delighted to be joined by the Secretary of State for European Affairs of Portugal, Ms Ana Paula Zacarias. It's a pleasure to welcome you to Dublin, and we're very interested to hear your views on the future of Europe. Thank you very much for sitting here at the Institute for European Affairs. And for us, the Europa 27 is the Europe of the future. The Europe that has to, in some ways, deal with the big challenges that we have to face very now. Now, we have to face them now. It's about digital transformation. It's about how to fight climate change, and how these two major transitions will have an impact on our economy. How can we do this in a social, integrative way, in the way that we have young people with the right skills to continue, and the way we have to deal also with an aging population that will happen in Europe. So we have huge challenges that we have to take into account, and find the right solutions at the 27 with economics, with politics, social programs that we need to do. And at the same time, bring Europe to a beacon of light and democracy and solidarity in the world. And just to touch on that last point, Europe is a beacon in the world. What do you think Europe needs to do to become a more effective global actor, given your experience both in the Portuguese diplomatic service and in the European diplomatic services? First of all, I think we need to take care of values, our own values. The values of solidarity, the values of democracy, human rights, the rule of law, they are fundamental for the survival of the Union itself. And then, from there, we can build on a cohesive, competitive Europe, a social Europe, and a Europe that deals with all these challenges that we have to face in terms of science and technology. So what do we need to do? We need to work together and bring in the best we have in each number state to work together with a good budget of the Union for the next seven years, with that can finance a good and ambitious strategy for us to project our capacity of working in the world and transition. These are very ambitious objectives touching then on the budget. The MFF negotiations, that's the used long term budget, are really picking up pace. What are going to be particular and policy areas of priority for the Portuguese government? Look, we have to find first the total amount of the budget. Where do we stand there? So from our point of view, we need to find a solution that goes between the proposal of the European Parliament and the current proposal that is on the table presented by the European Commission. So somewhere for us, that would be around 1.16% of GDP at 27%. But then we need to also see how to integrate the different levels of policies. Some people say that we should cut on the traditional policies. I don't see how we're going to do that because this, that sometimes people call traditional policies, first of all they are on a treaty, second that they've proved to be very good policies, third they're not old policies, they are new policies. Because when you talk about common agriculture policy, we're doing 40% of the amount of money that will be given for that policy will go for climate change. And the same for cohesion policy, 27% will also be for climate change. So these policies are very important and they are as new as the other ones. We need to certainly talk about science and technology improvements. We need to talk about the digital agenda. We need to talk about money for integration, for migration. We need to talk about money for development cooperation and for defence. All these are priorities and we need to do this in the right way. And these priorities cannot cannibalise one another. We have to find the right balance of all this in the next budget. It's a modern and balanced budget for a modern and balanced meeting. Absolutely. This is it. A modern balance for a modern Europe. And it will take some time. The other day I was submitting here a politician in Ireland who said, we do not have microwave solutions. We have to take our time to discuss, to find the right solutions, consensual solutions that would allow us to go forward united. This is a fundamental aspect by consensus. Going forward, this is the way. It will take some time but that's the way we do things. Thank you very much. It was a pleasure. Thank you very much.


And this is direct evidence of what the precision cleaning crew can do. And with the historic investment, part of which goes to increasing precision cleaning, you're going to see more of this before and after throughout the city. But the before gives you the graphic and disproportionate effect of what illegal dumping does to our neighborhoods and our communities. And the after tells us what we all deserve, which is clean streets, clean communities. And with the investment that's happening with this year's budget, DSNY's strongest will get the job done. Because it is time to clean up the city. In a city where there's so many opinions, we're united on one thing. We are a mess and we need to clean up now. So thank you, thank you for the contribution of the men and women who work for sanitation. They now are going to have the resources that they need. But I do want to just point out one thing, they can't do it alone. We all make trash, so we all have the power to keep it off of our streets. That means feed the can, sweep your street, and property owners for you.  That also is your responsibility to keep clean. And continuously and on a daily basis, shame others into doing the same. So that together with the resources, our strong DSNY forces and city partners in everyday men and women doing their part to take litter off the street. Our city will be a cleaner and stronger one in the days and weeks to come. So with that, I'd like to turn it over to our Mayor, Mayor Adams, who gets stuff done and his top priority is keeping our streets clean and safe. Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, Deputy Mayor. And I'm happy to be joined here with both Commissioner Tish and my good friend, Councilman Salamanca with my future Mayor. This one's going to be elected pretty soon. We're talking about before and after, but there's also another before and after that the city is going to eventually realize. Before my administration and after my administration. We're not only going to deal with those, look at when someone illegally dumps and clean it up because that's a waste of our time to keep cleaning up a mess that people intentionally create. We're going after the dumpers also. We're going to make sure with a few little plans we have up our sleeves. We're going to identify those habitual dumpers. Trust me, it's a small number of people who believe that they can dump like this and get away with it. And we're going to target them and make it no longer a profitable experience to dump anywhere in our city. Councilman Salamanca identified these locations. He was willing to put the resources in as a local council member and we zeroed in on it. If we uplift Councilman Salamanca's district, we're going to see that uplifting our entire city. Because many of the ills that we are facing, the denial, the neglect, the not listening to the local electors on the ground. It is really personified here in the South Bronx. And that's why I'm spending so much time here in the South Bronx because I know that it is the answer to how we could really allow it to cascade throughout our entire city of the improvements that we deserve and we are looking for. And this is just a great day for neighborhoods. The deputy mayor said it right, no matter where we go. People are talking about trash.  Just look at the difference of that cleanup from the photo near the George Washington Bridge. I didn't take this photo on my way to Jersey, by the way, I live in Brooklyn. So but when you look at just the difference of our greenery, dirty streets just really impact everything we do. And so we heard the complaints loud and clear, and we are responding to the complaints on the ground. Because a clean city is a city that we are really concerned about. Too long, these areas have been ignored, we are not going to do that today. We're putting those conditions in the bins.  We're making investments in cleanliness in the city that has never before been carried out. When you look at the adopted budget, we're putting our money exactly where the concerns are. 22 million in funding for litter basket service, with baskets like these to be empty, 50,000 times more than pre-administration. 50,000 times more. You've all noticed it, baskets overrunning, overrun, we realize it, people spill over. So we're telling the public, do your job, put it in a bin. They go to the bin, they put it in, but the bin is overflowing. So we have to be consistent with our message and that's why we are putting the money in to have these bins emptied more often. In this case, more means less. Less on our streets, less on our curbs, less in our community. So overflowing the smelly trash on the sidewalk would help us eradicate or alleviate this problem to the point of eradication. We're also funding $7.5 million and I love this precision cleaning initiative to erase illegal dumping. Precision policing, precision cleanliness, precision dumping. We have to use taxpayers' dollars more, and precision attacking the problem is utilizing the tax dollars better. And $4.5 million for cleaning of vacant lots, allowing a return to pre-pandemic staffing levels at the Department of Sanitation, a lot cleaning unit. These lots, for the most part, are in underserved communities. We're zeroing in, we are going to allow the light cleaning unit to go in and do the cleanup that's necessary. And so this funding will stop the vacant lots across the city that are largely located in traditional low income communities. They become dumping grounds, and we want to just use our precision approach to look at these lots. So we know clean streets are vital to the vibrant neighborhoods and to the city's economic recovery. They go hand in hand.  We want it to make it easier, safer, and healthier for our entire city. So we put our money behind the strongest through our budget. Commissioner Tish has been clear of she wants to do it in a precise and precision way to make sure that we can reach the goals that we want. Some is here, we want our streets to be as clean as the New Yorkers who walk on the streets. And I'm really excited about this announcement. This is not a sexy project, but it is a clear project that impacts the quality of life of New Yorkers. Y'all well done. I want to thank the strongest who are here for the job that they're doing. I'm continuously encouraged by their commitment and dedication. Sometimes we don't see you guys, but I'll tell you something. We'll miss you if you're not there. So we thank you for the job well done. Commissioner. Next, we're going to hear from Commissioner Jesse Tish, one of the most excited people in the entire city about trash. Thank you, Mayor Adams and Deputy Mayor Joshi. As most of you know, historically, the sanitation department has had three core functions, curbside collection, snow removal, and cleaning. But at the beginning of the pandemic, the budget for one of those functions, cleaning, was completely decimated through cuts. And anyone who looked outside could see the difference immediately. The numbers don't lie. February of 2020, before the cuts, there were 58 311 complaints city-wide for overflowing litter baskets. By July of that year, only one month after the budget cuts, that number, ballooned to 790 complaints about overflowing litter baskets in a single month. I am a data-driven person, and the numbers tell a shocking story. But they also show that our cleaning strategies work when we have the resources at our disposal to deploy them. And now we will, effective July 1st. In the adopted budget, Mayor Adams and the city-wide council made an unprecedented investment in restoring the cleanliness of our streets. They have given us the resources that we need to clean up our city, the way our neighbors deserve, to the tune of $40.6 million. Over the past few weeks, we have been busy developing operational plans to put this funding to its best and highest. And certainly, it's most important that we have the resources that we provide to its best and highest, and certainly its most equitable use. And I will describe those plans briefly now. First is Litter Basket Service. As the mayor said, $22 million will go to providing the highest amount of litter basket service ever run in the city of New York. That is 50,000 more basket collections on an average week, which will translate to significantly fewer overflowing litter baskets and meaningfully less trash on the streets. To be clear, every litter basket city-wide will be serviced more frequently with the largest increases in commercial corridors in all five boroughs. After July 1st, if you see an overflowing litter basket, it will be much more likely to be caused by basket misuse, i.e., someone improperly putting residential or commercial trash in the basket rather than lack of service. Second is our Precision Cleaning. As the mayor also mentioned, $7.5 million will go to more than tripling our precision cleaning efforts, adding guaranteed daily special cleaning service to the neighborhoods with the greatest need. As part of this initiative, all 13 of the lowest-scoring districts on the Cleanliness Scorecard will get a daily litter patrol team. And we will still have room to deploy an additional 16 teams a day to address street conditions in neighborhoods in all five boroughs as required. Third is Lack Cleaning. $4.9 million will go to Lack Cleaning, where it will be used to clean eyesore properties across the city, especially those impacted by the scourge of illegal dumping. Two messages about illegal dumping. First, to our communities. We got you. We will come clean it up. And with this budget, we will clean it up better and faster than ever before. Next to the illegal dumpers out there. Just last week, I was testing out a new camera we had deployed, and easily found a commercial dumper leaving his waist in a lot in Brooklyn. Our Sanitation Enforcement Division tracked him down, and now he's got a $4,000 summons to deal with. If you dump on our communities, we will come after you, just like we came after him. Not because we want to. We certainly don't. But because we have to protect our neighbors and our neighborhoods. Fourth is rat mitigation. $4.8 million will go toward rat mitigation in New York City, which includes deploying new rat-proof litter baskets, as well as doing the design and engineering work to frame a unified city approach to containerization. Earlier this year, we announced a five borough pilot to test out containerization. These containers are in place in Manhattan and will soon be in Brooklyn and Staten Island and then Queens and the Bronx. And let's not forget that all of this is on top of the restoration of full street sweeping and the brand new sweeping of bike lanes, which goes into effect on July 5th. So after the July 4th holiday, whatever it says on the signs goes. I am very confident that all of this will make a real noticeable difference in every borough and every neighborhood in our city. This summer, our neighborhoods are poised to come back cleaner and our city stronger. Thank you so much to Mayor Adams, to Councilmember Salamanca and the entire City Council for such a bold investment in this essential service. Thank you, Commissioner Tish. Next we'll hear from Councilmember Salamanca, who is the catalyst behind the Eyes on the Lots, which is coupled with the sign you see behind you, is part of our multi-prong enforcement tool to get after illegal dumpers. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Mayor. Thank you once again for coming to the South Bronx. I have to tell you, I've worked with previous mayors and I've never had a mayor come to the South Bronx and help us address issues in the time that you've been mayor. So I want to thank you really for your commitment and really paying attention to the outer boroughs. I represent two business improvement districts. Port Morris is one and the Hunts Point Community is another one. And unfortunately, one of the main concerns and issues that we have in our communities is that we have businesses who choose not to pay a private holder to come pick up their garbage and they choose to dump their garbage in our communities. We also have individuals who choose to take furniture and equipment and put it in these trailers so that they can ship them overseas. And many times when you drive through these corridors, what you see is illegal dumping. You see garbage, couches, beds, just plain garbage. And we are tired. New Yorkers are tired. And in this budget that we're in now, for fiscal year 22, I worked with sanitation and my office was able to allocate about $180,000 where we're purchasing about 15 surveillance cameras that we're focusing throughout the South Bronx, just the cashiest individuals who are illegally dumping. We want clean streets, but the community has to do their part.  If you know that there's an area where there's immediate illegal dumping, call 311. If you can take pictures or you can get the license plate numbers, please call 311. Call my office. We want to help. We want clean streets. In Spanish, my name is Rafael Salamanca Jr. I'm very happy that the mayor and his administration are here and I want to thank the Sanitation Department who are always here helping to ensure that our streets are clean. One of the problems that I have in my community is that I have what is called Business Improvement Districts. I have one here in Port Morris and another one in Hunts Point. And many of these businesses don't want to pay, to pay private companies so that they come and look for their garbage. So what they prefer to do is to look for places like this to dump their garbage. I'm happy that in the last budget, I have put $180,000 in the budget working with the Sanitation Department to ensure that we put cameras throughout the entire district to take these people who are dumping garbage. But we as a community have to be better. If we know someone, if we know a company who is dumping garbage in a location, call 311. Call my office so that we can get them out of it. We as a community want our streets to be clean but we have to be our part. Thank you for your blessing. Open for any questions? You know, there was something I was thinking about which was a good point that the commissioner made going after those who illegally dump repeatedly. That is our focus. We want to focus on those who are repeated dumpers to make sure we send the right message. We'll put to any questions on topic. Yeah, we can get you a list of the 13 neighborhoods that scored the worst on the cleanliness scorecards. You know, the scorecards are updated quarterly and it's consistently the same neighborhoods that are the lowest scores, but we'll provide you a full list right after this. Also on topic for the commissioner, I did hear you say you'd be significantly increasing the litter basket collection. Did you also mention more baskets themselves because what we hear from people is, yeah, I'd love to dispose of my trash but there's no pen on the corner. We hear it all the time. Yep, so two things on that. The first is we are developing a brand new litter basket for New York City. These baskets, the mesh ones that you see have been around since like the 60s or the 70s, they've been around a really long time and notably, they are not rat-proof. They have holes all over them. That is like a part of the fundamental part of the design. And we are developing a rat-proof litter basket and some of the funding for rat mitigation is going to go to replacing the mesh litter baskets with a new rat-proof litter basket of the future. That's the first thing. The second thing is historically, the city has had about 23,000 litter baskets citywide and that number hasn't changed, doesn't change very often because of the collection costs associated with servicing them. What I have asked my staff to do, because we get requests for new litter baskets all the time, what I have asked my staff to do is take a new fresh look at what the optimal number of litter baskets are and where they should be placed. So I am very open to adding to the number of litter baskets in the city because I have been on tours with council members and walk-through neighborhoods where you are 100% right, there should be a litter basket in a location. That doesn't mean we will agree on every location, but certainly we are open to adding litter baskets in the city. Mr. Mayor, somebody from your staff said earlier that the graffiti up there, this is the MTA's responsibility up on the trellises. Has the city talked to them about trying to kind of get cleaned up up there?  I was also wondering when the photos were taken. Yeah, two things. Number one, going back to what the commissioner said about these baskets.  I watched these rats climb up these baskets, you know, so we've assisted them, you know, in this design. So we have to get a new model. Let's see. We are going to roll out a complete graffiti initiative. We want to partner with the city council. Too much graffiti. It's out of control. We saw it on the subway system during the 80s, and we took a immediate clean up approach. You know, you allow one tag, it continues to grow to another tag. And so when you look going down Atlantic Avenue, parts of the Bronx, there's just too much graffiti in our city. And we want a comprehensive approach on how to go after it. Partner with the MTA, partner with local store owners. We got it. This is unacceptable. This adds to the uncleanliness of our city. On the new little baskets, they're not designed yet, right? They're designed. And we are working now to have them manufactured. And so you will see them start to come on the streets of the city this year. And we're looking at the containers for garbage. We have to change the way we handle garbage in our city. Other countries are doing a better job. You know, plastic bags, even if there's mint smelling, plastic bags, don't stop rats. Those rats use it as perfume, you know? So we got to be more thoughtful on how we store and pick up garbage. And those are some of the things we're looking at. They're garbage out of their car windows, pushing to discourage that. No, no, you're right. Because if you look here, this is not illegal dumping. This is people driving onto the GW or coming across and just throwing their stuff out, you know? So we believe if we start doing our job, sending the right message and going back to not heavy-handed but really engaging and interacting with people about littering, you know, you're not supposed to litter. And so it's about a mindset, as you just stated, of everyday New Yorkers, this is our city.  Do all the small things to make sure that we are doing the right thing to match what government is doing. Yep, yep. Okay. So you guys... Yes? What is the city going to open? You know, roll out the welcome act the way the state is talking about doing for women in states where they cannot get abortions? Yes, we went to an H&H facility and, you know, to be honest, I was pleasantly surprised to see how H&H is playing a real role. People often think that it's the other clinics outside like Planned Parenthood, but H&H is doing a real good job. Certain things jumped off at me right away. Number one, we have to do a better job of broadcasting that you can come to H&H. You can come to a hospital with privacy because since it's a hospital, people don't know why you're going and you'll have the privacy that you want. Same days of care is given, someone can walk in and receive the necessary care and counseling. It was extremely impressive. And what I really enjoy seeing was the number of women who were assigned there. We're taking a real look at the certain places that it is imperative to have a person there that understands through language, through gender. And I saw there the level of comfort that other women were receiving from the women's staff there. It was overwhelmingly women and they just brought in extra care that sometimes is ignored. And I was excited about what I saw today and they've been preparing for five years on this Supreme Court ruling. For five years they've been preparing on how do we build the infrastructure so we're here for those women who come into the city for looking for services. The women here know they can have the services and those who are coming into our city. You'll be able to designate public areas such as the subway system, buses, trains, and parks as sensitive areas where the concealed carry ban will remain intact. What sort of legal challenges does the city anticipate? The governor, we've asked her to call for a special session to go back and look at the legislation and we have to do this as a partnership because if we do it incorrectly we're going to open ourselves up for another ruling. We'll open ourselves up for a pause in what we're doing. So we want to coordinate with the cities, coordinate with our city councils, our local lawmaking bodies, and have the governor lead to charge on what new definition of sensitive locations should be because we have to get it right. If we get it wrong and try to go outside our scope we can put ourselves in a bad place. This is going to increase our labor. It's going to make it more challenging for police officers, court officers, non-sensitive locations. We're looking at how we can effectively minimize the damage that the Supreme Court has handed down. To apply them to subway systems, buses, parks, trains, those sorts of areas, are they what you want them sensitive areas? Our legal team is going to make that determination because we can't just classify something as a sensitive location. It must fit within the parameters of the ruling and so our legal teams are looking at that to come up with the appropriate way to define what a sensitive location is. We can now do government to buildings and certain things we can do, but trying to do an expanded definition is going to have to fall within the legal team's understanding of the ruling. Andrew. On that same page regarding the labor you mentioned, that's going to be a product of this Supreme Court ruling and the additional rules.  It seems like it could be very antagonistic to try and go after that kind of thing. And I said before that this was keeping me up at night, you know, because you could only imagine, nothing changes now. And probably for the next, until the, it comes back down to a local court, but when it gets in full stride, a year from now, you know, a year and a half from now, and you start to see a substantial uptick in guns and people carrying guns. It's going to be hard, you know. We have to figure this out. And I spoke with the commissioner of knowing that you can be in Times Square and, you know, hundreds, thousands of people can carry a weapon in how do you police that? How do you police it in places that are not sensitive locations? We are figuring it out. We're going to get it right, but I am not going to try to downplay how this is going to really put us in a place that we have to use methods of policing. Because historically, if someone had a gun, approaching them and determining if they carry that gun legally, because we have very little carry permits. We may have had pistol, I mean, target permits, but we had very little carry permits.  Everyone will have the opportunity to carry. So the commissioner and her team, we're looking at how do we change our policing strategies to this new norm in our city. Let me tell you something. The Supreme Court really made America a very dangerous place, particularly in New York City. I just don't know what they were thinking about to allow this to happen. One thing for sure, they were not thinking about New York. You know. We talked one of the last times you were in the Bronx about talking to the Parks Commissioner coming up with creative solutions. It's supposed to be hot this week. How concerned are you that there might be a heightened risk of drownings without enough lifeguard, without enough tools open, what's going to be done? Well, and we're still leaving no stone unturned. We have a couple of creative ideas we're going to put in place to deal with this national problem. You know, I want to always emphasize that this is a national problem that we're facing. And so we are the Parks Commissioner and her team. We want to roll out and make sure that we can keep our beaches safe because we don't want to lose loved ones to drowning. That is something we don't want. So it's even if it's water safety really instructing young people doing a public relation campaign on our beaches of handing out information, engaging with parents to keep a close eye on their children. We're going to have to constantly have a partnership between the city, parental, oversight, peer groups, buddy systems. We want to address this national problem locally and we listened to one of our reporters that shared with us the other day. She's busy texting, but we took some of your ideas that you shared with us about using the radios, getting EMS, you know, engage with FDNY and our lifeguards.  Fox is going to do an analysis of exactly what pools should be open. I think we're going to do an opening of a pool. We want... our public pools, they are considered to be the French Riviera for those communities that have to stay home. So, we want to open as many as possible, but it is a challenge.


Welcome to dealing with materials data, we are looking at the collection analysis and interpretation of data from material science and engineering. This is the fifth module on fitting and graphical handling and let us just summarize what is it that we have learnt. Fitting and graphical handling are very important skills. So even if you are not going to do any statistical analysis on your data, typically you are expected to fit the data or calculate averages or give error bars and plot them for easy understanding of other people. So fitting and graphical handling skills are very important and they are very useful. And we have seen several ways of plotting the data and hence analyzing it in the beginning as well as in this exercise. And we have also seen in this module how to do fitting for different functional forms. And from fitting there are other things that are important which naturally flow that is ANOVA design of experiments and hypothesis testing and so on. And we will do some case studies to fix some of these ideas. And some of it we have already done, ANOVA for example we have seen one example and hypothesis testing is something that we have been doing on and off. So we will continue with it and in the case study part we will look at those aspects. And the final module will be the case studies and in addition to DOE and hypothesis testing we will also look at Bayesian analysis calibration and such other problems or error analysis. So those are also things that we will discuss in the case studies. One more thing that is very important that you might have realized in our study so far is that for doing the data analysis it is very important to have reliable and useful data sets and which are in the raw format so that you can actually take it up and do further analysis like for example the NIST monographic. Not only lists all the numbers it also does the analysis and gives you the numbers so you can take the data and you can for yourself confirm that the numbers are okay for example. So this is very important mainly as a pedagogical tool for us also as a research tool because once a raw data is available different people can do different types of analysis and try to see if there is more information that one can get from the data. So it is very important to have such curated data sets we hope that after going through this course you will generate such data and you will also make it available for everybody and there are ways of curating the data sets and keeping it online for others use. So one of the purposes of this course is also to put the data that we have used in this course so far to be in the public domain and to make it available to all of you. Several PhD students have contributed to the data so we will share the complete data sets that we have used and what we are going to use in the case studies wherever it is available in the literature we will point to the literature and wherever we have used our own data set we will also have these data sets be available to you. So this brings us to the end of the fitting and graphical handling module so we will do the final module on case studies in the next session to come. Thank you.


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Our planet may be called Earth, but its surface is made up mostly of water. Water flows within us and is the driving force for all nature. Water is food, prosperity, energy, life. For centuries, it has been the foundation of our food. Yet today, too many people go without water, while others take it for granted. Rapid urbanization, population and economic growth, climate change are putting water resources under stress. What we eat and how it is produced impact the availability and quality of water. By transforming food systems, we can improve water efficiency and safeguard our oceans and waterways. Together, let's care for our water and cultivate a sustainable future. Water is life, water is food.


Food Hey, welcome back to our stupid reaction you did some Corbin I'm hungry and you can follow us on Instagram Twitter for more cheese For sure camera the bell notification squad And you're gonna be hungry after this video because these are some of our favorite videos haven't done it in a little while But it's from the best ever food review show We know that show we love that guy In that his videos. This is called India's forbidden street food in Goa. We haven't been to Goa Probably getting to go in our next trip whenever we can you know leave our country? Who knows when that'll be and a vaccine is available I might suppose But it says eat at your own risk So hold on okay, I thought I'd just ruined everything. Okay. I'm good. You usually do. All right, you ready three two, yes, one I Can't even believe that I'm in India right now. I'm at a food truck where they're serving beef. Yeah, I'm not dreaming Okay, it looks really good Oh, well it's South India. They eat more beef in South India In Pune we took on India's gargantuan vegetarian platter high with over 50 Until you're feeling really stuffed Today we're saying goodbye to put like a little road and heading for go Coastal city unlike anywhere else in India. It's the potty destination. What happens in Goa stays in Goa Goa has a unique identity which guarantees a one-of-a-kind menu. We have a gigantic feast here I've never had so much Indian seafood. I'm not so hungry. From Goa's forbidden street food. Bolle bolle. Bolle bolle. To the more bizarre eats I never expected to see an Indian. Have you ever cooked a shark? No, there's that freaking shark. Along the way I learned the true meaning of hospitality. I Just got married today. I think so pack your speedo and baby oil. We're heading to Goa Hitting the road heading south bound for Goa a four-hour drive will bring you here the highway side restaurant called Hotel Parak a favorite of passing truck drivers and locals alike the daughter of this family-run hotel is here to say hello Can I rent a room here? No, no a lot of restaurants in India They call them hotels. The only one staying here is a nice piece of food. What is the food? That's so special here. The red broth which we call it It's a tamarassa in the white broth which we call it as a pranarassa and the dry mutton It's called a Sukka. Oh my gosh. I did that Rick a mutt beautiful But I did not have any meat He's like, oh god, how can you do it? I'm really in need of meat There is a surprise for you. Oh the guest which we have it's come to a home We're gonna have you up to urban. What happened? We're not getting married right now. Are we? These folks really know how to welcome a guy. They are gently strapping on the local traditional headwear to this plus-sized melon Okay, so I'm gonna take a look You're like I look Stunning. Oh my god. Is there a fan of my head? Wow This is legitimately a surprise here. So the kind of mark between my eyes on the forehead Okay, careful. I have rich voluminous eyebrows. So try not to get that part Welcoming guys. What do you think? This is one of the coolest hats I've ever had I'll never be able to wear it again because there was a newspaper involved at one point There was a stapler. He just did arts and crafts on my head in like 45 seconds, and then this is the result That's pretty awesome. We're here in the kitchen. There's so much action here. Hi there. How are you doing? Do you like my hand? I just got married today. I think This looks really delicious. How many of these do you think you make in a day? It's uncounted. Near infinity like a lot. The color of their clothes. What do you call this bread? We call it as a bhakti. I've never seen it prepared in this way There's kind of an assembly line here. The bread gets completely lined up. Almost made like a roti. They kind of squeeze the water onto it And then when it finally gets to the end of the line here They put it directly on the fire then it puffs up and they put it in here. So why can they not use the roller? Why does it have to be by hand? The dough is really soft. If you get it rolled by the roller, it gets thick. So it's better to do that with the hands. So this is like traditional? This place is all about the brah. The red brah, tamda rasa, is given its red color from a commonly used southern Indian chili Though it looks spicier than it feels or so I'm told. The red is balanced by the white. A more mellow brah containing spices, coconut milk and chicken and mutton stock. Both are in a menage tois with the mutton. Boiled then fried before served. When I was first speaking to the daughter of the owner, I was confused because she said brah. I thought maybe she meant curry until I saw the liquid itself and it is very thin. It is, it's just like a brah. I think what you got to do is you start with the roti here, rip off some of that, scoop up some mutton And then give it a little dip. I'm going red. It's kind of oily on the outside That looks delicious. The brah is an Indian rainbow of flavor and aromatic spices. The mutton, however, can break your teeth if you're not used to navigating around the bones. It's like walking on eggshells for your mouth. Eating meat has just been kind of hacked apart and random pieces with a little bit of bone, a little bit of meat. You have to be a bit careful. You can't bite with confidence. The brah itself was very rich to me. It's like the flavors of India. This whole dynamic mix of contrasting flavors and spices. We're going in round two. This white broth is a combination of mutton and chicken stock with some coconut in there. Let's try it out. That's really tasty. Much lighter, not very spicy, not oily, like the first one. The bread is so light, a little airy. You could even just dip the bread in if you wanted. Finally to wash it all down. I mean, there is no more iconic physical gesture in India than the thumbs up. This is my first time having thumbs up too. Your thumbs up? It's a big iconic moment. Are you guys ready? Belly full, belts on, time to ride. Final destination, Gola. Does that car have a space on it? Gola is India's richest state, boasting the country's highest quality of life according to the people that measure that. Beaches, clean air and its own array of unique food. The Portuguese rule of Gola lasted 450 years and the influence is obvious, even affecting the local palate. The way they prepare the stuff, the use of like vinegar, it's like Portuguese food but it has also like Indian influence in it. It's so interesting. My guide this evening, Jasmine. She grew up in Gola, enjoys dancing and driving in slow motion with no helmet. 20 of the 29 states in India currently have regulations prohibiting either the slaughter or sale of beef, mostly in the north. But as I move south, the attitudes towards beef seem more relaxed. I can't even believe that I'm in India right now. I'm at a food truck where they're serving beef. Yeah. I'm not dreaming. No. Okay, it looks really good. This place has been here for the last 12 years. Cooking huge chunks of beef marinated with their own special masala. Coated with egg, rice flour and finely fried. There's a great, really rich kind of greasy smell in here. It's like a skirt steak almost. It's like a skirt steak almost. Inside a bun and satisfying your cravings. Oh, that's good. So naughty. Beef, pork. You have all the forbidden meats in there. Looks like an India fillet. Honestly, this is one of the coolest things I've seen in India. I'm going to just sink my teeth into this. Oh my God. Bolle, bolle, bolle, bolle. Super crunchy, nice just oily beefy inside. Oh, that looks good. What makes it so perfect is the bread. Looks great. The bread's a little salt and stretchy. It just hugs everything inside. Just like your mom. There's a good chance a piece of this will fall down. What about cabbage? Will that do anything for you? Not interested. I'm just like, I'm no vegetarian. Okay, let's have some more. I'm a carnivore, pal. What can I say? I like my meat. You can say exactly that. It's so heavy and greasy that the sweet ketchup is like the perfect balance for it. Very yummy. It's something I did not expect to find in India. It makes me excited. I feel naughty, rebellious, a little tingly at the end too. Goa's food scene comes to life at night. Street vendors pump out the local favorites. But some of the best flavors can be found here. How fun. This food area, what is this? It doesn't have a name. It doesn't have a name? No. How do you meet people here?  Can we give it a name today? How about the food horseshoe? Do you see how it makes the shoe of a horse? Sure. She loved the idea. The food horseshoe, as I call it, is a collection of food stalls selling all types of made-to-order eats. But we're here for this. They have a little bit of everything here. They have some rice, biryani, liver of duck. Chicken liver. Sorry, I meant chicken. Got some eggs, some tandoori chicken. What are we here for? Roast omelette. This is a Goan Street food favorite. An egg omelette topped with chicken chakuti. A complex, spiced chicken curry. I mean, I could try to explain what's inside, but just trust me, it's pretty complex. So right here, is this one omelette or two? That's two. So how many eggs? Five. Five eggs? We got two orders. Five eggs. If I get one order, I get two and a half eggs? Yeah. No, you don't. You just cut an egg in half? Yeah. So first, we just have the egg, a little bit of onion in there, some garam masala. This looks like coriander. He's feeling it out. Should he flip? Wow, that's cool. That was a nice flip. Good flip, sir. Do you see how focused he is? He has no idea what I'm saying. So he's cutting it up into small pieces, and then he's putting it on these stainless steel plates. So right here, this is the gravy, right? Yeah, that's the gravy. Okay, and then here we go.  There's gonna be one more coming soon, gives it a spoon, and delivers it through a different way this time. Man, that looks good. Okay, so here it is. Alas, they've delivered our food. They gave me a little more than you. I think they just like you better. I think you're right. This is ours, too? Yeah. What's your method? I like soaking it up. Soak up a little bit of sauce. Yeah. We've got the chicken curry. It's also done. We're gonna try it out. Oh. I like this. I like it. Bolle bole. Bolle bole. What is your bole bole dance for yummy food? Just do like me.  That's your dance? Yeah. The curry is delicious. It's like super salty, a little spicy. Even some kind of citrus, there's so many fun things in there, guys. It's really yummy. And this bread, honestly, I picked... So this is the one they put on the flat top. I mean, it's like literally the best way to toast bread. You do have to be careful. There are some bones in here. And that's why you want to get it kind of in the deconstructed way, because you don't want a bony sandwich.  Nice. Yeah, that's how it is. What's a bone? The sandwiches here, they're a little bony. You have to be careful. But the flavor is very good. And that is what they call... That's right. 100% correct. Be sure to subscribe and follow along as we eat our way across India. And if you're traveling to Vietnam, let me... Okay. Crazy delicious. Oh, man. I'm so hungry now. Yep, me too. Super cool. Because those looked very... almost American... style of like that sandwich. It looked like... That sandwich with all the meat in it? Like a pulled pork or like an Indian filling cheese steak? An almost like a version... kind of like of a Euro. Yeah. Right? Yeah. Oh, but it looked so good. I don't know what that shark was at the beginning, but I don't like that. Yeah, I don't know why we were showing that. I'm glad we didn't go into that segment. Well, I don't know what that... There's a lot of people eat shark. There's people that eat shark in America. I don't, but... The thing that really upsets me is the people in Japan or China. I forget which country it is. But they eat shark fin soup. Or they just cut off fin and then throw the shark back. Correct. Correct. That's inhumane and cruel. Anyways, that's all this video is about. But yeah, this video is awesome. I can't wait to go to go for many reasons. I hear it's beautiful. But to know that it has a bunch of delicious food. And it's also so interesting that various different parts of India you can and can't have beef. It's so interesting that even though it's one country, it's legal in some states and illegal in other states. I guess California has some... I mean, America has stuff like that too. We do. Denver was the first place where you could do shrooms. Let's go to Denver.


What's up everyone so today is a Monday last day of the month last day of August And the market has been kind of slowly so a couple things I want to make note of before we start is every single Monday I do a video watch list for the viewers on YouTube for free Every Tuesday bothers an Instagram live every Wednesday. Tosh does a webinar every Thursday. Austin does a strategy webinar Every Friday.  So let's kind of recap what happened, right? So beginning of the year usually always starts off strong January and February are usually very good months start off the year But then what happened in March is we had the pandemic, right? We had coronavirus Stock market plummeted people were out of work people weren't People stayed home trading became the coolest thing in the world and became the job that every single person wanted And we had some abnormal moves in the market. So from March April May June July and a little bit August So about six months We had action every single day and it wasn't just action Maybe one play day maybe two days of play the other at least three four five stocks gap it up hundred two hundred three hundred percent Stocks that were going apeshit every single day.  So every single person that has entered the market within the last six months is only seeing insane insane action They've been able to close her eyes Throw a dart and make money now in market conditions like that anyone can make money anyone can make money when the markets hot When the market is slow is when things get a little bit more difficult when the market is slow That's what requires a little bit more discipline. So Because the market was so hot for about six months We have to accept that maybe for a few weeks or even a few months. We might be really slow Now what does a slow market cycle mean? How can you kind of trade it? What can you kind of do to keep yourself safe? Well, the truth of the matter is this guys In a slow market cycle your goal your job as a trader is to protect your capital, right?  I try to be a little bit more patient I don't try to experiment. I don't try to do anything new In a slow market cycle. I am sizing down the reason why I'm sizing down is because I want to protect myself from the Subpar non-edge setups today. I made 40 bucks and you know 40 bucks is what I'm going to spend on my lunch today so it's not really a lot of money, but The truth of the matter is is when I was first starting off my trading career, I would lose money on slow days I would force trades. I would chase trades. I would miss the primary trade and chase it at the lows I would miss trades. So I would go trade Apple or Tesla or Facebook or Netflix But now that I've kind of been a little bit more mature in my trading journey now that I've been doing this for almost six and a half years I've learned that on slow days your best friend is just leave walk away and not even trade Personally, I feel like this market has been a little bit tough the past six the past Five to six trading days has been very very tough There's been a lack of opportunity. There's been a lack of locates. There's been a lack of edge So I see a lot of people Deviating from their comfort zone. I see a lot of people straying away I see a lot of people kind of trading random stuff just because there's really nothing else to trade and my advice to you on These slow days will be talk to your tab Make a plan if both of you guys don't agree on your plans. Just walk away, you know a Flaw that I've had in my trading early on in my trading career Was that I felt like I had to trade every day and I felt like I had to be at the desk from 9 30 to 4 If I was not at the desk between 9 30 or 4 I was not maximizing the opportunities That were in front of me and now as I've kind of gotten a little bit older my trading career I've realized that in trading the less time you are in front of the computer the more money you make The more time that you are in front of the computer the robots the algos the other traders are just fiending to take your money guys So again on slow days, you know manage your risk if you have some Small losses, it's okay. If you have some paper cuts, it's okay. If you have a small green day It's okay. Do not get greedy if you daily make $200 a day and on a slow day You're making $100 a day. Don't force a trade just to get to your number your arbitrary number Don't force anything guys I mean in a slow market cycle the people that survive are the ones that are the most careful in a slow market cycle the people that Protect their capital are the ones that survive and for me on a slow market cycle while everyone is kind of being stressed Like what do I trade? What do I do? How do I trade this? I'm thinking to myself. I'm just gonna stay calm I'm gonna distract myself.  So that's number one Give me a sec. Let me just check out some of these stocks are moving And number two is when does the slow market change back into a hot market, right? So now we know what happens when there's a slow market. What happens what triggers a hot market again?  That's either easy to borrow SSR low float that catches everyone off guard We're in a market now where everything is tanking.  There's not there's no there's no real Rhymer reason, right? So when the market is slow like that shorts get very comfortable They start using more size. They start chasing moves because that's what's been working And I never want to do that because what it's gonna end up happening is there's gonna be one stock? Either tomorrow the next day next week next month whatever it is that catches everyone off guard now When the stock catches everyone off guard It's gonna squeeze and go higher and trap and trap and trap the way that we get a hot market again Is when we get a big-time squeezer that traps a lot of people that then Motivates long-bias traders to buy the next one and find the next one. What's the next one? What's the next one? so This market cycle although it's slow When we get one of these parabolic type of low-flow pumps, whatever that keep on going that trap people That is gonna be your signal that the market is changing Okay, now what are some warning signs to look for on these stocks, right? Usually it's gonna be a low-flow float usually under 5 million Usually it's gonna have SSR on which is the short sale restriction usually it's gonna be easy to borrow So in the coming days guys if you see a stock that's easy to borrow if you see a stock That's low-flow if you see a stock that's SSR you should be just a little bit more careful Let a switch go off in your head that says, you know what the market's been slow All it's gonna take is one squeeze or to let things go apeshit I want to be careful so that's kind of the advice that I want to give you guys on this slow day I want to kind of make sure that you guys are staying safe, you know slow days slow weeks low months are inevitable That's why when the market is hot We need to capitalize as much as possible because we don't know how long the markets gonna last like this There's gonna be certain times in trading when we're feasting like the past six months There's gonna be certain times in trading when there's a famine period for last week and this is normal guys There's no reason to get upset There's no reason to be discouraged if anything this is a great time to join MIC and it's a great time to learn and brush up on your education so that when the market is slow You can educate yourself so that when the market picks up you don't have to waste your time educating yourself then So I mean the point that I'm trying to make guys is that this is all normal this happens You know, we've had a hot market for multiple multiple months And it's only normal that it's gonna slow down now again Remember what I said? What are the warning signs that things are gonna pick up? What are the warning signs that things are going to kind of?  So if you have any questions, we'll start feeling Q&A over here If this makes sense leave a like on the video also one more thing that I want to kind of mention Give me a second And I want to start doing more giveaways on the YouTube channel So what I want to do is When this YouTube so right now there's a live video so people are commenting live So when I kind of post a recap or the replay of this video on YouTube What I want you guys to do is I want you guys to comment one lesson that you learned from the video And what I'm gonna do is maybe every single week I'm gonna pick someone to either win a month of MIC for free Maybe some MIC swag maybe the accelerator so probably once a week We're gonna start doing giveaways on the channel for people that comment So the more people that comment the more comments I see from the same people That's probably gonna give you a better chance of running so comment on this video less new learned Maybe comment on some things that you think new traders should know and just something that it's gonna add value to other people Reading in the comments, so not only are we going to educate, you know during the videos Let's see if we could educate during the comments as well So you guys have any questions right now, so we'll feel the live Q&A right now and then we'll take it from there Yeah guys we want to take care of everyone in our community whether you're a member whether you're a non-member We like to take care of people that trust us, you know This industry is filled with a lot of scammers this industry is filled with a lot of frauds and you know We do our best to show our face every single day and show you guys what we're all about How long did it go from you getting a 2k account to 25k? Well, I wasn't properly educated back in the day, so it took me about a year If I was to go back and do it now it probably take me a couple of months because of what I know now What I learned this is scaled down during the slow period. Yeah, it's very true guys That's that's what I'm telling you. It's it's like okay, so let's say you're at the casino, right?  So for me all these 14 hands all these 15 hands all these 16 hands I'm avoiding. I'm avoiding. I'm avoiding. I'm waiting every day for a 20 blackjack hand and then throwing my money into that guys So the point I'm trying to make is in trading you usually have an edge if you are patient So be patient and wait for your edge and then bulldoze the money in How many different strategies do you specialize in well my favorite strategies are the death line low hanging fruit The first resistance play shorting of bounce So I usually use maybe about four to five setups on the short side And then there's a couple long setups like the long the first bounce and the VWAP reclaim strategy which we all teach in our all of our videos Yeah, I'm a slow market protecting your capital as possible I think someone just mentioned that they wanted to see my office. So let me kind of show you guys my office So this is kind of my office guys. This is kind of my place of Zen I suggest that everyone has an office that they are comfortable in So this is kind of where I do my thing. I have a lot of memorabilia. So I love like space So I have like a lot of stuff about space Elon Musk Benjamin Franklin in space area 51. So this is my office guys This is kind of where I do all my thinking is where I've spent most of my time I suggest that you guys get a setup or you kind of set up your office in a way that motivates you to work It gets you excited to work So let's feel a few more questions and then I want to keep this video short and sweet because I know if I keep it short And sweet more people are gonna watch it Yeah, guys, so what do I do personally on slow days? For me what I do is I answer questions all day. I try to make my seat better for you guys I try to provide a value for you guys I make these videos at the end of the day if I'm able to keep myself busy by helping you guys That just makes me a little bit more happier More kids slow Will we see a dry type of pump and dump again? No, that was once in a lifetime. I doubt that's gonna happen Video idea day in the life. Maybe that's actually gonna be cool. Maybe one of these days if it's slow again I'll just take my phone around and record a day in the life. It's nothing too exciting I trade I drive around work out eats answer questions all day It's nothing glamorous like models and women and anything like that. I'm more of a hermit When's the next MIC event when COVID ends?  That's what our vision was That's where our goal is that's what our soul is and we're gonna get back to that as soon as we are You know legally able to host events Guys, it's the right time to watch videos. It's the right time to educate. It's the right time to study We ran a promotion last week where you can get into the club for half price and only a couple people join I was surprised that more people didn't join If I don't even want to talk about honestly, it's just like how I don't know what more we could do to provide value for you guys To get you guys to join the club We always run special promotions. We always try to work with you guys So, you know, if you want to join MIC, you're on the fence. Maybe you don't know if MIC is the right fit for you Just text Tosh his numbers two one three four five eight five nine nine seven Ask me anything you want about trading you had a good day You had a bad day you want to talk about it Tosh is here. He's gonna help you and that's it guys So, I don't know what else I could talk about. I don't really want to ramble I don't really want to kind of give you guys fluff information just to make the video longer Just want to keep it short and sweet And that's it guys So if you have any questions feel free to hit me up Remember to leave a comment on the video We're gonna start doing giveaways on the videos and if you have any questions DM me on Instagram DM me on Twitter Coltosh, we're here every single day every single week trying to help you guys So thanks guys appreciate it, and I'll see you guys later