So hello, good morning. So I can assure that my communication skills in Spanish are much better than in English, but I hope it shouldn't be a problem. So first of all, I want to introduce where I'm working. I work in this study center on science, communication, and society. Our center belongs to the Department of Experimental Science. But before to go to the Experimental Science Department, we were in the communication department. So our aim is to bring closer together science and society. And in order to reach this objective, we promote scientific culture among the citizens. And also we work for a better alignment between the research and development and innovation with the society's needs and values. So you can see that it's very, very related with the concept of responsible research and innovation that we will talk after. In order to reach these objectives, we make some kind of activities, like research and teaching, and also organize public engagement activities. And this is because we have this large experience for more than 20 years in the science, communication, and public engagement activities. This is the publicitary part of my presentation. And now that it's finished, my aim on this talk is, I have two aims, two objectives. First of all, to convince you that science communication is good for you and to incorporate public engagement practices and to incorporate the idea of reflection about the impact of the research or your field. It's important, but not only in terms of impact in science. It's also the impact in society. I try to convince you that it's good for you and for your organizations. And the second objective of this talk is to also convince you that if you are applying for a Marikori action, it's good for you to have to integrate this kind of concepts because they could add value to your proposal and they could represent the difference between to get or not to get this funding. So why is important science communication? In these days that we have, we heard about deniers of climate change, deniers of vaccination, or any viral cause of AIDS, for instance. It's important for the scientific community to go outside and talk with the public. And because many of these groups of society are entering in the government, for instance, in the Trump government, the group that is in charge of decisions about vaccines is led by a person that is against vaccination. And climate change from human origin has this group of deniers. So for the people that is working in research, it's important to go outside and to go outside our comfort zone that normally we are. Journalists like Nature or Science has reflected this necessity. And even in Nature, they have declared that 2017 is the year of public engagement. Science go a little bit more. And they say that a responsible researcher not only have to talk with the public, that they have to also listen to the public, because it's not just to convince them that we have the truth, but also to hear why they can't have other opinions that are not ours. So we can't hear and try to incorporate their opinions or to convince them if we're necessary. So this necessity of science communication and public engagement and to go beyond our comfort zone is a reality, and it's a reversible reality for us. Even in the career of a scientist, of a person that wants to work in a research center or a university, more is being considered disabilities and experiencing outreach activities and science communication. This is the, I've been recently involved in an assessment in a job position in one of the biggest universities in Denmark. And in the criteria to assess the candidates, of course they put the research impact factor and so on. And the teaching experience, but they also consider as a complementary skill these outreach activities, experience, and so on. And this is a trend that we will see in future years. And it is, even in the Spanish law of science, there is some sentence that are in this way, but probably will not see in the short term, but probably in the future. So it's important for the career of a researcher. It's important for the organization to get funding, of course, but also for the society. But when we talk about science communication, science communication is a very ambiguous word. It has many dimensions. If we consider that science communication and public engagement are like a ladder, we can go to the bottom. At the bottom, there is no information at all. So we cannot see this kind of politics of policy and communication now, because it's just for non-democratic countries, maybe. But now it's impossible to think in a project or in an institution that not communicate at all. So if we go a little bit up in this ladder, we go to the information in one direction. I communicate to the public through media, for instance, or through my website, or with exhibitions, talks, open days, something like this. That is just, I want to explain the things that I do, but I didn't hear what the people say that is necessary for them. And I don't integrate the needs of the society in my research. We go a little bit further in this ladder. And the social networks, like Twitter, or Facebook, or our blogs, if we have this kind of commentaries, it normally allows some kind of participation, a few, but some kind. So we are going up. There are other activities that we call the informal settings of public activities. And we also talk about MML, that it means Mutual Mobilization and Learning Activities. And these are activities created specifically to put publics or some kind of groups of stakeholders or publics with researchers at the same level. Everybody has their own expertise. I'm expert in this kind of research, or this field of research. But maybe a future user, a consumer, or I don't know, a parent is expert in their children's needs. And they have another experience, another knowledge. So the idea with these kinds of activities is in an informal way to receive, to talk, and also to hear these needs and knowledge that they are part of the process. If we go a little bit up in the ladder, we go to more formalized ways of public participation, like, I don't know, citizens panels. The referendum is the biggest, the universal way of consult people if they are against or pro question, for instance. These are more formalized. Normally, we need a government organization to leader these kind of activities. And in these kind of practices, it is supposed that the opinion of people is integrated in a policy or in a governance decision. A little bit upper, we have some kind of experimental activities like citizen science, community-based research, and science shops. These kind of activities cannot be applied to each project or field of science. But they can in some cases. For instance, citizen science is these activities that allows citizens to gather data for the research. They have been some examples of these activities. So we see that there are these ladder of science communication. And if you are applying for this Marie Curie action, maybe a good idea could be in the communication plan or in the training for these scientists to train not only in oral communication skills, body language, or how to talk with the public, how to make a poster, how to write a paper, a part of that that is also important. Maybe you can also include some kind of these bidirectional activities or more public engagement activities. Because these are in line with what is being talked in many places. This project is a European project engaged 2020. It has a kind of toolkit of different activities. And you put what are your needs. And they say, well, for your needs, it's better to have a science cafe or it's better to have, I don't know, a science date, like an speed date, but with scientists, for instance. And it's very useful because it has some kind of definition of what these activities are. It is very useful to prepare some projects. As you can see, when we talk about, we are not talking just of science communication. We are talking about public engagement. And public engagement is very, very, very related with another concept that we have here in the presentation of Joseph. Probably most of you have heard about RRI, Responsible Research and Innovation. So it doesn't mean that researchers are not responsible now, but it means that we want them or us to be more responsible. There are different definitions about RRI because it's a new concept. And as a new concept, there is an ongoing definition. The first one is the definition from the engineers and physics science and research council from the UK. And they use the word socially decidable. So research should be socially decidable. That's important because this word, decidability, is always in the definitions about RRI. And the European Commission in the definition in 2012, they say that RRI means that societal actors work together during the whole research and innovation process in order to better align both the process and its outcomes with the values, the needs, and the expectations of European society. Needs, values, and expectations. If we see, when in the concept of grand challenges, we were talking about needs. We are, we chart the big needs of society and they define the grand challenges that you know very well. But we are talking about another concept that are values and expectations. Expectation means that what is the society want? They want, I don't know. As a citizen, do you want to be more intelligent? You want to live longer? You want to live in a rural society? I don't know. These are the expectations. Maybe they are not the needs or challenges in the idea of easy poses some years ago. So in the other concept, we are considering needs, but also expectations. And the third concept is the concept of values and what are our values? They are shared values in our society and we try to provide some skills to incorporate also these values. How we make research, how we use resources in research, how we organize our team in women and men or in other inclusive aspects. So the origin of the concept of RRI came from different fields of research and practice like technology assessment. Those of you that are working in technology knows that many companies and many projects incorporate this technology assessment in the way that you are looking for the future impact of this technology in a visionary scenario and you try to think what impact will have this technology. So this is part of the conception of RRI. Public engagement, of course, because in RRI we think that decisions or the process is responsibility for all groups or all groups of stakeholders. ELSA means ethical, legal and societal aspects research, corporate social responsibility because it's very related and many other researchers. So as I said, the sustainability is not the same of acceptability, it's a little more. Until now, projects you have to show that your ethical considerations are in the line of acceptability. You are in the legal framework. You have considered the measurement of excellence in science in terms of bibliometrical, bibliometrics like impact factor and so on and number of citations. But when we talk about RRI, we are talking about other shared values and we consider that we can go better and we can go beyond the mandatory. And then we can enter some kind of reflection like sustainability of the research, gender equality, inclusiveness, open access because we consider that these are now some of these shared values. Of course we can put a lot of them. There are many things that we can put here and this is the problem of RRI that is very, very ambiguous. So some institutions have tried to have more practical definition and European Commission has its own. This is another aspect that we consider when we talk about RRI. RRI tools is a big, big, big project from the SWAFT program and they talk about open and transparent that is the case of open access and so on and to see if because it's the reflection always a reflection about what could be the future impact of my research that is important. For instance, we train young scientists in RRI and one of our main objectives is that these young people consider their own field of research not only in the short term but also in the long term and the summative effect of everybody that is in this field. It's difficult because sometimes we are talking about science fiction but we can include some kind of abilities to talk and for instance to incorporating multidisciplinary people, okay? Incorporating multidisciplinary team and so on. Okay, there are some more documents that I put in my presentation if you want to use our site in your proposal. And this is the project that we leader is creating teaching materials in RRI and it will be open when it finish in August of 2018. This is the definition of European Commission. It is very, very pragmatic. They talk about six key issues, public engagement, gender equality, science education, open access, ethics and governance. Public engagement, this is the particular definition of European Commission. They talk about group of actors, all societal actors that could be future users for instance but also people that could be affected but the progression of that technology. They talk about the engagement of all these group of stakeholders, about participation and about to choose because at the end you have to choose one option or one other and you have to include, to incorporate this kind of opinions or everything. And the together like the responsibility. Gender, yourself have talked about just to remind that when we talk about gender we talk about two aspects. One is the incorporate the gender or sex dimension into our research in the object of our research. Try to think if this is different for women or this is different for men and if not you have to justify why not. This is one aspect and the other aspect has to be with the human capital. How is your team? Is your team partitary? I don't know if it is the word in English in terms of gender and why not? If you have a, I don't know if you organize any kind of activity or teaching activity, everything you have to consider also the human capital if it is in the line of European Commission. Okay, open access, I want to recommend you to go to this new emphasis for the European Commission in the open innovation, open science, open to the world that Commissioner Moedas is recently talking a lot about this three O's policy. And it's also, it's very related with RRI but this open society. And to finish, I just want to go to some parts of the proposal that I, personally I consider that you can put some emphasis when you are trying to explain that you are very good in science communication in public engagement, impact and RRI. This is one that is in the definition of excellence. This is the gender dimension, but also when you are trying to explain why your proposal is excellent, normally we are going to more very scientific definition of excellence like impact factor and bibliometrics. Try to also think in why is excellent in terms of if they are in line of needs and values and expectation of society. I think it's a good idea and it could also add some value because if you know there are now some movements that are thinking about the definition of excellence in science. And these movements want to incorporate the societal dimension of the excellence. They are also the quality and in this point, quality and appropriateness of the training. There is in the training activities, there are a lot of them. Like organization of scientific training dissemination events, communication outreach activities, training dedicated to gender issues. There are many of them are related with training in science communication. So if you go through this training, not just one way direction, but also this B direction or multi-dimensional training and try to go a little bit further for the conventional definition of communication. There is also a big part of the impact and these are, this is in the blue, you can go to a document that the European Commission is working on and they have, because now they want to stress a lot in the dissemination and communication part and exploitation of the research because many projects when finished, they are forgived. So the idea of commission is that in every project, we have to include a strong plan of communication, dissemination and exploitation. So if you go to this part, you will see the difference between dissemination and exploitation and communication. There is a little bit different and then you can go and there are a lot of examples and you can explain the activities. Okay, this is part of the same. So this was my objective. I hope I could convince at least some of you. Thank you. Thank you.


Item No. 7621 Level 1 Unrestricted Containment Class Euclid Disruption Class Blam Risk Class Notice Special Container Procedures Due to the fact that SCP-7621 requires other anomalies to function, active containment procedures are not considered necessary. Instead, containment efforts are to be focused on locating and acquiring anomalous dice before civilians inadvertently trigger SCP-7621's effect. Description SCP-7621 is a phenomenon in which dice-possessing anomalous properties will undergo a change in their effect after being placed in any container referred to as a dice jail. All possible synonyms of dice jail will also activate SCP-7621, including but not limited to Dice Prison Diet Detention Facility D-6 Penitentiary Bones Lockup Rolling Stone Place of Imprisonment Plastic Cube Penal Institution Luck Implement Ubliet Manifestation Logs The following logs are an example of several SCP-7621 manifestations. Full list of SCP-7621 manifestations is available upon request.  Discovered when its owners got annoyed at how loud it was and jokingly put it in a box to think about what it's done. It then proceeded to relentlessly insult its owners, comparing them to corrupt cops and stating that they cannot silence the truth. It is unclear what truth the anomaly was referring to, as it is yet to express anything other than indignation at being imprisoned. Die Number SCP-7621-The Chas Initial Anomaly A 6-sided The Chas that can only be referred to as The Chas Final Anomaly A 6-sided Larry that can only be referred to as Larry Notes, it is believed that SCP-7621 has caused Larry to reconsider its name, as the name The Chas was found to have a rating of minus 2 gels. An objective anomalous measurement of how cool something is, with the previous theoretical minimum of zero. Foundation personnel have expressed relief at not needing to use the name again. Die Number SCP-7621-1 Initial Anomaly A 20-sided Die capable of speech Final Anomaly A 20-sided Die that only lands on one Notes, the die created in the first manifestation was incredibly verbally abrasive, and had been the cause of 32 personnel being committed to the psychiatric unit. So SCP-7621-1 was placed in a soundproof box labeled DICE Containment. This inadvertently activated SCP-7621. All familiar with role-playing games consider the new anomaly to be significantly worse, and some speculate the new anomaly was intended as revenge against the researchers who are imprisoning the die again.  Notes, SCP-7621-3 was neutralized after it accidentally stepped on a separate 4-sided die, causing it to scream out in pain, before exploding into hundreds of dice. These dice all have a very high probability of being stepped on. Researchers being performed in the weaponizing the new dice against hostile groups of interest. Die Number SCP-7621-1 Initial Anomaly A 20-sided die that only lands on one, created in the third log. Final Anomaly SCP-7621-1 spontaneously bursted into flames and disappeared from its container. Notes, a piece of parchment was found in the container that stated the die was sent directly to the Dice Hell for egregiously immoral roles, which was mentioned to be one of the seven Dicely Sins. It is unclear what the remaining six Sins are. Incident Log On September 18, 2023, an incident occurred in the Site-327 Chapel that is believed to be connected to SCP-7621. The following events occurred. The candle spontaneously ignited with a brightly yellow flame. The turgical music started playing without an apparent source, but the sound of rolling dice took the place of musical instruments. The stained glass windows changed to depict dice versions of religious figures, such as Jesus of Mary. All holy texts became copies of the Dungeons and Dragons Player's Handbook. A 20-sided die with a halo rose out of the ground. Anything has confirmed this die is SCP-7621-1. It has not displayed any anomalous property since this incident. Religious experts speculate that SCP-7621-1 repented and redeemed itself where it sends and was allowed to leave Dice Hell as a result.


If we get a flat out here, we're still screwed. Hello, everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode. Fishing with Lunger Stevie. That's right. I know you guys love the adventures that we go on. You like when we go out and we tag team those bass out there. But let me just update you on our current situation. Let's just take a gander at the road right now. We've never been here. We don't know where the boat ramp is. We have no cell service, and we're taking a shot in the dark that this is the road going towards the lake. So let that be known. Let that sink in. This is a lake we've never been to, obviously. This road has been maintained since 1950. Yeah, we talked to a guy the other day. It was like, OK, OK, man, that lake, that lake has got Mondos. He's got there. He's flipping it. Bam. We're starting to question that a little bit. If it is the case, this will be a phenomenal fishing video. I've never seen. Oh, were you at a cattle farm?  We're in the right spot. I want everybody to know this is not a private lake at all. This is public. I am very much so now worried that we're on somebody's land. I am not going to the boat ramp. It's said county road, so let's just hope we get down there and there's a boat ramp. Cattle trail or something. It's going to help me find fish. The town we went through like 45 minutes ago looked barren like a ghost town. Like literally, you hear about old Texas ghost towns. It's pretty much it. Dude. It says something about limestone sponsored by a geologist. OK. What? This lake actually looks like a giant cattle farm. Like, this is, what the heck? I don't even know if I turn on the engine in this lake. No, no, you don't. Oh my god, I fish this lake. We've been a sh, no, you have not. No, you have not. Yes, I have.  I fish this lake before I went to the army. What? This is really shallow over here.  You know any fish I caught here? When you were at Fort Hood? No, before I went to the army, I was like 17. I know that because that big rock pile in the middle, I ran into it with my buddy's boat. I didn't catch a single fish here. That is the most random. Oh my god. Weird flashback. Oh, I remember this. I didn't catch a single fish here.  Oh, this is, this is, oh no, I fished here. This is, I have never been with anybody that just like flashback like, I have fished here like a decade ago. I didn't remember. 12 years ago, this is wild. This is wild. Like this is so shallow right here. Like see what those rocks are? Yeah. I have 100% put a boat up on top of this. This video just got way more interesting. This could go two different directions. It could be like Rob's first time out here. Or it could be a whole new experience. I can't believe I drove all the way out here. I didn't know. Woo, Hood Mini. There is a park. There's a look. There's a table on the trash can. We come bearing great dues right now. Honestly, when we were pulling in, we both had this look on our face like, dude, I don't think there's a boat ramp. I don't even know where we're going right now. We get here. Not only that, I've never been so happy to actually see another boat on the water.  I don't want to see anybody else. So that's very good news. The water is fairly stained, but it's got like a chalkiness to it. And we got a haze today. So that's also another good day for moving baits. When I'm looking at this, we've got a light chop. I'm thinking spinner bait, chatter bait, maybe a crank bait, square bill, something like that. There's a ton of rock and brush out in this lake, it looks like. So stuff that's going to be able to deflect off cover, get a reaction strike. You always have an idea. Sometimes it works out. Other times you have to really switch things up and do some angling to try to figure out what the fish are really going to bite on. But we're going to find out very shortly. Power on, electronics on, red thing on. All right, we got the mud stickers in. Yeah, water temp's chilly. I wouldn't. 51, yep, still cold. They're not spawning. Yep, they're not spawning. You were thinking they were spawning, they're not. I might throw a trap on these rocks. So you just want to go down the rocks real quick. Do you want me to grab anything out the gate? Yeah, let's just do it. Start off with a lipless crank here, guys. Dragon rip, dragon rip. I'm going to also throw it out the way, gentlemen. The water temp was like 51 and a half. Yes, yes, yes, yes, could be a good one. I just broke off and Rob's hooked up. Hey, baby. You got a fish. Hey, baby.  Get on in here with your red lips.  We caught first fish of the day. Yeah. Good, good, good, good. You have some cranks. Since we got so much rock, I'm thinking a crankbait might be a good choice right now since I broke off my lipless. I keep seeing some fish on the electronics. I think we're going to put a little deeper diving crankbait on first just to see how that goes and then maybe try a shallow as well. We've got two different ones, a little chartreuse color to them since this water's real dinged. It's now raining. Wouldn't expect that. Hey, sometimes life throws you curves. It's windy and it's cold. Way colder than we anticipated. Hand movements, extremity movements. Pretty tough right now. Currently, we've been fishing slow with the jigs. I got a black and blue jig right there. Rob's throwing a jig as well. I tried throwing the crankbait. I haven't got anything as of yet. Literally just trying to get out of the wind right now so we can warm up a little bit. I think the wind is supposed to switch out of the south here in a few hours. One fish in the boat, but we're not giving up. We've come too far. I dressed for summer. Look, Rob's pants. Look at that. Look at that great shot of Rob walking over with his pants that are literally meant for like South Florida jogging in the morning. Alright, I'm going to crawl up here. I'm going to get a little stretch. Talk to nature. Just got to let that out sometimes. And then you'll catch them. Just got to get that out. Switching gears here. Throwing spinnerbaits and moving baits on this windy, very windy dam. Is that a fish? Oh my God. That's a nice fish. There we go. Hey, that looks like... God dang, dude. That thing was freaking pulling. Come on, baby. That entire area is not going to happen zone. I can't tell if there's only a few feet of water on them or not, though. That's the issue. Can I say something to the fishing freaks? Sorry, I didn't really... No, I'm recording because this is a moment where I realized Rob's bass fishing intelligence has really sparked up in the last few years. We were coming back here and we were like, hey, let's give this a shot. These trees, these creek channels, you know, maybe they'll stage here. However, think about this, guys. Michael Phelps, he could probably get to the boat ramp. I don't know, maybe take him 30 minutes. A bass could probably get there in like 5 to 10. Easy, like just on an easy cruise. This isn't like a giant lake where they'd have to come way up in a creek arm, you know, and they're basically sticking there. They're staying. They could be anywhere they want to be out here pretty quick. So they're going to reside in that nice, sweet spot zone, which I think we hit it. The first fish Rob had deep. It was kind of not shallow water, but it was mid... Yeah, close to deeper water. Why would they want to come all the way back here? Anyway, I just want to commend Rob on his... I just really... Hey! Hey! There was something there. Think somebody's messing with us a little bit. Yep.  Yep. I don't know. I don't know. That was a warning, a warning pop. Yep. People over here on the shoreline are... Yeah. They are trying to hit us with fireworks. This is weird. They're shooting these things out. All of a sudden we come back here and it's like they're just firing away. The only time I've ever been shot at or fired upon is East Texas. I got a... It's a whole new region. Probably some kids on meth or something up there having a good time. Oh, there's a stump. Anyway, we're going to Mosey on out of here. Probably been one of the most interesting fishing days of non-fish catching that I've had. And a long time. I'm glad you guys are along for the ride. I just want to catch one now.  Yes. Oh, the square bill. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh my gosh. The struggle. The struggle. Oh, my lands on the square bill. That's a miracle fish. A miracle fish. He's struggling. He's struggling. I'll tell you what. That's a big fish right there.  Tales from the crypt, man. Got a real barn burner today, huh? Real barn burner. Oh, I just got smoked. I got him. Are you? I got him. Oh, yeah. It's a crappie. It's a crappie. Yeah, you get it. You get it here, crappie. Yeah. That's a giant. That's a tasty one. Look at that. Wow. I'll take it. I'll back up just so you can. I'll take it. Is how cold is he? Let's take that in. Feel it. You want to cook it? It's like a cold dinner plate. Want to make it a catching cook? Well, this was another day. Look how windy it is, guys. You can see his fins just going to town right now. That's where we're at. He's like he's underwater swimming, oscillating. Oh, God. It's been a long day. I tell you what. It's been a long day. I will take that crappie. That's a photo. I just got crushed. You got crushed by a crappie? Spot like it, man. We're out of school. I got a fish. I got another bass. Back to back cast. You got a bass? I think it's a bass. Back to back, baby. Oh, it is. It's a bass. Back to back, basser. Oh, no. Sorry. It's probably species. Oh, I got him on the outside of the face. Hey now. Hey now. He's very cold. That is one thing in common with all these fish today. Super, super cold. On the exact same spot where Rob caught the first fish where we thought it was going to be on fire and then turned out not to be on fire. I will take that one. My gosh. I will give that one a full blown face knife. I would say if I didn't know you, I'd say you're freaking... Yes. Yes. There he is. Yes. This is the one. This is the spot. Oh, you got a crappie? No, no, no. It's a bass. It's a bass. Get him. Get him. Whoa. I cannot believe that. Not again. Not again. Yes. Yes. Oh, square bill. Yes. All states. Got him. That's a good fish. That's a lot better than the last one. Oh, no. Dang it. Oh, I've got some. Got him. Got him. Oh gosh. Is that a big one? Yeah, I got it. Dude, that's a big one. Come on. He's behind a tree. Just keeping him up. There he comes. Here he comes. Here he comes. Come on. Come on. Where's he at? Oh, yeah. Good fish. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. Get his face. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. There we go. Put something together. Look at that fish, guys. There we go. Look at that fish. Radley. Putting pieces to a puzzle together, my friend.  I feel so good. There we go. Hey, look at him. Fish. Yeah, I just had one whacked. He's got a smoke, too. Probably one of those. Yeah. Twirler. Twirler. Tip of the day, always check your lure before you deploy it. Check and deploy. Oh, gosh. I got one on the tree. Did you get one? Yeah. He's home. He's home? Dude, I was in the tree and he... I still got him on. You got him on? Yeah. You ever get him? I was bouncing it off the tree and he came up and smoked it. I just literally... I think he came out. He's off? No, I still got him. He's in the back of the tree and he came around. There we go. Yeah. There we go. Hey, ho. I was just on that branch right there and I paused it and that fish smoked it. Hun square bill. Switched the colors up a little bit. Rob's been getting them on that gold. Just put a little chartreuse in there. There we go. It is. It is a fish? Yep. Oh, yeah. Look at this. Dude, fish are freaking... The fish have activated. The fish have activated. He must have been behind like a blog or something. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Oh, yeah. I'm on the deck of the boat. You want to take the patrol motor for me? Yeah. Yeah. That was a good fish. Hey, we just got back-to-back fish. This is like an unbelievable game. It's not like, you know, we've had fish catches way better days, but it's like the what has happened. It's like what in the world? Oh, what? What? Was that the last cast? Yeah. Last cast.  What? Dude, I stopped it right at the boat. Oh, I got a cast again now. I can't... That's got to be hybrid. Yeah. Look how big that thing is. Oh, yeah. These are for shribers. If there's two like that, that's the same size. Oh, baby. We turned a mountain of doodoo into a glorious shrine today. Heading on in, it feels so good. Give me a high five, buddy. Oh, yes. I'll give you a little bit more detail when we get back to the casa. I just want to say that me and Rob, we've had some pretty crazy days on the water. We've had some really tough days on the water, really good days on the water. Today was very unique because it was so tough. We were like cast away from being like, let's just go. We drove all this way, but let's just go because this isn't working out. So let's try one more thing, one more thing, one more thing until bam. And we started hooking up. And then the pattern just arose before us. That was freaking awesome to experience. And we're going to be talking about this day for a long time, probably down the road when we're in another situation like, man, I don't know. We did that one time, we didn't give up right there and then things changed. So anyway, if you guys have had a day like that, let me know in the comments. But for sure, a big learning experience today. I always got to learn something when you're on the water, but today we learned a lot. Now that we're back in the tackle cave, I just wanted to share with you guys, you know, something that I learned today that I thought was really interesting because we went hardcore on jigs for like four or five hours. After a while, we really figured out fish are not going to be going out in the silty, deeper water. There's nothing out there. It's just sand and silt. You know, fish do not like that. I'll tell you guys that. The rocks that were up shallow, they didn't cascade out very far into the water. So we pretty much knew within, you know, four or five feet of that bank. That's where the fish should be. And we hit that hard with the stick ups and the rocks with jigs for a long time because Rob got that one right off the bat on a jig.  I'll just stick with the jig too. You just got a bite. So I stuck with that way for way too long. I did have one whack throwing that deeper dive in crankbait and I thought it might have just been like a fish just bumping into it. I really didn't take that as a bite and I didn't run with it. I threw the square bill for a little bit, but not enough. So later in the day, we just picked up square square bills and got on a windy area and actually went back to one of those same areas where we caught fish earlier on the jigs and it started working very well. I don't know if that's because if the fish might have been suspended. I'm not really sure, but definitely keep that in your arsenal. You know, I ran into a fish and freak the other day at Cabela's. His name was JJ and he said he just caught his personal best on a square bill and it was a sexy shad square bill that he was throwing. It could be just one of those days where it's windy, just the water conditions. You know, I personally, I love to throw chatterbaits, spinnerbaits a lot in those conditions when you have windy type areas and the baits moving a little bit and the water is getting above 52. Today, the warmest we saw was 54 and the square bill is really doing it for that. So I would, if I had to put like a principle to it, I would say the rocks might be better for those lipless, lipless, well not lipless, but square bill crankbaits. I don't have the exact one that I was using. That was one of Rob's, but basically this right here. And Rob was throwing a gold color. It definitely did better.  But there's all sorts. I preferred ones with rattles in the springtime. I prefer ones without rattles in the summer and fall. But that basically right there was getting it done today. And you guys can obviously go check out Rob's video. You can see the exact rod he was throwing. He was actually throwing it on a rod that I really like for throwing square bills. But I kept it really simple. Just carried two rods with me today. I wasn't planning on throwing square bills that much. Springtime is changing constantly, constantly, constantly. So just keep switching it up until something works. Go with the conditions. Don't get locked into one thing and I think you'll find yourself catching more fish. So we're going to end it on that message right there. Fishing freaks. And bass fishing is about to get really good. I'm super excited. Living down here in the south, being in Texas, it kicks off pretty early. So I'm really excited about that.  I'm super pumped going down there with my dad. I've got reports. It's supposedly phenomenal. You guys are going to see that next. Don't forget to subscribe to the channel for more action. And I'll see you guys on the next one.


Finance Minister Nirmala Sita-Raman's mega-bank merger plan, if successful, will see 10 public sector banks merged into four. I'm here with Somya Dutta from the General Secretary of the All India Banking Officers' Confederation. Hello, sir. Welcome. It's the golden jubilee year of bank nationalization. So, such a decision coming at such a time, what does it imply and what is the impact going to be of this decision to merge all these public sector banks? First, let us talk about bank nationalization. 19th of July 1969 and 14 banks were nationalized. Now, we have to understand that it was a political will that announced the bank nationalization and it was a prescription for the economic situation prevailing at that point of time. The economic situation of the country was in doldrums and there were several suggestions that to improve the economic position to make India self-reliant, banks have to be nationalized. The owners of the banks at that time were not in agreement with such a proposal. There was resentment inside Congress also, but despite such a syndicate working against the basic principles of nationalization, late Srimati Indira Gandhi announced nationalization as a prescription to lift out of the economic mess. Now, what happened after in these 50 years is absolutely a transformed the country? From total number of 8262 banked branches that was there before the nationalization, it is now standing somewhere around 140,000 odd branches. And in between 1969 and 1991, there was a huge explosion of banked branches. The number almost increased to 60,220 in 1991 and out of which the number of rural banks increased to 35,206. It was only about 1800 odd in 1969. So, it was predominantly intended so that credit reaches out to the rural households through priority sector lending to the small and medium size borrowers, artisans, villagers and it transformed the entire country. It is only possible because of the vehicle of engine of growth was driven by the public sector banks. Now, this just compare the economic situation of the country. A recession has set in although I mean the credit rating agencies and the various other agencies they are terming this as economic slowdown. And now to get out of the mess, to get out of the whatever the GDP numbers are coming, a new prescription has been put in place. You consolidate or amalgamate the public sector banks that will generate this growth rate that will stake us to the 5 trillion dollar economy. Now, this is another political will of a different kind of working. It is reversing the entire process of nationalization, whatever it has been achieved through this glorious 50 years of journey is now being reversed. This is the basic situation. So, this is we are standing as such a cusp of time. When the public sector banks their heritage is being obliterated. We already experienced a merger of three banks into one entity last year which all in the bank of his confederation had challenged the basic legality of the process. And the case is still there still live in Supreme Court. Although the supposedly the three banks have been merged into one entity, the bank of Baroda. But what is the result of mergers? Why is it happening? We have some very interesting facts and figures. The first merger of public sector bank that ever took place that was in 1993 the new bank of India was merged with Punjab National Bank. And what happened was very strange. It posted a loss of first time Punjab National Bank are very strong bank posted a loss of 96.90 crore in 1996. And RBI came out with a study report that was published is still available you can check the RBI website. That was report was published on 4th of October 1999 where it said I will just read out. It said that the experience of bank mergers in the public sector has so far been limited to that of new bank of India with a comparatively strong Punjab National Bank in 1993. The result of this merger was no different from the worst apprehensions expressed in that report. A direct result of the merger was that PNB a strong bank with uninterrupted record of profits had to record a net loss of 95.90 crore. The merger clearly demonstrated the futility of merging banks with different work cultures, ethic and skill levels of employees. Where by even the strong bank was put to severe stress till today little evidence is available on any worthwhile advantage of having a crew to PNB from the merger. And this report is sacrosanct whatever has been stated is still sacrosanct. Now, our experience is that this merger is a deliberate attempt to destroy the social fabric of the country. What is happening in the defense sector? The audience factory employees and offices had gone on an indifference strike. The railway workers are agitated. They are also planning some action. What is happening with BSNL, MTN and any public sector institution? All the institutions are under attack. And the attack is not limited to the banks as I said. For the banks despite such attacks despite such attacks despite all 12 banks being put under PCA prompt corrective action by RBI. The market share of the banks that is the trust the people of the country repose on the public sector banks has not really dwindled. If I am not mistaken about the numbers even at this point of time around 67 of the total deposits belong to the public sector banks. 63 of the advances belong to the public sector banks. So, this is a clear motive to hand over the public sector banks to their owners which control these banks prior to 1969. Of course, the owners will be different. But the fact remains that this is a precursor to privatization. All this Hala Bulu, this hype of getting amalgamated having this big global banks. Even if all the banks are consolidated we will not reach the size of a global bank. What we need today are good banks not necessarily big banks. What has a merger of state bank with its associates has taught us? For the first time in history state bank posted a staggering loss of 6547 crore in 2018. Till as of now state bank is yet to come out of that merger the banks of the merger. Thousands of branches have been closed. Our honourable finance minister says that there will be no job loss. Of course, there will be no retrenchment. But people will be compelled to take voluntary retirements. Of course, if you resign on your own it cannot be termed as termination. There will be pressure on the employees and officers because recruitment has stopped. With the large scale closure of branches there will be closure of branches. Why are we opposing? That is a good question. Are we afraid of our jobs? No. We are afraid that the entire as I said the nation will be affected. The common people will be affected. The interest of the common man will be affected. Suppose the public sector banks are reduced in number. The number of branches will shrink. And this will yield space to the non banking finance companies, the fintech companies who are wanting to get into that space at the cost of the public sector banks. And even in United States of America there is a tremendous resentment of this against its merger of banks. The argument that they have put forth is that mergers of bank will lead to job losses. It is not only the employees. Millions of people are connected with the banks. Suppose 5 ATM counters are closed down. It means 5 security guards will be losing their job, losing their livelihood. And so many other people who are connected to the entire banking industry they will be out of work. And those numbers cannot be measured because we are looking at the numbers of the employees. And the government will say that nobody lost their jobs. But that is not the true story. That is not the fact. The fact that it will lead to cross unemployment and it will not boost our economy in any case. Because whatever has been being propagated can only be driven by the public sector banks. In United States of America as of now there are 5000 banks operating. In Germany 2000 banks. In Newca there are 300 banks. In India there are only 86 banks with such a vast country. The country is more banks, more number of public sector banks, more number of branches so that it can reach out to the poorest of the poor. What is the credit outflow? It is coming down. Post 1991 the rural credit is coming down the percentage. The corporates are enjoying the cream. Now if you analyze the cross capital formation over the years you will find that capital formation is coming down while cross NPA is coming up, is rising steeply. What does it mean? It means that the corporates are looting the public sector banks. National resources are being looted. The public sector banks does not belong to the government. They do not belong to the government. The owners of public sector banks is a state. The government is just an exuberant of the state that we have to understand. So that is why we are urging upon the common man. We are spreading this message across the country that let us fight. Let us fight against this narrative. Let us build up our strong opinion like what we did for the FRDI bill. There it was a mass movement. Just because the mergers have been announced it does not mean that a mergers will take place. If we can build up the momentum, we can involve the common people, the farmers, our all the stakeholders together, together we can resist. So that is our appeal to all our viewers that come and protest against this draconian retrograde decision which will affect the social fabric of the country. Thank you so much sir for sharing with us why this bank mergers not only going to affect bank officers and employees but also the citizens of this country who also have a state in the public sector bank. Everyone is a stakeholder and we have to fight for our rights. We are ready for a struggle. We are ready for a fight.


In this question, it's given that a car starts from rest and moves along the x axis with constant acceleration. So, third information is constant acceleration and the value is 5 meter per second square for 8 seconds. So, time is also given. If it then continues with constant velocity, what distance will the car cover in 12 seconds total since it started from the rest? Now, the first step in all such problems is to draw a diagram, a well representative diagram. So, let's say this is x axis x axis. So, car starts from rest and let's say it starts at origin. This is origin and it starts and moves along the x axis with constant acceleration. So, when it starts from rest, so hence initial velocity u is equal to 0 and it's given that it is constant axis. It moves with constant acceleration and the value is 5 meter per second square. And then time for which constant acceleration acts is t1 is equal to 8 second. So, let's say this was here is let's say t is equal to 8 second and let's say here is t is equal to 12 seconds. So, in let me, so in this phase, a is equal to 5 meter per second square in this point here from here a is equal to 0. So, this phase is uniform uniform velocity is it? Why? Because acceleration is 0. So, but uniform velocity but what will be the velocity of the value of the velocity which will be nothing but the after acceleration whatever is the value this body achieves in terms of its velocity. So, whatever is the velocity here the same velocity will be the same velocity will be throughout. So, let's say it moves in this phase with the same velocity v. Okay, now let's analyze the so hence we can divide this whole problem into two parts. Okay, let's analyze the first part what's happening here in this case clearly the same information which is mentioned here is for phase one this is for phase one. Okay, now so let's find out the velocity v. Okay, so basically we have to find out the distance. So, distance from origin to the final point at t equals to 12 seconds. So, distance total distance travelled will be s1 and s2. So, we have to find to find s1 and s2. Right? So, in case of s1 we know u t plus half a t square can we apply it? Okay, so we have let's write the three equations which we know.  So, out of all these all these we'll use that equation in which most number of variables are known. For example, u is known, a is known and time is known. So, the best v is unknown. So, best equation to be used is the second one. So, let's use that and then directly we have been asked for s1 also. So, let's find out u was 0, t was 8 plus half into a was 5 and again t was 8 square and obviously this will be in meters. Everything is in meters or meter per seconds or meter per seconds square. So, this will be in meters, isn't it? So, hence it will be this is 0. So, this is 5 into 64 upon 2, isn't it? So, this is nothing but 5 into 32 meters that is nothing but 160 meters. So, in phase 1 the body travels 160 meters. So, now what will be phase 2 distance s2? S2 is clearly since there is no acceleration over here. So, we can write the same equation number 2. Let's try that. So, hence s2 is let's say in this case the initial velocity is in phase 2, in phase 2 initial, initial velocity is v which v this v here this one right now and then we have to find out s2 which is unknown. Time is nothing but how much time did the body take to go from this point to this point? Obviously t is equal to 12 minus 8 that is 4 second 4 second. Now s2 is unknown a is given as 0 why because it's a case of uniform velocity. So, now let's deploy all these values in s2 is equal to vt plus half into. So, don't get confused between this v. This v is here just a value. So, it's like in this case the u was v. So, half into 0 into 4 square. So, v was whatever v we do not know, but it's clearly v into 4 meters. So, if we know v we can find out st. Let's find out v what will be the value of v? So, in the first phase v is the final velocity. So, v is nothing but v is clearly using equation 1 u plus at is acceleration in the first phase. So, this is nothing but 0 plus 5 into 8 why because the time taken in the first phase is t1 or let's be let me write t1 8. So, it is nothing but 40 meters per second. Now, deploy this value here. So, what do you get? s2 is equal to 40 into 4 is equal to again 160 meters. That means total distance, total distance travels or in this case distance is equal to displacement is nothing but s1 plus s2 is equal to 160 plus 160 is equal to 320 meters. Now, did you notice that s1 is equal to s2? In this case what are the inferences we can draw? s1 is equal to s2. But this took only, this took 8 seconds, but this took only 4 seconds to cover. Why? Because in this case the body was accelerating. So, hence it started from rest, but in this case it had already had some velocity. Already it has already achieved some velocity and hence because of that velocity it takes lesser amount of time to cover same amount of distance. Is it it? So, these are additional inferences from this problem.


update. Good afternoon folks as Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of well it's sunny on the beach and it's cloudy overland Delray Beach Florida.  So what do we have going on out here we've got a number of different things we take a look at our index ETFs you've got two tests and rejections of key swing points one coming from the Q's and that's testing the swing point from the trading day of June 16th that did volume of 81 million shares we're at 53 million shares right now let me see if I can pull this up real quickly to do the straight line math on that so we are at 50 just trying to see where we're at we're at 53 million we've been trading for four and a half hours that gives us 76 million shares okay so it looks like we're going to test and reject the 276.06 level with less than 81 million shares that says yeah and we're testing the bottom of its daily profile can't bust them down price is going to go it looks like the world's not coming to an end today on June 30th that's a wonderful thing that's the same message coming from the IWM that's rejecting the top of its swing point that's when point was from the trading day of June the 16th volume near 43 million shares so far today you've done 16 well less than that no matter how we take a look at it and the case of the spies and the dial diamonds they're testing and holding the support level of the bottom of their profile so what you've got there is you've got can't bust them down should try to bust them to the upside let's go switch over and take a look at our indices charts see what cash indices charts that is see what they're communicating to us and what they're communicating to us the dial pulling back testing rejecting that red oscillator and chain line could be setting up the c-point of an a to b equal cd the same for the s and b 500 which is testing rejecting that 37.72 level the same for the ndx 100 which was 11478 the same for the russell 2000 which is 1708 now the semiconductors have also tested their swing point low that was a td9 count bottom so that remains in place out there and it's also doing it with lighter volume but what the semis need to do is they have got a close above that 2615 level that's that red oscillator and change line folks stay tuned your favorite polar bear david whites up next after dave tom will bridle take us on home i'll be recording tomorrow's trader's ed show from eight to nine so please join us live then have a terrific thursday if i don't speak to you before tomorrow or after tomorrow i want you to have a fantastic life we see about here and shoot off lots of fighting


So tax preparation fees. So you can deduct on schedule C the cost of preparing that part of your tax return relating to your business as a sole proprietor or statutory employee. So here's another area which gets complicated because now we're thinking tax preparation and you're saying well I have tax preparation on the schedule C but I'm also doing whatever the schedule A and the rest of it. So then you have another expense that has a business and personal component to it in essence and you need to be breaking out the business versus personal components of it. So you can also deduct on schedule C the amount you pay or incur and resolving asserted tax deficiencies for your business as a sole proprietor or statutory employee. So other kind of tax issues that come up could have a business component related to them because part of the tax issue is the schedule C component which is your business.


Hey guys, don't you hate that? Let's find out what that is Stay tuned.  We're always find out why that check engine lights on now I know why it's on but let's see if this little item knows why the lights on I believe the code is at 2238. This is an 03 It may be an 04 Toyota Tacoma She's saying it says over there on the title, but when I look on the date down here It is 03, but it's After the six months, which would make it an 04 so she could be mistaken I'm pretty knowledgeable on cars, but anyway, I think it's at 2238 the code is What happened was it was running funky one time and her dad and another guy Several years ago Bypassed what they call bypass the catalytic converter. Well, I think it just jammed a pipe down in it or something anyway So it's not reading the 02 sensor. Well, the 02 sensors not reading right But I have had the codes checked in this truck before and That code is always there. It's it's an 02 sensor code. So Let's see if this thing knows anything about it. You got to get an app on your phone. I've got the app right here See It's trying to pair, but there's the app Blab right there cold micro mechanic So what we're gonna do is It says to plug this This thing in I'll show you where it is on this one because it is Up underneath this dash It's kind of like way up under here See this and let's get the light on it. I'm fun to light guys There we go There it is right there You see it's right on this This one here right underneath the shoot emergency break And there's only one way this thing will go in so you can't you can't mess it up. Don't force it, but Now you got to put that in there now We got to turn the key on Keys on I wish you got something else really cool Check this out See if I can get it to come in 440,727 miles on this thing Regional miles Pretty cool, huh? All right, so it says turn the key on And apparently you can shut the check engine light out With this thing as well. So we turn the key on and it says to We've already got the app downloaded says In your device setting be sure Bluetooth is turned on. We've done that open the app and download prompts to use Don't open the app you downloaded and follow the prompts to use micro mechanic This is usually a connect device option. Okay, so You see it timed out Let's try this again. It says it's pairing Start scan. Okay Let's start the scan Leave ignition on All right, it says error code P2004 intake manifold Runner control. Let's see what it says here unsafe to drive See that's not even this this truck has no problems with the intake So I may look into that but this thing's running pretty pretty good. So Runner control stuck open bank one Well, there's only one bank on this because it's a four-cylinder. So How do I even know that it's reading the rate look at the estimated repair cost? hmm Every vehicle checked by a qualified. See how's it? No Next schedule maintenance, whatever. How's it? No, I didn't even Let's reset check engine like see if it goes out Says it's parent again See it didn't didn't reset it. I'm not I'm not very Confident in this thing right now Okay, see I re-scanned it and it says no problems found Safe to drive No problems found it should have found one. Anyway Let's re-scan it. We're re-scanning Says no problems found. Let's turn the key off This time. Let's just start it up. We'll hit re-scan Okay. Well guys Probably why look check engine light went out and no problems found Okay, let's shut this off and see if it comes back on and now it's got to come back on eventually because Go two sensors not read right good for having that many miles on it Well, okay guys Well, that's that now Okay, set this off Okay, no problems found hmm, I was going to check the car because there is three codes on the car and I know what they are but the reason why I'm not going to is because Uh Batteries low on it. Oh, I actually almost dead. So almost dead. So Anyway, I don't know guys. That's pretty much what the instructions said to do and Soon as I hit reset and started the truck back up the lights off Why it's not picking up the O2 sensor, which I know is is a code that it was throwing I don't know why it's picking up another sensor where it said it wasn't safe to drive or another code I don't know why it's throwing that code. I believe it's trying to tell me that my fuel pressure regulator is stock open It's not regulating like it should I don't know. I believe that's what that that means for this particular Vehicle as far as bank one It's only got one bank so probably why it says that because it's not a v6 not a v8. It's just a four-cylinder.  So Anyway, oh guys, I got another I'm this week. Stay tuned. I I've got another toy That was given to me. I think you guys will like this one. But anyway, so there it is guys We we ran the codes have one code and reset it and the code did not come back yet so we'll we'll have to drive it we're gonna take a little drive here a little bit are gonna run down the gas station and We'll be back and then we'll check it out And you know, like I said later on after I use it on a couple more things. We'll see how it does So that being said remember check out monkey 1000 and thanks for watching guys. Thanks for all your support Thanks for the comments and your thumbs up. We appreciate it. All right guys. So that being said I'm Shae bear to myth a man legend and I'm gone for now. Bye. Bye guys. Take care


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