Hi my dear friends, I hope that you are doing well and welcome back to Plants and Lucia. My name is Lucia and this right here is Ines Maria and today we are going to be talking about the beautiful biofee boom, density boom, or the little living tree. Ok, coming up! Whether you are coming back or this is your first time in this channel, thank you so much for being with me and watching this video. I am a plant beginner and I learn about my plants. So this channel is to share with you what I learned. So if you want to learn how to take care of your houseplants, how to display them, or even how to connect with them, make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and talk about plants. But now, let's get to the video. In the wild, this plant is usually found in wet soils and very close to streams and waterfalls. So, in very humid areas, because it is very small, this plant actually grows underneath the shade of bigger trees. The biofee boom sensitivity boom is also commonly known as the little living tree. And there are many reasons for that. First of all, this plant resembles a miniature palm tree and it is commonly known as the living tree because it shows life all around. Her leaves actually fall downward during the night and the branches go a little bit up. And in the morning, the leaves wake up. Another very cool thing about her is that her leaves respond to environmental changes, stress, or touch. So if the plant is lacking water or is very cold, you will notice the leaves falling down during the day. And when we touch her, the leaves will also fall down and this is noticeable to the naked eye. So let me show you. Okay, so now let's see how you can keep your little living tree very happy at your house. It comes from the tropics, they prefer warmer temperatures. So keep your plant in a room that is at least 18 degrees celsius. As I said before, in the wild, this plant leaves in very wet soils and usually close to streams or waterfalls. So they love humidity. You can increase humidity around her by putting her with other tropical plants that usually help each other with humidity levels. Another thing you can do is to put her on a humidity tray or close to a humidity fire. In terms of light, this plant will thrive in filtered sunlight. Remember, in the wild, these plants actually grow underneath the shade of bigger trees. So they like sunlight but not direct sunlight. We have our little living tree in our bedroom. This room has a northwest facing window so it gets afternoon sunlight and we have a curtain so she gets filtered sunlight. So she gets bright sunlight but not direct sunlight, it's in a very indirect way and filtered. When we took water, we want to make sure that the soil is moist at all times. We got this plant this spring so this is the growing season and I've been watering her every week. The way that I check if my plant needs water is with my finger. I put my finger inside the soil until the first snoco and then once I feel that the soil is drying out, then I water. This usually takes one week and of course, you're going to notice that in the winter, the soil will dry out slower. So go back in water and as you may know, the method that I used to water this plant is the bottom watering method of course. I love this method because it really helps me get the water into the roots from below and then once I'm done, I let the water drain out through the drainage hole. So this helps me keep the soil moist but not wet and I don't overwater my plants. We got this plant in the spring this year so this is the growing season and we've been fertilizing her pretty much every week. But this is because we have an organic fertilizer. And organic fertilizers tend to be less concentrated than synthetic fertilizers. But what I would strongly recommend is that you read the instructions on your fertilizer so you make sure that you don't overfeed your plants. This is the fertilizer that we're currently using and I really like it because it's organic and vegan and it has proven to be very good for our plants. So if you want to check it out, I'll just put a link in the description down below so you can find it. In terms of potting mix, a no-purpose houseplant potting mix is perfect for this plant. One thing to remember is that drainage is very important. So you can increase drainage by adding perlite or pumice to your potting mix. Another way that you can increase drainage is by using a pot that has drainage holes. This will prevent you from overwatering your plants. If you want to make your own potting mix, I would recommend that you use two parts of perlite, two parts of worm castings and seven parts of coconut coir. Now let's get to the seedlings. An annual plant may live longer than one year, but it may die suddenly after producing seeds. So in this video, I'm going to teach you how to collect her seeds so we can propagate her and she can live longer. The beautiful little living tree will produce flowers that are different colors. So you will see flowers that are pink, you will see flowers that are yellow or orange, white. In my case, I found a flower that is pink and it's a beautiful little flower. After these flowers blossom, you will see that the seeds will come out. As soon as the seeds have ripened, the plants will project them outward. So if you want to collect the seeds, I have two methods. The first method is to collect them before they ripen. So I usually use a toothpick and I just carefully take them out and put them in a container. Then you can submerge them in lukewarm water which will ripen the seeds. Always put a lid on top because once the seed ripens, it may jump out. You will then see dark red seeds sinking to the bottom. So these seeds you can plant in the soil.  That way when they jump, they will actually be collected in the back. Then you can actually plant them in soil. So these are some of the tips that I can give you about this beautiful plant. Do you have a little living tree at home? How do you take care of it? Make sure to comment below so we can all learn together. If you would like to be part of this community, you're always welcome. So make sure to subscribe so we can see each other every week and talk about plants. And as always, I will see you in the next video. Okay, ciao!


So for the delay, my name is Sasha Siegel. I'm going to talk with you today about how GitOps can actually accelerate your CI CD pipeline, including infrastructure and all the other things. I don't have much time, but a lot of slides. So I'm going to start right ahead. As a pre-sales consultant, I'm always working with different companies. And I'm actually having a look into the architecture and the workflows. And we're trying to combine them and make a global standard kind of way to have a CI CD pipeline everybody can benefit from. And that's what we're going to talk about. We're going to talk first about the use case we're looking into a bit deeper. And then I'm going to present to you what kind of tooling we're using during the CI CD pipelining to get an actually deployment on a cloud agnostic way for every customer. What I want you to have as a outcome today is that you remember to always use GitOps, because this is the only way to go. Git is our friend. And the software supply chain management can also be done on GitOps. When you're handling any software, even if it's not your own, just handle them as if they are your own. Work with different teams together, always collaborate by using open source where there's always the benefit of sharing your experience and the easiest ways to do this on the Git way as well. And if you also keep it declarative, like using it in a programmatic way, it's always easier to understand the actual outcome because you're always looking at the differences between the state and the should be state. Okay, let's start with the actual use case first.  And that's what we're looking at. You're always having a IT landscape where you're using multiple tools. If it's just an open stack infrastructure, there are dozens of plugins and tools you have to take care of. And also, when you're doing Kubernetes clusters, you have to take a lot of care of them. We're looking today at an application layer. So every software team creates its own individual app and it relies on a lot of open source tools. May it be some database management tool, a message broker system, or even the ingress controller inside a Kubernetes cluster. All those have to be deployed and always have to be in a software development lifecycle managed in an easy way and in the best case, standardized. So if you're going with a GitOps lifecycle, we always have to repeat this software development lifecycle for each and every software we're using. This can be a huge workload for the development teams and just for the individual app, you're actually developing as a development team. You're having the software engineering team who is actually pushing to Git. The Git repository just confirms it or gets merged and then it goes through the continuous integration pipeline or delivery pipeline by building the containers maybe and pushing it the resources somewhere, updating the configs for your application and then it goes over to some system engineers or the users. The users also have to check are the configs up to date? Is it running in my runtime environment? In this case, Kubernetes. And only when they tested it on development and staging, they can push it to production. And this has to be repeated many, many times. And thanks to CI-CD and thanks to third party software, there's one huge workload already done, the coding of the software. So we can actually just take the different software components, the modules, put them all, mesh them all together and we have our IT landscape. And all we have to do now is just the system engineering work by configuring each and every application. Since lock for shell, a lot of people still wonder how can they take care of all this supply of all the software we're using from the open source community. And that's what we wanted to achieve. We wanted to set up the whole environment to the runtime environment, starting on the left from your individual application repository, taking all the building blocks, we call that. So the third party software measured all together in the Git and then just push out or just deliver a whole setup, which is pre-configured and always can be used on any infrastructure you choose. So we're gonna talk about the first part. So we are talking about the software supply chain tool, tool chain actually and what kind of tools we used here. So the basic layer for our pipeline is GitLab as a Git repository and GitLab CI as a environment to run the tasks for the CI CD pipeline. We're always expecting the software delivery to have two different things, the configuration and the actual package. In this case, for Kubernetes, it's Helm charts or Helm files and a Docker image or multiple Docker image. And then we have two different tasks to actually accomplish. May it be some CVE scans of the Docker images, some config templates for the Helm files to give some individualization course, policy testing, deprecation testing, all this has to be done before we can actually go to production to make sure that everything is running smoothly. So the GitLab CI stages we defined are six in total. So there's a dot pre-stage which actually gathers all resources. We can say are always the same for each and every building blocker for each software service. Then we have a linting stage where we're trying to find out where we're trying to lint mostly. We're building it just to make sure that the build process is done correctly. Then we go on to the test stage. We're gonna do a release where we're bundling it all again and the post stage we're just cleaning it up. The main goal is to offer all those software servers on the right, on a global CI CD pipeline which is configured all the same. And the dot pre-stage, as I said, we have different scripts or checks for style guides, semantic versioning, policy testing, and so on and so forth. It's pretty small work you have to do there and besides all the linting which is always part of some tooling. You have to be pretty precise. So also including the fact that you want to be declarative. So we don't do this in a programmatic way. We chose to do this in Python scripts. Everybody talks Python nowadays. If you're having any linting libraries or something, we always found them in those libraries already existing. So we work with the people together, find out how the linting libraries work there or the deep diff and that's the first one to go to actually create the first templates. I've been talking about linting before in the first stage but the main stage starts actually here. So we have to check the standardized resources. May it be some Helm charts, code changes which can be read out of release notes or even some dependencies. That's what we're scanning here. This is not only linting itself but it's a huge part of it. The focus in linting is also to see if everything is done correctly on here. So that's why we chose another tool on here, the Open Policy Agents extension if you may or extra tooling called Conf test. This gave us the opportunity to have a easy readable config and easy writable also to make sure that each and every resource we're actually gathering is ready for our infrastructure or our runtime environment itself. In the testing stage we have to split the first time. Remember that we wanted to build a pipeline for each and every tool the same way. We now have to actually split it up because now each and every tool has some test cases which can't be generalized for the other ones. So if we're talking about the specific cases, we're talking about smoke testing, the initial deployments, some best practices are also gonna be included in here and this is what's been done in this stage. First of all, because we are now individualizing a bit more, we also wanna offer to each and every contributor the opportunity to make it individual itself. So we're extending the Helm charts with Helm files. So we're having ready to go templates and also have some go templating to make it easier for each software and system engineer to contribute to the testing environment and especially to the best practices configs. I talked about the smoke tests. I can only recommend the Golang itself because this is more close to the infrastructure or the runtime environments. We're having the most experience with Kubernetes and there we can actually write the smoke tests more precisely. The last stage I wanna talk about is the release stage. That's the stage where we're only bundling the different Helm charts. We're putting in some more best practices config from the go templates we've created. We're offering all the release notes, the docs and workarounds if there are any when you're trying to update from one version to another and we're also offering for an easier use case different CI templates. So if you're trying to create a deployment pipeline by yourself, you can always rely on some templating we've done in the global settings. There's one tool I wanna recommend you highly. This is renovate. The renovate bot actually gives you the opportunity to check automatically for each and every version. This is described in your CI CD pipeline and in your Git repository and we had over 100 updates per week for those 12 building blocks we've had in January. Okay, so this was lightning talk. So what is left? I've been talking about the CI CD pipe landing and if we go through the software development lifecycle we have the code checking, we have the building, we have the testing, we have the releasing and even some stuff you can just deploy and run. But they are two important things missing. This is once monitoring and operations management and the big question is how we tackle this. Operations management and alerting is always a very individual and reactive task. You can't automate those things, you just have to experience it. That's just like the hell we're working in. But there's one big approach I can always recommend and that's how we work with our customers and internally this is always shifting left. As soon as you have made the experience everybody's gonna actually enjoy having some, your experience as well. So share it by shifting left. Have the experience, write a smoke test or something and others will take care of standardizing in the way we do, for example. The benefits are I hope pretty obvious. So we can integrate multiple services into runtime environments, cloud agnostic. We can also have a already prepared CICD pipelining for a new service. So if you're creating new service all you have to do you just put it up there and then you can start with shifting left right off the start. And the collaboration also means that you don't have to work all by yourself. You're getting extra resources by everyone who uses them. This is actually the pretty neat one. And the transparency of course. Because we do need on GitOps, we are working programmatically, you're always being transparent with what you're doing during your tasks. So I spoke pretty quickly. If you didn't understand anything, just hit me up. I'm going to be here on the conference the next two days as well. You can find me on this is 11 booth and we can go into that with a more big detail. If you have any questions, just go to the microphone and go ahead. Thank you very much for you.


Here at OES, we have a saying that no one stands alone, and that's true when these massive wildland fires are burning across the state. As of this post, the Beckworth Complex and Plymouth National Forest is about to pass a 100,000-acre point. It's the largest fire burning in the state, and to get control of a fire this size, it requires an army of people and equipment, neither local nor federal government, as a capacity. That's where California's Mutual Aid System, a model worldwide, comes into play. Mutual Aid System and the reliance and dependence of it has become more and more over the last several years. Assistant Fire Chief Kit Bailey is a Cal OES representative at the Beckworth Complex. He's coordinated resources from the State Mobile Command Unit at the Incident Command Post in Portola. He says for about the last five years, wildland fires have become more frequent and more aggressive and erratic. And without the presence and commitment of local government and utilization of the Mutual Aid System, we in the state would be very compromised and have a really hard time staffing a lot of these fires. We caught up with Cal OES Strike Team 4801 Alpha just as they were beginning their shift. Division Command is holding them in place at Frenchman Lake in the middle of the fire. All crews have been pulled back for now. It's been sobering considering the time of year, how aggressive the fire has been, especially a few nights ago we were sitting in the same spot and wherever you looked you could see fire. Three of these Cal OES engines, the bright greenish yellow ones, belong to Sac Metro Fire Station 50. In exchange for the engines, they must staff them and respond when and where Cal OES needs them. I happened to be working that last Wednesday at station 50 when it was requested early on in the morning. Got notified by my battalion chief. We quickly responded with our crew members to a staging area and responded to the incident. They are a night crew, so the replacements get their updates, intel and marching orders at 6 a.m. When the day crews reach 4801 alpha, the strike team will return to the ICP and get some rest along with hundreds of other mutual aid teams and support crews. We might have different patches, but we do the same job. We want to protect property, protect the environment for the fire out as well as we can, as quickly as we can. Just realizing that basic principle, it provides an ability to communicate with other agencies. We don't know the guys, but we know that our end goal is the same. For more information on the mutual aid system, log on to news.caloes.ca.gov. For Cal OES, I'm John Goodell.


I got an email yesterday telling me to read maps backwards. Turns out it was just spam. Instagram. Twitter. Twitter. The content, juicy, the content, juicy. Thanks for some Patreon followers. Should I count me? Should I just go? Bang! Awesome. Boom, baby. Links in the description. Bill, what are you here? It's so good. Today, what are we doing, Rick? Uh, no. Okay. We got a, I believe it's a new Tamil trailer. What? We don't do those things! Bagheera trailer. Bagheera. Bagheera, like the Jungle Book. Jungle Book. Prabhu Deva, I don't know if it's directing, acting. Amira Dastur, Adik Ravi Chandran and Ganesan S. The story revolves around a psychologically affected serial killer who kills women for passion. As one does. I would imagine a serial killer who kills women for passion is just inherently, it goes without saying, psychologically affected. You think? It could be, it could be a little bit of a, well that was kind of a, Yeah, it was a little bit of a, I don't like that one. That was gross. That was really orange.  Uh, don't do that again. I don't want to. Here we go. Although orange does work for Halloween. Plump orange. I don't get to put it together. Or not gonna be able to watch it for a while. Come in, come in. Yeah, that was great. I do marry Coman Blacker. Deva, Prabhu Devi. How many roses you're gonna play? It's gonna go down? It's right. Why didn't that getille tank? I'm not expecting that. I'm gonna be honest with you. Not at all. Not at all. That is not what I expected. And that looks like it could be really good and a lot of fun or it could absolutely suck. Yep. It's one of those. It's like one of those. It could go either way. If it's done correctly, it could be a lot of fun, super interesting and like a really good character for Prabhu or it could be an absolute train wreck. It could be men in black or it could be wild wild west. Yeah, did not expect that. I mean obviously the idea and I wouldn't even need to see a trailer. If someone just told me there's a movie with this concept and Prabhu plays multiple weird characters, I would just by intrigue yeah be interested in seeing it. Absolutely.  Yeah, don't want to watch it. It's very possible. Yeah, it's possible. Because one we also don't know is acting prowess. Correct. Never seen Prabhu act. We've seen him dance and he's probably one of the greatest dancers of all time. But not all dancers can act. Yeah, there's times you watch people who are great at one thing and then they dabble in other art form and you're like yeah stick to that over there. But obviously he's been in tons of films. Of course. Obviously it's kind of. I trust him. We're rooting for the guy. It would be great to see him just the concept. The concept alone as an actor just seems so fun. One, a murderer. I would love I love playing murderers. Two, the one that has this kind of weirdness to him. That seems like a lot of fun. Weird characters. That's just acting. And it doesn't look like something like if I heard this concept and Nawaz was attached. I would be expecting a completely different film. Yes. Than probably this. Right. This looks like more of a mass entertainer with that weird concept. It's the difference between hearing a film like this was being done with somebody say like Timothy Chalamet or Jack Black. You're gonna get a completely different feel. Yeah. I feel like this is leaning toward Jack Black territory. Yeah. I don't know if it will be that fun.  But it may be absurdist. Yeah. It might be a little. Which is fine. Definitely more mass popcorn flake. Yeah. Just ridiculousness. Not legit shape shifting. Yeah. With each character. Yeah. Maybe. Obviously he was going through. He was so many different characters. He was even a woman at the time. And I got to say from the trailer there were moments there. I'm like I think he I think he invested himself in this thing. I think he's really tried to do his absolute best at this. Did he direct it? Or did he? That would be ridiculous. Can't it probably. No. No. Yeah. The hike. I was gonna say if he tried to direct that thing to his nuts. I'm looking forward to him dancing in a bunch of different costumes. Oh yeah.  That also looks a little raunchy which is totally cool. Yeah. Well he's done like because he directed the that woman should hit right. Ghandiba. Yes. Which was interesting. We didn't even bring that up. But that that was it was cool to recognize that at the outset of phobia. Oh yeah. Right in the car. Ghandiba. Dirty talk. Ghandi. Ghandi. Ghandi. So yeah. What do you think? Yeah. What do you think about this trailer? If if we should start going into Prabhu's films, what should be the first Prabhu film? Or should we go into Prabhu's films? I don't know. But if we should, what should be the first and let us know what else we need to know about this down below.


Hi there! Welcome to Tourism Matters, a program that explores issues about tourism and why tourism is an important part of our lives. This is brought to you by UPAIT and TVUP. Tourism Matters tackle broad topics and are divided into three series. Number one, tourism policy and governance with a specific focus on issue on over-tourism. Number two, tourism education and human resource capacity. And number three, tourism industry, market and enterprise. We hope you find the series interesting, educational and fun. In this series, leading experts in tourism share their thoughts on over-tourism, a term that first appeared on social media in 2012 to denote the negative impacts of tourism and the social movements associated with host antagonism to too many guests. In episode one, UPA visiting professors explain over-tourism, its definition, causes and dimensions. Professors Brent Ritchie from the University of Queensland, Australia and Kumikato of Wakayama University, Japan lend their voices to explain over-tourism in various contexts. The visiting professors were keynote speakers during the recently organized Second Philippine Research Conference on Tourism and Hospitality in Magusiti in 2018. The theme of that conference organized by the University of the Philippines was Facing the Challenges of Over-Tourism. Hello, my name is Kumikato from Wakayama University Centre for Tourism Research and also Faculty of Tourism. I specialize in sustainable tourism and then I work with local communities in Japan as well as overseas. I've been in tourism for the last ten years since I moved from Australia to Japan and I spend nearly 25 years in Australia. So my English is very Australian. So I'm very happy to be talking about tourism today. I guess over-tourism is a very uncontrolled, probably an explosion of tourism. I guess a lot of people think about just like a mass number of people visiting one site but I think it's really, the problem is more complex than that. I think it's really the lack of strategic planning and policy and a long-term vision for sustainability. I guess a lot of people are aware of what's happening in major destinations such as Barcelona and Venice and what's happening, what's called anti-tourism movement from that kind of more hostility from that local residents. Similar things started to happen in Japan. Japan's really experiencing a really rapid growth of international tourism. 2015 we had over 20 million visitors and now this year 2018 we're expecting probably 30 million visitors, international visitors. And as you know next year we will have Rugby World Cup in Japan and then 2020 we have Tokyo Olympics and then 2021 we have World Masters Games. So the Japanese government projecting 2020 we will have 40 million visitors and 2030 we will have 60 million. So that's a very big number. But what's happening is we started to see that impact on the local community and destinations. So particularly the very famous destination like Kyoto, there is a very mass crowd. Now the local residents started to feel a little bit probably uneasy about what's happening. Like there's a big congestion on the road, like public transport like a bus. A lot of local residents say they cannot actually get on the bus. Local shops are filled with tourists or even the supermarkets that normally you don't see visitors, you started to see that guests. So that's happening in Japan and then now there is this word kanko kogai which is actually called tourism pollution. And that's probably the over tourism equivalent in Japanese. So that's happening, started to happen in the major cities like Kyoto and Osaka and then I think some of you may have visited places like Dotonbori in Osaka and that's now the local communities they don't want to go there because they're just filled with international visitors. But at the same time we have to be very careful that doesn't become anti-international visitors because it's very difficult to isolate the program because the mass number of international tourists but they're not always, that's not, they're not the only one who's causing the program. It's a lack of infrastructure, lack of proper planning, policy. So we have to be very careful not to blame the obvious because international visitors particularly in the mass number it's very easy to say well because of them we now have too many crowds but that's not always the case. I think as I said, I think it's a really lack of long vision sustainability, long planning, long term planning for sustainability and then I guess what we really need to do is to really understand the caring capacity. Not just the physical capacity but also there is emotional capacity, cultural capacity, social capacity. There's all kinds of capacity that we really need to look at and then I think it's really important to involve the local community and what kind of vision they have and then what kind of priorities they have and then what the tourism can play within that vision. I'm actually working with the local community in my prefecture called Wakayama and then that's actually a quite famous pilgrimage destination so now we started to see a lot of international tourists coming to actually walk the pilgrimage. Because of that type of destination it's very unlikely that we will have flood of tourists there but then at the same time we can go develop kind of wrong kind of tourism but what I really value is that communities along those destination, those pilgrimage destination lot of them actually moved from urban areas because they wanted a particular kind of lifestyle. I find those people's vision quite important because they choose to live in those places because of their priority in a sustainable lifestyle so I think it's very important to use those people's vision to avoid actually destroying that destination itself. As I said again, I think it's very important we don't blame the tourists but then at the same time there are people who I think local people's life is really fundamental in tourism development so now the Japanese government actually last year they did the survey of that local community view about tourism what they are happy about what they are not happy about so it's really important that those people's view are really valued so I think that the government really need to set the priority that community happiness and well-being is the priority and if they really put that forward then they will feel that their view is their life and view is valued not secondary to tourism development so I think that priority is really important and that need to come through in the policy development I think it's really difficult to say here there is a solution but I think all these active well, one is those policy development and then planning based on the proper capacity caring capacity assessment I think that's very important and as I said that's including the physical caring capacity as well as more kind of intangible caring capacity which could involve how the community feel about the tourism of course that the tourist satisfaction is of course it's very important because we don't want to ruin their experience but then I think we really need to to come up with proper caring capacity assessment I think that's really the beginning but that's again we need to involve the local community in those assessment as well at the same time I think we really need to project sustainability vision often like in Japan like environmental impact it's taken care of by other department like natural resource management but of course we can separate like tourism development and then those environmental planning so they really need to communicate and work together that kind of partnership within at the sector or government it's very important as well so now I think a lot of people becoming aware about the sustainability issue because of the SDGs and I think in Japan also there is like a SDGs future cities that was selected I think 29 cities selected in Japan and then some industry also started to become more aware about sustainability issues through because of that SDG platform so I think tourism really need to work within, you can use that platform as a guideline and then the sustainability issues really need to come to be really I guess there's a more public education in industry as well as a community and then also visitors but I think the destination the host destination they really need to have a stronger vision in the sustainability issue Hi everyone, my name is Professor Brent Ritchie I'm with the University of Queensland in Australia I'm really pleased to be here at UP in the Philippines to talk about over tourism what in my view is over tourism well over tourism very simply is too much tourism tourist arrivals are growing very very rapidly and unfortunately tourists are travelling to the same place generally at the same time creating a lot of congestion crowding and negative impacts we're all familiar with the positive impacts of tourism but unfortunately with over tourism we're seeing more of the negative impacts in terms of carrying capacity this is being reached in the communities where tourists are visiting in the natural areas which they're also visiting carrying capacity is quite important in terms of understanding over tourism because the negative impacts of tourism will impact the community and its ability to absorb the impacts and recover quickly the same can be seen in the natural environment the more negative impacts tourism can have on coral or beach environments makes it very difficult to actually absorb the impacts and recover quickly over time in terms of residents' perceptions and attitudes towards over tourism this is quite important to understand all residents are different some residents may interact with tourists they may see the positive benefits of tourism and therefore their carrying capacity the impacts that tourism will have will be less they might be more supportive towards tourism because they're employed or because their family members are employed through tourism so not all residents are the same and understanding their attitudes and perceptions around tourism is very very important we're seeing some local residents in some cities actually responding negatively to tourism and this is because they're affected most negatively by the impacts of tourists in terms of its manifestations what we're seeing with over tourism is a large number of people coming to these key places at the same time tourism is very seasonal so what we're seeing is a huge influx at key periods of time which is having a major impact on the community now tourists are often travelling too to the same places and so this is also an issue we need to be able to disperse tourists beyond the key cities beyond the key beaches beyond the key resorts in terms of where we can see over tourism especially in Europe we can see this in many many cities in Europe which are being overrun by tourists examples include Venice Amsterdam and also Barcelona what we're seeing is the influx of tourists during key times at key locations and it's causing a lot of congestion it's creating price rises it's having negative economic impacts it's also having traffic congestion and all these impacts on the local community so it's affecting their quality of life and this is leading to some negative sentiment towards tourists in some cases we're actually seeing local people attacking tourists we're seeing graffiti we're seeing protests against tourism because of the nature of it in terms of the underlying conditions I think some of the conditions that are influencing over tourism obviously to do with the number of people coming at the key points in time at a key locations what we need to think about is spreading the flow of visitors beyond the key cities in terms of the role of social movement civil society groups and government all have a role to play obviously government has the ability to manage tourism to perhaps put in place policies to restrict where tourists go and what they do but also I think NGOs also have a role to play I think recently when we've seen closures of island resorts because of over tourism inacted but we may not have seen NGOs and civil society come in and say how do we actually make this work so that people don't lose jobs and we don't end up with poverty issues so I think government has a key role to play and dealing with the over tourism issue but so too does the tourism industry it has to take some responsibility for the impacts of tourism perhaps it has to look at how it actually operates has to think about waste management has to see look at how it can actually reduce its impact on the community tourists also have to take a responsibility unfortunately some tourists don't behave as well as we should expect them to do and they also have to take some responsibility and that might mean communicating with them about what they can do to reduce their impact on the community we might need to communicate to them about how to travel to the destination at a different time of the year and that will encourage them to actually have a better experience as well when it's less congested I think the discussions on over tourism need to also take place outside of the academic and research community I think the academic community can help develop research programs to better understand over tourism its consequences its impacts, its causes and then perhaps look at formulating policies and strategies to deal with the issue I think academic research can also be used to help evaluate and monitor strategies and policies that are implemented perhaps to deal with over tourism but the academic community can't just do this research in a silo it needs to actually communicate the findings, work with government, work with the not-for-profit sector to make sure the policies are implemented and that they're actually evaluated at the end of the day we need to make sure that we learn lessons we are able to develop strategies that actually work and don't negatively impact the local community so in terms of the issues we've got a large number of people travelling to the same destinations at the same time so a key measure to deal with over tourism is actually to spread the flow of people, is to actually encourage them to travel to other places or other parts of the city or the destination so perhaps we can think about developing events or other activities outside of the main tourist season to make sure they travel at that point in time we could also look at spreading tourists to other parts of the destination where perhaps they're not going to have as much of a large impact however that can have drawbacks because some neighbourhoods might not be ready to accept tourists away from the tourist zones we can also think about policies and strategies to plan and manage tourism better at the moment a lot of the issues around over tourism is to do with the lack of planning, lack of dealing with the problems, spreading the flow and dealing with traffic congestion also in terms of the short term rental accommodation we're seeing some places in Europe really negatively affected by air B&B and short term rental accommodation we're seeing some responses to that by actually regulating against air B&B and actually reducing the number of days that short term rentals can be leased to tourists so these are measures that the government can put in place we can also see other mechanisms by actually communicating to tourists to change their behaviour some of the problems are actually about the tourists and their behaviour when they're in the destination so obviously there are ways that we can do that through communicating, through the travel industry to explain to tourists what is right or wrong in terms of what their behaviour is and hopefully we can actually change that behaviour so that they don't litter, they don't pollute the environment and they act and treat people with respect and dignity when they're visiting these destinations another option I guess is closing places is actually shutting them down to tourists and tourism and obviously we're seeing this in Burukai and also in Mahabeech and Thailand however closing down the tourism destinations might not necessarily be a good plan it may be in the short term and may help the environment although it may cause problems in terms of employment and lead to issues around poverty we might be seeing some of this in the case of Burukai with people actually being displaced workers being displaced from the island I'm not sure if six month closure is enough to actually rehabilitate the coral reefs and deal with some of the underlying issues but it is a good start I think we might see more closures of destinations as we see a reaction towards over tourism but my concern is this might be a bit reactive and perhaps not thinking about the flow and implications to the economy and to society I think what we need to think about and deal with is actually the seasonality aspects and the numbers of people coming if we can showcase other destinations we might be able to spread the burden but also spread the positive impacts at tourism can bring to communities look we're seeing some negative reactions from local residents against tourism we're seeing some graffiti and anti tourism sentiment because local people feel alienated in their own communities we're also seeing some people actually questioning travel and consumption associated with travel particularly in European markets like Germany where they're actually thinking about slow forms of travel such as cycling and walking they're also thinking about not traveling to a destination for business if they can do that through Skype or technology things like that so we're seeing that so people are starting to question their consumption patterns and travel and tourism obviously has a big impact on the environment and they're questioning that reducing their travel too much of a good thing could be bad that is true of over tourism given that tourism could impact a destination adversely it is important that we understand such impacts and how we could respond to that in the next episode we analyze the government and the private sector's response to over tourism


You know when you think you're out of socks and then you find just that one last pair You know, it's gonna be a good day Today being a very very windy day. I decided to upgrade my microphone Windmuff I was using right Cody before now. I'm using a micromuff calm I Don't know if they ship to the US if you email them if you are in the UK You can get it on Amazon But yeah, these same ones fun for you Louie uses same in for free. Hopefully there's an improvement with the sound Let's test it out. It's about 20 miles an hour. I Don't know if it's better or worse. So anyways today Dun-dun-dun We're gonna fix that oil leak For the second time. All right, so we're back at it again. I showed you in the previous video where that nut was Well, we got this other nut and we're gonna try and fix its name is badge The rig together this very long extension here as you can see so we are just fishing this thing on in there Blocking his view And we're gonna pull that thing out put a washer on it. It sounds a lot easier than it will be I bet you lunch for that one It's loose Fantastic Okay from what you're working with there is anywhere from five to three hundred PSI three thousand PSI So this O-ring's got to be perfect So that's why you got to use the Ford one or a really high-pressure O-ring boss Because this is just an O-ring boss plug, right? Is all it is and that O-ring is not even three. Wow. Wow. We it well So that was a brand-new O-ring. I wasn't used one that was brand new that but this is just an ordinary O-ring So you can see what it does to it completely blown out. That's O-ring boss So you just have to put we got the factory one. So and what they do is they lock cut it in I'm not saying it's perfect, but it works and This usually after you do it. It's probably all right. We try it Well, we're in the backwoods. I know when we fix it. So we never had the right parts, but We got it. So we're now in the back It's all good, but now this plug usually and it was finger tight So that's bothers me too. So we'll put it on a lock tight and that'll keep it from coming out sweet.  I'm gonna assist with the light and at the end of it He's got a magnet There we go. This is what it looks like. So he's trying to Stick it in that hole. I'm gonna turn the camera off and give him a hand. Good news guys Look at that You might not be able to see that in there because I think the focusing is off Let me try and fix it with a light too. It's hard. It's way in there, but Just take my word for it. We are connected. The threads are going in Today looks like a much much easier day. This is gonna turn out to be like a half-hour fix instead of a four-hour fix all right, if you guys don't know what that is that is a Torque wrench What do you have any foot pounds are on there Well, I give it 30 because it's this Combination a yeah, so you give it about 30 Yeah, it is it's also this engine is known as a paint rattler and it is known to rattle the bolts Out of the holes Badge is going to explain what kind of thing he rigged up here to get this is all the extensions because we got to go back into there like About this far really so what you do is you tape all these together So they don't come apart right now. This is an ordinary universal joint and you tape it up So it doesn't swivel a little bit, right now you can use this But don't use it on impact But you can use this and it takes all the swivel out because you know if you let it go it'll just drop Well, you put it in there and then you got to go back in there because all you got is working with this little piece And you got to get that piece to turn But it's all good. See if you put the plug in by hand You won't strip it if you put it in with a ratchet or a gun or anything chances are you'll strip the plug on the back of the Thing and then you don't even want to go there But anyway, you put in by hand you get it tight and then you torque it. That's the trick. All right, so we're just going to let the Lock tight which is like a thread sealant Do its whole thing? I'll in a little bit. We'll do a little kind of tour this you know area It's probably too windy to fly the drone But I'm going to make a separate video with Badge right now We're going to get a full tour of his rig. Everybody wants a tour. They're getting a tour Full tour of the ring. Full rig set up solar system all that stuff. So if you're in that kind of stuff Yeah, go watch that video. All right, well fast forward to the evening time Took Badge out for dinner nice little thank you for all the work that he's Done for me very graciously since we bumped into each other at randomly at a Was that was that laundromat? That's the word I was searching for laundromat and Aaron Berg Arizona right by the Colorado River in the California border It's amazing the people really cool people that have met on this trip and It's gonna be not gonna lie. It's gonna be a little weird to sell my bus I've had this thing now for for two years and I just can't help you know thinking back about Everywhere we've been together in this thing Since I first bought it sight unseen took a flight on I think it was Valentine's Day Red Eye to Philadelphia and then stayed in a place by myself and Hotel and then the next day my best friend flew in and helped me drive across the country And then I got him back in time for work like a half an hour before work started It's like six or seven days picked up Larry the hitchhiker Man what a interesting journey that was and then everything in between with the build and you know I'm trying to do it on a budget in Austin and just butting heads with a unpleasant human being and then finishing up in Salt Lake City with Nick very pleasant human being so I've had like the complete opposites But yeah, and then all the places I've tried to go and you know The whole mission which I tried to to complete which I didn't quite do I wanted to hit all the states in a year But let me tell you that's a lot of work. No originally. I I wanted to hit all the states and I didn't do that and that kind of bums me out a little bit but on the bright side I got to meet so many incredible human beings along the trip and Along the journey that it's made up for it. That was That was definitely a highlight of this trip is meeting people. Yeah We'll be exciting for project number two Pretty sure it's gonna be a school bus although. I really would like to take a motorcycle down to Argentina Perhaps after I do bus number two get the numbers up a little bit and That would be a very very fun adventure If anybody's in up for something like that, let me know Because that could possibly be something after bus number two at some point Something different But yeah it's just been a Really great experience and Part of the reason I didn't get through all the states is I I want you know There's a balance that I was trying to strike with meeting, you know new people and making friends Who also make YouTube videos and can travel with me or people I get along with and those friendships I feel like just the beginning of more adventures to come I Ended up speaking at events As you know kind of an expert on Travel and adventure to people who are hungry for travel and adventure So that was a lot of fun Before I started this I thought to myself. I don't I don't just want to adventure around and be in a bus Be known as the bus guy. I want to be the guy who speaks at events and and Waits until the last person you know gets to come up and say hi or ask a question or something like that and I feel like That would be a great person to become So I'm definitely looking forward to the next project. It's gonna be a little bit weird not driving around not traveling every day, but I have my Resources for bus number two. I have friends who've committed themselves To help out badge actually over there in the trailer with the vegetable oil conversion Which I have briefly mentioned before but that is definitely a direction. I want to go I have another friend that I met at a tiny house festival who's a builder he is a Phenomenal phenomenal builder you'll you'll meet him later. So I have these you know people lined up and You know willing to help out like I said in yesterday's video or maybe it was today. I just officially turned down like a TV show For various reasons I'm not gonna get into but You know that could have been a lot of fun, but I'm gonna stick with this idea see where that leads me and Only the future will tell what is in store for me, but I do have my Radar out for bus number two I have been on the internet and making few phone calls here and there and emails and I appreciate everybody who's Commented resources like I'm very behind on videos and Comments so I will catch up and I'll probably do a video every other day And I'll do other like Q&A type videos. So if you guys have any questions you want me to answer Now is a great time. I'll highlight the question from the person just like driving a vibing and then I'll address that question and Yeah, because there's a lot to a lot information to share that I want to put in a very short concise SEO friendly way like What to expect before Purchasing a school bus and converting it that is a great single video topic There's a lot of people who we were looking for that not necessarily you or you Or you but some people will be searching for that information. It's nice to have that out there. So You know, I'm sure a lot of people are curious. What's it like? So anyways, that's it for today. I know it was a long rant in a very short Fix which I actually prefer The other time we had a short rant in a very long fix. So I'm glad that we fixed it in about 20 minutes Which was amazing. Thanks to badge in his geniusness. I'll see you in tomorrow's video. Thanks for watching


For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome to People's Dispatch. On September 26th, elections took place to elect a federal government in Germany as well as in some states. But there was another vote which people across the continent and across the world, in fact, were looking forward to. This was on a referendum to expropriate houses from big private real estate companies in the capital city of Berlin. The expropriate Deutsche One and Co. campaign actually won this referendum, getting over 55% of the vote. And now there's a proposal to actually expropriate this, which will have to be passed. And there's a lot of challenges there, of course, but this victory has been hailed across the continent and the world as a major milestone in the struggle for equitable housing for all. Today, we're joined by Anisha Petku, who's been very closely associated with this referendum, who works with organizations as partners. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you for having me. Happy to talk about the referendum anytime. So first of all, I just wanted to ask you about the situation in Berlin that led to the rise of some of these demands. Could you take us through maybe the housing situation in the city over the past few decades? What was the context in which the movement for this referendum arose in the first place? Sure. I think there are a couple of important aspects that need to be understood. First of all, is the fact that Berlin used to be a city with very affordable housing. And it used to be a city with affordable housing in recent memory, so to say. It's something that we could still say about the city 10, 15 years ago. And so people remember. And it's a thing that was important for the city and that people loved and that made life affordable and much more enjoyable for that reason. Second of all, is the fact that 85% of people in Berlin are actually renters. So this issue of rent prices and rent increases affects the vast majority of the population. And so there were a lot of people that would have been concerned and the campaign spoke to a lot of the people living in the city. And it also, for example, used to be a city that had a lot of socialized housing. But that started to change. In the last 10 years alone, the rents have almost doubled in a certain part of the city, but the wages have not been proportionately increased. So that already started to create this discrepancy. And we started seeing big players, so to say, coming into the market. Those socialized houses that I mentioned before started to be bought off by private investors. And so, of course, the amount of available living space and the cost of living space in Berlin started to increase. And there's one, for example, outrageous incident that I can mention in 2006, Deutsche Wohnen, one of the big companies that we are trying to expropriate, bought 60,000 apartments in Berlin for prices as low as 8,000 euros. And then, of course, they used these properties to rent out for rents, which were a lot less affordable than what people used to pay before. And so in the last 10 years to make it short, the landscape changed from Berlin being a city that was affordable and that welcomed people to being a city that was privatized and that started having very high rents. A lot of people are affected. And so there was a lot of anger about that and people eventually decided to do something about it. Right, absolutely. So this brings us to the next question, which is really about the organizing around the campaign itself. Could you also maybe take us a bit to the history of how this organizing began? What were the groups and coalitions, for instance, which joined together for this campaign? You yourself, I believe, work with an organization which works with migrants. So how did these various sectors come together for this campaign? Yes, it's important to keep in mind that there was a lot of organizing way before our campaign came along. I don't want it to sound in any way as if we're the first ones doing it. There were always tenants unions who were trying to fight for their rights. And as these privatizations and these rent increases started to happen, there was also a lot of grassroots activism that started to happen. I think it's also important to say that a lot of these movements have been driven actually by people with migration backgrounds, for example. Those socialized housing that I mentioned before, there was a big number of people living there who had a migration background, because as we know, because of discrimination, those are often the people that don't have such a good material situation and then they were affected by it. And they decided to do something about it and to fight for their rights and to start fighting already years ago for the re-communalization of housing in Berlin. And for example, in 2011, the tenants in some of the buildings that had been sold finally came together in an organization which is called Kotti & Kohl, whom we still work with quite closely and there's a lot of exchange between us. Then in 2016, other tenants of other Deutsche Wohnen building started to organize themselves and to organize the people in other buildings. So they started taking it to the other buildings and spreading this and trying to provide support and knowledge so that the other people could do the same kind of organizing that they did. These are just two examples. There's a lot happening in the city and many of these groups came together or people from these groups came together. They recognized the legal potential for this because the German constitution allows for this kind of an expropriation. That's also important to say. And through their efforts and through their vision in 2018, Deutsche Wohnen Entegnen, so expropriated Deutsche Wohnen actually became an official fully fledged movement here in Berlin. That's a bit about the history of organizing here. Right. So now a big question has been what happens next because even if you look at a lot of the media reporting around this campaign, while they have cautioned, they've been talking about their campaign, everyone is happy to say that, oh, there are too many challenges, oh, the real estate lobby is not valid. And of course we have the fact that Francesca Giffey, who's the new mayor of Berlin herself, has been reportedly known to state that she's not really in favor of the idea of expropriation as well because she doesn't want Berlin to be that kind of city. So could you maybe take us through what are, say, the procedural aspects that come next and how does the movement see this going forward? Yeah. I'm not going to lie. It's difficult what's coming. It was difficult organizing the referendum. It was difficult winning. We were very happy about it, but the work is definitely not over. You are right to say that Francesca Giffey, the newly appointed mayor, is not happy with this referendum and her party officially at least is not happy with this referendum. We are not a political party. We are a people's movement. We did get support from some parties, especially the left parties, the different left parties that we have here. And we have one party in the actual coalition, Die Linke, the left party, which is supporting us officially. And we have a lot of members of the other parties. So the basis of those parties who think the referendum should be implemented. But the social democrats are definitely against it officially. And the Greens say that they would only consider this as a last option. They think there are other things that should be done before. So we're definitely not facing a happy crowd that wants to support us. In terms of next steps, what I can say is that we have to continue pushing. We have to keep applying pressure on the politicians. They're trying now to, I think, take the wind out of our sails. So to say they're trying to say that now we need to have a commission that needs to check if this is possible and we need to talk and we need to plan. And all these things are false, really, because we know that this is possible legally and economically. Otherwise, this wouldn't have been allowed to become a referendum. So it's not a question of if we can do this. It should be a question of how are we going to do this? And so we're trying to apply pressure. They want to organize a commission, for example, that will discuss this. We are not happy with this idea because it's not at all transparent who's going to be in that commission. If you're going to have people who are in the housing market lobbyists on that commission trying to fight against us, of course, it's not going to be fair or transparent. We've been invited to participate in this commission. And we sort of said yes, but only if you give us 59.1 percent representation, because that's how we want the referendum and if it's all transparent and regular meetings and all of that, which we'll see if that happens. And otherwise, we're really trying to move it even more into the direction of grassroots. We want to organize tenants to provide them with the tools to organize themselves, to identify their needs and to empower them basically to become even stronger and to apply more pressure from this base level of the population. We're doing a lot of networking. We're trying to also see what other topics we want to discuss and connect with and become allies with so that we support each other in this fight for an affordable city and for an affordable life. There's a lot of planning to be done. There's a lot of work still to be done, but we're, of course, very motivated because we want this historic referendum. And so we're going to keep on going. Absolutely. And finally quickly also just to see if there's also a nationwide movement that's building around some of these issues. What have been the kind of links slash solidarity that has come from various other parts of Germany or for that matter, even other parts of the continent? And what are the kinds of bonds you've built? I know that there's another expropriation movement happening in Hamburg, for example. So there's definitely other cities which are affected by the same kind of problem and they're trying to do something about it. I don't know about anything at national level at the moment, but maybe we set the precedent. We've been getting a lot of international attention.  We did workshops. We went to conferences. We tried to share this knowledge that we have and to share what we've learned and this power that we've achieved because, of course, we would like for this to happen in all the cities and we would like all the cities to be affordable and a good place to live in. And then there's a lot of networking potential in terms of other struggles, as I've already mentioned, where, for example, a big topic for us is voting rights. There have been a lot of people that have not been allowed to vote in this referendum, even though they're very affected because Berlin has a great population of people with migration background. And so that's unfair and we're trying to do something about it and we're trying to apply pressure and the campaign has done that as well. And we're looking for ways to network and to continue this in the future. There's, I myself am active in the campaign, but mostly active in the group of people with migration background. I myself am such a person. I came to Germany four years ago and we also do a lot of intermediation between the Germans and us. We are trying to also where my group is also kind of trying to put together this network of people concerned with ecological movements and climate activism and to include this topic into the idea of affordable and sustainable housing so that in the future housing can be green and the city can be greener for everyone. We recently supported Gorillaz workers. Gorillaz are it's a delivery service here in Germany and they had very, very bad working conditions and we supported their strike and we talked a lot about how, of course, fair wages and fair rent prices and fair housing are all part of the same big topic about affordable life. So we're recognizing the different kind of dimensions of the housing problem I've mentioned before this whole migration background discrimination issue, how hard it is for a person that has a migration background, the different sounding name or a different skin color or not perfect German, how hard it is for those, how much harder it is for those people to find a place here in Germany. So we're trying to fight for that as well. Yeah, it's a recognition of a lot of topics that connect to housing and we're trying as much as possible to network and to develop the law and the proposal that is going to come in a way that recognizes and addresses all of these different issues. Thank you so much Anise for talking to us. Thank you as well. Thank you as well for covering a struggle in the future as well. That's all we have time for today. Keep watching People's Dispatch.


Let's get over to our man, Mr. Steve Rhodes, as we do each and every Monday at 20 past the hour. And don't forget, folks, Steve has an outstanding newsletter, Mastering Probability. Now, it's very easy to get Steve's newsletter to come over to our website at TFNN. You're going to see it right under Featured Contents. You just hit that button. You hit Subscribe. You can get Mastering Probability for one month for $149. You get it for six months for $695, which is a savings of $199 or 22 percent. And you get it for one full year, folks, for $1195, which is a savings of $593 or 33 percent. Now they all come with a 38-money-back guarantee, folks, okay? So you can come over, you can test drive it. As you test drive it, what you're going to see once you're over in Steve's page is that all the different tools that he uses and the explanation of how these tools work, okay? So, you know, you got a huge amount of information, great newsletter, check it out. If it works for you, that's awesome.  No problem. You still had a great education. Steve Rose, what's going on? Well, first, Happy New Year to you. Yes, Happy New Year. I know, man. Happy New Year. And so it was quite a first week, huh? Quite a first week. There's no doubt.  Yeah. Well, so first, a little bit, a little bit of football. So congratulations to you and your team, Tampa Bay. Next Monday should be one heck of a game against the Eagles at home. So that's a cool thing. I think that our dolphins will be saying goodbye after next Sunday. Just too many. That game, it was, that was a great game to watch, man. I mean, that was, if you didn't see this game, folks, okay, you know, a Buffalo came down twice, lost the ball, the goal line, then he fumbled, right? And you know, after that, I'm saying myself, oh my God, that's the, but yeah, it was quite a game, man. And I'm looking forward to today's game, too. Oh yeah. Oh, I can't wait. That's, yeah, thankfully, it's on early. I know, 730. Yeah. Yeah. Those games that don't start till 830 at night. I agree. Isn't it amazing, Steve, that, like, it gives you back to the pros again? Yeah. Like, this is like the ultimate gladiators, man. I mean, it's so crazy. It's like, you know, I was looking at it, and you know it's so wild, folks, okay? That when you say that, you know, if you've ever seen the Coliseum, okay? The Coliseum in Rome is amazing, man. Okay? That's the bottom line. And what are the biggest stadiums that we have? Well, guess what? We might have got a little more sophisticated by this football. That's right. That's right. Yeah, that's right. Go, go, go! Get him! Get him! You know, so it's like... Well, we're really sophisticated in how we handle the adult beverages. Now, most stadiums you can almost order, and they'll bring it to you. It's a great thing. It really is amazing, man. Amazing. It is a great thing. All right. So I thought we'd talk about the market just for a little bit. Yep. We've got the EES, the NQ and the Russell 2000. Last week, they each generated profile change in trend signals. So I'll explain what that means to everybody that's out there. And they did it for their daily time frame. And if you take a look at this chart here, the upper left-hand side is the EES mini. The upper right-hand is the NQ. Lower left is the Dow. Lower right is the Russell 2000. And the blue horizontal lines on this chart, folks, those represent profile levels. What profile levels are at the top, it tells us where sellers are at. At the bottom tells us where the buyers are at. And if there's a third line, often referred to as the centers where buyers and sellers believe there's fair value within that range. Once we close below the bottom of a daily profile, if you do it for two consecutive sessions, that generates a change in trend signal. So on the upper left-hand side for the EES mini, I show those two signals that we've gotten out here. We have the same thing for the NQ. Now what's interesting here is that the Dow has still not closed below the bottom of its profile. So it has not generated a profile change in trend. The other three have, but the Dow hasn't. What that tells me, Tom, is we just want to keep an eye on the Dow because if that generates a change in trend, maybe that's all that the market is waiting for. I don't know whether it is or it isn't, but that's something to certainly pay attention to. Yes, I see what you're saying. Right. Yeah. It's top at the exact same time, as you know. No. So what's the weak link out here? Well, the strong link is the Dow. That could turn into a weak link if it does close below profile. Now one of the reasons that the Dow may not have generated a change in trend signal is because of global capital flows out there. So this is a cool chart in that it shows the Dow for its daily time frame and shows how it's trading in all of these major currencies. So we've got the dollar, euro, yen, we've got the Great British Pound, the Canadian Looney, the Swedish Grona, the Swiss Franc, the Chinese Won, and the Australian Dow, the Aussie Dollar out there. So what's interesting here is that the Dow priced in dollars made a new all-time high in January 2nd. Priced in euros, it was January 2nd as well. Priced in yen, it was January 5th. So just a few days later, Great British Pound, January 2nd as well. Now what I want to, when we opened up the show, we were talking about kind of an interesting, it was a very interesting week last week. What I want people to, and I just want to describe this to folks out there, there is this January cycle that exists out there. So for example, the all-time high in the Dow, I'm not the Dow, where is it? That's probably not on this chart here. When markets make significant tops, it'll do it when they're all making the same high at just about the exact same time. And so knowing that the Dow made a top on January 2nd in dollars and euros, yen on January 5th and in pounds on January 2nd. Those are the core currencies. And January 5th, by the way, in terms of Aussie dollars out there. There are times, many times, where we see the high for the year. This would be 2024 we're talking about. It really takes place on basically the first day of the year. So we may be going back to take out those highs, but if we don't go back people should just be aware of that January effect out. This is a Stevie January effect. Because if you go back and you take a look at other charts out there, you'll see that high can come in during that first week. And you never really look back. So if we do take out the highs, that's a positive. At least let's say, I don't know, I guess a short-term positive. These are the top eight stocks, Tom, with inside the Dow. They make up 49% of its weightings out there. Home Depot generated a TD9 count bottom last week out there. So that's got a bottom. Microsoft has a TD9 count of roads meant to mitigate our top. But all that it's been doing is just consolidating sideways with inside its profile, and it has not busted through. So it does not have a profile change in trend. Goldman Sachs has yet to close below its profile. So no profile change in trend there. Amgen is likely going to negate. We're talking about the chip stocks. It's likely going to negate its TD9 count top today with a close above 305, 30509. So we take a look at these eight stocks that make up 49% of the weighting out here. And in fact, we don't even have Apple on this. And it's not one of the top eight weightings. Apple formed a buy the D point pattern today. So I believe we're going to get some more rally. I didn't get to one of the charts that said, the one thing we've got to be a bit cautious of, this chart right here for its daily time frame. This is the ES mini. Today is going to be day number two of a rally. This is the ES, this is the, I'm sorry, that was the, this is the S&P 500 going back to our October 11th high out here, rallies typically last two to four consecutive sessions higher. And that's what this shows here. I often say that during the show out there. Here's kind of proof in the pudding. So today could be a top, believe it or not. I love it. I'll leave it like that. Thanks, Steve. Have a great one. A safe one. Stay right there folks. Come right.


Welcome to Traffy TV, here is the Matri action. Manchester United two-event nil poor display by Everton today at Old Trafford, really, really poor display by the Blues and if it wasn't for Jordan Pickford it would have been a bigger margin of defeat. Yet the manager made a change obviously, a force change after I had the Corey suspended so Ella Sims came in, moved the Wobie inside into centre of my field and pushed the Marey Grey out of the right wing and it wasn't a change that I thought he'd made to be honest, I thought he was moving too many pieces about but that's the one he went with and it ever never really got to grips with it let's be honest he didn't really get to grips with it. Alex a Wobie was poor in my field today at the Marey Grey done nothing, Ella Sims not going to, can't say much you know to him he's had three starts and has everton created Chelsea away, Liverpool away Manchester United away and you know you can't really have a go over him. United were just better than us today, like I said right at the start they started off really quickly, Everton couldn't get to grips with them, long straight balls over the top team to cause a huge issues, Jordan Pickford made a big save for the first real one which was Marcus Rathford Michael Keane, I don't know what he was doing, stretching for a ball instead of just moving his feet going in and it was a good save, I thought that to hold me breath I thought Tarkovsky was going to try and bring him down by putting a challenge in but he didn't pick for today big and Jordan Pickford had to make three or four really really good saves for us and we then had a big opportunity ourselves Ella Sims with the glorious chance to give us the lead and he's rolled, I don't know what he's done, he hasn't hit his foot through the ball and he's rolled it agonisingly wide at the far post and if he strikes that properly into the far corner we go one the love, who knows what might have happened but you know I think if you're sure on date you're fuming over the goals that Everton have conceded today, I've just said man United but by far the better side could have had more goals comfortably but the goals Everton have conceded today, it's so bad, the first goal is awful, 450 we lose on the edge of the box, it's just really it's bad, it's white McNeill the last one is pathetic but four of them lose it Godfrey, it's just shocking and it's a little through ball and Mick Tomley sweeps it past Pickford and there's nothing obviously nothing Jordan Pickford could do about it, when in one down there halftime came out second half the manager made the change, Godfrey went off and he had to, he was all over the place, the left hand side just caused so much of our issues today certainly in the first half, Godfrey McNeill with poor and we were caught out so many times, Godfrey especially straight balls, he was all over the place, he did make one tremendous recovery tackling the first half but he was really bad today, the manager changed there a halftime brought Michael Enco on, Everton were marginally better in the second half, least we had some shots, the manager made changes after Everton, bit of Everton pressure brought off Amadou Omnan in the Drift of Ghana, Geipur on Tom Davies and James Ghana to try and give Everton some extra legs in that midfield and like I said we had a little bit more of a go but United just kept us our arms length really, you know there was nothing really that we created, that was a huge opportunity, we had a couple of corners where we put them under pressure then James Ghana hit one that was travelling at me a caused an issue for David the Hay but he got a blocking on that and then we made an error for the second goal along both forward, Seamus Coleman took his eye off it maybe and it's rolled under his foot and Rashford squared it to eight martial for his normal goal against Evan and he's tapped it in and it's 2-0 and good night and then you just hope when it doesn't become three or four because obviously goal difference will be a big issue as well at the bottom and disappointing afternoon I think mentality but like looking at it it just looked to me like a team that was beaten before they went out there like they had no belief they could get a result there, that's just how it looked because I think the three porous displays have been against Liverpool Arsenal and United and in all three they've looked like they haven't really believed they could get a result when in other games they've been well in the game and you know I've had that belief so you're like a comfortable and well-dejected victory today not really much more you can say I think man on a match is quite obvious there was only one player I think you could walk off the pitch and say he done well today he done all the things he could do to try and get evident in the result and that was Jordan Pickford I don't think any other player can come off that pitch and say he played well today or he put everything into it there was a few threes on that out of 10 on that pitch today for me so we've got to dust ourselves down now we've got full of my home next week that's a huge game recording this as the games the other games are just about to kick off so let's hope we have a little bit of the rubber degree and some results go our way but loads of work for Evan to do to stay up this season today wasn't one of those days for us comfortably beaten at Old Trafford not really much more you can say about it that is if for me give the video a thumbs up subscribe if you haven't see you later


Dear students, we are talking about the stages of internationalization and this is the third stage of international foreign operations and that is the international division. We will be looking at how an international division operates in the international context and what type of organizational structure is established to operate this international division. In this picture you can see that the organization has got headquarters in the parent country. This organization is manufacturing various different products. So there are product line A, product line B and product line C which is operated in the form of a division. So there are domestic division for product A, domestic division for product B and domestic division for product C and when you are going into international operations in a divisional structure you will have an international division head who is managing all your product lines and your area divisions in different foreign countries. So your international operations, international divisions will have a separate head which will operate in your headquarters, house headquarters and that will manage all your international divisions, international production facilities, international sales subsidiaries and your headquarter to establish coordination. In this diagram you can see that in these three areas of this organization operations are working. One is their European division, one is their Middle Eastern division, one is their African division. This is a hypothetical structure and this is not exactly replicating any real organization. This is only hypothetical. So European, Middle Eastern, African divisions and in that divisions then you have a general manager who may be looking after either product A, B or C or he may be looking after all the products. So you can see that there is and or written over there. So a product A, B or C, so the general manager would be looking after all the products that are being sold in Europe. They may be being manufactured in Europe as well. And then general manager looking after product A, B or C in the Middle Eastern area and general manager looking after product A, B or C in the African division. And then you can see that under those then there are separate functional units. So from the sales subsidiary structure you go for this divisional structure in which the sales subsidiary structure does not have functional units under each division, each international division. But now you have created a structure which is more complex and now you have separate functional units operating under each division of your international operations. So you will be having HR function, you will be having finance function, you will be having production function, you will be having marketing function under each division which is operating in the international context. How an international division may be established? Number one, converting sales subsidiary to a production or service facility. It is a relatively small step for those organizations who are already assembling products. Sometimes you produce parts in your parent country but you assemble them in foreign country. For example, you know that all the auto industry which is operating in Pakistan, for example Toyota or Honda, parts of all their cars come from their parent country, from Japan and the plants which are here, you just assemble them. And assembling if you are doing it means that you have planted a plant, you are doing production and you have aligned all your functions. It is easy for you to completely take over production in such a system. So it is a relatively small step if you are already doing the assembling function.  So if you have only a sales subsidiary where you are only selling and now you have to go for the production, the complete production of your product in a foreign country, it is a relatively bigger step, a larger step and therefore you will need to employ greater resources and it will be a little bit more complex process to directly establish production facilities in a foreign country. For that you can do that many companies do joint venture or acquire a local company. For example, when walls were established, they took over the local companies which were already operating in the local market. So they bought their factories and they bought their production facilities and that is how they established themselves. So if there is a local company which is working in the same business, you can go for taking over the production facilities of that company. When you establish an international division, initially how the structure will look like, it will look like a miniature replica of the parent country headquarters initially. Later on when the organization is more embedded in the foreign environment, it may evolve into a different type of structure but initially when you establish your organization in a foreign country, it looks like a miniature replica of your parent country. All the subsidiary managers, they report to the head of international division. It is possible that there is some informal reporting to respective functional heads. So it is possible that there is some informal reporting between the functional heads as well. So this is how an international division looks like in form of this structural outlook and how it goes into operation initially in the international phase.