Roon zal dit jaar eindpoinden. Maar wacht even, er is al een heel goede solution uit. Ik heb extensief de fantastische Roon software gevoerd. Er is zelfs een playlist van Roon-related videos op de HB-channel. Zie de link in de topperlijke kroner. Maar als je muziek wilt spelen over de netwerk van een jouw spelers in de huis, de mogelijkheden zijn nog beperkt.  Na de tijd, meer solutionen komen op de markt, maar ik wilde nu een goede solution sinds ik volledig op Roon gehoekt ben. Het is de muziekplayer software 3.0, of niet 4.0. In eerlijke video's schrijf ik hoe om de Raspberry Pi 2B met een high-five-berry Digi-plus SPDIF interface met transformere uitvoeringen en modificatie om van de AirBoost het beste van het tweede werelds lineaire power supply te zijn. Zie de link in de topperlijke kroner. Dan gebruik ik volumio als speler software. Het is een heel goede solution sinds de Raspberry Pi dus de handeling van de bits op de netwerkzijde, waardoor de Digi-plus board de bits aanbiedt om in optimale vorm te zijn voor het senden naar de A-converter. De transformeren preventen grondloepen en andere nasties. Maar als je Roon software wilt gebruiken, kan je het alleen over Airplay gebruiken en dat is limiter tot 48 kHz sampling rate. Remember the lowest common denominator for math class? I had to look for a protocol that is supported by Roon, is available on the Raspberry Pi and supports the use of the i2S input output headboards. i2S is a digital audio bus that is normally used inside digital music players like CD players. It uses a separate data signal and a separate clock signal, making it far more easy to prevent jitter. Head stands for hardware attached on top. It is a standard for all B type Raspberry Pi's and is a kind of physical, electrical and logic plug and play standard for extension boards for the Pi. Plug in a board and you know the holes for the spacers fit, the GPIO connector fits and the right drivers will be loaded. It appears that the i2S solution is widely used by manufacturers of the A-converter boards en SPDIF boards for the Pi. So I needed to find Pi software that offered the protocol that Roon also supported. That's how I found the Pi Core Player. It turns the Raspberry Pi into a squeezebox player but with a twist. Where the squeezebox touch and transporter are normally limited to 96 kHz sampling rates, the Pi Core Player does support 192 kHz en also supports DSD over PCM, also known as DOP, and can also convert DSD to PCM if the DA-converter used does not support DSD. What is the best Raspberry Pi to use? The older type 1 versions are not suited for they are not powerful enough. The newest type 3B might not be the best choice either. Not only is there a conflict with audio boards, it also has radios for Bluetooth and Wi-Fi aboard. Great for any application but audio since they can cause interference with the digital audio signal. So the 2B is the best version. If you do want to use it with Wi-Fi, buy a separate Wi-Fi dongle and connect it to the Pi using a USB extension cord. Installing the Pi Core Player is simpel, using Win32 Disk Manager on Windows or Apple Pi Baker on the Mac to burn the Pi Core Player image from the Pi Core Player site to a micro SD card. Even easier is to use the HiFiBerry installer you can download from the HiFiBerry site. Links will be below this video in YouTube. When you've finished, you simply stick the SD card into the card slot on the Raspberry Pi and start it up. Now start up room. Go to the section Settings and then to Audio. You see the Pi Core Player in the Squeezebox section. Check the cog symbol if the settings are to your likings and if you like, give it a custom name for use within Roon. If you want to see what settings can be made inside the Pi Core Player, you need to find out the IP address your router has given to the Raspberry Pi. Often that can be seen in the settings console of your router, but you can also use network discovery programs like Fing for the iPhone. When you know the IP address, type that in the address bar of your internet browser and the main Pi Core Player page will pop up. If you click the Squeeze light settings menu, the audio output settings become visible. If you need to change this, do so and have the Raspberry Pi reboot. On the tweaks you can change the hostname the name the Raspberry Pi will use in your network. Normally that will be Pi Core Player, but since I use more than one Pi Core Player, I name them Pi Core Player 1 and 2. Although you now know how to change settings in the Pi Core Player, chances are you never have to go there since the default settings and the automatic output settings normally will do. As I have said in the video I mentioned before, the Raspberry Pi Hi-FiBerry Digiti Plus with output transformer, directly connected to the SBoost, de beste of two-words linear power supply, offers a very clean and ground loop free SPDIF signal that will make any property A converter perform close to optimal. I even prefer it over the Mac Mini using the fine M2Tech Hi-phase 2 USB to SPDIF interface or a direct connection between the DAC and the USB output of the Mac. The benefits of the SBoost's power supply are more clear in my SET 1 than in SET 3 of course, and for SET 3 a simpler linear power supply will do just as good. I am in the process of finding proper sounding linear power supplies at a lower price, but also am also waiting for the new SBoost the best of two-words power supplies for further research. For SET 3, a DA converter on a headboard that is plugged directly to the Raspberry Pi and fed from a linear power supply, like the Hi-FiBerry DACs, can be a good solution too. A review of another DAC by Audiophonic is in preparation. For less critical applications you might even consider a headboard with a Class D amplifier. You could use a defect portable radio to replace the internal parts with the Raspberry Pi with Class D amps to make a nice looking portable radio that streams using room. Just say in. All the boards I mention work with the Pi Core Player software, as will any USB DAC that is USB audio profile compatible. You can also use the remote control software on the computer to play the music over its PC speakers. That makes it a very attractive to use Rune as a house system, since it supports not only multiple play-out stations, but also multiple users, each with its own playlist and play suggestions from Rune and Tidal. But, as I mentioned, many alternatives will come to market in the near future. So, if you want to remain informed, subscribe to this channel, follow my Facebook or Google Plus page or my Twitter account. You can also post questions there. You'll find the information below this video on YouTube. If you like this video, please give it a thumbs up and tell your friends on the web about it. I am Hans Beekhuyzen for the HB Channel. Thank you for watching and see you the next show or on theHBproject.com. En whatever you do, enjoy the music.


At the Ogun State Park Management Services, Oxbam has called for calm among its members following a violent confrontation with the National Union of Road Transport Workers and the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, over which group should have access to the parks and garages in the state. The chairman of the Oxbam, Akim Bodori Iyeru, also announced the withdrawal of the park management from the activities of road transport in the state. Now, trouble started brewing among members of the Transport Unions when the Ogun State Government, through the Ministry of Transportation, allowed the emergence of the park management services in addition to the existing two, that is the NURTW and the Retain. It was lensed that the park management services and its members were supposed to work on Monday at the parks and garages, but the contrary directives said to have emanated from the state government agents changed the arrangement and assigned their rights to use the parks to another rival union. The development, however, led to resistance and violence in the parks in Abel Guta, the state capital, claiming two lives. Akim Bodori has just taken a step that is to withdraw it and is engaging himself from this path based on the recent agreements made by the Commissioner of Police Office, which we did not go well with him, because that was not the initial arrangement. The initial arrangement was that the Yaro group should be working in one way, the Yaro group should be working one way, or suddenly they just realized that the OJ changed and when it came to the turn of what happened in Yaro, they said that the areas of view that have the right to work today, so that's why we are here today. That's why it came to address the members, to tell them that it's withdrawing, because they cannot put the member of the member that is following in to jump out into chaos. So that's why it said that they should maintain peace and support, so pending the time that they will resolve the OJ. My message for the member is not so far. I will employ the members to stay put, to maintain peace, to crowd overstate, because Akim Bodori does not want crisis in any way and that is his speech to all the members and that's what we are coming to do today.


You're a funnel a Week ago those were completely foreign words to me and I Have to say after a week of immersion in the culture of the Iwi thank you people and through the good support of this incredible fellowship I Feel completely now immersed in a culture that feels a lot like home to me and And I'm super grateful to be here right now and share share what we're doing here, so Thank you My name is Isaac Nicholson I'm an activist I'm an entrepreneur. I'm seeking to propel a circular and regenerative economy and This is a really unique opportunity here in New Zealand because of the culture So You know, why are we staring at this upside-down backwards? impact This world gone awry You know, it's it's a good question And am I the only one that finds it ironic that we're having this powerful meeting here on a racetrack? Because this is a race against time if we are to Keep this habitat supporting us. We've got a lot of work to do and so with that thought Some old friends of mine and I got together and created a company called circular systems And I'm working with guys that are much smarter than me You know PhD material scientists Plastics engineers sustainable agriculture veterans permaculture experts and with the systems thinking that comes out of that kind of training and Each of us with 25 years in the respective space we think that we've come up with some potential solutions and What we're working on here is really redefining what sustainable materials are We had the incredible fortune this year to receive the global change award for one of our technologies Another huge honor and it's really helped us propel and even to be in the position here to offer up some technologies That can be game-changing in this space in near term So we're looking at this nexus of economic environmental and social Truly circular and regenerative systems development. This is Absolutely possible right now and we've got a technology that I'm about to tell you about that really touches all 17 of the UN SDGs And I want to inspire all of you to start to innovate and really strive for these kinds of goals It's a lofty goal. We're after it The first of our technologies is text loop and this is really state of the art textile to textile recycling and You know here in New Zealand like everywhere you got a lot of garment waste a lot of textile waste Needs to be managed it can turn into really valuable materials and what we're talking about with each of these technologies is a fundamental shift from Looking at what we call waste right now and looking at it instead as resource and as soon as you shift your perspective You're you're ready to really start changing the game. So text loop is already up and running We're recycling materials for the likes of H&M and adidas We're moving, you know to scale this throughout Southeast Asia where the biggest supply chains are right now And it's something that can happen right here And I hope to meet some people from the local Wellington area later today to talk about how we can take it to another level So we're really focused on this lightest touch approach And that means preserving the embedded energy and the materials that we're recycling That's making sure that rather than going for a big chemical Intensive energy intensive approach we strive to really put the lightest touch there preserve the color Preserve the polymer take it forward into subsequent life cycles without breaking it all the way down and rebuilding it all the way back up We can do that later a few life cycles out. This is just smart systems thinking We take these really short staple fibers that are considered low value and a lot of times make really crappy Textiles if you just use them as is and conventional spinning and we put them into a new Proprietary spinning technology called orbital and with orbital we can safely contain these short fibers and create super high performance materials In fact, we've got some fabrics that beat Nike dry fit for wicking and fast-drive performance But with no chemical finishing and from recycled inputs It's really exciting But it's also curing the quality problems These are stronger yarns and it prevents the pilling that's inherent to using these recycled fibers normally So we're taking what would be really low value inputs and putting into high value constructs And this means that it can last a long time durability is also another factor in sustainable materials So really creating high performance from low value recycled inputs and now finally The agro loop now this is probably our most game-changing technology by far and what we're doing here with this is converting food crop waste into cottonized textile fiber that can go directly into conventional yarn spinning and materials and You know, this is a system that's designed to be regenerative by nature And what that means it's a closed-loop bio refinery That's actually generating the biochemicals we need to upgrade the fiber intrinsically from the plant waste The leftovers of which happens to be perfect organic fertilizer We're also converting the the leftover biomass into energy that runs the mill and in this way We're also producing biochar as the only effluent there So you combine these things and put them back in the land and you're supporting that fertility cycle And along the way, we're getting a host of co-products including all these great fun biochemicals that can be applied into all types of plastics and cool building materials and Then this really valuable textile fiber that could go into the uniforms that the little yellow bird is making over there And so We're really excited because here you've got an opportunity. You have you have an emerging hemp economy Things like flax oil seed flax can grow really well Without the means to process that stuff really effectively. We can't maximize value and we have a system here that we want to bring to New Zealand and Set up some scaled pilots and really prove as a means of giving farmers more income and Producing some really high-value materials here. So, you know with this kind of systems thinking and with collaboration we can really move the needle and This week we've had the chance to talk about a new form of collaboration. We call constructive interference and This is this idea that it came out of a discussion around surfing and why are the waves so big in this one spot? That's because these wavelengths are channeled and line up with one another and we're all these wavelengths and When we get in sync we create exponentially larger swells and This is the ground swell that we can push together So this collaboration factor Thank you guys for being this deep underwater channel that's bringing these wavelengths together Edmund Hillary Fellowship you guys Wow, so, you know through this work together We can write the impact and We can really regenerate our world and that's that's the work we've got to do So let's let's think about that and go have some great lunch


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Hello Rumeja, you are welcome to this program Success Speaks and first of all I give you a lot of congratulations to your family for securing all India 185 ranking you really fast again. Thank you so much sir. How are you feeling and how is the feeling in your family going on these days? Sir, I'm feeling very very happy at the moment. My family is over the moon. To add celebration is the fact that very few people in fact nobody in the recent past from my region has cleared the exam. I have topped the district as well as become one of the youngest in the state as well as the country. So everybody is really excited about it. People of my town are celebrating. So it's a very very happy feeling to be in especially for my parents. You are the youngest right now overall in the country as you said. I'm one of the youngest is what I've been told sir. Actually the very first 22. I'm 22 years currently so I've been told. Very very early age that is 21 is the first age limit when you start and 22 years. Yes sir. Definitely you are going to get Indian police service I believe. Yes sir. So and I hope you're going to appear again as you can understand from the space in there right? Yes sir. I will be applying. First of all I would like to know about the place where you were born and brought and who are there in the family. So that the audience understand about you more in the success story. Yes sir. I was born in a small town called Pulari in Trishu district of Kerala. I did most of my schooling here itself until 12th standard and after that my big change came when I moved to Chennai for my degree which is a BA in economics. So from there it you know broadened my mindset and from a small town I was suddenly exposed to the lives and you know life of a big city and it changed my worldview and mindset a lot. I was exposed to a lot of new ideas and new people and it really inspired me to take the civil services seriously. So before we come to talk about how the journey began. Who are there in the family and what they're doing. Can you just say a little bit about them? Yes sir. My father is a businessman.  I have an elder sister and an elder brother. My elder sister is a doctor dentist by profession and currently she is staying abroad. My brother graduated in law and is currently doing an MBA from IIM core code. Okay. So how this idea came for you especially because your sister is going to abroad. Yes sir. Your father in the business but how this idea of getting into civil services came. Which service primarily you want to go for? Sir primarily I want to join the Indian Foreign Service. However the idea of civil services itself was not new to me at all because in Kerala we see the district collectors are respected by a lot and whenever they are here or whenever they do something good for the society it is often you know discussed a lot and it inspires a lot of youngsters especially me when I was a young school student. However I realized that I had more of an aptitude for the Indian Foreign Service when I went to college and I started taking part in debates and competitions such as the Model United Nations. So from then on I thought maybe I should you know steer the course into the Foreign Service. As you are very clear about Indian Foreign Service that you have to go. So what kind of role is that you can play if it is attracting you to join the Indian Foreign Service? I have a background in economics. So I have always been interested by the dynamics of trade and relationship between different countries and how the world entirely revolves around money. Whenever any major thing happens be the global recession or the ongoing trade war. So I believe that with my background in economics I would be able to you know give the best in terms of strategic policy and decision making at the highest level. It would be I would consider it the utmost of honor to be able to represent my nation at a multinational institute such as the World Trade Organization or the IMF where you know a lot of my core interests meet and that sir would be my dream job. This is a very wonderful clarity about your goal. This is a wonderful clarity and concept which is in your mind which has become one of the biggest region for your selection in the past attempt itself. Because when you are preparing naturally you develop that kind of attitude very naturally with that. And I wish you in advance next year you will be one of the top. When it comes to preparation of course this decision must have become the family that you should know. Everybody came to support you. What was kind of atmosphere of course Kerala is known for education and development. So what kind of atmosphere you had in the family from the beginning? Sir I would say my family has played a huge role in you know making me what I am today. So from when I was young my parents have played a huge role in inculcating a healthy reading habit in me. So that I used to read a lot be it both fiction and nonfiction. I grew up reading many such books and my father is also responsible for inculcating the habit of reading the newspaper in me. So I could say that as a child I was quite aware of what was happening around me. And moreover they supported me all throughout when I wanted to take part in any kind of competitions. They used to go out of the way and make special efforts to take me to different places and other schools. So that definitely helped me a lot. It means the family wanted always to give you wider exposure. Yes sir yes yes. Now it's a question of preparation because it's a very fast attempt. It is not the young and early age you got selected with such a beautiful rap. So definitely it will be of great interest to the audience who are learning to appear. Those all as parents who are stuck somewhere in the preparation to understand from you how it all happened with you. So well began is half done. This is a very old saying. I can understand from your rank in the very first attempt at such a young age as 22 you have got 185 back. So definitely you have begun very well. So how did you begin your preparation? Sir indeed I agree with the statement that you mentioned sir. So before beginning I would say that the thing that I did the most was to find out the right strategy and right methods as to how you can clear the exam. So just like any other aspirant I spent a lot of time browsing on Google and YouTube looking at the various strategies that are told by topers. However in addition to that I also did another thing which is to find out how exactly to study. That is most often topers and people are very keen on telling you what subject to study which books you should refer to. But most often they stop short of telling you how exactly to study and what are the best methods of studying. So apart from UPSC I looked at other websites telling what are the best scientifically proven methods which help you retain your information better and improves long term memory. Because for UPSC you definitely need to remember things for at least one one and half years. And it's not like how I used to study in college where you study just on the day before the exam put an all nighter and go into the exam hall half asleep. So I knew that I had to change that habit and make it more sustainable. Okay so the point here is like at which standard or you say at what age you begin preparing. Sir preparing seriously for the civil services began only after I finished my graduation. So after my graduation in Chennai I went to Tiruvannapuram where I joined an institute and from then on I prepared for 11 months and then wrote prelims of 2019 and then the process began sir. So it was all after you began after the graduation was over then you started making the preparation. But initial exposure to the exam and research work you had already done as you nicely say right now. Now for any first timer or anybody who stuck in this preparation. Right. What would you like to suggest what should be the first strategy first approach that one should follow so that you can have a sense of surety to get this service. Sir like I said equal importance should be given as to how exactly you should study. There are various ways of tackling each subject be it quality or geography or modern Indian history or even economics per se. So each aspirant should make sure that they are doing it in the right method possible. For example when you are looking at quality there is a very good method of studying that is by connecting it to your current affairs. For example if there is an ongoing issue with regards to governor and there is some problem some political happenings within a particular state. That would be a good time to refer to the textbook the standard textbook and look at what are the constitutional provisions. So in that way you are able to connect what is happening to what is theory. So in that way it will retain or you know stay in your memory in a much better format. So likewise there exists similar strategy for each subject and following that will make the journey more pleasant and you know it will make it more enjoyable. Rather than studying by road. You have picked a very nice thing you said about the current affairs it is a challenge for most of the students. They read this paper they don't know what to read what not to read. So how to select relevant news or articles and material from the newspapers and current affairs sources. What should be the right approach. I would say there is just one word that is syllabus of UPSC. UPSC has given a very comprehensive syllabus as far as mains is concerned. So what I used to do was whenever I was reading the newspaper I would maintain a digital record using an app called Evernote which is free of cost and is available to everyone. So I would make specific note titles with each of these syllabus and whenever I saw an interesting topic an anecdote a statistic or an interesting infographic. I would add it to that particular note. So that way all the information that I gathered came up in a very systematic manner and it helped me a lot when I was you know preparing for mains and it helped improve the content of my answers. From a discussion what important thing has come that to get to what is relevant and not relevant. The most important guidance would come from the syllabus. Yes sir. Nicely prepared. Yes, yes, yes. With that quality economy, current economy everything is going to be there. But the next important thing which you say that we have used technology. Yes sir. For preparation. So how in the present time technology can play such a crucial role in preparation. With your experience I would like you to speak a bit more on that. Absolutely sir. Sir, I am proud to say that I've used it a lot and we all know that UPSC preparation entails a lot of materials. So very often you walk into an aspirin room. You can find it to be having a sea of books all around them. The aspirin would be sitting in the middle of it. So I prefer to do a lot of things in a digital format and that streamlined my preparation. And overall it gives you a very clean organized outlook for everything. So like I mentioned earlier, I use the Evernote note taking app for making current affairs notes, as well as integrating notes from my classes or even notes which are available online. I used to rely on previous year stoppers notes. Apart from these, I used flash card apps which were very helpful in memorizing some hard facts. For example, some things in art and culture, map study, memorizing articles of our constitution, all of these may not always have a logical connect. These should be memorized by repetition at regular intervals. So for doing this, the use of flash card apps helped me a lot. So that is something fresh aspirin can try. Very nice, very nice that these are actually how much organized your preparation. That makes a lot of difference also. Did you also have a start with NCRT books you study? Yes sir, I did start with NCRT books. However, I focused more on higher level classes, especially for polity. And I think for history, all books from 6th standard and upwards is important for when it comes to history. So to clear the fundamentals, I think in NCRT, a book of 10 plus people are going to be, how many times you read only once or you repeated some of the reading? Sir, I believe in the philosophy that if you are reading something, then you should always go back to it. So aspirins always tend to get in that kind of look where they try and refer to maximum of resources. It gives them a false sense of security or feeling that I have studied a lot. But in fact, it may not help you retain everything at the same rate. So I refer to limited sources, but I went back to them multiple times, like four or five times I went back to it. So it solidified the knowledge in my head, sir, and it really helped me a lot. This is very important because no matter how you are going to repeat the things of scanning through so many resources, if you are having some defined resources and you are going to focus on that, makes the difference there. Now there are three stages of examination. How do you feel about free and means? Should there be separate preparation or you according to should be integrated preparation for free and means? Sir, I believe that it should be a mix of both because at the end of the day syllabus does not exist in silos. But in the strategy with which how we are going to do the exam is where all the difference comes in. The studying or retaining of information is almost similar for both the topics. But for Prelims, you need to give specific, let's say, preparation or strategy for learning how to answer questions more effectively. For that you need a lot of practice. In some questions, some guesswork is required. In some question, you need to practice skills such as elimination of options, which will help you get to the right answer, even if you don't know the answer to that question. Similarly for Mains, studying part would be similar to that of Prelims. Again, the practice should come when you should be writing questions in order to be well-versed with the structure of how your main answer should be. You should be well-versed so that you will be able to finish your paper and time. So for all of these is where the difference comes in. This is very interesting that everybody should know. Integrated preparation, but there should be some approach, which is different from each other. That has to be kept in mind. Now if I ask you some crucial things to keep for Prelims in mind, to qualify because you adapted once and you have already qualified for final success also. Some special things to keep in mind so that one gets a sense because now the Prelims exam is about to come. Give a good message to the students. What are the factors that they should keep at this point of time? And what should be the area of focus? And what kind of practice or the thing they should do? What would you like to add on that? Sir, with less than two months to go, I think around 55 days are left for Prelims. So I would say that for every aspirant, they should stop looking up new books or new topics per se. Instead they should focus on what they've already studied in the period of time that they have. Assuming that the student has started preparation at least a minimum of six months before. So they should focus on revising and recollecting all that they've already looked at once. The second thing is that stick to the basics, sir. So every year we see enough and more questions from topics such as quality, economics and modern Indian history. So if you have these three topics very well versed, it will definitely help you clear. But if you try and focus a lot on some topics such as science and technology or art and culture, the problem is that you may not always be able to predict what kind of questions UPSC may ask. Because the area is very dynamic and very vast. So as an aspirant, you might feel very helpless if you're trying to study all of it in one go. So I would say stick to the three core topics very well and make sure that you're 100% well versed in all of that. And the last thing is definitely to practice more question papers. I used to do at least one paper every day in the past, in the previous two weeks leading to mains. So that really helped me to the prelims. Basically at the last moment, especially not to pick up so many new things, but to revise all what you have made. And then also to focus on some core areas where there could be a large number of questions to come. But on the day of examination, that is again a very important thing. Just a few days before the exam and on the day of the exam. What are the basic parameters or you can say the questions important for the aspirants? Please tell something about that. Sir, on the eve of the exam, I made sure that I had closed all my books. I did not study anything or look at books on the eve of the exam. Because I knew that it might trigger some kind of nervousness in me. But it varies according to the individual. It was like that for me. Every student must try and work out what works best for them. But the core idea is that on the eve of the exam and on the day of the exam, you should be pleasant. You should be relaxed and you should be happy. And you should feel happy that you're going to do this big thing which can potentially bring a lot of change in your life. That's the positive work in place of thinking that tomorrow exam and what will happen. If going with this anxiety and stress, the mind will not be efficient to take the right decision during the exam. It is a motion of just two hours in the exam. That's very good. You are very clear about that. Now let's talk something about the main subject. Of course you said about the integrated preparation but we can take paper wise. A bit of discussing on that. The first thing I would like to know from you about essay paper. Most of the time the students do the mistake they take the essay at the last moment. Or they don't prepare it at all. Do you think it is correct to take at the last moment or it should be done from the beginning itself? What do you need? Sir, essay again has a huge chunks of marks which if ignored can make or break you. Very often aspirants either get a very good rank because of essay. Or they miss out from the final list because of a bad essay. So essay is very important. So what every aspirant must do is that along with mains preparation and answer writing. At least once every week they should write an essay. They should practice it. Especially if you are a person who have trouble elucidating you should definitely do more practice. Sir as far as I was concerned I was lucky to have a good command over the language. As well as I had interest in writing. So essay kind of came in a not so difficult manner for me. However that did not stop me from preparing because for UPSC essay the requirements are different. Because you need to make sure that every point you make is substantiated with facts, examples and good anecdotes. So whenever I used to read the newspaper I would keep a separate note in my Evernote app for essay and ethics. So whichever thing I found to be very interesting or very nice. For example a good incident happening, a good ethical incident that happened in the country. Some example from around the world. All these tiny anecdotes I will collect it. This may not seem like current affairs or newsworthy at the moment or it may not be important for prelims. But these kind of small things will come handy to you when you are writing an essay or tackling your ethics paper. So that is something that really helped me a lot sir and I would do that. As we although there are three parts of that, body and control. So I would like you to highlight a bit on that. I would usually start off the essay using a brief introduction. And introduction would almost always be either a quote or an anecdote. Sir in the actual mains 2019 I took up the topic of related to success. That is hard work and perseverance and the willingness to change lead to success. The topic was something along those lines. So I started my essay sir by quoting an incident related to disaster management. That is I quoted saying that in 1990 when a huge super cyclone hit Odisha more than 10,000 people were killed. However, years down the line almost 20, 25 years down the line when in 2019 another super cyclone hit Odisha. The casualty came down to less than 10. And that was something I defined as an example of success, which was done from improvement of the past. Like the state administration and the national administration made a lot of changes in the disaster management policy. That helped you know succeed in that is that is kind of how I define success. So that is where the importance of anecdote comes in. So I started off like that and then try to define success in multiple areas. So when an aspirant is writing an essay make sure that it does not go in a linear fashion or it is not unidimensional. Rather they should try and bring in elements of social, political, economical, gender-related, environment issues to even a philosophical essay. So that way your essay would be very interesting and vibrant. You read the disciplinary approach of examining things which are kind of lateral approach of thinking. Yes sir, yes sir. And when you would write the main body, what are the precautions to be taken care of so that it goes in flow? The main precaution is that you need to plan your essay. That is as soon as you get the topic you shouldn't like jump into writing it rather you should take a moment. I used to take at least 20 minutes before writing the essay. Like in the total I think 3 hours that we get I would spend the first 20 minutes before each essay trying to brainstorm. I would make a mind map or I would jot down the points. Once I have jotted down the points the next thing I would do is I would number them. That is I would number them on the basis of priority. Like I know that this point is most important so this should come first. And then I would put number 2. In the order of priority I would do that. I would save a good anecdote for the ending so that the conclusion is also good. You must ensure that the conclusion is also good because it is the last thing that the examiner is reading before putting marks. Likewise we should make sure that it is a well balanced essay. Why the conclusion is so important? Sir I think just like how you make a parting shot the conclusion is the last thing an examiner might potentially be reading. And it can either leave a good impression upon the reader or leave them in a bad taste. So conclusion is very important and it gives an overall summary about your essay. So that the examiner would be again the idea would be reinforced in them that we have covered all these topics and it gives your final opinion etc. Sometimes the examiner makes an opinion by your introduction and reading your conclusion. They understand what you might have written in the body. Yes sir that is also true. Going to be very very important with that right? Yes. I am sure your sharing experience on essay paper will be really important. Ramayana I would like to get your inputs also on the gender studies because there are four papers. Yes sir. You have spoken very well about essay paper. Now let's take paper wise to ask you how to prepare paper one of the gender studies it makes which includes history and culture, geography and also society. So what will you say on that? Sir for GS1 I found it one of the most challenging to score high marks. Because for some reason I was not so good with geography and because the art and culture topic was so vast it was slightly difficult to cover everything. However I would tell you what actually worked in enriching my answers. So for mains preparation I used to maintain a notebook which was dedicated specifically for statistics, diagrams, some quotes or in terms of GS2 articles of the constitution pertaining to certain topics and committees related to important issues. So for GS1 in that book I would add all the figures which were related to geography such as how to explain a cyclone, how does the continental drift theory can be explained, what are the different faults etc. Similarly for art and culture I would draw the structure of temples and different temple architecture, Gandhara art so all of that I tried to make some kind of figure. And these figures I would try and replicate in my answers. So even if I am not so sure about or not having enough content these figures definitely gave some kind of good impression on the examiner and it definitely enriched my answers. You were using KCH and the figures there that's very well. Yes sir. But how to prepare if you want to suggest anybody about these three people in subjects rather history, geography and societies so what one should do for that? Sir again it is a very tricky area because you also have to deal with topics such as world history and often the aspirant might go astray reading a lot. So here the core idea should be to look into previous year questions of UPSC. For example even this year in 2019 there was a question on Gandhara art. And as far as UPSC is concerned it is not a new topic at all. They have asked Gandhara multiple times. So I would say that if you look into previous year questions itself you will get a very good idea as to what kind of questions and topics UPSC would like to focus on. So we should firstly prioritize on repeated topics and then move on to the others. Same with world history. Important should be given to very important topics such as French revolution, American revolution and industrial revolution all that took place. We should be very strategic while dealing with GS1. If you analyze the previous year questions you will know where the examination tends to focus on. And that will give you a profile about what you should prepare on the screen. What about geography? Sir again for geography we should be actually do it more than I would say art and culture because it will definitely help us in prelims as well. So I focused on preparing by learning to draw figures for all of these also because it will definitely help improve the overall look and flow of our answers. And I referred to standard books itself. I referred to NCRT as well as Go Chen Lyong. Okay so you read all the textbooks and what about society? For society I referred to newspaper notes which I had made it myself throughout the one year and I referred to notes which were provided by my institute. Okay that's fine. Hello friends my name is Dilip Pratap Singh Shakawat I have secured all near rank 72 in this year civil services examination 2018. And now I am here to share my experiences of the mock interview for UPSC. I think mock interview for UPSC is very very important because it helps you to assess your level of preparation for the actual personality test at the UPSC. So in this context mock interviews always help you to give a very good feedback about your strengths as well as weaknesses. So you can always gain confidence from your strengths as well as you can learn from your weaknesses and rectify them in due course of time. In this sense I would like to mention the role of China's IS Academy the mock interview which I gave at the China's IS Academy was very helpful for me. It was the last mock interview which I gave before the actual interview of UPSC and it really helped me to gain that confidence level back because I was facing very low because my final mock interview didn't go really well because I was facing problems like I was nervous before the interview and hence I went to China's IS Academy gave a mock interview there and the board was very professional it was very cordial. They asked me all the questions related to my bio data they assessed my personality in a very nice manner and boosted my confidence in the right time and that helped me to go with full confidence in the actual interview and in this way I was able to get very good marks in the interview which helped me secure IS in this attempt. Talking about paper tools in the studies what do you have to say about your study of professional paper tool? Sir again for GS2 I had prepared by focusing on standard textbooks a lot and then current affairs plays a huge role. For example be it government schemes when it comes from social justice topic and current issues related to law and legislations all of them are mostly related to current affairs related topic. So whenever you are reading the newspaper make sure you go back to the standard textbooks to know what are the actual provisions that are given in the constitution so that linking and studying would definitely help a lot and it will retain the information better and make the process more enjoyable and for international relations I used to maintain very good notes in my Evernote app and would update as in when certain things were happening. So even that was dealt in that manner sir but this year I think I mean last year GS2 was a very tough paper including for myself but with the available knowledge and with the knowledge of certain articles we were able to finish the paper and manage writing. Manage is the term I would say sir I am not sure of how well I did let's wait for the mark sheet. But you were connecting with more with current relevance that would make the paper more meaningful in fact. If you are a historian of economics also and paper 3 which is called Science with Technology Economics another subject first of all I would like to know from you what is the nature of paper 3 because it has got variety of subjects what do you think would be the reason that UPSC skipped all the subjects together. Sir I would say that why UPSC has skipped so is that it makes it a great leveler for everyone that is nobody with any background has any advantage while writing UPSC because at the end of the day you have to know everything I come from economics I know nothing about science there will be engineers with a science background who know nothing about economics so likewise I feel it's a great leveler that UPSC has skipped so everybody is on an equal footing and whoever puts the most effort would come out victorious. It's a level playing and it's more also current best. Yes sir. A lot of reasons that they have. Yes, yes, yes sir. Do you suggest some sources especially some standard books or sources you suggest in paper 3? Sir for paper 3 what I would say to be honest was because my optional was economics I did not have a particular strategy to cover economics because it was done along with my optional prep itself. However for environment science and technology I believe there are a lot of standard textbooks available the environment textbooks by a reputed institute is very good and for science and technology again you have to refer to websites because the news keeps on updating so I used to refer to the internet a lot and using websites of reputed institutes such as NASA, ISRO to know about the recent launches etc. is very good. Okay. Government institutions and institutions, right? Yes sir, yes absolutely, absolutely. Of course this paper 4 which is for a very young like you to go with this paper it will be of special interest for me to understand. What did you understand about the nature of this paper paper for ethics, integrity and aptitude? What examples are looking for? Sir because the paper itself is of 250 marks. This is unlike this, this has ample scope to somehow bring out the character of the student or the aspirant in the paper itself because it's very vast. It's not limited to one or two questions which we had to face when we were in school or something like that. Here I believe UPSC can bring out some shades of the character into the paper. So I had kept that in mind and whenever I was preparing I would make sure that your answers are in a very balanced manner and that none and that we ensure that all sides and dimensions are covered and even if you're talking about one particular topic we talk about both the pros and cons of it. So at the face of it UPSC or the examiner would be convinced that we are looking at a candidate who is level-headed and who has a balanced view of things and that I believe is something is a quality that every bureaucrat must have. Along with this to continue with, if I may add as to how I tackled GS4 is that I used to again maintain separate notes on my Evernote app whereby I would add examples from real life and from books that I read or even movies which kind of describes the value that is given there. So you have to take the syllabus and take each word in that syllabus for example honesty, integrity. So for honesty and integrity we can even quote from our epics like the Mahabharata or the Ramayana. You can quote the integrity of Lord Rama when you're talking about integrity and when you're talking about dedication and perseverance you can quote a particular civil servant who did not bow down to pressure from anybody. So all of these examples are very very important in ethics especially from the 2019 example a lot of questions pertaining to governance and specifically to the Indian civil services were asked. So at one point I even ran out of examples. I thought that I had a lot of examples with me but even then I ran out of it. So every aspirant must make sure that they have a very good reservoir of examples to put in their answers. More and more on the practical side so that you read in the newspaper or you read any one of the impact as you were nicely saying that this can be taken as a reference and more practical or connected information you give better you will do in this paper. This is more of the application side to when you will go into administration. How you are going to maintain the basic three parameters of ethics, integrity and aptitude. That's very important. Now since you have taken, I think you have taken subject to economics, correct? Yes sir, yes. That's your subject there. Mostly people even those who do legislation, post-legislation, they don't really dare to take the subject. There will be kind of subject. So how was your experience? Were you prepared from the beginning to take this obstacle? Or you chose later on? Sir, to be very honest, there were several times when I, second guest, when I was worried if I took the wrong decision by choosing economics because it was a very daunting subject to cover. So having only had a bachelor's degree, I had to face a lot of difficulties in my preparation. But I would say that in the beginning of main preparation I was really scared looking at the entire syllabus and I had not covered it fully before the prelims itself. So a major chunk was done only after the prelims was done. But I tried to come myself and take it one day at a time. And then by slowly and steadily I was able to cover the entire syllabus. And I focused and here again I strategized by focusing on my strong areas. So there were two particular topics in economics that I was very fond of that it was easier for me to learn, which was development economics as well as international economics. So I focused more on that. And as you are aware for optionals, you do have the choice questions. That is, you can choose to answer something or not. And thankfully when the paper was in my hand, I figured that I could choose to answer the topics which I was well versed in. And that I'm hoping worked in my favor. So if I ask you, what should be the criteria of selecting one option subject? With your experience, what would you like to throw out? Sir, the criteria to put it short is something that you as an individual enjoy. Because optional is something that you have to spend a lot of time studying in. Perhaps more than your GS papers itself. So I am a lover of economics from when I was a student at school. And therefore, taking economics was not a tough decision to make. Likewise, for anybody else, even if you are choosing something which you are completely new to, make sure that you play around with it. Like you give it ample time. Like for a week or so, try and attend classes teaching that particular subject. And only if you're really interested in it, go ahead. Otherwise, you have to throw yourself open to other options. You mean to say one should give a main priority to the interest. If you don't have interest, you will not be able to do well. Yes, sir. If you have background or you don't have background, doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Very, very nice. Now, at such a young age, you have gone to civil service or facility test. Yes, sir. And you have an experience there. So I would like to know a bit from you about that. What do you think the selectors look in you in your facility test? When my interview dates were announced, I was really scared. I was almost under verge of tears when I found that my date was 17th of February, which was literally the very first day of the interview. I was very scared and I barely had 20 days for preparing. However, my mentors and my parents gave me a lot of support and they gave me the confidence saying, Rumeza, you have it in you to tackle this. So I believe that I was lucky enough to have had a background of public speaking and debating and that definitely helped me in my communication skill and it helps me think clearly as well. So I believe that the important things that the selectors look in you are your confidence, your clarity and how well you are able to balance things out. Are you diplomatic enough in your answers? These are the few things I believe they look into. How they begin there when you enter the interview board, how it all began. Can you just let me know about that? Definitely, sir. So when I went into the interview room, it was in the afternoon and I was I think the second last one to go. So there was a fair bit of waiting in the waiting room and that is where your nerves really start to take in. So when I was waiting, I used to try some meditation methods, take deep breaths in order to keep myself calm. But once you enter the interview room, then you are completely taken away and you no longer feel scared because you are there at a position where you have always dreamed of being at. My chairperson was Sujatha Mehta, Ma'am IFS and there were four other members. So my questions began with my background. So Ma'am asked me why I had quit or I had rather rejected an offer from an MNC where I had interned at. So I had interned at Goldman Sachs and Ma'am asked me why would you quit such a lucrative job? So it started off like that and they asked me a lot of questions from economics. What do you reply for that audience would be interested to know? How do you respond to that? What did you say? Sir, I said that there were mainly two reasons why I did not take up the job because after my exposure to the corporate world I found that it was not truly my area of calling and I had always been interested in writing the civil services. So I thought I will give it a go right now and then if it does not work out or something maybe I will go back to the corporate world. Do you preference for Sujatha Mehta since she is from Indian Foreign Service and also had a first preference at Indian Foreign Service? Do you get some questions related to foreign service? Surprisingly no sir, everybody had asked me this but for some reason she did not ask me anything about the foreign service. Rather it was entirely about economics and Indian economy issues. Ma'am, any situation where you found that it was difficult for you to come out which would you like to or any stress kind of thing happened in India before? Sir, initially it went very smoothly. There was no cross questioning per se. They asked me what are the issues in health sector, what are the issues in education how would you solve this problem? They were all testing my clarity on certain topics. They in fact asked me about Kerala model of development as well and what are the shortcomings of the same? So all of these I was very well prepared in and I was able to answer with quite a lot of confidence. However towards the end they started asking me more opinionated questions on topics such as demonetization. So the sir asked me what do you think how well has demonetization helped? And then after that I was asked a question about the ongoing student protest and she asked me if campus politics was good or not. So for both of these questions I was able to give a very balanced answer because they were positive sides and they were negative sides to both. So I believe that the way I tackled that would have probably given me good marks in the interview. You were able to sail through and you came out the distance from there. Yes. So Rumaeja as you were also in Chanakya's interview guidance program and talk interview, how this program helped you what experience you got in Chanakya talk interview? So coming to Chanakya I would say that it was a very good experience because it was the interview that was the most close to the actual interview experience. So I had attended around five or six interviews before that but I believe at Chanakya the board and the kind of questions that were directed at me were most similar to the actual interview because they asked me questions which were pertaining to the conceptual clarity as well. Most of an interview tend to focus more on just opinions or questions only about your background. Chanakya had re-emphasized and reminded me that your subject knowledge is also very very important when it comes to UPSC interview exam. So after the experience at Chanakya I went back and within the few days I had left I had tried to read up a lot more about topics which were most likely to be asked so that definitely boosted my confidence a lot. You found a simulating condition there? Yes. Yes. That there you found this situation happening in your interview? Yes. Absolutely. Rumaeja your concepts are very clear and I'm sure your interaction with me definitely would help a lot of the students. Yes. Line their program and we can also dream like you to be successful with good rank in the first time and I am sure in the next attempt you're going to get to your dream career that is in Indian Foreign Service with maybe very top 10 rank kind of figure idea. Thank you sir. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for coming to this program. Success speaks. God bless you. Thank you sir. Thank you so much. Thank you. Don't forget to like share and subscribe to our channel and press the bell icon to never miss an update.


Hello everyone, myself, Ms. Shailaja Diwarkonda, Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering Department, Volchian Institute of Technology, Solapur. In today's lecture, we are going to study modes of transportation, railways. Learning outcomes of this lecture. At the end of this video, the viewers will be able to explain importance of railway transport, elements of the railways and types of the railways. It is the means of transportation on vehicles which run on the track, which track is nothing but rails. It is one of the most important transportations commonly used and very cost effective modes of communicating and good carriage over long as well as short distances. Roadways are cheaper than railways. After the road transport, we can mostly preferred for the railway transport. The first train in India was ran from Red Hills to Chaitra Deepet Bridge in 1837. It was called Red Hill Railway and used a rotary steam locomotive and was mainly used for transporting granite stones for road building works. The first passenger train in India ran between Bombay to Dhane on 16th April 1853 and it is ran over the span of 34 kilometers. So these are the various elements of the railway track. The railway track consists of first natural subgrade, then over it formation level, then ballast, sleepers, fastenings and rails. So this formation level and subgrade is nothing but the foundation for the railway track to provide the stability and safe transport of the trains over the rails. It elements of the railway. As I told the after formation level, here it is natural subgrade, then over it formation level. Then the first element of the railway track is ballast. So in this figure you can see the part of the lower most part of the railway track which is mostly having aggregates of size 20 mm to 65 mm is called as ballast bed. Ballast is the granular granular material usually broken stones or bricks, single and conker gravel and sand placed and packed and around the sleepers to transfer the load from the sleepers to the formation level. Sleeper means here in this figure you can see these horizontal members are called as sleeper means whatever load comes from the train it is transferred to the rails, from rails it is transferred to the sleepers and it is uniformly distributed to the ballast formation. And again from ballast it is distributed to the natural subgrade. Then next is rails. Normally we can see the only this upper most part of the rails. These rails are made up of steel sections. The rolled steel sections laid end to end in two parallel lines over sleepers to form a railway track are known as rails. So in these rails we are having various types that is double headed rails, flat footed rails, bull headed rails. This figure we have shown it is double headed rails. Double headed rail it means the head and foot means the both sections upper and lower section are of the same size. The rails are having their head and foot of same dimensions are known as double headed rails. These rails have less strength and stiffness as compared to the flat footed rails. Then flat footed rails in this figure it is shown as flat footed rails. It means the lower part of the rail section is flat. So it is called as flat footed rails. These rails have more strength and stiffness than other rails. These rails are less costly than other type of rails. Bull headed rails. The rail section having their head little thicker and stronger than the lower most part. If you see this figure at this top section it is little bit more in dimension as compared to the cross section at the lower side. So it is called as bull headed rails. They keep better alignment and give a more solid and smoother track. They have less strength and stiffness. So from these 3 types of rails the flat footed rails are having more strength and stiffness. Now the figure shows the various joints of the rails. When we prepare the railway track it is not just we have to place the rails on sleepers but we have to fix up it. So to fix up this rail railway tracks we have to use some fixtures and fastening. So this figure shows the typical cross section of the rail joint. In this figure you can observe the lower most part is ballast and over ballast the sleepers are placed and again these rails are placed over these sleepers. Again these rails are fitted or fixed with the help of this chair, chair bolts, fish bolt or fish plate to the sleepers. This rail joints are most important to keep the rails in the rail in proper stability and to avoid the vibration or sleeping of the train from the railway track. So the most important part in the railway track is these rail joints. So normally rail joints are having fish plate joint, fish fasteners, side chairs, junction plate, bearing plate and chairs. Now the next part of the railway track is sleepers. In this figure you can observe this horizontal member which is called as sleeper. Sleepers are the members generally laid transferred to the rails on which the rails are fixed to transfer the load from the train to the ballast and the sub grade. Again we are having the different types of these sleepers. Normally we have wooden sleepers, metal sleepers and concrete sleepers. Now you can see in this figure it is the wooden type of sleepers. Earlier days mostly we are using the wooden type of sleepers and in our days we are using metal sleepers as well as concrete sleepers. So metal sleepers and concrete sleepers provide the more stability to the rail track than the wooden sleepers. Gauge, what is mean by rail gauge? Rail gauge is nothing but the inner distance between the two rails. If you observe this figure gauge means it is the inner distance between the two rails. So you can called as width of the railway track. Again there are various types of rail gauges. Standard gauge, broad gauge, meter gauge and narrow gauge. In India normally we will use this broad gauge, meter gauge and narrow gauge. These are the various types of rail gauges. Standard gauge is having length of 1.524 meter to 1.435 meter. These type of gauges are mostly used in Europe, North America, China, Korea, Australia etc. In India normally we will use broad gauge, meter gauge and narrow gauge. Gauge is having the length of 1.676 meter to 1.524 meter. It is used when sufficient funds are available and the prospect of revenue are very high. Normally the broad gauge is used in plain areas. Meter gauge, meter gauge is having the length of 1 meter and it is used when sufficient funds are not available and this gauge is used in under development areas. Gauge is having the length of 0.762 meter to 0.610 meter. When the construction of track with a wider gauge is prohibited due to the provision of sharp curves, steep gradient or narrow bridges and tunnels, in that case we go for the narrow gauges. So these are the different types of rail gauges and their suitabilities. Now you pause this video and try to answer these questions. These are the answers for the given questions. These are the references used for the further study. Thank you.


So, krei, pumbel puta, normali a co-driver in the Otago Rally. Is this your first Otago Rally as a driver? Yes, this is my first go as a driver. Enjoying it. Enjoying it now? You've got a Mark II Ford Escort, which isn't dissimilar to most of the cars in the field, but there's something a wee bit different about this car. You know, it's a pinto with a roller cam in it, and yeah, it's 2.1. And yeah, hopefully so far it's been very reliable. When you look under the engine cover there, it looks a bit different to most pintoes. A custom made rocker box here by the look of it. Yeah, custom made rocker box. That's because we had a few engine issues beforehand, and that's what we had to end up with. Now you've got young Daniel Mills in the passenger seat. His father's pretty well known around these parts. Is this his first go co-driving? No, this is his fourth go at co-driving for me. We've done three Catlins rallies, but this is his first time with Otago rally and first time on notes. Well, he hasn't got you last yet today? Only once. He's got me last on the touring stage, so there's a couple of words said, but he's only young and we're all learning and it's just all part of the game. The main thing is you're having a great day. We're having a great day and having a lot of fun, and we've just got to get to the end, Mark. That's just very important to get to the end for everybody included. Get out there and enjoy the afternoon loop in the Otago Classic rally sponsored by Stadium Cars.


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Fire up your platform Get ready to enter But first let's get the mindset centered Let's pray to have success Find what works for you And forget the rest Stats and probabilities is what we're about Time to dismiss greed and doubt Focus on the process Not the money and the profits Will flow like honey Power our lives Let's start the show Come on trade hackers Get ready to go Zero-day options Time to make bank Get locked and loaded Then be ready to play I'm gonna do the same thing I did yesterday Just tiny position size So with that let me I'm gonna adjust my bots here Trunch one normal day I'll do two Trunch two normal day I'll do three Trunch three normal day I'll do one Bots are locked and loaded for some low premium baby Everything else is going good today Had a JSP's right out of the gate hit 50% for about 1600 My AM ratio basically a scratch plus 80 bucks I had a re-entry that hit 90% The other half hit 50 Quiet lunch hit 50% And I'm in a PM iron condor that's currently up 43% And my profit target on that one's 50 So my bot profits today a little over 9700 so far Hopefully power hour can take us home add a little bit to it Instead of taking it away like it did yesterday Yeah, Trunch one will definitely go inverted here Got about a minute for Trunch one kicks in My PM iron condor if you can get a little tiny push higher Should hit 50% here pretty soon It's currently at 44% I turned on my re-entries right after I got closed out on my AM iron condor Just took one Trunch just got out of my my last one just hit 90% Just a couple minutes ago Trunch one filled at 845 inverted on the 6570s 6570s at 2080 you must be doing a ratio Krish My six sevens about ready to hit 20% I've got an order posted in the calendar channel Got an order at 785 to close half That looks to be hitting pretty soon here It might be about five cents away Also added a one three earlier today that one's up a couple percent Added a two four or not today I have a two four it's about 7% And then my three four from yesterday is up about four percent Added a new time fly today with the diagonal and the fly That time of entry Just got filled on my six seven at 785 for 20% closed half Six seven posted that in the calendar channel Real-time data feed for stock prices in Bitcoin Not I mean trading view Are you looking for if you say Bloomberg I assume maybe you're not talking about charting Oh yeah trading view is real-time free If you don't want any of the bells and whistles Yep it's got it's got an API Speaking of Bitcoin that was the only future straight I took today It's good for a little over 2k Got in pre-market about 40 minutes before the market opened and wrote it all the way up Bud volatility and gold coming in a little bit Not quite back to even on our gold strangle but It's calmed down a bit No decay yet That's part of the problem with going inverted as well you're in the money So the decay doesn't happen quite as fast Trading naked it's really just price action I'm in the process of kind of putting together notes And I'll be recording some videos or It may end up being a full class on what I'm doing But it's a high level overview as I'm just looking at the daily charts Looking for price action that I think there's a High probability chance that it's either going up or down Then I go down to the 5 minute chart find an entry I try to put my stop at a place where If it goes there that means my thesis was wrong And then I just try to manage it Sometimes I'll scale in and out but you know like today I just kind of let it road Let it ride and a V slap today was V pop If it's going up it's V pop if I'm shorting it it's V slap Maro what you would have to do is just set up An extra bot to go at the money And then right before power hour you'd have to flip that one on And then you could have the bot manage it that way but just as it is Just searching you know Searching for the closest to a certain amount of premium then it won't You can't have it do a straddle instead of going inverted Automatically I knew it to just sit here for another few minutes to hit my 50% Yep exactly Maro I hope Option Omega comes out with their Auto trading that would be pretty cool They would definitely have all the filters exactly like they have it in OO Flip the switch Matt and Rusty if you're listening that's what we want Both of those are going to happen and we'll have some choices Yeah I don't get the whole no filters thing That kind of I mean what does that do for you Option Alpha does not have they don't allow trading on SPX For whatever reason so that's a Automatic no go on that one I assume they will I don't know what Why or what the hold up would be on that front but I don't mind trading naked those are just in my head Yeah Option Omega is not close but They are exploring it Beta come in where are you 48% need a couple more My PM iron condor will be bounced Maro would you think of the did you watch the little video with that Time fly alert would you think about that Or anybody wish I would have had that structure in that big Rally from here to here would have been a lot better than what we experienced Yeah sure would have been Yeah I was posted earlier today PT and there goes my PM iron condor hit 50% she gone now it's all power hour Yeah we just for that December 8 one Just a little down move we definitely just need Price to stay here or move lower preferably move lower You minutes until Tronch 2 yeah exactly Maro Fixed down about 1% hovering right under 13 S&P's pretty much unchanged now Nasdaq slightly green Russell's down over 1% so it's been the strongest Showing a little weakness today old flat silver Back down 1.5% Big move up in bonds again 10 year yield down 2.5% 10 year yield under 4.2 look at that pushed above 5 in early October mid October back down to 4.177 Oil continues lower Natty gas was up Earlier now down now up only about 1% Red Bitcoin up another 4.5% Tronch 2 looks like it'll be the 70 straddle should start trying to get filled right About now yep 70 straddle filled At 485 so Tronch 1 I'm looking for 505 to reduce my stop Tronch 2 I'm looking for 290 which for a straddle Get to 290 we're gonna be getting close to the end We have a nice calm market on close imbalance today Or tomorrow tomorrow is Wednesday December 6th We've got ADP non-farm employment change pre-market And that's about it uh oh Chris said the VIX is getting ready to go up Is that your crystal ball? The crystal ball The crystal ball I like it that might stick I mean if you keep saying the market's gonna crash then eventually You're gonna be right Chris even a clock's right twice a day you know You then you can call yourself an economist you might even get on CNBC Alright what else we got going today Did you guys do anything else fun today We had an expected move a plus or minus about 20 today Not about a 26 point range by the way did you guys see my Question to trade steward in the trade steward channel If any of you all trade the JSP's like I do My question was so here's the here's the first 5 minute bar In SPX SPX opened at 57.25 The high of this bar was 57.39 which would not qualify For the JSP's triggering because it's gotta move 0.05% Above the open but my JSP's did get triggered in trade steward So what he mentioned was that the opening Price that they have to use is about 5 seconds After the real SPX open and so that's why it got triggered FY dark avenger the futures trading It's not it's definitely not gonna be alerts I mean there's a lot of discretion to it so it's You know it's just not something plus it's you know there's a lot of times where I'm scaling In and out it's just not something either capacity or really the desire to do But I'm gonna I'm gonna teach you exactly the way that I kind of Think about it and then you know maybe what I'll do Is in my morning positions and updates because that's typically when I'm looking At them I usually put that out and then I start looking at the futures and deciding If there's a potential opportunity and And so maybe I'll post there as far as kind of the You know a lot of times it's one or two symbols that I'm looking at So kind of post there give you a heads up of kind of what I'm eyeballing. Yeah Cosmo for me that trunch three For a normal day like today is a two to one yep Dead Sember I'm not familiar with that Meach tell me more Alright maybe I'll get on that train with you got some Got some dumbbells I can bring from the house to the office Push ups and pull ups and then what's January Don't tell me dry January My teeth are what ratio do you do I've got the Let's see I think they go up to The ones that adjust the weight I think they go up to like Want to say like 90 pounds each trunch two and two minutes Excuse me trunch three and two minutes yeah I mean I know it's not okay for you Meach I'm just you know I'm not I'm not at Meach's level day one tug life I like this is that on a Twitter or Instagram Where'd you get that I'll check it out oh yeah you're not messing around I'm done lifting heavy I'm just you know I'm getting old Not a young spry chicken like you Meach I like I like lifting but I just I don't like being sore every day you know When I lift I just I'm constantly sore when I was working with a personal trainer For about a year it's like every single day I'm sore Like I don't I don't really like that not anymore anyway Alright here comes trunch three build it 665 and that's on the 70 straddle I mean the soreness definitely Lessons as you go on but there's also muscles that Even if you're consistently working out there's always muscles you're not working And so there's always a way to get get sore at least that's what happened to me I could never never managed to go without being sore There for a while or I could go down to my office gym my condo gym Here do some deadlifts I got plenty of weight down there SPX hanging around 60 45 69 70s the sweet spot and then like quiet lunch And deadlifts it's a good combo good combo My excuse for Not working out as consistently as zero DTE It's like once I started trading zero DTE I felt like I had to be in front of my screen more I you know made the excuse to myself I can't I can't leave the screen to go work out because of this position You know there's always a good excuse in there somewhere But if trade steward gets trailing stops I may be out of excuses what time is it there tomorrow Opens at 3 30 p.m. So it's almost 10 p.m. there huh 9 30 huh that would be interesting that would be an interesting dynamic I just I just check it every so often Chris usually I mean if it's moved a buck is kind of what I've been doing or buck or more I just trail it at even dollar amount so I see it's moved a buck in my favor I'll move it down a buck no three Ali is me each I don't have an excuse but that's been my internal subconscious mental excuse I'm getting back on the train working through my working through my laziness that I got myself into yeah I played around with that a little bit dick K definitely found some that did better but some did not that I still trade but that is that is nice dig a little deeper on some of those alright so we got trunch one is up about 15% trunch twos up about 18% trunch threes up about 5% so far I need 40% on trunch one and two to reduce my stop I got filled on mine at 785 Chris already posted it closed half of mine I'll close the remaining half tomorrow morning I'm not sure if you have the same strikes or not but I'm on the 50s 4550s and 4630 the only one that hasn't performed for me all year is really the TGIF most the back test ones have been very consistent all year I just sized up my double calendars for December I just think in this low low ball environment every little push and volatility will help them I guess I should say I just added I added more exposure my size didn't necessarily change that much I just you know like on the 6-7 usually if I did a 6-7 on Friday I wouldn't add the 3-4 on Monday because it's the same cycle but I did both doing some more overlapping ones where I used to be a little bit more selective I still above 68 kind of chopping between 68 and 70 early market on close and balance 197 197 million sell side we got there 4-5 on a Friday 15 delta out the diagonal some serious consistency going on there dig into that a little bit more I might add that to my Friday repertoire alright there you go just had to get that on my sheet my next month trade plan things to look at discount I don't have a minimum cagger I just look at all the metrics and decide if I don't have a minimum for anything I just look at them all and decide if it's a good fit and I usually kind of trade it for a little bit see if I want to permanently add it and then go from there I would say I definitely give the most importance to cagger so far so good trunche 1's up 22% trunche 1's up 22% trunche 2's up 23% trunche 3 is slightly green we do December 13th so that's next week next Wednesday Jerome and his pals hit the stand we've also got CPI on Tuesday and PPI Wednesday morning CPI pre-market Tuesday PPI pre-market Wednesday FOMC Wednesday afternoon followed up by retail sales and unemployment on Wednesday a lot of red a lot of red on the calendar next week less than 19 minutes till the bell now I use the same closing rules and I'll do profit targets in power hour and come on profit targets are for people like Krish alright let's just stick it out right here boys and girls don't see any upcoming bond auctions there's a four week bill auction on Friday bumblebee there's not really much information about inverted it just means that the puts are higher strike than the calls so when you get low premiums you know with power hour obviously towards the end of the day premiums are dwindling anyway and with low with low IV where the premiums are small you know if we have a specific premium that we're targeting for each trunche on each side and we call it inverted when the puts are a higher strike than the calls on that specific premium that we're targeting we'll push down around 65 what did you have a 65 trunche straddle morrow pushing down below 65 trunche two is trading at 530 my stops at 785 trunche three is trading at 1020 stops at 1265 trunche one is still up 20% but I'm going to need a little bounce help here hey Jose do me a favor because I don't monitor the zoom chat I just saw it pop up this stuff is in the zero live chat channel in discord to answer your question where could I get the link to know how to do a stop loss and profit taking order and toss yeah so check out the zero DTE course channel and you'll see the the toss templates if you're if you're if the toss templates is a little bit too much for you if you're just looking for basics like how do I set a limit order how do I set a stop to the learning center on thinkorswim's website I think it's TLC for the learning center TLC dot thinkorswim.com there's all kinds of videos on kind of the basic orders that you can do on it who knew Tim was a trainer now too that's what he's doing he's not back testing ooh look at this bounce coming in are we getting ready for the final market on close imbalance number first three or one 97 million sell side let's see where the final number comes in in about 90 seconds meet your little vocal today did they would they they let you out of your cage today what happened he's fired up from all the deadlifts good and the final market on close imbalance number is two billion sell side so another couple billion not much of a reaction trunch one is now up 30% trunch twos up 30% might actually get to reduce a stop here if we get a little bit more of a bounce so trunch one I'll reduce down to 805 so that'd be minus 35 minus 40 excuse me minus 0.40 trunch two I'll be reducing to 490 plus 0.5 looking for 505 on trunch one and 290 on trunch two gonna need a little bounce started to coming back down that's below 65 there we go pop back up six minutes to go getting close to exit time we can get a little bounce here in the next minute I will be starting to close once we hit five minutes till prefer a little bounce first that's not the right way so I'm gonna start with trunch one there's a little bounce filled at 605 for trunch one so that'll be a little winner open for another little bounce maybe closing trunch number two filled at 545 that'll be a small loss trunch three a little bounce is gonna be a little loss as well see if it wants to do something nice for me today a little bounce above 66 close trunch three filled at 1055 so here's how I ended up so plus 480 for trunch one minus 180 for trunch two minus 390 for trunch three so down a couple was that a couple hundred bucks so another kind of meh power hour but again the rest of the day was awesome no losers on the rest of the day so zero DTE plus 10,110 for the day alright my friends so tomorrow is what is tomorrow tomorrow is Wednesday the 6th Chad will be streaming in the market open and I will be back for power hour alright all have a good evening talk to you soon