bless her she's very good isn't she she's great like and she just had that kind of a give off that i think to the majority of ireish people a lot of people listening to this program um took a taking big interest in the royal family they're not royalists but particularly the princess deanna situation they they they do like it you know what happens this is sometimes those who are very very very against it you hear that a lot and you think that's representative i think the majority of people i don't get it myself because i don't like class systems i don't like monarchy i don't like any of that so yeah and i don't like light lower middle and you don't go to hairdresser and flick through hello i don't that's just about i do they say to me what are you doing here i totally flick through i've been banned because you're just there to flick through hello i just turned up to read hello you just get the free magazine and leave but i think a lot of people here i know with interest um i think so i just i think it is it's going to be one of those things that a lot of people will have on i have a bargain order from a number of hairdressers stealing their hello it's just one of those things i think we don't look at it i don't look at them as being the rulers or anything like that i know the people see that so that's not the way i just kind of picture them as more than you do our own president do you know i also recognize that she's my commander-in-chief and a lot of things have happened on this island and some people feeling very very personally a hundred percent absolutely i respect that uh and i understand that but i think for the majority of people and i think particularly further south you go um they will watch on at least with interest uh if not care yeah and yeah and i just think she as you say is one of those story absolutely right yeah yeah that's what i mean it's going to be one of those things is no more it's very quickly as was proven on the bbc they exhausted how kind of long you can talk about it oh they had a huge conversation about her dress her hats and her shoes and her hand oh i missed her dresses and i was like seriously you did not plan this speaking of hats apparently uh the star uh the the the the the personal the thing that impressed most of all in blackbird oh i knew there was a segue were hats oh the hats were amazing so we're going to talk about that hats and we might dip back into that conversation of course as the morning wears on after this break the 90 noon show with letter kenny credit union now offering mortgages with life cover provided at no additional cost letter kenny credit union 9102127 deep breaths everyone there's still time to save the day with great value home cover from super value insurance you'll get 15 off online and shopping vouchers with every policy that's a great deal for the cover you need anyway all it takes is one big click or call just visit supervalue.ie slash insurance or call 0818 010101 and our team will 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back from the spectacular that is a press conference featuring garth brooks well you know even before garth turned up he gave us all three t-shirts there was an announcement made that there were three t-shirts for all the media and that got a cheer the guy hadn't even turned up at that stage and he's already kind of won us over so listen guy comes into the room you know garth you know anyone else would have a load of flunkies press people people saying you know all over and garth none of that comes into the room straight over it's like i mean it was like a one-man show and we got we got a one-man show for an hour and i'm glad i'm talking to someone on highland radio because there was a lot of people from Ulster there and there's a lot of tickets going north you know in the northern part of the country you know in dunny gall and in the north and he's got a huge um you know he's got a huge audience up there and a lot of the people who turned up were asking him they had different stories one reporter turned up her parents had met at a garth gig in 1997 and she'd been uh you know she'd been um she was born the following march what can i say you know do your maths uh they had a good night let's put it like that and he has he there's something infectious engaging about him you know you know yourself uh ken he did the the the ring arounds of the stations um earlier this year i think and he's very personable he makes sure he knows your name he speaks to you like you've known him for ages uh you know in that regard he is a class act and it's not unlike our own daniel o'donnell and other really really successful artists i think the audience have to make a a connection and any young artists that are looking to break through i think they can look at people like garth and daniel and others and say you know what maybe that's just the the little jenice aqua that gets you over the line yeah i'm glad you said daniel o'donnell because i've had a few dealings with daniel over the years and he's exactly the same you know i dealt with him when he was doing strictly daniel o'donnell and i really liked him any free t-shirts no free t-shirt from daniel mcella but my god they popped into clary's the famous department store in dublin before closed down a few years ago and like the place just went bananas for them they love them but yes daniel and garth the same they both have that personable thing where they really know how to work the room and i really liked you know the previous press conference garth had done a reporter which would you know ask a question and say that they'd been to his concert you know 10 10 15 years before with their parents and garth would inquire first thing he'd say is is your mom stroke dad still with us are they coming i mean just absolutely brilliant and he's doing lots of that yesterday and i mean something you know being from a popular paper i'm the showbiz editor with the son i wanted to ask him about 2014 and you know how he felt about it did he was did he retain any bitterness and uh it was something that i used to word adversaries because of course it did get to that there was the head of dublin city council who wouldn't give him the you know the permission for five gigs and then he wouldn't do you know garth didn't want to leave anyone out he pulled the gigs and he came back later on at the press conference and garth leaned in he kind of rattled my notebook and he said you said earlier about adversaries well he just wanted to say he kind of added to the point so first of all remembered who'd asked the question brilliant stuff also i think it's just a huge thing garth and arland i think too another thing ken you know people tried to make a bit of a hoohar about him not having an opening act that was batted away by our listeners anyway they're saying look that doesn't matter stop being negative you know the the there's a positivity coming with this guy with these concerts and even if we try and look for a little bit of negativity it doesn't seem to be there and that's welcome particularly in this day and age especially it's one in eleven or twelve of us are going along to see him so i feel tomorrow i'm going tomorrow night i feel like i'm going to be getting into a hotel bed that hasn't been made you know someone else has already been in it so i'm going to try and avoid any pictures or anything i want to be to be fresh for me tomorrow uh but people going tonight gates open at five uh it's all very well organized in terms of where you go in and all that type of stuff the show starts at seven thirty and of course yeah get in on time you don't want to miss the start of this it's going to be big it's said they've said no early queuing at this gates open at five o'clock and i just think it's like you remember the garth brooks has gone around america he's playing stadiums it's so well organized and so well well-attuned everyone's going to have a good time i was just laughing there because you know erinrod erin have put on a lot of trains at midnight you know that thing the song about took the train at midnight wherever that is that's some american power band from the 80s or 90s i mean literally that's what it means erinrod erin have put on midnight trains going to cork and all sorts of places going to be a lot of fun on the streets but he was quite um ken did you have to make a trend did you have to mention trains to people in donning all ken because aeroplanes buses whatever no one's got on a midnight train to nowhere i've got a listen i've got a book here about trains and i know what they did what's the book between the last the last train the train leaving departed or whatever and i know i know what was done to train and i'm a sweeney so listen i never turned down a call from dunny gull but i think what was done to trains and also it was more to do with partition and stuff like that it's one of my pet subjects but what i will say is um you know i think there'll be radio stations in doble and i think one of them is actually playing garth hits um after the show you know they're playing them as people go home on the road so kind of take the thing in you know he was saying which struck me he said he wants to make it a great show for the punters in the in the arena but he also wants to make it a great show for the people outside crow park and there's a lot of um bridge building going on you know at the earlier conference during the week Peter McCann at the head of the stadium director was saying that he tanked dubbing city council you know on keegan the head you know and for making this thing possible so i mean as a reporter i'm kind of scratching my head because all the things that they said couldn't happen in 2014 five concerts what has happened this year and yet everyone's kind of cool with it so there's some sort of miracle talks that positivity no matter what people trying to track this going on so so he starts at seven thirty the show's about four hours i think it's being videoed over the course of the five nights for a special the stage has been set up particularly for crook park this there is definitely something to this for him at the end of something a closure it's his last stadium gigs i think there's a significance here that we know he's going to be putting in way more than a hundred percent on this yeah absolutely you know he's talking about the fact that uh arland has always had a special relationship he's had a special relationship with arland the records took off here i revealed in the arches sunday's week well you know reminded people ian demsey gave away a cow a live cow in the early 90s when he was launching garth i think there was a problem i'm sure you guys were doing it country music it was a problem getting it on pop radio in arland so he had a bit of a struggle i think garth's management and his record company in arland they kind of got involved with the gaa you know i there's a great documentary on virgin media next week called they're coming home i'm in it talking about garth and the record company found they were selling a lot of a lot of tapes a lot of cassettes of garth brooks in arland and they realized that it was guys in tractors who were it was called the tractor factor they were buying garth cassettes on cassette it was called the tractor factor so he ties into this uh gaa thing you know i mean i i write a lot about dancing with the stars for you know for a living i i'm there every week and garth connects up to the same middle arland type thing and is there's something else there's something extra there's what what came through the door yesterday was a much slimmer man straight away but also just a homely incredibly good manners incredibly warm you know and you're getting that and there's a connection to the fans i read an interview of billy connelly a few years ago and he said you know what what's happened is i found my fans and my found my fans found me and he's been playing billy connelly's been on the road ever since and it's been like that for garth brilliant ken listen i could chat to your day thanks for your time you're going which night are all nights or no nights i'm going tonight yeah we're putting on my wax jacket i hope garth says even if there's no rain there's no i've scrutinized the weather forecast there's no rain for the concert that's good news well listen that i appreciate that from you i would say to you you could be a look at your man the me go the second night because garth admitted yesterday with jaws are dropping that the first night could be rogui that he didn't know how it would go but he thought by the second or the third night the thing would be better so so you know you might i'll get him in the swing of things yeah it might be in the swing of the sound the way it goes i mean it might just be more relaxed but there's an awful lot you know um you know there's an awful lot depending on tonight these five gigs and you know the reason that these gigs are happening is it's going to bring a huge amount of money into the capital from lots of great people from dunny girl coming down by by by steam train or by boat or by cars by you know they'll be hitching they'll be going all sorts of ways everyone will be some of them will probably ride in our name uh in demses cow who's to say uh thanks ken all right take care bye bye good to have you on the show i really appreciate it okay finula you're going tomorrow night as well yes absolutely what started off as a huge crowd is now down to myself and Ursula see this is why this is why people don't understand why there's so many tickets uh floating around there's four hundred and ten thousand tickets about five percent are going to be people that you booked tickets for the now i've let you down uh you know when five percent of four hundred thousands huge so i know luke combs is coming in september and i'm like no not buying anybody yourself i think one for me that's it uh so it's you and Ursula well sure you have a good time oh god it's going to be great i saw him the last time he came and uh it was absolutely fantastic and i'm hoping that he doesn't have the support because uh he's going to i'm hoping his missus is going to be with them oh he she is here she is here because this is their oh no but i meant on stage oh no he's already kind of dropped that um i love to he's conscious that some fans will go to all five concerts and that he's going to try and mix it up a bit over the five nights that concerns me a little bit i just hope that you know people who go hear the songs that they've went for you know we can all go for a wee when you know here's the song off my new album you can just see the aisles fill up everybody runs i don't look at i'm just really i really enjoyed his last concert and uh when he was there you remember he used to be that was the time when he was young he used to swing out no no i don't go in for any of that kind of crap i don't think but i don't see his music as necessarily just being country anyway it's dress it's like i think it's one of those things that just goes across no like luco you know like lucombe's is the new kind of garth brooks now you know what i mean i'm gonna i'm going to wear a check shirt oh awesome i hope to bump into you we got you i'm sure you will uh because our land is an incredibly small space uh and katie's down tomorrow night as well i believe yes as well i think she's going as well yeah okay half a done the goal is going um we got you watching documentaries i don't suppose we can get you to a garth brooks concert no no okay blackbird because we're all wait to hear what you saw the blackbird that's gonna come up after these the nine till noon show with letter kenny credit union do you need to switch your current account or loan we are now offering my cu current account and debit mastercard bringing full banking features and competitive rates with your loans this week at centra 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bad anyone who's a fan i've often mentioned this mystery science theater 3000 there's huge entertainment value from bad films when myself if anyone saw this last week we were chatting to two ladies immediately afterwards for about five ten minutes and they obviously they didn't like the movie but they enjoyed it they were able to chat about it we can chat about this film you can chat about the scene where he's walking through the hotel and the whole thing takes place in a hotel it's like the least globetrotting spy movie ever it's in his house though isn't it's it's yeah it's so it's in his house flashbacks are to his house and stuff like that the setup right so such as there is such as there is setup in this but as he walks through the hotel and members of staff approach him he takes off one hat and they immediately hand him the next hat that's going from the morning hat the afternoon hat and he puts it on in a suave sophisticated way and then walks i've been trying to get my two house mids to get on board because i have like six or seven baseball caps and i reckon that when i come down the stairs in the morning or mid morning they should be meeting me with a change over hat but it just they can't this is literally a skit waiting to be recorded it is totally so what is this film this is a film about a guy who's one of those reluctant heroes you know how john wick or nobody the hero has a past and he doesn't want to get sucked into the world of whatever he's a free man i'm i he's out this is trying to be like that one last job he did that one last job but this hero is so disinterested basically he runs a hotel bad guys show up they've got a chip and the chip has stuff on it that's going to kill millions of people and his entourage are repeatedly saying to him victor we got to do something about this and he always says eh be all right he does doesn't he he's like nah let them do their thing he does that for like he never got accent he doesn't care which is his accent thing i know and then one of his onto now his entourage are all meant to be ex espionage people right from years ago from like 10 plus years ago and they're meant to be the best of the best but immediately one of them goes into a room gets caught and gets killed like you're like they're the worst and the other thing i loved about this film is there's a woman and she's not just a woman she's the woman from his past and is she lit in certain ways now well i don't know about that but she's certainly meant to be like from those days those espionage days and she was also one of the best she was one of the best back in the day now she's in her late 20s at most maybe 30 32 she doesn't need to be lit back in the day she was a 12 year old she was in school there's no young in the world of espionage when apparently she was the best of the best if you're talking about the fact that the actress is too young for the part come on yeah there must be worse oh yeah i mean that happens in loads of things like anyone who saw ghost rider will remember that nicolas cage and eve amendez were meant to be in school together and there's like 20 because the flashbacks they're too high he was he was the principal and she was a baby you know they were in high school together and then when you see them grown up they're like wait a second he's 24 years older than her but it's a bit like that but yeah this is a movie that has no set up no story no structure the actresses i would say now we discreetly but i think the actresses are all very beautiful women who can't act none of them can act the lead actress has some credits starting off as a Michael flatly act better than you'd think better than you think but he won't be when he probably won't win an oscar for that right okay so the two women uh that used to chatting to did they enjoy it they enjoyed chatting about it afterwards i think and i know them so no no they said they were like some ego enjoy it but you're not necessarily enjoying it for the movie like you're enjoying it because it has every single thing in it that you expect a Michael flatly movie to be in it i mean in fairness i did leave it with a mild eye strain from rolling my eyes and saying jesus wept so many times there were so many times that i looked that's why you enjoyed it i loved more than once do you remember i kept looking at you in the day i was like all i can see is the white of her eyes because the pupils were in the back of her head i was like the women are i mean now i take all the women are dancers you know the way you can see when they sit yes the way they stand it's kind of their toes go out a little bit they've definitely they're all like that's where he met these people was in some kind of you know through the dancing rather than through the acting yes terrible and in fairness to them there is they have no nothing in the script to do no only sit there and and be attractive and you know there's a point where they take their clothes off at different points yeah the lads are all so remember i said to you i remember the last year the thing like you have him and Patrick Berg and all these guys who are of an age and they're surrounded by these women and i was like this is a group of guys hanging out with their granddaughters and it's a really family moment there it's like i don't think that's the angle they're going for is the card game full of tense tension and it's it's full of tension if you've ever seen like a frank sinatra movie you know the way like he he grew up watching those films you see i have a problem here because i watched him on the late late show and besides the arabic era and mial Irish mother and all this kind of stuff she says to the right like audience says um you you know i'll tell you about the irish mother and then he went actually maybe a lot of views have the irish mother and it was all very but that being said there was actually quite a strong message in what he had to say in the late late show right because he was saying and he was saying correctly that people always tell you you can't do what you want to do and he wanted to make this film and he there's no bones about it he doesn't care if people like it or not fair enough he wanted to make this film and he made the film and people told him river dance would never work and people told him laws of the dance would never work and he related this to children don't be afraid of criticism so i'm not afraid of criticism and if you and then he took a flute out i don't know but anyway that's not a euphemism that joke was already done on on the late late show and i don't watch the late late show ever but i tuned in to see you know because it was for the same reasons you guys went to the cinema but i came away from that and i said that can make their dreams come true but yes but he worked very hard he did he came from a background where his parents went over worked in construction he worked in construction but he had a dream as a young person and he made that dream a reality okay oh look you have to admire me in a sense of like we were saying so that's why i like the fact that your review is kind of it was terrible but we enjoyed yeah but that's i would say yes i but i would say there's an element of ego i don't take away from any of that but i think i think i wish if he had done all that he did and made this film but you've gone in a writer you cannot you cannot you cannot you cannot decide you want to make a film finance the film star in the film produce the film cast the film and then have a sense of modesty no no no no no i'm not good yeah yeah yeah look at it it's it's but it's definitely worth it's definitely worth going to see it yeah i definitely think people should go and see it i mean it we're just looking at it cost about three and a half million to make which is a very small budget yeah it doesn't seem to they've made uh almost two million now already does he dance and do no why would someone mislead me like that no because i think when i was after we went we were looking down through some of the reviews because some of them are hilarious so smartly written you're just like all this guys but do you not get the impression that some of those reviews were written before the oh hundred percent no what there was you know elements of it two turns actually the only ones that you could after as i said we were sitting in the car afterwards because couldn't stop talking about we talked about and reading the windows steamed up and they were and they're reading this reading through the different reviews and see you know and the way people phrase things that we had seen in it which is very you know who's seen the movie by the referee if they reference the hat change over if they reference the scene where the young beautiful dancer offers herself to him in the room and then in a very cool way he just kind of puts a dressing gown on her and sends her on her way and you're like you're like oh he's so cool so how do you mark this out of 10 one but i love it loving it one oh yeah i know you'd have to the the thing about it is that like it's it's just everything in her five or six out of ten fun zone here i think but that's exactly where it were at least could you understand the plot of that was better than even for me that was not difficult but what it was amazing about it was like you're just the whole way through it's never you know what i mean like halfway through he's out on like this you know tropical island and suddenly you know surprise surprise the irish priest shows up you're like just it it hits every single thing you needed to hit and then it's set up for the sequel and apparently he's in pre-production for the sequel and you're just like going i mean i do i admire his neck shall we say i mean we laugh like you laugh oh yeah there is there's definitely not necessarily where they thought you were going no and he is actually not that bad as we were saying afterwards if he showed up as a person that was running a bar in a james bond movie i had two scenes you would totally believe it'd be okay with it like he's actually not that bad there's a couple of guys in it who have been acting for a long time which one he spent on acting classes well he's stay right where you are don't go anywhere i want to say uh you ponder your mark out of 10 i want to say good morning to victoria boyd who's farm family rep with the donagall ifa hiya victoria i don't suppose you've seen michael flatley's blackbird yet have you no unfortunately not right is it on the list it is on the list i would think right let's talk and walk um this is an event taking place on sunday the 11th of september to three p.m it's at ards forest park which is easily accessible uh if you go through creasel on the road to don fanahe all the signposts are there all the entrances are there and i'm sure it'll be signposted and what a place to have a walk uh talk to me about uh i presume it's open to everyone but a particular focus on farm families victoria yes it is open to everyone greg um because although the um irish farmers association are one of the main um stakeholders in this it's also um culture mental health ireland um sea change d l d c are also involved so it really is open for everyone um and like you said we're meeting in ards um forest park um we're meeting at the car park at three p.m and um thanks to bill vaughn in the mental health island he's been just fantastic he has organized nature walks um which will explore biodiversity in the area um and the main aim of the walk is to help people understand the habitats around them um and to enhance any future walks that they might have in nature um so it's also you know it's a time where um members in farming communities but also in our wider donningall community can come together and just have you know a bit of um social interaction um and make the most of this good weather that we're ha you know that yeah and maybe to make a bit of time for themselves to do something like that because you know when you sort of live and work in the same space which a lot of farm families do it maybe can be hard to manage your time even if this was just an opportunity to put down the tools for a couple of hours and go out and enjoy um the the the great outdoors in a different context it'd be worth it for that reason alone i'm sure definitely and um like i said you know there's a social element in a way because farming particularly over the last few years has become very lonely um you know covid has affected um the farming industry you know the farming industry and agriculture industry um in so many ways but one of the main things is the um exclusion from you know some bit of social activity and um i don't know what it's like in everyone else's house but um in our farmhouse sunday is a family day um and we get a bit more time with the daddy on on sunday so it's great you know to um bring the kids as well um you know they hopefully will have great weather and there'll be some refreshments and it's a completely free event so you know young and old are really encouraged to um attend if they can load up the car with the family of all generations because there's walks for all different types of people uh and i think it's going to be a lovely um a lovely calming because it's a beautiful setting anywhere and i think it's going to be a lovely event for everyone so it's an easy family friendly walk suitable for all ages including buggies refreshments will be served after the walk gather at the car park at aards forest park at three p m and uh whether you're a farm family or not i think a lot of people will take part in that and enjoy victoria thanks for your time this morning thank you very much take care of yourself okay we'll be back with more after the break the night all noon show is brought to you by letter kenny credit union offering low-rate car loans with fast approval apply online at 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you're very welcome back to the ninkle noon show which minus is it here okay um and we're just wrapping things up now with michael and finula so why do you give him black bird out of 10 then please finula oh i'm definitely giving it a five or six wow go and you will no it is because it is because it it's you know it's sort of although it's not quite as good but it's the worst uh it's the second best worst movie i've ever seen first one being tropic thunder remember tropic thunder that was a very good movie you know and this is where his name very enjoyable this is where his name brought the people in yes you know black bird this is a commercial success i i think it's all track rates of commercial success but i would say so i mean it's running well yeah well it it looks to be making so far it's made 1.8 million i don't know if that's enough that's what i could just that we can that's only the first week out it'll make it's marlin as well presumably yeah that's just really kind of google what it made but look the thing what is is that it's you're go with the crowd of friends and you go and see it early and then have your night out and there's your whole conversation done because it is a conversation go on a first date you'll definitely end up having something to talk about afterwards is there an excuse to bring your granny bring your granny it's got the granny okay it's got everything in it there's nothing to appreciate him pulling the road back on the absolutely yes there's a there's nothing in it it comes up to the line but it doesn't pass the line it's quite old-fashioned i suppose in a sense yeah it is it's awesome yeah dealing sort of a thing you know what i mean it hasn't been a bit of violence in it yeah nothing oh for god's sake look there's one fight scene in the whole film does he win he didn't just win it was win in capital letters greg win in capital letters it's it's one of those ones that if you don't see it you're kind of going to be sorry you'll see it 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Hello traders at CMC Markets. Welcome to another update by RRG Research for Monday the 12th of September. I'm recording this on a rather sad Friday the 9th of September. My name is Trevor Neal and I'm presenting to you from London. Let us start as we always do by looking at the global indices versus the MSCI World Index. Now we have seen this week that the world is in fact rotating and continuing sort of trends in the relationships between the US industries and the European industries has continued to expand. So what we're seeing is improvements in the US indices and also that group on the top right there the UKX, the FTSE 100, the Australian index and the Nikkei all holding this area over on the top right in the leading quadrant. The US indices generally are close to the MSCI World Index so correlating with it not surprising given its heavy weight in the MSCI World Index but they're close to them and so there's no outperformance opportunity from them but we've got two of the US indices not with the rest of the group. The Russell 2000, the broadly based index, has crossed to the lagging quadrant and the NASDAQ has continued to be in the lagging quadrant and heading in a westerly direction so losing JDK-RS ratio. In the European indices there's been an improvement with the stocks, the CAC and the DAX all pointing easterly and the DAX crossing across to the leading quadrant. The UK index, the UK 100 as Australian and the Nikkei, they're all far to the right separate from the rest of the indices so with strong JDK-RS ratio and generally pointedly easterly as well so they should maintain that position. What might be interesting is to pair one of these against the strongly rotating negatively rotated tech 100 the NASDAQ index. We'll come back to that shortly. Now let's break this group, this group in the leading quadrant, the FTSE 100 the ASX200 and the Nikkei up a bit and see where the real opportunity lies in there. This is a weekly chart of the FTSE 100 UK X index. Now what you can see is that this index has been moving sideways really for a year supported by 7000 and with a top just above 77600 and this has been a very you know relatively tight range. Now with the whole complex of world stock indices weak this moving sideways has actually put it in that strong position in the leading quadrant just by not going down so it's a relative thing that we're talking about here and this one is looking good by not going down. The range is pretty established, we're in the middle of the range right now it's holding up and what's interesting to me is that the relative strength index here which is marked the tops and bottoms the range really well is around the midpoint just below 50 at the moment neutral and so the indication is at the moment is that it will continue to hold this position of stability while the rest of the complex is under pressure. Now let's look at the weekly MACD of the FTSE. Something quite meaningful has happened here the blue line which is the MACD line and the dash line is the signal line and don't forget this is 12, 26 and 9 weeks. This is a double smoothed moving average and it has come back to zero so when a double smooth the difference between two moving averages smoothed comes to zero the difference is zero this is a strong message of flat sideways trading and it's just pointing easterly there now so this is another indication that the FTSE is going to hold its position at the top end of the relative strength of the group of global stock indices just by being the one which seems to not want to go down. Now let's look at the NASDAQ the NDX index here we've got in this weekly chart so each bar here is a week is a down channel we've got nice three tops on that channel bottom is a little bit less distinct but it's definitely moving down with in a channel and we're about mid channel right now we've got support where we are now at about 12,000 we've got resistances around the 13,000 here too and then of course the crucial 11,000 low which might be taken out if we continue this pattern of lower lows. The pattern here is that we are going down but we are not oversold in any way let's just have a look here we're around just we're about 45 on the RSI weekly RSI but the tendency is overall to continue the drift lower so here we are look at this in contrast to the FTSE for example which was all stable up here and that will put it to the top of the list and this one with this downward channel clear downward channel and with only really relatively light support looking still vulnerable to lower prices having said light support I should maybe I should correct that we have got support it's not strong because but it is support from 1100 here and this consolidation from 2020 so there is support about but it is moving down purposefully into the support inside the longer term down channel so a conclusion is that we possibly have a pairs opportunity here we've got the stability we like particularly the UKX because it is holding up and as your as one side of potential pair and then on the other side the weakest looking of the whole complex is the NASDAQ still looking weak so although it is approaching supports of the low but the lows kept giving way and it is in a strong downward trend trend this would still be our preferred opportunity to pair off against the UKX I wish the very very best for the weekend and thank you very much for listening from Julius and I we'll be back to you again next week with more from ROG research thank you


Welcome to Nation Beat. I am Genelle Norville bringing you this brief on the pulse of our nation and highlights around the heart of St. Lucia. The Government of St. Lucia is taking a new approach to project implementation and development. The redevelopment of castries takes shape in a major consultation forum and cementing the message that small properties are entitled to the same initiatives. The Government of St. Lucia is taking a new approach to project implementation and development. The Department of Economic Development, Transport and Civil Aviation is spearheading the Medium-Term Development Strategy 2019-2022 with the aim of achieving an inclusive and sustainable St. Lucia by 2022. According to Minister for Economic Development, Honourable Guy Joseph, the strategy will focus on six key results areas that comprise free economic pillars which are tourism, agriculture and infrastructure and three social areas which are healthcare, education and national security. Collectively, these sectors represent some of the most important areas that affect the lives of every St. Lucia. We believe that with the discussions taking place in St. Lucia today that healthcare is top priority. And most recently from the World Bank it has been clearly indicated that healthcare and education are not just on the social side but has a direct impact on the economic output of any country and so it can fit either on the social side or on the economic side because if you have a healthy nation, the level of productivity is greater. If you have a well-educated and equipped workforce, your output is also greater. So this would have a direct impact on the economic side of the equation. The government is being supported by the Caribbean Development Bank for a technical assistance loan to assist in the preparation of the strategy. CDB's Director of Economics, Justin Ram provided some insight into the strategy. The government will then publish details of the medium-term development strategy and the implementation plans that go along with that. And then it's a task of now setting out how do you go about implementing this so that these plans are no longer like the plans that we tend to see in most of our joint member countries, glossy documents, but at the end of the day they are never implemented. This approach that we are proposing here is meant to now eradicate that particular issue and it is now a focus on strategic implementation of these plans. That means that we will also be facilitating the setting up of what's called a delivery unit within the centre of government. Vimandu Associates will be undertaking phase one of the project, which consists of the labs engagement or intensive stakeholder workshops. According to St. Dusha's Social and Economic Labs Engagement Manager, Christopher Chu, during phase one the labs will identify issues and opportunities, priority solutions and develop detailed implementation plans for execution over the next four years. After the completion of phase one, phase two will commence and will involve the establishment of a delivery unit within the government of St. Dusha. The final stage of this process is what we would term the lab stage. And during this stage stakeholders from all the key result areas will detail out implementation plans for the projects that have been already identified. These implementation plans include budget requirements, government structures, any policy amendments that will need to be made, and so on and so forth. Key performance indicators will also be developed for each project and initiative so that every project that is established will achieve the goals set out for the overall key result area. Also during this stage, details for the establishment of a delivery unit will be finalized including the structure, roles and responsibilities, manpower requirements and other aspects. Phase one will be implemented from the 19th November to the 14th December. Upon the completion of phase one, phase two will commence in January 2019. The Ministry of Finance hosted a one-day meeting Friday to discuss the redevelopment of castries and review the existing national vision plan adopted a decade ago. Lisa Joseph has more on the castries urban forum. In 2008, a national vision plan for castries was approved. However, since then, very little implementation of that plan has taken place. Mayor of Castries, his worship, Peterson Francis, says in order for the capital city to take advantage of new global and economic opportunities, there must be a change to the landscape. We live in a rapidly urbanizing spare, and in that regard, St. Lucia and castries in particular is prepared to embark on its new urbanization. Ladies and gentlemen, this forum which have my full endorsement needs to lead the way. We are discussing St. Lucia's urbanization today, but let us be mindful that the world at large will be urbanized during our lifetime. 2011 was a year when, for the first time in history, more than 50% of people live in cities. By the year 2030, the global urban population would have doubled. If managed well, urbanization can create huge opportunities. The Executing Agency for the Castries Redevelopment Project is the National Integrating Implementation Planning Unit, which is located in the Ministry of Finance. An estimated 60 persons attended the forum, which followed a series of smaller focus group meetings that were held in the months of October by the National Integrating Implementation Planning Unit. Corintha Thomas is the Director of Finance. Central to our approach is the conduct of consultations with all relevant stakeholders, via a combination of thematic focus group meetings, individual and agency discussions. It is hoped that with this forum, we can have an integrated and shared vision across all sectors and varied interests. The Technical Arm of the United Nations, the UN Office for Project Services, UNOPS, is advising the Government of St. Lucia on the Urbanization Project. Program Manager Christopher Roberts says UNOPS is bringing its wealth of expertise and experience to the Castries Redevelopment Program. Through the leveraging of our international expertise and the provision of cutting-edge planning tools and techniques, UNOPS is working with the Government to improve its ability to develop planning frameworks that support evidence-based decision-making. Today is an important step in the planning process for Castries and as we seek to determine the vision and development path that will allow Castries to become a sustainable, resilient, vibrant and inclusive city for its citizens today and for future generations. The draft of the revised National Vision Plan for Castries is expected by year-end with a roadmap for implementation starting 2019. From the Government Information Service, Lisa Joseph reporting. The Ministry of Health and Wellness continues to strengthen efforts to reduce vaccine-preventable diseases in St. Lucia. Several campaigns over the years have targeted increasing the vaccination coverage among children, pregnant women, youth and the adult population on island. The Immunization Program Manager in the Ministry of Health noted however that this year's first is to introduce the Hepatitis B vaccine to newborns. Health officials are working to reduce the impact of cancers in St. Lucia through the introduction of two vaccines. The Hepatitis B birth dose and the Human Papilloma Vaccine. This is to ensure a person is vaccinated throughout their life cycle. Immunization Program Manager, Julieta Frederics-Casius explained however that immediate focus will be placed on the introduction of the Hepatitis B birth dose. So as of November 1st, we will be introducing the Hepatitis B vaccine to all of our newborns. We are currently giving all newborns the ages of 2, 4 and 6 Hepatitis B vaccine. However, there is a thrust right now to eliminate Hepatitis B virus among the population. Hepatitis B virus affects the liver which can lead to cirrhosis of the liver or liver disease and cancer of the liver.  So it's very critical that we introduce the Hepatitis B. At both it has to be given within 24 hours for it to be effective and for it to be able to produce high immunity in the infant to be able to prevent the transmission of the virus from mother to the baby. So like I said, it is not a new vaccine. It is something that is a vaccine that we have been giving to our infants and we give it at 2, 4 and 6 months. But this is just an added dose that will be given to the baby within 24 hours. Casius noted that this vaccine will be given at hospitals since it must be introduced within the first 24 hours of a newborn's life. He said all hospitals have been fully supplied and equipped to conduct the new vaccination schedule at their facilities. Saint Lucia trails behind other regional territories that have for years introduced the Hepatitis B both dose to the childhood vaccination schedule. Seven of the Caribbean islands have introduced the Hepatitis B at both. So we're actually a little behind in introducing the both dose of Hepatitis B. Also, let me add that Canada, the US, England, these are countries that has long introduced Hepatitis B at both. Vaccination experts with the Pan American Health Organization have fully endorsed the regional approach to the introduction of the Hepatitis B both dose to the childhood vaccination schedule. For the Ministry of Health and Wellness, Glenn Simon reporting. The type of service, the length of the contract, contract renewal, penalties, fees for services, termination and reconnection, fee increases and how much notice is required. The option not to receive advertisements and sharing personal information with third parties. Do not sign a contract that you are not satisfied or comfortable with. This message is brought to you as a public service announcement by Ectel, the NTRC and this station. Welcome back. The Tourism Advisory Committee on Thursday met for its final meeting as it paved the way for the establishment of the Tourism Advisory Council. The council to comprise a range of stakeholders from the private and public sectors is expected to have its legislative footing by April 2019. The committee meeting on Thursday discussed several tourism industry matters and received a presentation from the Central Statistical Office on a tourism satellite account. Honourable Dominic Fede is the Minister of Responsibility for Tourism. It's been a project that's been a long time coming and I'm glad that it's finally here. So we're getting the status of the project from the Department of Statistics and these are some of the changes that we need to ensure that we measure tourism in a holistic fashion. Minister Fede says the advisory council is to be a catalyst for growth and inclusion of the St Lucian people in the tourism sector. We are the lawyers on your side that you can get incentives. The incentives that are open to big hotels are also open to small hotels and you can qualify just as some of the bigger properties. Once you have six rooms or more then you are considered to be a hotel with associated amenities. So this continues to be our message to take you to existing small hotels who presently do not know that the law is on their side but also to ensure that we tell potential investors, people who are looking at businesses that the tourism industry is not as far from their reach as they think it is but it is actually a lot closer to them and that has to be a message that we keep telling to the people of St Lucian so that we mobilize the entire country around this vision and to participate and to make sure that they see that this is our industry. That's Nation Beat. Join us next time on NTN at 7.30pm and with a repeat at 7.30am and on this station as we fill the pulse and heart of our community. You can also catch up with us anytime on the St Lucia Government Facebook page or YouTube channel. I am Channel Novel.


So, hello, everybody. Welcome to our talk, Simplifying Backstage and Breaking the Code Barrier. So, this is the maintainer track talk for Backstage. Let's get started. So, first, let's do some introductions. My name is Ben. I'm a senior engineer at Spotify and a maintainer of Backstage, and I have with me Patrick. Hello. My name is Patrick. Go by rugby on GitHub, also a senior engineer at Spotify and maintainer of Backstage. Cool. So, let's dive into a bit of an agenda. First off, we're going to start with some project updates, and then we're going to head into something we're calling the Frontend Framework Evolution, which is what we've been working on for, yeah, the last six, eight months. So, some numbers first. So, these numbers are respective from Amsterdam, KubeCon in Europe this year. We have now 2.3 thousand adopters, which is up 90 percent, 1.2 thousand contributors, and 24 thousand stars. I also want to call out some new project areas that we've added to the project since Amsterdam also earlier this year. We've got three new project areas with some dedicated people taking ownership of these parts of the code. I should talk a little bit more about the difference between incubating and I guess you can call them graduated project areas. Incubating is basically going to be partly maintained by the maintainer team, too. So, we're also going to, like, help kick things off and be a part of that project area until we feel like we're a comfortable place from both sides to hand over a little bit more of the maintainer cost. Things like setting up sync meetings and going through issues and, yeah, signing people to review pull requests, et cetera. So, there's an open API project area, which Aramis is taking over, is in the front row down here, give everybody a wave. This project area is looking about how we can improve the tooling that we have around open API for backstage, especially at a back-end plug-in ecosystem. So, this allows us to have things like typed clients when communicating with back-end plug-ins and also the providers with, like, request, response, validation, and express. There's a scaffold of projects area. So, for anybody that's seen me and Patrick speak before, you'll know that the scaffold has got kind of a very special place in my heart. So, this project area is really exciting for me and to see where we can take it. It's a heavily used feature backstage and it's gone a lot in complexity since we first made it, like, three years ago. So, it's great to get Paul Cowan from Front-End Rescue and Bogdan Netshi Parenko from boll.com on board who have been contributing since the very early days of the scaffolder. And, yeah, it's great to get them on board to help take it forward and maintain it. And lastly, there's a permissions framework and all the packages related to that have been taken ownership by the imaginary Goat Squad at Spotify. Don't ask about the names, there's some very strange names for other squads at Spotify. But, yes, they were the initial inventors of the RFC and the implementation. So, it's great to have them on board too. So, let's talk about plug-ins a little bit. So, I guess backstage loves plug-ins, right? The point that backstage goes from being a framework to a platform is plug-ins. And if that's adding in open source plug-ins or even creating your own plug-ins in your own organization, it's what gives backstage the power of being that single pane of glass for your company, connecting all of the different pieces into one place. So, in fact, the main monorepo backstage backstage has over 200 plug-in packages, as you can see by the gif that's really long here. And some of these plug-ins we provide out of the box, like the catalog, the scaffolder, and the tech docs. But most of them have been actually community-contributed since we started the repo three years ago. And we're so grateful for this. Like, personally, I don't think we would be where we are today, although you're here on this stage with an incubating project if it wasn't for all these plug-ins and these contributors. And they're vital for the backstage ecosystem, right? And because they're free, because they're open source, they're also free, right? Which is great. But just because they're free doesn't mean that they don't have a cost. So, when we were adding these plug-ins originally, early on it was great to be able to see, like, all of these different use cases and make sweeping, breaking changes across the project and see how that impacted different uses of these APIs. But I feel like, or we feel now, that we're kind of past the point of this critical mass for this to be valuable anymore. So, the other thing now is that backstage core is also a lot more stable. Like, we're not making so many breaking changes, especially to the core framework. Not all plug-ins, when they're contributed, have clear owners after that initial commit. So, contributors come and go, but the package still stays there, and then that maintenance burden falls on us as called maintainers to keep it going. And we as maintainers, we have a lot of stuff on our plate right now. You'll see later on what all this new stuff we've been working on. And backstage is going at a fast rate, as I've just shown you previously on the number slide.  For plug-ins that we don't really use or test that often, it's kind of hard for us to work out if they're going to work or not, or if the changes are good. So, what can we do about this? So, we think as maintainers that we own too much in the repo, so we still want to shrink that basically scope that we own. So, we got our heads together and came up with a plan for how we can trim down the scope, and our first step was to put together an RFC, potentially stopping new plug-ins from being added to the main monitor repo. So, instead, we would provide guidance and tools to make it easier for people to host their own plug-ins in their own repo and their own organization outside of the backstage org. So, of course, we don't want to stop growing the amount of plug-ins that we've got, but we just want to free up some time for us. So, we got some great feedback on this RFC. In particular, we heard that people love this idea of having a central repository for community plug-ins, and that these are it provides to be able to contribute plug-ins with all of our tooling. So, we're going to be exploring this idea a little bit and to see how we can set up this governance so that we're not super involved in that repo. So, if you're eager in being involved in this or being a community plug-ins maintainer, please reach out to us, either on Discord or come grab us here or wherever, and let's talk. I also want to mention one thing as well on similar sort of a topic to that. There's been some steps to moving out some of the plug-ins that initially lived in the main repo before. So, these plug-ins were also contributed by maybe people that didn't work at these vendors before, and it's awesome to see and it's great that we've got such a great open source community that can contribute these and then then being picked up by the vendors to maintain. Seeing these vendors take ownership of these plug-ins is great for backstage, it really shows the investment from them, as well as giving the new home outside of the backstage monorepo, they're now being maintained by the right people that know a lot more about these plug-ins, which is great. So, maybe if you work at a company who has a plug-in in the core monorepo and you want to help move it out, please create an issue and let's get started. Cool. Over to Patrick. All right, so that was a couple of project updates. Now it's time to look at what we've been working on for the backstage front-end framework. So, since the beginning of the backstage project, you've always needed to integrate plug-ins using TypeScript code. Typically, you found one or a few snippets of code in a plug-in readme. Tells you what to do, import a few things, render them somewhere and whatnot, some form of integration. Now, it's usually fairly simple, but already here, there are a few points of friction, right? Quite often, someone that wants to set up a backstage instance might not know TypeScript, they might not know React, they might not be even that familiar with coding at all. But even with that knowledge, it can get pretty complicated as your project grows. One snippet of code at a time and eventually you're here and you're sifting through your entity pages trying to figure out how to add a card for your Java services. So, what we've been working on is a way to integrate plug-ins in a backstage application that doesn't require this code. What we want to do is remove all of these small snippets and instead just keep the, but still keep the flexibility that allows you to customize your apps to your own needs. We call this overall solution declarative integration. Now, something that's worth pointing out here is that this is for both the front-end and the back-end systems, but with the changes on the way to the new back-end system, there's much less work to be done there. So, what we're going to focus on today is completely the front-end part of this solution. Now, if you've been around, you know that we presented declarative integration as part of our roadmap at KubeCon EU earlier this year. We've been working on the actual implementation of this since around the end of summer. So, what we're showing you today is work in progress and it is subject to change. All right. So, when we sat down to design this new system, there were a couple of goals we had in mind. So, first and foremost, we wanted to remove the need to write TypeScript code to integrate plugins. But we didn't just want to shift it all over to YAML. We wanted to make sure that plugins can provide defaults so that the only configuration you need in your application is for customizing your setup. We also wanted to clean up the composition patterns, making it easier to build plugins that extend and compose with each other. And finally, we wanted to build towards the possibility of dynamic plugins as a first-class citizen in the backstage framework, allowing you to install a new plugin without rebuilding that. Now, to be clear, dynamic installation is not part of what we are building right now, but we had it in mind as a future step as we were designing these things. Okay. So, that's our background. Now, we'll look at the design of this new system. So, this is a very high-level overview of the new framework. At the root, there is an app instance, which is just an empty shell. It knows how to wire things together and gives you base to build upon. To populate it with content, you have to install plugins. Now, plugins are also still just lightweight containers that provide extensions. It's in the extensions where all of the functionality actually lies in the backstage application. It's when you take all of these extensions and wire them together that you actually get an app that you can render and use. If you're familiar with the current system, you might know that nothing has really changed here. It's actually the case that the app and plugins more or less look the same from the outside. The big difference in this new system are the extensions and how the extensions interact with each other and come together to build that. So, that's what we're going to focus on now. Okay. So, let's return to this snippet of code that we used to install a plugin and see how this has changed in the new system. So, in the new system, each extension provides their own attachment point. And the attachment point is the location in the app that an extension is integrated at. So, in this case, we're installing the GraphQL page as a top-level route in the app. But in the new system, the extension is able to provide this information itself, so we no longer need that code. Now, extensions are also able to provide a default integration configuration. In this case, it's the route path that we want the page to be rendered at, so we can get rid of that, too. We have also moved away from React as a first-class building block when you're integrating plugins. It was nice to be able to, you know, introduce extra React elements in an app, but it was also really confusing the way we used React in some cases. So, extensions are just plain values that you import directly into an app. And finally, we have added the option to automatically detect plugin packages and import them, which means that we can get rid of this explicit import as well. Sweet. That's all code gone. Nice. How do we actually build anything out of that? So, to understand this, this extension structure, when you bring an entire app together, we'll start by looking at the structure of an existing backstage app. So, what we can see here, it's a thin slice of an app. There is a tree of React elements that determine the structure of this application. Some of these elements are extensions provided by plugins, some are provided by the framework itself, and some are just plain React components. And now, as a side note, it's this mixing of different kind of React elements that we want to avoid and have a cleaner separation between the backstage framework and React. Okay. But what would this look like in the new system, then? So, if there's no code, there's going to be a lot of YAML. So, to the right here, you can see the same structure represented in the new system. We no longer have an explicit tree structure, instead the extensions are defined as a flat list where each extension declares its own attachment point. It's not until runtime that this is all resolved into an extension structure, a tree that actually builds up that. Now, however, the good thing about this YAML is that you don't need to write it. The entire structure is provided to us as defaults by plugins and the framework itself to build it into an actual app. So, what you typically have is something that's going to be closer to this. If all you want are the defaults in a backstage app, it can more or less just be defined by the dependencies in your package JSON. Now, of course, we want to be able to customize our apps, too. And we're going to show you that in just a second. But first, I want to talk about something else. So, one of the main strengths in our current system, the one on the left, is how well it visualizes the structure of the app. That was one of the main goals as we were designing that system. Now, of course, in the new system that no longer makes sense, we wanted to get rid of the code. But it's still very important that you can get the sense for what the app structure looks like as you're making changes and debugging. So, let me show you that. The tools we have built for that by jumping into a quick demo, and we'll also explore the app structure in a app using the new system. There we go. Cool. So, what we have running here, and I'm going to remember the key points, there we go. So, what we have running here is a backstage app using the new system. It's a small one, just a couple of plugins installed. We have an entity page here with a couple of cards. But, as I said, it's all in the new system. And we have this visualizer down here that lets us see the structure of this entire application. So, each of the blue square boxes here is an extension installed in this application. Each extension is linked to an input, the gray round node. And the inputs, in turn, are linked to parent extension. And it's this relationship between with an input and a parent extension that forms the attachment point of each extension in the app. You can see before I form up this tree, every single extension is attached to a parent all the way up to the root of the app, where we have the root app extension. Now, you can see here that we have, for example, a couple of extra, or a couple of extensions here that are themes. So, extensions are not only React components, they can also provide other kind of functionality in an app. Also, jump to this more detailed view. It's the same list of extensions, but in a slightly different format. We can see here, for example, the catalog page extension. I can navigate to it. So, the catalog page, it's all the content you see here to the right, everything except for the sidebar. Now, these color dots here on the catalog page extension, they represent outputs of this extension. So, among other things, the catalog page outputs a React element that renders the entire page. This is shared through the attachment point to the parent extension. And this goes on all the way up to the root of the app. All of the extensions compose what inputs they have all the way up to the root app extension that outputs a single React element that we can use to render our entire app. All right. That's enough for this demo. And back to the slides. And, Ben. Okay. So, let's shift gears a little bit and talk about how we actually use this new system. So, we'll mostly skip over how to set up the app itself and building plugins because that's going to remain fairly similar to the existing system. Instead, we're going to focus on what it looks like to actually create extensions and configure them in the app. So, let's return to the previous slim example of the app. So, so far, we were using the defaults which are provided, right? But let's say that we want to change the path of the settings page from settings to be preferences instead. So, in the old system, you can, of course, just directly update it in the JSX, the scene on the left. And with declarative integration, the path is instead changed by passing configuration to the settings page extension. So, we do this by referencing the extension by its ID and then passing this extension specific config to update the path. So, this next example is a little bit trickier. What we'd like to do is disable the extension in a certain environment. And in the old system, there's no real great way of doing this. You end up coming up with your own switch or a feature flag to be able to do it. And for simplicity, we're just going to comment it out. With declarative integration, however, we can simply disable the extension using the configuration that you can see on the right. So, just by passing false in the building. Now, these are just two small examples of how you can customize your app using declarative integration. Extensions can, of course, declare their own configuration schema so you can make any form of static configuration possible. And you're also able to change the attachment point of extensions and, of course, provide an entirely new implementation of an extension with your own. So, let's look at how you create extensions. So, almost all of the time, you're going to be using these predefined extension creators like create page extension that you can see here. So, these predefined extension creators come with a useful set of defaults and an implementation. All we need to do is give it an ID, a path, and a loader and a way to load the actual page component itself. So, we've created our extension, but now how do we install it in the app? So, as mentioned before, we use plugins as containers, plugins as containers for extensions to install them in the app. So, the recommended pattern is to stick to one plugin per package, and by making it the plugin, the default export for that package is going to be automatically picked up and installed into the app. So, there's also a lower level API under the hood, which is plainly called create extension. So, this is what you're going to use if you want to make your own extension creators or if you simply want more detail control over an extension itself. So, what you can see here is the definition for our call layout extension. So, the call layout extension is basically like the shell of the backstage app itself. So, it's got the sidebar and the content for the actual plugin all wrapped in a sidebar page component. You can see that right down the bottom where it says factory. That's why it returns this React element. So, here you can see when using create extension directly that we've got a lot more control over what we actually want to do in the extension. So, we have to declare an ID, an attachment point, some inputs, which I've said are going to be the sidebar on the app content, and then our outputs, which is the React element. So, we can also define a configuration schema, but for this example, it's not necessary. You should also be able to now see kind of in your head how you can wire these inputs and outputs of different extensions to build this tree that Patrick was just talking about. Now, and obviously, in these examples, we're taking inputs of React elements and then composing them together to build another React element output. That was a mouthful. But you can do this with any form of data type. It doesn't have to be React element. And to reiterate, this is a lower level API. You're mostly going to be using these predefined extension creators. And whilst we're not going to be using create extension directly today, I want you to just bear in mind this call-out extension, as it's going to come in quite useful later in the demo. I'm about to show you now. Okay. Let's just switch over to the demo. This. Okay. So, I'm just going to go over to the catalog, to the example website. So, hopefully, this is going to seem quite familiar to people. What we have on the right is the app config, which comes apart of the backstage app. And on the left is the catalog entity page. So, you can see how we've got a list of extensions on the right. And these are extensions that have just been added to the app. So, what we can see here, we've got some entity cards here. Now, these are for extensions that order is important. They're disabled by default so that you can enable them in the extension array in the order that you want to see them. So, for instance, we've got the about card here. I can just go ahead and move this down, save it, and hopefully it updates in the right order on the left. So, let's look at configuring extensions. So, let's look at disabling first, actually. We can just go ahead and disable this. So, I'm just going to pass in false to the about card. I say we don't want that anymore. It's going to remove it there. We have a to-do plugin here, which has also been added to the entity page. This to-do title actually comes from the extension itself. It's default config. But I can override that as we showed earlier. So, let's say, let me just pop ahead to this plugin itself. Let's say I want to change the title of the tab content. So, I can go ahead and do config. Oops. And then title. And then let's say I want to call this roadmap instead, right? Sure. It goes ahead and updates. Great. So, this is all nice. What about adding new extensions? So, I'm just going to pop over to our settings. You can see the themes here. So, I'm going to go and add a new extension. So, we're going to add our new theme package that we built. This is called theme. So, by adding this to the workspace and to add it to the package JSON, what that means is that the DI system is going to collect any new dependency additions or removals, which I'll show you shortly, and then automatically bootstrap them into the app. So, you can see that we've got a new theme here, which is the aperture theme. So, I can go ahead and click this. Oops. Sorry. There we go. And it's automatically enabled in the app. So, what about replacing extensions entirely? So, I mentioned the call layout. So, the call layout is kind of what you can see here. You've got the sidebar and the actual content. So, I've got a new extension here, which is called top nav. So, what this does, what's this installed? What this does is basically override the implementation for the sidebar with a new navigation component, and then override the call layout extension with basically changing the order of how it renders. So, now we can see we've added a top navigation and the actual content of backstages rendered underneath. So, it's a super powerful system to be able to change extensions and provide you an implementation and do what you like. I'm just going to quickly show you how removing extensions works, too. So, I'm just going to remove the top nav. Hold on. I need to crouch down a little bit here. I can't write it properly. Remove top nav. Yes. Great. Okay. So, let's look at creating our own extensions. So, I'm just going to pop back here. Oops. So, this is what our index TSX looks like. So, for you already, it might look a little bit like this, which we're going to come on to shortly, which is kind of a lot of React and JSX. But for now in this new system, it looks a little bit similar to this. So, you can see that I have an example plugin already, and this has been passed into these features right here and being registered inside the app. But because this is not a separate module, it's not automatically detected. We have to register it manually. So, what I'm going to do is I'm going to use the create page extension to create as a new root or a new page inside backstage. They're just some simple content. So, let's go ahead and do const example page equals create page extension. And this is the extension creator I was just talking about. We need to provide an ID for this. So, I'm just going to call this welcome page. And then we need to provide a default path. So, this is the root that it's going to mount on, which we're just going to call it welcome. And then we need to provide a loader, which is going to tell us how to go and get the React component that's going to be the page component. So, I'm just going to cheat a little bit here and just do promise.resolve. This with, like, a welcome. So, thank you, co-pilot. That'll do. And I'll give this a save. And then I need to add this to the extensions. So, I'm going to add this to here. And then, hopefully, if I go and go to the welcome page. Oops. Welcome. We should see. Welcome to backstage. Yay. Great. And this is all cube gone. Cool. Nice. So, that's kind of the simple demo I had for extensions. I'm going to pass you back to Patrick now. Oops. Let's talk about compatibility. So, it's very important for us that there is a smooth transition to this new system. In particular, we want to minimize or preferably avoid any breaking changes to plug in code. The code that actually implements the functionality of your plugins. Now, the new system is built out of two new packages mimicking our existing structure. They're, say, a front-end API and a front-end plugin API package. While these packages won't be complete drop-in replacements, a lot of the common APIs like use API, use route ref, they're going to remain the same. So, a migration of a plugin or migration of most plugin code is just a matter of running code mods or search and replace. Now, there's been a couple of changes under the hood, though. So, plugins built using the old core APIs for them to be compatible with new apps. There's a compatibility wrapper that you need to use for now. The good news is that once the new system is stable enough, we'll be able to add forward compatibility in the old system that lets you use plugin code in the new system. And hopefully, this makes it as easy as possible to have one plugin that is able to sort port both systems at the same time, which is also going to help out with app migrations. And on the topic of app migrations, they're a little bit different. You know, app is more or less all-wiring code from the framework. What we found that was what works best here is a top-down approach where you start by switching out the route of the app first. So, for this to work, we, of course, need to be able to use the old react-based app structure in the new app, which is why we are going to provide a compatibility wrapper for exactly that. So, after switching out the foundation of the app, you can then slowly move over to the new system, one plugin at a time, until you have migrated the entire application. So, let me show you what that looks like. And I'm going to switch keyboard layout for this one. Hey, sweet. There we go. Okay. Cool. So, I'm going to jump to that app Ben showed you before. So, this is an app using our current system. You can see it here to the left as well. It has about the same plugins installed as the other demo app. But, of course, you can see that we have this react-based structure that determines what the app looks like. So, what we're going to do is migrate this up to the new system. And as I said, we do top-down. We start by switching out the app instance itself. So, I'm going to change the import of create app here to instead be from our new system. I'm also going to add in a compatibility API helper that is going to come in handy. So, this helper allows us to take a structure from our existing system and convert it into plugins and extensions that work in a new app. So, down here at the root of our existing react structure, I wrap everything up using our convert legacy app. I then pause that on as features to our new app instance. When I save that, this app is now migrated and using the new system, but with the old react extension structure. And I can show you that by heading over to the visualizer here. So, we still have the old kind of hard-coded sidebar here. So, we haven't switched the sidebar to the new system. But we can see here that we have a couple of extensions, right? And this tree is a lot smaller because this conversion creates a much flatter structure. It just migrates the pages. It's not aware of additional extensions that might exist inside these pages. Okay. So, we're running the new system. We still have the old structure. What we want to do now is migrate one plugin at a time and move them over to the new system. So, to do that, we want to remove the definition from the old system and we want to install the plugin from the new system. Now, as you know, plugins in the new system, they are detected automatically. And, in fact, all of the plugins are already installed in this application. All of the plugins using the new system are already installed in this application. The only reason we don't have duplicate installations is because these explicitly declared features down here have higher priority. But that means that all that I need to do is go ahead and delete the definition from the old structure and that plugin will have been migrated to the new system. So, you can see we now have a bigger tree of extensions because that entire plugin now runs in the new system. Now, of course, for your own apps, you might have internal plugins and so it might not just be a matter of deleting code. You would need to migrate that plugin and once it's ready to migrate it, you install it in the new app and you gradually migrate like that. But, in this case, it's all open source plugins that already support both systems. So, I can keep deleting plugins one at a time until what we have left is just, well, nothing really. We can get rid of this, too. This is just empty routes at this point. We can clean up our imports. And this app is now completely migrated to the new system. And it has a lot less code. There it is. And we have slides again. Cool. That was the demo slide. And now, okay, so I want to show you the timeline. I know you're going to be curious about this. Our hope is to be able to ship an alpha release at the end of this year, but no promises. We're looking at still an early release and you should not be migrating your production applications even at this point. But there will be a complete system for you to try out and we are looking forward to your feedback. Thank you.


What is classroom management and how does it affect the ESL classroom? Classroom management can be defined as the ability or skill to organize the class. This will involve the use of the eyes, the voice, and different gestures. Classroom management will also involve group arrangements which can consist of the whole class, individuals or a pair work. The use of students names, desk arrangements, use of the board, giving individual attention, and teacher talk time also fall under the label of classroom management. The basic teaching tools. Use of the eyes. They say the eyes are a window into a person's soul. In other words a teacher can hold a student's attention by maintaining eye contact with them. Eyes can also be used to encourage, prompt, and also to correct. Moving on to use of the voice. When the teacher is speaking he should remember that he or she is not speaking to fellow English speakers and therefore the teacher should try to speak at a pace that is slow enough for the students to understand. Speaking slow should also go hand in hand with speaking on a level that the students can understand that is avoiding the use of unfamiliar words and jogging that will simply confuse the learners. Last but not least, the teacher should be able to speak clearly so that the students will not have a hard time trying to figure out what they are saying. Finally, the use of gestures. Gesture is a noun, which is the movement of part of the body, hand or head to express an idea. These gestures can reduce the teacher's talking time so students can talk more. This can be seen as an opportunity for the students to practice the language more. Student arrangements in the classroom. Classroom management also includes group arrangements. If students are grouped as individuals it can be much easier for the teacher to tend to each individual's needs, to see where the student is having difficulties, and to correct it right on the spot if need be. Individualism can help a student become self-reliant. However, individualism comes with a set of disadvantages such as putting pressure on the students to perform and it reduces student-to-student interaction. Teachers can also group students as a whole class. This will give the students a sense of belonging, something like a second family and students will interact with each other more often. A whole class is also easier to keep under control, although it can be a disadvantage to shy students who don't like to speak in front of the class. The last arrangement is pair work. This method increases student talk time, but it can be a problem if the students do not get along. Other important factors of classroom management. Another important thing to remember is using the student's names in class. Using names can save the teacher a lot of time because it can quickly bring order to the classroom. Names can also be used to indicate who should respond or who has the next turn in an activity. Usually a name should be used at the end of a question to let the student know that he or she should respond. The table arrangement in the classroom is also one of the more important aspects of management a teacher needs to consider. Some arrangements can depend on many factors, such as the age of the students, the space available, and the actual activity being used in the lesson. All of the above mentioned factors are just some of what constitutes classroom management in an English language classroom. The bottom line is, if the classroom is not managed properly it will not be the right environment for learning and both students and teacher will suffer. Also read, how to set up your EFL classroom the right way. Are you ready to teach English abroad? Speak with an ITTT advisor today to put together your personal plan for teaching English abroad. Send us an email or call us tollfree at 1-800-490-0531 to speak with an ITTT advisor today.