Before I get into this video, I just want to remind you that we're on our road to 133,000 subscribers, so I'd appreciate if you would subscribe to the channel and help a guy out here as he chases his dreams of being a full-time YouTuber. Oh, beyond all of that, I also have a giveaway going on right now for our subscribers. It is for a replica Hylian Shield, two Zelda Switch OLED editions, and two Tears of the Kingdom Collectors editions. You can enter down in the pinned comment or in the description, just click on the link. It'll explain everything there. It is for a kick-off giveaway for our Prime Gaming Fest, which actually happens next week. You guys, I know don't know what that really is yet, we'll have a video explaining all that later this week. Alright guys, let's get into the news, because believe it or not, this is some news, and this news comes way of dear friend of the channel, Paul Gale Network. Now if you don't know who Paul Gale is, I understand. He's not somebody who is super active in the gaming world like he once was. He has worked at many different outlets over the years and has a lot of connections, right? I mean, he was at the Mario Premiere, isn't it? Like the Mario Movie Premiere with Jack Black and all those people, Miyamoto, etc. So he's been around all of them. He's going to be at the Summer Game Fest live show, I believe, as well. The man is connected, right? He's been in this industry for a long time. He's literally never missed an E3, and E3 used to be industry only. So yeah, Paul Gale knows a thing or two, and he's heavily connected, specifically in the Nintendo universe. And one thing Paul Gale gets right a lot of the time, and I say a lot of the time, it's pretty much every time, is when he talks about sales numbers. That is because he's a very connected person and basically gets the numbers directly from the source. And no, I don't know who the exact people are that he talks to. All I know is every time I talk about his numbers, the numbers get reported later, and it turns out his numbers were correct. So for us, and because I happen to know Paul Gale on a more personal level, I know that this is not a rumor. This is reality. He put out a tweet last Friday, May 26, stating, by the end of this weekend, Tears of the Kingdom will have passed 15 million copies sold worldwide. After just 17 days of being available, that's indeed a tremendous success. Nintendo Switch hardware is also on a roll, selling wonderfully in its 75th month of availability. Now he doesn't give exact numbers, but we all know that Nintendo Switch has gotten its lead back in Japan and maintained it now for over a month. And we know the sales of the general of Switch have just been on the rise due to Tears of the Kingdom. Of course, Nintendo themselves expect sales to dwindle over time, which of course they will. Tears of the Kingdom isn't just going to suddenly make the Switch sell another 20 million units this fiscal year. In fact, it didn't even sell 20 million last fiscal year. So it is notable, however, when we think about Tears of the Kingdom selling 15 million copies. Now we know it sold just north of 10 million copies in its first three days on the market. So you might go, well, okay, three days on the market. So over the next two weeks, it only sold 5 million copies. That's not that impressive. Imagine two weeks from now, we're talking about it selling 20 million. Imagine, man, just thinking it had two months that it has sold maybe 30 million. Now, again, these are obviously projections and sales should continue to dwindle for a little bit, at least unless they announce like new DLC or start bundling things.  But it's pretty clear that Tears of the Kingdom is probably going to crawl its way to 20 million units by the end of this fiscal year. And that is astounding that the game is doing this. I want people to keep in mind that what Animal Crossing New Horizons did in selling 30 million in 12 calendar months. What Pokemon Scarlet and Violet has done so far, moving north of 20 million in just over six months, is not normal. This is not something that just any game does. This is not something that outside of maybe mega franchises, like a Grand Theft Auto or a Minecraft, something along that it look maybe a Call of Duty, there aren't very many things that can sell like this. And Nintendo themselves doesn't have very many that can sell like this. And yet, Tears of the Kingdom is going to be among those 20 million sellers in its first six months. Now again, right now it's just at 15 million, but I got no doubt. No doubt in my mind that we fast forward five months and it's going to clearly be at 20 million copies. Why? Because it's the leading candidate for game of the year. And being the leading candidate for game of the year often leads to pretty strong trail of sales. I mean, heck, we already know it was the top selling game in the UK for the third week running. We don't know MPD numbers at the moment because we get those a month later. Now, this is just fascinating to me thinking about 15 million copies. That's almost twice as many as Twilight Princess Silt, which was the previous, before Breath of the Wild, best selling Zelda game of all time. Now, the big question of course is when you hear 15 million in 17 days, is can it catch up to or surpass the sales of Breath of the Wild? That is going to be a key caveat. I don't know if Tears of the Kingdom can get to that 30 million mark or go higher unless, and this is the big unless, a new platform comes out, Nintendo re-releases the game and say, I don't know, 4K, 60 FPS or something like that. And then they count those sales in with these sales because you're going to get a lot of repeat buyers and then you can see a 30 million threshold. But to me, that's also a little bit of cheating since they didn't launch at the same time. This to me would be like adding Ocarina of Time N64 to Ocarina of Time 3D from the 3DS. It would be like adding those sales together. I don't think that's a fair barometer of the actual popularity of an individual game. So I do think that that might be a little muddled if Nintendo decides to do that. But what I will say is, this is still incredible either way. It is already going to be in Nintendo's top 10 selling games before it's even been out on the market a month. And that is astounding. If you think of Nintendo's top 10 selling games, it's not an easy list to crack. It's really not. Just looking at that top 10 list, the least selling game on that list, the least selling game in the top 10 is Ring Fit Adventure at 15.38 million. And Tears of the Kingdom is certainly going to pass that. It's probably going to pass new Super Mario Bros. Unilux. By the end of this year, it's going to be ahead of Super Mario Party at 19 million and really competing up there with the Mario Odyssey's at the 25 million mark or so and trying to get into that top five slot. Remember, right now, Legend of Zelda Breath of the Wild is in the number four position at the moment. I had a Pokemon Sword and Shield, but behind Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. So it has a shot to get up there. I am very curious what you guys think about the sales of this game. Are you impressed that it sold 15 million in 17 days? Do you think it would maybe sell even more than that? So maybe you're not as impressed. And where do you think the sales top out for this version of the game? Is it going to hit 20 mil? It doesn't have a shot at 30 mil, even though it won't have six years on the market on this platform as being a lead sales candidate on a growing platform, right? We're at the tail end of the Switcher's life. So even if a new system doesn't come out until holiday 2024, that still only gives it, you know, a year, year and a half to gain sales versus the last game that had six. Is that going to be something that hurts it? Or do you think this is the new Animal Crossing and saying, oh, it'll hit 20 mil by the end of this year is a major undershoot. And it's actually about to pull an Animal Crossing new horizons out of its hat and sell 30 million by the end of this fiscal year, which ends in March of 2024. Time will tell, of course, and maybe it gets a massive sales boost around the holiday season. If it wins game of the year, the game awards as has been actually shown by prior game award events. If you wonder why Nintendo participates heavily in the game awards to this day, and actually last year was the most they had participated in a while, suggesting that Nintendo is understanding now how big of a marketing event the game awards really is games that win some of the top awards at the game awards, including game of the year, almost always receive a big sales boost. Why is that? Because you're reaching a new audience of gamers because the event reaches hundreds of millions of gamers, which is bigger than any individual platform. So it is interesting to see if tears of the Kingdom wins game of the year, they could get a boost of sales in December as well. So I do think tears of the Kingdom will cross 20 million quite easily and will do so before we even get to this holiday season. That's my prediction. Of course, maybe it takes the holiday season to get to 20 million. But what do you guys think? And of course, as always, big shout out to dear friend of the channel, Paul Gale Network, we'll have to get you back on the podcast soon, man. It's been a while. I know the time zones don't always match up between work and everything, but we'll we'll figure something out, man. Thank you guys for tuning in and I'll catch you in the next video.


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Asphalt taping is every bit as important to local roads and streets, as it is to state and interstate highways. And proper inspection of the work is just as critical. It's your job to ensure that the citizens of your community get the high quality asphalt pavement they deserve. This videotape training has been developed as part of the local technical assistance program, LTAP. It is designed to give you who are responsible for construction and maintenance of the local road system the information you need to effectively inspect asphalt paving operations. In addition to the video, there's a checklist to remind you of the key inspection points. Now because of our country's move to metric measurements, we're going to use metric units throughout this presentation and in the checklist. The video is in three parts, so after a few minutes of viewing you can discuss what you've just seen and heard. All three parts are on this tape. Here in part one, we'll look at your responsibilities before paving begins. Document review, coordination with the public, field review, equipment checks, traffic control, and weather requirements. Then we'll look at inspecting the tack coat application. Part two covers the paving operation itself. And part three shows some of the problems that can occur with mixed quality, lay down operations, and rolling. So let's get started. Document review. First, as with any project, review the contract documents. This includes your agency's bid specifications, including amendments, any special provisions, the appropriate sections of the construction manual, and the traffic control plan. Paving details can vary significantly from one job to the next, especially for traffic control. The traffic control plan identifies the types of signs and devices necessary as well as their placement. So always study it carefully. And remember, no changes should be made to the traffic control plan unless the changes have been approved in writing by your agency. After reviewing all the project documents, find out what plans have been made to coordinate the paving operation with the utilities, businesses, and residents who will be affected. As necessary, utilities may have to be notified early so that arrangements can be made to adjust manhole elevations. Also, any planned cross-road utility cuts must of course be completed and patched before the new pavement is placed. Businesses should be contacted to arrange access times for employees if entrances and exits will be blocked by the paving operation. Private residents must be notified too. As the inspector, you should check out all such arrangements before paving begins. You should also take time to review the field conditions. The first two rules to remember are always wear a safety vest when you're working near equipment or traffic, and always remember where you are. Even though a vest will make you clearly visible, a few steps in the wrong direction could be fatal. Some areas of the existing surface may need to be repaired before the road is paved. The locations and extents of these defects, such as potholes and areas needing pre-leveling, are typically marked on the pavement. See to it that this repair work is done properly. Along with pothole repair and pre-leveling, many projects specify milling. Milling is often used in urban areas so that the new pavement will match up with existing manholes and curbs. This procedure is also effective in eliminating wheel ruts. When milling is required, your first major concern is that the pavement is milled to the proper depth. Also, be sure that the milling equipment does not tear or rip the surface. In addition, make sure that the contractor takes appropriate measures to control dust and to maintain proper drainage from the pavement. Once the surface is properly prepared, your next preliminary responsibility is to check the paving equipment. First, get familiar with the equipment that will be used. The paving train consists of haul trucks, a paver, and two or more rulers. A distributor applies the tack coat to bond the pavement to the underlying surface. A power broom sweeps off the surface ahead of the tack application. Now let's take a closer look at each, beginning with haul trucks. There are three types, belly dump, rear dump, and conveyor. Regardless of the type of truck used, a major concern is fuel and oil leaks that can contaminate the mix. So spot check all trucks before paving begins and from time to time during paving to see that there are no leaks. When rear dump trucks are used, look around the hydraulic rams and connections too. Leaks this severe are unusual but they do happen. If you find a leak, see that the contractor takes whatever measures are necessary to remove the spillage ahead of the paver. And of course, the equipment should be removed from the project and repaired. For safety, be sure that all truck backup alarms work properly. Another concern with haul trucks is the use of tarps to cover the mix. Tarps may be required to keep the mix hot or to keep out dust that would contaminate the load. Finally, contractors typically use a releasing agent to keep mix from sticking to truck beds. Be sure that it's an approved non-petroleum agent. Diesel fuel or other petroleum solvents must never be permitted as releasing agents. They dissolve the asphalt in the mix. To keep the mix from becoming contaminated, the releasing agent will have to be drained off completely before the mix is loaded. Although this is an inspection concern at the plant, you too should be on the lookout for contaminated loads at the job site and notify the plant if you see any. OK, now let's look at the paver or lay-down machine. There are many types, but all consist of a tractor and a screed. The tractor, of course, provides the power and includes a hopper where the mix is deposited. The screeds functions are to smooth and partially compact the mix. When belly dump trucks are used, a pickup machine is attached to the front of the tractor. Let's take a closer look at each component, beginning with the pickup machine. As you can see, it's pretty basic. The wings on each side of the machine are used to channel the mix toward the paddles, which in turn load the hopper. A plate is mounted below the paddles to ensure that all the mix is picked up. Rear dump and conveyor trucks load the paver directly. Two push rollers mounted on the front of the hopper push the truck along as the truck loads the hopper. Inside the hopper, two flight chains carry the mix through the tractor. The flow control gates over each chain are adjusted to allow the right amount of mix to pass through. As the mix comes out of the back of the tractor, the auger distributes it evenly in front of the screed. On many pavers, paddles are mounted at the center of the auger to keep material flowing toward the edges. A slope shoe, like you see here, may be attached to the screed to bevel the outside edge of surface courses. And that brings us to the screed unit. The screed acts independently and is pulled by the tractor. It strikes off the mix and partially compacts and smooths it through its vibratory or tamping action. See that the surface of the screed is smooth. A warped screed or a screed with worn edges can rip the new surface or cause the pavement to be uneven. You should also check into the adjustment of the screed. All pavers are equipped with adjustment bolts for the leading and trailing edge of the screed. Some pavers are also equipped with indicators so you can easily see the adjustment settings. The leading edge of the screed should be set slightly higher than the trailing edge by about 10 millimeters initially. This presses the material under the screed where it is struck off, partially compacted and smoothed. Many screeds can also be extended and retracted to accommodate various paving widths. If such an extension is being used, make sure the auger is the same length as the extension. If the screed is manually controlled, there will be two screws that are used to control the depth of the mix being placed. These should be set at the beginning of the work and rarely adjusted during the operation. Another function of the screed unit is to regulate the grade and cross slope of the mix being placed. That's important. Maintaining the proper grade and cross slope are critical in getting a quality pavement. So many pavers are equipped with highly sensitive electronic devices for controlling both grade and cross slope. Some agencies require that the grade be controlled with a sensing device and a long ski. The ski provides a moving reference for the sensing device. The sensor is located in a small box with an arm extending below it. The arm rests on the ski and detects bumps or sags in the surface. Then, through electronics and hydraulics, the screed is automatically adjusted to provide a smooth surface. To get the best results, the sensing device should be mounted between 2 and 3.5 meters ahead of the screed. The cross slope is controlled by a sensing device mounted on the screed and connected to the control mounted on the tractor. The cross slope needed for the particular job is preset so that the sensor can continuously adjust the screed to maintain the proper cross slope. There's a lot more involved with grade and cross slope control, but we'll look at both in more detail when we get to the paving operation. Now let's look at the rollers. There are many types, but all can be classified as steel-wheeled or pneumatic-tired. For leveling courses, a pneumatic-tired roller works best because the kneading action of the tires works the mix into the depressions. Steel wheels, on the other hand, tend to bridge the low spots and not compact the mix as well. All other courses can be rolled with steel-wheeled rollers or a combination of steel-wheeled and pneumatic-tired. The main point with rollers is that the compaction requirements have to be met. The contractor needs enough rollers of the proper weight in good condition and operated properly to achieve compaction without damage to the mat. So let's take a closer look at the rollers, starting with steel-wheeled. The two most common types are two-wheel and two-wheel vibratory, although you may see three-wheel rollers as well. The vibratory rollers can be operated either with or without vibration. The vibratory mode is used in the beginning of the rolling operation because it provides the most compaction. The static mode, that is, without vibration, allows the same roller to smooth out the pavement. The first thing to check on all steel-wheeled rollers is the drums. If they're not smooth, there's just no hope for a smooth pavement. You should also check the scrapers and mats. They remove mix that sometimes sticks to the drums. If it's not scraped off, this mix can mire the pavement surface. The drums also have to be kept moist, so make sure all the sprinkler nozzles are working. And finally, look under the roller. Make sure there are no oil or fuel leaks. Either kind of leakage will contaminate the mix. And that covers steel-wheeled rollers. Now let's look at pneumatic-tired rollers. Tire pressure greatly affects the performance of these rollers. All tires must be inflated to the same pressure within the tolerance suggested in the checklist. In addition, these rollers should have a working weight capacity of at least 115 kg per 6 cm width of tire tread. So measure the width of the tires and divide the number of centimeters into the total weight of the roller. Your checklist covers these calculations in detail. Now let's have a look at the hand tools required. Only loops and shovels should be used. Loots are used primarily in constructing longitudinal and transverse joints. The important thing is that it's loops, not rakes. Rakes are shaped differently and cause segregation of the mix. They just don't do the job properly. Just one more point about hand tools. Most contractors store them in containers filled with diesel fuel. That's perfectly acceptable, as long as the fuel isn't spilled on the mat. While the hand tools are in use, however, they should be cleaned with a putty knife, not with the diesel fuel. And they shouldn't be cleaned by scraping them off on any part of the lay-down machine either. And those are the equipment checks. Now let's look at traffic control in a little more detail. As you heard in the beginning of the program, a traffic control plan should identify the types of signs and devices to be used and where they should be placed. So you should always inspect them as they're set up to be sure they comply with the plan. Now, although the exact signs and devices in their locations will change from project to project, there are a number of principles that apply to all traffic control zones. First, the traffic control setup should comply with the manual on uniformed traffic control devices. Second, when traffic has to be alternated through the work area, make sure the flaggers work together to avoid holding traffic too long. Third, report any unsafe conditions to your supervisor as soon as possible. And fourth, make sure all signs are removed or covered when they no longer reply. Motorists learn to ignore signs when they don't see any road work. Your final preliminary concern is the weather. Temperature, precipitation, and wind are factors in determining whether or not to pave. Most agencies require a brief documentation of daily weather conditions on paving projects. To begin with, the mix should not be placed when temperatures are too low. Check the specs. Many agencies base their limitations on air temperature, others on surface temperature, and some use both. Cold temperatures, of course, will cool the mix, making it difficult to get adequate compaction. In addition, the fresh mat may not adhere to a cold surface, so always check the actual temperature with a reliable thermometer. You should also be aware that many agencies have calendar date restrictions, such as no paving allowed after October 15th or before April 15th. These restrictions are provided to help prevent the problems associated with low temperatures. Again, be sure to check your agency's specs. Precipitation is a concern. Asphalt paving should not begin when rain is about to fall, or too soon after it's fallen, while the surface is still wet. Occasional sprinkles or passing showers have to be dealt with according to their volume and duration, from working right on through the minor ones to temporarily halting for the more serious ones. Winds by themselves may not be caused to avoid paving, but they sure can mess up the tack application and cool down the mix real fast. So use good judgment. If weather conditions prevent good work, take the necessary action. Now we'll look at the last item on the list, the tack coat. The purpose of the tack coat is to bond the new pavement to the existing pavement. So first, it's very important to thoroughly clean the surface, and then cover it uniformly with the right amount of tack. But there is a lot to inspect. To begin, check the contract documents to see what type of tack material is to be used. Most agencies require emulsions, but some use asphalt cement or cutback asphalt. As inspector, you may have to sample the tack. If so, be sure to follow your agency's procedures for collecting, documenting, and submitting the samples properly. Next, find the application rate for the tack coat in the contract documents. Many agencies will allow you to make small adjustments in the application rate depending on the condition of the surface. Basically, you'll always use more tack on old and milled surfaces than you will between new courses. Then, record the number of liters in the distributor so that later you can calculate the application rate. You'll also need this information for payment purposes. Before the material is applied, see that the surface is both clean and dry. Otherwise, the tack won't bond the new pavement to the existing surface. Then, verify that the tack material has been heated to the proper temperature. The contract documents typically give a temperature range. Also be sure that the distributor's pump pressure is correct and constant, according to the manufacturer. Next, look at the spray bar, starting with the nozzles. They all have to be clean and angled in the same direction to get the proper coverage. And check the height of the spray bar. The proper bar height, nozzle angles, and application pressure determine the quality of the tack spray pattern. Generally, you want to double or triple lap coverage. This is a good tack application, smooth, even, and uniform. Look over the application closely. If you see any bare spots or lightly covered areas, stop the distributor and get the problem corrected. It could be just one plugged or misaligned nozzle, so make the necessary adjustments. After the material has been applied, be sure to record the number of liters remaining so you can calculate the application rate. To do this, you divide the number of liters of tack applied by the area covered. The length of application times the width in meters. The rate is so many liters per square meter. Here are some more points about the tack coat. Don't apply more tack than can be covered the same day. Also, be sure traffic and dirt are kept off the tack coat. Both will hamper the bond. When emotions are used, make sure the material breaks, loses its water content, before the mix is placed on the surface. You know this has happened when the tack turns from brown to black and becomes sticky or tacky. When asphalt cement is used, the mix can be placed immediately. However, when a cutback asphalt is used, it must first cure. That is, the solvents must evaporate. You can check the application with your finger. Before a cutback cures, your finger will pick up an oily film. After it cures, there's no oily film, and the surface is tacky or sticky. With that, we've covered your preliminary inspection responsibilities and the tack coat application. In part two, we'll look at the paving operation itself.


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Hi, my name is Leon Roe currency trader and trading coach at trading 180.com and welcome to this week's applying demand for us technical Analysis if you're new welcome, and if you're returning welcome back I really hope that every week you find the analysis technical analysis useful as well as some of the fundamentals and if you want to skip to your favorite pairs, we have the timestamp in the description box below along with the Technical analysis, which is on my trading view channel. So We'll start off with the fundamentals before we get into the technicals just a week ahead Analysis from trading economics, which is a great site trading economics comm if you're into fundamentals definitely Use this this site along with others like forex factory as well But in the week ahead we have the u.s. Publishing with jobs report rights and non-farm payrolls last time came out way below expected, but that was I think that was due to the Bad weather so we're expecting obviously something a lot higher Figure-wise this this time around this month, and if it isn't then something really is wrong Potentially with the jobs market and that would probably lead to Fears or confirming certain fears about the slowdown in the u.s GDP and Heading into a recession, which I'm not buying just yet. I mean probably is there are economic cycles, but There are other countries that are much worse off than the u.s. At the moment, but anyways So you've got ISM PMIs ADP employment retail sales durable goods and construction spending elsewhere the Reserve Bank of Australia And I think that's the Reserve Bank of India will decide on the monetary policy is quite important other important data include UK market PMIs Eurozone inflation Germany factory orders and industrial output Japan business morale and China Caxing I think that's how you pronounce it PMIs again that China PMIs will be Quite important as well. Eurozone inflation Is gonna be another one, but with with brexit being extended and Again some uncertainty Not too sure whether that's gonna be you know really that market moving Again if you want to know probably more bit more about fundamentals You can go to the fundamental analysis course the link is in the description box below and it'll bring you to this page Which is my fundamental and sentiment analysis trading course where I go over Pretty much what you need to know about fundamental and sentiment analysis, which is risk on risk off right, if you click on that spreadsheet brings you to here and This is just a spreadsheet where I give you my opinion on what currency I am bullish and bearish and is varying degrees of bullish and bearishness Depending on the strength the US dollar being number one overall if you understand GDP inflation and interest rates So yeah, this is only for risk on so fundamentals. It doesn't take into account risk off Sentiment by the way, so even though I am bullish on the dollar I could be definitely bullish on the yen if it is a risk off environment so let's get into the technical analysis and Start off on the Dow Jones dollar index as we always do every week in the Dow Jones dollar index is just a measure of dollar strength against some of the major currencies like the pound the yen and the euro and the Australian dollar and last week If you zoom in a little bit We were pretty much in between this supply zone and on the top end of this demand zone and Actually dollar strength as you can already guess Came into the market and now we're up to this This supply zone here. So Let's look at a price chart in real time And let's see if we can amend some of these zones All right, so Right now, I think everything is still pretty much the same we have come up into this Supply zone here and we also have some diagonal resistance which prices is reacting from right if you believe that the The dollar will get weaker and potentially again going into non-farm payrolls and some other data We could see, you know the dollar selling off around here or At that level of horizontal Resistance within this overall supply zone, even though it has been touched several times You could see a bit of a sell-off And again coming down into this demand and I'd probably Wait to more for if I was looking to be a buyer with a dollar. I'd be looking for Prices to really kind of come down to here or down into this zone doesn't mean that obviously If we get some good news and price starts to rally from here that I won't be a buyer of the dollar Not necessarily a dollar index, but I'll be buying the the dollar yen dollar Swiss depending on obviously the Risk often risk on sentiment, you know dollar CAD etc So right now It's more again to do with fundamentals If you're waiting for prices really the catalyst To react from putting from non-farm payrolls and that will put it determine the direction into this week So let's have a look at the next pair, which is the dollar yen and Again from last week. I Was expecting more risk of sentiment to really come into the market, but we actually came down into This demand zone here touching it Then we reacted and again that just confirmed on the dollar index so you pretty much come up into this area here of supply and I still think that risk should be more off than on So going to dollar yen Zooming in a little bit What we could have this week if the dollar index starts to set off, then you'll get a move like this if Risk remains on or there is some dollar Strength that comes into the market. I don't really expect this supply zone to really hold This would be where you'd be looking at probably entering short the highs of the market All right Looking at probably some buying opportunities again You'd have to wait for a pullback on the dollar index and then look for buying opportunities here or here But overall I think the dollar is obviously the the dominant currency and I'll be waiting for you know potential pullbacks I'm not a breakout trader break out traders are the ones that usually get caught out on the wrong side of the market so If anything what you'd have to do is wait for prices to really come up Into this zone if you're looking to be a buyer with a dollar that would create what we would know as Demand zone right here and then wait for a pullback into that demand zone before looking at getting long at the moment It hasn't quite created a strong enough demand zone. There is demand here, but I'm not gonna put it on on this On the chart just yet. I wanted to really kind of break this supply zone before I think about putting that demand zone on there So those are your options for the dollar yen moving on to the dollar Swiss and The dollar Swiss from last week Zooming a little bit again. We came down into this demand zone here Risk being more off than on but the dollar Strengthening still in risk of environments We did get bit of a moving a bit of reaction So there was some opportunities to get long on lower timeframes and still potentially On this currency pair, I Prefer I prefer for prices to really kind of come down to this 98 You know number here before looking at establishing some long trades Even though this is a decent setup You've got enough, you know movement to the upside in order to capture some decent pips So let's look at what potentially could be going on This week the dollar yen Yeah, so If you are looking to buy the dollar you could be looking for a bit of a pullback Even this levels touched once twice several times The weaker that that demand zone will probably end up becoming if it does touch this zone again So I'm probably waiting for prices to come down to this area It's 98 round number before looking at establishing any long positions If you're looking to get short then this is gonna be the first area to look to get short and less Prices make a lower low and a lower high and then you'd be waiting for prices to come back into This level here before looking at getting short Yeah So you'd make for a lower low that create the lower high prices come up this becomes your supply zone and then you'd look for short trades, but With the dollar strength at the moment I'll be looking for just basically pullbacks You know into the man zones this demand zone being the best if prices do come up Then I've went for a pullback into another demand zone before looking to get long Moving on to the dollar CAD and the dollar CAD We had What's prices come up into this supply zone sold off a little bit and it's sold off again Oil, you know strengthening, you know going from strength to strength So after a bit of a trending market, you can expect prices to enter into You know a arranging market, you know price acceptance at the moment the 1.345 level is where Traders seem to feel that this is an expensive area for the for the dollar Against the CAD if you are looking to be a buyer, let's go to the chart Waiting for a pullback into this song, which is decent. You also have a Level right here where you have some Horizontal support and resistance where you've got resistance resistance resistance resistance bit of support there Bit of support here within that demand zone which adds to the confluence. You also have a bit of dynamic So a diagonal support but not within that zone So I'm not gonna put it on there and then we also can look at Dynamic support and resistance within this area. You've got the 100 moving averages Within this area, and let's see if you've got any Yeah, have you got the 50 as well within this area? So this demand zone looks decent for a good buy Would say just make sure that oil is selling off before you look to to buy This currency pair Now moving on to the New Zealand dollar US dollar New Zealand dollar US dollar So can we came up into this supply zone this higher supply zone, right? We put in a bit of a pin bar There was an opportunity to get short again from this potential double top I did mention that last week and We did sell off dollar strength US dollar strength New Zealand dollar It was pretty dovish with their Their reserve bank in New Zealand statement potential hinting at a rate cut so you can see where prices pretty much sold off taking out this demand zone right here So let's look at Removing some levels right here That gets removed What I'll do is just adjust this Supply zone as well, right? So Supply and again if prices come back up to this area here, this is where you'd be looking at Selling from buy perspective I think anywhere around here is a decent buy if you're looking to buy the New Zealand dollar That is you'd have to think really kind of think that the New Zealand dollar Is gonna, you know gain a strength or the US dollar is gonna, you know weaken There could be some potential weakening with the US dollar depending on non-farm payroll news So around these are Horizontal support levels within these wider area of demand Decent areas to look for some are some long trades And they get me at the confluence of this diagonal Support maybe some moving averages You've got really the One of the 200 moving averages below there Then the 50 and the 100. I think it's gonna be way above. Yeah, so not really much dynamic support You know supporting the New Zealand dollar, but if I was a Better man up We'll be waiting for prices to really come back up to you know This area here before looking to get sure if prices do if not then Wait for lower highs lower lows. So for example prices Make a move like that wait for price to come back up into this area here and then look for a short trade Moving on to the pound dollar And the pound dollar has been Really no fireworks this week That just sold off obviously with the whole Brexit And negotiations really not going great, but you know being extended and there's still a bit of certainty You know and it's still a chance that the you know the UK can stay within The the there's a deal potentially on the table or some type of deal anyway Again you can see that reflected in price and we've really just come down into this lower area So if we're looking at what potentially could be happening This week, let's clean up the charts We can get rid of that. I probably expect prices to not really hold We've touched this ones once twice and now the third time so the third touch usually It can work But it's not a higher probability trade like it would be on the first or potentially the second touch third touch Wouldn't be for me if I was looking to buy the pound I was looking to buy the pound it'd have to be and move probably down here before looking to get long From a Short trade buying the dollar. This is where you'd be looking at Really the first area to look to buy the dollar is going to be right around here. We also have what looks like Decent area of horizontal resistance support support bit of resistance here So within this around this 1.32 level could be a decent selling opportunity on the pound But again, this is very sentiment driven at the moment this currency pair and the British pound So just be careful when it comes to You know putting potential oil fuel, you know normal risk putty go down to maybe half or quarter position size because Anything can really happen on the British pound Euro dollar so last week I Ended up taking profits on this On this currency pair and I'll actually show you that as well So I ended up getting short right here and then I've taken profits around here this week It was a nicer thing about four to one trade Again, this is more of a fundamental and sentiment play US being the stronger currency euro being very weak and uncertain around Brexit, so let's get into some of the analysis and I'll show you the trade setup in a sec So we've made lower lows lower highs now that supply zone there We do have a bit of demand Bit but it was quite a wide zone of demand, which is right here, but I didn't want to put it on there But anywhere around here, I would say is decent Decent for a long trade if you're looking to get long Now from a trade setup perspective, this is what I've got in that entry right there. Oh wrong one And you can look at last week's video as well and have a look all right and my target was from the low to the high and around 80% of that move so This was where it's a decent three to one trade not four to one trade three to one trade right here where the you know prices pretty much ended up coming down and Hitting target right here, and I do go over, you know my how I you know basically Determined targets in a in a video which I leave in the description box below I can't remember the title of it, but I talk about the Australian dollar and targets And I'll leave a like I said, I leave a link in the description box below So my usually I go for either 50% or the 80% retracement for For my targets and gives me gave me a nice a nice risk reward trade on that so Going forward now again, you'd probably be looking Either any kind of buy Trade around is 1.1 to level personally. I'm not looking to buy the euro. I'll be looking to sell So that'd be the first area right there to look for a sell trade and as you made lower highs and lower lows right there That'd be the next Level you've got a bit of I would say horizontal support Around that area Nothing major I guess maybe on the lower time frame that probably would be something around here And kind of see it around there. Yeah, I keep it like that. So If we get a bit of a pullback Into this one point one three and we see, you know decent price action then I'll be looking at getting short right here Any long trades right now if you think that the dollar is gonna weaken against the euro Would be this would be the really the area to look for any kind of long trades Moving on to the euro yen Euro yen so from last week I actually ended up getting out of this trade as well taking profits And we pretty much just went sideways risk off me to zoom in a little bit So we ended up getting in short around here and this was this was the four to one trade that we ended up getting in and Prices this week pretty much just went sideways. So Started the week from here ended the week at this one point two four level Let's have a look the chart so again, there was an opportunity to potentially buy the euro Lower time frame charts, but again, we're having with risk being more on then turn more off than on I Can't see really the euro rallying for any any particular reason But if you do want to be a buyer now is pretty much the time to look for buy trades if you're looking for a Sell trade you'd have to work for price to really come all the way back up to here or create lower Lows lower highs and then look for a short trade around Here which is probably the probably what is more likely to happen But again depending on what happens with you know risk sentiment So again, just a quick recap of the actual trade that we ended up getting in on So this was the candle here and right there stopped just above the high and it was a retracement from from this low This demand zone to that high originally I was actually planning on Unholding this trade, but I thought I'd take some profits Just below the 80% matter of fact so Decent trade right there from that high and that supply zone up there to the lows right there so Decent trade this week as well Moving on to the Australian dollar US dollar this week Can we pretty much just moved sideways? Not much, you know price movement. Maybe what are you looking at? 768, you know, maybe about less than less than really a hundred pips of price movement this week prices, you know, I've just been I'm going sideways in bedroom really Quite low volatility In the market over the past quite a few months So really there was an opportunity to potentially get along here day trading opportunities Let's go into into that so Again buying around here. If he was maybe looking at an hourly time frame chart. This is where you would have been Potentially looking to buy around here or would it was it around here somewhere around here? Anyway, that she was this week so I'm potential buying opportunities But I don't really trade the daily. I mean the hourly so For me, there really wasn't any buying opportunity and I wouldn't really be buying the Australian dollar either I'm looking for, you know sell trades if I'm looking to Get in on this currency pair. So Look for sell trades around here. There are buying opportunities at the moment But I'm not convinced with the Australian dollar. But again, we do have the RBA statement this week and if they are A bit more hawkish or a bit more neutral. We could see prices, you know rise, but My my estimation is that they want a weaker Australian dollar So you probably could see prices end up Selling off potentially so Just I would say probably hold fire on your on your buy trades or if you are going to get in long Then just enter a really kind of short position or small position. I should say You know, maybe a court position or or a half position But personally I'll be looking at short trades on this currency pair and finally we have the Aussie yen The Aussie yen again this week, not much movement price wise There was a bit matter of fact in a little bit. We did get a bit of a spike up Prices came back down Reacting off of this supply zone and then we're really in between the range So the range being from this high to this low Pretty much halfway, which is fair value So let's look at this price chart prices at the moment are being contained between that high and that low and So this is really since the 5th of February 8th of February prices are really in between that So we're just really around a fair value Australian dollar Japanese yen being a measure of risk sentiment So the moment it's very it's quite difficult to to tell From from this currency pair, you know, there's no really no direction when it comes to risk, even though there are several risk Factors going on again, Brexit Trump trade wars. There's going to be some European elections going on as well. So If I was Looking to get involved in this it'd probably be to the short side with with the uncertainty I don't really like buying the Japanese yen, but risk-off environment, you'd have to be looking for prices you know to To go short but um If you are looking at buying the Australian dollar again, depending on what they the rba say this week This could be a decent buying opportunity. You'd have to wait for prices to really kind of come down That's it for this week Hope you enjoyed the the analysis Don't forget to like subscribe and share and if you do have any questions regarding supply and demand Definitely send them in the In the description box below or you can email them to me at info at trading 180 dot com Hope you guys have a great trading week and take care


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Hey everybody, Mr. Gibson here with your next lesson in cryptography and today we're going to be talking about the RSA cipher which is the Kind of most widely known Public key encryption system used today. There's a few others that are moderately well known like elliptic curve cryptography But this is probably the most widely used at this point So we're going to dig into the details and see how it works and look at an example So let's just talk a little about the history of the RSA cipher It was first published by Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Edelman in 1977 and it was one of the first public key cryptosystems, which is probably why it's still used today First in the door it really kind of sticks around for a while. So while some other ones have come up This is certainly the most prevalent It's important to note that the algorithm that we use is relatively slow for computers to actually complete So it's not used to encrypt large amounts of data In practice, it's actually most commonly used to encrypt keys to other more efficient ciphers that are more symmetric ciphers. So modern Symmetric ciphers that are used frequently are AES, Blowfish and a triple DES All of these are symmetric. So very similar to the more historical ciphers that we've covered in this course But they use the RSA cipher for the key transmission. So it's a nice way to solve that problem Those AES, Blowfish, triple DES are very secure symmetric ciphers The only issue with them is because they're symmetric is the key problem So solve that problem with RSA and those are great to use A little bit of mathematics that we're going to need to understand to fully work with the RSA cipher is this idea of the Euler's totient function So there's a lot of words there that are hard to pronounce Euler is the is the mathematician The totient is how you pronounce that word and then the the Greek symbol that represents the totient function is phi So kind of a circle with a vertical slash through it So we're going to represent that as phi of n where n is any number integer number And what that function is going to calculate are the number of integers that are between one and n For which those integers are relatively prime to n and just a reminder relatively prime Just means that the only shared divisor between the number and n would be one So for example, phi of eight would be four because there are four numbers between one and eight that are relatively prime to eight Those numbers are one three five and seven Phi of seven would equal six There are six numbers between one and seven that are relatively prime to seven and those numbers are one two three four five six That's going to be an important pattern there. We can see that when when n is prime something special happens And then our last example phi of ten would be four There are four numbers between one and ten that are relatively prime to ten and they are one three seven and nine What we're going to see about the totient function is that there's not a formula that we can use to really calculate that You actually have to go through and check each integer k k being the numbers between one and n And see if they are in fact relatively prime We'll see that there's a few algorithms that have been popped up over the years that make the slightly more efficient But not not vary. Uh, it gets really hard to do But here's a few of those shortcuts I mentioned If your number um n is is actually a prime number so we can call it p Then phi of p is just p minus one. We saw that in the example earlier phi of seven was six Phi of five would be four that's because p by pr But because p is prime by definition The only factor it shares with any other number is one Which means that every number that's less than p is going to be relatively prime to it So that's kind of just summarizing that observation And then the second uh important fact about the totient function We're going to need for the rsa algorithm is that if your number Is composed of the product of two primes So say p and q are two prime numbers and n is just equal to p times q then if you want to compute phi of n Which is the same thing as saying computing phi of p times q It turns out this this totient function Is multiplicative in nature meaning that you can just find the phi of each of those primes and then multiply The result so if we know that phi of p is p minus one and phi of q Is q minus one then phi of p times q is just p minus one times q minus one Now that only holds true when p and q are primes doesn't work for all numbers But it does work for these primes and that is going to be helpful for us here in a moment Okay, let's get into the rsa function Because it's public key We need to have a public key and a private key that are paired together So we're going to want to generate those keys in a special way So they have the properties that we want And we do that by starting out choosing two prime integers and we'll call those p and q In this system p and q must remain secret in fact that is the secrecy this this whole system is built upon relies on keeping those values unknown to anybody but you We're going to use p and q to compute two other numbers We're going to compute n which is just the product of p and q That's going to be public information that n is going to be just like with kid rsa n is going to be the modulus that we're working in in our operations So we're going to give that away But just don't show how you calculated it Then we need to compute phi of n and since using the result we saw on the last slide Since we know that n is composed of the product of two primes This is pretty easy for us to compute using that shortcut We can just do p minus one times q minus one phi of n needs to be secret that is the real reason That is the real reason why this whole system stays secure is that we're going to see that if anybody new phi of n Or new p and q and therefore could compute phi of n This whole system goes away. It's not secure anymore So we must keep those values secret Then we need to choose a value for e and e just like in kid rsa Is going to be part of our public key. It's going to be a number that we use for encryption So that's going to be public and what's what's interesting here is that we can just choose e There's only one criteria and that e needs to be relatively prime to that phi of n that we just calculated so As soon as you choose e you just want to do a quick check. Is it relatively prime to the value of phi of n A real common choice is to use this number 65 537 Two reasons It's a large prime. So it's going to be relatively unlikely that it shares any factors with phi of n And then the second reason is a more computer reason It can be represented using one and then a bunch of zeros and then a one in binary And there's something about the way that this gets programmed using computer programming That makes that very efficient that long string of zeros in the middle of the binary representation Makes this operation go a little bit quicker than it would otherwise And then the last thing we need to calculate is d which just like in kid rsa d is a value that we're going to use in the decryption process D needs to be the multiplicative inverse of e in the modulus of phi of n And we can quickly compute that using the euclidean algorithm that we've seen previously So again, you would not be able to get the value of d unless you knew e Which you will because it's public and phi of n which you better not because that is secret That's the reason why we need to that we need to keep phi of n secret is that if you knew that you could quickly compute d The multiple the inverse of e So you you need to keep that secret All right, let's see how this works in practice here in just a moment. But first Let's see how we encrypt the message So we encrypt a message we take our message m Convert that to a number and we raise it to the power of e and then mod by n That's going to generate our cipher text message as a number and we'll call that number c And then to decrypt a message, um, you take your cipher text message c You raise it to the power of d and mod by n and that'll get you back to your plain text message m So unlike with kid rsa where you took your message and multiplied it by e and then you took your cipher text and Multiplied it by d we raising it to a power here And that's where the math a lot of our mathematical security comes in Is that exponentiation is just a lot harder to wrap our heads around both? Kind of mathematically, but then also computationally it takes it to the next level a little bit harder to calculate So why does this work? Why is it secure? And how do we know that that encryption and decryption process actually works? That's a long answer the short version is it's complicated Is a little bit beyond the scope of this course to explain why those operations undo each other So you should if you're interested wanted to see why that works take a course on number theory or Read up on fermat's little theorem fermat's little theorem is kind of the the big mathematical result That's needed to prove that those two things actually will undo each other So i'll leave a link in the video description if you want to go read up on that Okay, let's see an example done in practice here So we've got our usual actors alice bob and eve Say alice wants to send the plain text message high over to bob without eve intercepting it So we've got the open lock representing plain text Which means that bob needs to generate a key pairing so that alice could get the public key So bob chooses these two prime numbers 1171 for p and 2099 for q Those are our secret remember pink numbers and letters are going to mean secret information and green will mean public So the first thing bob needs to do is compute the value for n doesn't want to show how he does that So you wouldn't show the 1171 times 2099, but he gets the result of n equals 2457929 Now he needs to get to work computing phi of that number and because bob knows p and q He can compute phi of n pretty quickly. Um, he can just do one less from p and one less from q and multiply those together Um, this is all now secret information. Nobody should know that phi of n is 2454660 Because he's now going to use that to compute his decryption key He's arbitrarily chosen e to be 65,537 it could be any number That's relatively prime to phi of n, but this is a nice choice He's confirmed that the greatest common divisor between e and phi of n equals one Meaning that's the only shared divisor. So that's a good choice to use for e Now he just needs to compute d and I remember d is the multiplicative inverse of e in the modulus of phi of n And we can use the extended Euclidean algorithm to do that pretty quickly and he gets the number 1687553 So there's the three numbers that bob needs to generate the public and private key pairs And he does that So there's the generation keys are generated. It is now time to share those keys. So bob sends the public key over to alice Eve grabs it along the way Not sure what she's going to do with that yet, but we'll find out Now that alice has the public key She'll convert her message high into binary using the ascii table and then convert that to a decimal And now she's off to work to create her encrypted message. So she's going to take her plaintext message 267 29 and raise that to the power of e and then mod by n So this operation you're not you're going to be able to do on a handheld calculator This this is a big calculation. You're going to need some serious computing to do it efficiently Python can do that with a built-in function called pow You can also give it to something like wolf from alpha and it will have no problem with it but you're going to need to some sort of specialized computer to do this your ti 84 or Calculator on your on your phone probably can't handle something like this So you're going to need something a little bit more specialized But when she does that she gets the number 101 6 9 5 5 That's our cipher text message. She could convert that to text using base 64 She wants to to make it easier to transmit, but it's fine. She can send it across the line that way and she does Uh, eve picks it up on the way. So she knows the cipher text in the public key Bob now knows the cipher text, but only bob can decrypt it because only bob has the private key So bob gets to work. He's going to decrypt that cipher text message By raising c to the d and modding by n. So in this case, that's 101 6 9 5 5 raised to the power of 1 6 8 7 5 5 3 And then we mod by 2 4 5 7 9 2 9 again That is not an easy calculation to do you're going to need something That's really good at computation to take care of that for you python wolf from alpha something When he does that he gets back the plain text message that alice had created on her end 26 7 29 He can convert that to binary and then back to the plain text message. Hi Not that complicated of a process, but it does require some computing power Now eve cannot retrieve that plain text message. She just does not have the ability to do so why In short again Multiplication is easy. It was easy for us to generate n and generate phi of n which were the things that we needed to compute D But it's really hard to do that if you don't know p and q And if you don't know p and q because your alice or eve you didn't choose them and you don't know them You can't calculate phi of n and if you can't calculate phi of n, you can't determine the decryption key d from e Here's just a quick example. This is a relatively small value for n, you know, it's in the trillions maybe It's hard by looking at that to decide what p and q are Computer can do it. It won't take too long, but that's only a 60 bit modulus And remember in practice these key values have bits that are thousands in length these keys are thousands of bits And it gets harder and harder for each additional bit for you to be able to factor that back down to p and q And again once you have p and q you can you can reverse engineer the decryption key the private key So here's what they are Just for this example But imagine if this thing had hundreds and hundreds of digits long It's going to be very hard for any computer to do it and that's where the security of rsa comes from When we have moduluses that are hundreds of digits long It takes computers hundreds of years of computing time Um To be able to factor those back and and at that point hopefully whatever message you are using to encrypt has now gone out of date It's important to realize that this is not a mathematically secure cipher With enough time and computing power you can always break rsa But what the premise is that it's going to take you too long for it to be worth your while for any message that you send using rsa So that's the basics of the rsa cipher Is our is our last cipher that we're going to cover in this course So I hope that you've enjoyed learning more about it and that's it for today. Thanks for watching. We'll catch you in the next one


Hey there friends, thanks for checking in. I have said on several occasions, I'm a fan of sight mark optics. They offer a lot for the money. Here's the upper on my Diamondback DB15. I've got a sight mark Wolfhound 3x24 on there. It looks a little different. It is housed with this rubber outside material that is very rugged. This is a great optic. I've been very happy with it. I've spoken about it and it's always performed. Great for me. On my CMFG Banshee chambered in 5.7 by 28, I've got a sight mark Ultra Shot M-Spec. It looks like an Eotech. It's much less expensive than an Eotech. You can see it does have the shroud on there. An excellent reticle. It holds zero and this has been great on this firearm. I've been very impressed with it. It also priced well. Well, here we've got my Ruger Max 9. What I have here is a sight mark mini-shot A-Spec M3 Reflex Red Dot Optic. This is featured on Ruger's site where it says Shop Ruger. Upon the launch with the Max 9, Ruger featured this. Now let's stop right there. For Ruger to feature anything on their site, it has to be tested thoroughly. For longevity, ruggedness, they don't feature any junk. All right, let's just get that out of the way right now. So they feature this right here. I think it goes for around $169 in change. And that is what I'm talking about. To get an optic that's 400 bucks, that to me is in many cases as much as you pay for the pistol itself. And that's what's kept me away from red dots initially. But something like this offered everything that I want. Let's get into it. It has a clear dot 3 MOA auto dimming. So there are no adjustments. It is always on. They say 100,000 hours of battery life, which is approximately four years with a standard CR2032. And it is always on auto dimming. So if it is daylight, it's gonna be a little bit brighter. If it is low light conditions, it's gonna be a little more dim. But it does offer a nice clear dot. Aluminum housing. It is shockproof. It is waterproof. It's a great optic. I've been very happy with it. Now I've taken this gun to the range on three occasions and just a couple turns with the elevation, a couple turns with the windage. And I had it sighted in really well. I've been very happy with it. And I'm gonna show you how happy I was with it. Now if you go with the case, here's the user's manual, the hex wrenches to mount. It gives you the rag to clean the glass. Those are the hex. Now, I mentioned I was happy with it. I got another one. Now this is mounted on another mount for a pick rail. I'm thinking about putting this on my Desert Eagle. I'm not sure yet. I'm thinking about it. But I got another one because I really like this optic. I think that it is going to offer longevity, which is what you want. And it's actually rated, what they say, it was, I'm gonna put a little, I don't even know what this caliber is, but I'm gonna put it down here. It's rated up to that. So that tells me that it'll work fine on the Desert Eagle. I mentioned I've taken it to the range on three occasions. Let's roll through some of that footage. We'll come back and talk more about this SightMark MiniShot. SightMark MiniShot A-Spec M3 has the same footprint as a Shield RMSC. So if you see that a firearm offers a red dot plate with the shield, it will work with the MiniShot A-Spec. One of the things I really appreciate about this optic is that it does have rear sights. Let me be able to show it better with this one. See that? In case your battery dies or something goes wrong, you still have rear sights right there to work with your front sight. I don't know if you can see like that, but it's definitely on there. That I can guarantee. And that is something that I think should be standard with red dots on pistols because anything that is mechanical, you know as well as I do, could go wrong. And sometimes it does. And you'll still be able to use your fiber optic tritium front sight with that rear sight if something goes wrong with this. But there it is. SightMark MiniShot A-Spec M3 under 200 bucks. I've got it on my Ruger Max 9. I hope I demonstrated it well. I certainly felt like I did when I was at the range, but I think this is a very nice optic and it's priced well.  And if you're looking to get into red dots on handguns, this would be a great place to start. And I think you may be like me and possibly get a couple. If you like videos like this, please subscribe and share. I always appreciate thumbs up button. Thanks for watching and you guys be safe.


Imagine, it's 1400 years ago, it's the ninth of Maharram, you're in your tent at night, you hear noises and commotion coming from outside, so you come out from your tent and you see people leaving the camp of Imam S.A. in their hundreds and thousands. For a split second, your eyes fall into the eyes of Imam S.A.   Where would you want to serve? In battle with Imam Hussain, in the rest of the battle, it's about knowing how to have the honour of dying with Imam Hussain, in battle. Why specifically Imam S.A.? Why wouldn't some people say they'd go get water with Aba Abdullilah S.A.? Some people say they'd try to protect the tents of the women and children. Some people say they'd want to bring back the pieces of the companions from the battlefield. Why would you want to go and fight with Imam S.A.? Imam Hussain and all the other companions, they would be known as Islam. So me having the honour of dying is the person that brought Islam to us. That would be a great honour.  So you say who is it? They say no, he's waiting for you in the living room.  In that moment, what would you say to him? What would you want him to say to you? The first thing I would do is I bow down to his feet as all the respect I have for him of what he's done for us, for Islam, I would ask him what is there for me to do for you about Abdullah? What is there any Khidmah for me to do for you? What would you want to hear from him? What would make you happy? For him to say that everything that he's done so far is good, the Khidmah that you've done is good for the Hussaini year, for helping the Shabab, anything. He says that, I'm proud of you and I keep on going, that will be the kind of Hussain. A lot of people often forget that we have our Imam alive and with us and at the start I asked you about 1400 years ago, I said if you were there, what would you have done? And it might be easy knowing the tragedies that took place back then to say, I would help with this, I would fight with that, I would try and stop this or I would bring X to Y to Z etc. And I said to you Imam Sain al-Islam is giving you the choice and in this day and age in a way, with our Imam being away from us, we have the choice in how we decide to serve him best. So what do you think you've done for the 12th Imam? What do you think he deserves from you? What do you think he would accept from you? What we've done so far is not as, as I say, we haven't done enough. Khidmah is something that there's no level to it. The more you do, you get closer to getting thawab and there's no limit for you to stop and say yes, I've done enough. There's never a limit to Khidmah of Aba'a, Abdullah al-Hussain. So what do you think we should do for our 12th Imam differently? Everything that we're doing now is not just about the latom, the tatbih and all this. It's not about that, it's about the lesson that he taught, the lesson that we learned from him, the him he's given his life for Islam. And us giving this little Khidmah, doing latom, doing this is just little baby steps towards, towards the love of Aba'a Abdullah and the love that he will give to us as his servants.


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