t of romantic intrigue how i met uh my wife and informed a family that they kept me he does kept me here and then uh how i embarked upon an avocation from teaching law here in the university in gallway to commenting on politics both american and irish uh and lastly that the last part of the book is really dedicated to an analysis both of american and irish politics from what i think is a unique vantage point of somebody who sees the world through both american and irish eyes and lastly something that's very very important to me which is the future of the relationship between our two countries which of course uh is facing a lot of challenges in particular because of the slow of the flow of human beings between uh island and the united states and something i think we need to redouble our effort spawn yeah and there's a lot in that in that you know i i just think in terms of people are so distracted uh or so passionate about so many different things now that something is you know where your ancestors are from almost become is it becoming tweed you know what i mean like i know we can talk about sort of business connections and all that type of stuff but you know this sense of irishness to do will american people hold on to that or is there just so much else going on that it almost seems i don't know we're relevant yeah look i mean there's no question but that the ties are beginning to fray uh if you look at the the boston that i grew up in and i mentioned how uh how irish it was in every sense i mean almost every one of us had at least one irish-born grandparent as i said the majority of us uh had you know an irish-born parent that milieu is gone and uh that's because again there's just been no significant immigration to the u.s. now i wouldn't be one of those who's terrible who's a total pessimist i think there's lots of room for optimism i think again one of the things about it is a lot of irish back then would have almost been ashamed of the where they were from they would have wanted to be americans and americans first being irish in the u.s. now is very cool uh and there's a lot that could be made of it and the irish or america's favorite europeans and that might sound intangible and fuzzy but it has led to a lot of the developments you mentioned the business ties it has meant led to a lot of educational exchanges it has led for instance to the g a becoming a major player in the united states uh in a major uh influence on the lives of a lot of young people including those who aren't irish americans so there's lots of ways and there's lots of us who are eternally committed to maintaining this relationship but i do think greg i do think it's important that we redouble our efforts on the immigration issue because uh you know i mentioned that on the visa earlier there is every bit as much a case to be made that irish people are still discriminated against coming to come and live and work in the united states as they were back in the 1980s and we need to work on that in particular for a dunigal audience when i'm home the vast majority of the people i see who are taking a chance or undocumented in the u.s. they typically tend to be from dunigal and a lot of them from initial and i really think that the united states and irish americans needs to go to work to regularize their situation yeah right finally just larry that we saw that you know you talked about moving to the to the polls in america it's kind of somewhat i think uh happening here we have found ourselves in a situation whereby you know we've had this great relationship with america uh but over here the conversation was is that you know if you were a donald trump supporter you almost weren't welcome in this country yet you know they made up half of the voting population effectively uh are those scars maybe they're open wounds or are those scars still there or are we ever going to get back to to where we were at because we were having conversations here and someone would not come on the likes of a program like this or others and say they supported donald trump you know because they would probably have been lambasted or then we have people uh some might say over here with it had a non-healthy interest in in in donald trump's presidency and when i say unhealthy sorry i mean not a rational ether but it didn't make a great deal of sense why they could be so invested in it can you unravel any of what i've just said there i think there's a question in there somewhere yeah it's a tricky mystery uh but donald trump is that you know there's no question that there was a element of toxicity around him and and i should say a lot of my friends including lots of irish americans and irish born people did support donald trump but certainly the reaction to him over here was very very negative and was some good reason but what i think is important the irish government is copying onto this is it's very important to recognize that irish america is not monolithic it's republican it's democrat it's conservative it's liberal it's engaged islands engagement government business educational institutions at every level needs to be accommodating of that and needs to realize that there are differences between the way we see the world that shouldn't be a challenge it actually should be natural but some of those political biases and prejudices need to be overcome and we need to unite around uh the many things that we can unite around one of those has been uh and from an irish american point of view the good friday agreement and we see how that's played out on capitol hill so there's plenty there to go with plenty there to work on we just need to redouble our effort and maybe donald trump didn't cause division but but was um a figurehead that actually pulled the curtain back and showed what was there yeah oh 100 donald trump is not the cause of what ails america he is merely a symptom of it and there's a lot that there's a lot of difficulty there but uh what's what's it always said about americans we need to keep optimistic and hope for a better future right larry donnell larry donnelly the bostonian you say sorry you said this is uh getting a lot of interest in boston as well it is yeah i'm actually in the process of organizing a launch for the book in boston which i'm incredibly happy to be doing but it's on sale uh now in good book shops all around the country and online so i'd love it if listeners would buy it i hope it's a good read and if i come across it along the way i'd love to sign a copy take care of yourself thank you very much indeed larry donnelly author of the bostonian he's also a law lecturer at ny gollway and a commentator on uh both irish and american politics the 9 till noon show with national fuels pierce road letter kenny for all your solid fuel needs at the keenest prices 91 37 400 or national fuels dot ie island radio i'd like you to exceed my expectations ah you've heard then stay tuned we'll be right right right 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peculiar to me to see yesterday this sort of lack of interest by rt and i'm not rt bashing but you know it's a significant story a significant visual that took place in dublin very little interest in it seemingly there was a bit on the nine o'clock news but there was very little coverage but there was a great interest in and it's not that simple a thing to do putting in a freedom of freedom of information request to find out what civil servants were saying about all of those dealings and debates and exchanges they had with the defective block group or within it they said in these email exchanges that demands for redress by mocha homeowners were described as off the scale and giving rise to very serious concerns this was according to the civil servants speaking in last month's internal correspondence and we also learned from we'd learned earlier that the department of housing estimated the cost of redress for homes affected by mica as requested by property owners in donna goll mayo to be in and around 3.2 billion but we also learned in conversations after that that they didn't see any rhyme or reason to this figure it didn't seem to make any sense right so michael doherty's piero of the micro action group and joins us on the program now as always thanks for your time michael i appreciate it greatly morning greek right so um i suppose your reaction to this effort what this f y and the information contained when it these comments from the civil servants anything surprise you in it yeah i'm not particularly surprised because i know and we've all known for some time those of us that's been closely working with them over the summer that um they were hell bent on defending the old scheme that's the bottom line they were largely uh responsible for the transition of what was a 9010 scheme which was not ideal obviously to what was a lot less ideal a 6040 scheme through their administrative guidelines that took them four months to concoct and basically turn a 9010 scheme that may have been feasible to not for everybody but certainly um it may have got some homeowners at least underway it transformed into that to a near impossible scheme at 6040 so we know where they were at we know where the spirit of that and it really was nonexistent what we're seeing today is that being exposed again i believe it is very timely that this has come through now and again if you've been cynical about it you'd say you know we're about three weeks away from an announcement i expect that announcement to be the end of the first week in november and um again we've seen attempts before to pitch homeowner against homeowner those that are affected um you know at the mercy almost of those that are not affected and we have had a very strong media campaign we're now seeing evidence again of this what is going to cost the taxpayer and for civil servants to use terms like off the scale you know how unprofessional does it get you know the 3.2 billion you referred to there earlier we reverse engineered that number and we know where that number has now come from it's our 6600 houses that they estimate between dunigal and mayo they have allowed for complete demolition of every one of them houses and they have assumed that every one of them houses we're going to trigger a 500 000 euro cap which we know will not be the case so it was scaremongering that was best and it gave them a 3.2 billion number that they knew would be somewhat of a shock to many throughout the land and it had it had some it had some traction but we reversed a lot of that um the the mention on the hill type stuff we were able to put science to as opposed to uh runaway statements by civil servants it should know better and uh it showed clearly we were sitting in the mid table and actual construction costs is the second lowest county in the land so they're just very lucky the executive is very lucky that this is not happening across the the midland counties in the eastern seaboard counties or it would be an awful lot more than what it is right now so i think it's in poor taste i think it shows the pressure that they're under from politicians which is exactly the battle that we wanted and i think it's a battle royale going on between them right now and they're starting to squeak and we're starting to see this you know very uh underhanded type approach uh seeping through the pores now and uh it's exposing them from from for what they are all right tell us a bit more about that but let me just read out another couple of quotes here officials also raised concerns about the responsibility for the micah redress being shifted on to the state uh all right i mean there's no i mean that's no secret and said advice from the attorney general and the homeowner's submission regarding redress gave rise to very serious concerns they also want the development would move the department away from providing a humanitarian response to help homeowners remediate their homes to the provision of a grant scheme and compensation um and and then uh minister dara o brian has written to minister for finance pascal donahoe this back in last february and maybe he's changed his position then uh about banks providing lending to help people repair their homes he said financial support or lending for the scheme will be required by some owners uh homeowners in order to bridge the gap between the cap grant at 90 percent and the cost of full cost uh the costs of and the full costs of remediation work but we hope he's uh switched his position so are you saying there's a motivation behind this type of commentary being out in the public domain now i do believe so i i don't think it's any secret um as to the um you know the pressure that's on um right now between the the the the the elected government and the the non-elected permanent government um i do have it from solid and side sources that that battle has never been bigger than where it is right now um the even to the point where they're talking about if if government prevail there that could be a watershed for a lot more than just micah empire right so you know they are they're holding on to the power that they were they were always used to as civil servants and it has been really challenged now by our elected representatives for the first time because i believe we have our elected representatives in a corner here we went with the hashtag of who runs this country it trended very very strongly it has grabbed a lot of people and i think people are now waiting to see who comes out the right side of this i also know that uh darrow brain is fighting tooth and nail largely for what it is that the homeowners have asked for perhaps not everything but largely for that which is incomplete at complete odds to what the civil servants were prepared to offer and i think now you've got civil servants again uh putting stuff out there that and even some of the statements you know we're um you know quite unprofessional as well and and you know well it was a commentary on personalities and stuff it seems but just i mean right i think there is a strong view that the huge protest in dublin was buried to some extent in an rge right that yesterday i can't figure out why even if as i said earlier on the program even if they didn't care about mica odonigal why no one saw 50 children outside the parliament effectively with placards and personal letters as journalism gold right i can't understand that it was mentioned in the nine o'clock news briefly and then you're saying you know this suits civil servants to have this stuff out there yet this was off the back of an rge freedom of information request i mean if you connect all that things together it doesn't look you know it's suggesting certain things about the how the media is wrong then let's say yeah and again you know this has been such a massive learning curve for ourselves as ordinary homeowners you know yeah there's some of us with professional jobs and we we deal with issues and um the the type of thing we're seeing we may see in a business context but to see it at a national level to see it at a highest levels in the land is quite an eye-opener but i have to say you know we haven't been hoodwinked in any of this we have been abreast of it we're quite aware with what's going on i also would have to say we do have sympathetic ears uh within um both the civil servants and within the the political machine that is keeping us right here too because they do feel for us they do manage to take off the official's hat and look at it purely from a homeowner perspective and what we're putting up with and some of them are very sympathetic to our cause and they're keeping us right here and you know it's interesting what they have to feed back to us in terms of um that battle is taking place as you know as as one of the most senior guys i've been talking to will has said to me already in his 30 years on there he's never seen a battle like it so how do you think this is going to play out there i mean you talked about a decision in three weeks does that mean the time frame is slipping is that the extent of this battle or is that still in line with uh original time frames michael yeah again i have a fairly good authority here i know there was um you know a little flurry of excitement there the fact that darrow brain had got to the point where he was going to meet with the three party leaders and people may have thought that that was um his final document and he was just you know bouncing it off them first before coming to sign off on that that's not my understanding my understanding is that he's going to them to show the extent of difference that exists between what the civil servants are offering them and what he knows he needs to give the homeowners and he's looking for their support hence the reason that it's not a cabinet meeting the following week hence the reason that the cabinet meeting will be in three weeks time because there's still a lot of work to be done and he needs to gain their support in doing that that's the three party leaders in government right finally uh an invitation was sent to me home martin to come out and speak to these children yesterday he uh said he didn't get it i mean maybe it wasn't passed up on the line to him maybe there's a firewall that said uh you know you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't and you don't have plausible deniability having maybe never seen this invitation is it a distraction is it something you even feel worth is worth commenting on at this point he should have gone out but obviously he'd have to stand there for an hour an hour and a half and and listen to these very very difficult stories and then what what do you say at that point you know i mean maybe his advisors probably would have said to him if he knew it was the invite was there don't go out because you can't win either way what have you a commentary on that yeah i think you know we had uh roger goorman we had uh norma foley in the same positions that they come out and you know maybe they felt that what they did was as important to come out and be seen and uh to show at level support again like i said in the wee video last night you know it's maybe about expectations or expectations that they'd walk the line they would take all the letters of all the children and i think you know as parents we can understand you know and that would be our barometer in terms of what we would expect to happen my understanding is that they have never done anything like this before so the fact that they turned up at all was probably a big step for them but not far enough for us and we've seen that come through uh time and time again as far as uh the t-shirt is concerned we know for a fact that he got the letter we know we know that because it was responded to in barry carney has already put that out there so that that part's clear in terms of where did it fall down i'm not sure you know i don't tend to throw uh much things like that i think that's was some for a technicality perhaps it was advised not to come out of the case maybe but it was wrong to say that he didn't get the invite that was technically speaking wrong and i like to talk with the facts and and finally um how proud can we be of those young people and their families amazing wasn't it absolutely amazing greg and uh you've been in Dublin down there with me not that long back you know uh at the parade you saw you know you know and how proud you were if they don't go on that day you know when i looked at the videos i wasn't able to make it through work commitments yesterday but barry carney did and played an absolute blinder and coming up with the the process doing all the hard work and seeing it through as did lisa and and the rest of the team there as well and making it happen and you know i think our children that is proud and you know there's a generation that doesn't go all the stuff going to be walked over after we're long gone yeah and there are future politicians too it'll be interesting to see uh whether you were right around i don't know but it'll be interesting to see how things put out michael thanks very much as always thanks great take care of yourself michael doherty their pyro of the mica action group minister charlie mcconnellow joining us shortly the nine till noon show with national fuels setter kenny for a keen price on your home heating oil call national fuels on nine one three seven four hundred homeland fuel offers keeping you warm for less 40 k g premium doubles or easy flame coal 1699 buy 10 get one free one k g fire logs four for five euro 12 pack wood briquettes buy two for 10 euro shop in store or online at homeland dot ie special halloween offers at doherty centromovil inspired by centra irish angus soreloan steaks with peppercorn butter six euro centra fresh irish whole chicken 1.6 k g four euro 50 12 pack cant of guineas heineken calisburg blood wiser and 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bns credit union limited is regulated by the central bank of arland and you're very welcome back to the program extensive coverage is always of course of farming matters in the irish farmers journal they tell us that farmers could receive a maximum payment of 10 000 euro each under new flagship agri-environmental scheme in the next cap the 1.5 billion five-year scheme will have room for up to 50 000 farmers and will replace a glass and reap pilot programs that's just one element of it minister for agricultural trial and mcconnellogue joins us on the program now good morning to you minister thanks for taking time to speak to us good morning good morning greg right the number is here a mind boggling but of course to have to be spread out across an entire sector how important is this plan and how happy are you with it with its current form and i'm very happy with the greg and it's very it's massively important because it sets the course for irish agriculture for the next six years really up to the end of 2027 so the funding allocation that i announced yesterday will inform irish agriculture in each of the years for those next six years so getting it right and getting the getting a very significant financial commitment at the outset was really really important and i've been engaged in negotiations with the minister of public expenditure michael magra on this over the last number of months and i'm very happy with where it reached and with the the announcement you made yesterday with the t-shirt so basically what it is it's it's a 50 increase on the funding that would have been there from our national funding towards this compared to what was there in the outgoing cap so the previous cap the national funding was 1.9 billion euro and this cap is going to be 2.9 billion euro a full 1 billion euro extra and what that means that gives me the capacity to introduce schemes and to fund schemes well over the time ahead and it ultimately means that in terms of for dunigal farmers for example i think i have delivered a very very strong package and very strong schemes that will support family farms at the time ahead so central one of the key anchor schemes and that will be a new environmental scheme which will replace glass and aos and reps that went before that and in that environmental scheme i have 50 extra funding from what it would have been there before it will cover 50 000 farmers for 20 000 of those farmers which will cover a lot of a lot of whom will be in dunigal and there will be the capacity to earn up to a maximum of 10 000 euro and we're expecting an average payment in that scheme for of seven and a half thousand euro and then there's another stream which farmers will be able to earn a maximum of seven thousand with an average payment of five thousand but overall we will see the income delivered through that scheme to farmers being 50 percent more on average than what it was in the previous occasion also then for example what's really important in dunigal is support for suckler for suckler beef and suckler cows in the previous cap there was a beef data genomics program which was paid at a rate of 90 euro for the first 10 80 euro for the remainder i am introducing a beef carbon suckler efficiency scheme here which will which will deliver 150 euro for the first 10 cows and 120 euro for the remainder so a very significant anchor payment for beef sector in the time ahead and also then in relation to our sheep sector which will be important across the county a slight increase in the sheep and in the sheep support scheme from what was outgoing it will be 10 euro per euro as opposed to 12 euro per euro but that's the scheme which has been introduced in the last two or three years it was a scheme that wasn't there at all at the start of the last cap program but which is starting this cap program at a rate of 12 euro 12 euro so also there'll be significant investment there in relation to ANC's and on-farm investments significant investment in organics as well and knowledge transfer support for farm advisory services as overall a really significant support package in pillar two and just in relation to pillar one yeah Greg then which is the direct payments i've introduced front loading which means a next repayment for farmers on the first 30 hectares of their payment which will be really beneficial to many farmers in county dunny gall they will immediately from the start of the next cap program get an index get 42 euro front load of payment on their first 30 hectares which will be really important and also delivering the an eco scheme which is going to be a significant part of this of pillar one in the future and also introducing a maximum payment of 66 000 euro so that no farmer will get more than 66 in the previous cap it was 150 000 was the maximum payment and bringing that down to 66 000 euro which i think is a fair figure and that's to generate additional funds then which we can spread among smaller and medium-sized farmers as well equitable a more equitable share of but all roads sort of lead to and are filtered through the expectation on the farming community to reduce its emissions by some reports up to 30 percent by by 2030 and you know a lot of what you say there sounds very very positive but for many if not all those targets that are being reported are unachievable and leaves their business unsustainable well we haven't announced any targets yet so that's something the government will be doing in the next two or three weeks for each sector of the economy i think the two big challenges i i have to deliver on from an agricultural point of perspective this autumn Greg is firstly the funding package which announced yesterday i think that's going to deliver in a serious way for for farmers across tony gala indeed across the country the other big challenge is getting the emissions targets right for irish agro culture in the 21 to 30 percent range so obviously that's something that won't be clarified until we actually published the full but it's in that range well i'd be giving you an exclusive Greg you know what it would be no harm is it in that range it would be i know it would be no harm but listen this this will be a cross-government decision and uh all all sectors will be announced at the same time as part of the climate action plan but to give a clear outline of my objectives in relation to delivering what the target will be for irish agriculture it is to ensure that we need to set a target that will ensure we can continue to produce the food that we do whether that be beef or whether it be milk or whether it be tillage or horticulture we do we are world leaders in relation to the food we produce at the moment and it's important we continue to do that and that the target we get facilitates isn't doing that but it's also really important that across the board in terms of reforming practices we reduce the significantly and to the best of our capacity the emissions footprint of how we produce that food so in terms of setting that target the engagement i've had across with other government colleagues and obviously each minister will be batting batting for their own sector in this regard but the clear and unequivocal objective and principles i've brought to the table is that we must support farmers to continue to produce the food but set a target that actually is ambitious in terms of reducing the farmers being asked to take on to achieve that if farmers being asked to take on too much of responsibility in this regard because you know if i was a farmer and i'm looking at you know looking at the skies full of of aircraft though sometimes their impacts overstated but you know the fact that we're standing potentially the use of how we generate electricity you know with with with dirty fuels the banning of p-tier but watching as one co-go ship after another arrives into Dublin port from far flung corners of Europe and then loaded on to you know diesel hungry articulated lorries to to drive it around the country if i were looking at all of that i'd go well you know get our farbacks look at other areas and give us a break well it's a it's a very fair point Greg and every sector of society will have to carry its weight and shoulder its weight over the next 10 years as we meet that climate challenge which is undoubtedly very real and my key objective as minister is to ensure that the target that is set for agriculture is proportionate one is a doable and deliverable one and which facilitates farmers in continuing to produce the beef and the milk and the food that we do but alongside doing that reduces the footprint of how we produce it and also produces in a way that is is cognizant and in sync with the environment around us so that we can make those make those steps as well in relation to addressing the biodiversity challenges we have and the funding that published yesterday or announced yesterday will be important in supporting farmers in doing that and so listen obviously the next two or three weeks will tell the tale in terms of the sectoral targets for each part of the economy and determine to ensure that agriculture does play its part and i mean we're starting from a strong position but if i'm reading your memoirs in you know 30 years time you know will there be a chapter where you say you know in the early 2020s you know the attitude of government was that the future there was no future for farming or indeed fishing you know because that's how it feels no it's it shouldn't feel that way and i can assure you it's not going to be that way and as minister i ensure it's not that way and the starting point a key anchor in that is the funding the 50 funding increase sent out yesterday the second point the second key challenge this autumn is getting a delivery or a target a sectoral target which will be deliverable for agriculture but listen our starting point from agriculture point of view is a very strong one we're already one of the most sustainable producers of food in the world we're a grass based pasture based system which is quite unique in terms of looking at many other countries that produce food so that's where we currently start with but in terms of the year ahead and it's not just agriculture it's going to affect all parts of our lives whether it be energy or transport or construction we all have to have an eye in relation to how what we do and how we live our lives interacts with the environment and impacts on the environment so from a cultural point of view and from a consumer point of view consumers in the years ahead are increasingly becoming aware that and want to know the food that they're producing and buy or they're buying is as produced as seen as sustainably as it possibly can so we need to hold that the world leading position we have by becoming even more sustainable and doing as much as we possibly can to reduce the footprint of the food and that's the way we will maximize the value of the food that we sell and ultimately really put agriculture in the strongest possible footing for the years ahead by maximizing the income of farmers at farm level too so I think we have a very strong trajectory and a very strong platform in which we can set agriculture up and as minister I'm very determined to deliver that I think the first key part of that was yesterday in the budgetary aspect and secondly now we'll be in getting a proportionate climate or sectoral target and just to make this point and farmers as I say farmers are doing a massive amount and will be doing more and are willing to do more and will be paid for doing more but there is a real reality here that we all have to play a role no matter what our profession in terms of meeting that because it's a real challenge but it's about time that you guys start telling us the advantages of that how it will help the economy how it will help us how we will benefit the jobs it will create because it up until now and I'm not this is not a criticism directly of you right by the way so I hope you don't think it is it's about you know you're responsible this is what you might do start selling it to us as the advantage you know how much might we actually save over the course of five years driving an electric car if we retrofit our home how much money does that put in our pockets how many jobs will be created by employing people to retrofit homes you know you know this type of like sell it to us rather than saying we'll have to have do you get where I'm coming from I think we need to look at the messaging of this I do and I agree and if you listen to what I'm saying I mean my messaging is very clear in this from an agriculture point of view great which is that we agriculture will get stronger by being as sustainable as possibly can be and by having our emissions as low as they possibly can be because it'll make our food and it'll ensure if it continues to be and it becomes even more more desired by the customers that we sell it to and by the people who eat it and that will make it more profitable and ultimately will be much more successful and profitable for family farms okay turned it for example would be to lose some of that would be to lose that status we have and become eroded and see the value of our produce reduced so this is the way that will be a win-win for agriculture the key the key to that though is continuing to produce the food that we produce I guess you and just the wider point I'd make very brief because I want to ask you about another thing as well every country every country has has like target you know significant targets to meet to you know signed up at the conference and the climate you know the Paris four years ago and we haven't been meeting those so far and actually most countries haven't we have to start meeting those and we shall talk more about that if every country does meet those and even achieve that the objective that is to prevent global warming going above one and a half degrees by the year 2050 so that's the scale of the challenge we have and we all know how we feel when our body should be 36 and a half to 38 and a half it's very significant if the climate warms by that we know the impact that means well we'll all hopefully we'll all hopefully want to work hard yeah actually we'll all hopefully do our bit um are are we seeing the biggest battle between civil servants and government over mic at the moment as it's been labeled by some well listen the work is ongoing I've been liaising very closely with the Minister for Housing Darrell Bryan and the Taoiseach and my government colleagues and other party leaders on it and the important and key thing is here that we get the scheme right what I've said very clearly is my focus isn't on whether it's this week or next week that the scheme comes out my focus on is on making sure that the scheme is the right one and that it stands the test of time and the one we we have a degree now by cabinet cabinet that are the one that people will see will enable them to fix their homes whether they do that as part of the scheme this year next year or the year after because this scheme will have to be in place for a number of years to ensure all homes get fully fixed and so listen it's obviously that the ball is very much in the government's court now in relation to this there is a very strong understanding and commitment from the government to address the scheme to get the scheme right and I'm working closely with my cabinet colleagues and government colleagues in relation to actually achieving that and I'm confident we will get it get the outcome we all need. Mayhill Martin said he wasn't invited out to meet the children yesterday I've saw the email and the correspondents that suggest he did know was he invited did he misspeak did he have a lapse in memory what was the story did you listen I mean I think in many ways it's a bit of a red herring obviously the teacher wasn't aware that he got that email as you can understand I've known the teacher we get hundreds and thousands of emails in a week so and many of the children came down and the odd letters addressed for the minister for children and the minister for education and I had been asked to get to bring the minister for education and the minister for children by the by the families to come and meet them so I spoke to minister Foley and spoke to minister Gorman and the three of us went out to meet with the families together and to meet with them and both minister Foley and minister Gorman spoke with many of the children and I spent a long time there speaking to them all all and their parents and also addressed all of the children and explained to them how I'm working so hard and how the government is working very hard to get the scheme right to fix their homes so the teacher just to let you know the teacher did this press conference that the funding he did that press conference with me from half nine uh till half ten yesterday morning he had to leave the press conference early to go and do leaders questions I stayed on till 11 the the teacher was then in the dull chamber from 12 until half three yesterday so that he on on teacher's business tied to the dull chamber so that was the reality facing the teacher he obviously hadn't seen that email that came in but uh uh given the time frame and the fact he was actually tied to the dull chamber and indeed during that period in the dull chamber answered many questions on Micah and confirmed his commitment and the government's commitment to working to deliver for families okay minister that's the key objective so and and 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The LDF structure was built at NASA Langley Research Center and shipped to Kennedy Space Center in 1983 where experiments were mounted to it in preparation for launch. These experiments and the structure itself were designed to better define and determine the effects of the low earth orbit environment where man may someday live as he extends his exploration of the solar system. The advent of LDF, NASA's Long Duration Exposure Facility, took place in April of 1984. It would become one of NASA's most successful satellites. The first spacecraft ever to take advantage of the space shuttle's unique capability to deploy experiments in space for long exposure times and then return them safely to earth for laboratory analysis. Using a remote manipulator arm, Terry Hart lifted the LDF from the shuttle cargo bay and placed it in the proper position for free flight in space. The LDF's initial orbit was 257 nautical miles above the earth and inclinated at 28 and one-half degrees. As it orbited in free flight, one end always pointed toward space, the other always pointed toward the center of the earth. For five and one-half years, LDF would carry 57 experiments in 86 trays mounted on its exterior. It would be the only source of data to measure the effects of prolonged space exposure on spacecraft materials and living organisms. The retrieval of LDF in January of 1990 marked the beginning of scientific investigation for the more than 200 researchers and scientists who had launched their experiments five and one-half years earlier. This time, astronaut Bonnie Dunbar operated the manipulator arm while astronaut Marsha Ivins took the first investigative photographs. Ten thousand specimens in virtually every part of the facility will provide information about what happens when things stay in space for long periods of time. The facility and experiments will provide unprecedented data on the magnitude of induced radioactivity in materials during prolonged exposure in space. The interstellar gas experiment will provide insight into the formation of the galaxies as captured interstellar gas atoms are analyzed. Cosmic dust experiments will provide insight into the evolution of the solar system through studies of the unparalleled quantity of captured micrometeoroid material. Radiation experiments will provide data on radiation intensity and its effects on living organisms. Studies of thousands of materials associated with design of spacecraft structures, thermal control systems, power systems, optics, electronic systems, and propulsion systems will be analyzed for environmental effects of radiation, vacuum, extreme temperature variations, atomic oxygen, and collision with space materials. Eventually, all spacecraft and spacecraft systems will be designed using materials that have been validated for long-duration space exposure. For the remainder of the mission, LDF was safely tucked away in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay. It remained there through the shuttle landing at Edwards Air Force Base and the piggyback ride to the Kennedy Space Center. In the Orbiter Processing Facility, investigators got their first glimpse of LDF. Initial examinations focused on the interrelationship of all experiments and the LDF structure. Then the experimental trays were removed and distributed to investigators for data analysis. The science experiments hold exciting revelations regarding the evolution of the cosmos and biological effects on long-duration space exposure as they relate to the presence of humans in space. LDF technology experiments will establish a database for use in designing spacecraft, such as Space Station. The most publicized experiment is SEEDS, which offers a wide variety of opportunities for student experiments. Twelve and one-half million SEED packages were distributed to upper elementary through university-level students. American students and students of foreign countries have become interested in science and the scientific method of investigation by growing and comparing tomato plants from control seeds which are kept on Earth and experimental seeds which were housed on LDF as it orbited the Earth. LDF and its experiments are just beginning to define and determine the effects of the lower Earth orbit environment. As investigators interpret their data, they grow confident in the models they are using to accurately predict this environment. All space vehicles that fly in Earth orbit will benefit from LDF. Space Station Freedom will be its first major benefactor. The LDF structure designed for reuse may be available for use on future LDF missions.


Hello there, it's Sandy Alnok, and today I am celebrating my 10 year art anniversary. Not 10 years of making art, but 10 years of being an independent artist. And I've got a drawing to share with you and some stories. So settle in, grab a cuppa, and let's sit down and have a chat. Have you ever had one of those standing on the precipice moments in your life? When you had the training, you had a foundation under you.  My last day of working for a normal paycheck was exactly 10 years ago today, and I remember it like it was yesterday. I got up that first day of being unemployed, getting out of bed with just a short walk across the hall to my art studio, carrying a hope and a prayer that day one would somehow be the start of a new life as an independent artist.  I had just quit my perfectly good day job with a temporary plan, a minimum wage salary to meet my more than minimum wage bills. After working for free as executive director of a charity for years while holding down said day job, the board had finally agreed to pay me a small stipend for the art and administrative work that I was doing for the remaining 18 months of the organization's shelf life. At least that was something as I tried to figure out how I was going to bring in money as an artist. I found myself that first morning standing out on that cliff's edge at the entrance to my art studio, my toes wiggling nervously as they felt the breeze of the open air ahead. I had a glass of juice and a bowl of cereal in my hands, and while having breakfast at my work table for the first time, I was able to decide for myself what my day ahead was going to look like. I was committed to moving forward, that is truly about all I knew that day. I have to admit the years since that morning have been the hardest working ones of my life. Doing what I loved was a dream come true, but it required an array of skills in addition to creating art, building websites, keeping books, planning social media content, keeping up with tech, and it's continued that way, living the creative slash administrative life day after day for a decade. I've often thought about these pushed out of the nest moments in my life. We've all experienced that feeling when it was time to move out and get an apartment, a new job, making a relationship commitment, taking out a first car loan. I even remember how grown up and terrified I was when I bought my first real sofa on credit. I was taking on my first quote unquote boring adult debt, and with that, I had closed a door to ever moving back in with my parents. I would never trade in those feelings as scary as they are. Those huge leaps forward, standing on an abyss knowing that the only thing left to do is to lift one foot and place it forward, understanding that it is time to fly. Years of training now to be deployed, baby steps no more. The investment poured into me by mentors preparing me for this day. The moment when it's time to see what this artist is made of. This is also the feeling that I relive when I'm working on certain art pieces. Not just a simple drawing, but when I have an idea, a crazy idea, something that might not make sense, something that I may not really know what it's going to look like or how to get there. But I have a clue. I want to tell a story, create a feeling, pull together disparate ideas. I have enough knowledge to be dangerous, just enough to take a step up to that ledge and take that leap. There are plenty of times that feeling is rewarded with a belly flop. Maybe in the middle of the piece, it becomes clear that more training or practice is needed. And it's way too easy to see that flop as the end of that story. But it's really just another step on the journey. Other times the reward is that airplane takeoff moment. Feeling the runway moving faster and faster underneath you until the land starts to become smaller with all its negativity and the butterfly-inducing lift leads to getting lost in the art and in the process. I can't say that I've had more takeoffs than belly flops in my day. Some of my flights have had their fair share of turbulence as well. But I can definitely say that over time, especially in these last 10 years, my belly is scraping the ground a lot less often. It takes a long while for our art venture to feel like we have arrived. But I can promise you with steady practice, progress will come. My mantra is just to keep taking off day after day. Every piece is a new opportunity to fly. I know that I've grown because now standing on the edge of that cliff has transformed from the terror of gravity into a moment of excitement at the possibilities to come. I don't take this 10-year journey for granted. Many businesses never even last five years. And I owe such a debt of gratitude to my mentors, my patrons, students, followers, art collectors, and business partners who have taken a chance on me. Bless you all for your love of art and thank you for coming along on this journey for trusting me and supporting me. For months leading up to this milestone, I've become quite introspective and maybe it's also caused by aging. Hard to say. I'm reminded of all that I've learned from falling down and getting back up and also developing my own rituals as an artist and controlling conscious thought patterns to keep myself creatively encouraged as an artist who's alone in her studio all day long. And I'd like to share that journey with those who'd like to go down that road with me. I don't promise I'm any pro since my best learning comes from stumbling into walls, but I hope I have a little wisdom I can pass on and make your journey a little bit easier. To that end, I've done something a bit scary. I've started a sub-stack. My friend Nisha, the sneaky artist, talked me into it a few weeks ago after a long conversation on a boat dock about what I would even focus a sub-stack on. I've been going through my journals and sketchbooks where I've written and sketched lessons that I've learned from life and ways to turn them into self-motivation for my own art journey. It's already been helpful just revisiting some of these notes that I've forgotten. Each Monday, I'll be posting one of these encouraging stories in a newsletter for paid subscribers to my sub-stack. It's about a dollar a week. I'm thinking of this like a journal to get these scribbles out of my notebooks and into a searchable place so I can see where I've been growing. I'll also be collecting my daily sketches on sub-stack, and that part is free to subscribe by email. Please know that I do not expect most people or even any people to join me for this journaling adventure at all. There is so much email flying at us, I do not hold it against you if it's just one thing too many, and you want to throw something at me. I totally get that. But as an encouragement to come join me there, I'll be giving away this drawing next week to a subscriber on my sub-stack. My friend Lisa got a peek at it when I texted it to her a few days ago, and she loved it so much that she'll be hoping she wins, and maybe if she's my only subscriber, that will make her dreams come true, and we will both be happy. On YouTube throughout August, I'm going to pick out a few of my video tutorials from years gone by and redo them in a new way. It might mean redrawing the subject, using a different medium, a different vibe. Who knows? I'd love your suggestion of an oldie that you'd like to see revived. The drawing today is actually inspired by my very first video ever, my belly flop introduction on YouTube, and I think it is actually the worst video on this website. Hello, friends. This is Sandy, and I'm going to give you my very first ever tutorial on coloring. I set up a little contraption with my camera. I'm not really sure how well it's going to work, but we're going to give it a shot. Now I want to add a little bit of ground underneath of him. And this is where people get very confused, and they get very worried about making it blend or making it look natural. I add just a little bit. You don't have to add much. It can be just a little line like that. If you use a light enough color, you don't have to use a blender on it. I told you I had belly flops. Isn't that proof that I have done my share of falling down? I still don't even know why I haven't deleted that video, maybe just to remind myself where I began. In today's mixed media version of this drawing, I've turned Snoopy into my dog Vienna, since I don't want the Schultz estate coming at me for the $4.82 that this video might bring in on YouTube. And Vienna is painting her brother Gialo in gouache. She's such a talented pup. Please leave me a comment with your pick for a video to revisit during this month, and also tell me about one of your standing-on-the-cliff moments. I'd love to hear your story. If you'd like to join me for the newsletter, there's a sub-stack link in the Doobly Do. And if you become a paid subscriber, you can actually join the conversation each week there. And while you're in the Doobly Do, there's a link to the sale in my Fine Art Shop where I just added a bunch of new paintings and sketches. The coupon code is posted over in the shop itself. I appreciate that you stuck around to the end. Please do subscribe if you haven't already. Leave me a big old thumbs up because it means a lot to getting this channel viewed by more artists who want to learn.  I'll see you again in the next video.


Hi, and welcome to the CMC markets week Monday weekly webinar with myself market analyst David Madden Today's date is Monday the 25th of September and it's just gone one minute It's just gone quarter past 12 as always with the webinar itself As always, we have to go through the risk warning side slides I'll leave them on screen for a couple of sec for a few seconds You have a quick read through the risk warning slides And then I'll continue on with the webinar. It's essentially saying it'll keep my appliance department happy I don't know what would basically do but basically with risk warning sense is that anything that we cover in the webinar today Should not be construed as explicit investment advice. It is just thoughts and commentary And some personal opinions, but nothing is to be construed as actual explicit investment or trading advice Now that we've gotten the Risk warnings out of the way we can now actually focus on the webinar itself So a quick recap of what we've seen this morning Actually, oddly enough We've Germany has actually been the best performer in the major European markets Even though the German election was a bit muddied the wars have been politically muddied Angela Merkel Her party the Christian Democratic Union. It was the largest party both assured the vote declined and It's it's not looking likely that we're going to be having any form of a coalition government formed soon And if you do have a coalition government, what exactly is a coalition going to look like? So the lack of political stability From Germany the strongest and most powerful and most influential country in both the European Union and also the eurozone Has obviously led to a bit of political uncertainty but oddly enough the weak euro has actually and the Worst unexpected German IFO numbers has actually meant that the German market is actually performing better than the UK and it's And it's other major eurozone counterparts not to say that particularly strong It's just holding up pretty well and all things consider to consider and it was a kind of a very kind of middle-of-the-road election There was no kind of there was there was no kind of Clear clear winner of this of this of this election So therefore if we do have some a coalition formed down the line It's not particularly likely it could take several weeks or months of horse trading and wrangling And it's still it's going to be yet to be determined what the coalition is going to look like So because of moves over the weekend euro has been weaker because of that Also, we've seen a bit of uncertainty in Europe as a whole the North Korean situation is the bubbling way in the background The Spanish market the Ibex is performing the worst We also had some problems at the back end of last week and let's continue it over to this day Today is Monday on the Sunday ahead of us in six days time Catalonia It's going to be having a referendum on independence on the seating from the rest of Spain Obviously there was some there was some There were some political scenes of political rest out of the capital out of the capital region last week And that led to a set off in the Spanish market and we're seeing a continuation of that today adding to the political mix The part of Kurdistan which is in inside the sovereign state of Iraq is also holding an independence referendum today So that that's gonna You could see some extra volatility in the old market on account of that And then also Shinzo Abe the Prime Minister of Japan also announced a snap snap election for Later next month But by and large There hasn't been a whole lot of moves over the actual over over the over the past Say 72 hours in terms of the actual financial market moves a lot has been going on in the political world And then a whole lot has been going on in the actual financial markets in terms of the size of the moves Taking a look now the usual kind of rundown and setup of our of our webinar talk about what happened over the weekend We'll have a look at the week ahead. We go through the major markets What I'll do is as always if you it's at any markets that I haven't covered that you would like me to cover Just please stick them in the box when I'm kind of going through the process of going through charts I don't happen to look look at the those charts for you I show to you every single week. I like I need to show it on our website here Under the news analysis section is where you can find or we are Some of the articles that we post goes on the news analysis section. I'll show you where the other ones are posted later on Click on the topic Third one down weekly outlook and I'll give you a breakdown of our weekly outlook That is posted every single week talking about the major economic indicators and corporate stories That are on the that on the pipeline for the next few days To be perfectly honest between corporate stories and also between economic data It isn't the most interesting around on Thursday. We've US GDP on Friday We've UK GDP taking a look at the corporate calendar Obviously if your positions in these stocks, they're important to you importance to yourself, but pretty perfectly honest They're not the most they're not the most popular close brothers and I to serve this company in the UK They have numbers of tomorrow Nike have Q1 numbers out from the US tomorrow taking a look Later part of the week We obviously have a number of companies, but Christmas Carillion is going to be the next one to watch out for on Friday David in the news are fortunate for the wrong reasons in the in the last number of months So we could see some volatility out of Carillion on Friday Taking a look now all the footsie. I can see now. It's just back north of the important 7300 levels. So we start off the ball rolling. We're talking about we're talking about the footsie 100 So it's I mentioned how it's I kind of commented on how it's back north of 7,300 The importance for that is because if you look here from say late June Through well until September. It's a lot of kind of a lot of support found in around that region 7,300 down to around 7,200 and 88 quite a bit once the decent support level in this region crash through Last Two Fridays ago and it's been making its way higher since so we've just managed to kind of eat north of the 7,300 level if you continue to push higher and notice how negative the momentum is declining So it could be a sign. I think it's are kind of changing around if you continue to push higher I mean hold north of 7,300 That the kind of the next hurdle potentially beyond that will be the eternity moving average which comes into it Which comes into play at 7,300 and 27 And then north of that we could be looking towards you could find something to resist potentially find some resistance a 7,300 and 89, which is the fifthly moving average notice how we saw Not and also with the one or two moving average at 7,400 and 18 Notice how we did see a better consolidation in around this area. So the these metrics have On occasion acted as a resistance and also support in the past so potentially people can push higher This could be the next region we would be looking towards should we kind of move lower I've got to continue into kind of downward trend. I mean have you been in recently on the footsie We've been looking back towards Friday's low at 7,200 and 33 and then south of that we will be looking back to two Fridays ago at 7,195 and if you break that Seeing as that that was already a multi-month low should we go south of 7,195 The next potentially big level to watch out for will be the April low at 7,088 Taking a look now at the German market So the German basically essentially for the last couple of weeks the market German markets broke out of this This kind of negative kind of downward kind of channel that has been in smash out of that Well, well easily exceeded the fifthly moving average exceeded the one-day moving average But now the last five or six trading sessions in some Occasionally gaining ground but notice how positive momentum is slipping So it kind of suggests at the kind of positive sentiment that we do have and the kind of the eagerness and the bulls is sort of running out of Steam some what? So levels to kind of watch out for on the Germany 30 on the Dax if if we do break north of this this price here But the end of this day and the high of July 12,670 years Then potentially the next step of the watch out for will be 12,840 but if you do manage to kind of pull back and as I said buying momentum has been sliding recently So we could see a bit of a pullback should be should be see a downward move in the Dax We could potentially find support at the one-day moving average at 12,466 notice how it acted as support here While the market was falling and then it made a clear decisive break north of it when the market was rising So we could potentially see some support in that in that area here 12,466 I showed you move south of that We could be looking back down towards the lows here at 12,333 and then down to the fifthly moving average at 12,276 Just know I was have a quick look at the Swiss market. I'll be perfectly honest with you It's not a market eyes Model for glossy, but I will be sure to to give it a look over now So this is a multi-chart. So this is a very much kind of big picture what we're looking at here This is the whole credit crisis move and broadly speaking Along with global equities from 2009 largely broadly speaking the market has been pushing higher This is I'm looking at a chart I always like to look at the kind of furthest out you kind of top down the analysis as it's called looking for the big picture And they kind of working your way in so what we can kind of clean here from this broadly speaking from 2009 onwards Along with a lot of actually indices around around the world broadly speaking pushing higher And then taking a look now Notice how also kind of monthly momentum is quite strong as well So we got our team positive broadly speaking a positive move for the for the Swiss the Swiss market As you can see here over this over Most global markets did have a bit of a side or a downside move throughout 2016 only to kind of then push higher yet again Taking a look now My preferred chart really would be the daily chart big picture Tell you know what we can see here in line with the kind of weekly chart and also multi-chart is that the markets is pushing higher What we can see here is that we've been sort of range bound ever since it kind of took to what north of 8,800 It's been sort of you know cap between 9,200 to the top 8,800 at the bottom These to be obviously potentially big levels so what to watch out for should you break north or south of That of that particular range where the top end of the range now So we could potentially see is we may see some setting of pressure come in as if and when we approach 9,200 but if but given that we can see the markets been moving higher over the last few weeks As you can see here positive momentum is still quite strong So so if we do happen to break out to the north of the kind of that's called that 9,200 Potentially we could then be looking up towards 9,400 and then potentially 9,600 On the downside should be breaks break below this year equal I said 8,800 but to be probably be more exact may want to kind of look at this level here Which was the August low at 8,000 eight on sorry 8,725 also though It's also not too far away from the tuner day moving average and if you look at this market here The tourney moving average Didn't find a bit of support back in December 2016 So gonna go to show you how strong the market is if for basically all the 2017 The Swiss 20,000 200 has been north or to 20 rather has been north of the tourney moving average So if you do see moves lower in the in the Swiss market, we could potentially see some buying come into play In around the 200 water day moving average at just shy of 9,000 and then south of that I see goes because it did a sort of a range between the 8,800 We got an 8,725 if we go south of that would obviously be taking it to a multi-month low And then that's something you actually potentially could be concerned about a break around the tourney moving average Could set us back to this place here The low from April at 8,500 So turning our attention now, so we've covered the European markets turning our attention now to the fairly strong Broadly speaking bullish US markets We have seen a split bit of a pullback in the Dow Jones in the US 30 It's the trend is very much is very much to the upside And buying buying the dips has been a popular strategy with some traders over the last number of months Should we see any pullbacks in the Dow? We could potentially find support at 22,600 2669 south of that potentially at 22,100 880 and then below that again potentially in a 20,058 Now also as the market is coming off here ever so slightly We also are see a bit of a cooling in positive in positive momentum So given that the price is edging lower and positive momentum is coming off You know that they're both kind of moving in the same direction So we could potentially see a bit of a wider or deeper retracement that we have seen recently In some of the as opposed to some of the booms while the market was pushing higher And then to the upside should be resumed They kind of they kind of fairly Polish trend that has been in the last three months traders to look at towards a kind of big figures 22,500 600 700 and so on It is a fairly looking similar chart when we talk about the S&P 500 You know record highs followed by if you kind of pull back said a bit of a cooling of positive momentum So very obviously, you know, you can see that it's pushing higher We have seen a bit of a cooling in the last couple in the last few training sessions. We've seen a kind of the recent America come off ever so slightly This is a good example of why I like to look at momentum indicator So as the market was going on here this point onwards you're creating fresh record highs You could see the positive even the momentum indicator point that momentum positive momentum is increasing So you could kind of be more confident that that the trend Is is going to last because price is moving higher at the same time the rate of Increase in momentum is the rate in the rate of the buying is also increasing But notice how we see the price cooling off and we ought to see a cooling off in positive momentum So we could potentially see a bit of a move lower in the S&P 500 and areas to potentially watch out for for support in 2488 and then south of that 2480 and then if we do see a further the pullback it might be down towards the 50 day moving average 2470 similar view though the big picture is That markets the S&P is quite strong. So it's it's possibly more likely that we could see a Continuation of record highs being set because as I mentioned buying buying on the dips Has been something of an issue. I do appear to be having I I'm not sure if you guys can still hear me enough We do are having fortune having some issues here. Would you mind please typing in the box if you can't hear me? Can everyone hear me is everything going okay? We just had some we had some Technical you can't hear me excellent. We had some technical issues Just sit tight a fortune. We just had some technical issues and the system logged myself out It's to do with the internet in the overall office. It's on our end Not on your end. I do apologize. Can everyone Can you see the screen? Okay Apologies for that. We just had some technical issues on our side It was to do with the overall big kind of the network in our office disappeared to kind of had a slight wobble there But I'm seeing signs that things are back to normal if everyone can see and hear me And if I'm pleased to type in the box because I don't want to be leaving anyone behind When we proceed with the webinar because it does appear that things are back to normal I'll just put the Yes, oh excellent. So it appears that it's only minor disruption. I was just talking about the S&P 500 of the ring of my watch list I'll be back on track with the webinar Pick up where I left off. I believe I was saying that we have seen some by the Bible on the pullbacks Has been popular strategy by some traders for the S&P 500 in recent weeks seeing as Here's we go etch. We kind of get we've seen a lot of new record highs being kind of matched up often on a daily back-to-back day-to-day basis so As I mentioned, we are seeing a bit of a cooling and volume pressure about that particular there that may potentially Attract some buyers to enter the fold and look into looking to the upside. We've been looking towards 22,510 2520 and 1340 and so on because the big picture for the S&P has been has been has been very bullish We see a lot of record highs Recently, we're not seeing any kind of indication that the final momentum that that we're not seeing any kind of signs of a Kind of a major reversal on the horizon Seeing as as it conversely talking about the price of gold gold has been Broadly speaking and in a downward trend for the last couple of weeks Was for over two weeks now because it was two Fridays ago Gold hate at that 13 month high and then ever since then it has been giving up the ground Notice how the price of gold sold off quite aggressively. We had the Fed Fed recent Fed meeting here on the Wednesday the Fed reserve Still pointing towards a rate hike in December whether the market believes that or not is another thing They raised their growth forecast, but they also lowered their inflation Forecast and what we've seen here on the back of that continued hours now. We're selling gold But notice how we've been seemed to be kind of resting in around the 58 moving average And so this is potentially going to now be an important level to watch out for the price of gold It is worth noting that we had sort of what's called kind of inside days or by after this after this large move lower on Thursday The movies on Friday remain within the range of Previous day and also you can see similar move here. We're on Today's days and over yet, but so far we have one hand We haven't taken out the highs of Friday or Thursday for the same time We haven't taken up the lows of Friday So we're still up above the low of last week I know that now that we're seeing it at the market hover in around the fifth day moving average Which is in around 1280 a 1290 region. We could potentially see Some so some buyers enter the fold in around here Notice how as the price Was pushing lower. We saw positive momentum decline then it swung negative and it's still very much in the negative side But we're just not it's almost like the rate of change of selling pressure is remained unchanged because it's It reaches quite high level here and has really increased or decreased beyond that So, you know as we could see a fresh ball of selling that we could smash through the fifth day moving average That maybe reflected by a ramp up in negative momentum or potentially as we often see here In looking at previous examples or mine is a gradual increase followed by a dash gradual deep decrease And that is reflected by a turn around in the price So something to watch out for and gold should we move south of the fifth day moving average, which is in around the kind of 1290 region Next potential level maybe for support could be in here at this all at this pullback here in August at 1276 and in south of that at the one or day moving average at 1269 notice how we saw kind of an overlapping of the what the 50 moving average and the 100 a moving average in price of gold in Early August. 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They were acting in around Apologies for that they were acting Provide a bit of support for the metal So these areas are as they have a bit of form with the path as you would say Have active support we could see them acting as a poor potentially in the future or for the 50 moving average at the present I move south of the fifth of the one or day moving average at 1269 Would be something to be concerned about and that could be an indication that we would potentially on track to the turning moving average at 1245 but if you do see more buyers into the fold here And if you do get a break north of 1300 next level to watch out for potentially to the upside 1360 30 34 and 1358 30 58 the 13th one time and then north of that will be the next potential level of resistance Could be a 1375 which was the 2016 high and then a break north of 3075 May then bring the psychological important 13 and 1400 level into play as he mentioned about the Turkish Sorry apologies Kurdish region of Iraq is having it as a referendum on independence today what we're seeing as I mentioned we could see some Some volatility in the all mark on the back of that both Brent and WTI are higher on the day actually in terms of you kind of the Terms of the geography the issue is Iraq is obviously a major all-producing country and And the relatively large amount of the oil is in the northern part of the sovereign state of Iraq Which comes in which is also and they can offend diagram if you will of the Kurdish Of the Kurdish nation and if the Kurdish part section of Iraq 10 looks to secede from the rest of Iraq We could see political upheaval. We could see disruption to production of all It's why we're seeing higher prices in both all contracts Notice how we've been in a fairly clear and concise offer trend for Brent Since basically end of June pushing higher on Brent We've even actually managed to actually trade only in the last few minutes because it puts this This line here on a few years before the webinar become even as you manage to trade ever so slightly north Of this line here, so it looks like we've actually for the price of For the price of bread it would appear that it's been created a new high in for for bread oil for the for the year for the year to date for 2017 so bullish That the momentum is clearly with the polls and should be kind of continue to kind of break north of this line here at a third, I guess price action here of This price here which comes in which is in a price action of Apologies for that 57 17 73 cents should be a break north of actually make a decisive break note of that that level and then may potentially come support for From going forward and like levels to watch off for beyond that will be $58 a barrel $59 a barrel and $60 a barrel because bearing in mind when we get to the kind of $58 to $60 reaching in the price of oil It takes us back to a time when oil was moving quite fast around that if you recall here in the kind of In the kind of mid 2015 era. We saw that a Fast sell off the price of also there wasn't really a whole lot of levels to watch off for on the downside It's quite likely moved so quickly Just just to reiterate should you make it a slice of break north of where we are in around here If you go north of $58 we the next potentially kind of big levels to watch off for a Brent Might be in $59 and $60 per barrel It's a similar looking chair, but not quite the same for the price of WTI hasn't hasn't had it hasn't had they kind of quite as the same They're bullish uptake that that Brent has had disruption caused by couple of hurricanes in the United States Knocked out the capacity and operation ability at the final is the US and the fact of the demand as this hasn't really been as strong since conversely with Capacity being knocked out for the operation in the United States all of a sudden that makes Brent all the more attractive For people in the rest of the world So therefore you have the kind of disparity between the two or Brent becomes more demand WTI is less than the man's hence the widely of the prices But on the less broadly speaking price of WTI has been pushing higher as you can see today We're trading at the highest level of that seems as late May And WTI should we continue on and they can offer trend that we've been in Broadly speaking for a number of months, but more realistically speaking for about three or four weeks You continue on pushing higher here potentially the next level of resistance might come into play at the may high of $51.66 and then north of that Tennis might be looking towards the April high of $53 and 56 cents Move to the downside in WTI may find support in around here the two-day moving average $49.30 notice how it actually has a bit of support here In the early part and become a middle of September and then south of that potentially Support coming to play at a 50-day moving average at $48.30 Just move on to a few of the major currency pairs though, then I'll be looking to wrap up the webinar itself Having looked now at the year of dollar the year of dollar has been Holding up both But it's been fairly considering the moves that we had in the summer time It's been a bit more on the kind of quieter side in terms of the range as we've seen on the on the euro dollar We have seen a bit of a bit of a retreat In the price and also kind of mirrored by the fact that if you see a slight increase in negative momentum So we could potentially see further Losses for the single currency versus the greenback and if you do put a push lower on that particular currency pair We could be looking back towards this price is this low here from the only money from last week At 1 8 1 18 37 and then south of that because we could see retracing back to the 50-day moving average which comes into place in around the kind of 1 18 24 region and then south of that again Back towards 1 17 0 8 these are kind of areas because The the single currency hasn't really made much ground versus the versus the greenback ever since going on to print that after having a stellar run To the month of September, but we could have we're only speaking Pushing kind of sideways but kind of sideways because of the bias towards the downside on that it a move We would we would potentially know you would like to see move north of the 120 region before you can actually You know potentially look they kind of Maybe see another kind of Another attack potential attack on the 120 92 region and then up towards 121 120 Bearing in mind. We actually have Mario Draghi the head of the ECB speaking and I have to London time So not too far away at all. Maybe in just under just under two hours time Taking a look now The furnished pound versus the US dollar your cable church cable has been fairly range bound I think it's been fairly The last few training sessions have been fairly quiet sort of 130 slowly nearly 136 at the upside and What the 134 kind of 50 is to the downside? We would like to see kind of move a break Either direction out of that and given that while the price was clearly ratcheting off here I was reflected in a fairly decent ratchet up also in positive momentum but this is this is sort of a Sort of a good example of why like to look at the momentum indicator whereby if you see diverges between the two whereby the price is moving one direction and the momentum is moving Another or there are signs of that in research to pull away from the same direction Price was in that could be an early early warning sign potentially. So as the price is pushing higher We're seeing that to push higher, but then The cable went on to print a new higher high here at the same time the momentum was Distinctively lowest and that's could be a sign that for prices that are creating new highs But we're like those aren't reflected in new highs For the momentum it could be an indication that okay Maybe maybe the buying pressure or the kind of energy that the bull's half is kind of running on a steam a bit I don't saw we've been kind of declining in the terms of positive momentum that being said the price has been fairly range bound It's sort of 136 in the top about about 134 50 to the bottom So a break break to the downside could see it to turn back towards 134 And if you go to 134, we could be looking back towards 132 67 and in south of that We could be looking towards 131 64 As I mentioned a break north of 136 kind of put us back up to looking towards 136 59 And then north of that turns looking towards 137 138 and then at that point we'd be back in the process of creating multi-month highs and even Taking our chart back further afield you could see here that we haven't actually had pound up versus the British dollar at that level since actually the EU referendum The UK's is EU referendum night. So that give indication of kind of how far back we are talking about Looking now at the pound euro birth pound Not too dissimilar that we are seeing a bit of a bit of sideways range bound trading So obviously we had a kind of quite a Progressive push higher followed by a fairly fairly decent pullback Whether this is going to be a pullback and a resumption of the wider trade or whether this is going to be something something larger As you have to be seen Pushing lower as you can see here as the price was coming off. We as the image We can saw we saw a fairly increase The very incisive increase in the rate of negative momentum, and then we notice how The price is sort of going to hang on it around the kind of 89 down to around kind of 89 back down towards the kind of 88 region here sort of almost like trapped in the kind of hundred point range We are seeing that a cooling of the of the of the negative momentum So they kind of setting a pressure is coming to decline whether the product whether this is going to be just an eye a Correction in a wider upper trend or whether there's been something larger than the FTB seen But for the time being we seem to be a range bound on this currency pair It can't really kind of break north of the one or day moving average at 88 77 north of that We've looking towards 89 And then if we have the size of move to 89 because I'm looking towards, you know It kind of psychological 90 cent level and then north of that the 50-day moving average at 1936 Should be kind of should be kind of move for continuing in the downward trend that we've been in for the past number of weeks We've potentially looking back towards the 100-day moving average at this price here at 87 18 And then south of that we're looking back towards 87 itself and ended back down towards 86 the dollar yen as big as my quite the comeback in only in only issue in the space of about In the space of a specific couple of weeks We obviously had quite a fairly gradual decline here creation of lower lows and lower highs From from July from early July mid-July not to kind of it's mid September And then very quickly to go to got this high here to got this high here to got this high here So we're pushing higher Move north of the two of the 30 moving average But you know only kind of just and if you kind of hanging it in around that area ever since Though it's not going to positive momentum had ramped up or seeing a slight kind of cooling of a soul Be it we've kind of we've seen this movie before as it were or by this kind of decent Increase in momentum as the markets moving in a certain direction in this case pushing higher But then it's like we are seeing the potential signs that the bulls are being stalled a bit so But if you can hang nor if you remain north of the two-day moving average Which is in around the kind of 112 20 region or pretty much in round the kind of price action that we're at now We could potentially see push higher towards 113 Another potential area for resistance could be in at 113 57, and then it can what will be a big Possibly potentially be significant level to watch out for will be one of 14 49 So because it's sort of it was the July high and it was sort of you could you could kind of look towards it kind of Also, you can also kind of say that it's not too far away from the from the bay high on top of that Move to the downside if it can't if it's just back though the two-day moving average We could see return potentially back to the one-day moving average It did provide support and the only only a few days ago at the one-day moving average at 111 spot What spot 11 and then south of that and back down towards one ten and if you could do continued If you go south of one ten that could be in the indication that they kind of wider downward trend that that has been in At 12 largely speaking throughout 2017 is still intact And if should we move south of the 110 if we look back towards 109 and then potentially back towards 107 32 Just before I finish up what I quickly do as always show the website Where we have a very different things you may find of interest so we have a chart forum here Chart forum if you go to the trading pulse and the third option down chart forum What we'll do is run it right a few hundred characters and snap on a picture of a chart I'm just gonna do you can very much to the point potential levels Possibly some kind of commentary on what Because the the market has been doing so just keep an eye out. 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