Today we launched a report with the Open Society Foundations of examples of good practice of police working in collaboration with HIV programs. In most circumstances or in many circumstances, particularly in developing countries, the police have been part of the problem. Their behaviours in targeting populations at risk of HIV have led to increased or decreased access to services to prevention and treatment and care services and increased HIV incidents. I've seen the abuses that police carry out against injecting drug users, against homeless people, against marginalised communities in lots of different countries. And there's much research. There's a large body of literature on the impact of these policing practices on the HIV epidemic and the fact that targeting injecting drug users and taking syringes, targeting sex workers and taking condoms or using condoms as evidence of prostitution under criminal acts and so on. There's plenty of literature, plenty of evidence that these police practices promote the transmission of HIV, drive people away from treatment care and prevention services and increase risk for those vulnerable communities. This is changing and we're starting to see more and more police, individual police and police agencies start to form partnerships with HIV programs and with civil society. This in turn is starting to have an impact on policy. Police are important determinants of policy because they report back what is coming from the front line, what they have to deal with. And a policy that does not take into account the knowledge and the experience and the understanding of police is not going to be successful. So increasingly around the world this is, we are bringing police into this fight for human rights, for evidence based policing practice, for humane policy, all of it aimed at increasing the rights of the populations at risk of HIV and decreasing the HIV epidemic.


Thank you very much, thank you, well thanks, thank you, thank you, thank you all very much and welcome to the White House. It's great to see so many old friends and supporters and I have to make a special mention of Jim Roberts and Dan Lundgren. As the President and Honorary Chairman of Radio America, you've allowed me to keep a hand in my old profession and my real true love, radio announcing.  I really was. I set a record for a man standing up at the plate and hitting successive foul balls. It was the ninth inning of a game between the Cubs and the Cards. It was tied up. Jurgus was at bat and I was doing a telegraphic report and all of a sudden I saw the fellow on the other side of the window type so I thought there was a play coming and he handed me the slip of paper, said the wire's gone dead. I thought ninth inning, I can't just tell him we'll play some music or something.  Then I described the two kids that got in a fight over the ball that went back a third base. I was just about beginning to run out of gas and thinking this can't go on and now they'll know I've been snowing them when he sat up and started typing again and I started another ball on the way to the plate and he handed me the slip and then I started to giggle. Jurgus popped out on the first ball pitched. Well, well anyway, I thank them and Tom Witter and Alan Risken and well how can I thank any of you enough? In the pages of human events one gets a picture of the world as it really is and of course you know I'm a faithful reader because I'm always quoting that paper. The risk of offending the secular humanists I might even say I read your paper religiously. All of you at Radio America and human events represent what I would call a truly independent press. You give a fresh perspective, a vital alternative to monolithic media interpretations and the need for a fresh perspective reminds me of a story. It's about two Muscovites who were walking down the street in Moscow and one of them said to the other, so how are things going? And the other one says, oh wonderful, wonderful things couldn't be better. Wonderful the first one exclaimed, have you read Pravda today? Well he said of course I have, how else would I know that things are wonderful? Well I'm as usual they've over-scheduled me and I don't want to talk too long but I know also that there's not going to be any possibility of greeting each one of you individually. I know that the theme of your leadership conference is the bicentennial of our constitution and I thought I might give you a sort of sneak preview of what I'm going to be saying tomorrow at the Jefferson Memorial. Later in life when Jefferson examined our constitution he found only one major flaw really an omission and it wasn't in the area of political liberties, the freedoms of speech and worship and assembly and all. Those he could be confident he'd secured for all posterity with the Bill of Rights. In Jefferson's eyes the glaring omission was not in the political but in the economic realm a failure to include an article in the Constitution that would prohibit government borrowing what we've come to call deficit financing. His concern ran deeper than his well-founded fears of profligate government from history and experience. He knew that it was in the economic realm that the oppression of government was often most keenly felt. He knew that a government with no limit on borrowing was a government with no limit on its power over the individual. That this power to borrow was like a wedge that could and we know would be driven between the individual and his God-given rights of freedom and property. When I signed the tax reform bill I said that these last decades had seen an expansion and strengthening of our civil liberties but that our economic rights had been too often neglected and even abused. Well it's time that abuse stopped and that's why tomorrow I've chosen to stand at the foot of the Jefferson Memorial and call for an economic bill of rights that will complement and strengthen Jefferson's political bill of rights. So in the coming months we'll be needing the voice of independent journalism all the more. We'll be needing the support of all of you as we make our case for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness the Jefferson Ideal, the American Ideal of limited government and a free, proud and independent people and I will be suggesting tomorrow specifics of legislation that the Congress needs to find out the people of this country want. Now as I said I know that I'm very short on time here and I know that there would be a chance of meeting each one of you independently and I just happen to think myself since you're the only press in the room. Maybe we could have just a little dialogue. I know I haven't much time left here but a few minutes of dialogue that some of you might have said to yourself at one time or the other, boy if I had a chance I'd like to ask him. And now's your chance we could have a little dialogue and actually I'm sticking pretty much with Jefferson and then getting right into our economic program. 9.45 I'm due there and I guess I go right on. It would seem from what I heard up on the hill yesterday after I made that announcement that there are a few people who think the primary qualification for a Supreme Court justice is adherence to the democratic dogma and I don't think that's so yet. I've never put it away. Thanks to C-SPAN I now and then when I get home a little early I can see some of what's going on up on the hill and there are some things that there's only one answer to them. That's veto. Oh wait one second. The commercialization has faced, well this we're very interested in. We talked to NASA about this and we've had conversations about that. The SDI thing is a completely different operation and I believe is the one answer to the ultimate total elimination of nuclear weapons in the world. Yes. Yes. Yes. We should commercialize just as we should privatize a lot of things that the government's doing today like Amtrak. This is sheer coincidence. We had a full cabinet meeting this morning and the whole meeting was on the subject of how in this next year and a half it's left. Do we pin down and make permanent the things that we've accomplished so that they will be continued into the future? That's what we're going to devote ourselves to doing. Well spread the word first of all and then again and the word to the people that Congress and I think he will agree with this that Congress do respond when they hear from the folks back home. The trouble is in so much of the press today there is such a drumbeat the other way. For example I just I can't believe it when I hear some of our opponents up on the hill stand right up there and on television and so forth say why I'm the cause of the deficit and they say he hasn't submitted a balanced budget since he's been here. Well of course not. There's no one that ever thought with the deficit the size it is that in one year you could balance the budget without doing a great deal of harm pulling the rug out from under a number of people. But Graham Rudman Hollings met what was my goal and what my plan was and that was to set a target down here where year by year you could reduce it down and you could point to that date and say there we will have reached a balanced budget ending the deficit. And in the meantime that we pass a balanced budget amendment set at such a date so that never again can we get ourselves in this situation. You have got to be the voices to counter this drumbeat of propaganda and it's on every facet the whole thing about I pick up the polls and see how the people think it's all right to whittle away at the defense spending. We wouldn't have the Soviet Union sitting at a table with us talking about arms reduction if we hadn't rebuilt our military. But they've heard that drumbeat about four hundred dollar hammers and six hundred and forty dollar toilet seats and so forth. They failed to see we're the ones that discovered those things. That's what had been going on and we've we've corrected it. It ain't going on anymore. Well yes and let me say that I'm not going down that road that has been traveled too often where just to get an agreement will sign anything as a matter of fact in my last meeting with him I managed to learn a little Russian and I launched it at him Doviye no Proviye it's a Russian proverb it means trust but verify he smiled. I am afraid to talk about it because sometimes if you if you act that way then they figure that they've got you over a barrel or something but he has the invitation it was he had promised that it would be in this country and we're still having our fingers crossed but I'm afraid to predict for fear that it may change their minds that's why. We haven't given up on that ever since we've we've been here we've had setbacks in it but still the difficulty is that outside of Egypt and now King Hussein and Jordan who are trying very sincerely to bring this about we still have not gotten the the other Arab states to agree to come along and now we're all looking at this subject of possibly an international meeting to try and bring the forces together but that has to be a goal because we know that that's where the final one can finally take place. Yes and as a matter of fact there is one thing that I that we are doing and that has not stopped and we're increasing and that is the exchange of youth. I have a feeling that if the kids of the world the young people could all get to know each other there never would be another war. And so we've got a whole big detachment of the finest looking young people Mara high schools that are on their way over there going to be in five European countries and including behind the Iron Curtain we're having some of them here and we're going to keep up as much of that as as we can. Thank you. Well I am in favor of a free press but I also want a responsible press and I think that too often that we we're not seeing that for example when I read a story about Catholic Bishop in this country down in Nicaragua and they managed to get over a thousand refugees across the border into Honduras that were fleeing Nicaragua but that on the way they were attacked by the Contras and yet he managed to get them free you know and then the story wound up saying that he was back in America at his post here and I couldn't resist. I called him and told him what I had read and asked him about it and he said well the story about me getting the thousand refugees across the Honduran border is true but we were attacked by the Sandinistas we were rescued by the Contras. I've never seen that story corrected. I went over to the State Department one day and over 750 of the Washington press were in that room with all the TV cameras grinding and they were there for three people from Nicaragua two former Sandinistas who had walked away from it and a third minister a clergyman black minister from a church down there and they all three spoke and told all of these people their experiences and why they were taking the course they were taking the minister didn't have any ears left they had arrested him just for preaching and then in jail cut both his ears off among other things and then that night I watched on the news because my only words were just a few words about thanking them and so forth for being there that's all I saw in the news was me saying a few words and not one word about these three people and they weren't on any talk shows and they weren't interviewed or anything of that kind and I just I think it yes everybody's entitled their opinion they also should know what they're talking about oh yes yes yes the Sandinistas I know I'm running out of time I'll get right there the Sandinistas have one of the most effective disinformation networks I've ever seen including a slick paper magazine published in Berkeley California that is a Sandinista propaganda piece and the thing that they can do with groups that go down their well intention like a recent church group and then came back totally on the Sandinista side well they'd been given the planned tour they hadn't been able to get out and see what's really going on it's the places of Potemkin Village and so no the Contras there's no way that we can bring about a change unless we stay with them keep going there and then I'll come here you left out another one we're very definitely we're very definitely helping the people in Afghanistan and the to a sizable extent in Mozambique there I can only tell you that we have a belief and have reason to believe very good reason we and our allies that that government is seeking to turn and to have a contact with the West and so this is what we're playing on we've had the previous president who was killed and then we've had this second president here in Washington and as I say I think that they are trying to loosen the ties they once had in the other direction and tie themselves to us and so don't ask me too many questions about what we're doing about that I will because I'm gonna have to go right out there and I am going to take one more second one second to tell you one more experience I had with Mr. Gorbachev I am collecting stories that I can establish are absolutely told by the Russian people among themselves about their country and it shows they've got a sense of humor and also they're a little cynical about things and I couldn't resist telling one of them to Gorbachev and because I was getting acquainted with him there and this was a story that they tell it's about a Russian and American and they're having an argument about freedom and the Americans that look I can walk into the Oval Office and I can pound the president's desk and I can say Mr. President I don't like the way you're running our country and a Russian said well I can do that the Americans said you can he said yes I can walk into the Kremlin pound on the general secretary's desk and say Mr. General Secretary I don't like the way President Reagan's running his country


I'm here with Yong Li at the Beijing LLVision Technology booth. Hi, Yong. Can you tell us a little bit about what I'm looking at here? It's our smart glass. The smart glass is powered by the display technology of OLED on silicon. The optical system is based on free-form delta-operator plastic. It's made of optical plastic, so it's very small and light and easy to produce. It has 21 degrees of field-of-view and the airbox is about four millimeters. This is our smart glass. It's the lightest one in the world. The weight is only 30 grams, and this is the host of our product. The host is powered by the Intel industrial computing. It's a 100-gigabyte-flows AR processing. So, this is all. Thank you. Can you tell a little bit about this? Are you commercializing this or is this a product now? It's already a product now. We sell it in China for about two months. What is the biggest differentiation you see in this? I see we divided it for professionals. The design ideas of our smart glass influence the extraordinary capabilities of RAI. So, the fit detection and some remote expert can introduce you to how to do what to do sometimes. Okay, great. Thank you for showcasing your technology. Thank you, sir.


There's a lot going on with the nerves here. To steal a joke from my editor, it's a very nerve-wracking procedure I'll be walking into. Today is the day for bad jokes. It is a pity party after all. Hello there, my beautiful, lovely internet friends. Welcome to my pity party! Look at this glorious straw. My friends made this for me. It was my birthday a few days ago, and they threw me a literal pity party for my birthday, complete with a sucks-to-be-you banner. And we all, like, wrote down our grievances against the world and burnt them. It was glorious. Not the point of this video. So as you are watching this video, I will be being wheeled into surgery for Mr. McNubbins here. This is a thing that I have put off for quite some time now, because it is not a surgery that comes without risks. And until it got to the point where I could not stand it anymore, I wasn't gonna do it. And unfortunately, that point came a couple of weeks ago when my knee got very accidentally, but very badly messed up when someone tried a dangerous move and just tore a bunch of stuff in there. One of my deepest fears has always been that anything happened to the good leg that I have. Because without that, I cannot get around. Like, I can use my prosthetic legs so sparingly right now, because of all of the pain on this side that has gotten worse month by month, that when this got busted up, I kind of reached the point of like, okay, I need to actually start addressing these problems instead of putting them off. And after consulting quite a few doctors, they all agree that this is the best option, so it is what I'm going to do. They're gonna be doing something called targeted muscle re-innovation, where they basically take the nerves, place them into muscles, so that the nerves can grow into that, which can help with nerve pain, phantom pain, things along those lines. But there's a lot going on in there, and they're gonna have to re-route, cut back, move muscle around, all kinds of stuff. And there is a guarantee that the pain will get worse for probably three to six months, and then hopefully, if it works, get better. Now, I initially knew that this surgery was an option last summer, but because of the possibility of it actually making things worse, I was like, I cannot take that risk. Now I feel like I have to because this is not at a manageable level anymore. One of the reasons I wanted to make this video, maybe in case anyone experiences something similar, is that I cannot properly put into words anymore how much my entire mind and body... ...by babies revolt at the thought of walking back into a hospital for more surgery. You don't know much about my history. I went through like 14 years of ankle surgeries as a teenager. I am a pro when it comes to going under anesthesia, being cut open and recovering for weeks. And you would think, I would think that that would make this easier. Oh, it's just another surgery. Okay, I'll be in pain for a while. Okay, I'll be super uncomfortable, life is put on hold, can't do things, can't work for a little while, all of that. But okay, I've done it before, I'll do it again. And I don't feel like I can do it again. Over the past two years in particular, the amount of medical experiences, many of which I have not discussed on this channel for reasons, and I don't love using this word a whole lot, but medical trauma that I have gone through and sort of processing the emotions from all of those years of surgeries and just having to shut down to get through it.  I was talking to a dear friend of mine the other day, and she made it so clear to me, because I was like, I don't know, I just, I can't do this. I don't want to do this. Like, I'm having trouble thinking it's going to work, even if there's a chance that it could. And she kind of stopped me and she was like, Joe, when have you ever had a surgery that like went the way that it was supposed to the first time? Of the like 20 plus surgeries I've had, there's been one. And it was my wrist surgery and it went perfectly fixed the problem, no issues, but it wasn't even that big of a deal in the first place. This sounds very self-pitying, but again, I'm okay with that because I'm in my pity party era. If there's like an 85% chance that something will work, generally speaking, I end up being in that like 15% that it just doesn't for. And that has been the case for treatments and surgeries and medications and all kinds of stuff over the years. And it is all built up to the point where I don't know what else to do other than just shut down entirely emotionally, which is something I've worked very hard not to do. I've worked on learning the skills to feel emotion, process it, get to a healthy place, not shove stuff down. But I don't have any tools anymore right now. And I think kind of going into survival mode for a period of time where then after the fact, hopefully I can process the emotions is the only thing I can do because I can't do this. If I think about it, I'm like, nope, I can't do it. The amount of mental torment is extensive, is a lot. It feels very much further complicated by the fact that my other knee, the one I'm going to have to be crutching on because I will be in a cast for at least four weeks because you cannot move your leg and like pull the nerves back out of place. Otherwise it doesn't work. This knee is really painful and feels crunchy and awful and will most likely need surgery. That's a problem for another time because I don't know how I'm going to get through that with no legs, but we'll figure it out. And I am amazingly lucky to have so many incredible friends and family members in my life who are all hands on deck to bring me home from the hospital and to take care of my dogs because they can't be around me in case they knock anything and ruin the whole point of the surgery. What do you think, Sophie? Okay, yeah. No, I get it. I understand. And here's the other thing that I wasn't super sure I wanted to talk about publicly and I'm still not sure that I want to talk about publicly. But this is the first major surgery and it is a pretty major one. I'll be in the hospital for a few days. It's very painful. The recovery time is long. This is the first major surgery that I've gone through since getting divorced and that part is really hard and it's just really scary. I know I'm not going through this actually alone. There are so many people in my life who are so ready to step up for me which I feel so lucky to have and very blessed and very grateful. But it's hard going through something this significant without the person that I see squirrels and cats outside and cannot contain himself. Long story short, it is really scary going through this as someone who lives alone just more and more dog hairs accumulating. How about you? What do you have? Do you have anything to say? So this will be a brand new adventure. This is one of those things that doesn't really have an answer but as many of you know if you followed my story one of the reasons that I had the amputation in the first place was to stop having surgery after surgery after surgery to possibly have a solution that would give me like more life less pain and a lot of ways it's done that. I have no regrets because the other option is so much worse but it's really hard. I mean like simply put when your life doesn't go the way that you want and the way that you imagine this will be the fourth surgery I've had on my nubbin.  It just happens and I'm very heartbroken over the fact that my life still feels so governed by pain, by limitation by like living surgery to surgery but also surgeries are less common than they were even a few years ago in my life. So that's a plus but heading into this I think I'm just gonna opt for robot mode because I don't know what else to do and I have to do it in my perfect dream world this will work allow me to actually use my leg again live in less pain we'll get my knee fixed up it'll be good to go and six months from now this will be a very different story for now it is very hard and I kind of hate feeling the toll of the past like two decades of my experiences in surgery and doctors and medicine but it is reality and so I'm gonna face it I'm gonna get it done I'm gonna take it minute by minute maybe even day by day if we're getting wild and crazy so if I'm feeling up to it I will post update videos you can check me on Instagram as I'll probably be posting stories to entertain myself in the hospital if I am not too drugged out of my mind from pain management and I'll let you guys know how it goes but I feel like this stuff is for me important to talk about because so often on social media YouTube, Instagram, TikTok you see people who are like solid whether it's in the world of disability amputees or otherwise but specifically with like amputation one thing that I've learned is that it's not a straight line there are constant setbacks there are really good days and then there are shit months and years sometimes and you have to always be adjusting to it and that can get really exhausting so you gotta learn how to take care of yourself learn how to rest and learn how to mourn the fact that the life that I wanted is not the life that I have right now and I'm also gonna figure out how to pursue and build a life that I want within my current limitations also this is completely off topic but I started working out really hard back in January it's been so fun and I've made a lot of progress in the gym I like the fact that I can see muscle on myself because I was raised to think strong is sort of equated to being like masculine and I'm like no I wanna be strong as hell for jiu-jitsu, for life, for whatever and now I'm gonna have to sit and all my gains are just gonna go down the triash that's an incredibly small thing to complain about and also that's not how bodies work will I be brave enough to go to the gym on crutches with a leg cast on my nubbin? to be determined thank you for listening guys it really blows my mind that you would spend your precious time one of the most valuable resources any of us have listening to me talk hearing my story hearing me out I think that listening is one of the greatest forms of love that we show each other and so genuinely thank you I don't take your ears or eyes for granted thanks for hearing me if you're also going through a tough time right now if you're sad or bummed out or facing shit you just don't wanna deal with I'm in it with you we're gonna get through it even if we don't know how just yet and I think that's all I have to say I'm gonna get back to packing for surgery and then probably cuddling with these puppies they've done a lot of barking during this video there have been lots of pauses for excited dogs to my patrons over on Patreon thank you so much for your continued support it is incredible to me I'll see you on the other side mwah, bye guys that sounded ominous I didn't mean like death I'll see you on the other side of surgery bye guys


We had an excellent experience with Melissa and enjoyed her as a salesperson and thought we got a really good deal.


With just one day of competition remaining in the 2013 Warrior Games in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Team Navy holds 19 medals securing them a third-place seat in the overall standings. During May 15th sitting volleyball finals, Team Navy was bested by the Marines in the first round but came back to beat Team Air Force in a later match for third place. Later in the day, the Navy secured a bronze medal in the wheelchair basketball finals after beating both Team Air Force and the Special Operations team. More than 200 active duty service members and veterans are competing this year at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in seven events, archery, cycling, shooting, sitting volleyball, swimming, track and field, and wheelchair basketball. The Marines are currently in first place with 55 medals. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer Matthew Halls.


Hello everyone, my name is Deeksha Jain and I secured rank 22 in civil services examination 2018. In this video I will be talking in detail about chapter 10 of the economic survey which is titled effective use of technology for welfare scheme, case of MG NREGS which is commonly known as NREGA. So the historical background of the scheme first, so economic survey talks about how it has its roots in the food for work program which is mentioned in the Arthashastra during the modern times. After that even in Lucknow by Nawab Asafut Dalla in the making of Imam Badal this employment scheme was emphasized that people were paid with food for coming and working and building the Imam Badal. After that the Mahatma Gandhi NREGA scheme it was enacted in 2005 and it was implemented in 2006 and it aims to provide 100 days of guaranteed employment to people and wages against that employment. The purpose of NREGA what were the objectives with which NREGA was started. Number one is to ameliorate rural distress by providing work and wages. Number two is creating productive assets which are useful for the villages and in rural areas. Number three social inclusion, gender parity, social security and equitable growth so that these people who are facing droughts or who are facing problems agricultural issues have come up. They can look for employment, they can get their wages and they can improve the social equity even women were given reservation of a certain percentage in the scheme and they were also given employment so it is also empowering women by economically. So but there were certain problems in NREGA in its initial form not in its conceptualization but there were problems in certain implementation. For example widespread corruption, political interference, leakages and there was significant delay in payments. The problem with significant delay in payments is that if there is a farmer who needs money today and he has worked for 100 days under the NREGA scheme if he does not get that wage immediately then it is useless for him because his need for food, his need for various other you know things for survival is today. So this delay in payment was also a big problem which was being experienced in the original implementation of NREGA. Because of this the program was streamlined in 2015 and how was it streamlined? There was implementation of direct benefit transfer and it was linked with all Aadhaar linked payments which is called ALP. So because of the stringent biometric Aadhaar requirements there would be less likely ghost beneficiaries so less corruption and less loss of resources and less misallocation of resources and it would also cut a lot of bureaucratic red tape when the cash would be directly given to the people in their bank accounts. Because of this the problem in doing this most of the people and specially the lower strata of the society in rural India did not actually have a bank account in which they could receive the DBT. So the Jantan Yojna was launched so that there was larger financial inclusion and more people can be brought under the scheme so that they can receive their benefits without any leakages in between. So Pradhan Mantri Jantan Yojna actually addressed this problem of unbanked sector that you know it brought people under financial inclusion. This chapter then talks about the perceived benefits of direct benefit transfer. What are they? Primarily release of funds directly into the bank account. Checking of leakages. Third is instilling trust and confidence in the beneficiaries. If I am a beneficiary and if I receive my wage immediately in my bank account my trust in the government in the scheme and you know my sort of sense of security will naturally improve. Fourth is strong focus on security and fund monitoring. Naturally if there is so much digital payment happening then cyber security becomes at most important and fund monitoring also so that it does not lead to mega disaster because of hacking or any such thing. Number five is near real time tracking and monitoring to increase transparency. So because there was real time tracking there was also a lot of data was generated about the beneficiaries and it also introduced a lot of transparency. There are also certain initiatives mentioned which you know may be asked in prelims or may be useful to mention in means like NREGA soft. Now this is basically an e-government system to capture all NREGA related data at the state block in panchayat level. So it accumulates a lot of data helps in analyzing the distressed areas as well. There is GeoNREGA which focuses on basically making repository of all the assets that have been created under NREGA. It also has brought in GeoTagging which again you know sort of make sure that the assets that are created under NREGA are not just on paper but they are actually there in physical form. The third one is emphasis on individual beneficiary scheme. So for example earlier in NREGA people were making only common ponds, watershed systems or common properties but now even for individual beneficiaries things like goat sheds, vermicompost areas etc are also being made. So what this does is basically that the beneficiaries of NREGA will multiply and even the wages are increased after this has been implemented. The fourth thing is natural resource management, mission water conservation. So basically NREGA has been aligned even more closely with the idea of water conservation so a lot of water harvesting projects have been taken under NREGA. So what this chapter essentially focuses on, it highlights the benefits of careful and effective targeting of government schemes. So basically how to streamline government schemes, how to tap technology for better implementation of government schemes. So what are some of the effects that have happened post this sort of you know technological intervention and better implementation. The delays in the payment of wages in NREGA have reduced and because of that it has been able to address the distress of people in a much better manner. What the demand for work of NREGA has increased and the supply has also increased. The increasing number in muster forms basically the number of people apply so it shows that people are in fact enthusiastic about enrolling in NREGA. Now the fourth one is that vulnerable sections of society then needs have been met. So basically if there are women lower sections of the society physically disabled people they get payments directly in their bank account and they have certain you know they feel a certain sense of social security which has also helped made society more equitable. The fifth one is that by creating almost real-time data collection network it has been able to track distress levels in the society at the level of the district as well as the panchayat level. The next major area which is basically the conclusion of this chapter is the way forward that what are the lessons that we can take from this implementation in NREGA and what should be the way forward. The first thing is that NREGA data can be a huge source of indicators of distress so basically this data can be used to understand the society, the distress points in the society and to target government interventions in such a way that they can be more useful for the people. Number two is expansion of works under NREGA which basically means that you know how we have expanded to individual works as well so we should expand to different kinds of works to increase the number of works that are under NREGA. Third is upskilling of the labour in NREGA so basically by doing continuous labour and by giving some sort of training we can actually skill these people as well while giving them hundred days of employment. Number four is expanding the Jantanadhar mobile trinity to other welfare schemes so that the same benefits that have been seen in NREGA can also be seen in those other schemes as well. Number five is the use of digital infrastructure for micro-benefits so basically for other schemes like micro-insurance or any other like it has also been done in Ojwala that we can if there is enough financial inclusion and if we have a financially literate society then we can have more we can plug in more leakages and more schemes and give more benefits directly to the people. So that was that about this chapter in the economic survey. Thank you. Subscribe to our channel and click on the bell icon to get latest updates on upcoming videos.


Good evening and welcome to this month's edition of commissioners corner My name is Lucia Campriello, and I am your school board representative for Ward 5, which is home to Champlain elementary school I'm in the second year or second year of my first two-year term as commissioner and tonight I am so thrilled to be joined by Burlington School District's office of equity team members including autumn Bangora Teresa Gillarenzo Micah Moore and Sparks our director Welcome and thank you all so much for being here on this beautiful Monday evening. It's great to see you all So our goal for this evening's program are to introduce and reintroduce Viewers to the district's office of equity which is charged with providing leadership around restorative practices anti-racist education culturally responsive curriculum and so much more We're also very excited to highlight for folks some of the good work underway across the district to advance these objectives Including opportunities for community members to engage in the work And to access resources that help shape the work and help shape everyone's lifelong learning in this space All of which are available on our website at www.bsdvt.org So who better to do that with than the folks I am seated here with tonight So we're gonna jump in and get started because 30 minutes will move very quickly But before we do I would like to first extend my gratitude to you all And to teachers and staff across the district today kicks off National teacher and staff appreciation week So thank you so much for your work for your commitment to ensuring that every student is successful in our schools We are so fortunate to have such an incredibly talented team really across the district Which makes tonight even that much more of a joy to spend time with you all so With that let's go ahead and transition sparks. I'd love to open the conversation with you Please take a minute and share with us a framework for the office of equity and Priorities underway so before I do that luce. I'd like to say thank you again Again and thank the board for the work that you do But I'd also like to send a real shout out to our teachers Because a lot of people don't understand how hard it is being a teacher being in a classroom and Really serving the needs of our students and families So I want to just say thank all of our teachers for the work that they do and our building leaders so what I'd like to do is kind of go over the goals of our office and Then get into some specifics. I'm not going to read everything Due to time but then give each of the team members and Individual time to be to talk more specifically About their work the other thing that I'll say is all of our goals are aligned with the strategic plan They're connected to the district strategic plan because what we want to do in the district is make sure our work is connected It's aligned and we have a way of really measuring Success and how successful we are in the areas that we really need to improve in the other thing that I will say about the Burlington School District, we are one of the only districts Across the state that has always been transparent with our data and had our data public facing That gives us an opportunity of really working with our public working with community partners to really look at some of the strengths Some of the areas that we need to continue to make improvement on So our first goal actively work to Remove the predictability of success or failure that currently correlates with any social racial or cultural factors This is connected to strategic plan priority number one belonging and well-being Number two acknowledge and address bias and discrimination that negatively Effect or our students their families And our staff This is connected to priority area number one belonging and well-being And priority area number four The other part of what we have been working at is really trying to Hire educators that look like our students and you and I were just talking about that And that has been a struggle across the district because one of the things we do know It's much more than hiring It's also creating a positive learning environment to support different people of the global majority that we bring in So the second part of that is retention area number three Work to dismantle systems of oppression and white supremacy culture in our schools This is connected to priority area number five Relationships based on communication through restorative practices So mika will talk about the restorative practices work So one of the things we really wanted to do as we think about dismantling white supremacy culture and anti racism Is to really understand how white supremacy culture and racism impacts our students So as we look at reducing suspensions racial and ethnic disparities in our suspensions We do know it starts with white supremacy culture in our anti racism work Go number four continually examine and reexamine Biases to interrupt and replace inequitable systems practices policies and procedures with those that are just And equitable this is connected to priority area number five Relationships based communication through restorative practices as well Again as we think about biases one of the things our district has struggled with for decades Is biases racism and us not aggressively dealing with it? So this has been one of the first times in the district that we are aggressively addressing White supremacy culture in the anti racism work But also one of the first times the district has had a full-blown office of equity that's been resourced and staffed number five support district curriculum by infusing Inclusive and anti-racist culturally relevant pedagogy To influence the school environment for adults and children This is connected to priority area number two deeper learning for every student The thing that we do know If a student can't read can't write or do math that is definitely an equity issue So one of the things that we are working on Or looking at across the elementary schools a different curriculum to really support their reading And that's going to build a foundation if a student cannot read effectively They cannot do much of anything else And this is also connected to priority area number three reimagined high school number six Redistribute district resources based on academic and social Economic data to better serve our most marginalized students and families This is connected to priority area number two deeper learning for every student One of the things we know as we look at resources if we're not putting the resources Towards the most vulnerable students in the areas that we know Students are going to need more support Then we're not going to be able to meet the students educational and social emotional well-being number seven Partner with students family and community members to build a truly inclusive Community where all voices are included. This is connected to priority area number one Belonging and well-being So one of the things that we have been able to do for Especially this year as we think about families and student and adult partnerships We have done a lot of work to not just give student voice but have students at the table As equals decision makers Because I firmly believe in my team believes if students are at the table helping us make the decisions It serves to have a better outcome for students across the district because Historically, we have been very good at telling students what to do are creating policies and procedures And expecting students to adhere to those policies and procedures But if a student is at the table when we are making those decisions, they have voice They know what's going to work and what's not going to work. So therefore having them at the table at the beginning Really eliminates challenges in the backs on the backside of it So this is connected This is also part of the strategic plan And as we think about priority area number one Belonging and well-being one of the things that we have seen across the district Since we Come back came back to the school in person We have seen a lot of students struggling with social emotional well-being mental health and Issues around behavior. So we have seen suspensions go up. We have seen Incidents of violence go up and as we think about restorative practices and some of the other work that we're doing around Social emotional wellness We really want to pay attention to students well-being students mental health And also working with families because we have spent a lot of time working to support families and the students As part of that work number eight To create an uphold a learning environment that promotes safety and inclusion for all students staff and families This is connected to priority area number one belonging and well-being also And i'm going to stop there So what i'd like to do is turn it over to I'm going to start with mika to talk about the restorative practices and the reason i'd like to start there restorative practices Are that's part of our foundation for building that climate of social emotional well-being And some of the work that we are doing Aligns with the restorative practices work and then we could talk about some of the work that autumn is doing And as we think about the safety and the well-being We'll talk about some of the hazing harassment and bullying work that teresa is leading Thanks sparks and mika if you don't mind before we transition I just want to offer a couple of quick reflections because so much of what you just discussed is really grounded in data And one of the things that i've appreciated so much About joining the district first as a parent of two young students and then more recently as a school commissioner Is just what you talked about the Transparency and access to data that is collected and analyzed and then reported out on quite thoughtfully And so as a commissioner i often rely on Our strategic plan which you highlighted beautifully I rely on the annual office of equity report I look at the school snapshots Which offers sort of a very high level look per school at a couple of key metrics that we are looking at I enjoyed so thoroughly the presentation on the literacy program a couple of weeks ago at the board Meeting and the enthusiasm of the teachers and staff who were with us that day sharing it Because it directly relates to this conversation Which is that if we are to truly fulfill our mission as a public school system Of delivering high quality education for all pre-k to 12 students in the city of burlington We absolutely must meet the needs the very diverse needs that every student walks into our building with And rather than needs the word i'm meant to use just now as attributes Because we are all richer for learning together in a space. Um, that is diverse and Attribute rich. So just wanted to reflect on that because it really is Beautiful and so linear to watch the way both your office as well as offices throughout the district link data Both quantitative and qualitative to the decisions that are being made And to the strategies that are being employed to advance the mission of your office Yeah, i'm a self-described data nerd. So I really love that our office stays focused on data and uses that to drive our decisions My name is mika more i'm the restorative practices coordinator here in the district And part of my role is to think about how we're utilizing restorative practices both From like the 10,000 foot view to think about it across all our schools but then also what that really personal student and staff experience is of restorative practices because We rely on restorative practices to build a foundation of relationships in our district We can't just assume that because you put every kid into the same room in one place That relationships will happen and too often that's what schools do is they just say well They're all in the that one room together. They're in a classroom So they must get along and they must know each other and value each other But we know that that's not the case and so what restorative practices does is offers a consistent way for Students and staff to build relationships with each other and really value each other as individuals And I think it's a really beautiful way to do that And then you could also rely on it in more of a responsive way to think about if harm occurs How can we keep bringing people in and pull folks closer when harm happens rather than pushing students out Our office is committed to reducing our reliance on out-of-school suspensions It's a focal point of my work as a restorative practice coordinator And I work with a team of seven individuals our restorative practices specialists And our youth and family restorative liaison To implement restorative practices in our schools and what we did was we Looked at those positions and where we should place folks in our schools Based on the behavior data. What are we seeing of where are our most vulnerable children? Where do we see most incidents of behavioral referrals in there? And we could respond to that in real time by having these positions there So they've made a huge difference in our use of restorative practices And I'm really proud of the work that they do so a big shout out to our restorative practices specialists and our Youth and family restorative liaison that's through a partnership with our burlington community justice center So we rely on our community organizations as well When we think about how we're implementing restorative practices But the data informs everything that we do right now We just did our annual restorative culture survey and we already have some of the preliminary data back that we're able to present To our restorative practices collaborative that meets across the whole district folks from all different buildings come as representatives And we got to look at data that was less than two weeks old and think about like what is that sense of belonging? How does it change from k or k to five thin six through 12? What happens to the sense of belonging in our secondary schools where how can we address that with the use of our resources? so I'm really excited by the fact that Folks who are committed to utilizing restorative practices are truly Involved in this work from like as a way of being they don't see it as just like Okay, check. I did restore their practices. It really is like who they are. They're restoratively minded And we want to bring that even further out into the district I love it the way you just described that it's almost like shifting from preventative medicine to just an active state Of how you move through the world and it feels like the district is making that transition And then also provides a framework and toolkit for folks to use when incidences arise To address those incidences immediately so that your point, which is so brilliant and yet You know should be obvious to all of us that all of our experiences or our young students experiences when they're in a classroom Just because they're in the same classroom does not mean they're having the same experience and so really being thoughtful about that and creating frameworks to build those relationships so that You are operating from a position of trust with the folks who are in your space And that you can move through the world with that skill as well Yeah, we want to be a D to be a place that students and staff care so much about that if We have to separate them for their learning for any reason which would be a thought of as a suspension If we have to do that that they're like no, I want like please. How can I make this better? How can I make things right? And so that our work is you have to have relationships and a foundation of something to restore So that's why we really focus on it's if you think about it in a tiered model But like that tier one the strong foundation of relationships. So that way if harm occurs There's actually something to repair. Yes, if there's nothing to repair then you can put in all this effort And it doesn't really matter because there was nothing there in the first place Yeah Sure, we're doing some work right now to work on our restorative code of conduct That the whole this whole team has really been integral in working on and creating to rethink about how we respond to behavior and unexpected behaviors in a way that is restorative and so we've drafted a restorative code of conduct That will be fully implemented in this fall 2023 And what it does is it offers teachers administrators and students a roadmap for what are our expected behaviors? What are your student rights? What can you rely on to say that these are my rights in burlington school district? What are the rights of our school board commissioners of our families our administrators everyone involved in our community? And then when unexpected behaviors do occur it offers some options that are not relying on punitive measures But some other options. So and we took what we did was we used data to look at What are our highest levels of the most referred behaviors things like disruptive classroom behavior things like that? And then offer some real alternatives say rather than kicking the student out of class Here's some other things that you could do what we don't want to do is have folks feel like Restorator practices comes in it's this brand new shiny thing and then wait How do I actually use it? We want to give people really that toolkit like you mentioned So the restorative code of conduct is offers ways for us to reduce our reliance on suspensions while also giving people more Agency and kind of like feeling like they have the tools that they need I love that the framing too of Agency is so important because it reduces the punitive nature of the language that we use as well And just generally human beings respond better to things that are not punitive. And so again, it's like this beautiful Ark of work that sets everyone up for success because they've established that relationship and that trust among their peers With administrators with teachers with staff, etc. Um, great. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Thank you autumn So i'm autumn bangura. She heard pronouns and i'm the equity instructional leader of the berlington school district This is my fourth year and um What how my role differs a bit is I do Systems-based work as well, but i'm mostly teacher and student-facing I join you in appreciating teachers today and every day and every week and every year Because I was a teacher for the rest of my career prior to Getting involved in this leadership pieces Um, a lot of people ask me what does equity instructional leadership look like? What is your day-to-day? And so I try to describe it as its social justice education and it's helping Teachers serving as a resource curating resources helping people have difficult conversations about identity In justice and diversity and action and really Giving them the tools sometimes I go in and model teach in front of classes In order to guide teachers or they'll have a particularly difficult text That has some inflammatory language or something so I might go in And give them some resources maybe some restorative circles in order to talk about the language and the text or to talk about their author's viewpoint um Some particularly proud stuff that I do mostly involves youth leadership And leveraging a whole new group of youth leaders in the school district We're entering the third year of the summer racial justice academy, which is Just a really really wonderful opportunity for youth to work as consultants for the school district to make things better I'm in the process of inter interviewing students. We have over 100 students for 40 spots So it's getting really known and when I ask them what do you want to learn about? What is your message? What do you want to change? A lot of them talk about understanding each other's perspectives Wanting the experiences to be better for the young ones. They say this is what my experience has been like I've encountered some oppressive systems in my school experience And they really want to change it better and pave the way for the younger kids That seems to be like a universal messaging um Other things that i'm proud of is involving the community In a series of equity workshops We started in 2020 when the pandemic really made it so that parents couldn't be involved in the school And I thought of it as a really great opportunity to invite parents in virtually And also just to learn about the equity work that's happening So this year we moved into some in-person workshops on lgbtq themes Sparks and I were hosting lgbtq workshop for Somali and mi-mi communities over 50 parents showed up Just to talk a little bit about some of the cultural stigmas and again that word transparency comes up that we want to be Transparent we don't want to hide what's going on our schools I am so proud to work for the berlington school district and i'm proud of Our focus and support for the equity work Yeah, absolutely. Well, congratulations on the huge oversubscription Of interest in the summer racial justice academy It's obviously a testament to not only the work, but the interest which is a reflection of the work And it's just so exciting to see youth You know engage in leadership opportunities, especially for the reasons that you reflected I would absolutely encourage viewers to visit the bsd vt website Where you can find videos of student performances from past years They are incredibly moving And I think sparks to the point that you made earlier and that you you all have made Student participation in this work student leadership in this work is so incredibly important in in all of the work that our district does But I think so often about the ways in which You know, I learned as a young person many many years ago and how different it is today And all of the opportunities that Students have today to engage more deeply and really lead and teach Adults in the room around them, which is a really big responsibility, but all A reflection of their kind of genuine reflection of their perspectives and experiences So that's really exciting and I really would encourage viewers to to check that out and also The webinars I had a chance to just join one of them that was led by the youth participatory action research There's another letter in there that I'm missing. I believe but it was incredible and just again another opportunity as an adult to learn from young people who are Thoughtful and smart and committed and passionate and really driven by wanting to be inclusive To all of the people who they encounter in their day-to-day life in school out of school and after school I mean beyond their education. So Again, really impressive work with young people and I I always find engaging with any of our young students to be incredibly rewarding So thank you for your leadership Teresa My name is Teresa. Jill Lorenzo and I am the district hazing harassment bullying title nine coordinator and district safety lead I am proud to be working for the Burlington school district and with the office of equity I feel honored to be a part of this team My focus is on student safety mental and physical Um, I do a lot of work. Well, we were we were in an agreement with the department of justice and we successfully Exited that agreement this year And a lot of the work was done before I got here, but I helped get systems in place We have designated employees at every school We I'm kind of like a compliance officer when I see incidents that are happening to making sure that They're we're doing the work in the schools to keep the kids safe and coming back to school because we know education is everyone's right And we talk about the safety teams We have we have We have ensured that there are safety teams at every school And we have a district safety team and we also put together a district crisis response team and We're going to be working with all groups in the district to make sure that they have knowledge and understand safety procedures and you know our protocols and that includes food service property services multilingual liaisons and their teams including staff And students we this summer I will be working with autumn and mica and the the rachel justice academy students to help ask them to help us Create prevention kind of psas. So it's from the students for the students about appropriate behavior And why we want to be upstanders And you know just keep do the right thing Talk about the option space work that we're doing with Yes, sure. So we are Every school in vermont has been mandated now to have an options based response as part of our safety protocols And ours is run hide fight, which is recommended to us by the vermont school safety center and it's been a little bit challenging to roll out because it's not Easy work and it's a little bit scary when you don't know what what's happening and what to expect and why we're doing it So we are now Entered into an agreement with margolis healy and they are they work with the safety center and rob evans They're coming to work with we started with our building administrators And we'll work down the line to ensure that we can fully Roll this out by august and be you know confident in our response our options based response So one of the things I think people need to really understand First and foremost The school's job is not to teach It is to keep people safe Because if we're not creating a safe learning environment students are not learning adults are not feeling safe So as we think about the options based work We want to do this in a manner where we're not causing harm to students where we're not scaring students where we are Not scaring parents, but we want to make sure parents know that their schools and their kids are safe So that's why we are working with the vermont safety center for schools And really trying to roll this out in a thoughtful manner That's great and age appropriate Fantastic. Thank you for that context We are just about at time, which is incredible I think we sat down and knew that 30 minutes would be insufficient for this conversation But really just a delight to spend time with you all and hear from you all and obviously enjoy the passion that you all bring to the work So thank you for that. Again, I would encourage folks to check out the office of equity Web page within the district site You'll find a really comprehensive report that was released gosh a month ago or so That goes a bit deeper Then what we had time to cover today and I'd love to wrap up with Finally a shout out to colleagues of mine on the board Commissioner waltz and commissioner von check who co-chair the board committee on diversity equity and inclusion Which you all support as staff members They're doing some really incredible work and I will look forward to hosting them At some point on a future program You know as you all mentioned the board is equally committed to these values and to this equity work And so I am just so proud to be their colleague Given their leadership in some really important work Underway within that committee. So with that we are at time at 555 Thank you all for tuning in this evening and for those of you who choose to watch on your own time Whatever date and time it may be in the future. Look forward to seeing you next month. Thanks again


Very good morning. Anthony here on the desk Tuesday 17th of December. So I hope you're doing well In terms of what I'm going to cover in the session today got an update a bit of pressure on Sterling currency overnight gap down and we're trading down about a point this morning under the UK and European Open So why has that happened and what do I think about that piece of information that's come out about Boris Johnson? Essentially toughening up some legislation within the withdrawal agreement bill He's going to look to push through their lower house of commons on Friday So we'll look at that We're also going to have a quick catch-up on the Latest status of the US China trade talks a few more comments out of the Chinese finance ministry overnight and then Trump impeachment a couple of articles about that because it's likely that the house are going to push forward and Pass through the impeachment of the US president So he would be the third president in history to be impeached But I'm going to explain to you why I think that out that is a non-event and why Actually, I think that's a positive for Trump. I know it sounds a bit weird But when I explain it in more detail is hopefully my logic will make sense Otherwise quick look at the charts this morning things are relatively quiet I say that I am mindful of the DAX is just taking a bit of a breakthrough Of what was the overnight Asia Pacific session and a bit more of a cleaner break through its pivot level So the DAX under a bit of downside pressure in terms of equity stories from a specific Company point of view outperformers taller oil. I think just rebounding after getting absolutely Slammed last week on the resignation of their CEO and the cutting of their guidance So there are about 4% at the open Airbus benefitting of course from the Information that we've had from Boeing looking to halt their 737 max production in January so Boeing obviously coming under severe pressure on the back of that and that's sort of Helping support then their major competitor in France on the flip side. I just heard the squawk mentioning We did have the Bank of England stress tests Yesterday now all banks did pass that meaning that even in the most adverse worst case Brexit Hard Brexit, let's say disorderly non-transitional environment banks are seen now very different to where we were 10 years ago with adequate capital buffers to navigate that type of Severe economic situation. However Lloyd's banking group was seen as a little bit more fragile than perhaps some of the others And their shares down roughly 4% of the open But as you can see from the cross asset class mix Yes equities seeing a little bit of a downturn But nothing really too substantial bearing in mind. I do think that with particularly US equities I mean just put into context where we are. I mean we hit 3200 of course yesterday New all-time highs once again when it comes to US indices You can see overnight this morning as soon as Europe's come in a little bit of volume picking up Touching that high print the record from yesterday that we saw coming in towards the latter part of Wall Street sessions So I don't think there's I wouldn't over Interpret this slight downturn that's being seen at the moment. In fact, I think it's probably Quite a normal thing with people just booking some of those longs going into obviously the Christmas period So if anything that range kind of play could be the way forward Just looking at the session ahead So what I mean by that is this kind of pivot level providing some of that downside bottom end of the range I don't think that's out of the realm of possibility at all today to get down another five or Also points and then just kind of keeping an eye on that 3202 and a quarter of which now is around there is the all-time high So if anything, I just would say it's bit of profit taking probably helped Exaggerated slightly by the DAX underperformance just given the technical break through the cash open Volume pick up and as we normally see the DAX could be quite lively at the open and so the S1 then the futures just a Short way off and where we are at the moment currency markets I'll talk about sterling in a second, but otherwise euros very quiet. I mean in terms of the actual Dollar index, I mean most of movement is being derived from the British pound at the moment and that is weaker So the Dixie's up about point one three percent oil and gold markets pretty quiet and the US 10 year Effectively sideways just hugging the pivot level Or be it the Bund is up about 29 ticks this morning So let's have a look at this Brexit headline and what is the deal and and what how has it impacted the pound and let's put That into a bit of context From the UK general elections so we can understand the kind of journey that we've been on in in Cable and so this was it. It actually did come out in the telegraph I'm told at around half past nine last night But however, I don't think it really caught much market attention until 10 o'clock when the FT ran it And then all the other news publications were running it. So I just happened to be As I am a lot of the time in the evening. I just happened to be on my phone And I saw the news when it broke And essentially in summary Boris Johnson will this week publish Brexit legislation that would legally Prohibit him from extending the standstill transition period covering relations with the EU beyond December 2020 so if you remember at the moment and what he's trying to now force through Parliament with his majority Is the withdrawal agreement bill? This is the wab which we're expecting to go through before Christmas recess and that's expected to go through on Friday now That current status is that that then means that all being well He can deliver then going through the various formalities to complete that by 31st of January moving us into the transitional or Implementation phase now at the moment the legislation would dictate that that's December 2020 So there's a year lock-in However, what was also previously in there within the wab was Conditions that if it was looking unlikely that he was going to get a deal done by the end of 2020 He would need to inform then his EU counterparts by July at the latest about the request for an extension And within the clause is an extension of either 12 or 24 months beyond that of December 2020 Now what's come out overnight is I'm well surprising, but I'd say surprising in a sense of I don't think everyone was thinking That you know there was a lot of talk about him now having such a firm majority Would he need to be so strong with Brexit and could he soften the stance slightly in order to get a deal done with Europe? but it's quite the opposite and What's happened here then is by doing Toughening up this version of his original Brexit legislation Basically creates a new cliff edge at the end of next year if no trade deal is in place So we could actually end up where we were if you remember in October before the original deadline when it got extended to the now Jan 31st. That was when we saw The actual options market pricing in large volatility Pound was coming under pressure at the time the risk had to be priced in of an actual Disorderly non-transitional no deal now. We're talking about a transitional But still a no deal needs to be reflected in price So hence the reason why if I just transition to cable I've marked this up just now to see some of the main Fundamental Catalysts that have created the price action that we've had in sterling dollar futures over the course of the last week and you can see here obviously the Sharp gap up on the surprising size of the Tory majority That took us in the futures north of 35 particularly when the working to and Darlington results came out Which were the first kind of early Areas to release that turned Conservative and that was when we hit that kind of peak price in the futures, which was around 135 50 We then kind of backed off you remember on Friday morning. It was almost like Just fading the move in a sense that majority was the baseline expectation We broke a couple of key technical points as well as psychological handles. We came back down We then rallied as Markets reopened on Sunday night perhaps a degree of relief However, we've now had a gap down I mean looking in proportion to the size of the gap up on the election I mean the last night's one is very small but a gap nonetheless and importantly it's a gap that puts us below the price point of what was then the initial pullback we had on the morning of The results last Friday So that now I think will form a pretty decent and strong area of resistance You can see here the market on the gap down Responding on the s1 on the daily pivots came back up to that exact level So you would have had and I know Talking to Liam here one of the guys on on the trading floor He's a bit of an early bird and he was up at 5 a.m. This morning And he really great entry point to get in on the short there on the digestion of UK European players coming in Really, you know a lot of people would have been asleep last night when that initial news came in so looking for a secondary phase reaction on the gap and You could have got a nice entry on that s1 Stop just above on the previous low on the pullback to the low that was formed on Friday And just rode the move all the way back down playing the price movement that we had on the initial movement on the Reopening of blowback's trade last night scaling out and perhaps even keeping some on this morning to target back down to the gap fill Which we briefly had last night But back down to targeting towards 132 75 80. So yeah, excellent trade for him Early bird does indeed catch the worm in that in that sense So yeah looking at it Stepping back, you know, we are pretty much where we were on that Thursday on the day of the actual vote in itself before the actual news broke and came out so Quite interesting that that that spike that we had multi-point of course already taken back And we're only just a few days Post that that big political event and what do I actually think about this because I think that's a different thing Well, let me just flash this up Let me transition my screens again. This is the brexit timeline now, of course We can kind of scratch out a couple on the left-hand side. We've had the election We've had the EU council meeting the potential vote on the divorce deal is likely to happen at the end of this week We know then he's done his cabinet reshuffle yesterday. So that's complete He's now looks like he's gonna repend the withdrawal bill to make it a little bit tougher than it on brexit than the original Legislation, the Queen's gonna give us speech on Thursday The wab will be heard and voted on on Friday That then allows them to go on Christmas recess on the 23rd of December They will not return to work potentially could be a movement on it until the 6th of January and then The deal to be ratified by the UK and approved by the EU council and EU Parliament in January to reach that of course Deadline that we all know about which is 31st of January then comes that point of phase two negotiations pick up in Feb and then And this is one again that just to be aware of and how this current piece of law works The deadline for extending a transition period is actually the 30th of June as far as what? What's existing at the moment? So that means then that Boris Johnson? Basically the reason why I was so sure of the fact of getting extension is that he basically needs to have a complete trade deal with Europe in four months Which I think is absolutely impossible Quite frankly from a legal perspective now what this means then is what what he's doing here then is you know What what's the thinking and thinking about this last night? My first reaction was that for me? I've been thinking about well. How can I think Boris Johnson? Absolutely will still extend the transition period Irrespective of this legislation passing let's not forget legislation can change as it is now can change again in the future So I think sure he gets his hard Brexit legislation through He then has and a good Positioning to go back to Brussels quite aggressively, but more importantly I think Boris and his team know that you are not gonna buckle in this situation He's gonna run into a lack of progression But importantly for Boris Johnson and what's at the heart? I feel of this move is that now he's gonna be allowed to pivot from the people versus Parliament which is what won him this election So a resounding result I think he's gonna pivot that now that narrative to us versus them Us being Britain them being the EU. I think then when Inevitably he goes cap in hand because there's no way he'll execute a no deal This is his greatest bluff He will then go back to Europe at the end of 2020 and then people will forgive him People will not now say Boris didn't deliver Brexit because he will be banging the drum as he was in the build-up to the election But instead of people versus Parliament, he'll be saying us versus them. It goes completely tribal In that sense if you're talking about human psychology and behavioural the way societies function People will forgive him for changing the narrative and and and missing deadlines just like he did I mean technically speaking giving his own words Boris Johnson should be dead by now but he's not and No one seems to have batted an eyelid and I think This is a stroke of genius on the the puppet masters that control Boris because I think ultimately They're gonna extend but they're gonna get away with it and the British people are gonna forgive them Just like they did with him not delivering on Brexit the first time round to have such a great fantastic result with Brexit. So In the short term, I think people have got a price in this negatives and I've just seen the pound flash on my charts Yeah, look at that. So Liam Great trade if you're still holding some of that I mean as I was saying Targeting real just a real nice setup on that trade to get in if you go in early Nice risk reward You're coming out some of that at the bottom end of that original spike Coming out of some more on that original hide It was on the 12th and then letting it run if you've got a few more on I guess looking at the top downside targets now Probably yeah, exactly where we are at the moment just bringing in some of that price activity late on the 10th You have that initial high on late on the 11th for the break hire Then probably just closing out the trade. I mean if that is How he's traded I would say 20 past eight go home job done In that respect so yeah, I mean the pricing in here negative I think fundamentally all make sense but a bit longer term what I do think is that As per what I've just described. I think it's an unsurprising tactic in regards to the Politics behind this move from Johnson I think actually the toughening of legislation Puts no deal back on the table allows him to pivot the narrative towards us against Europe He then accepts the extension at some point in 2020. He blames Europe Breaks his previous commitments, but washes his hands of any accountability and the show goes on so Again, that's that's my initial interpretation of what we're seeing on that issue Next then just having a quick look at US China China to grant more regular tariff waivers for US farm imports. This is all a little bit of extension of the Agreement on phase one that we had at the end of last week So China will provide retaliatory tariff waivers to buyers of US farm products on a more regular basis after the countries reach that phase one deal According to people familiar with the situation The trade secretary Lighthizer has said he expects the 86-page trade agreement to be signed by him and his counterpart vice-premier In China in early January in Washington So still relatively positive on that regard for the time being a lot of jokes though circulating I saw on the Twitter world in regard to The whole when are we going to start getting him playing the market with phase two getting done The other thing just briefly to mention because I think it only warrants a brief mention because I really think this is just a bit of a media circus rather than it is something influential influential for markets, but Donald Trump is this week likely to become just the third US president to be impeached when the Democratic-led House of Representatives votes on charges stemming from his efforts to pressure Ukraine to investigate political rival Joe Biden The House likes to take up impeachment on Wednesday setting the stage for a vote later this week The Democrats enjoy 36 seat majority in the House. So they're expected to win an impeachment vote Only requires a simple majority. However, that then needs to go to the Republican held Senate Where the red party holds 53 of the hundred seats in the Senate? So net net it's not going to pass Because it would require two-thirds majority of those present to remove him from office So this is kind of similar to what's happened before of course with the likes of Bill Clinton got impeached But they ever went through same things going to happen I think with with Trump here and if anything not sure if you saw my my tweeting this morning Perhaps slightly controversial, but I actually think Trump being impeached is a good thing for Trump I think it helps his case I think it legitimizes his argument for a witch hunt and it comes for me in the backdrop of all-time record high US stocks and low unemployment So for me it helps even further polarize this political divide And it strengthens his case. I think so Yeah, I don't think it's a market-moving thing And I think it's saying there's going to create a lot of or take up a lot of airwaves or airwaves, but Yeah, I wouldn't stress too much about it from a trading point of view Quick look at the calendar for what's to come. We have already had the RBA minutes They came out overnight. So if you have missed them, they basically said they're going to revisit policy in Feb 2020 but has the ability to add further stimulus if needed and it's ready to ease again if required so the Aussie as I speak is at session lows. So you're aware. It's been slowly weakening from the overnight session already through us S2 in the Futures market From data in the morning, you've got UK unemployment rate employment change and weekly average earnings Then leading us on into the US afternoon where we're going to get building permits housing starts in the US Industrial manufacturing production and the weekly API crude oil for trees they'll come later on this evening speakers wise Couple bit of a mix between well really ECB Fed and the Bank of England ECB speaking Kasmir at midday ECB's lane at 130 and if I'm the Fed you got Kaplan Williams and Rosengren all through the afternoon Kaplan will be a voter in 2020 Leaning Dove Williams a voter at present as to his Rosengren with neutral and hawk stances respectively and then Bank of England's Mark Carney Actually speaking at a dinner later on this evening at 7 15 So that's it from me. Let me hand you over to Sam You can go over some of the charts a bit more detail. I wish you a good day. Thanks very much Yeah, just as I'm coming on you see the pound has filled the gap on the futures there You can see let's put this on to 60 minute chart. You can see that just now Fill in that gap bit of support as you'd expect what a place to take profit if if you were short Overnight or any time this morning really but yet fill in that and looking quite heavy It has to be said but keep her keep an eye on on probably how we finish the 30 minute candle here could be a bit more Of a guide, but yeah, certainly this this market Which is over 300 pips down since Friday's high, which is a move in itself But yeah being pretty technical has to be said you can see we broken through and the first part of support that we had this morning Like I was saying was the high that we had back on the 12th on the election morning We've then broken through on the second attempt and then close that gap and maybe just spiking through a bit 132 in the futures below that but Marco saying to keep an eye on where we finish the half hour there decent move to the downside I'm remember from the election Alex got short up at the top. I'm not sure if he's still holding now, but what? What a trade what a call it was certainly You know a chat amongst us saying that we believe it's going to come down before then you know drift higher into next year, but Yeah, we all failed attempt of pushing that home and we've just lower and obviously an extended move today already down 166 pips since the the open on the future so big move in the pound over the last couple of days Zero just being dragged down a bit here as well worth keeping actually an eye Other than the 112 handle, but just a bit below here. You've got the s1 and lowest You know this part of the morning yesterday around 9 a.m We keep a watch on that because if that goes and you know You're also going to be coming into the area where you're most likely to find one of these trend lines And this is put this in of course on the March contract now so the to left-hand side looks a bit more thin You can see around that area. You're going to have some of these trends that do come into play And of course that is going to be pretty significant for the euro because if that was to To break where suddenly you're looking at euro coming back down again despite obviously a decent push Which we've seen time and time and time again this year for the euro Let's wait for this to load up here now looking on the daily chart. What is the euro done all year? And it's spring in Push higher drop down trend higher them drop down and are we seeing that yet again here? Well that trend like a bit of a guide for that I think maybe the opportunity wires would be as well if we were to get below that and close significantly Below you know maybe the highs that had on the fourth Which were a quite a key guide over the recent months for where direction could go So back below there. Well, you know, good absolutely drift lower yesterday gold I was putting this into with the pivots We we came up to test what had been quite an interesting level historically for for gold around 1483 Or so some decent price action again around there was also at the time of double top I know one of the the traders in stage three took this and Held it beautifully and you also got that trendline break I mean and looking at this were well good trade even the trendline break would have been but yeah rode that down towards near the low And actually probably got out literally the lowest price there was a fantastic trade however that bit of You would you would argue a bit of risk off this morning gold pushing to that top level So with the significance of that really do keep an eye on here Maybe you want to drag it towards yesterday's high on the R1 just to be super sure and it probably brings in now a new range Those highs and then down to Yesterday's lows which are pretty much bang on today's s1 So quite a key mini range there for the gold 47 and a half 14 77 and a half to the downside and call it 1485 to the upside if that is to break to the downside yet again just want to reiterate the importance Really of this trendline from the low that we had on the on the 12th of November if that is to go It could be buy by gold but a break above here and maybe 1490 well actually now you start getting a bit more confident than this market could be looking at 1500 again So gold very much set Waiting for a bigger move. It's obviously other than that push lower that we had on the on the 7th of November It's kind of been up and down, you know with the trade comments Understandably You know that were positive and then negative it was hard to really get a direction What the Fed going to do as well and it still feels very much like we're waiting for a bigger move here So for gold for me, you know, you would you'd be comfortable getting in You know a long maybe above 1500 medium-term or a short if we were to break that trend line Intra day. I'll just keep it towards that range and let that guide price actually S&P we did a little chat during the day you say about the the handles on the futures And let's just do that again here now 3100 when we first reached Back on the 8th of November. We came lower the next time we broke just a bit above it and came lower again Let me just make this a bit clearer to see It took us one two three days of testing that level with good resistance before finally breaking through And then it offered a good level support on the way down. We're now obviously at 3200 first day yesterday We've had a little spike through to then come back down seven points. We're now attested it again We've come back lower. Yes helped by the overall mood in the market But just the importance of these round numbers On the on the futures is quite significant here So where could we go to to today to perhaps find some support? You know while the pivot is not a bad place You've got a decent bit of resistance there from yesterday the low of the day That's a point to consider and then maybe below there You would be eyeing up the the higher that we had back on Friday the 13th 31 88 as another key level as well We're getting a cue perhaps from what the DAX or euro stocks are doing as well But stocks just under a bit of pressure Today as well potentially later on if you don't like the idea of buying a dip and you want more of a Continuation strategy into the afternoon again Not a bad decision to do that you can see this triple top on the on the 15 minute here a break of that Could well be the preferred choice I would say with these lows Just considering the time of the day the range trade isn't bad But maybe you want to see a bit more confirmation before looking to get in there as well quick Look over at oil before we have a look at the European equities It's it's not doing too much to be honest and we were actually you know Just talking about when I was doing the charts with the strategy What you know, what's the main driver for oil this week? You know OPEC's kind of done obviously trade comments could Swing this market one way or another but that again seems like we're perhaps through the worst of the year now And you know other than the inventories, you know I'm not expecting too much in the way of movement for oil and that was kind of resembled yesterday and of course tomorrow this morning You're not gonna see a great move either but 60 30 to the upside Let's keep an eye on that as well from the beginning of the week. Let's have a look see if we can get some sort of trend No, that's lovely this low here 15th Over night to the 16th yesterday and then this morning one two three nice tests on that break of that down to $60 pivot It's not a bad little trader perhaps consider and then to the downside another key level support 5980 I'll be keeping a watch off a break of yesterday's highs Maybe our target in the spike that we had on Friday the 13th Dax and Eurostocks this morning to breaking through their pivots looking pretty Identical has to be said we just come up to find or look to find a bit of resistance on what was the initial low Of the morning to keep a watch on that to see how that reacts along with the low before We really broke down around the pivot So those would be the key Resistance points that I'd be watching a favor. I would favor I should say the the pivot just because it you know Seems that's why the selling really started this morning Also, you can see a break of this trend in the early hours Actors such good resistance to the upside. So if we at any point do push higher just be aware of that as well quite a lot of support has to be said for equities both Europe and the states below where we are training so it's not like I'll get to ahead of ourselves here Just in the early morning quick look over the pound just to finish again. You can see still having another go at Just trying to confirm that push below The gap here. You can see that 15 minute clothes was above Can we get one below and I think that's when you would get maybe a bit of an extension below 132 But again a failed test of that and you can see a reversal as well So interesting price action this morning a couple levels really set up quite nicely Let's have a quick look over just to see the morning So you've got that UK day at 9 30 unlikely to really do too much about again Keep an eye on that it's coming out in 50 minutes and then it's quiet for the morning till we come into the afternoon and relatively quiet week data wise for the US anyway But yeah one to to bear in mind, but any questions as usual, please do that Now the pound moving stocks have got some nice supporters below where we're training gold at a massive level is you are about to do What it's done all year oil not much going on and just keep an eye on any of those Previous support levels in the DAX that could give a guide for the rest of the market concerning risk Hope you'll have a good trading date and catch you all in the chat later on


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