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The Czech Republic is preparing for a NATO-Russia war. A war between NATO and Russia is the worst of all possible worlds. But it is not impossible, says General Karel Rekha, chief of the General Staff of the Czech Armed Forces. We view war between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance as the worst-case scenario, but it is not impossible. It is possible. Rekha said at the conference in the Czech Parliament according to the Novinsky.cz website. According to Rekha, the Czech Armed Forces are trying to prepare for a potential violent conflict with a highly technologically developed adversary, Russia. Because Russia is currently on a course towards a conflict with the North Atlantic Alliance, the Republic's obligations before NATO would require it to actively participate in a standoff with a potential enemy, the General said. He said that given the situation in Ukraine, the country's national security needed to be reinforced, paying special attention to promptly overcoming reliance on Russian energy supplies. He also warned the conference's participants about the threat of becoming too dependent on China in the area of telecommunications.


Hello everyone. This next talk will be about DevConf 10. This is Holger. Please crouch if you're going to pass in front of the camera. If you want to ask any questions, please ask for the microphone first. Say your name and while you're talking, please look to the camera and smile. Hi. My name is Holger Liebsen and I will actually not give a talk today but rather, it's very short, very few slides about why we do DevConf, how we decide on a venue and then the idea is that if people are here who made proposals that they present them shortly. And that what we do today here is that we define a timeline until we want to decide where DevConf 10 is held. Yeah, that's what I just said. Yeah, the timeline basically is the deadline until we want to have the proposals finished, the deadline to find the decision and the deadline for defining the decision process. So why do we do DevConf? For many reasons, obviously. There's not a single one. They are somewhat ordered by priority. The first and most priority is to get work done on Debian together. It's also the other main goal of DevConf is to educate each ourselves with talks and workshops. DevConf should be a chance to meet face to face, to socialize, to party also. Not to party, that's the other thing. To develop social bonds and to brainstorm new ideas. Parties, of course, means to get together and also to improve the motivation of the individuals and the teams. Of course, we also want to boost the local community and to have fun, but that's a bit lesser goals and not really goals because we provide free food and accommodation so that at least the people who work on it get something back from the project. That is all. We wrote that down, I think, in 2006 when we discussed about where DevConf 7 should be held, that we thought that we write down why we do it. It's also on the Wiki and slash why. We have this location checklist with different items which are important to hold. A DevConf that is just copied and paste from the list, except that I changed this special rooms to special Debian conference rooms. We need a server room, we need a place for the video team, we need a front desk, these kind of things. Ah, put again. The location checklist is we need a strong local team that is really important for us. Then the place itself, we need conference facilities, food for quite a big number of people with some special requirements, network connectivity because without network we cannot work. We need a place to sleep for all the attendings and there should also be some fun and free time activities possibly. So it should not be in a complete desert island, whatever. And local sponsors are also a plus. The timeline, I think we should decide a timeline today which we can follow and my suggestion is that we have a deadline for proposals at the end of this year 31st, sent in by mail, documented on the Wiki, whatever. A deadline for the decision should be April 1st, that this is really the deadline but we should aim to make a decision on March 1st so that we have two months to discuss the proposals and then one month to have a, for whatever, flameless site. And we also need to decide how we decide. And I would say we document the procedure until the end of this year also and that the preferred way is rough consensus which was basically the way we choose this location and the next one. And Podepkov 9, not real ones. Okay, this looks so brilliant, we take it. And if that doesn't work, then we use the procedure as we had Podepkov 7 which is basically an ISE meeting with the votes of the involved people and by priority. That is somewhere written and I would like to put it somewhere we can find it again. There has also been, More has started to write down what he learned as doing Depkom 7 as a local team that is in the Wiki and so that we start, we always had pages for a specific Depkom that we start to document the procedures needed for each Depkom. Do you think this timeline makes sense? Do you want to repeat it? Yeah, I was just saying, I guess the timeline decision could also be kind of up to the cities which are interested in having it as to how long they feel that they need to prepare a sensible bed. I mean, if all the cities in question felt that they were ready tomorrow then we could decide earlier possibly. We used, two years ago I think, we wanted to decide two years in advance and we learned that it's too much time and so I proposed this change also. Nobody seems to disagree. Should we take it for the next five years? I don't want to talk about the same thing every year. I think that in any case the decision and everything should not be postponed too much it's really good to start preparing a long time in advance. It's a lot of work so let's not delay it too much. Okay, so this is the timeline for Depkom 10, 11, 12, 13, blah, blah, blah. We can also change it next year again until we decide we want to discuss it again. Wonderful. So as far as I know there are three proposals ordered in alphabetically order by country. I don't know if Gannath wants, yeah, let's start with them I think. I don't know what time is it. Ten minutes past, we have plenty of time basically, fine. But I would say let's keep it maximum ten minutes so that we can have in the end a bit discussion. I think that this was my slide also so there's nothing more. I'm not prepared to have anything here yet. Fine. Boston, New York, San Francisco, Portland, Cambridge, whatever. Washington, Texas. You want the projector? Yeah, you want the projector? That's ten minutes per country, not per city. Hello. While he's doing that, I'm Jimmy Kaplowitz. This is Michael Schulteis, two of the people organizing the New York bid. I'll wait until he gets this fixed. Good. All right. So, yeah. All right. So we propose to hold the Compton in New York City. It's a major world city. It's over eight million residents. A lot of tourists come there from all over the world. You see some numbers there. It's 46 million per year in growing. Easy air access, lots of different airports. There's the three mentioned there, JFK, Newark, and La Guardia, and there's more in nearby cities. Most of the world can get there really cheaply, much more so than a lot of possibilities for debt comp. Cheaply and quickly also from where most debt-being developers live. The currency is relatively weak, so for those who use other currencies, it's a relatively inexpensive place. I see lots of European tourists there every day walking around speaking languages like French and Spanish. So it's pretty quick to get from the airports. Two of them are in New York City, and one of them has public transit that takes you right there in a half an hour. So it's really close. Right. The public transit in New York City is not like the rest of the U.S. The public transit in New York City is a European quality. It runs all the time. It goes everywhere you want to go. It trains and buses run frequently. Much of the subway and many potential venues and places you'd want to go are handicap accessible too. Lots of things going on all hours of the night and day. Places to shop everywhere, places to see for day trips, Statue of Liberty, Empire State Building, Park, so forth. English is clearly the language. It's the U.S. There's lots of people who speak Spanish in shops and just generally around. So most people here have some English and some have also Spanish, so you'd be fine. If we go to a non-English-speaking country, that would be kind of eight, nine and ten in a row where those who don't know the local language wouldn't have a language to communicate in, whereas everyone here knows at least some English. Also, there's a very active local community for free and open-source software. There's two different logs and there's PHP and there's Ruby and there's Perl and there's BSD and so forth. I'm sure we can get some of them in, maybe get Evan Moglin to do a keynote or something. So as for where to hold it, certainly housing in New York City is expensive. So we're looking at universities as options. We know people like Biela at NYU. We know people like Evan Moglin at Columbia and we have multiple people involved with local team and Debbie and NYC at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. Also, Brooklyn College hosted a GNOME Summit five years ago, so they seem to be open to this sort of thing. And at least Poly I've heard is quite inexpensive. Someone mentioned like $35 a night per person for a double occupancy dorm room and for New York City, yes, that is cheap. Usually it's in the hundreds of some sort. Lots of options. Wikipedia has a list of about 50 universities and colleges and someone else mentioned that either in the city or not too far outside of it, there are corporate training facilities that companies use for various purposes and that might be suitable for a conference. We probably have people stay in dorms. There's also hostels and for those who want to pay more hotels, we even have one of the hostels mentioned on our Wiki already. And bandwidth is a nice aspect to our bid. We have fast bandwidth. Much of the internet runs through New York. There's lots of great connections. Universities generally have internet 2 and 100 megabit connections available, so it shouldn't be a problem. Everyone is aware that the US is sort of the world's bogeyman right now. Getting into the US is not the easiest, but it's more possible than you might think. Citizens of 28 countries besides the US, including Canada and most of Europe, have a visa to come to the US. Mexicans, I was speaking to one during this conference and apparently they have visas that are valid for 10 years and they don't have to get it for every trip. The processing times for getting a visa for those countries that do require it, very wildly depending on the country, but for most of them they are rather short, such as, as I said, the total process from start to finish can be within a month. And every country where DEBConf is held or will be held has had similar issues with visas and entrance issues for some people in the world. Some people can't make it for financial reasons, travel reasons, immigration reasons. Whether the EU or Argentina or wherever, there's always some of that that happens. People are worried about a few specific issues specific to the US. The Customs and Border Patrol, not the TSA, does the searches for people entering the US and the ability to search your laptop and maybe seize it. The exact details vary from country to country, but it's similar in some other countries. Maybe they can seize it at the border, maybe they can search it and refuse you entry, maybe it can be seized without a court order once you're in. I know some western countries allow the police to send your encryption keys and it's a crime if you refuse.  As far as security checkpoints go, shortly after September 11th, 2001, people, yes, waited in line for three, four hours for international flights. It was not pretty. Nowadays, I went through my international flight from here. I went through security screening in less than 10 minutes at a major airport in the New York City area. They don't screen citizens separately from non-citizens on the way out for that, so that would apply to you too. The official airline recommendations for an international flight or something arrived maybe an hour and a half early at peak times or even sooner before the flight, you know, less time at other times. It's really not a big deal anymore. They still have stupidities, but they're all very easy to handle. And I've heard a few people mention to me the case of Dmitry Sklyarov, who got arrested coming to the U.S. to present a talk on his e-book cracking software for his Russian company. What a lot of people don't realize is that the U.S. was not actually arresting him for doing this cracking in Russia. The U.S. was arresting him because his company sold this thing which violated U.S. law from U.S. servers on their website, was hosted in the U.S. And so I'm not a fan of this policy either, but it is not a case of the U.S. applying its law to foreigners. It's a case of the U.S. applying its law to people who use resources in the U.S. to violate U.S. law. So if you're not doing that, it shouldn't affect you. Now, we shouldn't count too much on what politicians will do, and I know that, I'm not even disregard, but most likely the new government that will take office after the 2008 election starting in January 2009, there's a reasonable chance, especially if it's, you know, especially if it's Obama, but there's a reasonable chance that they'll institute less harsh policies and things may improve by the time the conference rolls around. I'm not going to say they're going to go back to how they were before President Bush. I'm not going to say they're not going to change at all. They'll probably, you know, vary in unpredictable ways, but overall I expect at least some of this craziness to be rolled back. Some will remain, but don't assume it'll be as bad as it is now, which is already a lot better than September 11th and shortly thereafter. Now, another aspect is lately, you know, DEBCOMF has been in places that are somewhat hard for North Americans to get to, and interest from North Americans has been declining in coming to DEBCOMF. You know, some of them can't spend the money or do the travel or what have you to go to Europe, Asia, South America, but it's much easier to get to New York City, especially for people on the U.S. East Coast, but even for the West Coast people and in between. So this would revitalize U.S. interest in DEBCOMF and probably Canadian too. Once you come to DEBCOMF, you realize how awesome it is and, you know, how great everyone is and what a wonderful experience, and that'll probably make U.S. and Canadian people more likely to come to the rest of the world for future DEBCOMFs. So we already have time's up apparently. We are really near the end. I just have to mention the local team, so I'm not going to read the names then, but we have, as you can see, several experienced people who have experience either in DEBCOMF or at DEBCOMFs or organizing conferences or a mixture. So we definitely have a strong base from which to build. That's it. Jimmy? Hi. Just one quick question. You have the local team there. Sorry about that. You have the local team there. Is there a leader in that team? Right now, no. I mean, I'm the one who's been taking the lead recently in organizing the bid, but we don't have a defined organizational structure. I imagine different people will take the lead in different regards, such as there's a couple of other people who have special connections to Polytechnic University, who have organized conferences there before or who are alums, and we'll probably divide up the roles as appropriate. You've got details about New York. I mean, obviously there's been some discussion already about maybe other cities in the US. Any thoughts about those? Well, as far as I could tell, the pages on the Wiki about Boston and San Francisco were simply parodies of the New York page. They're both very worthwhile cities to hold a conference in and not knocking them, but I'm not aware of any other city in the US where someone has actually prepared a serious bid. If you want to talk about it, that's fine, but I'm not aware of any other serious bid that's been prepared in New York, in the US. New York is better than places like Portland for travel. Boston is good also, so is San Francisco. Those are both not quite as good as New York as far as travel costs. What's cheaper from Europe? Cheaper from Europe, yes. New York is cheaper from Europe. Right, I mean, the first thing I'd suggest is it's possibly worth you and a bunch of the other American D.D.'s if you do want to push a serious bid, actually work out amongst yourselves and start some real discussions. But yeah, thanks for your time anyway. So is someone here from Venezuela?  One experience that we gained by doing debcoff is that you need a tight, united local team.  It's not enough. Can you go back to the local team slide, please? I mean, most of these people already know each other and visit each other on an occasion. And I don't... I mean, that's certainly... We're not currently very organized as far as the local team. We do have a lot of experience organizing. And if I'm not mistaken, some past debcons have turned out very successfully with that. We're definitely going to organize quickly if there's an interest. Okay, well, that's not what I meant. First of all, I have to say, he already insulted me on the planet, so I'm not going to disguise it. I really think Listin D'Amog there drops points from you because he didn't help debcon 6. He unhelped, really. He created more work for us who were not local team who had to do the stuff that he didn't do. I took his word for that. I understand. I know. I don't expect you to know this. So I'm telling you, really, unlist him. He's not going to help you. For the other people, well, most of them, the ones I know, yes, we can trust them, but that's not my point. My point is you have to be united. You have to be like a tight group because organizing debcon is very stressful. I understand. And it requires the capacity of trusting on the other person. He's going to do the show and he's going to do it well. If he has a problem, he will fix it or whatever. All right. You can't really do it with scars people distributed and that's, yeah, we know we'll work, but they're not tight group. I think that's a really good point. This is BDL in the back of the room. I think that our goal today should be to sort of listen to the current state of these proposals and some of these things that we're asking as questions and raising as suggestions are things that we would hope the teams take back and use to improve their proposals between now and the end of the year, which I think suggested would be our deadline for accepting submissions. And if there are other teams that are interested, possibly hosting the event that look at the existing proposals, whether they are real or spoof and make some decision that they think they could do a better job or have a better offer, I think we would certainly love to see additional proposals. I certainly think this is an interesting idea. We've talked about it some and it seems like the principle negative on the New York proposal is this concern about the immigration issues and that seems like it's potentially a manageable issue for all of the other characteristics. It seems like for this stage of development of the proposal, like there are some reasonably good thoughts there, I will look forward to seeing this one further develop before the deadline and I do hope we have someone from Venezuela here who can talk about the other proposal as well. So do I. Several people of the Orga team have already opposed to your bid and it is important to me that if we went on a vote today, New York wouldn't be preferred if there are any other serious alternatives. So... Yeah, of course. But I think that the Orga team should generally express the consensus of the whole development developers or interested in DEBCONF anyway. So I'd like to see how many in this room will oppose a DEBCONF in New York. Can I... Okay. This is not a proper statistical sample but I'd like to see a lead poll. Can I make a quick comment about this considering I was the first one to oppose. I'm Martin again. I did not oppose. I told the team that I would have a problem to attend and some other team members said the same thing that they would not be able to be on the Orga team. This, as far as I understand, was not an opposition from the team as a whole, nor from any of its members that was going to happen and I agree with you completely. If you put in your bed for New York City then it needs to be decided on merit rather than ideological whatever is. Thank you for the unheadedness. Well, of course it's natural at this point to start questioning whatever comes to mind and we started already doing the same with other teams that will show their bits questioning maybe seen as the easiest way but I think at this point the only thing we should do is to listen to the expositions and give some months to do the questioning because there are many things that haven't been expressed that haven't been thought out and well, there's too many things still to be thought about so I would say everybody please shut up. I'm happy to yield to Venezuela if they're here. If anyone wants more information they can check out our wiki page which is in the usual location and we use one Creative Commons less image there is the attribution. Thank you. I don't know, this is not my video. Well, good night. First I'm so sorry because my English is so bad maybe I have problem with some words for try to do the presentation when I have problem Marga, help me. Okay. Well, we are the Debian Venezuela team and we are trying to make the proposal for to do the content in Venezuela in Margarita, Iceland Margarita, Iceland is a beautiful place with facility in the wiki we put some question for example Margarita, Iceland is the biggest Iceland in Venezuela is a very, very turic place Margarita have some a lot of facility like international airport a lot of big hotels a lot of computer store and a lot of big small like some big mall is a very big store that is very important because in Margarita for the kind of tourists and all the hotels the people can speak English perfectly and it's not a problem that is important too from the airport to the hotel is almost 30 minutes and all the hotels can provide transportation from the airport to the hotel that is very important too we don't have restriction for computer, we don't have restriction for importation and question please do you have import regulation for cheese please no, we don't have we don't have a regulation for cheese and for example we have regulation for some aspect like the chain because we have official control control the devices we have a control from the exchange money but it's not a problem really because if the people work close with the government with their regulation it's not a problem because we have exchange we have money exchange in all airport in all the first city in Venezuela it's not a problem in the Baja, what else do we have well we have we have we have experience organizing a big event for example the free software Venezuelan community have a lot event like the world world free software world free world free world free knowledge is an event for every year and we have almost 4000 4000 okay and the free free knowledge event and we have almost 2000 2000 3000 people all the years it's a lot it's a lot of work but we have making almost 5 years and all years the Debian community organized to organize the Debian day the other free software community to organize the how to say the the national free software congress with almost 1000 people or years and we have experience organizing events and we have we have in this moment we have a very strong community growing because we have we have we have we have a we have a no no in this moment in Venezuela the free software is used a lot yeah the free software the free software in Venezuela in this moment is very used for all the people for example we have a company named Bit Bit is making almost 1000 computer for every year and 1000 computer every year is is sold with free software is sold with best distribution named that is very important because the free software community is working close but for try to do best distribution for that equipment so when I went to I spent about 6 weeks in Venezuela in 2006 and my experience was that every CBR that I went to ran Microsoft windows I was in Caracas every CBR maybe I went to 15 or 20 I never found one that was running Linux is that changed now CBR is like a locatorio a place that has computers yeah it's not a problem because no no because so it's only the government no because try to change the the culture in the people is not easy okay we have a lot of GRs using Microsoft and the university using Microsoft and try to change the the culture for the people is not easy but in this moment the government in the education have a lot of playing for change that situation and for example the the laboratories school the school laboratories have only free software in elementary and middle school in public schools but in private universities most of them are still Microsoft windows yeah and we think in in in some years the situation will change hello I have another question I've read something about Venezuela and Wikipedia and it was impressive and I've also heard something good but my impression about Venezuela is that it is completely disconnected to the free software world even on this conference you people are quite close you are sitting on one table don't exchange with everybody it is just me there who has this impression or it is a problem I'm just wondering I would like to talk to you but the chances are so low I think this might not be a good position for Debconf hello am I not correct in thinking that Venezuela was one of the four countries that objected to the ISO approval of OOXML is that correct so I think if we're comparing countries and their commitment they were one of the only four that actually objected to it enough to I think if you're comparing how committed to free software people are then Venezuela deserves a round of applause ok I'm Matias Ambrosio and I had the exact opposite relationship here I think I have met every every Venezuelan they were quite open but the US people have been sitting on the same table I tried to approach them and I could not talk to them so I don't think that's the situation perhaps it's some kind of language barrier I didn't feel that way my English is not that bad I have spoken with everybody here but just people I don't think it is a language barrier because in Mexico we got drunk together and here we got drunk together and I don't speak a word of Spanish hi I think it could be quite important to say about the potential reach of a conference in Margarita I've been to Margarita and the reason I went is because it's very easy for people in Amazonas and Ririma to very poor areas in Brazil to travel to Margarita there's an established road the only road actually out of Manaus is going north to Venezuela to Margarita so there could potentially be some quite enthusiastic but very underrepresented people given an opportunity to participate in something like Debconk by a bid from Venezuela and a successful bid from Venezuela I really hope that you guys can get something sorted really well done and that Margarita can be chosen for Debconk 10 so I have a couple of questions one, you didn't mention the internet connectivity and if it's really an island in Venezuela I would be a bit concerned about it another issue is I did a quick look which is not comprehensive by any means and it looks like the only direct flights to this airport are the flights by Condor which is Lufthansa holiday flights and they are probably not that frequent it's the only one I could find so it looks like just a thing to consider that if people are coming from Europe they will most likely have to go through Caracas and yeah, so two questions about it so one is there will be logistical problems with bringing people in through Caracas and how you're going to address that and now there's internet connectivity okay my name is Jose Parrella my nickname is Burial I'm not particularly involved with the organization team but I'm trying to help them with the translation regarding your question about the airport, it's right even if it's international it doesn't receive a particular flight from Europe or the States you have to go through Caracas which is not a big deal since flights are usually quite cheap I believe that you can fly from Caracas to Margarita for around $40 regarding your question about connectivity all of our connections go to which is a national ISP and it's now a state-owned company we'll try to sort out a couple of E1s connections in the island let's see but that's one of the biggest achievements that this team has to do in order to get a depth conf working there but there will be connectivity they're trying to sort out which kind of connectivity we'll have there regarding the OOXML proposal actually we were one of the four countries that made an appeal to the standard and we were the only one that wasn't regarded by the standards committee as a stupid or just plain nuts actually the complete appeal was made by members of the free software community and the national standards body just had to sign it and send it to the standards committee also regarding the fact that we're usually a close team that has part of true and parts that are not true usually since there's a government decree that mandates the use of free and open source software in the country and it has also been spread to the private sector of the economy and the market we have been doing things only in Venezuela and looking only inside Venezuela and maybe looking to some of our friendly countries in the South America continent like maybe Ecuador and maybe even Argentina and Brazil so that's right we have only been doing things inside Venezuela but we try to participate in other events like that we have been going to that comes in Mexico and I believe we are one of the most numerous congregation of people here at Argentina we are almost 20 people here in the conference and in Scotland we had like 15 people and in Mexico we had 16 people so we have been quite consistent with that my name is Lisandro and I started current engineering you said you will need to have at least a couple of E1 connections you will need at least five at least five and each E1 connection in Latin America that hasn't been cheap it hasn't never been cheap so you have to check that in account and you will need at least five of them the team is aware of that and also the standards are between 20 megabit per seconds so the team is aware of that okay we should come to an end with this we should maybe have two more questions but we should close it because we also have some more months to decide it finally and document all this on the wiki so that the questions can be asked on the mailings but Christian have another question I tried to make it short apparently your proposal is based on the fact that in Venezuela you have a strong governmental and institutional support for free software which is obvious to everybody I think is there a possibility that this support changes until 2010 because of political local changes like elections are you looking for the magic crystal boy no not exactly but the general stability okay I don't know he says that the team is working on a proposal without contemplating the possibility of working with the government and the proposal also contemplates that if the government wants to help the conference will be even better okay time is up I think we can


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This video guys, we talk about the enemy tagging system and the effect it has on farming buses and beyond. This is a system I don't feel everyone knows about, and there's definitely things going on here with this system we definitely don't know about all of us. How's it going guys, my name's DPJ and if you enjoyed the video leaving a like really helps out and if you like what you see and want to see more be sure to subscribe. So the other day I posted a video on watermarks and the gear score system in this game, that's a system I really don't mind and I feel it's a system I feel most people won't even notice is in place. Now what we talk about today is something very very different. This system is known as enemy tagging or kill crediting and the effect it has on the player is well kind of crazy. Well confirmed by dev undocked to loophole stream is a system in place which I feel most people won't agree with, I mean if you do agree with this let me know down below why. So this system and how I can explain it quickly. So basically let's say you are in a group of 5 players and you are farming an elite bus for his dedicated drops or just drops in general. That bus is loophole is 100% dedicated to those 5 players in that one group. Now if another team comes along another group of 5 players and they start farming the same bus at the same time as that first group of 5 players that bus is dedicated loophole now splits 2 ways meaning 50% for one team and 50% for the other team. If more groups come and start farming no matter the amount of players in said groups that bus is loophole again splits. So if there's 4 groups no matter the number in each group that bus is loophole splits 4 ways. Here is the even crazier thing, if a solo player comes along and also starts farming this bus with those 4 other teams then the bus is loophole then splits 5 ways counting that solo player as a team. So basically if there's 4 teams of 5 players and then 6 solo players all farming that same bus that loophole is split 10 ways. Now this is a system like I said which is confirmed to be in the game and I do think it's a system used in more than just loot also. So this system basically confirms the more people the more players more individual groups farming the same bus at the same time the less likely you are to get those drops. And also but not confirmed is something I have 100% noticed is another kind of system like this.  Even if I hit that enemy but don't do much damage because there's a team of 5 other 60s and they've just destroyed it it won't count for me that kill won't count for me. I've also seen this with XP and killing groups of adds too now I've posted many enemy fighting farms where I gather up a group of enemies, lead them back and then destroy them. I've noticed even when I get multiple hits on these targets a lot of the time when they die or are killed by other players not in my group because I haven't killed them I don't get the XP. So taking this into account with the issue of not getting enough damage into an enemy to complete a quest, not doing enough damage to an enemy to earn XP when it dies, is there a system in place which means the group that does the most amount of damage to that elite boss they are farming the higher their chance of getting those dedicated drops? I mean we have a couple of answers but we need more. There's clearly a system in place here which we don't know about. What kind of do like these today? But we need a little more elaboration on them. Now the whole loot splitting system that's in place, the enemy tagging system which is confirmed to be in place like I said a dev confirmed this on a Drloophole stream this is a system which really doesn't make sense to me. In a way it kind of makes sense when you type with a PvP aspect to the game a group of players fighting for that loot but when they're working together why is it split? I also don't like the idea of us unplaying in a team of 5 with 5 minute buffs, a solo player can come along and basically troll us and probably get the loot for all our work. So there are many many question marks over this actual system but yeah guys tell me your thoughts on the enemy tagging system within this game and also the kill crediting system and let me know if you've noticed any instances where they just haven't seem to make sense. And on that note the end of the video has arrived if you enjoyed it leaving a like really helps out if you're new and you want to see more be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video out blood you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell bottom guys thanks as always for stopping by and hopefully I will see you on that next one


Here's another mash-up from the college softball world series. Again, it's not all the plays. It's not the best plays.  And I'll have another one coming out after this one of just the championship games because Oklahoma was kind of fun. But this is a world series leading up to that and what I enjoyed out of what I saw. So let's get into it. Now, everyone knows the fields are pretty small, which means a bunt can bounce over the pitcher's head and then roll into the outfield and just go for a double. I think that's just a double. You could also show bunt, act like you're going to bunt, pull back and then just hit a homer. Easy enough and fun. But the small fields also mean the infielders have to be so good and quick and decisive with what they're going to do. And it also means the hot corner is pretty hot.  So that a smile at the end because she knows it's badass. So, yeah, the field's small. Who cares? They're good. I saw this guy. They showed him. I think they were trying to show his nachos, but I saw that straw and that wrapper and I was like, what is that? I've never seen just take the paper off. Is he going to leave that on? Do people do this? I asked three people around the office and everyone said, I don't. I've never done that, but he's there. He's there. He looks good. Go Tigers. He's got his nachos. All right, Oklahoma, Stanford strike three swinging outside the batter immediately turns, walks to her teammate says first pitch is a strike right over the plate. Teammates says, OK, how do you know that they're going to pitch me the same way they pitched you? They could change it up a lot. Never mind. Yeah, I believe you swing up the middle fielded thrown, but she's so safe because like I said, the infielders have to be so good. So thanks for the tip. Appreciate that. First pitch strike right over the middle, all over it, just like this fan. Watch this one, oh, pitch fouled back into the crowd. This guy's all over this ball. Got it, got it.  You know, made plays, Tennessee's defense center fielder, covering ground, diving play right there. Oklahoma State could not do anything. Tennessee was gobbling everything up.  And then later on, the shortstop is going to run back, snag that one in front of the left fielder. They kind of collide, but it's all in good fun. I mean, that's a really nice play battling the sun as well, going back on a weirdly hit ball later on. They had a runner on first. Balls hit deep. They're sending her home. The relay home and bam, done. Trying to make a two nothing game, a two one game, not on Tennessee's watch defense, this whole game. It was very impressive. The scoop, the tag, go balls, go balls. Also had an awesome sequence of pitching. I liked in this one, another rise ball, rise ball, oh, and two frozen on the drop ball. That's crazy. I really never seemed it before. I really watched this. But what these pitchers are doing and setting them up, it's really impressive. See the one ball keeps going up. She swings at it. The next ball, she thinks it's going to keep going up the same way. But she's like, I'm going to let that be because it's too high. Instead, she lets it be and it drops right into the glove or strikeout. Watch it again. This pitch up top swings, fouls it off, says, I got to let those high ones go. I can't be chasing. Let's it go. It stays and drops a little for strike three. Really cool. The catcher loves it. I like it. I enjoyed that. That's cool. That's pitching.  Batters like, oh, yep, you're right. I'm out. Here's a great at bat by center fielder for Oklahoma, Jada Coleman. She swings big at that one and then takes that one, doesn't think it's there.  That's what all the girls in Oklahoma did. No matter what, they were just like, let's just smile.  They've never lost, so it's pretty easy. Fights off that one. Fights off that one. These are all 73 miles per hour. That was a little drop ball. Let's it go. 73 again. Fights it off. That one outside. Two and two's the count. 74 miles per hour. Fights it off. Finally gets another off-speed pitch low. Goes with it to center field. What an at bat. She was awesome. Alternative, she's my favorite center fielder to watch. She went out and got every single ball. Bam, bam, bam. Catcher for Florida State, having some fun with the camera in between innings. And then just real, I like catcher head nods. I always have even MLB. I like it, but I like giving the sign, you know, two, and then giving a little head nod like, yep, come on, you got it. Here we go. Catches the ball, goes to throw it back. The bat gets in between their line of vision. They can't see each other. So she hesitates.  We will resume playing now. And there's a bat. Hi. She was very expressive all game, giving a lot of head nods. Come on, come on, you got this. Come on, right to my glove. You got it. That one's put in play. This one, a contested pitch. The fans were not happy about this one. Showing bunt. The pitch, strike, freezes it, holds it. This kid, that's middle, middle. Open your eyes, omp, and then I don't know what you said at the end, and maybe we don't need to know or want to know what you said at the end, but the kids were upset. They wanted that pitch. Next pitch, put in play to second, out at first. Everybody is happy, especially player from last year's Florida State team who's not playing this year, but she was in the crowd. Elle, Elle, and I don't know about all that. Back to Tennessee, Oklahoma State. Tennessee's up two, but they've got two on and no outs. Oklahoma State, they need something. They need a ground ball. Ooh, they get one. Third base, they get the out at second. Can they turn two? No, safe. The coach really wanted that. Yes, out, safe. She's safe. She's safe.


Hello, my name is Denis and I'm a software engineer at Vault and I know no one here tried Vault but Vault is a European leading food tech startup and for those who don't know that, it's just a simple food delivery service and as you never tried it, it's simple. You have an application and you think, okay, I would like to have a burger from that restaurant or I would like to have some steak from other restaurants so you click on it, you choose where to deliver it, slide to confirm and in 20 to 40 minutes your food magically arrives on your door. That's simple. On the back end, some magical unicorns start jumping over our servers and finding the best solution for your problem, like finding the best career partner, estimating how long it will take for your meal to be prepared, how long it will take for your meal to be delivered and of course, a lot of those calculations involve map and yes, that's not a secret. We use OpenStreetMap. You're right. It rocks. We use OpenStreetMap and the problem with OpenStreetMap is that OpenStreetMap is a database of all the features of the planet somehow connected so it may be below the planet's surface but still and the planet's big. For example, it takes three hours to fly from Helsinki to Belgium and still in Europe and if you'd like to fly to Japan, it will be 12 hours, 14 hours, I don't know, it's all planet is big. That means database is also because one and two terabytes. I checked last week the XML, uncompressed XML file is 1.2 terabytes and you usually can't process 1.2 terabytes with ease on your laptop. If you have not enough RAM, you probably don't have even enough disk space so it's a perfect case for Apache Spark and that's geospatial so probably you don't know what is Apache Spark and Apache Spark is open source, distributed, general purpose, cluster computing framework, lot of buzzwords, simple words. The magical thing, yeah, I love the word magic, that's a magical thing that allows you to process huge data sets and it allows you to process huge data sets in RAM so making it fast and then we'll think, wait a minute, you have host with 1.2 terabytes in RAM? No, I don't have. I would love to have one but I don't have one. How Spark does it? That's simple. You have many hosts. You don't have 1.2 terabytes in one host but you have 100 hosts with 10 gigabytes each giving you 1 terabyte and Spark will automatically partition your data set into those hosts and load small parts into each host so you have a lot of RAM online but not on every server and of course, server is not just a RAM, it's also CPU and usually it's power of CPU with a lot of cores so you have a lot of cores attached to each of your partition and it makes processing faster. You can run calculations on each partition in parallel. Can we do it with OpenStreetMap? The first thing that you can try and I tried it. Let's import your data into some database, post use database, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, whatever doesn't matter. Let's get it into some database and then let's use Spark Connector to load your data from database while at the same time you can filter your data because it's database so you can ask your database, could you please give me everything inside that polygon or everything near that point or something like that and database will do the stuff for you. That's a good side of that approach, the bad side. You have to import your data and it may take hours and you need to allocate a lot of space just for database and every time you update your planet file you have to import your planet file or work with divs and maintain your div update infrastructure so it's painful, especially if you have some one-shot problem. Okay, let's try another way. There are some tools in Spark already made tools like Magilan or GeoSpark and they can read things like shape files, they can read GeoJSON, they can read files in well-known binary format so you can convert your OpenStreetMap file into one of those format and tell Magilan to load it. Will it work? Yes it will. I tried it. It works. Is it good? Well, it's here so you don't have to write any line of code but you have to convert and most of the conversion procedures require, guess what, database so it's even slower than the first approach so you're still loading the database and then exporting and as you are not reading from database you are losing all the filtering stuff. Third approach, what if Spark would load the OSM file directly? Will it solve the problem? Probably. Sorry? Yeah, it's compressed but well, we have a lot of cores, let's uncompress it. Can it load it directly and uncompress? Probably yes but well, there's no but. It's just a simple way. Just point to the URL like DearSpark, please load the planet file from the OSM site and that's all or you can even push down the filters in the Spark and it will not load the whole file but partial file. The problem, it wasn't implemented so I had to implement it and the first problem was the OSM data. You know everyone, I hope everyone here know that OSM consists of nodes, ways and relations and only nodes have geometry and because of that all the OSM files are conventionally sorted for you like you have nodes first, then ways, then relations and if you read them sequentially before you hit the first way you probably have seen all the geometry you need to reconstruct your way. Probably but let's hope you do that and because of that most of the readers, well actually all the readers are tried are single-threaded and now just imagine you have a huge cluster of say 20 hosts, 16 cores each. I don't want to multiply them but lot of cores and they are waiting for a single core slowly crunching and decompressing your OSM file. Lot of resources are wasted. Can we do it better? Yes, the solution number one parallel PBF. The PBF reader written in Java 8 so you can use it in your legacy Java application. It supports all the current OSM features and options. It's available under GPLv3, on a GitHub, on a Maven Central so you can start using it right now and actually here that this is the whole API of the reader. You just specify what to do if you hit some entity. You see a node, call this function. You see a way, call this function. You don't have a function to call for a way, don't read ways at all. Skip them. Let's do it faster. For example, for Belgium, well, it's 11 seconds, it's not that much, but if you're reading the whole planet, I was comparing the Osmosis built-in reader and parallel PBF on the same host with locally connected SSD drive. The whole planet, you're reading all the entities and checking for all the entities with specific tag. Fix me for no reason. Don't ask me why. That was just an idea. 45 minutes on a single thread, less than 15 minutes with a lot of threads. I just saved you half an hour of your life. It works it. So let's take that parallel PBF and drop it right into Spark. Oh no, it's not working again. And you know why?  So now you have your 20 hosts, and just a single host is all it scores, crunches your data, but all the other hosts are waiting.  And if you have that amount of RAM on a single host, you probably don't need Spark. But just imagine you, for some reason, have it and you load it into your M, and then you tell Spark, dear Spark, could you please create data frame from that area? And guess what Spark will be doing? It will split it and slowly redistribute over other nodes. So even more slow in the process and transferring all your data over the network. Slowly I tried it. It would be better if we will have native Spark awesome data source. And now we have it. It's built, of course, on top of ParallelPBF. It supports color 211, color 212. I will compile it for 2.13 when Spark will be compiled for 2.13 one day. And yes, it's available on the GPLv3, on the GitHub, on the Maven Central. And the best thing here, it supports native partitioning. So you just tell your Spark now, dear Spark, could you please load that file? And that file could be anywhere. It can be local file. It could be S3 file. It could be URL. Whatever Hadoop file system supports, because internally it's Hadoop file system and Spark. And at the same time, you tell Spark, I would like this file to be split into several partitions like how many executors you have or how much RAM do you have. I don't know. It's up to you. And Spark will ignite all the executors. And each executor, each node, at the same time, will start reading their own part of your planed file. It's not to be a planed file, any Pbf file. In parallel, fast and no shuffling anymore, no transferring of data between Spark nodes. And the best thing here, the same test, calculating fixed-me tags on the whole planet, takes just two and a half minutes. We start with 45. Now it's two and a half.  Of course it's fast. You have 720 cores. It should be expensive. Nope. Nope. It's not that expensive. Yeah, running that kind of cluster on Amazon, I tried with Amazon, will cost you probably several hundred years per day. But for two and a half minutes, it's five years, if I remember correctly. For something, the coffee here costs more. So it's not that hard. Now you have your data frame in RAM, but it's awesome data frame. So no geometry, just nodes, ways, relations, hard to work with. And now comes the third part. That's collection of Spark snippets to help you to work with the awesome data. It's really work in progress. So it's heavily unstable. I'm updating it every day and it's mostly reduced from my needs, sorry. Same, Scala 211 and Scala 213, and we'll be for 213, then Spark will be for 213. It's available on GitHub. It's not yet on Mavin Central because it's really under development right now. And some simple procedures, like I would like to limit my data frame to some polygon. I would like to find geometry for some ways. I would like to find, resolve some multi-polygons, export to a smallest database. Actually, I used it just for debugging. It's not that useful. And I even made a simple renderer in a Spark SQL language. That's funny. Well, enough talking, some short example. The example part was the hardest one. I was thinking like, how to show it? And I thought, okay, probably everyone here uses public transportation, at least to get there. And public transportation can be a problem. If you go somewhere, you don't want to go too far away for your stop. Let's calculate public transport coverage by finding all the buildings and all the platforms and finding the nearest platform and then colorizing buildings. Like if it's blue, the platform is right here. And if it's red, the platform isn't several kilometers. Here comes the whole code for all that stuff, like your load map. You do the thing that you shouldn't be never doing. I'm finding for a single entry of a data frame. And Spark is quite bad in finding a single entry. It's much better in processing all the entries, not a single one, but it's good enough for demo. Find locations, get geometry, calculate distance, and mark buildings. The only function skipped here is the colorizing buildings with a distance because it's actually just a huge table of distance to RGB values. It's not that interesting. That was a whole example. And what we will get now? I calculated for Brazil, and when I got the result, wow. It is really that good. It's much better on my laptop, actually, than here. But I have a better picture for you. It's near my hotel.  And it's calculated with Spark on this one laptop in... Well, with this laptop, it takes more than a couple of minutes, but still. I don't remember, maybe 10 minutes. And yes, it works. It proves it works. So that's not all. I'm going to improve that stuff. And you see the first option here is striking out. While flying to Brussels, it takes three hours, as I told you. I actually implemented that stuff. You can write parallel PBA, you can write PBA files in multi-threaded manner. Of course, they will be unsorted. So you can process them with the typical tools like Osmium, for example. But you can load them back into Spark, if you like. For data source, Spark is good in pushing down the filters. Like if you have some options like I'm filtering on some tech, I'm filtering on some type of entity and so on and so on. Spark can push down and try to data source, and I need to support more predicates. Probably geometry conversion on load. I have to think on that because it will slow down the load. And for the tools, well, I need to better support for all types of relations. Well, at least for all types of geometry relations. And probably GraphX support for relations here or here, or polygons here or here for multi-polygons. Definitely, I am going to implement geometry operations. So converting to Wikipedia, so Java, Spark and Magellan will be able to operate directly and vice versa. That's the thing you can visit. Everything is on a GitHub. By vault, you can contact me on a GitHub or on a mail. It's time to make a photo of this. I'm waiting, yeah. Thank, okay. And thank you for attending and it's time for questions. Thank you. Thank you. The first question. Yes. And then using Spark, feeding the Sparky family format. Of course, are you not benefited with all the goods of the Sparkos too? But for the first step, I would have done like this. So the question was like, I should convert this OSM data to Spark-Parkit format and then use it. That's what I'm doing in real life. I use my data source to read it into RAM, filter it, and then write into Spark-Parkit format and then process it. Yeah. Well, the question was why I choose the GPL version. The real answer is that down below, I'm using cross-by parallel, oh, sorry, I'm using cross-by PBF, how it's called, artifact. Yeah, and it's GPL. So I had no choice. That function above, that's my own UDF, that calculates geometry. I have plans to implement conversion to geometry, so you will be able to use, for example, Magillano-Geo Spark. And at the same time, you can write your geometry UDFs using GTS functions, using GTF library. Is it all the question? Okay, go on. Okay, so the question was, in two words, what was the use case for it? So why I'm using Spark and why I'm comparing the osmosis and all the things. So the answer, this software is used internally involved for different kind of analysis. So that's a part of an analysis pipeline, which is run on Spark. So I have to put all the data in Spark, that was the first reason. The second reason, it's not for a speed. Yeah, that's strange, it's not for a speed. Of course, I would love to do it in just several minutes. But it's not for a speed, the fastest way, if you need to do it all the time, like you have recurring task that you calculate every several days, would be using Postgres and as you mentioned. But if you need to make some one-shot analysis, like let me check that theory.   Well, downloading fire docker, configuring your EC2 host and so on and so on. You just load it into Spark. That's the main reasons, mostly for one-shot things. And yes, it's not that fast. It's a specialized tool, but it's a general tool. So with a specialized tool, you can do much faster, but narrower, but you can solve narrower area, domain of problems. But with Spark, you can solve almost any problem. Like you mentioned, you can do graph analysis, for example.  There's people waiting outside. Yeah. And we are just in time, so thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.


Welcome to Access to Trader, the number one community for those who are committed to taking control of their trading in order to achieve success, profitability, and longevity. Thank you for joining us. Here's Dan Shapiro to help you find your edge, master your process, and own your future. Hey guys, good morning everybody. Welcome to another edition of the Access to Trader dot com weekend wrap up show. Feels like a long time since we had our last recording. I was on vacation last week and came back on Tuesdays for Tuesday session. So again, guys, again, now that we're kind of winding down the summer, there's only two, three weeks left before, especially in the Northeast here. So Florida kids, I think, started school already. But, you know, we're starting to wind down. People are starting to kind of get their heads back into reality, kind of coming back from vacation and getting ready for the school year and obviously getting ready for the fourth quarter. So I do believe we will get our normal market structure. We lost a little bit of market structure a couple weeks ago. I think it was the previous video that I did the previous weekend wrap up that at some point we lost our macro structure for a few sessions, but it's been pretty good. We'll talk about the specific markets in a second. Just a quick announcement before we kind of dive into things. Again, we only have a week left guys. The PS60 workshop 3.0 is next Saturday. Next Saturday at 9 a.m. Eastern time it will be held in the live webinar. We're going to go about three to four hours and then we'll do pretty thorough Q&A. The greatest thing about that is, again, a lot of you guys have been in the webinar for so many years now and you see it play out live. It's sometimes so quick, so aggressive that your brain can't process. We're trying to kind of reverse the engineering. Instead of going from the foundation to the roof, we've got to go from the roof back to the foundation and kind of slow things down and kind of break down the moving parts. Also, again, obviously for all you guys who are joining us for the very, very first time, you'll obviously have that extra complimentary month that we are offering all the way to September the 24th. So you have a lot of time, a lot of ample time to really get your head around this and really see if pivots are for you. Again, nobody else on the planet trades this specific style than us. Again, you can go on YouTube, find anything, any type of trading you want. If you want to find this, again, it's just an area of interest that I stumbled upon to about seven, seven and a half years ago. And we've been trying to get it better and better pretty much every single year. And again, as obviously all you guys in the webinar and the Twitter feed and even all our friends who follow in this, you kind of see how special these pivots really are. So hopefully you guys will take advantage and we'll see you guys the following next Saturday, 9am. So let's talk about the market, right? So I had a really good five day rest. I was not watching the market whatsoever. Again, I firmly believe that if you're going on vacation, go on vacation.  I don't watch the market. I don't look at chart. I don't do anything. So when I got back on Tuesday for Tuesday session, I said to myself, well, you know what, I'm going to ease into it because again, it's very, very important. The longer you trade, you realize that not only do you have to have an incredible process to get you from point A to point B, but you need to be in rhythm in the market. It's like surfing when a surfer gets on the board, right?  The surfer almost has to be in rhythm with the ocean or else they're going to have a very, very aggressive wipeout. And what happened was, you know, morning strategy started Tuesday and I said, well, you know what, I've done this now in five days.  I'll give you guys the pivots. I just want to get a little bit of rhythm in the market. The next thing I know, it was like an hour into the market and I traded like seven stocks. Incredible aggressive value.  And this is not the first time you guys have heard me say this, but I think a lot of people when the market starts going lower, where there's a negative bias, so many people just trade from the long side. Again, there's nothing wrong with it. You don't have to apologize for that. If you trade from the long side and all you do is buy breakouts and all that stuff, that's fine. But there is a reality of when the market turns to hell, right? Sometimes the market does. You have to trade from both sides of the market. And I do think the only thing I will say that God gave you two hands, right? Two ears, two eyes, right? Two feet, right? All that good stuff. You got to trade both sides of the market. Unfortunately, a lot of traders use, well, sit on your hands, cash is a position. It's a very, very excessive excuse because, again, the markets do go down. And when you see a market especially like this, when it gets very, very aggressive, you have to trade from both sides of the market. Again, you don't need to trade every single day, but you do have to have some sort of course of action. It's just the reality.  Well, cash is a position. Yeah, it is. So you're not going to pay your bills.  No, it's silly. So I do think there is a very, very big crush. And unfortunately, a lot of new traders, when they hear this stuff on social media, they run with it, right? Oh, well, listen, this guy's not doing it. I'm sitting out as well. Here's the caveat. Here's the only one time that I believe, well, not the one time, but I think there is an area of the market that you have a legitimate opportunity to actually sit it out. Okay. And this is it. It's not a market that's going straight down, right? You know, it's not a bear market. Bear markets are very, very good as they all say. Stocks take, you know, the stocks take the stairs up and the elevator down. The one thing that especially a new trader, because again, you're new. Okay. And I personally think anybody who's been trading less than three years is considered a new trader. I believe when you have political uncertainty, okay, political uncertainty or economic uncertainty, I think that is an actually valid way to kind of get out the way. Okay.  You know what you want. You've kind of been through, especially somebody's been trading at least 10 years. You know what you want. You've been through, you've been through the wars. And if you've been trading since 2009, well, 2009 is actually a bad example because 2009 was literally the bottom, bottom November, 2009 was literally the bottom of this generational bull market. But if you've been trading at least 12 years, going back to 2007, you've seen it, right? You've seen the potential of an economic collapse, right? It doesn't get any worse than that. So you kind of know what you're up against before it comes because you've seen it before.   Okay. So any single time you get a trickle down effect, the first thing you do when you go into your comfort zone will catch as a position because you know, right? You're at least hoping that the security blanket of the generational bull market will bail you out and you can sit two, three days and watch the market right go back up, right? That's fine. But if you go into an uncertainty, right? We saw the biggest uncertainty obviously was the, you know, was the imminent collapse, which never collapsed, but the imminent collapse of the global economic structure back in 2007, 2008 to kind of where we are now. Now get nobody is saying that we are anywhere close. Okay.  But, okay, for the intraday trader, for even the swing trader, for the position trader, whatever trader you are, you're going to be affected. I personally think we're two and a half years of this whole China crisis. Again, if you read the headlines again, it's 30,000 blogs out there. You can go review. Well, you know, bond yields collapsed and oil is collapsed and the tower has been extended. Okay. That's great. Okay. How does that affect us? Okay. We're speaking from the trader's point of view. We're not speaking from the investor's point of view that we're holding on to our Facebook shares for the next 12 years. We're not, you know, we're not talking about that investor. We're not talking about the guy who's long Amazon at, you know, 1900 and sees the stock trade to 1800. We're not talking about you. Okay. Everybody knows Amazon is great and Apple is great and blah, blah, blah. And the bull market will generationally continue going higher. Allegedly. Right. We don't know. We think. Right. We think. We're not talking to you. Okay. So you don't need to, you can use them. Well, Amazon is cheap. Yeah. Yeah. Amazon will be a 5,000 one day. 5,000. Okay. And when you see a market that is bent on one headline away from either making or breaking you, that's a problem. Okay. So when you're looking at, and again, my opinion for the last two and a half years, I personally don't think a trade deal will get done, at least not with this administration. I don't believe so. I don't think, if they were really seriously wanting to get a deal done, you wouldn't see a headline every 30 seconds. The deal is on. The deal is off. The deal is on. The deal is off. Tariff on. Tariff off. Tariff extended. The deal will have to be done. I personally think that. Again, am I wrong?   I'm the chief of the idiots.  The Messiah of the idiots. Okay. So my opinion doesn't count. I'm just saying, I'm just calling like I see it. I don't think this deal will get done in this administration. So I think when you're dealing with a market that is always one headline away, okay, from burying you. We've seen this time and time again. You have to act a little bit prudent, especially for your new traders that you haven't seen the aggressive nature of a politically unrest environment or a global potential collapse environment. You are only linear, right? That's all you guys are linear. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's not your fault when you start a trading, but there is a dark side to this. And there is an area that can take your money very, very aggressively. And when you saw a market, when you actually are in a trading market, and you can see in the last several weeks how aggressive this market actually has been. And when you look at these big exaggerated engulfing candles, it shows you the massive volatility, right? It shows you how really aggressive things can happen. And I always say this all the time, people love the idea of volatility until things get too volatile and then you don't know what you're doing. And when you saw this week, and I traded Tuesday, I wasn't here Monday. So I traded Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. This week was probably one of the most aggressive trading sessions I can remember in a very, very long time. Aggressive is a very, very subjective work. Aggressive, for me, is very good. Aggressive for a two, three, four-year trader who's only seeing the linear bull market, not so much.    Everything will be okay. This is a bull market and we will be fine at the end. Maybe, maybe not. But you definitely have to adjust your trading. And when you're looking at a market like this, you have two alternatives. You can sit there and pray. Again, God doesn't care about your position. I promise you. Or you have to be proactive. In this case, I do believe if you are a year trader, two-year trader, three-year trader, certain days, you should just have no business in the market. Absolutely no business in the market. So if the market gaps down four or five hundred points, again, I understand the whole thing. Well, the value is to the upside, blah, blah, blah, blah. I'm going to buy some deep out-of-the-money calls if the market values I'll make money. Maybe, maybe not. It just has to all those people who had a four hundred point gap down in the market and then the down went down eight hundred points for the day. Again, nothing's uncertain. There's no guarantees. But again, whatever your process is, is your process. But I've definitely come across, and again, I speak to so many traders throughout the week, and especially traders on, even like on Twitter, or stockless, they're really asking for a lot of answers that you can't just summarize in one interaction. There's so many moving parts in the market that if you're wrong, your account is depleted. I mean, really, really depleted. So I think when you're trading a tape like this, again, use prudence. I mean, we're all adults. This is, again, this is a business for adults.  Maybe you did, maybe you didn't. That's great, and I hope I wish everybody the best. But anybody who's been in the trenches for many, many years will tell you this is a type of environment that if you don't have a firm grip of the market and you don't have the ability to say, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is just way too aggressive, even for me, then you're going to find yourself upside down. And upside down is not a good place to find yourself. So when you are trading, for example, come Monday morning, okay, and you see headlines of bond yields and China on, China off, ask yourself, is this really the safest place, the safest interval for your experience level? Again, I'm not talking to the investor that's, you know, that's sitting in a position that's against them that's going to be in that position for five years. You don't need to defend Amazon. Okay, I get, it's going to be $3,000, okay? You don't need to defend, you know, you don't need to defend Apple, quarter of a trillion dollars in freaking money, right? In the books, you don't have to defend, okay? Up down, up down, up down. This doesn't affect you. We're talking about for the trader who is just trying to get their footing inside the door. They're trying to build a foundation. And I'm telling you, this is a type of market that, again, you don't need to pay your tuition for the market to figure out how aggressive it is. As long as you have eyeballs, and you can see the most inconsistent days. And sometimes we see some really, really inconsistent days. It's very, very important that some days you turn around and say, you know what?  Maybe he doesn't know what he's saying. Because some days, when you see Amazon trading at $3 spread, and Tesla traded at $1 spread, and Netflix traded at $1 spread, 100 share of lots, that's a prime example of market structure, right? Market structure breaking down right before your eyes. And those are the days you kind of want to step away. And those are the days that I've really, one of my better attributes, I could find these days very, very quickly. You can see a pre-market. You can see a pre-market very, very quickly. And once I start seeing a potential market structure break down 20 years in, I'll still step away. Maybe I won't be as active. One or two trades, but I won't be as active because I always know there will be better value. So going into this week, again, up, down, up, down, all over the place. Can we go up 1,000 points this week? Absolutely. Can we go down 1,000 points this week? 100%. Why not?  Nothing has changed. At least I know that nothing has changed. The word recession has been thrown around very, very aggressively until the retailers come out and say, hey, we had great quarters. Look what Walmart targeting cost with it. Look, does anybody know what's really going to happen a year from that? Two years from a five years? Nobody knows. If you're in the most unpredictable, predictable place, then you can allocate your capital. It's very, very aggressive at times whether that aggressive is good, bad or indifferent. We don't know. It's all depending on your level. But again, if you're a new trader, give yourself the best chance to succeed. Give yourself the best chance to live out your potential before burning out, especially more important, before burning out your capital. So crazy week. Crazy, crazy week. 1% all across the wards on the index is down. They didn't even paint a picture. Ridiculous volatility up, down, up, down, 800 points, 300 points.  The futures are down 200 points. You wake up. They're up 100 points. You go to the bathroom. They're back down 200 points. Ridiculous.  And I think that's going to spill over into tomorrow's action. So Monday's Tuesday to Wednesday's action. Because again, until the big heavy hitters, and the heavy hitters are the ones that are holding funds that are $30 billion, they come back from the investments. They come back from anywhere that they were vacationed throughout the summer in Europe, whatever the case may be, until they come and start putting their money at risk, putting bets on the table, you're going to see this expanded role and volatility because nobody's there to defend the other side of the price. It's just reality. So you have to adjust your trading. And when the market is going down, the market is going up so thin. Again, just trust me when I tell you, selectivity is very, very important. Being adult, nobody's going to look at you any different. And sometimes when a market structure does break down or it's just not regular, or it's inconsistent, you have to be a dealt about and kind of sit out. So going into this week, again, I'm pretty dealt to neutral. Up, down, up, down, I'm fine with it. I have a course of action for everything. When you have uncertainty, obviously my first instinct is sell. First instinct is sell. When you have uncertainty, your first instinct is not the buy. It's a sell. And I think we could have a market that is going to give us good opportunities on both sides. We saw that all last week. And if you look at it technically, just from the technical point of view, here's kind of the bubble that we're in. Here's the kind of the macro bubble that we're in, the NASDAQ 100. Again, I trade primarily beta stocks to represent the NASDAQ 100. So this is my course of interest. So if you look at the short-term interval on the cues, if you notice here, you've got stop twice, right? Stop twice on this 186 level. 185. 95 is the high on the 14th. Friday's high. 185. 95. Again, there's absolutely nothing random about technical analysis. It's pretty close, right? Not usually to the penny, but it's pretty close. And obviously we'll talk about this in Nozio, okay? In Nozio's supply and demand on the 24th workshop. But again, for the market to go higher, for the cues to go higher, the NASDAQ 100 needs to reclaim 186, right? Needs to reclaim 186 and build. And again, the next stop is 87. Again, for the bulls to get very, very aggressive, we have to shun these headlines. Get out of the way, right? Get out of the way. I don't care about China. Don't care about the bonds, right? Don't care about anything. We need price action to engulf headlines.  Again, before we start any close above 86, we start grinding back any close above 87. We'll go to 80s, 80s, 80s, 60s. And for the bulls to really, really get loose, we need a close, a macro close, over this 188, 60s levels on the queues. Until that happens, again, just watch the, you know, watch the price action, watch how stocks react, okay? Watch how stocks react to headlines. If they start going muted, it's very, very bullish. If they start to accelerate fear, it's obviously very, very bearish. And obviously, you can see here, any close on the queues below 180 becomes very, very aggressive. And if you don't believe me, all you need to do is look at the individual price action. And like I said, this week was incredibly aggressive. And I usually start out with fries, pivots. I want to start out with Thursday just to give an idea. So here was Thursday's action, right? Here's Thursday's action, August the 15th. Just to give you an example how really aggressive this is. So this is for Thursday's watch list, right? Tuesday was very, very good.  I tweeted it out. 41 could be a blow off top. The trader right this supply came right in. But Wednesday, I actually remember, Wednesday was okay. Wednesday was okay.  And if you look at the pivots on Thursday, right? These are the ones that stood out, I mean, really aggressively. Tesla, ADPT, Netflix, and this is probably from the feedback I got, okay, from so many people that I spoke to. This is probably the biggest trade for many traders throughout the year. If you had a locate on this thing, or went in deep, okay, January 70, or even January 70 puts, you did very, very well. I mean, very, very well. And this was one of the most aggressive trading days I can remember in a very, very long time. And you could just see how technical analysis becomes so seamless once you start buying into it, okay? It's like anything that you trade. You could trade options. If you don't actually fully believe in options, you're never going to make money. If you don't fully trade, you know, if you don't fully accept the power of trading forex, you're never going to be successful in forex. And pivots and technical analysis is exactly the same way. If you don't fully engulf and embrace the power of the pivot, might as well not trade it. Because again, no matter what process you trade, and again, you could trade anything you want. You could trade any issues, okay? Whatever process you trade, you want to make sure, okay? You want to make sure that you're 100% committed to it, that you will give yourself ample time to let that process really, really work out. And you do every single thing possible to stay in the game to kind of reach your potential. And Thursday it was just absolutely out of control. The reason why I'm not talking about NVIDIA and Amazon, NVIDIA gap down. It was like a gap down to, this is another new earnings. It gap down to like 46 and change. It was a compromise. Amazon gap down to the 40s and then gap up. That was the data. Futures were just going all over the place. But here's the trades are just insane. So we talked about Tesla. And again, this is the power, again, of technical analysis. So here was Tesla. Had that big, big move and I caught it the day before, but here is the big move and close, first close over under the 50-day moving average. And we knew right away once this thing, once this thing went from the previous price action, this thing could really, really collapse. And the reason again why I said 216.50, 216, you could see the low of the day. And again, if you believe the stock's the trade from supply to supply and demand to man, again, wink, wink, that's the whole part of the PS60 theory, you believe that the stock potentially could get down to the lower Bollinger band and it got destroyed.  Congratulations to all you guys. It went from 216 to 211 on one candle, and then it just got crazier. ADPT, which was actually amazing how impressive the stock actually is. It had really crappy earnings, really, really crappy earnings, engulfed the earnings and went higher as the market went down 800 points and Adaptic, 44, 70, 45 were built. It was going to go higher. Oops, ADPT. Yeah, so here was, you know, again, here's the previous day's candle at 44 and a half and once it started building that damn thing went to 49. I mean, it's still the strength in the stock. Obviously it's not the thickest stock in the world, but again, price action doesn't care if you're in the stock or not. So incredible move here. Netflix, which I caught really nicely, Netflix, I caught really nicely. Here is 296.50, 296. Now, why was Netflix, why was that area so important? That was the area that confirmed the previous linear regression life. You see this, August the 7th low was 296.80. So I said, this thing starts building 296.50, 296, it can get destroyed. And I'll tell you, watching order flow is the most basic thing that you can do. You don't even have to be an experienced trader. If you're watching order flow and you see, and we saw, I mean, we saw literally people dumping 25, 30,000 shares at a time, market orders kept on knocking down the stock 50, 60 cents. This was an absolute destruction of price action. It broke 296.50 and it went down to all the way to 288. Just absolute, just murder, absolute murder on Netflix. But if you thought Tesla and Netflix would do that day, this was the mother of all burritos or lack of burritos. No mean, right? So BYND, again, again, phenomenal trading stock and absolute trading stock. So 161 sneaky, 158 macro short. And again, here again, technical analysis, guys, there is no room for interpretation. Okay. It really is no room for interpretation. So here was 161. Okay. So here was 161. It stopped right on the linear regression line. Okay. So that was the sneaky pivot. It started building below 61. I believe the stock had a shot to get to 58. If it got to 58, I believe they had a shot to get to 56. Why was all these levels important? Because again, 61 was the previous days low. 158 was the lowest candle. Okay. On rising 50-day support. So if it started building below 158, the measured next potential was to 156. So why was 156 important? Well, excuse me, 154 important, because that was the last line of defense. Everybody see that, guys? This is the linear regression line. This is the last line of defense.  I said, there's a punches chance this thing gets to 136, 137. Did I think it was 136, 137, 10 minutes after I tweeted it when it was at 154? Absolutely not. Okay. Nobody in their right mind could have possibly believed that, but this thing just got absolutely destroyed and went down to 137. So again, for all you guys who caught that, just Thursday, which is an absolute, just freak show. There's an absolute freak show. Friday, Friday, I thought was fine, right? I thought Friday's session was fine. I caught Roku. I caught Roku. I missed Tesla. Don't ask, excuse me, I'm on the wrong page. Here's Friday. Here's Friday. So I caught Roku. I caught Roku. Here's the pivot on Roku. Where the hell's the pivot on Roku? Roku. Yeah. So I gave, I gave two side of pivots. Again, these pivots don't care which side they go. We talked about 134 to the upside, 128 to the downside. I shorted the downside break. You know, I thought the stock was really going to get a hit and it went down a dollar, which was fine. I took some pretty decent cash flow, broke even on the rest, but in the process, I missed, in the process, I missed Tesla, which kind of sucked because if you look at Tesla, where are we? Where are we? Yeah. If you look at Tesla, 219 needs to build. Tesla went, you know, had a pretty strong move. Here's a 60 minute view on Tesla. Right. Here's the 219 and the stock went right to supply of 222. So I missed this trade, which I was very, very pived off about, but again, it is what it is.  I wound up taking a break even trade on JD. I just screwed it up.  It broke 31 and it hits supply twice on the 5 minute interval. And the one thing about, the one thing about intervals are, once they get rejected, there is no, there absolutely is no, there is no guarantee they're going to recline. There's no guarantee. So I wound up scratching the trade and stock went up 40 cents, whatever. But again, here's the power of the pivot guys. Again, there's nothing random about pivots. And again, for all you guys who call it BYMD, congratulations again, right? So I put, I tweeted this out pre-market initial range, 148.50, 149 to the upside, 143 to help twice pre-market. If it starts building, it's going to go lower. And here is again, BYMD. And this is what we talk about a sneaky pivot, right? So here was BYMD. Okay. So here was BYMD right here. This is why I said 143. 143 is the low here, right? 143.04, 143, 143. Again, it's not the low of the channel. It's not the upper channel. It's a sneaky pivot. This is what we talk about sneaky pivots. And once it broke 143, right? Once it broke 143, just got absolutely destroyed and got down to the 367. How, you know, how specific are these pivots, right? I said 148.50, right? 148.50 needs to build. Look where it stopped. Look where it stopped guys. 148.50, right? Again, there's nothing random about pivots. Once you get into the mind frame of technical analysis, you're going to really, really appreciate how seamless technical analysis is. Again, unfortunately so many of you guys are, the only exposure you have is to social media, right? It really does take a lot of effort to go through a lot of bad information to get to validity. And when you're trading for a long, long time, and again, if all you guys are, some of you guys have been with me in the live webinar for over nine years, you kind of see the difference between what social media is and what price action is. A little bit different, right? A little bit different on a daily basis. So going through this week guys, again, for all your new traders, be careful, okay? Be careful. You don't need to trade every single day. Look for value. Look for areas of interest that you can capitalize on reward without very, very small risk allocation. That's the name of the game.  Even if you're wrong, the stock keeps on going with the direction you're trading. It's the safest way.  Guys, again, for all you guys who are joining us next Saturday, it will be nine o'clock Eastern Time in our live webinar. It will be recorded, okay? It will be recorded and sent out the week after. And I believe that again, if you're stuck in neutral and you're looking for a process again, especially for all you guys who have been following me for a very, very long time, if nothing at all, just an alternative view of the market that I believe can give you an extra edge in the way you view your trading. Guys, God bless. Have an awesome, awesome trading week. And I will see you on the field tomorrow. Congratulations for putting in the time to take control of your trading. You're one step closer to owning your future and achieving the success you desire. Want daily trade ideas directly from Dan? Straight off his personal watch list? Unlock our free PS60 Vault where you'll get nightly updates on pivot opportunities we're watching for the next day's session. Click the link in the description to get started today.


In this context, let us look at are workers thriving? Are they enjoying? Are the employees and particularly the young employees are enjoying? Data suggests something very different. I am quoting only two data points or two the findings of two survey Deloitte Millennial Survey and one more survey. It suggests that stress is increasing like pandemic amongst the millennials and generation Z's who are basically 20 to 30 years of age. They are regularly stressed because of the financial future, uncertainty of the financial future, well uncertainty about the wealthier of the family, uncertainty or job prospects, day-to-day finances, physical and mental health. These are the reasons because of which young employees and young professionals even young students are suffering from this stress and this data is almost coherent in the millennials as well as the generations Z's. If we look at the mental health data that also corroborates with this story. The percentage people reporting excellent or very good mental health is not even half of the working population otherwise who are healthy people who do not have any serious ailments amongst those as well not even not even the half of them are saying that they are feeling very good and excellent in terms of their mental health. So, the question is can a stressed out an anxious mind learn, be creative, innovative, envision the possibilities and use the autonomy being provided because of the changing professional context for the bigger causes. Can a stressed out mind be a innovative mind and if a stressed out mind cannot be innovative mind or cannot envision the possibilities, how can it can take the real benefits which are presented to him because of the changing professional context. The changing professional context can become a burden for the person instead of being an opportunity for that person and that is why we see the mental health issues are gaining attention and mental health issues are gaining more are and the mental health issues are becoming more and more serious in the current times. The number of people dying because of the suicide has already surpassed the number of people dying because of the accident wars and terrorist attacks together. This suggests that large number of people are not able to find meaning in purpose in their life. Large number of people are not able to manage their mind manage their emotion and they become so dysfunctional that their emotion and their mind starts working against them. And as a result of that there is a huge percentage of the people who are not thriving but they are languishing. So, this was the international data of course Indian data was incorporated in those studies but we were interested to know what exactly is going on in India what is the state of well-being amongst the Indian youth particularly those who are in the higher education. So, last year that means 2021 we conducted a survey across India and data was collected from different parts of India, Mysore, Jaipur, Lucknow, Guwahati, other North East state, Nagaland, Jammu, Bhopal and all these spaces data was collected from the students from different streams from ranging from engineering to law to commerce. So, it was a pretty representative data. This was the study we undertook with the support of ICSSR funded project and what we found that amongst the Indian youth population as well more than 51 percent people were actually moderately flourishing and 15 percent of them had the risk of slipping into languishing stage. About 35 percent people were actually flourishing. So, there is a great opportunity for bringing larger percentage of people from moderately flourishing to flourishing zone and preventing 15, 20 high-risk people in the moderately flourishing zone to keep them there and helping them to not slipping into the languishing stage. Here we need to understand that to be flourishing means to be filled with the positive emotions and to be functioning well psychologically and socially. Whereas adults with the incomplete mental health are languishing in life and they are with the low well-being. So, Key suggested that languishing may be conceived of as an emptiness, stagnation, constituting a life for quite despair and parallels account of individual who describe themselves and life as hollow, empty, a shell, a void, etc. So, this is how we need to understand what is flourishing, what is languishing and moderately flourishing meaning some elements of flourishing and some element of languishing. So, this was the as is situation in Indian youth. We also wanted to understand what are the factors which determine the languishing or flourishing or moderately flourishing state of youth population. And what we found there was probably much more insightful. I am saying much more because the percentage of the languishing, flourishing and moderately flourishing size is in line with the more or less proportion we have found in the other surveys conducted by Gallup and other social indicator survey organizations. What we found? We were we were interested in looking at what are the driving factors of flourishing or languishing. So, we looked at values, state of family, family cohesion, connectedness of the person with the social cause, their academic excellence, academic engagement. We also looked at engaged living meaning their ability and their perception about they being able to live according to their values. Because person can might be having certain values, but might not have opportunity or the other emotional resources required to live those values. So, we looked at that aspect as well. What we found there was self-direction in the multinomial logistic integration. The self-direction was the major determinant of the flourishing. Achievement and self-direction were the only two values which were connected to flourishing which were influencing flourishing. And achievement had interesting relationship. If achievement increases as a value increases, then it make people move more towards languishing. So, inherently it is the self-direction. My ability to look at life, identify my priorities, perform according to that this ability, this value was found to be the most important determinant of the well-being. And you know what, what was the second most important thing? The second most important thing was social connectedness. Students' ability to connect and ability to perform for the social cause and their connection with the social purpose was turned out to be another major factor which was resulting into which had a highest association with the flourishing. Family cohesion has the ability to prevent people slipping into languishing, but that is more closely related to moderately flourishing. The family cohesion was able to explain more number of cases, more than 80 percent cases of the moderately flourishing zone rather than flourishing zone. They were explaining about 19, 20 percent of the flourishing zone population, but explaining 80 percent of the moderately flourishing population. So, these, this study again strengthened our idea and strengthen our idea. So, this study also strengthened our idea to float this course and design this course and to be floated at this platform because flourishing is determined by self-direction. So, any course on self-management is about attaining highest level of personal well-being. Any course on self-management or career management is intricately connected to well-being and well-being is found to be deeply connected to flourishing. It is actually expressed through flourishing and lack of well-being is expressed through languishing and these things are deeply connected to the agency, my ability to look at my situation and take action, reflect upon it and take action. That is why a course on the self-management need to look at, need to be based on well-being and it has to strengthen the agencies, to strengthen the self-efficacy. It has to work on people to become much more aware of their life situation and their life choices. So, all these findings goes back to the age-old wisdom of Bhagavad Gita which says that I am my foe and I am my friend. This self is the foe and friend of itself. So, it is the self only which has to work for the self-management and self-improvement. Uddharet atman atmanam atmanum mavas adhayir atmai, atmano bandhur atmai va ripur atmana. Ripu is foe. Bandhu is friend or brotherly person. This self is both, it is friend and foe. So, elevate yourself through the power of yourself. That is the message, that is the old message coming from the wisdom tradition and that is substantiated by our most recent research about the well-being in the youth population as well.