Hi everyone, Chris here from aislesadvantages.com with another lesson and today what we're going to focus on is how to practice aisles listening. So what we're going to do is look at why doing lots of practice tests is a terrible idea. In fact this is the worst thing you could do. If you think that just doing lots and lots and lots of practice tests is going to help you get a higher score, you are wrong. But what then I'm going to show you is three better ways to practice that will actually improve your scores because at the end of the day what are we doing? We're helping you improve your scores. So we're only going to teach you the things that work and make you aware of the things that don't work. And these three ways are totally free and you can do them at home by yourself without a teacher. So they're absolutely brilliant. So number one, why doing lots of practice tests is a terrible idea. Well the first thing is they're boring. So our brains like to do things that they enjoy and if they're doing things that they find pleasurable then our brains are going to be able to absorb that information and learn from it. Also we're human beings. If we're doing something that is really really boring it is a very low likelihood that we are going to continue doing that thing and consistently doing it. And really the key for all aspects of IELTS is doing things consistently over a relatively long period of time. You cannot cram for the IELTS test the week before or a month before. What you need to be doing is doing a little bit of work every single day over a long period of time because listening is a skill and we want to improve that skill and that will help us improve our scores. Number two, no improvement. The analogy I always use for this is could you learn how to drive a car and pass your driving test by going on a racetrack and just going around and around and around and around and around in a car? No, you would pick up really bad habits and you wouldn't really learn what you're doing wrong and what you're doing right. Just practicing is not actually going to help you improve especially when it comes to the IELTS listening test. You might be doing test after test after test and spending a lot of time doing that but not seeing any improvement. So we obviously want to spend time on things that enable us to improve our scores and ignore things that don't actually lead to improvement and it's a really strange thing and it's a really attractive thing to think that you're working hard so you're doing all of these tests and you're telling yourself I'm doing all this hard work and doing something that is helping me when really in the back of your mind you know that it's not really helping. Number three is really really important. You're not getting any feedback. You're just doing practice tests. You're not actually learning from your mistakes and the only way to learn is for someone to help you with that and I'm going to show you a way that you can learn from your own mistakes without even the need of a teacher. It's great if you have a teacher with you but obviously you know due to money and due to the fact that you might live in a place that doesn't have great teachers you want to be able to give yourself feedback and learn from your own mistakes and all of this is going to lead to frustration. You wouldn't believe the number of emails that people send me saying you know I've done every single practice test in the world and I keep getting 6.5. We get those every single day and what happens when you are frustrated because it's boring, you're not improving, you're not seeing any progression, you're going to get frustrated, you're going to give up.  We don't want to do practice test after practice test. Let's look at three ways that actually do help you improve your listening skills and help you improve your IELTS test performance and help you improve your scores. So there are three better ways. Number one, listen for pleasure. Number two, listen actively. And number three, listen reflectively. So let's go into detail on each of these and find out how you can practically do these at home by yourself for free without a teacher. So number one, listen for pleasure. As we've already talked about you need to do something that you enjoy so that you will do it consistently. Listening is a skill the more you do it the better you're going to become at it. So if you are listening to things that you enjoy then you're going to do this consistently. It seems pretty obvious but not many students think of it that way. I think maybe because it's studying and a lot of people think that studying should be boring and studying should be laborious. It doesn't have to be. And the great thing about all of these so podcasts, TV, movies, radio, TED Talks, YouTube, real people apart from real people all of these are in the palm of your hand. They're on your phone. You can listen to podcasts on anything in the world or YouTube or TED Talks or radio or movies or TV even on your phone. There is an unlimited supply of listening material out there for you. And the great thing about all this choice and the fact that we can get everything at the touch of a button is that whatever you are interested in there's a podcast on it. Whatever you are interested in there's a YouTube channel or multiple hundreds of YouTube channels on that. There's probably a radio show about it. There's probably TED Talks on it. So I've dealt with students who were really into cricket. Listen to cricket matches and commentators discussing the match. I've had students who were really into cookery programs. Listen to a cookery podcast. I've had students who really loved sci-fi movies. Listen to the sci-fi movie or listen to a sci-fi podcast or listen to a sci-fi YouTube channel where they discuss the movies. It doesn't matter what you're into. There's something there for you. And also the great thing about having everything on your phone is you can do it at any time. So that 10 minutes before you know you get out of bed or those 30 minutes on the bus on the way to work or the 20 minutes you have during your lunch break or you're not doing anything, there are unlimited number of options and there are a huge number of opportunities for you to practice that. None of these are IELTS related but remember they're not testing your ability to answer IELTS questions. They're testing your ability. Does this person have a requisite skill level to get a band 7 or a band 8 or a band 9? In other words, when you go to live in England or live in America or Canada, will you be able to understand what is going on? Will you be able to understand what people are saying? And also real people, if you are around native English speakers, listen to them if you want to improve your listening. Number two, listen actively. Okay so listen there's a difference between listening passively. So listening passively is you know just sitting on the bus looking at the window listening to a podcast and not really thinking about it. Now that's better than nothing but it is better to actively focus on one maximum two things while you're listening to that podcast or that TV show or that movie or that YouTube video. Focus on one thing at a time, for example vocabulary, accent, intonation, multiple speakers and normally focus on the thing that you really need help with. So let's say that you find out that you really need help with your vocabulary. Then when you're listening to a podcast and you hear a new word, note that new word down. Guess what that word means from the context.  You should be doing that with reading as well or let's say you have a problem with the Scottish accent or the Irish accent or the Australian accent. Listen to a podcast where there are those accents and listen for words that you don't really understand. Listen again, listen again until you figure out what that word is or intonation. What you can do is let's say you're watching a movie and look at the movie script or look at the subtitles and guess what the intonation is going to be like and then compare it with how the actor says it and then mimic what they say or listening to multiple speakers and how they take turns and interrupt each other and how they give signposting language on what they're doing. There are multiple things that you can focus on and you should just focus on on your weaknesses really. So you can see the difference between that and just sitting on the bus looking at the window listening to whatever actively do something and that again is going to give you a lot more bang for your buck in terms of you know if you spend 20 minutes actively listening to a podcast focusing on vocabulary you might get 10 or 20 words out of that and that's going to help you in not only your listening test but your speaking test your reading test your writing test or just look at the window for 20 minutes and think that you're improving when really you're not and so active listening is really really important. This is probably the most important one in terms of improving your IELTS scores is listen reflectively. So this is when you do practice tests so you get a practice test make sure it's a real genuine practice test do not use these fake tests that you'll find online they're only there so that they can they can get clicks on their website 90 percent over 90 percent of practice tests you'll find online are fake tests they're not made by Cambridge the only tests you should use are the Cambridge tests and because they're created by the people who create the test and they know what they're doing so what you do is you do the test under exam conditions and then honestly honestly evaluate your mistakes where did you go wrong and think about why did you get each question wrong so was it spelling was it timing was it meaning was it vocabulary was it strategy was it spelling what was it and right down beside each one the the key reason why you got that question wrong and don't just look at it and be like I don't know why I got it wrong actually think about it if you think about it you will figure out why you got that question wrong was it because you're unfamiliar with the question types or maybe you're getting a certain question type wrong every single time and what you'll see if you do let's say three or four practice tests you'll start to see patterns emerging normally students are getting a lower score not because they're bad at everything but because there's one or two things that they need to work on so I was working with a student recently who was great their listening was amazing but they kept getting 6.5 and the only reason for that was their spelling because if you spell the quit you know if you spell the answer wrong it's wrong it doesn't and they kept saying oh but it's nearly right I'm like no they're not going to see it that way so they worked on their spelling and they improved and they got the score they needed I've worked with multiple students who had difficulties with particular types of questions for example on the reading test and a lot of students have problems with true false not given and matching headings questions so if you see a pattern emerging there focus on that question learn how to do that question and get a strategy for that question and then you're going to improve the key here is you need to take action so once you see this pattern emerging let's say you notice that vocabulary is your problem and you keep messing up because you just don't understand what the words mean and you don't understand the synonyms of the words that you're looking for if you just say okay better luck next time then you've just wasted your time and you're going to fail next time but if you take action on that and improve that then you are really really going to see results so don't do lots of practice listen to something you enjoy focus on particular things when you're listening and reflect on your mistakes notice patterns and take action on that and that goes around in that feedback loop so let's say for example you again focused on this and realized that vocabulary was a problem actively listen and focus on vocabulary and get yourself a podcast or a youtube channel on something you enjoy and try and improve your vocabulary through listening to something you enjoy and therefore you're really going to enjoy what you're doing you're going to improve and then get the score you need sound simple but it actually does really really work thank you very much guys hope that you enjoyed that video


kind of chilling scene about an Australian citizen who's held effectively an ongoing solitary confinement in a UK high security prison, faces a lifetime of further detention and I would argue effective torture in a US high security prison under a law that the US Congress passed which purports to say no matter where on the planet you are, no matter whether you have a connection to the United States, legal obligation to the United States, no matter where, no matter when.  Our government said oh well we can't interfere with the rule of law. If that's the rule of law on this planet, they're in a hell of a lot of trouble aren't they? And if our government accedes to that claim by the United States without a whimper, without any objection and just said that's fine, pluck Australian citizens wherever you find them, try them in your effective military courts and jail them forever for spilling your secrets we're fine with that. Could you imagine a sort of more supine relationship between Australia and the United States? Well I can't, it kind of demonstrates the problem of the relationship. It demonstrates why we're in a 368 billion dollar hole with AUKUS. It demonstrates why we're joining them as best as they can to bomb people in Yemen. It demonstrates why we say nothing about the genocide and the violence in Gaza. It demonstrates why we have a big job to here in this country to change our government and to genuinely have an independent and principled Australian foreign policy. But if we could go back to Julian, what is Julian's actual crime? What is the crime that the United States has identified in their judicial overreach in this case? Well the crime they've identified is that Julian did spill the secrets. He told the truth and the problem we're talking about Julian Assange is where, how far back in time do you go to sort of ground the merits of the case? Well I suppose you go back to the Iraq war and you think about the vicious brutal crimes of the US Occupy and Military. They're shooting dead Reuters journalists capturing it on film, killing the rescuers, doing it with a kind of brutal indifference and capturing it on film. And Julian's crime wasn't the killing or the brutal indifference or the rules of engagement that let that happen or the system that permitted that invasion. Julian's crime is telling us about it. And the same about the cables that went back and forth that showed the true underbelly of the US international and foreign relations about how it was about self interest and power, not about truth and justice in the American way. And his crime was telling us about it and embarrassing and spilling the secrets of the United States and that's what he's charged with and we should always remember that. And if you're ever wondering about why we're also head up about this, well in a world that's spinning into yet more Western driven conflicts, not all but many of the Western driven conflicts. In a world that seems keen to follow the United States in a war in the Middle East or a war in the South China Sea, surely more than ever we should be prizing, not punishing those who tell the truth about it and allow us to see a different way forward that doesn't involve us as the deputy sheriff of the United States in their endless, endless wars. Of course we should. But why don't we just roll through now to September of this year. And in September of this year I had the benefit of going on a cross-party delegation to the US to speak directly with members of Congress over there, Senators and House of Reps alike. With a, you know, let's be clear, a kind of rainbow coalition of Australian politicians all the way from Barnaby, Joyce on one side to Manik Ryan and myself and my good friend Peter Wish Wilson, a Green Senator from Tasmania, as well as Labor MP Tony Zappio. And although we came from very different political backgrounds and Barnaby Joyce himself says he doesn't much like Julian Assange, but partly for the reasons that I articulated about US overreach, he said, well, surely our government should be sticking up for that and saying that shouldn't happen. Barnaby and I are like a 12 hour clock, you know, we agree once, once a day. We agree on that. And interestingly, when we went to Washington, the reason we went there was because we thought it had died down. And we know that the extradition was coming to a head of steam. There was a chance that the proceedings in the UK could have come on at the end of last year. And we wanted to talk across Congress. It didn't matter whether they were Democrat, independent or Republican. It didn't matter if they were far right, far left, middle. We wanted to talk with members of Congress. And interestingly, with the rainbow coalition that we took over there, we kind of had somebody who could talk to anybody in Congress. And that kind of helped. And I've got to tell you from the far right of the Republicans to the very progressive left of the Democrats, there was real buying in this and a real acknowledgement about the unfairness and a real acknowledgement from the US of two things I thought from the progressive left, many of the issues that I've spoken about about telling the truth, about being honest about US war making and being honest about the way the world operates. And from the right of a real engagement with First Amendment rights, the right to speak the truth, the right to hold governments to account without being put in jail about it. And there's a very real argument at the moment about whether or not those First Amendment rights apply to a foreign and the US administration is saying, oh, First Amendment rights only apply to US citizens, and they can do whatever the hell they like with foreigners. And in a world of global media, in a world of global accountability, I can tell you that causes a lot of angst to many politicians left and right in the United States. So having undertaken that trip, but I want to credit the Assange campaign for funding that and making it possible, we thought, well, have we started a bit of a fire there? You know, have we started some spot fires about it? And I'm pleased to say that we have. Because it was in November that we saw two of the representatives that we caught up with. One, a moderate Republican, Jim McGovern. Some people might call him a progressive Republican. It depends where you call him from Australian political spectrum or the US, but Jim McGovern and Thomas Massey are Republican. They pulled together a public letter, an open letter to the Biden administration, which ended up being signed by 16 members of Congress. And again, from across the political spectrum, saying to the Biden administration First Amendment rights here, First Amendment rights, the right to tell the truth, to tell truth to power, stop the prosecution. This is an independent journalist trying to be a journalist and that should not be a crime under the United States law or pull the prosecution. And they followed that up with a resolution in December that's been put to the floor of Congress. Now interestingly, while this was all happening, US politics was in a complete whirlwind. They were throwing out speakers, they weren't passing budgets, they were they were engaging in some pretty brutal domestic politics. And pretty much nothing was uniting United States politics. So I think we should reflect upon the fact that there's now this issue of Julian Assange actually uniting US politics from progressive to Republicans. And the Biden administration is looking increasingly vulnerable in their ongoing prosecutions. And and and that's been followed up by yet more representations in January. Again, cross party representations in Congress putting Biden on the line. So plan A is to get the United States to pull the prosecution to acknowledge that they'll be ongoing domestic grief to the Biden administration if they continue. And if there is a change of administration that that will pull in and stop the prosecution. That's plan A to end the prosecution from the US perspective. But plan B is to kill the prosecution off in the UK. And that's why in January of this year, I myself as one of the co conveners of the bring Julian Assange home parliamentary group together with Andrew Wilkie, an independent MP and I think a courageous whistleblower himself, Bridget Archer from the Liberal Party. I won't praise Bridget because that never helps her in her struggles inside the Liberal Party. But Bridget is a person of genuine decency. Josh Wilson, a Labor Party MP and myself as the Greens, Defence and Justice folks, and all co chairs of the parliamentary group wrote to the UK Home Secretary. And I'll be you can find it online. I think copies have been shared around to be pleased and I was a brief letter. It's always a challenge when you're working with Ford to get a brief letter. We got a brief letter together to James Cleverly, the UK Secretary of State. And in that we said something pretty straightforward. That the law in the UK has moved on since the appeal court rejected Julian's appeal on Assange. Because at the core of Julian's case has been amongst other things. That if he is extradited to the US and faces ongoing detention in some pretty brutal federal prisons, ongoing isolation from his family, his health is at very serious risk. This endless prosecution that he faces. And in the appeal decision, the appeal court said they didn't have to worry about identifying or proving those facts. They could rely upon the bare assurances given by the United States and accepted by the UK that he'd be fine. So a bare assurance is fine. And they didn't test it and they said that they didn't have to go beyond those assurances. And to the extent the trial judge went beyond the assurances and actually was anxious about his health and said that he faced very, very serious health consequences.  The Chief Eleanor should have just relied upon the assurances. You don't have to go beyond that. Well, since then, the UK Supreme Court, which is their highest court, in the case of AAA, via the Secretary of State for the Home Department, admittedly in a slightly different context, in a refugee context. But when considering the UK's proposal to follow some pretty cooked Australian precedent and jail anybody who arrives seeking refugee status on a boat, and in this case send them off to Rwanda for resettlement in Rwanda, in that case, the Supreme Court said, you can't just rely upon the assurances of the Rwandan government and you can't just rely upon the assurances of the UK government having accepted the assurances of the Rwandan government. Courts have to test whether or not, if someone's got to be sent back to another country in these circumstances, they have to test the truth. They have to make their own determination. And I've got to tell you, thank goodness the Supreme Court made that finding, because we've found out very recently that at the same time as the UK government was in the Supreme Court saying, no, no, no, rely on the assurances. Don't have to test it. It's fine. Look, here's a release from us and there's a release from the Rwandan government. It'll be fine in Rwanda. At the same time as that was happening, the UK government was granting refugee status to at least four Rwandans because they had significant fear of ongoing persecution in Rwanda. They were doing the two things at the same time. The reason being, you shouldn't just trust no court should accept a bearish political assertion from a government when the court's obligation is to actually look to an individual's rights. And in the case of Julian Assange, his right to life, I think, is pretty much up there that should be considered by the UK courts. So we said, and Peter read it out at the beginning, we said to James Cleverlet, do your job in a polite way and a respectful way. It's not our job to direct the UK government, but we said we think you should do your job. And we said to this end, we are requesting that you undertake an urgent, thorough and independent assessment of the risk to Mr Assange's health and welfare in the event he's extradited to the United States. Consistent with the decision in triple A, it appears to us that such independent investigation should include a close review of the risks to Mr Assange's health, life and well-being through prolonged attention in one or more high security US detention facilities. Well, of course they should. Now in three weeks' time, we will find out if that has been done. In three weeks' time, we'll find out if the UK government accepts that that should be part of the consideration in Julian Assange's week. But I have to say, in three weeks' time, we're likely to still see an Australian government that thinks this is all okay, that it's the rule of law and they can just let an Australian citizen be brutalised like that. Well, I disagree. Let's keep the struggle alive. Let's bring Julianna. Thanks very much.


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half price sale get up to 50 percent of all tiles wood flooring bathware cladding everything's reduced tiles from only 8.99 per square yard and wood flooring from only 11.99 per square yard right price tiles and wood flooring half price January sale extended until bank holiday Monday okay welcome back to the program on to it we welcome now Dave Brown secretary general of Cuell Aaron good morning to you thanks so much for joining us morning Greg how are you great to have you on the show right this is a new organization though it sounds incredibly familiar tell us about why it was established what it helps to achieve well you know I wish pretty amiss to find us as were a lot of my colleagues recently and especially during the pandemic we had lots of time to think about these things that there's rather like the Irish film board or you know board East Kivara or there are you know main bodies and boards in Ireland set up to you know promote whatever industry they're set up to promote globally and there isn't one for music so we were a bit astonished to find that out so it's pretty much in a nutshell what what film what the film board has done for for movies we want to do for music is the industry a bit scattered at the moment maybe and even how funds are distributed or how one might apply for them it's a bit convoluted and hit and miss and it's what you know and all that type of stuff you're hoping to maybe is that the case firstly and secondly is do you think this this collection uh collective will will help to fix that well yeah I think you've hit the nail in the head there I mean there are certain sectors that are that are that are well funded there's no denying that and there are other other sectors that are completely ignored look and just to be just to be clear Greg it's not a union it's not a musician's union it's literally um we're gonna you know an official body a body that we're gonna that's set up to represent the music industry as a whole the Irish music industry both here and abroad so so for example you know rather like the GAA takes young people up through the ranks and all that you know young bands come up in Ireland especially in contemporary music now radio friendly you know and then that's not to say we're not open to all genres of music we are but you know Irish music as a whole in and we've been punching above our weight for years in this regard in Ireland is not really represented uh globally or in other countries whereas a lot of a lot of other territories are for example UK music in in England and is designed to to promote and do just that sell sell UK music globally and so that's what we want to do is there a bit of an identity crisis in Irish music in that if you asked a thousand people or a hundred people for that matter you know define Irish music do you think they would get it do you think they might say Irish music is either Nathan Carter or you know some other big pop act do you know what do you mean like do you think they would understand when we talk about Irish music what Irish music actually is I mean I'm saying I'm not saying they aren't Irish music by the way but I just wonder if everyone gets really you know what it is well that that is that is that is true and you know and obviously we have hurdles we have to overcome but but I genuinely genuinely feel that you know if if you have for example again a young band coming up in Ireland that are really really good a radio friendly let's say pop rock band you know that's very little they can do in Ireland to and they very little access to proper information and proper funding for that matter and and you know then as a consequence we don't export it very well so I to answer your question I know what you mean I mean and there I have colleagues that would say look there's more to Irish music than whiskey in the jar you know but I think also too we we I agree what you're talking about exporting but we have to fix the problems that are in here as well I think we do a good job here but we're always trying to improve in terms of support in Irish music but some of its box ticking exercise you take Durham at Kennedy off the playlist nationally right and the amount of Irish music played is close to zero right he's doing all the heavy lifting in terms of but you could say oh look we're playing such and such a percentage of Irish music take Durham at Kennedy off your playlist and don't but take him off the playlist and there's very little else there they might throw in a token urban group or something or whatever but in reality there is not the support internally for all different types but maybe particularly that contemporary pop rock radio friendly Irish music programmers are afraid to take a chance on it I think because they're always looking at the next set of numbers well there you go you hit the nail on the head and rather than you know be something that legislates against that or or is an adversary in any way you know we want to include all the radio stations all the publishers all the collection agencies all the labels you know rather like the UK model does and under the one umbrella we can you know really work hard to fix these issues that are happening in Irish music and like you say you know there are there are plenty and I believe you know a plethora of amazing bands out there that just have no connection can't you know can't get played can't get things made and for example Greg you know the budget for one Irish movie that would be gotten from the film board and this doesn't seem like I'm having to go I'm looking up to the film board I think it's an amazing thing they've done you don't have to elevate someone to elevate you we get that you're saying well this is that's working there let's bring us up with them well that's it but you can make an album you know let's say the budget of one movie would probably make a hundred albums you know albums are not as expensive to make nowadays as they used to be which is the upside of the technical technology end of what's happened to our industry but the downside of that is uh you know it's it's very very hard to monetize your record once you've made it and that's another massive thing that we want to address is the monetization of artists and I don't mean you know people have to reach into their pockets and pay more I just think that if the systems are slightly changed and we have plans to do that you can monetize the actual creator of that art better in a way that enables them to make more art in the future which essentially is what we want to happen and move more people into doing things as a passion and doing it as a living too presumably you talked about a UK model what about a French model uh I'm not going to keep harking on about the radio play side of things but what about a French model whereby part of the licensing scheme if I've read it correctly is is that a percentage of music is you know take if people are a bit nervous to give music a try you know legislate for them to have a certain amount of their playlist having to be you know Irish music is that I mean obviously you're trying the carrot but maybe the carrot's been tried in stick time well yeah well spotted there Greg as I've said that in the past I do believe more in the carrot than the stick approach you know I do believe in that primarily however what I would say to you is it's my understanding that that radio licenses in Ireland have that stipulation already that they must play you know 30% Irish music now is that the spirit of the law or the letter of the law so if we were to say and and again radio stations I'm not picking on radio stations either because a lot of them have you know Irish radio shows the Irish hour all of that kind of thing which is great but you know we have such sorry to answer your question about the French model it's slightly different to ours because what they're what they're claiming is that a certain percentage of their radio play must be in their own language because they're French so in other words a radio station can't come on and just play American music all day but it has the same effect but I understand what you're saying and is it so that's what I mean so but in Ireland you know we as I said we punch well above our weight and we are we create really global you know world beating radio records too as well as all the other stuff that we do and it just seems to be a massive loss as to how to get these bands through get them funded get them out there and have a robust you know and indigenous industry here like you say Greg that gets them played that gets them paid and enables them to keep doing what they're doing well we can kind of get an insight I think into this sort of attitude of the state in relation to this because during or post COVID or whatever it was there was a significant round of funding put out towards to support Irish music I locked down through it and all the names I expected to see there were there and then some names that you should you know you would expect to see weren't there like do you have a good recollection of that did you think you know that there was a good spread of that money that recognised that the powers that be understand the music industry well that's that's I could be here all day talking about that Greg as I kind of lived right through it for the goods of two and a half years but you know a lot of the grants that were given I presume you mean through the Arts Council and that kind of thing it tended to go to pretty much the same cohort of people and again as I said all the way through it congratulations to them and happy days and that was that's a brilliant idea and a grant that's given for example okay you want to go make a record there's whatever eight or ten grant to go and do that and then once you've done it what happens after that and then what we found anyway that the grants that were given to us in our genre were basically business expenses and that was the me basking so I mean I know lots of other contemporary artists like myself that applied for Arts Council grants and and didn't get them now again for whatever reason that is that's that's up to the Arts Council how they give away their money that's their right to do that but it would be it would be disingenuous to think that the Arts Council supports every genre of music but the reason why I asked the question is or should they be able to the reason I asked that question is because that scheme and where the money went does give us an insight into where we're at maybe where we need to go it's not a criticism necessarily if the Arts Council and every day is a learning day and I presume the role of Curell Aaron will be to sort of maybe try and change those attitudes and and what have you I'm not saying there was any malice in it but it just is an indication of maybe where we're at and where we need to be and I think it's really important too for bands to I'm not sure how we you know how many top quality artists we could sustain in Ireland you know part of success is going to be for them to spread their wings but we as a nation have to be given them every opportunity to do so by backing them here. Well you've hit it in the nutshell right there so you nurture the stuff at home as far as you can get it and you know and have you know processes in place where but they can monetize their their music. Streaming is a massive issue it's a massive issue and if and if you know it's going to be a case of well we have to change it on a European level well then we have to be you know have enough teeth to go and do that because it's not correct the way it is and anybody will tell you that it's not it doesn't work right so if a band were able to sustain at least making another album and playing a few gigs in Ireland get them to that level you're absolutely right now they should be able to be exported abroad and have the resources and to know how from a body such as us to do that. Yeah because the truth is a lot of people might see the voice or the X factor or whatever as the only way to platform from point A to point Z because the rest of the alphabet really doesn't it doesn't exist well but we have to get behind them we have to support them. So how your membership right are you asking musicians all different types of musicians those in the industry I mean listen as engineers there's sound production people all too that you want to see be able to make a living from this as well and they do so I suppose if that album is being made but who is going to make up Kjol Ayrann who's listening that you want to go out and check out what you're doing. Okay well there's two tiers to that basically we're we've reached out to all the major players i.e. you know the big players in the industry to come on board and and help us steer this thing correctly. And we're very confident that we're going to get some positive results from them because that's where we need to start. Membership at the moment we're only asking people to register their support so they can go to Kjol Ayrann.ie and they can register there it doesn't cost anything but it's just register your support because the more numbers we have the you know the easier our job is going to be and that can be an engineer it can be a pub owner promoter publisher musician any kind of musician just anybody that wants to come and register to support for the for the time being and then as as the organization progresses and develops a larger role would be played by by the registrants as it were. And finally I don't want to be negative and maybe I'll try and be positive out of this question you know there's some people particularly around our part of the world here in the northwest that have reputations for bringing on new talent for giving them a platform for seeing that there needs to be another generation coming through and use their stage to give them their opportunity. But broadly speaking do you need the big guys to buy into this as well to maybe prepare prepare to share a little bit of their cake or limelight. Do you know what I mean if you could get top to bottom involvement I think that gives it credibility if one of those top artists goes you know what I agree with what they're saying there. I'm not saying they're not buying in but I think it's critical that they do. I totally agree I totally agree and as I say I'm not talking you know the big players as in musicians also I mean you know collection agencies record labels promoters you're exactly right so we're starting at the top and at the bottom. So at the bottom we're asking people to register to support come on board we'll keep them informed of what's going on and and equally at the top we are approaching them because they must be part of it because as you know you know yourself Greg it's not going to succeed unless we have at least the blessing of of all involved. Yeah and and and you know we are lucky enough to have amazing talent of all ages up here but I think particularly for the young ones in this context and they come in here Dave and they perform live and I swear if if if someone got behind the track that had influence guaranteed number one nationally do you know what I mean I'm not being parochial on this I mean there's some absolutely barriers that come here that are better than anything that else that's out there and they they're plugging away they get it upon the streaming sites and they've got it on YouTube and it goes maybe semi viral and stuff but if they just had a push from someone with influence it would open so many doors for them because the talent the songwriting the composition is there it's just they need that step. Well well nobody better than you Greg to there there you go anecdotally there that's your experience you you deal with this every day you see people coming that are brilliant and they just what what what can be done for them there's no there's no access to funding there's no so you say if they went semi viral with with something let's say on streaming or YouTube and and the streaming rate was correct right well then they're thinking okay and now I have a bit of a budget you know here's what you do with that and even people with influence as you say I mean that's exactly what it needs to have it just needs to needs to give people exactly like the people you're talking about there a fight an equal and fighting chance which I believe which I believe they do like you just said they're even better you know these it's not like a fighting chance this is not a handout this is a leg up for people who are absolutely brilliant they just need to shut window because the product is there yeah all right okay Dave where do people go to check out more to sign in the first instance to say right okay there's something here I think we could do something as a collective here as you say it's not a union it's it's a collective of like mind collection of like minded individuals where where do people go it's it's www.killaren.ie and you can just did the register register now by is on the home page all right good luck to you well done thanks very much for having me on Gregor appreciate it thank you thank you 08 660 25,000 what saps and texts to that number or call an 07491 25,000 watch the show live now on youtube facebook and at highlandradio.com the 9 ton in show with bluebird care providing home care services for all ages and done a call visit bluebirdcare.ie and bring care home if you're having trouble paying your energy bills keep listening but more importantly keep talking because your energy supplier won't disconnect you as long as you engage with them if you're facing difficulty 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you for joining us we i mean we should know we suppose us humans are incredibly incredibly complex aren't we we are all different we we certain things make us happy other things make us angry some of us can control our tempers some of us may snap only once in our lifetime uh others are finding it difficult to control our our temperature temper yet we don't really i think a lot of us maybe even dog owners don't really look at dogs and think well you know what maybe they're like humans maybe you know they have behavioral changes yeah you're spot on and you know it's almost as though there's zero tolerance for dogs to feel any sort of emotion other than to be the perfect family pet um and obviously of course they are animals they are individuals they are living beings they have their own likes and dislikes they have their own personalities and um and as they are living closer and closer to us as their dogs are living in their homes sleeping in our beds um what we're forgetting about is the fact that they are dogs and when i say they are dogs that doesn't mean there's some crazy wild psychotic animal it means that they do have their own needs and wants um to carry out normal dog behaviors and critically important they have their own language and when we're looking at dogs and dog behavior and behavior problems quite often a lot of the issues are derived simply from a lack of communication between dog and human in the same way they're speaking spending time with somebody speaks a different language it is going to be a barrier so with a lot of i guess progressive um owner education and general population education fundamental to that is helping people understand dogs understand that yes they do have good days and bad days and understand how they're communicating yeah and have different patient levels that patients levels and all that kind of stuff and as well to um sorry to keep making the analogy with humans but you know there's parents listening out there that had a child best in the world not a bother with them new baby comes into the house all of a sudden that child feels threatened their personality changes you know they might nip the child when you're not looking who's to say again you know i don't think maybe sometimes people might consider you could expect the same behavior from a dog they are as the other are being they think you know we presume that oh they're very good natured i'm only given one example that could trigger some change of behavior that someone might expect and could have really bad consequences yeah and and and and even if you mentioned you know toddler is getting upset when a new baby comes into the house and potentially biting i mean i once randomly met a girl um at a social age and she came up to me and showed me she had a little scar on her finger from when i bit her as a child so i mean i didn't get put down or sent off to the dog found but um but very much so when changes happen in the home it will impact the dog and and when when i meet so many expectant parents thinking that oh the dog is going to love my baby because he loves us two dogs a newborn baby is extremely like um a prey item so it smells like perhaps a rabbit or a little feral animal it looks like it it sounds like it and failing to prepare it's preparing to fail when it comes to newborn babies and bring a dog home i'm sorry nancy we'll get on to that too but i just want to add something else on to that and you can correct me if i'm wrong too we presume that it looks at it as simply a little version of us i mean we don't know what a dog looks like looks as a baby as exactly now now where life will be utopia would be if all young puppies were socialized around newborn babies and young babies and then if during that poppy period where true socialization is occurring if they built relationships and so far as new had to interact with little babies and and children at that age then yes as adult dogs they would continue to know that that is kind of one of those things that i live with that's not a toy that's not a wild animal however when you've an adult dog and you bring home the baby initially if you've not prepped it is a strange scary and potentially play item as well so what i've made is a free online course called is your dog expecting your baby and it's free of charge on credencecollege.ie but it's it's filled with every single thing you need to do probably from around the second trimester to start getting your dog prepped and what it is is it's clearing up the misunderstandings it's dispelling the myths that are out there and it's um it's it's my attempt to stop people from getting the wrong information and for ever seeing people bringing newborn babies home and putting the car seat on the floor or the dogs jumping up in the couch beside the baby or the dog's face is right in top of the newborn baby and for all i can picture is that that baby will give out a squeal and the dog will do exactly what it would do to squeaky toy and that does happen we've had as we know we've had our own fatality here in Ireland of the newborn baby in 2021 um we've had two fatalities of little newborn babies in the UK um one was killed by Jack Russell one killed by a little patterdale terrier so so newborn babies regardless of the size of the dog newborn babies are very much at risk if you don't do your prep work not to mention as well dogs eat poo lick poo lick the poo off themselves and that's very dangerous to young people particularly as well because there can be some microbes or whatever the phraseology within that as well so even that in and of itself would make me cautious about close proximity maybe you're overly cautious but yeah and and even on the topic of poo it's the smell of um baby poo the smell of newborn nappies really stimulates dogs i know even my own dog when my sister had her baby my dog ended up getting into the bin and destroying two big old dirty nappies which are horrendous at the time but that's where we'll often see the dogs become almost quite predatory when you when i watch videos online of dogs sticking their noses into like by the baby's bum and pushing around there that's the dog almost like you know pushing a hedgehog on the road and trying to get him moving so so all these signs that people are missing the thing is like what i would love to see is mandatory tests and assessments before you get a dog license and it's not because i'm saying that you know the people of Ireland are clueless when it comes to the dogs but what i am saying is i've spent the last 15 years studying dogs and dog behavior 15 years ago what i thought to be true about dogs is actually incorrect and a lot of my understandings were based on assumptions there was no data behind it and now i know better and all i want to do is help people know better when it comes to understanding their dogs and the dog's behavior and when there's potential bite risks just to keep everybody safe you know that's my agenda i mean you know it's been characterized as sort of like a theory test but look at you know because of cars are dangerous right but cars are fantastic as well but they cause we could cause death and serious injury we have testing to ensure that we are capable and and and what have you to operate them are you suggesting something similar before you get to purchase a dog a theory test to ensure that this great thing because this is about protecting the animals as well by the way it's not the big bad wolf either it's to make sure people understand their pets and that they have the best chance as well would you go as far as a theory type test before you can own a dog that is exactly what i'm calling for because like you said getting behind the wheels of a car regardless of the size of the car you can do a lot of damage owning a dog regardless of the size regardless of the breed and owning a dog and okay the phone line's dropped there it will come back though scheme it's not it doesn't have to be expensive it can be included in the licensing fee it can be run through the current dog driving theory test as well and it will cover all of the information that i'm regularly teaching to dog owners and the dog owners walk out the door saying wow i never knew that now i understand my dog so much better and that that knowledge changes completely how you work with your dog and with that knowledge by default you're just going to understand your dog better you're going to spot signs of warning signs a lot quicker and your dog will be much happier the owners will be much happier and if you go in and you do your theory test and you knew all that information already then happy days you know so if you think you know all you know about dogs and that you are a dog expert then you know put your money where your mouth is sit down and get your pens out and do the exam it wouldn't be something that would be said to trick people it's set out to educate all about education and science-based education because between the tiktok and the instagrams and the the unqualified quote-unquote dog trainers that are popping up everywhere there's a lot of bad information is coming back into the dog owning population that was gone over the last 10 15 years we were getting really good at making sure that people are using you know positive reinforcement based training science-based training understanding the dog's body language and so on but now because there's such a growing number of dogs there's a there's a big demand for any to any content to do with dogs and access to dog trainers and unfortunately there are a lot of people jumping into the industry without doing the courses and without gaining the experience and that are giving a bad and dangerous advice so and that's why it's over the state run educational body ideally through that theory test option the government the irish government is protecting the citizens by providing them with the right information and that would then dispel all the incorrect myths that are right there and finally an answer can i suggest dog lovers embrace this because you know i think it's sometimes you could it's like someone criticizing your children people can have this instant reaction whereby you get but the way this country is going at the moment between people complaining about dogs on beaches or walkways there's a big it's people are almost embarrassed to go out with their dog now obviously the farming community very angry with the amount of dog of sheep kills and what have you sheep worrying and then we have these really high profile very emotive and rightly so cases where people are being very seriously injured and uh like owning a dog i i don't i i actually this is probably a bit crazy but i think if dog owners don't start embracing initiatives like this owning a dog could become very toxic very soon i think i think that's the direction of traffic in this country and i think it's up to dog owners maybe to say right okay maybe we'll meet you halfway um because as i say particularly from contacts to program for this program and others do you know some people are actually afraid to go to a beach that other people might be on even when they have a dog in a lead because public attitude amongst non dog owners it's getting really hard line yeah you know what and that's such a good point that i hadn't thought of and hasn't been written to me before as well but your spot on your absolutely spot on and dog owners should be saying how can we prove that we are being responsible and my big my big concern and one thing that really gets my goat is the fact that there are so many people who are afraid of dogs and genuinely and for good reason afraid of dogs and then they have to deal with every time they go out to the park there's dogs there every time they go to the beach there's dogs there and that's not fair on them so so so like you said having dog owners step up and saying we all want to be responsible give us the right information and we'll follow it is is rightly so what they should be proud to want to do it you know like i teach dog behavior and i teach people to become dog trainers and dog behaviors and they're spending thousands to come and learn how to care for dogs correctly and how to train dogs so this theory test would be free access to really important information so more more than ever now it should definitely be embraced so that we can progress we can go forward on the right path because if we don't do something now mark my words these fatalities are going to start going boom boom boom boom boom when i i did research into dog bites in ireland back in 2015 by the time the at the time we had no recorded fatalities in ireland in 2015 by the time and when i was publishing publicizing the research i kept saying to all the media outlets look a fatality is coming a fatality is coming by the time the paper was published we had our first fatality in 2017 and since then we've had another one 2018 2021 and it's going to start becoming almost an annual event so so we need to do something now and as a mum as a mum primarily that's why i'm so passionate about bite prevention it's not about saving the dogs it's not about you know i'm not out here you know waving a flag for pit bulls i'm saying that banning and restricting breed isn't effective isn't fair and isn't scientific education is the way forward to minimize that and i'll tell you while people with their other breed of dogs are looking at these in inverted commas dangerous dogs it'll be your dog classes that very soon unless something changes here because society can drastically change and that's been proven nancy creedon thank you for your time this morning brilliant thanks so much great bye bye the nine till nine show brought to you by bluebird care providing nurse led home care services in dunny gall call bluebird care 91 29562 and bring care home house to home bridge end dunny gall our 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for joining us on the program today good morning greg how are you good good good now um your group was amongst those who appeared before the justice committee at the end of last month and uh presumably having your input into the sale of alcohol bill which greatly liberalizes really i suppose the on uh on licensed sale of alcohol um how will you receive what points did you want to get across uh in this committee when i say you i mean not as an individual but sort of as a collective um i suppose it's the only national organization working with communities across ireland it was really important for us to bring the concerns of communities um to the discussion on the sale of alcohol bill and i suppose it's really important to understand that this bill has been brought forward by the Department of Justice um and that there are very particular conditions in relation to how we can sell alcohol because it's a it's a restricted substance for a reason because of its you know it's linked to harm it's risk of addiction it's you know it can be something that people become dependent on and it's responsible for huge amounts of social and family-based times in this country um so for us it was really important to look at well what do people think about this what do ordinary people you know across the country think about this and we commissioned a red sea pole um and what we found really was that 74 percent of people in this country um you know really strongly felt that um this is a huge insignificant piece of legislation it is going to have big implications for the social cultural life of ireland and that there needs to be more time given to consulting with the public letting you know what the implications of this are and having conversations like this in the media and elsewhere and pausing what the department are doing there's a lot of fear that the Department of Justice are rushing this through um and when we came out of the uh just one question on that paula because this kind of came out of the blue really did it i mean like i wasn't hearing publicans and licensees screaming from every street corner that we need to stay open till this time and we need to liberalize the laws in relation to this and we need to make it easier to get a booze license you know like yeah yeah it just came like a train i think that's a really important point this has been sold you know by the Department of Justice is something that was going to revitalize the night time economy across ireland there is concern that we've seen 20 percent of all pubs in this country have closed there is concern that you know 75 percent of night clubs in this country has closed but we fundamentally do not believe that this act in the form that it's in at the moment is going to deliver what government set out to do and one of the things that government set out to do clearly claimed their objective was to protect young people from alcohol harm they're not going to achieve that with this law in the way it's configured but vendors are actually quite concerned about some of the proposals in the legislation as well and we'll get to that but what i find remarkable about this is that these pubs closed right their licenses have been bought up by off licenses so we're actually having more outlets where people can drink at home so rather than address that sort of say right okay people are boozing at home now we're going to make more licenses now so people don't booze at home they boo you know what i mean so we just park that and say right we've got off licenses everywhere that's where all the pub licenses went i'm not sure how many people actually realize that out there and now what we're going to do is liberalize the licensing law so people can serve more drink in more places onsite for longer periods of time which does absolutely nothing to address a problem with how people are drinking in this country no and i think you know a couple of things 65% of all of the alcohol drank in this country is now purchased in off licenses for home consumption um and really the department just has set about this piece of legislation very quickly and said it was there to solve that problem however they're opening off licenses an hour earlier they're liberalizing the regime and they're getting rid of the extinguishment requirement but anyone who lives in rural Ireland would know that there were a certain number of licenses in the country and that you could only you know buy one when one was closing um but getting rid of the extinguishment requirement um is something the trade is very concerned about because for example you may have a smaller rural village in Dulleygaw that has two pubs currently they don't want to stay open to the extended hours of two o'clock and a witherspoons can now open up on the corner and could have them closed down within six months now that is an argument that's been made by some of the smaller pubs and vendors across this country and i think that needs to be heard but for us as an organization that is on the front in terms of seeing and working with and supporting families that are impacted by alcohol harm we're very concerned about the implications that there are contained in this bill for children for children's rights and for the exposure of children to alcohol and alcohol harm so for example there's been no consideration given to closing the loophole that has allowed um you know the large teenage discos to operate without having child protection statements um there has been no consideration given to the fact that they've removed the 15 year old age bracket at which you can stay at a private functional licensed premises so you now could have a baby or a two three year old child staying at a private function where alcohol has been sold until five o'clock in the morning yeah and in the last couple of minutes we have to we have this situation where things like that are changing here and yet over in Canada there's new guidelines out whereby and they would prefer to say zero drinks but there are limit two drinks per week that is the advice there so can you imagine a Canadian over there listening to that flying into Ireland and then they see what we're doing in a completely different direction we've done nothing about labeling nothing about pointing out the carcinogenic problems you know the increase in breast cancer and all different types of cancers we're going ignoring that and going in the i'm not i'm no prude i like a drink don't get me around put my cards on the table there but you know there's something going on here no who's who's who are the who are the department of justice working on behalf of really that's what i think that's a really important question there was a night and the economy task was set up by government um there are concerns about you know having a vibrant night and economy in Ireland there were arguments made the other day by also members of the committee why aren't we looking at developing nightlife in this country that's friendly for families why aren't we opening up p-asier spaces and exhibitions make it easy to open a cinema give them preferential treatment for planning yeah why why aren't we doing these things i know teenagers that want to do something else but there's nothing to do but booze yeah so on the night time economy task force just to take you back in terms of the story and how quickly this is in a minute paul and i wanted to interrupt sorry no you're okay it's just there were no health representatives there were no health representatives involved in that there was no hse no department of health no health advocates no alcohol charities no people working with or representing families impacted by alcohol harm and then the minister for justice brought this very quickly before the um to the cabinet to get approval got approval the minister for health failed to name the fact that his own department to provide it in with a memo that said there are serious health implications for this and this has been rushed through but what we did feel at committee the other day was that there was an acknowledgement that we need to pause and that we need to consider the evidence and that we need to have a look at this and relook at this because it's going to have huge implications for how this country behaves and for how much it's going to cost us to mop up um alcohol harm in our communities and it's a huge pressure uh on well for a lot of people die firstly but secondly a lot of people end up sick and it's it's huge resources to to try and make them better paul and lennard as always thank you very much indeed have a lovely day paul and lennard national lead community action on alcohol alcohol forum island um that's where we have to leave it on the program today thank you very much for listening and


रेनेटी भाई, हमने तीसरा और चोथागोल बनी देखा टीवी रों था, हम तो वो इतने नालाएग है. लाज़ गोल, अदिन्सी याज़. याज़ ग़ी तो रही तो जीखसन याज़ेछ ता जीखसन सहें, सर मेरे को नहीं लगता था उस लडत्के मितनो अफैंसिव गेम है, आज़ क्या अईच्प्रेस की आउ, ता ता ता ता ता ता नेखल के खेल रहें. after winning we should be doing what we are doing, controlling right? So this is what I felt. Of course yes, jixon one pass, I think few passes right. but then I want. I am not looking about Hong Kong. I am thinking about next year, people may say that why don't we celebrate now. People will think that why we are not celebrating now. There is such a big win. But think about think about the next few coming months, the matches we are going to play. 3-0-4-0 but we have to dominate the game with all this kind of team we have to dominate and I want to see and we are we are capable of we have enough good players in this kind of game against Hong Kong and all to capable of doing things better I feel and then we should but yes when we choose the opponent we need to choose both lower rank and upper rank so we need to choose both so that we get both the type of teams and we get better yes Ishwak I think you wanted to come in 2-3-3 it was like which actually Renédy by what he was saying so I touched it earlier already we could have considered we need to focus on the pending also which is very important as I told you it's not about how you go forward it's about how you save the goal also as in previous match also Gurpreet but that's why players are there Gurpreet made a fantastic save and that gave us edge and we beat Afghanistan when it was nil nil so I think there is a room to improve as Renédy was we have the talent we showed in between and you know like couple of times there were great touches they were not scared to do that and that is what we need to do quite often what Renédy by was meant like it can't be like you do for a one five minutes and then ten minutes you are nowhere you know like that consistency has to be there okay you know like we should be able to even after one zero to play similar kind of game like to drop deep and where Renédy by was mentioning we could have scored more goals against us also so I think that is where we need to improve and how that will improve how we will prepare for the Asia Cup I think you have to play you know like little bit stronger team maybe not that stronger team also but where you can you have a like chance also make your style the counter your style because now you have guys who can back it up yeah and one like I don't say play really big team you may you may choose one big team but maybe three four matches with like teams like Tajikistan you know like Central Asians who are little bit tougher and you could see where you stand and then but they are not they are not tough to beat also but they are not like really good better than us also so I think you have to as Renédy by was mentioning you have to mix up so if they get those matches and definitely if there will be what Jaidith by was telling if coach gets a good camp you know who you know most important is give them an excuse free atmosphere you know like especially the coaching staff guys you want 30 days camp you want 34 days camp here is the camp give them some good matches also and that is how you create excuse free environment and there is you know like we don't expect that they will go and you know like win beat some top teams you know Isha cup is very very very nice and but at least to show decent performance there after you give them you know like basic facilities which are matches and a good camp Richard how do you prepare bro is this something you look at as well that you know my teams level is say here so in preparation for a big tournament of course I'm going to challenge them so you play teams that are here but then you also say I need someone below me so that my boys get some confidence you know they find that groove that they have with themselves and that confidence also helps them take them through I think one main point with what Renédy has said and also what Ani had said in the previous game because we are watching on TV match view is very different Ani said he was very unhappy for a lot of the phases of the game a lot of mistakes which are team shape and all of that I don't really catch it because at any given point in time telecast view we show 4-5 players I mean they keep zooming in and things so I think a lot of what Renédy has also said today it's with the benefit of staying in the stands and seeing all 22 players I mean playing against each other so whatever concerns are I mean even those chances it was not like they were taking shots from far away I mean all the final passes came from near the box inside the box so I mean the way Hong Kong made the inroads into us is exactly how teams like Qatar and the higher-ranked Asian teams will sort of unfold AFC under 23 is going on just go watch how I mean these middle teams we are talking about Kyrgyzstan we are talking about Uzbekistan, the central Asian teams Iran, Iraq and all of them I mean then you see that at under 23 level the football is going on parallelly you will see a completely different standard of football unfolding right now in the AFC U23s at under 23 level we are going to have a big big task ahead of us India's ranking is also I think at Red somebody's street the worst scenarios will be in the same group as Japan, Iraq and Syria and then us so it will be a big thing to draw from this group because of the rankings right now so whatever we have to do before the draws take place we need to take into account all the FIFA dates that will come up need to look at teams that are higher-ranked but low quality all of this is going on atleast we get into pot 3 we are in pot 4 so it's going to be quite a task for us to maybe deal with the sort of fixed list we will have then because this time Thailand, UAE and Bahrain are not going to be available when we played in 2019 our ranking is quite good I think you are still in the top 100 they worked on it they worked on it but this time we might be in a very contrasting sort of situation also that the preparation and the teams at the end of what we are going to play up against we need to pull off another Qatar type of victory where it's a clear underdog and clear favorite and then that's causing an upset that will be an achievement in itself based on where we find ourselves at the time of the draw we need to look at that first through the FIFA dates picking out good opposition and after that most of these guys Anant and Caldera were talking Chhetri being the oldest but after he left the oldest the pitch was 26 years old so it's called Jhingan Jhingan Jhingan the rest were all between 26 and 28 22 years old their development in the game the league has to get longer now it needs to get up to 30 plus matches we need to script the entire league around the FIFA dates 10 days will be good very valid more frequent camps and having our opponent set out for the next one year 12 months plan lower ranked teams Asia mismatch will be great for us to play Afghanistan again as often as we can provide it the national team has the resources to do that go and play Jordan again let's put ourselves out there this is the game with Zid if we play with Zid we will get a lot more belief in terms of whatever happens it's not about the AFC Asian Cup it's a lot next 4-6 years are equally crucial in terms of where we find as a world cup it's very far away let's not start dreaming about that but at least can we carry forward the same tempo the same play and like completely like the vanity saying where did you watch the offensive game on TV it tends to look good but it wasn't as great as it was if you have to break it down in the stadium sometimes it's difficult to believe it's the same game that you watched but I am trying to say from what we've seen before this of the same team I saw a slow-paced game I saw a very lethargic kind of movement I saw only 3-4 players going today I saw 6-7 players going whenever there were moments when I saw them moving with a lot of momentum that's when it's a different aspect sorry Amad Riaz someone just mentioned all the speakers are expecting that we should play at European level we are the first one the hotel can spend this much money but we are the first one to say but we say that the team that is less we should dominate we should play definitely again as they are a kind of European football ्खृर्ड़, ्प्वादी, ्जबाज् स्बाखृर, ्दीवेखुर्ध़, ्फोध्टार। लिए भी लिए ज़वाच्टार लोगनिया, ्बेख धीम् क्या फोचा लेग लिए ज़ागाथ सद्टार। फी मिसे र किना कझक, । वह कि उआईम। वह प्नुडर्दियर, लगकों बबत नीसी आप आप वल से हज़ासे. वेरने आप वह प्नुडर्दियर तुछःता है, वह लगकों प्नुडऱ्ा, ने तुछ़ामा कूपनोगे वह था, कोलकों क्रपित यह तूगसा ळैदाना में करतनावे ली है। तेंवो करके लेफ्ट नुर्ट सावत यीस्ट वैसी जाएंगे वो तो उसके उसके पाटा जाएंगे जाएंगे तो उसके पुरा बिंजे आप लोग, पुरा बिंजे आप वो देडिकेशन चल रहे है भाई मापे कल कते में अनी भाई आप मुझे ये बताओ जुंगे बात ये चल रही है हम तीवी बे बेट के देखे रहे हैं यूँ हैद लक्जरी यो वाच्चेंगे तुम देडियम वो यूँ असो लेफ्ट प्रस्टेट किन पानल यूँ हैद और और और पानल अध्या कुल में ये लोग हमारा शोः देगोडें मेरा अदाजा यह एक अस अजार में से, नासो निन यानवे लगके अस नासो निन्यान लगके ने यह दिस पचास लगकोले बोल देडिया है मैं का विझट है तोगो, यो अजा बर वाच्चट है तर over here in this week, is this the week that gives me impetus to really move on to another level? तुम आप मैंग़ामी होगाате के पीज़। आपका अ़ा चीवटी बाग़ा क्या तुम सब्च्य होगाता अग़ा कह। derived better but this 3 Clone will give and confidence to the players to the coaches to the staff to the fans so let's let's take from here. So, now I think that's a the biggest thing. Okay. Yes we can have played better we can have score more we could we we could have chcia better but the win three which they are given. All hopes about how happy we are maybe some people are thinking that we are not happy we are जी दिब्धाँ जादना कैजे, ये कि बग़ा ज़ादिब छैहाँ जेए भी अगर पुदार केजे. क्यम आप तुए वीजिए तुछ आप आप चीरीग केजे. अज़्ाडिय, तो छिवाडिया की लगाडियानधान�ी तुत्रेटगी है, आप विर्ख़ ची जाग की फरी ळीज जाडिया की सिरीखाडिया, और लगाडिया की लगाडिया की एकची तुज शाडिया अज्जकाडिया... आपाम अऔर देललते नहीं, और प्रना हम एक रचनी निए तो रहा मुलते है, वो थी आखा होगे वो वो वो और वेखा सहता है. देलल有一सी रे� Dal, देल रहा देली थी मिलागे मिलाना. पटड़ो दवागे था किचार गोल के लेग.  तो गूवा में हुधा ता दिस रिलायन्स के सात भाहां से अपको एंगरटीं साँईज मिल रहें की हापे तोब स्ट्टीकर्स बनेंगे अगर अगर नको चान्स मिल कि आईलीग में if you don't sign foreigners, you are going to save upwards of let's say anywhere between 50 lakhs to a crore if there are 4 foreigners in iLeague when you will get promotion, when you will move ahead then it makes all the more sense to save that money up let's just say I am trying to open up the promotion league promotion relegation will open up so if you save money every year once you make the jump up then you spend all that money over there or you use that money into infrastructure I think this debate came 10-15 years ago that if you spend 50 lakhs in foreigners every year you can use that money and invest it in infrastructure that is invest in your grounds, get a proper clubhouse going have a proper club culture, meals all of that because what Ishvaka said about facilities and the way players are taken care of now that is unprecedented whatever benefit we are seeing, the intensity we are playing the players are getting educated on their diet the players understand how to take care of themselves off season maybe the coaches are in touch I mean I am sure Ishvaka is in touch with a lot of the guys that they are following or not they get off season plans, pre pre season plans who are doing gym exercises, what are they eating, what are they drinking all of these things are being monitored to such an extent it is benefitting all of them if we see all of this if we want to keep foreigners or not it cannot be a simple policy because they are going to develop Indian players they should be a trigger for it look at the under 23 league, look at the under 18 league there is a lot of quality and talent I mean through the ranks we need to give them a chance and then that is what exactly the Aarhus is there for Sudheva foreigners nahi khilata Kenkre played without foreigners last year so yeh sab se bhi dekh re thay ki it does not really it is not as easy as that jinkko foreigners nahi lana all of them nahi lange but you need to have a I mean I don't agree with the idea anyway I mean I think in any case some of the clubs the size etc of them and the level of football does not necessarily need to go to the extent where it becomes the complete feeder or developmentally in any case some of those discussions have to be had now that the new draft constitution for the AFF clearly says that the I-League is the number one league in the country that will come up now in meetings and in the court etc all that will happen so in any case in the country as big as India you need to have atleast two really strong tears of competitive tears where there can be some movement up and down between clubs as well as between players whether it is Indian players, foreign players Asian players however it might be so that needs to happen perhaps some of these things can be looked at in terms of organizing a proper under-23 reserve system etc etc those leagues go on parallel and those leagues being perhaps without foreigners unless the foreigners also happen to be in your academy or something of that sort but yeah longer conversations atleast good thing is that I think for me the good thing was that it demonstrates some kind of thought at a level beyond just what the national team is doing Ashwak has to leave Ashwak has to leave Ashwak sorry brother it is a bit late because today we went a bit in a josh josh Ashwak thank you so much sir for joining us on the show and as always much love to you everyone who takes our time and joins us on the show so sir we will meet again soon we will meet again thank you guys thank you brother bye Richard Richard you have to bounce brother you are good I am fine once you will break into your pressing then I will leave as well I mean your last minute charts which I listen to which I enjoy so I will leave before that I actually wanted to ask sir sir because he has hit a lot of marks in press conference and he might genuinely feel for them he might genuinely believe in these things but I am saying he has chosen the right time to do it because right now the ball is in his court certainly at a time when you cannot take him Mr. Steemats leave let's get a new guy you need him now for whatever has happened I don't know really about it whether you can't when England won the second world war Churchill was given the exit was shown the exit so it didn't really matter actually so I don't know about that only thing yeah Steemats Steemats chose the right time to strike because he is on the he is on the upper hand that means all is not hunky rosy in behind closed all is not hunky rosy yeah but he should also be told quite one thing that he is not really doing a great favour to India by being here he is getting he is not really doing a great favour to India he is a good coach that's why he has been brought and if he has so many complaints because when he came he was rattling out the names of the players also so I am sure he knew about the system also at that point it's not that one fine morning one week ago he suddenly discovered the system it's not that see what he is talking about he is absolutely right these changes are needed but he should also know that these changes cannot be done overnight today India has beaten three lower ranked team 171, 147 and 115 that means from tomorrow onwards the entire system will be changed that's not possible that's not practical he should understand that so again that's why I am feeling a bit upset about it and that's why I say he should be quietly told that he is not doing a great favour to us why he is becoming India's coach he has been no no if he has said so that there are clubs available and so many things are available well welcome sir for India 26,000 dollars is quite a big money for Indian football that's all I can say I think you can say that's all sir point what else did you say this was the big thing did he say anything about the game about the young boys he said it in today he wants to talk about individual players he wants to talk about the team obviously questions were asked Anwar had a great game and for a while and then he got back into the fold allowed to play once again the heart problem whatever it was but he didn't although that said he did mention many players he did say that he was sorry to not have Narendra around who is a good partner for Anwar what else now not much else about the individual players or the game as such the mood of satisfaction with the job that was done he repeatedly said today that we need to be modest we need to be humble and all of those things both the media as well as the media needs to kind of give these players more place in their columns more column inches but at the same time he said I am here to make sure that their feet stay on the ground and all that doesn't get to their heads and they start flying around and yeah that's essentially the total some total of it Richard is there you suppose there is more how do I put it there is more to this team he did also say that no one has the right to take it easy or take their place for granted if you don't fight and if you don't close down and if you are not aggressive then if you don't chase then you won't there are the guys Richard how do I put it you suppose there is more in terms of tactically when you look at steam edge now when you come into the Indian setup because of the way our system is a certain responsibility of development but generally should not be there for an international coach your job should be to get your players together choose the right players, tactically decide what works you going and you move ahead but here that development angle comes in which is why you have the longer camps and number of days spent with the team beyond that you suppose there is more to him tactically you suppose there is that side to him which says that I cannot play this kind of football versus a higher ranked team so how do I get a result you suppose there is that side to him I think one on the development side lot of international coaches especially coming to countries like ours they keep that at the back of their mind because many times you speak to jaydeep sir as long as novi was around they would keep saying that after nosco debut concertinosco's debut so you have these bragging rights eventually if the player gets exposed to international level under you the first coach that sort of entrusted them to make that step up so he says coaches also it's not that they keep it in mind but it's always a good thing to sort of back up young players which he is doing right now so that pressure will be on him because right now chetri might be the last of the previous coaches let's say first on the team sheet list him sandhu and jingan to an extent so apart from intino I mean just the fact that whatever 11 I made I gave it to kotal and risco I was conveniently ignoring that conveniently no no no it's great to get proven wrong and if you're talking about style of play you look at his first press conference that he had done and then slowly it kept progressing I think when he played against Tajikistan and then there was amongst the poorer games that we had in terms of this whole possession style of play because Tajikistan didn't need a ball and then we just kept keeping it between defensive midfield and centre back they were keeping it there and people were saying that they are backing out from there but if the other team you space to build out obviously you will do that so I mean it's not that it's been a contradiction on his part that he's not really held up to what he said Katar ke saath hoga nahi against top 10 Asian teams you're not going to play that style of football those guys are way too quick they have a lot more cohesion the presses are a lot more organized and once they get the ball back they will make you work really really hard for it so fitness bhi answer nahi aabi yaha pe where he takes a team in terms of style of play fitness ek zada kuch honi nahi wala hai we are working with adults who are already functioning at the peak of their ability we are not going to conjure some advanced playing style out of nowhere I think the only tactical adaptation might come in the players are not there at the camp right now what is it that Puyya can do once he comes into the squad in does he bring in something new chante ka Naam hai tha kisi naa then Rahim Ali coming in if Jhetri is not available for whatever reason बहुत रीवाँने ख़ेदी की लेगenting देगाँ और वहने लेग ख़ुठ कोई इलग वद पादग, और वो पीने उताे थी। आप आपना आप यान जब लाजते हो नहीं को than na aap na ap na aap gyan jab alate ho nahi. आपना पुट बढ़ेजी मारी यापे. पर टाईम होगे शो को कडवन करने कान. धी अजा आपारके बी बीघु आप आपर की वो कुई करूा के अछ़ा कर हैँ,् वेसे वेसा भी जीई कर राडil-बाच के मिजी की थी वो जीगा की बीबाच तीए,। आप प्लेर्ज असुच्छन का लिटिंग और अवोड़़ बगरा है तुमारो आपकोड़ भी वेरिंग आप दिस्वन काईन अप फाट आप मुड़ भी एंट्रिटाईन्मिंट रिपोर्टर तुगे बाई को छेट्री जी को मैने एक मैस्यज लिखा मैंने लगा बाईजा मजा आगया आपगानणस्टान के खलाब जैसे कहले, बाई स्माईल आगी ती फेस पे बाईने लपलाई मिंखे जब कल करगेँ बाई लगा


That's a bounce in the NASDAQ of about 2.3%, S&Ps 1.5 and 1.5 in the Dow Industries. Gold, gold contract down $6 trading at $17.88 an ounce, we have Silver up $0.22, $22.50 an ounce, light sweet crude up $2.67, $71.28 a barrel, that's quite a bid, notes and bonds, a 10-year note down $18, tick-straight $130.19, the 30-year off a full point plus 4 ticks at $160.27 and $Kingdollars, $Kingdollars down $60, tick-straight at $96.491, Euro 112, yen 1.14 and a half, yen 1.14.09 rather, and the British pound 1.32. We go take a look at the S&P and this is setting up to sell folks, okay, this is going to get really wild watching this whole thing shake out. Sales not here yet, we rejected lower price out here yesterday, bottom line is that you had a lighter volume, rejected lower price at the lower end of the consolidation, you're going higher, you get a monster contraction with volume, we're $48 million right now, yesterday we did $107 million, I expect the S&Ps, we're at $462, $466 is game here in the next couple days, I suspect this is going to run right into Thursday, that's how this is looking right now, NDX100, we take a look at the NDX100, you get the same setup inside the NDX, you get on with volume, you go up with lighter volume, you have wide price spread, it's a typical, basically bare bounce. So we just went from $380 to $389 and it's going to be intriguing, I suspect the swing point is gaining once again with just $400, that's how this baby is setting up. Now let's go to the bond market, I want to show you something, this is pretty cool.  Stay right there folks, come right back.