He's like a shelf, he preparing the feast Don't check if I'm hungry, cause he know I'm always ready to eat Get rid of the evidence, it's easy, it's click and delete I'll probably get sentenced to death for how I be killing the bees Soon as they send them in, I get them, I leave them to cease Gotta do the most, you won't be remembered by doing the least Claim to be the best is only right, you practice what you preach She can't say I'm top five until they write my name on that sheet Work my way up to listen, my niggas ain't in disbelief They always thought I was a goal that was just blending in with the sheet Feet trapped in the pavement never thought we'll make it out the street And I receive them payments for the thoughts we place into a beat And they upset with me And it's my fault, that's what they telling me They mad cause I'm the one as long as I'm that A winner they could never be, I honestly Could care less what competition it's going through At least they could say they the shit since they really is number two I'm always in the lead, you can't pay me to follow you Money is the mood, don't assume I'm down when I'm feeling blue Could that just mean I'm feeling the safe up Bulletproof the rival, pray to God to keep me safe up I always owe my knees giving thanks to the creator Cause I know I'm the best, I'm blessed and highly favored Independent, no budget from a labor Still gonna be major with my hard working labor Well respected, sitting at the round table Well connected like I got the Wi-Fi password from the neighbor Remember not having a thing, I niggag in paper I know I ain't tell a game but still there Tha ain't Taylor switching in and out of lines Like a damn speed racist, she don't blow me like a tire Then like a flat, I'm gonna replace her Yeah, I know that that's really fucked up Always gonna be at the top, I guess they call that stuck up Stayed in the bullfist and trust, they need a touch up Work hard for the spot but let you tell it, I just lulled up And really don't deserve it, was making moves Never waited like a Metro service Learned from my mistakes, so my failures even had a purpose Photoshopper have them thinkin' your life will just picture perfect It ain't as easy as the greats, always make it seem Blood, sweat and tears, you only focus on highlighted scenes Dedication through the years Reality was once a dream, you not a go-getter If you not comprehended what I mean If you can translate what I'm saying to lazy people They hit me up, I never was good at giving great excuses for giving up If you fall, that's yourself all, try and get back up But if you choose to stay down, it's your fault for not living it up Yeah, life is full of choices, so you could choose to do better, bruh Yeah, I made my own choices and I chose to stay ahead of the I'm padded up, I'm padded up Go to his all-o, I want his all-o, his steered up


Welcome to The Creative Life, the collaborative production between Think Tech Hawaii and the American Creativity Association. I'm your host, Darlene Boyd, and our guest for today is certified Feng Shui master, Rosita Brennan, coming to us from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Rosita often speaks as a featured speaker at national and international Feng Shui forums and has her own weekly live stream program titled Feng Shui Fridays, which coincidentally airs weekly on Fridays. Today, our focus is on positively charged workspaces that enhance the flow of creativity. Rosita, welcome to The Creative Life. Thank you, Darlene. It's so nice to be here with you. Our pleasure. The last time you and I talked about talking about on the show, you mentioned that you like to start off with a story and you shared a very meaningful story that I do believe will help our audience understand the direction that we're going to take today. So would you mind sharing that story? Absolutely. With our audience. So imagine having a space that nurtures creativity, a space in which you feel good and want to be and can make all the difference in the world. So the story I'm gonna tell you today is the one about Nancy. Just to be clear, anytime I do tell a story, the client has given me permission to share it with everyone and anyone. So I met Nancy at a networking event and I was one of 30 women who gave their 30-second commercial. So after the meeting, Nancy came right up to me and said, I think I need you. And I responded and I know you do. She told me how she never ever sits in her office to work and she explained that she usually went in, grabbed her laptop from her office and desk and then just went right into another room. And she asked if I could help her. And when I showed up at her home, so we scheduled an appointment, I showed up at her home and I asked her to show me to the rooms, show me the rooms where she gravitated. And I showed her with a pendulum how the energy was moving in those spaces, especially her kitchen, which is the room she went to. And it was also where she was constantly interrupted with her family, by her family. So we then moved into the other spaces and then ultimately into her office. And again, with the pendulum, I showed her that the energy in her office was moving counterclockwise, the opposite of the kitchen and the other spaces that she enjoyed sitting in. So I started creating her remedy list, but Nancy was so excited and started removing and moving everything that I was writing day out. So we then did a couple of other things and found her power seat. I do that by having, I had her stand in multiple places, testing and comparing how the energy felt. So standing where she was seated and then moving her to other places and incrementally improving where she stood so she could actually feel the difference. And that evening, when I was home, I got a text from her that said, I'm in my office and I'm not running out, thank you. So the best part of the story is that she's a health coach and her business had flatlined. And after the console, she got a call from the owner of one of the largest fitness centers in her area. They were creating a new position and were looking for someone to offer to all of their clients coaching around nutrition. So therefore she would have access to the entire database of their entire database. A month later, another opportunity also came to her in conjunction with the health center. And within a few months, I'd say, her business absolutely exploded. She used her office all the time and her creativity in that office to develop her new products and serve her client base. So that's my fabulous, me fabulous story about Nancy. I suspect many of us can relate to Nancy's story. So I thank you for sharing that and starting off. But before we leave her story, Rosie, tell me a little bit about this energy thing because you said she felt energy. I'm not sure what you mean. I've heard other people, and of course we know people that do feel energy, but I myself, I'm not sure I feel energy even aside from Feng Shui. So tell me about what you're referring to. Sure. Did she be able to move from one place to another, feel energy in one place and not the other? Absolutely. So two words that you will consistently hear from me when people or from others, when we talk about Feng Shui is harmony and balance. So that's what we wanna create in a space. We wanna create harmony and balance. So if a space is positively charged like the before and after of Nancy's space. So before it was like, it was the energy was moving in a negative fashion. She didn't even feel comfortable standing in the office, right? To the point afterwards where she said, I like being in here. You can, you actually, there's three things that I'm gonna share. Three, like you like being in your space. So if it's positively charged, you actually don't mind, it's more than not mind, but you like being in the space. The second thing is you actually feel comfortable there. You feel comfortable in some rooms I could tell you lots of stories about how, and I'm sure you, Darlene and others have experienced it where you kind of don't even feel comfortable in a room and you wanna like actually leave the room. And the third is you actually feel safe. When you feel that you like being there, you feel comfortable there and you feel safe in there. For me, that means that it's positively energetically charged. And when I was talking about her being in different spots, it was like you feel better sitting in certain places too.  So for them, it probably is a good place for them to be. That they feel energetically charged. Does that answer your question? Yeah, that helps me and I certainly can relate to feeling more comfortable in one space or another in an office, but I never thought about it as being related to energy. I just thought perhaps I preferred the view or the natural air coming through or something like that. So I was curious about that.  You mentioned some benefits in your last remarks. So what are the benefits of having these benefits? Okay, so we'll talk there, but... Yeah, no, but it's leveling up. So it's not only the benefits, but also the guests, the leveling up, the benefit of the benefits. So if you like being in the space, then what's happening is you're not doing what Nancy did. You're not getting up, you're not walking out, you're not eager to leave.  So that's a plus, right? If you feel comfortable, so the second thing I mentioned was being comfortable. What happens if you're comfortable, your body relaxes and you get into flow easier? Again, making you more able to get those creative juices flowing. And thirdly, what I said was you feel safe. Something happens to you physically and mentally when you feel safe in an environment.  So it's the combination of those different things that happen in your space. In other words, the clients have used to describe their spaces aside from comfortable is cozy, inviting, peaceful, rejuvenating, inspiring, pleasant, you know, they feel productive and healthy and relaxed and happy in their spaces. So feeling like this in your space will help you because again, everything is connected, right? Right? Makes sense. We know that we have many people watching us from Southeast Asia and they're probably quite familiar with the art of Feng Shui since it is an ancient art. What's your perspective, Rosita? Okay, so today I want to give you some tips of what you can do in your office, but I wanted to, before we do that, I wanted to remind everybody about what I call layering. So to me, Feng Shui is like a cake. It's one of those gourmet Swiss delectable delights. The bottom is like an inch of chocolate cake, then you have a layer of raspberry, maybe a layer of vanilla cream, you've got some hazelnut, you know, another layer of cake, some white chocolate, maybe some nuts on there, but you get the picture. So it's all these different layers. So you start with every room being positively energized, which is that bottom chocolate solid layer, right? And you build upon that solid foundation. We start with every room being positively charged, energetically comfortable, and we start adding things. You build with what you have and you see around you. So we add furniture, we add the art, we add the pictures, the pillows, the drapes, the rugs, the personal trinkets and color, and these items are all the decadent layers. So that's how I see Feng Shui. And the most important part of Feng Shui is what you don't see, which is what we're talking about, which is that energy in this inner space. So the things that we don't see then, what are some of the next level specifics that we could apply right now to enhance our workplace and thereby boost our creativity? Okay, so if we make a few strategic changes to your environment, we could actually maximize your creativity. So let's look at the foundation and adding these layers, okay? So first of all, we need to use a solid Feng Shui layer. So we wanna make sure there's good furniture flow in the space. And by that, I mean that people have a tendency, and I'm sure you know this story, to push furniture up against walls, right? So one of the things in Feng Shui, we wanna make sure that not everything is just jammed up against the walls, okay? We wanna create a nice flow. Feng Shui actually means, literally means wind and water. So we wanna create that nice flow through a space where people feel comfortable walking into a room and are sort of embraced by the space, okay? And back to what we were talking about with Nancy, we wanna make sure that you're seated in the best possible location for you and supported in every way, especially behind you. If you don't already know where to place your chair, you can contact me directly and I'll help you figure that out. But the bottom line is we can do that virtually if you need to, but right now, you need to make sure that you can see the door. So wherever you're sitting, you want to make sure that you can see the door. So that would be the first thing that I would say, even if you're not gonna be moving a lot of things around, make sure you can see the door, okay? Secondly, and this is where the messy desk versus clean desk debate comes in. It always comes up here. So critical to the process is removing clutter, which is the second most important step in Feng Shui. It's about removing excess.  It's more about the excess. So Feng Shui stickers will talk about family pictures here that they don't belong in an office. But here's my mindset.  So you don't need to pick up every object and ask it if it brings you joy. I don't believe. I mean, some people love doing that, but I think that if you glance around your space and say, okay, what is no longer serving me or better yet, does this support my current endeavors and my intentions? Intention is the number one most important thing to Feng Shui.  So even if you pick up a couple of little things, just start removing the excess. Tell us a little bit more about what you mean about intentions. We need more for us. Okay, so let me just finish this thought. If you're broken or either fix it or throw it away. So that is part of cluck. I want you to make sure that if it's broken, get rid of it or fix it. You don't want anything broken because everything is, I always point to the back of my head. It's not what we see, it's what we don't see. It's because everything's a metaphor and we see things differently. We don't really, we embrace them. I'm trying to think of the right word to say, but it's not about everything's a metaphor. Okay, so. Tell me again what you asked me. I asked you to amplify intentions, but before you leave the broken, I think broken would bother me. I'd have to hide it. And I mean that in all seriousness or I understand what you're saying, remove it. I think that would make me be uncomfortable. It would go on my to-do list that something that's broken would have to be fixed possibly. But I was asking you if you could expand a little bit more on the intentions. Oh, sure. So, before I, people usually come to me and say, oh, I want, I want a boyfriend. Okay, that's, the three biggies are relationship, money and health. Those are the three biggies that people come to me for. So let's change that. I have a better example. They come to me and they say, like Nancy did, my business isn't doing well. And say it's a massage therapist, right? And I'll say to her, she'll say, I want more money. And so what I start with is, okay, so that is her intention is I want to make more money. Or another one would be, I want to sell my house. So it's this umbrella statement that that's what we work with when I come into functional, your space. Is that different than a wish list? For me, it's kind of a combination of wishes, hopes, dreams, you know, they say that you have to write it down, it becomes a goal. Well, it's all of these pieces together that kind of fall under this, you know, like when, you know, when I talk about for me, I said to someone, you know, I didn't go into my first Feng Shui consult for my home. For me, I went in for my children. You know, I wanted certain things for my children. That was my intention. Clearly it wasn't about me. But what she did do was say, okay, what we have to do is this, this and this. That's why I wanted to use the example of a massage therapist.  So abundance is the money, right? That's what they initially come to me for. And then I say to them, okay, in order to get the money, first you need to work on, you know, let's work on the helping people area because that's what you do. So that's, let's focus our energy there because, you know, if we enhance that for your intention, which is money, but you know, you really, I need to work on this. And we need to work on relationships because with relationships come referrals and then your business will grow and the money will come. So it's a combination, darling. It's sort of, I don't know if that was clear about explaining what intention is. You know, for me, it's this really, it's something heartfelt, you know? Like, what is it? I ask people, what do you want, but then really find out what they need? And now you're going to hear the choo-choo train come and pass my apartment here, I apologize. So does that answer the question? No, that's helpful, that's okay. Okay, good. So the third step I wanted to talk about, you know, the enhancing your environment for creativity tip is one of the exercises in my women's circle, I have, there's nine of them, but exercise six is all about having inspiring visuals around you. So everything around us is metaphor. I mentioned that earlier. So the third tip I'm going to give you is to introduce unusual, eclectic, thought-provoking objects into your space. You want to add inspirational prints, invigorating photographs, motivational quotes, your mind maps, your vision boards, all those wonderful things. I also used to keep toys in my top drawer of my desk. And maybe if you want to put some fun things on your desk, so I used to have a giraffe that a VP from a tech company gave me to remind me to look above and over. So when you have something different and out of the ordinary to look at, it may trigger fresh ideas in next-level thinking. And like the instructors did with the toys at my children's Montessori school, switch them out too. Okay, that's like a fun thing to do. So the fourth step, or the fourth tip is make sure you have good lighting. So if the light is actually too bright, even sometimes fabulous daylight, which we love having in our offices, right? I want you to figure out a way to diffuse it because we do work better in light that's less intense. If there's not enough light, bring in some soft lighting. You can use lamps instead of the harsh overhead lighting. And then... I always used a lamp and the offices came with the switch and the daylight above me in the ceiling. I would always bring in a lamp and felt much better. Absolutely, absolutely. Because we don't want the bright, that bright isn't good for... I don't think it's good for anything. I don't think it's good for our eyes. And I know it's not really conducive to like me being creative. I like this, yeah, softer. Softer seems, you know, more embracing. So... What about color? What about color, Rosy? So let me talk about one more thing first before we go to color. I want to talk about metal because one of the things that I talked about when we talked about layers is... We want to make sure that all five elements are also balanced in our spaces, okay? So for creativity, it's metal. So we want to have a little bit of wood, a little bit of water, you know, earth. But we definitely want to make sure we have metal. All right? So, yeah, color. The last three that I've got here, three or four, are going to be focusing specifically on that, darling. So research shows that blue stimulates creativity, okay? In Feng Shui, blue is the color for knowledge. So, yeah, you could add blue. It's not gonna be... There's no bad.  So the Feng Shui colors for creativity are white and green. And number seven, a great way to add the color green is to add plants, which also oxygenate the air so you get a two-fer here. Plants, absolutely, I love plants. They make me smile. And there's a lot of symbolism in plants. Just remember they need to be taken care of and we don't want any sickly or dead plants in our space, okay? If you're not gonna take care of the plant, don't bring it into your space. We want flourishing, healthy specimens, right? Number eight is interior wool colors. You know, some people may be ambitious. If they wanna paint or have your walls painted, there are specific colors for different industries and businesses. If you wanna know what they are, contact me directly. I can tell you the best color for your type of business. So I mean, there's a whole list of like, you know, what goes with what. So definitely let me know if that's something that you're interested in, okay? So with it, when you mentioned the colors in a commercial place, would the subtle use of color, I find myself more or I was more comfortable having a subtle use than one that just jumps out of color even if it is blue or even if it is something that's going to be calming. It's not calming if it's dark or jumping out at me. I agree. Yes, and that's actually my tip number nine, my nice tip that I wanted to give you. The best generic color is white. So I suggest this to many creative individuals too. It seems boring, but it's actually conducive for clarity. For me, a little bit of color stimulates thoughts and ideas and creativity.  And then we added pops of color around the room which correspond to the Bagua. So, you know, we added. Look at that, Rosita. This is my look. Can you see that? So we added the purple and the red and the green, you know, in different areas of the room to correspond to this. Oh, I see. All right, yeah. And I think if the walls are white, probably the benefit of plants then really would be better appreciative than just a happier place. So we're down to just a few minutes and this is the creative life. So would you be willing? We often ask our guests, what's your creative process and progress personally? Okay, so basically it's part creative process and part innate ability. Remember what I said in response to Nancy in my story? I said, you know, she said, I think I need you when I said I know. So I actually feel spaces. One of my mentors actually called me an energy diagnostician.  So I can tell when people are comfortable or uncomfortable in the spaces.  So when we meet, I basically just talk to you. We talk about you. I'm everything. I like that, yes. Yeah, everything is confidential.  Again, like I said at the beginning, unless you say, yeah, you can, you know, share this. I do ask very specific questions about all the different life areas.  So people come to me for something that they want. And then when I ask them these questions, what is revealed is what they really need. So when I feng shui your home, your office and your spaces, I actually give you both. I give you what you want and what you need. Well, Rosita, we're down to the wire, as they say, for our conversation today. And I do think you've given us a nice start. I think most of us are aware and we've seen little doses of what feng shui can do in the door. But you've really helped us, I think, to amplify some of that knowledge. So look forward to hearing more from you. And I would refer people you've offered to us that if they have any questions to go to your website, you could, they can see how to contact you. And maybe just for the start, and then in their locality, they could proceed and move on. So these are seemingly some nice handy dandy hints to get started right away. So Rosita, I truly appreciate you taking the time to be with us today. And for my pleasure. If you have been watching The Creative Life with our guest feng shui master, Rosita Brennan, we hope we have provided you with several tips for improving your workspace to become a space that will enable your creativity to flourish. Join us in two weeks for the next edition of The Creative Life. Until then, aloha.


Come. Good afternoon. Please sit down. Mr. Anirudh, you are already in service in the Indian information service. When did you join? The afternoon had a detailed history. So I am of the 2021 batch. So my training started in December of 2022. Last year. Okay. Right. So now, since you have already qualified here, was it your first attempt last year when you got into the... So that was my second attempt. So this is your third attempt. This is my fourth attempt, sir. Your fourth attempt. Okay. I see. Is your aim the IAS or the IPS or the Foreign Service? So my service preference is the IAS followed by the IPS and then the Foreign Service. Okay. Right. You are a civil servant now. What protection constitution is given to a civil servant and where do we find that? So in the article 311, so we see that there are two protections that are given. So the first being that a civil servant cannot be relieved of their duty by an authority that is lesser than the authority that posted them. And so the second is that they will have a right to be heard. And so that is subject to certain restrictions. But in most of the cases, they will have a right to be heard with regard to any complaint for the removal from service. So can somebody be removed or distanced from service without hearing? So I believe that in exceptional circumstances, so this is the case. But in more often than not, sir, they will have a right to be heard, sir. Does any case come to your mind where somebody is forced to be removed in a minute? Sir, no particular example comes to mind. But I believe that in cases involving national security or if the individual is part of any terrorist organization or has been colluding with some foreign country, then perhaps in those cases, sir. What do you understand by the word due process of law? What comes to your mind when we say he is following due process of law? Sir, the idea of due process of law in Indian constitution is given in the fundamental rights. So article 21 if I am not wrong, sir. And so it means that any and all decisions taken by the law, by any executive body must follow the due process of law. Sir, it means that the process as laid down in any legislation or any set of rules must be followed in terms of any decision making, etc. So how is the due process different from the procedure established by law? Sir, are these two different things or one and the same? Sir, I believe there is a very fine distinction. Sir, in the sense that due process of law was taken from the US constitution by procedure established by law, I believe was from either the British or the Japanese constitution. Sir, I am not aware of the exact difference, sir. Is there a UK constitution there? Sir, by constitution, sir, I mean the... What is the constitution of UK court? Sir, I believe it is the Magna Carta, sir. It is not a... The Magna Carta is charter. Sir, they do not have a written constitution, sir. What they refer to? Generally, they say. They refer to law in the court, you have. What they refer to? Sir, I am not aware of what they refer to. You have heard it as common law. Sir, I have, sir. It is a common law which has been worn over the kingdom of time. So now we do have in this college system or this basic structure. But in the constitution, it is not mentioned anywhere. It is not mentioned. It is not mentioned. So how it is interpreted? What authority gives this power to Supreme Court to invent something which is contrary to expressly written there? So the Supreme Court under its powers of Article 142 has given the doctrine of the basic structure. In the second and the... Sir, in the Keshavanan Bharti case, subsequently, sir, with regard to the collegium system. So in the second and the third judges case, they said that the words are that the president will appoint the Supreme Court judges. And this will be done in consultation with the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. So this consultation was, in the second and third judges case, construed to be absolute concurrence. And so this was the birth of the collegium system. So what was the Keshavanan Bharti case? Walk me through that case, sir. What is this case regarding and how many judges are there? Why this so celebrated case in India? Sir, the Keshavanan Bharti case was, I believe, in 1973, sir. And so it laid down the basic structure doctrine. And sir, I believe that it was relating to some religious affairs in Kerala, sir. I am not aware of the exact case law and its details. How large was the bench? Sir, I believe it was either a 9 or a 13 member bench. 13 members. Was it a unanimous or majority decision? Sir, I think it was 7 to 6 majorities. 7 to 6. That means one judge could take basic structure which can rule. But if the Supreme Court itself changes the basic structure of the constitution, where do you go? Absolutely, sir. I believe this is one of the biggest lacuna that exists in our constitutional structure today. As so, there is no absolute definition of the basic structure. It has not been codified anywhere. And sir, the powers of implementing the basic structure are only with the Supreme Court. And sir, in the future, they might even be used arbitrarily, sir. So, if the parliament passes unanimously a law that the Supreme Court judges should be appointed, I could write this one. Then what kind of situation do you see for this country? Particularly, what is happening around in the... Indeed, sir. I mean, the example from Israel is right in front of us. Additionally, sir, a similar attempt was made by the 99th Constitutional Amendment Act of 2016, where the NJAC was to be made. However, sir, citing the basic structure and the independence of the judiciary, the Supreme Court struck down the constitutional amendments. Slide shift you are from there. What is the problem with Turkey and Syria? What is the conflict between Turkey and Syria? So, the primary conflict between Turkey and Syria relates to the Kurdish population that is in the northwestern regions of Syria. And so, the present conflict that has been going on in Syria has seen Turkey arm and fund a lot of the fighting that has been going on in Syria, sir. What is the very unique situation there that two superpowers are supporting opposing powers? Indeed, sir. So, we saw that in the case of Syria, there were a lot of international players, such as Turkey, such as Russia, such as Iran and such as Saudi Arabia, being stakeholders in the conflict in Syria, sir. So, is the Ukraine conflict, Russia-Ukraine conflict, is finishing for the NAMP? Sir, it certainly seems like it is an end of what we say the non-aligned movement. And so, this is especially underlined by the fact that powers such as Sweden and Norway that had pledged a non-alliance after World War II. And so, even as recently as after the Cold War have now decided to join the NATO. And additionally, sir, we see that in this particular crisis, there are very few global powers that have not taken explicit sides. So, for instance, we see that China has more or less explicitly supported the cause of Russia. We see that most of the European nations, we see that USA has explicitly taken the side of Ukraine and gone beyond that by aiding them with money and arms. Thank you. You play squash. Have we ever won a gold in squash, gold medal? No, ma'am. Ma'am, actually the hobby of squash I picked up in my fourth year of college. Ma'am, because I realized that to play sports like such as football and cricket, you need to gather about 10-15 people and over here you just need one person. So, ma'am, I play occasionally and I play only as a hobby, ma'am, and I have not participated anywhere. Okay, but has India won a gold? No, ma'am. India has not won a golden squash, ma'am. Saurav Gosha, the team didn't win in Kuala Lumpur 2022? Ma'am, I believe that... Ma'am, I'm not aware of the... Who is the best player in India? Ma'am, currently it is Saurav Gosha in his rank 21, ma'am, in the world. And the world's best? Ma'am, it keeps changing, but I think currently it's Mohammed El-Shorbagi, ma'am. Of? Of Egypt. Very recently he changed his nationality to British, but he is originally from Egypt. Okay. You have written preventions that causes a waging. Yes, ma'am. You're worried about this at this young age. What do you mean by this prevention? Oh, you study what is the cause of aging and how to prevent? Yes, ma'am. You arrived at some conclusion which you can share. Indeed, ma'am. Ma'am, I believe that the field of research on aging has moved tremendously in the past decade. And ma'am, the findings that they have made are fantastic, which is what initially attracted me towards the field in studying about it. Ma'am, most recently we have... Scientists have conclusively found out the root cause of aging at the cellular level. And ma'am, having found this, they have found ways to circumvent this process and ensure that the very paradigm of aging as we see it is no longer the same. And ma'am, this research is so credible that WHO has now classified aging as a disease and no longer something that is inevitable or something that has to happen as a part of life. Ma'am, in anthropology, why is Louis Leakey so famous? Who was he? Ma'am, Louis Leakey was an archaeological anthropologist and ma'am, he is primarily known for all of the research he has done in Africa with regard to his fossil findings that have paved today's theory of how humans evolved. Ma'am, I believe that the fossil that he... Ma'am, he has found two credible fossils. One was in South Africa. Ma'am, I don't remember the name of the fossil and another was in Kenya, ma'am. Homo habilis? Homo habilis, I believe. What was that significant about that discovery? Ma'am, Homo habilis is the first instance where we see the emergence of perfect bipedalism in the Homo species, ma'am. Additionally, ma'am, Homo habilis is seen as an early ancestor of Homo erectus and it is also seen that Homo habilis and Homo erectus were perhaps together at some point of time but the most significant finding is the fact that it is the first instance where we saw almost perfect bipedalism. What do you understand by Neeli, Kranti or Blue Revolution? Ma'am, I believe Blue Revolution refers to the idea of increasing the production of fish and aquaculture, ma'am. And ma'am, this has two subcomponents. One relates to inland fishing that is within the country and the other is in the oceans, ma'am. So what is India doing about increasing its aquaculture? Because it is leading in fish exports, right? Indeed, ma'am. It has taken some steps. What can you think of some of the steps? Ma'am, the first one that comes to mind is the Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampad Yojana where the government has ensured that there will be large parks for ensuring that the post-processing of a lot of these fish that have been captured. Secondly, ma'am, a lot of the Indian fishermen are localized in nature and they do not have access to large vessels for carrying out mass fishing, ensuring that there is protection given to these fishermen by not allowing a lot of the global bodies to make large corporations that can put these small fishermen out of jobs or something that has been done. Ma'am, the third is mission fingerling wherein ma'am, the seeds for inland fisheries have been given to a lot of the inland fishermen in states such as Haryana, in states such as UP and ma'am, these are the three that I am aware of. Recently, the NATO expanded, right? Yes. Is it one of the largest alliances in the world? Ma'am, I believe that with 31 or 32 members, it is not perhaps the largest but currently it holds a lot of significance. Okay, tell me which country joined recently and what is its impact for the world and for India? Ma'am, the most recent addition to NATO was Finland, ma'am. And ma'am, the relevance of this addition is the fact that Finland shares a 1300 kilometer border with Russia. And ma'am, we see that the threat of Ukraine, which is also a country that borders Russia, was enough to precipitate a crisis that has gone on for more than a year and Russia has already said that they plan to mobilize more troops across the Finnish border and ma'am, this is a challenge that will be certainly something to be reckoned with for the rest of the world. Ma'am, particularly for India, ma'am, I believe that this... ma'am, by making this crisis of Russia and Ukraine more serious, it increases the ownership of India to perhaps either take a side or to emerge as a leader to find a mediation or solve the issue, ma'am. Just recently, the new space policy 2023 was announced. Ma'am. Do you know some of its significant features? And the role of ISRO and some public PSUs? Ma'am, the most recent space policy outlined the duties and roles of ISRO, NSIL, that is New Space India Limited. And ma'am, there is a third PSU, the name of which I do not remember. In Space, ma'am. It's called In Space. And ma'am, one of the key focal points of the policy is the fact that they wish to focus on increasing the private parties and their participation in space, ma'am. And very recently, we saw the GSLV Mach 3 take 36 satellites that were to provide internet for the world. And ma'am, this was part of the satellites were made by Indian companies. Additionally, we also see that the policy focus is on holding a lot of the startups by In Space. And ma'am, NSIL is there to ensure that any large satellites or any large projects can be done, ma'am. And it will largely take over the role of the Antiriksh Corporation that was earlier there. Anirudh, what do you understand by track to diplomacy? Ma'am, my understanding of track to diplomacy is that it is not something that is formal. The diplomats of a particular country are not involved in this. However, primarily the lead thinkers or individuals who run public policy think tanks, etc., participate in track to dialogues. And does it replace the formal track one? What is its role? Ma'am, I believe that the role of track to diplomacy is to buttress the ideas that are to be supported by track one diplomacy. Usually, ma'am, my understanding is that it is there for initiating a certain thought in the global sphere, in the geopolitical sphere. Ma'am, where experts introduce an idea that allows rumination for the rest of the world. And ma'am, once everyone has discussed it, then actionable advances can be made by the track one diplomats. Can you recall any country with which India has used track to diplomacy? Ma'am, I believe that with Afghanistan, ma'am, during the Afghan crisis, ma'am, when the meetings were being held, diplomats from India did not go because India's stance was that they were not willing to negotiate with Taliban at the point. So what they had called track 1.5 diplomacy, the retired diplomats had gone. Ma'am, that is something that I can recall. There has also been with Pakistan the track two. Okay, thank you ma'am. Somebody said that India never lost independence as long as it had a strong naval forces till 16th century. Who was it and do you agree? Elaborate it. Sir, I am not aware of who said. Virtually. Absolutely, sir. Sir, I believe that India, with its long coastline of over 7500 kilometers, so this long coastline creates a certain vulnerability to the subcontinent. And sir, there are many historical examples. So both positive and negative. For instance, we see the Chola dynasty with its mighty navy. It not only made its empire prosperous in large, but also enlarged to other parts of the Indian Ocean such as Southeast Asia and Sri Lanka. On the flip side, sir, we see that at the heyday of the British navy in the 1600s and 1700s, they not only eliminated all the competition, but were also able to primarily dominate India in a lot of senses. And these were the routes that were used initially to build. How do you see it in contemporary India? So currently, sir, we see that there is a renewed focus on what we call the Indian Ocean region, sir. And so this focus is driven by two large forces, sir. One being China and the second being the United States of America. So China has shown increased interest in the Indian Ocean region starting from the South China sea, sir. What about India? So for India, sir, we are seeing a lot of diplomatic channels being opened up with countries such as Mauritius and Maldives. Additionally, sir, we also have a lot of strategic ports that we have made. So for instance, we have a strategic container deal with Sri Lanka in the works. So we have the Chabahar port near Iran. Additionally, sir, we also have a trans-shipment agreement with Bangladesh with one of their ports, sir. Chabahar is complete. Is it operational? Sir, as far as I am aware, it's not operational so far, sir. So it is out of picture so far, but it will come in picture. Some development in Great Nicobar? Indeed, sir. Yeah. So the government is planning on making a large multimodal trans-shipment platform on Great Nicobar. So along with this, sir, there will also be a large housing project that is to come up over there. And the government plans to market this as a future tourist destination as well. What is multimodal part in it? Sir, I believe that the multimodal part relates to the fact that not only... So this can be used as a trans-shipment hub for refuelling and for also ensuring that imports and exports can be made from this area, sir. Can it help in containing China somewhere? And if yes, what is the condition for it? Sir, I believe that it is one of, sir, given its strategic significance both with respect to geography and scope. So I believe it is one of the countermeasures that is being implemented in light of what China plans to do in the Indian Ocean. And, sir, I believe the strategic significance of the Great Nicobar project relates to the idea of how close it is to the Malacca Strait, which is primarily one of the key choke points for access of oil to China, sir. Can China be restrained from using Malacca gateway by some manipulations in Great Nicobar? Sir, I believe that if in the future we see Great Nicobar being as the primary refuelling hub, then, sir, perhaps it can delay. But I don't see a situation where we will be able to stop it, sir, unless there is military intervention. You know, there is a rear admiral, Raja Menang. He recommends that India should develop it in collaboration with Indian Air Force. Indian Air Force and Navy put together can hold some of the ships, Chinese ships as they can hold them back there so that there is a pressure on China. What is the deep China state? And what is the deep any state? What is the deep state? So, the idea of the deep state relates to the fact that apart from the democratically elected government, so there are other powers at play that influence politics, policies, law, governance. That means there cannot be any deep state of a democratic country? Sir, even in democratic countries, sir, we see that there are, sir, for instance, the US has often said that in countries like the US, the military industrial complex. So, democracy has nothing to do with it, I suppose. Perhaps not, sir. What is the dimension of deep Chinese activities, deep state activities? Sir, I believe that in the case of China, sir, the deep state primary relates to the ideas of the Communist Party of China and so given that they are the party in power and they are running the show and there is no opposition. What is the dimension? How many people work for promoting communism from China's side? Okay, thank you. Your home city Delhi. Tell me three most important issues Delhi is facing. So, the first and foremost would be that of air pollution. So, the second would be that of waste management and so the third would be that of overall urban planning and ensuring that, so the population increase in Delhi is somewhat mitigated in the future, given the increased burden on a lot of, on the houses, on water, on electricity and everything. What would you advise? So, for all three, sir? All three, sir. So, for air pollution, sir, I believe that there has to be a two-pronged approach. So, one would be preventive and one would be curative. So, preventing increased air pollution by ensuring that there are norms on construction activities by ensuring that a lot of the diesel vehicles older than 15 years or 10 years, increasing EVs, etc. can be done. So, on the curative... This all is already there. What is graded response? So, the graded response action plan relates to the idea that based on the AQI, we have a graded response. The higher the AQI, the more severe the measures to combat air pollution. What else? Sir, apart from that, sir, ensuring that the Parali burning in neighboring states is somewhat reduced. So, using technologies such as smog towers, sir, the new spray technologies that have come out is certainly something that can be done to at least in a short term reduce the air pollution in a particular area, sir. We don't think the crime control should be there amongst the first three important issues, especially the crime against women. Sir, safety is also a very significant part of... Sir, Delhi is the... So, how would you take care of women's safety? Sir, I believe that the idea of safety can be tackled by a three-pronged approach, sir. So, the first would be ensuring that there is awareness and sensitization among the men. So, as it is seen that more than 50% of the crimes against women happen within the household. And so, these are perhaps something that are difficult to stop, sir. So, sensitization among men, which is perhaps a long-term goal, is something that needs to be focused on. So, second, empowering women is something that is shown to work very effectively. For instance, within the... Only in the last year, we have seen that awareness with regard to use of the 112 numbers, sir. Awareness with regard to usage of pepper spray has really increased and reduced the number of cases against women. And so, third would be with respect to infrastructure and policing. So, ensuring that there are more number of street lights. So, there are more number of PCR on routes where there are more instances of harassment, etc. And so, these are the three approaches. What are the causes of aging? Early aging, I would say, not aging. So, the primary cause at a genetic level is loss of information, sir. And that is that our DNA has all the information to function absolutely effectively for as long as we want. However, the access to this information is with age, sir, because of oxidation, because of DNA damage, etc. goes down. And so, this is exacerbated by other determinants, such as pollution, such as habits, such as smoking and drinking, etc. Is there any rule of diseases in early aging? Indeed, sir. What are the diseases which cause that? So, a lot of the diseases are downstream of aging. For instance, a cardiovascular issues, diabetes issues, etc., are downstream. Sir, upstream would be all communicable diseases or viral bacterial fungal diseases. They reduce the efficiency of the body to clean itself to protect its DNA because it is busy fighting. Tell me three important measures for delayed aging. To delay the aging. Sir, at a personal level or at a social level? Personal can be replicated. So, tell me at a personal level. Sir, I believe the three pillars of ensuring healthy aging are one, sir, habits and behaviors. Sir, this would include things like sleeping on time, ensuring that there is adequate exercise. Sir, second, something that is often looked down upon, sir, but I believe that is the future, is supplementation, sir. So, ensuring that a lot of the vitamins, a lot of the minerals, etc., that we need are often not there in our body. What is the role of alcohol in aging? Sir, alcohol has seen to be a primary driver of aging because it primarily affects the liver. And so, the liver detoxifies the body. And so, because of when there is increased alcohol, it converts to acetaldehyde in the body in the liver. And this is essentially a poison for the body. So, this detoxification process takes so long that other processes in the body stall. So, this leads to DNA damage. This leads to oxidative stresses. Sir, I believe that even though it is popularly thought to be a stimulant, chemically, biochemically, it is a depressant, sir. Sir, how does it cause its stimulation? Sir, I believe that it is depressant, how it causes stimulation? Sir, I believe that it is a depressant because it depresses certain neurotransmitters such as dopamine, etc. However, sir, it increases either serotonin or some other neurotransmitter, which is why it has stimulant-like attributes. But it is biochemically a depressant. What is the role of steam? Sir, I am not aware of the role of steam. Have you ever heard this word? You know the Chinese president? He always talks about this. Thank you, sir. Anurad, the government had recently banned the popular front of India. What were the reasons for which this was necessary? The reasons behind banning the popular front of India were that it was deemed to be a terrorist organization because they were ostensibly planning an attack, a terrorist attack within India. What was the purpose in the linkages found? Linkages are what? They had linkages with certain international terror groups also. Which one of these was predominantly mentioned as one of the reasons for banning? ISIS? Their orders were also in touch with the ISIS. So what is ISIS? The ISIS or the Islamic State was initially ISIL. They envisaged an area in the Middle East where Islamic law will rule and so they proposed a very radical idea of Islamism in their proposed so they were based in Syria and Iraq. But why were they posing a threat to India? And how were they posing a threat to India? How were they able to radicalize our youth? Sir, I believe that the operations of ISIS also seek to mobilize a lot of the Islamic population in other countries. And sir, an example of this was seen in Sri Lanka, sir where the terrorist attack of 2019 was linked to ISIS. And sir, I believe it is one of their objectives to increase radicalization in other countries and advance the idea of what they do. So how are they doing it? That's what I am asking you. So far as India is concerned, we have a large number of people who have been arrested over the last several years. Almost 300. How are they able to radicalize them? Sir, I believe it is primarily through digital means, through the internet because a lot of individuals who go on certain websites, etc. and come in contact with individuals from ISIS. So basically it is through online radicalization, right? Now, so far the ISIS is concerned it is almost non-existent now in Syria and Iraq. Part of the group has now moved to Afghanistan and we have another group now called the ISKP Islamic State Khurasan Provinces and that is now they owe allegiance to the ISIS. So, and similarly they are doing the same thing to India now and therefore many of the people who are members of the popular front of India were found to be in touch when being influenced by the ISKP which is much more nearer to us and also a cause of concern for the country, right? Thank you sir, I was not aware of. Now tell me you know the Nord Stream pipeline was in the news recently. Why was that? Sir, the Nord Stream pipeline is a pipeline through Russia to the Baltic Sea to provide gas to Europe. So, this was in the news because there was ostensibly a sabotage in the Nord Stream and sir it dysfunctional sir. Yeah, but who was responsible? You read about Seymour Harsh? I am not sure sir. Seymour Harsh was an American reporter who has laid the blame on the US as because their forces involved. You cannot tell me the Pakistan Prime Minister has been saying that we want to establish good relations with India, normalize relations with India. Provided we will draw 370 which we have implemented and also implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions. So, what is the stumbling block in implementation of the UN Security Council resolutions? Sir, these resolutions are with respect to sir. 1948, 1948, Indo-Pakistan we went to the United Nations Security Council when the Pakistanis were moving into JNK and the UN had established a committee and they are called the UN that has been the basic demand of all when we had the separatists the Hurriyat and Kashmir. What did they say? That the will of the people should be ascertained and UN Security Council resolutions to be implemented. So, what are these resolutions? Sir, I am not exactly aware of what the resolution was. Why was Pakistan placed in the grey list? Sir, a lot of links were found between a lot of individuals who were in Pakistan with a lot of the money laundering which was done for terrorist activities etc. was found and a lot of individuals their bank accounts were highlighted by the FATF and sir because these bank accounts were not frozen or enough action was not taken by Pakistan they continued to be on the grey list. So, we end your mock interview. 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Hey, what is up? Welcome to the Crimson Engine. Today we are looking at the Ronin S and how to possibly add accessories to it to make it less cumbersome to hold the long periods of time. I have the Photo World Ronin Crossbar here. What it does is lets you brace your hands against your body and take the weight with both hands in a way that's much less onerous, much that makes the gimbal much less difficult to carry. If you have a small DSLR or even a large DSLR on this Ronin S, it's not really an issue. When it becomes an issue is when you mount something large like the C200 cinema camera on here and then suddenly you're carrying five or six kilograms in one hand or like right to the center of your chest. It finds four short shots but it becomes really difficult and it becomes a really hard workout when you have to do longer takes, longer shots, repeat them again and again. I posted my last review on the Facebook, Ronin S Facebook group. The people who make this contacted me and sent me one for free so thank you for that. But it is a huge improvement using the C200 with this. It makes it much less than I would say it makes it feel like less than half the weight because you're able to have your hands in a much more neutral position. You're able to let the weight sort of sit against your body and rather than the undulations of walking with one hand, you have them with both so you're able to use your elbows as more of shock absorbers. It makes the footage better as you can see here. Not that I'm any type of gimbal expert. You shouldn't take this as the smoothest footage can possibly be. I've really had less than an hour in my whole career operating in gimbal so I'm not the person to turn to for gimbal tips but I definitely have used this on a bunch of shots. It's got me out of some tight spots and it just really elevates what you're shooting without having to go full steady cam or bring in someone who has a Ronin 2 or a Movi 10 that has the capacity to carry this. This does work inverted but strangely enough it's the way that I had it just turned upside down felt even more difficult than the single-handed inversion. I think what I would need to do is invert the handles as well so that it's still resting on the side of your hand rather than you ripping it upside down. I mounted the monitor arm on one of the crossbars that worked great. Didn't seem uneven to me even though you're adding more weight to one side. The big drawback of this is that you can't really use the thumb buttons or the sports mode or even the record on the camera without putting the gimbal down so it takes away some of the advantages of the single-handed gimbal but it's still if you're working with someone else you can always just put it down the ground.  You won't be able to get through as narrow spaces. You see in some of the stuff I had to slow down to get through a gate because your arms are out by your sides now it's no longer you know you can't kind of turn sideways with it but you know more or less a huge improvement to the Ronin S gimbal system with a big heavy cinema camera for the majority of shots that you're going to want which is following an actor tracking beside an actor stuff like that so DJI will probably come out with their own version of this this is only 99 bucks if you are using your Ronin S a lot and finding out that you're needing to go to the masseuse more often than you usually do 99 dollars it could be good investment so that's the photo-weld dual handle grip for the DJI Ronin S. I'll leave the links in the description uh left questions in the comments and I will see you next time


Good morning. We are calling to order meeting number 262 of the Massachusetts Gaming Commission on February 20th 2019 11 a.m. In our offices at 101 Federal Street here in Boston We'll start with agenda item 2 an executive session The Commission will now go into executive session pursuant to Massachusetts General Laws chapter 30a section 21a 3 for the purpose of discussing litigation strategy in the case of Stephen a when V Karen Wilds the Massachusetts Gaming Commission when resorts at L Given the posture of the case it is clear that a discussion of the Commission Strategy in an open public meeting would have a detrimental effect on the litigation position of the Commission The Commission will reconvene in open session at the end of the executive session Do I have a motion to go into executive session? So moved second Second any discussion If move in second, I'd like to take a roll call vote of the Commission to go into executive session Commissioner Steps. Yes, Commissioner Zunita. Hi Commissioner O'Brien I Cameron I in the chair votes. Yes Thank you The Commission is now in executive session on members of the public and any staff members not involved in the matter to be Discussed must leave the room. I'd ask that our live audio and video recording and live streaming Be shut off and the doors to the room be closed Thank you. Good afternoon The Commission has met an executive session and like to reconvene our open meeting And I also wish to thank that my fellow commissioners and staff for the very productive session that we had today and the executive sessions that we've had Since I've arrived I appreciate the work of our legal counsel in in-house and out Our outside counsel very much in the work of all of the staff. So thank you The Commission is convening today and we Expect to take a vote Do I have a motion? So Madam chair, I moved to authorize the Commission's legal counsel To work to finalize an agreement the terms of which are consistent with the Commission's discussion in the February 20th executive session That will result in the dismissal of the case caption Steven a win versus Karen Wells the Massachusetts gaming Commission and win resorts at all That is presently pending in the Clark County district court Nevada and will enable the Commission to receive an investigative Report and move forward with an adjudicatory proceeding Regarding win-resort suitability as soon as possible Do I have a second? I second that Okay, all those in favor I Five zero Thank you. Do I have a motion to adjourn this session? Did we need a roll call vote? No, we did not okay. Sorry. No, I moved to Adjourn this to adjourn the meeting in a second second any discussion All those in favor I Five zero Thank you. Thank you You


All right, we should be streaming. Good morning, members of the Brigade. And members of the Bookmap community. Good to see everyone, welcome. It's Monday morning. We had a contract rollover. It's a beautiful day, and it's gonna be a beautiful week to trade, because we have momentum in the market. I am still kinda getting myself situated here, so give me just a moment. I'm running on only one computer today, so I gotta open this up on the phone for the comments. All right, powerful and chilling with Dylan. Good to see you. All right, well let's start by diving in to the longer term charts. We'll start with the daily, and we'll just try to get some perspective about what's happening in the market. So essentially, we have momentum, right? We've been stuck in a range for a very, very, very long time. The market was in sort of a bear market for a while there, and then we were stuck in sort of a sideways rotational market for a while there, and we've now begun the process of breaking out of that market and getting some momentum to the upside. So as always, with momentum, we don't try to guess when the momentum will be over. It's a terribly difficult thing, and we just won't be right most of the time. So what we have to do with momentum is we have to recognize when the market has it and stick with the momentum as long as it lasts, okay? So right now, looking at the daily, we had a range that we were stuck in last week. We broke out of that range. Since we broke out of that range, we created a lot of excess, a lot of momentum, but we still have that momentum at this very moment. However, we do keep track of the fact that there is resistance above in the form of this trend that the market has been in, this channel right here, which we'll be running into around the 4420s, 4450s, okay? And then we've also got resistance on the horizontal, all in here from the previous, whoops, from the previous times that we traded in this area back here. But there's one thing I wanted to make note of as we zoom in that I thought was kind of interesting. Last week, when we were balancing around inside this range over here, pretty much on the last day that we were bouncing around inside of there, I went back and I looked at the balance area from back in here, from August of 22. Basically, we were stuck in this range for a very short period of time. We tried to break out of it to the upside and failed. That failure caused a humongous pullback in the market, creating new lows. So it was interesting to me that we had been right back inside that same range. So I just went in and plotted out those levels really quickly on the chart. And I think you'll be intrigued to see, boop, boop, boop, boop. If I can get a book map to move over here. So these blue lines that you see in here, okay? This was that previous balance area. Essentially a year ago, whoops, when the market was in this exact same area, this was the balance area right here, okay? So we just finally broke out of that longer term range to the downside that I just showed you on the daily, came back to this exact same box, literally to a tick the exact same box that we were in over a year ago, balancing in this area. And then what happened? We broke out of that box, came back down and reversed exactly to a tick on the exact level that I had marked as that previous balance area high, not once but twice, creating a poor low right there. So what makes that very, very interesting is the fact that that is the market telling us it has momentum. It can keep going and going and going. So when I see that we're opening with this giant move to the upside this morning, now part of this is because of the contract rollover and we'll talk about that in a second. But now we've got this big move to the upside. Am I shocked? Am I surprised? Am I confused? Not at all. We came back, we retested that previous balance, we broke out, we back tested it to a tick, found support twice and now we're making that continuation that move to the upside. So there's nothing to be surprised about here. Now I do wanna make note of the fact that we are leaving so much weakness behind, right? The more weakness that we leave behind, the more we need to pull back at some point to backfill that weakness. But for now we don't need to worry about that because we have the momentum. One sign after another has told us this market has momentum, okay? It's been telling us for weeks momentum, momentum, momentum. So opening with a gap up this morning is just another way. The market can tell us, hey everyone, just so you know, we have momentum. So you can go ahead and find it if you want. So with the market opening with this large of a gap, the first order of business for the market is to try to fill the gap, to try to get back down to yesterday or Friday's high, 43.25. It is important to note that often large gaps don't fill on the first day. So this large of a gap, we'll have a harder time filling than normal. But it doesn't mean that that's not the first thing the market's gonna try to do. It's gonna try to fill that gap. It's a question of whether or not it can succeed in filling that gap. So as far as the levels that we're gonna watch, well from the market open, the first potential support is this node around 43.60. Then this other one down here around 43.54. And then the overnight low at 43, we'll call it 43.50. Okay, so 60, 55 and 50 basically. Those are our support levels. The market can find support and just keep going anywhere in here this morning. It could just barely poke below that overnight low and then turn around and take off. But if it dips below that overnight low and it starts to find resistance, then I will assume they're trying to fill that gap. Okay, so now we gotta get to the elephant in the room, which is the confusion between the rollover of the contract. So whenever we have one futures contract that is coming to an end and the next futures contract is taking over, there is a period one week where the market rolls from one to the other. Where people who have positions, both in options in the futures markets and the futures contracts themselves where they have to slowly close out one set of positions and open another. The prices of the two never line up. So if you look at the ES contract from one month compared to the next, the two will never be perfectly lined up price-wise. That's just the way it is. Don't ask me to explain it or how it works or any of it, they just, they don't have to be at the same level the same way the ES and the SPX don't have to be at the exact same level. What matters is the momentum, the movements that they have. So essentially the idea is if one contract is gonna go up one point, the other contract will go up one point as well. It doesn't matter what number it is. So one contract might be at 43.62, one contract might be at 43.50. It doesn't matter that they're at different levels, they will both move up one point or down one point the same as each other. There's a set of bots called arbitrage bots. They've been around for a very, very long time. They're extremely efficient and they will take care of this. So somebody had asked over the weekend, like, is there a way to make money trying to arbitrage between the two contracts as like one of us, a retail trader? Absolutely not. That's for the big boys with the super fast computers and the deep, deep pockets, okay? As far as the way you should think about it as a trader is quite simply just trade whatever contract you're looking at, okay? So if you want to trade the contract, the U, trade the U, if you wanna trade the M, trade the M, just make sure whichever contract you're looking at on your screen, it's the same one that you're trading. Don't try to overthink it and say, oh, I need to watch both contracts. I need to test these levels and that, no, no, no, no. Keep it very simple. I've been through this many times, okay? Keep it very, very simple and just trade the contract you're trading when you choose to roll over, okay? When you choose to say I'm done trading the M contract, I'm gonna trade the U contract. All you have to do is move your new levels to the new contract, leave everything elsewhere was. So if on an old contract, the high of the day was 43.25 and you roll over to a new contract, so today you're trading the new contract and that new contract's high is in a different place, who cares? Use your old levels as you have them marked from the contract at the time. I know that that seems confusing to people, but it is the best way to do it. So with the software that I use here through Window Trader, the data that I'm using, this is a continuous contract and so what it does is it just automatically rolls over on that roll over day, but does not change any of the old data. So when you see previous references from last week or before, they're gonna be at whatever price level they were last week and then the new references that I start creating this morning will be from this morning moving forward and I'll just leave all the old ones right where they were and treat them exactly the same. So to me, even though I will be trading the new contract, a gap fill is still getting down to the high from the previous contract, 43.25. It may not work out perfect. The market may get like a half gap fill and then go, but that's fine. I still see that the same as I would have if it got to the gap fill and went. To keep things simple, I just keep my old levels where I had them, okay? Any questions for me? Good morning to Jay and Scooball. Welcome. Please smash that like button. Nothing else to do for the next 15 minutes. I just realized my camera's all messed up. My laptop's into the shop right now and the camera used to be attached to the laptop. You know what, I'll just lose the video today. Goodbye video. Holger in the comment says, this practice is confusing to me to keep the old levels. Good morning. Good morning to you. Yeah, I know it's what works, okay? So here's the thing. I tried playing all the games you could play. I tried keeping old levels. I tried switching all to the new levels based on the old contracts. I tried switching every which way manageable. Do you know what works most of the time? The best, just using the old levels. And I can't explain why and it just works great and so I don't argue with it. It's one of those things sometimes you just, if it works you just use it. So let's talk about it this morning as an example, right? Looking at the new contract, we are not opening with a gap at all. We're basically just opening inside the previous day's range and we're right on top of that previous balance area. So if on this contract, the market is gonna find support and keep going higher, what is it gonna do? It's gonna find support at that previous balance area high. We'll call that 43-46 and turn around and keep going. Well, what am I looking at on my continuous version of this? Well, I'm saying if they dip below that overnight low and they come right back up, well then they're not gonna fill the gap. It's a gap and go and I should be bullish. So it doesn't really matter if I'm getting bullish because we're finding support at a previous balance area high on the you contract or because we're dipping below the overnight low and coming above on the transition between the two contracts, it doesn't matter. It's the same conceptual idea, market not going down, going up, you know? And so that's why I just don't overthink it. I just go with it however it looks to me and it just works most of the time. Good morning, Nor Auto Trader. Thank you for pointing out the camera. There's gonna be a huge delay between comments and responses but today, by the way, Alyssa, good morning to you. Brad, good to see you. Holger says, I reference always the SPX and there hasn't been this 40 point jump. Yeah, but that's why I say if you trade the SPX, if you're trading options on the SPX, you should be referencing the levels on the SPX, you should be referencing the moves, the way they move on the SPX, but if you're trading the you contract of the futures as a futures trader, you wanna trade it differently. You wanna trade it as its own thing and just look at the you contract and trade that. That's the point that I'm trying to make. And every time we have one of these rollovers, this is a big debate amongst people where everyone has their own opinion. I'm just sharing my opinion that for me, the simplest way to approach it is I keep the old levels as they were and I start the new ones today with whatever the new levels are. T says, is the market ESNQ typically more choppy, hard to trade on days before major news announcements such as FOMC, CPI and non-farm? It can be, yeah, it absolutely can be. But I swear to God, every time I say, oh, there's an FOMC meeting tomorrow so the market's just gonna rotate today. That's the one day the market has a massive trend day. So just because that might be a higher probability doesn't mean it's what has to happen. Andrew says, rollover price differences are always weird for me. There you go. In fornity, hello to you. We have 50 people hanging out this morning, five minutes till the market opens. Let me just run through my whole spiel once again for the few of you that have just joined. First off, good morning, welcome. My name is Charles. I am an ES futures day trader and I'm here on the Bookmap channel to talk to you about what's gonna happen on the ES here today. So let's start by zooming out and taking a look at the daily just to give ourselves a little bit of perspective. The market has momentum, okay? We have had momentum for a while now. We were stuck in a range. We are now breaking out of that range, which is a sign, bigger picture, that the market is getting bullish, that it has momentum. So now smaller picture, zooming in, we're asking ourselves how much momentum do we really have? How far can they really push it? And I'm saying, I think we're going to run out of steam somewhere pretty soon up here, around the 44, 40s, or sorry, 4,400s in between here and there. But I'm not gonna assume it until I see it. And the way I need to see it is I need to see the momentum come to an end. The way I see the market right now is having momentum. Last week, it broke out of balance. Since that breakout, it has had a gap up. That gap up is the difference between the two contracts. However, I'm still gonna treat it just like a regular gap in every way and just assume that the market needs to get back down to 43, 25. So that is to say, the you contract, the current contract, needs to get down to the high from the previous contract in order for the gap officially to be filled. So until that happens, I'm still bullish. The market could find support anywhere in here and to me, it's a gap and go and it's bullish. It only starts to get neutral to bearish inside Friday's range from the previous contract. So this morning as the market opens, I'm looking for it to try to fill the gap. So I'm looking for the market to try to pull lower. And then where does it find support? Does it find support at 43, 60, 43, 54 or 43, 50? Any of those levels, if the market gets down there, it turns around and starts heading higher, I'm bullish that it's gonna keep going because we have momentum and we have a gap and we have all these signs that the market is bullish. But if the first one fails, I'll assume we have to test the second. If the second one fails, I'll assume we have to test the third. And if we push below that overnight low and then we find resistance, new sellers there, I will assume the market needs to head back down and fill that gap, okay? So I'm bullish as long as we are above the overnight low at 43, 48, and if we get resistance below there, I'm bearish to fill the gap. As far as momentum to the upside, it's gonna be hard for me to be willing to take a gap and go trade unless we either spend a little bit of time chopping around and definitely have support somewhere or if we can poke above that overnight high, come back down and then find support somewhere. The support after testing the overnight high to me would be viable for continuation. But before that, I'm gonna treat it more like a chop zone and I need to wait and see. Good morning, Percy, welcome. One minute to market open. Only 72 people hanging out. What's going on? Smash that like button. Share with your friends, share links in all your favorite social media locations. And we're off. Okay, so the next support is gonna be around 43.55, this area right in here. We wanna see how the market reacts to that. Does it dip into that support and just immediately turn around and head right back up through the opening price or do we grind and grind and try to break through? If we get through the support, we're looking to test the overnight low. Good morning, NAP, ES, Trade, Monkey, and Frito, welcome. Frito says it's roll over day, so many take it off. Why take it off? There's always an opportunity. All right, so at this point, what we're asking ourselves is, do we get resistance here to come back down and test those lows again, or do we poke back through the opening price heading higher? If we poke back through the opening price, it is a gap and go, it is bullish. But of course, if not, we gotta keep chopping for a second here to see if we have support. Let's take a quick look at the NQ. Okay, so NQ also has a gap up this morning, exact same story as the ES. Look for support around 14.72, for the market to turn around and head back through that opening price. If they cannot find support there to test the overnight low at 14.732, and then that would be same as the ES, a potential look below and fail level where they could just dip below and then immediately pull back up into the range, or they could dip below and get new sellers. If that's the case, you're looking to fill the gap down to Friday's high, which from the previous contract was 14.689, okay? All right, so a lack of support here increases the odds. We need to test that overnight low, 43.49, and look for buyers down there. Scooball says 43.52 is the half gap fill. Not by my measure, not even a little. I would say it's like 43.40. But as I said, to me, the only thing that matters right now is this overnight range. As long as we find support anywhere for any reason whatsoever inside the overnight range, it's bullish for the market to keep going. All right, there's the pass back through the opening price, making it a gap and go. Can they hold the support? All right, well, I am bullish on a gap and go at this point. I'm looking for the market to hold support above 43.54, which is this node right here. So essentially half back, it should be able to hold this at this point to keep going higher. If it pulls back through there again, they're probably trying to get that gap fill. So I would become more bearish, but as long as we stay above 55, I am a bull that we still have momentum. All right, so here comes that test. Can they hold it? David says, your video is blurry. Try changing the settings in the bottom right corner on YouTube. If you click on the little gear, you should be able to change it to HD, like 1080 or 720. NAP says, have you already discussed whether it's a true gap? Yeah, we've debated it until the cows came home. No, I'm just kidding, yeah. So I'm treating it like it's a real gap, like it's a regular gap. I know it's the rollover from the one contract to the other, but it doesn't matter. What is a gap, right? What is it for me? It's a tool to understand momentum, to understand if we have new buyers or not. So that's how I'll treat it. Whether the gap was created by a contract rolling over or an overexuberant overnight market, it doesn't matter. It's still gonna tell me the next morning whether we have momentum or not. Speaking of which, here we go. Testing this support. Well, that was a wrestling match. David, the center color dot area is blurry, not the text. Oh, that's the way it's supposed to look. That's just, so all those little dots that you see, what you're calling pixels, that's just moments where there was liquidity that was only in the market for a fraction of a second. So if you look over here at the book map, on the right side of the screen, this white line that you see running down here, that is showing you what is in the order books currently. So this is the liquidity that's currently sitting in the order books trying to get filled. And then over here on the other side of the screen, that's the liquidity that was in the order books at that actual time. So at 9.45, at this actual moment, there was a little liquidity right there and a little right there and a little right there and every one of those dots is basically an order that's in the order books at that particular moment. So it's supposed to look like that. NAP says volume is crazy low. Yeah, volume would be crazy low because of the two contracts. So a lot of people are still trading the old one. They'll need to roll over those trades. They don't necessarily do it all today. They do it over the week. So volume will be a little bit funky, but no worries, just use price action like you always do. Are there buyers or are there sellers? Where is support? Where is resistance? What happens when you get there? Everything else is just over complicating it. Garrett Trutch, Russ says, where can I watch your sessions every day? Great question. That's a perfect question. You can go to piratetraders.io and you'll see a link if you scroll down a little bit there to join the brigade. The brigade is the community that I run. It's basically a membership group. You pay 10 bucks a month to be a member and I livestream for the first hour every day for the brigade. $10 less than a single tick on the ES. In a period of a month, could I say a single thing worth a tick? I just called support at 55. We're a whole three points above that. You just paid for the last six months. Come on, get after it. Join the brigade. $6 million man says worth it. Subscriber here. So does anybody have any questions for me? We got about two minutes left in this live stream before I switch over to that private stream for brigade members. Got 104 people hanging out. Any questions at all? Also, I just want to make an announcement while I have the public available to me. I've decided all week this week starting tomorrow. So I'm gonna do the private stream today. But starting tomorrow for the rest of this week, I'm gonna livestream every morning on the public YouTube, on my public YouTube channel. So you're welcome to come join there and ask lots of questions. Karic, if you go public, no need to pay the 10. Well, yeah, I guess after this week you'll need to pay the 10. But use this week as your free introduction to make sure you want to pay the 10. Okay, so as we print the B period here, what has the market done? Well, it pulled back down towards the lows of the overnight, but it importantly did not need to test the overnight low, right? If we look at what happened in the overnight, we had a lot of chop in here, a lot of debate, a lot of two-sided trade, but when they tried to get below there, they barely spent any time at all, barely brought in any volume at all, and then they turned around and head back up. Well, then we came down during the regular trading hours and did the exact same thing. Got right back to that same place and ran out of momentum once again and turned around and came back up. So right now I am bullish, but I would describe it as mildly bullish. This really feels more like a chop zone to me, more like it's just two-sided trade and there's uncertainty. However, the momentum is to the upside. Because we tested those lows and we didn't need to take the market lower, the higher probability is that we now need to head up and test the highs and test the resistance up here. Okay, so I am bullish for the moment, but if the market comes back down and it passes back through the low, 43.51, that would get me bearish to try to fill the gap back down to Friday's high, which would be, by my reading of it, 43.25, okay? So basically mildly bullish as long as we stay up here, really bullish if we can get above, but if we start to come below bearish to fill that gap, okay? Sideways up, down. These are your choices. And now you know the levels to watch. Just watch that zone right there, that overnight range. What happens? Which way does it break? Good luck, happy trading. If you're a member of the brigade, head on over to the private stream. If you're just a member of the book map community, well, then you're awesome. Enjoy the rest of your week and we'll see you here on Monday. Bye.


What's up everyone, my name is Zesty Mike, and today I want to make a quick little video spotlighting a new feature that YouTube rolled out the other day. It's called Real Time. So you can find this feature right under your analytics, there's a button right under your overview. Now once you click it, it shows you how many views you're getting and when you're getting them. It breaks your videos down by the hour or even by the minute. Now what does this mean for you? This means you could study your viewership and see when you're getting the most views. You can tailor this to your schedule and get the most out of your schedule. If you see that your videos are getting the most views at noon, then you should release your videos at noon to get the most views on each video you release. So guys, take a look at your real time analytics and see what time is actually the best time for uploading for you and you guys can tailor this to your channel so you guys can get the most views per video. But anyways guys, for this quick little video, I just want to make an update on this because I saw this feature. I thought it was really cool and thought I would share it with you guys. And also on another note, I'm going to start making videos on freedom three days a week. So that means I'm going to be posting a video on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from now on for hopefully like a year or so. So anyways guys, hope you all enjoyed this video. Be able to take something away from it and I'll see you in the next one. See ya.