Heck event coverage, and we have Greg Schultz here. Hello there. Founder of Storage I.O., which is server in Storage I.O., but can compress down to Storage I.O. Storage I.O., it's kind of like Federal Express being FedEx. Good point. OK, good analogy there. Do I hear you guys are best friends? No, but we play one on TV. Nice. And you stayed at Holiday Inn Express once? Never. Never? Maybe. Maybe. I don't know. I don't remember. You don't know if you've ever stayed at a Holiday Inn Express. I have to take pictures of the hotels that I stay in, so I remember. So then you don't know about the holiday inn, the holodump scale of rating hotels one to ten? No. Oh yeah, I mean zero is, it's basically a plywood on the floor as a mattress. OK.  Yeah, yeah. OK. So you haven't stayed at a Holiday Inn Express though? Because Holiday Inn is a zero? Well, no, I mean there's good Holiday Inn and there's the holodumps, right? The holodump ones are the ones where you take the towels out of the bathroom because there's a one-inch gap under the door. Right. Right, right. And you don't want that army of critters marching in in the morning to help with the wake-up call. Well, unless you're Cinderella, you know. That's a good point. That's a good point. Then they're cute. Well, then you click your heels twice and you're at the highest. We've got the Wizard of Oz now. You're going to the Wizard of Oz. Hey, wait a minute, aren't we at the Wizard of Oz? No, we're at Disney. Yes, we're at Disney. We're at Disney. So welcome to Disney World. Yes, welcome to the fun. And also, we're also having fun here at the Fluid Conference, the Dell Storage Forum. Boy, I hear a lot of people last night were drinking lots of fluid, getting goofy, and hanging out with Mickey and Minnie while they were putting oil in. They were getting Plutoed. Where was I? I was working. I don't. See, that's a thing. You were working. I missed that joke. Look at John. He looks embarrassed. Like, oh, yeah, he was off getting Plutoed and getting goofy too. No, I wasn't. I actually heard there were blue drinks last night. That would make sense. They were called what? I have no idea. I wasn't there. Yes, you were. No, she was talking about it. Christy was talking about it. I was here when she talked about it. I'd have to roll the tape back. I can't remember. See, now we've got clear drinks. No, we have not been drinking, by the way. I know it might seem like it. Hey, it's early in the afternoon. So are you in other than the parties? I just flew in the actual. Actually, I just flew in. I just flew in a couple hours ago. Yeah, my arms are still tired. Did you catch the keynote this morning? Nope, I was in the air, but I was seeing the tweets. I was getting the tweet updates from the plane. I was above the clouds, not in the clouds. I didn't go to the clouds. I went over the clouds to get to the deli vet. Is that a segue to your new book? Actually, I do have a new book coming out. Tell me about the new book. So the new book, it's called, you'll like that? It's called, at least you didn't say cycle. It was a left turn. Go ahead. There's some rights in there, too. Tell me about the new book. So the new book is called, Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking. And yeah, it's optimized for the search engines. Cloud, virtualization, data storage networking, all popular themes, topics here, as well as other work. But it takes a little bit different approach, John, which is there's a lot of works out there about why go to the cloud and the value prop of the cloud is this or that. But then there are the others, people that are looking at it like, what's the cloud? Why do I want to go to the cloud? Are there still people saying, what's the cloud? Absolutely, there's people that are scared of the cloud. Oh, well, of course, yeah, there's definitely people that are scared of it. I mean, you've got nice clouds and you've got storm clouds. Yes. But there's a lot of people that... I was totally gonna just go on random. Go with it, go with it. I actually was in a plane the other day and saw a storm cloud right outside our window. Oh, yeah. We were not in it, but it was like right. You get to fly around them. It was amazing. Exactly. Anyway. Oh, it's a great segue because there's on the one extreme you have the crowd, cloud cheerleaders. Mention the word cloud and they start like, yay! Right? And then you've got the other extreme, the true cynics. They're not even skeptics, they're cynics. Never will be, never was, it's all snake oil, et cetera. I think Larry Ellison was sort of on that bandwagon. No, you're thinking Ken Olson when he was talking about Unix. No, okay, maybe, yeah. Well, Larry Ellison, I mean, he loves sailing between the clouds. You know, he's big in the boating, he's in airplanes too. Yes, I do. Yeah, so anyway. So he's very dependent on the cloud. Good point. Right, but he's even more dependent about having navigation tools, insight, awareness. Wow. Weather, you like this, huh? He's good. So what this comes back to though is like part of the idea for the new book is there's this big gap in between the two extremes and people they want to know. I used the analogy of don't be scared of clouds.  Look before you leave. It's like electricity.  Right. I know it's sexy. Well, I mean, but we've been talking about personal, we're talking about enterprise, cloud, and obviously on the personal side, there are less issues to worry about before jumping in and swimming around in that cloud. So I take it you weren't part of the Google outage. No, I wasn't. But there's a good point. But there are less than enterprise. But here's the thing about the, that's debatable, but the point being there is that if you go with a good cloud provider, you shouldn't have to be scared, but you do your due diligence. Correct. In other words, you're going with somewhere where maybe it's not for free, but maybe for a slight fee. Right. You're getting that the fact that any data you entrust with them is going to be protected that you can get to it. They're not going to lose it. Yeah. And that's part of doing your homework. Apple had a big announcement. Yeah, yeah. Did you follow that? Yeah, they got the iCloud, which I'm playing around with my cloud. I don't know if the iCloud is going to be my cloud, but I think for a lot of people it will be. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's, you know, you've got Google who's, who's been doing the cloud like crazy with Google Docs with Gmail and all of that. And people trust their lot. I trust my life to Google in essence with all of my email, with my calendar, with all of that information. So Apple is stepping into that in a big way. Well, they're stepping into it, but you know, there's an interesting piece to it, which is some of the banks have been in the, called the cloud and the cloud peers will say, no, it's a managed service provider, but banks like Wells Fargo, large bank. Okay, do you trust Wells Fargo? I do, because I have some accounts with them. Sure. Sure, why not? Yeah, yeah. But they've got a product called VeeSafe, virtual safe deposit box, okay? But yet, how come it hasn't taken off like you would expect it would? Well, because people are like, hmm, that's the bank. They know how to do banking, but one, they're not advertising, they're not promoting it. People go to Google because it's free. People go to iTunes because they like it. They know music. They know it. I stopped buying iTunes. I go to Amazon. Why? Because I like Amazon better. Why? Because, well, we do a lot of business. For I think every dollar I get from them selling a book, I spend five. Sure. You know, it's a classic. They got me hook, lion and sinker. Oh, yeah. I would say, yeah. But the thing like, I like those economics. With the Amazon. Yeah, exactly. Oh yeah, I read a time I log on. Greg, you like a radio controlled helicopter. Greg, you like a new barbecue grill. Greg, you like this. I'm like, how did they figure that out? Well, they're doing data mining. They're leveraging their clouds, their resources, putting all these things together. But let's go back to the iTunes for a minute. And this plays back to the iCloud. It's that we're seeing more and more of Apple wants you. They want the iTunes store, the app store, right? To control how you get things. iTunes, you can buy, at least used to be, you'd buy your music from iTunes, but it was sticky. You could make like a copy here, a copy here. But like Amazon, I go and get it. And I can download it, put it here. I don't have to reauthorize. When I replace my new computer with a new computer, I don't have to reauthorize it again. And now you have- But you do have to reload it. You have to move it. Or you use the Amazon music cloud. Right. Okay, not to be confused with the S3 or the EC or- Yeah, no, it's different. And actually you were saying that iCloud requires you to pay for it. If it's your music and not- So yeah, you can sync all of your iTunes music with all your iDevices. Or if you have Amazon purchased music, you can pay $25 a year for no limit to tie those MP3s with iTunes. So then it'll sync along with the rest of your music. Cause most of us have iTunes music and then Amazon music, right? Or stuff that we've ripped. And you know, we have this big collection from different places. Let's preference that. Legally ripped. Right, well legally ripped, of course. Legally ripped, of course. What else would I be talking about? Absolutely, it's all 600 CDs you had laying around on the shelf. Exactly. But you said Apple wants to own you in all of those facets of your life, but Amazon wants the same thing. Oh, absolutely. They're doing Android, App Store, they're doing all these other things. Absolutely, absolutely. But again, where it's coming down to is that you're seeing, do you want to deal through Apple? Do you want to deal through Amazon? Do you want to deal through Google? These are the fulfillers, if you want to think about it.  And that trust used to be with the banks, it used to be with the telephone companies to a degree, but you're seeing more and more, it's the Amazon where they're being the virtual store for all kinds of different entities. They manage your accounts for you. So I think it's as much about the technology, much about the content, but it's also who do you trust besides Ghostbusters? Well, obviously, we all trust Ghostbusters. We all trust Ghostbusters. So what do you think is the answer? Are we okay trusting that one person, that one company? Here's the thing is that anything that has extreme value, whether it's money, documents, videos, whatever it happens to be. Our photos, our personal family photos, are of extreme value.  No, not house burned down. I raised my hand with just disaster. It happens, right? Anything that's important enough to have value, you should have multiple copies of it. If you're really, really concerned, and this is part about doing your homework. If you're going to put all your data at Google, you might want to put another copy of something really critical, maybe at Amazon or maybe at some other service provider. I think, you know, I don't think- It's not if they go down, it's when. It's sort, yeah, I think that's true, but I think- And that's the same case with the hard drives. Absolutely. One of the big challenges is people don't have time to do all that investigation. I mean, individuals don't have time to investigate all that stuff. So it sounds to me like there needs to be a set of services where we can create trusted advisors to tell us which services are safe and which ones aren't for what purpose. Well, I mean, but the market speaks. You know, the market speaks.  I mean, they've been kind of muddled up to now, but I think you're going to see some further clarification occur, which is there's one market where it's all about cost, price sensitivity. In other words, it's either for free or as low as cost. It's like going to the all-you-can-consume-data buffet. You know, you've been to the all-you-can-eat-buffets, right? After three hours. After three, yeah. After three hours, the guy comes out and says, that's all you can eat now you leave. You've been there, right? Yeah, have you? Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. You go there with the sliding chair, but there's the models where it's all about the information. How much can you consume, but what are the service levels? Then there's this other model, which is emerging, and it's like regular retail. There's the discounters and then there are the premium ones. And I think we're going to see this more and more where the two will coexist. They'll have different audiences. Some of them will even go back and forth across, but you're going to put premium content, premium things of real value at one, but you might have a backup over here. You're going to use this for just low-cost type items. While there are issues that, security things that we have to think about and making sure that we trust our providers, we have, we had to in the past, let's say we've moved into the cloud, right? In the past, we had to do that with our hard drives as well. We had to have a backup, whether that was online backup or a physical backup kept at our friend's house. I mean, if you really want to be secure, that's what you have to do. But most people didn't. That's a good point. Most people didn't and most people won't with the cloud either. Well, this is where it gets interesting, is those that were concerned were doing that, okay? But there are many of them that weren't. Many small businesses were barely getting by with that consumer. So I think now there's more and more awareness. If anything, an ironic twist of things is people have started putting information to the cloud. They've become aware of backup that picture, backup your vacation photos, your music, things like that. And there's a disruption. There's an outage or they know somebody who's had a disaster. So there's this awakening. And maybe some of these outages with some cloud services are getting people say, you know what? We do need to be more protective of our information. Maybe we have to have the multiple copies but that's all good because then people start thinking about what needs to be done for. Those of us who do these things that need to be done, making sure things are protected, copied, secured, encrypted helps other people to aware of that. I mean, if there's a security breach, what lessons are being learned from it as opposed to being scared of it? Yeah, but a lot of people go the scare route. And you know, I mean, just to take this a whole other level, media tends to grab ahold of those and cause people to be a little bit more scared. Oh, absolutely. I was at Don Henley, Gimme Dirty Laundry. He made an old song about that, right? You know? Oh, it's a great song about get the widow on the set. We need dirty laundry. That's classic media, sensationalizing. Look, when you think about disasters, it's the headline news disasters, the proverbial soaking hole, a flood, a tsunami, right? Of which we've had a few. Which we've had, or? Lately. The smoking holes, fires, explosions, that's what make headline news. A tape goes missing. That makes headline news. But the 1500 to 15,000 laptops that go missing per month at major airports, that doesn't make the headline news. The small file that gets corrupted that leads to a disaster, that doesn't make the headline news. I mean, some of these others, it's only when they escalate or get bigger. Because it's a slight annoyance of affecting a small number of people. Sure. Exactly. But then there's also the ones where it's borderline on a major disaster. But you don't want anybody else to know that you almost got burned, right? So let's keep this quiet, right? But again, people have to learn that again, information has value. If anything that has value, you need to protect it and have multiple copies. But the trick, as you were mentioning, John, is how do you do that keeping your costs low in a cost-effective manner? But without any complexity. And that's where I think we start to see some of these services. I use a backup provider that if I had gone back to who I'd been using, I'd actually be paying about half the price, okay? But by who I'm going with, they're actually giving me more functionality, they're managing things, including the back-end services that where the data's actually being stored to. And not that there's a permanent decision, but who did you go with? I went with Jungle Disc Rackspace. Oh, okay. Jungle Disc Rackspace, yeah. Rackspace is doing some interesting things. They really are. They really are.  They do data services, they do data storage, file, backup, archiving. They started out very focused, small, and then they kind of out. We give it racks in the space. Yeah. But John, you've been around in the industry, you've seen some of these comings and goings and re-comings and goings, and some of these things are just cyclical. And if we go back a decade or so, when the storage service provider or the XSP era, everything was something SSP, ISP, ASP, et cetera, et cetera. Now it's all cloud or whatever. But some of those companies that started in the Colo and the co-hosting, remember the data hotels and the data resorts? It was a different way of describing what we now call a cloud or managed service provider. Some of those companies now went from co-location to being that services provider. And they're adding more personalities, being file serving, virtual machine hosting, hosting your media. In other words, adding the personalities that allow your applications to plug into that makes it easier for you to use it. Yeah. We were talking to Tony Parkinson earlier about the cloud of it. And he was actually talking about the IT departments in small and medium businesses and how they are working towards implementing that for businesses. So that was an interesting perspective for sure and something I'm sure you're going to be paying attention to as well. Well, I think one of the interesting, there is this notion that the cloud eliminates traditional IT, that's one way of thinking. But then you also have that other extreme scenic view which is it's all snagled. But I think there's a very interesting ground in between which is for some, yes, everything will move to the cloud. For others, nothing will move to the cloud. But I would say probably 80% in the middle. In other words, the classic bell curve, it's going to be in a complimentary manner. In other words, I still do some things locally. But I back up to the clouds, but I do local backups. I use managed service providers, but I do, it's that hybrid approach of how things complement versus how do they compete. Are there applications that you think are logically going to go to the cloud first? Oh, absolutely, back up. Back up. Back up. I would say from S&B down to the consumer, it's the home run. Work, it's interesting for the enterprise, John, is in the work group departmental. Phil's branch offices, it's another home run area. Archiving I think also has some interesting capabilities, but there's some even more interesting ramifications when you start looking at data sovereignty, when you start looking at, you know, you hear about like moving data across different country boards. Yeah, I was watching some of that, we'll move your, during some of the disasters, we'll move your data for free from. Right, but are you allowed to? Not allowed to. You may not be allowed to. Because of privacy issues. In certain countries, stark regulation. But you know what, people don't realize that even here in the United States, John, that there are certain industries in certain states that can't move data across state boundaries. Because for example, gaming laws. Okay. Certain information tied to, you know, gaming, casino gaming, things like that can't move across certain state boundaries. Again, these privacy concerns. So there's a lot of things that need to be watched out. So you do need a compliance officer in the big corporation still. You know, whether it's a compliance officer or something around that nature, but yeah, I think so. Absolutely. Maybe a convergence officer is maybe a better way of thinking about it. You like that? Yeah, I guess. Because I mean, a lot of these things is that. No? No, I like it. Where does compliance- He's kind of turning his nose up. No, I like it. Well, he's thinking about this. I was thinking about our earlier conversation about convergence versus proliferated end devices. Well, I mean, when you think about it, I mean, we talk about the converged technologies, but there is, to really make converged technologies work, people are just going to keep buying converged technologies, but use them in a non-converged manner until people processes best practices, the other parts, I mean, you get the products, but it's the peoples, the processes, and the politics within organizations that keep the technology siloed. So hence, you come back to the convergence because compliance, is that a security issue? Is it a data management, a records management audit? Somebody needs to converge, not just the technologies, but the processes on how things flow, how they get used, how they get managed. Yeah, definitely. Well, thank you so much for spending some time with us. Google I.O. to help people where they can find us. Just Google storage I.O. one word. I'm sorry, why did I say that? I don't know. Oh, because the conference, the I.O., I just went back to the Google I.O. conference. Storage I.O. one word, you can Google Greg Schultz. My new book is titled Cloud and Virtual Data Storage Networking. And it's coming out. It will be shipping available August 1st. On... Publisher? Oh, just hit the mic again. Oh, the publisher is... Gopher? I thought you were at John. On Amazon, right? It'll be on Amazon, all the venues around the world, the publisher of CRC Press. Will it be on all of the Evo creators? It will, good question. I know it'll be on Kindle, and of course. Finds a no-bel-knock. It'll probably be on Nook at some point, and then we'll see what's some of the others. I know the last one ended up on some of the others. There was even a translation done in Chinese. Nice. Authorized or not? Absolutely, it was totally legitimate. Oh, yeah. Yeah, it was an interesting model, which was basically, do this particular license model and get something versus don't do anything and get pirated. Yeah, OK, there you go. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Well, good. Thank you for coming on us. Oh, my pleasure. We appreciate it. All right.


Welcome to the channel. This is Reliable Rudy. In this video we're going to have a charting update for the NASDAQ. Now I have the IXIC, the NASDAQ composite index. You can see it right up here. Some people are looking at the NASDAQ futures. I like to look at the IXIC because it shows gaps up and gaps down for when the market opens. But you know personal preference. But before we get into this video, I'm not a licensed financial advisor. Everything in this video contains only my opinion and it's for entertainment purposes only. I do have individual holdings related to the NASDAQ. So keep that in mind. But I'm going to try and be as unbiased as I possibly can. Okay, so getting into this video I'm going to break down just a couple things that I have. Here is just simply my longer-term uptrend dating back to 2010. We got multiple points of contact and we're getting very close to this long-term uptrend. We are not there yet. This is simply just a descending channel of the current downtrend that has recently been broken and this is the more medium-term downtrend that we got. Now long story short, we have the top that comes in. Now let's talk about this real quick. Let's go over to a week chart so we can see more of this chart. Over here, now if you guys have seen some of my swing tray examples, this is a nice W pattern right here. It is and one swing trade metric that I like to use is the back test of the neckline. This insinuate so you have a left leg. You have a left bottom that sets a higher low. It has a push. It sets a neckline where you then trade off from the neckline. You've set a higher right bottom than the left bottom and you can see this double bottom that comes in. This is your right bottom and then you have an extended right leg. What I mean by an extended right leg is it pushes over top of your left leg. You can see it fights and we do get an extension over your left leg. Now eventually it's insinuating that eventually the price is going to come down to back test the neckline which the neckline starts right here. Now am I saying that the NASDAQ is going to come down to 2800? No, I'm not saying that it's going to come down to 2800 indexes trade a little bit differently than stocks but if it traded down to 2800 you best believe that I'm going to buy the back test of the neckline. But I'm more talking about this top. We come back over here to the 2000.com boom right here and the bubble not boom and you take a Fib tool from the top of the move to the bottom of the move and it maps out extension points and we got fairly close to a full extension. Now the Dow Jones is very similar and the S&P 500 actually does hit the full extension when comparing the two. Let's get this line out of there. Now I will get this Fib tool out of here. Now isn't it strange that this type of setup comes in at near a full extension? Now let's switch it back to a day chart and I'll break down more the shorter term. So we have this this high price right here. It's very close to a full extension as I just stated. Now this first initial fall right here before we really get bearish. We take this wick top down to the wick bottom right there. I went down the right here. Now you can see this double top comes in at the 702. 702 extremely deadly. If you ever have a double top come into the 702 I highly recommend. Now I shouldn't say like that because I would just monitor it because the 702 I've seen this many times extremely deadly and this is where it all starts. So from this 702 double top right here we have a fall. We push the downtrend that you can see we have right here. I'll draw it in very shortly. We push the downtrend. We back test the top of the downtrend. We go on a wave 2. Now on this wave 2 we set a double top which insinuates my medium term downtrend right here. Now from my wave 2 we have another sell-off that we have another downtrend. You can see this downtrend right here. Boom boom boom boom. Now when we push that downtrend we back test the top of that downtrend. This is my wave 3. Now from my wave 3 we have a wave 4. Now where does this wave 4 go to? On my very first initial drop from my 702 here is that wick bottom. We back test the bottom of wave 1. Isn't that crazy? Now from this wave 4 we have a wave 5 that takes out this low price. We have the same scenario where we have a downtrend. You can see my channel that is set and now we have pushed that channel. Now I've mentioned this many times that hey over here on the on my wave 1 we push the downtrend. We back test the top of it. We push the downtrend. We back test the top of it. We push the downtrend. Are we going to back test the top of it? Now where this full green engulfing candle comes in you guys know I like to be able to look at gap fills and gap ups and stuff like that and I think that it plays a huge part in supply and demand. This red line running across right here. I'm just scrolling out and this is where it ends right here. You can see we had this nice gap up that doesn't get filled on both of these wicks. It just so happens we open the trading day just below that and we set this nice green engulfing candle. It tries to revert back down but ultimately we push this downtrend. Now when we try the trade back down you see we gap up right here. This is insinuating this gap right here we gap up so this is why this is marked on that chart and I did not have everything fully updated but I insinuated that you know this gap fill is probably going to get filled but all in all we are above the downtrend. Now you can see we set over the course this week we have this double top structure bearish all day full red engulfing down. Now where do we put this wick down to? Now we're going to go to a 15-minute chart. Now I will say looking down here at the commodity index. You guys see how we have an exit of the commodity? We have a lower low bearish. We get an exit of the commodity short what'll pop we get hit by the downtrend again. Now we have an exit of the commodity higher low. Now it just so happens that this exit of the commodity came on this green engulfing candle that filled our gap over on the left of the chart and oops sorry and now we push this downtrend now we've just barely tapped into that oversold again. Now it's trying to dip back up but we're going to go into a 15-minute chart and I'm going to share my thoughts on what's transpired. Now here is oops let's let's get this out of the way a little bit. Okay so here is the gap up here's that nice green engulfing candle that came on that gap. Now you see we gap down and we just stay straight bullish. Now we trade down it tries to revert back down and take out this low but then we have another gap up to the top of this downtrend that we have right here right and now we gap up we fill that gap it trades consolidates holds on top of my downtrend we get a nice pop. Now on the way down so I have this gap up right here marked. Now this is very important right here this is Thursday's trading day this is November 3rd the start of it we gap down I marked it with a green line we should move it right there we gap down now right at the beginning of the day this is a 15-minute chart first three candles one two three we tap this gap fill on the money and we trade up it gets bullish it tries to attempt to fill this gap it fails it trades it holds now it's set to close price right here now I'm going to mark this I'm going to mark this gap this is the end of Thursday's trading day right there should be marked at the bottom of it see how it's set to close above this open price is 100% crucial now the news that came out today was October's I think it was work or job job numbers I forget exactly what it was but apparently they were good I actually didn't even look at them because I really don't give a fuck but nonetheless see how we open up and we fill this gap you see this green line is a gap we open all the ways up here now boom huge sell off now where do we sell off down to we fill this gap up on the money it tries to get bullish but now we don't have this gap this gap fill you would expect now with these green candles right here I'm focused on the next three candles I want to see what they look like now those next three candles are boom boom boom okay so we're right here now when I'm watching this next candle open I want to see it open up green if it opens up green I'm hoping that this price is going to eventually take out this high if it isn't then I'm not even touching it so as we as we're looking at this also so here's that run there's your pole you have a nice pole you have a bull flag for a bull flag you need to pull your next three candles one two three seven oh two if this is going to get bullish or volume at all it is going to happen right here on this next candle no question about it what happens we continue full red engulfing boom boom boom now this gap fill this gap up this red line that we see marked on the money it is already filled we don't have anything right here and now you can see we're just trying to trade and we're trying to hold all in all you can see the commodity we have the exit of the commodity at the top of my pole for my bull flag right here the bull flag fails we enter into my oversold now we're trying to set a low a higher low and a higher low now I want to see this this wick bottom not the most confidence that I would have right here I don't want to see a more green engulfing candle but it still has hope if it gives out this wick bottom it's probably going to continue trading down unfortunately if you guys are a bull but if we do get some volume in an exit of the commodity I want to see a nice green engulfing candle and we want to try and start extending up now I've already insinuated that we pushed on top of this downtrend and I'm expecting the price to push on top of it and I can see we have my longer term uptrend right here gosh these freaking ads man these ads so let's go back to a day chart you can see how how the gap fills really play a part into the supply and demand and as I've stated many times gap filled buyers are trying to take profit they're trying to make a quick buck but there is some good information that can be found in it now the next thing that I have marked on my chart this gap is filled I'm going to take that off of my chart we have the high price before the COVID fall you can see here's the COVID drop here's your high price I have that marked as support and that's at 9800 now if we are to get a price to trade down to this what are the odds that this price is going to meet up with the top of this downtrend you see as I've stated before you have a downtrend right here you see how we push that downtrend and we trade on top of it before we get bullish you can see right here we have a downtrend we push that downtrend we back test the top of it before we get bullish isn't it crazy how that works out what are the odds that this is what's going to transpire again now if we are to get bullish from this point on it's also setting a higher low at the end now this higher low would come in at the end of a one two three four five wave structure now on this a double top right here we do not push up to this downtrend I would have really liked to see this try to keep continue being bullish up to this downtrend really tap this to have more conviction that this was going to set a higher low but all in all um this is a very nice green candle I'm not saying that the price is going to drop below this but I'm guessing that it probably is going to trade down eventually meet in with the COVID top the high before COVID and meet the top of this downtrend before we get bullish now it's going to get a pop I'm sure it's going to have some sort of gap down below this low we're going to trade down Monday's price is going to be big if it closes the rest of today and we set a close price near this low I'm probably going to expect a gap down below that full red and gold thing tap this high or maybe even a full gap down to this where we then get bullish now it just so happens that we have the downtrend the top of the downtrend the high before COVID and my long-term trend line all meeting up right here to me this is a honey hole this is a honey hole I will probably dip into the market a little bit not too extreme and I'm not telling you guys that it's a home that it's guaranteed for all I know this price ends up given out the next thing on my chart you can see right here on the right I have 9000 marked on my chart that is the next gap fill that we have now let's say in a bull case scenario that this is what transpires we end up pushing this downtrend what could I see transpire we have a 1 2 3 4 5 wave structure right now this 5 wave structure I'm just going to clear my entire chart this whole 5 wave structure could be looked at as a single wave 1 now if that wave 1 ends up getting an extension where could I see it well just off first glance we have a gnarly gap fill right here let's mark this with a green line right there now this whole 5 wave structure we're going to put a fifth to the top of the move bottom of the move right here you see where that green line's at guys here's that gap fill that green line is right near my 702 isn't that crazy now isn't that crazy now if I see any sort of double top now I've already insinuated that I'm expecting the price to come down a little bit further right right we are going to back test the top of this downtrend let's mark that downtrend and one more time now if we get a price down here meeting into this 9800 and we get a pop where is that 702 damn close to that gap fill could it be a potential that this is where this is going to end up running when we do ultimately push this longer term downtrend right there you guys see that downtrend I had it marked earlier now if this is the case and we get some sort of double top come into this I'm going to be very bearish on the market and I'm just already going to map it out right here the next thing that I'm going to see transpire is I'm going to expect a 1 2 3 4 5 wave structure now where does this 5 wave structure meet up at on my wave 4 we back test the bottom of wave 1 here is my wave 1 this whole 5 wave structure is just a wave 1 we get a wave 2 we get a wave 3 we get a wave 4 that back test the bottom of wave 1 and then you get a wave 5 now where does this wave 5 meet up at almost near the covid low but look at this gnarly gap right here if I call this out on the money I better have a thousand subscribers by this time because this is just this is gold you're not going to find information like this anywhere else I promise you guys that but look at where this 5 wave structure meets up at right at the gap fill completing this nice head and shoulders pattern and do I think that the market is probably fairly priced around here yeah it probably is could it trade lower than this yeah probably could and if it trades lower than that this is pretty solid support boom boom boom boom boom boom boom all sorts of action right there and it just so happens that this is the tippy tap high of the dot-com boom yeah I see that let's go back over to a week chart you can see this is the high of the dot-com boom that I took my original fib tool from right there now let's clear this chart one more time now that I got that information out do I think it's possible that we can push through that 702 of course that there is no guarantee that this 702 is just going to get hammered but if it sets a double top into that that's what I'm going to assume in that time I'm going to play the market now if we are able to push through that that 702 let's just go mark that 702 out real quick I'm going to expect my full extension my full extension right here I can just mark it out right there I'm probably going to cut into this full extension as well and I'm probably going to turn bearish on the market as well if it wants to push higher in that great I'm sure I'm going to have index funds that I have that I'm going to be benefiting from very greatly if we can extend past that but I'm also going to be increasing my cash on hand at this level as well and that's my update on the NASDAQ that's my long-term medium-term short-term outlook I hope you guys like the video make sure you subscribe if you're still watching like I said you're not going to find information like this anywhere I don't even know why I'm sharing it with only 50 something subscribers but you know I'm spoiling you guys I appreciate you guys watching the video we'll see you on the next one


Hi guys welcome back to another video It is Drew here from Lone Fox and today is a really really fun video Because I have partnered with cost plus world market on this video and I'm pretty sure all of you guys know how much I'm obsessed with world Market I shop there all the time It's just like kind of like a dream come true for this channel Honestly, like I love world market the desk in my room is from world market the little hexagon mirror that everyone used to Always ask me about is from world market the Papa's on chair in my living room Which I get the most questions about as well as from world market They really have such a variety of items and everything is honestly like a good price point I really like the price point at world market. So today I've partnered with them on a holiday video I'm just going in there honestly and shopping for holiday decor and then decorating my apartment with it Like how much fun is that so yeah, I'm outside of cost plus world market right now I'm personally at the one that's like at the Grove farmer market because I live like pretty close to here So it just was easier for me. I'm gonna head inside we can start shopping for holiday. I don't exactly know what they have Yeah, okay, let's go They have so much stuff like I'm actually surprised like they have the most ever Christmas Holiday decor, so this is like just a holiday section and it goes like for multiple multiple rows Which we do love that for sure So I thought that I would get us some stockings because we have a fireplace our old apartment I had no fireplace, but I kind of think that this is like The prettiest and cutest ever. I'm kind of liking this one too check out the pearl one That is so pretty and it's only twenty nine dollars. Are you kidding? That's like fully beaded. Oh My gosh guys this ornament is so cute look at it I always love shopping for ornaments at places like this because I always have the best ones I always look so handmade and like one of a kind, which I don't think you see a lot of places It makes your tree look a lot more special in my opinion I'm very content right now like holiday shopping And making a video I think I love that I legit keep bumping into more stuff like every corner I turn I'm like, oh, that's the end of it, and then there's just more every single time Already found at the star maker contents kiosk I just followed the little stickers on the floor, which I think I showed you guys when I was walking in This is basically a kiosk that's located in 60 different world market stores around the United States And I'm gonna leave a link below where you can find out if there's one close to you But if not you can still enter this contest do not worry But I have to tell you guys what the contest is and how you can enter it because the prize is amazing So Jesse J actually partnered up with world market for this contest And how you enter it is you sing your own rendition of Santa Claus is coming to town and you submit it And then in the end Jesse J is actually choosing a winner The two grand prizes are a full-on music recording session with a music producer, which is amazing So if you're a singer 100% into this contest if you're not a singer enter this contest And then another prize that you're going to get is a thousand dollar world market gift card So that is amazing and I'm gonna leave all the information in the description box below So you guys can take a look there's a link that has everything all the information for you guys If you do want to enter the star maker contest because if you're a singer, this is an amazing opportunity for you My gosh a little loan box ornament. Okay, the car is already overstaffed like Hello set out a couple more things and then I think I'm gonna call it a day I'm literally finding the best stuff here ever I've only been here for like 20 minutes 15 minutes maybe but I'm literally looking at everything Just so I can get a good glimpse at every item, you know, but yeah I'm so excited to head home and decorate because this stuff is totally my style Guys I got the most stuff ever almost getting run over kind of fun So let's go back to the apartment and decorate a little bit It is now the next day and I am ready to decorate and the big like main focal point of decorating Of course is the Christmas tree which I bought a humongous Christmas tree last year So I had it stored at my parents house. I went back to my parents house got it over Thanksgiving and brought it back So I'm gonna set that up I just wanted to give you like a tiny quick little run through of all the world market pieces that I actually did get Kicking this mini haul off with two pillows is first one's a super cute ice skating one The second one is a Christmas tree with a plaid print I also got two of these garlands to put on my console a little yarn tree decoration a bottle brush tree and green And then I got two bottle brush trees in white just to like layer and then a little dish for my coffee table a Advent calendar that is so cute a tree topper that actually doesn't go on the tree some star-shaped string lights a little ornament That's a house and then an ornament that is a fox to match the lone fox theme two stockings This first one's boho Christmas second one is glam Christmas with the pearls a little lone fox cookie cutter I had to get some tea and then also a little bath melt to really relax and bring that whole vibe in and then some pancake and waffle mix So this is the first year that this trees in this apartment and it literally is One centimeter from touching the roof So I don't know if I'm able to actually put that little snowflake thing I got from world market on the top of it But I will use it as a decoration somewhere else because there's actually no space up there all of my DIY ornaments I just made in my most recent video. So if you have not seen that video yet I create the cutest DIY ornaments. Look at this little fox ornament a little snow globe ornament With like some snow in there a gingerbread cookie ornament So if you want to check out that video, I'll leave it in a card up on the screen somewhere But idea why all these which I'm also gonna put on the tree as well So this is a little advent calendar that I found at world markets the Christmas Wood advent calendar and each day you get to open the boxes and inside are these little cute like wood creatures and then you're gonna make your own little like woodland scene and it comes with the Storage pouch too so you can like use it for next year too, which I thought was so good.  I've never seen anything like this That was today's video just decorating my apartment heading to world market getting some really amazing pieces from there as well I'm honestly kind of the most happy about those stockings I think they look the best above the fireplace and I also love the pillows I added here But yeah, that was all for today's video. I hope you guys enjoyed this holiday living room Transformation and the reason that I always just redo my living room is because I live in a smallest apartment So I don't have much space to like redo other random rooms and I really I don't know how Christmasy I want my bedroom to be I mean I'd rather just Locate to the living room for the Christmas events and then like locate into my room for the more peaceful like aesthetic events You know what I'm talking about So yeah, but other than that make sure to check out the cost plus world market star maker Contest because you can definitely enter and you can win an amazing amazing prize all the details All the information and all the links are going to be in the description box below for you to enter And that's about all happy holidays to everybody and I can't wait to film more videos in this space Like look how pretty this looks. I'm obsessed with the way the tree looks and yeah, I'll catch you next one. Bye guys


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Good afternoon, Pastor David. Yeah It's a great afternoon. Yeah, welcome everybody to unfiltered a random moment with Pastor David The New Year's kicked off. Yeah, and we're we're in a season now to see what what's gonna happen in as we move forward And you know, I've been thinking about some of your latest sermons and and that's good But I wanted to ask you what the earmark of carnality is in the church I Can tell you in 1st Corinthians 3 I can tell you that the Apostle Paul tells us what What our components to carnality? In 1st Corinthians 3 verse 3 he says it's envy strife and division And he said to him I Where where there is envy strife and division is that not he said basically a sign of carnality And then he went on to speak concerning what that division was over And he says because some of you are Saying that I'm of of Paul or I'm of Cephas or I'm of Christ you know, you're you're basically dividing the body of Christ into Loyalties that are Are causing the strife and causing the division and so he says when you do that He he said are you not carnal? Are you not mere men in other words? Are you not living in a fleshly way using fleshly measurements? pertaining to that which would seem to make up or be components of Spiritual maturity in and when you begin to Divide over I'm a follower of this or I'm a follower of that he said then what you've done is you've put yourself in a position of Elevating a man to a place that he really ought not to be so I think in the church today. We have to be careful of What we find ourselves being proud of I Think that it's it's not a sign of carnality to Identify with a local congregation and it's not a sign of carnality to be loyal to the doctrinal Makeup of that fallow ship as long as those things that are are held most firmly our Theologically orthodox and yes There is a theological orthodoxy. Yes Church councils over the centuries have very studiously and vigorously Worked out hammered out things that we must Essentially believe in order to be a member of the body of Christ Things that relate to the scriptures and their inerrancy or the second coming of Jesus and And the power of the Holy Spirit and things of that nature There are essentials to the faith and then there are things that are non-essentials, you know The essential to the faith is believe it in Christ to be born again. That's an essential of the faith a Non-essential may be what time do I start church services or what is the order of service? so if the doctrine is solid and Jesus is central and and Everything is you know, it's orthodox then okay be a Baptist or be a four square or whatever it may be Whatever club you identify with, you know, that's fine. They call them tribes today, but whatever club you may belong to You know, as long as it's orthodox, I've got no problem or beef with you but if you belong to an organization that That says that Jesus Christ is the first creation of God or that that he appeared on the American continent or whatever, you know, that is that is heresy and that is a mark of occult and so there are differences and we need to be aware of those differences, but what is a mark of carnality today? I think strife division and That's that's a pretty big Pretty big one today and and what would be the danger or a church that is or any your mark of carnality What is the result of that? Is it? destruction it wouldn't be It disrupts the unity of the body of Christ we have to be Unitized on a single Awareness and that is who Jesus Christ is and so when I take my my Particular church and say that this is the church that has all the truth and there's nobody else who has it completely as we do I think that's going to create a real problem. And so the again the earmark is is breaking unity, you know That's the earmark of carnality Well pastor David, thank you so much on sharing on that just want to remind our church family that we have Wednesday evening services tomorrow at 7 p.m. And you're starting a new book I'm going to start the book of Ephesians and we're going to be looking at the blessings introduction to the blessings that every believer has in the Lord Jesus Christ and You know, I'll be sharing about about how some of us live as spiritual poppers.  Yeah, that's good Well, thank you again pastor want to invite your friends and family to come on out to join us on Wednesday evening 7 p.m. As pastor David starts the book of Ephesians and then we have our Sunday morning services at 8 30 and 1045 we look forward to you guys coming out and joining us and pastor David again. Thank you and God bless you. All right. We'll see you guys


Dr. Fauci, your take on him. Well, Dr. Fauci says something very unfortunate last week, and he said that he was science and people who didn't like him don't like science, don't respect science. I think this whole concept of believing in science is foreign to me, I believe in God. Science is something that you trust, you work on, you improve, there's no finality to it, and you know, we have a J. Edgar Hoover of public health right now, and that's not what we want. Third Pennsylvania Senate primary candidate now, Dr. Oz, referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci as, well, you heard it there, J. Edgar Hoover. Joining us now to weigh in on this and other topics making headlines on this Thursday is our panel founder and CEO of Stock Swoosh Melissa Armo and ER doctor and veteran, Dr. Omar Hamada. Thank you both for joining us. Good to see your beautiful faces on this Thursday. Good morning. Good to be here. Good morning. So, Dr. Hamada, I want to start with you. There's a lot of controversy obviously over Dr. Anthony Fauci, but that comparison to Hoover, what are your thoughts on that? What exactly do you think he meant by that? You know, I'm not exactly sure. Maybe that he uses his position for other agendas that aren't necessarily straightforward. We have to ask Dr. Oz exactly what he meant, but I think Fauci has basically squandered his integrity and veracity to promote certain things that many of us don't believe are true.  You may remember back in 2014, he was invited to testify in front of the Senate committee where he felt he was being victimized by his name and is like this, being used without his permission, at which point Senate members criticized him for some of the comments that he's made on his show, such as referring things as a miracle pill and not being as forthcoming as he should be with his audience. So some may argue, and again, just playing devil's advocate, is this basically the pot calling the kettle black? What are your thoughts as a doctor? I think there's certainly evidence there to support that, and you know, the longer I live and the more crazy and hostile our culture gets, the more I see a real need for integrity in every area of our lives, integrity in terms of what we say, how we live, scientific integrity, et cetera. So many times we will say things or manipulate the truth a little bit to basically engage our audience better, and I know that's very common, but as we move forward, people are looking for truth tellers and people are looking for people they can place their trust in because there's so much false misinformation out there. People just don't know who or what to believe in. Melissa, I want to get your reaction again to what Dr. Oz had to say in his description of Dr. Anthony Fauci and if it's a fair assessment considering his own past. I'm not sure what he meant by that other than the fact that J. Edgar Hoover was a polarizing figure and obviously Dr. Fauci has become a polarizing figure as well. At the beginning of the pandemic, going back in March 2020, he definitely was someone that everyone was listening to and as time went on and the themes seemed to change and become more political going into the 2020 election, I think people started to lose trust in him and now I think his trust has been completely eroded. Watching him yesterday and I watched the entire press conference yesterday of Fauci, it was like deja vu from March 2020 and I really am concerned about the future. I'm actually more concerned about what decisions Fauci is going to advise the Biden administration to do than I am about the actual virus or contracting the virus. And I'm sure many Americans feel that way and that's a problem. I am surprised that Dr. Oz is going to run for political office. But in today's day and age, I mean anything is possible. That is true. I'd love to know since you posed that question talking about Americans and their thoughts about that. I'd love to know for the viewers that are watching this right now. What do you think about that? You can always weigh in by finding me at real moranda con hashtag. Share your voice. Meanwhile, a federal judge now blocking health care workers, that vaccine mandate nationwide and representative Jim Jordan says that Biden will lose when it comes to these mandates, which we've been talking about for months now. Take a listen to what he had to say. And I think the courts are going to interpret the Constitution in a way anyone with common sense and plain reading would interpret it. So that's why you're seeing so many courts agree with us that this is an unconstitutional mandate placed on the American people. So, Doctor, will the Constitution win in this case? I see you nodding your head there. Yeah, I believe it will. And I'm so pleased and relieved that this has actually happened. The federal courts have found with the people with the Constitution and against these unconstitutional mandates. I can't tell you how many people have either lost their jobs already or just gone ahead and quit because of these mandates that they were just not going to abide by and they had rather give up their livelihood than take the shot or be forced to lie on an exclusion form. And it's interesting. We're going to talk more about the science, but, you know, a lot of these people that are losing their jobs and we've covered it extensively here on this network have been people in the medical field who don't want to get the vaccine, which is why we're seeing hospital shortages. Melissa, your take on what Jim Jordan had to say. Well, I think the problem is that this is going to end up going to the Supreme Court and it's going to be up to them to decide, well, number one, if they're going to hear the cases, and number two, how are they going to weigh out the decision? I know what the Constitution says. I've read it myself, but the problem is they can interpret it some way differently. And so even though we have a conservative court, some people are not signing on the conservative side. You saw that yesterday, if you listen to the hearings or the testimony in reference to the abortion case. But as far as the Biden administration goes, they're going to continue to push this, regardless of those courts not signing with them. You heard Biden even saying yesterday when we came out, when they came out and said about this new variant, he's pushing for businesses to have vaccine mandates to spite what the courts have said. They're going to continue to push it. They're going to continue to push from businesses, whether it's legal or not. Again, it's probably going to end up in the Supreme Court. I personally believe that people need to be able to make health choices by themselves. An employer should not be making health decisions for employees. And that's my personal opinion on it. Again, I always love to know our viewers' thoughts on this. I know this is a very hot button issue, if not one of the key issues that are on their minds. So if you're watching this, you'd like to weigh in, please do so. We encourage you to do that by fighting me at RealMorandCon, hashtag share your voice. Meanwhile, the U.S. House of Representatives was set to vote today on a bill funding federal agencies through February 18th after Democrats and Republicans agreed on that date and negotiations aimed at averting a partial government shutdown beginning this weekend. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell says Republicans will not block a stopgap government funding bill adding that shutting down the government over opposition to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Well, he says makes no sense. Remember, a number of Republicans were wanting to do so. He decided not to. And there have been several calls, including from former President Donald Trump for Mitch McConnell to resign. Your thoughts, Doctor, on this, on Republicans deciding not to go that route because of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell deciding that wasn't in the best interest. You know, I'm not exactly sure where he's coming from, but I do think it's a bad idea to not do everything we can to stop these leaving mandates because it's destroying our economy. It's destroying the morale of our workers. It's destroying health care. So I think any anything that we can do to stop them, we should be doing. Do you agree with that? Do you think Mitch McConnell made a mistake and could it eventually cost him his job, Melissa? I don't know about Mitch McConnell. And again, we're going into 2022. I think there's going to be a problem. And part of the problem is that the Republican caucus, they're just not strong enough to stand up to some of these ideas by the Democrats are in charge. So they're pushovers. They're just pushovers. So again, with the ceiling of this timeline looming, which is within the next 24 hours by Friday, they're going to pass something. They can't let it go into the weekend. The market would sell off really hard if they don't. We have the debt ceiling coming up in two more weeks. Everything the Congress does, they wait until the very last second and the very last minute. That's bad for markets. It's bad for the American people. It's bad for people that are working. They're waiting to see what's going to happen. But the Republicans just have no backbone. They can never stand up to the Democrats. Well, speaking down to the last minute, we're going to have to leave it right there. But we are going to talk about the economy and the president's plan that he's expected to unveil today when it comes to combating COVID. He's now extending, again, requirements for travelers to wear a mask on airplanes. But does that now go against a new study that seems to be putting holes in the effectiveness of wearing those masks? We're going to get our panel to weigh in on that. And again, new jobs number report out. We're going to have our panel weigh in on that, all that. And more coming up when News On continues.


A very good evening aspirants, I welcome you all to the Hindu Daily News Analysis brought to you by Shankar A.S. Academy. Now before getting into news article discussion, I have an important announcement for you. The announcement is regarding prelims test series. Shankar A.S. Academy is going to start pre-stroming batch 1 for UPSC prelims 2024. The orientation for the first test will be conducted on 11th September 2023 and the first test will be on 18th September. A total of 48 tests including C-SAT and Mach tests will be provided in the test series. So register to the test series immediately and boost your prelim score. With this announcement, let us get into news analysis. Today I am going to cover important news articles from the Hindu newspaper dated 6th of September 2023. Displayed here is a list of news articles that we will be discussing today. You can go through it. At the end of the video, we will also have prelims practice question discussions. So try to watch the entire video. And a kind request to you all, those who haven't yet, subscribe to our YouTube channel. Do subscribe and hit the bell icon button so that you will get regular notifications about our current affairs videos. Now let us get into our first news article discussion. Look at this news article. The news article says that the Tamil Nadu Health Minister has demanded funding from the central government under the National Ayush Mission. The minister noted that the funding would help the Tamil Nadu government to promote Ayush medical systems across the state. This is all about the news. Now in this context, let us learn few points about the National Ayush Mission. The National Ayush Mission was launched in 2014. It is a flagship scheme under the Ministry of Ayush. Note that the National Ayush Mission is a centrally sponsored scheme. This means that the funds for the scheme are shared between the center and the states. Okay. Now coming to the objectives of the National Ayush Mission. The main objective of this mission is to promote Ayush medical systems. Here Ayush stands for Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Omnipathy. See these are the six main Indian systems of medicine. They are practiced in India and in some of the neighboring Asian countries. So the National Ayush Mission aims to promote these six Indian systems of medicine. Apart from this, the mission also aims to increase the availability and accessibility of Ayush healthcare services across the country. And this is done through establishing a network of Ayush health wellness centers. Okay. Now talking about the components of National Ayush Mission. See the National Ayush Mission has four main components. The first component aims to ensure the availability of cost effective and affordable Ayush services to the people of India. The second component aims to strengthen Ayush educational systems and to create a quality Ayush workforce. And this is done by upgrading Ayush educational institutions. The third component aims to impose quality control of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Omnipathy drugs. And it also aims to increase the reliability of Ayush practitioners. This is done by upgrading the state government Ayush pharmacists, drug testing laboratories and Ayush enforcement mechanisms. Okay. And the final component aims to ensure the sustainable availability of Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani and Omnipathy raw materials. This is done by adopting good agricultural practices. As most of the Ayush drugs are manufactured using agri products, the good agricultural practices will help to ensure sustainable availability of raw materials. Okay. So these are the four components under the National Ayush Mission. By working on these four components, the Ministry of Ayush aims to promote the Ayush medical system in our country. Okay. Now having seen the important points about National Ayush Mission, now let us see a few points about Ayush health and wellness centers. Ayush health and wellness centers would be operationalized under the broad umbrella of National Ayush Mission. The centers are operated in a mode of centrally sponsored scheme, that is the Ayush health and wellness centers are funded by both the center and the states. See through the Ayush health and wellness centers, the government aims to achieve three things. Firstly, the government aims to reduce disease burden and to ensure holistic well-being through the centers. Secondly, the government aims to reduce out-of-pocket expenditure through Ayush health and wellness centers and finally through the centers, the government aims to provide an alternative treatment options for the Indian citizens. Okay. These are all the objectives that the government aims to achieve through Ayush health and wellness centers and note that by 2024, the Ministry of Ayush aims to operationalize over 12,500 Ayush health and wellness centers all over the country. Okay. And that's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion, we saw some points about National Ayush Mission, then about the objectives of National Ayush Mission, then we saw about the components of National Ayush Mission and finally we saw some points about Ayush health and wellness centers. See this topic is very much important for your problems exam. So revise all the facts that we discussed. Now with these points in mind, let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this editorial article. Recently, a petition was filed by a person in the Kerala High Court regarding encroachments in the ill stations of Munnar. See Munnar is located in the Gidukki district of Kerala. In responding to a petition, the district collector of Gidukki mentioned to the Kerala High Court that 326 land encroachments have been identified in Munnar. The petitioner also requested the appointment of a special officer to act against encroachments. So the Kerala High Court asked the views of state government regarding this appointment. Apart from this, the Kerala High Court also asked the views of union government regarding the assessment of carrying capacity of southern hill stations. See last month, a Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice of India suggested to constitute an export committee to conduct a complete and comprehensive study on the carrying capacity of the Himalayan region. Following this, the central government has proposed setting up a 13-member technical committee to study the carrying capacity of Himalayan region. Now coming back to the case in Kerala High Court, see the Kerala High Court asked whether the expertise of technical committee that has been proposed by central government that can be used to assess the carrying capacity of hill stations of Kerala. This is about the news article, now in this discussion we will see what is carrying capacity and the impacts of exceeding the carrying capacity. Now let us start with carrying capacity. See carrying capacity is a concept that is mainly used in environmental science. It is mainly used to understand the relationship between the population of an organism and the resource available in the habitat such organism occupies. Carrying capacity refers to the maximum population size that an environment or ecosystem can suitably support over a specific period of time. So basically carrying capacity refers to the number of people, animals or crops which a region can support without environmental degradation. The carrying capacity depends on various factors including the availability of food, water, shelter and other resources. And it also depends on environmental conditions such as climate and the ability of ecosystem to absorb waste and maintain its stability. For example the carrying capacity of alluvial planes of Uttar Pradesh is higher than the carrying capacity of Siberian Tundra. Now having seen what is carrying capacity and the factors influencing carrying capacity, now let us see the impacts of exceeding the carrying capacity. The first impact is resource depletion. See if the population exits the carrying capacity for a longer period of time, the resources may be depleted. That is resources like food, water and shelter will become scarce. This leads to increased competition among individuals for access to these resources which potentially cause stress, malnutrition and even death due to resource shortage. For example let us take Lake Chad. See Lake Chad is located in Central Africa. It is a prime example of a region where the carrying capacity has been exceeded. See the Chad lake has historically been a vital source of water for millions of people in Chad, Cameroon, Nigeria and Niger. However due to combination of factors including population growth, over extraction of water for irrigation, deforestation and prolonged droughts, the water level of Lake Chad has significantly decreased over the decades. This has affected the resource availability around the lakh shade. This has affected the resource availability. Due to reduced resource availability, various nations are fighting over the leftover resources. So resource depletion is one of the main impact of exceeding the carrying capacity. Then the next impact of exceeding the carrying capacity is habitat degradation. See when the carrying capacity is exceeded the available resources, it will be depleted at a rapid pace. This can reduce the overall health and diversity of the ecosystem. For example let us take Mount Everest. The Mount Everest has faced problems related to over crowding and overuse by climbers. So large number of climbers during the climbing season have led to trash buildup, safety concerns and environmental degradation. So habitat degradation is another impact of exceeding the carrying capacity. The next impact is spread of disease. See in some cases exceeding carrying capacity has also led to the spread of diseases. For example let us take bats. See during hibernation the bats seek shelter in caves and mines which forms large colonies. When the number of bats in your hibernation exceeds the carrying capacity of the caves it becomes overcrowded. This results in the easy transmission of fungus called the white nose syndrome fungus. See white nose syndrome is a fungal disease that affects hibernating bats particularly in North America. So spread of disease is also one of the impact of exceeding carrying capacity. And lastly exceeding carrying capacity can sometimes lead to population crash. Here population crash is a sudden short production in the size of population. For example let us take Easter Island. This island is located in the South Pacific. Historically Easter Island was inhabited by a pollination population. They relied on islands limited natural resources for their livelihoods including farce for timber, agriculture for food and fishing for sustenance. As the population grew the demand for resources increased. It led to deforestation, soil erosion and depletion of fish stocks. Due to this the carrying capacity of the island was exceeded. This resulted in food shortages, warfare and social unrest. Due to this the population of Easter Island faced a very short decline. So this is an example of how exceeding carrying capacity can lead to population crash. And that's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion we saw what is carrying capacity and then the impacts of exceeding carrying capacity. Now with these points in mind let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this article from the text and context page. This article discusses about the forest conservation amendment act 2023. The article also further discusses about the implications of amendment act on north eastern states like Mizoram and Nagaland. See this topic appeared in the news because recently the Mizoram state assembly passed a resolution against the forest conservation amendment act 2023. So in this discussion we will see why north eastern states are opposing the amendment act and what are all the important issues associated with amendment act 2023. Now first let us see some basics about the forest conservation amendment act 2023. See the main objective of this amendment act is to achieve India's goal of net zero emissions by 2070. So in order to achieve this goal the amendment act promises to create a carbon sink then to increase forest cover and to improve the livelihoods of forest communities. These are all the main objectives of forest conservation amendment act 2023. But there are three important issues associated with forest conservation amendment act 2023. Now let us see the issues one by one. The first issue is that the 2023 amendment act introduces narrow definitions of forests. As per the amendment act the definition of forests only include the forests that are notified in government records and it does not include other forest regions. So this change in definition could potentially impact around 28% of India's forest cover. This is because many forest lands in India are just fruit orchards and plantations and they were not usually recorded as forests in government records. See these forests can be impacted due to narrowing down of definition of forests. For example let us imagine there is a forest land in Nagaland which is not recorded as forest by the government. But this forest has been protected by indigenous tribes for centuries. However as per the new amendment act government is free to allow the destruction of these forests for construction and development. So this is the first problem. Then the second issue is that the forest conservation amendment act 2023 allows for strategic infrastructure development within 100 kilometer of international borders without getting any forest clearances. This means that the forests within 100 kilometers of international borders can be cleared for developmental projects without any checks and balances. So this is a concern for states like Mizoram because most of their forest land falls within 100 kilometer of international borders. This is the second issue. Thirdly the forest conservation amendment act 2023 allows the construction of zoos, safari parks and ecotourism facilities in forest land without getting any forest clearances from the government. So these are the important issues with forest conservation amendment act 2023. Now moving on to see why North Eastern states are opposing the forest conservation amendment act 2023. See Mizoram and Nagaland have opposed this act because that allows the diversion of forest lands near international borders for developmental projects. Know that Nagaland and Mizoram have special constitutional provisions under article 371A and 371G respectively. These provisions prevent the parliament from imposing laws that affect the traditional customs land ownership and resources of Mizoram and Nagaland. In simple words the state governments of Mizoram and Nagaland have the power to decide whether any parliamentary law should be enforced in real states or not. So based on these constitutional provisions recently the Mizoram state assembly passed a resolution against forest conservation amendment act 2023. In addition to this the Nagaland assembly also decided to pass a resolution against the act. See the states like Tripura and Sikkim have already opposed 100 kilometer exemption clause in the amendment act. Now coming to the problem with recorded forest area, see the recorded forest area comprises both notified and unclassed forests which means that forest land that are not officially classified as forests are also part of recorded forest areas. And that more than half of the geographical area of northeastern area comes under recorded forest area. But the new amendment only considers the forest area that are recorded by the government. So this lead to an exploitation of most of the forest cover in the northeastern region. From these points we can understand why the northeastern states are opposing the forest conservation amendment act 2023. So the author concludes the article by suggesting some ways to strengthen forest protection. Firstly the author says that the government should ensure the consent of Gram Shabba before diverting any forest land. Secondly the author suggests that the Ministry of Tribal Affairs should play a role in recognizing and settling forest rights. In addition to this the ministry should legally enforce the provisions of forest rights act 2006 in northeastern states to protect the forest rights of tribal communities. These are all some of the solutions suggested by the author. That's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion we saw about the issues associated with forest conservation amendment act 2023 and we saw about why the northeastern states are opposing the amendment act. Now with these points in mind let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this news article according to the news article the BAS that is the Bureau of Indian Standards has made the ISC mark mandatory for certain products. The products include reusable water bottles and utensils made of various materials like copper, stainless steel and aluminum. The BAS has made the ISC mark mandatory to ensure the quality of these products. Okay this is all about the news article now in this context let us learn some points about ISC mark. See you might have noticed this image in various products. This is the ISC mark here ISC stands for Indian Standards Institute. The ISC was formed post-independence to ensure standard of products in India. The ISC was renamed as Bureau of Indian Standards in 1986. Currently the ISC mark is issued by the Bureau of Indian Standards. It is issued mainly for industrial products. Okay the ISC mark certifies that a product confirms to the Indian Standards. See the image here it is mentioned as IS8034. If any product has this mark then the particular product confirms to the 8034 standards. Okay now is the ISC mark mandatory? Basically the ISC certification program is voluntary in nature. See if any manufacturer who feels confident enough that his product has the ability to meet BAS standards then he can apply for product certification. Although the scheme itself is voluntary in nature the government of India on considerations of public health and safety it has enforced compulsory certification on various products through orders issued from time to time under various acts. This means that the government of India can make certification mandatory for certain products. Till now 211 product standards have been made mandatory considering public health and safety and others have been made voluntary. So for those 211 mandatory products consumers shouldn't buy it if it does not have the ISC mark. For example the fruit related products should have ISC marks. See you can take any packaged drinking water and check whether it has IS 14543 marking or not. If the packaged drinking water does not have this marking it is not safer to consume. Okay also note that to prevent the ISC mark holders from slipping away from the standards the BAS can make surprise visits to the factories to inspect quality of the product. Apart from this the BAS can also pull a product from the market and it can inspect its quality. Okay in addition to this to ensure the quality of products the BAS can prosecute manufacturers for misusing the ISC mark. That is the BAS can prosecute manufacturers if they use ISC mark in their product without getting the actual certification from the BAS okay. See people can also make complaints to the BAS regarding the misuse of ISC mark. Now if there is any punishment to those who are misusing the ISC mark see misuse of the ISC mark is punishable with imprisonment of up to two years or a fine of minimum rupees two lakh has been imposed on the offenders or both the punishment and fine also imposed. See these penal provisions are provided in BAS Act 2016 okay and that's all regarding this discussion. In this discussion we saw various aspects of ISC mark now with these points in mind let us move on to the next news article discussion. Look at this news article yesterday the Karnataka High Court has permitted Karnataka actor Ganesh to go ahead with the construction of a farmhouse on its land that falls under the Echo Sensitive Zone of the Bandipur Tiger so this is about the news article now in this discussion let us see some points about Bandipur Tiger Reserve the Bandipur Tiger Reserve was formed in 1973 the Tiger Reserve is spread across the two revenue districts of southern Karnataka namely the Mysuru and Chamraja Nagar districts more importantly the Tiger Reserve is located at the tri-junction area of the states of Karnataka Tamil Nadu and Kerala and note that the Bandipur Tiger Reserve forms part of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve also it is a part of the western Ghats Tiger Landscape that consists of Mudumalai Tiger Reserve, Naharul Tiger Reserve and the Vayanadu Wildlife Sanctuary okay this is the basic information about Bandipur Tiger Reserve now talking about the floor and fawn of Bandipur Tiger Reserve see the most famous resident of Bandipur Tiger Reserve is Tiger the Tiger Reserve also houses the endangered Asiatic wild elephant apart from this some species like sloth bears, gauze, Indian rock pythons, jackals, muggers, four-horned antelopes, sambar, mouse deer, chital, sloth bear and the rare flying lizard are also spotted in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve and note that the Bandipur Tiger Reserve also has over 200 species of birds okay this all about the fauna now talking about flora see the Bandipur Tiger Reserve supports a wide range of flora the trees like teak, rosewood, sandalwood, Indian laurel, Indian quinoa tree etc are found in the Bandipur Tiger Reserve now talking about the rivers that flows through Bandipur Tiger Reserve see the prominent rivers that flows through the Tiger Reserve are the Moya River and the Nugul River okay and that's all regarding this discussion in this discussion we saw about the various aspects of Bandipur Tiger Reserve now with these points in mind let us move on to the next part of the video that is to discuss preliminary practice questions as friends today we are having three practice questions I will solve two of them and one will be a quiz question for you look at the first question here four factors are given we have to find how many of the factors influence the carrying capacity of a region see carrying capacity refers to the maximum population size that an environment or ecosystem can sustainably support over a specific period of time now coming to the question climate, vegetation, water, resource, inter and intraspecies competition see all these factors influence the carrying capacity of a region so the correct answer for the question is option D all four moving on let's take up the second question this question is regarding a scheme named Aayush, Ausadi, Gunvata, Evam, Uttapadan, Samvardhan, Yojana look at the first statement it is implemented by the Ministry of Aayush see this statement is correct this particular scheme is implemented by the Ministry of Aayush now coming to the second statement it is a centrally sponsored scheme see this statement is incorrect this scheme is a central sector scheme that is the scheme is fully funded by the central government and it is not a centrally sponsored scheme so second statement is incorrect now coming to the third statement through this the Ministry aims to enhance India's manufacturing capabilities and exports of traditional medicines and health promotion products see this statement is correct it is the main aim of the scheme through the scheme the Ministry of Aayush aims to enhance manufacturing and export capabilities of traditional medicines and health products okay since only two statements are correct the correct answer for the question is option B only two this is a question for you today I will post this question in a community section try to answer it and the answer for the question will be provided in the comment section itself you can verify the answers and displayed here is a main question for your practice go through the question write your answer and post it in the comment section with this we have come to the end of the video we found a video to be useful do like comment and chat with your friends and don't forget to subscribe Shankar IS Academy YouTube channel thank you for listening


Good morning and welcome to the week ahead video with me David Madden Today's date is Friday the 10th of January 2020 and the time has just gone 1110 GMT I'm looking ahead to next week, which is Monday the 13th of the Friday the 17th of January Now before we discuss some of the big economic and corporate events of next week Let's just take a moment to take stock of what's happened in the past few days It's been obviously a very turbulent week between the US and around tensions, but a couple of days ago President Trump made it very clear that he's not looking for an all-out conflict with Iran and that had a Dramatic impact on the financial markets. We saw a complete turnaround and a big reversal of What was going on? While tensions were high stocks were lower gold was higher the Japanese yen was higher and of course oil was higher post-president Trump's Strong suggestion that he wasn't going to be looking at the start of fight with Iran We saw gold tumble. We saw the US. We saw the Japanese yen fall. We saw we saw oil fall and conversely we saw Stocks rally the stock 600 without the in Europe would not to hit a fresh record high We also saw record highs and some of the major make US indices as well So sentiment is clearly very much in risk-off mode But I'm obviously recording this video about two hours and 20 minutes ahead of the US down from parents reports So obviously sentiment could change between now and things going out But at the time being it seems that the US US Iran issue has been put to bed obviously things could change but at the time being that's the way it's looking So obviously keep in mind what's going on between Washington DC and Iran over the next few days But it's also worth noting That China is going to come back into the fold next week on the 15th We're going to have the official signing of the US of phase one of the US China trade Talk trade deal and I suspect we could see the wider optimism Continue on the road without the optimism that you know so US stock markets push higher in late December and into early 2020 But what I suspect is going to be a bigger problem down the line It's going to be phase two. It's all what a good signing phase one and Chinese government Looking to ramp up their imports of US agricultural goods, which is great for US farmers but at some point they're going to come on to more trickier topics such as The Beijing government funding Chinese company Chinese companies in China and also things like intellectual property rights of you know International and particularly US firms operating in China. What's going to happen there? Intellectual property rights. These are much trickier much more complicated much more serious topics and even though I suspect President Trump is going to start using this as a way of Boasting his own popularity by you know by doing kind of round two of the US China trade war Showing the American voters that he's out there, you know doing trying to put America no putting America first You know but that that would be looking at garnered support with the American voters because keep my president Trump is looking to get reelected in November But I suspect we know we could see it for a shakedown in a global stock market in the most common It depends whenever president Trump looks to raise the issue of phase two He may like to do it shortly after phase one which he suggested before but then again, he doesn't know is Stick to his word So being very mindful that whenever phase one is all the way that leaves the gate open for phase two to come on the horizon That could be in a few days. It could be in a few months But I suspect that's gonna be on the cards also a wider theme for 2020 I would be surprised if it takes to kind of economic fight to the EU as well for the same reasons He looks he was you know, he wants a scenario whereby he's looking at getting a better deal for America But I also think towards the back end of the year He looked to actually wrap things up just because he would I love If you're tweeting about the US stock markets achieving all-time highs in advance of the voters going to the polls So it's gonna be in the you know next few months time We could be lower, but towards the back end of the year. We could be higher. That's what I suspect These are the kind of it kind of probably the biggest issue to look at to next week We also have some economic indicators We got a China such as retail sales and industrial production This it gives a good indication of the goodness how these are panning out in the Chinese economy the latest gonna say the likes of Manufacturing the service figures have been alright. Nothing impressive, you know, okay manufacturing is Appeared to be better than the manufacturing in the US and Germany We're also gonna have an update From the from the US page book that's gonna give us a snapshot of what's going on with the state of The US economy next week. That's on the 15th We have some UK economic indicators coming out on Monday the 13th Which is the manufacturing production and industrial production Nothing really overly important there, but it gives indication of the state of the health of the UK economy We have a couple of earnings numbers out from the UK next week on the 14th We have Q1 figures from boohoo on the 15th We have Q4 figures from person in the house builder and on the 20th We have Q apologies on the 16th on the 16th of January. We have Q3 figures from Whitbread You know the the retail sector is gonna be and the kind of leisure sector is gonna be very much in focus for the for traders seeing us we had some not so let's mix updates in terms of Corporate earnings in relation to say JD sports and super try today So keep an eye on what's going on with the UT and retail sector by and large is it hasn't been great Also at the back end the next week. We have Delta Airlines Report their figures next week on Tuesday the 14th and Trot next week US bank earnings will be in focus like said JP Morgan Chase and city group as well as Well as Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo Now we're gonna do now is take a quick look at some of the major markets this equity markets to see how things are planning out So we take a look at the broad strokes the wider picture since mid-December the footsie 100 has been pushing higher a late December hit its highest level since kind of June-July Late no late July things. So things are looking a fairly good shape on that front And if we manage to pull back most of the gains most of the ground that was lost recently So if you do manage to take out the December high we could then be looking at retesting the highest achieved in July about the in around 7,731 The the German market by contrast is in far better shape not too far off. Well, basically it's essentially in a two-year high On the on the tax we're currently expected the tax is currently trading in around 13,535 there they're about we can see here that we've managed to regroup all the ground That was lost recently when I'm you know back basically back essentially on a two-year high Levels lasting in January 2018. So if we do press on higher from here We can really get targeting 13,600 and any kind of that level is taken out We then kind of it's be quite likely we would have paved the way for further gains to be made If you do see any kind of pullbacks Decent pullbacks in the tax we could see support commit to play from this blue line here the fifth of the moving average in Around 13,200 under shivered when it's equal consolidation in that area But also keep in mind during the radiant tensions with the aggressive moves below So it's only if you have a major sell-off We look you're taking off these lows. I should that be the case below of mid-December in around 12,885 there they're about could they commit to play it from there? Looking at what's going on on the S&P 500 S&P 500 lack of an all-time high yesterday. We're expecting to open when the cash market gets underway And if you are to open at a new all-time high we're calling it 3,283 US stock markets are doing very well the trend is through to the upside should we go beyond You should get to this to try and continue you coming into everything 3,290 and then 3,300 will be the next big cycle of psychological number to keep an eye out on It's not a really if I'm a major shake-up in mark in the price action On the back of the payrolls report potentially you could see the market head back toward this zone here of this north of 3,240 Perhaps three thousand two hundred and fifty five there they're about But Sony or Sony really if you're gonna take out this low here the low third of a January the 8th in around 2,181 could then we begin to be worried about you know the recent body trend But like I said, it's so strong even if you go below that support could easy come into play from the moving average in here now the reason why I talked about the fuzzy the DAX and and the It's me if I found it One of the tenants doll theory is that the averages must be from each other and what we saw there was they're all moving in the same direction And essentially with that here like what that says is that you could if the market is moving a certain direction If similar markets to are also moving in the same direction You can be more confident at the wider trend is going to continue So we saw here that the SP 500 or the strongest the DAX is probably very very well Underperforming but they're all moving higher so sentiment global stocks it appears to be on the upside Conversely, we've seen a move to the downside in gold recently because risk sentiment has turned to a very much risk on favor So we're seeing here after hitting After hitting a multi-year high here in Wednesday, we saw a sharp reversal of fortune for gold You know receive the market push lower This was a very you know is this driven on the rate and tension with the tension the tension that come off and long wicks Is just major in decision the wider upper trend can be ignored But if you do have a strong job job support, we could see for and strongly a starter that could impact gold We could see the market be pushed down towards this area here 15 30 or perhaps 15 20 And it's only really a things really turn off for gold We're looking any back towards the cycle and support 1500 we should the wider upper trend continue We could be lucky heading back north of 1600. Well, that's all for me this week. Thank you. Thank you for listening and thank you very much


Over to the grid iron day two of Vikings camp this afternoon and Kato still only rookies these next two days. Vets will officially report tomorrow. One position though to keep an eye on has to be that offensive line. One of the biggest struggles last year of the Vikings in an area they know they have to improve to make the playoffs. Big hopes for their third round selection though. Center Pat Elflin and hoping with that area the former buck guy experienced at all three interior spots. His strength said to be his run blocking. He's very excited for his first NFL camp and is ready to get the ball rolling. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to be here playing for the Vikings playing in this league. It's an honor. It's a privilege and I'm excited to get out there and show them what I got. He's done a good job with it. He's a smart player. He's done it in the past and all indications are that he's learning at the right pace to be a really good player. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland news please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland public television.