One of the physical properties that is determined by intermolecular forces is volatility or vapor pressure. If we take a substance like acetone and we pour a small amount on the table and wipe it away, you can see how quickly it vaporizes. Changes from a liquid to a gas, it appears to disappear. That's because of the attraction between one molecule of acetone and another. The intermolecular forces are weak, therefore it doesn't take much energy at all for them to change from a liquid to a gas. Let's look at water in the same way. If we put a few drops of water, wipe it away, you know from experience that it's going to evaporate, but it's going to take a lot longer than the volatile acetone.


Hi, I'm making videos low and this is my presentation on Shenzhen China for Earth 107 Okay, so Shenzhen is in a very interesting location because it is a low elevated level And it's right by the Pearl River and the sea down here The coastline is a submergent one and it is a tide dominated one There's a large amount of sediment and this is mostly due to shore erosion, which is the major problem right now Okay, so for the next couple slides. I'm not gonna have my camera on so that we can see in full detail the infographics I have so here is the topographic of Shenzhen and It is from what can be considered like the heart of Shenzhen, which is a very densely populated area to along the shore of the Pearl River and Here we can see not much of this is above 25 meters for elevation So at this point here that highlighted It's only at 9 Which is not great whenever you're surrounded by water and are at very high risk of flooding like Shenzhen Here we have our start of the figures So this is a color-coded map of Shenzhen. It is color-coded by flood hazard zones All these little red dots are hot spots of places that are likely to and have been flooded Here's the key so as we can see Definitely likely to flood But there's still you know some areas that are like fairly low and This is from 2016. This is real data and we have the predicted by 2030 and it is not looking any better In fact, it's looking fairly worse So this can be a little hard with the hot spots, but I think it demonstrates fairly well What Shenzhen is in for? Shenzhen is a metropolitan area. It has over 13 million people close to 14 million. This is gonna be presumed to grow due to the growing tech industry and this industry is bringing in a lot of billionaires and tech moguls into the area and it's creating a rather large disparity in wealth And I think these two photos exemplify that really well With the skyline being rather new and these I'm gonna presume our apartments Not being the same Speaking of apartments. Apartments are the largest form of housing in the area due to the dense population Shenzhen has a very rich history with people inhabiting the area as far back as 7,000 years ago so Much to be had here Okay Revisiting industries Shenzhen's industries that they've had for long before the tech industry is Manufacturing and shipping. It's a global shipping hub. It's very important to not only China but to the global trading So it's a very high risk area of anything were to happen. It would disrupt trade and manufacturing globally Shenzhen is no stranger to flooding It has always happened. It's just gotten way worse over the years I think this picture demonstrates that really well. This entire street here is flooded This is actually from the 2019 flood which really sparked a lot of people and a lot of response and citizens to Start making a change and help mitigate these Floodings and heavy rainfalls and they want to do this by implementing the sponge city Design and it is to address issues of flood risk and crime water scarcity Shenzhen is a very large area Very urban area with a lot of history and unfortunately what that comes a lot of pollution Especially in the water. So they export I believe over 60% of their water from rural areas They don't really have a good reservoir So they wanted to kill two person one stone with this design. So I think this really exemplifies as well The soil composition of Shenzhen is really unique Where that it can hold a lot of water So the idea would be getting heavy rainfall or flooding putting into these water deposits or under the ground in this really saturated area between the urban area the city and the bedrock and Taking this water and putting into aquifers and cleaning it So that it can be used later on so it would both take in all the excess water and then reuse it Shenzhen spudged city concept is really interesting, but it's still in its infancy So it is only in trial and certain parts of the region and that's not been widely rolled out For it to be rolled out. It's going to take time. So in the meantime, they have implemented what I understand to be a very limited roll out of soft engineering solutions such as rocks between land and water planting mangrove trees and butterflies to help mitigate Okay, and now we're going to be reading from our summary portion of the presentation So I'll just go through these bullet points Southern China is a sub tropical climate located on the Eurasian Plate and it's not very close to plate boundaries So it's not a tectonically active area Human intervention has played a huge factor over the past 40 years in reducing the erosion of the shoreline using seawalls as well as other soft engineering methods Shenzhen is implementing the use of a sponge city That will lower flooding and add to their water reservoirs Over the past 30 years restoration of tidal mangroves and tidal mud flats are helping to reduce flooding and co2 And these endeavors that they're doing are called nourishment projects Unfortunately, Shenzhen only recently began setting more of a firm plan after a major flood in 2019 So they're approaching this as the response not only to flooding but as climate change as a whole and according to the chinese government policy is still in its infancy And there needs to be more research done before policy can be implemented. So there is not much out there on what the chinese government plans to do in terms of response board citizens Okay, continuing on their summary slides I'm going to continue to read bullet points and give some more information So a goal of Shenzhen is to make their city a smart city and this is going to be done by implementing new smart water utilities Which is the sponge city concept and it's just referring to all the moving parts that would be involved in making Shenzhen a sponge city So there's over 13 million people as mentioned before And this is a major deal because a 2018 study found that most citizens are unprepared for natural disasters And are lacking proper education in this And this can be contributed majorly to Income inequalities regarding Accessed information access to You know Vehicles to get away from the city to evacuate as well as being afforded the luxury of having time to research and prepare for these matters So the general Advice given to people is to seek elevated areas and I wanted to also Mention again highlight the income inequalities because as shown before in a previous couple of slides The housing They are apartment buildings, but they're rather low and they're not exactly very new So where they're seeking shelter Is definitely a concern Okay, and now on to summary of resiliency recommendations Shenzhen has a large population and a lot of vital industries So there's a few things I'd like to recommend The first would be to make well-known plans for public evacuation and recovery that considers both citizens from affluent backgrounds as well as those from less privileged ones With the recent floods going so awry It's become more or less of a wake-up call for those of shenzhen as well as those around the globe How important it is to prepare so we can ensure everyone's safety and this would be by Making safety plans and evacuations well known to everyone in the general public And I mentioned this as my number one because the chinese government has not implemented a policy that said in stone that takes into account every citizen's wave evacuation So I think that would be the first thing because this is a matter of When and not if another flood This bad happens again Um I like to continue to build shorelines and invest in ways to reduce the effects of sea level rising and flooding So the sponge city concept is a really interesting one and I really hope this goes well But they're putting all their eggs or more or less all their eggs into this sponge city basket And as mentioned before in phase one, they've implemented soft engineering techniques that have been fairly effective so I think instead of phasing that out they continue to Implement both the sponge city concept as well as more soft engineering ideas Um and that'd be about it. Thank you


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I entered into my inmost parts with you, my God, as my guide. By the eye of the soul I saw above that same eye of my soul, above my mind, the unalterable light. Not this light of common day that all flesh may look upon, nor something grander than that but of the same kind, as if this sunlight should shine out more and more brilliantly and fill the whole universe with its power. That light was not this light, but other, holy other, from all these. Nor is it above my mind as oil lies above water, or as the heavens are above the earth. It was higher because it was this light that made me, and I was lower because I was made by it.


The form in a big robot. Hello, my name is Freddy the Ferret, and today I'll be reading a swell back at the Barnard crappy pasta. This was written by no other than good ol' Shadow Reader, who is called CreepyUser777. He wrote this spooky Lost Episode story back in 2013, which was an attempt to dominate the Lost Episode genre with it shitty cliches and whatnot when he was like 13 at the time. Warning, it contains very graphic content and has intense satanic propaganda. It also has very atrocious grammar and storytelling. Let's proceed this fuckfest of a story without any interruptions. Okay, I know you may not believe me, but this is real. A few days ago I was just sitting on my living room couch just watching TV, an eating popcorn, it was 3.30 in the morning and I was going through some insomnia at the time when all of a sudden the show back at the Barnard was announced on Nick at night. I was a bit confused at this because one, it was early in the morning and two, the show wasn't supposed to air until 10 o'clock a.m. Well even though I decided to watch it. The opening then some went by normally, but the only weird thing was that Freddy the little orange ferret was not in the sun or in any of the suns, which kinda weirded me out, but I thought it was a bit of a mix up so I continued watching. Now when the title card came up, it wasn't the old funny weird looking title that showed, but it blew me depressing sin with a picture of Freddy crying and the rest of the animals with a horrific look on their faces and the words on the card saying Freddy's depression. Soon the episode starts and it started with Freddy in his little compartment, just sitting there. None of the animals had shown up and there was no music at all, just Freddy sitting there alone. Then that's when things got a little weird about 10 seconds after the sin music starts to play and it wasn't fun or happy, it was depressing. After a few moments in listening to the song, I knew that it was a song from a Vensunce called My Mortal and then while the song played, Freddy started crying and not like the crying you normally see in cartoons. No, but it's somewhat real, is it crying? Then the sin cuts to black.  Then after the black screen faded, it cuts to a new sin, this time it's Freddy sitting at a desk with a pencil and paper in his hands and then he starts to write and while he writes he starts crying bitterly at this time I start to get a little upset. Then after he was done writing, he got up and left the desk and the camera zooms on what it said and it shocked the hell out of me. This is what it said. Dear friends, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do, but I think it is for the best, my life has been a cesspool of hell and I just want you to know you all caused this. You never cared or comforted me when I needed you most. You are my reason on what I'm about to do.  But in some cases you did come for me, but that does not excuse you for what I'm about to do.   Then the rest of you just be prepared.  I was shocked and scared at the same time. What did he mean when he said, get ready for what I'm about to do? I was so tempted to turn off my TV that I had to watch the rest. After about five minutes of this, it cuts to Freddie still crying and holding a knife, but soon it starts to get scary. He soon starts crying and he looks up. My face was locked in horror.  Then we hear of this and the rest of the gage get home. But when they see Freddie, their faces turn to pure horror stricken fear. Freddie just smiles and says in a demonic tone. Let's get ready. Then the screen cuts to black for about four seconds. Then the final sin finally arrives, but the sin is horrible.  It shows all of the animals all horribly mutilated and bloody. Oh this was horrible. His stomach was cut open and all of his entrailage were cut up and pulled five feet away from his body, blood draining from his stomach to the middle of the floor. Then the camera points to Pig. His body was hanged upside down, nailed to an inverted cross, and his face was apparently peeled off of his body. And also his stomach was cut open and his entrailage dangled a few feet away from his head and on his head was carved an upside down pentagram with word Pig was in the middle of it. Then the camera pointed to a pot of boiling water and when the camera looked into the pot there was nothing but blood and little bits of organs and a boiling head floated. I started to scream and then weep. I was so freaked out on what had happened sleep was out of the question. Then it finally zoomed in on Bessie. Luckily she wasn't as bloody or as horribly mangled as the others were. The camera zoomed in a little closer and it showed the word Pig written carved onto her stomach and it looked like her death was just suffocation. Thank goodness but it confused me that he gave her a more humane death than the others. After a few seconds you could hear fame crying in the background and it was Freddy he was sitting in his stall covered in blood and bits of feathers. Apparently he ate peck but made sure peck never got out of his stomach. As I saw Freddy apparently he was crying but not tears. Oh no no no it was blood and next to him was a dead priest with his robe on but covered in blood.   Then the send cut to credits. My face was shocked and my eyes kicked on white and what had happened was the worst thing to ever happen and ever skinned then I have tried to find the video and more info but Google search showed no results. I warn you all if you happen to see an episode titled Back at the Barnard Lost Episode or Freddy's Depression Do not watch it or else you will suffer the consequences.  Shout out to the good old shadow reader who for some reason just uploaded a few videos a few weeks ago after the leaving message was removed from his channel. In the vein of recapping the guy who watches Nickelodeon at night came across a demented episode of Back at the Barnard at 3 a.m. which caught him off guard.  The music that was heard in the episode was My Mortal from Evanescence which the word was misspelled in the story. I suggest you go listen to the song, the link will be in the video's description.  As my friends arrive they will be shocked about what was said on my note and then I mutilate them to death.   Shit, this is some overpowered satanic propaganda.   After all of my swell demonic doings in the episode I was then arrested by some cops before the episode ended.  The grammar was atrocious, the storytelling was ridiculously nonsensical, but I found it very swell and made just for the laws that it do have disturbing and slightly offensive content.  My rating on this story in a serious creepy pasta perspective will have to be a 0 out of 10. My name is Freddy the ferret, the wonderful kind swell ferret of all ferrets, that brings you this message. See ya later and have a nice day my swell studs.


Hello everyone. Are you able to hear me clearly? I am live. Let me just double check, okay? Before we get started. Hello, good evening everyone. If you can hear me, please type voice, all right? Please type voice. If you can hear my voice and just let me double check before we get started. Okay, let me see your comments so that I know that I am live and you guys can hear me, all right? Yeah, I think so because there's a little bit of lag. So I'm just waiting for your comments to come in, all right? In the meantime, how is everyone, okay? This week the market has been like really good, right? I believe for the past few days, you know, has been going up and up. So what do you guys think, right? So are you happy with the current market condition, all right? If you are happy, please type happy. But on the other hand, you still feel like very uncertain and you don't know what's going on. Maybe you can also let us know you can type uncertain, okay? Let's see exactly what's going to go on tonight as well because I will be sharing with you some of my old strategies to react to this current market condition, all right? Hello, everyone. Hi, Cal. Good to see all of you as well, all right? I can see you guys are streaming in great, great. Let's get started. Hello, hello, you saying bye or sell? Eugene, good question. Let's all discover it together, all right? Very uncertain. Wow, wow, wow. Okay, this is very strong emotion, very uncertain. But some people are butful. What, what is that? I've never heard about that word. Okay, maybe my vocab is limited. But let me just share the screen so that we can get started. But in the meantime, yeah, good to see all of you here. Haven't been going along live for quite some time. So sorry about that. I was super busy. But yeah, tonight, actually, from this week onwards, I will be also going live consistently so that we can continue to deliver more value to you as well. So let me go back to this and just double check everything. And I will just share screen. I should be able to do that. Yeah, I'm using two screens so that I can see my slides in the meantime, see all your comments, all right? Yes, I can see my slides. It's live now live, all right? So how to invest safely during this volatile time? In fact, just this afternoon, I was invited to HubSpot to give them this exclusive sharing and a lot of them find it very, very useful. I was thinking, hey, so why not I just use the exact same sharing that I gave to HubSpot, which is like $22 billion, by the way, $22 billion market cap company listed in the US exchange. You can go and buy. OK, but before that, make sure you do your due diligence. All right, so this is a sharing that I gave it to them. And I also want to give it to you so that you can also have more clarity exactly how to invest during this volatile time as well, all right? So actually, just now, I already started asking you guys some of the questions. So what do you guys think, right? Is the market like actually some of the questions are HubSpot's people, those managers, those consultants, they actually ask me. So along the way, you can see some of the questions that they ask. And I also will provide you my answer and see whether is it useful for you to make a better investment decision for yourself. But let me ask you. This is the S&P 500 that is closed like yesterday. And what do you guys think? OK, what do you guys think? Is this another stock market bubble coming? Because the past few days, the market has been really, really good to investors, right? It has been going up again. But like what some of you say, very uncertain with the stimulus coming in. Maybe who knows, right? Because for the past one month, it has been like going this way, this way up, down, then go down again, right? So there is a possibility that it might go down again. So are you bullish about it? If you are bullish, please type bullish, OK? However, if you are bearish, OK? You think that the market is going to drop again. Please type bearish. But last but not least, OK?  A little bit unsure. Exactly going up, down. You'll find it's confusing. Please type confusing as well, all right? So Carol was saying that finally seeing some screen after a long read. And yeah, let's see how long can this screen last. But very importantly is at the end of the day, right? Regardless how the market is moving, you need to have your own clarity. You need to have your own guidance. So let me also double check the comments from the Facebook group site just to make sure that I can see all your comments in the meantime. So next level all star. So I'm going live in multiple locations. So if I don't read your comments out, OK? But I'm still watching you guys, OK? Don't worry about that. OK. Not bubble, it's just rotation. Zach here is saying that it's bullish in the long run. OK, very good. OK, Liu, Liu. Kobashi-san, he will say that. Hi. OK, great to see all of you guys. All right. So some of you may be thinking that it's bullish, right? While some of you are feeling uncertain. But I think if you are having this kind of answer, maybe because you are also looking in terms of the short term timeframe right now, right? Because in the past one month has been very volatile. But if you stretch your horizon just longer, right? Just make it like long, like in terms of decades, OK? Guys, now what do you see? What do you see right now? When you see that the whole timeframe actually stretched up all the way back to like 1985 to now regardless how many crisis that we have been through, be it dotcom bubble, be it global financial crisis in 2008 to the recent COVID-19, right? What is the trend that you actually see in S&P 500 guys? What do you actually see?  It always goes up, all right? It always goes up. Why does the stock market always go up all the time? There are actually reasons behind that statistics backing it up, OK? Firstly, there's inflation, right? Our things are getting more and more expensive, right? Every single year, our housing get more expensive. Our phone, you know, our health care, everything also getting more expensive. Is that right? All right? And secondly is our human population are also increasing. So if you think about it from a very logical point of view with the demand increasing, with the prices of the products and the services getting higher, do you agree that companies, they actually make more money, especially those good companies, right? They're able to attract more customers. They're able to get customers to pay more, right? That is why when they make more money, the stock price will also increase. And that's when the stock price increase, the top 500 companies in the US, when they all increase, right? Over time, you just give it time, right? They always appreciate with time. And that's how S&P 500 will also increase over time. So if we are looking at about a long-term horizon, actually this trend is very clear. You don't really need to speculate. All you need to do is make sure you buy into good businesses, right? Even during the COVID-19, you can see that we have already recovered from the previous crash, right? Our previously, back in last year, February, it was like 300 or about 3500. Now we have already exceeded, right? So even with the economy situation right now, okay? Do you think our economy is recovering? Okay? If you think that our economy is recovering, right? Please type recover, all right? So it will create new high, just like what John Fong said, right? Because our economy is actually improving. You see a lot of statistics, right? The corporate production is also getting higher. The manufacturing index is also getting better. That's why our economy is indeed recovering. And that's why stock market is also a leading indicator, right? People expect the economy to recover, and that's how it will also drive out the prices in the long run, right? Because our economy will always continue to improve. We always want to have a better standard of life, right? So next is, you know, if you are talking about, this is the S&P 500. Is this a bubble? Okay? Regardless of how many bubbles that we have, actually the economy always performs better. So once again, think long term. The second question that I have, you know, from the hotspot, okay, some of them are asking, what are your views on unit trust? Okay? And do you recommend investing like funds or maybe unit trust? Okay? But before I give you my answer to this, I also want to ask you this question. What do you think is the advantage of investing in unit trust? Okay? If you have invested in unit trust before, or maybe you are already investing in unit trust, what do you think is the advantage of, you know, having a unit trust? Type down your answer. Let me know, okay? So that I can really get to interact with you and really learn from you at the same time as well. So I can see some of you are typing that its economy is recovering great. Okay? Okay, most of people are thinking, okay, yeah, bullish, bullish, right? So in fact, the economy is really intact. Okay? So John is saying that re-st diversify because once you invest in unit trust, okay, you are investing into a portfolio and you get professional people to help you manage, right, your portfolio, your wealth, right? But that is the advantage. What is the disadvantage? Actually, there are a lot of disadvantage in my opinion. Some of them is listed here. It's a screenshot that I think a screenshot from where is it? Sidley, Sidley or something, right? So basically, there is a lot of fees needed in order for you to invest in a unit trust. And some thing, Eileen is saying that couldn't get good return. Wow, for eight years long. So I believe Eileen invested in unit trust for eight years and it didn't get you a good return, okay? About four to five percent only for like eight years. Okay, which is very, very low return, right? So now that's why I'm also going to share with you some additional investment vehicle that I personally use to get myself much better return than this. But on top of that, it's also very safe and diversified at the same time, right? So some of the disadvantage of having unit trust is you have to pay a lot of fees. So I believe, Eileen, you definitely know for yourself, right? Whenever you buy, whenever you sell, okay? There's going to be like a certain percentage of your portfolio have to be given to them. On top of that, right? When you actually make money from your unit trust and everything, they also take a cut from that, right? So that's how you engage professional people to help you manage your fund. You are really expected to pay them good money for them to manage for you, right? But at the end of the day, right? Do you really know? Okay, your first question you have to ask is do you really know what are they investing in? Because if you don't know, then I think it's quite dangerous because you have to at least know what kind of things are you investing in. This is really important. Are they really selecting the right funds, the right investment vehicles for you, right? And second thing is, can your investment return outperform unit trust, okay? If you think about it, the chart that I just showed you which is the S&P 500, right? Someone, John Fong said, just buy directly ETF. Exactly, okay? If you just buy ETF like S&P 500, your return is already 200% in 10 years, right? Much better than just now, what? Some of you mentioned only like 4 to 5% for eight years time, guys, okay? That is a lot of difference. Just buy an ETF which is a super low cost, okay? What do I mean by super low cost? Even Warren Buffett said that, okay? Most investors, both institution and individual, we find that the best way to own common stocks is actually through an index fund that charge minimal fee. And we are talking about S&P 500 here, right? Warren Buffett is also talking about S&P 500. When you buy into S&P 500, the amount of fee that you need to pay, it's so little as compared to you have to invest in actively manage funds or be unit trust for yourself, right? But at the same time, your return is so much higher. Let me show you one of the very interesting a bet that Warren Buffett once had with a hedge fund, okay? With a hedge fund. And these hedge fund people most of the time, they all believe that they are very smart investor, right? So they think that give it time, they will definitely choose investment instrument that will help them to outperform the S&P 500, which is outperform the US market, okay? But Warren Buffett say, no, no, no. If you give it time, the market performance is going to be better than yours, all right? And that's why they had a bet and see who will be the winner, all right? So who do you think end up to be the winner from this bet? It's a $1 million bet, yeah? Not exactly, it's actually very small to Warren Buffett and to those hedge fund managers, right? But okay, but this $1 million, it's also very significant because it shows that Warren Buffett, he is very, very bullish about give it time, the US economy will outperform all those funds out there. And indeed, eventually, who won? It's Warren Buffett, okay? If you see that nine years accumulative kind of return, the S&P 500 had a 85% return compared to the hedge fund, okay, who actually bet against together with Warren Buffett, it's only 22% return over nine years time, all right, which is like very, very mediocre in terms of the percentage in our eye, right? But if you just invest in very, very cheap ETF, like low-cost ETF, like SPY, you already have 85% return. And compared to other funds available in the market, which, you know, they really cannot name it in this article, but once again, you can see that again and again, the index fund outperform every single one of them. And that is why Warren Buffett in his will, he also wrote it already, right? By the time that he passed away, more than 90% of his wealth will be donated to charity. And the remaining percentage will be left over to the wife, and he believed that he continued, he should continue to invest this money for the wife. And how can he continue to invest when he passed on, right? He just want to buy the SPY. So basically his will is give instruction. Hey, you know, when I pass away the balance of my money for my wife, I'm just going to invest for her into the US S&P 500 index, okay? So that is the conviction that he has, even despite the fact that he's going to pass on, right? So this is the conviction that you also should start cultivating for yourself. And of course, apart from S&P 500, right? There are also other ETF that you can consider, and such as like, let's say healthcare, right? Do you believe that 10 years down the road, healthcare is going to get more and more expensive? All right? If you think so, then you can consider investing in a healthcare ETF, which you can see that the performance is so good, right? Like in just four to five years time, it's already more than 125% return, right? So depending on which sector do you think it's more bullish, would you have more confidence that it's really a growing sector, then actually any sector also have an ETF, all right? So Lamuai is saying that, yes, if you buy into unit trust and all this, the fees are going to eat up your return, which is I think exactly what happened to Eileen as well. If you invest for yourself, your return will be definitely much higher than your 4% to 5%, all right? For eight years, all right? So of course, some of the people from HubSpot also asked me, hey Chloe, can you share some of the topics that you have already in your portfolio or on your watch list? And I'm also very transparent with them, some of the positions that I am currently having, including ETF as well. And I believe you have, if you have watched me my endless workshop before, like maybe a year ago, a year ago or something, when I actually talk about those ETF at the beginning, the prices, okay? The prices is so much lower. And I bought into this ETF, like just about, yeah, a May, last year May, right? Which is about slightly less than a year ago, right? So when I bought into them and also shared it in the public like this, okay? Shared to the people in the endless, on my Facebook page and everything. This is a gaming ETF that I personally invested and I continue to add more position during this job as well, because I am long-term bullish about the gaming sector, will continue to grow. That is just our human nature. We like to be entertained and we always love to have some source of fun, right? So, but the thing is when you are investing in ETF, the good thing is you don't really need to know the nitty-gritty of the company, because I myself, I'm not a hardcore gamer, so I'm not too sure exactly which company will be the leader. So that's why I decide to buy an ETF, because with an ETF, I will have all these beautiful companies immediately into my portfolio, including your C-limited, which is like super popular since COVID-19. You have your electronic art, your Nintendo, all of these very, very popular and famous gaming companies all inside. All I need to do is to buy Hero, and this is the ETF that I am currently owning as well. So, when I first bought it, it was like about 16 plus. I really got it at the super low price. And now, without doing anything, I just hold on to this ETF and recently actually added more positions as well inside this. Yeah, I had like 40 over percent gain in just eight months time. Okay. Another, yeah, it's a very good ETF as well. All right. So, another ETF that I am personally invested in as well is a defense ETF, very, very defensive, and you can actually use ETF to your advantage, especially during volatile time like this, because volatile time like this, tech sectors are like crashing down, but the rest of the sectors, especially looking at ETF in general, very, very stabilized. They have the stabilizer effect. Okay. So, if you are able to invest in them, your portfolio will be able to be like weatherproof, really weatherproof. So, in this case, I invested in this defense company. And once again, I have done my research long term. You as continuously spend more money than any other country combined. Okay.  Because this is the way that they can get dominance. Okay. Continue to exert their presence as a big brother, economically, as well as, you know, physically, right? This is exactly what are they doing? So, I am not 100% sure which will be the top performance of the company in the next 10 years. I just buy the ETF, right? Which has your Lockheed Martin, has your General Dynamics, your Northrop, right? So, everything like the top famous US listed companies are also inside, related to defense. And when I first bought it, also about May period, okay? Because that was a good time to really start investing last year, right? So, it was about $88, about $89, and held on until today. Once again, it's also a 40% increment, okay, just by buying an ETF. So, ETF is not a slow vehicle, in my opinion. Actually, as long as you know how to find the right ETF to invest, and you really get it at a good price, your return can be also very substantial, right? Give it time as well, okay? So, recently, even despite the drop, XAR Hero actually didn't move much, all right? So, now, I actually recently also bought another ETF, but I will actually only share about my recent purchase, okay? In some of my Telegram channel, so if you want to know what is the recent ETF that I just bought in, I really think that this is a good price. At the top of that, it has the stabilizing effect once again, right? So, my approach is, it's using the barbell strategy. On one extreme end, I'm investing in very, very stable site, which is using ETF or very, very stable companies to be like the stabilizer should anything happen. On the other extreme, I will invest in high-growth company that will be able to 10X in the next 10 years. So, this is the barbell strategy that I also personally learned from my investment mentor, Pete, okay? Which you who have seen it again and again, right? In endless, he's a very, very top-notch investor, multi-million-dollar fund manager as well. So, I learned from him barbell strategy, and I also want to share with you what exactly is the recent ETF that I just purchased. In fact, I think last week, yeah? So, if you want to know, okay, do join my Telegram t.me slash business and invest Chloe, and I will be sharing with you after this, okay? After this endless, this life, I'm just going to put my, yeah, latest trade on my ETF inside the Telegram channel, all right? So, do join, all right? So, same, you also barbell, fantastic. It's also a very good ETF, right? It's exactly exactly. Kathy Wood, she is a really brilliant investor as well, right? So, the next question that hard-fought people, they are also asking is, hey, so how should I do my due diligence on stocks, okay? Because they also understand the importance of investing based on a system, based on, like, proper analysis instead of hearsay, right? So, they need to do their due diligence, and that's why they're also wondering, hey, if we were to really, you know, trade US stocks, it's going to be a lot of night activity. How can you manage sleep, okay? How can you do that, okay? Firstly, I have to say that I usually sleep very early. I sleep, like, before 11.30 most of the time. Sometimes I even sleep before 11 o'clock, okay? And there is really no need to stare at the market. In fact, I was just joking to some of my Telegram followers as well. I say that, hey, the more you stare at the market, the market is not going to move in the direction that you are looking for, all right? So, don't stare at the market. It's not going to help you. What you truly need is, if you are clear about what you want to do, okay? That means you have a proper system to guide you. You know what to do, what stocks are the good company, what stocks are the right price to buy, and all you need to do is when market open, you can execute it, right? You don't have to wait until the whole night before you even execute any position. You can just execute it as long as the market open or within a half an hour when the market is open, right? So, the good news is, from next Monday, our words, all right? Because the daylight saving is over, US market will open at 9.30 p.m., all right? So, fantastic news. You don't have to wait until 10.30 before you start investing. You just have to wait until 9.30 p.m., which is a good news for all of us, all right? But, of course, it's important for everyone to have a system, okay? If you understand the importance of system, that means really having a clarity, the guideline that you need, okay? Please type system, because once you have a system, you can really save yourself from all these, you know, sleepless nights when you have to stare at the screen, looking at the candle, looking at the chart, okay? You don't have to do this, okay? All you need to do is to invest systematically rather than emotionally. And I just want to share with you, okay? For buying shares, okay? This system is applicable be it you are buying shares or buying options because at the end of the day, options are you have to invest options based on the fundamental of the business. So you have to go and analyze the business first, all right? So that's why I just want to quickly go through the Buffard investing system that I personally also use. So it's just going to be a very, very quick going through, right? So, but I want to make you get the cheese of exactly what kind of system that you should be getting for yourself. And in fact, this is a system that Warren Buffard, Mary Buffard also use, right? Why? Because Mary Buffard, she personally learned from Warren Buffard for like 12 straight years because she has a former daughter-in-law, Warren. And she wrote so many books about Warren Buffard before you can go and actually find them from library or maybe bookstores because they are selling all over the world. And on top of that, she also used the same Buffardology, the kind of value investing to invest for herself as well as managing the UK Buffardology Fund, all right? So let me show you a very, very quick performance of how their funds perform over the past few years, okay? You can see that Mary Buffard, using the same methodology that she learned from Warren Buffard, she can actually now, actually, in fact, she is outperforming our Warren Buffard. But once again, I think both of them are super solid investors. And that's why I have to say that whatever system that she is sharing with me, it's applicable to everyone as well, everyone, all right? So the first thing that you need to do is you need to assess, okay? You need to assess the company. John was saying, can you have a photo with Mary Buffard? Maybe next time when we invite her over to Singapore, when COVID is stable for us to invite her, yeah, maybe you will get a photo with her, you never know, right? Oh, it's good to have that in your checklist, all right? So the first thing is you have to assess whether is this the good company to buy in the first place? Because if you are investing in lousy business, you are not going to invest with peace, right? You are going to have sleepless nights, okay? On the other hand, you are investing in solid businesses, you have done your homework, then even with the market condition dropping like recently, right? It's going to be okay, right? So you have to ask yourself five questions, okay? Of course, there are more questions you need to ask yourself, but I'm just going to give you some guidelines that you need to start asking yourself, right? The first question is, what does this company do, right? Because if you don't even understand what does this company do, you are not investing. What are you doing? You are gambling, right? You are basing on people's hearsay, maybe news, you don't even do proper research, then you start buying, right? This is not called investing, so please don't do that, right? And secondly, as you have to find out a little bit more about this company, how does this company generate money? How do they make profits? And on top of that, do they have future growth potential? Because if you are a growth investor like me, we do want our portfolio to compound, right? So if you are investing in a very, very stagnant and dead company, then your portfolio is not going to perform over time as well. But on the other hand, if you are investing in a growth company that is going to continue to make more money, that's how you as a shareholder will be rewarded over time, right? So the fourth question you have to ask yourself is, does this company have a strong balance sheet, right? Especially COVID situation like this, a lot of businesses shut down because they really don't have the cash flow, right? So that's why, whether does this company have a strong balance sheet will really determine will it be able to survive crisis like that, right? And last but not least, if some of you are also investing in like, very hyper-growth company, relatively young, for example, your sea limiter, for example, like let's say Tesla and everything, right? Is this a founder-led company? Because at the end of the day, this hyper-growth company, it's very, very crucial in my opinion to be founder-led. At the end of the day, the founder, they really want to make sure this baby, right? To them, the company is the baby. They want to make sure they're really nurturing it, spending 100%, 200% effort in order to make it grow and scale, right? So only the founder, in my opinion, can really carry through their mission and vision. And very, very importantly as well, does the founder have a very big skin in the game? So does it have a lot of percentage in terms of controlling shares? Okay, how many allocation of shares does he or she have, right? If he or she only have a very little, then actually the surprise how it moves, it doesn't matter so much to him or her, right? But on the other hand, if the wealth of the founder is really directly tied, then you know that, hey, the person really want to work hard because he or she will be rewarded when the share price increase, okay? So that is the few questions that you need to start asking yourself as well. So the next question that people ask from hotspot is, hey, do you know when is a good time to buy a stock, when is a good time to sell a stock? And which actually boils down to the second system, right? So after you assess that it is a good company, then you decide what price to enter, right? So you cannot jump into buy right away without analyzing step one, which is the assessed part. So everything is followed system by system. So now assuming that we have found a great company and now we are going to do valuation, right? So when it comes to valuation, you also have to ask yourself a few questions. And the first question is, what valuation method to use? Because once again, okay, there is no one size fit all kind of valuation method for everyone.  To me, Google is very good, but to you, Google may not be that good. So at the end of the day, everything is also quite subjective. You really have to make sure that it's the right valuation method for that company. And secondly, once you find out about the valuation method, you need to see is this overvalued or undervalued, right? And if you are doing options, like some of you are probably already doing, right? Like let's say Elaine, right? So you have to make sure, how can you get a better price, okay? Using technical analysis, okay? For options, okay? I'm not going to go through very, very nitty gritty into individual steps. Let me just share with you some of the things that I personally always look at, okay? And the most simple to use valuation metric I want to share with you right now. And this is also the valuation metric that most professional investors outside are also using. So it does have its accuracy and it's very quick to give you a very good glance of whether is this company overvalued or undervalued right now, okay? But once again, this valuation method may not be applicable to every single company, but 90% to 80% of time it should be valid. Now let's take a look at this method. It's called PE ratio, okay? But what does PE ratio mean?  PE ratio basically the formula is used price, which is the stock price, divided by earnings per share. So it really gives you a very good gauge in terms of how many times is the market willing to price, right? willing to pay for this company at its current earning power, right? But just looking at its PE ratio, current PE ratio, it's quite useless. You really want to make sure that there is a comparison that you can fall back on. So what do you compare? You want to compare the current PE ratio, how many times is the market willing to pay right now versus how many times the market is willing, has been willing to pay for the past five years? Because historically, you can tell the market sentiment, okay? Is the market willing to pay a lot or very, very little for this company? So now let's say, let me give you an example, which is actually what we shared to some of our students in our community as well, okay? About Berkshire Hathaway, just a two, three months ago, yeah, November, right? A few months ago, when we invited Mary Buffett to come here to share with us one of the stocks that she also personally invested in and we did a valuation check. And Berkshire Hathaway, it's owned by Warren Buffett. It's a fantastic business. So A, it passed the criteria, right? Next is B, what is the good price to enter right now? Is this the right price? Now let's take a look at what I shared with you. PE ratio versus five-year average. So can you see that the current PE ratio back then in November, it was 15.55 times versus for the past five years, most of the time the market are willing to pay 22 times for its PE ratio 22 times. So what it means is in the past, the market don't mind paying it more expensive because they see the value of Berkshire Hathaway. But because of the November period, Berkshire Hathaway had a drop, all right? And that is why if you buy it back then, actually you are getting it cheaper compared to how it has been priced in the past five years, okay? Does it make sense? Okay, so in this case, actually Berkshire was undervalued, okay? Actually quite a good margin, quite a good safety, right? It's like, it's pretty decent valuation. So what we did is once again, Berkshire, it's a fantastic company. If it's a good company, good price, what you can do is just buy, okay? Just buy because you seldom can see situation like this. And like with the recent drop, the recent volatility, a lot of companies, okay, even in green tech companies also had such situation right now, okay? And that's why it's really good to start accumulating them during dips like this, okay? You have to be fearful when people are greedy. When it's too high, you have to be fearful. But when people are fearful, when they're selling, when the price is dropping, you need to start buying, you need to be greedy. And that is when, okay, for Berkshire Hathaway, when we publish it, okay, we talk together in the community and that time was 227. And today, okay, if you check it, it's already like 16% up, okay? In just four months time, okay? So ZQ, he bought one share of Berkshire for fun, okay? I believe if you are for fun, then one share should be enough, but if you're really investing it seriously and because you believe that the philosophy of Berkshire Hathaway, and then you can consider investment, all right? So this is Berkshire, right? So the next question, the next question that I had from HubSpot is, hey, because they are employees of HubSpot, they do have options, all right? So when they are given options by the company, they can choose to exercise it, right? So when you exercise, should I sell it, or should I hold it, or what should I do? What advice do you have, all right? So actually it's a very good question, which is also linked to my C, all right? So the third step of ABC is actually cash with options, because if let's say you have attended OMI before, which is our flagship program, right? You have seen that the power of option can give you so much higher return. But once again, if you are investing options, okay, what Elaine just mentioned, right? The system is applicable to anything, especially if you're investing in options, you have to make sure you are really going through this system. Is this the right business? Is this the right price? Before you even execute options, right? So everything is following through ABC. So that's why the question that I throw back to them is, firstly, do you really believe that HubSpot, okay, has a very, very good competitive advantage over other competitors such as Salesforce, such as Adobe, Microsoft. I do know that these three are the biggest competitors that they are facing right now. But once again, I think the team, they are very, very, I think they're very creative people. They also believe that going against the convention, they don't actually see them as competitors. Instead, they really want to out-innovate them. So which is the spirit I truly like, right? And second thing is that what kind of key challenges, right? Is HubSpot facing against the competitors, against the industry? So this is very good questions that you also should start asking yourself before you invest in any company. Can this company really have the economic modes? Does this company really have the competitive advantage? All right, what are the key challenges that they face? Right, despite of the key challenges, can they still continue to grow and grab market share? So if you are able to do that, if the company that you are going to invest is able to do that, then you should be able to really have the peace of mind when it comes to investing, provided it's at a good valuation. Because at the end of the day, the options principle is you really have to make sure you are applying on good fundamental companies, right? Because if you are applying on nothing, it's just pure speculation. And once again, in options millionaire intensive, okay, we never, we never teach you guys to speculate. Always make sure whatever you are applying right now are based on good business, good price, which is also what we thought, okay, during the OMI as well, step by step, okay? That is considered wise investing. And for myself, I also apply the same principles into my buying stocks or being doing option strategy is the same, right? For example, some of the traits that I just recently did, I just want to show you. Microsoft, right? Such a brilliant company. I love this business. And I entered about 208. And recently before the drop, quite luckily, I don't know why, but I just decided to take some profits, all right? So $238 was the profit point I decided to take. And in terms of stock wise, it was about 13% in six months, not too bad, okay? But because I also learned how to do options and I do see the power of doing the right option strategy on Microsoft, very solid company, the strategy that I did was strategy X, okay? If you're from OMI, you know what I'm talking about, right? So my ROI, even though it's the same price and I exited the same price as well, my ROI is so much higher. It's like close to 70% ROI, okay? Even though it's the same stock, but because options give you the ability to increase your ROI by the same time reduce your risk, okay? So the second one that I executed as well, it's called Square. Brilliant company, if I just were to hold on to the stock, buy it for two months, it's 30% gain, which is fantastic. But once again, using options, the return is always accelerated. So this is why I also love options very much. I really think that this investment vehicle is very powerful if you know what are you doing and if you are really following the rules, following the guidelines, the system, applying on the right company, the good price, okay, based on the technical analysis, everything that we actually thought in OMI, you will be able to see very, very consistent return for yourself, all right? I also know that maybe for the recent volatility, some of you are probably facing some losses in your options right now. But once again, if you are facing the losses and you are feeling worried, then you have to ask yourself, are you following the rules? Are you investing in the right company? Did you get them at the right price? And did you implement the strategies the step by step that we taught during OMI? If you did, then there's nothing much to worry because you give it time, the good company will increase in prices. So just relax, the bubble, the economy is not crashing and just hold on to it and you will be fine. In fact, I'm going to conduct a very, very special workshop as well for options, and I'm going to share with you four proven strategies to really profit from the stock and option market very, very safely next Friday. If you are interested in to learn some of the option strategies, of course you have OMI students already, you don't have to come because you already learned it. But on the other hand, if you are complete beginners and you are exploring ways to accelerate your return safely, using options as well, do join this workshop where I'm going to share with you four proven strategies that I personally use as well. Just go to this link, bit.ly, slash four strategies, 2-0-2-1, extremely applicable for 2-0-2-1. So make sure you go and sign up if you are keen to learn as well. So it's only a two-hour workshop, I'm going to share with you two four strategies. Next is, okay, people from Huxwai they're also asking, hey, what is your recommendation for platform? For example, if they want to buy options, if they want to do options, or they want to buy sell US stocks, what platforms am I using? Do I recommend? And secondly, do I set limit order when or do I set market order when buying and selling stocks? Okay, so let me answer a very, very good question is, okay, actually regardless, what kind of platform that you are using, the most important thing is, you need to be a good investor. Do you agree? Because I can give you a car, okay, I can give anyone a car, but if the driver is not good, the car is going to be a very dangerous vehicle, right? The car or maybe it can be very useless if the driver doesn't know how to use it, right? So at the end of the day, investing is the same thing. There are so many brokerage platform out there, right? But at the end of the day, their functionalities are almost the same. Most importantly, as you really start taking action, but you also have to take action cautiously with guidance, right? With the proper rules and feedback, and that's how you will be able to grow. So what platform am I personally using? I use TD Ameritrade. I really think that this is one of the most user-friendly platform, okay? Very slick. It has a lot of usage. At the same time, the data, everything is also free, okay? You don't have to pay anything.  But I know that TD Ameritrade currently is like taking way longer, okay, to open account. Usually in the past, it takes like maybe one to two weeks. Now they take like three to four months, like very long time. So my advice is don't wait for TD to get back to you. If you are serious in terms of starting to invest, then get started as soon as possible with whatever brokerage that you can get access to. Like for example, Interactive Broker. It's a very, very good platform as well. You can get started very, very quickly. Usually one to two weeks, you can already fund your account and start investing. Okay? And the other hand, there's also Sexo, okay? The good thing about Sexo is also very fast, just like IB. But there's certain limitation in terms of, let's say you want to do options. Quite a lot of companies that even TD and IB, they have options in Sexo, you cannot find options. So there's certain limitations in the Sexo platform. But on the other hand, for IB, it's one of the largest brokerage platform in the world as well. So you don't have to worry about limitation. But just that in terms of the user-friendly wise, it's not as good as TD, right? So, yeah, so, Sir Key is saying that TD is taking six months to open. Yes, it's like super long time. So yeah, so that's why I would suggest you get started with whatever brokerage that you are familiar or you are okay to start with. Like Tiger Broker is also a good choice, right? I have some friends that actually started investing using Tiger Broker. So as long as you do your double check and it looks legit, everything, actually you can get started, right? That's the... And how does TD survive zero commissions? Okay, very good. Because TD is a company that you can consider to invest as well. In fact, IB is also zero commission. You buy, sell stocks in IB, it's also free, okay? But the thing is, I have to say that because of that, there are profit margin, their revenue really have quite a significant drop, okay? But on the other hand, when you are using brokerage platform like them, you can actually borrow money, okay? So when you are borrowing money, that's how they will charge you interest, okay? So there's definitely, there are fees that they will be able to charge you along the way, but I really advise you to invest within your means, okay? So whatever amount that you have, just invest with the amount, okay? Don't go and borrow and leverage and that will really cause yourself a lot of trouble, okay? So make sure invest within your means, all right? So Tiger can be used as well. Yeah, like what Eugene said, right? So the final question that I have from Hubspot is actually like this, I think it's a gentleman or something, right? So he said that he read a book and suggested 50% of the portfolio invest in home country and because he's from Singapore, then of course is to invest in SG stocks, right? But he been following it to a certain extent, but he also start to realize that how slow moving is the SG market and that's how he also started to shift towards the US market right now. And the thing is because of the US market, there is a lot more growth potential. So he's relatively young with little commitment and can afford risk, okay? In his opinion, US is more risky. So he's asking, do you think this is a sound approach? Okay, so my first reaction to this is, maybe some of you are probably like him, relatively young, just started investing and you don't mind having more growth driven, more risk, that means you don't mind having more risk, okay? But actually my first response to him is, investing in SG market doesn't mean that it's less risky, right? Because at the end of the day, it doesn't matter which market you invest in. It matters is what companies are you investing in. If you're investing in SG market but you invest in very lousy company, you can still go bust, right? We have seen it again and again, like so many blue chips can also become blue black, right? So it really doesn't matter. I think it's ridiculous to think that SG market, it's saver, US market is risky. I really don't think so. It really boils down to the quality of the business that you are investing in. And second thing is, I totally agree that SG market in terms of the growth potential, is so much lesser compared to US. And that is why I highly recommend for those who are still just investing in SG market, let me show you the truth. In the past 10 years, in fact, more than 10 years since 08 financial crisis, this is the movement of SG market, which is like it really barely moves up. It's just sideways all the time, right? Very, very sideways. But on the other hand, if you still remember US, this is the chart I show you from the beginning of this sharing. It has been going up trend all the time, regardless how many crisis we have been through in the 10 years time, right? So the cost of not investing is so huge because you literally miss out 200% return just by buying a US market ETF, which is SPY, 200% return. But on the other hand, if you invest in SG market, what is your return in 10 years time? Very, very little as compared to investing in the US. And the reason why you can think that US is much bigger economy and in Singapore, there is really so much room that we can grow as a country. Our population is so much lesser as well, right? So at the end of the day, I will highly recommend people who have not looked into the US market, right? Really start exploring because investing in the US doesn't mean that it's risky. We really have to really remove yourself from that misconception. What is truly risky is you don't understand what are you investing in, then becomes risky, right?  This is a beautiful business to invest long term, right? So at the end of the day, understand what you are investing in will give you the confidence, the conviction for you to buy more and that's how your wealth will also compound as well, right? IB charges for shares and options as well, which... Oh, okay, so Eileen is asking what platform can you buy China stock? Okay, I don't think IB can buy China, like mainland China stock, but you can use IB to buy Hong Kong listed stocks, okay, such as your Tencent, your Baba, as long as it's listed on Hong Kong, IB, you can use that, okay? But I don't think you can buy China, like Shanghai stock exchange, I don't think so. Yeah, so that's all I have to share. So once again, I am very happy that you are here spending this evening to come and learn like more than 100 of you watching at the same time, fantastic. So if you want to continue to learn from me, follow my investment insights, do join my Telegram channel, and I will also be, after sharing after this, I will also be sharing with you my recent ETF that I just purchased recently to further stabilise my portfolio. And in my opinion, this is a very good ETF to own for the long term as well, very good price. I just bought it like one week ago, so it shouldn't change much since I last bought it, so you can consider for yourself as well. But once again, it's never about buy or sell recommendation, make sure you go and understand what businesses or what ETF are you investing in so that you have the conviction to buy more when the market actually gives you the opportunity, right? So that is my Telegram, you can choose to follow that. And on top of that, okay, if you are keen to find out about the four proven strategies that I personally use to really how to navigate through all this uncertainty, how to invest safely, profitably using options as well, okay, then I am having this experience, I have not created everything yet. So make sure you go and register as a Google Form. Once you register via Google Form, we will be able to register you officially once we launch that landing pages for the workshop with all the emails, a reminder, everything. So, but the timing has already been set. It's next Friday, 7.30 to 9.30pm. And for those who are interested in, just go to this link, bit.ly, slash four strategies, 2021. Very, very useful for 2021 as well. So what is ETF? Okay, Derek, fantastic. If you miss whatever that I shared, right, make sure you can either watch the replay or you join my four proven strategies, which I'm going to cover much more in that step by step as well. So with that, yeah, I am more or less done. So any more, okay, so Eileen is asking any good China ETF to invest in, fantastic. In fact, in the past, I do invest in China ETF, but I sold it away because my biggest portfolio position is actually Tencent and Baba in terms of the China sector. And I decided to let go of my ETF so that I have more money to just buy these two stocks. But if you can consider China ETF, you can go to like Google China ETF. Like you have your FXI. Last time when I bought it, it was actually a Hong Kong-listed China ETF called Total China Vanguard ETF, which also gave me over 40% return by the time I sold it. I think long-term China is bullish, but I am more bullish towards the companies that I am willing to own. So that's why I decided to sell my ETF and invest in these two companies more instead, all right? So, yeah, so Derek, if you want King to find out what are the other ETFs that good to invest, do follow my Telegram channel because I will be sharing with you more inside my Telegram channel right after this, okay? Some one more very good ETF that I recently bought as well. So that's it that I have to share with you tonight. And once again, thank you everyone for joining. I hope you guys learned a lot, okay? Most importantly, I really want to use this session to inspire you guys to start taking action, okay? Because 2020, if you're never invested, you really have missed out a lot, but I can assure you that the economy is intact. In fact, we are already at the beginning of the next bull run. Make sure you grab this opportunity, start investing, start to enjoy the profits coming in by investing in the right business, right price, all right? And this is what we really want to serve you by really providing you the education and the skills that they truly need, all right? So with that, thank you everyone for coming down as well. And I wish you guys a happy, happy, great weekend. And I will see you very soon as well. Inside my Telegram channel, I will broadcast my latest ETF trade after this, all right? So I will see you inside my Telegram and next Friday workshop. Bye-bye.


Hi everyone, my name is Sheridan. I work at the Long Beach Public Library and in this video I'm going to show you how to log reading, complete activities, and write book reviews in Beanstack to be able to earn points and prizes. First and foremost, you'll want to open up a web browser and navigate to longbeach.beanstack.org. This will take you to the Long Beach Public Library's Beanstack page. We're using your account. You can log in. If you have a mobile phone or a tablet, you can also download the Beanstack mobile app, add the Long Beach Public Library, and then that way you can use that app to be able to log reading, complete activities, and write reviews. It's available on the App Store and on the Google Play Store. Once you're there, you'll want to click sign in and enter your credentials, your username, and your password. This will take you to your Beanstack dashboard, where you'll see the programs that you're signed up for. To toggle in between readers, use the menu on the left-hand side. Currently, under my account, I've got three readers. I've got myself in the adult program, my daughter, Panchita, in the children's program, and my teenage son, Panchito, in the teen program. So I'll show you how to log for kids first, and then we'll switch over to teens and adults. Panchita's in the children's program, and the primary way of logging, reading, and activities is with the button in the top left corner. If you click there, Beanstack is going to ask you three questions. The first one is, which reader would you like to log for? And you can toggle here in between readers, or log for all readers at the same time. And whether you want to log, let's see, Panchita, whether you want to log days or activities. So for today, Panchita read a book this morning, so I'm going to log for her today. She read on the 13th, you click on the day, and you can see that Beanstack doesn't allow you to log reading in the future. You can only log for today, and then hit log. So it looks like Beanstack told us that we logged, and it added a green dot to the day to show that we logged reading that day. You can then hit the X button to go back. We'll also say that Panchita completed an activity this morning. So we'll go back to that same button, make sure that we're on Panchita's profile, and then click on the activities button. It looks like she let's say this morning helped us out with some gardening. So I'll click on that badge and to log the activity, I'll check this little box. And you can see that Panchita unlocked a badge and earned a point. Click on the X to go back, and on the X one more time to go back. And now you'll see that Panchita has logged a day of reading and an activity and earned a point. To write a book review, we will click on this add a review button. Beanstack is going to ask us to write a review, and we'll type in the book title. She read the Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle, and what did she think? She thought that the Caterpillar ate way too much. But he turned into a very beautiful butterfly. We'll hit save, and we can even add an emoticon. And you'll see that Panchita has earned a point for writing a book review, and now that book review will be shared with the rest of the Long Beach community. So everyone can see what everybody else is reading. We'll hit X to go back, and now you'll see that under the logging badges or the activity badges, this one has lit up because she's completed that activity. And those are the basics of logging reading activities and writing book reviews. For teens and adults, it's a little bit different because we ask them to read entire books. So for example here for Panchito, let's say that I'm gonna say that he is in the teen program and he wants to log that he read a book today. So we'll click on the log reading and activities button. Panchito, books. Today he read one book, and the title is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Would he like to include a review? We'll say yes, and we'll hit log. You can see that he's earned a point. He had read a book previously, so now he's unlocked badge number two, and now we can write the review. Great book. Dealing with colonialism and the erasure of traditional cultures in Africa. And we'll hit safe. Writing a review has actually unlocked another badge for him, because at this point, Panchito has earned five points. You can see that he's earned a ticket, and now he can enter a drawing. If you click on the enter a drawing button, that ticket you can then apportion to either of the two grand prize drawings that are gonna happen on July 25th. Panchito's really into snacks, so he's gonna take that one ticket and add it to the Tokyo treat subscription box in hopes that he wins a subscription to Tokyo treat, which sends Japanese snacks straight to your door, and there he goes. Those are the basics of logging reading, activities, writing book reviews, and even adding raffle tickets to the grand prize raffles for the end of the summer. Thank you for joining us today. Hopefully you earn lots of prizes and have a lot of fun this summer.


Microsoft replaced the long-deprecated TS Lint tool with ES Lint in the SharePoint Framework 1.15 release of June 2022. I know it was a little while ago, but this also involved revamping the default coding rules applied to all new SharePoint Framework projects. But many of the rule configurations are quite opinionated, and in my view, they're quite oppressive. This change raised a bunch of questions from many developers and students of my courses, including Michael, one of my newsletter subscribers, who responded with some challenges that he faced with one of his projects. So in this episode, I decided that I would offer some guidance on how to approach build time errors that you get triggered with ES Lint. I also explained how to modify the rules in your project and selectively disable rules within specific parts of your project. Hi, I'm Andrew, and if this topic interests you, please hit that like button below the video.  And if you're new here, consider subscribing to my channel with the button below the video to see when I publish more videos for Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure full stack developers. And check out my bi-weekly newsletter where I talk about the same topics and share the most important news in the Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure space for full stack developers delivered straight to your inbox. Let's begin by understanding Linter's and SharePoint framework projects. TypeScript compiler enforces rules including things like no implicit any, no unused parameters, and no unused locals. Linter's were originally created to improve code quality and catch errors before compilers could perform many of these checks. But nowadays they're more commonly used for to establish coding standards. Linter's work by applying rules to your project using a configuration file. Now some rules support configuration such as adjusting the settings for the rules or specifying whether it should be treated as an error or a warning. Now if an enabled rule produces an error or finds a match in your code, ESLint is going to throw an error exit code. And in the SharePoint framework, the build tool chain first runs ESLint followed by the TypeScript compiler. Now the compiler takes precedence over ESLint. How should you handle ESLint rule warnings and errors? Well first, identify whether you're seeing a linted warning or an error or if it's a TypeScript compiler error. So I'll show you that first we have our project here that has a clean build and doesn't report any ESLint warnings or errors. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to add something that's going to trigger one of these errors. And so now when I run, you're going to see that I'm going to get an error here and it talks about the fact that I failed the dot notation. And that's what a warning looks like. Let me show you what an error looks like. Now I'll rebuild it and now we're seeing an error pop up which we're failing an error saying that there's something that's declared but it's not being used. Now there's a difference between the two messages. The first one, the dot notation, is from ESLint while the second one, TS6133, is from the TypeScript compiler, also known as TSC. Now to learn more about Linting and compiler warnings or errors simply search for them in Google. For the two examples that I mentioned above you can learn more about the dot notation rule on the TypeScript ESLint website and about TS6133 by simply searching Google. So in this case here you see it's ESLint warning and what it's saying is that with the dot notation rule that I failed it's saying that it's better to write it out as using the dot notation. So it says it would have been better if I would have said styles.hello world instead of putting it in the brackets and using it as like an indexer because it's easier to do type checking and to make sure that value's there. If I type it as a string I got a pretty good chance I can have a typo. The second piece that we saw here is the TypeScript error and what it's saying is that you can't declare something and then never use it. That's just you shouldn't have that kind of code. Just make sure code dirty is the extra stuff that's there that's not necessary. Well what if you don't agree with either one of these rules? What if you have your own standards for your organization? Well you can customize these rules both ESLint rules and the TypeScript compiler rules. To configure the TypeScript compiler settings you're going to use the included TS config file that's located in the root of the project. For example for the one we were just looking at it was no unused locals. So this piece right here this is by default is set to true. I could have set this to false but it defaults to true. But how do you configure ESLint? Let's examine the ESLint configuration and manage the various scopes in which it's found. Now all configurations for SharePoint Framework projects are defined in this ESLint rc.json file. To configure the rules for an entire project you can make a change in this ESLint.js file. This makes it easy for organizations to maintain specific coding standards across all of their projects. And by using a CINCD process you can ensure that every project follows the same standards. For example the configuration for the dot notation rule in the previous warning I showed you is the following. So what does this rule say? Well the first item in the array is going to refer to the rules severity. And in this case a severity level of one means that the rule should be just treated as a warning. While a level of two indicates it's an error. In a level of zero that's going to disable the rule. Now the second item in the array is the configuration of the rule. And in this case the allow pattern. That's an optional regular expression string that permits the use of a bracketed notation for property names that match a specific pattern. And to give an example the warning could have been avoided if the property hello world had been prefixed with an underscore. Now this approach works well for a project. But what if you need to selectively disable rules within your project?  But then there's this one specific case within a file that you prefer this rule not apply or you can't figure out. This can be accomplished using some special code comments. So to disable rules for a file within a project add the following to the top of the file.  And now you'll see when I build my project. Eslet doesn't report that error. You can also disable a rule for an entire code block by using a TypeScript comment to disable and then turn around and re-enable the rule right afterwards. So what I'm going to say is I'm going to surround my existing line of code that's causing the error. I'm going to say eslet-disable the dot notation and then I'm going to turn around and say enable the dot notation. So I'll start with my existing one just to simplify it. And I'll come down and find out where our error is. I'll put it in right here and then I'll turn right around and I'll re-enable it. And now when I run it you'll see that our rule is still not being caught. And then you can also disable a rule just for a single line. And you can do that by just adding a comment right before the line. So what I'll do is I'll remove our enable line and then I'll say eslet-disable-next line and it will still disable it. Or I can just do it on the same line that I want to disable by putting the comment at the end of the line and just having the command say something like eslet-disable-line. So how should you approach linting rules and warnings? Well let me give you my recommendations for these. First of all, don't panic and don't treat rules as absolute. Just because you fail a rule doesn't necessarily mean that you've got to fix your code. Perhaps your code is just fine as is and the rule is being too specific. Or maybe the rule simply doesn't work for your particular scenario. You may need to determine whether or not you're doing the right thing. It's also important to distinguish between compiler errors and linting errors and warnings. Just remember, the default rule configurations are set up for a reason. Someone decided that they represented generally accepted coding standard or one that they believe was important. But in my opinion, you shouldn't treat Microsoft's ESLint rule configurations as the ultimate authority. You have the final say and you can define what's acceptable for your project or your team or your organization. Take the time to develop your own personal, team or organizational standards and define them in your own eslint.js files. Make sure that these standards are used for all of your projects going forward. How would you best prefer to disable eslint rules in your projects? Do you have a question about using eslint in your SharePoint framework projects? Let me know by dropping a comment below and let me know if you want to see more videos about eslint and SharePoint framework projects. And if so, make sure you include what you'd like to see. If you liked this video or you found it useful, please give me a thumbs up. It helps me grow the channel by reaching more people just like you. And if you haven't already, subscribe by smashing that subscribe button below the video so you'll see when I publish more videos for full stack developers on Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Azure. And again, let me know if you want to see more videos about eslint and SharePoint framework projects. And like what? I'm Andrew Connell. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in my next episode.