One, two, three. Everybody and welcome back to my channel. It is Drew here from Lone Fox and today we have another little segment of DIYing your DMs which I am super excited about because this is one of my favorite series to film here on the channel. It is basically a little mini series where you guys send me your DIY dilemmas like what do you want to know how to DIY? Maybe you have seen something on Pinterest, you've seen someone else create something, you found something in an inspo photo, you guys can DM them to me. I typically ask over on Instagram so if you are not already make sure to follow me on Instagram. It is Lone Fox Home. I'll put it on the screen right here and I just finished creating all four projects in this video and honestly guys, the projects in here turned out incredible. I am so freaking excited for you to see all four of these projects. But if you are not already make sure to subscribe to my channel. 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This is what it looks like. I'm obsessed with it. It's like an abstract circular wall art piece. She also sent in this larger version, which I don't even want to know how much that costs because I feel like that probably costs like a thousand pounds. And let's get started with that because it's super cute. For the first project, we're going to be using these six inch embroidery hoops. I bought a pack of 12 on Amazon and I also grabbed some yarns for my stash. And what we're going to do is pull out the center ring of the embroidery hoop because we're going to be using these center sections as the actual base of our little wall art piece and just set aside the outside rings. I'm going to try to use those later in a future project. So how we're going to start this off is by taking a little bit of yarn, gluing it down to the center point of the ring, and you're going to wrap a couple of times to start. And as you continue wrapping, as you could probably like tell, you're going to have the yarn start falling off the edges. So what I suggest doing is actually add a little bit of hot glue to the top and the bottom as you wrap that way. As you wrap it, it kind of has something to adhere to, and it's not sliding down the actual edge of the ring. I also do suggest using a yarn that's on a little bit of the thicker side because I tried doing a yarn that was a little bit thinner than this and it just did not turn out as great. So I did the yellow one. I also did this white one as well. And I did a couple other colors. You're just going to be repeating this process all the way down at these sides to create these really cool kind of abstract textured circle objects. As you get to the end, you're just going to want to make sure to add a lot of glue on here. Let it cool down a little bit prior to putting your fingers on top of it and then just wrap it around and just do the best that you can to kind of conceal that edge, cut off your tails and that finishes off two of our yarn circles. This black string was one I mentioned prior about how it was a lot thinner and it just did not look as good. So I don't suggest using a thin yarn. Definitely go for something a bit more on the thicker side. I also opted for this one that has little speckles in it, which I thought was a super cute kind of textural addition to this wall piece. And here we have all four of our circles completely wrapped with the yarn. Then you're going to go ahead and just lay them out however you want. I believe I followed the exact diagram that was sent to me. But all you have to do is just hot glue these together. Use a strong bond hot glue like the gorilla sticks that I usually use and it's going to work perfectly fine. And then once you are completely done with that, let that cure for a little while. You could hang it up on the wall and you are good to go. Our next project was sent in by Leslie Pellin and I am obsessed with it. She sent it over. I believe this is from Urban Outfitters. I'll pop up a photo and retail price here if I could find it. We are going to be making this for a fraction of the price. And I was really excited because I actually had all of the supplies I needed to create this in my apartment already, trying to make my own out of materials that I did have. So let's get started. This next project is time sensitive. However, we have a lot of time at the moment. So we're going to be using the tools on the screen or the supplies on the screen here. And how I'm going to start off by doing this is actually lay out my cane material and then pull out the cross weave. I'm just pulling out the longest side. That way I have a long strip to work with because I'm actually going to want to wrap this around both of our metal rings. So that way they look like they are woven into this entire project without actually having to weave them in, if that makes sense. So this is going to be a very repetitive, kind of time sensitive process of the entire DIY. And that is just going to be wrapping the full ring in this material. And I thought this was a pretty great idea because it's actually going to match the woven cane that we're going to be using in the base of the project anyway. So this is just going to make it look super complimentary and really nice in the end. So I'm just going to be repeating this. And what I suggest doing is doing about 15 or 20 wraps and then adding a little strip of hot glue, wrapping it and continuing on with your process. And then of course, every now and then, you are going to have to cut off and add on a new piece. That way you can continue it all the way around. So I had the largest ring done. Here is the smallest ring being completed. Once you reach the end, add a little bit of hot glue, wrap it and secure it and then just let it dry and cut off any excess pieces. Here are two rings completely wrapped. I laid down a bit of parchment paper and added some heavy objects to my cane material. That way I could go ahead and glue down our largest ring. And you're just going to want to add a nice bead of hot glue all the way around the outside. Flip it over and press it down on top of your rattan. And then just going to cut off any of that excess. And I flipped it over and actually added a nice generous amount of hot glue on the backside. That way I knew everything was super secure and stuck. And you're going to then go ahead and glue down the interior ring on top of the mirror, which is the same exact size and cut off any excess rattan material that is around the outside of the largest ring, as you could see. Once that is all done, you can go ahead and glue down the mirror to the center. So I'm just adding a ton of hot glue, flipping the mirror over and just gluing it right down to the center here. And as you can see, this is already looking so much like our inspo photo. And I'm actually adding a couple of these wooden beads I already had in my stash. That way they can kind of be used as little knobs and necklaces or bracelets could be hung off of them. So to set these on top of the outermost circle, hold them for a couple of seconds, let them dry. And once they are completely dry, they're going to act as the perfect little kind of like jewelry holder. And I had these wooden rings as well, which I used in a past project. And I believe you could just find these at the craft store in the wood section. I took a little bit of the rattan and I actually wove this ring onto the top, just kind of weaving it in and out, adding a ton of hot glue on the backside, pressing down your ending tails and that finishes off this project. I have been seeing so many people do hydrodipping lately and I've always wanted to try it myself. And my friend Brian over at Shmood actually put out a video all on hydrodipping and I'll put a card up here for his videos because they are super incredible, very informative. But I'm going to be doing kind of like a spray paint marbled hydrodipping today. And that is because Lone Fox family member Miriam Arligard. I probably butchered that, but I'll put her name on the screen right here. Sent over a message. She said, I would love to see these marble terracotta pots. And so I opened the message and they look like this. They're super cute. I'll pop up a photo for you guys. They're basically terracotta pots that have like this marbling on the outside of them. And I thought hydrodipping would be perfect to create a very similar look. And this is my first time ever doing it and I'm obsessed with the outcome. So let me share with you guys how I made these. Okay, I'm really excited to share with you guys this project. I used three terracotta pots from Joanns and also an assortment of different spray paints. You could choose whatever colors you want. I opted for this colorway. And what I'm starting off by doing is giving the terracotta pots a spray of the white. That way it has like a nice primed base for our marbling to go on top of.  I had this one on hand literally underneath my sink. So I pulled it out and used it.  And I'm going to start by spraying a lot of the white spray paint in there. Then I'm gonna go in with another color. This is like the almond color, I believe. And then I'm gonna also add a little bit of copper. And something I realized is that the closer you are to the water when you spray, the more of a marble defect you get and the further away you are, the more that the surface is completely covered. So I do suggest spraying a little bit closer to get that design. But all you have to do to hydrogip these is literally place them down into the water and let that full like marble pattern kind of go all the way on the outside. This pot was a little bit large. So I kind of had to wiggle it around as shown here. But ideally you're just gonna want it to kind of go all the way down to the bottom. And then you can clear off any of the spray paint around it and just pull it out. And this is the marbled pot. I thought this one looked pretty good. But this next one that we're doing is going to look amazing. So as you can see, I'm spraying a spray paint pretty close to the water, which gives that a little bit more of a marbled effect. And the closer you get it, I just find that the more streaky it got, which I really love that look. So I grabbed our next pot, placed it down, kind of twisted it and rotated it as I dropped it into the water. Once you are done with that, just clear any of the surrounding spray paint by kind of doing the still whirlpool and then pull it up and out. And that finished off this one, which I thought this one looked really great. I love the marbling in this one. And I love the colorway as well. Our last one, I opted to do a little bit of green in there. And I thought the green was gonna be darker, but it was just so bright. So this one honestly was not my favorite. But I thought it would include it anyways because maybe one of you guys out there likes this one. So I added a little bit of copper in there. I added the green. I just wished the green was a lot darker. It was just a little bit too bright and like a kelly green as opposed to an emerald green color. This is what it looked like. I actually went in and sprayed a little bit of white on top of it to conceal some of that green. And then I added a little bit of copper as well thinking it would help. But I actually ended up going in and hydro dipping it a second time in a majority of white and copper to see if I can get rid of some of that green. But the green still kind of peeked through. However, I left it as is because I wasn't too dissatisfied with it. So I actually went ahead and just blotched off some of that excess water. This is just going to pop any air bubbles that got underneath of the paint and just get off any excess water. And just do this very, very lightly. Just let these dry for a couple of hours and then you can use them as plant pots. The sun is literally creeping up right now but our last project was set in by Isabella.Mollabag. I believe that's how you pronounce her name. She sent over this little trinket dish that has a moon inside of it. And I believe that this is actually from Urban Outfitters as well. And I recreated this and I think it turned out so cute. It's also super simple and very affordable. So I feel like this is a project you can make for like your friends for a birthday party or a Christmas time. Literally only need paint and clay and you are good to go. So let me share with you how I created this. For our last project, I'm starting off with a ball of clay and I'm just going to be warming this up in my hands. This is the Sculpey white polymer clay if you are curious. And I actually didn't have a rolling pin. So I just used this canister from my kitchen to roll it out. And I rolled this clay out to about a quarter inch thick. You're going to want to have it have a little bit of thickness to it. So don't roll it too thin. And I placed this bowl over the top of it and I used my exacto knife to cut around the outside. I highly suggest this rather than pressing the bowl on top and using it kind of as a cookie cutter because this is going to keep the edge of your plate that you're creating super flat. So as you can see when you pull this off, the edge of the actual clay is nice and thick and it's not condensed and pressed in. So I'm using this over the top of the lid of the same exact canister that I used to roll it out with kind of forming it into a little bit of a dish shape and setting this aside so we can work on our next one. So I'm rolling out another quarter inch thick piece of clay as well, same exact thickness as our prior one and cutting out the same exact circle as prior. But of course we want to make this into a moon shape. So I free handed a moon shape on here. You can actually print one out or hand draw one prior whatever you want to do. I just free handed it though. I thought this looked pretty good, but I did go in and cut off a little bit of excess. And then once you have that cut out, all I did was I actually squeezed the edges into the center to kind of make it a little bit more of a dish shape if that makes sense. So it had a little bit of a lip on the edges. That way it wasn't super flat. It had a little bit of dimension to it. Set those on top of a baking sheet and just baked these in the oven for about 20 minutes. Just make sure to follow the directions on the clay package. And then once they are out of the oven, let them cool for about an hour. And then we can move on to painting them. But this is what it ended up looking like. They are super cute. I'm obsessed with them. So how I painted these was I actually use a majority of white paint. And then I added just a little bit of tan paint in there as well. I mixed those together and I just wanted a super, super light, almost bone tan color. And it literally when I paint this on it almost looks exactly like the clay. Like you cannot even see, but once it dries, it actually turns a little tiny bit darker than it currently is, which I love ended up color. So as you can see, there's a tiny shift in color from the original clay, but it's nothing too crazy. So I added a coat of this onto both the dish and the moon shape. Then I went in with the copper spray paint I used in the last project and sprayed a little bit in the lid. That way I could use it as a splatter. So I used a stippling brush and just soaked up a lot of that paint. And then what I'm gonna do is just flick it on to the top to create a speckled look, which I think looks really nice with like ceramic pottery. So I sprayed that on there, gave it a little bit of a speckled look and just let that dry. And then we're gonna move on to the actual edge, which was primarily a lot of coral with a little bit of this burgundy color mixed into it. But you can totally opt for whatever you want. I just wanted to do something similar to the inspo photo and added a little bit of white just to kind of lighten that color a bit. And then I went in and very tediously painted the edge. And this is why we exacto knifed it guys. So as you could see this edge is nice and flat. And it definitely allows us to add a nice border on there. If we were to press it with the bowl, it would have no edge to it. So this is why we exacto knifed it to start and just go around, paint that in. This was actually kind of fun. I actually liked doing this. Go all the way around. And then once you're done with the actual edge of the tray, we're gonna add some gloss glaze. This is from Sculpey as well. Just squirt a little bit on top of each of your trays and give it a nice even coat of the gloss glaze. This is just gonna make sure that it's protected and sealed and it's also gonna give it kind of like a finished ceramic look. Do it on all the edges as well. And I also suggest doing it on the underside. Also add it to the moon shape. Let this dry and you are done. All righty guys, so that was my video for you today. I hope that you enjoyed this episode of DIYing your DMs. And I also really wanna thank native so much for sponsoring today's video. I really, really appreciate it. I absolutely love the native products. So don't forget to check them out using the link in the description box below. And I also wanna thank everyone who did DM over a project idea. I really appreciated it. Of course I couldn't get to everything, but I'm going to try to get to everything, of course, in the future. So if you are not already, make sure to follow me over on Instagram where I do really fun polls and ask for you guys' DIY ideas. It is Lone Fox Home. Put it on the screen for you guys right there. But I think that's really all. Have an amazing rest of your day. Stay safe everybody. I'm still literally at my house, responding to comments, working on DIY projects, cleaning my space, redecorating, and just trying to like honestly stay out of large crowds and just out of public in general. So yeah, thank you so much for watching. I love you all so much and have an amazing day. Bye guys.


video. We're going to be using our Donald Scott carving comb today. I love this tool. It's a brand new tool that we have on freesaloneducation.com. We're replacing the blades first. So every haircut that I do with a carving comb, I always put fresh blades in because you're going to get the best cut lines and also you're not going to damage the hair if you replace the blades. The blades are not expensive and you think about how much you charge for a haircut. It's definitely good to at least change it every two haircuts, but I try to do it every single haircut. You slide both blades in. There's a 50% cut side and 100% cut side. So we're going to be using the 100% cut side throughout the majority of this haircut. Then we're going to go into the 50% cut side, which will cut 50% of the hair at the end of the cut as well. Like I said, we're using the fine tooth carving comb. There's also a wide tooth carving comb. So depending on what you're looking for, tension-wise you can choose which carving comb best suits the cut. We're preparing the hair with Prepare. So that goes well. This is a liquid tool glide. It's also made by Donald Scott. It matches up perfectly with the razor because it allows you to glide through the hair when you're combing and also glide through the hair. It conditions the hair for razor cutting. So it's specifically made for cutting hair. So we're going to start off by taking a diagonal forward section from the parting. So she's got a right-hand side parting. That's all the sectioning there is in this cut. I clipped away the right side of her head and now I'm taking diagonal forward sections from the part down to the hairline right around the fringe area. Now the over direction plays a key role in this cut. This is one of my favorite techniques to do when cutting layering and cutting longer hair. But you need to know how much elevation and how much angle you're putting on the hair when you over direct it. So the more I over direct it, the sharper or the more of an angle I'm going to get on the haircut. The higher I bring the hair, the more elevation I give the hair, the lighter it's going to feel. So if you have really thick hair, you want to go higher like I am right now. You could even go higher than that if you wanted to. If you have fine hair, you want to stay lower with your elevation because that's going to help build up a little extra weight throughout the face frame and it won't allow it to look weak. And I think that that's the biggest challenge with fine hair is that when you over direct it and you elevate it too high, you're cutting out too much weight. So it just has a weak feel to it. This mannequin has really, really thick coarse hair. So we don't have to worry about that at all. So the over direction just keeps coming over. I keep taking diagonal forward partings exactly the same throughout the haircut, just following the head shape and then over directing it to myself. As I work back on the head, my elevation may change. It could change. So let's talk about the thicker that your guest hair is, the more you move back on the head throughout the partings. You may want to elevate more to just remove more and more bulk because you can see how the head's rounding off right there. And if I don't elevate, if I keep the elevation the same, what's going to happen is I will build up extra weight into the back of the head. So we're keeping that over direction coming. We're wrapping it around the face. I like to get a really severe over direction on this because it's going to give me a real nice angle, but it's also going to remove a lot of bulk. And the key to this is just to keep working around the head shape until you run out of hair.  That's what's going to help blend that entire cut together. So you're not going to see us do too much in the back.  So this is kind of an all-in-one haircut. It's a lot of condensed cutting. You could take bigger sections if you wanted to to have to get a similar result with this cut. So now I'm going to take out my guideline. I'm just taking a piece, a little triangle from the front and clipping the rest of the hair away. And then I take a diagonal forward section on the right hand side exactly the same as I did on the opposite side. Now I want to go through and I really want to find that guideline because there's going to be a little bit of an angle on this. So I want to find that last piece that I cut, which is the first piece of the fringe to really use that as my guideline and not that whole chunk of hair. You see how the angle that I'm running the carving comb, I'm going at about 45 degree angle onto the hair. That's what's going to give you the best cut with any razor that you're using out there. So make sure that you keep that angle in there nice. So this side of the cut is what I would consider the weak side of the cut. There's less density, less hair. So my elevation is not going to be wrapping all the way around the head and high elevation. We're going to consider we're going to think of it like it's fine hair or fine or low density that we're working with. So a little bit lower elevation, quickly run through that side and we're good to go. So now I'm going to work into the back. And what I'm going to do is take a vertical panel out of the back center back. That's about three inches wide. And I'm going to work the 50% carved side of the carving comb right down from oxypro bone down to the ends. It's just a one fluid solid slide of the carving comb, which will help build in the layers and just skinny up the back of the haircut. Because if you think about it, we've taken all of the weight pushed it into the back of the hair, you could leave it if you want to, but I just like to go in and skinny it up. So we take three inch panels throughout the back, just over directing it straight back to us. Keeping pretty much a square feel to those layers.  Now we're going in with our blow dryer. We're using no nozzle on the blow dryer to begin the blow dry. Because what I'm doing is just trying to remove a lot of the moisture. Now I'm going to put the nozzle on my blow dryer, take my Ergo round brush, and just start working that round brush through. I don't like to work the round brush into the hair right away. I don't like to really work any brush into the hair right away because I personally feel that too much brushing on wet hair, trying to rip out those tangles and all that stuff is really what is is affecting and damaging hair to begin with. So I like to go in get the hair as dry as possible, then start working my round brush blow dry after that. So we're using a working spray in between each section. The elevation you can see on the round brush is over towards the face, elevated nice and high. So we're over directing it just like we did in the haircut. So I think that's a cool little tip is however you cut the hair, whatever angle you put on it, you're over directing it because you want it to go somewhere. So over direct it in the blow dry so it goes there as well. Now we're going to work the front, the opposite side, same thing, nice high elevation. Same thing with blow drying guys. The more you elevate it, the lighter it's going to fall. So and the more volume you're going to get. So just go through there, get nice high elevation, we're going to work the top. This is that whole top panel, the Mohawk section. I'm just going to work that round brushing it forward to create a lot of volume in the top of the hair. This is where the layers that we've created with that carving comb in the beginning, this is where they're really going to come to life in the cut is just giving it that volume and utilizing those shorter layers that we cut in there. You can see I pulled the hair almost towards the screen, which is over the parting just to give a little pop of volume over where the part's going to be as well. And then you'll notice that my elevation is a lot lower in the fringe area because I'm not trying to build up 80s bangs in there. So that's the only part of this blow dry that I use low elevation is right in the fringe. Alright, now working with my hands, just pushing the hair back off the face, a little bit of working spray through it to activate it. And that is our end result, guys. I hope that you like this cut. I know that you can use this in Islam because I've been using it for 10 years and I love this technique. And believe it or not, you can actually use this technique as a straight haircut as well. So it really works. It's very versatile. You can use it in pretty much every aspect of your cutting from short hair to really, really long hair. This technique works perfect. So there's the end result, guys. Thanks for watching.


A group of scientists collaborating across the U.S. has developed a new tool to help understand eye diseases, cornea organoids, miniaturized corneas that can be grown in the lab using human stem cells. The cornea forms the outermost surface of the eye, and many disorders affecting eyesight arise from defects in this tissue, including some inherited forms of blindness. Traditional cell culture experiments have fallen short when trying to study these conditions because they don't adequately capture the complex arrangement of cells and extracellular matrix found in the cornea. But organoids do, opening the door for new discoveries that could change how we treat eye disorders. To create this 3D model system, the researchers started with human stem cells to capture the earliest stages of development. By adding specific factors to the culture medium, the scientists were able to direct the cells into becoming cornea cells. Gene expression experiments confirmed that the cells had turned off genes normally associated with stem cells and had turned on the genes that mark cornea cell types. And the stem cells didn't just adopt a new identity. They self-assembled into tiny cornea-like structures. When the team stained the organoids to see which proteins were there, they found that the cells were arranged in a configuration that matches the human cornea. The organoids had even accumulated collagen fibrils in a pattern similar to the true organ. Being able to watch stem cells turn into eye cells and then self-assemble into a cornea-like structure allows researchers to better pinpoint the factors leading to the development of eye diseases. This model system also provides a platform for drug screens and may perhaps even be used one day to grow replacement tissue for damaged eyes.


Hi guys, good afternoon. Happy Sunday. Hope you've all had a nice weekend. Happy Fourth of July Independence Day to those in the US. And also happy opening of the pubs in the UK. Hope you've all enjoyed yourselves for those that went. We'll go through the charts as normal one by one. Going through some of the levels from last week how they reacted and some new ones for the week ahead. Obviously with Friday being a bank holiday in the States, of course, for the futures market, you won't see any price action for that day. So effectively it's been a long weekend and how that acts out. We'll find out on the open on, well this evening, of course, the last three Sundays have had a gap lower, which was quickly reversed, of course, but yeah, we'll have a little run through. Starting off as usual with the euro and that low that we had from a couple of Mondays ago, still very much intact. Let me just remove these arrows. So yeah, still very much intact. The balls for me are in control as long as we're above there and you can see we are. So at the moment, I think it's worthwhile just sort of pointing that out that for a decent move lower, we really do need to get ourselves below these two lines that are marked up. The line in the sand, if you like, which you can see I've had marked up here quite interestingly, I think, and I'm just going to remove it. We couldn't get any closes above there. Going back since we broke through on the 25th of June, you can see we had a couple of goes last week, but no close above there, which is for me quite interesting. Of course, we're into a new quarter, into a new month, which sort of led to some erratic price action, shall we say last week or the beginning of last week, but now it's almost like business can resume as normal. So I'll be looking for some cleaner moves to come. So for the euro for the balls, this is still the point that is needed to defend. I guess you could argue that the bears can really only get excited below the 111.60 because obviously what could happen is that we do push lower and that this is still in control of the balls and we push up from this point. So I think we, having a look at this below 111.60 is how I'd be looking at the euro. So to the upside, well, you know, you've got these, these highs. So to get, you know, from a horizontal point of view, just terms of the key resistance levels, obviously we still got this one up here, we've got this trend line that comes down, but in between here, it's a tricky one because it's likely to get quite messy. However, for like a daily sort of guide level, I would have this one on, which was the high of the pullback after we broke lower on the 26. So yeah, that for me is worthwhile having a 112.80 is that level. So no close above there. So a close above would be significant enough for me to kind of like a move to the upside. But it's like the Aussie in a way, isn't it? And that is being compact really for a number of weeks. It's almost waiting for a bigger move to happen. It might be worth having a quick look to see from these highs and we've got a trend line coming down. So a quick look. There you go. It's not too bad, not too bad. I keep that on along with that high, especially if we were to get that early in the week, it may well coincide with that trend. But yeah, those would be the point to the upside to the downside. I guess the thing to do is make this more of a demand zone. And as long as we don't close below that, then I'd say that the balls can still be in control of this overall. Ultimately, if we were to move lower for a period of time, I think this certainly still looks like a very good place to get long again. But we've been we've been compressed, haven't we? Over the last couple of weeks, not really not too much has happened. But like I was saying, new quarter, new month, you know, let's hopefully see some cleaner moves for the pound. Decent decent couple of days followed after we couldn't push lower on the 29th. So the 30th which of course was the Thursday bit of, you know, month and flow. People were on Tuesday, so it was a bit of month and flow. And where we pushed on and a bit of risk on as well in seeing stops did push higher into the back end of the week as well. So areas to be aware of certainly, you know, you've got to be marking up this 125 46, which cap price action on the Thursday. I mean, how we finished on Thursday was, you know, would I would say look relatively bearish and for a reversal, but Friday, you know, there was hardly any volume in the market. So, yeah, not too much going on there. So having a look at this now, I would obviously mark up the key low. You know, that's been very important. And if you remember from last week's video, or if you ever watched the midday ones I do on Amplify Live, it just came back down to the most important level for pound that I've been on about is this area here, we broke above it, came back down and we broke and actually closed and offered an area support for push higher and we just came back down to it to it there. So, yeah, you know, if you want to see how important that technical level is, there you go. So to the upside 125 46, give or take a couple of pips either way, resisting any move to the upside and then 22 65 to the downside bit a big, quite a big range, admittedly, you know, 300, you know, pips, but putting this on to sort of 60 minutes, just having to look at some other areas of interest. Let's just have a quick look. Yeah, I mean, it actually, you know, led to a pretty good push, didn't it? Even after that first down the first, I'm just wondering whether you probably want to have this area here now. You can see was the low that we had back on the 25th bro closed above offered a half decent level. I would have it as a bit of a guide and also it matches up quite nicely with the sort of midpoint. So, you know, you can say we're bullish as long as we, you know, find support here and stay above bearish below and obviously then be aware of this key level and the levels we marked up last week and most notably these lows, whereas if this turns to support and we push higher and get above the what is now, of course, a double top, then really we could be looking back towards that 200 day move in average again, which has been pretty good and worthwhile having on there for the pound. A bit of Brexit talk starting to come into, you know, the headlines a bit more as well, but also it is still correlated quite heavily with risk. So obviously if we were to have a positive week for stocks, then likelihood is you're going to see the pound follow suit where any risk off, just be aware that this can change and turn and to be honest, you know, it's actually been probably the nicest currency in my opinion to have traded recently the euro, you know, pretty messy along with the pound along with the Aussie dollar, I should say, but the pounders traded quite nice, respected levels well and you're getting decent moves that at least lasting for a bit. Moving on to the Aussie, we've got a little break, didn't we? We have this trend line from the top coming in, got a little spike above, we then found support, I guess if you were to zoom in, you probably did get a nice close and it acts as support again and we're pushing to the upside. So now we're removed 69.33 and then, yeah, just have this double top that we're looking at towards 69.82 above there. Obviously you have the higher the 11th, which you're probably worth marking up because it comes in on the handle, the 70 handle, but above there then we're looking towards the high that we made, of course, on the 10th. If it is a false break, where do I believe that to be 68.98, I think is as good as any, you know, back below here. But of course, this retest of the trend could well come, of course, lower down than that as well. So just bear that in mind and also the trend line that we've got coming up. So that's going to be, if we are to have a move lower, quite a key point that we'd be worth marking up, but has much happened in that other than that little break. No, not really. So the pound has been easier. The euro still contained. Have we now got a bit of a break here and we can continue higher. Last week's finish would suggest that is going to happen from, from just sort of looking at this. However, we're effectively a spike away from coming into very key resistance. So just be aware of that. If you are long, you know, this is a good level where I would say take profit and then you're not next target is that high that we've got from the 10th, which of course is the higher the year as well, just making sure it was. Yeah. And then obviously if it any more on it could run through. However, you know, stops, I would say it's a tricky one, isn't it? Because, you know, you've got this trend line, which would act as support. You've got this level here and it might well be the risk of order skewed a bit. So yeah, I'd say if I were looking for a long, I'd be happy as long as it is above this trend line that comes from those lows. Yeah, we talked last week about how the 200 day moving average would be a nice place to get long. That hasn't come through yet, but certainly one to, you know, maybe make a note on just sort of say, you know, if we do get near it, it's acted very well as a support or resistance recently. So yeah, still have that on moving on to stocks, good recovery again last week. The bears can't really, really catch up, catch it, can they at the moment? But you know, not to say the bulls have taken this away. You know, it's probably clear this up a bit. You can see the resistance here from the 23rd is good. Obviously looks slightly different. And how we probably live in the futures, obviously once that roll over took place, but we still got, you know, key resistance up here, which you're going to have on. Obviously now just moving that to there. You've got these highs that we couldn't get through. So definitely looking to have that on as well. Then to the downsides, you've got the previous high, which is active as a really good opportunity to have got long a couple of times. And you know, this time, I did it on the Saturday, but basically seven days ago, I was talking about how we are just coming back into, you know, really nice area in equities to get long from a technical point of view. We found support, we filled the gap from the Sunday close and we did push higher. Does that last, you know, we have to wait and see of course, but I'd still be a buyer in this market if we can get any, any sort of pullbacks. I added a bit to my long as you know, I'm down here. And I just, you know, not a massive trade at all, but de-risked ahead of ahead of the bank holiday before non-farm payrolls on the sort of the high that we had here. I mean, in hindsight, it looks great, but you know, we could easily smash through that. So the way I'd be looking for that is a close above here, nice sort of pullback, you know, something like from there. And then looking for that high that we had back in the beginning of June to the downside, where would I be a bit worried that actually we start to see 29 76 again, probably when we get a close below 30 83, that would be enough that I'd say, okay, maybe we're just going to start this, you know, rotation round to these lows again. However, of course, all of these lows from the first the 30th as well could act as support points for that that ready to continue to the upside. I'll say really push that we've had in recent times. So yeah, that's that's really how I'd play it targets to the upside. You know, you've got these previous tops from the 16th. See people will be looking at the futures higher than 19th. But as I said, we had that roll over. So it looks slightly different. Can we get a great week and get above this high? Probably not. But if that is to happen, just as we've said in previous ones, to start marking these areas up, as we saw on the NASDAQ not long ago, they really do act as great targets, great resistance levels, albeit momentarily, but why take that risk great places to de risk. Also, you might have seen on the news, Kanye West is is selling he's going to run for the presidency is probably more of a plea or a plan, I should say, to take votes away from Biden, if anything, and the attention away, but 2020, right? But yeah, that's that's how I would go with the S&P. Really, you know, I bullish up still above 38 you three. I mean, overall, as long as we stay above 29 76, I am, but maybe for the week as it goes, you know, this is a good line in the sand that I would hold on there. NASDAQ made new all time highs, closing all time high as well. So no surprise there. We're still in this trend channel as a bit of a guide that I would have. As you know, we last week, we did exactly what we were saying and coming back to these previous highs, technically what a level to get long and it was and it has been for quite some time just following this trend line as well. So yeah, great opportunity for those that got in. And also, you know, we hit that high, we find some resistance there, great place to the risk. And if it goes, fantastic. Now begs the question, let's just remove those arrows after that work pretty well.  I would say this is too early on the previous all time high. Personally, I think you'd want it a bit lower line in the sand for me. You probably have about 10, 10,000 NASDAQ sounds mad, doesn't it? Just above these highs here, you'd be happy to stay long. But I think if it does break there, and that's similar to the S&P line in the sand, I've got 38, you're free. You know, I would say if you are long, if you're managing a position, you know, I'd be happy to stay long above that. However, I think the break below there just gives another opportunity on this trend as well. If you, if you bearish below that trend, it's not a bad, bad one to sort of get the agit confirmation that you might want, because at the moment it's, you know, try pieced together to down days in a row on the NASDAQ in the future. So you haven't had that since 13th and 12th of May, which is incredible to think about. Dow Jones, yeah, it did what the NASDAQ did. It did what the DAX did. It did what the S&P did. It come down to a previous area, which offered resistance to support and led to that next move as well. So yeah, it's nice to see the markets behaving themselves, giving opportunities to both buyers and sellers, because obviously for these levels to work, a part of that is going to come from people taking profit. Relatively quiet into the week, although it has to be said for equities with it being a four-day week. It looks quite messy now for me, the Dow. Personally, it's from, you know, getting in for maybe a couple of days, three, four or five days at a time, S&P and NASDAQ have certainly felt a lot clearer. But was this the opportunity to get long on those lows? Potentially was, wasn't it? To the upside, obviously we've got the 200-day moving average. I'd say worth keeping an eye on. However, the main target here, I think people we'll be looking at will be the higher that we had back on the 16th, just below the 27,000 mark. Moving that, I don't know. I don't really want to spend too much time looking at the Dow, really choppy around here. I think lower timeframes, it could be slightly clearer, but with those lower time frame charts, looking at lower time frame levels. I don't know. I think we, like I said, I think the S&P and NASDAQ are clearer. I'd say we drift higher. Looking at this, I don't really have a line in the sand that would give me a guide. Obviously the S&P and NASDAQ are a bit clearer for me. So yeah, for the Dow, if I wasn't in a position, which I'm not, I'm only really interested when it comes to here or there really. You could of course lower it down and say we haven't finished below here in three days. We broke above it, turned to a great area of support for push higher. It's worthwhile, I guess, having that on. We found relatively good price action away, but you can see I'm reaching really for the Dow here. So yeah, maybe not worth too much attention, in my opinion, anyway. Gold, we did get 1800, didn't we? We did get 1800 last week. We got the push above, came back for support. I mean, I was talking about this with the guys last week, the end of last week. One second. I think I've just been logged off there, unfortunately. So I'm going to wrap it there rather than spend time sort of logging in again, because I think Anne's needs to do the macro menu. But I will put a couple of charts up for gold and the DAX. I had those two left. So no problems there. But yeah, it's the same for gold. There's a really nice level in there. That was a good line and sound for me for whether it be bullish or bearish. And how it finished, bearish, sorry, enough of me above there. But yeah, hope you guys all have a great week. And yeah, I'll catch you all later on. We're doing a webinar, I think this Wednesday, actually. So keep a look out for that. But yeah, hope you'll have a good few days ahead and hope the weekend was good and you're all rest and recovered and ready. Take care, guys.


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Okay, we got the 2019 Corolla hatchback. This is the XSE and smoked paprika metallic XSE I'm gonna take this thing out for a little spin. It's got the Moonstone interior We first saw on the Prius Alright So this is the Entune 3.0 premium So in addition to XM all the connected services like the SOS connect remote connect Wi-Fi All of that's available and you also got the integrated dynamic navigation. So that's gonna follow us On here you can even put in Destination destination assist it will actually call an operator and you can talk to a live person and get Assistance on your destination surge. They'll even stay on and help you with the directions if you need it So really cool feature available As a trial period on this car This one also has dual air control so passenger and driver can have their own Heat settings if you see here Or cool settings. It's cold today. So heat settings. It is. You also got heated seats down here as well and so every new 2019 Corolla hatchback comes with a couple of features that are Actually, I'd love them come with a Toyota Safety Sense P2.0 standard. So it doesn't matter what trim level you get This is the XSE which is the highest trim, but you can also get it in the regular alley This is a cool feature. This is the hold button. I just pushed And you see there where it says hold So now I can take my foot off the brake. It's just gonna keep me in place here All right, so we're gonna demonstrate some of the Toyota Safety Sense P2.0 features So some of the new things are the standard things you have automatic high beams, which is on the regular 2.0 as well So for 2.0 you are for the regular TSSP Alright, so that just beep because I'm exceeding the speed limit. This also has road sound detection, which is part of that TSSP 2.0 feature So with regular Toyota Safety Sense you get automatic high beams you get pre-collision with pedestrian detection You get dynamic radar cruise control. You get lane departure alert And you also get the sway warning as part of that lane departure alert So with 2.0 you get the road side to 10 detection Or the road sign detection not road side road sign detection and that's gonna read the road sound so One way yield stop The speed limit it's gonna get all that so this one actually has a notification set to where if you exceed the speed limit it gives you a one-time Alert on there and it highlights there and yellow or orange around the speed sign as you can see a really cool feature that I wanted to demonstrate today is the lane tracing assist So when you're driving and you have this in dynamic radar cruise control And you have the lane departure turned on what this car is gonna do is Basically, it's gonna follow the car in front of it and also read the lines Next to you and the lane you're in to keep your car centered now. It's not a self-driving tool It's still an alert system and a guidance system. And so I'm gonna show you how that works So we're gonna go ahead and turn With our cruise control on as you can see that's on We're gonna set our speed. We're at 57 right now. That's fine. I'm gonna drop my Distance there to one blue bar And so you'll notice on the outside of the white lines. It's telling me it's reading the lines And I'm barely have my hands on the wheel And it's guiding me to keep me in the center lane Center of my lane So those blue lines indicates to me that it's reading that and so I barely have my hands on the wheel And it's following that line for me As you can see So there's I don't know if you saw that warning. There's sensors in there where if you take your hands completely off the wheel Like I'm doing now, which you shouldn't do do not try this at home, but it's following along these lines But it knows that I should be in control and so it's gonna remind me keep your hands on the wheel This is not a self-driving vehicle. It's just a guidance system to help you along the way So a really cool new feature. This is only available right now in the 2019 Corolla hatchback It's gonna be coming out on the 2019 RAV4s as well. And this is the lane tracing assist All the steering wheel create our cruise controls reading the vehicles in front of me It's reading the lines on either side And it's just guiding me right down the center of that So what we're gonna do now I'm gonna get off at this exit once it's safe to do so So now you see that the white lines are there so it still has the lane departure alert on So if I were to drift over and hit one of these lines, it's still gonna beep to alert me As long as it's reading that So it just beep to alert me So the lane departure alert is still there the lane tracing assist works when you are in Dynamic rate our cruise control and then I'm gonna show you on these Roads up here. We're gonna get on just some regular roads not on the highway and While we're not in dynamic rate our cruise control. I'm gonna show you how that lane departure alert works And again the lane departure alert Is Active Approximately a 32 miles an hour and higher All right, so this is a little bit more of an open road not as much traffic Just let me know I was exceeding the 35 miles an hour Okay, so now it's reading the lines to the left of me And it's also got the road edge detection because there's no lines over here to the right But it'll still pick that up here and there you'll see a pop-up here and there There's things like leaves and debris and other stuff But I'm gonna show you what happens when you start to go over into that lane So it guides you back into the lane Just like your normal Lane tracing assist what I've noticed from driving this one versus like the 2018 with the regular lane tracing assist and not or the late. I'm sorry the regular Lane departure alert is you have the steering assist which just guides you back with this one tends to do Let me get over here to the center where I've got two lines And so here's what I've noticed is the lane tracing assist I'm gonna wait until I get a little bit straighter. I'm gonna go over and hit It guides me back and then Almost tends to straighten up where the steering assist before in the previous version It's adjusts you back towards the lane, but it doesn't follow this does a better job in my opinion of Following the lane kind of bouncing you back and forth than it does in the previous version So this 2.0 version just seems to be a bit more intuitive even when you don't have the dynamic radar cruise control on And I'll show you a demonstration So we just did that in a real life test, but to be a little bit more safe So when you hit the lane it tends to go back towards your lane and then straighten up Whereas in the previous version it would just do like this And then you just kind of kept drifting where this one will actually go and then straighten up for you to get You back into that center of the lane as opposed to just guiding you back towards your lane And so this is a really cool Feature and again, it doesn't overpower you if you're in control and you're swerving to avoid something or Something of that nature. It's not going to rip the steering wheel out of your hands or anything like that I keep forgetting I have the hold button on this Which is such a great feature because I could take my foot off the brake as you can see And we're just sitting here. I didn't have to put it in park. I just have the hold on there's a timing mechanism on this too if Something were to happen and I weren't to respond it would throw on the emergency brake And this is also the first Corolla to have blind spot monitoring. I'm going to show you here when I get past the Sienna So if you look over here the blind spot monitoring lights up orange when somebody's in my blind spot if I were to put my turn signal on it flashes Really like that feature And that's a Corolla first. They haven't had that in the Corolla models before That's the great thing about this hatchback. There's more technology in this Corolla hatchback than we have in Any of our other cars as far as safety features the TSS 2.0 and all that we're gonna get back over the dealership so again the hold the green hold up here lets me know that it's on the Yellow hold down here the orange hold lets me know that it's engaged that the cars actually being held in place You've got a green one BSM that's for the blind spot monitoring. Let you know that that's on You've got the lane departure alert and the lane to tech tracing assist if that button is engaged And you know that those systems are active and ready to go And then I've got the lights on auto you push that forward for brights and then you select The a button down here. That's auto high beam. So now as you're driving and the Lights are on at night. So they come on automatically when it's dark And when you're traveling approximately above 32 miles or 25 miles an hour if there's no headlights or taillights in front of you It'll kick on the high beams. So It'll let you know, you know give you better visibility While you're driving at night and a lot of times when you wouldn't even think to kick on the high beams like when you're driving Through a neighborhood and you don't realize like how much you weren't seeing into yards up ahead of you And so those high beams kick on and you realize that your field of vision has expanded greatly It's one of my favorite safety features If you haven't gotten a chance to drive or test drive one of these Corolla hatchbacks These are fun little cars to drive. They really do it with around Lane tracing assist again. It's following the lane. We're on a curve reminds me to take hold as soon as I do It's back to guiding me in my lane Just a cool driving and you can see the speed dropping So it's breaking because there's a car in front of me and it's reading that car that symbol right there That's that car in front of me that blue bar is the space in between us and this the nose of my car So i'm not touching the pedals not breaking i'm gonna let this go over there and take control Your arm was back to the dealership With this audio package i haven't paired my phone to this or it would download my in-tune so i'd get all of these apps You get remote connect So with remote connect you could start your car. You can check the fuel level You can lock and unlock the doors and it's all from your phone and you can do that anywhere you have phone reception and the car has reception Just a ton of technology that they pack in this Corolla hatchback Here we have it ride and drive proximity key so i just locked the car from the door handle But a fun little ride and drive in the Corolla XSC hatchback


Hi guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel, Daniel Rossell here bringing you this video today from Jerusalem. Why do I sometimes start my videos by mentioning Jerusalem? I don't know, I do it subconsciously, but I realized recently, I think it's because I'm actually very proud to be living in Jerusalem.  So just to tell you guys where I'm doing these videos from, Jerusalem. And so I had an interesting chat today with a friend of mine who is an expat living in Bonn in Germany. And we got to talking about our sort of, you know, different living situations. He's originally from New Zealand. I'm originally from Ireland. I live in Israel. He lives in Germany. And I always find it interesting that when two expats meet for a Zoom chat, we often find unexpected points of similarity and contrast between our two living situations. And such was the case today. And some things that German culture sound very familiar to me. My friend was saying Germans don't really have a very strong concept of personal privacy, which is certainly something I can attest to in Israel. A friend who lived in Hong Kong said that Hong Kongers were extremely direct, which certainly sounds like Israel. And people always also beeped like crazy there, which is classic Jerusalem. So what I thought I'd do today was a video about living specifically in Jerusalem. Now, I have done an article before pros and cons of living in Israel, reflecting my feelings about what's good and less good about living here as an immigrant from Ireland. I moved from Cork, Ireland to Jerusalem, Israel in 2015, which means that I will actually very soon be finishing up my eighth year of living here. I frequently tell people I've been here for six years because I kind of stopped counting about two years ago. And the truth is it makes me feel less bad about the fact that my Hebrew isn't perfect yet. But it's actually been eight years, as I discovered before when I counted up the years before hitting the record button. This is some co-brew coffee. So rather than rehash the pros and cons of Israel, which I've written about before and I see a lot of other people have done on YouTube, I thought I'd do one specifically about Jerusalem. If you're thinking about living in Jerusalem, whether you're doing so because you're making Aliyah, you're Jewish, you're doing what I did, you believe in Zionism and you see your return to Israel as part of that process. Or whether you're... I've met over the course of my eight years in the city plenty of non-Jewish people, whether UN people, journalists, diplomats who happen to be living in Jerusalem for a period of time and they want some sort of info on what's it's actually like to live here in the city. So I prepared a pros and cons list. I'm going to talk about these today to maybe give a flavor for what it's actually like to live in Jerusalem. Jerusalem is one of the oldest cities in the world and part of what excites me about living here is the historical context. The fact that the city is so ancient, so old, so steeped in history and what drew me to Israel in 2015 was my Zionism, my connection with the Jewish people, my belief that the re-establishment or the establishment of the state of Israel, the re-establishment of a Jewish state in this part of the world and I ended up in Jerusalem unexpectedly and that's kind of where it all began as such and one of the most ancient cities in the world and one enormously steeped in a connection to the Jewish people essentially. So I mentioned that I ended up in Jerusalem by accident almost. So when I was looking and moving here to Israel in the year preceding 2015, I moved here in January of 2015. So in 2014 I was kind of getting all my admin stuff ready and living in a place without a Jewish community really, Cork and Ireland. I didn't really have friends. I didn't have Jewish friends growing up there. I didn't have people in the community. The few people we'd have a sort of synagogue service once a month. I didn't know people that had moved to Israel or that had relatives who moved to Israel. So to a very large extent, I was kind of flying blind with the whole application process. Now the way moving to Israel works is the Jewish agency, which is the state body of Israel, has offices around the globe to facilitate Jewish immigration to Israel under the law of return. There's another organization called Nefesh Benefesh, but they really exist mostly in established Jewish communities like London and New York where there is a good sort of throughput of applicants making alia. So I didn't really have any of that. There wasn't a Jewish agency or Nefesh Benefesh in Ireland. So I was basically assigned to the London office and trying to figure out on Google where it would be good to move in Israel. When I went to the Jewish agency, they kind of took the lead in a way that now makes sense to me. But at the time, it was perhaps a little bit too kind of meek and said, okay, whatever you say, I'll go. And they kind of did an intake session with me. And they put you in a classification according to if you hold a college degree or classified as an academic, which is a strange Israeliism in English. Doesn't mean you're actually an academic. It just means that you have a college degree. So I was classified as an academic. And they gave me a choice between Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem Ramallah. And there was one other one, Haifa, I think. And I looked up Ramallah. It didn't seem that appealing to me. Haifa also seemed less appealing. And I was actually worried about the air quality I have asthma. So I was like, well, Jerusalem seems fine. I've been there before. It's an interesting city. And I didn't really think I was committing to live here. I just thought that was like, well, I go to language school in Jerusalem for a couple of months. And then I'll probably go to Tel Aviv. Tel Aviv wasn't even presented as an option. So I, in my naivety thought, well, these are like the three options. There's no other Alpans Hebrew teaching things that I'm eligible for. So I chose Jerusalem. And like I think a lot of people, there's you almost feel sometimes Jerusalem chose me. This is almost like reciprocal reciprocal process of you moving towards Jerusalem and Jerusalem becoming part of you. And that's kind of how it went for me. I met my now wife fairly early in my Aliyah process. I started a job not really because I was desperate to start working, but because I needed a job to pay my living expenses. So I started working three months after coming here firstly on a part-time basis. And I got my first full-time job in my first summer in Israel. And that's kind of how it's rolled. One thing leads to another. And suddenly you find yourself married with friends in Jerusalem, working Jerusalem. You've been here for eight years and you haven't really thought about leaving. So that's kind of how it happened with me. Now, obviously over the course of eight years living in the city, I've amassed some sort of thoughts about it. And that's what I came here to do today. I've got a list in front of me on my screen. And I'm going to talk about it. Firstly, the main pro as I see it of living in Jerusalem is this Jewish connection I've talked about. Right? This being living in the place where the Jewish temples once stood that has hundreds of years of Jewish history is a special feeling. And this is really an ideological point. Right?  But you do sometimes wake up in bed saying this is pretty amazing. If Herzl could be reincarnated and see in 2022 that Jewish people from all over the world are moving to establish new lives for themselves in Israel, I think he'd be like, that's amazing. Right? Not just Herzl, but Jewish sages in the middle age who could only dream of stepping foot in the land of Israel. They would be just amazed to see that this was the thing and that Jerusalem is becoming not just a city of the Western Wall and the historical parts of the city, but also a new city. The Jerusalem outside of the old city with its downtown, they're building a whole new development complex at the entrance to the city where the train stop is for the new light rail to Tel Aviv. That whole area is called in Hebrew, and in broad terms, there's a huge, my wife's an architect, so she sort of sees a little bit of the urban planning going on up close. There is a huge plan to build up high rises on Yaffo Street, a big, big sort of campus of industry leisure there with the idea that, well, the Tel Aviv is going to be right 30 minutes away by train. That train is ultimately going to start running about eight times an hour, I believe, by 2040 because it is very ambitious plans for the Tel Aviv Jerusalem transport link to become almost continuous. To see all this stuff, I think that the Jewish sages of the middle ages would be amazing. I think it's also sort of a testament to modern Jerusalem that you can't have a city whose industry or whose economy is solely dependent on tourism to the old city, so that it's becoming a real modern city, I think, is amazing. Living here, you feel part of that process. Living here, it also feels like, in a sense, Jerusalem needs young people to stay here, especially young people who were founding companies, creating jobs, spending money in the local economy. Unfortunately, there has been sort of Jerusalem's reputation in Israel has been kind of a poor backwater to be unkind. Until the advent of this is arguable, people will debate me on this until a certain forward-thinking mayor called Nair Barqas came along or Teddy Collick, but the city had historically a few mayors that were less ambitious in terms of bringing the city forward and Jerusalem had a reputation for being very religious and very poor and those two things often go hand in hand because the economic participation rate among the most religious sectors of Israeli society often isn't all that high. So that was its reputation and the city's changing, but unfortunately change doesn't happen overnight and all these great projects to build new industrial complexes at the end to Jerusalem take years and the quality of life in the city becomes worse during those years. Right now, people are getting very frustrated that they feel like Jerusalem's turned into one big construction site. They're putting down new light rails. Can he sat to ear project, which is gigantic? Intalpios, where you currently have sort of a southern urban center, but one that's pretty grimy, very industrial, not very glamorous and the city has impressive plans to make that not just a place where you've got glass factories and stuff like that, but actually kind of a joint residential commercial space. So all these great things are happening, but all us, all the residents currently see is a lot of construction sites, a lot of jackhammering noise and stuff like that. So Jerusalem has traditionally, for the last few decades, unfortunately, played second string to Tel Aviv. You take the train or the bus from Jerusalem from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, and it feels like an upgrade in terms of the, the, the, how urban the place is, right? You go to Tel Aviv and it's glass skyscrapers and cranes and you feel that's the capital. Jerusalem, by comparison, feels a little bit pokey. So that's, that's, I think a lot of what I get out of living in Jerusalem is I feel like, well, the city north, this city needs me more than Tel Aviv needs me. Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel have startups and young people. And in Jerusalem, we kind of almost have a feel like we're the underdog city, that this is the city was the real connection to, or the strongest connection to the previous Jewish state in Israel. And we are part of the, the sort of diehard staying here to make the city happen. So the other thing, I mean, so moving from idea, ideology to speaking practically on the matter, if you are religiously observant, Jewish, you keep kosher, you keep Shabbat, Jerusalem's like your nirvana. Now, I am not as religious as that. I do actually try to keep Shabbat. I aspire to keep Shabbat 100% because I think it's an amazing institution. But, and, and I do eat kosher. So I'm more religious than probably many Israelis and many Jews. But I'm not ultra orthodox. But if you are immersed in learning Torah and keeping a high level of kosher, Jerusalem is a city that where the majority of the population, the Jewish population is religiously observant. And it's much easier than Tel Aviv and Haifa. Now there's sort of a lot of people would think, well, you know, Israel is one, if you're Jewish, it must be like one big Jewish. It's gonna use nirvana again or Mecca, probably, probably not the most apt comparison. But you know, everything is kosher and there's synagogues everywhere. And it's not the case at all. Cities do vary quite considerably in terms of their religious orientation with, for example, Haifa being less religious and Jerusalem being more religious and Bnei Brak being almost kind of ultra religious. So practically speaking, something I like about Jerusalem is as a kosher keeper, the city is geared towards my need, right? I can mostly walk into a restaurant, whether it's a street food place like Schwarma or a more sophisticated restaurant and assume it's kosher of some degree or another. Not saying there are non kosher restaurants in Jerusalem, there are, but you can't say the same thing about Tel Aviv. To an extent, you kind of have to seek out places that are kosher in Tel Aviv. Excuse me. So that's one. In terms of employment, excuse me. This is my main negative about Jerusalem. I don't actually really work in Jerusalem, that's the thing. I currently have a remote job. My boss lives in Tel Aviv. And I think there's a lot of people in this category in Jerusalem. So in terms of employment, I mean, the pro I have here, just to kind of balance it out a little bit, is work at government institutions. Jerusalem is the seat of government in Israel. So although the economic capital is very much Tel Aviv and the surrounding part of the country called in Hebrew the Merkaz, Merkaz mean center. Jerusalem is Israel's capital. So that means that the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, the National Library, the Supreme Court, and those are just kind of the A-listers, if you will. There's a lot of other government ministries and sort of, you know, semi-public bodies, let's say, think tanks as well tend to be drawn to Jerusalem for that reason. This doesn't constitute a massive pool of employment, but it does mean that if you're working or you aspire to work in the civil service, there are jobs in Jerusalem, especially Jewish organizations as well. Tel Aviv, by contrast, has a much more vibrant economy, lots and lots of startups. Now, it's not that there aren't startups in Jerusalem. There are what are called in Israel, high-tech parks. In Ireland, they call them industrial parks, basically, you know, centers where there's a lot of businesses kind of clustered in a village of sorts. There are startups in Jerusalem. There's an organization called Made in JLM that advocates and tries to create community among the startups here, but relative to the strength of the startup nation and its beating heart in Tel Aviv and to a lesser extent in places like Herzliya, it's a lot weaker. If I go looking for a job in Israel tomorrow, 80 to 90% of the opportunity I'm going to see will be in Tel Aviv and the surrounding area, maybe, you know, 10% Jerusalem, 10% Bersheva. So let's put Tel Aviv down to 70 so the numbers add up correctly, but you get the idea. The majority is in Tel Aviv. So that's a pro that's kind of a quite a narrow pro, I would say. Finally, and this is just kind of almost a flippant one relative to the big reasons of ideology and whatnot, is that I think the climate in Jerusalem is more livable than Tel Aviv. There is, you can look up the climate graphs on Wikipedia and there are almost like microclimates in Israel, whereas the coast in the summer is very, very humid and hot. Jerusalem is hot, but dry in the summer. That's the big difference. So you don't have that kind of very, very sticky humidity that just you go out of the, of your home and you start pouring sweat out of every pore. When I go to Tel Aviv for meetings in August, it is hot. I do not know how people manage to keep cool. I think the answer is they stay inside in the air conditioning, but it's very, very, it's a kind of almost oppressive climate for one or two months a year. Now, in terms of the cons of living in Jerusalem, so let's start with what I personally would regard as the most significant con and that's lack of employment opportunities comparatively. Again, not that there aren't jobs, just that the employment ecosystem is a lot less vibrant than it is in Tel Aviv and other places in, in Israel. And that's problematic. And that's why there has been this exodus of young people. I don't have the latest figures. I'd be very interested to see them, but up until recently, it was a yearly exodus of young people. You know, people would kind of stay in Jerusalem until they were 18, did their army service, and then that was their time to spread their wings and move to Tel Aviv or the Tel Aviv conurbation, which includes places like Ramat Gan and Ramat Aviv and these Israeli cities that are technically separate cities, according to how they're defined, but effectively function as sort of almost like suburbs or joint cities around Tel Aviv. So lack of employment opportunities. Now, I would say one thing and I see a big change in the last few years, because of the pandemic, remote work has taken off and I can work really from any, from any, any country in the world from this little office in Jerusalem. Thank God, I finally got decent internet connectivity last week. And the employment link, sorry, the transport link, as I mentioned to Tel Aviv is now very strong. There is a fast rail link. That's the main link I would say now. There's still the two buses that have always been running the 405 and the 480. And they added a new bus recently called the 490 from south Jerusalem. So the Israeli government is, you know, recognizing wisely that there's just way too many cars on the road, private cars. The traffic is a disaster. This is totally unsustainable. And we're going to shore up the public transport links between the two cities. And as I said, if you look at the plans they've released for 2040, they're very ambitious lots and lots of trains running every 10 minutes, even back and forth during peak areas between the two cities. So what I would say is that you know, it's becoming increasingly the case that you don't need to work in Jerusalem. You can live in Jerusalem and work for an American company remotely. Or you can work for an Italian company or a German company or even a company in Herzliu or Tel Aviv. That kind of hybrid work arrangement of visiting a company once a week is also becoming a big thing. So people will take the train to Tel Aviv once a week. That's what I do. And that's becoming increasingly commonplace. So I think the employment picture is maybe the answer is not going to be big job creation in Jerusalem and more big public transport creation and connectivity between Jerusalem and companies all over Israel with maybe Jerusalem or Tel Aviv just being meeting points for a distributed team in Israel. And there's a we work in Jerusalem and there's a couple of other smaller co-working spaces. So again, I think all these are super positive dynamics because I'm a huge believer in remote work. I think it's the future. I think the future is going to be people doing two or three two day a week jobs to you know, working for two contracts for two companies or per DMs for different companies or everything nontraditional the days of working for one company and retiring with your gold Rolex or whatever the equivalent was in Israel, probably also a Rolex or I think over okay. Now here's one con I've listed and that's Shabbat. Now this might be offensive to religious Jews who would say how could Shabbat be a con if you're not Jewish, you need to know a few things about living in Jerusalem. You're one you're going to learn if you don't know what Shabbat is now you're going to be forced to learn very quickly because Jerusalem effectively shuts down for Shabbat. Now I mentioned earlier that cities in Israel vary quite significantly in terms of their level of religiosity and I mentioned also that Jerusalem is kind of on the far end of the scale. Now, when I say the city shuts down for Shabbat, Shabbat starts on Friday after Sunday and continues till Sunday after Sunday. That means that the stores need to close early enough so that their workers can work on a Friday and then stop working a few hours before Shabbat. Now in the winter when Shabbat comes in at like four o'clock that can mean that at one p.m. on a Friday which is technically the weekend Israeli working week Sunday through Thursday Friday Saturday weekend on a Friday you try to do your groceries at two p.m. There's no supermarket's open the only thing you might have are these kind of overpriced quickie marts so that can be very frustrating the shit the really the shutters come down on Friday in Tel Aviv much less so there's there's grocery stores that stay open there's a lot more open public transport also stops all right you're trying to get around the city on Shabbat and if you don't have a car you basically can walk that's your that's your only option so for non-Jews and for Jews who are not religiously observant or Shabbat observant Shabbat can be a massive inconvenience and something that's very difficult to live around I would say eight years living in the city it's it's it's an ongoing it's difficult for me there are Fridays where for whatever reason I was out late on a Thursday I slept in a bit I didn't get going for one o'clock you know properly up and going and it's already too late to buy food and you're like it's ridiculous how can you have a city like this if you ask really just Jews how they manage they'll tell you they do their shopping on a Thursday night but that's usually the kind of night I want to go to a bar so there's different lifestyles and it's kind of can be tricky to not feel like you're being penned in to being leading a religious Jewish lifestyle if that's not what you aspire to lead and I think that's what ultimately drives a lot of people away from Jerusalem as they get tired of feeling like they have to sort of organize their lives around Shabbat if they don't want to keep Shabbat so the cost of living in Jerusalem I mentioned on my little note sheet I'm looking at here it's not Jerusalem specific it's Israel unfortunately Jerusalem's a bit cheaper than Tel Aviv but I'm not sure how substantive that difference actually is Jerusalem's expensive and Israel's expensive what can I say it's too expensive to live in Israel we have one of the highest cost of living in the world prescription of medications and falafel are relatively cheap but last night I was watching the World Cup and paying 32 shekels for a cider and that comes out to nine dollars and forty cents that's very pricey so yeah it's just expensive here unfortunately really expensive and what's the answer I'm not sure there is one I don't I my disposable income goes on camera gear and I don't really save month to month which is far from ideal but that's a lot of people in Israel unfortunately um so I oh and final point I have here conflict and turmoil epicenter of conflict so it's true Israel is Israel is not that it's an unsafe country to live in somewhat paradoxically crime rates here are comparatively low but there is a there is a conflict and that conflict epicenter really is Jerusalem right East Jerusalem is Palestinian mostly almost entirely West Jerusalem is Israeli Jerusalem tends to attract hotheads and extremists from both the Jewish and the Arab sites um fundamentalist right so there'll there'll be the flash points in Jerusalem like the Damascus gate when there are lone wolf stabbings don't really make the news much internationally uh you know a Palestinian stab someone they tend to be in Israel and I'm not just saying it's all one-sided there have been instances of the Jewish Israelis you know basically beating up random Palestinians horrible stuff whatever site it comes from um but you're going to see that more in Jerusalem than Tel Aviv which has a much more left wing tolerant pro coexistence outlook on the main street in Jerusalem which is called Ben Yehuda Street it's common to see a far right wing organization called La Hava very openly uh signing up members and rabble rising on a Thursday night which is the main night of the weekend um and you know you can read about that organization so there is there is ugly extremism in Jerusalem more so than Tel Aviv I would say um and when the conflict breaks out whether that's a space of lone wolf stabbing attacks or something more God forbid it tends to hit Jerusalem before other places the exception is rockets um is Jerusalem generally isn't threatened by rocket fire some would say it's probably because it's buffered by Ramallah and Bethlehem and given the relatively crude nature of Palestinian missiles it would be very difficult to target Jerusalem and not risk targeting the dome of the rock which would ignite world war three so it's rare that Palestinian militants in Gaza will fire on Jerusalem it has happened but it's rare and it usually marks a very significant it's it's kind of a red line under a red line that when Jerusalem is targeted I try not to use bad language on this youtube channel so I will not but stuff's about to go down um so that's it so I hope this overview and I know this has become a 30 minute video I wanted to give sort of like you know real live detail uh about Jerusalem I do think by the way Jerusalem is a really nice city to live in um you might say after all those cons it's a nice city I'd say those are the drawbacks if you can work around them or they're not drawbacks like Shabbat um I think it's a quality city I personally think Jerusalem is a nicer city than Tel Aviv not no ideology no Jewish stuff I just think it's a nice um it's a nice city with nice neighborhoods our hobby is lovely Baka is very nice the center of it it's effectively three cities west Jerusalem ultra orthodox Jerusalem and east Jerusalem that's the way I look at Jerusalem it's three cities one area of one million people and Jerusalem also feels a lot smaller than a city one million people I think for that reason um because you're you're never really simultaneously moving in one city you're more staying in your third of Jerusalem your ultra orthodox west Jerusalem or east Jerusalem you're usually most people stick to their third let's say um so it ends up feeling like what you know 330,000 a million over three feels much more like how Jerusalem feels to live in it feels like a smaller place than a you know big city of one million people let's say anyway I'll uh desist from talking here I hope that was interesting to someone even if it was no one it was good to just kind of chat to myself in my room for 30 minutes if you do have thoughts to share do please consider leaving them in the comment section I'll be always uh really interested to talk about the city and specifically the future of the city is a topic that really animates me thanks for watching if you want to get more videos from me of course do consider clicking on that subscribe button and uh telling your friends that there is this random guy from cork sitting in Jerusalem with some neon lighting in his room and making ranting onto a webcam tell your friends that's out there on youtube and they 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