Welcome to NewsClick. We have once again going to be discussing the Rafale controversy. New revelations are coming out. But rather than discuss all the details, we have with us Raghu, D. Raghunandan, a defence expert and a colleague in NewsClick. And we will be discussing not, we won't go into so much of details but we want to focus on the key elements of this Rafale controversy. Welcome for this interview Raghu. I like to start with raising the first query that comes to my mind, which is when the government submitted its documents before the Supreme Court, now that the matter is with the Supreme Court and they reserved their order. They said they had to go in for this deal because our neighbours, our adversaries were acquiring fighter jets of a much more modern and high-tech than what India possesses. And HAL, the South, the South's negotiations to sort out the guarantee, warranty, work share agreement remained unresolved. I'd like to ask you, Raghu, that if it is so that the security situation in our immediate neighbourhood was such that compelled the government to go in for changing a request for a proposal of 2007 to a truncated form, does it make sense to you as a defence analyst, I mean does it make sense to you that we can fill our requirement by going for a fewer number of fighter jets than what was required originally. From day one, this has been the biggest problem for any defence analyst when he looks at it, it looks patently absurd that you know that your own strength is depleting in the air force. You know that simultaneously potential adversaries in your neighbourhood are arming themselves and that the imbalance between what is required for preparedness and what you have has been increasing by the day. That is clear and that is why with all these factors in mind, the air force had carefully thought and put out a proposal to induct 126 aircraft. Now, to say that negotiations were stalled and therefore we had to go in for an emergency procurement but only of 36 aircraft does not make sense. If you thought that there was a problem in the negotiations, the first thing should have been to try to untangle those negotiations, how to get it out of the quagmire it was in, to scrap it and then go for an emergency procurement of a much smaller number does not make sense and clearly the air force also does not think it made sense because it soon put out another request for 114 fighters which then begs the question then why not have a revised 126 aircraft tender which had gone through all the procedures rather than do this mishmash of buying an emergency requirement of 36 and then going for something else. But they are also being less than truthful on this because it seems both thus all CERIC Trapia who has been giving interviews right left and center but he is also on record as well as the former chairman of Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd himself Shri Raju, T. Subarna Raju who is on, they are both on record having said that they had sorted out this problem and in fact the HALs ex-chairman said that the documents were submitted to the NDA government to the Modi government and that they should bring it out in public because it would make it very clear that the work share agreement, the question of warranty and guarantee etc etc had all been resolved. So the government in its note which it has filed in the Supreme Court has advanced two rationals behind this one was that the immediate neighborhood is there and therefore needed aircraft on an emergency basis the negotiations were stalled and therefore we had to go on why the negotiations were stalled that they have clearly and openly blamed HAL to say that this is HAL's problem. In fact it's been open season for for heating out at HAL for no rhyme reason by even serving IAF officers. Why the serving IAF officers? It's extremely unfortunate that this is being done because then for any future contract why will any foreign vendor or for your own armed forces have any confidence in your own public sector, defense public sector. One of the senior IAF officers went so far as to come out in defense of private not just private entities entering military sector but much more than coming out in defense out of Anil Ambani group and and that's all CEO Eric Trappier has also specifically stated that on the question of guarantee he has said very clearly I don't know about this problem we didn't have a problem HAL said they would give a guarantee for their thing this is a problem between them and the government of India. So my understanding of this issue is if the negotiations were stuck and the negotiations were not stuck because of a problem between HAL and that's all correct it's a problem with the government of India had with HAL then it raises an even bigger question was the prime motive just to kick HAL out of this process and then redo the process so that you can favor private sector industry that seems to be the only conclusion because it's not that's all its problem about HAL it's your problem with HAL as far as the government of India was concerned. Otherwise it would make no sense why ministers of government bureaucrats and serving Air Force officers will go out of the way to damage HAL and and come out in defense of a private party like the Anil Ambani group. That's right. Let's move to the second question that we have in our mind that that needs to be looked at little carefully. We have a defense procurement procedure 2013 the government also says that they went by the DPP 2013 when they went in for this so called intergovernmental agreement and this was a government to government deal. There are several questions that have a reason in the courts of Supreme Court hearing which raised a question about the nature of this this peculiar nature of this government to government deal. Reportedly France doesn't have a policy or a procedure laid out for government to government deal. When India swears by government to government deal and and projects this Raphael deal as being far superior to a competitive bidding they the questions that comes to our mind is that then why in a government to government deal there is no sovereign guarantee given. Why is it that in a question in if in the event of a dispute Geneva is said to be the seat of arbitration whereas under DPP 2013 it had to be New Delhi and sovereign guarantee is a must if it's a government to government deal. If it's a competitive bidding then the bank guarantee has to be provided by the vendor. Now you are negotiating directly with the vendor not with the government you are waived to core conditions of the government to government deal. So what kind of a government to government deal is it and what does it say about our defense procurement procedure then. There is two issues involved and I just like for the purposes of explanation to separate them. The first is the decision making process itself and that's what this is before the Supreme Court now is how is this decision arrived at and the document filed by the government says we have strictly followed the defense procurement procedure of 2013 of 2013 which to my mind is completely erroneous because they have listed all the steps that 2000 that the DPP requires and which were followed in the case of the 126 aircraft deal. But in this case the decision was first announced by the Prime Minister at a press conference standing next to the French president and all the other steps of going before the acquisitions council the negotiating committee the final seal by the cabinet committee on security were done post facto. What their government is trying to say which earlier also government spokesman have said is that the Prime Minister did not announce a decision he announced an intent to go in for it. This is farcical when the Prime Minister stands on the world stage sitting next to the president of France and says that we have decided to go a decision clearly has been taken the note itself says that soon following that press conference steps were initiated to cancel the earlier tender that means a decision is taken otherwise you would not have cancelled the earlier tender. So then retrospectively you have put a rubber stamp on it because the Prime Minister has made the announcement and in this government in particular who can question the Prime Minister. I think this is a very important issue because if there was a crisis which is the case that the government is making out that there was procurement going on by the neighbors that our negotiations had collapsed then it particularly needed bringing together of minds of the Air Force chief the leading bureaucracy the political leadership of the cabinet committee on security to take stock of this crisis situation and take a decision. So it is precisely that the emergency situation should have required a consultative process which is what the defense procurement procedure is rather than the Prime Minister taking a decision and then all other things following in that is first. Secondly as far as the intergovernmental agreement is concerned I think the intergovernmental agreement issue is being done in order to bypass many of the rigors which the defense procurement procedure calls for. You may seek to understand this by saying well you know India was in an emergency situation it needed 36 aircraft immediately and therefore we needed to short cut this therefore we decided to call it but if you had really wanted as I said you could have called a meeting of the defense acquisition council expedited the processes expedited clearance by the cabinet committee on security and taken a decision in any case even after the Prime Minister announced this at the press conference it took a year and a half before the final agreement was signed and then three years more for the first aircraft to get to start delivery. So I do not see how this squares with the idea of an emergency procurement and short circuiting of this. The most astonishing part of this is the absence of a guarantee of arbitration processes being outside. So the beneficiary of all this is who? Dassault because the French government has no hand. So you mean the question that can be posed is whether the government of India was doing going out of its way to help Dassault or actually catering to the needs of the country. Because in the earlier agreement Dassault would have been held accountable by guarantees by arbitration processes etc. And the government of India has given an advance of close to a billion dollars to 1.1 million euro without a bank guarantee under the guise of this is an intergovernmental agreement but the money is going to Dassault. So I do not understand why you are on the one hand favoring Dassault a private agency abroad and to favoring some private agencies in India through offset contracts. In both cases I think India is the loser. This brings me to the last question. I mean the way in which Rafale deal has progressed or rather regressed makes it very clear that if this is the way we go by then it is going to completely destroy the defence military sector which is the key. Now as a defence analyst Raghu what do you make of this? Because the question that arises is in order to accommodate because people are going out of their way to defend this deal and defend the entry of a private party despite many serious questions about its financial viability, its commitment to property, integrity, liabilities etc. Despite that if they are going out and they are willing to damn the Indian public sector. As a defence analyst how do you respond to this? See I have two problems with this. You may say I have an ideological predilection favoring public sector against private sector. Honestly I do not. If we have to have a robust defence industry no private sector organization in our country has shown evidence or capability of being able to develop the capacity required. If at all we want to develop capacity in the private sector we should be doing what has been done in atomic energy or space which is bark on the one hand in atomic energy and BHEL which has been manufacturing equipment for nuclear power plants has gradually built up a vendor base among private companies starting with components and gradually leading towards may be larger participation in manufacture. The same approach has been done by ISRO who have developed now a fairly extensive base of vendors in the private sector who are capable of supplying to it and soon they will be satellites being manufactured by the private sector for this is this way if we had gone even in the aviation sector you could have built up capacity that is in fact what the offsets were designed for originally that now is the offsets are only being looked at as financial instruments not as instruments of developing capacity and indigenization in the military sector in the military sector and the note which has been tabled in the Supreme Court starts in explaining offsets saying the main purpose is indigenization what indigenization has been done through the offsets that we are told and the government saying we have a hands-off approach to offsets this is left to the original equipment manufacturer abroad and whoever they identified here so if they identify a caterer or a panwala is that good enough would not the government want to have a say does this promote indigenization Well electric trapeze said electric trapeze believe that people have a right to start from scratch that is as far as trapeze is concerned government surely will have an assessment do these offsets enable unfortunately over the years and the latest amendment to the DPP 2013 now says you can do offsets you let us know after three years what offsets you are going to do at that stage if the government finds that this offset is not doing anything to help indigenization we can't do anything even that was done post the decision to go in for this truncated deal and it's they they try to apply it retrospectively Raghu this is enough for today thank you for today but we'll be returning to this story because it's not going to go anywhere there are too many skeletons the library here thank you for watching news click if you have any responses if you want to if you have any feedback we'll be welcome it please send it to us thank you once again and keep watching news click


Hi, I'm Brian Hansen. I'm the Research Agronomist at the Langdon Research Extension Center, and I'm coming to you here today virtually. We didn't have a field tour this year, but we thought we'd want to share a little information about what we're doing here in Towner County with the different trials we have. First of all, I'd like to thank Darren Wise for letting us be on his land again this year. And it's always very helpful to us in getting things in order in this spring. So we're very appreciative of that. So we have three different trials here this year. We have our regular hard-breaded spring wheat variety trial. And then we do some work with syngena. So we have an advanced trial with them on hard-breaded spring wheat. And something else we have this year is a faba bean trial, and we're working with a company called Agrolytica, who was contracted by RMA to get some information on the crop insurance for faba beans. Faba beans have had a little more interest the last couple of years, and maybe not so much this year, but the past two years. And there's been some fields growing around, so they want to get a little more information for crop insurance. And just briefly a little bit about the faba bean, if you don't know too much about it, it's a legume crop. Generally it's more adapted to the cooler regions. So here in northern North Dakota, a little cooler environment generally, a little more moisture, and that's more like what the faba bean would like. It's a little more popular up in Canada in some areas. So it's a legume crop. You know, it pods very high. It's not like a pea, so it's very easy to harvest anywhere from 10 to 13 inches off the ground. And it fixes about 30% more nitrogen than the pea would. Basically the plant, there's kind of different categories. You may be heard of it as a tick bean or a horse bean. And the seeds are quite large anywhere from 400 to 600 grams per kernel weight. So it's a very large green compared to a pea as well. If you're planting in an area, you'd pick a field like you would for a field pea, you know, a little nitrogen. You don't want to watch your carry over herbicide some. And it's not real strong competitor with weeds. It comes up very slow, so you want to make sure you don't have a big perennial weed problem in your field. And you inoculate it just like you would a pea or a soybean to get your nitrogen for the crop. So we mentioned it's a little poorer for weed control, but there's some options out there that are labeled. At Langdon we usually use like a prowl or treflan along with spartan, and then you can come back with varisto so you can keep the field quite clean during the year. Variety selection, there's a couple varieties here called zero tannin or regular, and really most of the market for beans is with the human food market here in the States. They fractionate it and separate the protein and starch so it's used in pet food or human food. So that's the main sources here. And just a couple of agronomic things, a seeding date. You want to plant fiber beans quite early. About the first thing you'd want to plant, they do well planted early. We've done research at Langdon about three, four years ago looking at planting date study. Anything after about May 20th, the yields really went down fast, they take a long time to mature. If you get a cool wet fall, they kind of linger on. So if you could plant them even May 1st in that area, it'd probably be an ideal situation. And we also did a seeding rate trial back then, and it kind of confirmed what others have done where you plant about four to five seeds per square foot. So fiber beans are quite large seeded, so it actually may be planting up to three to four bushels. So you really have to watch your seed size to get the correct population. Seeding depth, we want to plant it deep, two to three inches. It's a big bean, so we get it under the moisture. So make sure it gets some moisture to get that bean growing. Not so much for insect problems, maybe some ligus bugs, which can cause some crop quality issues towards the end of the season. What about the only insect would be blister beetles, blister beetles kind of clumb in and just fly in and feed for a while and not so much a big deal on a big field. Be more of an issue on a plot like this where you have a small amount where they come in and do a little more harm. Diseases, pretty much some of the things you would have with peas, but it's a little more resistant to root rot than you would have with your peas, so a little better in that spot area. The only foliar is a chocolate brown spot and our pathologist at Langdon has done some work with that and you can spray that. It's labeled like something like Headline or something like that, we'll usually spray that just around mid-July. Harvest generally desiccate when about 80% of the pods are turning and then try to harvest at 18% to 20% moisture. So that's about what I want to share with you about the five of beans today.  Typically when we're out here and we have more people, I go through each of the varieties, get a little more detailed information, but virtually we don't want you to unclick us so we're going to keep it a little shorter and keep it a little general and you can look up some of the yield results this fall. Part of your results go on our website and then there's the NDSU Variety page where you can get the varieties from all the different crops across all the different research centers across the state, so it's quite handy that way. Probably one of the best bulletins you should get is called Hard Red Springweed Variety Selection Guide and this has a lot of the information taken from all the different research sites and Fargo accumulated. It has all the varieties, source origin, average height that we've seen across the state, straw strength, dazed ahead and gives some of the disease ratings such as stem rust, tan spot and scab and a big one that we've seen this year all across the state is bacterial leaf streak. Bacterial leaf streak, it's a bacterial obviously and it's not controlled by any fun fungicide so if you fungicide your field and you had a lot of brown leaves yet you're wondering what's going on it's bacterial leaf streak. So the only thing you can do with that really is resistant varieties and there's not a lot that are really resistant to that and there's a column in here that lists some of the better ones are one from Minnesota called Boost, Lang M.M., one called Trigger from Lima Green Serial Science and ND VidPro would be some of the more resistant varieties. So and this also gives the quality so it's important for our marketing on the whole for NDSU in the state to have good quality crop. Now the varieties that we have in here this year or at Langdon we we have 30 varieties here and a couple of them are experimental at Langdon we have 56 total varieties and 47 are names so there's so many choices for you guys to pick from in choosing a variety. Basically if you look at a variety and would look at a chart there's kind of four different quadrants you can have a variety with high yield and lower protein or varieties with lower yield and higher protein and that's just generally the way that it responds if you have a higher yielding you generally don't get as high protein and then you have a whole group in the middle. So obviously the plant breeders their objective is try to break into that upper right quadrant or you have a little higher yield and a higher protein so that's some of the data you should look at. So the varieties we have here again we have 47 name we have varieties from NDSU, Minnesota, South Dakota, Montana State, and Sengenta, AgriPro, Cropland, Limagrain Serial Science, Meridian Seed, Dynagro, CHS or Allegiant we have those at in Langdon and then 21st century genetics. So we have about four universities and seven different companies and at this point right now Westbred does not test any lines with NDSU. They've chosen just do that privately. Just for the NDSU lines I guess one of the newer ones that was just released this year it's being raised at the NDSU research centers and will be available for to local counties next year is ND Froberg. That was named after the plant breeder Dr. Froberg. We retired about 12 years ago or so and it's a variety kind of fall in the class is like a barlow or glen. Typically it's a little taller about the same range as a glen and but for being a taller variety it does have a very good straw strength and have a little bit better yield than bowls would but won't have quite as high as protein and carries that new rust gene. I know some of the older ones we had like Fowler had some of the rust that is in the area right now it wasn't resistant to that particular race but ND Froberg is and does have some resistant to bacterial leaf streak streak and the Fuzerum headlight would be similar to Elgin or Barlow and it has a very good milling and baking qualities. So it's a variety we'll see we're going to have it right at Langdon the last few years and we're going to it's at all our research centers this year as well. So that's kind of a quick update. We didn't get into a lot of detail like I mentioned before but look for the data. So thank you for much and have a good harvest season.


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As you guys know, once a month or maybe you don't know once a month, Kenyon does an incredibly great psychological series. It's the trader mindset series does it once a month. For all the peeps in Access to Trader. If you don't know who Kenyon is, he is an amazing, amazing life coach public speaker. He speaks to all these Fortune 500 companies and thousands and thousands of people. And we are incredibly lucky and fortunate and blessed to have here once a month, discussing the sheer anguish and hurdles of the mental side of the market. Obviously, I've gone through my pains. I have the lashes to really understand and convey my message. But when it comes from another point of view of somebody who actually does this from a day to day basis and speaks to the inner soul of human beings, it's a really cool treat once a month. So if anybody, if you are coming aboard this week or next week, again, it's totally included. And you definitely do not want to miss it. It's going to be Saturday, April the 15th. And I think Kyler posted a previous video on this YouTube channel to kind of give you a little bit of a hint. So if you've been doing this now, I think this is his fourth installment of this series. So hopefully you guys will continue to get a lot of value from this. It's really, really neat. It's something to extremely experienced live. So let's talk about the tape, right? Obviously, the big story today was CPI number. The consensus was 5.1, 5.2%. I tried to, every single video, try to give it from an adult, a very composed point of view of what I think is going to happen. And we talked about this last night. It wasn't the data, the hard data that was going to come in that was important. It was how the market was going to react. We knew about the levels of interest. We knew about the 319 level to the upside. We knew about the 313 to the downside. We'll get to the latter in a second. But this morning the number came out. It was 5% better than expected. And as you can see here, the first move of the market this morning was just a massive move up. It moved up in about 30 seconds. It exploded through the 19, put in a hive on 1985, and then 15 seconds later it started to come down slowly, but surely, slowly, but surely. And this is what we talked about last night on the video. Let the dust settle, right? Let the, as I said on the video last night, let the bodies hit the floor, right? We know where the bodies are better. Once the noise dies out and everything kind of gets a little bit stabilized, and if opening ranges kind of get confirmed, we'll see a trend for the market. And for the bulls, they had their shot. They really did. They had their shot. Again, CPI came in better than expected. And as you, if you blinked, right, if you blinked, bulls gave back that 19 level within literally 30, 40 seconds and the trend developed, right? It's the trend developed and it's not the trend that the bulls wanted to see.  And not only did we not, you know, hang on to the top of the range, we closed at the bottom of the range. We talked about the importance of 313 to the downside, 319 to the upside. Again, we closed at 313. We'll talk about the significance of that in a second. And I think, you know, going into tomorrow, right? Going into tomorrow, you have another data point, right? You have the PPI. Okay, I think tomorrow could be, you know, kind of the lash. I don't want to be too dramatic. I don't want to cause FOMO or anything like that or any kind of stereo or anything. Again, I'm trying to just, I'm trying to just really just lay out the facts. But I think tomorrow, if the bulls don't step up on this PPI number, you know, you're going to have a pretty decent move to the downside. Because again, if we confirm tomorrow this downward channel, you see this rising support here on the Qs and the Qs start losing, you know, this 312 level, right? This 312 level, especially on the close, we have room all the way down to 302, 303. Again, I don't expect that to happen in one session. But again, that's kind of the whole point of stocks trading from supply to supply and demand to demand to demand to demand. And I think the bulls, you know, I don't want to, you know, I don't want to say they dropped the ball today, but the last thing you want to see is that is that move over 319 faded. And again, it wasn't faded in two, three hours. It was faded in 30 seconds. So not not a great thing. Aside from PPI tomorrow at 830, you have Friday of more data, jobless claims of the first two data points of this week wasn't enough. So the investors have a lot of, you know, a lot of things on their plate. But more important is price action, right? And that's the name of the game. It's all about price action. I didn't spend more than 13 seconds, you know, kind of digesting or ingesting. The data of the CPI number, again, for me, it's just all about price action. And we say this all the time, we're prepared. Okay, that's the most important thing. It's not just, you know, it's not just being biased on one side and huffing and puffing, you know, and complaining. And on people with social media, when that side doesn't get confirmed, when your plan doesn't confirm, you have to be ready. You have to be ready on both sides. We kind of, you know, we stress that fact every single video. We stress that fact every single day in the live webinar to make sure that everybody is very evenly balanced. You're not you're not jumping out of the airplane. No offense, Kenyon. I know you have five 8000 jumps under your belt, right? But the point is, you know, you're looking at the market from a very logical point of view and technical analysis is your guide. We'll get to the pit in a second. Really good aggressive session today, especially pull into the close by the, you know, by all our favorites. And again, we'll get to that in a second. So here's the significance, right? Here's the significance. Let me give you guys levels. That 312 level has to hold on. Okay, 31250 was the low today. This is the lowest close. This is the lowest close in this whole entire formation. So you can see here, you have 11, you know, you have this 12, right? Basically, I want to split hairs. It's 312. So if the bulls don't hold on to this 312 area, okay, we have a lot of room down. Again, like I said a few minutes ago, is it going to come on one, you know, on one day? Probably not. But again, the last thing the bulls want to do is close below this 312 level because you could see your pot of gold, especially if you're trading on both sides of the market, this 304, which becomes the 50 day moving average. And I'm going to give you guys a whole bunch of examples for tomorrow. Stocks that are about to lose support, law support, or closed right on support. So you can really understand the significance. And unfortunately, a lot of traders are going to be going to sleep tonight, you know, not really fully grasping the importance of today's close or even more important, not grasping the importance of what happens if we confirm today's price action going into tomorrow. A lot of people just turn around and go, haha, you know, just buy the dip by the dip. Again, again, like I said in every single video, I have no idea where the market's going to go. I have a guess, right? I have an educated guess based on technical analysis.   We all know this, right? I just, you know, I just admit it. But again, if you take the data, and that's what we do every single day, again, I don't know where the market's going to be three weeks from now, three months ago from three months from now. You know, I'm trying to win tomorrow, right? That's all we're trying to do. We're trying to win our interval. We're not trying to guess the closing prices tomorrow. We're not trying to guess the closing prices next week. We're trying to take the data that we just took, right? And I just spent a good, you know, 20 minutes looking at a whole bunch of charts, which basically, there was no reason why, because the same five, 10 stocks I trade every single day. That's on my watch list. But the point is I did the research and I'm patiently waiting, even if we gap up tomorrow, okay? I'm patiently waiting. I'm going to give the bears every opportunity to confirm today's price action for tomorrow. And if I see the market is not going down and we're not confirming today's price action, that's the beauty of being prepared on both sides, right? Then we'll switch bias. We'll switch bias based on concrete technical evidence, not what we want in our heart and hoping to God that happens, okay? We're guided by technical analysis, not our emotions. So let me give you guys some ideas for tomorrow. And let me show you exactly what I'm talking about, right? Look at Netflix, right? Look at Netflix. Netflix closed right on its 50 and 20 day moving average. If Netflix confirms this channel down, there's like five, seven points in the trade. Look at Amazon, okay? We had a pivot this morning on Amazon, right? Look at Amazon, okay? Amazon is exactly the same chart as Netflix. It's sitting right on its 50 and 20 day moving average. If Amazon confirms, right, you have room all the way down to 94, 95. Look at Tesla, right? Obviously the star of the day. Look at Tesla. Tesla lost its five day moving average. If it confirms today's price action tomorrow, we're going to go down to the bottom of the range here, 176. Any close below 176 tomorrow on Tesla and you have room all the way down to 163. Again, is it going to happen on one day? Probably not. But again, these are the levels that are going to organically be tested and if they do confirm, good things usually are going to happen after that. Look at NVIDIA, right? NVIDIA lost its launch today, right? It's just sitting right on the bottom, right on the bottom of the range. Again, is it possible NVIDIA turns around and explodes tomorrow? Absolutely, right? Everything's on the table, but this is where we talk about being prepared in case it loses the bottom of the range here and it's held the bottom of the range here four, three separate times. If it loses the bottom of the range here, look how much room you have, you have as well. So we're set up. Apple is a million stocks. Look at Apple, same thing. Apple sitting on the bottom of the range here. So if the bears want to take control, tomorrow is the day for it. Get below 312, stay below 312 on the queues. If the bulls want to seize control, you want to see a washout, reclaim of 313 and then rally and everything else, it's all a bunch of noise. So let's talk about today's pivots, guys. Wrong one, wrong one. Let's talk about today's pivots. If I could put on the browser would help. Let's talk about today's pivots.  And now we are going to be talking about some pivots for tomorrow, this damn thing would ever load. Okay, here we go. So here are the pivots for today. Right, here's the pivots for today. All right, so here's my notes. CPI came in, but I'm expected market is surging. We obviously do not want to chase these candles, right? Ask the people this morning if they chase those candles, what happened? The good news is we should see an expansion today. Yes, we did.  I'll start putting in pivots as they develop. Again, 319 was the big level as soon as the market opened. This thing just tanked straight down below. Here is, you know, here is, you know, here is a two-sided pivot on the video. 275-15, if it needs to build, could get the 78, got nowhere near 215. 275 went straight down. Meta 217 needs to build, we're nowhere that.  VKTX 18 rejected, twice needs to build. Nice little pop, apparently it happened at lunchtime when I was gone, but again, if you guys caught it, nice little pop from 18 to 1840s. Obviously came back in with everything else. Let's skip aside all the stocks that didn't confirm. Google didn't confirm, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here we go, right? So here we go. Here we go, here we go, here we go. So in the video, the video was the first stone to be turned. 7126, if it builds below, can flush. Here was in the video, smashed, right? Smashed. Here's the 7126, went all the way down to 64. Again, guys, watch the bottom channel. If this thing confirms, there's more room down. Tesla, definitely the trade of the day. 85, 60, if it builds below, can flush. Tesla right now is at the lowest level, trading about 180. After hours, if this thing confirms tomorrow, we could see all the way down to 176. Phenomenal, phenomenal move on Tesla. Amazon 99, if it builds below, can flush. Here is Amazon, right? Took out the 99, closed right pretty much at the low of the day. If this thing loses today's lows, there's room all the way down to 95. Big move down there as well. There was actually an upside pivot. Microsoft actually worked the upside. 286 rejected twice, needs to build. Pop the book about a buck before the destruction in prices. Here's the 286, right? So here's the 286, and I popped about a buck. Excuse me, 286 was right here. Pop right about a buck into supply again, considering how the market did. That wasn't a bad move whatsoever. And I believe, right? I believe that is it, right? Good rejection. This is early in the day, good rejection. Make sure you take on the way down. And that's it. So we are set up for tomorrow, guys. Again, very, very important day for the bulls. Very important day for the bears. If the bulls can hold on to that 313 level, that's a good thing. If the bears seize control back of the 313 level, taking down today's ranges and confirm 312, there should be a more aggressive selling to come. So guys, have a great night, everybody. Just a reminder, there is no video tomorrow. Tomorrow's my regular night off. But once again, guys, if you are planning to join us, whether it's tomorrow, Friday, or next week, you know, you have this wonderful, wonderful event coming up on Saturday, the 15 with Kenyon in his next installment of the Trader Mindset series. Guys, have a great night, everybody. We'll see you all tomorrow. Take care.


Good morning. My name is Dr. Stephanie Adams. I'm the Associate Director for Academic Engagement through University Housing and I have the distinct pleasure of introducing our keynote speaker for this morning. Her name is Dr. Lisa Corrigan. She is the Associate Professor for Communications and she's also the Director of Gender Studies here at the University of Arkansas. Please give her your individent attention. I want to thank Stephanie Adams for the invitation to speak briefly today before the wall comes down. My remarks focus on the reasons why slurs have no place in the university setting. First, the kinds of words that appear on this wall are used to bully people in a submission so that bullies feel stronger, better, smarter, more competent. It's unacceptable behavior. Second, these kinds of words create a hostile learning environment for all of the people on campus whether the slurs are directed at them or not. Colleges are supposed to be inclusive public spaces where everyone feels respected because we are modeling democracy by learning about perspectives that are different from our own. Finally, words like these are rhetorical violence. They harm people in serious, long-lasting, cultural and personal ways. Colleges are in the business of helping people, not harming them. And campuses should be places where members of the campus community feel safe from harm. Unfortunately, the public climate we're living in right now is anti-intellectual, intolerant, white supremacist, sexist, heterosexist, classist, and ableist. The public culture now cultivates insecurity and feelings of precarity along with unreachable myths about who we should be and what we should be expected to achieve. Students of this generation report higher rates of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and paralyzing self-doubt.  Those cultural messages create fragile children and adults that cannot cope with change, with difference, with new data. Slurs become a way of managing the anxiety caused by uncertainty of other people's experiences. But our culture and popular culture in particular in our politics are totally oriented around rhetorical and physical violence as the response to difference. It's no coincidence that verbal violence often accompanies physical assault. In June, a Delta Utah man was beaten and knocked unconscious after being forced to drink bleach at the pizza place where he worked.  They returned a few nights later to his home where they spray painted slurs all over his house. Even a cursory look at the texts and videos of the killer cops responsible for murdering unarmed black folks in the U.S. demonstrates how frequently those police officers use slurs and how the slurs enable them to view themselves as above the law when they assassinate unarmed civilians. And the data on sexual assault clearly demonstrates that men who use misogynistic slurs against women are more likely to assault them because they view women as animals and objects without humanity or dignity. Ultimately, I think that the goal of an exercise like the wall is a personal transformation where participants recognize the amount of pain they're inflicting on others and choose not to employ or tolerate abusive speech. I'm optimistic that those of you who participated found an outlet to think through how speech influences the camp's community as we continue to build an inclusive space for all people to learn. Thank you.


Set her down nice and easy for me, don't I always if by always you mean not once Major all right, you have the rendezvous coordinates far into the forest from there We access the portal to Raiden sky temple where there's an angry former elder god and devils waiting for us gods portals flying demons blind guys with magic swords The world has changed for the worse if we do not expel shinok from Raiden's temple He means to poison earthrealm's life force the Jinsei and we're not gonna let that happen Kenchi and I appreciate the major allowing us to join you.


Welcome to Spotlight. I'm Liz Wade. And I'm Bruce Gulland. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand no matter where in the world they live. The children laugh and shout loudly. They are playing games in the playground. One child is it. He runs after a group of other children. He catches one of them. That second child becomes it. She now chases the other children and tries to catch one. They are all playing a game of chase or tag. In another area of the playground, two children each hold opposite ends of a long rope. They turn it round and round and up and down. Other children take turns to jump over the rope as it is being turned. They are skipping. And all the children who are skipping are also singing special skipping songs. Children in all parts of the world play similar games. Many generations of children have enjoyed playing these traditional games. But could these games have a more important purpose? Today's spotlight is on traditional children's playground games. Experts everywhere agree that play is good for children. They say it is important for a child's mental and physical development. Nicola Butler from the Organization Play England told the Huffington Post. Traditional playground games are necessary for children's health, well-being, and development. Playing these games lets children learn about friendships. They learn about arguing, making up, negotiating, and resolving disputes. And making the game fun and fair. But most importantly, being involved in these games makes children happy. Did you know that children from many countries play the same or similar traditional games? Though these games often have different names in different countries. The game of Leapfrog has been played in the United Kingdom since the 16th century. In this game, one child bends down and holds his knees or ankles. Another child runs up to the first child, places her hands on the back of the first child, and leaps or jumps over the first child. Any number of children can play the game. They all take turns to leap or jump like a frog. In other countries, children jump like a different animal. In France, children call this same game, sote montonne, which means leap sheep. In India, they call it argodi ki par godi, which means leap horse. Another game children play all over the world is hopscotch. In Albania, they call the game vada. In Germany, it is hinkspiel. Johannes Lee told Topics Online magazine what the game is called in his country. When I was a child, my friends and I used to play many traditional games from my country, Indonesia. A game I played a lot was called one leg jump. One leg jump is a good name for the game of hopscotch. That is because the name one leg jump helps you understand how to play the game. The players mark squares on the ground using a stone or piece of chalk. Children in different parts of the world make different shapes or grids with the squares. But some things are always the same. The children all hop or jump on one leg from square to square. And they must not put a foot on any line. Very often children play the game using a stone. They throw the stone onto square one and take their turn hopping on the whole grid. They hop to the last square. Then they turn around and hop back. On their next turn they will throw their stone onto square two. And on their next turn they throw onto square three and so on. If the stone does not land in the correct square, the child must lose a turn. Maria Lopez from Columbia told Topics how she enjoyed playing hopscotch when she was a child. When I was a little girl, most afternoons I used to play games with my friends in our street. Rayuella as hopscotch is called in Spanish was my favorite game. It is nice to remember playing games like Rayuella because it shows me that I had a happy time as a child surrounded by special people who always loved me. It may surprise you to learn that hopscotch is a very old game. Experts say that nearly 2,000 years ago Roman soldiers used something similar as an exercise. They had to hop up and down a 100-foot series of squares. They did this to make them stronger and quicker on their feet. Marbles is another ancient game that is played around the world. No one knows exactly how old it is. But we know the Romans played this game too. You can see children playing marbles on ancient Roman wall paintings. But what are marbles and how do you play the game of marbles? Marbles are very small hard balls. You can find marbles made from different sorts of stone including the stone called marble. But most marbles are made from brightly colored glass. People play many different sorts of games with their marbles. But all of these games are called simply marbles. The ring game is one popular game of marbles. A child uses a stone or chalk to make a circle or ring on the ground. Those playing the game put a few of their marbles into the ring. Each child rolls or shoots another marble to try to push one of the marbles out of the ring. If a player manages to do this he keeps that marble. Hakan Tunja from Turkey played marbles as a child. But he used a triangle shape not a circle. He told topics how he and his friends would compete for marbles. I think the most important thing was to have as many marbles as we could. We competed to win the most marbles. The person who won the most marbles was the leader of the group and everyone tried to be the leader. Now I understand that this small competition was our first experience with power and leadership. Traditional playground games are about more than just fun. Hopefully children continue to learn these games and their valuable lessons for hundreds more years. Do you remember playing traditional playground games when you were a child? Tell us about playground games in your country. You can leave a comment on our website or email us at radio at radioenglish.net. You can also comment on facebook at facebook.com slash spotlight radio. The writer of this program was Katie Blake. The producer was Michio Ozaki. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted for this program and voiced by Spotlight. You can listen to this program again and read it on the internet at www.radioenglish.net. This program is called Traditional Children's Games. Look for our free listening app in the Google Play Store and in iTunes. We hope you can join us again for the next Spotlight program. Goodbye.


Hello everyone, this is Amit Dan of AmitDan.com. Today I'll have another episode of Trohanwalk video And I'll be walking on Portland Street starting from City Place Bridge So we just looked at CN Tower and we're passing the bridge So we're going to walk along Portland Street, which is a very small street It starts from Front Street and goes up to Queen Street So that's what we'll cover today, and I'm trying to catch some train. So There's just a go train which I showed you and hopefully there's going to be another train and For most of the other parts of the video, I'll keep it quiet. So it's a beautiful day and Let's continue with our walking So we're going to take a quick look at the CN Tower again from this corner. So this is Front Street and you can see lots of construction going on and And then we have CN Tower right there, and I think you can see the Street car If you look ahead And let's take a look at the bridge from here. We have a special Nice angle. This is overlooking City Place And right there you are looking at the Bathurst Street Bridge So actually I was able to get The UP train which you're looking at it right now So you got lucky with the train. We had a good glimpse So let's keep walking So on this channel, I'm always trying new and different ideas If you're into thinking outside the box if you want to subscribe to this channel If you're looking for more walk videos, there will be links in the description box below So I can see some street cars on Bathurst Street Bridge and Portland Street is right up ahead So you're going to turn right here and then we will continue the rest of the Portland Street walk There's a small nice park right here, and this is Niagara Street Wellington Street. There's a small nice restaurant. I see lots of people This is the corner of King Street West and Portland Street So there's a small cafe right on the corner and actually I'd like to sit in this type of small shop An unwind Richmond Street West. So this is the end of Portland Street. This is Queen Street That was the Toronto Walk video on Portland Street Thank you for watching this video. There will be more videos coming up. So I'll see you shortly. Thank you


But what happens if you do misgender somebody else? What's the best response from that point going forward? An apology and then restarting your sentence back over. It's like apologize and then restate and then move from there, but don't make your guilt or your embarrassment the form. Like that's not the issue. They were misgendered and their reaction is usually visceral. What's up lovers and friends? Let's call a spade a spade. This YouTube channel is not what it used to be. It used to be a lot more informational and now it's a lot more personal and conversational. And if you've been missing the kind of content that lifts up your voice and your questions and informs, inspires and entertains on topics to do with sex, love, relationships and dating, I wanna let you know I've been making that content. It is out there, but specifically it is on Quibi. I have a daily show called Sexology with Shan Boudram in which every single day we tackle a different topic relating to intimacy. And then we illustrate and highlight people and perspectives that can relate to that topic or who have questions about that topic. It is by far the most incredible thing that I've gotten to be a part of. And as I'm sitting here right now on July the second, there's already over 50 episodes you can go and watch right now to dive into the content. And to do so, all you gotta do is download Quibi in your app store and you can get a free trial and then binge away and get the content that you've been missing most from me. One topic in particular that I'm so proud to highlight and share a full episode of today is the topics surrounding misconceptions in the LGBTQ plus community. If there is one group of people who are riddled with misconception is the LGBTQ plus community. I see a lot of misinformed questions out there on the internet and rather than me answering them, I got a pro group right in front of me so I wanted to pose them to you. You cool with that? We're gonna like drag them a little. Yes, just a little bit. Let's do it, all right. The first question is how do lesbians have sex? Shayna, you smiled. Have you ever gotten this one before? Yes, it's two bodies so you can rub. There's penetration, there's oral, there's licking, there's touching, like different positions. Like I don't know how to, like you can use toys. There's so much that you can do.  Like it's- How do you have sex? Yeah, how do you have sex? And they just like, penis, vagina, that's it. I'm like, I'm sorry to hear that. There's a reason why that lesbians orgasm to 20% more than heterosexual women do and that is because they are not just doing penetration. There's a whole gamut of sexual play that you can do. And I'm actually happy this person asks this question rather than going to porn, which often shows lesbian sex in a very particular male gaze. Yeah. What's the acceptable way to ask someone if they're gay? Ask them? Yeah, just ask them, right? Yeah, ask them. Like I don't know, I don't think it needs to be awkward. Like you can, there's respectfully asking. You know, you can say, it's not a big deal to me but I just want to be clear, like, you know? I get hit on at work all the time.  It's like honey, I don't know why you're asking because right now I'm about to sell you something. Yes. Like now's not the time. If we're at a bar and then someone comes up to me and is like, are you gay? Then I might feel a little bit better about it depending on what bar I'm at. If you're not trying to have sex with them then why are you asking? Like you don't need to know if I'm gay or not. It's important to remember that some of us are not in a safe place to be out. So sometimes just asking somebody can scare someone because that means, can they tell? Right. Am I not passing this straight? I think that that's part of the apprehension. Any interaction with people, you should never go to them and say do you find me attractive? That's weird, right?   I was identified as bisexual for four years of my life and then I started identifying as a lesbian but even though that was my experience I don't believe all bisexual people are in a way station where they're trying to decide whether they're gay or straight. I know a lot of very happy bisexual people who have had very happy heterosexual relationships and homosexual relationships. There's been two terms that I've been hearing thrown around that I kinda like. There's heteroflexible and homoflexible which just is to kind of like let the world know, hey, I know what my preference is but I still am open to both and I think that that's also valid identities. I feel like bisexuality is a spectrum. Yes, yes. All right. Do you have to get gender assignment surgery to fully transition? Hell no. No. As a trans woman when I first started my transition I had body dysmorphia and I didn't understand it so I thought my route as a trans woman was to be passable as cisgender and that I needed surgeries. I needed to take hormones and all of those things but grown into myself and I no longer want like gender confirmation surgery that's not for me that's not how I identify inside and it's not about presentation or any of that. So surgeries are optional. Medical transitions such as hormone replacement therapy that's optional. If you wanna do all of that that's great but it is not necessary to do all of those things if you identify as trans. All right, this is gonna be a question I think is gonna get some heated responses back. I'm scared. Don't be scared, you're right. Is being non-binary a fad? How can you not be male or female? I mean I switched gender identities like four times in one year because I learned from meeting other non-binary people who, sorry, I don't know why I got emotional.  Made me free to be questioning my gender for two years and I've identified different ways and I've used all of the pronouns and then I settled on by gender because I realized that I'm both at once. But I couldn't have known that if I didn't meet non-binary. I couldn't have known that if I didn't meet non-binary people who were proud enough, who were brave enough to keep being themselves regardless of people questioning them. Yes. I think that's the joy and power of language is to know I'm not alone. That's what a word says, that this word was created because there are others like me who have felt this way or experienced what I've experienced and so those words like agender and by gender and genderqueer are so essential for people to say, well, hang on a second, what does that mean? I think that actually feels right for me and the point that I've ever made so beautifully here is that you're allowed to change that. So if there is somebody who is watching this who has a question and they have misconceptions, what's your advice for them? To ask.  Also, when you ask, don't take that as the clear cut and drive. Like take that as, okay, that's one experience out of however many people, millions of people identify as.  Exactly. I didn't run, so. I did and I lost, but still. Thank you so much for answering those questions and thank you to you for watching Sexology. And that's the sneak peek of my show. I am obsessed with it. Jared loves it. I do love it. Yes, he does, he just walked into the room. And if you wanna fall in love as well too, please give it a chance. Once again, all you have to do is go into the app store, download Quibi, sign up for a free trial, look for Sexology with Shambu Dram and get your binge on.