Recently I discovered a really exciting story. Did you know that we actually have a shrine in India where you can go to wash away the sin of adultery? So if you're having an affair with somebody, which is supposed to be sinful, you know, in other just as it's not a good thing, in society it's not a good thing. But there is actually a place where you can go to wash away that sin. I discovered the story very recently and I'd like to share this with you. Because whenever I go out and do a talk, one of the questions I get asked all the time is well, what about monogamy? How do you deal with monogamy? According to anthropologists, human beings weren't made to be monogamous. So what does the Kamasutra say about monogamy? And my answer is generally that yes, it is humanly impossible to never be attracted to somebody else in your life. It's bound to happen. But it depends on what you do with this attraction. What do you actually do? After all, we live in society and we have to abide by the rules of society. We choose to live in this society and so you have to abide by the rules of this society. Anyway, as I said, I came across this story which I'd like to share with you. Now this is a time when Kamdev, the god of love and desire, actually by mistake pierces himself with his own arrows and falls in love with somebody else's wife. So on the banks of this beautiful, fresh lake is a hermitage. And in that hermitage live a very cranky old sage called Haritha and his very beautiful young wife called Poonkala. And one day Poonkala is bathing in the lake when just by chance, Kamdev happens to come by and he looks at her, he sees her and he falls desperately in love with her. And so he sits down on the banks of the lake in a way that he's directly in her vision so that she can see him directly and he starts to sigh really loudly and repeatedly till he gets her attention. Now she sees this young man sitting over there and well, she decides to come out and investigate what is going on because he's an extraordinarily handsome young man after all. So she steps out. Now as it is, Kamdev had fallen in love with this beautiful woman but you can imagine how she must have looked as she steps out of this lake. She's there with her hair clinging to her. It's wet.  The drops of water are trembling in her hair and on her body. Her skin is glowing from the cool, fresh water of the lake. She looks like a freshly blossoming lotus. She looks like a shining pink jewel on this ocean of blue. She's very, very perfect. She's absolutely gorgeous. Kamdev is completely besotted and he goes insane with love looking at her. And so he starts trying to persuade her to sleep with him. Now Pulkala is very innocent. She's been brought up in this hermitage with all these ascetics. She's never really had anybody flirt with her. So she doesn't know quite what to deal with it and she also, she doesn't know quite how to deal with it. And she's also a little bit conscious of the fact that she's not really doing something good, that she's doing the wrong thing by allowing this man to flirt with her. But she's also rather delighted because he's well saying delightful things and it's lovely to hear yourself being praised after all. And so stuck in this dilemma between guilt and delight, she stands where she is. She doesn't actually respond to him. She doesn't say anything to him. She stands where she is with her head bowed, her eyes lowered, a little smile on her lips, not saying anything but not telling him to go away either. Kamdev in the meantime is saying things like, you're so beautiful, we were meant to be together. And then he makes it even harder. He says, you know what? I am irresistible. The arrows that I fire at people, the arrows of love are irresistible. Even the gods cannot resist them. Brahma wasn't able to resist them, not Vishnu, not even Shiva was able to resist my arrows.  You're never going to be able to resist me. I think that we should just be together. Now, in the midst of all this, suddenly her husband turns up, Haritha turns up. And he is absolutely furious. There is his wife standing half naked, head bowed with a smile on her face, listening, encouraging the stranger to say all sorts of things to her. And he's so angry that he decides to put a curse on both of them. He decides that she, because she just stood over there saying nothing like a stone, that he will turn her into a stone. And for Kamdev, he decides that he's going to turn him into a leper. Now, you probably remember another story where a woman is turned into a stone, Ahalya. This story I find differs quite vividly in certain aspects from that one. Because if you remember in that story, Indra after seducing Ahalya, the moment the old husband turns up, Indra makes a run for it. I mean, he doesn't even turn around to see what's happened to this woman that he's just slept with, the one that he's just seduced.  Kamdev, on the other hand, decides to stay on and plead porn color's case with her husband. So he tells the husband, he says, you know, she didn't do anything wrong. You must punish her. She hasn't responded in any way. It's all my fault. Then he goes on to say, he says, you know, my arrows are irresistible, even to the gods, even they can't resist me. How do you expect this poor little woman to be able to resist me? But Haritha, the husband, is furious. He's not listening to anything. He's determined to put a curse on her. And Kamdev doesn't just give up. He carries on. He says to him, he says, you know what, if you actually let her go because she hasn't really sinned. So if you let her go, if you forgive her, then this is not a sin that will attach to you in your next life. So you should consider that, but Haritha is still not particularly convinced or impressed. Kamdev still doesn't give up. He says to him, he says, you know, the Dharam Shastras say that there are three types of sin. There's the sin in the mind, where you just think of something, but you don't do anything about it. There's the sin of the words, where you actually say something bad. And there is the sin of action, where you do something bad. And there are different ways of atoning for each sin. It's actually prescribed in Adharam Shastras. And the one in the mind is supposed to be the least of the sins. It's, you can actually atone for it simply by saying a few prayers. So why are you being so harsh on this woman? But Haritha, I think is on a part-trip by now. And he decides that he is going to punish her. And he says to Kamdev, he says, don't talk to me about this. Every sin, everything begins in the mind. And so if she has chosen to think it, that means that she has sinned. And I will turn her into a stone. And he doesn't just turn her into a stone. What's really sad is that she becomes what is known as the Khandashil, which is the broken stone, because she's standing over there with her head bowed that when she turns into a stone, she actually looks like a broken rock. So he is going out of his way to make sure that he punishes her as harshly as he possibly can, because his ego is so badly hurt. But the story still continues to get more interesting, because Kamdev is turned into a leper. And when he's turned into this leper, when he, when he develops this illness, he cannot continue his job anymore. The world now is starting to die. Love dies. Love cannot be taken forward anymore, because Kamdev can't do his work. And the world, because of the lack of love, is starting to die. And the gods are starting to get really nervous. And the gods all get together and they try and figure out how to make Kamdev better. But none of them can actually remove their, his curse. Even when they all get together, their joint powers cannot remove his curse. So finally, Brahma comes up with an idea. He says to Kamdev, he says, go back to Purnkalla, go back to Khandashila, the woman who you wronged and seek her forgiveness. And see if she will forgive you, you will become better. And so Kamdev goes back to Purnkalla. And it's, interestingly, this woman who as a woman was vulnerable and weak, and she couldn't stand up for herself because of the way that society's norms are made. She was the weaker of the two. But as soon as she turns into a rock and she goes back to the earth, her energy mingles with that of Mother Earth. And suddenly she has a new power. And she has the power to forgive Kamdev so that he becomes well again. From then on, Khandashila, or Purnkalla as the broken stone, has chosen to stay as the broken stone. She's not waiting for somebody to come and remove the curse and become all right. She's chosen to stay as the broken stone. But she has the power to redeem you of your sin of adultery.  Yes, it is not the right thing if you're already married to have an affair with somebody else. No, that is not right. But at the end of the day, it's not that drastic a sin either that you have to be punished with this much vengeance, this much cruelty. And so the idea is that human beings are human beings. Mistakes get made. And yes, you can seek and get forgiveness even for this. And so we actually have a shrine where you can go and beg for forgiveness for the sin of adultery and be forgiven for it. And what's really interesting is that in the Kamasutra, it actually says, it advises both men and women at different places, that if the other one is unfaithful to you, do not treat her or him too harshly. Understand that it is a human tendency and it can happen to anybody. I think it's a thought worth taking forward.


Shall I answer these questions first, or maybe I will take the questions from the center. Shall I write down the questions as they are coming from the center. Remote centers question, so that I can answer them together. Is it on? Is it on? Is it on? Is it on my life? Welcome back. To start the session we have roughly 40 minutes. So the way it will be good to structure this session is that we will first hear questions from the remote centers. We already have a list of questions that we got from the YouTube channel and from the participants here. So let us first hear the questions from the remote centers. I will not answer them immediately, we are just noting them down and then we will answer all of them together. So I would request remote centers to sort of indicate if they have any questions. Hello, good afternoon sir. Hello, good afternoon sir. Good afternoon.  Is it audible sir? Yes, we can hear you. Go ahead. Hello. Yeah we can hear you. Hello, good morning sir.  Hello, good morning sir. Yeah. Last year. Some of the parents had forgotten to mention the number of transfers. Online it was zero.  Some representations were there. So anything can be done about that. Okay, we will address this if there are other questions. Any other question? Kochin, Kochin you are not audible. We cannot hear you. Maybe the microphone is not on. Please check your microphone. No, you are not audible. Okay, so whoever is not audible on the online, please type your questions on chat because of the time constraint we will move to all the colleges one by one. So please be ready with the mics and just start asking your question. I am Kavitesh, Kavitesh Bhardwaj from KV2 Kota. I have a question. What you said that you have to correct the school in the child's data. So first we have to convert it to OK or we have to upload the template first. Okay, I will tell you all the questions together. He is noting down the questions. Sir, one more question from the centre. Hello. Good morning sir. This is Sandeep from Kinde Vidhale, number one, Kota. The question is the date of the sponsoring agency. So if they do not want to accommodate in class 1, what will be their provision? After the last date. After March 19. What will be the admission in the sponsoring agency Kota? If they do not want to give class 1 admission, what will be their last date? What will be the provision after March 19 in class 1? Okay, we have noted it. We will try to address that. University College of Engineering, Tamil Nadu. Good afternoon sir. This is Sandeep Kumar. Go ahead, we can hear. The parents will be applying on 19th also. So we need to verify those applications. Is it possible to give the parents to correct their application on 20th and 21st? Is there any correction which we inform to the appareller? Those who are applying on 19th, they may not get a chance to correct their application. Okay, so I will address this question. I had a discussion with Dr. Khawar about this. Please post your question on chat, you are not audible. We cannot hear you. Please post your question on chat. Hello sir. Good afternoon. Why? Sir, when we are verifying the applications of these students, when documents are not okay, for example birth certificate or cash certificate, we are giving the message either telephonically or email or SMS. But why can't the message go to parent direct to the registered mobile number from the center itself? When I am saying that these documents of this particular ID are not correct, why can't message reach to the parent directly? Okay, we will address that question. So these are KVS policies. This has got nothing to do with the portal. So, okay. We will address that question. Yeah. Silicon Institute, Kudra. Sorry, sir. Yes, sir. This is Manasanjan Sahu from Kindri Vidyalaya, number four of nature. Silicon Institute of Technology of nature. Yeah, please ask a question quickly. Suppose somebody has posted the document not in proper order. And we are making the document not okay during verification. And that might have happened that one of the document is not okay, but it has been uploaded in some another heading. Like, cash certificate has been uploaded in the residence group. But we are making that that cost is not okay. But that residence group is okay. And the category is category one. So we cannot deny for category one. For all those cases, how to deal? Okay. We will address that question. Yeah, PSCMR College. No, sir. You are not audible. Please post your question on chat. KKWag Institute, Maharashtra. Please be ready with the mics. You are not audible, sir. Please check your mic. We cannot hear you. We cannot hear you. Please post your question in chat. On the chat window, there is a chat window in a view. Please post your question. Because of the time constraint, we are just going it in a fast. Those who are not audible, please post your question on chat. Sastra University. Are there any questions? Sastra University. 1140. You are audible. Please go ahead. You are not clearly audible, sir. Please post your question on chat. You are not clearly audible. Amal Jyothi. Hello. Go ahead. Audible? Yes. This is regarding parents working in two different establishments. One in the government and one in the state government. And when they are giving for two different schools options, can they upload two different service certificates? Yes, they can. Number one. Second question. Okay, go ahead. Second question. For RT lottery, can there be a demonstration? You told once, please explain it once again. Can there be a demonstration of RT lottery to the parents who are coming? Thank you. Okay. Yes, so let me quickly answer some of the questions and then again we'll come back. We have a bit of a time constraint here. So let me answer some of the questions that we have collected from the YouTube channel, from the participants here, and from some of the remote centers that we had right now. I'll try to quickly go through those. So the criteria for document verification, there was a question that how does one decide whether a document is okay or not okay. This is completely a KVS policy. IIT Bombay has no clue which document is okay for your birth, you know, proof of birth, birth date, or which document is okay for caste certificate. So please contact KVS to figure out which document is okay and which document is not okay. We have no idea which document is accepted and which is not. Then there was a question about special provision, chairmen's quota, sponsoring agency quota, admission process. So the portal, as you know, we decided after discussion with KVS, so everybody needs to apply on the portal so that they have an enrollment ID. But for those who want admission under the special provisions, there are 20 different categories of special provisions. They need to use that enrollment ID and then approach that school directly. So the special provision admission is not administered through the portal, but they can get an enrollment ID by registering on the portal, submitting their application. So the school can view that application when they go to the school. So all the 20 categories of special provisions has to be handled by the school separately. This was as per discussion with KVS. The third one is process for single girl child application, admission. So as I, from what I understand is that there is a lottery to be done for single girl child, but if it is not to be done, this is a KVS policy.  So essentially, you can select the SGC category and it will show all the single girl child applicants that have applied and who have not been provided provisional admission so far. And then if that number is already less than the number of seats that you have for single girl child, just go and offer to all of them. Of course, there is the case of twins and so if in a particular application under the additional supporting documents, if it is indicated that this application is for a twin and the twin's application number is this, then you have to apply it to both of them. That is as per KVS policy. So if a lottery is needed in some schools where maybe the number of single girl child applicants is much more than or if a lottery is not needed, I do not know how they are sorted. For example, you can sort that list based on service category, based on cast, based on number of transfers, any of the criteria. As per KVS policy, you go down that list and offer admission if it has to be done by lottery, we will keep that provision for doing the lottery. So all the people who will be in the single girl child category, you can put out a lottery list and then you can decide from there. But if it is not to be done by lottery, if it is to be done by service category, number of transfers, you have the filters, choose single girl child category, service category one, sort by number of transfers, just offer them admission. And as I said, anybody who has been offered provisional admission in an earlier category like an RTE category or SC or ST, their names will not show up in any of the subsequent categories when you are trying to offer admission. Then is RT, why RT is compulsory for SC, ST, OBC? So this is what the KVS guidelines say that every SC, ST, OBC, NCL applicant is eligible for RT. So I do not have an answer why that is the case. This is as per KVS policy and distance measurement. So as I have explained that until March 26, so basically parents can indicate change in distance until March 19. So when you are sorting those lists, you will see distances that are greater than 5 or 8 as the case may be. After that, the school gets an opportunity to correct those distances based on verification of the actual distance declaration residence proof. But on March 26, when the RT lottery happens, every case, every applicant whose distance is greater than the specified distance for that school will automatically get filtered out. They will not appear in the RT lottery. So up to 19th, parents can update that distance after 19th, up to 24th, I think 24th, 22nd, the school can update that. After that, if whatever thing is there, whatever distance is entered, we are going to use that distance for doing the RT lottery. Anybody whose distance is greater than 5 kilometer for urban and 8 kilometer for rural will not appear in the RT lottery. So if you are correcting the distance in that spreadsheet, please be careful. Write the correct distance there based on document verification. There is a question about automatic change in status by system. So the cases that had come to us, we have actually checked and it was it was not automatically checked. The parent uploaded the document and the school updated it after that, strictly after that. And so that is why the status is updated. But if you are having any issues, please contact your regional office with the specific enrollment IDs and we will check here what is, this should not happen. I mean if a parent uploads a document or updates an application, it shows as unverified. But if the school marks it as ok or not ok, remember the school is seeing the applications as of the previous midnight. So if the parent has updated the application, that day you are not going to see it until the next day morning. So if the school marks something as docs ok or docs not ok. And if the parent has not updated the application then that same status will show up next day. But if the parent has updated the application, it will show up as unverified the next day. But if you are having specific problems, I mean we have not seen any such problem. The cases that were referred to as we have checked, they were ok. But if you are having specific problems, please with the application enrollment ID send it to the regional office and then we will take it and check that. Which application is going to be considered for admission process? Docs ok, docs not ok, invalid. So as I have said, after March 22nd, every application should be either invalid or docs ok after the changes that you have indicated. The school can indicate changes, but the school is indicating changes means that is as per the documents uploaded. Otherwise why is the school indicating changes? So after you have indicated the changes, the application must have docs ok or it must be an invalid application. So the admission process will only be offered for this. In fact we can, I mean you can go to the portal and you can check whether there are any other applications in any other category. Everything should be either docs ok or invalid. If you click on unverified and some application still shows up, you need to do something about it. If it shows up under docs not ok, you need to do something about it. It was there in the flow chart. We will of course share that presentation with everybody. So you can see in the flow chart. So every docs not ok application must be either converted to invalid or it must be converted to docs ok with changes made by the school. Because these are the only two final statuses of the application. Either it is an invalid application or it is ok for considering maybe with changes made by the school ok. Then there was a question about the transfer count needs to be updated for correction in the spreadsheet. So currently we are uploading the transfer count based on how many entries are there in the table and anything which doesn't satisfy KVS criteria in terms of. So KVS criteria is at least 6 months within the last 7 years and at least 20 kilometers. So if you if a parent tries to upload a transfer detail which is not within the last 7 years it doesn't get saved. If a parent tries to upload something which is less than 6 months it doesn't get saved. The distance we have still shown it because once again the actual distance can be verified only based on the document. Actually calculate the final number of transfers you know after March 22nd sorry after March 24th whenever when the school updates come if the distance is greater than 20 then also it will not show up on the list of. So now if you are saying that should the school be provided a facility to update the number of transfers directly in the spreadsheet without it being entered in the in the transfer details so that it is not enabled right now and we would request that it should be there if there are 5 transfers there should be 5 entries so that we can actually check whether those are before 2015 whatever before the 7 years whether they are at least 6 months or not because this entire check is automated you don't need to do this check whether it is at least 7 years whether it is at least 6 months and right now it shows things which are 20 km but finally we will filter out those also pardon me yeah so whatever so we are looking at the date of the transfer if it is before 1st April 2011 I think because as on 31st March yes so any transfer which happened in this interval is counted if the duration of the stay is more than 6 months or more than 6 months and currently it shows cases even where the distance is less than 20 km because the parent can update but finally when we show it even that will be removed because the date we can easily figure out once they enter the date we know whether it was before 1st April 2011 or whether it was 6 months or not we can easily figure out the distance actually requires verification from a document so we would strongly recommend that just to make sure that there are no errors in this contact the parents ask them to enter the transfer details directly because all these checks can then be done automatically okay now there is one more question here that if sufficient number of applications have not been registered from candidates who belong to ST category a separate notification is to be given as per admission guidelines whether candidates have to apply online or offline this I think is a policy decision after 19th we will disable anybody from uploading applications if you have not received sufficiently many ST or ST applications and if you want to put out another notice so I think this has to be handled offline currently because our portal will stop everything for parents on because otherwise how do we know whether somebody who is trying to upload is already trying to manipulate the system or not so this has to be handled offline so a candidate belongs to SCST OBC non-criminal layer by default the candidate comes under RT when filling up his application distance is beyond 5 kilometers so this I have already answered is that currently up to March 19th parent can update after that teachers can update but in the final RT lottery everything whose distance is finally more than threshold specified will be disqualified is the randomization available for all categories it is only for RT categories so it is available only for RT category and we have been told for the last category and STC it is not available for the other categories because in the other categories I think it goes by number of transfers and I do not know after that what other criteria are there so it is available currently only for RT last category and the STC STC is not necessarily please do not use it or we can disable it if we get a clear instruction from KBS that STC is not needed but these are the three things that we have heard from STC some of the requests that we got from the regional centers can the number of transfers be changed by schools so as I said that it is important that all these transfers are checked for their date and duration so please contact the parents ask them to upload this so that all these checks happen automatically so currently we are not providing number of transfers in the spreadsheet to be changed by the school docs okay before should the documents be okay before uploading the spreadsheet so this is the school has to decide every application should either come in invalid category finally or docs okay category if you are making some change in the spreadsheet presumably it is because based on the documents you are making some changes so once those changes come into effect the documents are okay so you mark it as docs okay this is explained in the flowchart also sponsoring agency quota so this I have already said all the extra things are they have to apply get the application ID all the details should be there but this has to be administered separately all the special provisions can parents correct after March 19th we have had a discussion with KBS headquarters and Dr. Kauri has specifically instructed that parents will not be able to update after March 19th docs not okay can message go from the portal so sms's in order to send sms's we need to enroll with an sms service provider and this was discussed and it was found out that KBS will not do it this year the school can inform you know as of a particular dates basically the docs okay are depends on the school where the school marks it as docs okay docs okay or docs not okay so it is the school which has the entire contact detail which can basically contact the parent and say that whether docs are okay or docs are not okay I mean the email address is particularly problematic because I think in a lot of cases people are going to cyber cafes and they are giving email addresses some very generic email addresses I mean some email addresses that we saw for applications that were forwarded to us it clearly says cyber cafe cyber cafe someplace at gmail.com so I think sending email it is not clear whether it is actually reaching the parent or not I think calling on the mobile is the sure shot way of reaching there but as per our discussion with KBS the automated sms service was not approved so the schools will have to contact the parents docs not in proper order so you know as long as the documents are okay whether they are in proper order or not please go and mark it as docs okay because while the document is being uploaded we do not even know what document is considered okay for KBS for different things so do not need to worry about the order as long as all the right documents are there please mark it as docs okay parents in central and state governments can they of course for each school you can upload a separate service certificate so the service certificate if you are indicating all but the last category so in the last category there is no certificate need necessary but in all but the last category in fact the service certificate is mandatory and it is a separate service certificate for each school that you are applying so if one parent is in central government and other is in state government and they want to apply in two different schools under two different categories this should upload in fact if they do not upload that application cannot be submitted. It is a mandatory document for each school. RT demo to parents. So, as I have already said in my presentation that we will make an RT demo available if you think that it should be given to the parents please do that. But the RT button is going to be the actual RT button is going to be available for you only once. So, you please show the demo to the parents, please show the pre shuffled sequence everything. Make sure that all parents are happy with it and once you press that button that button is going to disappear after that. So, after that you will only get the shuffled sequence which will also show in the previous list what was their sequence number and the new list what is their sequence number. But this will be available only once per school. So, please do all the demos we can make a demo available. In fact, this has been requested by KBS and we will make the demo available. So, you can show how the demo it works. Now, let me answer a couple of other questions I receive that if a candidate's documents are made docs not under one head like RT or SGC and all the other service heads also it is featured as docs not what is the solution to the problem. So, if a candidate's documents are made docs not under one head like RT or SG and on all the other heads also it is featured as docs not. So, what is the solution to the problem? You have to contact the parent within March 19th ask them to make it ok and if they are not able to upload it as ok then you have to indicate in the spreadsheet that based on the documents uploaded what is the service category does it fall under SGC does it fall under SCST whatever. So, what we are saying is that in any case they have to check all the documents. So, they do not need to worry about which document was uploaded under what. So, they can just indicate which document was wrongly uploaded. So, many are there. So, we have to indicate in the spreadsheet which you are providing that is excel sheet all those things cost certificate not ok that is a big problem. So, because once we make the docs not ok. Yes. For any of the head RT. Yes. Yes. For that person that candidate in category one also it is shown as docs not. No, but whether the cost certificate is ok or not. That we are there we have seen. So, you have to indicate it that this is not in the correct cost category. No, that is ok. So, but in category one also automatically it is shown category means docs not ok. Sir, can I say that too? Yes. Please use the mic so that others can. Suppose somebody has uploaded SC certificate and they falls under category. Suppose SC means you are considering RT when you are not considered at least the preference should be given to the candidate at least in category one. In category one also it is showing docs not ok that is what she wants to convey. So, for the final admission everything has to be docs ok. There are no docs not ok case for the final admission. No, no, doc is not ok for RT is accepted. No, no for every category if how can you give admission to somebody whose docs is not ok. I have my transfer I am a centre count employee I have transfer. Yes. But I wrongly uploaded some SC certificate which is not valid. Yes. So, you do not give me RT, but you have to give me under category one. Yes. So, the school indicates in the spreadsheet that the cast certificate is not ok. And she is saying including category one also it is docs not ok is coming that option should not be there that she wants to convey. No, no, no, but if the docs are not ok it means that some document is not ok. And that is what she is telling. Ok. So, please allow me to explain. I think this is this problem is already solved in the portal. So, actually can I go back to the presentation? Oh, I think I have to. Oh, no, it is there. Yeah. So, I have already mentioned it here. So, this is from March 20th to March 22nd. Every application will either be marked invalid or docs ok after corrections. So, if you feel that the cast certificate is not ok, you enter in that spreadsheet that for this applicant the cast is such and such, but if you feel that the service category is ok, keep that service category blank. That is what she wants. So, in the spreadsheet I have shown this here. So, in the spreadsheet I need not fill up every column. I can only fill up the columns, I need only fill up the columns. So, for example, in the case I will have to enter the enrollment ID, I have to say correct cast category is general and rest everything is blank. Because then the service category is not the spreadsheet. So, this is a snapshot of that excel sheet. Enrollment ID, correct single girl child status, correct cast category, correct. This is a snapshot of that excel sheet that has been. I can show the excel sheet. This is the excel sheet. So, if the cast category certificate is not ok, you have to indicate what the cast should be considered. So, an entry has to be made in this table that it should be considered under general. If the service category and whatever other things are then do not enter anything. You do not need to enter anything for those columns. I mean just look at this. So, let me give a demonstration of, can we go on the spreadsheet? Team viewer. Team viewer is close to my end. I have to give what? I have to 4, 4. Yeah. So, upload corrections. So, this has logged me out again. So, this is just some dummy thing. So, when you go to upload corrections, you get the template. So, let me open it and let me edit this document. So, suppose there is a particular applicant whose only problem is the cast certificate, but then we have to indicate what should be the new cast category for that. So, you know 1, 2, 3, 4, whatever I put the enrollment thing. I keep this, I keep this blank because this is fine. That cast category I say general and everything else is fine. And I just upload the thing with this. So, any column which is left blank, it means whatever was there in the original application is fine. There is no problem with that. Any column which is not blank, it means whatever was there in the original application has a problem and this should be the new value. That is all that we are doing. So, in the specific case that you mentioned, if it is only the cast certificate which is a problem, you just have to indicate this. The service category stays as is, whatever they have indicated. I belong to a single cast. I am a single girl child. So, because I belong to single cast, I should get an option of RTE. You have randomized list, my name is not appearing. Then SC, my name appears. Suppose if you give me an option, single girl child also. If I get in single girl child, I have an advantage of fees consistent. Now, what is happening? Once I got an SC, my name is not figuring in single girl child. Yes, once you have got an admission, why should it appear? No, under the principle of natural justice, objection will be raised to the parent. What is the? Because in RTA, in SC or in single kid everywhere, you have to give option. You will choose under which category you will join. Once I got SC, you are not giving me option of single girl child. No, you do single girl child first. What is the problem? We have not determined the order because it is still not clear to us. What is the exact order? So, you do, if you want to do first single girl child before RTA, you can do that. There is a single girl child. Yes. So, by mistake if you do, then you have to pay. So, we are not determining the sequence in which you are giving admission. So, you can do RTE, then single girl child or first single girl child then RTE. So, that is up to you. So, we have very short time. So, we can maybe take a few more questions. But before we do that, I would like to sincerely acknowledge the efforts of two of my colleagues. Dr. Snehalatha and Madhuri, I do not know where they are. They are there, if the camera can be found there. So, they have been the creators of the spoken tutorial just like Aruna, where is the camera? So, all of the spoken tutorials in the 19 languages and for parents, the original, the editing, scripting, it actually takes a lot of effort to prepare a video at that quality. And the teachers one also they have done, the English one. So, they are the faces behind all that effort. So, thanks a lot. So, I would now, we have around 5 minutes left I think. So, if there are some more centers which want to ask questions, I could. Yeah. So, maybe KVS Delhi, if there are more questions. Yes, we can hear you, Dr. Hari. Yes, I can hear you clearly, loud and clear. Yeah. So, after I think interaction with you, most of the doubts have been clear. I would like to make certain points here. Yes. Of the understanding of this Pula bottle also be more easy. First thing that I think, my dear friends, you have to understand that this is not a new thing. We haven't been applying that. So, yeah, actually, you can use either the laptop or the mic. Yeah. Actually, can you use the laptop mic that is, that seems to be clear. Sir, the laptop mic is only clear to all the centers. The other mic that you are using is not clear to all the centers. Right. So, one thing that we all have to understand that before these two years, this year and last year, we had animations offline only. We have, for any problem, for any query, please ask this question. If you are applying for an offline hard copy, how do we deal with it? How do we help our parents? When did we take our opinion or our decision as a principle? The same principle will be there online. You cannot say it wrong without telling your parents. You cannot reject without keeping the proof of the document. Even in the hard copy, the categories were exclusive. Even today, if someone is applying for an RTA category, then it may not be possible to apply for a category 5. So, if someone is applying for a single girl in the form of a girl child, then they will go for a category 5. It is more important for a single girl for a single girl. There have been many such problems. If we did not give anyone an S.C. admission, then their name would have been removed from our system. If they did not get an S.C. admission, then their category would have been removed. There is no fixed rule in this. Because if you think that category 1 is more beneficial than category 3, then this is not correct. To take a sponsor seat, category 3 can go higher than category 1. That is why we have to keep these things in mind. What should be our fundamentals? Give more and more advantage to people. And whenever we are bringing this advantage to parents, then for that... Yes, tell me, Kauri ji. Please continue. We can hear you continue. Yes, our voice stopped. That we have to show. If you think that there is no advantage to anyone, then this is not correct. Sometimes if you give someone an advantage, then it can happen because of someone else's advantage. So you will always have to be cautious.  He is giving you an offline amount of freedom. But you must remember that admission in charge and principal are responsible to keep this admission fair. That is why you must ensure that you take any decision. If you are doing category 1 and category 5, then you have this advantage. And the advantage is logic. You have to keep this cardinal principles in mind and then you will work ahead. We have some questions from Subhati ji. Yes, tell me. I want to keep it in front of you. In some cases we have seen that apart from category 1 and 5, there is a provision of a category 0. If parents fill in 0, then they are getting 0. Zero? Yes, instead of category 0. This should not happen. If you can send their enrollment ID, then we will check. I am taking it from them. This is about Keshapuram. It is about Abhikash Puri. I will take it from them and tell them. It should not happen. Zero should not happen. No, if you send their enrollment ID, then we will check. You are sending it. You have addressed the second question. If category 1 has applied, but the service certification is of category 3, then what do we have to do? You have told them that you can guide it. After that you will give it a notice in category 3. When it is not ok, then tell them that your service certificate is not of category 1. Then you will communicate it is not ok. You can upload that certificate. It is indicated in the spreadsheet. Parents will know that my child's admission cannot be in category 1. But it can be in category 3. That is why after the lottery, you have asked them once again that you will give them a demo file. And once you call these parents, you will definitely show them a demo. So the demo will be random and arbitrary. You will not have any connection with the database. And that is why it is happening. That is why you can take out the lottery so many times. You had this provision that you took out the lottery once and announced it. See, you are taking out the lottery. This is a demo lottery. And parents used to see it and share the results. Although you did not do it. Next time you would take out the fresh lottery. This lottery is final. What used to happen is that parents were very hard-burning. In my first one, my name was on the 5th number. And in the real one, my number was on the 20th. This was a problem. That is why IIT has announced it this time. Once the button is pressed, it is not the next time. And the second thing is that when you take out the lottery, all the applicants who are more than the seats, all the applicants who are eligible, take out one of them in the lottery category. You have just given your 10th admission. But if you do not get the 10th term, then the next 11, 12, 20 things will go to the same place. Let it go. The second benefit will be that the person who is at the bottom will start doing his second attempt. This change cannot happen. We will try a lot of things. I have also brought a question about the sponsoring seat. If you pay attention to the sponsoring seat, whatever seats are over and above, they are not a part of the online. Over and above seats are not a part of the online. But the 40 limit admission seat, you have to do it together. If you have 5 seats for the sponsor in class 1, then you have to keep 5 seats separate and do the processing. The sponsoring seat will decide those who have 5 seats. What happens is that there is not that much of a problem in the project. But there will be a problem in the civil sector school. Because in one place, 5 seats will come in the first 5 seats. And whoever decides to sponsor from 6 to 21, will reach the category 3. So if you have 40 seats, if you have 10 seats, if you have 5 seats for the sponsor, then you have 15 seats. And you are doing everything in 25 seats. That is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, everything in 25 seats. So 5 sponsor seats, the sponsor decides. We decide. But the sponsor should decide. It should be an employee. Many times in the list, some ad hoc contractual employees or those who work in the firm, in the first category 5, they are also shown in the sponsor seat. They should reject the Admission Committee. And the sponsoring authority, that is your chairman, will have to tell that this is not possible in this class. What this means is that the sponsor seats are separated from the Admission's online system. Because the sponsor seat doesn't decide the parent. The sponsor seat decides the chairman. The sponsor decides. There is a little difference. Next was the question, why didn't the parent go to SMS from the portal? Last year this system was there. This time this is not a system. Now we have read the SMS to the MP quota. And we saw that it was Rs.1500. It was not possible to give 10,000 SMS. This is very low.  There is no right to remove the DND barrier. Do not disturb. That means if you write that we don't have any commercial use of SMS but we have to benefit our parents and educate them. So you have to try to remove that DND barrier. I will request the school that they take such an SMS package and do SMS. Because it is better to approach the mobile number. As Superdiji said, e-mail will not reach the parent in many cases. Like he e-mailed the cyber café. Sometimes he e-mailed with friends or with someone else. Next was the multiple application. Multiple application means that the husband is in category 1 and the wife is in category 4. Suppose, a husband applied to a school where he showed category 1 and applied to another school where he showed category 4 and the wife is in the current form. Superdiji, request that is it right to apply to a school where category 1 is applied and only category 1 is applied. No, no. In one school, category 1 in one school, category 2 in third school, category 5 the category of every school will have to be selected separately and for every school the service will have to be selected separately. If they selected only one and applied three places then only one school will be selected. No, no. The indication of the service category comes in the choice of schools. When you are choosing a school then what is the service category and what is the service category. When the second school is choosing then it asks which category you have to apply for this school. So, with the option of every school separately the service category is asked and it is compulsory to enter. And if the last category children of any other category leave it and anything else then for every school the service certificate has to be selected. It can be that the same service category is in both schools because only one school has documents of the same school. I mean, one applicant has three schools. Is there a problem? Yes, there is. Last year we had a problem that in project schools there is a specific service that the parents in project schools are not considered to be category one. Those who have retired and their children are also getting this service. And if they become grandparent then they are also getting this service. And it is in that category in the form of ABC. It was very difficult to do it online that such schools are less in the whole country. So I think that the first category one i.e. the sponsor quota and because of the sponsor quota category one is in project. They are sorting that one place and if their documents means the whole school can fill them then the category 2 will come. So if they come but if they cannot then there are more applications for such projects that parents and grandparents have also retired then they can fill all the cases. Their address will not be online. We can indicate that it is applied in the grandparent category or in the father-mother category so that you can sort it. Is it serving or retired? That information will only be known from the documents. So where the car will stop because if there is a mismatch in the demand supply then the car will stop. If the car stops then it will do its job by keeping the chairman otherwise he will get married and he cannot go to the category 2 without their admission the chairman cannot go to the category 2 that is why these things will not have to be applied which you have not defined. As far as you have defined it is correct. Sir, being retired you have done. Is it clear sir? So from the portal in the service category 1 we can show the parent-grandparent and the only service category is in the service category 1. From the service category 2 there is a preference which is more serving. So the information of that is not in the portal so that has to be checked by this. So if there are such catches then the local surfer can handle it. At the school level. And after that the category 2 will move. There were many other issues that we have seen. Yes sir. Come. In defence there is a question that if the different defence employee is applying for the admission then how can the category 1 be applied? The parents' category means that the grandparent will get the admission. I don't think this is possible. Yes. That is a special provision. Parambir Chakra is a special provision. No. It is not possible. I have to check it once again. Because you have the rules for father and mother except those project category schools which I mentioned. All civil defence other schools for all admissions only parents service status is required. Grandparent service status has no meaning. Right. So there is no question that if somebody grandparent is in defence he will get into category 1 even when his father or mother is not in defence. Correct. This is not possible. If there is any instance he is bringing. These were the questions. Really it was a very fruitful session. Thank you. Everything is so clear. Sir, we are supporting documents. As per registration code it is easy for us to do verification and time is less consuming. Every document has to be supported. Yes. So it is really a very meaningful exercise that you have done. Because the date is very very close. 19th parents will stop their amendments after 4pm. After that schools will check the documents, check the forms verify and make all these tabulations in your spreadsheet and then be ready for the first list on 26th. Even then if you have any queries we will email to you and talk to you.  Thank you very much. Thank you. I just want to say a few words. I mean we are also very happy, very privileged to be part of this exercise which actually affects so many lakhs of families. I mean most of us are parents and we know the concerns for getting our children admitted so we are happy to sort of be part of this and we hope that the experience that we gained this year and the experience that you have had this year we can sort of work on it to provide similar facilities in the future also. I also want to sort of thank it is you know a few of our names got mentioned but really this is a big team working and in particular I have had so many fruitful discussions with KVS Regional Office Mumbai you know Srimati Arunabhalla and Narasimhan and our principal over here the teachers over here so with all their feedback only we have been able to do this so our thanks to KVS as well and we hope to you know help KVS in whatever ways we can in the future as well. Thank you. Actually madam would you want to say a few words or okay okay so I think so Prof. Kannan wants to say a few things so I am really happy to know that the program went well I wish we had had more time so that we would have pulled the doubts of people from various centers typically what happens in this program this program is called trained 10,000 teachers program through this Prof. Fatak has been Fatak's team has been conducting training for 10,000 engineering college teachers simultaneously by some experts. Similar thing can be done for school teachers we can set it up and people can come for example physics teachers 9th grade physics teachers 10th grade biology teachers something like that is possible it is also possible to have administration meetings for example all the 1200 principals can come and say that I want to have discussion regarding some policies that you may want to do is I know many former students of Kendri Vidyalay I want to contribute for example my daughter studied in the Kendri Vidyalay IT, so KV is very close to us that is the reason why we are passionate about it so you might say that we want to discuss about parent PTA for example discuss you know monthly meetings weekly meetings so if you have such a network that will be extremely useful without people having to travel even the in-service training you know people having to go losing one month for example teacher goes for one month of training then who teaches their children in the school it is affecting and especially when there is a shortage of teachers it affects them greatly so I think all of these things can be handled through this methodology so I would like to recommend in fact I am going to attend a meeting next week the special secretary school educational literacy has called for a meeting and I am going to be there I am going to propose this because these are the things that can be achieved at a very low cost cost per student, per college per school can be very small you pull the money there is enough money to support the whole activity of course I mentioned things like setting up model server and so on even academic activities that can be mentioned I just want to apologize once again that we have not been able to field questions of teachers who have gone to various centers but this is the first time hopefully we will have many more sessions and we will streamline this lot better and on behalf of IIT Bombay and my own behalf I would like to thank the KV Sankatan officials the not only from Delhi from all the centers and also the principals, teachers and so on who have taken the trouble to come on a Saturday morning to be with us even though we could not answer your questions I hope that you benefited by this interaction and of course I would like to acknowledge I would like to acknowledge the remote centers that have come and I would also want to acknowledge the funding source for this activity this is funded, this activity is funded by this T10KT trained 10,000 teacher program and also Spokane tutorials are funded by the National Mission on Education through ICT MHRD Non-Mantav India so we are grateful to MHRD thank you one other comment we are seeing a lot of questions that have been posted on the chat window by the remote centers so what we would request is we will answer all of those questions we will send back by email so what I would request all regional centers is to take the contact addresses of the persons who have posted those questions and send those to us and if we respond back we know whom we should send the answers to so request to all remote centers please take the email addresses of the applicants who have come of the attendance of the participants who have come there so that we can respond back to the questions we have the remote center ID and we have the questions if we just have the email IDs for all participants at the remote center we will just answer those questions and send them back to everybody I also forgot to mention the Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya national mission on teachers and teaching in fact this is a unique mission that is being chaired by secretaries of both departments of MHRD both secretary department of school education literacy and department of higher education in fact this activity can include school education also so I thought I would acknowledge that it is we are getting funding from that mission also thank you thank you very much sir so that brings us to the official ok thank you good bye and Jai Hind


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If you're new to the channel, I'm Gold Penny at the new Cartruck SUV reviews on YouTube. And today, we're in the brand new 2024 Honda Pilot courtesy of Apple Honda of Hanover in Hanover PA for more information on their inventory. Please feel free to check out the link in the description box below. So this is Honda's three row SUV and this is the second year for the fourth generation pilot. So for anybody who was worried about buying that first year of a new generation, this is now in the second year. So maybe consider it now, I don't know. But you do also get two years or 24,000 miles of complimentary maintenance as well.  But ultimately in this video, we will be testing out and going over everything about this one from acceleration to braking, steering field, ride quality, sound system, exhaust clip, all that fun stuff. So having said all of that, what do you guys say? Let's just go ahead and jump right into it. And as always, let's start with pricing. As you can imagine, there are several different trim levels for the 2024 pilot. First one being the LX starting at $37,090. Sport for 39,600 EXL for 42,400. Trail Sport, which is the one we are in today, starting at $48,800. Touring for $46,900. And lastly, the Elite going for $52,480. And so all-wheel drive comes standard for the Trail Sport and Elite. All the other trim levels come standard with front-wheel drive. If you wanted to add all-wheel drive, you can do that, simply add $2,100 then to any of those prices. But regardless of trim level that you go with, the power plant on the pilot is going to be the same. Powering the Beast is a 3.5-liter direct-injected V6, putting out 285 horsepower at 6,100 RPM, 262 pound-feet of torque coming in at 5,000 RPM, that power being sent to front wheels or all wheels through a 10-speed automatic with paddle shifters, which you guys know we will be testing out here in a little bit. Zero to 60 time comes in in an impressive 6.9 seconds. Top speed, if you're interested, 111 miles per hour with MPG numbers coming in at 19 in the city, 27 on the highway for the front-wheel drive, 19 city, 25 then, on the highway for the all-wheel drive, but taking regular, unleaded fuel. And so before we do any kind of fun paddle shifter or acceleration test here in the pilot, do want to mention to you guys the drive mode. There's actually a drive mode toggle switch located directly behind the shift buttons. And yes, there are shift buttons. The way that works is the D slash S, that's going to be your drive slash sport driving mode. There's also N for neutral, R for reverse, and P for park. I know that there's some people off down in New Tihandas, so I wanted to mention that, but anyways. Back to the drive modes, they will include normal, econ, snow, tow, and sport. And if you go with the all-wheel drive configuration that will add to that trail and sand, that is pretty cool. So now that we've got all of that out of the way, what do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find a straightaway. Let's put the paddle shifters here to the test. I'm going to put it in that sport driving mode there. And let's see how quickly the paddle shifters are going to react for us here. All right, let's see if it holds a gear here first. Nope, it shifted. Come on, put me back at first. All right, as far as the paddle shifters go, there is a slight delay to them, so it's pretty much as I expected for the pilot. Usually with SUVs, you don't really have quick-reacting paddle shifters unless you're driving like a Porsche Macan or something, but yeah, there is a little bit of a delay, but the cool thing is about the paddle shifters is that they're there, because that is important, especially in Pennsylvania here, where it does tend to snow a good bit. If you're going down a hill, rather than hitting the brakes and just sliding off the road, you can actually use the paddle shifters to do a little bit of engine braking, so you're less likely to slide off the road. So that is a good reason to have them in my personal opinion, so I don't mind them for that, but now I haven't done that paddle shifter test. What do you guys say? Let's go ahead and find one more straightaway. Let's now give back full control to the pilot and let's see how quickly we can get our new 2024 Honda Pilot here up to speed. All right, Founder's spot in three, two, one, go. Really loud, but it's quick. Yeah, you're definitely not going to have any issues emerging onto the highway. We've got about eight miles until empty. I'm going to put it in econ driving mode now, but that is plenty of an acceleration to merge you onto anything, and it gets really, really loud. I will say that as well, so the V6 is definitely doing its job there, but to go along with that acceleration, as always, braking is equally important. So a friend you will find, 12.6 inch ventilated front discs. In the back, 13 inch solid rear discs, as far as that 60 is your stopping distance goes, that comes in at 126 feet, which is pretty average for the segment, for a three row SUV. That's pretty much what you would expect. As far as braking feel goes, I feel like it does tend to lean a little bit on the firmer side of things, so I don't mind the braking feel at all. As we came up to a stop sign right there, definitely brought me to a stop plenty fine, so no issues with the braking whatsoever. Then touching on suspension and handling up front, you're going to get a McPherson straight front suspension. In the back, independent multi-league rear suspension, of course, front and rear stabilizer bars. As far as ride quality goes, it's okay. It's been perfectly fine in my short little test drive here today. I feel like some of the competition might be a little bit smoother of a ride, but you're probably not going to be able to tell the difference quite honestly, so this is plenty fine for what it is. As far as steering feel goes, let me actually put it back in that sport driving mode real quick. It feels good, definitely feels good.  It definitely is a nice steering feel as I'm weaving through this road here. So I love it. Steering feels weighted on the heavier side of things, much heavier than its competition. I will say that without a doubt. Honda typically does a wonderful job with their driving dynamics, and that is definitely the case here in the pilot. I think that's probably the main selling point of this pilot. If you're looking for a three-row family hauler SUV, but still want it to be a little bit playful, a little bit more fun to drive, this is definitely one to check out because the driving dynamics are pretty darn good. Plenty of an acceleration, plenty of a steering feel as well, and touching on cabin noises, we are going 30 miles per hour right now. That's actually been perfectly fine with the exception of that engine noise when you really get on it, which I personally don't mind, but as far as wind noise goes and road noise, there isn't a whole lot coming into the cabin, so I've got no issues with that. But I do want to mention, acoustic laminated front windshield comes standard on the EXL trim level and up. You will also get acoustic laminated front door glass then for the touring and elite trim levels. And then acoustic laminated front door glass, typically that's something that you find on BMW and Mercedes, so the fact that it's even available here on the pilot is absolutely amazing. So if you want the very most serene cabin, go with one of those top two trim levels, so that is pretty cool. But then touching on rear visibility, this is something that actually surprised me when I first got in. Typically with three row SUVs, you won't expect the visibility to be all that great, but I think because of the shape of the pilot, it's actually quite brilliant. Like there is a massive rear window looking out my rear view mirror there. So you can see forever. So I love the visibility in the Honda pilot. It's definitely one of the better ones in his class without a doubt, but in addition to that, in terms of forward visibility, if you were to go with that top trim level being the elite, you will also get rain sensing windshield wipers. So whenever the pilot detects any kind of mist or rainfall, it's gonna automatically turn on those windshield wipers for you. So kind of a safety feature in itself right there, but also a head up display projecting your speed, speed limit and safety features up onto your windshield. So both of those are gonna assist with forward visibility there as well. But that pretty much rounds out the performance segment of this review, you guys. Let's now go ahead and take a look at the exterior of our brand new 2024 Honda Pilot. All right, so here she is, you guys. The new 2024 Honda Pilot finished in Sonic gray pearl. I'm sure if you're familiar with Honda, you are familiar with that particular color. It is on a lot of their vehicles and it looks good in my personal opinion, but so always let's go ahead and start with where this one is made. Taking a look at the VIN first character is the number five, indicating that the new 2024 pilot is built and assembled here in the U.S. But as always, let's go ahead and start up front on the pilot here. Black front grill does come standard. Ignore the white tape on the corners of that front grill. I didn't take that off. Probably should have, but anyways, gloss black front grill coming standard on the trail sport trim level and up. And actually all trim levels, but the LX will get active grill shutters as well. So just behind that front grill, the grill shutters are gonna open and closed, depending upon the engine cooling that is needed at any given time. So that is pretty cool there as well. To the sides, LED headlights do come standard on every single trim level of the pilot. You gotta love that. With LED daytime running lights, you get the automatic feature as well. So when it starts to get dark on at night, headlights will turn on automatically for you there. But also automatic high beams coming standard for every single trim level across the board as well. So if you have your high beams on at night and it senses a vehicle coming in the opposite direction, it's gonna automatically dim them back to low beams and when that vehicle is gone, it's gonna automatically bounce it back up to high beams for you there. So very convenient feature there as well. And then down below with the sport trim level and up, you're also going to find fog lights, the very bottom kind of of that front bumper there. So LED fog lights by the way. So that is pretty cool as well. But trail sport badging, I must forgot to mention that found in the front grill specific to our trail sport trim that we have today. But anyways, that pretty much rounds out the front end of this one. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the side. All right, and someone else since we are around to the side of this one, gloss black roof rails coming on the sport trim levels. The trail sport, of course, the touring and elite rear privacy glass does come stated for all trim levels across the board. Did you have some LED door handle lighting for the touring and elite trim levels only that is pretty cool, illuminating everything up at night. Power adjustable side mirrors, of course, do come standard. They're gonna be finished in matte black for the LX and the sport body colored for the EXL touring and elite. And then gloss black for our trail sport that we have with us here today. Also gloss black door handles for the trail sport as you guys can see that. And then they will be heated with integrated turd signals for the EXL trim level and up. And you're also gonna get that reverse gear tilt down feature for the EXL trim level and up then as well. Then take a look down at the wheel setup, 18 inch alloys for the LX and the trail sport and they are gonna be unique alloys. So the trail sport is not gonna be the same look as the LX, of course. 20 inch alloys for the sport, 18 inch machine finished alloys for that EXL. And then 20 inch machine finished alloys for the touring and elite. And of course, you got all touring tires with our trail sport here today. And one of the best parts of you guys can see these unique wheels here. We got the trail sport lettering found on the wheels themselves. So like I said, it is a unique design to the trail sport that we have today. So that is pretty cool. But anyways, there are pretty much rounds out the side profile here of the pilot. Let's now go ahead and make our way to the back. All right, and something else let's go around to the back of this one all the way to the top body colored shark fin antenna. Just below that rear spoiler with an integrated brake light. Just below that rear window wiper. You do have some LED tail lights that do come standard on every single trim level across the board. Got the pilot lettering spelled out horizontally amongst that gloss black bar in the back there connecting the two tail lights. And then just below it all, there is a spare tire tucked away underneath there. But you will find dual exhaust outlets coming standard for all trim levels across the board. However, if you were to go with the sport touring or elite, you're gonna get chrome tips. So with the trail sport, they are just simply tucked away with most of the other trim levels. But chrome tips are available for those three trims. But having said that, I do believe you guys know what we have to do next. As always here is that exhaust clip. All right, something else to see around to the back of the pilot. When it comes to opening that rear tailgate, it is gonna be a power tailgate for the EXL trim level and up and then a hands free power tailgate for the touring and elite trim levels. But once opened up, cargo capacity comes in at 18.6 cubic feet. If that was not enough space, of course that third row does fall down. There's a 60, 40 split bumping that up to 48.5 cubic feet. And then with Oliver's folded 87 cubic feet. Even that is a good bit of space back there. Pretty much on par for the course. It's around what the Highlander is. I believe the Telluride is 88. I think the Palisade is 87 point something as well. So pretty much exactly where it should be for a three row SUV, 12 volt power outlet coming standard on the EXL trim level and up back there. Grocery bag hooks can be found back there. There's four cargo tie down anchors as well. It's got some LED cargo lighting back there. And then if you were to lift up underneath of that cargo floor, you are going to find some in-floor storage because again, the spare tire is underneath. So I love the in-floor storage back there. That's definitely nice for like a tire inflator kit or an ice scraper or something like that. But then making our way up to the third row legroom that comes in at 32.5 inches for reference. I mean, even six feet tall. This is how much space I had back there. But I did love to find that there were some USB charging ports for the third row passengers because a lot of times kids will sit in that third row and they got their tablets. So it's always nice having USB charging ports back there but also rear ventilation coming standard for those third row passengers as well. It's not going to be found on the ceiling of this thing but it's actually kind of found right around where their cup holders are in case you were curious. But then making our way to the second row legroom that comes in at 40.8 inches. That's a ton. And by the way, the second row does slide forward and back. So if the third row passengers need a little more space, the second row can simply just slide up a little bit. For reference, I mean, even six feet tall. This is how much space I had in that second row there. Again, USB charging ports do come standard for the second row passengers as well. If you were curious, whether or not you wanted the captain's chairs or the bench seating, the way it works is the trail sport and then it's going to be optional for the EXL. You can get the captain's chairs which is why we have the captain's chairs with us here today. Otherwise it is going to be a bench seating configuration meaning you don't have the walkthrough in the middle. It's just going to be three seats in the middle. So that's the way that works. Rear window sunshades do come standard on the EXL trim level and up. So we got those as well. I'd love to see those back there. There is also 115 volt power outlet I found back there. So I'll always love to see that. And the cool thing about the rear ventilation is tri-zone climate control comes standard for all trim levels of the pilot. So the rear passengers actually can set their own individual temperature. So driver passenger and rear passengers all have their own individual climate, I guess you could say. But then making our way up to the front seats, claw seating coming with the LX and the EX trim levels, a synthetic leather is what comes on our trail sport that we have today. And I like the trail sport lettering found in the headrest too, that's pretty cool. Full leather seating for the EXL touring and elite trim levels, 10-way powered driver seat with two-way powered lumbar for all trim levels. So gotta love that. Heated front seats for the EX trim level and up ventilated front seats for the elite. And then memory settings for the EXL trim level and up and that's for two different drivers found here on the driver's side door there. But overall seating was incredibly comfortable, believe it or not. Seats are very adjustable. The power lumbar was great. So absolutely no issues whatsoever. The power lumbar was probably one of the most adjustable power lumbars I've found in quite a while. So you really are not going to have any issues finding your perfect driving position here in the pilot which is a good thing because this is a road trip vehicle. But then take a look at the steering wheel. It is anti-telescoping. It is leather wrapped for the EX trim level and up and then it's going to be heated for the trail sport and elite. So I had that on today because it's freezing out here in PA. So now let's go ahead and make our way to the startup. Let me start by showing you guys the key here. You got your Honda logo on the one side. When you flip it over lock unlock the button to pop the rear tailgate, the circular button that's going to be a remote start which by the way comes on the EX trim level and up. But there is a push button start for all trim levels across the board. So all I'm going to do right now is simply put my front of the brake and press that engine start button located just to the left of that air vent there. So once started up as far as the gauges go it is a pretty cool looking gauge cluster. Let me turn down the air a little bit that's loud. Seven inch digital cluster for all trim levels but the elite and it looks good. 10.2 inch digital cluster for the elite trim level but there are steering wheel mounted controls where you can control what is displayed up on that digital gauge cluster. And by the way, when you change the drive mode the colors are going to change slightly as well. Not really a big change at all really but you got econ normal and then you're going to get some red hues in the sport driving mode but overall it gives you outside temperature how many miles you have left into empty which by the way is zero for us. That's great. And pretty much everything else you possibly want on the digital gauges up there. But so now let's go ahead and make our way to overall interior quality a panoramic moonroof coming with the trail sport that we have today. The touring and elite LED interior lighting coming standard overhead sunglass holder coming standard as well. You're going to find homelink controls are up to three different garage doors for the EXL trim level and up. Tri-zone climbing control like I was saying for all trim levels auto dimming rear view mirror for the EXL trim level and up. Wireless phone charger, EXL trim level and up. I think that's the sweet spot really. Multicolor ambient lighting would be nice. I wish they had that. But otherwise this thing has finished pretty darn nice. I don't mind it.  You got a little bit of rubberized storage right next to that to the right of the shift buttons you have your dual cup holders. Within the center armrest there is a ton of space in there. I do like the orange contrast stitching that we have in our trail sport trim level here today. Another cool little feature here is just above the passenger side glove box you have a ton of rubberized storage and more than I'm used to seeing. So if you have a passenger there they could probably put their cell phones up there and have it very unlikely to slide around because it's all rubberized storage. It's a good bit right there. So I do like that. So overall I actually don't mind the interior quality. I think it looks pretty darn good in here. But now let's go ahead and make our way to the infotainment screen. Seven inch color touchscreen display coming with the LX and the EX. But all other trim levels being the EXL trim level and up it's gonna give you a nine inch color touchscreen display that gives you Bluetooth and audio streaming, Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. So here's the best part. For the nine inch screen at least you get wireless Android Auto, Apple CarPlay. So I love that particularly but there is a good bit you could check out up here. There's your traditional Honda clock setup that I always like to show off but there's also your radio information of course. So when it comes to the sound systems you're gonna find seven speakers and 240 watts for the LX and the EX. Nine speakers and 245 watts for the EXL and the trail sport that we have today. And then a 12 speaker Bose sound system is gonna come on the touring and elite trim level. So since we mentioned it we do have that nine speaker and 245 watt sound system with us here today. So let's go ahead and turn on the radio. Let's see what we got playing today and let's just stop the clarity of this one. I gotta be honest, it's not bad. There's definitely a subwoofer in here somewhere. There was a good bit of bass. The clarity was all right as well. The wattage isn't the highest wattage on paper but that sounded pretty darn good. So nine speakers in the size of the pilot that definitely gets the job done. I don't have any issues there but last thing I wanted to mention to you guys on the infotainment screen at least is when you do put the pilot in reverse you will find a rear view camera coming standard across the board. Heck, we even got a surround view monitor there to the right giving us that bird's eye view. And by the way, this rear view camera is extremely high definition. It didn't used to be that high definition just a few years ago, I feel like so. I love that as well. But as always that is going to lead us into safety. So first let me start with the best part IIHS top safety pick plus for this fourth generation which you got to absolutely love. It doesn't get any better than that. Front side, side current airbags do come standard driver and passenger knee airbags as well. In the back you're going to have latch AKA lower anchors to tether your children for the rear car seats. Rear child door locks, tire pressure monitoring system but also coming standard Honda Sensing, of course.  Then if you were to go with the EX trim level and up it's going to give you a blind spot monitoring system with rear cross traffic alert. I love that. And the EX trim level and up is also going to give you front and rear parking sensors. So overall when it comes to my final thoughts this is the part where I'm brutally honest. So nice driving dynamics for this three row SUV probably the best driving dynamics for a three row SUV with the exception of the Mazda CX-9. But the Mazda CX-9 is such a small three row SUV it's really a two row SUV. So for three rows, this is the best. In my personal opinion when it comes to driving dynamics. Also, excellent safety. Again, it doesn't get better than an IIHS top safety pick plus. However, there is a lot of competition in this three row SUV segment. For example, you got the Toyota Highlander Hybrid that gives you exactly the same amount of space but 40 miles per gallon. This one gives you 25 on the highway. So having said that, I would love to see a hybrid configuration for the pilot in the future. I think that would do absolutely amazing. I think that's what a lot of automakers are kind of going towards right now. It's not so much the full electrification like full EVs but rather the hybrid configuration because you don't have that range worry that an EV would give you but you have incredible miles per gallon that a hybrid would give you on something that you just fill up at the regular gas station. So that is what I would be looking for from the pilot. The other thing I would mention is I would love to see some multicolor ambient lighting in this thing like like Honda and Kia tend to do. So I think that's pretty cool. So anyways, let me know what you guys think of the new pilot in the comments section below. 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That's right every single week we do the great search with digikey. This is where Lady just shows you how to use the digikey site To get exactly what you're looking for and this week our example is this cool speaker. Yes. Okay, so let's go to the overhead I'm gonna show sorry the computer mistake So this is the speaker that we're using it. It's like this little square speaker that we pick in place onto our PCBs and There's basically two kinds of speakers that we use in general We use either piezos or we use magnetic buzzers and it's confusing and even to me It's like sometimes it's hard to tell if something is a buzzer or a piezo and they're both called buzzers So once like a piezo one's magnetic, but they both beep or buzz and also within those types There's ones that are like set tone like AC input DC input it can be like quite confusing and so I thought I'd show people Some techniques to get your own the reason I like to use the magnetic buzzers compared to the piezo buzzers is These piezo buzzers cannot be surface mount pick-and-placed right there. They're through a hole Soldered onto a PCB. They're very inexpensive. They don't require any extra driving circuitry You can connect this up to a microcontroller with like a 20 milliamp output and it can like beep nice and loud However, the piezos really are tuned to just one frequency They're not, you know, they're usually like a two kilohertz or four kilohertz. You can send them any Frequency, but they really they're really only good to like a certain small range. That's usually between one to like eight kilohertz And they're shrill. They have a square wave, you know, they're either on or off There's not a lot of subtlety to using the piezo words and magnetic buzzer is actually like a little speaker and You can you can send it Sign-ways it will sound a little bit better And you can send it, you know Wave forms and you can get slightly different tones.  They're same as the ones that are in Earbuds or headphones compared to the piezo buzzer, which is really meant for like making squeaks so let's go to digikey and So there's two Kind of buzzers, right? You either want to get the piezo buzzer Some people press piezo in different ways and I don't even know what's like pizza or pizza. I don't know I call them piezo Maybe I'm wrong And so within that there's a couple of things basically there's you can get the raw elements and what's funny is that you always see this when you open up and a Multimeter because they're always a kind of or like other device that has a built-in alarm clock They'll have these, you know, basically like built into the body of the electronics and then they have two contacts So there's a little piezo discs when you put an AC current across them They vibrate that vibration turns into sound These are Extremely inexpensive in quantity easily down to like 10 15 cents or so But again, you have to these are kind of built into the body of the device you're building There's also these versions. That's kind of what I was showing you in the Adafruit shop They have two pins the piezo is that flexible disc is inside this plastic piece There's two pins that come out. They sometimes they have wires. Sometimes they have mounting tabs, you know, all good stuff and then There's two kinds to watch for which you can see here. There's single tone That have DC input Actually the single tons little confusing. I'd say there's there's DC and there's peak to peak So if you do DC, it basically means that you give it a You give it a voltage and it just makes that tone you don't have to give it a square wave it just like Does its own thing it's internally driven and I get this is called like an indicator Because you say face the tree like an LED when the pin is high screeching noise comes out of it pin is low It's nice and quiet compare that to an externally driven transducer where you have to provide it with AC signal That might not be a big deal I mean like you're gonna usually pay a little bit more for the internally driven indicators because they have an oscillator Maybe you want to you know, and then you don't have any control over the pin frequency like the audio frequency Whereas externally driven ones you can you know, it's a very common thing with an Arduino or my controller You draw drive it from a pin or maybe with a transistor buffer and you can give it You know a couple different ranges of frequencies. So that's that's kind of nice But again, these are hand soldered or bulk or they come with wires I mean there they can be plenty loud But they're just fixed in their capabilities So if you don't want a piezo buzzer, the other option you have is a magnetic buzzer Here's a question ask the question these buzzers only generate square waves for piezos. Yes You're the only it's really a square. I mean if you drive with a triangle wave it won't It doesn't sound like a speaker where you'll actually get a different feel for it Or at least no piece of I've had every piece of I've had it's always been like You put you push it with a square wave a sine wave wouldn't do anything to sound different It's it's like the movement back and forth.  You have a little bit more control. Although I'll say not a ton It's like these little buzzers. They still don't they're not they're not really speakers. I mean they are but they're They're very minimal right like you you can Play chiptuny sounds or very simple sound effects with them not not good for Losing to really subtle music or lyrical music the lyrics would not come through Okay, so next up. All right, so you look for magnetic buzzers And this is still in that same section. They're kind of mixed. That's the thing you have to watch out for piezos and magnetic buzzers They end up being in the same Same category So let's go for active and in stock items and then again There's there's the kinds that are externally driven internally driven.  So let's get ones that are not single tone Let's go for continuous and let's go for ones that are rated for like up to five volts or so Okay Great now we're talking so yeah, so like some of these it looks like a piezo like it has the pins But this is actually a magnetic buzzer. It's what I'm telling you. It's like this is a great confusion But the speaker that I like is this one So it's you know, you can get bigger ones They cut you know, you can get ones that are like this extra. This is the five millimeters This is the one used on the clue and then there's a couple different ones that are the About eight millimeter square So let's actually filter down to get to the ones that are about eight millimeter The promise is like diagonal and then they're square, but we want You know about seven seven point five To eight point five so supply. Okay, great. So now we're Really zoned in so yeah, there's there's a couple different makes I will say that these are a little generic Nobody owns the idea of having like this square Speaker So you can get them, you know, this one has a top port and this one has like a side port This one's like really tall This one is a small photo, but it's basically the same idea and You know, you can sort by price if you care Let's just say 500 and then so, you know under a dollar what's nice about these I'll tell you the thing I really like about these first off. They're nice and flat They're durable. I've never really had one break and They're pick and place of all which of course, you know, just for me Manufacturability is worth it. Like yes, it's it's going to be much more expensive than a piezo It's like two or three times more expensive than a piezo However, I like that it's pick and placeable and that I can play little sound effects on it that sounds a little bit better than a piezo element speaker, so That's why this is the great search item the cmt 7525 so 75 7.5 by 7.5 millimeter and I think 2.5 millimeters tall As seen on many of our most favorite products All right with that is a great search


Welcome to a screencast about continuity. So the question of the day is, looking at a function, how can you tell if it is continuous at a certain point? So recall from the text that the definition of a function being continuous at a point x equals a has to satisfy three conditions. f of x, the function, has to have a limit as x approaches a. f of x has to be defined at x equals a. And those two values have to be the same. So the limit as x approaches a of f of x has to equal f of a. All right, so let's take a look at a function. And here we're going to start with a graph. I always think looking at stuff graphically is the best thing to do. So as you read this graph left to right, we can assume that it kind of continues even as you go off the page, or even if you just want to look at negative 6 to 8, as it turns out, for the window here. So you want to look at the graph and think, all right, so if I had is my function defined, is my limit defined, and are those the same values? So for most of the functions that you're going to be able to draw and think about, they are going to be continuous. But you notice the function that I drew here, and by the way, I did this on geogra by myself the first time I've ever done a graph and look at the funkiness I created here. So anyway, I came up with a graph, and it's got some issues as you read the graph from left to right. So that's what we want to discuss. So what is happening at those issues? So the first place that I see an issue at is right here, at x equals negative 1, because what do you notice is happening at x equals negative 1? Well, the functions, I guess the function is defined, because it's got a point up here. The limit is defined, because as you approach negative 1 from the left, and as you approach negative 1 from the right, it seems to have the same value. But are these two pieces the same? And the answer is no. So the function is not continuous at negative 1, because the function value does not equal the limit value. And as you were drawing this graph from left to right, you'd have to make a hole, pick up your pencil, put the dot in up here, go back, finish your graph. So it's kind of a good intuitive feel then as well. So why don't you pause the video for just a second and see if you can identify any other points on the graph where the function is not continuous. OK, well, hopefully you decided 1 also causes an issue. And what could we say is wrong with this one? Well, of our three parts that we have, is the function defined? Yes, I see a closed circle up here at 4. Is the limit defined? I don't know. So as we approach one from the left, it looks like our y values are approaching negative 1. As we approach from the right, it looks like they're approaching 4. So no, the limit does not exist at 1. So 1 is a problem. Again, if you were drawing this graph, you would have to draw the straight line, do the open circle, hop up here, and then go ahead and draw in this parabola-like shape. So obviously, something funky is going on here. OK, another funky part I hope you noticed is at x equals 6. So is the function defined there? Thinking back to your algebra days, what is this little dotted line I have in here mean? That means there's an asymptote. So obviously, the function is not defined. OK, that definitely falls apart. If you didn't notice that, is our limit defined? Well, as we approach 6 from the left, this graph is shooting up. But as we approach 6 from the right, the graph is shooting down. So obviously, the limit's not going to exist either. So to recap, you have problems if you have a hole in the graph, which is what is happening in negative 1. If you have a jump in the graph, which is what's happening here at x equals 1, or if you have an asymptote. So that's what's happening here at x equals 6. There are other places where you could have problems with continuity, but these are definitely the main three. OK, so now that we've looked at a graph, let's take a look at a piecewise function for those of you who are more algebraically inclined. So for this one, I define the function g of x to be the function 3 if x is less than or equal to 0. And I define the function to be x squared minus 1 if x, I don't know why I wrote it this way, is 0 less than x. This is the same thing as saying x is greater than 0. Just fuddled me for a second there. All right, so thinking about things as you're drawing this, so 3, that's a nice function. It's got a flat line to it, but it's not going to have any problems. x squared minus 1 is a nice parabola-like function. Again, not going to have any problems. But where does this function going to have problems at? Well, we put those two pieces together. So at x equals 0 is going to be our issue. So we've got to figure out what's going on the left side of 0, what's going on the right side of 0. Does a limit exist? So we can answer the function question, obviously, because I have less than or equal to right in here. Let me erase this line that I just put in. So here you can tell that definitely because of the way this is defined, the function exists. So g of 0 is equal to 3. So now we have to figure out, does the limit exist? And then if it does, are those two values going to actually be the same thing? So less than 0 means that the limit is less than or the limit as x approaches 0 from the left of our function is going to be 3. There's no other way. This is a flat line coming to 0. Nothing else is going to happen. Let's take a limit, though, look at the limit as we approach 0 from the right of our function. So that means we're going to need the second part of this piece. So if we were to plug in 0 into that function, we'd end up with negative 1. Are these two values the same? No. So the limit does not exist. But you notice that I asked about the continuity of this piecewise function. So we could say that this function is continuous everywhere except at x equals 0 because that's where this graph has the jump at. If we were to graph it, that's where this function has the jump at. But everywhere else, it's pretty well-baved. Thank you for watching.