All factory cues can be very evocative for particular memories, so you can use it for other memories, but ones with all factory cues are particularly potent.  Just go back and think through those emotions and remember those details, particularly those positive emotions. What's up everybody and welcome to the show today. We drop great content each and every week and we want to make sure that you guys get notified and in order to do that, you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell. And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this, make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. And what I love about the deep breathing is that it also brings you into the present moment. Exactly. So a lot of Johnny's anxiety was induced based on what's going to happen this weekend. What's exactly going to happen Saturday when he steps in front of the room? How are the clients going to be interacting and feeling? Much of our anxiety is from not what's happening directly in the moment, but it's what could happen in the future. And with that breathing exercise, I've taught it to our clients. I use it in these moments as we were laughing earlier, just getting a little stress, getting it here in the studio, getting set up. It can induce that anxiety. So when we look at our breathing and we look at this pattern of breath for us to calm down, how long do you suggest we do that to really get that parasympathetic nervous system working at our advantage? Yeah, you know, it can start working in just a couple of rounds of breath. I tend to recommend a boxed breathing technique, which is inhaling on a four count, holding on a four count, exhaling on a four count, and holding at the bottom for a four count. So in a anxious situation, you might be waiting for to go on a podcast, for example, just a few rounds of that can really, you know, quickly bring you back to a calmer place. So yeah, if you do it longer, it'll probably last longer, but try it out. I love these approaches because they're experimental. They work immediately. They're using a part of the nervous system that has evolutionary evolved for just as long as that fight or flight system. And people don't realize how powerful it can be. We talked a little bit, obviously, the title of the book Good Anxiety, Bad. We label things, our emotions as good and bad, and that can often lead us astray. And many of us, because of those labels, will try to avoid certain emotions. We'll try to avoid anger. We'll try to avoid frustration and anxiety. But that actually works against us. That avoidance doesn't actually help, it often compounds the problem. So how can we feel into those emotions if we've been taught that these are bad emotions that we should avoid? Yeah, so that's a great question. And the first important step is to realize that these are not bad emotions. These are normal human emotions, fear, worry, anxiety, anger, and that the most important thing is they teach us things about ourselves, our world, our values. And so the value of turning down the volume on your anxiety, turning down the volume, not kicking out the door, is that it gives you that space to be able to turn in on these uncomfortable emotions. And I found myself making friends with my own anxiety, because I found that it taught me about what I really value. For example, one of my oldest anxieties, I was a very, very shy, awkward wallflower of a young girl and a high school student and college student. So I had a lot of social anxiety. And of course, I'm a professor and a teacher now, so I've learned some skills. But that fear, particularly of social situations, parties, or when I'm meeting new people for the first time, not in a work setting, that social anxiety still comes back. And what I realized is I've always had it, but it's a double-edged sword. Because while it's always hard for me to kind of get comfortable in those situations, what I realized over the pandemic is that by breaching that fear and making those connections, that's what got me through the pandemic. Those social connections, those friends that would come on Zoom calls and meet me for walks, so, so valuable. And I'm fine once we become friends. It's just that fear of, you know, making friends and being vulnerable. But it's like, okay, yes, you're scared, but look at all the wonderful things that come if you do that. So that's one example of what can come from turning in and looking at your emotions in a more objective way. Would you say this is the beginning of our looking at new conditioning of how we're going to be looking at anxiety from fear to joy conditioning? You just mentioned the very favorite part of my whole book, which is this tool of joy conditioning. And I think that I hope that everybody has a change of mindset towards the emotion of anxiety from this book. And so joy conditioning is an example of something that you can do to help counteract fear conditioning that happens automatically when something negative happens. Scary, negative, you know, I think I give the example in the book of I was living in Washington, DC, and my apartment was burgled. And I walked around the corner and I saw my door crowbarred in. And every single time after that, every time I walked around the corner, I had this fear is like, am I going to see the same view again? That's fear conditioning. It lasts a long, long time. And again, it's also protective. So I thought, why, you know, how can we counteract that? And so I used my 25 year understanding of how memory works to come up with the idea of joy conditioning. Joy conditioning is based on how we know our long term memories are stored. It uses a brain structure called the hippocampus. And we know that things like repetition can simply make a memory stronger. So joy conditioning is the practice of going through and finding the juiciest, most funny, most loving memory that you can come up with. And try and find one with an olfactory component with a smell associated with it. You know, thank your grandmother's lemon pie. And just reliving all of those wonderful memories of the who, what, where, when, and why associated with that loving memory. And why do I ask that you have a smell associated with it? Because we know that olfactory cues can be very evocative for particular memories. So you can use it for other memories, but ones with olfactory cues are particularly potent.  Try some joy conditioning. Just go back and think through those emotions and remember those details, particularly those positive emotions. And yeah. We drop great content each and every week. And we want to make sure that you guys get notified. And in order to do that, you're going to have to smash that subscribe button and hit that notification bell. And if you've gotten a lot of value out of this, make sure you give us a like and share our videos with your friends. This is exactly why I'm so big on creating ritual in your life for different phases of your day, your morning period, your deep work period, your creative period, where you change the light setting, where you maybe light some incense. Perhaps you put out some symbolism, some visuals that state this is where you are lighting that candle. All of these things have a way of creating an atmosphere or bringing you into an atmosphere to be better at the task at hand. For myself, I'm also a musician, writing, playing music is very important to me. And in the evening when I'm done with work, the atmosphere in my apartment changes to make it more conducive to be in that atmosphere to write. And we're so quick to get rid of things that we've seen that might seem as old fashioned to us as creating ritual, make turning habit into a ritual that changes, that helps change our state. I totally agree with that and I particularly love the idea of ritual because through ritual I was finally after years of trying able to kind of create a meditative practice for myself that really worked. So I tried everything, tried all the guided visualizations and meditations and they worked for a little while but it didn't really draw me back that that's what I really wanted to do until I had the pleasure of going to Bali and I happened to meet this monk who specialized in tea and tea ceremonies and he taught me this tea meditation which is simply a meditation over the brewing and drinking of tea. And every day since that which was six days six years ago I have done it every single morning because for me that ritual first you boil the water then you pour it in the tea then you let it see then you pour the tea then you drink the tea then you start over again. That ritual kind of kept me in meditation when otherwise it was like okay it's been 10 minutes can I get through 12 minutes of meditation and so now it's easily you know 45 minutes if I let it go that long but it's because of the power of ritual. I love that and linking habits is something we've talked a lot about I've actually linked brushing my teeth to box breath so in working with my therapist I would find that sometimes just starting my day I'd get a little over anxious thinking about my inbox and trying to get to all the tasks at hand so it's always helpful if there's something that's already in your life that you're doing without having to think without having to use willpower or motivation to then link another practice like this. We were on our way over here and one of our team members was sharing that his struggles with anxiety happen at night and often keep him up laying awake in bed and he was wondering hey is there anything that I could do if I'm finding myself in this constant state of rumination that's keeping me from getting to sleep and he was sharing that he's tried some breath work and it really hasn't worked so are there strategies that might help some in our audience who are struggling with that rumination and can't get to sleep? Absolutely in fact one of the six major gifts of anxiety that I talk about in good anxiety addresses exactly this point and so I struggled with exactly the same thing I would be just about ready to fall asleep you know I could feel it it's going to feel so good to be asleep and then suddenly oh my god what if that happens what if this happens what if I don't get that raise what if all of these things so that what if list then I'm wide awake and I can't get back to sleep and so the gift of that is that you can turn all of your what ifs that are always based on things that are important to you things going on in your life turn that what if list not that night but the next day into a to-do list so what I do now is that still happens that that worry still comes up but I know that what I'm going to do is is turn that what if into my productivity for the next day and it also helps resolve the anxiety because every time you can take some action to resolve anxiety which evolutionarily was resolved by physically running away or fighting it is a very useful thing so that is a gift of productivity that comes from your own personal form of rumination or what I call in the book the what if list I want to add to that and I love looking to focus that anxiety somewhere productive and as things were coming to a head for me yesterday throughout the evening once I went from my day is done now it's guitar time and I was going to sit down and write and put did everything that I needed to do to get myself in that state I found myself and and I had one of the most productive little sessions I found a part for a song I've been searching for and I and I was I was so present in that moment which I think that led to when I woke up today I was utterly refreshed and excited for the day to begin rather than that anxiety spilling over in today like today would come completely different mood yeah no that's beautiful it's it's so important to kind of jump start yourself out of those phases of anxiety and it could be very powerful to you know switch off even a bad anxiety session


in time this evening. So we'll, I mean, this afternoon, sorry I'm used to these evening meetings. So we'll go ahead and call the meeting to order at 12 of civil authority to order at 1205. The first item on the agenda is the agenda. May I please have a motion on the agenda? I would move to approve the agenda. Second. Seconded by motion by Councillor Stromberg. Seconded by Councillor Paul. Any discussion? Okay, not seen any. So we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of approving the agenda, please say aye. Aye. Aye. That carries unanimously. Brings us to our second item, which is the public forum. Folks are interested in commenting for the public forum. I do see one person signed up who is in attendance, but others are interested. You can go to burlingtonbt.gov slash public slash city council slash public forum. That's burlingtonbt.gov slash city council slash public forum. If you'd like to sign up and speak at the public forum, I will go to our first speaker, Robert Bristow-Johnson, and enable your microphone.  All right, so this'll be very quick. And I know that this isn't about today's agenda. It's going to be about a decision you're gonna make, I believe, on February 7th, because it's not going to be evidently on January 31st. However, in the consent agenda of January 31st for the regular city council meeting, I have placed a communications there that I am inviting you to look at. It's for the Board of Civil Authority. It's about the house redistricting. And what is going to happen, what should happen, is you should already have a communication from the state legislature about the alternative, the alternate LAB map, which is a map that has a mixture of two-member and single-member districts. And it's much better than the single-member district map for all the reasons that I spelled out before. But I have, and there's some legislators looking at this, I am submitting a map for your consideration that is five two-member districts. And it really cleans up the map. And I'm hoping that you can pay some close attention to it because there are some legislators that are. And on February 7th, you actually have a heavy responsibility that the 13 of you will literally decide what map we're gonna be looking at for the next 10 years because there is no conflict with neighboring cities. And the House Government Operations Committee will likely take whatever recommendation you guys have. Thank you. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. We will have that issue on a future agenda. Don't see anybody else is having signed up for this particular public forum. So we will close that public forum and move right into the next item, which is the reason why we're here today. Regarding the requirement that the home address be on the ballot. So I just wanted to put that out there. And first, let's go to item 3.01. So I'll go to city attorney Richardson first for just an explanation of the situation and some of the legal issues that are intersecting with it. So city attorney Richardson, are you just able to clarify what the issue is and what we're gonna be discussing or what we're being asked to do today? Absolutely. So what this is is that Burlington currently requires the home addresses of candidates to be printed beneath their name on the ballot. And this was a decision that the best estimates my office can find occurred sometime, probably in the 1980s, that the board of civil authority elected to do this. Although I cannot find in this research which board of civil authority, the nature of the decision and subsequent boards of civil authority have not raised this discussion. So why this came to our attention in particular this year was there is a candidate who has requested not to have the address printed beneath their name in part because of safety concerns and they appear to be legitimate and certainly grounded in reality. And when we went to look at this issue, we realized that the statute under title 17, section 2681A allows the board of civil authority to change this and there are essentially three options for the city council. I mean, sorry, the board of civil authority to do. One is to have addresses which is sort of the status quo in current situation. The other is to just simply require the town of residence for the candidate. And the third is to not have anything. Beneath the candidate's names. And I can say as I can offer this additional background in some of the legal issues which are, I would say memorialized in the public memo that I attached to this particular item. One is, I think Burlington's a bit of an outlier in requiring home addresses to be put onto the ballot and a number of towns do require the town of residence to be put beneath the candidate's names. And some don't require anything at all, but I know I cannot identify any other town or city of municipality that requires actual home addresses. But by no means was my research seeking to find out whether that was definitive. I can just simply say it's just not common. The two, I think legal questions, one that comes up, well, will this cause a loss of ability to essentially check a candidate's residence and know what happens when a petitioner files is that they do include their home residence that's essentially checked when they petition as well as being a registered voter, they will have an address on file that is available to the town. So there is a sort of safeguard in that respect. And the other issue is whether or not the requirement of having someone put their home address essentially is an unconstitutional impediment to standing as a candidate. And I raised this, I don't have anywhere near a definitive answer, but I think there's an argument that could be made that if a candidate had a legitimate reason not to put a home address on, and they were otherwise qualified, but were effectively disqualified for refusing to put their home address on, they may have a cause of action seeking essentially a violation of their rights under the Vermont Constitution, which does guarantee qualified voters the right to run as a candidate for office. I'm not saying a challenge would be successful in any way, shape, or means because clearly the statute and there are policy reasons to have the address requirement, but it is not without insubstantial consideration. And I think it's important underlining and emphasizing what the Vermont Constitution intends, which is that anyone who is qualified as a voter should have the opportunity to be a candidate. That these, we're not intending to create election terms as barriers to running for office. So those are the considerations, what the Port of Civil Authority can do, I would suggest is one of three things. And I've laid these out as potential motions. They could take a very sort of piecemeal approach and say, well, we've got this one particular issue, let's grant this person a waiver and make sure that that person doesn't have to put their address on there, but everybody else continues to do so and we'll take this on an ad hoc basis. The other is to just simply refuse a request and say, no, this is an important thing. This is a strong tradition and this is something the voters expect. So we're gonna keep it on and everybody has to follow the same rules. And the third option is for the Port of Civil Authority to say, this doesn't seem like a sensible way to go forward, let's just remove this and either replace it with a requirement that everyone puts their town of residence and or simply no identifier of this sort as is allowed under the statute. And so those are the options before you for this particular issue and some of the thinking and reasoning behind and if anybody has any questions, I'm happy to ask for those. Okay, great. Thank you for that. And I just note that a Councilor Mason has joined us on the phone and is I'm gonna be participating that way. So I have Councilor Hightower to be followed by Councilor Hansen. Councilor Hightower. If folks aren't opposed to it, I would just be ready to make a motion. That sounds good. Go ahead. Great. I move that we end the address requirements as committed by section 2681AB2 and either and eliminate any such requirement. Okay, so we have a motion from Councilor Hightower. Is there a second? Second. Seconded by Councilor Stromberg. Did you want the floor back, Councilor Hightower? Yeah, which is just to say that I think that, especially given the last two years and some of the actions that have been taken against Councilors, I think it's been, I didn't even know that we didn't have a requirement for Councilors and for any elected official to have their address on the city website. And I wanna move towards eliminating that. And I think this is the first step in not having candidates have their exact address on the ballot. And I think it's just a better move, especially again, given some of the actions that have been taken against folks. Great, thank you for that, Councilor Hightower. Councilor Hanson, were you looking to get in still or? Sure, yeah, I agree, I support that. And my only question is, and I agree too, with the I don't see a benefit of putting Burlington as the town of residence because that's already a given. But my only question, does this specifically apply to local races only? Or is this decision impacting other races? Unless this decision would impact all ballot items, unless you'd specify it. And I guess what I would recommend not doing it one way for one set of candidates and another for another set of candidates for a different office. So, oh, sorry. Oh, I was just gonna say, I mean, so, having, for example, statewide candidates have to put their home address. I don't think you want that as what we're local candidates don't or, and it may seem redundant to sort of put local candidates as Burlington, Vermont, but I think it's having one rule is allows us to be simplified and avoids the issue from a technical point of view of having people trying to remember as they're assembling the ballots, whether this is a race that requires someone to put their town of residence or not. That's the only thing that I would recommend is just make sure that you don't end up with two different rules that creates the potential for mix ups. Interesting, okay. Well, yeah, if this is for all Burlington ballots, then I actually would support the town of residence aspect because I think for statewide races, state Senate, all of that, I do think it's relevant where someone lives to a voters decision-making. So I'll let councilor Barlow go first, but I might just make that amendment. Thanks. Okay, great. Thanks, councilor Hanson. Go ahead, councilor Barlow to be followed by councilor Stromberg. Thank you. I'm willing to echo councilor Hanson's sentiments. I think that, especially for statewide races, I'm thinking of senatorial races and even some other statewide races, it is important to know the town of residence for the candidate. So I would be supportive of that amendment. Okay, great. Councilor Stromberg. Hi, thanks. Yeah, very supportive of all of this and that makes sense. I just have one question. For the current listing of councilor and just kind of generally public people, their addresses on the website, would this also include that being taken down because if we're changing that and new councilors come on, it would then not be listed. Is that correct? So that's actually the next item of business and that doesn't have to be, that's actually even a lower threshold. That's just simply directing the town clerk. It doesn't require, and frankly, if that was the only concern that was active, we wouldn't have to do a board of civil authority meeting. We would just have essentially tried to get, but given that we had the board of civil authority, I added it, I recommended that be added just simply so that there could be a public discussion in case there was some objection from some corner, but that doesn't require as formal of an action. Okay, thanks so much. Thank you. All right, councilor Hanson. Yes, I'll move to amend the motion to insert a town of residents requirement. Okay, moved by councilor Hanson, seconded by councilor Hightower. Any, did you want the floor back, councilor Hanson? Okay, any discussion? Councilor Paul. I'm assuming that councilor Hanson means a town requirement for races that are not in Burlington, meaning if it's for city council, you live in Burlington. If it's for school board, you live in Burlington. If it's for house rep, you live in Burlington. If it's for state Senate, you may or may not live in Burlington, at least for now, as long as we have the current six Chittenden County senators or for statewide races. So I just wanted to clarify, it wouldn't appear that we need to put Burlington if it's a Burlington race. Councilor Hanson, are you able to clarify? Yeah, well, I would look to the city attorney because I thought what I had heard was that from the city attorney, there was, this is something that applies across that spectrum, which was why I made the amendment. So maybe the city attorney can clarify. It may seem redundant on Burlington centric races where the basic qualification is that the person be from resident of Burlington, but my recommendation is that it's just simply one rule rather than creating sort of two tiers so that if it's a school board race, we don't have to add the town, but if it's a Senate race where the person may not necessarily reside in Burlington, they would have to. And so that way, even though it may seem silly that the Burlington City Council race for a particular ward, they all list their residence as Burlington, that way it's just sort of a no-brainer for the people putting the ballots together that they put the town beneath it and they don't have to guess whether this is a Burlington specific race or not as the rules allow. And that way it's just across the board. Okay, that answers my question. Thank you very much. Okay, any further discussion on the amendment? Okay, seeing none, let's go to a vote on the amendment to add in the town of residence piece. All those in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries unanimously and we are back to the original motion as amended. Any further discussion on that? Okay, seeing none, we'll go to a vote. All those in favor of adopting the motion as amended to remove residential addresses but to still list a town of residence on the ballot. Please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Okay, that carries unanimously. Appreciate that and it brings us to item 3.02 which is consideration of removal of elected officers home addresses from the city website. Is there a motion on this one? Councilor Hightower. I'll, I think, I don't know if Councilor Powell had a question or a discussion. Okay, then I'll move to direct the city clerk and or the CEO staff to remove the home addresses of elected officials keeping just email addresses and or telephone numbers. Okay, is that a second Councilor McGee? Yes. Okay, we have a motion and a second. Councilor Hightower, did you want the floor back? No. So, okay, I see Councilor Powell to be followed by Councilor Barlow enhancing.  Thanks. I just can't let the opportunity go by without saying that I feel badly that we're doing this in the sense not that we're doing it for not good reasons. I think we are doing it and I'm actually in some ways, I'm glad that this has come forward because as Councilor Hightower said, I think to some degree, perhaps this is a reflection on so much of what has gone on in the last couple of years. I just think it's really unfortunate. It's sort of like, for those of us who are old enough to remember when you, when Burlington, nobody locked their doors, now we're in a situation where we have to go one step further in being able to protect not only our own some level of privacy, but also for that of our families. And I think that's really unfortunate, but I'm supportive of this and hope that that will be, that that will remove an impediment if there has ever been an impediment for people running who feel that that's just too much, and they wanna be, and they wanna have a little bit more ability to separate the office from where they live which is a legitimate rate. I hope that this will be one less impediment to people running. Thanks very much, President Tracy. Thank you, Councilor Powell. I have Councilor Barlow to be followed by Hanson and McGee. Thank you, President Tracy. I just two comments on this. One is that I think we shouldn't kid ourselves and believe that by removing our home addresses that people won't know where we live. I think that technology is such that that information is readily available from a lot of different sources, but I am supportive of this and I do recognize how the level of discourse has sort of eroded over the last few years. And I agree with Councilor Powell that it's really unfortunate we find ourselves in a position where we're worried about our safety as elected officials. The other thing though I wanted to say is I have constituents who actually send me postal mail. Many of them are older, but I do get occasional mail from folks. And I'm wondering if we've anticipated how we'll continue to do that if we remove our street addresses from the ballot. So I guess I would suggest that one potential way to handle that is to have some direction on the city website that postal mail for city councilors go to an address at the city and then gets forwarded from the city clerk's office. I don't know if the city attorney had any recommendations on that. Attorney Richardson or CAO Schad? Sure, I'll step up. CAO Schad may have different, but that's certainly, that's what a lot of municipalities do is that postal mail for city councilors comes in to the town office and it's set aside and usually the administrative assistant will, for either the clerk's office or in another office will scan and forward it to city councilors. In fact, I just received a piece of mail that was addressed to me in my former position as a city councilor in my failure that happened to be postally mailed. And so I think that that's a system that works. It's a central place and I don't think it's a big burden on the city resources. And we would, we would, we could certainly say, if you wish to contact a councilor by mail, this is the address and use the city hall address. Okay, CAO Schad, do you concur with that? I concur with that. And I do think we have the resources to move forward with that, especially with the new administrative assistant you just approved this past Monday. So thanks and yes, happy to do that. Great. Okay, councilor Barlow. Yes, I am. Thank you. Councilor Hanson to be followed by councilor McGee. Great, yeah, no, I agree with all that. That's what I was going to raise. I think just making it really clear how folks can get mailed to us. And yeah, I've received mail that's been forwarded from I think the city clerk's office or definitely from city hall. So we clearly are capable and I think just making it clear for people. But I support this, thanks. Great, councilor McGee, were you still interested in getting in? Is there a hand go down? Raise the same point, so. Okay, great. Anything else, folks? Okay, not seeing any. Let's go to a vote on the motion to take councilor residential addresses off of the city website, but to keep the phone numbers and emails on the website. All those in favor of that motion, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries unanimously. So that passes. CAO Schatt, are you able to? I'm sorry, just one point of information. Sure. Because you said city councilors, but I think we just specified for generally elected officials in the motion. Oh, right. Thank you for clarifying that. I appreciate that. Do I need to take a revoke, councilor city attorney on that? Okay. All right. CAO Schatt, are you able to work with your team to make that happen? Yes, absolutely. I think that can happen fairly quickly and we'll send out an email confirming when that's done. Wonderful. Really appreciate your assistance on this. Thanks so much. All right. That concludes our agenda for this evening. Well, we have new businesses or any new business other than that. Okay. Hearing any will move motion to adjourn as an order. So moved. Moved by councilor Stromberg, seconded by councilor Hightower. Any discussion? Okay. Hearing none, let's go to a vote. All those in favor of adjournment, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? That carries unanimously. We are adjourned at 12.30. Thanks all. See y'all on Monday. Good day. Yep. Have a good weekend.


Well, hi there, I'm Sandy Allnock, artist and paper crafter here on YouTube and today I'm using Lawn Fawn's Winter Skies stamp set. I picked up this really cute Lawn Fawn set that has foxes and bears in it, both pairs as well as singles and some trees and snowflakes and things, and a Santa Claus flying through the air. And I pulled out a couple Copic markers so I could make a scene card here on YouTube. This is related to two of my classes that are on my teaching site, art-classes.com. And I wanted to mention a little something. I've been talking here and there, random videos about classes and some of the things that we've learned in classes, some of the things that you may want to learn in classes, and I don't do that because I'm trying to sell classes. I'm doing that for two reasons. One is I always have new people coming and joining here on YouTube and finding me and I want them to know that there's more in-depth teaching available. But also I want my students who have already taken the classes to see some of the concepts from the classes in context so that they can see how it works with stamps. Because in classes we kind of just do a background of some sort. We don't really do stuff with stamps in all the classes and it's helpful to see them that way. So I like to call that out when I'm doing videos and there's content that might be related to something people have already learned.  Please just enjoy the video and learn from me for free on YouTube if that is what you need to do. So I'm making this sky here and I'm not too worried about the blending in a lot of areas. One of the cool things about having a Santa Claus flying across the sky is that I can use that spot right where Santa's flying as a place to start and end my stroke so I really only have to worry about the ones else wise in the sky. But even though this sky looks like it's got some intense color, it's going to look really pale by the time I finish with everything because you know me in contrast. I love my contrast. So I'm going to kind of work on trying to get some of the blending going here. But by the time everything else is done, it's not going to matter because we're going to put trees in front of a lot of that. I found a scene on Google because I was just looking for different winter scenes. I kind of run out of stuff in my brain sometimes. So I just Google winter scenes and go to the images tab and I saw this one that had these trees that were all kind of pointed up at the sky and there was a road with a vanishing point that went down way down the road down the middle. And I thought that would be perfect for this stamp set. So that's what I'm trying to create here and the colors in that one were really dark and intense and the darkness and intensity made the snow look brighter. So I wanted to see how that played out when we did our coloring and how much color can we get in there and still have it look like snow. So some of this is going to be scary. Some of you guys are going to have your heart and your throats. Trust me, wait for it because you know how that goes. Here on YouTube with my videos, just wait for it. It'll be fine in the long run. So in the scene, there were all these grasses on the side, on both sides. And I'm going to add a little bit of those and then trees coming up from them. As far as the classes, there's two winter classes. Winter background classes. One is city sidewalks and that's kind of a more urban one. And then the winter wonderland class has a little bit more of the kind of outdoor type of snow scenes and things. So that's what this scene is a little more related to. There is one with a vanishing point, but there's a little more focus on the sky and the trees and that sort of thing. But in the underwater scenes class, which is going to seem like a surprise, underwater scenes meets winter. In that class, I talked about how the kelp type of art that we did in one of the lessons looks like trees as well. But I didn't show any examples of that. So this is an example of the kelp. If you can picture this as underwater, then that could be what the kelp looks like, these just long strands with little things hanging off of them. But when you do it in terms of a snow scene, it looks like trees. And when it's underwater, it looks like kelp. So there you go. That is your little mini lesson here on a turn underwater scenes into mountain snowy scenes. So I'm taking my mid-tone color and yes, this is a mid-tone color. You might have thought, oh my gosh, that's a dark color, isn't it? No, we're going to get much darker than that. And I'm adding more to the grasses and letting kind of the light on the edges of the grasses be at the top, but blending in some of that mid-tone color and then down to darker at the bottom. Adding a shadow, really strong shadow behind my two main characters because I want that light to be really prominent down in the center. And as I get darker in colors, watch that light in the very center of the card start to get brighter. So I've got my shape down there behind my two little foxes and I decided to add more color to the snow. And that's what I got from the picture. I was looking for how dark is that? It really was dark. So let's try getting darker. Now, I'm using a BV29. The BV2s are kind of a grayish sort of color, but they have a little blue flavor to them. They're really great for doing winter things because they have both the dullness of a gray, but a little tiny bit of that cool blue added to them a little bit of purple-ish. And so they're a little more interesting than just using a gray for something like this. So this is a second row of trees, second layer of trees. You can add many layers as we did in the underwater scenes class. And then I'm gonna add really dark shadows elsewhere. Remember I said I was gonna continue to get darker? And as it gets darker, the contrast starts to pop up and that center light just gets brighter and brighter and brighter. With the grasses on either side, you can make them tall grasses, you can make them little scrub brushes. I'm gonna do some white pen work later on with them to try to make those ends look kind of lacy, but I'm just gonna get some nice, heavy color in there so that those disappear. I want the snow to be the thing that gets the attention, the snow, the little characters, and then pointing right up to that Santa Claus. The trees, by the way, I didn't mention this earlier, the trees are tilting inward. And that kind of makes it look like you're really looking from down low and they're really tall trees. You could also do them straight if it bothers you that they're at an angle because we don't really see this kind of an angle all that often. So that's another way to do it. And we also talked about that in the underwater scenes class and that kelp lesson. So here on the foxes, I was originally gonna make gray foxes or silver foxes because I thought that would be kind of really coolish and winterish. And I went, you know, I don't really see them very much. They didn't pop out. So I then added my orangey color. This is something that you can do in either order. You can either do the orange color first and then add your gray shadows to darken it and dull it or you can do it the other direction. And in this particular case, it gave me the chance to see if gray foxes would work or silver foxes. And then when I found out I didn't, I could just go over it and that just kind of gives you more options. And here on the green, I did the green color first and then the gray afterward. And on things like this, when you're mixing grays in to get your shadow, sometimes you'll have to add another layer of darker brown on the foxes or a different kind of green or something to get some of that modeled look to go away because the gray will sometimes do some funky things to it. I'm adding a little bit more of the light trees in there and you can add as much or as little as you want. And I'll put a few stars up in the sky. I decided not to do snow all over everything like I do in some of my cards, just have the stars up there and kind of let just that part be there because I really liked what else was going on in this one. Here I'm adding a little darker color onto my foxes and trying to get that texture to go away like I had spoken about. And then took the white pen and just added kind of some scrubily lines to make the moonlight really hit the tippy tops of all of the grasses and stuff on there. And the white pen really gives you a lot of control over getting that kind of detail. And then I layered it and stamped and embossed my sentiment. And I did another version of this with fall colors and I didn't have the road going down so it almost looks like they're just kind of tucked behind a row of bushes but it's the same sort of an idea just using fall trees and a few pines in there instead of the winter ones. So you can do the same kind of thing with other times of year. And this one is from the autumn scenes class. And I haven't seen many people use this lesson which is these trees that kind of cascade off into the distance. You have these purple trees in the distance and all that sort of thing with the birch trees on the sides. I wanna encourage my students to use that one because I really like that type of tree scene. So there you go. My video for today. Hope you will go out and make some beautiful Christmas cards or maybe you'll try one of the fall ones with whatever stamps you've got or if you need to buy these then the link is in the description down below as well as over on the blog. If you need to pin anything and I will see you again next time. You have a really great day. Go make something beautiful.


Hello. I welcome you all once again to my channel, Explore Education. I am Dr. Rashmi Singh, Assistant Professor, Department of Education at this Kanna Girls degree college, University of Allahabad. And this time I am going to discuss a new topic that is linkage between secondary and higher education in the main theme of contemporary issues of education, contemporary issues in education. So this lecture will be useful to you for your general understanding as well as for your competencies in examinations. And the lecture will be in bilingual mode as usual. So what is this paper discussing, what is this video discussing with you today, what is the linkage between secondary and higher education. Look, in many of the commissions, committees, we also know that the secondary education is the middle of primary education and higher education. So it is said that secondary education is the weakest link. This secondary education is the most weak link of our country, so it should be improved. So this is the point of vocationalization that since it does not have a multi-purpose school, there is no secondary education in all to cater to different types of calibers. So now we are not focusing on vocationalization. We are seeing that this is the link between secondary education and higher education. Is there any linkage between the two? And there is absolute secondary education is different, higher education is different. So we know that yes, there is something like this. There is no linkage between secondary education and higher education. So this is not even shown to NEP 2020. And the whole discussion that you will have is in the light of NEP 2020 recommendations. So it is very good, you will find it very interesting. That is why I am sharing it with you. So let's start. The present system of school education appears to be highly biased in favour of students seeking higher education. Look, this line is what we all face in reality. What is this line saying? We do not have a problem that we and you have come into higher education. So our present system of school education is highly biased in favour of students seeking higher education. This is how secondary education is made. This is how school education is made. The students who want to go into higher education do this favour. But those who want to go into higher education in some other field do not have any scope for this. Much of the workforce today that is needed in this society needs the background of high quality, skill-based, job-oriented education. And he is saying that today's generation, today's society, what is the need for that? That we are highly biased, highly biased in favour of students seeking higher education. And we can teach them job-oriented education. We can teach them job-oriented education. There will be no need to get a preferred degree. So any person who recognises this problem, even if they are not educated in our country, they need to recognise this problem and identify the need for organised vocational education to be part of the schooling system. And he felt that vocational education should be part of the schooling system in a society. We have been talking to him for centuries. That vocational education should not be a part of the schooling system. The role of the National Skill Development Corporation, say NSDC, the role of the National Skill Development Corporation, that is, the National Trees, which is an official development corporation, becomes important in designing, implementing and certifying such choices to create a highly knowledge-based, skill-oriented, human resource at the school level. That is, there is an NSDC, where they try to implement this formula to certify certain vara tasks, float tea. He said it is not to stop on knowledge, but to create aow drinkable skills of 不允止技術, class 10 students are enrolled in a curriculum which is not too bulky or heavy and there is not much overloaded. But during class 11 and 12, when we went to class 11 and 12, we used to think that our classes have increased by 4 times. Our classes have increased by 8 times. And how much can we read? I mean there was one book of science in the 10th and in the 11th and 12th, two of your chemistry were very heavy. Similarly, physics is very heavy. Zoology is very heavy. So how can that child be able to pass the 10th class? So during class 11 and 12, the bulk of the curriculum rises steeply. It increases rapidly. Also in the present 10 plus 2 model, many students move to a new academic and social environment during class 11 and 12, which along with their heavy burden of preparing for competitive examinations and the course load causes them much stress and anxiety. So it means that the course load has increased a lot. And now you will know that we have so much stress and anxiety in the 10th and 12th class. And after that, when they prepare for competitive examinations, they feel that this class is absolutely right. This class is not of any use. It has to be studied in a new way, in a new way, in a new pattern for the competitive examinations. So this is such a big part of the education system. How much stress and anxiety there are for the children. And now what is it? How can we improve the model in NEP 2020? What is this model? 5 plus 3 plus 3 plus 4. So this is plus 4, 9, 10, 11, 12. What is this plus 4? It is 9, 10, 11, 12. So they have made plus 4 into one unit. So now the one who jumped from 10 to 12, which is very close to 9, 10, 11, 12, 12, they have divided it a little. So it seems that the rise is not that steep. This is what they are saying. Boot pressure gets reduced to a great extent because of the plus 4 state being a single unit. They have made 9 to 12 single units. 11, 12 and 12. What is it? The card column should be uniformly distributed among the four years of study. And in 4 years, you will be taught a uniformly distributed curriculum. I mean it will be different from the normal and the common. Without any steep rise, it will not increase much. It will be a smooth and seamless transition in terms of a gradual rise of level. And they are saying that it will increase smoothly and seamlessly And gradually it will increase, its stress will gradually increase, which should be increased, which is weak. It will not increase very fast all of a sudden. Then, teaching gap and evaluation. When your teaching gap comes in your secondary and higher education, then yes, there is teaching gap. What is it? In the present system of school education, the topics for the board exams do not completely match with the topics required to prepare for certain entrance exams. This is what I was just saying, that we perform very well in the board exam, and then in the entrance exam, we are given that topic as well. IITJE, this causes additional problems for the student in terms of time, requirements and effort. This can be eliminated by having common topics of study at the plus four level of school studies, even if there are different boards of study in the country. They are saying that whether you are in the country of the board, in the country of the study, you should bring topics of this type on the plus four level, which are also asked in IITJE. So, it was easy for the child. Existing mode of school system relies heavily on a single exam at the end of course. Marks, coding tests, quarterly and mid-term examinations have no way to do it. This can be addressed by continuous and summative assessment, particularly for lab work and projects. They are saying that you have changed a lot, even in your CGPS, your mark sheet is also available in schools. Generally, we used to rely heavily on a single exam for the last exam, and we would not be given any weightage if there was an exam in the middle. So, it was not possible to do continuous and summative assessment. But in the present system, the evaluation through the end course exam primarily, as the road memory and the lower order thing. What else is there in the present time that our end-to-end course exam is also there? It only checks our road memory, our spiritual knowledge, how much memory we have. It checks our lower order thinking skills, i.e. knowledge comprehension, not even application. So, unlike the present model, the NEP 2020 intends to build higher order thinking skills in students, this can be achieved by changing the evaluation model. They are saying that change the evaluation model. The NEP 2020 intends to ask the students about the higher order thinking skills at the time of their evaluation. So, you will have to study in that way. Then, the coordination between school and higher education. Is there any coordination between school and higher education? So, at present, there is no body or agency to study and understand the academic and administrative linkages between school and higher education. There is no body or agency which is not known as the Shaksha or Prashasnik linkages. If a child comes to school and goes to higher education, then why there is no linkage? Why there is no body? Why there is no agency? This often leads to a situation of discontent and disconnect between the two over-on-academy initiates, learning, etc. That is, the child does not know, the teacher does not know what is the level of secondary education. What should be the level of higher education? So, what should be the level of higher education? It is important to realize here that the output from the school is essentially the input for higher education. See, how correct it is. It is said that you should know that the output from the school is coming into higher education. So, these are both the responsibilities. Because of higher education, it will increase its input, then its output will increase. And for the school education, its output will increase, then the child will be able to give his place in higher education. This can be addressed by the formation of a permanent committee comprising of representatives from both school education and higher education systems, which are regular intervals, study and monitor the connectivity. They are saying that you make a permanent committee in which both school education and higher education are representative members. And the regular intervals, study and monitor the connectivity between them. And which aspects will be monitored? Continuity of pedagogical models from the student perspective and requirements of the learning objectives and levels. So, it is said that you see the pedagogical model from the student perspective. And you see the requirement. Which learning objective is it? If we want to teach the child of this level, then we will get the continuity of the pedagogical model, from school education to higher education. And what happens? We get an appropriate evaluation procedure. We get an appropriate evaluation procedure. That we do continuous comprehensive evaluation. We can do higher-order thinking skills evaluation. Then conducting pilot studies on the requirements of both groups. Both the most important are school education and higher education. The pilot study will be based on what is required. And periodic faculty exchange to appreciate the changes to be brought about. The teacher of higher education can come and teach in secondary education. The teacher of secondary education can go to higher education. So, he will get to know what is the difference between the requirements and the requirements. Then he can apply it to his own house. Then the desired scenario of higher education. What do we want? Desired. Ethnic. We want to see this phenomenon in higher education. So, extensive lab work in the case of science and engineering courses. And extensive field work and project-based courses are needed at the higher education level. That is, if you go to science, then you will get a good lab work. If you go to arts and humanities, then you will get project-based courses. The field work is very good. The other important change in the higher education segment is the introduction of. You don't know this. In 2020, we are repeatedly saying that inter-discipline is leading to creative, innovative and futuristic initiatives. And what happens? There is a need to catch up with the progress made by the developed countries. We have to catch up with the progress made by the developed countries. And also, to meet the challenges ranging from global warming to space exploration. That means that the higher education level will be. Then, what is the desired scenario of vocational education? NEP recognizes the problem of non-vocationalization in the schooling system. Since when is it being said that you include vocationalization in the schooling system? It has been more than 100 years. It has been more than 100 years. But we haven't been able to apply it yet. And identifying the need for organized vocational education to be part of the schooling system aims to feel a big lack. There is a big gap that we have to fulfill. However, our schooling system with so far is biased in favor of higher education. Just go from schooling to higher education. Go from schooling to higher education. We don't provide provision to the child. The necessary importance for the significant type of education. Do recognition when given to vocational courses can increase the creation of productive human resource and health of society. If we recognize vocational courses and give them a proper place, then we will be able to get productive human resources. Even so, the child is not going to higher education. And the one who doesn't want to go to higher education is also going to higher education because he doesn't have any other option. So, the vocational courses offered as part of the schooling system should meet the following requirements. What should be done with vocational education? High quality knowledge and skills. The same type of knowledge, caution, equirable through participative learning for the relevant segment, knowledge of the environment in which the skills can be deployed such as marketing and sales, basic finance, communication, etc. Whatever vocational education is, you have to give the knowledge and skill of everything of the environment. We want this kind of vocational education in our country. Now, there is the thing about linkages. Where should the linkage be? Should there be a course linkage between secondary and higher education? education which consists of such subjects which can enable a student to choose either school-based jobs or higher education at the end of class 12. Some of these subjects like science and mathematics may be required both for students pursuing vocational courses or higher education. Students intending to pursue higher education need to learn the relevance of their subjects at greater depths and higher levels of abstraction. At the same time, students seeking vocational courses for employment have to require more functional knowledge of these subjects. Students are more hands-on in application skills. Thus, it is imperative to offer a few subjects at multiple levels relevant to the stream. Curriculum development should also provide for advanced level courses in chosen subjects needed for students with higher aspirations for their professional pursuits through skill-based job-oriented courses and also higher education seekers. During the last four years of school education, that is 9th to 12th standard, as part of curriculum, the students should be oriented on choice of higher education courses, types of higher education institutions available, an overview of employment market, contemporary and future skillset requirements. We need to tell the market of employment in your area, what qualifications you need, what future skillset you need, what entrepreneurial opportunities you can get. This effort will enable the students at the finishing school stage to have better clarity and connectivity with higher students. Pedagogical linkages such as active learning, experiential learning, inquiry-based learning, hands-on learning opportunities have been found to be very effective for teaching science and math at all levels of school education. Language and social science education is a role-playing, storytelling, dramatization, communicative language teaching, experiential learning, etc. Pedagogical linkages such as school education, higher education, secondary education, etc. Pedagogical linkages are linked to the new education policy. The PUC has to integrate into the new model of 5 plus 3 plus 3 plus 4 years. The PUC has to be able to extend 10 plus 2 to 5 plus 3 plus 3 plus 4 years. The PUC has to be able to create administrative machinery and merge them into the secondary and high education system. Consisting of both the skill-based job-oriented programs and the university programs. So the requirements of the higher education system at the entry level and that of the school education system at its exit level should seamlessly merge. They are saying that when you leave the school education system, the stage of the exit level and the entry level of the higher education system should merge. And if you make an administrative linkage like this, then it will be easier for the children. In their transition, when they go from secondary education to higher education. And the evaluation process and admission linkage, they are saying that as soon as we have given the board's exam, after that we have to give an exam in the university for the entrance examination. So the student is forced to write more than one entrance exam for admission to a desired professional course. You have to give COET these days and if you are going to another competitive examinations, then you have to give another entrance test. This creates tremendous stress on the student's learning, mental health, performance capability apart from high cost and time input. For that, they are coaching. Yes, their mental health, performance capability is affected. And what happens is that the previous competitive exams conducted have their own evaluation approaches, formats and not. The competitive exam has a different evaluation pattern. Their format is different. They are different. These are entirely different from the board exams conducted by the school board. And the exams conducted by our school boards are different from them. So what happens is that this is a significant strain on the time. There is a lot of strain on the child. There is a lot of work load on the child's time. And this is very cost-effective in every way. Since the competitive exam score matters and not the board exam scores, the board exams have lost their importance. They are saying that the score matter of the competitive exam will not be of any use to your board exams. They say that 50% of the weightage will be given to you. So the board exams are losing their importance. So how can we fix this problem? They are saying that seamlessly aligns the learning objectives of the schooling system and those that are evaluated by the competitive exams for securing admission to higher education. They are saying that the competitive examinations of higher education are getting admission tests. You should combine the learning objectives of the school and the system. It aligns the evaluation approach adopted by the school system and those adopted for admission to higher education. Similarly, you should combine the evaluation approach of higher education and the school system. It will be easier for the child. The academic and research linkage is saying that there are a lot of projects that are university research projects. You should combine them with the school system. You should extend them to the university. You will get a linkage of academic research. In school education, students should be encouraged with projects such as inspired, DST, sponsored, etc. Such projects will motivate the children to develop interest in scientific research. If they are inspired by the school level and the projects sponsored by DST, then they will get motivation towards research in the children. And what are the projects? Effective learning tools. In the new pattern, more scope should be created for hands-on and experiential learning so that the students acquire an explanatory approach through the learning exercise. This helps them acquire capabilities through solving real-life problems. In the long run, the research institutes across the state should collaborate with schools. They are saying that all the research institutes in the country should collaborate with the students. The corporate R&Ds, research and development should actively involve with the schools and identify a few students in each school and encourage them to take up live projects connected with their curriculum. If you choose a few students like me and collaborate with higher education research, I mean, some of them will get a linkage. It doesn't seem like secondary education is completely different from higher education. We all know that secondary education has a pass-out and the child will get an entry in higher education. So, there should be a linkage. This is how the linkage is suggested. Course linkage, curriculum linkage, pedagogical linkage, your evaluation and admission linkage, your research linkage, administrative linkage, so much. It is very interesting. Since we have faced it, you can be one with it and not one with it. So, what is a secondary education and higher education should have a linkage? There must be, but there is not. So, this is how the linkage is suggested that you can get it. Sorry. So, thank you and don't forget to like and subscribe my channel Explore Education. I have done from here.


Mmm, what a rush. Ooh, that's a hot mug, guys. Hey guys, this is my review for Rush, 2013 film starring Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Brew. This is about the coveted rivalry between James Hunt and Nicky Louder. The movie itself is one of the best Formula One slash best sports movies that's been made in a long time. I remember seeing this in theaters and thinking this looks like it has kind of the budget of an indie, which it did, in a sense, it had a very minimal budget in terms of what Ron Howard's used to. It wasn't as lucrative of a budget as you would think considering what the movie's about, what the components of the film are about, but what was really well done was how the story was told and how the rivalry between these two became a bond that is beyond that of normal kind of rivalry. It was something that was heated for years, whereas though they only had one year, really, of rivalry in F1, but it was still one of the most intense rivalries in F1 history, and it lasted barely over a year, technically speaking. You get it so coveted in this film, goes into detail as to why it was such a great rivalry. Both of the characters are done extremely well. James Hunt is played really well by Chris Hemsworth, basically playing a guy on the edge of death and kind of playing off that playboy style. Having that extra dimension of vulnerability and somewhat self-reflection as he goes through the film, he realizes that just his exact focus is just beating Nicky, whereas on the other hand, Nicky is actually an asshole, but he's not wrong. And we see why Nicky Lauda was so louded in the entire F1. We see why he was such a phenomenal champion. We see why him coming back into Mercedes for the last five years before he passed is one of the reasons why Mercedes is as big and as powerful of a F1 team as they are right now. Nicky Lauda is essentially an engineer and a driver at the same time, and he views everything at risk. He views everything in percentages. They almost kind of portray him as though he might've been autistic or slightly on the spectrum, considering just how matter of fact he is. And what's probably one of the best parts about this film is that while these two are shown for their strengths and their weaknesses, you care about both of them equally. You want to see both of them succeed, but at the same time, you're kind of wondering which one you'd rather side for. And when it comes to the crash that affected Nicky Lauda's life forever, you would think that the tables would change. You think your sympathy would go towards Nicky, but it still stays even considering what's happening. And it's a great movie for that reason. I enjoy the dynamic between the two, fantastic acting between the two. Really interesting camera work. I think this is one of Ron's best movies in a long damn time. I think this is the best movie he made in the last decade in my opinion. And then there's the race scenes. I remember seeing this in the theaters all those years back. The next day I went out to a go-kart place because I was still feeling that adrenaline rush from this film. It's crazy to see how F1 has changed because these cars look so weird back in the 70s, but they're still hammering out speed. And the film encapsulates that need for speed that drive to go faster than the rest and the danger. Formula One has gotten safer since, but it's still a dangerous sport and it was even more dangerous back in the day. So they really don't shy away from that, especially one of the first car accidents you see.  In the end, Rush is one of the best movies about F1 to watch. It has a great duo. It has great storytelling. It has great car scenes. And it really encapsulates the idea of what F1 was in the want for fast cars and to beat the rest. In the end, I'm gonna give Rush a six out of seven. If you guys haven't seen this movie, I would really suggest it. It's a very, very good movie. While there are some parts that are not 100% historically accurate, Ron Howard is known for kind of dipping a little bit into fiction here and there. It still stays pretty close to certain things. Anyways guys, that's all for me. Hope you enjoyed this review. If you did, leave a like and if you're interested in more, subscribe. Otherwise, see you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Knitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show, Undergrads. It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all new movie, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. But we are still asking for your support. To see any and all updates about the upcoming Undergrads movie, be sure to check out and like the Bring Back Undergrads Facebook page. And with any luck, we'll see you guys soon.


Welcome, traders, to another Tick Mill weekly market outlook for a week, commencing the 26th of July with me, Patrick Mundley. Looking for the dollar to stay supported into Wednesday's FOMC meeting. Despite lockdown concerns, I'll swear in the world, fuelled by the Delta variant, expect the Fed will have to deal with the realities of above-trend growth and inflation, while it may not specify exactly when it's ready to taper. The toes should generally support the view that tapering should emerge in the fourth quarter of this year, with the possibility of a first hike coming in Q4 2022. US data this week will provide a first look at 2021 GDP growth, expected at 8-9% quarter over quarter annualised plus also June readings for personal consumption and the PCE deflator. In addition, we'll also see updates on durable goods orders, consumer confidence and new home sales. The week ahead will also see the IMF release an interim update on its world economic outlook. In April, the funds saw the world growing by 6% in 2021 and 4.4% in 2022. It will be interesting to see if the IMF downgrades China's forecast, much if us all. In April, the IMF had China growing at 8.4% in 2021 and 5.6% in 2022, with emerging market economies. Understandably, lagging in the vaccination race portfolio flows to EM have been in reverse over recent weeks, which is another factor why the dollar may stay supported in the near term. So from a technical perspective, key level was tested in a week at 92.50, by a step back in and was recalled above there. I'm looking for an extension to 93.73, a quota objective, and then the yearly pivot at 94.13. This stage really, only a loss of 91.50 would be of concern to the near term bullish thesis. In the Eurozone, it's a big week for Eurozone data, but the first look at second quarter GDP and the flash July CPI release on the former. The consensus expects a 1.5% quarter on quarter expansion as the Eurozone exits its technical recession. Reports for much stronger growth in third quarter are under a little pressure, however, as the Delta variant hits confidence. A pickup in Eurozone headline CPI to 2.1% year on year looks unlikely to move markets. This comes after the European Central Bank Policy Review, which shifted forward guidance such that the ECB will not consider raising rates until CPI is substantially at 2% over a 12 to 18 month forecast horizon. Finally, the ECB says CPI at 1.4% in 2023. Other data of note will be the July German EFO and also the Eurozone confidence surveys for July. German July PMI is actually held up quite well despite fears over supply chain disruptions. We'll also see European leaders discussing the emergency fiscal support plans, the recovery and resilience facility. Some of this money should be dispersed later this year, although Hungary's request for EU funds is running into delays given the stand-off with the EU over LGBTQ issues. So from a technical perspective, the Eurodollar continues to trade in this descending wedge. Whilst we hold below the 1.1850, look for a grind lower to certainly test the 1.1707 on route to an ideal equality objective at 1.1627 for a more meaningful correction than we put into place. We're at this stage, we need to see a close above 1.1975 to return to looking at upside objectives. Last Monday, it looked as though the Japanese yen would be one of the strongest currencies on the week as risk assets came under pressure and the Fed's tightening cycle was reprised lower. This proved a false start, however, as equity markets quickly reclaimed their losses. The coming week is big one for US earnings, with big tech heavyweights due to report. It still seems far too early in the cycle for equities to really turn substantially lower. Thus, the JPY will probably remain an underperformer. Locally, the focus will be on the start of the Olympics and whether it can proceed as planned during the pandemic. Clearly, the lack of spectators is a major loss of the Japanese economy, but a cheap exchange rate and a generally buoyant international manufacturing sector should keep Japan's export machine going. We'll get some insights on this from Monday's July PMI releases. From a technical perspective now, as we hold below 1.1072, we look for ultimately a test of 1.0858, which is the equality objective. Really at this stage, we need to see a close back through 1.111 to refocus on the upside targets of 1.1200 onto 1.3000 of the equality objective. Finally, down under in Australia, inflation could spike here and apply some pressures of the RVA. With risk sentiments remaining unstable, the Aussie has moved below the 74 level for the first time since late 2020, with a correction in iron ore prices also likely playing a role. Next week's main event in Australia is the release of second quarter inflation figures. Economists are looking for headline CPI to grow 3.5% year over year, which is marginally below market consensus. So far, the Reserve Bank of Australia has not budged, sticking to its dovish stance, despite many developed central banks having moved to the hawkish side. It is still likely that one high inflation reading won't be enough to generate a U-turn in the RVA's tone, as evidence that inflation pressures are more persistent will likely be needed. But there should still put some pressure on the RVA to start discussing an earlier start to the tightening cycle. Markets are only pricing at 40 basis points worth of tightening in Australia in the next two years. By comparison, the pricing in New Zealand, for example, is now for 100 basis points. So there's considerable room for markets to speculate on a hawkish tone in the RVA's language in the second half of 2021. From a technical perspective, whilst the Aussie dollar holds below 74.50 now, look for a move down to test 72.70. Really at this stage, we'd need to see a close back through 75 to start to think about a more meaningful correction to test 76 from below. And lastly, we will check in with Sterling here. It's almost overlooked Sterling. Sterling has been struggling due to both specific negative news on Sterling and the declining UREDI. Next week should offer no real changes with the July Firm seed meeting posing a downside risk to the low yields versus the dollar. Should the Fed drop some hints about Jackson Hole or tapering in September? On the Sterling side, UK clashes with the EU in trying to renegotiate the conditions of post Brexit trade in Northern Ireland should also tame any meaningful Sterling upside. It will be a very quiet week on the data front with limited spillover into Sterling. Really, we've only got July nationwide house prices on Wednesday and June consumer credit and June mortgage approvals both released on Thursday. So from a technical perspective, Sterling has recovered off those loans posted just above 1.3570 potential now that we trade up into the trend line resistance here, the internal trend line resistance of 1.3825. However, if we hold current levels at the start of the week, it could be that we roll over to retest the prior lows en route to this 1.3495 before getting a more meaningful corrective bounce in Sterling. And that concludes the weekly market outlook for week commencing the 26th of July. As always, traders, plan the trade, trade the plan. Most importantly, manage your risks. Until next time, thanks very much.