Hello and welcome to my YouTube channel. My name is Sandy Aldock. I'm an artist working in all kinds of mediums and I love to teach. So I love working with artists of all levels. I am going to be talking about alcohol markers today, specifically Olo markers. These are a DIY pen that I reviewed a while back and I didn't really have very many colors in them, but I was interested in them because each half of the marker and you buy them half by half. Each half has the equivalent of a Copic sketch marker in terms of the ink. The nibs were nice and that sort of thing. The markers themselves, I ended up getting all brush nibs. So I have two different colors in one pen. They just screwed together with a little connector. However, I wasn't able to assess the color range. Well, guess what? The colors have all arrived. Thank you to Olo and their US distributor for this, but I was able to make a hex chart and a hex chart meant that I could really dig in and assess the color range of Olo. I discovered some gaps that they have a very few in terms of greens and therefore I decided the second half of this video is going to be about using complementary colors and analogous colors to mix some things that you might not have in your collection, whether Olo markers or not. They work for all different kinds of mediums and all different kinds of alcohol markers. Let's get started. Full disclosure, my friend Lori works for the US distributor for Olo and she coordinated the deal for me to get these markers so I can make a hex chart and the hex chart is of course on my website. That link will be down below. The markers always come with funnel stickers. They come with a brochure that tells you all about the pens, the kind of a DIY marker, their alcohol pens, and you choose your ink color and you choose what kind of nib and you buy two halves of a marker and then you get these connectors in between them to put them together. I'll show you that in a minute. And you can either get one marker that's the same color on both ends with a chisel nib on one and a brush on the other, or you can do what I did, which is get all brush nibs. So each pen of mine has two colors and I'll talk a little bit about some potential issues that could be the value of the ink that's in these, each one of these pens, when you've got two of them together as the equivalent of two Copics, when you're talking about the amount of ink, the refills are a cartridge refill. I haven't had to put any cartridges in, so I don't know that process at this point. You'll probably Google for that. And here's how the markers go together. Well, they come separately as you saw them in the box. Yours will come a little less perfectly arranged in rainbow or like mine did.  The numbers are on the end of the marker. And if you like calling them by their name or color name, that's on the label on the side. So for those of you who like to do things that way, and the only issue I really had with these in actually using them, while I was doing the hex chart and the drawing that you're going to see is they roll and my desk does not have a lip on the edge. So I was chasing pens around here and there, but that's, that's kind of a me issue, maybe not a you issue. The Olo numbering system, if you are familiar with Copics, it's basically the same ish kind of thing. Let me explain that. Each of the 128 colors has a color family and that's the letter. And there's either one or two letters. They have different designations of letters than Copic does. So if you're switching, then you'll have some, some brain jumping to do, but the numbers still work the same. They just put a dot in between them. So the first digit is the saturation level, the amount of intensity or desaturated grayishness of the color. The second number is the light to dark. So the lower numbers are lighter. And as you get higher numbers, you get darker colors. And this one is a Y2 compared to the Y1. So it's less saturated, but the zero makes it a lighter color than the first one because it's a zero. That's a lighter number. The three is a darker number. It's got a deeper value than the first ones. If we switch over here to the Y8s, these are desaturated colors. They're very grayed out kinds of yellows. And they have a six and a seven as the last number. So they're much darker than the other colors. And you can see that play out a little bit differently in each of the color family. So this is the R zeros on the left and the R ones on the right. And they go from lighter to darker. That number on the right hand side is the one that keeps getting darker as the number rises. So if you're looking for a trio, then look for something with the letter and the first number being the same or similar.  But the second number is the one that'll tell you whether you have a light, a medium or a dark. And one of the things that people always get stressed out over is do I have to have all three? No, you don't. You can blend with two colors. You can also blend with mixed colors. I'm going to show you how to use some other colors that are not in the collection if you don't have a particular marker. So coloring a hex chart, you see all the ones there that are available now. If you have any of those sets of markers, you may choose to buy this even before you invest in the markers, because this will help you to actually make some decisions on what you want to purchase. You're not just looking at the colors on a screen. You're looking at the visual organization of the colors. I'm trying to put like colors next to like colors so that you can see right here, the O's and the O R's are both browns. They're in the Brown family, but you can't see them next to each other on the screen to be able to compare which one is really similar to which other one. So the chart that you'll get a blank one so you can color in yourself as you increase your collection, but you'll also get a colored one so that you can see which ones are nearly identical and then just not by those save you some money so you can buy different colors. But you'll also be able to tell whether you've got a light, a medium or a dark in each one of them. And when you're coloring a dark color on a hex chart, I recommend either printing the hex chart out on a piece of acetate and lay it over top because then you'll be able to see the numbers or just write the number on top of the Copic ink with a white pen. And then you'll be able to see them. That's what I'm going to do for mine. And you will also get in the chart that has color in it that you get when you purchase the hex charts, they all come with the numbers on the dark ones in white ink so that you can actually see them. Now, there's a few interesting things as we get over here to the neutrals, all of these grays in this left hand corner. And I wanted to talk specifically about that. They have there's something unique in Olo in their color collection. That they have three blacks, they have one that's a K and they have one that's a BK and they have one that's an RK. They the K is, I guess, like the most neutral, most in the middle kind of one. And there is actually a difference in the BK. It's a little bluer, it's a little cooler. And the RK is much redder. You can definitely see the difference when you're coloring with it. I don't know how much you can see on the screen, but there's definitely a difference between the three. It's not like the Copic 100 versus 110, which I visually can't tell any difference between. I don't really know why they have them, but maybe I'm just color blind on that particular kind of thing. But they do have a collection of cool grays and warm grays. They just do every other one. And I don't know if they have plans to fill in the ones in between. But I wanted to show you also these red grays. They're a much redder, warmer kind of gray, almost a brown. And they just have a few of those as well. I considered putting them in the brown section, but for comparison to the other grays, I figured they'll just sit here. And note, there's an 071 right there. I'm coloring that 071. Always look on your hex chart in weird places because I put colors where they visually make sense. And that one looked much more like the warm grays and the red gray than it did look like a brown. So this is just the piling up of the colors. So you can see how many are in each color group. The YGs and the Gs are seriously short of colors. There's just not a lot there. There's not a lot of variety in hue or in saturation. But there's plenty of BGs, plenty of Bs, plenty of blues. And I am sad that the yellows and the yellow oranges are limited, just not all that many of them. And pink lovers, I have to say, you only have four colors. Sorry about that. But you do have some beautiful purples, lots of purples. And then the O's and the ORs are where they went heavy. So if you are someone who does faces, portraits, animals, that kind of thing, great collection of those. And then the BVs, there's lots of blue violets as well. I'm drawing some Holly today because of something I saw on Sir David Attenborough's Facebook page. He said that Holly is the only plant that can, in a targeted way, change its DNA in part of the plant due to outside circumstances. What that means is Holly normally has smooth leaves until a deer or something comes by and starts nibbling on the bottom of it. And then it changes the shape, changes the DNA of the leaves to make them all jaggedy and pointy. So the animals don't want to eat it. Is that not amazing? I had no idea that was a thing. So I took a picture of some of the Holly and decided that I would draw it today. I know it's post Christmas, but whatever. It's still a plant and it's still a great object lesson for what I wanted to show you. Because sometimes you don't have a color that's what you need to color something with. And you need some alternates. And that's when color mixing comes in. Layering or glazing colors over top of each other. So I've put down the lightest color in each one of these because my photo had no whites in it whatsoever. So I colored a really soft cool pink because that's the color of the highlights. But I wanted to use a dark color. And if you don't have a dark red to go with it, then what you need to do is find either a complementary color to red, which would be a green, or find an analogous to a complement. And in this particular collection, remember I said that the greens are kind of short of colors. And there's just not a lot of options. So I'm using an analogous to a complement. The complement of red would be green. So instead, since I don't have a lot of choices in the greens, I used a blue green. Blue green is next to green on the color wheel. So it makes a reasonable alternate. So really depends on what kinds of colors you have in your collection and what kind of color you want as your result. Test them out on some scratch paper and see which one is going to give you the kind of tone you're looking for. Here I wanted those dark berries that are in behind the front berries. I needed that to just be a dark color to push it to the back of the drawing. And leave that red in the front being that nice bright in the sunlight kind of red color. You can see how nicely that worked. Now one thing that did not work nicely, I'll show you a solution for it, is that I just put a little curve line at the bottom to make a shadow for each of my berries. I did not actually do that right. I would not recommend doing that because you need to do some blending if you can before you add the red color on top. But there is a solution if you forget because I have forgotten many a time and figured it would be more helpful to show you how to fix that rather than only showing you the right way to do it in the first place. Because we all have those moments when we have a little brain fart that changes things and just don't quite follow all the steps we intended to. Now I decided first I wanted to work on those highlights. So I tried out the zero marker. They call theirs a Z-E-R-O. So they don't get confused by just seeing a round circle on the end of the marker name. And what I found which was kind of weirdly interesting I guess, was that it changed that highlight to being more of an orangey type of highlight. So I went back in and threw a bit more of my pink inside that to try to pink it up a little bit. Now here's where I'm fixing the blending. I'm using a lighter blue-green color to blend some of the dark blue-green that was underneath of that. And when you go over top of a color like this you've got really rich red underneath of it. You often don't have to re-blend with the red on top. But if you need to you can go back and forth a few times to try to smooth that out some. But it's a little easier if you do that step first rather than later. I'm using a very dark green in order to put the shadows in these very very deep crevices where the berries aren't really separated. So you can see the difference that good contrast can make when you're doing your artwork. I'm a big fan of contrast because it really gives that illusion of depth. I'm using the red grays on the stem in addition to a bit of purple because I saw some purple in the photo of that that stem kind of a bluish purple color. And then through a bit of the red over top of it as well just to pull it back into the colorway for the rest of the drawing. Now I'm going to do the other berries. I'll do this a little faster this time. And I'm going to use two different blue greens. So this time I'm going to do that softer blending to soften up that outside edge first. And then when I go over it with the red it's a lot less troublesome to start fussing around with. So I would recommend trying to remember to do that step early on rather than later in the process because it's just a little bit easier to do that. As I finish up the berries fixing up the highlights and the shadows on them I realized I had not told you something interesting. I also found out about Holly which is that the berries are called Drupes D-R-U-P-E-S. I did not know that. Learning science is fun. Now let's talk about analogous color mixing because in a collection of markers like the Olos there's not a lot of green options and none of them really seem to work very well for the Holly leaves that I had in the picture that I'm working from. So I began with one of the dark greens and just put it a little touch of it in the areas where there is very very dark green but I had to start figuring out how to blend that with whatever else I was going to be creating. So I had to look for a color that was maybe blendable something near it in value but it was a really desaturated kind of color so this was going to get out of control quickly if I ended up going like full guns with this green because that's not a Holly color. So I only put a little bit of it in so that I could start building up other colors and layering other things in there but I wanted to get enough of these sort of darker mid tones in there before I started my my glazing with other colors so just put some general outlines in there and then tried another one of the greens so like I said none of these greens were the right green for this so you have to then be willing to make up something else but what this does mean if you can start to practice mixing your colors this way you don't have to own all the markers in a collection or you don't have to use a marker collection that has all the colors you need because you can mix them and by glazing them this way just a thin layer of transparent color one color over another glazing is a term that's used primarily in things like watercolor but this is glazing this is the same thing so now I switched over to a different kind of green because the light the way that it was hitting in the picture I had a different kind of green I could work with I could put a little bit more of an olive green feeling here so I went for some of the yellow greens but I still needed to have some of those highlights be a light bluish color because that's what was in the picture I was trying to assess what that color was there was no white highlight so I started switching to lighter blue greens and blues and just layering them over top of each other until I started getting the feel of the color that I was looking for and sometimes you'll have to go back in with a color you had used earlier and add more of it or use some of the zero marker and to try to lift some color out and here I wanted to use also some pink which will tie it in with the berries because this is one of the pinks that I used and I'm using that for all the pock marks that are on the leaf itself because there's little I don't know if they're the plant had a disease or if it was just you know bugs whatever it was had some darker color on it and then went over those with some of the other color it ends up feeling like a brown because the various colors mixed together to make something that approximated kind of brown spots on it I almost got out the colored pencils to work on the veins in this because the photograph had beautiful vein work in there for each one of these leaves but I decided I would just do a quick indication of it with the markers because this video is already long enough so if you're interested in getting a hex chart for your brand of marker whatever brand that is that you use then head over to the link in the doobly do and you can see all the charts that are there and pick one up you could also take the copic jump start class whether or not you're using copics you will learn a ton about how to blend you'll learn about color theory there's just a lot of technique stuff there's a whole bunch of great information in there that works for all alcohol markers you'll just need to translate colors when I give a copic number just go see if you can figure out what color that would be in your brand of marker so check out the photo on my blog if you'd like to try drawing some holly and I will see you guys again next time so subscribe if you haven't make sure you turn notifications on so you know when I've got a new video coming up and I'll see you later go out there and create something every day bye


Your CAPM course has been broken into seven different groupings. We're going to begin by talking about the application in the exam itself. If you haven't started your application yet, don't worry. In fact, that's really a good thing. This course will help you prepare that application, something called the experience verification form, to make sure you get accepted from PMI. We're then going to examine the different types of questions that you're going to see on your exam. Some basics about project management. We're then going to spend most of this course looking at the ten areas that we see, referred to as knowledge areas, often seen as chapters found in the Pembach Guide. We're going to move on to professional responsibility, and throughout this course, you're going to spend a ton of time taking practice exams.


Hello everybody. I'm Dr. Tosha Desai. I'm a clinical associate at Asian Heart Institute Mumbai and I'll be presenting a talk on an early insight into the cardiac MRI findings in COVID-19 vaccine associated myocarditis, a systematic review of 95 patients based on modified Lake Lois criteria. Though there has not been a causal relationship established yet, but there have been several reports that have shown a higher than expected rate of myocarditis or pericarditis following COVID vaccination with mRNA based vaccines. And there has been an incidence reported of myocarditis of one case per one lakh shots. So according to AJR, radiologists need to be cognizant of the association between COVID vaccine and myocarditis, as well as of the role of cardiac MRI for assessing suspected myocarditis post vaccination. So we aimed to conduct a systematic review of the limited research material available till date of the recently recognized entity of COVID-19 vaccine associated myocarditis. We wanted to establish the role of multi parametric CEMRI in the diagnosis of myocarditis with focus on demographics, onset, characteristics of myocardial injury and its distribution. We followed a search strategy according to the Prisma guidelines, where an extensive online database search was performed using the keywords like COVID vaccine, myocarditis, CMR, SARS-CoV-2, etc. And the published articles that described CMR findings were included in the review. Duplicates were excluded. Two others independently reviewed the abstracts following which the data was extracted and analyzed using Microsoft Excel. And the CMR data analysis was performed only on those studies that fulfilled modified Lake Louis criteria, since there was a lot of non-uniformity of description of cardiac MRI findings in all the cases. And for most of the studies, EDMA was defined to be present when the ratio of myocardium to skeletal muscle signal intensity was more than two. And LGE was defined as the one that did not correspond to any vascular territory and spared the subendocardium. So from the 21 studies analyzed, 16 studies were included, which included a total of 95 patients. The majority were male, median age was 24 years, the median time of onset from vaccination to the onset of symptoms was 2.5 days. For myocardial EDMA criteria, T2 or stir hyperintensity was reported in majority of the patients. T2 mapping was reported in only 2% of patients. And T2 mapping with T2 stir hyperintensity was reported in 6% of patients. For non-ish chemical myocardial injury criteria, LGE was the most commonly reported finding at a percentage rate of 88.4%. LGE with elevated native global T1 weighted value was demonstrated in 11.5% patients. And other than that, expansion of ECB, wall motion abnormality, reduced LVEF, pericardial effusion and hyperintensity were also reported. The distribution was predominantly subepicardial, followed by midmyocardial, and LGE was most commonly seen in basal inferolateral segment, followed by mid-entrolateral and inferolateral segments. This is our master chart. So as you can see, the distribution is predominantly basal and that too basal inferolateral, followed by basal entrolateral, mid-enferolateral and mid-entrolateral. And the distribution of LGE is typically subepicardial, followed by midmyocardial, and absolutely none of this study is reported an exclusive subendocardial distribution. So a few examples. This is case one. This is just an image of a 15-year-old boy with myocarditis. As you can see in A, it's the star image, short axis view. And we can see star hyperintensity in the basal lateral and inferior wall, which indicates myocardial edema. Correspondingly, LGE is also seen in the image B, which indicates inflammatory myocardial necrosis. C and D are T1 mapping and T2 mapping, and which shows elevated T1 and T2 at the above mentioned side. This case, too, represents cardiac MRI findings in a 27-year-old male who demonstrated late gadolinium enhancement in epicardial to the midwall in left ventricular inferolateral wall, which was consistent with myocarditis. T1 map and ECV map also showed elevated native T1 and ECV values. And the D, E and F images are speckle tracking ecocardography images, which shows a corresponding values of peak systolic longitudinal strain, which were lower as compared to the endocardial layer. Case three is presented to highlight the occurrence of pericarditis associated with myocarditis. The image C shows pericardial enhancement consistent with findings of pericarditis. So where does CMR stand in the diagnosis of myocarditis? As Dr. Evan Herman says that with regard to cardiac MRI, certainly there is hyperemia, edema, necrosis and scar that remains late criteria. They can be helpful. But as you can also see in the CDC working case definition, CMR in these cases is utilized as a second line imaging modality to either support or verify a diagnosis, which is not clearly confirmed by history, lab or imaging. What are the modified Lake Lewis criteria? For that first we need to understand the original LLC, which were any two out of the three, which included T2 weighted imaging with regional high T2 signal intensity or high T2-SI ratio, early gadolinium enhancement and late gadolinium enhancement. Then following the introduction of T1 mapping and T2 mapping, the modified Lake Lewis criteria ever introduced, which had two basic components of T1 based imaging and T2 based imaging. T1 based imaging consisted of increase of native T1 or increase of ECV or positive non ischemic LGE and T2 based imaging consisted of increase of T2 or regional high T2-STER intensity or high T2-SI ratio. Now vaccine induced myocarditis is, the occurrence is infrequent. The cases are underreported and there has been a prevalence of subclinical myocarditis. So we need to implement modified LLC over the original LLC because the sensitivity of modified LLC has found to become considerably higher than the original LLC. So from previous literature, it also appears that myocarditis typically occurs more common in males, incidence is highest among adults and young adults, which is also verified in our systematic review and LGE and myocarditis edema in our patients were predominantly localized to basal and midlateral LV segments, which is also consistent with other case series of adult and pediatric population that has been reported prior to this. This is just an example of how two-dimensional speckle tracking with ecocardiography and feature tracking with CMR can quantitatively measure longitudinal strain and it has shown to detect LV dysfunction before a reduction in LVEF is identified and in cases of acute myocarditis, reduced LV strain has shown to predict adverse outcomes even in patients with preserved LVEF. There are a few limitations for in our study. We had no control group, neither of these studies that were included had a control group. So it was not possible to compare rates of acute myocarditis between those randomly assigned to receive vaccination versus no vaccination. And there could have also been a recall or referral bias after COVID-19 vaccination. The systematic review focused only on cardiac MRI findings based on modified LLC. Hence the interplay between clinical features and cardiac MRIs as well as cases with cardiac MRI findings that were reported in other formats were not taken into account. And lastly we did not have a long-term follow-up data on these patients. So to summarize, this systematic review suggests an association between acute myocarditis and vaccination in young males and highlights a potential pattern in accompanying CMR abnormalities and the findings of CMR in such patients are similar to those observed in other types of viral myocarditis or idiopathic myocarditis. It is recommended that reporting be performed in accordance with the modified Lake Louise criteria to serve as a standard for future reference. And lastly, an early diagnosis and assessment of the extent of involvement of CMR is key to minimize COVID-19 vaccinated adversities and improve the medical management of patients suspected of myocarditis. These are my references. Thank you.


you know, because he's like, do things for free, build a brand. And I was like, what if I did that with my coaching business? This is what I believe. I'm sharing that with you for nothing.  My free real estate coaching program, you know, I do seven figure year income with free coaching, right? Because I'm building a brand and I get book sales, I get speech deals, I get sponsorship deals, you know, companies come to you and say, I'll write you this check if you do this or do that. So, the thing is, is that any business is a people business. I don't care how you slice it up. Even if you're in real estate investment and you're not even dealing with consumers, you're dealing with investors and you guys are just buying places like this and doing this, you're still dealing with people. My real estate business was built on giving property owners in my area all the market information for free. A weekly email every single, every same day of the week on the same day of the week, every week forever. Close sales, new listings, you know, anything. And a lot of agents were like, why are you giving them all that? They're not gonna have a reason to call you. And I said, well, I don't want them to call me to ask what something closed for.  You know, but look, when you give people more, here's the thing about free.  That's gonna let them, that's gonna make them let their guard down for just a second, because everybody has these guards up because all these people trying to charge you and scam you, right? So they got their guard up. They don't want any of that. So I show up and I say, hey, I'm gonna help you for free. And they say, wait a minute, and they let their guard down for a second just long enough to see if I'm telling the truth. Cause a lot of people say, I'm gonna help you for free. You come into my little funnel and now we're gonna try to sell you something. I tricked you with the free thing. Now I'm gonna try to sell you something, right? But when you say you're gonna do it for free, they come in and then you really do it for free. Now their guard is completely down. Now they love you forever. Now they're gonna do business with you for the rest of their life, with whatever you're doing. And now you're connected with them because he gave them something for free, right?  That's fine and dandy and that's true. But let's say 100% of them do it. It's still enough, right? It's still enough, but I'll tell you I tried paid coaching like I was charging for six months and I realized that was the wrong business model. And I'd already, my thesis was relationships over transactions and business is unlimited from day one of the coaching. So I already believed in that, but I was trying to build a business. So I was charging for coaching. But you guys know Gary Vee. So at the time, I was probably a year into his content. I was probably a year into his content where that's this thing, get for free. And so I started to think about, wait a minute, something clicked and I was like, I was listening to him. I was looking at my coaching business. I was thinking, what if I did that? You know, cause he's like, do things for free, build a brand. And I was like, what if I did that with my coaching business? And so it took me several months to wrap my head around it. Cause I was making 10,000 a month automatic money from the coaching students. But the thing is I only had 200 and I wanted 100,000, you know? Right now I'm up to 27,000. But- What happened to that project I was like, is that three things must be what people want. Yeah. I went up down to the mistake and I'm guilty about that myself. Is it you think you can freeze stuff, but people don't want to turn. So you gotta make sure there's the free stuff that people want. Exactly, exactly, exactly. It's gotta be, it has to be good stuff.  You know? Yeah, they're just, yeah, no, no. It has to be, you know, like me, for example. Just think about it. I got in the business, made a meal, lost it, okay? Worked my way back up, made it to the top again, then waited three years before I wrote a book. A lot of coaches in the real estate industry, they've sold for two years, sold 19 properties and now they're a guru selling courses. Every industry, right? They don't have any clout. They don't have any credibility, okay? So when a guy who has been doing this 18 years makes it, loses it, comes back, makes it again, keeps it and then keeps it and then even goes even higher, that guy is telling you what he thinks about the world. People are listening. As opposed to a guy that's been doing it two years and you know, barely sold any property and hasn't even, you know, hadn't even been through a market crash. I know how to handle a market crash. I know exactly what to do to make more money when the market's crashing. Real estate commissions, not investing in all this stuff, real estate commissions. So, yeah, exactly. It's gotta be good stuff that people relate to. They need to be able to relate to it and it has to be something, some nuts and bolts, some usable material that they can take back into their business and their life and use and be productive. I have a quick question for you. On your really email, you talk about giving market updates and things like that. What would you suggest to somebody on the market besides the market we're in because there's so many different market trends inside the same city that you do? What you're gonna do, what you're gonna do is you're gonna make a different webpage on your websites for each area or each trend. And then within that email that goes out to the whole market, you're gonna have this little section where it's like, here, pick your area or whatever. And it's gonna go to the website and then they can say, oh, I'm in this area, that area. They can pick their area. You know, the email is kind of general. It's talking about this, a new listing, some self-promotion, I sold this or a list of that. And you got this box that has the different areas they can just click. And once they click on their area, boom, now they're in your world of that area where they got a link that goes to the new listings in that area, the closed sales on that area, information, they can search on that area, whatever you want on that page, whatever you want them to see. But that makes it to where it streamlines it to where now we can scale our business. We can scale it now because now we're not sending one email to five different groups. We're sending one email to everybody. Now we can scale it to, yeah, as many people as we want. Miss them epic shit, man.


It's not because you didn't do 10,000 affirmations, it's not because you had one opposing thought three weeks ago.  See, manifestation is the simplest thing in the world, but because there's so much information out there, it can seem complicated and confusing and like you can't figure out what you're doing wrong.  It's because of your lack of consistency or as many in the Law of Assumption community call it, your persistence.


Good morning and welcome to the chart of the week video with me. David Madden Today's date is 30 the 3rd of September 2020 and the time has just gone 11 29 British summer time and this week's chart of the week is the Australian dollar versus the US dollar or the Aussie dollar as often gets referred to as it's been a solid upper trend since the since the middle of March and only a few days ago we're not to hit its highest level in basically two years in the last two sessions it has moved a bit lower partial to do with the rebound in the US dollar index as a whole but also on the back of the worst unexpected GDP numbers out of Australia Australia is now in a recession its first recession in nearly 30 years but given what's gone on with COVID-19 that's no no surprise there and this video is going to be about link a potential price action of the currency fare so the move to the upside has been exceptionally strong it's retreated a small bit from the two-year high we could see here the positive momentum is fading off if you do move lower from here work we potentially find support so if we do move lower from this this area we could head back down toward the kind of the 70 72 area potentially back down to this blue line here the 50 moving average we can see that there's a bit of consolidation around that area back in April also if you look at the level of the 50 52 50 day moving average it comes in the play in around zero spot 71 13 which is kind of around the bouts there about that zone acted as support in early August and if a few metrics kind of overlap or a few price points overlap that makes it more significant because some people we've been looking out for the recent lows other people we've been looking out for the moving out for moving averages so that area is a whole could act a support and even if you go below that we could head back down towards the kind of towards the kind of big number of zero spot 70 we can notice here when the market was moving higher just north of zero spot 70 active resistance as well in around zero spot 70 37 so that entire zone of zero spot 70 40 zero spot 70 has also kind of been significant in the last few months so these are the potential areas we could see for support should we move move lower in the Aussie dollar Australian dollar versus the US dollar if you do move to the upside and if the wider trend continues and if you take out the recent highs of just north of zero spot 74 we could find ourselves heading back up heading back up towards zero spot 74 78 a pilot yes zero spot 74 78 which is this is zone here it's kind of enacted as both support in March 2018 and also that area broadly speaking active resistance in a few occasions in July 2018 so that area what was a very significant over two years ago so it could be a significance in the near term like I said the wider trend is to the upside so although we are seeing some signs of some bearish moves in the last few sessions you know this could be a case of we have a pullback towards zero spot 72 or to the 50 moving average or even down to zero spot 70 before resuming the wider upward trend that's been in place for the last number of months we cannot ignore the wider picture now if you are going to be trading the Australian dollar versus the US dollar or any dollar crosses keep an eye off for what's going on on the US dollar index this the dollar index here of the September contract I have a daily chart I've already struck and highlighted Tuesday's daily candle which has the potential to be a hammer formation whereby fell to a 28 month low but are rebounded from there it's been pushing higher since so this could be the beginning of a turnaround in the US dollar and if that is the case that could see downward pressure on the Australian dollar versus the US dollar keep an eye out for this area here the zero spot at the 94 metric on the dollar index chart just because there's been a few occasions in the past month or so when the dollar index try to break try to rebound a kind of shake off the wider negative trend but it's always failed so if we do have a break above 94 that could be that could be an indication that you know what the bearish trend in the dollar is potentially coming to an end and if that is a case that could mean further pressure on the Australian dollar versus US dollar conversely if the dollar index does what it's been doing the last few weeks whereby has a rally and then turns over on itself if you do turn over on ourselves and then take out the most the more recent lows that could be a sign that the wider upper trend in the Australian dollar versus the US dollar is going to continue also just worth noting today at 13 30 British summer time we have some important data of the US we have the jobless claims number and tomorrow we have the all important non-farm payrolls report in fact I'm hosting a live webinar tomorrow so that that's Friday the 4th of September at 13 15 British summer time I'll be covering a webinar for that so please feel free to sign up thank you for listening stay safe have a good trading week and good luck


What's going on guys Scott Kyle and Donnie here with late in sports cards and we're ripping 2022 into four box full case number 27 random division style. Good luck here guys. We did a random for the break had Sean in with the NFC West down to Ryan B NFC North Good luck here guys. Let's see what we got. It's branded Marshall really with all the teams you went to All the teams you went to he never had a playoff. That's crazy Righty guys. Good luck. This is case number 27 division style. Yeah, that's crazy. What do you play for the? Bears Bears Jets Dolphins I think There's a chunky one First up. We've got to Marcus where 250 on the Super Bowl immortality For the Broncos there to Marcus where to 35 we got Jared golf for the Lions there Jared golf on the base Vince Bears Jets Broncos Yeah, I would think with one of those teams you would make the playoffs but To 99 you've got Alvin Kamara game gear. I guess two of those teams you'd have to deal with Brady for a few years Game gear Kamara to 99 Saints. Oh nice one here to 25. We've got Desmond Ritter on the dual patch One is nine out of 25 Ritter for the Falcons. That's the AFC or the NFC South To 25 NFC North. We got Vilas Jones For the Bears there on the nice number patches Three color patches there Vilas Jones, Jr. NFC North And another one here to 25 I pulled three of these to 25 tonight. It is Kelsey and Mahomes on the dual jerseys AFC West not a bad one to pull a few times. I guess Mahomes and Kelsey this one is colossal the 49 we got Jalen waddle for the Finns It's the first look in one of these I've seen to 49 2022 I thought it might have been last year nice waddle there though AFC East the Finns best celebration in the league Oh nice one here to 49 we got Mike All-Stott for the Bucks NFC South on the All-Stott It's a sick one there. It was a beast To 49 we've got Rams with the NFC West Cooper Cup on the colossal Jersey Auto. I guess that is a The second time I've seen these now I've seen another one nice one there Rams NFC West Yeah, Chonky. Yeah, it's got a little bit of chunk to it. Oh, wow NFC South We got Joel Two of five on the rookie jumbo prime signatures is Drake London boom See what it looks like here to a five on the laundry tag That is sick NFC south The full laundry tag jumbo relic two of five on the Drake That is a sick one there full on the laundry tag Two of five rookie jumbo prime six. Yeah, I'll probably take a picture of that one Nice one there NFC south.  I'll break it next Appreciate you guys helping us fill up tonight Demption on the back. I think I've only seen one player as a redemption so far Nice one here treasured rookies the 99s Kenny Pickett for the AFC North. I Love these treasured rookies, man. It's a sick looking set This is CD lamb looks like on the printing plate one of one It is CD lamb for the Cowboys their NFC beast NFC East there on the CD one of one to 10. We've got Danny Gray NFC West dual jerseys there rookie for the Niners NFC West Another one to ten this one is Jelani Woods rookie AFC South Colts there Jelani Woods. This guy's a beast man Need to use him more. I think they will with rich Anthony Richards in there Next up we've got to 25 heirlooms jersey Mike All-Star. Let's go into the NFC South again for the Niners NFC West five of five is Tyrion Davis price on the dual jersey green Nice one there Niners NFC West Low number Tyrion Davis price the five behind that. We have AFC West rookie Otto to 25 is Leo Chanel for the Chiefs Leo Chanel Cowboys this one is NFC East of 99. It's gonna be lasting legacies Charles Haley Charles Haley to 99 NFC East This one's pretty good as well AFC South Got another booklet it is rookie first edition signatures two of two Traylon Birx on the rookie first edition signatures got a Nike swoosh You go AFC South. That's Harper Sick Traylon Birx there swoosh two of two on these sick booklets. These look awesome man rookie first edition signatures We got the swoosh. You go Titans AFC South nice hit Harper That is sick the swoosh Birx is a beast to an NFC South Joel It is Chris Olavi on the rookie material signatures printing plate yellow That'll be a one-of-one on the printing plate rookie material signatures RPS nice one there Joel Chris Olavi on the one-of-one RPA Nice one there printing plate yellow That was a great box had a one-of-one RPA and a two-of-two booklet Geez all righty guys box three Let's keep it going here. Let's keep it going Birx is sweet man. It's a 99. We got Tyree kill the cheetah AFC East We've got two 15 nice low number one there. That's Patrick Mahomes on the jersey number There are two the jersey number nine of 15 there and I said AFC West Mahomi Nine of 15 There's the 49 frame fabrics is the Mario Davis for the Saints Framed fabrics heirlooms Jersey to 49 is gonna go to the NFC West 49 Frank Gore heirlooms Jersey Another NFC West this one is frame fabric to 25. It's Kyle use check the number patch there one of 25 Another NFC West hit there use check juice 99 Jersey we've got AFC North Nick Chubb 18 and 99 century materials AFC North again. We got Perian Winfrey on the rookie auto to 35 The Browns there AFC North this one is the Marcus. Oh my goodness the Marcus wear it a 99 there Okay, lasting legacies Cowboys this case is crazy NFC East This case is hot. That's Harper again AFC South Mr. Harper Dual laundry tag one of one on the NFL gear is Damien Pierce Boom, there you go Harper Dual NFL shield laundry tags there Damien Pierce We will mag that for you sir on the one of one Damien Pierce that is sick the rookie out of Florida. I know that's your team as well, Florida Think you'll like that one Harper nice hit there my friend one of one will mag that That is dirty. Wow This is pretty good too. It's crossover Rookie patch autograph Sam Howell number to 99 that one's going to the NFC East That's Christopher We will mag this one as well these Sam Howell crossover are pated in 99 nice hit Christopher Holy cow this case is something This case is hot Alrighty guys last one here box number four Yeah, not the big shield, but that's the the laundry tag shields I saw that Victor I saw that and I didn't watch much. I saw his first drive though He did get picked on that first drive. I didn't see much though. Alrighty guys last box here Has been a killer case So 99 is Aussie Newsom for the AFC North the Browns God John Elway number to 49 AFC West Broncos got dual Jersey rookie David Bell the 99 AFC North again. That's the Browns Jersey to 99 we got Gabe Davis on the Century materials bills there AFC East our number to 10 we got the logo patch there the Cardinals Rondale more number nine to ten colossal patch auto or a patch not auto there That is the NFC West the Cardinals nine to ten Rondale Sick one there with the Cardinals logo That's colossal jumbo next up. We've got triple relic to attend this this case is so low numbered to attend We got bears fields Montgomery and Cole Comet Two of ten on the triple relic there for the Bears Nice one there NFC North next up. We've got Cameron Thomas on the red number to the Jersey number that is the 97 Cardinals there a NFC West Cameron Thomas Victor you a Bears fan because you got you right when you said that we got some bears Prime trio auto. This is for the Bears 2025. We've got Richard Dent Dan Hampton and the fridge William Perry Some throwbacks there on the prime trios. That'll be NFC North That's Ryan with the triple auto Richard Dent Dan Hampton and William Perry for the Bears Nice one there next up. We have NFL gear. That's the dual Jersey auto to 25 Xamir whites That one is Raiders a FC West John a with the Raiders or the FC West Xamir whites and on the back. We have crossover RP 8 to 99 gonna be Malik Willis That'll be on a FC South. Mr. Harper Get this one magged up for you as well Malik Willis on the crossover RP 8 to 99. Oh, have you really Victor? That's sweet There's some throwback guys right there some good Bears teams then Alrighty guys, no random on this one. We'll do a hit recap We'll get going on some crown team all next appreciate you guys last one of the night We'll be crowned team all our relics up first. We got triple relic to 10 for the Bears Fields Montgomery and Comet. This one is the 10 Rondell Moore on the logo patch Got Gabe Davis to 99 to 99 David Bell to 99 Nick Chubb. We've got how you check the 25 NFC West Is Okay, the Malik is called a little long Harper you get the AFC West will top load that one did not fit in a mag frame fabrics there is DeMario Davis We've got the 25 Mike All-Stott To five gets here in Davis price NFC West Jelani Woods number to 10 tremendous treasures. We've got to 10 Danny Gray This one is the 25 dual Jersey AFC West Kelsey and Mahomes 25 Ulyss Jones NFC North. We've got the 25 NFC South that's Desmond Ritter and Kamara to 99 to 99 we had crossover RPA Malik Willis AFC South AFC West a mere whites. We've got NFC North only triple auto Dent Hampton and Perry Triple Auto Bears on Cam Thomas NFC West. This one is DeMarcus Ware for the NFC East Perry and Winfrey NFC North. We got Saints on the one-of-one printing plate Olavé One of one RPA printing plate Olavé Charles Haley to 99 Leo Chanel to 25. We got Colossal Cooper Cup to 49 Jersey Auto Mike All-Stott to 49 and Jalen Waddle to 49 We had Sam Howell to 99 on the crossover RPA. Nice one there for the NFC East And we had one-of-one for the AFC South NFL Gear dual laundry tags of Damien Pierce Nice one there AFC South We had for the NFC South This one is Drake London on the rookie jumbo prime signatures This one was a laundry tag as well two of five on the booklet there very sick one for the NFC South And we had another booklet This one was two of two for the AFC South rookie first-edition signatures Traylon Burks with these swoosh Auto nice one there AFC South. That's mr. Harper Alrighty guys that will do it for the National Treasures for tonight. That was four box full case number 27 got some crown team all coming up next


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So good afternoon everyone, so as Sir has introduced I am Shanaz Ilyas. This has been my first attempt and I had done it in self-preparations and I have a two years old kid. I started my preparation during my maternity leave. So there is a gap of six to nine months where you do not need to report to job and your office pays for you. So I thought it's financially more viable to start it there because you have some free time you know I had my family support, I had my mother who will assist me in taking care of my child. So I thought why not use this, why not try to do something useful. Basically everybody is thumbed, okay so except three you will be able to understand, okay fine cool. So the basic law and now personality done is the one the final decision. So what I did was I cannot sit idle, I am that personality, so six months shumma wakar rada I was not okay with it. So shumma wakar rada badala first two months time which group took, prillam se aithalame shumma two months and that's padichai aithalame, so little two months prepar paneer dina group two. I was nine months pregnant, enno nalla nya varku yubilo perey vahidh rukku, edh pahidh tukkandite. Nine months pregnant ladies cannot sit for a very long time, two hours. So flying squad illa at that time lai eni endirichu vandh rest room paurath kala vidhu vanga. So na kumche nirupai hukkar vai aapdu pkandita na aithana, I cleared group two, kumche easy aapur chai, why not UPSC, you also have four more months or six more months solita da, I started this UPSC. So once I recovered from my pregnancy I started my UPSC. This is the why I started and where I started, when I started. So when I started one thing I did was I saw a lot of toppers video, sure you all would have seen and everybody would have said certain things common. So when I chose my strategy because I cannot go anywhere outside for coaching instead because logistic problem piliya vite to pohum udiyaadu. Naan daan paniyaanu, veeta daan paniyaanu, pilla thungum aadu video paakul naa, book erithu padikil naa. So that was my strategy, aapdi daa aaramichan. Nariya toppers paakum aadu, you have to choose your strategy, you have to understand why a topper had chosen that strategy, what is his background. So when you look into my strategies everything will be time constraint managing family and my resources, so it will be in that lane. So when you understand and when you look into topper strategy, understand why they chose it, so that is why it do not blindly follow it or try to implement it. Risen pannanga, yey aunga pannanga, aadu nama ka aplay aahuma, aadu vandu nama ke apdi modify pannikelaa, aapdiin ra maari yosinga. And a few things when you see a topper strategy it will be very simple. You do not think it is simple and it is not UPAC level and it will not be true. Simple things work, simple strategy works, if they, I will tell you prillams ke oorey aur mantra daa aarukku, it is something like read, revise, test, analysis. This is my mantra.  You get 80, you get 70, you get 60, you do not stop it there. You see why I got 80. If I had written 80 questions out of which 20 or 25 is wrong, you just see why 25 went wrong. So you have this thing, you will know, right, questions which are, which you are 100 percent sure you will categorize in one category, question you are 50, 50 sure. You will come, you will attend it in the second round, question where you are 75, 25 sure. You no more penna, which is yours, yours, third round, 11, there is a finger. So you have these things. So see, when you write your mock test, adhile, edhishora edhining, edhivandhita, 50, 50, edhining, edhis, 75, 25, edhining and redhiv, you write it, put a tag, table, this I used to follow. For example, you are going to write like this, 1, 2, 3, 4, this you know exactly what is the answer. This you know in 50, 50, second you know it in 75, 25, okay. So at the end of this when I evaluate, I will evaluate like this, something like this, I will evaluate myself. At the end I used to have a table, this table will have short, short questions, how much I answered. For example, 25, 0, 35, 0 and then how much was right, how much was wrong and total marks and whatever I am getting. So in this way I will do for 50, 50 and 75, 25, I will see the marks here. So I will know where my strength lies. So this is what I did in analysis, follow this, you will understand yourself when you write an examination. You will know whether your strength is fully short or 50, 50 or 75, 25. Generally, toppers used to say based on what I had seen from my strategy, they used to say here accuracy should be 95, 90 plus and here it should be 50, 60, here it 40 is alright. So you can say, you can find your own magic numbers, okay. Mine was never 90 here or 95 here. Mine was 70, 70 here. So I knew my 50, 50 answers were mostly right. So 70% accuracy is a good accuracy. So even though I do not get 90 here, I am able to get 70 here. So I would make sure that I attempt as much as possible in 50, 50 equation. My logical understanding and my logical guessing is right. So and 75, 25, you have to see how much you are right, how much you are wrong. If you are wrong, obviously you have done 75, 25 to arrive on the final answer. You have done some kind of logical reasoning with yourself, good consigns, bad consigns, you can do the answer and you can do your thing, correct? So why did you arrive on that answer? What was the logic or knowledge that made you to answer this? Understand that. So that you will know whether that logical reasoning, when this, up to the very answer part where this was senseless reasoning that you had made. Do not make it again. If you are doing it repeatedly on the same kind of question, do not answer that kind of question in your actual examination. You will know which question to attend, which question not to attend based on this kind of analysis. And in your mark in the parking lot, it should never go in negative. If it goes in negative, seriously think you are guessing a lot. So you are guessing, the strategy is wrong. So this is what I did to understand how to answer the prillams. Prillams is an art of writing and attending this question. Many people have studied for 12 hours, 14 hours, but the prillams are not clear. Many of them have not studied much. Basically, they will know about it. If they are 50-50, this is how logical reasoning should be done. If they analyze it and complete it, they will score better. Some people are acing in prillams, you know, 4-5 prillams, easier prillams for you know. Because I think that is because they know what to answer, how to answer for the mother, they are doing it right, Abdeen Reddy. So this is something that I would recommend you to follow, try it. And I hope it works for you, like it works for me. And this is one aspect and like I said, revision, test and analysis. When you make an analysis, for every test, you have to make your own notes. So the notes can be subject-wise. You will have your own note copy, right? In that note copy, you can put for history if you are taking notes. Behind that note, you can just, I had brought my notes, I think, one second. So this is my quality notes, part 1. So here, this is my notes. This will be my notes. So in the back side, I'll be writing my, whatever I had read in my tests. I will write it here. These are the potential questions. So your test series, your coaching center is going to give you these questions. For putting it in your mock test for some reason. It might have been in some news that you would have missed. They would have seen it. They would have thought maybe a question related to this is coming. So they would have given you that question. It is a potential question. Trust me, I got some three to four questions directly from my mock. I was able to answer and I was able to recollect because for every test, I was able to, I was writing this notes. So try to have this notes. In this also, it is better to write it under the same topic. If at all you're taking notes for moguls. Wherever you had made notes for moguls, try to write it small there. So it is all in one point. Your notes now becomes more than your book. Your book doesn't have that information and your note has information more than your book. So it is more valuable than your book. So this is one more thing in analyzes, I would say. And in terms of revision, you have your aim should be in such a way that if you're revising or subject for the first time in safe 10 or 15 days next time, try to reduce the time by 20 to 30 or even 40, 50 percentage. Okay, as much as possible, try to do it first. I was able to complete a prelims entire portion inclusive of current affairs in 10 days, the entire portion, one cycle, I can do it. I can do quality in one day. I can do history in three days, inclusive of culture, economics in two days. And then geography in half days, environment in half day. I used to read map daily that you map this in the morning as you brush your teeth just open, you see one page, give it to your father, give it to your mother or your sister or brother and tell them, that's your address. So when they say, I would say, I would say, this is up, this is down, this is down. So it is, it is a very long process. So this is how I approached map. As usual, I had long big, big maps of India and world map in my room structure. Do not keep it for decoration. Make it your mini notes. If you're reading about, that is a depression region near Eritrea, right? In Africa. So there was a news during my prelims. So I used to mark it there, whatever information I remember. Kutty kutty, I did the sticky notes, I'll stick it on top of it. Some maps will not have what passes, the big political map will not have passes or it will not have the dams. So I used to have this marker and I used to mark it on top of the map itself. So I would say, do not just read or look at the map, write on top of it. When you write something, you will remember more. So that was one thing on map. And for wildlife sanctuaries, bio-reserve, kutty kutty, you will have A4 size 11. Google immediately, you will have these things. Stick it on top. I remember Tiger Reserve, Tiger Senses was there during my prelims. So Tiger Senses' all objective was there in that kutty map. What is Tiger Reserve? What is Target? What is Organization? What are the different techniques that they use? There is catch sample, there is spot, something like that. You have camera capture and there is something, CCTV, something like that is there. So everything will be there in that map, that kutty A4 sheet. That will be stuck on my wardrobe. So every time I open my wardrobe, close my wardrobe, I'll have a look. So you have a pictographic memory. So use something innovative. These are the things that I try to improve my retention path. And strategy for writing my prelims, this was my strategy. And when I talk about mains, I started answer writing not on the day one. It is not possible on day one, you will have limited knowledge. I would say when you finish at least two subjects, it is a very good time to start answer writing. Do not try to write answer like a full length in the start. So I think time management was not something that I targeted before prelims. Before prelims, all I bothered about was, am I able to perceive the question? Am I able to think in different dimension? So I had about, I was dealing only about the knowledge part and the thinking part that goes into the answer. So I was able to finish two 10 marker in 30 minutes. That is really huge, that is a long time. So I did not basically bother about time. I did not pressure myself on that. I started concentrating on time, but I kept in my mind. Somehow I have to reduce it. I was 30 minutes in a car, I slept 20 minutes down. And then even that is also a long time, six or seven minutes more than the targeted time. So I did not bother about the time before prelims. After prelims, I concentrated on full mock tests. You will have a lot of resources where you can download the full mock papers, take the mock papers, give full mock test every other day or once in three days maximum. And every week write one full essay. By full essay, I mean two essays. Essay also I started even before prelims, six or seven months before prelims also I was writing essays. Before my essay, actual main examination, I would have written some 50 to 60 essays. I was comfortable. I knew what were my strengths in essays. Not everybody, you have certain categories, right? Societal women empowerment, you have something about education, health, international relations. You will have certain topics, broad topics. If you write 50 to 60 essays, you will know which essays are your strength, where you can play your strength and which essays. How do you write the essay? I have international relations, I write. What do you write? It will be very boring. Essay has to be captivating. It has to talk to your invigilator. So, I knew which essays were my strength. And if it is my weakness, I knew why it is my weakness. So, to know your strength and weakness, you have to write, you have to see different strategies. Essay can hurry strategy require. I scored 140 in essay this time. I would say that is okay. This one. Okay, thanks. So, essay where the mother, first I used to strategize. So, when you have essay three hours, use 15 minutes to strategize, even 20 minutes to strategize for one essay. So, 15, 15, 30 minutes for strategizing is fine. So, how I used to strategize is, if you have an essay topic, this is your topic. This is my actual exam, what I will think this, whatever I am writing here, I will write it on my paper, rough work. Okay. So, this is going to be my intro, one page. Next page, what you understand from that essay. That will be the next page. Last will be way forward and after that will be conclusion. So, this will be one side. This will be one side. And then you will be left with three pages. So, three pages I will divide into three divisions. One, two, something like the three. So, these three I would play it in a way, where it can explode different dimension. If it is a climate change issues, how technologies are being used for climate change issues, if it is an aggregate or something like that, I say what is existing? I am just guessing, it can be anyway, however you are thinking, okay, existing, then it can be possibility, okay, or application, sorry, possibility application, okay. And then it can be some other topic. So, three pages will be three dimension. Now, your essay looks structured. It has an introduction. Next side, it has an understanding. You are telling what my essay is going to contain, what I have understand by the one sentence that you are given and what I am going to deliver will be here in one page. This will be one and a half or two or one something like that. I will decide based on the contents that I think of. So, here again, I will use one more diagram. I have a matrix kind of thing. I am not able to recollect the entire matrix currently. It will be family, region, region is geography, societal people, okay. And then political, cultural, something like this. So, in family, I can say about, I will think about, I will have three. There is a matrix, okay. Something like this, you have your own matrix. And this will be, each matrix will have subdivision. For example, if societal in people, I will have what tries women, especially challenged. So, something like that. You will have to have your own matrix. I had my matrix like this for every topic. I would try to think in these subheadings. So, when I write my essay, it will be diversified. It will have certain amount of information with family. It will have certain amount of information in the region. So, you will have your essay as a diversified. It will look as well-informed. When you without this or without having a practice, if you start thinking, often we tend to think in one dimension. We do not. I think about tribes. So, what about tribes' livelihood? Women. Women, when there are crimes, women have more. Women have more burden. There are reports on that. So, I start thinking about those reports. So, when you have these things, when you have a topic, you will see how you can relate it with these things. So, that is one thing. Have your matrix. This is your page planning. So, this is my strategy for essay. And you have GS, you have standard syllabus. Take your syllabus. Do not overthink. Do not make a PhD in every topic. Okay. Do not need to know every nook and corner. UPC is simple. How much ever you are simplifying it, how much ever simplified and clear knowledge that you have, that much easy it will be for you to answer question. For every topic, know what is the definition. Know what are the basic issues with those topic. For example, if there is land, you know what kind of pollution it is there that is associated with it, what are the kind of degradation. So, there are certain issues that is related. If you are talking about civil societies or NGOs for that matter. So, sorry, you have the self-help groups, right? So, in that issues, you will have about financial issues they have. They do not have that knowledge. They always depend on NGO.  So, and for every issues you have to know, why is it so a basic understanding? And then what are the steps that government has done? Is there any committee or report that has said something about it? So, a certain miscellaneous topic, this much is enough and do not overthink about it. Have a two pages maximum notes that cover broadly these things. So, you have to do answer writing practice. Only then you will be able to have your limited resource and make it presentable and relatable to the question. For that, it's important to have answer writing practice. So, answer writing is not only about time management. It's not about in three hours to fill as many words as it is required and just give the paper.  You have to give an answer that is asked by the examiner in the question paper. For that, you should be able to perceive the question. You should be able to understand and recollect. I have seen a lot of people who will not be able to recollect what they have read. Main slow curve anger, I went blank. I read so much, but then I went blank and solo anger. That might be because they had read too much. They had complicated. They are scared of UPSC. Don't be scared of UPSC. It's a very simple process. It's about your maturity level. It's about how you tackle a problem. One question is not clear. Do not get tensed. Think about what we are related to in that area. Think about whether you can relate to it and put it into the question. So that you get some mark, rather than a zero. Or if you get tensed, maybe two or three more questions, you will not be able to answer much. I believe 70 to 80% is on preparation.  Have a developed certain amount of calmness in you in examination. Do not be scared of UPSC. That is the first point I would like to say. So this is one thing. This is an essay for GS. Write answers a lot. How to answer a question that is not clear. Think about how you can relate to it in your mind. Because how much ever you practice in the examination hall, there are going to be three or four questions where you do not know much. You are not prepared. You are underprepared. How many marks are you going to take in that question? There is a game changer. Okay. Everything I studied is almost the same resource all over India. Everyone is going to see the same website. Everyone is going to see the same book. Book list is not different. You are not going to have a different resource. The change is your mental state and how you attend the question. That three or four question where nobody knows. Almost major majority of your what? Competition will not know. How do you come and write in that? There is a mark on top. There are four marks on top. I am going to go a little lower. GS is almost the same mark on top. If you are going to go higher, they will have prepared everything extraordinary. Otherwise, they will know how to handle it. So, make a habit that you know how to handle. It will go a long way. And another thing in GS is presentation. Introduction, body, conclusion. You would have heard about it. So, for every question, you will have introduction. Introduction, major like data points and definition. This part and then you will have body and then you will have conclusion. This was my strategy. For every topic, I used to box it and give a topic. For introduction, I did not give topic. Here body will have two or three subdivision based on your question. Introduction and conclusion do not give introduction. Do not give conclusion. And here I used to draw a diagram. Whatever I understand, it will be something like this. Either in the marirukkha vaipirukkha, whatever the many dimensions or it can be a sun diagram. Not for every question, you will be able to think about a diagram. So, if you know, if you can read the question and bring in dimension, you can put it in terms of sun diagram. This I used to follow. And for almost every question, you have a diagram that is sun diagram. At least you will be there. Try to bring in a diagram. If not possible, resort to this thing. So, that was one thing on GS. And for interview, I associated with Shankar. Here in the academy, they help me a lot. They will make you talk with a lot of bureaucrats. Very helpful, they voluntarily try to assist you. I got 173 in my interview. That's an average mark. I was predicted that I'll get 175 and I got 173. So, I have seen when they said 175, I knew I'm going to get 175. All I prayed was I do not go below 170. So, they will arrange a one-on-one interaction with bureaucrats. It's very useful. That is the most that you can get for an interview. They will listen to you. They'll tell you, these are your strengths. These are your weakness. Listen to them and take their input seriously and go back and work on it. So, and main thing is how much ever you work on it, anxiety is one thing that will beat you in your examination. You will be sitting in a waiting hall. Then they'll take you to the actual board room, sorry, where the board sits. In front of the door, you'll be made to sit for a minute or two. That is the moment you will feel all the anxiety. So, there was a beautiful garden in front of me. It was, I think it was a kind of a circular or a curvature building. So, there was a garden there. I had listened to a lot of toppers who said that they were very anxious. They had this fear, you will want the ground to split and take you in and you will have all these thoughts. So, I made a point that I shouldn't have any fear. I was looking into the garden. I thought I am chilled. But then inside, inside I had an anxiety which I did not realize, which I realized only when the board member started asking questions. And even then, I didn't know I was in anxiety because I blabbered something. It took me from two or three questions to sink in the conversation and know that, okay, fine, I'm in an interview, I can answer.  And just like, please let me sleep. That was my state. So, it took me two or three questions to understand and come into the game. So, I would, if given another chance, I would try one more strategy to not look into garden or at least try something so that I'm alert from the very first question. So, if you have an opportunity to go for interview, relax your mind. When you go there, be alert. Your alertness comes or you begin to take the seriousness after two questions that happened to me. Do not do it. So, that was a mistake I made. I hope you do not make it. And you will have a wonderful platform and wonderful guidance there. I can talk about that because I took the guidance here. So, any questions I can take or you can wind up. I do not recollect much. As far as I recollect, I can tell you. So, the essay that I took was, I took an international relation essay. I was not very good, but then I did not want to take an essay on women. I have heard some toppers who say that women, when I am a little feminist, so I have a strong voice of women empowerment. I want some changes. So, there is a bias when it comes to such topics. Some people will be for, some people will be against. So, when I heard toppers say that when you write this thing, you will let the examiner know that you are a woman or your beliefs are there. So, I wanted to take a topic which is not opinionated. There was a topic on patriarchy. I would have been comfortable, but then I made a point. I shouldn't write that. I do not know if it is the same or not, but that was the reason why I took this international relation. There was one topic which said, technology is something like that. Do you recollect something? Technology is the silent factor in international relation. So, it was not purely international relation. It was science and tech combined. And the other essay which I took was, ship does not sink because of the water around it. It sinks because of the water in it. So, in ship doesn't sink because of water around it. It sinks because of water in it. I do not remember the introduction I had written. I usually take a story kind of introduction. I write fiction stories. So, I am confident. So, I took one page. First page was introduction story. And second page here was my understanding. What I understood? I spoke about Titanic ship. So, it had been on a voyage for a very long time. It, people were having a very nice time. They were enjoying the view around it. It's not then that the ship sank. It was sinking only because the water came and people started panicking. They did not have hope, blah, blah, blah. I related this Titanic here. So, I wrote about Titanic. And then this was the first two things. And the next few pages I wrote first about, I segmented in to three parts. First is India, self and world. I took in two stories for India. Right after independence, the entire world thought India would sink. India would last. It's a democracy where people do not have food. They fight for food. They will, India will not be a successful country. It will again crumble. Every newspaper in the western world was something like this. But then we did not let those views come inside our country, inside our heart. Only then we were able to sail through. So, I quoted that example and I gave a few, what, feeder points or story I spun around that. And the second was 1991, when we had this financial crisis. So, I said that again the second, it was not the first time India did the second time. That was my connected sentence. Second time in 1991, when India was again questioned, India's, what, very question of India's survivability was questioned again. Again, we did not succumb. We had what we have, we saw what can be done. So, then I told that we were here in this part. I said something like we were able to overcome our challenges, overcome the difficulties, because we were not letting all our issues problem to get into us. We were sailing because we had kept the problems that day. We were thinking about the solution. We were able to think just because we did not have this doubts or insecurities clouding us. So, everybody can take a lesson from India. So, something like that. And then I said, what, from these lessons, lessons that, lessons for self from India, lessons for world from India. These were my topics. Self from India, lessons for world from India. So, I related these two things with a person's individuality. In life, how, in life, I took three different stages or something like that. Women tribes, I took different dimensions here, different people. And I related that and I said how they had come up well and how women were having social issues. They did not succumb. They had fought it because they did not let it get inside them. They did not normalize it. So, that's why we had this, what women empowerment wave, first wave, second wave, third wave and all we had. So, those were the kind of diversification that I gave in self. And in terms of world, when it came to world, I spoke about the environment. I, here, I more or less, I kept it in a way forward manner. So, I said like now we are in this situation where a lot of environmental issues are around us. The question of survivability of the entire earth is there. So, from India, we can learn that we should not let it come inside us. It should not eat us. But then we should fight it. We should sail through it. There are solutions that has been proposed, something like that for environment. Then I spoke about economy. I spoke about COVID. So, something in, I spoke about environment, COVID, some three or four dimensions I gave in the world. And then in conclusion, I do not remember the conclusion. So, I gave some kind of conclusion. This was my linkage. It was like a story, what India did from India, what we can learn, what world can learn. So, in world, I kept it in a form of way forward. And then I finished it with the conclusion. This was my first essay, second essay. And I think I wrote one quote. That is something that gives you like you have prepared something for your essay. So, introduction was a story and I used to write a quote. So, that was my strategy for the first essay. Second essay, international relation, again introduction story. Second understanding to understand how technology has been important, what I understand from the topic I had given an understanding. Next here, what I quoted was the 1965 civil war. In the civil war, what happened was in 1960s, there was this Cuban issue, if you can remember. So, it was an entire, after the world, were the entire international relations, relations was around the nuclear technology. So, here my, in the second question, my diversification was around different technologies. It was on biotechnology, it was on agriculture technology, it was on nuclear space. So, I diversified my topic based on the technologies. So, you do not need to follow the matrix strictly. If you feel that this is a kind of diversification that I can do, do it. So, what I did was, I took this different, first I started with nuclear. I said like in a time scale I kept it. So, first nuclear, then I spoke about the chemical weapons and chemical things that happened. And then I spoke about the biotechnology, space technology. So, when it came to nuclear, the entire civil war, the post-world war order was depending on who possessed nuclear power. So, and the civil war came to an end approximately because in Cuban issue you have this, not sorry, not it came to an end. There was this Cuban issue where the mere placing of a missile, nuclear missile in Cuba was a problem for US. So, they had come to some kind of treaty, a backdoor treaty was there. I do not recollect currently, but I had read some story on that. So, I put that story over there. And then I spoke about biotechnology. I spoke about chemical technologies, how it was used in what eliminating spies. Then I said spyware, how and then I also gave a dimension that technology is not only with the governments. Technology is also with the corporates. Now, if you are, you are in an information technology where the international relation is not only decided by the governments, corporate, if there are few corporates whose economic potential is more than smaller countries. So, they are also powerful. It is because of the information technology and the power of data that they have. So, I spoke about how corporates are also playing a role in international relation because of the technological power. So, these were the broadly, I do not recollect the exact chain like how I recollect here. But I quoted a lot of example, I did not give much data points. Basically, it is on your strength. If you are able, if you are a good storyteller, put examples, spin a story. If you are a strong data point person, put data points, but then do not bombard with data points. They are not here for a GS answer. Understand it is an essay. Make an essay enjoyable. That is all I would like to say. Any other questions? My optional is sociology. Yours is not sociology. Any other questions? Yeah.  Okay, daily routine. Two months before the prelims, I used to study nine hours, sorry, eight hours. After that is two months, if I have two months for prelims, then I used to study 10 or 12 hours. Sometimes the main I had gone for 14 hours and I used to do 14 hours for two days or 10, 12 hours for two days. Third days, I mean your eyes will become sore. I used to have this ever fresh drops. If you do not put your ever fresh drops, your eyes will be swollen. That is because of my pressure. This was my first attempt. I did not have coaching. I had because of which I did have to push myself on certain days. Not all days you study on 14 hours. That is not possible. You're human. So two days you study for 14 hours. The next day you study for eight hours. Your body will say sleep today. Now sleep today. That's all. Listen to your body. That's very important. And my routine was morning. I used to wake up at five and I'll start reading. My daughter will wake up somewhere around nine. Before nine, I used to read as much as possible. When she wakes up, I'll go visit her. I'll make sure her breakfast is ready so that's some time for my kid. And then I'll go back and start studying. I used to study only one subject per day. I do not sandwich two or three subjects. When I go and visit my daughter, I try to club my lunchtime, breakfast time along with it. So I do not put an extra time for my personal care. I used to club it along with my personal work when I go outside to the hall. I usually sit in my room. I lock my room and I read it in my home. And very occasionally when my daughter, sometimes kids are very energetic. They'll not let you study. She'll keep coming and she'll be banging my door. That time, if I want some concentration, I used to go to study hall near Krompet. There is a study hall. I used to go to the study hall. That was for a few months. Otherwise I have this morning, 5 to 9, 9 o'clock breakfast, and then 10 to 12, 30, and then half an hour or one hour lunchtime. And then till 5 o'clock, after 5, I used to take my daughter for park or something like that. And 7 o'clock, my mother will take care again. So 7 o'clock, again till 9 or 10, I'll read. 10 o'clock she'll come back. She'll sleep with me. So this was my overall timing. And then evening, I used to write mock test. One month before prelims, I aligned it to the actual mock, main prelims test timing. So four hours every day for mock. Otherwise it is reading and revise it. That's all. Okay. I had some quiet some time actually. I started immediately after 2019 prelims. So approximately I must be having one year. And ours was also postponed, right? So I had ample amount of time. I'm not able to exactly calculate, but then from July or August, I started. August, I guess. Okay. I can show you my notes. So that is my notes on GST.  GST, still not studied. It might be some eight pages or nine pages. I'll be able to write the entire GST in one page. So note making is an important aspect here. So if you're writing G, if you're taking a note about something, write it. Okay. I can show you exactly what was, what is there because you'll have that's, I'll tell you what is the benefit of having a notes. In GST, it came under 101st amendment, right? So there will be certain articles, 268, 269a, 270, 279a, something. One will be CGST, one will be IGST, one will be service tax will be removed, one will be state will have the goods and service. Here you'll have GST council. In GST council, you will have union and states. Union you'll have one third. States you'll have two third. Then you have something like, sorry, voting power. This is the voting, I guess. Okay. Then you will have something like membership. Membership two, here you'll have 31. Usually minister of finance will be here. Here you will have union minister and minister of finance or something like that. And then you will have a quorum will be three fourth, I guess. Something, quorum is three fourth and election voting, I think. Voting will be some 50%. I think it's interchangeable. So this was something. This was my notes on GST. This is my exact notes, if I'm right. The top left corner, this is exactly, this is this much in my notes. So this is how you take notes. So when I see this exactly in the same manner, it would have been. So I have a pictographic memory. Am I right? So below this, I'll have function. If I say function, all I would have written there is GST slabs and tax items, special items, something like that. So I'll, there are five or six points this much, only this much I would have written. So when you make notes, do not write another book. Make notes so that you will know the important points. What is an important one? GST council have two different things and what is the voting power? What is the membership? So when you write, make your notes, have read something and do not replicate in a verbose manner. If you're trying to take a class, what you'll write on your board, that is what your notes will be. So it, a little bit verbose and not as verbose as your books are. So that is how I would say take your notes. Helpful? Okay. Anything else? Okay. I did not read newspaper. Okay. I started, I tried. I thought it's a waste of time. Your coaching institutes, they spend enough time and enough resources to analyze about it, give you what is related, what is the article, what is the committee, everything. They take so much pain and why to do double work. That was my thing. But then I followed current affairs in my own manner. I used to have this Google news. You have settings over there, tweak your settings and you will not anymore have anything about cinemas or cars or something. You'll have about politics. You'll have about quality. You'll have about governance. You'll have about environment. And then other things I used to follow PIB. I used to follow PRS after every session. I will not be following it regularly at the end of every session. PRS is a wonderful website where you can enter your filter. You'll have to read, you'll have to know thoroughly whatever bills that is being passed in your current academic, current year. If you're going to attend on 2021, the previous three sessions, you have to know what are the bills that are passed. You have to know their features about the bodies, different bodies that is related in that law or it has been replaced or it is already existing, something like that. So for that PRS website is there. That in that website, you have filters, you can enter your year and you have to, in prelims, you please bother only about the bills that is being passed by both the Lok Sabha and Radha Sabha. That is what I followed. Refer your resource person, your faculty, but I followed only bills that has been passed by both Lok Sabha and Radha Sabha. I made my own notes. I used Evernote for that so that I had three notes for three sessions. So that is how I did my current PRS. And then I used to read the annual report of every ministry, home ministry, not every ministry, home ministry, finance, economic survey and then you have budget. So economic survey and budget, I used to refer to the whatever the coaching institutes release.  I did not make notes. I concentrated on the current affairs document that they give before your prelims. That is the concentrated prelims targeted current affairs document. Before I used to read the document in a glance, two or three hours or four hours maximum. I did not spend more than that to know what is happening or you know there is some current affairs. Apart from that, I collected my current affairs knowledge from the test series. I would have written at least 100 full mocks before my prelims. So and I took notes for every current affairs, science and technology, environment and current affairs. I heavily relied on this mock tests and their notes. Anything else? That's it. You can wind up. It was nice interacting with you. All the best.


On August 7, 2021, the Merlin National Guard hosted mentoring male teens in the hood, which is a program that aims to keep young men on the straight and narrow path. We want the young men to start thinking about a possible career in the military or a M-day soldier, which would be one week in a month, two weeks out of the summer. We want them to have options. During the event, the Merlin National Guard gave a tour of their facilities and showed the youth a variety of aircrafts. Talking to the Merlin National Guard has been quite good because I get to learn new things and they get to teach me new things that I've never learned before. What you do today could potentially influence somebody tomorrow. And during this event, the Merlin National Guard got the opportunity to potentially make an impact with today's youth. Being able to see something that a majority of people in the community like Baltimore City don't normally see, I remember that first experience of me actually going on the military base and getting a better understanding about the military. So I know that that's what they feel already and I can just, it's kind of made me reminisce on how I first seen the military. Reporting for the Merlin National Guard, I'm Staff Sergeant Chas Kipper.