Hello everyone this is Amit Dan of amitdan.com. Today I'll have another episode of notebook review video and I'll be presenting the mall skin 2022 weekly planner which I have it right here. If this is your first time or if you visit thank you for your support. On this channel I'm always trying new and different ideas. If you love and appreciate thinking outside the box please go ahead and subscribe. If you're looking for more notebook review videos there'll be links in the description box below. So I just picked up the mall skin 2022 weekly planner and today I'll go over with you some of the specs and we'll take a look at it what's inside. So I have some of the specs right on this card for better understanding. So this is a pocket notebook which is you know size A6 and we're looking at 3.5 by 5.5 inches or 9 by 14 centimeter and the paper we have here is 70 GSM ivory colored paper and then it's just some additional tools inside which are time zones planning international measurements and then we have dialing codes, flight duration and global holidays and the notebook comes with elastic closure and then it should lie flat you know once you open it and then it has a ribbon bookmark and expandable pocket inside it. So here are the basic or important specs which are right here and now let's open the notebook. So I'm just going to remove this paper cover and we're going to quickly take a look at inside. So it has just some information on here and on the back you can see that there's a calendar and which can turn into a desk calendar.  So this is the first page and here in case of loss please return to and you can even declare a reward and then this is a thick paper and this is just you know the personal information for example the name, telephone number, email and everything and also there's this place for credit card number, passport number but I wouldn't put any sensitive information on this on here you know because in case of loss you know you're just exposing yourself to scammers. So here we have 2022 calendar and then here we have you know 2022 month each month is one page so here we have January here we have February and then it just you know continues and then once it ends then you have 2023. So one thing I noticed that it's very hard to see you know if you are not viewing very clearly it's not that it's not that you know the camera or anything it's just that's the way it is it's very kind of very hard to see so you know I wouldn't recommend this to someone who have or who do not have very like you know good eyesight so it's kind of not easy on eyes as well and here we have the global holidays for 2021 and there's kind of a chart you can follow and actually there's the name of the country starting from Argentina and it goes on and then you have like you know month here January to February so you have to just match your country to find the holiday and then here we have the time zones and here basically we just find time anywhere in the world and then here's like you know the guide how many hours to deduct or add and let's take a look here so here we have some you know measures measurements and conversions so for example we have here area capacity with volume length and then we have some temperature conversion and speed conversion and then here we have looks like there's like you know even clothes conversions so there's lots of things I don't see these are necessary it's just like you know not easy on eyes to read and even you have dialing codes and you can just find your like you know where you want to call the one thing I can see although it's really tiny is that there's like you know tiny box and if you want to like you know kind of highlight or bookmark them you can just check up the box but again it's very difficult to see it's not easy on eyes and then here we have travel planning and you know if you'd like to do some travel planning there's like you know destination date and notes and then here we have my extraordinary moments this year and my blank space okay so let's move forward and actually there's like a ruler and then this is just to measure something so which is even not I don't think I seen this in a notebook in between pages so if you need to measure something for example let's say it looks like this is going to be two inches from here to here but again I don't see much use of that and then here is the legend so it just tells you like you know which symbol is used for what purpose and then here is the week starting with week one and you can see that you know this is like you know Monday and till Sunday so Saturday and Sunday on one space and then Monday through Friday has its own you know space and then after each week looks like there's a paper to write and again it continues so again you have the second week or yes second week and then again ruled pages so it just you know continues this way and let me just take a look here so you have July we have August September so looks like it just you know keeps going for the rest of the notebook and then here we have December 24 December 31st and here a few more blank pages but these pages are like you know has lines on it or line pages and that's the end of the notebook and then here we have the expandable pocket and there's some stuff in here looks like this is empty right now so we have just a kind of small brochure of Molaskan's history and other information and then looks like there's some stickers as well and we have three different colors so there's black blue and red and then we have another sticker so basically that's all with this notebook such as both advantages and disadvantages the advantages are that this is very small and handy you can easily you know put it in your pocket and you can also you know keep it with you when you're traveling and very nice color it's very lightweight it even doesn't feel any weight and then on the negative side the writings are you know very bad it's very hard to read especially if you're looking in between the pages where all the information it's kind of like you know it's gonna hurt your eyes if you try to find something and I'm not sure even you know in these days anyone is looking for this information right here it's much easier to go online and just look for these so I feel like you know this information is unnecessary and also you know it's going to hurt your eyes if you try to read them or look at them and even if you're looking at the notebook I think it would have been much it would have been much easier if you know these are like you know brighter color or something different not just like you know matching color with the paper so that's what I think about the notebook but except that everything is okay definitely like you know you cannot go wrong because of the price that's not very expensive your regular price is about 22 dollars Canadian but I got it on sale for about 15 dollars and I have a feeling that you know if you are buying now definitely you're gonna have more sale or similar type of sale at 30% off or 20% off so this is definitely coming handy for your planning and other purposes but it might not be too useful for some if you have like you know difficulty reading very tiny letters or numbers then definitely you know this is not going to be helpful or it's going to hurt your eyes if you try to like you know look at it longer or try to like you know work on it because it's not very clear due to the color they used which kind of blends with the paper so that's the review of the mallskin 2022 weekly notebook diary journal thank you for watching this video there will be more videos coming up so I'll see you shortly thank you


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and they're gonna be adjusted by the credit card company grouped in some way, shape, or form and deposited into the bank. Therefore, usually you're gonna have to enter this transaction in and then it's gonna go into an undeposited funds or a clearing account of some kind instead of going directly into the bank account so that then you can take them out of the clearing account and deposit them internally on our side rather than wait until they clear the bank. We deposit them on our side in the same grouping as we expect them to clear the bank. That's what often messes people up. When you have a credit card company, for example, the credit card company usually takes your deposits, groups them together and then puts them into your bank account, not one by one sale. If I sold widgets that cost $5, the credit card company is not gonna take each $5 sale and deposit it into your bank account $5 at a time. They're gonna group it together and then give you one lump sum deposit. And that's why we need the clearing account so that we can group it on our side in the same format as being grouped by the bank and that's gonna add a level of complexity. We'll talk about that when we get into the forms here. And then if you're on an accrual-based method, you're gonna enter an invoice and you possibly could have a step before that as well. If you have a job cost system, for example, you might have an estimate. So someone might call in, they give you an estimate and you say, this is how much it's gonna cost based on what we think is in our billing. And the estimate doesn't actually record anything. It's just an internal transaction. But if you make an estimate and then they accept the next estimate, then you can create the invoice from the estimate. The invoice is then the form that's gonna record the revenue. So revenue will been recorded at the invoice, but no cash will be received at that time. Instead, it's gonna go into accounts receivable. Therefore, accounts receivable is an accrual account. If you're using accounts receivable, if you bill someone and they're gonna pay you later, then you have to track the accounts receivable. There's no getting around it and that's gonna be a major part of the accounting process because you wanna make sure that you're getting paid for the work that's being done. So you're gonna be increasing the accounts receivable with the invoice. That would be for businesses, again, like bookkeeping, law firm, landscaping, many businesses, that's just the way it works. You're gonna have to do the work and then bill the client often for the work. Then they're going to pay you and we're gonna receive the payment. They might pay you by check. They might pay you by electronic transfer. They might pay you by credit card. If you have those set up, when you receive the payment, then oftentimes, we might put it once again into a clearing account instead of to the checking account of undeposited funds. And the reason is, similar to what we talked about before, if it was a credit card, for example, I might get multiple payments that then the credit card company groups together, batches, and then puts them into my bank account as one deposit. And therefore, I'm gonna have to do that on my end as well. I'll put it into a clearing account, undeposited funds or funds to be deposited. And then I'll use my deposit form on my side to deposit it in the proper grouping so it shows up on the income statement as one deposit instead of three separate deposits, the format that hopefully will be shown on the bank feeds or bank reconciliation, making the bank reconciliation easy. Now, it might be the case that you get paid by check or you get paid one at a time, one invoice by a time. Usually that would be the case if you have higher dollar amount items. If they're just sending you a check or they're sending you an electronic transfer for the amount, you charge them $200, they pay you $200. Then you can just deposit it directly into the bank account possibly with the received payment forms and you don't have to deal with that whole clearing account issue. And so that's gonna be the general process. So you can see here, there's actually a lot of variation with the different kind of accounting cycles you might go through. And if you have inventory, that's gonna complicate things a bit more because the inventory is something that you're gonna have to use an invoice or a sales receipt for if using a perpetual inventory system because you might not be able to track the inventory by just using the deposit form. So you wanna make sure that you have your, see how complex your system is and make sure that you have your flow down correctly. You can't just pick the easiest thing. It's gonna be dependent on the industry that you're in. So if I select this dropdown here, in future presentations, we'll go over each of these forms looking at the data input and the impact of them on the financial statements, at least most of these forms, if not all of them. So the invoice is gonna be the accrual form. That's the one that increases accounts receivable. An accounts receivable is an accrual account. The receive payment is the form after we enter an invoice and then the customer pays us lower in the accounts receivable and then recording the deposit either into a clearing account, undeposited funds are directly into the checking account. An estimate form will only be there in certain types of industries. So if you have to do an estimate first and then you make the invoice as a job cost system or someone calls in and they wanna know how much something will cost, you might run an estimate instead of an invoice and then you can use the estimate to create the invoice. The credit memo is a form that could reverse, say an invoice. And so that can be a little bit complex to think about the transaction for it. So we'll talk about that in future presentations. The sales receipt is the form that you would use generally if you're at a cash register, cash-based system, but one which you can't wait till the deposits clear the bank instead having to enter the deposits as they happen at the point of sale, like a cash register and then most likely put those into a clearing account undeposited funds or funds to be deposited so that you can then group them properly as they go into the checking account. If you're doing your bank feeds or you're doing your bank reconciliations and you find that you have to add multiple deposits together in your bookkeeping system to tie out to what the bank says, then you probably could make a accounting system that's more efficient so that you can match. The bank reconciliation and the bank feed matching should be really easy automatic if your system's set up properly. So, and then we'll get into the refund receipt, delayed credit, delayed charge, other forms that could come up and the uses where those might be necessary. We'll talk about them in future presentations.


What happened with Tim Anderson there? All right, so first thing I called him Jackie. So let me give you a little context of that. 2019, he came out with the interview and said that he's a new Jackie Roberts at a baseball. He's going to bring back fun for the game, right? And 2019, when I played for Atlanta, we actually joked about that on the game. I don't know what's changed from, and I've said it to him years past. Not in any manner than just joking around, for the fact that he called himself Jackie Robinson. So if something has changed from that, like my meaning of that is not at any term trying to be racist by any fact of the matter, it was just off of an interview that what he called himself. And when we said that before we joked about it, he laughed, whatever, as you could tell in our series that we've played through the multiple times where I've tried to diffuse the situation, like to responsibility for the tag, wasn't trying to do anything there. Like today, just trying to diffuse it, like, hey, like make light, like, hey, we're not trying to start any brawls or anything like that. Obviously he deemed that it was disrespectful. And look, if he did, I apologize, like, that's not what I was trying to do by any manner. And, you know, that's really, that's what happened. Do you plan to address that at all with him before the next game or anything? I mean, I can, I don't know how willing he is.  That's why after I slid in the second base today, I just kind of like looked at him after he said something to me. I'm like, all right, I'm just, I just laughed. Like, I'm like, I've had enough, you know. That's all you would address with your teammates too in case they have questions about it? Yeah, I've talked to a few guys on our team and I'm like, look, this is what's happened. This is what's transpired. Like there was no meaning by me saying that to him other than he's called himself that. That's it. That happened in the third, didn't it? First. In the first? First, yeah. Josh, what about the back and forth with Randall? What was that about? Well, I mean, what it seems like, I don't know. What it seems like is they talked about it as a team and then he tried to confront me. I'm like, he's like, I didn't know what he was talking about at the beginning. I'm like, what? What are you talking about? He's like, you know what he said. I'm like, are you referring to me calling him Jackie? Like, that's like, I thought there was a joke between him and I, you know, because we have talked about it before. And as I said, let me mention it again. He's called himself Jackie Robinson. That's why I thought it was funny between us, you know. What happened in the third inning when you passed him after running second base?  But look, I don't, it doesn't really bother me that much, you know, whatever.


Hello everyone, welcome to success story with Shangri's Academy. Today we have with us Mr. Nitin K. Biju, who have secured all in a rank of 89 in the UPSC Civil Service examination. So Nitin, welcome to the session and hearty congratulations, first of all. Thank you so much Arjun. So how did you know the results? Did you go through the PDF by yourself and what was your first reaction when you knew the results and two weeks down now how do you feel? Has it all sunk in? Actually, I had like there was a discussion that the results were going to come on August 4th. So I was expecting that from the morning itself. But I didn't expect it to come in the morning. I thought it might come in that day and evening. So anyway, I was actually active. I was very much particular that I should see my result first before anyone says me. So I was like as soon as the result PDF came into a group, I saw it and I started scrolling down from the first page and luckily I found my name in the second page and I was so much relieved because there was a lot of tension during the days before. So when I saw my name, I was very much relieved and I told my parents I was so happy. Then after that the call started coming and personally, I feel everything has sunk down and I feel very happy and satisfied at my performance. That's great. So you know this PPSC journey is quite long. You also have been preparing for almost 4-5 years and this preparation journey, the support of family is very important. So can you tell us something about your family, parent, their support in this journey and all? Actually, it is very much important that you have a supportive family during the preparation. So my father and my mother were really supportive during the times of preparation. My father used to come to the exam centres during all stages of the examination. And when I had failed in my first two attempts, he was there to support me and motivate me to continue the preparation. Also, apart from that my mother had actually shifted with me to Bangalore for my education purpose and both of them ensured that I get an environment of studies which actually enabled me to focus on the exam. Also my sister was also very much supportive during my journey. That's great to know.  You have completed your engineering and then you started preparing for civil service. So when in your life did you decide that you want to prepare for civil service? Was it during the school period or was it during the engineering or after engineering? When did you realise that you want to prepare for civil service and is there any inspiration, somebody who inspired you to take up this career? During the school days, I really didn't think of civil service but in my parents, my parents used to say that you should try for IAS. But I never took it seriously. But after that, during the third year of graduation, by that time I had decided that I am going to prepare for civil service and I had joined classes. We can classes by the third year of graduation. So if I say inspiration, there were a lot of civil servants who were really inspiring. For example, Raju Narayana Swami sir was there, Amshong Pamesh sir was there. Also there were a lot of civil servants with whom I had interacted. For example, Haritha V. Kumar madam who was the first rank holder of civil service in one particular year. I was able to talk with her over form and even Albi Jones sir. So all these people had actually inspired me to prepare hard for the civil service. So you started preparation in the third year of your college, right? So can you tell us about your preparation journey? So how did you manage your engineering studies with the preparation? And after once you completed your graduation, how did you take up this studies? How long did you study? How many hours did you study? Can you tell us how you prepared? Actually during the times of graduation was really difficult to balance both engineering as well as civil services. So the civil service preparation was not at full pace during graduation. I just used to attend some tests, that's it. I didn't prepare well during graduation because engineering itself is a difficult subject. So my proper preparation started in 2016 after I graduated. Then I started the self-study part, like I started doing the optional until December. Then along with that I focused on the static subject also. And when I say about the amount of studies which I had done, I used to study for around 7 to 8 hours. So here what I had actually focused was not the quantity of the time, but rather the quality of the time during which I prepared. I ensured that in those 8 hours which I am studying, even though it is less than 8 hours, even if it is less than 8 hours, I ensured that the time which I spend was of utmost efficiency. And if I am able to complete the syllabus which I have put the target for that particular day, then I would do my other things and come out of studies and do my other things. So it was like a work target that I should complete in a particular day. If I complete early then I am free. So that was the kind of studies which I used to do during the preparation phase. So it's about consistent qualitative work which matters more. Yes, yes. It is equally important that we study daily also. Like weekly we can take an off, but most of the days should be spent on studying. So you have given 3 attempts so far and in your first attempt, you cleared your first syllabus itself and you missed the means by 2 marks at the top. And in the second attempt, you could not clear problems and now you bounce back in the third attempt and then you got a rank of 89. So how did you face these failures? Like missing the means cut off by 2 marks and then failing in the problems which would be a huge disappointment. So how did you face these failures? What kept you motivated during these 4-5 years of preparation? Actually, it is very much true that a failure kept on coming. In my first attempt itself, I was lucky enough to clear the problems and I was fully confident in writing them. By writing the means also, I was fully confident that I am going to clear it in my first attempt itself. But when the results came, it was a disappointment. Later when the marks came, I felt so much unlucky that I just missed my 2 marks. But later I came to know that if I am able to like almost clear the means in my first attempt itself, then definitely I will be able to do it in one more attempt. So that was the confidence which I was able to get after seeing my marks. So then I thought now I should be preparing, focusing on my second attempt and try to get a rank below 100. So that was my target. But again, to say unlucky, to say like I had shifted, diverted my preparation a bit during those times. I had to do some part-time work and all. So because of that, my preparation took a back seat and I couldn't clear the problems in my second attempt. And that was again, I feel, presently when I see, I feel it to be a blessing actually. That time I was very much disappointed. But actually I was able to get out of the cycle for one year and just give complete focus, complete focus of an year for my third attempt. And that is the reason why I was able to achieve a good rank this year. So I feel that all the failures which happened, therefore a good reason and for a good result which happened now. Okay. So now let's discuss some specifics about your preparation. Like let's come to problems. So what was your strategy for problems and when did you start your, you know, a problem specific preparation because you're somebody who cleared the problems in the first set and itself. So you can guide those aspirants, especially who are taking the first set up. So when did you start the preparation, problems exclusive preparation and what did you do, your first problems so that you could crack it. Okay. When I say about the first film, what I focused on was from around June, around a year before the actual film, I started my preparation with the static subjects. I ensured that I give enough time for each of the static subject. When I read lexicon for the first time, I gave around one and a half months to complete the textbook one. So I was not giving much time around. I was giving around two, three hours daily and then I was focusing on other subjects also. So in this manner, since I finished these subjects very in a slow manner, I was able to recollect the fact I was able to read it thoroughly. In this manner, by around December, I had finished a lot of static subjects like lexicon was done, history was done, then acromi, NCRTs were done. And like that three or four static subjects were done. Along with that, I used to slowly start the current affairs preparation also. The current affairs magazine, I made it a habit to read the newspaper daily and along with this, the optional was also being simultaneously being done for around two hours a day. So in this manner, by December, January, I was able to do a lot of subjects, a lot of knowledge was done. Then after January, I focused mainly on the test series. So even during December, before my first attempt, I remember during November, December, my prelims marks was only 64, 60 in the 60 range. Okay, I still remember the mark. So then I was able to slowly improve it because each one by one the subjects were being done. My focus shifted to test series and in the last two, around two and a half to three months, I focused exclusively on prelims. Till that time, I was managing prelims with mains along with the optional. So then last two months, I shifted completely to prelims and by the end, like around just two months before prelims, I was able to get around 100, 110 marks I was able to get in the test series. Then I became confident that I would be, I have the potential to clear the prelims in the first attempt. So this was my method of study. Okay, so during the preparation, did you use to make notes? So there's a lot of aspirants who have canvations, especially those who are giving the first attempt, whether we should make notes for NCRT, whether we should make notes for, you know, Laxmi Khan, basic books. So how did you make notes? Did you make notes for prelims? And if so, how did you make notes? In case of prelims, we don't need to make notes like because subjects are very much watched. So what I used to do was to use a highlighter and highlight in the textbook for example in Laxmi Khan or even Shankar's environment book. I used to highlight it there and I used to categorize it as P for prelims and M for mains. So I just used to categorize. So when I come back to revision, I used to revise the same textbook again and again. So this was my method. This actually saved me a lot of time and I ensured that I come back to the textbook again and again. Also, I feel that if we start making notes out of this basic book, it will consume a lot of time and efforts and you will not be able to give justice to all the subjects. So for prelims, I don't recommend making notes, but when it comes to mains, not making is very much necessary and I have made notes for mains. Now like current affairs for prelims, you said that you are reading newspaper every day. So what other sources did you refer for current affairs? Did you read the PIB or any other sources, monthly magazines? What all did you refer for studying current affairs? In my case, my current affairs preparation was dependent only on two things. One is the Hindu newspaper. Reading the Hindu newspaper daily is compulsory and I tried my best to do that. And second is the monthly magazines which come out of various institutes. So here one thing which we should understand is we have to limit our sources. There are many people who try to use multiple sources for current affairs. This thing we should limit. If you are using the monthly current affairs of one academy, then we should stick to it and continuously revise it again and again. So that like the 12 month current affairs of that particular magazine is done thoroughly. So this was the only thing which I used to focus on, one monthly magazine preparing for 12 months and daily newspaper. And I used to revise it again and again. So this was my strategy for current affairs. So when you come nearer to the problems, there is a basic confusion among aspirants that whether you should revise these basic books again and again or whether you should go for solving more and more tests and revise them. So what is your advice to that question? I would say that both are equally important. Revising the books I would consider it to be more important because there are a lot of content in the basic books and most of the times the questions also come from there. So if you don't revise the books, reading a book only just one time is of no use. If you can't revise it at least two, three, or minimum three times I would say. I am sure that I would have revised lexicon for more than four, five times in the whole course of preparation. So definitely revision is very much important that has to be done and along with that the series has to be done based on individual pace. I used to do around one test in two days and like one day I'll be doing a test and the next day I'll be solving the solution. So that was my method of solving the test and before problems I would do anyway around 30 problems test I would be doing. But we should not just neglect one thing for the other. Both are equally important. Now let's discuss about mains. What was your strategy for the mains and what differences did you make between the first mains and second mains? In my first mains I would say I made a lot of big mistakes. I actually joined for a test series but I didn't opt for evaluation. So what happened was I used to write the test but I never bothered to go to a teacher for evaluation. That actually costed me a lot because there were a lot of mistakes which went unidentified and I was so much confident on myself that I would be able to do it by myself. And that was a big mistake which I done during the first mains. And in my second mains I ensured that this mistake is not rectified. So every mains paper, every mains answer sheet would be evaluated and I would personally go to teachers to again ask for the review. So this method I had a mentor at that point of time. So that was the main strategy which I, main difference which I did in my second mains. So that is very important that your answers are evaluated properly. Okay so regarding another concern students have is regarding answer writing. So when did you actually start this answer writing process? Did you start it in college itself or was it later at a later point where you actually started writing answers? And again when initially when you started writing answers what were the challenges that you faced? I started writing answer writing after my college. During my college preparation I couldn't focus on answer writing. But what I used to do was like when I started my self study I ensured that I try to write at least one question daily in the initial days of the preparation. Though I was not that consistent in answer writing during that point of time. What I used to try to do was writing an answer and showing it to a teacher. So that is the most important aspect. And the main challenges which I faced during that time was the lack of content. During the initial phase of the preparation we would be having very less content and we don't know like what to write. So the lack of content was the main challenge there. But to the freshers I would say that it's fine even if you are lacking the content you should keep on writing. Because the content will definitely build over the time. But you should have that technique of answer writing. You should practice that technique of answer writing from the initial phases of your preparation. Because main is the most important part of this journey I would say with 1,750 marks. Answer writing becomes the most important aspect of it. So you were initially saying during problems not making notes. Even if you don't make notes for problems not making is important for the main examination. So how did you approach note making for the main examination? For the main examination what I tried to do was I tried to make a list of the topics especially from the current affairs topics. Which were in use for the last one year. So not even last one year like my main was on September. So I ensured that from January at least I have a list of all the important topics from January. And I categorized it subject wise. Under quality I have 10 to 15 topics. Under economy I have this much topics. After making a list of that I ensured that I started making very crisp notes on individual topics. Under each topic maximum 5 to 6 points will be there. And these points I won't be elaborating it. I will be just writing the keyword. If it is a quality answer I would just try to note down the relevant articles, the relevant case or the relevant legal provision or something like that. So only the important keywords I will be noting down. So in one side of an A4 sheet I will write at least 4 topics. In this manner a lot of topics were covered in very less pages. So this kind of crisp notes should be made because it is equally important to revise them. Even during the day of the exam when you have to write for 6 hours in the gap in between. In the 2 hour gap in between you should be able to revise the notes also. So keeping that in mind I made the notes. And what about current affairs? Like you followed the same strategy as in films or did you do anything extra for preparing current affairs? I didn't do anything extra but what I did was earlier when I used to read newspaper I used to just read it and leave it. But when it came to means I ensured that I went back to the important editorials and articles of those Hindu newspapers from January. And I started noting it down and preparing notes on that. So I just went back to the Hindu newspaper itself and the monthly magazine which I already read. Now let's discuss about your optional subject. So you are an engineer but then still you chose public administration as an optional. So what was the reason behind this decision? Actually initially my optional was electrical engineering. But I haven't given any attempt but I understood that preparing engineering it will take a lot of time. And I was having a plan to clear in my first attempt itself. So definitely engineering was not a good option for that plan. So what I did is I started reading the syllabus of other subjects. I went through the syllabus of public administration. I felt public administration to be a very interesting subject. And I even started reading some books on public administration, some standard books. And I found that the subject is pretty much interesting for me. And I will definitely be able to complete it within 5-6 months. That was another target. And it was very much relevant and it was connected with the other subjects also. For example GS2, SA and even ethics. Part of it coincides with ethics also. So predominantly it is my interest and the other factors. Like which I already mentioned. Which made me to take public administration as an optional. So what would be your advice to those students who want to take public administration as an optional? Do then don'ts when you prepare public administration. One thing which I would say is public administration as an optional is not sufficient to read the books only. It is a subject which has to be dealt with at the thinking level, at the thought process. You have to think a lot on the subject. You have to connect it with various other subjects. So a lot of thinking process happens more than mugging up all the syllabus. So that is one thing which you should keep in mind first. And the second important thing is that to ensure that you keep your sources minimal. And you keep your sources the standard materials itself. I ensured that I started reading with new horizons on public administration written by Mohit Bhattajari. Even though the vocabulary is a bit difficult in that textbook. I ensured that I started with that only. So that even if it is difficult I will read it in a slow manner. Eventually I was able to complete it also. Then Prasad and Prasad administrative thinkers by Prasad and Prasad is an equally important book. You should be very thorough with these two books. These two are the most important books for paper one. If you are thorough with these two books then I assure you that you will be scoring great marks in public administration. And maybe for remaining syllabus of paper one and for paper two. Radha Binod Ariba is also a good book. So I actually relied on only these three books. These three were the only sources for paper for me. And extra you can read. Second AFC report summaries you can read. So apart from this don't go behind a lot of material. So this is the advice which I want to say. Any roads or something which you should not do I will go for public administration. Any mistakes which you would make. As if you say the mistake I can't think of any. Because from the beginning I was doing public administration in a right strategy. But one thing which I would say is to neglect there are many people who neglect the standard books. As I already mentioned Mohit Bhatt Aajariya and Tinker. Many people neglect those books telling that it's a very difficult book will read it later. So they focus on the materials which are available in the market. So that is a don't which I would say which should be kept in mind. Start with the standard book. And which all books did you refer to paper 2 of public administration? I do. Radha Binod Aribam. He covers the syllabus entirely all the chapters are there. Also he has tried to link it with the thinkers in the first paper one. There are a lot of thinkers about which we read in paper one. While writing an answer in paper two it is very important that we have to differentiate it with a normal GS2 answer. If we are not able to do that differentiation then the marks will be less. So it is where the thinkers come into use. So try to add the paper one thinkers in paper two as well as adding the paper two examples in paper one is equally important. So this in the paper linkage is provided by Radha Binod Aribam. I really like that book. Was there any difference in approach between the first main and the second main you wrote with public administration? Or the same strategy was followed? No it was not the same strategy. In my first main I had left a lot of syllabus. Especially in paper two I was not able to study a lot of syllabus. So it was like a general quality answer. Even if we don't study the syllabus also we will be able to write all the questions but we won't be able to write answers which look like a public administration answer. So I wrote the answers but it was a very general kind of answer. So that mistake are rectified in my second main. We are also happy that we could be, Changrae's Academy could be a part of your success journey. Nithin has taken mock interview at Changrae's Academy before his actual UPS interview. So we will see a small glimpse from his mock interview and then we will come back. Okay. So Nithin you had your interview amidst this COVID pandemic. So how was this COVID interview experience? And how was your experience of UPS interview in general? Which board did you get and did they ask any interesting questions? So how was the whole experience? This interview was very much different from the previous ones. Because during this year February itself I had been for the Indian Forest Service interview. So I could actually judge the difference, how different it was. First of all traveling to Delhi at that point of time was itself a big risk for me. I had more PPE kits for traveling to Delhi and flight and all. So after reaching there also it was very much different. Stay in Kerala house was also, I was the only person who was there in the initial 4-5 days. Then when it came to interview, the interview board ensured that a lot of precautions were taken. A lot of social distancing measures were taken to ensure utmost safety during the interview process. A lot of checking were there. And during the interview also I got PK Joshi's board. So I was actually sitting in one corner of the room and they were very much far away from me. It was a bit difficult for me to hear the questions. I had requested them to repeat the questions also. So that kind of issues were there. Another aspect was that they couldn't see our face.  So everything was kind of foggy. Even I couldn't see them. They couldn't see my face. So it was just mostly auditory kind of interview which was happening there. But that time I was able to manage it and coming to some of the questions. The areas of questions were focusing on my graduation. My graduation was electronics and communication. And a lot of questions were asked on that. At least 3 members started asking me questions on electronics and communication which I had already left 4 years before. So that was a bit of a tricky situation for me but I was able to manage it. And other than electronics, they asked me some theories on public administration. I was able to answer it because those were kind of easy theories. Abraham Maslow's theory of motivation. I was able to say it well. Then they asked about like Kerala. They asked how Kerala is affected by COVID. I told about the tourism effect on tourism, the remittances, etc. They also asked how Kerala economy can revive from COVID. So I told about that also. Then one interesting aspect which I didn't expect at all was in the international relations. So that was a time when there were a lot of issues between India, China and India and Nepal. So I was well prepared on those and they asked India about Bangladesh issue. So I was very much confused like from where did Bangladesh come into picture now. So I was not able to recall many of the issues but what came into my mind I just told them. And I couldn't say much. So I told madam I don't recall much of the issues. Anyway after that they changed the question. They asked me about my hobbies. My hobbies are playing football and endurance running. They asked me who is your favorite football team. I am a football player which is your favorite football team. Although this kind of question and what is the difference between endurance running and marathon. So these kind of questions I was able to answer. So overall if I see it was mostly a dash based question rather than current affairs based question. Okay nice to hear your experience and maybe you would be happy to hear your experiences with Shankaray's academy also. So Shankaray's academy actually I am coming to Shankar for the first time in 2018 actually. That time I was able to meet actually that was the time when I failed my prelims. So it was my second prelims. I wrote the prelims and I wanted to take a main series. So I came to Shankaray's academy. The results were not out but I was expecting that I would clear. Then I actually the admissions were kind of filled up at that point of time. But I was able to meet Shankar sir and I was very happy to meet him. Such a humble person he is. He actually allowed us to write the main series even though the vacancies I mean the slots are already filled. So I was happy. I actually started writing the main series happily at that point of time. But luckily I couldn't continue because when the prelims results came I failed and I couldn't continue with the main series. Then Shankar's environment book was a very important part of my preparation. For environment I relied on that along with the biology NCRT. That was there and my close association with Shankar started in this attempt. Present attempt 2019 attempt after the main results were out. I came for the first time for this MOOC interviews which happened there. And I had attended at least two MOOC interviews with the panels and a one on one session with Ramachandran sir also. So I would say for my interview preparation the most important input which I got was from Ramachandran sir. So he had told me various tips which actually I implemented in my interview which really helped me to bring more confidence into my answers. So I would consider that the panels in Shankar's academy are excellent. Really excellent and I thank Shankar's academy for bringing such panels. Also apart from that I was able to talk to Rajitha ma'am. Though she is not in dangles I was able to talk over phone with Rajitha ma'am. I used to send her my answers through voice messages. She used to reply back telling what can be improved. So this kind of help used to happen. Also apart from them I know you already used to interact a lot during the interview time. And even Arun Lal sir and Alan Sebastian sir also. So all of you people have really helped me during my interview preparation process and I am really thankful. Very much thankful for preparing me for the interview time. We are also really happy that you could be a part of your success journey and you have successfully cleared this exam this year. So now I want to ask something about this journey. Like it's four or five years you have been preparing and I am sure that there would be a lot of ups and downs. So how did you save it? You were having some hobbies and were you able to pursue these hobbies during this preparation? Were you using social media? So what was your approach while you were preparing for this four or five years? My approach was to ensure that if you study ensure that I am not completely into studies. This might seem a bit weird but it is equally important for us to have our own hobby. Our own friend circle, our own pastime and our own distraction. There should be a minimal amount of distraction also. That is equally important. So what I used to do was like every Sunday I used to play football with my friends. We had a group of friends who were UKC aspirants themselves. We used to go to a stadium and we used to play football. Apart from that I never logged out of mostly most of my preparation. I never tried to discipline myself. I was active in most of the social media. So it was like I was in touch with my friends and I had a very good peer circle. I used to go for a walk with them. I used to go for running with them. So that peer group is also important. So these are the things which act as shock absorbers during our setbacks and failures. So I ensure that I am not completely into studies. I had my other activities which were going on as well. That's nice. My final question to you Nidinesh, what would be your advice to the fellow aspirants who are preparing or to those students who want to start preparing for the civil service examination? Firstly, my advice would be to ensure that you should give yourself sufficient time. So sufficient time to understand the syllabus, understand the demand of the exam. It takes a lot of time. This guidance also, you should definitely have a mentor. So along with that, try to understand the syllabus properly initially itself and don't expect results. Maybe in the first attempt itself, don't expect results. There are people who clear but even they have a lot of years spent behind it. So even if you are failing once or twice, don't lose your heart. Don't take failure to your heart. Just keep on trying it. Try to identify your mistakes and keep on trying. Identification of the mistakes is very important because what I feel is small mistakes lead to big failures. So the mistakes which you do are really small. Just identify those small mistakes and correct it. You will be able to succeed one day and all the struggles and the troubles which you are going through will become really worth it after you clear the exam because that is what I am feeling as of now. The kind of struggles which I went through, everything seems worth now. So don't lose hope. Don't take failures to your heart. Have a calm mind. Have a cool mind. Do your hobby. Talk with your friends. Just discuss things with your parents and friends. Keep your parents in confidence. That is very much important because at the end of the day, they are the people who are supposed to support you the most financially and also keep your parents in confidence. Tell them what is happening. What is your plan? So these are some of the things I would like to say you and along with the knowledge part, skill is equally important focus on the skill part also. Writing that a series of problems and writing for me. So these kind of stuff. So these are some of the things which I would like to tell you. Advice you. That's a great advice and I am sure that the fellow aspirants would find it equally helpful and motivating. So thank you for spending time with us. I am sure that you are going to be a great bureaucrat and let you be an inspiring administrator. So wishing you all the very best. Thank you so much. Thank you so much Arjun for giving me this opportunity and thank you Shankara's academy for conducting this interview with me. Thank you.


Welcome to another episode of our special series Meeting All Ours. In this series we are bringing to you leaders who despite so many challenges thrown at us by COVID-19 and despite four weeks of lockdown now are ensuring that businesses stay on track at least to whatever extent it is possible and are contributing to our economy. With me today is one such leader Mr. Pawan Jayatani, Chief Revenue Officer at 9x Media. Welcome to the show Mr. Jayatani. Hi Nazia, good afternoon perhaps and I know I thought that we will have an interaction like this but that is how the world has changed in the last month or so. The whole pattern has changed but good to see you through this call. We never thought that we will have an interaction like this actually. We are meeting everyone virtually these days. So sir, I am good hope you are in good health. I mean you look healthy and fine. We all are taking care of ourselves because as industry leaders we need to maintain a good health so that we can look after other people and we can communicate the same across teams that the health is the first priority right now. I know businesses have got hit in a big way in the last month or so. The whole paradigm has shifted in the last month or so but I believe health is very important that each one of us needs to take care of physical health and more importantly mental health because of this lockdown for so long. Another thing this lockdown has done is increased our TV consumption. That is what all bomb data and all the data is in tank and it is obvious that everyone is at home watching a lot of TV. How has this had an impact on music genre? See I will tell you what, overall pre-lockdown also pre-lockdown one or two weeks. If you see overall TV viewership has been on a growth path in the last post that NTO happened last year right? Post that FDA regime started last year. Especially for FDA channels TV growth has been there in terms of viewership. Now since everyone is under house arrest, no one is going out, we are under severe lockdown, severe, severe lockdown. This is born to happen actually right? There has been roughly, overall TV growth has been roughly around 46 to 48% viewership growth has been all across all genres. Now out of each genre, GC has gone on repeat mode unfortunately because they are not able to shoot new episodes and they are not able to turn when you do content and all that. But if you see rest other genres, whether it's the news or movies or in that case music and kids, we have seen a decent growth. Even on the music also if you compare pre and post COVID-19 we have seen roughly around 6 to 10% growth in terms of viewership actually. Overall actually if you specifically talk about my network I think we have seen a decent growth. The best part is we have been able to stabilize also. There has not been a decline but there has been a moderate growth of 6 to 10%. However, quite obvious that obviously news will grow because the news consumption has been very good in the last month or so. For obvious reasons because all of us tend to watch news because there's a lot of anxiety, there's a lot of that uncertainty. So there has been but the good part is that there are other genres also which have seen a decent growth. While news has dominated it because news growth has been much, much higher. One is that second is overall environment is such that news has come into forefront in terms of viewership and all that. And plus since base was not so high so you can say it has grown into say 200% or 300% and all that, that kind of person. But base has not been so equal, has not been so great if you compare it with GEC. But if you see music specifically, music post that FDA regime last year, music reach has been extremely strong. It has been perhaps even higher than news or higher than even movie channel to certain extent in certain markets and all that. But yeah, having said that, coming back to the same... Are these markets? Which would be these markets? Largely those largely HSM markets and mostly non-urban markets also. If you see, reach has been very good because of our FDA, we have been on free dish, we have been on across all DTS platforms and all that. But yes, news has seen the maximum growth. I believe that it's primarily because we're all anxious, we need updates, we need to see what uncertainty is surrounding us. So people tend to watch news and all that. But that doesn't mean that other genres haven't grown. And if you see even GECs also, I mean DD has grown actually, because they have put a Ramayana and Mahabharata, that has grown. Yes, it has become number one channel. It has become number one channel. So people in general are watching TV, people in general are watching TV. If I come back to music, what kind of consumption trends have you observed during this lockdown? Is there any change in the way people were consuming your channels before and now? Largely, if you see music, our prime time used to be in the mornings because we run a break free kind of a slot in the morning. Break free, actually you have back to back music and this applies across all music channels and all. So obviously we have seen that growing to a large extent, but we have seen other time slots growing much, much higher in terms of consumption and all. So that's one thing. Second, what we have consciously done, what we have consciously done around this time, you know, if you see Nine Exem, which is my main flagship channel actually, we generally used to run a very upbeat dance centric music, very upbeat youth centric music, which is high intensity music we used to run actually. So seeing the mood mapping around this time, seeing the sentiments around the country which is going through or globally we are going through. So we have toned down the tone of the music right now, right, for some time, primarily because people will not tend to dance this time. People will not tend to see much, much more upbeat music actually. So because of that also we have seen time spent going up for certain slots, for certain time slots, certain time bands we have seen much, much time slots going up. But coming back to what consumption pattern has changed. If my 40% GRPs used to come from certain time slot in the morning, now there are a large portion of GRPs coming in the evenings also, afternoons also or late nights also. So the audience has got spread across the channel actually to consume the music because everyone is under lockdown and everyone is seeing it actually. So I think that that's a good trend actually. Also have you changed your programming? Have you tried to do any kind of new mix with your programming right now? Or you are continuing with the same pattern? Being a music channel and by the core audience is youth and we used to, I mean we keep reinventing playlist, curate music, every now and then actually, right. As I said with current situation and with current sentiments which is going within society or the kind of health problems we are facing across the globe basically. We have toned down the overall upbeatness of the music right now, to large extent actually, to match the mood mapping of the audience right now. And we have got a fantastic reviews on that and because of that, time spend has gone up in certain time bands and all. But having said that, I think overall genre has grown close to 6-10% increase in the viewership actually. While news has grown certain extent to a large extent what? Movies have grown and even music has grown around 6-10%. Ten years ago music channel, BTOs, BDMTV or any channel were like far more in demand by, I mean amongst youth also and everyone. How much has these apps like Savan, Ghana, Spotify, have a direct impact on your business or maybe I don't know if it hasn't had any impact? See I'll tell you what, ten years back or five years back music as a space, music as a genre, music TV, music television network which is audio visual. We used to be treated as a frequency network because we used to deliver frequency and all that right. We used more of a snacking issue. But with overall TV penetration going, with overall youth population growing, with multiple that music tastes spreading across the society and all that. Today music as a space or music as a genre is treated as a proper reach channel because we deliver reach right. So we deliver reach to large extent and perhaps if you see 9x media or overall music if you see, overall music as a genre is close to 300 million households. I mean that's the kind of reach we have today in music. So you're saying despite all these challenges you still have a very large base and a large… I'll tell you whether it's a streaming, whether it's an OTT, whether it's on a form of music, whether it's through YouTube or another form of music and all that. Every medium pushes the overall space in music actually. That is what it has done whether it's a Ghana or Saban or Spotify. It has pushed overall consumption of music in India actually and it has really helped us actually. So and one is that second is general tendency in India is that unless you will not see Salman Khan dancing, you will not feel the song, right? So that is what TV as a medium delivers that. Third I think overall when TV penetration has grown considerably in India actually, music was one of the first genre which has penetrated very well actually. And I think to large extent you should give credit to 9x network to large extent because we have penetrated across urban and rural across India. We have been very clear that our distribution strategy has to be very clear. We have to be across all DTA, we have to be across all touch points. So that has helped overall genre and that has helped us also in terms of consumption now, right? So I disagree with you that 10 years back, perhaps 10 years back I was very different actually. Even the marketers used to treat us like a frequency channel. Today marketers or brand heads treat or agency guys or a head of brand treat us like a proper reach channel because this channel delivers or this medium or this genre delivers a proper reach, substantial reach, which is very important actually. So overall genre has grown to large extent and all these streaming companies have helped quite a bit to populate the concept of music. So that has helped quite a bit. It's like when news channels came in, the leadership of print media also went up because the overall interest in news increased. So you're talking on similar lines. Obviously see, what is important that eventually whether it's a TV channel or a streaming or a news channel or a music channel, you deliver audience, right? And brands buy audience, right? Eventually when brand does a marketing plan or the agency does a planning, they buy audience. If you deliver a substantial reach audience, you're in the game, right? What kind of brands are investing in you right now? I mean, because most of the production houses are shut. So what kind of brands are still advertising with you? See, overall, as I said, overall TV consumption has grown by 46 to 48 percent. But unfortunately, your edX has degrown roughly in terms of volume by around 28 percent, right? In terms of volume. But when it comes to value, it will further degrow. So because of this pandemic, because of this overall global scenario, what has happened which got hit in India also because of lockdown, situation is not so great. It's pretty bad in terms of, you know, brand investing right now. Yeah, there are brands. There are minimum brands happening right now. If you see there are close to, if roughly there are 5,000 brands, 5 to 6,000 brands in India, there are not more than 700, 800 brands advertising right now. So I think because of this lockdown, because of economy going for a toss, the huge problem in terms of supply chain, supply is not happening. So yeah, a lot of brands have restrained, majority of brands have restrained from advertising at this point in time, which if you ask me, ideally should have been that since viewership is huge, consumption patterns are huge right now. Time spent has gone for TV. I think this should have been the right time for brands to advertise. But I'm hopeful that we will see some improvement in coming days or in coming months. But yeah, there has been, there has been, there has been major, major, major, major problem in the last month or so. I mean, this year has been very difficult for your industry. January came in, so while you were still struggling with that, then came the COVID-19. What does the status of NTO do right now? Do you think? Not only this year, if you see Nazia, last year FTA regime came in, I mean that disrupted the whole ecosystem for month or two months. NTO-1 came in. NTO-1 came in and when it came in, when there was a transition happening, it disrupted the complete industry for almost two months, right? And then there was an economic slowdown in the country actually. There was GS, there was GST, there was demonetization, so last few years have been pretty bad. Not before years has been quite terrible. But not as bad as this lockdown. Not as bad as this, this has been, this has been extremely worse, extreme worse actually. What I want to ask you is that in this current situation, now that you've been hit back to back by different things, is it time for a try to consider that NTO-2's implementation maybe should be put on hold until broadcasters recover from this crisis of COVID-19? It should be because there's no logical sense to enforce it at this point in time because we just, first we had just had to come out of this. Right, first we just had to come out of this and I think this current situation will take at least three to four months to get normalized growth. I don't see how we see growth and all that, but I think this will take at least three, four months minimum to normalize things to see that how things are shaping up and how we plan things way forward and all that. So I think we don't need another disruption, we don't need a disruption on top of another disruption actually. And yeah, it should be avoided and I don't think, my assumption is I think that will take a back seat for some time. Because we're just, as an industry we're just putting nuts and bolts in place first. We have been now, it's been almost 45 days we have been under lockdown, 40 days under lockdown now. And there is little hope that it will open anytime soon. And surprisingly you know what, we were just coming out of this slowdown last year. We barely managed last year to some extent and we were planning for this year now, all business plans were made. All, as an industry we made projections for this year, we thought that second half of the year will be very good. We thought first year will be slightly better than the first quarter of this year and all that. And then within a month everything changed, everything changed. I think all of our projections, all of our business plan, everything went for a toss actually. But surprisingly you know what, I've been talking to my teams, I've been discussing with my teams, I've been talking to people across, I've been talking to multiple brand heads. Surprisingly you know, no one, you know this whole crisis started way back in December. And by I think mid-March or by first week of March it had already hit close to 100 plus countries, right? 100 plus countries by first week of March it had hit, right? 100, 90 to 100 countries, exactly as from my data. Even by end of March we never predicted that it will be so bad. And at least for the next three, four, five, six months will be a washout. So I think as an industry both from a broadcaster or an agency or a data people, the first thing what the biggest learning for all of us is that we need to see a future. We need to predict it well, we need to see that world is very small. If something happens in say California it affects India actually. So I think that's something, as an industry we need to make data analytics a foolproof. We need to see future, we need to predict it rightly because as a company I predict something that first half or second half of the year will be decent or will be at least 10, 15, 20% better than last year. But in a span of three, four, ten days everything changed, right? So I think that that's one big learning for all of us that despite that we, all of us have international networks, we have international offices, we have people sitting in US, we have people sitting in South Asia, Singapore and all that. We weren't able to collate or develop that something big is hitting us, right? And I think it start crashing in the last 10, 10, 12, 15 days, right? So that's one learning I think we should be able to see future that how we predict and how we reframe our businesses going forward. Before we close Pavan, I want to understand from you, your channel has seen a growth of 6% to 10%. We are all still at work. How are you keeping yourself and your team motivated in these times? See, to be honest, when this lockdown started, I think for one week everyone was under shock because I have never seen a situation like this. I have seen multiple recessions, I have seen multiple economic falls and downturns and all that. Perhaps, you know, for all the audience who are watching this, I must tell that 9x Media, we built this company when there was a financial recession in 2009. So one, I think it's not that companies or brands can't be built under, when there's a recession actually, when there's an economic downturn. So we have seen, at least I have seen, but this is something, this is as my, you know, everyone says that this is as big as World War I and II combined, right? That the effect is so, so, so much, as my boss rightly says that it's a black swan event. And so first couple of days, when are they going to figure out that what happened?   But then you need to pick up pieces and you need to understand, you need to see the future. You need to lead the team. And what is more important at this point in time is that the courage is very important, right? So you need to show a lot of courage to stand in, in, in, in midst of these crises actually. And obviously, it's a general, I mean, you know, it's not that during these crises, we motivate team. I think our industry is a people-driven industry and it's a huge capital for us. People is a capital for us. People is an investment for us actually. So foremost thing for us is that we not only motivate them, we, we, I communicate with them. We make sure that each and every member of team is mentally very strong, right? Because it's easy to get little disoriented because of these crises and these rejections and gloomy environment, setbacks. Even you read and watch news every day, you see complete negativity, which is, which is fact also because that's happening around the world actually. So I strongly believe and I tell this to my team that, yeah, there is a setback, situation is bad in the ground, but I think we'll come back. It's, it's a matter of two, three, two, three months, four months, we need to be patient. We need to be courageous this time. We need to sail through these times right now. But I still remember brands are built, companies are built when, when, when there's a, I mean, perhaps Ninex, Ninex was built around, as I said, that Ninex was built around 2009. And we build this company and rest his history. I mean, we are today a much, much, much bigger brand what we have never thought. We never thought that it will one day when we start 2009. So, yeah, communication is very important when, when, when you need to communicate to people and keep motivating them. You have to be, you have to come out completely transparent and we all have to be on the same page. So once you do this proper communication, be complete transfer of a team of, you don't need to give a spiel or you don't need to generally for the sake of, you know, motivate them. You need to put things in perspective. You need to show them the future. You need to show them that nothing can go wrong below this now. I think there will be upward trend only now. And, and, and we're a small team and we work like a family. And you need to show a lot of compassion and affection at this point in time, the way you show it to family. Right. I think rest things fall in place actually and when you have a belief and you make them understand that things will turn around things will come back. I think, I think to large extent, people get motivated people see the future in that sense. Thank you so much for speaking to us. This was really inspiring and insightful. There's a lot that we have learned about, you know, how to keep your employees motivated and also about what is exactly happening in the industry right now. Thanks again for speaking to Exchange for Media. We wish you good health. Stay at home until this crisis is over and stay safe. Thank you very much. Soon, soon, I think I think Christ will be soon or I will be back. We'll have a, not a virtual meeting. We'll have a meeting. Yeah, definitely. Obviously with a social distancing and all that for some time. But I think I think we'll be, we'll be back as an industry. I think I believe that we'll be back in a much, much, much, much bigger way and in a much more substantial way. Thank you. Thanks. Thanks Nazia. Always pleasure. Thanks again. Thanks a lot.


This is the video from my physical sciences earthquake lab using the USGS websites for recent earthquake data. This is the pre-recorded recent data so that all of my students can be working with the same information regardless of when they come in and do this part of the lab. We're starting with the default view for the past day and magnitudes above 2.5 for the world view. That starts in here as the US view but I can quickly change it to the world view, doesn't change the information very much. But I'm going to go ahead and grab a screenshot of this as the first piece of information you'll need. Now the second piece of information you need is instead of looking at the magnitude limit for just 2.5 and above we are going to be looking at the entire set of all earthquakes. So this is your next piece of data that you will need. And again I'm going to grab a screenshot of this. The next piece of information you need is rather than the newest first we're going to go ahead and grab the largest magnitude first. And you have information about this highest magnitude within that past day including its magnitude and where it happened. So I will grab a screenshot of this. Now we're actually going to change our image here again and we are going to take a look at 7 days with the 4.5 plus magnitudes. We're going to go ahead and keep it on the world view and you're going to be taking a look at how many earthquakes were listed for this particular set of data. Then we're going to change it to the earthquakes magnitude 2.5 and above and notice that we have changed the number of earthquakes that are on here and I'll grab the screenshot and then we are going to once again take a look at all magnitudes but now for the 7 days worldwide view and we have a new number of earthquakes here. You'll be using these pieces of information to answer the next question in the lab about if there are more low magnitude earthquakes or more high magnitude earthquakes. We're now going to change the view once again to look at the 30 days significant worldwide earthquakes and the significant ones is going to change the view quite a bit and once again we're going to take a look at how many earthquakes there was but also the most intense so making sure that it's still on the largest magnitude I'll go ahead and click on this one so that then you have information on the magnitude and the location and I will grab this as a screenshot as well. These are the videos or the video and the set of images that you'll be using to answer the questions in that part 1b the pre-recorded recent data.


We may have missed our opportunity to make a snowman just we may have missed it It's that's the beauty of spring snowstorms in Colorado. It melts like that Next year. I know it's not quite we lost a tree branch pretty good size one, but you know That's what happens with snowstorms You lose tree branches and it actually is healthy for the tree because that's probably means it was a weak branch And it allows other branches to grow bigger and stronger and so it's not a bad thing Not a bad thing at all Oh, it's bright Yeah, okay. I think yesterday we ended with 14 clips. That was a now that is the definition of a simple vlog and So not gonna let that happen today. She loves just waking up. She's yawning inside. Hi, hun. How you doing? I Love you To be honest Whoa To shovel the swamp cooler Whoa shovel the snow away. Okay, here. Hope pop his hand. It actually just goes down the gutter It was a big one wasn't it? Yeah, it was a big storm. I branded in Kyle This is the sealant that I've put around the swamp cooler for any new viewer to the VLOG the bane of my existence over the past You know, let's say 12 months has been the swamp cooler leaking into the house So here's where I've sealed the swamp cooler Basically outside around the shingles and around the roof. This is what it looks like, but you know, I don't know if it's I don't know If it's fixed here. Here we go. I guarantee it's not fixed Move your shadow you just walk over there you go see this is the tar I've put down but it's just you know Anyway, I don't know So maybe I just need to put more. Maybe I'm just missing it but Kyle and Brandon. I Need your need your expert advice guys That's why I have to come up and shovel whenever it snows All right time to go back down So the day is almost over once again It just goes quick ladies and gentlemen Remember at the end of yesterday's vlog. I was gonna show you something fun to do on YouTube Well, it's something very basic very simple, but let me show you real quick. Basically go to your favorite youtubers channel Navigate to your favorite playlist on their channel So find find the playlist tab up toward the top then click on that playlist and then hit play all Then once you get to play all there's two arrows that cross kind of like that Just like that two arrows and that turns on shuffle. It's called shuffle So you turn on shuffle you hit play and basically This is especially relevant if the person that you follow has let's say about a hundred videos on YouTube and Because basically it will play through all of those videos on shuffle And what is cool about that and I just did it for my channel I've done it once before but I just remember basically yesterday when I was working all day on a Saturday I was a little bored. So I was like, huh, let's go watch some old videos Why to remember remember our roots, right? Remember where we've been remember our blessings. So Basically it takes you so I'm gonna actually skip ahead here to the next one and so that was yesterday's vlog And it just took me to a vlog from February 24th 2017 titled going back into debt. I'm gonna hit it one more time just to show you guys. I'm gonna skip this ad and So there's that so I you know, I remember that but let's just do it one more time and Then this one. Yes was published December 17th 2016 so you know almost that was vlog 262 and that was almost five five months ago and Basically, it's just cool to go back and reflect like I'm gonna do this for Fabio. I'm gonna do this for Sean I'm gonna do this for Andrew. I'm gonna do it for Damian and Kofusi and all those guys I just to see some of their older videos from way back in the day Because I haven't watched, you know, I haven't watched a lot of you guys at the in the beginning So once again, go to go to your favorite youtuber go to your favorite playlist Hopefully they have over a hundred videos and then hit shuffle and bada bing bada boom get ready for a good time Not to mention it doesn't hurt to help support your local youtuber The secret to a good recovery from a long training run or race like a marathon or half marathon Or even a 10k if you're not used to that distance that distance is epsom salt Have you ever this is the question of the day knock knock knock have you ever heard of epsom salt? Have you ever used epsom salt and did it work for you? So EPSOM salt. It's a soaking solution. It helps relieve aches pains sprains stings. It just like alleviates the tension in your Muscles. All right, so I'm gonna hop in get a little epsom salt bath on and let you know how I feel But this is another trick of the day tip of the day and the race is six days away for me. So hearing up for that and It's basically a magnesium sulfate USB solution. So anyway


This video is brought to you by Skillshare. Uniglo has been dropping some awesome pieces lately and I picked some up to review for y'all and because I really wanted it. So let me show you guys what I picked up. Let's start off with one of the best shirts money can buy, especially if you're a short dude like myself. And I know someone's always gonna comment, how tall are you? What's your height? Even though I say in the video, I'm five seven. I weigh 156 pounds. I have a pretty athletic build. And those body dimensions have always been kind of awkward to say the least whenever it comes to picking up oversized T's. I either have to compensate with a longer hem that goes halfway down my thigh or stick to something a little more fitted. And there's nothing wrong with either of those. It's just, I have to think more about my proportions than your average person. So first off, this T's cut to be more boxy, relaxed fitting instead of just sizing up two sizes for that oversized look. So that means your normal size will automatically be cut to be more relaxed fitting. Unless you're jacked, you're gonna fill out the sleeves anyways. But the hem is at the normal place a shirt should be. Just slightly past the waistline of your pants but you still get that drop shoulder relaxed look. I love these T's so much that I picked up every single color because they really nailed that fit. And no, you don't always need a fitted shirt. So relaxed fitting boxy T's. Look how many colors I got. It's totally worth it. And most of the ones I own are a size medium but this one's in a size large. So I have a small, a medium and a large. So here's what the small looks like. Here's what the medium looks like. And here's what the large looks like. And because of the way this shirt is cut, I can still rock all of those sizes. And it's pretty cool actually. Maybe the larger I'll rock for more lounge wear and then the mediums will be for the daily fits. The drop shoulder helps the sleeve hit just at the bend of the elbow which is what you want for that oversized look. And like I said, these are their Ariesm T's. That additional functionality helps massively whenever it comes to the warmer months. Obviously as of the filming of this video, it's February, I'm in New York, we just had a blizzard. So I'm not really rocking them right now. I rock Uniqlo's heat tech but since this is the spring summer collection, obviously you wear this in the spring and summer. And that extra functionality of breathability is just overlooked in fashion. Not as many people think about it. I wore the Ariesm boxy T peak summer last year when I lived in the New Mexican desert. I was not hot, I'm not kidding you. So I always recommend picking these up because it's gonna get hot here in a few months. This is definitely a good choice so that way it can stay cool. My next pick I wanna recommend you guys is this single breasted trench coat. So a few months ago I had the winter version of this which had a quilted lining inside to keep you more warm but somehow it got destroyed as of recent. So that's why I had to pick this one up. It's a replacement for that. So since this is the spring version, there is no quilted lining that's only for the winter version. Well that's totally cool if you wanna rock it during the winter time like I did when there was a ton of snow. I just threw on a normal hoodie and then heat tech underneath to keep me warm. But as of the recording of this video they are fully stocked up. I just went to Uniqlo yesterday. They had a bunch of these as well. So I definitely recommend picking this up ASAP because they always sell out. The black one they sold out almost right away and since it got destroyed I couldn't pick it back up. So I got this one in a size medium and it actually runs extra long down at the trench parts. The trench parts, the lower hem. It's extra long compared to the winter version so just keep that in mind. And this has a more relaxed tailored cut to it so it's definitely more for those casual looks. Also it is water resistant which is perfect for those April showers that are gonna arrive in a few short months. They do have dark gray, they have beige but stick to the dark gray one. These jackets do really give off those New York type outfits because it's really cold out here. And I always recommend a trench coat just to elongate your fit. And it's always a nice addition to your normal jackets that can really change the look of your outfit. Definitely my favorite pickup for sure. So these next tees are basically the Aeroism tees I just talked about earlier only it has a pocket and it is not using the Aeroism technology. So these are definitely more appropriate for the colder months. I mean, you could still rock it during the summertime as well. They are short sleeves but it is the oversized pocket tee. Nothing too much to say about this one as it does have the same cut as the Aeroism tee. Just the pockets. This one is in the dark orange colorway. I wore this during Chinese New Year, sunning Phylok to my Asian people that celebrate it. I think it's red. I don't think it's really orange at all. I guess you could say it's a blood orange. And just like the Aeroism tee they have a vast assortment of colors.  I will leave a bunch of links in the description down below. And that's it for this one. Right now I currently am rocking the strike tee which has the same exact fitment but they call this one the boat neck tee. So you guys remember back in 2015 and 2017 you know those tees that have a raw edge to it. This is kinda similar to it only there is still a color to it and the raw edge doesn't curl. There's a split hem for extra detailing when layered and this is just a good replacement for my oversized cream shirts if I'm feeling a little bit of pattern that day. Stripe tees were huge back then as well but I just like the way these tees are cussed that's why I have so many of them. And the stripes are coming back for myself. They have this one in light cream and kind of a coffee brown colorway. I definitely like this one a lot better. Up next is the Jersey shirt jackets. I got this in a size medium and the only way to really describe this is a chic modern classy piece. So this gives off work jacket vibes, classy almost blazer type of vibes. I think it's just the clean lines and the sharp angles that make this so classy looking and just be aware the fit is meant to be more relaxed fitting just like almost all of the Uniqlo stuff. So I just say lean into that. The cuffs are adjustable to give you different ways to wear it. You can wear it with a sleeve up, down, tapered or straight cuts. This one is in the blue colorway which yes it's definitely a nice way to move out of my comfort zone of just a bunch of black jackets. I styled this in a more Japanese type of vibe I guess you could say. Uniqlo is a Japanese brand after all. I'm rocking with the Stripe tees, some crop trousers and low top vans, a cap and glasses. I really dig this look. It's a very versatile piece. Now we have the pocket long sleeve tees. I'm sorry I don't have my right now, it's in the laundry. But I picked this one up during fall and winter and it's the same exact one they have right now for spring and summer. However they don't have the same exact colorway but they do have a lot better ones in my opinion. So I'm just gonna talk about how it fits. I got this in a size medium and it's not a fitted shirt, it's not oversized right in the middle. It's a pretty good choice for a transition piece to layer with. Obviously when it's cold you can layer a thick pocket on top and when it gets closer to spring maybe in normal jackets and then when it's spring spring you can just rock it on its own. The chest pocket is just a chest pocket but for 20 bucks pretty solid option to incorporate in the wardrobe especially because of how many color options there are. I wore this tee in a campaign that I did with Bulgari last summer. That was a lot of fun and editing that picture was super fun and easy as well because of all the techniques I learned from the classes over at the sponsor of today's video Skillshare. Skillshare is an online learning community where millions of creatives come together to explore an endless amount of classes to learn anything that they want. I'm always exploring classes on here because I'm a curious dude. I really enjoy learning something or refining a skill because I'm a lifelong learner. There are a ton of classes from music theory, singing, photography, graphic design, business, interior design, drawing, whatever you're interested in, Skillshare has you covered. 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Hey, welcome to Drinks Made Easy. Today I'm going to show you how to make the original Blue Hawaii Tropical Cocktail. Two fun facts about the Blue Hawaii. Number one, it was originated in 1957 when a Bolster distributor contacted the head bartender at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki Beach, Harry Yee, and asked him if he could design a new drink around their Blue Curacao. Fun fact number two, this drink is wrongly attributed to Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii when in actuality, Harry drew his inspiration from Waikiki Wedding, a Bing Crosby movie that came out in 1937 that had a song in it called Blue Hawaii. So to make this drink, the first thing you're going to do is you're going to take three quarters an ounce of vodka, add three quarters an ounce of Puerto Rican rum, that's how Harry made the original recipe. One ounce of sour mix. Now you can make your own homemade, which is what I did because that's just so much better when you're dealing with drinks. You want the freshest possible citrus that you can, not the bottled stuff that might have different kind of chemicals. If you want to know how to make that, check the description below. Then finally, you're going to add a half an ounce of Blue Curacao and three ounces of pineapple juice. Now as you can see the cocktail color is green, but you might be asking yourself then why is it called a Blue Hawaiian? Remember, bowls approach Harry Yee and making a drink around their Blue Curacao. Hence the name. Add that to a shaker tin full of ice and give it a good shake. Straight into a hurricane glass filled with ice. Garnish with a pineapple wedge. Add a cherry and there you have the original Blue Hawaii. Hey, thanks for watching all the way through. Really appreciate it. If you haven't already subscribed, go ahead and do so and hit that bell icon so you can be notified every time we make a new video. And also remember to drink responsibly because everybody likes to make friends, but absolutely positively. No one likes to make them in a prison shower. Cheers.


In a bid to give back to society first-female African kickboxing and mixed martial arts world champion Lovett Patra, a Kufu is set to organise a combination of sports and entertainment concerts tagged Celebrity Global Fight 2024. Announcing these in a press conference in Lagos, a two-time world champion known as a Nigerian Terminator, a deputy superintendent of police, a Kufu said it will showcase Nigeria to the world and the area of the combat event, opining that the act would bring economic improvement to the country. Our aim here is to unveil myself and also to unveil Celebrity Global Fight concert. Entertainment and sport, we are doing a concert that brings the attraction of the entertainment and sport that's bringing in this has to do with life comedies, life music, beauty pageantry, fashion, talent show, mixed with the resport itself, international boxing, international wrestling and international mixed martial arts kickboxing together in a three-day concert. See me as the woman, you should be motivated to be like me. I should be a role model to every woman right there. So no matter what you're passing through, remember that the body said that the gift of a man, make it the way for him or her, where there is no way.  So take me as an example, let my being standing here motivate you to get into anything you feel that you are good in doing. That's why it's a concert that has several activities, whatever thing you know you can be good at go and feature there and it's open to everybody. Vice president performing musicians, employers, association of Nigeria, command at the world champion and the Nigerian police force for putting Nigeria on the world map. Also speaking, the president of Kickboxing Federation, Wilson Godwin said Nigeria athletes need enabling environment to thrive. He called on government to help put facilities in place. I've often said that security is key. Without security, there won't be any country. So the fact that it's coming from Nigerian police, it also encourages people to go into the Nigerian police. Now you know that going to the Nigerian police is not just going there to be police. There are other avenues, there are other benefits of being a police officer in Nigeria. The only way you can make progress in Nigeria is show by example. Nobody believes anybody, nobody trusts anybody. But now that people have seen that level culture has done it and tries a champion in kickboxing, I bet you there are a lot of Nigerians who come out and want to participate and also want to be champions. So it will create a new platform for employment, for progress, for unity. You know I'm very happy that it's even the Nigerian police that she used as a platform. Yes for me as I know the good word, you know we're here to support the government. I've always said that the government cannot do it all. So we need to support the government. But if you ask me that question, what the government can do, is the government to put facilities in place. That is all what you need. Facilities is in place. You understand, like when you go to Europe, within your community you have sporting facilities. Let me now go to Europe. I have been to so many African countries. I will take an example of Senegal, you understand. You see like where we have Babish from the beginning of Babish to the end of Babish, something like that is in Senegal in the capital city. You will find the sporting activities of various types of equipment. You understand, every weekend you see people doing almost every sports. You understand, every weekend, Saturday and Sunday. I saw it, I was so happy. You know, I was so moved about it. So that's what auditory government can do. We are not asking too much.