Good morning everyone. Recording is started. Even before we could start with our session, I would request one of us to please lead us in prayer. Further we want to thank you for this morning. God, please help us. As a class, to your hands, Lord, you pray as we continue to learn from your word. You speak to us, Lord Jesus. Help us to understand the mysteries of your word. We send in person by and at your hands and we pray that you would anoint her to deliver your word, Lord Jesus. Speak to us, Lord. We humble ourselves once again before your presence. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, John. Thank you each one for joining in today's session as we are continuing to study on Paul and Episodes. Today we're going to study on the second letter. So even before I could start, I'll just project our PowerPoint presentation. Yes, let me see. Okay, we're going to start yesterday. We started with first, I mean, we started with the letter to Romans and today we're going to start on first Corinthians. So even before we could start on first Corinthians, I would like to share some information about these 13 Epistles, which is written by Apostle Paul. So Apostle Paul had written 13 Epistles in New Testament and these 13 letters that are starting from the book of Romans till Philemon are classified into four groups. Okay, so what are those groups? We have it on the slide here. So the first and second Thessalonians are known as Eschatological Epistle. These two books deals, letters deals with the last days and it emphasize on the return of Christ. And then we have Soteriological Epistle that is from the book of Romans first and second Corinthians and Galatians. So these letters emphasize on the doctrine of salvation. Well, in the book of Romans that we studied yesterday, we saw how it focused much on the salvation and the personal life. So in Corinthians what we're going to cover today, we're going to see the salvation in the church life. And then in the book of Galatians, which we will be covering in the coming weeks, we see the salvation is by grace. So as we study these, just keep in keep in back of your mind like what are these letters denote to us. And then we have Christological Epistle, which is Ephesians, book of Philippians, Colossians and Philemon. So these these letters mainly deal with the study of Christ. That's why they're known as Christological Epistle. And these letters emphasize on the person and the work of Jesus Christ. With that, we will move on to the last one that is the pastoral or ecclesiological epistle, which deals with the study of church, which is that that is the first and second Timothy and Titus. Okay, so these are the four groups of classification for our understanding. I've mentioned and we will be studying each of these letters, not in the order that is listed here, but according to the order that has been there in our New Testament book. Okay, so yes, as we have studied on the book of Romans today, we're going to start on the book of Corinthians. What do we know about first Corinthians? Anything that we know about the current church? Why was this letter written? I'm sure each of y'all would have gone through your notes even before we could come to the class so little bit you can just brush up if you wanted you can check your notes and say why was this letter written? What was the purpose behind the letter for Paul to write or anything about the current current church? This epistle was written to address certain issues, especially first Corinthians, address certain issues regarding disunity and the operating of gifts in the current church. Okay, okay. Anyone else from the class? In fact, it was his second letter to the colleagues, he was trying to answer some questions they were having in church. There were some issues in the church. Okay, anyone else? Okay, while we see Apostle Paul is teaching and preaching in Ephishes during his third missionary journey, there were some visitors who arrived from the church of Corinth. A church he had planted in Greece some three years before on the second missionary journey. So there was a group of visitors. They reported some very disturbing news of factions and morality, lawsuits within the body of believers. And there was also another group comes with difficult questions concerning marriage and divorce or eating food offered to idols and matters of public worship and the resurrection of the body. So, using his God given power and authority as an apostle, he writes this letter to address their unacceptable contact, and he also answers to their question. Okay. So with that, we will move on. We will move on to the book of Corinthians. Like, what do we know about the city of Corinth? For us to understand from where these questions are raised in between the believers. So when we look at the city of Corinth, the very location of that city, it was located on the southern Greece. It is about 40 miles west of Athens, and it was located on a narrow strip of land called as Isthmus, where it was formed a land bridge between Asians and the Adriatic Sea. And it was considered one of the most strategic cities in its days. Well, we also see Corinth as a city dates back to ancient times, where it was leveled in 146 BC by the Romans, and it was rebuilt by Julius Caesar in 44 BC, and established as a major capital for all of southern Greece. And it was established as a Roman colony, and therefore a model city for Roman rule. So unlike the other Roman colonies, Corinth had a strong Jewish population and a synagogue. So why was it, what was the importance of the city? We see, Corinth was the capital city of the southern provinces of Greece called Achaia, because of its strategic location, it became a major center of travel and commerce. So Corinth was a site of a large stadium for athletes, and it hosted the second most significant games outside the Olympics. And we see how famous the city was, and there was a lot of business opportunities we see in the city. How do we know that when we go through 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24 to 27, we see that, can we turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24 to 27. Can I request one of us to please read? 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verse 24 to 27, do not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize. Run in such a way that you may obtain it, and everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but be for an imperishable crown. Therefore I run thus, not with uncertainty. Thus I fight, not as one who beats the air, but I discipline my body and bring it to subjection, lest when I have preached to others, I myself should become disqualified. Amen. Such a strong verse, isn't it? Even in our days we can apply this to our daily life, whatever actions we do, what is the crown that we are striving to run for? Just as the athletes run to win a prize, how about we, are we running to win that perishable crown, or are we striving to win an imperishable crown? As we meditate and ponder on that, we also see the unique features of this book. It talks about the current constructed a road to carry the cargo, because they had a major harbor there. So they constructed a road to carry the cargo and later ships across the isthmus to avoid going a longer and more dangerous way around. So the population of the city surrounding the area at the time of Paul could have been, could have been about 7 lakh. And it made the largest city increase because of its recent history or the blending of many culture. Because it was a business center, they had many people come in, maybe for merchandise, travelers, sailors. You know, it hosted many cultural people in that place. And it became a hotel for prostitution and also for the carnival pleasure hub for all these immoral activities. So when we go towards the actual English word for Corinthians, meaning luxurious, which is coming from the reputed lifestyle of the dwellers of Corinth. So the temple, which was there, which was a very famous temple of goddesses of love, which is Aphrodite stood high above the city and also served to fan prostitution. Over about 1000 prostitutes served in that temple, which was a major source of revenue to the city. And all manner of immorality was practiced in the name of religious experience. And there was drunkenness was also a main activity among the religious ceremonies there. So keeping this, we can also see the background and Paul's relationship in this church in Corinth. So Paul founded this church on a second missionary journey in Acts chapter 18, 1 to 8, when we read, we see that Paul found this church at Corinth. And he began this alone in Corinth by ministering in a synagogue and he started the tent making business with Akhila and his wife, Priscilla. Paul wrote out his welcome in the synagogue and started a church in a home that was adjacent there. Paul had good fruit in Corinth, including, you know, Christmas, the chief ruler of the synagogue. He had more follow up interactions with this church than any other because we see that he had visited this church for three times and he may have sent up to four letters to the church of which we have only two and the other two, the scholars say that they have lost it. So staying in communication with the church like Corinth would be much easier than with most other cities because of its central location and constant follow up of traffic. We also see what are the other occasions in this letter. We see that Paul had received personal reports and letters that this church was having some problem. When we read 1st Corinthians chapter 7 verse 1, can I request one of us to read chapter 7 verse 1? Now concerning the things of which, go ahead.  Okay, John, go ahead please. Now concerning the things of which you wrote to me, it is good for a man not to touch a woman. Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let each man have his own life and let each woman have her own husband. So you had to address these issues because of very nature of that city. It was prone to have any problems in this sexual morality. So he's trying to address certain issues so that he can put an end at least in the church among the believers. So there was a blending of many other culture from the local culture in the church. Like other many cultures like religious belief system or the nature of the living lifestyle. And there were kind of temptations in the area of morality and unusual emphasis on the pursuit of personal pleasure. So to put an end is trying to address on these issues so that the believers in the church will understand that the church does not follow the culture or the lifestyle what has been there. So the biggest issue that we may see that sparked in this letter is immorality in the church. We see that in chapter 5 verse 1. Can I request, Lubbica, can you please read? Come again the verse faster. First Corinthians chapter 5 verse 1. It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you and such sexual immorality has as is not even mentioned, named among the Gentiles that a man has his father's wife. Yeah, thanks. So what we see there are certain things that Paul is addressing here that a man having sexual relationship with his father's wife or the local church was tolerating these activities and the local church was rather proud that they were so tolerant and accepting the of this brother. So we also see how Paul is trying to address all these areas. And in first Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1 to 4. We have Paul, Subashish, can anyone pick up this verse? 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 1 to 4. First Corinthians chapter 3 verses 1 verse 1. Brother I could not address you as spiritual but as worldly. Mary infants in Christ I give you milk not solid food for you were not yet ready for it. Indeed you are still not ready. You are still worldly for since there is jealousy and quarrelling among you. You are you not worldly. Are you not acting like Mary men for when one says I follow Paul and another I follow Apollos. Are you not Mary men? Yeah. So we see various type of problems where one of the reason why Paul is writing these letters to address them. Well at this class it is just a survey we are seeing the technical side of the book but then we have detailed study of all the fallen episodes in our third year. A detailed verse by verse study of Romans all all the 13 episodes will be covering in our third year but this is just a survey. We're just looking at the main purpose main idea of the purpose of writing the letter the unique features and the background background of this place the city or the person. So here we see one of the reason why Paul I to write this letter is to address certain problems that was there in the church when it was trying to go beyond we thought it is a right time for me to address it and bring a educate a believer so that they can stop doing what they are doing so what were the problems there were some problems related to division strife and we we also see some problem with related to the internal marriage so your problem of lavish and immoral living or there's a immoral lifestyle that the people from the local culture that trying to bring into the church or the problem related to marriage divorce and remarrying another person. It may be so yeah we see when it comes to remarriage Paul is addressing very clearly when you can remarry when you should not and if you get married to a person when your husband is alive or a wife is alive you're committing and adultery so the problem of Christian liberty versus license. We also see the problem of headship and the covering of head and the problem of abuse of the table of the Lord because that is not the main meal that you come to church to eat and drink but then it is the table of the Lord need to be considered in a honorable manner and the problem of the abuse of the gifts of the spirit especially the tongues and prophecies. We also see the problem of misunderstanding the resurrection and the return of Christ so the some of the problems that were there in the early Corinthian church we also see it happen now sometimes it is the history that has been repeated. But then yeah we have the answers in the book of Corinthians how to conduct ourself and the church and we also see that we will move on to the distinct features of this book so as this book is very important because it gives us a manual for dealing with problem in the local church. The very key verse in this book is 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 10 can I request one of us to turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 10. 1 Corinthians chapter 3 verse 10 by the by the grace God has given me I led a foundation as an expert builder and someone else is building on it but each one should be careful how he builds. Yeah thanks I'll read it from the NKJV version thanks it for reading according to the grace of God which was given to me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation and another builds on it but let each one take heed how he builds on it. Very very important this is the key verse in 1 Corinthians that the church is to be pure if it's to be a witness to the world then it needs to be pure. The unity of the church is critical to the power of the church witness you'll just see as leaders we need to do more than prayer about problem in the church. So part of Christian love is to confront the problems when they occur. So the individual believers must be willing to adjust with the behavior for the sake of health of the rest of the believing community. And this relates to both the personal lifestyle and the liberties as well as how they conduct themselves in the corporate gathering of the church. And one more thing is very important that is the behavior in the church as it must determine on the basis of love and edification. We see the emphasis on that on the behavior in chapter 14 on edification 14 verse 3 but he will prophesize speak edification and exhortation and comfort to men. Very important. We also see in 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 12. Can I request one of us to read? Rather Isaac, Anita, Aradhana, Zellie, Paul. Anyone could turn to 1 Corinthians chapter 14 verse 12 and one of us please turn to verse 26 from the same chapter. Even so you since you are serious for spiritual gifts let it be for the edification of the church that you seek to excel. Amen. Anyone else? Verse 26. How is it then, brethren, when you have come together each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. Amen. So we see that it is so important for our behavior in the church. It must determine the basis of love and edification and we see that emphasis of Paul emphasizing on these edification in the scriptures that we read. And also this letter is an important is important because it gives us a definition to some of the most important practices in the local church. What are they? Some things like church discipline. It also addresses on the corporate gathering, the Lord's table, the ministry of the body of Christ. How do we conduct the gifts of the spirit? How do we handle that and related to speaking of tongues and prophecy we get in detail. And it also addresses on some of the important things and it stresses on the Lordship of Christ in our life. So one of the greatest cause of carnality in the life of the believers is not acknowledging the Lordship of Jesus Christ is one in one's life. And this epistle emphasizes on Christ's Lordship. How? We see in 1 Corinthians chapter 1 verse 1 to 10, the first three verse it greets and later we see the spiritual gifts at Corinth. So we see that six times in this epistle in the first 10 verses, Jesus is referenced with this full title as Lord Jesus Christ. Lord Jesus Christ. Verse 7 we see that Jesus Christ in verse 4, you know, he addresses that way. And with that reference to the Lordship of Jesus are prominent in this book, especially when compared to the other episodes. So the word Lord occurs about 70, 70 times in this book. And this book is an important book because it contains the most powerful description of the love to be found anywhere in the world of history. That is in chapter 13. 1 Corinthians chapter 13. How a love should be? Can I request one of us to read chapter 13? Maybe till verse 13. Though I speak with the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or clanging cymbal. And though I have a gift as a gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I have nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to fear, to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burnt, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parry itself. It's not puffed up. It does not behave rudely. It does not seek its own. It's not provoked. Things no evil. It does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth. Beers all things. Believes all things. Hopes all things. Endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail. Whether there are tongues, they will cease. Whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child. I understood as a child. I thought as a child. But when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three, but greatest of these is love. Amen. Thank you. Thank you so much, John, for reading the complete chapter of 13. Well, it talks about the greatest gift. The very last verse talks about now abide faith, hope, love, and these three, but the greatest of these is love. Well, in this book, where we see the importance and the most powerful description of love to be found than in any other book. How love should be. How we can project this true love that God is expecting from us. What is expected from each one of us? Can we implement this greatest gift in us? Yes, we all desire for many gifts. We all desire, you know, like the gift of tongues, a gift of prophecy, many gifts. But then what is important? If you do not have love in us, then what is the point in be flowing in all the other gifts? Very clearly Paul says the root of every gift should be the love. The love of God, because God is love. We should have the love of God in us. Even in the Gospels, we see that Jesus moved with compassion. He moved with love because God is love. Only when we have this love of God within us, we can love others because that is one of the commandment that Jesus gave. Love yourself. Love your neighbors as you love yourself. We need to have this love within us. Only then we can. There's also, let's look at the other key verses, chapter 14 verse 33. For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. Are in all the churches of the saints. Yes, God is not the author of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints. Very true. Because there was a lot of confusion was happening in the church and that was the result of so many problems. So, here Paul is addressing, God is not the author of confusion, but ease of peace. We also have another key verse, chapter 4 verse 5. Therefore, just nothing before the time until the Lord comes who will both bring to light hidden things of darkness and reveal the councils of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God. Amen. Therefore, judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes. Who will both bring light, the hidden things of darkness and reveal the council of the hearts. Then each one's praise will come from God. These are the key verses that we looked in and I would request you to please go through the outline of the first Corinthians. And yeah, with that, we will end this book. Is there anything that you would like to share about the first Corinthians church? Yes, tomorrow we will continue. I mean, not tomorrow. So the next class we will continue on the second Corinthians. I didn't want to rush up. But then yes, we can study each letter one by one in each class so that we can cover and ponder on each letter. Well, what we see in this letter is the city of Corinth with this, you know, with certain behaviors which was not pleasant, related to the immorality, idolatry and all the ungodliness just like our current days or in our own cities with many opportunities to indulge in sin without any visible consequence. But then as a community clearly had a bad influence on the Corinthian church. So we see Paul instructing to the believers in the church. So this instruction, we can relate it. Yes, he was instructing to the believers at that time. But then today, based on our own situation or based on our own time, we can also relate it to us. And we can see how we can bring correction in our own self and in our church as well. And he encourages us to grow in commitment and faithfulness and shine a light brighter in midst of the darkness that we are living in. He's also encouraging us through the letter to settle all our problems internally and continue the path of purity. It doesn't sound as easy as it has been said, but then, yes, it cost a lot of discipline. Paul is saying that in the letter, like, you know, the things they didn't want to do, I land up doing it. But then by the grace of God, I'm able to do what I can do. And with that, he also says that imitate me as I imitate Christ. There's no man or anyone can say that because he has disciplined himself in his daily life from his thoughts, from his words, from his actions, the way he led his daily life. He led it to be an example to another person. He disciplined himself to the core. So today, you know, as we study on these letters, I would like to ponder and I would like to encourage each of us to ponder on the lifestyle of, you know, the apostle who lived for Jesus, like how he disciplined himself in his daily life, how we can continue. It is a process purity is a process how we can purify our thoughts, our words, our actions and how we can bring correction in our church in our own self. Or what can we do when there are certain issues similar to the Corinthian church in our own church? What can we do within our church community to make our church the way Paul intended us to be? No, I leave this question to each one of us. Let's ponder. Let's ponder how we can bring correction to our self and in our church. If there are any situations that even we are facing, let's meditate on this letter and pray and ask God, you know, in a loving manner, we need to correct each one in a loving manner, not be harsh, not being rude, but in a loving manner, bring the correction out. So I leave this session open to our class. You all can add or share something that we all of us may learn from it. Please go ahead. Is there anything that you would like to share, add or ask any questions? Just remembering what you also mentioned during the class, even when we operate the gifts of the Spirit. I think chapter 13 is sandwiched between 12 and 14 where Paul explicitly talks about the gifts of the Spirit. And it also reveals to us how important it is to have the attitude of loving people and not to operate gifts to make our own benefits or any selfish attitudes, but to love people and to minister to them. Yeah, thanks. Thanks, John. Yeah, very important. Very important. Anyone else? What was our learning? Zellie, Aradhana, Paul, Pradabhubhakar, you've been quite for a long time. Would you like to share? Yeah, you can add to what we learned from this letter first Corinthians, maybe from today's class or something that you already know about this letter that you can share. Sid. Okay, next class, I would encourage each one to have one point that you learn from each book. So I leave it with you. So second Corinthians, we'll be covering in the next class, I would encourage each of you all to please share one point that has touched you from that book, from that letter. Okay, been said that we are nearing towards a midterm exam. Okay, so you have to write a summary on each book. So till what we have covered, I would request you all to write from the book, Gospel of Matthew, Gospel of Matthew to the letter to the Galatians. Okay, I would request each one to write a summary on these books. Okay, we will extend to Colossians. By this month we should cover. I would extend it to Colossians. I would request each one to please write a summary on each book individually and submit it. If you upload it on the Google Classroom, I would be creating it. Okay, you can upload it on the Google Classroom just like how we did in the previous semester. I would request each of you all to please write a summary individually. Please don't copy paste what is there in the notes, but then you need to write your own personal understanding your own learning, even if it is a few points, even if it is five to 10 points from each book, I would encourage you to do so. Okay, write in each Gospel wise or the book wise, each like Matthew talks about this. Mark, Luke, John, go each book by book. I want you to write down. It can be in a Word of Format or in a PowerPoint presentation format. Please start preparing the end date for this assignment would be, give me a minute. I'll tell you. Yeah, 28th of Feb. Okay, so you have almost two weeks. Okay, 28th of Feb, after which your assignment will not be accepted. Is that okay? Is that two weeks time period? Fine with everyone? Class? Yes, Ma. Yeah, okay. Okay. Okay. So we are covering three, twelve, twelve books we are covering till then. Okay, Matthew to Colossians, we will cover. We need to write the summary of them and upload the presentation or in a Word document or in a PPT format on the Google. Classwork. Yeah, with that we will end the session. Thank you so much. Can I request one of us to please dismiss us with a Word of Prayer? Anita, would you like to pray? Or Aradhana? Okay, Zellie, would you like to pray and dismiss us, please? Sure, ma'am. Yeah. Thank you so much for the wonderful session that we had this morning, Aradhana. Whatever truth that we have learned from the Word of Prayer, you can help us to apply that in our life and so we can continue to guide us. We bless our pastor and bless each one of us. Thank you so much for joining in. God bless. See you all next week. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless.


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I really appreciate it, man That's my pleasure, of course Yeah, this is very interesting.  Okay so We sort of have a course small position from way back in I was as April of 2000 and It was a 2020 so we've kept that but most importantly And we've traded around it with the short position of the Dow long position So this one my thinking was that there was a pattern that I call the lowercase H pattern and because the market had held The Dow not the Q's the Q's went under their left side load with the low of the 24th of February 32,000 272 Ran up and then stalled but came back and held about 200 points above that with 300 points Actually 32 578 I thought we've had five days of consolidation I'll call that a squash when it just goes sideways. It's like it's wet like a spring is just waiting to do something It did the same sort of thing back in early February in the Dow Where it took took off from the bottom and it just stalled. So my thinking here was that Everything I'm looking at is suggesting that there's a base that's formed And it doesn't tell you how high you can go He just says because the base is there the wrist reward really favors the upside so we got we went long and I will have to see how it tested this a dashed line. You can see in the daily chart on the left There's a little green and red Channel a little mini channel. I cause inside track repellent zone. I needed to see how quickly and how how How much the candle how big the candle would be if it broke out of that? But it did that and then it continued higher and each day just about from that Tuesday Each day had this big move in the Dow which closed almost at the high And then normally what I say is that when you get a move like that The last hour of whatever the gain is they usually give back 20 or 30 percent of that last hour And then you try to see if this further Acceleration to the upside. Well, you can see by the charts that it was very quick Just it was hard to any give back and then the market moved up So the Dow itself is acting very well. It's gone four days now because today's young but right now We're up to it in 34 3374 is the orange 200 period exponential moving average in the day So in the Chapman wave, we're always looking for a buy signal To upgrade to a buy mode and the implication there is there should be at least four higher peaks I alphabetize them ABCD it goes to EF and G but these are any the objective in the Chapman wave methodology Take it taking off. So we went to a leg C. We're in that leg C I expect there will be a bit of a pullback and then that 35,000 area where 34,000 775 right now That's going to be the big test. Do we do it in leg C? Do we pull back and then go to that missing leg D? But if you look at the dating chart the mag D the moving average conversion Savages the guy why that that aperture is between the green line the nine period differential and the red line This is the slow moving 26 period moving average to me. That's a good sign so far. Is that the first shot? I'm looking at basil. Well, yeah, cool. Okay. I got it. Yeah, awesome. Thanks He's the daddy the one in the middle is the weekly and the one on the right is there's a month, right? So what's really important is I? Love when the stochastic goes over 80 percent especially over 85 percent. This is at 96 percent So if it flattens out if it comes back, you'll see you're pointing to this chart He has the stochastic back around about the 12 13th of February Look how quickly it went it went over the 80 percent level and very quickly pulled back and look what happened The market failed the Dow failed at peak C minus and went down to a low low So it's really important that the stochastic holds that's number one number two is the weekly chart has come all the way Back to what was the support level of this inside track for a long long tell me how many times it hit all the way I can go back further but even right back to July and then it became announced resistance So we're right in this track to just say that you've broken the resistance You really have to see thirty five thousand two fifty on a closing basis in the week He said we kind of early in this whole turnaround if it's going to continue higher But what's really impressive for me is this monthly chart on the right? And if you look I'm going to go to the S&P because that's the one that had a Technique that I developed years ago. So where did I I type that I've tapped in the wrong place was a candle that I identify that I call a Roman candle Chapman wave Roman candle because it has this tiny little wick at the top and a long body But it closes halfway to two-thirds of the low and that's this candle right here in the monthly chart And my rule of thumb is if the price it doesn't matter if it's a daddy or a weekly or a monthly chart If the price holds in a shorter time frame Halfway into the lower part of the wick halfway into that wick Usually you test the low or you can even go low or we did that This is the January candle February candle actually has almost the same look and we've tested it now We're at the upper part So when you think of what's going on in the world what's going on in interest rates to think that we've gone from 48 18 Down to 41 14 in all this noise and the candle is halfway actually a little bit more than half way Between the high and the low. I'm kind of impressed unless I never expected that we would get that and the month is young We've still got What about seven or eight trading days to Thursday a week that we had where the month finishes but I just wanted to say that so far I'm kind of impressed with the speed with which we've come back and Whoops And the other thing I wanted to talk about is so we went long dear. I'm sorry about that. Let me just get rid of that Okay So dear is I thought with the wheat skyrocketing like this that deer would be appropriate to have and It's a nice move. Yeah, this is a very nice move. It's at an all-time high. I've got this technique Yeah, you remember this one. It's called the stalk leg formation. Oh, yeah, how can I forget that? If the oval pattern continues to break out like this, it actually can become a one-to-one to the upside It doesn't have to have the full length, but it's it it moves Very nicely above the oval pattern my concern here Is that there's a long rectangle formation in the weekly chart if you remember? I've spoken about this in the IWM had the russell 2000 had those huge Sideways move broke out to a peak D and they came right back So I have to watch this very closely but so far deer is acting really well And we've got a couple others that are doing very nicely So not complaining about this move, but I now comes the test this week is the test Do we get to the D and then what happens in the peak D in both deer and then look down And folks very easy to get basil's lose let it come to that website hit the open and call basil have a great one Safe one look forward to show tomorrow. Thank you. Thank you


Dino Star, it's the Intense 12, it's a nice key for room, and it's a really nice key, it's something that you can get a lot from, you can make a nice hard turn on icy things, and you get a lot of response, or you can be nice and soft, but it's not tiring anyway, it's easy, you don't feel like your legs are hurting by the lunch, it's nice and simple, nice and... Yeah, it's really good, this year's one is 17% lighter than last year, it's really nice, it's now really competitive for the rest of the market, with the ski you get a lot out of it, and so for how much you put in, you get a huge amount of response, and it's really nice to ski.


Wow, what a move in the cable the British pound versus the US dollar had a little or Not so little flash crash of 5% overnight went down from at 1.26 to 1.20 There were some Talking of some information coming from Bloomberg about that about algos and algo trading which had my functions And actually there was the order book trying out on the bit side for several seconds and that led to this flash crash went the British pound to the US dollar went down from 1.26 to 1.20 and this morning It's it's rallied all the way back to where this all started. So pound still a lot of volatility in the British pound a lot of volatility even in the Japanese yen which had been Going up versus the US dollar for since the start of the year It has been going crawling up and up and up and now it has left this uptrend So the yen is getting weaker again, which is positive for the Nikkei and the Japanese stock markets then we've got the Market for WTI and print crude oil Both have triggered or are about to trigger on a weekly basis a weekly closing basis They're inverted head and shoulders a bottoming formation, which actually Activates a price target of seventy eight dollars if you like project a height from the head of the inverted head and shoulders Formation to the neckline if you project that from the actual breakout point, which Where we are actually today then you get a price target of seventy eight from a technical perspective So there's a big bottoming formation a breakout of that an activation of that bottoming process in oil So that's very interesting. There are even more cuts coming from the OPEC That's at least what markets expect or what the markets expect and that is some market that is really really Interesting then we've got the precious metals, which are in expectations that the Federal Reserve will high crates in December I'll go in lower and lower and lower. There's been a Correction continuation of that yesterday The price of gold is now in a support zone Which actually could lead to a stabilization. We've got the NFP payrolls data coming out today which might be Like creating a lot of volatility there in the price of gold I do not want to say that it's about to turn up again But it's still bullish if you look at the yearly chart if you look at autumn 2015 until now There has been a rounded bottom a breakout out of that rounded bottom and at the time that rounded bottom Was formed in the chart. There was very bearish sentiment in the market of gold Nobody really wanted to hear anything about gold anymore and so out of that Was a or out of that That was a rounded bottom markets broke out and from a Dow theory perspective from a trend following perspective The technical downtrend ended this year or has been interrupted has been interrupted But there's no new uptrend that has formed yet So this correction that we have now is very natural actually and is in the in the perspective of the yearly chart is still Not bearish it will turn bearish though if prices would go lower than 1199 so 1199 is the make or break point for a price tag make or break price tag for Bulls and bears should gold drop below 1199 Then it will turn bearish from a technical perspective everything above 1199 is still bullish for the price of gold so do not ignore that market for now Then there was the vice president from the ECB Mr. Constancio saying that the Bloomberg taper reports are Wrong. There's nothing that the ECB has not really Said that they are ready to taper the QE program They will at least have that QE program until March at 2017 and the reports are plainly wrong That's what Constancio the vice president said and then there was the vice president of the Federer reserve His name is Stanley Fisher saying that the natural Rate natural rate of interest has fallen so low and has fallen to low levels to such low levels that this could signal that we are stuck in a low-growth environment in the United States and because Spendings and savings patterns have altered worldwide since the financial crisis The natural rate of interest globally is much much lower than it has been before and so it might be that unconventional policy is here to stay and I want to remind you that's not somebody who is saying that it's the vice president of the Federer reserve saying that Unconventional monetary policy is still or is here to stay and that means or what does a low natural rate mean? Some expect that the low that the natural rate of interest is near zero So anything the Fed does to high grades above that natural rate is actually leading to a too tight monetary policy, which is like Yeah Decreasing the speed at which the economy could expand and so it's a big question mark still From some members of the federal open market committee, which sets the future monetary policy in the United States About where the rates should go So some estimate that the natural rate of interest is at zero or near zero And so there's not much room the Fed has to To hike rates Even though markets are expecting that in December there might be a rate hike coming So keep that in mind the IMF has the reasons for why the natural rate of interest is so low And that is the worldwide debt levels 152 trillion in debt. That's what the IMF has calculated. That's a new record some With Hindi IMF think that it's a big risk that there might be a globally leveraging coming so the United States that is what we know has a Meaningfully Delivered the private sector in the United States has decreased its debt levels since the year 2008 and 2009 But the debt levels in countries like Brazil and China they took even more debt and the worldwide debt to GDP ratio has increased from 200 percent in the year 2002 to 225 percent today, so it's globally on a global scale it has Increased and increased and increased year by year and that is actually Decreasing the growth potential of the world economy. So what Stanley Fisher says which is The number two in the Federal Reserve after Janet Yellen what he says is that unconventional monetary policy is a tool That is here to stay


Hello everyone, welcome back another Illustrator tutorial and this one going to show you how to intertwine lines and like in this case here we've got two lines here, a red and a black one. I want the red line and the black line to intertwine. How do you do it? You used to have to use the shape tool and all that stuff. You don't have to anymore. Now all you got to do is select hit Ctrl A to select everything. So I'm just going to select both lines. Now I'm going to go to Object and you're going to see this new option Intertwine Make. When you left click on Make there you're going to see a little lasso tool and if we zoom in a little bit I'm going to go ahead and I'm going to I want this section here to intertwine. So watch what I do. I just draw over this section and whatever doesn't have to be perfect. Bingo. Intertwined. Something like that. Bingo. Intertwined. That's all there is to it. Thanks for watching.


Welcome to an all-new view cue where I answer all your best questions about my full-time RV life. And today we're going to talk about where to find cheap long-term winter camping, vandals and thieves, married people who travel solo, decision fatigue, and more. Hey birdwatchers, I am finally out of that RV park and back on the road and it is making me deliriously happy. So I went back to the last view cue to get the questions for this view cue. Of course, if you have a question for me put it in the comments below. But last time we talked about UFOs for just a second and I have to tell you so many people have seen UFOs on the road. If you're interested in those comments they're great. You can find them in the last view cue. A lot of people had some great advice and cautionary tales about their tall rigs hitting things while they're driving like signs and overpasses. We did get one comment from a truck driver that had some great advice so I'm going to give that to you really quick before we get to the first question. 84 Green Bear says, I'm a truck driver and can tell you a few other good things to watch for when operating a tall vehicle. One, trees with low hanging branches. Two, telephone poles that lean towards the road. Three, right hand turns. Don't I know it. And four, arched underpasses. Be safe. Thank you very much for that comment. It was great. Lots of you had questions about long-term visitor areas or LTVAs because I mentioned it in passing last time like this one from Ardith. Six months for 180 bucks. That's my kind of rent. Me too. That's why I live in an RV. Well, here's a little bit more information about that. There are seven long-term visitor areas that are run by the BLM in Arizona and California. Basically, it's like boondocking. It's like driving out into the desert and having solitude. If you want it, some LTVAs are more crowded than others but you don't have to leave in 14 days. And you have access to some resources. When you drive into any of the LTVAs, there's a camp post. You pay either $180 for six months or I think it's $40 for two weeks. They give you a pass and you can use that at any of the LTVAs. So if you like to move around, you can. Different locations have different resources. Some of them have water and a dump and trash and others might just have trash in a dump. So decide what's right for you. If you want to camp long-term in the winter, it's a great deal. You can't beat it. Okay. The next question comes from Cindy Jamison. She says, when you're boondocking and going to town or sightseeing, are you concerned about your fifth wheel being broken into or vandalized or heard stories about others? Then she said, also loved your novel's great job and wears number three. You need to find out about Sam Wheeler and I saw your dartboard ready for a challenge. I definitely am. You might know that when I first hit the road, I made my living writing romance novels. The hero for the third book was named Sam Wheeler. It was three quarters done and I got sidetracked doing this creativity RV thing. And now I have to tell you that I'm working on a suspense novel about RVers that I'm very into. It should come out next year. So sorry that book number three in that series hasn't come out, but I appreciate you asking. Now for the dartboard.  I will link this on my gear page. If you go to the top of comments below, you can see one link for all my recommended gear. I'll put it in there for you. Basically, it's silicone. So the darts don't have any pointy ends. They're not going to wreck your walls. And the dartboard can also be just propped up outside on a table. It works great. Onto the vandalism and theft question. Of course, when I leave my rig, I can be concerned about something happening to it because it's, you know, my house, but I mitigate that risk in a few ways. You may have heard me say before that I only camp in places where I don't see things like spray paint, needles, bullets, things like that. I try and boondock farther away from towns because people tend to party in those areas more if you're near a town. If I get any kind of a weird feeling, I leave. And if I see any of those elements, I leave. I have never had a problem. And I actually don't know anybody that has. If anybody out there has been vandalized or robbed, please do put it in the comments below. I'd love to read about it. I'll tell you guys, the thing that I was most concerned about with a fifth wheel, when I first got it, is that if I'm gone, somebody else with a fifth wheel hitch and their pickup can back right up and pull my house away. So I did get a hitch lock. Here it is. I will put that on my gear page too. That stopped somebody from doing that. And I got another one that's kind of like a wheel chalk that goes between the wheels with a lock so the wheels won't actually turn. That means nobody can roll it away. I also keep stickers in my window that tells people they're being recorded by video surveillance. Yes, I finally did get a camera system more on that soon. And when I leave, I usually play some music inside or something like that. So people think there might be somebody in there. If anybody else has a tip on this, also please do put it down below. And a quick heads up for everybody. Amazon Prime Day is Tuesday. So I'm going to be up at 12 o' one AM to look at every single thing on my list and see what's for sale. And early Tuesday morning, I'm putting out a special video to tell you guys all the RV gear on my list that's on sale that day. If you haven't hit the little bell for my channel to be notified of videos, do it so you don't miss that one on Tuesday. Moving on to question three. The question really is where is the dump? What a dump. Like Sherry asked, when you end a boondocking session, where do you find a dump station to empty your tanks? I tell you this question actually stressed me out when I first started. And that's why I put together just an arsenal of apps that I use. You might remember that I did a video maybe a couple of months ago called Don't Get Stranded. I will link that below because it actually walks you through step by step, all the apps that I use to figure out my camping spots and also my dump station spots. But in general, here are three good go-tos.  They have good websites. They'll tell you where the dump stations are, but a lot of them have it. They are pay dump stations. They're on the highways. So those are always good. A lot of rest areas have dump stations. Some of them are free and some of them you pay with a credit card and that unlocks the actual dump itself. That's not uncommon. And if you need to find a dump station and there's not one of those things available, look for private RV parks. You don't need to camp there necessarily to use their dump station. A lot of them allow non-campers to use the dump station for a fee, just call. This question is from Lorena. She said, hi, are there any solo female RVers that are married, but their spouse is not the least but interested in the lifestyle? I'm so ready to jump in and do this, but I don't really want to do it by myself. Any suggestions? I'll tell you guys, there were so many great responses to this question. So check that out. But here's my two cents. You guys probably know that I'm in a relationship and I've been traveling solo. I didn't expect that. I met my boyfriend Doug right before I hit the road and I'm lucky because he's been really supportive. I told him I wanted to do this. He was not ready to do it. And so I went out on my own. If you go back in my playlist, you can actually find a video I did the first year I was out called Nomad Love, which talks about what we did while we were separated to keep it going. Doug also came out and visited me a lot on the road. And I always went home for the holidays between November and New Year's to be with him. Now, if you're in a great supportive relationship or your partner is like, yeah, go do it. It's cool. You don't have to travel by yourself. In my second to last book, Be a Nomad Change Your Life, I have an entire chapter on social life with links to lots of groups. There are Facebook groups and travel groups like caravans and escapees and sisters on the fly and RVing women. You can find people to travel with and then, you know, you meet friends and you can travel with them in the future or just have them on speed dial. You can meet up along the way. That's what I do. I'm camping with some great friends that I haven't seen in a while right now and it was like no time at all went by. And finally, I'm going to tackle a whopper. I get questions like this all the time. I'm going to read three different questions to you and then give you my take. The first one is from Southern Bell. She said, I've listened to your recommendations and all the different things that you can do for RV living. So many things to take care of. Challenges are good, but I do wonder ceiling or leaks, things break in the RV, power, water, tank maintenance, weather, leveling, finding camp spots, strangers and safety. The list goes on and it doesn't seem to end. Does the physical and mental work ever take a break? It seems like there's always something to worry about. Hashtag decision fatigue. The second question is from Nancy. Is there any kind of course out there about RV repair for ladies? One thing that always bothers me from deciding on traveling in an RV is not having any repair knowledge. And the third question is from Wanda Holmes. She said, I'm 60, recently retired female. I'm seriously considering selling everything in our vein. I have the funds within reason, but I'm alone and concerned about the logistics of it all. While I'm not hindered physically, I am about 60 pounds overweight and not interested in a lot of hiking or roughing it. I do enjoy travel and solitude. I've been looking at small class C's, but I'm concerned about the space. I'm starting to consider a fifth wheel or a trailer, but I've only pulled a trailer once in my life and don't know how to back it up at all. Do you have any suggestions for me? Okay, let me answer the RV repair question first, and then I'm going to give you my thoughts on everything else. Yes, there are schools that you can go to online to learn about RV repair. There are three or four. I don't have any experience with them, so I can't recommend them, but go and look at the reviews and what you want to learn and see if there's something that fits you. There are also programs through escapees and like Good Sam that also have classes that can help you, but here's what I want you to know. When I hit the road, you might know that I had never been in an RV. When I lived in an apartment or a house, I always called a repair guy or I called the landlord because I had a job and I did what I did. They seemed like the best option to get something done, so I didn't learn along the way. When I went into an RV, I had that mindset that I had to go to a dealership or a repair guy to get things fixed. Actually, I have a video coming out Sunday on mistakes that I made when I purchased an RV and one of them was buying a new RV with a warranty because I thought it gave me backup. I thought it gave me a safety net. It doesn't. When you go into an RV shop, they take months of your time off the road and I'll go into more of that next week, but I found when it was just me and I was out somewhere and there was a problem, I had to learn to fix it myself. I'm a writer. I had never done anything like with electrical systems in my life, but in my first rig when I had electrical and water issues at the same time, I was literally looking up at my wiring with a schematic using tools I had never used before and it goes on from there and I'll tell you after three years, I know I can almost do anything. If I can't do it myself, I know people that can help me figure it out. I've got YouTube. I've got Google and I've got mobile repair guys. One of the great things about this life is that it forces you to learn how to do stuff yourself and because of that, I know I can do it now. If I can do it, believe me, you can do it. It's very satisfying to fix something yourself, so don't be scared of that. If you join these social groups and you find friends on the road or you join forums, you are going to have resources you need to know how to fix everything and for the question about decision fatigue and everything that goes into being on the road, I just had somebody tell me the other day that there is a lot more involved daily in RV than he thought. Well, yeah, you do have to do things like level and find a dump station and find a campsite, but I'll tell you what I'm not doing.  Everything is a trade-off. So I do have to do all of those things again. At this point, I find it satisfying, but I don't have to deal with those other stressors in my life that I just let go. And when you have to look for the low-hanging branch or you have to be in tune with the weather, I find that I do live more in the moment than inside my head, which is a good thing. Yeah, there's a lot of different rigs you can look at and a lot of different places to go and ways to RV. You're going to make mistakes. Most people do change their rig after about a year when they learn what works for them. The thing is that you're choosing a life. You're not just choosing a camping spot or a rig or a solar system or something like that. You're going to learn along the way. If you want to do it, do it. Don't let all of the options cripple you. Dive in. See if it's for you. If it is, you're going to pivot and you're going to adjust. And if you're like me, you're going to love it. Oh, I wanted to throw in this quick tip before I go for anybody out there who is actually camping. October is a great time to see meteor showers in the sky. There's going to be like 20 shooting stars an hour, they said. So I hope you get to check that out. I've seen a few already myself and I'm loving it. Please do give this video a thumbs up, subscribe if you haven't already, share it with your friends, and hit that little bell so you get notified of new videos so you don't miss the prime day video on Tuesday. And of course, I'll see you guys next Sunday. Until then, I hope you're all doing well out there. Have happy travels and be free.


Hey everybody, welcome back to magic orthodoxy. My name is David and this is a magic review Hey today, we're gonna look at Klein from Anthony Stan What is Klein? Basically it is a color change gimmick or a color change method It's a way for you to change one card completely into another whether it be the front or the back He's gonna give you seven different Tricks using this single method and it's pretty cool. It's pretty ingenious. You want to see what it looks like This is it from Anthony Stan. You might remember. I did the review for his other trick the one 2.0 both of these tricks were produced by Magic Smile Productions Okay, so a couple questions We always ask about all of our magic reviews and the first of which is what's in the box. What's in the box?  Yes and no It's not what I thought initially because when I watched the trailer I was really hoping for something out of the ordinary like out of the box Like I was kind of hoping for something like science fictiony when they said that there was a gimmick And you watch the trailer and it looks really magical and so I was really hoping for something that was kind of like crazy, but After receiving the gimmick and watching the video it was more like oh then I guess it's exactly what I thought because It's exactly what would seem to be the most logical explanation So there you go. How are the angles? The angles are covered completely by your hand or a card And it's meant as a straight-on color change So this is not good from the sides or from the back. Can it be inspected? Anthony does a great job teaching you how to Do cleanup So that you can get rid of the gimmick Okay, trying to be as vague as possible But there is a way that you can do it so that you can hand the deck out and there's no dirtiness Okay, what's the overall quality and production value of the video the video is available in both English and French Subtitles so all the teaching is done with text on screen. I Personally watched the entire thing with a sound off because otherwise. It's just music going over and over again You do get multiple shots You do get a lot of great angles You do get both stationary and following camera, which is great. You get lots of very creative Backgrounds and environments. It's not shot in HD But you know, that's okay. And like I said, there's no words or pattern or Help when you watch these tricks being performed You're just simply watching a performer do a magic trick without any Words or pattern on top of that. So that was kind of a little This concerning is it well made you make it for the most part It's it's a lot of it's arts and crafts, but it's not difficult arts and crafts In fact, it really couldn't be any easier. Is it well taught there's quite a few tricks on this once you learn The basic principle Anthony does teach you several variations several different ways you can apply this the two-card transposition is very good probably my favorite trick on the video The under the cellophane trick Where the card that magically appears under the cellophane of a deck that was good too It was a little hard to follow though without English pattern the first time through watching it I was like what just happened and I had to rewind and watch the whole thing again There's another trick on there That's a photo trick that he does with a cell phone that one for me was impossible for me to figure out What was going on without hearing people talk Without knowing the story or the plot or what's supposed to be taking place I understand watching the the cards change from one to the next, but I just wish that there had been some Story included so that I could understand how this was being presented You know, it's difficult to watch a trick without any words So it was kind of like watching pantomime. There was one other trick with a jumping ink effect where a cross jumps from A random card to the selected card to your hand that one was pretty good, too How much practice does it require? You're gonna learn the entire effect and How to make the gimmick within the first four minutes of the video now the video is 50 minutes long It's mostly Anthony just teaching you variations and different ideas, but for the most part You're gonna learn everything and be able to do this within the first four minutes How much setup and reset is there to this? Here's where it was a little bit of a thing for me getting the gimmick Into the get ready position It's kind of awkward Now Anthony does it very smoothly in the video, but even for him It takes a little longer Than the actual amount of time it would normally take for you to do The moves that he's doing without a gimmick. Does that make sense? So the movement for me at the beginning getting this gimmick into place It felt awkward felt awkward to watch it feels awkward to perform And so even for Anthony who's supposed to be the expert at this There were moments where you can even see him Sliding or getting things ready or putting things in place And it's not just a fluid like pull the card out put the card back in It's kind of like a you're doing this little get ready and it's Noticeable, so I didn't love the setup part positives what are the positives for Klein positives are This is a very Magical-looking color change because the performer doesn't even appear to touch the cards And I can see this technique used for many different applications Negatives alright, so what are the negatives like we say around here? There's negatives to everything these are just the negatives that I see they don't have to be the negatives that you see Like I said to get ready for Klein is very nacky. Okay, it's very nacky and In order for the deck to be examinable.   Okay, but it's easier because of the gimmick But I'm just saying to get in and get out of this. It's a little Dirty alright, is it worth your money? It's 20 bucks 20 bucks depending on whether you choose to build the gimmick or not I believe this is still available as a video download only and If it is if you are able to find this as a video download I would suggest you do it that way and build the gimmick yourself because the gimmick is extremely easy to build You can build it right now with things that you have at home Who would like this? I think people who would like a very visual color change something that You know see other people doing I think would like this people that would just like to learn a new color change That's you know affordable People that do street magic people to do walk around or even somebody that just likes things Flashy and different I think would definitely enjoy Klein from Anthony Stan All right, so that is my review for Klein from magic smile productions and Anthony Stan I'd like to thank Murphy's magic for providing this for me so that I could review it for you And he'd like to purchase your own you can find it at your favorite Murphy's magic dealer. Thanks. Bye


See what's on thinking man's mind today. Where is UL 294 referenced and required? That's a great question. It's one that I get all the time. Come on in and let's check it out. UL 294 is the standard for access control system units. I will be basing my answer using references from IBC 2018. Other additions are similar. Always consult your state and local codes as well. There are four levels of access control components in four different categories. The standard covers destructive attack, line security, endurance, and standby power. Clearly this is a standard for access control system units. But remember from a previous code corner that a standard must be referenced by the code in order to be in effect. It may be part of an architectural specification, but as far as being a requirement by code, where is this in the IBC? In chapter 35 they have reference standards. That's the name of the chapter. And UL 294 1999 edition is referenced by 1010 197 controlled egress, 1010 1981 delayed egress, 1010 199 for sensor release of electrically locked egress doors, and 1010 1910 for door hardware release of electrically locked egress doors. What do these all four have in common? They're typically using some kind of a mag lock or an electrified lock that locks the door on the egress side. In other words, these are special locking arrangements. The door locking system units shall be listed in accordance with UL 294. Every one of these has that as a listed criteria. And so the door locking system units are what needs to comply. But what about electrified hardware? The locks that prevent entry but allow for free egress. Access control can be confusing to AHJs. And some will say that any door that has access control for entry must also meet UL 294. That's not true unless you're locking the egress side. And that's covered by those special locking arrangements. For all other doors, 1010.1.9 for door operations is in effect. Except as specifically permitted by this section, egress door shall be readily openable from the egress side without the use of a key for special knowledge or effort. If it isn't referencing UL 294 here, then you don't need that for standard electrified hardware that allows free egress. You may be able to use this citation to talk to your AHJ and get them to see your side. Another example of a reference standard is under panic hardware and fire exit hardware 1<IP_ADDRESS>. Panic hardware shall be listed in accordance with UL 305. Whereas fire exit hardware shall be listed in accordance with UL 305 for panic as well as UL 10C, which is the test standard for fire doors. You don't find UL 305 referenced under the lock set section, for example. And if an AHJ asked you for documentation, of a cylindrical lock that's listed UL 305, you wouldn't find anybody that makes it. And that's because UL 305 is the standard for panic hardware. So unless a standard is referenced by the code, it does not apply. In the case of UL 294, you may use panic hardware on that door. If it's mechanical panic hardware and doesn't have anything to do with the release of the mag lock, then it just the panic hardware would only need to be listed UL 305 and the mag lock and other components like the power supply would be UL 294. I hope this helps clear things up for you as well as any AHJs out there. For more information and continuing education opportunities, please visit Osa Abloy Academy by clicking in the link in the comments below. Please click like and subscribe to this channel. You can connect with me on LinkedIn for updates or you can email me at patherin.flower at osaabloy.com if you have any code questions. Thanks for joining me in the code corner today. My name is Katie Flower and my goal is to help you achieve safe purity in the built environment.


Hello and welcome to the session. In this session we will discuss a question which says that a fly vendor keeps the records of a sales in dollars for 25 days. He records for following observations and these are the 25 observations. And here we have to make a box plot for the data and identify the outliers. Now let us start with the solution of the given question. Now here we have to make a box plot for this given data set. So we should find median into the child range for this data set. Now arranged in the given data set in ascending order we have 15, 15, 15, 15 and again 15. Then we have 100, 100, 100, 100, then 150, 200, 200, then 250, 250. Next we have 300, 350, 450, then we have 700, 1000, 1650, 1700 and lastly we have 2750. Now first of all let us find the median for this given data. Now here number of terms that is n is equal to 25 which is odd. So median is the middle value which is equal to 13th term of the given data. Now here we can see that 250 is the 13th term of this data. So median is equal to 250. Now 12 terms or we can say 12 items lie below the median and 12 items lie above the median. Now for lower quartile we will find the median of the lower 12 terms. Now median is the middle value. There are 12 terms that is even number of terms. So middle value that is the lower quartile will be mean of middle three terms which is equal to mean of seventh term. So lower quartile let us denote it by q1 is equal to mean of sixth and seventh term that is 100 plus 100 whole upon 2 which is equal to 200 upon 2 and this is equal to 100. Now upper quartile is the middle value of the upper 12 terms of this data and this is equal to mean of 19th and 20th term of this data. So upper quartile as is denoted by q3 is equal to 450 plus 500 and this is equal to 950 upon 2 which is equal to 475. This is equal to upper quartile minus lower quartile that is q3 minus q1 which is equal to 475 minus 100 and this is equal to 375. And now let us check for the outliers. For us we see the range q1 minus 1.5 into interquartile range q3 plus 1.5 into interquartile range. First of all let us find q1 minus 1.5 into interquartile range. Now we know that lower quartile q1 is 100 minus 1.5 into interquartile range is 375 and this is equal to 100 minus 562.5 which is equal to minus 462.5. Now let us find this value. Now upper quartile q3 is 475 plus 1.5 into interquartile range is 375 which is equal to 475 plus 562.5 and this is equal to 1037.5 which is equal to minus 462.5 and above 1037.5 that is the values of the data search lying below minus above 1000 are outliers. Now in this data you can see there are no values below minus 462.5 but above 1037.5 we have 1650, 1700 and 2750. So these are the outliers. Now using all these values let us draw box dot. Now where we have taken? Scale of 500. So we draw the box with viscose and here the box starts from the lower quartile q1 to the upper quartile q3 and this think vertical line represents the median. Now here we have extended the lower viscose up to 0 because 0 is the lowest value of the given data and the upper viscose is extended up to 1000 and we do not cover the outliers in viscose. Here these three points represent outliers. This is the required box plot for the given data and this completes our session. Hope you all have enjoyed the session.


Welcome to yet another session of our NPTEL on nonlinear and adaptive control. I am Srikanth Sukumar from Systems and Control IID Bombay. So I welcome you all very warmly to lead number 10 of this course on adaptive control. We are as always motivated by very, very cool and very interesting autonomous systems that support us and also enthrall us such as the SpaceX satellite that you see in the background orbiting the earth. Until last time, we were already well into the way for learning how to design algorithms that will drive systems such as what you see in our background, which is the SpaceX satellite. What we were doing specifically is to learn the tuning function method for adaptive control design. So this is one of the more advanced and one of the more recent methods in nonlinear adaptive control. And of course, it is still based on back stepping, but it also required knowledge of, you know, control Lyapunov functions and such. And it extended the notion of control Lyapunov functions to adaptive systems. And then we sort of were able to use this in an back stepping setting that is in a case when you have, you know, back stepping level or back stepping layer in the system. And in such cases also we showed that if you do have, you know, an asymptotic adaptive asymptotic stability of systems such as this, then adding an integrator still helps you retain this adaptive asymptotic stability property. And we even showed the construction of an augmented, you know, adaptive CLF for the system. And once you have this augmented adaptive CLF, we were able to help construct feedback and also an update law, of course. An update law was of course constructed earlier using the adaptive tuning function method. We also worked out an example which we had already worked out with the, you know, say the extender, the integrator back stepping method and the extended design. And this was the unmatched, you know, parameter case. Now, the solution turned out to be very, very interesting. Yeah, very, very interesting. In fact, at one point it seemed like it baffled me also. Yeah, because I could see some quadratics in the parameters, but that's the really cool thing, right, about this kind of a construction.  And using the back stepping error, we were able to define an ACLF for the integrator system. Right. And the interesting thing for us to see was that the control contained quadratic in the unknowns. There is an unknown term here and an unknown term here. So, obviously, this is quadratic in the unknowns. And this is where we, you know, sort of, I had to stop a little bit myself to think if, you know, I was getting it right or not. Yeah, but nothing to worry. Right. You, of course, had to be very careful because of the vector mathematics involved. I would really strongly urge you to look at this example carefully and also do this yourself. Yeah, because if you cannot do this, you'll not be able to handle any real applied problem. And then that's, and therefore this is critical that it's critical that you actually follow this example completely. Do not worry about the fact that I got quadratic terms here. Eventually, the control still requires you to replace P by P hats, which is like the certainty goal is idea. Right. So anyway, so this is, I mean, this is of course expanded into this here. It's the same thing. I'm just expanded out here. Right. And then, of course, we had the adaptive law. The control in the control, like I said, the P gets replaced by a P cap. Yeah, I really hope that you are no longer confused. And I also hope that you have been able to do this kind of a problem or in fact this particular problem itself. I would strongly urge all of you to do this by hand yourself. Yeah, the exact same problem. For the tuning function, of course, we had already given a formula and this is a precise, precise formula. And we simply apply the formula. All right. So all we do is take a partial of the original ACLF for the original system. And with respect to x and then minus z del alpha del x is taken the original feedback alpha and then multiply it with f. And so in our case, f is the small f. So, you know, all this nice expression appears. And again, you have again, in this case, you have the P hats in the update Lloyd's is again something very interesting. Right. In your parameter update law because tau is essentially the parameter update law. Right. The expression for a parameter is this guy. Right. So your parameter update law, in fact, does contain the hats also. Yeah, this is not something that we have seen until now. Yeah, only the tuning function method. But remember the tuning function method is alleviating both the issues that we had in our earlier designs in the integrator backstepping method. The issue was that there was an additional estimate for the same parameter. And in the tuning function, sorry, and in the extended matching design, the issue was the appearance of theta hat dot. Okay, in the one level extended matching, that is when the control was one level below the unknown parameter. But here in this case, nothing of that sort happens. You do not see any P hat dots appearing here. In fact, you can do any level. Your control can be 10 levels below, but it doesn't matter. You will not see a derivative of the parameter here. Yeah. But of course, you can see the contract construction of the tuning function and alpha one and all these are way more complicated and therefore different. Okay. So this I hope you appreciate this. All right. Excellent. So moving on to this week. Yeah, again, we are in week 10, but we are looking at the week 11 nodes. Please do not worry. Yeah, this is I've already mentioned this is just for, you know, tallying at homeworks and nothing else. Yeah, so I wouldn't worry much about it. Okay. Excellent. Excellent. So, so what we want to do this week is a slightly different topic. If you may mean still adaptive control, of course, but we want to deal with the robustness question. Okay. So robustness is one of the big, big challenges in adaptive control. All right. So big, I would say big challenge and concern. Right. So let me mark, let me mark this as lecture 10.1. Right. So, so robustness has been a big challenge and a concern in adaptive control. Because initially, when folks started doing adaptive control, it was in fact very well received and it became one of the cornerstones of nonlinear control. And in our excitement to try out adaptive control. This was one of the few of those nonlinear controls which did actually get implemented in such a fast pace in an actual scenario. And this was, you know, sort of a fighter plane in the U.S. Yeah, one of the fighter planes. And of course, it was a test bed. Yeah. However, this adaptive control work rather poorly and displayed very poor robustness in fact led to the crash of this aircraft. Yeah, like this fighter aircraft. And this is where things became rather complicated and a lot of researchers in fact started to say that adaptive control is not feasible at all. And it is absolutely not robust. And therefore it is simply dangerous to use it. And there was a little bit of a hiatus on research in adaptive control also because the thought was that it has no future in some sense. So, this is the sort of issue that we want to highlight in this week. And we also want to highlight, of course, we are researchers. So, somebody did find a solution to this robustness issue in adaptive control. So, the first thing that we want to do is to highlight the robustness issue. And then we want to move on to even try to solve this robustness issue or methods to solve this robustness issue. Okay, so that's what we want to do. Yeah, look at this big robustness issue. What is this big problem here? Yeah, although you have done adaptive control for such a long time, I am quite sure that unless you've seen adaptive control before this, this issue would not have occurred. Okay, so what we want to look at are systems with disturbance. Okay, so this is very realistic. Any real dynamical systems has external disturbance. For example, if you have an airplane that's flying, you have wind disturbance. Yeah, I mean, that's one of the simplest possible disturbance. I mean, you can have actuators which are not exactly functioning the way you want them to. Therefore, it's producing more power or less power than what you want to, that's disturbance. Anything that's not well-modeled can lead to a disturbance and can be sort of captured as a disturbance, not lead to, but can be captured as a disturbance. Because disturbance is typically assumed to be unknown but bounded quantity. So therefore, disturbance is ubiquitous in a plant. Ubiquitous in any dynamical system. Yeah, so almost always you want to have controllers which are robust against disturbance. If they're not, then you have a problem. Yeah, because then you'll no longer in the domain of something that can be used in a real situation. Yeah, it's very nice to sort of write good theorems and proofs, but it cannot be used. Yeah, because your theorems and proofs are all based on idealized system with no disturbance. If you notice none of the dynamics that we have considered until now had any kind of disturbance. Yeah, so it would absolutely be unusable if you were considering a case where there is disturbance. Yeah, so let's see. Let's see where the problem arises. Yeah, we're again looking at this very, very simple system, scalar system. x dot is a, x plus u. Yeah, as usual, a is unknown, x is a scalar and we want to. So I'm going to write that a is unknown. Yeah, and we want to solve the tracking problem, which is e equals x minus xm goes to zero where xm is the smooth bounded signal that we want to track. Yeah, the same arguments can be made for any kind of adaptive control problem, be it the MRAC problem or the back stepping type situations. So we just focus on the simplest case. So what do we do? As usual, we construct the other dynamics, which is e dot is x dot minus xm dot, which is ax plus u minus xm dot. And then we do the best. When you know the parameter, you cancel it, cancel the drift term, cancel the tracking term and introduce a nice good term. Like which gives you e dot is minus k e in the ideal case. And so this is the, we are considering the ideal case problem. So we have, and we use v equal to half e squared as the candidate Kliapunov function. All good. Now, what happens when there is disturbance? Just like I said, what is the nature of disturbance? This is the standard assumption that you would see in any problem where disturbance is introduced. The general assumption is that disturbance is bounded. So the infinity norm of the disturbance is generally denoted as d max. Yeah.  Either one is fine. I mean, you just need an upper bound. Okay. But of course, you do not know the exact nature of the, it could also be time varying. It's most probably time varying. Yeah. It's most probably time varying. So of course, we assume it is time varying. So in this case, what happens? Since I do not know d, that cannot appear in my controller. So my controller remains exactly the same. This is the known case. Okay. Known parameter case. All right. So that's what is written here. So in fact, I should not probably write this. a is not assumed to be known. a is actually known. So a is known. All right. So this is the known parameter case. Great. So what happens? I use the same controller because that is the best I can do. T is not known. Yeah. So my error dynamics is no longer minus k e. E dot is minus k e because I could not cancel the D term here. Therefore, e dot became minus k e plus. Okay. Because if I want to write it out more carefully with this x dot, my e dot would be a x plus u plus d of t minus x m dot. Okay. And if I substitute the same control here. Yeah. This is what you will get. You will just be left with the D. And then I continue to use the same Lyapunov function candidate Lyapunov function again because he's not known. So I cannot really construct a Lyapunov function corresponding to something that's unknown. Okay. So it doesn't make sense. Right. So when I now when I do the Lyapunov analysis with this candidate function, let us carefully see what happens. This is called the standard disturbance analysis using Lyapunov functions or bounding analysis or uniform ultimate boundedness analysis. Okay. So let's see what happens. Yeah. The derivative is e times e dot. So it's just e times this guy and I get something like this. All right. And now if I do a sum of squares, what is sum of squares as usual, I use, I mean I can do something better, but let me just use this. E d is less than equal to half e squared plus half e squared. Okay. This is the standard sum of squares. Basically, I use a b is less than equal to a squared plus b squared. In fact, this is, I mean, that's fine. You can use the absolute value if you want. There's a square. So it doesn't matter. So that's what I do.  Okay. So this should also be squared.  If it was a vector, this would be a norm. Yeah. So that you should remember. Now, since I know that the infinity norm of D that is the infinity norm is a supremum norm, right? So the largest value D can take is upper bounded by D max. So I will say less than equal to. Yeah. Since the largest value this guy can take is less than equal to D max, I can just substitute this D max here. Okay. Now look at what happens. This is not exactly negative definite anymore. If it was only this term, which is what you would get in the ideal case, actually in the ideal case, you will not even have this. You just get this, right? Now, if it was just this term still, this would be negative definite. Okay. But it is not, right? It is something more. There is a term in the disturbance. So what do I do? Now, I know that this e square is actually just we do twice V. Okay. So I write it as such. I write e square as twice V and I get something like this. Okay. So this is missing a, yeah, we are missing this thing. Okay. It is something like I take 2k minus 1 common from here, right? And because this is twice V, I write this as twice V. So the 2 cancels out. So this becomes 2k minus 1. I take that common out here and this becomes D max square divided by twice 2k max. So what do I know about this? Okay. What do I know about this? This is interesting. The property that this quantity has is that whenever V is larger than this guy, larger than this, this is negative. And when V is smaller than this, this is positive. Okay. So if I try to make a picture, that's what I want to do. I want to make a picture here. So nice axis. Right. So this is in my x-axis, I have say whatever I had, I'll have my time in the x-axis, I guess. And in the y-axis, suppose I plot to V. Yeah. V is essentially e squared, but still I want to plot V. Okay. And suppose I make, you know, suppose I make my line. In fact, I also want to plot e. So that's fine. Suppose I make my straight line corresponding to, yeah, so this straight line corresponds to D squared max divided by 2 minus, divided by twice 2k minus 1. So this is it. Okay. So what is the nature of V based on this analysis? So based on the fact that V dot has this kind of a structure, notice that 2k minus 1 is greater than 0. So assume greater than, we assume of course that, we of course assume that k has to be greater than 1, right? Then what's the nature of this plot? Right? So whenever your V is outside, right, this thing, right, whenever V is beyond this guy. So then whenever V is larger than this, okay, whenever V is larger than this, then this V is actually a decreasing function. So suppose it starts somewhere here, in fact, I would like to also extend this a little bit. Yeah. Okay. Suppose V starts beyond this guy, right, here, then this has to be a decreasing function. And once it goes inside, it can do anything. Yeah. It can be increasing, decreasing and so on and so forth. So remember that V is greater than 0. So V greater than equal to 0. So it cannot of course lie below the, you know, lie below this guy. Okay. So this is the plot for V. I'm going to just plot V in this. Now suppose I plot, similarly suppose I plot E. Now the good thing here is that if I make this picture, right, suppose I plot E here on this one. And I make, now I make this one, right, remember that V is just one half E squared. So whenever I plot V, it's almost equivalent to plotting E. Okay. And so this picture in this picture will have a nice equivalence, right, I mean nice going back and forth. The only thing is the, this plot is on the positive side. This plot will be on both sides, can be on both sides. So suppose I make this side of a picture, okay. Now I have to make two boundaries, this has to be almost the same. So I have drawn two boundaries. This one is, I apologize, this one is d max over square root k minus 1 and this is minus d max over square root k minus 1. Now what happens? The interesting thing is suppose you have this kind of a picture and I start outside, again same thing with V, right, if V decreases it means E also decreases, right. So if V starts outside, right, and it has to decrease, then if E starts outside this boundary E has to decrease, right, because V is exactly square of E, no difference, right. So if I start outside, now the fact that V started above d squared max by 2, 2k minus 1 does not, the only thing it does not tell us is whether E started positive or negative because V is E squared by 2, okay. So this could mean that E started here or it could also mean that E started here, okay. But let us assume that E did start here, it does not matter, yeah. Then what it means is if V square is decreasing, V is decreasing, E square is decreasing, which means E has to decrease and E decreases, I mean, again not necessarily, I mean, I mean in this case it is monotonic because of the scalar, but once it is inside this line, right. Once it is inside this line, it can do anything, it can be oscillatory or whatever, yeah. The important thing to remember is that it will never get out of this, okay. So this is the important thing to remember, right. Solutions never escape this bound, okay, the solutions never escape this part, all right. Why is this? Just give this a little bit, let us give this a little bit of a thought. So I am going to sort of extend this guy also, all right. And suppose it so happens, right, at some instance, right, that this tries to go here, you know, sort of escape like this, okay. The question is, is this possible? But notice what happens that at this corner, the vector field, when you get to this boundary your V is decreasing, which means E has to decrease right across this boundary, as soon as you cross it, almost instantaneously you cross it, it has to, the E has to decrease because V has to decrease, yeah. So and this gets enforced exactly at this point, yeah. So if this trajectory tries to cross this boundary, there is a push downwards, okay. And therefore this trajectory cannot cross, it will just curve down and go this way, okay. And this can of course be proved analytically, we are not doing it of course, yeah. But this is the important fact that the solutions of this system, of such systems will never cross the boundary, okay. And therefore this kind of a set that you have, you know, this sort of a, yeah, this sort of a set that you have that I am drawing in the picture here is called the residual set, yeah. And the size of this residual set is also very well documented and understood. What is the size of the residual set? It is precisely this, yeah. So you can guarantee that your error will lie within this guy, within this boundary, okay. Now this is a standard feature of almost all Lyapunov analysis, okay. Almost all strict Lyapunov analysis, yeah, whenever you, so in this ideal case what happens you get negative definite V dot, so it's a strict Lyapunov function. So typically disturbance analysis is done with strict Lyapunov functions and in all those cases robustness is free. You will always get a residual set, not just that. Not only do you guarantee that you get within this set, it's important to notice that the size of the residual set is inversely proportional to your control gain, k, okay, k is in your control, right. Your control is something like this, yeah. So increasing k reduces residual set, okay. Increasing the control gain will reduce your residual set size, okay and this is a rather nice code property. All right, excellent. So what did we look at in this session? We started this week 10 lecture with a discussion of robustness and adaptive control. We've not really looked at the adaptive control problem at all, but we took a very simple scalar system and tried to understand what disturbance analysis looks like and what's the notion of residual sets and the fact that trajectories starting outside the residual state will converge to inside the residual set if you had a strict Lyapunov function, all right. And this is a real cool feature of any Lyapunov analysis. If you have a strict Lyapunov function in the absence of disturbance, then in the presence of disturbance also you will converge to a nice residual set. So you'll have a bounded nice performance, not just that. The bound can be controlled via the, the bound can be controlled via your control gain, all right. Excellent. So this is where we stopped here. Continue next time. Thank you.