys, salvage keys and much much more. Today guys I have something great for you. How's it going people my name is dpj and if you do enjoy the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. Okay so this farm takes place within the shattered throne dungeon at the last boss of duel in kauru. This week the boss can be taken out in an instant. A free man team isn't even necessary, two players can do this very very easily and in taking out this boss you have a great great chance of receiving solar station engrams, war table engrams, keys and much more. So to do this get the duel in kauru checkpoint within the shattered throne dungeon or run this dungeon until you get to the last boss. Once you are here switch characters to grab the checkpoint so you can run this farm. Then guys just simply run the boss taking out all three knights as you know grabbing those damaged buffs and destroying the boss. It really is that simple and you can do this with basic weapons without breaking a sweat so do not worry about that. Then when the boss has died and you've received that loot the whole switch into the character with that checkpoint load it back up, invites his teammates, switches back to his main run again. The whole process can be done in a couple of minutes easy and again guys you have a great chance of getting those solar engrams defy engrams etc etc. Now when it comes to decrypting these armor wise 95% of the time they drop real high stat wise which is amazing. So if you are in need of new armor for those stats maybe you're working on an arc build this is it for sure. Now if you are a level 13 at the solar station there's a chance that engrams double up on completing activities this includes killing this dungeon boss. Also if you can't decrypt individual armor pieces yet within that solar station it's because you need at least one of each to drop first so here you can use the deep armor focusing engram to try and get what you need before you pick individual armor pieces but yes a fast and easy farm for loads of great loot from this season so enjoy it while it lasts. Cut it to my power silent rave for the heads up on this one. Guys if you enjoyed the video leave a like, cool it helps add you feel like quite a scene want to see more destiny too be sure to subscribe and hopefully guys I will see you on that next one


Hi and welcome to Nursing School at Explained and this video on Hypertensive Crisis that is sometimes also known as a Hypertensive Urgency or Emergency. So clearly we really have to act quickly when this happens. And the Hypertensive Crisis or Urgency or Emergency is defined as a systolic blood pressure of greater than 180 and or a diastolic blood pressure of greater than 120. So these are significantly higher than the blood pressure readings from the current guidelines of a blood pressure of less than 120 over 80. So just think about if you had all the blood pressure, all the vessels in your body under extreme pressure because the pressure is just really high putting a lot of pressure on the blood vessels themselves as well as the organs then stand under a lot of pressure. All of the signs and symptoms and possible complications would be kind of logical to come from there. So whenever there is a Hypertensive Crisis with a really high blood pressure the patient might have signs and symptoms of a headache, dizziness or nausea vomiting because all the cerebral arteries are just pounding and the patient might feel that. It might also lead to confusion and altered level of consciousness can lead as far as coma or the patient might complain of chest pain or shortness of breath because also the heart and the lungs are under this immense pressure. It can lead to seizures because of encephalopathy or it can lead to intracranial hemorrhages or subarachnoid hemorrhages when the blood vessels in the brain just kind of burst because they're under so much pressure and that would be a hemorrhagic stroke here for example. It can also have signs and symptoms of heart failure or pulmonary edema because again that pressure is putting a lot of pressure on the heart that then can't really pump and the blood is backing up the fluid is backing up into the lungs causing pulmonary edema. It can also lead to aortic dissection so the aorta the main blood vessel can basically peel away from the inside because it's all so under so much pressure that the blood that the inner lining of the blood vessel just kind of starts to peel away and give out and eventually it can it can rupture. But it can also put the kidneys under a lot of pressure and the patient might exhibit signs and symptoms of renal failure as well as MI heart attack and retinopathy. So definitely visual disturbances are also very common with a hypertensive crisis. Now what leads to hypertensive crisis unfortunately the most common one is a patient with a history of hypertension who is non adherent to the medication regimen. So they forget there are other circumstances and they just don't take their anti-hypertensives and then the blood pressure gets out of control. Keep in mind that hypertension is also called the silent killer. So if somebody has blood pressure that has been creeping up over the years and getting increasingly higher the patient might just have vague signs and symptoms that we've just discussed and not really know that now the blood pressure is above the certain threshold and then have you know significant complications from that. Usually also drug abuse causes hypertensive crises and drugs that are known to amp up the blood pressure are all the things that kind of cause everything to speed up which is cocaine, crack, PCP and LSD so all the drugs that make the patient extra hyper. But also in the OB setting preeclampsia can lead to a hypertensive crisis and then also drugs called MAO inhibitors that are usually used in the mental health setting. They don't really get along with thyramine containing foods and so if a patient is on these MAO, MOA inhibitors and eats thyramine containing foods then it can lead to hypertensive crisis which can be life threatening. Any kind of head injury of course because now the cerebral auto regulation is off and the body might respond by trying to perfuse the brain with more blood and increasing the blood pressure and then the patient will have hypertensive crisis as well as an acute aortic dissection and we already discussed this and I do have a separate video about aortic dissection. Now what's the treatment? The patient will need to be hospitalized for IV medications. Many times single dose or two, three single doses won't really do the trick. The patient will have to be hospitalized and be on medications that need to be titrated meaning adjusted to a certain level of blood pressure and these medications will look about in a moment here and typically the medications are titrated to the mean arterial pressure and this is important to know because the orders will typically not give you a reading of systolic and diastolic blood pressure. They will typically give you a map which is systolic blood pressure plus two times the diastolic blood pressure and all that in the denominator and the numerator divided by three and certainly the patient will need to be on telemetry monitoring or the cardiac monitor if they require ICU hospitalization and the level of the hypertension as well as the ability of the hospital department to care for a patient that requires titration of drugs will depend on where the patient goes whether that's the regular celly floor or maybe the progressive care unit, the stepped on unit or even the intensive care unit. And then medications used in the treatment of hypertension are vasodilators. If we dilate the blood vessel the pressure will go down and typically we use here nitroprosyde as well as nitroglycerin and keep in mind that nitroglycerin is available sublingual as well as topical but in this case it would be an IV infusion titrated to the go map. Also beta blockers such as labedalol and calcium channel blockers such as necardipine can be effective here sometimes maybe even a combination of these medications is needed to bring the blood pressure down. As for nursing care you can imagine because we have a crisis urgency or emergency these patients are pretty sick so they are going to require frequent monitoring of blood pressures as well as heart rates so every 5 to 15 minutes and because it is so frequent many times they will have an arterial line because it takes a lot of toll on the arm plus it might not be super accurate to check the blood pressure that frequently the regular way on an arm so an arterial line an invasive line might be much more reliable and actually easier to manage with the nurse as well as easier on the patient because it's not going to squeeze the arm yes it is an invasive line but it's just much more accurate whenever we're titrating vasoactive drugs and the goal usually for the titration of any of these medications is to decrease that mean arterial pressure which is talked about by 20 to 25% gradually over 24 hours so we don't want to drop that blood pressure that's 200 over 130 all the way down to 120 over 80 really quickly because the body might not respond well and all the rasp and all the mechanisms that typically kick in when we drop our blood pressure will kick in and then we have kind of like this rebound hypertension so it typically is done gradually because otherwise there are risk for cerebral coronary and renal perfusion problems because all these organs we know are super important and they might not get the blood flow that they need to stay functioning properly the only exception here for the goal of lowering the blood pressure is if the patient has an aortic dissection because that is an emergency because if the dissection if the blood vessel is basically just dilated there's a high risk that it might rupture and then the patient might bleed out internally so that's the only exception to when we really want to get that systolic blood pressure low and the goal here is between 100 and 120 pretty quickly to take the pressure off the aorta otherwise it might burst and other nursing measures so certainly we'll check an EKG and keep the patient on the cardiac monitor we'll monitor closely for urine output and eyes and nose to check there see how the kidneys are doing the patient will need to be on bed rest because any activity might exacerbate their hypertension and certainly will need neural checks frequently because we talk about all those neural symptoms that the patient can have all the way leading up to encephalopathy or intracranial hemorrhage basically hemorrhagic stroke so thank you for watching this video on hypertensive crisis please also watch my other videos in the critical care playlist also the ones on aortic aortic dissection and aortic aneurysm as well as the basic explanations of hypertension and the guidelines for blood pressure control as to what we should aim for always in the outpatient setting so that the patient does not even get to the part where to the point where they have this hypertensive crisis thanks for watching nursing school explain see you soon


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