Morning Tuesday, 4th of February. Hope you are doing well. And couple things to discuss then. From my side, I'm gonna run through quite a sequence of different tabs actually of snooze stories I wanna update you with. I'm gonna be as prompt and concise as I can. And then I'll hand you over to Sam because I believe Alex also, who you've met on the briefing a couple times before, tend to look at the market more from a slightly more longer term perspective as some key levels he wants to talk about as well. So first off, before we get into the coronavirus update screen, let's just have a look at the charts and how we reside this morning. And the main thing here is that after kind of catastrophic failure of the Chinese markets yesterday, which the news agencies obviously were talking up, again, as we were discussing, it being more of a function of just the fact markets were closed and the fact that Chinese authorities were very forthcoming in their ability to do whatever it takes in order to mitigate that situation. Well, Asia markets up overnight. That has meant then that generally a little bit of calm restored in the respect that equity markets this morning are pushing to the upside as I speak. Did have the question put to me this morning, which was if I go back to that screenshot, when are we gonna hit peak coronavirus? Well, I guess there's two ways of answering that. There is one, when are we gonna hit peak as in the actual number of cases and confirmed deaths? Or when are we gonna hit peak as far as the markets are concerned? And if it's the latter, which I wanna focus on, because I'm not a scientist, I'm not here to try and predict then the accuracy of what the World Health Organization are doing. But from a market's point of view, I think peak coronavirus was last Monday. That first day what we sold off after that weekend gap down that we had, I think ever since then we've already hit peak coronavirus about a week and a half ago, if I'm honest with you. And I think that is validated that view by the fact that markets are doing what they're doing, which is after that first down day we've been pretty much rallying ever since. So how much of an issue is this for markets? Well, as we continue to see for different assets, there's different implications. Obviously China coming back, they're big dent to consumption in the oil market by some 20% from the world's largest oil importer. Definitely was getting factored in yesterday, and we'll have a look at that chart in a second. But for the moment, everything's moving higher in the equity space. And I'll let Sam go over some of the levels. He probably read Tesla up on the 20%. I mean, someone posted that saying, is this Bitcoin or Tesla? Because they're looking awfully similar at the moment. But yeah, decent US data as well yesterday, the ISM number was a blowout. And so all eyes on the rest of the other economic data that's gonna come out from the States as well as we go forward. But almost a perfect storm in that respect, solid data, but the Fed aren't gonna be doing anything anytime soon. And if anything, if we look out through the following months of the way the rates market is priced, it's for a rate cut. So if we're starting to get performing data, but a little bit of hesitancy, perhaps on any ramification of the global impact of coronavirus on the world economy. Well, that's kind of a, again, we go back to this almost perfect storm for the equity environment. Low rates, but an underperforming, fairly decent US economy and corporate earnings that have been on the balance relatively okay, despite Alphabet, which I'll go into in a moment. The other chart to update you on is the pound. Again, I'll let Sam go over that in more detail there's really nothing really new for me to add here other than a little bit of further more aggression in the downside.  You can see here, if I just put a rectangle from some of the price action that we were looking at from going back to last week and the tests seen at the low point in the overnight Asia Pacific session. So the break of that, which was just around that 130 handle in the futures at least, just helping exacerbate that downside price movement and obviously a big down day yesterday as the red lines are drawn and reality kicks in the idea then that the red lines put out by Britain and the EU are far apart bringing back the prospects of the no deal and the pounds got to reflect that new risk given where we're at at the moment in those negotiations. Okay, well look, quick run through then of some of the headlines. So the coronavirus, where are we with that at the moment? Case is just above 20K now, deaths at 427, total recovered at 669. As I said, from a global markets point of view from the intraday perspective, certainly if you're looking at US and European assets this isn't really a factor at this point. Again, I'm not talking about the actual virus in a case by case basis. I'm talking about how markets perceive this topic specifically. To be clear, these are two very different things. I'm not saying that this number is not gonna go north, it will and quantifying how far north is very difficult and I think it's a little bit finger in the air if you look at the width of estimates of before full containment and control of this is sorted out. The idea though is that markets are already looking beyond this as far as definitely equity space and given some of the repricing, bumping oil back down to 50, that's also in a large part pricing in that new expectation. The interesting thing though that I did see was this. This was the kind of trade representative for the trade office in America. They have said in Politico overnight that there is no formal request from China on purchase flexibility. This is talking about the agreements that they struck in phase one of the deal about buying large amounts, some 200 billion in fact of new goods over a two year period. So the USTI have had no request from China as yet although observers suggested that Trump could provide some leeway if the numbers are heading in the right direction. Now this is one of the things I was talking about last week is that I actually think this is a net positive for equities over the medium term because it diminishes any risk of a potential new or renewed trade confrontation between the two countries because if anything China gets a bit of a free pass and why would they get one from the US? Well, this is from no fault of their own. So it'd be a bit overly harsh I think for Trump to try and then hit the hammer home when really this is something which is out of the Chinese authorities control in terms of the actual origination of the situation. So again, I'd say this is actually in a kind of counterintuitive way quite positive thing for markets. What does this actually mean as far as the Fed are concerned? Well, I just wanted to bring up a comment from this chap. You might not recognize him but if you don't this is basically Bostick on the Fed and who said that the virus in China outbreak has prompted traders to begin pricing in the US rate cut by June has not swayed the views of the Atlanta Fed president. So he basically said we did three cuts last year and right now we're working our way through the those cuts of working their way through the economy will have to wait and see. There was a lot of stimulus for where the economy was and should make it more resilient to these sorts of things. So again, the Fed as far as the impact that the virus is having on the US economy they're still sitting on the fence for the moment and rightly so because there's no way you could have any clear foresight as yet as to the read across that that could have as an impact. But again, if we jump back here the cases in the US have remained pretty stagnant at 11 for some time and obviously still remains the case that most nearly all of the deaths and the majority of the confirmed cases are still in the Hubei area in mainland China. Deaths outside of greater China have been few and far between. Just to give you an idea of who Bostick is and where does he sit on that Dove Hawk scale? He's not actually a voter so I wouldn't take what he says too much to heart. He is a hawk so him saying the type of things that he did in that article are not that surprising but I just wanted to say that as far as the Fed officials are concerned I wouldn't be looking for them to give too much away in terms of again quantifying this impact that the virus is going to have on their policy. I don't think it's going to be as yet escalated enough where it's going to be a real meaningful change to things in the immediate future. What has been very interesting though was this. This was yesterday's ISM manufacturing PMI. I was actually off the desk but I did see got a push on my phone when this number came out and I was like, wow not just above 50, 50 spot nine. I mean, that's the first expansion in factory activity in America. As you can see there in six months, new orders was a big pop to 52 from 47.6. A sharp rise in export orders, production was up. The only even employment fell a slower pace albeit still sub 50 but some really stellar data that coming out of the States. And again, I do think that that is a real, I think the way equities will react to positive data at the moment given the virus that's happened. I think a good data is a positive for stocks. So rather than that kind of monetary policy read across which makes the equity reaction a bit messy, I think that the moment the virus keeps then and the also uncertainty about the future trade negotiation with China keeps the Fed on hold in its fairly accommodative phase of policy but then if the data starts picking up you go back into that kind of almost Goldilocks scenario again. As we look forward into the session going forward the highlight from the US data readings is you've got US factory orders and that too is expected to show a bounce today from the previous minus 0.7 up to a positive 1.2. Top of the range there is 2.5. If we get a 2.5 reading if we look here from the last 12 releases that certainly puts this way above the top end to go out to a five year 2.5 then puts this up at levels we've not been since really the summer of 2017. So that also would continue to promote a fairly positive dollar narrative in that respect and probably help weigh on gold and T-notes further to continue that trend that they've been in in those two products since the overnight Asia Pacific session as equities have been grinding higher. What is the expectations on Fed rates at the moment? Well the next Fed rate meeting is not until on the middle of March so some time away and 90% is the priced expectation for them remaining on hold 10% of the market anticipating a cut at this point. You've got to go all the way out till the June meeting where markets are then more priced in favor of a 25 basis point cut in rates at the moment. The other thing that we were talking about yesterday there were lots of source comments coming out as well. This was coming out in regards to OPEC plus officials. They meet for a technical meeting. This is part of their regular schedule. They're gonna be meeting today and tomorrow as far as I understand and this is about usually the adherence to compliance levels rather than anything other than that. However, if you actually look at the oil chart and I'm not gonna look at it from a technical but a fundamental perspective, couple of markups here to just quickly show you to add some context. I mean, here's that price band we've been trading in which is basically around the 50 to 66 dollar levels. You can see when we had that massive 15% spike in price in September last year on the Iran drone attacks on the Saudi Aramco infrastructure then had the US kill the Iranian commander. That was the kind of beginning of the year when we saw the kind of most heightened tensions within the Middle East. However, that's faded quickly. And now you've got the coronavirus denting overall supply and demand dynamics, i.e. big drop away on the demand side has led to this quite sharp depreciation in prices. Now, yesterday we did close below that technical level around 50 58, which as you can see was a key support level going back to May and August of 2019. Be interested to see how we close today. We are just back above that level for the moment. And again, I'll leave Sam to discuss then if we were to break lower what his targets might be on the downside, should we continue on that way? But one of the things here is that what you start to see, I mean, if we're just looking at this chart, let me just remove these for a second to make it a bit clearer is that once you start dipping below these levels, it opens the trapdoor somewhat to then almost psychological levels, perhaps that mid summer 2017 low. You're looking at pretty much round hand or figures here. So the 49, 48, all the way scaling down and then the prevailing low from that big sell-off we had at the end of obviously that whole global trade tensions, the oversupply in the market. That was when we hit that lower bound at 42.50. But OPEC at these levels start to get a little bit nervous. And as per what these articles suggesting and a lot of the talk yesterday was about what can they do in order to mitigate this impending drop in demand and consequently pressure on prices and what they can do is start to intonate towards more deeper supply cuts. And the talk yesterday was 500,000. I think 500,000 is a little bit tame. I'm not sure how much direct real implication that has on price. Anything more deeper than that, obviously, the more bullish a price that becomes. And they've also talked about bringing forward their early March meeting to mid February in order to get this done. So look out for any more OPEC comments. The technical meeting is happening. So all the all ministers are present and so I'll be expecting some more source comments either today or tomorrow, I'm sure. Quick word on the RBA. If you've looked at the Aussie overnight, the Aussie has spiked higher. Why has that happened? Well, even though on the balance, most banks are anticipating the Aussie or the RBA to hold rates, they did. But there were some looking for a potential cut and that did not materialize. So rates still remain at 0.75%. There's a couple of things. The virus is having a significant effect on the Chinese economy at present, but too early to determine how long lasting the impact will be. So they're holding off for the moment. The central bank forecast unemployment to a remainder remain around the current level of 5.1% for some time. They said CPI is still expected to be around 2% in the near term, with core inflation rising gradually to 2% over the next couple of years. And importantly for the growth forecasts, and what I was reading at the weekend, a lot of people were anticipating that we're gonna cut those, but instead they suggested lower the governor that the fire reconstruction will boost the economy in future quarters after a near term hit to growth. So that was a bit of a surprise in a hawkish sense and hence the reason why we popped higher overnight in the Aussie. And also with a little bit of recovery in the Asian markets, the authorities have to tame that situation by throwing everything, trying to just quell any fears on a run on the market. The Aussie is looking a little bit more favorable at the moment at this present point in time. Another thing I just wanted to mention because there's a lot of headlines around this at the moment. A lot of you might be sitting there thinking, what is a caucus when we talk about the US and what's going on in Iowa at the moment? So unlike the majority of US voters who cast secret ballots in their state primaries, Iowa residents in the US vote in caucuses or small local gatherings in which they publicly declare their support for a particular candidate. So this is to do with the democratic nominees to go forward then for the presidential race that will take place as we go into the elections at the end of the year. What is a caucus when it takes place in close to 1700 locations across the state of Iowa, there are also just shy of a hundred so-called satellite locations in other parts of the country where residents who are registered in Iowa but live or work outside of the state can vote. There's basically then a sequence of voting rounds, a first and a second. Over 11,000 delegates are chosen on caucus night. A number will be whittled down then to 41 delegates and the individuals who actually travel to the democratic national convention which is held in the summer in Milwaukee. So this includes Biden, Saunders, Elizabeth Warren, all those names who are the main kind of front runners in a democratic race. But what the headlines are talking about is that basically there was a technical error which enabled them or did not enable them to get an accurate reading on the initial results. So it was a bit of a calamity last night and a bit of a mess. And definitely I've not actually checked Trump's Twitter but I bet Trump is loving it because it was just an absolute debacle quite frankly. And if they can't even sort out a local level caucus, Trump's gonna be saying how can they run a country? So not doing themselves many favors at the moment. How important is this for today? It's not important. But definitely I thought I wanted to just stress what this is and give it a bit of an explanation. Final parts from me, Alphabet did come out. They had earnings, the last of the real big tech giants, obviously Microsoft, Amazon, they've all been great. Amazon was up 10% after their earnings. How did Alphabet fare? Not so good. Alphabet shares fell 5% last night. They are trying to be a little bit more transparent with their numbers that they release and that is being welcomed by investors. But what people were looking for, if you read that macro preview that I did yesterday for the week ahead, people were looking at the YouTube video streaming unit as it was one of the first times we were gonna get some detailed numbers around the generation of revenue for that particular unit. And they said that revenue was at a pace of $15 billion annually. Now that sounds like a lot of money, but it was well below estimates which were as high as $25 billion. So quite a substantial miss there on YouTube revenue. 53% quarterly revenue growth for Google's cloud services compared with a year ago meant, although that sounds like again, a good percentage, actually grew slower than the business it's trying to catch up with which is Microsoft's own Azure cloud computing unit. And so as such Alphabet shares were down after market albeit still up sharply over the last 12 months. Other earnings you're looking out for today, the other kind of main names, Merck, General Motors pre-market, Qualcomm coming after market this morning over in the FTSE, if you do look at the FTSE 100, BP, their fourth quarter profit B estimates, the company increased its dividends slightly, their shares out of the gate this morning at the Bell up 3.5%. So fairly decent response to that at the moment. So that's pretty much it from me. I'm just gonna hand you over to Sam but my overall assessment on things are stable markets, a recovery in China, just gathering its breath after the kind of function of catching up given the Lunar New Year holiday. So markets are over that now. The positive things here, we've had some decent data come out the US yesterday. We've got a little bit of action, noises about OPEC potentially doing something to help quell any run on prices on the drop in demand. So for the moment, it's a fairly risk on morning, all things being equal. The coronavirus again to be monitored, but at this point, not a major near term issue as far as markets are concerned, globally, at this point, at least outside of China. Okay, hand you over to Sam. I wish you guys a good day. Thanks very much. Yeah, hi guys, hope we're doing well. Just having a quick look over oil to start off with and well, it seems like if you get below 50, you get an OPEC comment or you have a down day, you're gonna get an OPEC comment now. So I think if your medium term short still, I mean, what better area was there to really take some profit on this point, you can see going back to the lows of 2019, we got below their finish below there and usually that would be ideal for a short to look to have these areas to hold up to then push us back down towards, well, I guess you could say 46, 47 area, but you got OPEC and they're promising things, which the oil market is gonna like, whether it be believed or not, I think today will be pretty key and just having to look over the last few days, you can see there's obviously quite a lot of resistance for it to get through. I think most notably coming up here, you got that 51 handle is bringing that pivot point. You can see almost near where we're trading now, 20 ticks or so above, which would be quite key. It was the low that we had back on Friday, we got real choppy overnight yesterday, but then it did find support again there before resistance around sort of eight, seven o'clock before that pushed down towards 49 and a half. So as the level goes for 50, 94, 51, have it marked up and keep a watch on that. I think if we can get above there, fine, we get a bit of a relief rally and then you could be looking towards 52 relatively quickly. You might suggest, I think there'd be some short-term resistance in around 51, 44, but oil, not necessarily out the woodworks yet, but it seems OPEC are willing to chuck these rumors out whenever we get below. However, could work obviously negatively if we do finish below the low of yesterday today, where the markets is not gonna listen to OPEC, is it? And this market could obviously go quite a long way down. Quick look over at equities. You can see this morning just pushing above what was such a key resistance yesterday and then briefly this morning and a decent push above that area on the Dow Jones here, the S&P similar in where he found some resistance yesterday on what was the Friday, kind of we could call midday, morning low, broke through and spiked and your target would really be around at 38. So nice push already where on the futures, the Dow is up 280 points, which is a decent enough move. I just would say be careful because obviously, while we are pushing to the upside and the sentiment definitely is risk-on, you're gonna have these trend lines that are coming in from those highs. You've got all these previous levels where the sellers took over and led to some of these moves on Friday just in the way here. So no harm in just saying, let's wait for a little bit of a pullback before getting in and what better level maybe than 28,582 or for the S&P looking towards that R13270 as well for that opportunity. The NASDAQ you can see just breaking through as well at that similar level. So stock's happy but quite a lot of resistance above and if we have a quick look back at just how we have traded over the last few days is incredibly choppy. There's been times where you thought this market could get away and push to the upside as well as the downside and make new lows for the year. So it's choppy. I wouldn't necessarily wanna be in a position for too long. Really for the S&P and I know it would be not the best entry in the world for reward point of view but unless we really get about 3300, I wouldn't really fancy a long for a medium term position really if we get about 3300, I think it'd be a quick move towards the all time high but remains to be seen what happens there. The pound obviously getting another hit this morning down quite considerably and the lower we come down obviously you gotta start bringing into picture that trend line again before we had the last of it not yet I'm afraid. We have broken through that today and that remains very key if we close here for this market and I don't really see if we can close below 129.41 as well in the future I don't see much stopping it from a technical point of view towards these lows that we had in October and November. What a rascal of a market. You could think after the election, boom, let's go. Or after the fact that they keep rates on hold, right. There's a 50-50, let's really extend it. Boris comes out on the weekend and hikes it all up and we're down from 132.25 to under 130 now. So keep a watch on this on the pound and of course that retest of that trend is going to be pretty key goal as you would expect this morning just coming under a bit of pressure with stocks pushing higher and you can see just a zone there to focus on. So this isn't really moving off anything to do. The dollar mortars risk play and can we get a confirmation of the break of those lows which come back to retest that area now as well and as you know when we've talked before with gold if we do get a push lower because of that just be aware of what has held up price previously all of these areas of support and of course this trend line is in the mix now to come in around the S1 1570 area. So quite a lot of support to come through for gold and by no means is this now the end of the coronavirus threat and we just have a look at gold, it's basically what equities have done. You think it's going one way it doesn't, the other it doesn't as well. So messy and in times of predicting overall things here it's overall direction is pretty tricky. Now I'll leave the Euro for Alex to talk about in a moment. I know he's going to talk about the Aussie dollar as well which you can see here is extending through those highs thanks to well risk on but also the rates being kept on hold there was a slight murmur that they were going to cut last night. So I'll leave Alex to talk through that as well. Just a quick look over the DAX which you can see is pushing higher as well. Did have a poor Friday just like a European US sorry but yes there was no real push. I know that obviously the FTSE with the pound weakness has had a good morning and looks like the DAX is just trying to extend over these highs as well but you can see the importance of this level maybe the hourly close is something you would focus on here going back to the low that we had on the 28 if we tested it on the 30th, broke through did find some resistance before getting choppy to the close broke it on Friday and we're now testing it now can we get a close above there? I think will be important if we do that might give the queue for US equities to have another run. If not, well what happened yesterday was a bit of a drift down before the cash open extended us higher. I'll just pass you over to Alex and he'll go through some of the charts for you. Do you need the training? Cheers sir. Morning. Morning, just first of all would like to look at this dollar index on a daily chart which we had that big train line from the weekly which is which was coming up sort of this way and then now on the daily there was this trend line resistance from the tops which price is now broken through and it's holding a support and yesterday we had that pretty monster rally off of it with that ISM report and so I think if this trend line support holds you know we make new high for the year. Make new high for the year above 98.20 above 98.20 you've got that November high which is that sort of 98.50 area which is actually a nice area of resistance and then from there surely it's got to be back up towards the November, the 2019 highs back up towards this 100 area. But actually, in currency land itself the price action is just disgusting like it's absolutely no transition actually could I do it on spot? Yeah. So I'm just going to look at the Euro dollar on spot market the price action is just ugly, it's so ugly I just almost like it's almost depressing like but the thing that keeps me going in currency land is the fact that I know it's going to change at some point it's not going to stay like this forever but looking at the Euro really interesting with that thesis from the dollar index looking to get long the dollar especially with that ISM report Anthony was saying this morning that a couple more data points like that from the US and the Fed might start talking about hiking again and in those conditions with a strong dollar anyway the dollar could explode to the upside and so just getting this 100 day moving average on my sort of thesis here for the for the Euro is this 100 period moving average so we're this as we've seen before this 100 period moving average can be the catalyst for these big down moves and especially when we move above it support support break back below and move back below again so we on the 31st on Friday we closed above at this really strong close above it and now we're yesterday we closed below it but we didn't quite close as bearish we didn't quite close as bearish as I would have liked yesterday we also back below this fib 382 from the bearish from the top there I would have liked to have this candle to have closed a lot more sort of bearish than it did but as long as we stay below the 100 dear may I be looking for bearish opportunities actually zooming in on a I think there's a trend line from there's this trend line support here which is key there's been a bit of strength in the Euro this morning which isn't really that welcome and we see this trend line support that's key in my opinion you've got trend line support there and the balls are going to be looking at this higher the day if the higher the day goes you'd be looking to play the classic off of that if the trend line support goes we'll take over we get that continuation of the dollar strength not really much making too much sense in currency land but there's two nice opportunities I prefer the short but obviously this this price action this morning is just horrendous so quickly moving over to the Aussie then the Aussie the RBA didn't they held their held rates was looking at this area down here sort of roughly mark it up massive area around that seven hundred handle huge area and what's really so we'll be looking for bullish opportunities down here and what's interesting the guys yesterday we're looking at this really awesome range which had formed this little box range here was looking at that right in around that bullish area and so the excuse me excuse me excuse me this area here so we're looking at this range in area right in around that bullish that bullish area off the daily we didn't cut we broke above it we sort of tried to come back a support didn't quite test it and so your backup plan would obviously have to be some sort of trend line resistance break or high the day break which has happened now really but if you missed those opportunities I wouldn't worry because actually we could have quite a big bounce here in the Aussie if we draw up some fibs and whatnot you've got the fib 382 which lines up with that 6820 back on 10th of December which was 6800 handles well that's decent and these tops from back here is a really nice horizontal area around here around 6820s again and so I think that would be nice the only thing going against the Aussie is that dollar strength if it if the dollar follows through but that's quite an interesting area there but I'll leave it at that that's my little thing my little two pence thanks Sam yeah guys I would be interested to hear what you think about the dollar and those pairs as well and also with equities have we seen the bottom or is it actually just going to get choppy all over again and for oil are the are OPEC going to deliver over the coming days and the oil has also seen a bottom if you're interested to see what you have to say should be a good session ahead so I look forward to catching up with you all later on


Welcome to Ride History with Amusement Insiders. I'm your host Jasmine and today I want to take you back, way back, all the way back to the late 1800s. You see in Fort Erie, Ontario, Canada sits a lakeside park called Crystal Beach. Originally a beachside religious retreat with sideshow attractions, Crystal Beach was started by John E. Rebstock in 1888. Rebstock and his management team decided to turn the park into an amusement park and in 1890 Crystal Beach amusement park was born. It was a popular spot in the summer with roughly 20,000 daily visitors in peak season and utilized steamboats to shuttle patrons to and from nearby Buffalo, New York. The owners regularly made investments to the park and in the late 1920s the Cyclone roller coaster was built at a cost said to have been $176,000 by far the park's most significant investment to date. Cyclone was known to be a fearsome coaster with metal supports an intimidating claim of being the world's largest coaster of its kind and a fairly vicious history. Visitors to the park loved this ride and to this day it has legendary status among coaster enthusiasts. Many archives of photos and blogs reminiscing about the Cyclone can be found on all corners of the internet. One of three coasters designed and built by Harry G. Traver the Cyclone was given many nicknames and descriptors over the years including according to one nostalgic blog post the thrill of thrills revered and feared sheer viciousness sadistic and brutal. This wild ride placed more than four G's on riders and approached 60 miles per hour through its tangled curves and steep drops. Riders were given a non-stop white knuckle experience from the first drop with no brake runs outside of the station and no level portions to give them a moment to catch their breath. Its first drop was often described by riders as the best first drop ever and it had many faithful fans in spite of its somewhat frightening appearance and ride experience. What is perhaps the most interesting part about its status as an intimidating legendary ride experience is how short of a ride it actually was by today's standards. With a ride time of only about 40 seconds to a minute ten depending on the source that you look at the ride plunged down its terrifying twisting first drop that often fooled riders into thinking that the track was disappearing from underneath them. The trains then barreled straight into its 600 degree double helix at the opposite end of the ride whipping riders at top speeds through its tight turns before throwing them down another steep drop and into the final element a super tight figure eight turn at an intense angle estimated to be about 75 degrees. When reading about the experiences that visitors to Crystal Beach recall from their rides on the cyclo it's easy to see how it reached such legendary status and potentially adding to this status is a famous fatal accident that occurred in 1938. On May 31st of 1938 a rider named Amos Weidrich only 22 years old at the time reportedly stood up while riding the cyclone. Many witnesses think he wiggled out from his safety restraints in an attempt to take off his suit coat. As can be expected he was tossed from the ride as it went up the second incline and fell about 45 feet landing on the track below. At this point his own train car was barreling towards his body which lay across the tracks and with no mid course brake run on the ride the train was unable to be stopped before it collided with Amos severing his head and his feet and dragging his body partially down the tracks before the train stopped. While this incident didn't seem to dissuade thrill seekers from boarding the ride in the coming months it did have a major effect on the future of the cyclone and there was a safety overhaul done in 1938 likely as a result of this tragedy as well as the stress placed on the structure due to the wild untamed nature of the ride experience. This overhaul was reportedly completed by Herbert Schmeck a name that you might remember from earlier episodes in this series. Many more stress ties were added and Schmeck attempted to extend the lifespan of such a structurally stressful ride. In fact before this overhaul the ride was reportedly so vicious on its structure that it was known for its unusual operating schedule due to consistent downtime and maintenance needs. Not only that but many visitors to Crystal Beach report there even being a nurse station by the ride exit to attend to riders who had become overcome or injured since such incidents happened so often on the cyclone due to its wild and stressful ride experience. It's for this combination of reasons the structural stresses the violent ride experience and the fatal accident that the cyclone was approaching a new phase of its lifespan and was forced to evolve 10 years after the death of Amos Wydrich. So it was in 1948 as newspapers report that the owners of Crystal Beach spent $165,000 on two new rides which included the cost of renovating the cyclone into the new Comet roller coaster the ride we know it as today. It was none other than Herbert Schmeck who was brought back in to design the Comet and bring this new version of the coaster to life. Though he reused about 60% of the existing steel structure in his new design keeping construction costs down Schmeck had PTC engineer John Allen make many changes to the ride essentially creating an entirely new roller coaster in PTC's Comet design for its fans to enjoy. The ride became known as the third of the Schmeck cousins also often referred to as the triplets with Schmeck designing similar layouts for the Hershey Park Comet in 1946 and the San Antonio rocket in 1947 which is actually currently still operating as the Phoenix at Nobles. Now a little known fact about the two versions of this coaster James Mitchell who worked for Harry Traver early in his career and helped to build the original cyclone in 1927 actually became the Crystal Beach Park Superintendent in 1940 and supervised the building of the new Comet version of the coaster with John Allen and their in-house crew in 1947. After this renovation the ride time was increased from a minute 10 to two minutes and the ride evolved into a slightly tamer smoother and more widely enjoyable experience for riders who not only wanted a thrill but preferred that thrill to come without injury. While many ride specs were reduced with the lift hill going from 96 feet to 95 feet the first drop going from 90 feet down to 87 feet and the top speed being reduced from 60 miles per hour to 55 miles per hour and so on. The overall ride experience was improved in many ways the track length significantly grew from 2,953 feet to 4,197 feet the ride time almost doubled and the ride was praised for its abundance of floating airtime. Still operating with two train cars one red and one blue each carried 24 riders in four cars with two across seating and rows of three. The coaster was now being described as fast and smooth with little chatter or shaking during the run. The new design of the ride could now be labeled as a double out-and-back layout eliminating the many hairpin turns and disappearing track elements that the original cyclone offered but which caused much of the structural mayhem and many of the injuries that the ride saw prior to this renovation. In many ways the Comet became the antithesis to the cyclone and though it's often described as a historic wooden coaster the Comet is technically a hybrid with its steel rails on top of a wooden bed all sitting on steel supports. This hybrid structure provides the main reason for that smooth and chatter-free ride experience that it's still known for to this day. Though the ride operated without any major issues through its lifetime as the Comet at Crystal Beach there was one incident in 1974 in which two girls received minor injuries. Upon approaching the station one of the coasters trains bumped into the other train in the station causing a small crash. According to park officials it was the first accident at Crystal Beach in 20 years. In fact the incident was considered so minor that the newspaper which reported it actually ran an ad for the park that was larger than the article about the accident itself just pages apart from each other. Things continued to run smoothly for years following the accident and the Comet continued to be a huge attraction for visitors all over Ontario and Buffalo. However nothing lasts forever and by 1983 the park was feeling the effects of some major competition from nearby parks Darien Lake, Marine Land and Canada's Wonderland. The theme park industry was growing rapidly and some of the older parks were unable to keep up including Crystal Beach which was nearly bankrupt at the time. The park began making unfortunate changes in the name of attracting more visitors. One of these changes was actually offering riders of the Comet the choice of forwards or backwards rides throughout the 1980s. You can find plenty of video footage to the stay of Comet trains in a sort of half-and-half fashion with half of the train riding forwards and half riding backwards. Though this gimmick did bring in some additional visitors to try out the backwards ride it wasn't a popular ride experience and something that you don't see on a lot of wooden coasters for a reason. In addition to adding in gimmicks like this the park reached out for additional financial support and was briefly saved by the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce after going into receivership meaning that the existing owners were not able to meet their financial obligations and CIBC was entrusted with financial control over the park. With that said new owners took over in 1984 and spent more than $2 million over the next three seasons to renovate and reinvigorate the park with new rides, attractions and investments. Unfortunately by 1989 attendance was still not up enough to keep up with the cost of running the park and Crystal Beach declared bankruptcy. An unfortunate turn of events since the park had just celebrated its 100th season of operation the year before. As newspapers began to report the park's likely closure at the end of the 1989 season fans of the Comet began to speak up and advocate for their beloved coaster. An entire Save the Comet movement began and showed just how much of a place the Comet held in the hearts of those who had the chance to ride it. Perhaps in part because of the public outcry. Park owners put the many rides and buildings up for sale at auction on October 17th of 1989 in an attempt to give them a second life. It was at this time that the Comet was sold for $210,000 to the late Charles R. Wood who at the time was the owner of its current home the Great Escape and Splashwater Kingdom in Queensbury, New York. Though the ride sat in storage for a few years at Fantasy Island it finally made its way to Great Escape and reopened to the public on June 25th 1994. To this day the ride still stands at that park which now operates as Six Flags the Great Escape after 1996 saw the park being purchased by Premier Parks who later acquired Six Flags and changed their park names accordingly. This ride is an awesome piece of history that Great Escape under its different names has managed to keep alive and running for almost 30 years now. Over the years the Comet has continued to be recognized for its history, design and awesome ride experience. Though it is currently located in a quiet corner of the park at Six Flags Great Escape park officials still refer to it as the most popular ride in the park and report that it still receives roughly 400,000 riders per year. The Comet has become the setting for many weddings, photo shoots and receives constant praise for its design and airtime. It has even been recognized as a roller coaster landmark by the American coaster enthusiasts in 2009. This ride has such a rich and interesting history and is one of my all-time favorite roller coaster stories. It's so rare to see a coaster get not only a second but a third lease on life the way that the Cyclone did when it evolved into the Comet and then moved parks entirely. It's even more rare to see historic rides like that still running to this day let alone running as well as this coaster is. So at this point I want to pass the microphone to you, the audience. What kind of stories have you heard about the Comet or do you have your own ride experience or fun facts that you'd like to share below? Whether it's from the rides early history or modern times please share your thoughts facts and stories in the comments. There's so much more to be said about this ride than just what I've shared in this video and I can't wait to read all of your comments and contributions down below. Thanks for watching and I hope to see you next year for season 2 of Ride History where we'll be exploring some of the historic rides in the USA.


What's good y'all, it's your boy Ross back here with another video. So we're gonna check out WWE top 20 moments the fans Silence the superstars. We're gonna check this video out man. I think it's gonna be a good one We all know when it comes to WWE fans and how vocal they can be They can take over a promo segment I've seen it so many times where the wrestlers trying to convey a message and they damn near can't convey it Because the crowd is taking over the segment. So we're gonna check this out. Appreciate all the love and support Roll to 60k and let's get right into it Right here They took over the segment I'm actually glad that you've given me the opportunity Oh Man that's a classic one anytime Sean had went to like Canada for a new phone system for your didn't even matter if it was so wrong. So wherever it was that searching for the best business Sean was gonna get booed even if he was portrayed to be a face He was gonna get booed especially around that time because people very at that They still hadn't really kind of gotten over the whole you screw Brett situation, which I understand fans were very vocal about it Exactly trademark raucous crowd. Oh Wow This segment here Just they did not care for Jason and they were faces at the time and it didn't matter Stuff couldn't save him. They did not care for Jason Jordan, man Oh Take a moment to say You're in your presence and an effect to be in the thank you for all of your continued support What all of you say my dad really doesn't Bro, look at his several in space He wasn't even a heel at that time several spaces.  God damn Now hold dad storyline with with With Kurt Angle as being his estranged father or something for that.   Oh Man, oh man. It's so good to have seen a punk back in wrestling this Sunday at this I think this is when he turned on Enzo at this point. He was he was going he'll he turned on Enzo this Sunday at This Sunday at SummerSlam This Sunday The blues Happy person. It's really hard to be happy right now and your posts. I got a lot of text I don't know what was going on thanking everybody who tweeted me. I don't know it was moving But I think at this point her good girl gimmick was kind of getting tired something people were just like, bro People were starting to turn on here. It's like y'all We don't care That's literally what was happening from the WWE Universe The smile on my face and look forward to coming back Man one of the most rowdy is crowded WWE history don't at me This is all facts. Oh my god That's how you get really upset them here I Don't care with no one said bro seeing punk was over at this time. Don't at me He was more over than our truth in the Miz facts Oh This crowd is great and Jbo's just enjoying it This was such a good moment He's rubbing it in the authorities face the crowd was white hot He was on top of the world Daniel Bryan was the most over thing in the wrestling world at the time. This was a good segment Oh man, that wasn't my night Congrats man, I'm happy for you I don't care what y'all say. This is my boy and I'm happy Uh, I think this is recent. I think jk uh, Logan that came out there. They they just they Pulled this man. I mean legitimately gave him Get off my TV heat Well, oh my god Is your brother getting knocked out in I wish I wish He would have got knocked out, but he didn't he survived If you haven't seen my video talking about jake paul and his boxing career Uh, definitely go check it out. But yeah, he survived man And uh, you know the paul brothers are on top of the boxing world Logan Lasted eight. I don't know how many rounds with floyd and jake is undefeated in his professional boxing career uh The world we live in now 2021 I'ma let y'all do your thing I'm actually I'ma I'ma leave The booze Yo loser it's a machine gun kelly Mm-hmm They do to see it. This is round of time. They'll do the cm punk chance Just to let you know they don't like was in the ring.  They played this music people thought he was coming back And he didn't Sean just knew how to get the heat going bro They would not They were not having it this Was the moment they should have turned him heel right after WrestleMania right after roman had beat the undertaker We thought the undertaker had retired.  He get off my screen. He you're like people legitimately did not Want to hear anything roman had to say and I loved it He should have turned heel just Imagine y'all. I know i'm stopping a little bit more than I normally do But imagine if he would have turned heel right right then in here Right at this moment imagine People would legitimately have a reason he could be like yo I retired that old man. It was his time to go. He's done in the wwe It's my yard now. This is my place.  So what None of you people can do anything about it. I took the undertaker and I put him where he deserves In the ground for good Bro, that's all you had to do and they all instant star people would have been like, yes Finally, he's the heel and the crowd would have hated him for it. He could have kept bringing it up every time he comes out there Brought me a beat the undefeated streak, but he didn't retire the undertaker like I did.  This is my yard. Yep That's all he said and oh my god, I really wish they would have did that Really wish they would have pulled the trigger on that Comment down below. Let me know what other videos you guys want me to check out If it's wrestling or related boxing related UFC related or you know, anything sports related Let me know down below. I'll definitely check it out for you guys. Appreciate all the love and support row too 60k appreciate y'all kicking it with me. I'll see y'all on the next one. Peace


Wao, wao, wao! Please be seated… Wao, Wao! Please be seated… Wao na sifiwe… Dakstari Musani. Nyasa. Nyasa, Musi mami zoo wa wasani. Tena Musi mami zoo wa wasani. Waterkete. Azanti, azanti. Wao, wao. Kwenafua daya, kwenafua daya, kwenafuza justice Bota, kwenafuza daya, Imaite to speak by a judge of the High Court, a man of honor, a great man, a kongara, a beautiful soul. We celebrate you, please appreciate Justice Leibuta. My brother they know, this will be kind to you. All the officials of Jewari Africa who are here, my dear brother Solomon Mkubwa, you are a song. As played a part in being who I am. I used to sing it and cry, roll on the floor and I wished I would one day meet you. Now you are here. I watched that clip on YouTube and I think what Ezekiel said and everybody can watch it is true about you. My brother Dr. Buvi, a man, I'm brother from the other mother and a man from my village. If you wanted to know that Mualla has great sons, you look at Ezekiel Mutua and Buvi. Wakili Kiyoko Kilukumi has told me to also announce. Wakili Kiyoko Kilukumi is the lawyer for our president and he has told me to also announce he got from Mualla. By the way he was my teacher in the village. I went to school there. Oh, where? Mualla. Wapi, interesting. Na justice alisomia Mualla. That's where I come from. All the guests were here and I came with my sister, my young sister and her husband Ruth, Waibatrem, her husband Julius. I came with the great people. By the way, I came from Mualla. I came from the village. Come and go on record. Music corporate society of Kenya. Alex, my brother. This is more than a brother. They say there is a friend who speaks more than a brother. Interesting reshare name. It's Alex Mutua and Ezekiel Mutua. I came from Mualla. I came from Mualla. Let's go on record. Bon venture. You are here. Karibu, karibu, karibu. I am Tupibu Pitya. You may be seated. The leadership of this great institution. My dear brothers and sisters, the little guys who are here, you are little, you are young, but you are great amazing souls before the sight of God. My name is Dr. Ezekiel Mutua and I am the CEO of the Music Corporate Society of Kenya. Before then I was the CEO of the Kenya Film Classification Board. Before then I was the Secretary of Information for this country, Director of Information, Secretary General of the Kenya Union of Journalists. I'm a journalist by training and both my masters and PhD are in communication studies. So basically if you wanted to know anything about me, that is it. I come to this event on a very special day to honor my brother Deno and the team from Johari Africa who have given themselves to this and how could I forget Enri Wanyuike? My brother Enri, forgive me first. Forgive me for that. You know the greatest actually if you want to really talk about people have come challenges to become champions, changing challenges into champions. Enri Wanyuike when the history of this country is written kids will read about you and they will be inspired. And we are so honored. You know I was sitting there and I didn't know you were the one. So when you spoke and you speak so well to hear that you have covered the entire globe because you have almost done being to 100 in that something countries. By the way I think I'm the only one who comes close to that. And I did it courtesy of a time I served at UNESCO and the UN Secretary General's Committee on Information. But let me say that I come here and should I have forgotten anyone else or protocols observed by my brother DJ. Nke kumuka 2 katikati as Fijina Mwokogu wakinole. Jumpege DJ Makofi. Duguzangu Mabibina Mabuana. Hamjambotena. Buana Sifiwe. Sita chkwam dem refunama mune rosu tuniongen na ninyo kwa kefupi. Like I said I am here to celebrate my brother. When my brother got the vision to start Jewari Africa and come up with a project to raise as much money as possible to buy white cane to be able to assist the virtually impaired or challenged. He came to my office and shared that dream with me and he told me we are going to have it here although we will later on in April launch the organization. And I told him my brother for you anything. But as fair to David I lost my mother this week. My mother was a sendenarian, a matriak indeed who has brought us up with my sister here and many others. We are a full football team in our family and it was looking a bit difficult. But I said in honor of my mother as well my mother loved Chuntren. She is called Esther Mokeli. Mama Esther loved Chuntren. Mama Esther helped the poor. Mama Esther gave herself to the, she denied herself comfort so that other children and ourselves can have something to eat. And she is a matriak right from the village to the national level. And so it was looking like it would be difficult for me to be here because we are going through that process right now of planning to bury our dear mother. But I called Dennis and I said your event will not change and I will be there and I'm here and I give God the glory. You guys who are here I think when Henry spoke he captured my entire speech and therefore I will spare you the details of repeating or the agony of having to repeat that. But I want to tell you that while you may be visually impaired and you may not be able to see in the same way we see I've been to meetings with Dennis many times and it's a statement that he uses that encourages me. He says na wao na jini. So when he says it you may not understand but for sure when you look at Dennis and I say na na jini pia vilimu meimbaleo sauti zenu yu ile furamu konayo you also can see. The singer sang and said sasa na weza kwenan bali kwa wezo wa rom takativu wa mungu and I think that song was speaking about you but I think just to emphasize one or two points is that Henry and Justice Nabuta have said is that disability is not inability.  I'm so proud to sing the no here and to be able to join him to sing the song that we are singing you will remember Mbona Mbona the no four visually impaired composer song and is a musician and a member of MCSK that shows you that you can do anything that your disability is not an inability and that you don't have to be held where you are you can even rise to become a president you can rise to become a champion you can rise to become a judge you can become anything a musician, a sports person and you can conquer your inability by using your inner eyes to see the greatness in you so I came to tell you that you never ever look down on yourself always talk like they know always say always speak positive and do not allow negative thoughts to bring you down tini muna mpenda mungu tini muna jwa mungu anawapenda na si muna jwa ita what way to anawapenda na cease it on awapenda can you imagine after losing my mother when I would have been mourning and in the village doing all those rituals I could not miss your event not for a show off but because we truly love you we truly associate with your cause even though we would not want everybody to be in that situation but the fact that God chose you to be that way ours is to encourage you to know that the example of Enriwa Nyoike who has conquered and won so many marathon competitions the example of our judge here the example of Deno and many many others among yourselves should encourage you to know that disability is not inability and that you are not limited to who you are physically just because you cannot see and everywhere else and I take this and publicly commit in honor of my mother umu bibari next Saturday that I will take up all the costs of producing your music and that I will visit you again and again and today I wanted to go on record that Dr. Ezekil Mutua is a friend of the Vika School for the Bright and Blind and I'm going to be with you I'll be here, I'll come again and again nita wapiki akambeni paka kwa rice mwenyo to kujena ea mungu awa bariki mungu awa pei neema mungu awa inue awa pati e moyo mukunchufu nia moyo wenefura me you guys prosper until you become very prosperous Thank you and God bless you just for today because I'm believed I want to bear how much is a one king 1000 so I will top up with 10,000 personal and then I'll be participating after they know I'll be the chief guest at the launch of Dohari Africa and there now I'll come as the chief guest Leoniko Namusiba ne tatua yo yungu kumi saide yo ngeze ten other kings or something like that or whatever way that 10,000 can be used because I love you and I give that as a symbol of my love for you and my prayer that God will continue to protect you and bless you Thank you


So welcome everyone on today's CICD team update. Let's maybe start with accomplishments. This is always the most happy part of the presentation of groups. We ship a few of interesting features, but also we did not ship everything that we planned from things that we like improve crazy from 9.1, something that we tried with 9.1 as something new is the CICD pipeline schedule. CICD schedule got a major recall also from backend and from the frontend perspective. It could basically be considered like a new feature. With 9.1 we actually give ourselves a chance to ship something fast, give an access and actually break that later, but the truth is that we didn't break anything. We just improve this feature in a major way. We also ship a few of very important performance improvements that actually have quite significant benefit right now, but the more we'll be visible once we finish everything else that we have planned in our agenda. And we actually continued our work on making a Github as we are time as possible, but we had plans for much more. We are always very ambitious in what we want to deliver. We want to move fast and we want to ship as many as possible, but unfortunately we didn't manage to ship the direction features which is like the biggest low light of CICD team at 9.2 because it's from our perspective direction is equality or even more important than everything else that we are working on because it actually pushes our product forward. It did happen from like various reasons. One of the reasons is just a number of things that we had to fix in 9.2. If you see on the previous slide we had like 36 closed issues out of which 28 were bugs and regressions. It's like basically half of the issues were like things that you have to fix. Actually it's not really true to say that every issue is like of equal weight, but it also shows a little of the story of complexity and the scope of what we are covering with our changes. We also had like things that kind of unexpected, like when we had mixed people availability during the release. I actually had to take a few times, a few days off. It was like something not really planned, but if we like take 30% of the CICD team capacity for some time it just takes a crazy amount of difference. But this is not only low light. The other low lights is we are still facing the CI autogest. This is something that we are constantly working on. A little more about this part of the story a little later. But maybe before that let's talk about a little about 9.3. Actually sorry there is 9.2, but it should be 9.3 at the top. We have still like 51 issues open out of which 20 are bugs, 60 are closed so far, and there are something like 8 are the bugs. We are just crazy ambitious. We are working on so many new things. It's really like when I started building that list today, I didn't realize that this is how many things we actually have in our pipeline for 9.3. This is like crazy amount of direction features with the guest help from Dimitri, who is working on cold climate. Thank you Dimitri for doing that. And also we have like a crazy amount of the new features that just built on top of what we have now and to prove this like the small tiny things of CI CD that makes it even more awesome. Like we are getting us about pipelines usage quota for users. We are getting asked for CI environment URL, so just make it easier to script. We are getting asked for aliases for github ci.yaml and Docker integration. This is something like eight or ten months long feature request. We are actually also pushing envelope of like security of the CI CD. We've introducing concept of protected variables, but as always we are also pushing real time stuff. We actually pretty much have finished environments list to be real time. We are working on improving our job details page to not refresh, which is like something that's most of time works, but sometimes it does not and it just gives you a butt impression of how the product is behaving. We are actually pushing a lot of in terms of scalability and performance. Unfortunately, object storage, it's like the follow-up and basically this is a follow-up from 9.2, something that we didn't ship, but we plan to finish that now and also pushing things that are requested by support team. A little more about CI on github.com. I just mentioned that we had in low light that we had like CI outages and we had some time ago very constructive discussion with Ernst, Pablo and Stan about what we could do better to actually make it more production ready basically. What we did came up is just nominating a person within the team to be this kind of like a single point of being a reliability specialist. Thomas is currently a developer who is maintainer of GitLab Runner, but actually the Thomas work will change slightly to be more focused on production readiness of GitLab CI, GitLab Runner and GitLab. Everything that he will be doing will be focusing on making sure that CI on github.com is always working and building all features that actually makes it possible for us to scale significantly over what we see now and scale that we're keeping in mind limitations of our product. Thomas will be like something that is actually happening for some time, but it's not really well described in written communication, but Thomas is doing a lot of work in production already and right now he will be focused completely on making most of CI on github.com to make sure that it's always stable, that we can scale, that it's also cost efficient something that I know that we could greatly improve. If we continue this topic CI on github.com with that comes a lot of responsibilities, but also like more rigid planning of what we want to deliver. For example, this is a little mix, a mix of things that we are actually resolving and that we resolved, but also a mix of things that we are trying to resolve in upcoming weeks and months. For example, we have like a step plan what we want to achieve with our changes to actually at least to some extent consider that CI is in much better shape on github.com than it is now. Something that is actually very crucial because we started offering shelter owners minutes on github.com. So we actually selling CI on github.com right now as part of our bronze plants and silver and gold plants and people are just asking us about these features, about improvements, but also about the stability because they do expect much more from us right now than they were expecting when the service was free. And Thomas's work will be basically focused on making sure that we can fulfill this goal of CI production readiness with the steps, at least these steps outlined today. One of the changes that brings us closer to achieving this goal is like pushing envelope of monitoring. And we are doing that every week. It's really interesting because, for example, recently we had Zigarian who was contributing to github monitor and adding new graphs. We also have Thomas who is of course working on that. But with like better monitoring, we can, we actually build better alerting that allow us to react much faster to problems. And recently we actually like being more responsive to infrastructure outages the infrastructure provider itself, because we just know that before them, which is like very interesting outcome. One thing that is like concerning me and our work is like the always this balance between new features and maintenance costs of things that we are building. For example, I did take a look at the CI technical depth. We had maybe not like that crazy amount, but 38 open and 34 closed issues with the technical depth. But it still is like show us amount of the things that we have to improve to actually say that CI performance, CI scalability, CI reliability is something that is up to our expectations basically. But there is another concept, something that we started discussing when we basically started working on policy status in database. This is like one of these big architectural changes to how like we store data right now. And just because of the amount of data that we have today, it is already quite complicated to make this architect to our change without interruption and make sure that everything is like continuing to work on gitlab.com. But it also brings us to a point how the world will look like in a half year from now or one year from now, and we have like 10, 20, 100 times more data than it is today. And this is something that we are trying like to figure out now. This is what we are actually trying to figure out based on this like quite complex topic of storing data and reconstructing them from what we have now. To actually like understand how we can look in the future when we start actually migrating another sets of data that we see that would just greatly benefit for system performance. Like another case, it's just migration of artifacts and traces. This is something that is actually also have significant impact of project dilution, something that is already asking for some time, and something that we have some ideas about how to actually achieve that. But this is actually part of the bigger story because it's like another problem that we have today that we just only get bigger over the time. As the hiring, it's actually very interesting because we are in like the final phase of hiring one CICD engineer to that team. We actually like waiting for resolution on how the construct should be done. It could take some time, but actually we have a few other people in the pipeline that we are constantly reviewing, and some of them are actually very interesting. I think that that's it from me. Maybe anyone do have any questions? Okay, I am not hearing anything. Ben is asking what else do we want to monitor? I believe that everything. I think that we are getting to the place where that will monitor everything just to like be over apparent with number of data and then actually try to figure out what is important in terms of alerting. Yes, Ben, I think that we are heading to the point that we probably need the dedicated CICD, dedicated for me to server for CI. This is also something that is discussed in steps for CICD for CI production readiness. So the question is how much can Peretius handle? Well, that depends. Of course, it depends on how big of a server you have. We've got reasonably good size servers now, second now, and of course I have the two-factor to get into the Peretius server to see the metrics. Where's my two-factor box? Okay, maybe one thing to like mention what we want to monitor. We basically want to monitor every job run that is being executed on CI runners. So basically, we are looking at having like scraping 1000 servers right now, but it will just go over the time. So it's the problem of today, but probably in like half a year from now, it will be the magnitude of more data. Camille, why does Ben have to go for his two-factor? Aren't we trying to move everything to public servers? I'm not sure if I understand the question, sir. Shouldn't all of our monitoring Prometheus servers have open public views? I think that's not all. We like this close to public, but most of that, and I believe that Pablo would be better to answer that question. As far as I know, we don't put the Prometheus servers directly on the internet publicly because there's potential for abuse because we don't have a way to disable writable endpoints yet. We're working on that for the 2.0 release. So you're logging into the Prometheus server and not the Grafana views of the Prometheus server. Okay, and that's being worked on so that we can do that in the future. Okay, makes sense. It's also difficult on the Prometheus server side to limit how long and how extensive queries can be, which can cause basically DDoS against the server. Okay, so in the history of GitLab, a lot of talk has gone into DDoS, and the only DDoSs were like there was never in the history of GitLab was there a malicious DDoS. I'm not saying there will never be, will be one, but we'll take a chances. All the problems have been like self-inflicted or shared incompetence. Yeah, specifically I'm looking at that. So we have it set up so that we have redundancy between the public facing Prometheus and the internal facing Prometheus. So that's no problem, but there's no way to limit query time and things on a public Prometheus server. So it can get annoyingly dangerous, which is why we put Grafana in front of it because it has a little better limitations. Cool, yeah. The ultimate solution would have Prometheus outage problems when a database outage happened because there are too many people viewing our Grafana. Yeah, that can happen. Yeah, it would be great to have like a public and a private one, but have exactly the same data on both of them so that they're like automatically mirrored. No, it'd be great to have a fully accessible public Prometheus. But if we talk about how much stuff we're monitoring, we have, we're doing about 20,000 samples per second into the current Prometheus server. And if we look at the memory usage... Just from the top of my head, like... We've got about 300,000 metrics in the Prometheus server right now, which is actually not that much. But if we want to go and monitor all of the runner nodes, we want to get node exporter metrics from every single runner. If you're talking about a thousand runner servers, that's going to push the limit of the production server. And we should probably have a separate one for that because we want to do...  Ah, so CI means older runners. Okay, that makes a lot of sense. That's cool. And that's... So actually, do we... Do we... We can do one million metrics per second per server? We can... We probably do a million different time series at a rate of about 100,000 samples per second. Okay, so the base one can still grow by a factor of five? Yes. We started to run into problems when we had some excessive amount of metrics. The Azure VM that we're on, the VM class we're on, is medium-sized or medium-large-sized. I forget what they call sizes these days. But I'd say we have like three to five X headroom right now. Thanks for the presentation, Camille. I thought it was really, really interesting. And I think we're seeing great progress in stability, and I'm super excited for all the features that will come out in the next release. Okay, thank you very much. See you next time. See you on time. Bye.


What's going on everybody? Dato Doi here with another Dragon Ball Fighters video, this time going over 5 tips that'll help you out in the ranked ladder. Now remember these tips are only to help you out in the beginning. Once you get high enough on the ladder, people are going to start playing at a level in which you need to react to what they're doing specifically instead of having a pre-thought out plan. That's fine though because if you start by implementing these tips, you'll gradually get better at the game as you play more. Alright, so let's start with the mental attitude one first.  I won't go on for too long about this but it's the fastest way to learn and if you're angry you're only going to lose more. Alright, with that out of the way let's get to the actual in-game tips. The number one thing that most people do wrong that costs them the game is not managing their blue health correctly. If you see one of your characters with a large amount of blue health, switch out so that they can heal it over time. In a 3 vs 3 game like this every character is important and you want them to be as healthy as possible and by chance if they get knocked out early, your chances of winning drastically fall. So you want to make sure you keep as many people alive as possible and to do that you have to manage your blue health by switching out often. Be careful though because an obvious switching could lead to an easy downhatch combo for your opponent. Now losing characters doesn't inherently mean that you've lost the game. In fact there are some comeback mechanics in this game designed to help you get back from a bad start. One of these being your sparking blast ability. To perform a sparking blast you have to hit RB and RT at the same time or all four face buttons. Sparking blast gets stronger depending on how many characters you have alive. If you have three sparking blasts will only last a short period and won't do as much. Two characters left and it'll last a little longer but still not as long as if you only had one character left. Obviously if you want the most out of sparking blasts you should use it for your last character but there are situations where that's not a good idea either. Let's say you have two characters alive. The one that you're not playing with currently has a little bit of health left but he has no blue health at all. The one you're playing with is running low on health but has a lot of blue health. I would recommend popping the sparking blast in a combo as soon as you land a hit with that character because the power of sparking blast comes from the ability to heal blue health instantly. But if your last character has no blue health left to heal chances are he'll get knocked out with a stray hit anyway. And speaking of getting knocked out by stray hits the third tip is to remember to play good defense and offense. Now I'm not asking you to spend hours in training mode learning how to guard and punish numerous moves but I am asking you to pay attention and block lows with down back and block overheads with just back on your control stick. Remember good defense is a mix of reacting and being proactive. Knowing what your opponent's going to try to hit you with makes defense a lot easier. Speaking of that the fourth tip is to watch what your opponent is doing in the match. See what he likes to do whenever he calls a new character in. Exploiting your opponent's bad habits is the fastest way to win a match. If you notice they can't block lows start every one of your combos off with a low. If you notice they can't block overheads try jumping over them and hitting them with a cross up. Experiment with these things and see what you can do against different opponents. Another way to handle these opponents also plays into tip number five which is knowing how to make use of your assist. Now it shouldn't take too long in training mode just go in there and take your favorite team and call in your assist and see what they do. Is it a beam? Is it an overhead? Or do you think it could be used for combo extension? Play around with it and see if you can work it into any combos or block strings. Using your assist is something not a lot of people are doing right now so if you make the effort to start using them you're going to see a huge increase in the amount of ranked games you win but that's about all the tips I can think of to get you started off in ranked modes. Remember to have some fun while you're playing in ranked and let me know if you've had any success in the ranked ladders down in the comments. I'll be down there as always and while you're down there if you enjoyed the video and channel make sure you click like and subscribe to the channel. I greatly appreciate it. I'm Dr. Odoya and I'll see you in the next one.